Since Zhao Hongyu decided to start his trip to the East, everything in Manhattan has begun to revolve around this theme.

Seventy-two warships docked on the Manhattan docks, bringing great shock to those European laborers.

Three heavy battleships, enough to dumb them down.

Especially the dense gun ports on both sides of the battleship.

All of them illustrate the powerful artillery power of the battleship and declare the strong combat effectiveness of the battleship.

With such battleships guarding the waters of the Empire, what other enemy can come and provoke.

Whoever it is, it's pure death.

After feeling and seeing these warships with their own eyes, the European laborers working in Manhattan all had such a thought in their hearts.

They all lamented the strength of the Empire's military power, and at the same time, after comparison, felt the weakness of the European countries.

Last year's pirate incident, it seems that they really don't know the depths of the road.

Externally, Zhao Hongyu said that because of piracy, the imperial capital of the hinterland of the Americas felt that the military strength of the crown prince's territory was insufficient, so he sent the royal fleet to enhance the coastal defense.

These warships are basically the warships that are in service in the Empire.

No one doubts such an excuse.

Minor troubles were avoided.

Now that it is spring, since he has decided to go to the East, Zhao Hongyu feels that there is no need to drag it out.

Some things are always better solved sooner rather than later.

Besides, now that the territory of the empire has expanded a lot, the population is still a little insufficient just by relying on the cultivation of the virtual world realm.

It takes too long to come, and it costs a lot of money.

Now Zhao Hongyu needs to expand the number of people in a short period of time to fill the vacancies in the empire's territory.

Therefore, the population of the same Chinese blood from the Eastern Ming Dynasty has become the most important thing.

Think about it. I've been on the American continent for three winters and two summers.

If you do the math, that's a full two years ago.

But the population of the empire, the population of Chinese descent has not yet exceeded 500,000.

Even with the addition of genetic people of other races, the population of the empire is only a little more than a million.

But the number of European-born workers working and living in the empire has exceeded one million.

And that's not counting the hundreds of thousands of black slaves and hundreds of thousands of European prisoners.

It can be said that the Chinese population is still at a disadvantage here in the Americas.

Therefore, Zhao Hongyu and they must think of a way to make up for such a disadvantage.

Years ago, Zhao Hongyu accumulated a year's worth of funds. At the very end, he only cultivated 77,000 Chinese genetic people.

At this rate, it is unlikely that the number of Chinese people will increase much in five years.

Even after five years, because of Ontario City's coal and iron ore resources, it can be exchanged for a lot of funds from the virtual world and used to cultivate genetic people.

But it can be predicted that it will not allow the population to exceed the 3 million mark.

Three million people is a concept that is basically inferior to Portugal.

Even the Portuguese at this time had a population of 4 million.

There is no reliable population. The empire also made peace talks about construction and development.

And the entire American continent is so large, with a population of millions, it is impossible to control the entire Americas.

This is a very dangerous thing.

But if the Europeans were to know the reality of the empire one day, they would be in great trouble with their decisions.

So. It became a very important thing to bring people from the East to the Americas.

The reason is very simple, after Wang Shan, Zhang Tie and Professor Liu's calculations, if the trip to the East goes well.

Then it will only take a year. That's about 2 million more people to the Americas.

After all, there are many disasters and man-made disasters in the current Great Tomorrow, and there are many bankrupts.

2 million people at risk of insecurity. can still be sold to himself by Da Ming's consent.

And the number of 2 million people is more than the amount of a year's worth of cultivating genetic humans using a space-time trader.

Don't look at it, Zhao Hongyu has been mixed in the Americas for two years, but the number of genetic people of Chinese descent is only hundreds of thousands.

But if the Ming Dynasty can be leveled and persuaded to sell the displaced people to themselves, then the Chinese population can increase by 2 million in a year.

What a wonderful thing to do.

With these 2 million people, Zhao Hongyu can establish 200 settlements on the American continent, each with 10,000 people.

Although 200 settlements cannot control the entire American continent, at least North America can control it steadily.

Anyway, it's better than what we are doing now.

When the time comes, let the genetic people of Chinese descent go to these settlements to be officials, and let them manage those immigrants from the Ming Dynasty.

I don't think it's going to make much of a fuss.

You must know that the immigrants in the Ming Dynasty were actually very well managed.

As long as you divide the land among them and let them see hope, they will not make trouble.

This is much stronger than that of the Europeans.

The Chinese are the most industrious and best managed ethnic group in the world.

Zhao Hongyu and Wang Shan, who are Huaxia, how could they not know this.

Although now France has sent Louis XIII Jr. as an envoy, on the way to the Song Empire in the Americas.

At the same time, Zhao Hongyu and the others also analyzed the intention of Louis XIII Jr. to come this time.

However, Zhao Hongyu did not want to delay his trip because of the imminent arrival of Louis XIII Jr.

Anyway, the matter on the side of Little Louis XIII will be handled by Zhang Tie.

Come to think of it, Zhang Tie can handle it very well.

Don't you just hope that your side can help, but in fact, there is nothing difficult about it.

As long as the French can come up with collateral, then aid is not a problem.

Even if the French want to turn their faces in the future, they can have a normal excuse to invade Europe, right?

But for now, it's more important to go to the East and get population.

And this trip to the East, Zhao Hongyu is not just to get people from the Ming Dynasty.

If the situation is okay. Even the population of Vietnam, Siam, North Korea and Japan is not impossible to get back.

When the time comes, the genetic people of Chinese descent will be the first-class people, and the immigrants of the Ming Dynasty will be the second-class people to manage the immigrants of other countries, or they will simply treat the immigrants of other countries as slaves.

In this way, it is not necessary that the population of the American continent will not be able to exceed the 4 million mark in one year.

At this rate, it will only take five years. At that time, the population of the Song Empire in the Americas would reach the population of 20 or 30 million that he boasted at the beginning.

Of course, after the population increases, some hidden dangers will also appear.

But, that's all for later.

For now, everything is still focused on increasing the number of people.

Who let the empire now control too much land, but not enough people to use and occupy it?

There's really no way around it.

Therefore, Zhao Hongyu and they can't find fault with anything.

Unless they are bored to develop, that is, to use genetic people, to develop for decades.

But how could Zhao Hongyu wait for such a long time.

It's unrealistic.

Besides. Professor Liu is right, since we have come to this era, it is better to go to the East to see and learn.

Even, Zhao Hongyu can go to the north of the Ming Dynasty. Experience for yourself whether 'I Daqing' is as enlightened and powerful as those 'brick families' and 'beasts' in later generations said.

Manhattan Pier

Groups of privates, in neat formations, stepped onto the deck and boarded their respective ships.

Zhang Tie and a group of civil servants from Manhattan City also came to the pier to see them off.

Zhao Hongyu and Zhang Tie greeted each other here. Zhang Tie instructed Zhao Hongyu to be careful.

Black Bear also came to the docks, and he was there to see Emma off.

And the widows of Samuel's family also came to see Sarah.

Wang Shan and Anneth stood beside Zhao Hongyu. The two men whispered something.

Because Anness was reluctant to Wang Shan, Zhao Hongyu asked Wang Shan to simply take Anes with him.

Anyway, when the time comes, when the time comes, Wang Shan will be able to get off the boat.

At that time, the settlement was established, and Wang Shan and Anes could live there in peace for a while, right?

In the end, Wang Shan agreed.

After all, he was also a little reluctant to leave Anneth now.

"Your Highness, after going to the East, everything will be opened with money, Professor Liu said that there is no daimyo official at this time who is not greedy for money. If we want to make the immigration plan go smoothly, then we must use less money. ”

Zhang Tie kept reminding Zhao Hongyu that he must pay attention to this.

These words were all told to Zhang Tie by Professor Liu, who left Manhattan after the New Year.

Zhao Hongyu listened to Zhang Tie's instructions and nodded again and again.

Money is nothing to him, and the Song Empire has nothing but money.

If you can exchange those gold and silver for the population you need, this is nothing wrong with Zhao Hongyu.

Gold and silver are such things, if you say they are useful, then they are useful, and if you want to say that they are useless, they are actually useless at all.

Whether you can eat it or not, it's just cold metal.

This gold and silver, to be honest, are not as good as grain.

At the very least, food fills the belly, so that people don't have to go hungry.

"Don't worry, I know everything myself. We are not short of money, and it can even be said that money is nothing to us at all, but the population is the most important thing. ”

Zhao Hongyu nodded and said to Zhang Tie.

Seeing that Zhao Hongyu had such an understanding, Zhang Tie smiled and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Your Highness, the populations of Annam, Siam, Korea, and Japan cannot be wasted, no matter how small the mosquito is, it is still meat."

After the last, Zhang Tie squeezed his eyebrows at Zhao Hongyu for a while.

Of course, Zhao Hongyu understood the meaning of Zhang Tie's words.

"Don't worry, of course I must know how to harm them, we have money."

After Zhao Hongyu said this, he and Zhang Tie laughed together. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )