Dominate the Country

Just when Europe was in chaos and things in China were as numerous as weeds, another fleet of North American immigrants approached the Tokyo dock.

Yes, the immigrants who came here from the mainland first came to Tokyo or Hanjin. Tokyo and Hanjin were directly under the jurisdiction of Nanjing, the first and second cities in Han North America, and then gathered there. The kings here represent the officials and discuss 'sharing the pork'.

King Cai’s previous batch of immigrants received more people, so this batch will need less; King Deng’s previous batch of immigrants received less, so this batch will need more. That’s all!

Although it seems that there is an unnecessary procedure - can the immigrants be transported directly to the territories of the kings, but doing so has well maintained Tokyo and Hanjin, the two cities in Han North America. The central position also well maintained the authority of the court, and made possible disputes between kings no longer exist.

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"Boom boom boom...!"

"Crackling, crackling..."

"Dong, dong, dong, dong, dong, dong, dong, dong…"

The gun salute sounded.

When the first transport ship loaded with hundreds of immigrants slowly docked at the pier, the firecrackers and gongs and drums that had been prepared sounded loudly. The dragon and lion dance teams also began to perform, and several red banners with words like 'Welcome, welcome, warm welcome' were hung early.

The current scale of Tokyo Port is definitely not smaller than that of Tianjin Port. It already has a natural and excellent deep-water harbor. It would be a waste of resources if it was built only for fishing boats to enter and exit.

Of course, the scale of Tokyo Terminal can reach the scale of Tianjin Port, which is also due to the continuous construction of the local area over the years. Some time ago, two new cement trestles were built far into the sea to accommodate large ships. Just like the current large sailing ship carrying five or six hundred people, it can also directly dock to the edge of the trestle instead of relying on small boats for transfer.

As the springboard was set up, groups of immigrants carrying baggage and boxes made of rattan and bamboo strips swayed off the ship under the guidance of the crew, setting foot on a land thousands of miles away from their hometown for the first time in their lives.

Facing this long and narrow bridge that goes deep into the sea, their faces were mostly confused and a little cautious. Although they had been sailing for a while before, they still had to pass the long trestle. , these mainland people will certainly have a little fear.

Of course, on this point, the crew had already given instructions to the immigrants on the ship before the fleet arrived in Tokyo.

Immigrants who move to North America not only undergo a period of "intensive study" before boarding the ship. After arriving on the ship, the crew will organize them to study, mainly to reassure them, and also to introduce some North American laws and various disallowances. Providing preliminary ideological education to them can also be said to be the indoctrination of patriotism, or brainwashing.

For example, no matter how far away you are, you are still descendants of the Chinese Miao and the emperor's subjects.

Of course, in addition to this, they will continue the previous "intensive learning" and continue to introduce to them the geography, climate, products, and some common sense of living here in North America so that they can adapt quickly.

The most talked about is how warm and pleasant the local climate is, with abundant rainfall, and how similar it is to the mainland. In addition to being wary of tsunamis, but that's just for coastal dwellers. And if the territory is allocated to King Deng and King Xue, you need to worry about tornadoes every year.

There aren't many tornadoes in China, but there are a lot in North America, where thunderstorms are common in the summer. Tornadoes often appear along with thunderstorms.

Although this kind of natural disaster has a small impact, it is extremely destructive. As for how to withstand tornadoes, it seems that a cellar is a good choice, in addition to planting more trees in front of and behind the house.

In the Americas, you can often see tornado disaster sites where large trees are broken in half or uprooted, but they are not far away. Therefore, these trees probably have a certain wind-blocking effect. Last year, at a stronghold of the exploration team heading north of the Mississippi River, a large tree with a diameter of more than 1 meter and a height of more than 10 meters was uprooted by a tornado in front of the stronghold. Two other large trees nearby were also broken, and they were only one foot away from the big tree. The houses in the stronghold were undamaged, but the outpost ten feet away from that stronghold suffered a devastating disaster. It seemed that the big tree protected the stronghold. It can be seen that planting more trees in front of and behind the house can also resist tornado attacks.

North America is not a paradise. It doesn’t mean that once you get here, you no longer have to worry about food and drink. If you want to live a good life, you still need to work hard.

But looking towards the land from the ship's side, the immigrants saw with their own eyes the square-shaped farmland and large forests in the inland areas, as pure green as emeralds, which made people feel relaxed and happy.

Such a flat land, a land that can grow such a lush jungle, is certainly an extremely good land. As for the Chinese people, as long as they have a piece of land in their hands, they have nothing to fear.

It's just that they can't leave the dock at the moment - Mr. Luo, the leader of the fleet, still has to lecture them.

Mr. Luo is Luo Fangbai. In this time and space, it is impossible for Luo Fangbai to establish his own Lanfang Company in Borneo. He had joined Chen Han early when the Fu Han army went south to Guangdong and Guangxi. He first served in the Jiaying government, although his rank was not high. But the family status is different.

In his early years, Luo Fangbai's family was extremely poor. He worked hard with his tongue and worked hard with inkstones to make a living. However, after joining the Fuhan Army, he made a fortune and gained momentum in just three or two months. In addition to his work in the prefect's yamen, his two younger brothers, Luo Kuibai and Luo Taibai, one opened an oil-pressing workshop. Jiaying's camellia oleifera is very famous; the other started a restaurant business that made money faster. . In a short period of time, the Luo family's family life has been turned upside down.

But he was not satisfied yet, so he signed up to go south and completed a major transformation from a middle- and lower-class civil servant to a seventh-rank official in West Borneo. When Li Kun suffered, he was already from the fifth rank.

When Li Kun was in trouble, Luo Fangbai was the envoy of the Chinese delegation who negotiated with the Indonesian monkey at that time. Relying on this good fate, Luo Fangbai was transferred back to Guangdong from West Borneo, and his rank rose instead of lowering, reaching the fifth rank, entering the threshold of a middle-level official, and then transferred to the Immigration Bureau.

Today's official position is from the third-grade deputy director of the Immigration Bureau.

After all the immigrants in the fleet had disembarked, under the instructions of the people on shore, the five thousand immigrants reluctantly stood in a chaotic square formation on the open space of the dock. Luo Fangbai couldn't wait to get on the podium that had been prepared, holding a bronze Pi Xiaoxiao started the propaganda that he had already prepared:

"You are all impoverished people in the country. Now that you have landed on this fertile soil, you will surely find peace, happiness and happiness in the future."

"However, we must not forget this day of well-being. The fact that you are here today is due to the mercy of the Holy Emperor and the kindness of the imperial court..."

"Although you are thousands of miles away from home, you are still our Chinese sons and descendants of the Han family..."

This is an old tradition of the Immigration Bureau and also the tradition of immigrants. The first thing they do when arriving in a new place is to listen to the instructions from the leading officer. To show your sincerity and loyalty.

Although every Immigration Bureau official, including Luo Fangbai, knew in their hearts that those in Southern Mingzhou were fine, but now those in North America were grateful to the emperor. After thirty or fifty years, the next generation would , their allegiance is not to His Majesty the Emperor thousands of miles away, but to these vassal kings who are harmonious and harmonious in front of them.

In his opinion, although the move of immigration can quickly strengthen the strength of the Han-owned areas in America in the short term and increase the strength and power of Chen Han as a whole, by then, will the overseas vassal states still be willing to surrender to Nanjing? It's hard to say - although Luo Fangbai has 10,000 confidence in Nanjing, Nanjing currently has an absolute advantage in force and can easily crush these vassal states, but what about thirty or fifty years later?

Even if the empire is still in the Wia world, it is arrogant. But if we really send troops to deal with these vassal states, it is not just a matter of being able to defeat them, but also a matter of being ruined and losing face.

Luo Fangbai, the senior officials who have not yet reached the top of the ministry and bureau, although they are also senior officials, are one level behind. They do not know the overall plan of Chen Han's overseas feudal kingdoms. They only think that the enfeoffment of six vassal states is everything.

Also because of his inner considerations and worries, Luo Fangbai is a standard "must sender of the Eastern Han Dynasty".

‘Eastern Han’, Tokyo, Hanjin.

Luo Fangbai believes that if Nanjing wants to maintain great influence in the Americas thousands of miles away, it must maintain control of the two major cities of Tokyo and Hanjin and maintain the 'vitality' of these two fertile lands.

As long as Nanjing can finish everything and follow the Eastern Han Dynasty, the situation in America will not be freed from its shackles.

The land between Tokyo and Hanjin is larger than the fiefdom of one vassal king. This is the territory of two vassal kings. If they are managed well, just relying on these two cities can suppress the situation in America.

However, Luo Fangbai was neither able nor qualified to stop Nanjing's continuous blood transfusion to the Americas. He could only lament that the emperor was interested in his little brother. Then everyone can establish a country overseas in the future, be a loner, and establish a legacy that will last for hundreds of years.

Therefore, every time Luo Fangbai joins the team, he will give a very long speech with heartfelt words that will move the world as soon as the immigrants land.

You must know that before this, this kind of speech had slowly become a formality. And Luo Fangbai gave this thing that was about to lose its existence a new luster.

Although what he did made many people in the Americas secretly unhappy, Luo Fangbai was talking about the 'big climate', and no matter how much he was unhappy, he could not let it out, and he even had to applaud and cheer on the side.

These refugees left their homes because of poverty and difficulty. If they had found a good life in America, they would have lived a good life. Then it is obvious where this heart is heading. Luo Fangbai asked them to remain loyal to Nanjing in vain here, which was a completely thankless move.

However, regardless of what they really thought in their hearts, on the surface they still listened to Luo Fangbai's teachings with a 'serious study' attitude. Then there was the management official here in Tokyo. This person spoke cleanly. After taking the copper trumpet, he didn't say a word nonsense and just shouted ten words:

"Everyone disband, line up in teams, and eat!"

This sentence immediately cheered up the spirits of the immigrants. Similar to the strategy used to deal with prisoners of war, the immigrants also followed discipline and were grouped into groups. Using meals as a temptation and a sense of oppression made it easier for Tokyo managers to put order in place. They grouped the immigrants into family units, with ten households in one group and one hundred households in one team. Each team would form the prototype of an administrative village in the future.

Whoever lines up first can eat first. Under such temptation, the immigrants quickly lined up in a relatively neat line. They casually took out the lunch boxes they carried with them. This was the lunch box they used on the ship, a wooden box, a pair of chopsticks, a spoon, and a bowl made of coconut shells. Before and after boarding the ship, these people had already developed the habit of queuing for meals.

Under the shock of food, these people always learn the rules quickly.

The first meal the immigrants had on the island was fish porridge, which was made of white rice, red beans, wheat kernels, and corn kernels, and some dried fish and shrimp skin were mixed in for seasoning. The quantity was limited, and each person only had a large spoonful. It was not that the Tokyo government was stingy and did not give them enough to eat, but they took into account that these people might not be able to adapt to the local climate when they first arrived. Eating too much would easily cause diarrhea, and once dysentery appeared in a dense crowd, it would be very troublesome.

However, children could get an extra boiled egg.

Looking at the groups of men, women, old and young squatting on the ground, slurping and drinking porridge, the faces of a group of vassal officials were full of smiles - the thousands of people here are enough to form ten administrative villages, or lay the foundation for twenty or thirty new villages. According to the land allocated to each household, it won't take long for tens of thousands of acres of good farmland to be added to the account. They have never lacked fertile land here, but no one is taking care of it.

The land is vast and the population is sparse, and America is truly vast and sparsely populated.

No matter which vassal state it is, the vast tracts of flat and fertile land are simply a godsend.

The Spaniards dare not cross the border by land. They still have excuses to shirk responsibility at sea, but they can't shirk responsibility on land.

The bandits are at least you Spaniards, right? They are your people, why don't you care?

Do you still care?

Dare to say that you don't care. The National Defense Force dares to "manage" for them.

While Europe was shouting in chaos, many things in China were proceeding in an orderly manner.

Whether it is domestic economic activities, political livelihood projects, or foreign immigration work, all are running at high speed. China is like a train that has been embedded in the track, moving in a straight direction towards the final goal.

But at this time in Europe, in the midst of shouting and killing, the royalists in Toulon finally chose to sell out their country in order to maintain their own interests and to prevent the revolutionary army from entering Toulon. The Toulon Fortress and the French Mediterranean Fleet with more than 30 ships were handed over to the British and Spanish, so that the British and Spanish troops could easily occupy Toulon without firing a single shot.

The port of Toulon is not big, but it is very important. It is in the south of France, on the Mediterranean coast. It is an important port in southern France and a good naval base. It is a remarkable place for both France and the European powers. So after the British and Spanish entered here, the armies of Naples, Piedmont and Gibraltar also entered this port one after another.

At the same time, the dictatorship in southern France was rampant, and the dictatorship rebellion that attempted to overthrow the Jacobin revolutionary regime soon reached its climax.

This incident caused a strong reaction in Paris. So, a child of destiny who was forced to leave his hometown came here by chance, to Toulon.

From last year to now, the past year or so has been an extraordinary year for Napoleon.

Although the young Napoleon has relatively mature political insights, has mastered a wealth of military knowledge, and has accumulated certain combat experience. However, before participating in the Battle of Toulon, he did not really get the opportunity to display his talents. Although he was listed in the regular artillery unit of the French Revolutionary Army, he had been on leave from the team to lead a national self-guard battalion in his hometown of Corsica, hoping to do a great cause for the independence and freedom of his hometown.

However, revolution is not so easy. Corsica is also a place of right and wrong where various forces compete with each other, and the struggle between various factions is fierce. Napoleon hopes to take the opportunity to promote the independence of Corsica, but he is strongly opposed by another pro-British faction. Due to political differences and military failures, he was unable to settle down on Corsica and was forced to leave his hometown with his family and flee to Calvi with his mother and brothers, hiding in a friend's house.

On June 13, 1794, Napoleon set foot on the coast of Provence and arrived in Toulon. This was an important turning point in his life.

Chen Ming didn't know that the child of destiny that he had always expected to see was now really in place.