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Chapter 333: Building a vassal state overseas(1/2)

Before leaving the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zaiyi recruited a group of civil servants and military generals, and appointed them as officials of his palace, including talents from administration to finance to military and cultural fields, and even talents from science and technology medicine.

In addition, there are also a group of civilians composed of farmers and craftsmen.

In short, Zhu Zai-chan was really serious about preparing to establish his own vassal state in northern America.

After experiencing wind and rain all the way, Zhu Zaiyi finally arrived at today's Florida Peninsula. Under the blowing of the sea breeze, he was not tired, but excited because he could build his own country on this land.

But if Zhu Zaiyi wanted to establish his own Kingdom of Dachang here at this time, he had to first unplug a stronghold in Spain and also a trading port of Texas.

Unlike the Spanish colonists who first came here were the hospitality Indians, the Spanish colonists Zhu Zai-chan and his ministers and immigrants met naturally were not hospitalized or enthusiastic.

Texas is a transliteration of the accent of "tejas" issued by the Indians when they met the Spanish colonists. It originally meant "friends", but it is obvious that for the Indians, the Spanish colonists were not visiting friends.

Now, this is already the territory given to Zhu Zai'an by Emperor Zhu Houzhao of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Zai'an naturally did not want to use this title again, but changed it to New Dezhou to commemorate the Middle Land where he grew up in childhood. The new word naturally means that this Dezhou is not Dezhou in Shandong.

When the Spanish sailboat in New Texas set sail and was about to return to Western Europe with gold and silver, Spanish colonists discovered Zhu Zai'an, the Chang Wang of the Ming Dynasty.

So, the Spanish warships stationed here went directly to fight and attacked Zhu Zai'an in a storm.

Zhu Zai's orders were issued to let the navy that followed him attack, and the Ming Dynasty's rifled guns broke the Spanish warship into a pile of scattered wood on the spot.

The officers and soldiers of the Spanish colonies died, and many of them fell into the sea like dumplings.

The Spanish warships were defeated and could not get any advantage in front of the Ming warships.

At this time, Zhu Zai's rush to let the Ming army land, but instead ordered the Ming army to capture some Spanish colonists and soldiers floating on the sea.

As a result, these Spanish colonists and soldiers became prisoners in Zhu Zai's hands.

The whole process did not take long, and the Spanish merchant ships had not had time to return all to the port of New Texas. The Spanish Governor Odock, stationed in New Texas, was also a little surprised to see all this:

"How could the Orientals come here? Their artillery has become so sharp! They have just used the Indians to seize Santo Domingo, and what do they want to do now!"

No one answered Odoke's question. At this time, he could only order his well-trained soldiers to rely on the fort and city defense to defend.

At this time, Zhu Zai'an and his fleet had already stopped in the shallow sea area not far from the port of New Texas. Then, the Ming army opened the artillery window and fired directly at the defenders on the Spanish shore.

The dense artillery fire caused most of the Spanish colonists' army to lose on the spot, and the entire army retreated within half a quarter of an hour.

Odoke had to lead some of his remaining soldiers to flee from New Texas in a hurry.

Zhu Zai'an also landed, and he also brought thousands of Han immigrants.

Other Spanish colonists in New Texas had not had time to escape, all of them were merchants or craftsmen who immigrated from Spain, as well as many Indian slaves and black slaves.

These people looked at Zhu Zai'an and his group with a look of fear and curiosity.

Zhu Zaiya took a deep breath of air from the land and walked towards New Texas. Soon, he entered the town hall of New Texas and sat on the leather chair left by Spanish Governor Odock. Looking at the oil paintings, sculptures and mistress that Odock had not yet taken away, he only ordered: "This woman stayed, and everyone else would be moved away!"

Zhu Zaiyi took Odoke's mistress without hesitation, and left the first sensation he had come to New Texas in the body of this Odoke's mistress, and named her Xin Mi, which is homophonic to "bride" and is appointed as the Selection Service.

Before this, Zhu Zaiya issued a royal order, which was to arrest all the women in the city of New Texas, except for the old and younger brothers, and also to select the ten most beautiful girls, the chief Song Zu, who wanted to take them as concubines.

Zhu Zai's actually already had twelve concubines in China, and before leaving the capital, he spent a lot of money to collect three more. Now, he came to New Texas to occupy the mistress of the Spanish Governor Odoke, but he also had to accept ten more girls, which seemed to be a foolish king.

But in fact, Zhu Zai-chan wanted to use this to prolong his offspring, because he knew that if he wanted to build his own empire, what he needed most was people, especially those of his own blood. Naturally, he couldn't wait to make a living of Dona women.

What Zhu Zaiyi is thinking now is to increase the population, especially the number of Han people. After all, there are still relatively few Han people who are willing to immigrate here with him.

Therefore, he not only asked the women to do a house, but also ordered that the arrested women be given the ten most beautiful ones to him, but the rest were all distributed to his officers and soldiers according to different levels and the number of them were different. They also numbered these Spanish women in New Texas and then drawn lots, so it was fair. However, Zhu Zaiyan also asked them to do a house immediately and ordered the old nanny he brought to form an inspection team to check whether these women were destroyed by Ming Jun.

Therefore, at the request of Zhu Zai's, the Ming army who occupied New Texas all traitors (commonly fake characters) and women in New Texas. Whether they were literati or martial artists, as long as they were Han men, they all needed to spread seeds.

This looks cruel, and it is undoubtedly a nightmare for these Spanish women in New Texas.

However, in order to increase his population, Zhu Zaiyi could only do this. He could not capture the Han women of the Ming Dynasty in violation of laws and emotions. He could only ensure that half of the new generation of Changguo people had the blood of Han people.

The women in New Texas became the sperm of the Ming soldiers who had just arrived in New Texas, waiting for conception and childbirth in the future.

The Spanish men in New Texas naturally became the first people, including Indian slaves and black slaves here.

Zhu Zai's first job was to move the equipment and guns he brought from the Ming Dynasty to New Texas City.

At the same time, Zhu Zaiya also began to order his civil officials to enact the "Law of Ming Dynasty? Law of the Constant Kingdom" as the law of his vassal states. In addition, he also ordered his civil officials to prepare for his throne ceremony.

Zhu Zai's praises governing the country with Confucianism, so he advocated reducing punishments and made it clear that rituals were greater than law. At the same time, he gave all the Han people who immigrated with him to be scholars, and according to different classes, he was granted the title of doctors or officials such as Langs. Even the farmers who immigrated with him were named Wenlin Langs. Then these people were listed as scholars, and they directly stated that they would not kill scholars easily except for plotting against them!

Others are all classified as people. The people nowadays can only be these Spanish immigrants and Indian natives who have been captured or managed by him. The punishment for the people is not severe. Apart from the unforgivable sins, the most severe is castration.

After all, Zhu Zailei himself knew that what he lacked the most now was people. Instead of killing these alien races easily, it would be better to cut off his descendants, so that he could continue to act as an empire labor force.

Based on the principle of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce and considering the reason why he was the prince of the Ming Empire, Zhu Zaiya also ordered his civil servants to compile the "Dachang Kingdom Assembly Code", which clearly stipulated that the Indians, that is, local peasants, have a higher status than Spanish immigrant merchants.

This was also influenced by the idea that the Indians were slaves from generation to generation in the Ming Dynasty, which had become popular in Central America. It happened to be consistent with the Confucianism believed by Zhu Zai's, so it was stipulated.

In addition, for business, Zhu Zai's strategy of closing the country was stipulated that Changguo only communicated with the Central Empire Daming, and other foreign countries were treated as pirates and could accept tribute.

Zhu Zai's purpose was to do this, and naturally, it was to avoid his young Dachang Kingdom being invaded by foreign forces by implementing a maritime ban policy.

The Spanish Governor Octode was eventually captured by the Ming army, now Chang army.

However, Zhu Zai-chan castrated him and was preparing to use him to give him the eunuchs he brought to teach him Chinese characters, and to make him the guide to unify the country in the future.

Octode did not expect that he would become a eunuch, but what made him even more trouble was the complex Chinese characters. He didn't want to learn them, but the cruel whipping forced him to learn them. He naturally hated Zhu Zai's oriental people, but he did not have any conditions and qualifications for revenge. He had to be careful of the opportunity to be killed by similar eunuchs. In the end, he had to get used to having to flatter Zhu Zai's lifestyle in order to gain more rights to survive.

Zhu Zai's first did not immediately occupy other territories or establish other cities, but began his own way of founding a country and farming in New Texas.

On the first day of the first lunar month of the 47th year of Zhengde, he officially ascended the throne and became king, and he also established the lunar year of Chengguang. He used the 47th year of Zhengde as the first year of Chengguang in Changguo, and temporarily established New Dezhou as the capital.

Shortly after Zhu Zai's ascended the throne, he began to establish ordnance processing plants, cement factories and textile workshops in New Texas, as well as various other factories, and then reclaimed arable land and hoarded grain. In addition, the soldiers' class, namely the good sons of the Han people, were selected as recruits to train and expand the army.

Finally, three years later, Zhu Zai's possessed 20,000 elite soldiers, three cities and more than 30,000 hectares of fertile land.

Twenty years later, the first batch of newborns in Zhu Zai's Dachang Kingdom grew up one after another, and Zhu Zai's also began to establish the imperial examination system, but only children of peasants and scholars were allowed to participate in the imperial examination, that is, children of Indians and Han people participated in the imperial examination.

From this time on, Zhu Zai's Great Chang Kingdom began to enter a period of expansion. The increasingly powerful army completely drove the Spanish colonists out of the North American continent, and nomadic peoples such as Tatars also drove them to the colder areas further north, completely unified the entire area north of Florida to the south of the Great Lakes, and established a very powerful farming empire.

However, due to the excessive population expansion and intensification of land annexation and the collapse of the kingdom's financial system, a peasant uprising eventually occurred.

Although the uprising was suppressed with the help of the Central Empire of the Ming Dynasty, the situation in the kingdom did not improve. In the end, it fell into a state of division due to internal rebellion of the ruling class. After a long split, it returned to unification.

Of course this is a later story. Changguo has just been established now, and no one knows his fate hundreds of years later.

Let's turn the words back.

Zhu Houcong also brought his people to New Hanyang in today's Brazilian region, and was preparing to establish his great Han County here.

Zhu Houcong recently likes to read "Book of Han" because he really wants to turn his Hanyang county into the Han Empire.

Looking at the row of small thatched huts and stone houses leaning against the coast and the simple port in front of him, Zhu Houcong did not feel very desperate. Instead, he felt a sense of pleasure and excitement. He could not help but instructed his childhood friend Lu Bing:

"Lu Bing, go and see if there are people here. If there are, arrest them all. Except for infants and young children, all the others will be executed. This time we brought the entire Xingwang Mansion. These savages are not needed. Infants and young children have no memory. They can teach them Chinese characters and the Ming Dynasty's Mandarin to become our own people. Let's set this place as the royal city of New Hanyang first."

After Lu Bing received the order, he took the New Han army of the Ming Dynasty to the shore first.

At this time, Huang Jin, an internal official who has been with Zhu Houcong since childhood, couldn't help but say: "Outsiders only know that Your Highness is good at refining alchemy, but they don't know that Your Highness is not an ordinary person. Your Highness is a noble man with the blood of Taizu, how could he fall into mediocrity? Now that he has come to this wilderness to establish a country, your Highness should be happy, and just use this to turn this place into our Xingwang Mansion."

Zhu Houying smiled: "Gun not only wants to turn this place into the Xingwang Mansion, but also wants to be a real emperor! The world is so great that it is not only China, but it's just a pity that I am just your Majesty's cousin, not as good as his own son, and can be divided into a more livable North American place!"

...

The whole overseas was a bit messed up by Zhu Houzhao. For a time, the vassal kings established the country everywhere, and in the end, even the nobles were granted the title of the country by Zhu Houzhao.

For a time, various kingdoms, principalities, marquis states established by the Han people were established one after another.

Zhu Houzhao also implemented a system of enmity and feudalization, which caused a number of Han countries to multiply every once in a while.

But Zhu Houzhao is not worried that there are not enough Han countries now, but that there are not enough Han people and even the population is not enough.

Because, as far as he knows, these royal relatives and nobles of the Ming Dynasty implemented the most primitive extinction policy against local indigenous peoples in the early days of establishing the country, because this was the most effective policy to establish a ruling order, and they would stop killing even if the number of people killed dropped to the most reasonable area.

This has led to a decrease in the global population, a large number of primitive tribes disappearing, and a large number of primitive civilizations disappearing, which is no longer different from the Western colonists, and is even more cruel because the weapons in their hands are more advanced, and because these civilizations sent from the Ming Dynasty are more advanced.

The disappearance of the population of other ethnic groups around the world has led to a large number of Han people migrating from abroad to the local area to become rulers.

These Han countries give particularly high treatment to the Han immigrants of the Ming Dynasty. Basically, you can become an official as long as you are willing to go, even if you are a farmer in the country.

If technicians or officials are more popular, they will be granted the title and granted land directly.

The Central Court of the Ming Dynasty had to improve the treatment of the Han people in China on the one hand, and on the other hand, find ways to formulate some policies to encourage childbirth to stimulate the increase in the Han population.

In particular, increasing the population of Han people is particularly important. The court not only provides children's subsidies to those who have children, but also strictly prohibits cases of abandoning infants. It even begins to prohibit Han women from selling silver, improves the status of Han women, and no longer issue chastity arches, but grants arches to mothers with more than five children and not limited to men and women, reducing corresponding taxes and providing welfare subsidies.

Why do women who have given birth to many people be called virtuous? The Ming Dynasty naturally doesn’t need to worry about it, and it has its own official media to explain it.

then.

The Han people entered a period of population explosion.

However, even if the population of other tribes decreases or is assimilated, in order to increase subsidies and income, men from Han families who are slightly rich have taken wives and concubines, which has also caused the price of female slaves from foreign races to increase sharply. More and more women from foreign races are sold into the Ming Dynasty and become concubines of major Han families.

This has also caused serious imbalance in the ratio of men and women in other ethnic groups, and the fertility rate has also dropped significantly, and the number has been greatly reduced.

The bride Zhang was originally the daughter of a French duke, but because of the sinful slave trade, she was abducted by human traffickers to the Ming Dynasty and became the third wife of the locksmith Zhou Jun.

Since Zhou Jun married this Zhang, his waist has not been healed, and Zhang Jun had to go out every day to buy medicine for him. After all, she has no children yet, so she does the big and small work in the family. On this day, Zhang Jun, who had just been done by Zhou Jun, was woken up by Zhou Jun after a long time:

"My little girl, I spent so much money to buy you for your baby, so that you can have big breasts and good breasts. As a result, my waist is so bad that you can't get pregnant with our Zhou family! Buy medicine for me, don't even think about resting your spare time tonight!"

Zhang had to swallow his anger and went out. As soon as he went out, he saw the entire area of ​​Qipan Street in Damingmen, but he followed him curiously. Suddenly, he saw a young and beautiful girl sitting in a carriage. She was about to ask someone, but she heard that the person beside him had already said: "So this is the British princess that Your Majesty wants to marry. Look at her appearance, she looks a bit beautiful!"

"British princess? Did she get bought it too?" Zhang asked suspiciously and felt nauseous. Then he vomited and couldn't help but go to the clinic. Finally, he learned that he was pregnant and couldn't help but fainted with joy.

The so-called British princess is naturally Elizabeth, but it was not bought by Zhu Houzhao, but was sent by British King Henry VIII voluntarily agreed to Zhu Houzhao's request.
To be continued...
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