I am rich in martial arts, but choose culture to win

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North America is a good place, with a vast territory, rich resources, fertile land, and the aborigines were almost wiped out by the whites.

Moreover, there are two oceans in the east and west, and there are no strong enemies in the north and south.

It can be said that this treasure land is basically invincible

But North America has its own problems.

That is the frequent occurrence of natural disasters.

China has been plagued by disasters since ancient times.

But in fact, this is mainly because China has a vast territory and long records of reliable history, so it gives people such an illusion.

In fact, compared with other places in the world, even if floods are counted, China is not a terrible place.

At least it is much safer than Japan or something.

After all, this is the place where our ancestors with abundant martial virtues shopped around and found a place to live.

In contrast, there will be more natural disasters in North America than in China.

All major mountain ranges in North America, such as the Rockies, Cascades, Sierra Nevadas, and Appalachians, run north-south.

This is different from the east-west direction of famous mountains and rivers such as the Tianshan Mountains and Qinling Mountains in China.

The lack of mountains stretching from east to west makes the North American continent look like a large house with no windows, which is transparent from north to south. Whether it is a cold wave or a hurricane, it can pass through the north and south unimpeded, causing great harm.

Compared with Mexican and South American Indians, North American Indians have a lower level of civilization, because these extremely harsh climates have destroyed the buds of civilization time and time again.

The trouble that Zhu Fugui encountered this time was that after the last small cold wave in Xinfeng, Daming suffered another natural disaster.

This time it is not a hurricane or a cold wave, but Xinyue and Xinqiong (far from Mexico's Baja California peninsula) have lacked rainfall since November last year, and it has been more than four months.

In terms of national production, it is nothing if there has been no rain in the two southern provinces for more than four months.

Daming's industrial and agricultural focus is not in Xinyue and Xinqiong for the time being.

It will take at least 10 years for Zhu Fugui to consider exploiting this generation of large oil fields.

However, the lack of water will greatly affect the immigration process of Ming Dynasty to this area.

This is fatal.

You must know that the population of the Aztec Federation, that is, the central and southern regions of Mexico will definitely increase in the future.

If the southern border of Ming Dynasty does not have a substantial population, it is very likely that it will be slowly eroded by the Mexicans.

Therefore, although the Ming court did not do anything with the Ministry of Industry and Agriculture in the two southern provinces, it gave preferential conditions of tax exemption and even financial subsidies to the people who immigrated to this area.

Now that there is a severe drought, money and food are easy to handle, but this water is really difficult to allocate.

Far water can hardly quench thirst near, and the lack of water has undoubtedly brought great difficulties to the lives of immigrants from the two provinces.

In addition, this severe drought also caused another unexpected event, which would shake the foundation of Ming Dynasty's rule if it was not handled properly.

That is to deceive the public.

At present, it is the Hakkas who have been transported from the Chu army one after another to the new Guangdong and Xinqiong provinces most enthusiastically.

Of course, these Hakkas have undergone naturalization education, and they have completely broken up the clan relations in the village. Under the management of border aid cadres, land was reclaimed and settled down in the form of production brigades.

The reason why Zhu Fugui wants to develop in North America and wait until a certain scale before returning to his hometown in China is to break the connection between the clan and village sages.

Therefore, he will not allow the Hakka people to form an official system and immigrate into clans.

Because the land is almost infinitely sufficient, and the clan was dispersed, the Hakka people's xenophobic atmosphere was greatly relieved.

At least he turned his tongue around and tried to use Daming Zhengyin to communicate with his neighbors.

At the same time, even the scattered Hakkas still maintain a certain degree of toughness, and this toughness also affects their neighbors.

Before the Hakkas and the Cantonese robbed a few acres of paddy fields, they could wipe out their families and slaughter the villages. Now that the Ming government gives guns and money, it is natural to take root firmly and prevent a Mexican from slipping over.

They are not the ones who need to maintain restraint and humility, even if they are killed, they will be rewarded.

But, in addition to being tough, there is also a traditional bad habit in these places.

That is superstitious.

In fact, it cannot be said that Hakka people are superstitious. The Hakka people who work in Fengdu and Xinlu are not like this. It is more due to geographical factors.

The distance from Fengdu to Xinqiong is as long as 2000 kilometers. If it were not for the railway connecting to Xinsui, Daming would almost have to treat this place like Washington did to the West Wilderness, allowing the "sheriffs" to govern themselves.

Now Daming's production team somehow maintains the basis of dominance.

Relying on the advantages of the railway, telegraph, army, and Ming Dynasty's unique system, His Majesty Zhu Fugui still firmly controls this area.

But it is unavoidable that there will be some meaning that the mountains are high and the emperor is far away.

It is still far from doing terrible incidents such as burning imperial envoys, but the ideological and political construction of Ming Dynasty in this area is undoubtedly weak.

Da Ming now has hundreds of thousands of new immigrants arriving every month.

Just relying on three months of naturalization study is not enough to completely change the people's thinking.

If they stayed in big cities such as Fengdu, Xinjin, Xinji, and Xinhu, they could continue to complete ideological reform in a subtle way.

But in the remote areas of Xinyue and Xinqiong, there is no way to provide them with post-education except for the propaganda committee members of the broadcasting and production brigades.

Moreover, there are not a few of these Hakka people who have a history of raising flags and rebelling, and their fear of the government is relatively weak.

Therefore, after the continuous month-long drought, the Confucian theory of interaction between heaven and man, combined with the superstitious tradition of folk gods, ghosts and ghosts, the saying that "Emperor Zhu angered the Dragon King" began to appear sporadically.

Chapter 439 The Americans Really Did It

About 160 kilometers southeast of Xinsui (San Diego).

In later generations, a city called Mexicali will be built here.

But now, in the Ming Dynasty's land reclamation manual, this area is called Xinyang Mansion, and the target is Yangjiang Zhili Prefecture in Guangdong.

Yangjiang is an ancient city with a superior geographical location, with mountains and water, and a bay along the coast.

Although it is not considered a wealthy place in Guangdong Province, it is regarded as a treasure land in the whole country, and it is naturally an important town where locals and tourists compete.

Until later generations, there were still many Hakka settlements in the southwest and Yangxi of Yangchun County.

It is of course just a coincidence that Xinyang Mansion took the name of Yangjiang, just because the location map is similar.

The geography of Xinyangfu bears no resemblance to Yangjiang.

In later generations, Mexicali is a city on the Mexican-American border in the northwest of Mexico. It is one of the most important ports for smugglers to the United States, and it has also become a back garden for middle-class Americans on vacation.

But historically Mexicali was actually an agricultural city.

Although it is located in a desert basin with a hot climate, little precipitation and frequent earthquakes, the land of Mexicali is extremely fertile.

Around 1885, a large number of Chinese workers came here because of the Chinese Exclusion Act in the United States.

They built canals to draw water from the Colorado River, and then cleared land in the desert to grow cotton.

The cotton grown by the Chinese was of high quality and gradually opened up the market, bringing a steady stream of wealth to the local area. The town where Chinese laborers gathered also became the predecessor of Mexicali.

By the beginning of the 20th century, there were nearly 4 Chinese laborers in Mexicali, but only 3000 descendants of white colonists and white fathers and rich mothers.

It can be said that Mexicali is a Chinatown through and through. Almost all shop signs are written in Chinese, Chinese checks are circulated among merchants, and even the chairman of the bank is Chinese.

The city was founded by the Chinese, reclaimed by the Chinese, and prospered by the Chinese.

However, in 1937, the Mexican government issued a decree that confiscated the wealth of the Chinese overnight and nationalized the Chinese companies and banks.

The Chinese can only open restaurants, wash dishes, sell clothes, and engage in limited industries.

In the 21st century, Mexicali is still one of the largest Chinese communities in Mexico, but there are only 5000 Chinese left, while the number of mixed descendants of white colonists and white fathers and mothers has reached 80.

The proportion of Chinese only accounted for 0.6%.

Therefore, even if it is not for the large amount of natural resources in northern Mexico, Zhu Fugui is determined to win this city.

It is bound to turn him into a veritable Chinatown, a city belonging to the Chinese.

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However, for a long time in the past, due to the severe population shortage of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Fugui and the Ming court did not have much energy to make overall arrangements in remote areas like Xinyang.

It is basically in a semi-stocking state.

For example, the imperial court has not come up with a reasonable construction plan for the water diversion irrigation project of the Colorado River.

This is not simply copying the plans of later generations.

Because in later generations, the upper reaches of the Colorado River are the United States, and the lower reaches are Mexico.

We all know what virtue Americans are.

And whenever they accuse other countries of doing something, they usually do it.

Known as the "Diamond in the Desert," the Hoover Dam is the pinnacle of American hydraulic engineering and has always been a model of American industrial power.

However, this dam is Mexico's blood and tears.

The Hoover Dam and the unreasonable 14 follow-up reservoirs and 32 large-scale water conservancy facilities of the Americans have transformed the Colorado River Delta into a famous vegetable and fruit base in the United States.

but.

"Diamonds in the Desert", the focus is on the desert not the diamonds!

The Colorado River flows in the desert!

According to the nonsense of the Americans, China can use up all the water in the rainforest river Mekong, so what about the water in Colorado?

Almost all the water resources of the Colorado River have been used up by the Americans!

Since 1998, the Colorado River has never flowed into the sea.

Mexico lost its most fertile agricultural area, and the Onza gang didn't care.

But for Ming, the territory from the northern part of Mexico to the mouth of Colorado is Ming's territory, and Ming can't help but care about the water resource needs of these lands.

Daming's use of the Colorado River must not be "Hoover Dam style", and it is necessary to rely on the wisdom of Daming engineers to find answers to the questions.

Therefore, until now, the water source utilization in the Xinyang area still relies on the natural tributaries of the Colorado River.

One such tributary is the Amon River, which flows down the southern Sierra Nevada and flows eastward into the Colorado River.

In the past, the water of this small river was not too deep, only about two meters.

Compared with the land near the desert in Xinyang, the land on both sides of the Amon River can be described as fertile.

Lai Xinyou's family settled on the banks of the Amon River last winter.

At that time, it happened that the waterfowl in the north went south to spend the winter. There was a shallow lake near the river fork.

These waterfowl are not only beautiful, but also taste very good.

At least the two half-children of Lai Xinyou's family think so.

The emperor trainer of the production team severely criticized Lai Xinyou's family.

Waterfowl can be eaten, but not so much. Pay attention to the inside... What kind of protection is there inside!

In fact, the imperial trainers of the production team only attended the training course in Fengdu for half a year, barely getting rid of the category of illiteracy.

However, according to the notice above, Xinsui will also open training centers in the future.

Emperor trainers like him have to participate in a week of retraining every year to systematically study His Majesty Zhu Fugui's various advanced thoughts on grassroots governance.

This kind of centralized training will become the norm in the administration of grassroots officials in Ming Dynasty.

Although it seems unavoidable to be suspected of formalism, Zhu Fugui knows that only by not relaxing the control of the grassroots for a moment can a country and a nation's strong mobilization ability be maintained.

Many things that seem to be tossing and tossing will only exert their precious value in improving the bottom line of cadres once they face a real test.

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Lai Xinyou whipped two and a half children with a rattan cane.

He doesn't understand what kind of ecological protection is inside, but he knows that this is not his hometown in Fujian. The things that fly in the sky and the things that go down here are all earned by the emperor himself.

The emperor took pity on everyone, so he drove everyone here on a big ship, gave them food and drink, and planted the land, and they didn't pay for food!

The only requirement is to let everyone take a shotgun, and keep the Kunlun slaves from the east and the miscellaneous beards from the south away.

Lai Xinyou hadn't studied much, but he also knew that this little emperor of Ming Dynasty was the first emperor who didn't want the common people to pay for his food from ancient times to the present.