The Ming Dynasty did not revolutionize

Chapter 89 New Armed Immigrant Guard Corps
Adams, Franklin and Zhu Jianxuan discussed until noon before leaving the imperial city reluctantly.

Both of them were very satisfied with Zhu Jianxuan's plan, and were full of expectations and hopes for the future of themselves and the American Kingdom.

Zhu Jianxuan went to the Ministry of Rites that afternoon to confirm the preparation progress of the North American "ceremonial delegation".

The emperor had already made arrangements that the Ministry of Rites would prepare a complete set of etiquette-related equipment and personnel to accompany Zhu Jianxuan to North America.

The direct order was to hold a coronation ceremony for Zhu Jianxuan as a vassal king after arriving in North America, and then assist the vassal king in educating the people and nobles of the vassal state.

Those who are willing to stay in the North American vassal state will now be directly promoted two levels in rank and official position, and will be promoted normally according to years of service and qualifications in the future.

If you want to come back, you can get promoted one level when you go there, and then come back and get promoted again after serving in North America for six years.

However, the order did not mention that the country was the United States, and the Ming Dynasty had not yet publicly mentioned that Zhu Jianxuan would become the king of the United States.

The relevant personnel instinctively thought that the emperor might establish another kingdom in the Ming-occupied area in North America.

This was something that was arranged directly by the emperor, and was prepared for the most popular King Wu.

The officials of the Ministry of Rites attached great importance to it and acted naturally and efficiently. Now everything is ready and they can set off at any time.

Once you arrive in North America, as long as you have a place to live, you can directly set up a school.

Zhu Jianxuan left the Ministry of Rites and went to the Yamen of the Front Military Governor's Office to inquire about the situation of immigration organizations in Australia and North America.

Zhu Jianxuan was accompanied by a whole group of immigrants from Wei who traveled to North America.

Tentatively named the North American Central Guard, it may become the Royal Guard of the King of the United States in the future and will be recruited from farmers around Yingtian Prefecture in the Ming Dynasty.

As Ming Dynasty's industry, commerce and foreign trade continued to develop, the demand for silk exports grew.

This led to a large number of merchants continuously purchasing land to grow mulberry trees and raise silkworms, resulting in very serious land annexation in rural areas of the Ming Dynasty.

More and more farmers lost their land and flocked to nearby cities in search of a living.

Some of them entered various factories as workers, and some entered various businesses as clerks.

There is also a large number of people who still want to be farmers, so they wait to be recruited by the imperial court and vassal states to open up wasteland in vassal states and overseas.

Fortunately, farmers had these three options, and with the continued development of Southeast Asia and highly developed maritime transportation, there was basically no shortage of food in the local area.

Otherwise, the Southern Ming court would have exploded due to large-scale civil unrest.

It was also because the court officials discovered that sending the rioters overseas to open up wasteland could directly eliminate unstable factors, and outward expansion could become a new tradition.

Before the Ming Dynasty acquired land in America, most of the farmers who pioneered the land went to Southeast Asia.

The Ming Dynasty has a subtropical climate, and the summer temperature is no lower than that of Southeast Asia, but the developed land and wasteland are incomparable.

Even though there is a miracle drug called quinine, which is very effective for severe malaria, it cannot cure all tropical diseases.

The process of opening up new land in various parts of Southeast Asia was always accompanied by constant casualties.

But even so, most landless farmers are still willing to go to Southeast Asia to open up wasteland if they have a choice.

Because as long as they survive, they will get a large piece of land that belongs entirely to them, and future generations will have a relatively stable life.

Especially the land in Siam and South Vietnam, after being developed, can be used to grow rice, and three harvests can be achieved a year.

Before full industrialization, the life that ordinary people most yearned for was to be a self-cultivating farmer in the prosperous pastoral era with enough land and no heavy taxes.

Being a self-employed farmer is also the most comfortable life that ordinary people can get in this era.

Even for the legendary Vikings, most of them had the lifelong ideal of getting a piece of fertile land on the mainland.

Only when they really cannot get arable land will they consider other options, including working in factories in the city.

Even during the First Industrial Revolution, the living standards of lower-class workers were very low, perhaps even worse than those of plantation slaves.

Not to mention the self-employed farmers who own their own land.

So in this era, it is difficult to recruit workers from overseas, but it is much easier to recruit farmers.

Unless immigrant families are first given enough arable land, and then each family is required to arrange one person to work in a factory.

This model is more like a new era of corvee labor than being a worker.

This is the form of immigration recruitment in Australia.

Immigration activities in Australia have become particularly hot in the past two years.

Because the details of the situation in Australia have spread, the land in southeastern Australia can still be cultivated.

The most crucial information is that the death rate of immigrants in Australia is very low.

The main reason is still the climate.

The local summer temperature is not high, with the highest daytime temperature being no more than 26 or 27 degrees, which is as cool as the summer in Liaodong.

At the same time, the winter is not cold. The lowest temperature at night is only six or seven degrees, and in the morning it is often sixteen or seventeen degrees, which is as warm as the winter in Fujian.

Although the air is a little more humid than in the north, it does not reach the level of plum rain or the return of the south wind.

The people of the Ming Dynasty had never immigrated to such a place.

People from the Ming Dynasty can adapt easily when they go there, and even feel that the warm winters and cool summers are very comfortable.

In addition, the existence of large coal mines directly lowered the death rate of the first batch of immigrants, making their life no different from normal life in their native country.

Since the Ming Dynasty expanded to the south, it had never achieved such a low mortality rate in a purely new land.

With this information, the first five guards in Australia were quickly recruited and all were sent to Australia in the past three years. Four guards were sent to the vicinity of Wu's capital and the southern bay, and one guard was sent to the southwest corner of Australia.

Coal mines have also been discovered around the South Australia Bay, but the degree of coalification is relatively low, making it only suitable for cooking and not suitable as a steam engine fuel.

Iron ore has indeed been found in the northern valley of the royal capital, and it is also high-quality iron ore that is buried very shallowly and can be mined directly in the open air.

High-quality iron ore and high-quality coal and iron are all available together, both can be mined in the open air along the river, and are also close to excellent seaports. It is simply a heaven-chosen industrial base.

So much so that in just over three years after the Wu State began to immigrate, the Wu State Steel Plant had been built and successfully put into production.

Wu's own military factories and shipyards were already able to rely on local materials for production.

The easy-to-mine coal mines are not only sufficient for their own use, but have also begun to be transported to the Nanyang region, where coal-filling stations have been widely built.

The historical situation of New Zealand has also been explored in the past two years.

When the exploration team first arrived at the islands, there were many white clouds in the sky, so they were named White Cloud Islands.

The indigenous people of the Baiyun Islands are Austronesian people, and their appearance is not much different from that of the Ming people.

Daming had come into contact with Austronesians from other places and discovered that the language of the indigenous peoples of the Baiyun Islands had certain similarities with the indigenous peoples of other islands, so they gradually became able to understand each other.

It turned out that the local natives also called this island: The place where white clouds float.

The climate here is cooler than in the southeast of the Australian continent, so it is not suitable for direct farming, but it is very suitable for animal husbandry.

The second batch of immigrants from the Wu State has begun to be organized and transported.

Since Zhu Jianxuan was unwilling to organize a royal government, the second batch of immigrants continued to be formed in the form of a guard corps.

These were not the five guards that the emperor originally requested, so they were no longer funded directly by the central court, but were supported by Zhejiang tax revenue.

It is no longer necessary for every immigrant household to provide a regular army, but only one militia.

The militia only need regular training, and the training intensity is very low. They only need to know how to use firearms and have basic combat knowledge.

Most of the time they worked as farmers and workers, clearing wasteland and planting crops or digging coal according to their military unit numbers.

This group of immigrants will be accompanied by a Baiyun Guard and sent directly to the Baiyun Islands.

There is also a Yingzhou Guard who will be sent to the historical Hawaii. The Hawaiian Islands are named Yingzhou in this world.

Captain Cook said that with a thousand musketeers, Hawaii could be conquered and ruled for a long time.

Therefore, the Ming Wu Kingdom directly prepared a guard, which would have nearly 10,000 militiamen and a total of nearly 50,000 immigrants.

The vanguard of the first batch of immigrants was a thousand households from Yingzhou Guards.

Like the first group of immigrants to Australia, the army set out first on a steam sailing ship, followed by their families on ordinary immigrant ships.

The recruitment of American guards was also very smooth. Due to the influence of Emperor Chongzhen's Kunyu Geography, people in the Ming Dynasty generally knew that America was a good place.

The climate in North America should be similar to that of the Central Plains and Jiangnan in the Ming Dynasty, except that the snow in winter should be heavier. The key is that the land in America is boasted to be very fertile.

Therefore, America became the most popular destination for ordinary immigrants.

Many residents who already have stable jobs in the city, and even farmers who still own a small amount of land in the countryside, signed up after receiving the news.

The Governor's Office completed the organization in just one month, and the subsequent waiting time was spent on preparation and training.

The standard for North American defenders is higher than that for Australian defenders because Australia has no other ethnic groups living on a large scale, while there are more than two million Europeans in America.

More than a month later, on August 1781, the 10th year of Xianning in the Ming Dynasty, October 8, in the Western calendar, in the Fengtian Hall of the Forbidden City in Yingtian Prefecture of the Ming Dynasty.

Representatives from the Ming Dynasty court, the Ming Shun Kingdom, the Ming Nurgan Military Region, Jianzhou Zuowei, France, Spain, the United States, and the United Kingdom gathered again.

After many discussions and revisions, the "Yingtianfu Peace Treaty" was finalized a few days ago, and the signing ceremony of the treaty was held today.

The layout of the Fengtian Hall was still similar to that during the negotiations, with six tables arranged in a rectangle.

After the representatives of various countries were seated, the cabinet's clerk handed over the draft of the treaty in turn, and the representatives of various countries signed fourteen copies in two sets in turn.

After all the signatures are checked, the seven countries and institutions will each keep a copy in both Chinese and Latin.

French, English, and Spanish also maintain translations into their respective languages.

After the signing ceremony, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty appeared again and hosted a banquet to entertain all the representatives. Representatives from various countries also formally bid farewell to the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

In the next one or two months, when the wind direction is suitable, representatives from various countries will set sail and return to their own countries.

Zhu Jianxuan will also set off with his own "Ceremonial Group" and "North American Central Guard" corps.

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