Li Shimin now only knows that he is going to the other side of the ocean, tens of thousands of miles away, to the United States.
It is only known that the fiefdom of his son, the American Duke Li Hong, is in the Americas of the East, and some people say that it is the legendary place of the sunrise Fuso.
However, Zhang Chao once said that if you keep going east, you will reach Taixi in the extreme west, you will reach Rome and Persia, and if you continue to move forward, you will return to the South China Sea and the Tang Dynasty.
It's a very amazing statement, but there have been several adventurous fleets that have completed the feat of circumnavigating the world in these years, and they have proved that what Zhang Chao said is correct.
There are Yin people in the Americas, who are also descendants of Chinese Yanhuang.
Li Shimin can now walk slowly without crutches, his mouth is not crooked, and his speech is still a little unclear.
Sometimes drooling, for which he had to put a towel on the neckline.
He was sometimes very frustrated with this, and felt that his wise image with a saliva towel had been ruined. can not pad, sometimes uncontrollable drooling stains clothes, which makes him dislike himself.
He has now begun to hate Hanjing and Changle Palace.
He hurriedly wanted to go to the Americas, to that strange and foreign continent, and to rise again there.
"It's strange to hear that there are no horses in the Americas.
There is a huge herd of bison there, but the people there have not learned to tame the bison to plow the land. ” "Doesn't that mean that the nomadic tribes there don't even have cavalry, and the nomadic tribes without horses and cavalry are some kind of nomadic tribes."
Changle Palace.
Zhang Chao came by edict.
Li Shimin is going to the Americas, and the imperial court has agreed, and is making every effort to prepare ships and supplies.
He now wants to know more about the Americas.
Zhang Chao took out a map, a map of the American continent.
North America, Central America, South America.
Long coastline, mountains, lakes.
"Your Majesty, South America is full of primeval jungles, and the climate there is relatively hot.
In particular, its western coast is a long and narrow mountain range, and there are many states established by the Yin people here, and their power is relatively strong.
I don't recommend going to South America."
"There are Mayans in China and the United States, and this side is not very suitable."
"There are also many Yin tribes in North America, but they are more scattered, and there are no particularly powerful tribes.
The eastern part of North America has many plains, fertile land, and abundant rain, but it was not easy in the past and it was difficult for ships to reach directly.
It's too difficult to bypass the past and so on. ” "Moreover, there are more powerful tribes in the eastern plains, there are many coastal mountains in the west, and there are also many desert plateaus and high mountains, while the Yin tribes are relatively scattered and weaker."
Li Shimin was unhappy when he heard Zhang Chao say this.
"The place you chose for me is in this western North America where birds don't."
"Your Majesty, the western North America is not all places where birds don't, Your Majesty, please look here.
It is a plain of river valleys, located by the sea, in the middle of two narrow mountain ranges, nearly 1,500 miles from north to south.
It's a good place for fleets to sail directly in this port, and then there's a great valley plain in front of you. ” Such a large plain, with many rivers, abundant rain, and fertile land, especially near the sea, is convenient to the sea.
It's no problem to grow corn, potatoes, wheat or even rice.
"There is also such a good place, which is like a paradise and a golden mountain."
"Your Majesty, there will definitely be many Yin tribes on this plain.
These Yin tribes made a living from hunting, mainly hunting bison herds.
It is not so easy to occupy this American fiefdom. ” However, for Li Shimin, even if the imperial court gave him a population of 20,000, it would be great for such a small number of people to be able to make up three or five thousand militiamen.
So in fact, he didn't occupy much space at first, and he didn't need it.
Zhang Chao deliberately selected this Great Plains of California to Li Shimin, which also allowed this American fiefdom of the Tang Dynasty to have more development potential.
"Actually, I suggest that at first, you should not rush deep into the interior of the plains to establish a stronghold, but you can first establish a stronghold along the coast of this bay.
Here, for example, according to the expedition teams that have been here, there is gold here.
Hence the name of the place Golden Mountain. ” Zhang Chao is talking about San Francisco, which has a warm climate in winter, cool in summer, and plenty of sunshine, and is a peninsula.
Although it is said that it is not an open plain area, Li Shimin only has a population of 20,000 when he first arrives.
It's good to have the first foothold on this peninsula.
At least the terrain of the peninsula is conducive to defense.
There will be no powerful native Indians to attack them, fishing, planting, and even panning for gold.
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"Stand your ground, then slowly move deeper along the peninsula, and eventually down the river through the mountains into the valley plains."
Zhang Chao suggested that Li Shimin establish the first stronghold in San Francisco first, and later facilitate the merchant ships of the Tang Dynasty to come over for supply transactions.
Once you have established yourself and become accustomed to the climate, water and soil, you can go deeper along the peninsula.
All the way to establish a development base farm past, slowly extend and develop inward, so that it is the most stable.
"What you said makes sense, a good place is certainly not ownerless.
If you rush to the past, if you get caught in the middle of a fight, there will be no time to develop.
America is far away from the Tang Dynasty in Middle Earth, isolated, and if it can't stand, it is a dead end.
Li Shimin quickly recognized the situation and admitted that Zhang Chao's suggestion was still very reliable.
"Wenyuan, I need two supports.
One, when the fleet arrives, you have to leave the ships that transported the people to me, and you can take the ships back with you.
This Jinshan Peninsula, after all, is by the sea, and it will develop in the future and will also be in the bay area.
You can't do without a boat, you have to leave the ship with me. ” "This one does."
Nor could the ships that carried people, livestock and supplies come back.
Only those escorted warships were to return with the escort soldiers in the end.
"Second, since there are no horses in this America, I ask you to prepare more war horses for me.
Ploughing cattle and pulling horses should also be prepared, and excellent stallions and mares must be required.
I will build up a cavalry in the Americas and compete with the Yin people there. ” Although Li Shimin often said that those Indians were Yin people and compatriots, he had a very clear understanding.
If you go to someone else's territory, you will definitely fight.
Even if they are brothers with the same father and mother, there are times when they turn against each other.
Isn't the struggle between him and Li Yuan and Cheng Qian, the three generations of the Li family, fully explained?
Therefore, although he thought in his heart that he would go to the Americas and recruit these compatriots, he was also prepared to fight first and then talk about it.
The Yin people actually didn't have horses, so he brought a group of horses over and built a cavalry, wouldn't he be invincible there "Your Majesty, this can also be available.
It's just that the transportation of thousands of miles is not easy to survive, and Your Majesty must know it in your heart. ” It is impossible for Zhang Chao to transport 18,000 horses to Li Shimin to the Americas, there is so much real luck, it is difficult to say how much can be left over there.
To be able to transport one or two thousand, it is already benevolent and righteous.
If it weren't for the relationship between the two in the past, and Zhang Chao also thanked Li Shimin for his meritorious work in implementing the new policy, he wouldn't have worked so hard.
Give you a hundred horses, and you're all right.
"Swords and armor must be equipped, such as spears and horizontal knives, at least one must be available to everyone."
Li Shimin began to continue to ask for supplies.
Returning from Changle Palace, Cheng Qian asked Zhang Chao about the situation.
"The Emperor Taishang is in a good mood, and now he is thinking about the Americas wholeheartedly."
Cheng Qian looked at the American fiefdom on the west coast of the Americas, "Do you think the imperial court wants to build a castle there and then station some troops there?"
"Your Majesty is worried about the safety of the emperor after he passes, and the minister thinks that he is a little too worried, and the emperor is taking a population of 20,000 this time.
At that time, there will be a lot of cattle and horses, and when they get there, they can build a cavalry, or even a fleet, and they have armor and weapons, and all the people are soldiers, and they can raise at least three or four thousand militiamen. ” "I dare say that in less than three years, Your Majesty will definitely go to conquer those Native American Yin tribes.
That population, equipment, dare to say that it can sweep the vicinity invincible, maybe ten years later, a strong American territory will appear. ” Cheng Qian smiled.
"Twenty years later, the Emperor and the American Guild will not fight back to the Central Plains" "Not really."
Even if Li Shimin can be invincible in the Americas, it will take time to expand.
Of course, the most limiting thing about him is that whether it is the war horses, armor weapons, and warships that he can crisscross the Americas, they are not Li Shimin's own sound industrial technology in a short period of time.
If the Central Plains didn't provide it, they wouldn't have been able to make these things themselves.
Therefore, the most normal situation will be that Li Shimin's father and son will be the king and hegemon in the Americas, but they cannot do without the support of Datang itself.
They needed to use prisoners of war, furs, gold, medicinal herbs and other things to buy handicrafts such as ordnance and cloth from the Tang Dynasty.
Give the United States a hundred years, and they may not be able to return to their home country.
The United States will only become more and more powerful, and they will need all kinds of handicrafts from the Central Plains, because they don't have the technology themselves.
But the Central Plains does not rely on him, and can cut off the deal with the United States at any time and can choke his throat.
However, if the transaction is maintained, for Datang, the United States will be an overseas colony, providing Datang with slaves, furs, gold and silver, medicinal materials and other materials and goods, or, it can also become a sales place for Datang goods.
As for whether the United States, an overseas fiefdom, will develop its own manufacturing system in a hundred years and two hundred years later, and whether it can be strong enough to threaten Datang, the key lies in Datang's control.
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"Yuanfu, I want to remove Xu Ji, and I don't want him to be the secretary of the military department anymore."
Cheng Qian talked about another thing.
He had a bad impression of Xu Maogong, and recently he accepted Xu Ji's daughter into the palace and sealed a Zhaoyi, one of the nine concubines.
Originally, the relationship with Xu Ji was reversed.
Who knows, Xu Ji has repeatedly confronted him recently.
"Then what is Your Majesty's arrangement for Xu Maogong?"
The military department is one of the nine secretaries, and for these high-ranking officials, the prime minister of the cabinet only has the right to make suggestions and does not have the direct right to appoint and dismiss.
Cheng Qian thought for a while, "Otherwise, just let Xu Maogong serve as the duty to escort the emperor to the Americas this time." ” Zhang Chao was stunned, "Does Your Majesty still plan to let him come back?"
"If he is willing to stay there, he will not come back," Cheng Gan said. t1706231537: