Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 1026 America is Beautiful
"North Wind!"

In the Forbidden City, Pan Jinlian angrily threw out a new card she had drawn in her hand, trash, all trash, useless at all.

An Eight Immortals table made of sandalwood was placed under the transparent glass window of the bedroom. Four women in plain clothes were engrossed in building the Great Wall under the guard and service of several times more maidservants. The sunlight outside the house shone through the glass. On Pan Jinlian's body in the east, the gold and silver threads in the brocade brocade embroidered with peony and butterfly patterns are shining, completely washing away the old-fashioned look brought by the azurite satin.

"Today's bad luck is full of bad cards. If the Zhang family girl hadn't let me, I would have lost all the gold and silver on this table." There were four piles of gold and silver on the Eight Immortals table, some large and some small. , there are high and low, and the largest one is of course Pan Jinlian. There are not only gold and silver ingots like big and small ingots, but also gold and silver naked seeds like watermelons, grapes, and peaches.

Of course the court knows about banknotes, but where are the light and fluffy banknotes that are glittering with gold and silver?

"Hey, where is my sister letting my sister go?"

Mrs. Zhang said exaggeratedly, he is a little transparent in Lu Qian's palace, but he is not telling lies at all, he is telling the truth, she really didn't mean to make Pan Jinlian.Who doesn't know the rules of the latter card game?That brand is absolutely noble.Anyone who let her on purpose would offend Pan Jinlian. "My sister is mentally ill, it's really..., it's really..." The old man couldn't help being distracted.

In a few days, Lu Qian's imperial driver will set off on a western tour. He will not go too far, but it is absolutely necessary to come to the Western Regions.

Lu Qian decided to take a walk outside and take a look while he was still healthy.After winning such a big country, if he didn't go to various places to play, he would not be reconciled to death.

And when Lu Qian left, there must be many Yingying and Yanyan in the court who wanted to go with him.Mrs. Zhang is one of them. Although she is still in the palace, her heart has already flown far away.

And to be honest, there are quite a few concubines in the palace who like to play cards, but Zhang's is not included among them.She played cards more to please Pan Jinlian.

Who made the Forbidden City so big?Isn't it normal to insert a low-ranking concubine into a side hall or side hall?

But these words must never be said in front of Pan Jinlian.

Pulling your eyes up from the palace and crossing the high palace walls, you can find that in the huge Forbidden City complex, except for a few places that are quiet, other courtyards are already busy and busy.And Pan Jinlian's here is one of the few courtyards!

What is the reason?

The blow of Lu Yun's resignation is indispensable.

Pan Jinlian had been sick for quite some time before, and she had just recovered recently, but her body was still weak, so Lu Qian would not take her with her on tour.Including the Queen, Cheng Wan'er, etc., the same is true.

Even if Fang Jinzhi had been mentally prepared for his son's 'end', it would definitely be very unpleasant at this time.

The news of the emperor's westward tour has spread throughout Jinling, and the whole city is boiling, because it is said that one of the purposes of the emperor's westward tour is to welcome the returning princes.

That's going to go to the Western Regions.

Moreover, when the emperor travels, at least the safety work must be absolutely guaranteed. The team stays along the way, the guards are guarded, and the supply of drinking water and food are the most basic elements.For local pick-ups, Lu Qian didn't intend to go straight to the Western Regions, he would also stop and play along the way, so he had to be well prepared.

But when all the eyes of the whole country were looking to the northwest and the returning princes, Lu Qian's attention was diverted to the Americas—a war against the central and western parts of Mexico. The expedition in the area has now begun, and the main force of the force is the local naturalized aborigines.

More than ten years have passed since Ruan Xiaoqi led the fleet to discover America.

For more than ten years, Lu Qi's development and exploration of America has never stopped. The gold mines on the west coast of North America and the silver from Mexico have flowed more and more into Lu Qi's treasury.

But Lu Qi's conquest of America still only exists on the 'surface'!
In that unfamiliar environment, Lu Qijun experienced repeated switching between the two different modes of war and peace.For the indigenous tribes around the west coast, taking Mexico as an example, they appealed to conquest by force at the beginning.Because in the face of expedition ships, the ignorant natives often attack and expel them instead of peacefully communicating with each other.

The latter belonged to the minority in the initial "Development of the Americas".

And the Lu Qi expedition fleet, which has the mode of crushing by force, obviously will not swallow their anger and resign themselves to it.An eye for an eye with an eye for an eye, and the war quickly unfolded.

This is not the model that Lu Qian expected. You must know that in terms of American colonization, the history of his previous life told him two business models - France's "peaceful trade" and England's turning face and denying people. Lu Qian himself expected more than the former.

Because whether it is from the concept of oriental civilization itself, or in terms of reputation, the British are too much.

Don't look at the John Bull of later generations who calls himself a 'gentleman'. It seems that after wearing bright clothes, he covered up all the bad deeds of his ancestors.The information explosion opened up in the Internet world is likely to bring out some black data that has been lost in history.

As far as American colonization is concerned, John Bull's brazenness, despicability, and their ingratitude and treachery are very contemptible.

Ten years before the famous Mayflower, in 1609 in the Western calendar, the British established Jamestown, the first colony in Virginia.At that time, John Bull had an extremely tough attitude towards the native Indians. He regarded the native Indians as uncivilized and savage livestock, and implemented a ruthless policy of plundering and slaughtering.

Where there is oppression, there is resistance, which naturally aroused a strong counterattack from the Indians.Jamestown was then under a long siege by the Indians.In the end, Jamestown ran out of food, and there was a tragedy of cannibalism.If the Indians didn't know how to conquer the castle, perhaps the colonists in Jamestown would have been killed by the Indians long ago.

So when the "Mayflower" immigrant ship came to America, their attitude was different from that of the colonists in Jamestown.Of course, this may also be due to their different identities.The latter are mostly paupers and Puritans, and of course there are criminals.

This group of people was very honest at the beginning, lived in harmony with the Indians, and passed the most difficult stage of gaining a foothold.Even, with the help of the Indians, they created the custom of eating turkey on Thanksgiving.

However, when the British here gained a firm foothold, they quickly drove out and massacred the Indians.While driving the Indians who had helped them into the forest, the British seized the Indian territories and expanded their territory.In the end, a huge territory was laid on the east coast of North America.

The custom of eating turkey on Thanksgiving has also been passed down in the Americas, but the inner meaning is completely different.Very ironic!

The British used this method to start their own colonization in other parts of North America.At the beginning, the strength is weak, so pretend to be a grandson and live in peace with the Indians. Once you gain a firm foothold, you will immediately turn your face.

This treacherous practice is too different from the moral concepts that have been passed down in China since ancient times.Compared with this, Lu Qian would rather lead people to rob with open flames from the very beginning, and directly start the conquest of the indigenous tribes.

The French approach is completely different from that of the British. This does not mean that their methods are neither bloody nor evil, but that their methods are very deceptive.They used the trade model to attack the Indian natives.

The specific method is to organize a large number of merchants, go deep into the inland, and conduct bilateral trade with Indian tribes.

Indians with a low level of civilization welcomed the pots, iron axes, swords and glass beads brought by the French very much.The French used these worthless things to exchange expensive beaver skins and other furs with the native Indians. While making a lot of profits, they also forged a good friendship with the Indian tribes.

It's true. Double win with one stone!
After getting acquainted with each other, they sold guns and gunpowder to the Indians, inciting and provoking the Indians to fight each other.Because there are many great contradictions among the latter tribes, and they are even sworn enemies to each other.

It is easy to provoke a brutal tribal war, but it is very difficult to quell it, not to mention that the French not only do not put out the fire, but add fuel to it...

The frequent outbreaks of inter-tribal conflicts caused the Indians to lose a large number of young men.Many weak tribes disappeared because of the war.

The French, on the other hand, have established good relations with powerful Indian tribes, and even let young employees marry the daughters of Indian chiefs to strengthen their ties with the Indian tribes.The children born from the union between the two parties also became a special ethnic group - the Métis.

It can be said that this colonial method is very clever.While gaining friendship, it also cut off the internal strength of the aboriginals, and won the deep friendship of some aboriginals. Lu Qian likes this method.

Because the current Lu Qi has no time to develop the Americas on a large scale.Under such circumstances, it would be a good idea to let the natives kill themselves first.When Lu Qi frees up his hands in the future and enters the Americas on a large scale, there will definitely be a large number of leading parties.Conquest will be smooth sailing!
However, reality disappointed him.

There are not as many native Indians on the west coast of North America as there are on the east coast, and they are quite aggressive.As mentioned in the previous article, it is very difficult to develop agriculture in North America, and the aborigines of the latter are all hunting peoples.These people are quite aggressive!Counting the Mexico region, it's not so peaceful.

The collapse of the Mayan civilization has pushed back the level of indigenous Indian civilization in the entire region for countless years. Perhaps there are still remnants of Mayan descendants and city-state civilization in the coastal plain of the eastern Gulf of Mexico, but in the relatively desolate west, they are called uncivilized barbarians Not bad at all.

So much so that Lu Qi's pioneering lands in North America and the east coast of Mexico are mainly based on conquest.Fortunately, the pioneering team that entered the Americas also had the blessing of 'Buddha and Taoism', just like Lu Qian thought, once the hot air balloon came out, they were invincible.

Indians turned into faithful believers of both Buddhism and Taoism. It is precisely because of this that Lu Qi was able to quickly find a large silver mine in Mexico, and immediately put it into development, and was able to develop a large gold mine on the west coast of North America.

Large amounts of gold and silver continued to flow into Lu Qi's treasury, making Lu Qi sigh a lot: America is really beautiful!
Coupled with the "Yin Shang survivors" fooled by Emperor Lu, the vast majority of people in the country [only a few of his sons and a few people with him knew that Lu Qian was fooling] took a high look at the Indians. It can be expected that, In the future, the integration of the two sides will still go smoothly.

(End of this chapter)