Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 703 Rebuilding a Super City
New Horse City is also the original Santa Ana stronghold.

This is the central city of South America planned by Taichang, and it will also be the central city of the Amazon River Basin.

The vision of the Portuguese is still good. The land here is quite solid. It is not a land of mud and sand washed out by the Amazon River. It is no problem to build a city fortress on it.

The only problem is that the jungle is too dense here.

The Portuguese's ability is limited and their population is limited, so they can't gnaw at the primitive jungle here.

They also cleared out the trees within a few miles, and built a small fort and several small docks.

Of course, the capabilities of the Ming Empire are more than that, and Taichang's plan is not just a few miles around.

In the conference room of the Monarch, Taichang pointed to the map collected from the Portuguese and said: "Look, it is about a hundred miles from the harbor where we are now to the mouth of the Amazon River, and there is another road about fifty miles north of this." A small river with a width of more than ten miles at the mouth of the sea.

This is roughly a wedge-shaped area with a length of about one hundred miles in the east-west direction and a width of about fifty miles in the north-south direction.

Wang Chong, you led more than a hundred teams under your command to detect this area clearly within ten days. Is there any problem? "

Wang Chong was really too excited right now.

Because he performed well in the last operation, the emperor specially brought him here, including more than a hundred elite scouts under him, including a team composed of a hundred young North American Indians, including Zhao Baiyun and Zhang Daoling, Bring them all together.

They have become the emperor's personal guards, and the specific actions are arranged by the emperor himself.

He was already very familiar with the task of exploring the jungle. He just looked at the map for a while, and he knew it in his heart.

This area is not big, and the farthest distance is less than a hundred miles. As long as you work hard and work hard, you should be able to explore about a hundred miles in the jungle in two days, which means that he can almost complete it in five days. This mission is over.

The emperor is giving ten days now, so of course there is no problem.

He finally nodded and said, "No problem, Your Majesty."

Taichang nodded slightly, and then confessed: "You have to pay attention, don't act too hastily, all rivers, lakes, mountains, etc. in this area must be marked in detail.

In addition, try to let Zhang Daoling and the chief of the accompanying tribe, Haiyu Qingzhuang, negotiate with the Indian tribes in this area, and try to gather them all for our use. "

Wang Chong hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "The general will understand."

Taichang immediately waved his hand and said, "Okay, let's go, try to be careful and pay attention to safety."

Wang Chong hurriedly got up and left.

Li Shuchu looked at his back, then looked at the rough map on the table, and then couldn't help asking: "Your Majesty, do you want to build this entire area into a city?"

Taichang nodded without hesitation and said: "Yes, the terrain here is quite good. The width of the Amazon River in the south is several hundred miles, and the width of the small river in the north is also several miles. As long as we don't build bridges on the river, both directions are very good. Good defense.

Moreover, this place is like a trumpet mouth, and the east side facing the ocean is only forty or fifty miles wide. As long as a city wall is built and a few bastions are built, it will be as solid as gold.

As for the west, it is full of jungles, which is not suitable for large troops to pass through. As long as there is a city wall, there is basically no problem. "

Uh, this one is pretty good defense.

Question, is this area too big?
Li Shuchu thought for a while, and then asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, we don't need such a big piece of land, do we?

This will be completely surrounded and built into a city, which is estimated to be able to accommodate at least tens of millions of people.

Besides, there are primitive jungles in the middle, and it would take several months to cut down the trees here by 10,000+ people! "

Although he said it very euphemistically, he expressed his meaning very clearly.

Where do tens of millions of people come from here?

Your majesty, enclosing such a large area is too wasteful, not only a waste of manpower and material resources, but also a waste of time!
Taichang couldn't help smiling slightly and said: "Don't worry, this tree doesn't need to be cut down, I have already sent an order to rebuild the machines in Liaoyang City, and it is estimated that it will arrive in ten days.

As for this site.

You don't know the original plan of the Armed Forces City.

When Wubei City was first built, I felt that the land was too big to be used up.

At that time, everyone also felt that such a large city might take more than a hundred years to build, not to mention the waste of manpower and material resources, and many grid cities might not be used.

Who would have imagined that in just a few years, the military equipment city has been built, and now all grid cities have been filled with various factories and research institutes, and there is no way to fill in the factory. . "

Uh, the importance of Armed Forces City is not comparable to that of Xinma City!

Li Shuchu carefully reminded: "Your Majesty, after all, Wubei City is the core of Daming's manufacturing industry. Where are many things manufactured by Daming now, this Xinma City is simply incomparable!"

You don't understand this.

Taichang shook his head slightly and said: "The planning of Wubei City is actually too dense, although there are many varieties of things produced, the output is not very high.

Many of the things produced there are already in short supply.

For example, the output of cement, steel, rails, trains, mining machinery, farming machinery, and even steel bars, nails, iron plates, screws, glass, etc., can no longer keep up, and many things have to be produced elsewhere. Local expansion of factories can keep up with demand.

And most importantly, shipbuilding.

At this moment, Daming's shipbuilding capacity can't keep up with the demand at all, and the naval builder's ship production capacity in Wubei City is not enough.

I used to consider that the Navy and even the Daming Western Company will soon replace the new type of clippers, so I have not started to build a new super shipyard.

Now it seems that my consideration is not comprehensive enough.

In fact, civilian ships don't need such a fast speed at all, especially in this inland waterway, speed is not the key point, the key is to have it, and the more the better.

Therefore, I plan to build a shipbuilding center here, and transfer all the machinery and equipment eliminated from the Wubeicheng Shipyard, Dongfan Shipyard, and Jinling Shipyard to here, specializing in the construction of civilian ships.

The output of this shipbuilding center must surpass the Netherlands in one fell swoop!
After all, there is inexhaustible timber here, and there is no need to transfer it at all. Basically, as long as it is chopped and thrown into the river, it can be gathered here downstream.

With such good conditions, if our shipbuilding capacity can no longer exceed that of the Netherlands, then it cannot be justified. "

Uh, okay.

At the moment, the Netherlands is the country with the strongest shipbuilding capacity in the world. If a shipyard is about to overtake the entire Netherlands, I don’t know how big the shipyard will be.

Li Shuchu hurriedly cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty is wise, it seems that this humble minister is worrying too much, please forgive me."

Taichang shook his head slightly and said: "What's the matter, think twice about everything, it's a good thing to think more.

However, you don't have to think about the issue of building a city.

In short, a super city is going to be built here. In the future, it will not only be the center of the American shipbuilding industry, but also the center of the pharmaceutical industry.

You should think carefully about what kind of factories need to be built in order to develop the pharmaceutical industry here. "

Of course this should be carefully considered.

Li Shuchu hurriedly cupped his hands and said: "I understand, I must think about it carefully."

Taichang nodded slightly, and then asked again: "What about you, do you have any other ideas?"

Generals such as Ma Xianglin and Qin Yiming have no idea, they just need to follow orders.

Staff generals such as Zhang Zhiji and Xu Yunzhen seem to have nothing to advise on the construction of the city.

It seems that De Sierra and Carinho have little to do with the construction of the city here.

However, they couldn't sit still.

After all, they don't know when such a super big city will be built, they can't just wait here!
Carinho thought about it carefully, and then asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, what about us, we don't seem to be able to help us build a city here, right?"

This means, Your Majesty, at least find us something to do!
Hearing this, Taichang was stunned for a moment, and then asked: "De Xie La, how many people do you have now?"

Alas, how many people can I have under my command? Almost all the young and strong people here have been recruited by those lords and the Duke of Braganza.

De Xie La was quite embarrassed and said: "Your Majesty, there are only about two hundred people under my subordinates who can participate in the battle."

There are too few people at this point.

However, it is indeed a bit of a waste to let them be so idle.

Taichang looked at the map captured by the Portuguese again, and then arranged: "Well, you take advantage of this period of time when the Spanish, Portuguese and anti-Habsburg alliance troops are fighting in the south and have no time to look north. The Amazon and the colonial strongholds along the route to Natal will be cleaned up and all will be taken over.”

Ah!
Although there are no large colonial territories on this line, there are quite a few colonial strongholds. They only need two hundred people to clean up the coastline of four to five thousand miles?
De Sierra and Carinho were stunned when they heard this.

Taichang then said to Ma Xianglin and Zhang Yuanfang: "Xianglin, you send [-] soldiers from the Shenwu Battalion to help them, and Yuan Fang, you send them an Aegis ship, ten building boat gunboats and a hundred Spike warships." Boat."

Oh, it turns out there are so many people helping!
De Sierra and Carinho hurriedly cupped their hands and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty."

(End of this chapter)