When the British Blake and Worster lamented that this rich land in the southwest corner of the Southern Continent would fall into the hands of the Ming Dynasty, they even wanted to use the method of spreading Puritanism and republican ideas to "stir up" the Ming Dynasty. when. They may not have thought that for the Ming Dynasty, which had been upgraded to a world empire, the southwest corner of the southern continent was definitely not considered rich. It was only a moderately wealthy colony.
The real "land of the local tyrants" is of course the "United States of the Tuhao" belonging to Zhu Cixi's eldest son, the Tuhao King. However, at this time, the streets of Washington, the capital of the rich country, did not look luxurious or extravagant at all. Instead, they seemed particularly simple and unpretentious.
Washington is not large in area. It is located on a peninsula that is only 16 to 17 miles wide at its widest. The urban area does not occupy the entire peninsula, but only occupies the western part of the peninsula near the bay. And there are not many blocks. The streets are mostly open and straight, but there are not many houses on both sides of the street and a lot of open space. Only a small part of the blocks are lively.
The head of the peninsula is very pointed. When viewed from a high altitude, it looks like a pointed hat, so it is also called the Hat Peninsula. To the west of the Hat Peninsula is a bay about seven miles wide called Port Bay. As the name suggests, it is the bay where the port is located. The port of Harbor Bay is now the largest port in the United States of New Zealand!
The largest port in the United States is actually not that big. It just opens up a ten-mile long berth area along the west coast of the Hat Peninsula. Although there are many docks and berths, most of them are deserted.
The pier and its surrounding areas are the most lively places in Washington, D.C., and the most prosperous places in the entire United States.
Of course, the prosperity here is relative to other places in the United States. If it were placed in the Ming Dynasty itself, it would be almost the size of a medium-sized city.
Before the opening of the Golden Gate Port in California and the Shanhai Port in the United States (hence the name because of its proximity to the mountains and the sea), Washington’s port bay was once the first stop for immigrants from the Ming Dynasty to land in New Zealand... It really has an extraordinary history. What a meaning!
The local tyrant king Zhu Hehao also landed at the port bay in the late autumn of the 21st year of Hongxing's reign in the Ming Dynasty, almost three months after he left the Ming Dynasty - it certainly didn't take three months to cross the Pacific, but he was in Japan He stayed in Tokyo for almost a month, during which time he held a grand wedding with Xu Jingzi, the daughter of King Xu Guangguo of Japan. After getting married, I gathered a bunch of seemingly capable retainers and enough maids to form a "great" group, and then I left Japan with great satisfaction...
Because there were too many people accompanying him, the first problem faced by the wealthy king who arrived in Washington was actually the housing problem.
The wealthy king actually lacks a house to live in - and this is in the wealthy country where he owns 30% of the shares.
Of course, the wealthy king himself would not sleep on the street, but there was no place for his 300 female guards and Japan's "big Olympic team". We had no choice but to build many temporary cabins around a large white house that looked very simple from the outside where the rich king lived.
The wealthy king's "white house" is located in the middle of the Hat Peninsula - actually close to the edge of Washington City. The surrounding area is empty and cold, but there is enough space to build a cabin.
The reason why the "White House" is white is because it uses a white granite stone from the Big Stone Mountains as a building material. The handicraft industry here in the United States of New Zealand is underdeveloped and cannot produce fuel or paint, so the exterior walls of the buildings are the original color of the raw materials. Either the color of red bricks, the color of logs, or the color of white with a little bit of variegated stone. This kind of stone is called white granite. It is produced in the Stone Mountains (Rocky Mountains) near Washington. It is transported to Washington by water. The price is very expensive. Only wealthy kings can afford a two-story building with twelve bays. The cost of building a "white house" is high.
Because of this expensive white house, Zhu Hehao's palace was also called the White Palace. Standing in the study window on the second floor of Baiwang Mansion and looking out, Zhu Hehao could still see a red brick wall and a Western-style iron gate. At the gate, there is a group of female soldiers in red standing guard with flintlock guns. They stand upright and still, which is very eye-catching!
Letting female guards stand guard was not because the wealthy king had no male soldiers at hand - there were four battalions with a total of 2,000 "Old Guards" who followed him to the United States of New Zealand. In addition, more than 500 Japanese retainers also came to the United States and formed the "Lord Samurai Order".
In addition, there are a large number of Shaanxi military households from Sichuan, who are constantly arriving in Pacific sailing ships... Therefore, the local tyrant king has the strength to gather a large number of men carrying guns.
However, after understanding the national conditions of the United States of New Zealand, the local tyrant king felt that neither the Old Guard nor the Samurai Order were enough to demonstrate his strength.
It turns out that here in the United States of New Zealand, the most indispensable thing is men who can carry guns. Because of the continuous expansion of the United States and the rise of the fur fever and gold rush, the conflicts between the Indians in the stone mountains of immigrants from East Asia have intensified, and it is difficult to reconcile!
Moreover, the Indian tribe at Stone Mountain also received muskets "aided" by New France, posing an increasing threat to the East Asian immigrants in the United States of New Zealand.
So now everyone in Xinzhou has a gun - in fact, muskets are the largest commodity exported from the Ming Dynasty to the United States of Xinzhou!
In the United States, there are men carrying guns everywhere, but there are not enough girls carrying guns to form families with them... In the early days of the United States of New Zealand, when there were few people in the United States, girls could be "introduced" from Japan. Marriage. But now the population of the United States of New Zealand is hundreds of thousands, of which men account for nearly 67%, leaving a gap of up to 200,000 women. Where can we buy so many Japanese girls? Moreover, as the Kingdom of Japan caught up with the Celestial Empire, many Japanese went to Southeast Asia in recent years. Many "non-eldest men" who could not marry and have children are now
Therefore, it is not unusual for Xinzhou to have 2,500 men who can carry guns. But having 600 young and beautiful East Asian girls who can carry guns...that is the real rich king!
Therefore, outside Prince Bai's Mansion, there are always many men with muskets stuck in their waists and big gold chains hanging around their necks. They look eagerly at the girls standing there with their chests puffed out and their bellies drawn in, almost drooling... After watching for a while, someone wiped their saliva and started to listen.
"Where did they come from? They are so beautiful!"
"You are still carrying a gun, you are a heroic woman!"
"Standing for hours without moving... How long does it take to practice this?"
"Look at those breasts, they are so tall! Tsk, tsk, tsk..."
Some thick-skinned men came up to them and began to fight through the iron gate.
"This female officer and soldier, let me ask, where are you from?"
"Well, he's from Sichuan Shizhu!"
The person who answered the shameless man was Du Mulan's sister Du Mu Mian. Her sister is now Zhu Hehao's woman and no longer serves as a female bodyguard, so she fills the gap - Zhu Hehao's female bodyguard regiment and the Da'ao regiment have a fixed number of 300 people each. Just add one more.
"Sichuan? Isn't it called rogue bandits?"
When he heard "bandit", Du Mu Mian frowned slightly, feeling a little unhappy - he was obviously a superior soldier, so why did he become a bandit?
"Sichuan has been recovered!" Someone answered for Du Mu Mian, who was also a gold digger with a big gold chain around his neck. In recent years, shallowly buried gold deposits have been discovered in the four states of the United States, China, Poland, and Canada. of gold, thus setting off waves of gold rushes. Of course, most gold diggers dreamed of finding the New World, but a few made a fortune.
These gold diggers hanging around Washington DC with gold chains are owners who have already made a lot of small fortunes before their big fortunes have arrived... When you have some money, of course you miss your wife. But I don’t want to go back to the country to marry a wife – not to mention how much it costs to go back, it’s a waste of time, a waste of time digging for gold!
And if you have to ask someone to "bring" a wife to the New World, it costs a lot of money, and it's easy to be cheated... You may end up spending a sky-high price to marry an ugly daughter-in-law, which will be a huge loss.
"Recovered?" The shameless man didn't ask any more questions, but continued to ask Du Mumian, "Female officer and soldier, what do you do? Why did you go to the Baiwang Mansion to stand guard?"
