When it was nearly December in the fifty-first year of Hongxing, the Golden City, a trading military camp in the eastern part of the United States of New Zealand, was at its most prosperous and lively time.
Unlike Kinmen City, another big city named after gold on the western coast of the United States of America, there is no gold around the Golden City located on the banks of the Golden River (Mississippi River)... There is just a pile of gold in the place name. That’s all.
What about the golden city, the golden river, the golden grassland, the golden forest, the golden hills... Oh, and the golden state - this area was first called Huaizhou, where tens of thousands of households were farmed and nomadic owned by King Huai Zhu Hekun. Hence the name. But later, King Huai Zhu Hekun changed the name of the state to Jinzhou in order to attract gold prospectors from the west to settle here.
Although there is no gold in Jinzhou, it is indeed a fertile land with fertile water and soil around it, which is both cultivated and grazed. Therefore, those gold diggers who were deceived by a lot of place names with gold characters slowly accepted their fate after the gold rush failed, opened up many farms and pastures around the Golden City, and established hundreds of Settlement fortress.
Yes, it’s a fortress!
There are bastions made of earth and wood, and there are wide and deep trenches outside. The protruding prismatic solid fort is also equipped with a 12-pound short-barreled bombardment cannon that can fire nail-head explosive shells!
This kind of solid fortress first appeared on the ground of Jinzhou in the 35th and 36th years of Hongxing's reign.
The reason for this appearance is that King Huai Zhu Hekun and the herdsmen who followed him, who had been nomadic along the Mississippi River for many years, finally got tired of the traveling life and began to settle in the Golden State. It was very natural for them to be tired of nomadic life, because These herdsmen are not real Mongolians, most of them are farmers from the northern frontier of the Ming Dynasty.
And the Great Plains in central North New Zealand are so fertile!
There is no need to live in pursuit of water and grass! Find a place with abundant water and beautiful grass, settle down, and open some pasture and farm. How can life be so difficult? Why run around in the plains?
As for the winter cold wave on the Great Plains, it was not a problem for the hard-working Chinese immigrants.
It's nothing more than cultivating more land and raising more cattle and sheep - the harvest in one year is enough to last for several years, and there is no need to worry about the cold wave destroying production.
At the same time, build the house more solidly and store more firewood for the winter, and you will be able to sit back and relax.
Oh, and it’s not entirely worry-free.
A nomadic tribe of Indians has begun to become a worry for the people of Golden State!
This nomadic tribe is called the "Little Soviet Union" and was established by Steel, the leader of the Great Soviet Union, with the support of the Roman Empire around the 30th year of Hongxing. At the beginning, there were only a few thousand households, and they did not know much about herding cattle and sheep. They were a semi-hunting and semi-nomadic tribe, and they were not in the eyes of Huai Wang Zhu Hekun and De Wang Zhu Hezhen at all.
But this "little Soviet Union" is very idealistic!
Their ideal is to unify all the Indian tribes on the Great Plains and establish a Great Soviet Khanate!
In order to realize this ideal, the Soviet Union has continuously conquered the Indian hunting tribes on the Great Plains since the day it was established, and continued to break up and annex these small tribes.
By around the 35th or 36th year of Hongxing, the Little Soviet Union had expanded from more than a thousand households at the beginning to nearly 5,000 households!
Moreover, they also followed the example of Mongolia in the Old World and began to implement the thousand-household and hundred-household systems where the military and civilians were integrated, turning five thousand nomadic Indian households into a nomadic army that could pull out 5,000 cavalry at any time!
When this nomadic army approaches Jinzhou, it will become a threat to King Huai's troops.
Therefore, the Huaiwang tribe who began to settle in Jinzhou implemented the method of gathering together and building fortresses starting from the 35th and 36th years of Hongxing. A group of three to five hundred households built a fortress and lived together. At the same time, the army and civilians were integrated, and everyone had a gun.
At that time, Zhu Hekun's department continued to absorb immigrants from the west coast, and the number of herders who grew up and started families and started businesses continued to be divided into households, so the number of households had expanded to 15,000 to 15,000. In addition, there are thousands of gold diggers in the Golden City, with a total population of 70,000 to 80,000... It is nothing in the Ming Dynasty, but it is a huge number in the New World!
After another fifteen or six years of development and reproduction, by the fifty-first year of Hongxing, which was 1699 AD, the number of soldiers and civilians under the command of King Huai Zhu Hekun had increased to nearly 30,000 households, with a population of nearly 200,000!
These 30,000 households and 200,000 people are now distributed in the Golden City and more than 50 surrounding forts, occupying a thousand-mile land at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers in later generations - the so-called Thousand-mile Land is based on the Golden City As the center, a bastion belt of more than 1,000 miles spread out along the Golden River (Mississippi River) to the south and the White Milky Way (Missouri River) to the west. All the bastions are built along the river, and the distance between each bastion is about twenty miles. The bastions could be connected to each other by waterways before the rivers froze.
After the river freezes, because the surrounding area is often covered with ice and snow, the nomadic and hunting tribes of Indians have already gone south, so there is no need to worry about being attacked.
Therefore, in the past fifteen or six years, Jinzhou has never lost a bastion, let alone a Golden City that is stronger than ordinary bastions.
However, the continued expansion of the Little Soviet Union still makes people in the Golden City a little worried.
Will these nomadic Indians become stronger and stronger and eventually become like the Great Mongolia?
But no matter how worried you are, you still have to have a good New Year!
A group of carriages and horses meandered into the west gate of the Golden City. This group of carriages and horses attracted the attention of many people. The team of men and horses are all tough and agile men. Needless to say, everyone has a gun. Many of them have wounds from swords and arrows on their faces. Their eyes show ferocity. You can tell at a glance that they dare to fight on the grassland. "Plains wolves" running rampant in the snowfields...
There are now three states in the United States of New Zealand on the Great Plains, namely Jinzhou without gold, Dezhou owned by German King Zhu Hechen, and Gaozhou, a plateau state owned by Zhu Hehao and located at the foot of the Maidong foothills of Dashi Mountain.
The three states are in an inverted shape and are located in the central, western and southern parts of the Great Plains. However, the three states are not closely connected, but are thousands of miles apart! Even between the three castle clusters (states), there is a "vacuum zone" of at least 1,000 miles.
Since these Xinzhou Han people who settled on the Great Plains were no longer nomadic, how to maintain communication between the three states became a headache.
So the Great Plains Rangers, known as "Plains Wolf", came into being.
These rangers are the essence of the military households in the three states. Their skills on horseback are extremely good. They have been entangled with Indian hunting and nomadic tribes in the wild for a long time, and everyone has developed the ability to kill enemies.
Today, these "plain wolves" who came in the wind and snow were not returning from killing the enemy, but were guarding several large caravans. In one of the cars, from time to time, a man in his forties and wearing a leather hat would poke his head out, squinting his eyes and looking at everything around him.
This man's name is Yamamoto Tosatsu, a high-ranking official in the United States of New Zealand, and his family is extremely wealthy. His mother is Akiku, the founder of Kikuya Trading Company. And he is the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Cabinet Office of the United States. He came all the way to Golden City in order to meet and negotiate with the steel leader of the Little Soviet Union under the arrangement of Prince Huai Zhu Hehao... Try signing a non-aggression pact and demarcating borders on both sides.
By the way, there is also the matter of the United States of New Zealand and the Great Soviet Khanate recognizing each other and establishing diplomatic relations!
Just as the wheel of history is about to roll to the 18th century, Iron Khan, who has been fighting for the liberation of the Great Plains Indians for more than 20 years, is about to usher in the highlight moment of his life - he is preparing to build his own Indian A human khanate!
This will be the first American Indian country to reappear after the Inca Empire was completely destroyed in 1572!
