Chapter 35: The five major forces have arrived Compared with the East Coast Republic, which is surrounded by war every day and has an extremely strong military atmosphere, the strategic space of the Chinese and American Republic in remote North America is relatively more relaxed.
Unlike the countries on the east coast of South America, China and the United States, with the New York area as its core in later generations, are also isolated in a foreign land.
However, the competitors around them are not the Spaniards and Portuguese who have taken root in the Americas for hundreds of years, but only the Indians who are relatively easy to deal with.
The indigenous people, as well as the British and French colonists who were so weak that they could not protect themselves.
As for the nearest Spanish power, it is still thousands of miles away in the Caribbean.
Moreover, the Huamei Group has intermarryed and formed alliances with the local Delaware tribe Indians from the very beginning of the time travel, thereby obtaining valuable and reliable human resource supplements, instead of always being the core ethnic group like the East Coast Group.
Struggling with the unsolvable problem of population scarcity: hundreds and thousands of Indian men and women joined the construction In the team, the same number of Indian children sat in the class of travelers and learned Chinese.
Many young travelers married Indian girls and brought advanced and wealthy production and lifestyle to the Delaware tribe, so that they did not have to No longer troubled by plague and famine, it even attracted other small Indian tribes nearby to defect and join.
With such a relatively solid basic base, even if the Chinese-American Republic still has to recruit many immigrants from Europe, it does not have to worry about losing its tail.
No matter what, Indians and Chinese are both yellow people, and they are the same in the eyes of European colonists.
It is easier for Indians who are alien and less civilized to give up their original backward customs and integrate into the group of travelers than it is for European Christians.
In this way, Huamei Group inadvertently gained the recognition and support of the indigenous people and established a firm foothold in this unfamiliar land.
Before that, they flexibly used military strikes and economic temptations to annex various Indian tribes step by step, expanding the territory and population of the Republic.
As competitors for a similar level of civilization in the Chinese-American Republic, the only nearby ones were the French colony of Quebec and the British colony of Virginia.
But the French colony of Quebec was simply a trading post for collecting North American furs.
It couldn't even grow food to eat and needed to obtain supplies from overseas.
Any serious famine, plague, Indian attack, or even a collapse of the price of furs in the Paris market could push this crumbling and fragile colony into a desperate situation due to internal and external troubles, not to mention the distant and beautiful colony.
Republic.
The British in the southern Virginia colony are currently also poor and hungry, and have bad relations with the nearby Indians.
They are struggling on the edge of death all day long.
What's more terrible is that Britain was already on the eve of the civil war at this time, and the opposition between the Royalists and Parliament was on the verge of intensifying.
Due to the problem of taking the wrong side in the domestic political whirlpool, the Virginia colony unfortunately became an embarrassing existence where the father did not love the mother. , it is impossible to borrow the power of the motherland to deal with Anti-China American Group In fact, with the development and growth of the Chinese-American Republic, the current Virginia has almost become a vassal force of China-American, economically controlled by the Chinese-American Travelers, politically "guided" by the Chinese-American Republic, and the distance is officially Annexation is not far off either.
As for the other group of immigrants who founded the New England Colony and are regarded by modern people as the ancestors of the United States, the "Mayflower" immigrants, well, I'm sorry, they and their ships have already been disarmed and captured by the Huamei Crossing Group, and now they have become members of the Huamei Republic.
Loyal subjects, several of the "activists" who joined the army even followed the Chinese and American Far East Fleet to Batavia in Southeast Asia.
In a few days, they will probably reach Lingao County on Hainan Island.
Since there are no foreign enemies around the country that need to be seriously dealt with, there are only weak chickens and fat chickens that can be abused.
Therefore, judging from satellite images, the development speed of the Chinese-American Republic is quite astonishing, and the developed territory is much larger than that of the East.
The Republic of China is more vast.
The current core territory of this country is lined up along the coast of North America, with the capital "Manchester" located in what would become New York as the center.
It was named because of its location on Manhattan Island.
The northernmost settlement has been developed into Maine, and the southernmost settlement has been developed into Maine.
The sphere of influence reached Virginia, where the modern capital of the United States, Washington, is located.
The tentacles expanding inland have also initially reached the coast of the Great Lakes.
Another World: The thirteen-state territory of the United States of America at the beginning of its founding, and the half of the territory that belonged to the North during the Civil War, have now fallen into the hands of the Chinese-American Republic, which was only eleven years old.
Compared with the densely populated Old World, the Chinese American Republic still seems vast and sparsely populated, but in the entire New World, at least in North America, it is already the well-deserved supreme overlord.
Through satellite images, Wang Qiu and the others saw row upon row of neat buildings on Manhattan Island. , busy traffic The bustling markets, the steam ferries sailing on the coast and the Hudson River, the large wheat fields and vegetable fields scattered in strips, the black smoke industrial towns, even the marginal Indian tribes civilized by the travelers, They all planted crops and pasture and lived in brick houses.
Although the industrial towns of the Chinese American Republic scattered along the Atlantic coast may not be as technologically advanced as the group of "rich men" like the Far East Company in Vladivostok who carried too many belongings and seemed to have just reached the level of the 19th century, their scale and coverage are the same.
Tian Yi Di is no longer an isolated stronghold, but has initially formed a truly industrialized country, a large and complex industrial division of labor system.
If the Far East Company in Vladivostok is like a heavily guarded secret base, Zhongnan City in Australia is like a crude refugee camp, and the East Coast Republic is like a murderous war fortress, then the Chinese American Republic is truly like a prosperous modern country "From Maine to Virginia, from the Chesapeake Bay to the Great Lakes, plus the overseas colonies as far away as Cape Town, South Africa, almost two to three hundred thousand square kilometers of territory has really taken over the land of the chosen country of the United States.
The infrastructure, especially the capital city on Manhattan Island, not only has an electric power system and a radio station, but also the street parks and statues are so beautiful that it almost looks like the United States in the 19th century."
Looking at the animated simulation of "Manchester", the capital of the Chinese American Republic, on the screen, Guo Yi couldn't help but admired it.
Although Dongmen City in Lingao also had broadcast speakers and street lighting, in terms of the scale of the city and the size of the buildings, The level of grandeur seems not to be comparable to that of Manchester City in the Chinese-American Republic: After all, on Hainan Island, there are not as many high-quality wood and stone resources as on the North American continent.
As he spoke, he took out a mimeographed book from his arms and spread it out on the table, "I used to think that the Ming Dynasty scholar who wrote this thing was ignorant and liked to brag, so he boasted about the beauty like this.
Awesome.
I didn’t expect that this Chinese American time traveler is really something that people don’t dare to look down upon.”
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Wang Qiu and others curiously picked up the book and read it one by one.
They found that the title was Ji Meiluo's Collection.
Then they opened the cover and found that the content was in classical Chinese.
The opening page read: "In the past, the former Han Dynasty was destroyed by the Mang Dynasty, and the Later Han Dynasty was restored by Guangwu Kuangwu.
Attacked the Xiongnu, Nanan Baiyue, now the former Song Dynasty died in the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties , and then the Song Dynasty dominated the West, spanning the seven seas, and dominated the Western world.
This is what Hua Meiyu has seen and heard since he unfortunately broke up his family and went into exile in the United States for three years.
I hope you can get a glimpse of the beautiful scenery and gain some knowledge through this book."
Combining the content of the book with Guo Yi's introduction, Wang Qiu and others just learned that the person who wrote this Ji Meiluo was a scholar named Zhang who was born in southern Fujian.
After becoming an official, he was unfortunately attacked by pirates in the late years of Tianqi. , the village was broken up, and he himself was kidnapped by pirates, and then sold to the Portuguese in Macau.
After that, he traveled across the ocean on an immigrant ship, all the way to the Chinese American Republic thousands of miles away.
Zhang Xiucai from southern Fujian has been in China and the United States for nearly three years.
When he first arrived, he was very disdainful of this overseas foreign country.
However, after seeing the scene of this traveler country with his own eyes, he soon became very impressed.
Shocking this year's Chinese-American Republic group Zhang Xiucai organized an expedition fleet to the East.
After learning about it, Zhang Xiucai, who missed his hometown, took the initiative to sign up.
Because he was well-educated and familiar with the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty and the etiquette of the gentry, he was successfully hired and accompanied the gorgeous fleet to Batavia on Java Island. .
Although the Chinese and American fleet stayed in Batavia for many days, it has not yet reached mainland China.
However, the giraffes, alpacas and other "auspicious tributes" carried by the fleet to be presented to the Ming court, as well as the diplomatic envoys carrying credentials, had already boarded the fast ship provided by the Lingao Senate in advance and arrived in October.
Entering Guangzhou, it caused a sensation in the whole city.
Therefore, Zhang Xiucai followed the Chinese and American envoys to Guangzhou in advance as a staff member.
Later, because he met relatives and friends he had met in Guangzhou, he did not follow the Chinese and American envoys to escort the tribute northward, but continued to linger in the city.
Every day, wealthy gentrymen invited him to come and talk about his wonderful experiences in "China and the United States."
After this scholar's "Ji Mei Lu" was leaked, it quickly became the hottest bestseller in the Guangzhou book market, and people were reading it everywhere.
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After hearing the news, even the Lingao Senate obtained the manuscript as quickly as possible, and immediately launched this simplified version of Ji Mei's Brief Collection.
On the one hand, it was distributed to all the senators for reading reference, and on the other hand, it tried to put a small amount into the market. , and then it was quickly sold out.
The current price of the book has been raised to twenty taels of silver per book, but the supply is still in short supply.
Well, to get back to the subject, since this book is written from the perspective and way of thinking of people in the Ming Dynasty, it is the most profound first impression of the "China and America" thousands of miles away, or of any traveler group and advanced forces.
Nothing compares to "Strong Ships and Sharp Cannons".
"I have read in the book "Tiangong Kaiwu" that the Song Dynasty was good at making boats.
With a favorable wind, it can travel hundreds of miles in a day.
It is also extremely large and can carry hundreds of people.
Everyone in the academy said it was too much.
In fact, I was said to be silent.
When I was in trouble and was trafficked to the land of Africa, I saw a magnificent ship, as big as a mountain.
By wind power , with only fine coals and fire coals, you can move forward through the waves, regardless of the direction of the huge waves and winds.
It is truly said that the craftsmanship is extremely fine.
The rest all marvel at the skills of studying things in the Song Dynasty.
The owner of the ship said that the most refined ship in the United States abandoned the sail and used fire steam.
Called a steamship.
There are also warships and giant boats, the fast ones are called cruisers, the giant ones are called iron armor, the big guns and giant ships are all covered with iron armor, and the cannons can hardly damage them at all.
Such important weapons of the military state cannot be defeated by manpower.
I lament that although the Taizu of this dynasty drove away the Mongols and restored the Han Dynasty, all the secret craftsmanship of the previous Song Dynasty was lost.
The skilled craftsmen traveled as far as America, and later generations lamented that it was in vain."
In addition, the "Hua Mei" is very different from many magnificent buildings in the Ming Dynasty, which also shocked the author: "Hua Mei is especially good at creating.
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When I first arrived at the Hua Mei capital, Manchester, I stood on the deck and leaned on the railing to overlook.
Manchester City is close to the sea and nestled in the hills. , the roads are criss-crossed like a chessboard, and the fine houses and mansions are inlaid with endless lines, which shows its vastness, the market is bustling, and the voices of people are like In Chaozhou, the roads in the city are straight and wide, with separate pedestrian lanes.
At all intersections, there are professionals holding red and green signs to direct traffic in an orderly manner.
Trees are widely planted on both sides of the market, like a canopy, and even in the hot summer, Don't be afraid.
All buildings, no matter how big or small, are built with square bricks and huge stones.
There is very little earth and wood.
They can stand for hundreds of years.
They are not afraid of water, fire and ants.
They are completely different from those in China.
Later, I visited the gorgeous National Congress Pavilion and saw how majestic it was.
It was more than tens of feet high.
Bricks were cut out of rock and pillars were carved out of stone.
The brick pillars were so huge that even though a hundred people could not move the heavy bricks, three or four people were needed to make the pillars thick.
It can be surrounded by one hundred and thirty-six huge pillars under the eaves of the surrounding building.
There are also exquisite and complex carvings on the eaves.
The figures' appearance and clothing are all Chinese and not Chinese.
I don't know where they are.
No matter where the masonry or pillars are, they are all smooth and can be seen.
Contact as a mirror, Capitol Building The atrium hall, which is the center of state affairs, can seat thousands of people without being embarrassed.
It is so vast that there is not even a supporting pillar.
The gorgeous little guard guarding the door said that relying on the dome is enough, and I sighed while stroking the wall.
It is so beautiful. tall A majestic man, I don’t know how much manpower and financial resources are wasted, but Huamei’s country does not spare the people’s power, Qin Jian is not far away, Huamei’s petty officials were absolutely stunned when they heard this, and sneered and said that only five hundred engineering teams were needed, and the construction period could be completed in three years.
We were all stunned. also.
When I had free time after that, I often wandered around the folk houses in the market.
I experienced them personally and felt the prosperity of China and the United States.
The red roofs and white bricks of the houses were all made of square stones.
The seams were stitched together and a needle could not be inserted.
It was common to have more than two floors.
There are many potted flowers along the windowsill, and clusters of spring and summer jacarandas look like colorful flowers blooming in the sky.
It is so beautiful that it is a major scenic spot in Manchester.
However, there are countless buildings with three or four floors, and those with six or seven floors are also ordinary.
The windows are bright and clean, and they are all covered with colored glass.
The appearance is colorful and grand.
The tall buildings are gorgeous and beautiful, and people call them office buildings.
Yu Bai was puzzled.
Yu met Tang, a great Huamei builder, and said that his family has been involved in building construction for generations.
Yu invited Tang to work on Huamei Construction.
Tangchang told Yu that Huamei was good at building, all relying on machinery, digging foundations and driving piles, it could be built overnight, and the huge pillars were square.
The stone weighs more than 10,000 kilograms, and lifting it is like child's play.
Practitioners need to attend a junior college for three years before they can graduate from the profession.
They are called architects.
The knowledge and skills learned in the academy are passed down from generation to generation, and they strive for excellence more and more.
They are also the Mahayana masters of Western and Western China.
He also talked about the gorgeous people preferring the neoclassical styles of Rome and Greece, and so on.
I admired him so much that I couldn't accept it.
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I lamented that in the Ming Dynasty, the common people could not have their own homes.
However, everyone has a place to live in the beauty.
The ancients said that people who have permanent property have perseverance.
Don’t deceive me sincerely”
Next, the culture and entertainment of Huamei also deeply impressed this Ming Dynasty scholar: "When I first arrived in Huamei, I saw children hawking along the street with bags and paper, shouting nicknames constantly, peddlers and high-ranking officials.
I also received endless invitations to buy, and after living there for a long time, I realized that this was a newspaper, or newsprint.
National events and rural anecdotes were all published in it.
When changes in national policies were announced, supplements were also published in the newspaper.
The colorful education was effective and the common people were aware of it.
There are many writers, big things and small feelings are all read in the newspapers.
All beautiful and beautiful people can submit books to newspapers and periodicals to express their thoughts directly.
The writer is not guilty.
If the newspapers and periodicals choose it, they will also pay a certain amount of writing fee.
Submission of books is also enthusiastic, and the government has elected If the measures are wrong, the newspapers will attack them.
If the officials are lazy and corrupt, they will expose them and pursue them.
The officials in the temples will be vigilant and will not dare to be unfair or go against the will of the people. fear If you stop a little misbehavior and expose it to the world, everyone will criticize it.
How can you deal with yourself?
It can be said that a piece of paper resists thousands of things.
The officials dare not be clear in their governance.
I deeply think that it is the newspaper publisher who prints and publishes it every day.
The flourishing of culture and culture, there are many newspapers, there are many newspapers and periodicals, there are big newspapers and small newspapers.
The big newspapers are rigorous and reasonable in writing, clear in origin, clear and powerful in purpose, and criticize the current ills and national policies with reason and evidence.
The pros and cons are in order, I love them the most, the famous ones, the Manchester Times, the Atlantic Review, the Financial Times are the best among them, I read them every day, the tabloids, the content is obscene, specializing in celebrity privacy scandals , people call it gossip, and practitioners call it paparazzi.
I don’t know what it refers to, but ignorant people are keen on it, so there are many people who sell it.
Everyone has their own preferences.
There are many Chinese and American novels, and there are many famous writers.
Meirenzhihuaben is like studying things, divided into categories, and there are many types.
I have been in the United States for many years, and I have dabbled in them all.
Among the martial arts novels that I admire the most, and the author with the most reputation is undoubtedly The Legend of the Condor Heroes, The Condor Heroes and the Couple have two ears, I read it, and never leave the book, without thinking about tea or food, I am fascinated by the wonderful points.
When he hits it, he claps his knees and sighs that he is a true hero and a good man.
The family members are surprised and inexplicable.
Looking at the whole book, the most important point is the hero who serves the country and the people.
The so-called small and great righteousness is here.
The people, not only the great chivalrous ones, but also lamentable that the country and the dynasty are full of nobles, and the gentry in the world are few in number for the country and the people, and many are for profit and selfishness.
In addition to martial arts, the gorgeous romance novels are also unique.
When Yu lived in Huamei, there was a scholar in trouble named Yan who rented a house with Yu.
They were young and romantic and fell in love with him.
He praised his love story in Manchester and praised it.
It was the first of gorgeous romances.
The beauty was so loud that it made him cry.
Yu Qizhi said, After reading it, I finished it in one go.
During this period, I didn't eat or drink, and I didn't think about food and tea.
When I read it, I felt sad, my eyes were full of tears, and my fists were clenched.
When I read it, I felt happy, and my face was full of smiles, like a spring breeze.
After reading to the end, I was overjoyed and sad that lovers could not get married.
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I covered my head and cried bitterly.
It really made me tear up.
Although what I said was not in line with the etiquette of famous religions and warned men and women against each other, it was also deeply touching.
Thanks to this book, I am a beautiful girl.
There are many people named Lixiang."
Of course, after saying so many good things, this scholar who was deeply influenced by feudal ethics, even though he had seen so many exotic sights, was still completely unacceptable to some things: "Beautiful people, gorgeous clothes and beautiful clothes."
Also, even though he is famous for his reputation, his gorgeous clothes are quite different from those of the imperial dynasty.
The attire of the imperial dynasty is wide, with wide sleeves, and a turban on the right side of the collar.
The hair is short and the beard is short.
Generally, short shirts, blouses and trousers are worn, and clothes are buttoned.
He wears belts to tie his trousers, especially belts.
Tough and beautiful, more than a lot of cloth belts.
When they are dignified and serious, they usually wear gorgeous suits, ties around the neck, white shirts and trousers, which looks dignified and capable.
Women all wear skirts and waistbands.
Li, what's more, years Young women mostly love short skirts, some of which are narrower than the knee or over a foot, wearing miniskirts and strapless tops.
The clothes are light and flimsy, and they have a swaying grace.
They walk through the market in a swagger, but they are the same as everyone else.
Where are Zhu Cheng and others in the Song Dynasty?
Waiting for those who keep the etiquette to abandon it” After reading this, Wang Qiu couldn't help but laugh, threw the book to Ma Tong and Liu Chaozuo, who had been waiting impatiently, turned to Guo Yi and said, "Hey, I didn't expect that the ancients really didn't like women showing up.
The natives of Nanyang don't wear clothes."
It’s common for them to see women wearing strips But short skirts are condemned as immoral.
Such old-fashioned etiquette should have been abolished long ago.
But according to the contents of this book, it is estimated that as soon as the scholars of the Ming Dynasty read it, they will immediately compare you and the two groups in America.
After all, no matter how you look at it, they look too similar.”
"Yes, in fact, since our three parties met, the Dutch in Batavia have long noticed this, and the naturalized people in our three camps are also very surprised by this, which has caused confusion both internally and externally.
Rumors are flying everywhere.
Even the Guangzhou government, which has always been slow, secretly sent people here this month to find out if we are from the same family."
Guo Yi shrugged and replied with a wry smile, "Lingao hasn't thought about how to explain it yet, so I can only deal with it vaguely.
Where will we look at Huamei Group's South African colony next?"
"No, it's enough for us to have a rough idea of these forces outside China's territory.
Now only Hainan Island, which is the closest to us, is the Senate where you are.
I don't know what you have managed in the past few years.
What kind of situation has this situation reached?
Is it up to the level of those two groups in North America and South America?
Senior Guo Yi, you might as well introduce what they have on Hainan Island that is worth seeing."
As Wang Qiu said this, he adjusted the observation object of the remote control screen to the nearby Hainan Island, the fifth and last large-scale traveler group base in time and space, and the live scene was fully displayed in front of everyone. oshow7: