"The emperor's treasure ship!"
"There are so many!"
"It is said that there are 1,000..."
"Great, finally here!"
"Long live!"
"Long live..."
At the top of Zhaozhou City, several defenders suddenly pointed to a piece of sail appearing on the sea level in the distance and shouted loudly.
Wei Sheng, who has returned to the New World and has been promoted to know the affairs of Zhaozhou, is currently patrolling the top of Zhaozhou City. Hearing this, he immediately ran over from a short distance away, pushed away a defender, and looked up at the battlements. At a glance, I saw the large piece of white, gray, and khaki sails.
Hundreds of thousands of large sailing ships appeared on the sea level at the same time. It was so spectacular that everyone who witnessed it felt so excited that they couldn't help but shout long live.
Of course they also knew that Zhao Lun was sent to Dongzhou by his father Zhao Kai to become emperor! And they didn’t come empty-handed, but brought a whole 1,000 treasure ships... The ships were full of treasures!
There are living treasures and there are dead treasures.
The living treasures are mainly Chinese! If you don’t go to Dongzhou, you don’t know that the Chinese people are a treasure... The total area of North and South Dongzhou is more than 40 million square kilometers, and most of it is "effective land", that is, land with high development value.
In such a vast and rich land, there are now only more than 200,000 people...and this is the number including men, women, old and children!
Under such circumstances, how can our people not be treasures?
Moreover, the Chinese people here in Dongzhou have always had more men than women. After all, there are definitely not as many women as men willing to cross the ocean to come to Dongzhou!
As a result of more men than women, naturally many men are single.
There should be many young ladies on these 1,000 treasure ships, right?
It’s really exciting!
In addition to Chinese people, livestock and poultry are also treasures!
There are so many wild animals that can be hunted for meat in Dongzhou that are unbelievable, and they are all easy to catch, so much so that the Frankish savages and English savages here can hunt without bows and arrows... The hunter didn't even know there were bows and arrows, and he didn't starve to death. It was such a wonderful life!
Probably because life was so easy, the Frankish and English savages here never thought of domesticating livestock to raise, and there seemed to be no horses here in Dongzhou.
At the same time, the land here is too much and too fertile to be cultivated by manpower (the Han people are used to being in the East Asian continent. If they don’t cultivate the land, they will catch bison and eat them every day. They will panic!), so Dongzhou can do it. Horses for plowing the fields were in great demand.
In addition, there is a very fertile grassland in the Jinzhou Basin southwest of Zhaozhou, which is suitable for grazing cattle and sheep. Many Frank bison and some hunting tribes originally lived there. But now there are neither bison nor savages...
Of course, such a good grassland cannot be abandoned. Therefore, Dongzhou Jiedushi established Jinzhou there and recruited some Chinese households from various places who could herd to settle there. They also brought some cattle, sheep and horses from the mainland of the Song Dynasty and gave them to Jinzhou for herding. household.
However, the transportation cost on both sides of the Atlantic was too high, and before the "Thousand Treasure Ships" were put into Atlantic shipping, the number of ships traveling across the Atlantic was limited, so there were not many cattle, sheep, and horses transported to Jinzhou. Because there were too few cattle, sheep, and horses, reproduction was slow.
But this time, 1,000 treasure ships came!
There should be a lot of cattle, horses, pigs and sheep brought with the ship, right?
The dead treasures include gunpowder, bronze cannons, ironware, silk, cloth, porcelain... and miscellaneous daily necessities.
The population in Dongzhou is too small, and there is no industry or commerce at all. Except for the three types of "free people" who came to make a fortune here, namely gold diggers, silver miners, and fur traders (there are minks in Dongzhou), the rest are military households who were granted land - not all of these military households came from the country. Among the Fu Bing households or children of Fu Bing who migrated from the Song Dynasty, only the middle and upper classes were Fu Bing households or children of Fu Bing. The military households at the bottom were actually exiled criminals. Regardless of what crimes they committed in the Song Dynasty, even if they committed murder and arson, when they arrived in Dongzhou, they immediately assigned the land to serve as soldiers.
Of course, the officers who were on top of them were not afraid of them making further troubles... These were all evildoers among the soldiers in the Song Dynasty. Many of them had committed crimes and were punished by military law before being sent to the Eastern Song Dynasty. Everyone from China is a murderer!
Of course it's okay for this gang of thugs to come together and bully the Franks and English savages, but there's no need to think too much about the industrial and commercial production in this East Continent.
Because industrial and commercial production is so poor, all kinds of handicrafts from Dongzhou basically have to be shipped by sea.
However, the route from the Song Dynasty to Dongzhou is not easy to run. One round trip can last for a year without mentioning it. Just talking about this route across the Atlantic Ocean is quite risky - sailing in the vast ocean for several months. !
The eastbound route can only follow the water in the southeast of Japan, and not even an island can be seen along the way! In an era when you could only rely on a star board and a compass for navigation, it was very easy to get lost far from the coastline!
There are two westbound routes, and the southern route also goes downstream in the vast ocean. There are also no islands along the way, so it is easy to get lost.
The westbound northern route will go north along the coastline of Dongzhou Continent, enter the "Cold Sea", and then sail along the coastline. After passing through the southern part of the strait, it will enter the easternmost point of Shenzhou Continent... ....
Although it is not easy to get lost when taking this route, and it follows the currents (Alaska Current, Thousand Islands Cold Current), the weather is too cold to walk in winter, and there are often strong winds.
Therefore, there are certainly not many sailing ships that are willing to take such a big risk and have the ability to travel to both sides of the Eastern Ocean.
Because there are not many ships, handicraft products on Dongzhou Continent have always been in short supply and extremely expensive.
And this time it is said that 1,000 treasure ships are coming at once! There must be a lot of good things carried on these treasure ships, right?
Why don't the people of Dongzhou get excited when such a good thing comes?
People in Dongzhou are rich!
During their off-farm days, they would also go mining for gold and silver and catch minks. They had accumulated some gold and silver mink skins, and they were just waiting to exchange them for good things with the sailing passengers from the Song Dynasty!
So when countless sails appeared in the sky, the entire Zhaozhou City was already boiling and a sensation!
Whether it is the merchants who did not find much gold and could only do small business in Zhaozhou City, or the officials and soldiers stationed in Zhaozhou City, or the military households who live near Zhaozhou City and run farms, After learning that Emperor Dongzhou was about to arrive with 1,000 treasure ships, they all put down their work and swarmed to the Zhaozhou Port dock.
So when the treasure ship Zhao Lun was riding approached Zhaozhou Port, the small harbor pier was already crowded with people. It looked like more than 10,000 people!
The yellow dragon flag symbolizing the emperor had been hung on the mainmast of the sailboat Zhao Lun was riding. The generals on the dock knew at a glance that the emperor of Dongzhou was coming - this news had long been brought to Zhao by several sailboats that had arrived before. Of course the people in Zhaozhou, Zhaozhou, know this.
Knowing that it was the emperor who brought the treasure ship, the Zhaozhou people on the dock cheered!
"Long live Long live Long live......."
The voice of "Long Live the Mountain" reached Zhao Lun's ears. The Emperor of Dongzhou, who was tricked by his father in the "Guoben Selection Examination", immediately burst into tears... This time he was moved. of!
Zhao Runxin said: I really didn’t expect...the Chinese people here in Dongzhou actually love this emperor so much!
"Dad, who are they shouting long live to?"
At this time, a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old, with a thick head and a thick head, wearing a purple robe with a round collar, came close to Zhao Lun, and even called Zhao Lun daddy.
Needless to say, this young man knew that he was of course Zhao Lun's son. As the King of Zhao in the Song Dynasty, Zhao Lun would certainly not fail to please his wives... He had many wives, twelve in total. There are many wives, and of course there are many sons. Twenty-one of them are still alive! Ten of them still stayed in the Song Dynasty with Zhao Lun's princess. The remaining eleven people, plus Zhao Lun himself, took six treasure ships (sons could not be put on one ship) to go eastward...except for one ship The son was missing, but the remaining five ships, including the treasure ship carried by Zhao Lun himself and his eldest son Zhao Qiong, all arrived at Dongzhou safely.
Standing next to Zhao Lun now is his eldest son Zhao Qiong.
"Of course they are shouting long live to our mountain!" Zhao Lun stroked his beard, wiped his tears, and showed a proud expression, "My father is now the emperor of Dongzhou... They are all mine. All my people are here to welcome me!"
"Daddy..."
Zhao Lun interrupted his son, "Call Father!"
Father?
Zhao Qiong frowned, as if he was overstepping a bit!
"Dad, the emperor only made you the Eastern Emperor, but he didn't make you the Eastern Emperor," Zhao Qiong said, "How about I call you Emperor Father?"
"Father?" Zhao Lun was unhappy when he heard this, "No, I want to be the father!"
"But if Grandpa Huang knew..."
"So what if you know?" Zhao Lundao said, "I have already arrived in Dongzhou, and he can still send troops to attack me? Just call him Emperor Father!"
"Okay, Father..." Of course Zhao Qiong did not dare to disobey "Father", because he also wanted to be Father in the future!
"Father," Zhao Qiong said, "You have just arrived in Dongzhou, why do the people here support you so much?"
Zhao Lun couldn't answer. He had just arrived here and didn't understand the situation. So he turned to look at Sheng Xin, who smiled and said: "Young Master, they are not common people, they are Chinese people... Of course Chinese people are loyal to the emperor and patriotic!
And they all hope that Dongzhou can be led by an emperor, and they also hope that their emperor can bring more people from the Song Dynasty. The more people there are, the greater the strength! Only with more people can we take down the entire Dongzhou! "
This is Zhao Lun’s Manifest Destiny, and it is also the Manifest Destiny of the people of Dongzhou!
If there is any difference between the Dongzhou people and the people of the Song Dynasty, then the biggest difference is that the Dongzhou people have the same goals and ideals... They have their own destiny and want to conquer the entire world. Mainland, create a world that belongs to them!
