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Due to local climate reasons, even in southern California, men are allowed to wear large pants, vests, and slippers on the streets all year round.
Women can wear camisole, knee-length skirts, and high heels. The skirts must reach the knees, otherwise they will be fined.
Even so, Dongdi is also the place with the loosest dress rules. This is also related to the fact that the second son of the emperor, Zhu Xiangzhen, has served in the army for a long time.
There are also many women in the army's logistics department, who mainly do laundry and cooking. They are not as particular about their clothes as those in Guan Nei.
Especially when he was in the Western Regions, Zhu Xiangzhen saw the unrestrained local women.
Therefore, after obtaining the consent of a certain father, Zhu Xiangzhen implemented this model in Dongdi.
In southern California, as long as you don't mind your body odor, you can wear just one set of clothes all year round...
This is also good news for the poor people who moved here. After all, the whole family can save money to buy clothes.
In the mainland, especially in the northern region, you have to buy clothes for all four seasons of the year.
Even if you don’t buy it every year, you must at least have three types of clothes: winter, summer, spring and autumn.
Here, men can just prepare four sets of pants and vests for themselves, which saves a lot of money.
This also directly led to about 70% of immigrants choosing to settle in California, Texas, and the southern areas. On the contrary, the east coast and inland are actually vast and sparsely populated.
Except for the local Indian tribes, I am afraid that even if you travel a hundred or two hundred miles, you may not see a fellow Ming fellow...
Zhu Xiangzhen sent his subordinates to keep an eye on the people who settled in New Fortress, otherwise no one would want to go there.
For this reason, Zhu Xiangzhen could only announce that it would start from the seventy-fourth year of Haojing (1717), which was the year before BC.
Anyone willing to settle on the east coast can enjoy full tax-free treatment for ten years, covering all industries.
This means that even if your family is allocated a thousand acres of fertile land and can produce two rocks of potatoes per acres, you don’t need to pay any taxes.
After the announcement, coupled with the mandatory relocation order, the enthusiasm of many people, especially the extremely poor people, was activated.
In particular, Zhu Xiangzhen also sent people to use movies to introduce the relevant situations on the East Coast to the new immigrants.
There is abundant rainfall all year round, which is different from the drought on the west coast, and the fertile fields are thousands of miles long, making it very suitable for farming.
Planting cotton, potatoes, wheat, and rice will yield pretty good harvests, and it won't be a problem for every family to become a landlord.
Although there have been mimin on the east coast for a long time, the number is too small.
In places like Carolina (North and South Carolina), the number of immigrants is less than 50,000.
The Carolinas can be said to have the best terrain and climate on the East Coast, and the conditions in other places can be imagined.
Zhu Xiangzhen also personally inspected the resettlement and subsequent development of the people, and was quite satisfied with it.
Almost all the families who went there were veterans he had brought up in the Western Regions.
With this relationship as a basis, veteran families settling on the east coast can also play a role in reclamation and defense.
Originally, it was fully tax-free for five years, 10% tax for five years, and 20% tax thereafter.
Now it has become fully tax-free for ten years. If it has been implemented, the tax-free period will be postponed.
The veterans are very satisfied with this preferential measure because the land here is so fertile.
Because there are very few relocations, everyone can choose any site as long as it does not exceed their own land area.
Don't be jealous of other families. Each family can get land equivalent to the local fertile land.
All veterans, as long as they are not missing arms or legs or have brain injuries that make it difficult to use them, are all included in the reserve force.
Each veteran received a second-hand revolver free of charge when dividing the fields, which can be used for hunting or self-defense.
Once something happens, the company and platoon can be used as a unit to assemble on the spot.
Zhu Xiangzhen was born in the army, and under the guidance of a certain father, when he came to the East, he attached great importance to the training of reserve troops.
The vast land and sparsely populated characteristics of Dongdi forced Zhu Xiangzhen to expand the size of the reserve force based on veterans.
The reserve force is not a regiment training armed force. The latter is organized by the Minjian gentry with the permission of the government.
Team training cannot be allowed to develop in the East, otherwise it will become a serious problem in the future.
All reserve forces in various places are commanded by Zhu Xiangzhen. The generals are also military generals, and the middle-level officers are all retired officers.
Except for enemy attacks or training, reserve forces of company size or above are not allowed to be assembled in any place.
Of course, there are also guys who are good at taking advantage of loopholes.
For example, reserve forces in Louisiana or the Florida peninsula often assemble veterans in the name of training to fight against the overflowing crocodiles!
People living near the swamp, on a village basis, received small speedboats.
Therefore, during the established training time every year, local military soldiers gather together to take speedboats to hunt crocodiles.
Many veterans have never thought that crocodile meat is so delicious. Moreover, as leather products become more and more popular, crocodile skins that can be used for leather shoes and bags can still be sold at a good price.
For veterans who choose to settle near the swamp, even if no one in the family works farming, the whole family can use the crocodiles in the swamp to live a good life without worrying about food and clothing.
Zhu Xiangzhen was rewarded, so he could only acquiesce in this. After all, it was possible to make a living on this, at least it was much better than having a group of people living in California or Texas.
These two provinces often reported cases of people being bitten to death by venomous snakes. Zhu Xiangzhen was not a god, and he did not know how to bring the dead back to life.
Letting people go to the east coast is actually for their own good, but many people don't take it seriously...
This also resulted in about 50% of the entire Eastern Region’s tax revenue coming from these two provinces.
The rest is the original Mexico area, and now Mexico and the areas to the south are divided into four.
Panama is upgraded to a province. This place has a canal and cannot be merged into the Latin American province to the north.
To the north of the Province of Latin America is the Province of Yucatan, and further north is the Province of Mexico, with Mexico City as its capital.
Bordering California is the Province of Madre Occidental, and adjacent to Texas is the Province of Oriental Madre.
The Baja California peninsula was incorporated into the province of Canada to make it easier to manage.
When he came to Long Beach and met his second son, Zhu Cihong believed that the people of the Ming Dynasty would rather go to Mexico and spend time with cacti than go to the East Coast, so the second son extended the tax-free period there.
This is mainly due to the local climate. After all, the climate in California, Texas, Mexico and Latin America is very popular.
As long as there is no drought and crops are harvested at least twice a year, farmers who are not very lazy can feed and drink enough for their whole family with their own land.
But this is only under very ideal circumstances. There will be no small glaciers in later generations, and California will be so dry that forest fires occur year after year.
With the help of high-tech irrigation, the drought situation in the area was completely solved. Now there is definitely no such hardware foundation.
In comparison, the situation on the East Coast is much better.
Before the complete rise of the United States, the thirteen states on the East Coast were the wealthiest places in the United States.
There is industry in the north and agriculture in the south.
The large estates in the south are very attractive, except for the slaves...
The veteran families who settled on the East Coast have actually achieved this small goal.
The winning dream of many veterans is to own land, have water nearby, and be able to hunt and fish.
Now they have got what they wanted, and many people have even married Western Yi women as wives.
Compared with local women, these British or Spanish women have the advantage of being in good health and being particularly fertile!
After giving birth, many people don't even have to sit for the rest of the month. They can go to work in the fields after a week's rest.
So much so that many veterans boast that the mother-in-law at home is equivalent to half the labor force.
In the countryside, this is the truest compliment.
If the mother-in-law of any family cannot work in the fields, she will be unlucky for eight lifetimes!
All Xiyi who were captured by the Ming Expeditionary Force and were unwilling to return to Europe, and whose family members had unmarried daughters, could stay and live without any guarantee.
The prerequisite is that they must marry those single veterans, so that Emperor Haojing can rest assured.
Otherwise, how can I trust you if I don’t accept the certificate of submission?
Mixed-race children will not have any impact on their future education, medical care, employment, etc. because of their ancestry.
In fact, every family has a large area of land to manage and cultivate, and there is no need to go outside to find a job.
Being born into a second-generation farmer means that you will be able to live a life of food and clothing.
Those captives who did not have young women at home either chose to return to Europe or to join relatives in La Plata.
If that doesn't work, you can go to Africa or India, or even join Ibrahim's Ottoman army...
In the early stages of Dongdi's development, Zhu Cixiang did not welcome these captives to settle down. They were all uncertainties.
It would be better for these people to find Louis XIV or William III in exchange for blacks than to keep them.
Black people have no culture, and most of them don't know how to resist. They are especially suitable for working and living on farms.
This makes it easier for the veterans to manage, but it is much easier than the Western captives who have fought with the expeditionary force before.
Black people will be a hidden danger in the later stage, but in the early stage, they will be a big help to improve the productivity of the Eastland.
After all, even a tractor needs someone to drive it, and the tractor driver does not need to receive a salary. How perfect!
Under Zhu Cixiang's guidance, in the next five years, every family that chooses to settle on the east coast will be assigned at least one black slave, free of charge.
Ten years of tax exemption, plus a black person as a bonus, this should be very tempting.
If you have money in your pocket, you can also buy a black man at a low price and upgrade yourself directly to a real master.
This is probably a good thing that many veterans dare not even think about, but now it is within their reach...
Zhu Cixiang stayed in Changtan for about a week, mainly to listen to the report from his second son.
When his biological mother Liu Xier saw her son, she burst into tears, and then cried and laughed.
Any prince who is overseas can return to his homeland once every two years to visit relatives or seek medical treatment.
However, Zhu Cixiang believed that with a bunch of beauties around him and no parents to control them, everyone would have fun and not miss the fun.
The villa area in Long Beach is the best example. Every prince who came to Dongdi with Zhu Xiangzhen has at least one very large villa.
Zhu Xiangzhen himself reported three villas. The smallest villa, including the courtyard, covers an area of about one hundred acres.
There is one facing the sea, and you can walk about 200 meters to the beach. It can be said that you can enjoy the seaside scenery.
Zhu Cixiang didn't bother to care. Who doesn't want to live more comfortably?
The eldest son was born to Queen Xue Wanqing, and the second son was born to Imperial Concubine Liu Xier.
Among the many sons, these two are the most valuable.
No matter what the situation is in the East, Zhu Cixiang has to accept the reality.
At least in this area of Long Beach, I have seen it with my own eyes and asked the factory guards to inquire about it. Generally speaking, it is okay.
As a result, Zhu Cihong was able to distribute elixirs to many princes.
Whether the princes distribute it to their wives and children is their own business.
Zhu Cixiang can only take care of his wife and children, and his grandchildren are completely free-range.
The next step is to go south, but we can't take the Panama Canal because we still have to go to Lima to visit our old friend Polo.
This was also Zhu Cixi's first visit to the Inca Empire. When the fleet appeared at the port of Lima, it was warmly welcomed by Polo and other high-level officials of the empire.
It can be said that without the Ming Empire, there would be no New Inca Empire, and Poirot and his men knew this very well.
Today, the Ming Empire has become the Inca Empire's largest exporter and also its largest importer.
The economic and military cooperation between the two parties is exemplary and ranks at the top of the entire circle of friends.
Poirot and his ministers and generals all knew idioms. After learning this foreign language, everyone could make a lot of money from it.
For safety reasons, the port of Lima has been cleared of idlers. It is full of Polo's soldiers and officers and soldiers of the advisory group.
Another reason is that Zhu Cixiang came here with warships and merchant ships, so there must be enough berths for the ships to berth.
There are as many as twenty 10,000-ton merchant ships arriving at the Port of Lima for unloading. How to distribute them next is Poirot's business.
Due to Zhu Cihong's arrival, these products are all discounted at 10% off the original price. This is considered a benefit to the other party, and the difference is Zhu Cihong's red envelope to everyone.
The Inca Empire was full of mines, but all the minerals being developed were already under strict control.
Once illegal mining or personal enrichment is discovered, the prisoner will be executed after verification.
This method of reselling imported goods and selling them at a price difference is a reasonable and legal act.
So much so that all the senior officials were keen on reselling goods imported from the Ming Empire and had a great time.
Poirot was overjoyed to receive twenty tubes of elixir delivered to his door at one time, and begged Zhu Cihong to stay in Lima for a longer period of time. He would definitely do his best to be a landlord.
However, the offer of a beautiful woman frightened Zhu Cixiang out of his wits.
Aboriginal beauties are no joke, even ghosts are scared of those things...
As for the Spanish woman, if Bao Buqi will take revenge on her, there is no need to meet her if she can.
The concubines around me also have top-notch figures, not to mention their skin is more delicate than that of Western women.
Zhu Cixi could just eat some local seafood and fruits, and the rest of the time was spent discussing with Poirot how to continue to enhance cooperation between the two countries.
After that, we will go to the famous mining area to visit and see what kind of machinery and equipment are missing in the mining area.
