Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 508 North American Raiders
Suda City is also the capital set by the Dakota Alliance of the Taichang Sioux.

The location is roughly beside a big river dozens of miles east of Wacht.

The reason why the Wacht tribe didn't build the settlement here is roughly because the tributary of the big river where they are located is enough for their tribe to get water, and there is no need for them to live next to the big river.

This place near the big river is not suitable for them to live together, because at this moment they don't know how to build boats, let alone build any bridges across the river. It is quite difficult for them to cross the river that is tens of feet wide.

But at this moment, they basically lived on hunting, and if they couldn't go to the other side of the river, they would lose half of the hunting area, so they didn't settle here.

However, it is different to build a city with more than [-] people. The water in the small river is definitely not enough for more than [-] people, so the city must be built next to a big river.

As for crossing the river, it is not too easy for the current Daming.

Daming can teach them how to build ships and even help them build bridges.

It's a pity that this river is a major tributary of the Mississippi River, and its estuary is not on the west coast. Otherwise, the Spike warship of the Daming Navy would have come here right now.

Of course, this doesn't matter too much. Building a "boat" in the river is a piece of cake for the officials of the Ministry of Industry.

At this moment, Peng Bin took a group of young and strong men from the Wacht tribe to cut wood in the nearby forest to collect materials, preparing to build a ship.

As for building a city, you need a lot of tools. The Indian tribes don't even have iron knives and guns at the moment, let alone hoes and shovels.

To put it bluntly, at the moment they are still in the stage of planing by hand or using sticks and stones. If they don't send them a lot of tools, they won't be able to build the city at all.

This may be the root cause of their failure to develop agriculture.

No way, digging a hole is laborious. Even if you know how to plant crops such as corn, planting a large number of crops and digging the ground with your hands will not exhaust you to death!
Of course, what they lack is more than tools. They don't have cement, wood, food, and the most commonly used things like iron nails.

Taichang could only order someone to send a message back quickly, and let Xinyin Capital send these over in a horse-drawn carriage.

The problem is that summons are troublesome at this moment, because there is no post here at all.

He could only ask people to bring more spare horses and gallop all the way.

In this way, it is not bad to be able to run four to five hundred miles a day, and it will take five or six days to go back to the capital of Xinyin for interrogation.

Perhaps, the original tribal settlement may still be left as a post station, so that the urgent summons can be made eight hundred miles away.

Taichang looked at the tribal chiefs who were following the general translator to gesture on the ground with branches, and couldn't help sighing slightly.

It's really not easy to help others develop.

They have been learning how to write their own names for several days. If they want to learn other things, they don't know how many years it will take.

Originally, he thought that after waiting for a few days, all the tribal chiefs could be gathered together, and they would agree on the border, determine the capital city and the place to build the acropolis.

But I never thought that it has been a few days, and many chiefs from the Lakota Tribal Alliance and the Nakota Tribal Alliance have not arrived yet.

No way, he miscalculated again.

He didn't count the arraignment time!

There is no post here at all, and there are not many horses in the Sioux tribe. It is considered fast to spread the news two or three hundred miles a day.

In other words, it would take at least 20 days for the news that he ordered all the tribal chiefs of the Sioux to gather here to reach the southern border of the Lakota Tribal Alliance and the Nakota Tribal Alliance!
At this moment, there may still be some tribal chiefs who have not received the news yet. It will take at least half a month for them to gather.

What to do with such a long time?
He thought for a while, then raised his hand and said to Cao Wenzhao who was not far away: "Wenzhao, come here."

When Cao Wenzhao heard the words, he quickly ran over and bowed his hands, "Your Majesty, what is your intention?"

Taichang asked directly: "How many hoes and shovels did you bring this time?"

These things are necessary for the army to travel, even if it is not building a city, burying pots for cooking, digging wells for water, etc. must be used.

Cao Wenzhao said in embarrassment: "Your Majesty, because we have to carry tents and enough rations, we only brought a hundred hoes and a hundred shovels in total."

He thought Taichang wanted them to start building the city, after all, there was nothing else to do right now.

The question is, with such a few tools, it is far from enough to build a city that can accommodate more than [-] people!

Of course, Taichang knew that such a few tools were not enough.

He nodded slightly and said: "Well, I see that there are a lot of pottery made by myself in the Wacht department. There should be a lot of clay here. You can order someone to take them to dig the soil and burn bricks and tiles."

It does not require many hoes and shovels to dig the soil and burn bricks and tiles, and the amount of bricks and tiles used in building the city is very large, starting to fire now will save a lot of time by then.

When Cao Wenzhao heard the words, he quickly took orders and left.

Soon, hundreds of cavalry from the Shenwu Battalion rode out of the camp and headed straight for the settlement of the Wacht tribe.

What else can I do?

Taichang scanned the surroundings slowly, and suddenly his eyes stopped on the distant river.

This great river is a tributary of the Mississippi, whose tributaries run almost all over the middle of North America, and several of them extend into eastern North America.

If the canal is opened and the navy ships enter the east coast, they can use the Spike warships to transfer personnel and materials through the Mississippi River!
He had been worrying about it all the time. The east coast of America is too far away. Even if the canal is opened, it will take tens of thousands of miles to transfer the personnel and materials here by sea. It is very troublesome to go back and forth. It is convenient to go by land.

It would be different if the main stream and tributaries of the Mississippi River were used to transfer personnel and materials.

Thinking of this, he quickly walked back to the tent and pulled out the map.

Sure enough, several tributaries of the Mississippi River ran through the entire territory of the Sioux, and the tributaries extending to the east also extended to the territories of the Iroquois, Cherokee, and Apache tribes.

Even some tributaries extend into the colonies occupied by the Dutch, French and British.

If these tributaries are used to transfer personnel and materials, the game of chess in North America will be alive.

Originally, he was still worrying about where to locate the dozen or so cities of the Sioux people.

Don't think about it now, it's all on the edge of a tributary of the Mississippi River.

At that time, it will be convenient to directly transport the grain from the governorate of New Spain to these cities for stockpiling, and station a certain number of soldiers from the Shenji Battalion and Shenwu Battalion in these cities to support the Iroquois, Cherokee, and Apache tribes. too much.

It is not a problem to go downstream through the tributary of the Mississippi River here. After entering the main road, it is only about a thousand miles away from the colonies occupied by the Dutch, French and British, and it will rush over in a few days!
This is much faster than transshipment by sea or marching by land. You know, whether it is by sea or by land, it will take several months to go back and forth!

Originally, he thought that it would be difficult to help the Indian tribe drive the Dutch, French, and British out of the North American continent in a few years. Now it seems that as long as the canal is dug, one year is enough to drive all these colonists out .

It seems that this canal has to be dug quickly.

(End of this chapter)