Dominate the Country

The 20th year of Chengtian, 1794 in the Western calendar.

In America, in the Yatu region, the newly established Xue State stood in the northwest corner of the later Lighthouse State. This newly established country, with the hard work of countless immigrants, gradually rejuvenated and blossomed with a brilliant new face.

The new world of America, the new world of China!

Everything is so magical. Such a fertile and vast land does not even have a decent country, but is occupied by a group of primitive tribes - wasting natural resources.

So, Europeans came, and Chinese people came too. A small but fully armed village appeared on the land of Yatu.

Their population may be only 30 or 40 households, 200 people, but they have at least hundreds of muskets, two or even more small cannons.

The latter's shells are mostly shotguns.

And such a firepower configuration is no longer something that the Indians in the Yatu region can resist. The sound of gunfire told the original inhabitants of the area who was the real master here.

Batches of Indians were driven eastward, or simply chose to surrender.

The subjects of Xue State were very grateful to the Indians for their nature. These people had no sense of fellow countrymen at all. Just like the black Shuli in Africa, the tribe was their world, and everything was for the tribe. So the Indians who surrendered to Xue State turned around and killed Indians from other tribes, and there was no rebound at all.

The Indians did not have a complete union. They were not as good as the Indians in the east. There was also a power combination of tribal alliances. The Indians here did not have a strong leader that everyone believed in. They were absolutely a mess. They were shattered and fragmented. On the west coast of North America, they were completely unable to resist the oppression of thousands of armed immigrants.

They either chose to surrender, and then the entire tribe was split up, and the Indians in the tribe were dispersed and resettled in different villages as families; or they could only migrate eastward.

Just like the Indians' westward migration in the original time and space, in today's time and space, the Americans have not yet risen, but the Chinese have come from the west, so they can only move - this is another "road of blood and tears" for them.

The Chinese's "eastward movement" will continue uninterruptedly in the next hundred years until the Chinese have stepped on every inch of North America.

Of course, the Indians can also choose to die. There are indeed resistance among them, and they will also harass and sneak attack.

Therefore, the villages of Chinese immigrants must build walls, from Xue State to Cai State, any vassal state must do so. Because this place has a bit of the flavor of the Former Qin and Zhou Dynasty, the princes can run into barbarians when they go out. Although the deterrent power of the Indians is much worse than that of the barbarians back then, the immigrant settlements and towns of various countries must also establish relatively complete fortifications and defense systems, especially those arranged in border areas, far away from towns.

Tacoma, the timber capital of the United States in later generations and a port city at the southern end of Puget Sound, now has a new name - South Water Town.

The superior geographical location and surrounding environmental resources here were valued by European immigrants in the original time and space, and are now also valued by the Xue people. They not only built many manors here, but also a small town. If it develops properly, it will be a county in three to five years. It is more likely to become a prefecture in the future.

Somewhere in the river bend outside the town, hundreds of honest Korean and Japanese civilians are busy building a cube building. The building is about ten meters wide and ten meters high. Each of the four faces has several openings of varying sizes, which can be used as shooting holes or lookouts. On the top of this building, a small attic was built, with a parapet wall around it, and a small sloping drape at the bottom, which was set to offset the recoil of the artillery when it was fired, so as to facilitate the rapid resetting of the artillery.

In short, from Chen Ming's point of view, this is a standard artillery tower. Yes, this is the famous Japanese artillery tower.

As a post-80s who grew up watching anti-Japanese war movies, Chen Ming can definitely draw the appearance of the Japanese artillery tower.

And there are trenches dug around the artillery tower, which are deep and wide, and there are fences and breast walls. There is also a barracks and a multi-functional room with multiple functions such as a restaurant, kitchen, entertainment room, and classroom, plus a toilet, a well, and a small vegetable garden.

There is only one platoon of soldiers stationed in the artillery tower here. But this platoon of soldiers can resist the attack of ten or twenty times the number of Indians with fortifications.

This is just like what happened when the old Russians entered Siberia.

The Indians in the western North America, who only had a few muskets in their hands, relied on the bows and javelins in their hands, and were no match for the National Defense Army. Especially once the latter's stronghold was established, it was like the wooden fortress of the old Russians at the beginning, and there was almost no possibility of falling.

Of course, this kind of turret is much more labor-intensive and material-intensive than the Russian wooden fortress. However, the Russians were dealing with Siberian natives who had no foreign aid, while the Indians that China needed to deal with might not really have no foreign aid.

Whether it was the British, the French, or the Americans who had just been established and had not yet established a firm foothold, as long as the interests were known, they could be foreign aid for the Indians.

Nanshui Town has been under construction for more than half a year, and the general construction of the town has been completed, leaving only the outer fortifications.

There are five gun towers in total, and three have been built. The other two are still under construction. It is only February now, and the Korean and Japanese workers in the town have been pulled out.

These people are not immigrants, they are pure laborers. They stay in America for two or three years. Unless they encounter opportunities, they may become immigrants. Otherwise, they can only take a boat back after the labor period.

These gun towers are about two miles away from the east wall of Nanshui Town, within the range of most artillery on the top of the city. If a large group of Indians come to attack, the laborers who are building the gun towers can retreat back to the town under the cover of artillery fire, but the Indians who rush over will leave at least seven or eight hundred bodies. If they insist on demolishing the gun towers under construction in Xueguo Nanshui Town, they must be prepared to die more than a thousand or eight hundred people.

Although the guard force of the entire Nanshui Town is only 500 people.

Therefore, after being blasted into pieces by the cannons on the top of the Xue people's city walls at the beginning, the Indians gave up the idea of ​​demolishing the Xue people's artillery towers and towns, because it was not a good idea to keep filling it with human lives. After a long time, they had to break up and cause chaos. In addition, more and more Indian tribes retreated to the east. After repeated setbacks, the Indians did not get the support they deserved, and their morale and fighting spirit became weaker and weaker.

Anyway, North America is very big. If you are not allowed to stay in the west, just go east. There are only tens of thousands of French people living in the huge Louisiana, and there is still a lot of space for Indians to survive and reproduce.

Therefore, there are fewer and fewer Indians who resolutely resist Chen Han, and the intensity of Indian harassment is getting worse and worse. However, Xue State did not dare to take it lightly, and no vassal state would take it lightly. Who knows when the Indians will come back. Moreover, by then, they will no longer hold javelins and bows and arrows, but modern muskets and artillery.

In the cold winter of last year, a large number of Indians withdrew from the territory of Xue State, but Nanshui Town is still far away from Louisiana. Not only is there a Rocky Mountain in the middle, but the vast area is much larger than the territory controlled by Xue State now.

And Xue King Chen Lu also knew that the easternmost point of his Xue State's territory was the Rocky Mountains. Going further east was not something he could dream of.

Chen Lu did not expect the other side of the Rocky Mountains at all. His greatest hope in life was that when he was dying, the flag of Xue State could be planted from Yatu to the west of the Rocky Mountains.

In this way, he would be satisfied.

Therefore, after the initial active attack, the Xue people began to build large and small villages and towns on a large scale. During this period, the army of King Xue and the national defense forces stationed in Xue State would only sweep through thousands of troops with thunder and lightning when the Indians resisted fiercely. Otherwise, they would shrink in their own territory, build settlements bit by bit, and expand their living space bit by bit.

This was the strategy that Chen Lu had set before coming to America. He was also the best friend of the sixth prince, Chen An. One of them married a Korean and the other married a Japanese. Although the status of Princess Cai was lower than that of the prince, she was the daughter of Qingfeng Jin, and at least she had a legitimate former queen of Korea alive.

So, when the two led the team to Korea, they both played to their wives' family backgrounds and used a small amount of money to collect tens of thousands of strong laborers from Korea and Japan.

To be honest, this was easy for the sixth prince's Taishan to accomplish, and the Japanese had a hard life. But Qingfeng Jin was a bit nonsense. After Korea was incorporated into China, the whole country was divided into two, and the life was getting more and more prosperous, and the living standard was increasing day by day. Because Koreans have enjoyed the same treatment as Chinese people since then.

Although there was no preferential treatment, and with the influx of a large number of Chinese immigrants, many Korean women were also married into the Han family. Of course, many girls from the Han Chinese side also married Bangbang. Assimilation? But the result of doing so is that the population of Korea is getting smaller and smaller, because after having a Han Chinese mother and father, they are all Han Chinese.

The local nobles and gentry also "declined" together.

Not to mention the Qingfeng Jin family, even the Lixing Min family, the overall strength has declined compared to the beginning.

The land and population in their hands have been silently converted into tradable wealth, shares, and Huayuan.

Therefore, the Qingfeng Jin family was able to gather tens of thousands of people to send to their son-in-law, which is really absolute support.

These Korean farmers who came to North America, after three years of hard labor, don't know how to curse the Jin family in their hearts. This is a scam.

They just went to the north to mine, and after three years of work, the wages and treatment were much better than here in America.

Although the fertile land here in Xueguo really made them jealous.

It's too flat and too suitable for farming.

Even the mountain in the west that runs through the north and south of Xue State is covered with dense forests. The trees in it are all soft woods, which can be used as logs, processed into strips and boards, and used for papermaking.

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Nanshui Town is a town that Xue State focused on building. The building materials here are all bricks, and cement and lime are also common materials. There are more than a thousand workers in the brick factory, kiln factory, and carbon factory around.

When Xue State began to build Nanshui Town, the Indians had harassed here for two or three months, but they did not launch a large-scale attack because the Indians had suffered enough losses and learned their lesson.

But this still affected the progress of the project. Of the five watchtowers that were supposed to be completed in the winter of last year, two have not yet been completed.

If these five watchtowers were completed, and the cannons were pulled up, they would be able to completely block the west side of Nanshui Town, with the distances between them ranging from one to two miles, and greatly protect this newly born "newborn".