Penglai City is divided into East and West Penglai City. The distance between the two cities is only a few hundred kilometers, making it the narrowest place in Golden Continent.
The Ming Empire initially started colonizing the western Golden Continent. Later, in order to consolidate its rule and colonization on the east coast of the Golden Continent, it also focused on the development of Penglai City.
Colonial settlements were built in the east and west, and gradually developed into the current East and West Penglai cities. The scale of East and West Penglai cities is getting larger and larger, and railways and roads are built to connect the two places, making the transportation extremely convenient.
, and a Huanghuangzhou Canal was also built in Huangjinzhou where the Panama Canal would later be located.
This will facilitate travel and communication between the east and west coasts of Huangjin Island, and also facilitate the movement of ships, greatly saving sailing distance and time.
The Huanghuangzhou Canal is also listed on the Tianjin Stock Exchange like the Egyptian Canal, and it has become a stock that everyone likes to invest in.
Because the entire Huanghuangzhou Canal belongs to the Ming Empire, it is more stable and safe than the Egyptian Canal. Its market value has now reached 200 million taels of silver, making it a leading player in the Tianjin Securities Exchange.
Among the East and West Penglai cities, Dong Penglai city is the busiest and largest.
It is located in Penglai Bay (later known as the Gulf of Mexico), which is the central area of the Golden Continent. It is also the eastern transfer point for trade with Europe, and its commerce is extremely developed.
At this moment, Liu Jin was standing on a restaurant in Penglai City, overlooking the entire Penglai City and Penglai Bay.
As a new city, Penglai City has a history of only a few decades. The planning of the new city is very orderly, dotted and square.
There are many high-rise buildings, especially in the commercial district of Penglai City. The high-rise buildings compete with each other and are brightly lit at night. Behind each building are people from the Ming Empire, Ming vassal states, vassal states, and colonies.
and even major commercial firms around the world.
Although with the westward expansion of the Ming Empire, its territory expanded into Eastern Europe, trade with Europe has now mainly shifted to safer land routes.
The sea routes through Golden Continent gradually declined relatively, and there were not so many ships traveling between Europe and Golden Continent.
However, this is still one of the very important foreign trade points. A large number of goods are still sold to Europe through here every year. At the same time, goods from Europe, mainly slaves, are also continuously imported to the Golden Continent to mine the Golden Continent.
Plantations brought a steady stream of labor.
Although the local industry in Huangjinzhou is far from comparable to that of the Ming Empire, Huangjinzhou is an important grain-producing area. The Great Plains in the central part of Northern Huangjinzhou is one of the few fertile plains in the world, and is the most suitable area for the development of agriculture.
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Although the degree of development here is still very low, the food produced has already far exceeded the local demand in Golden Continent. A large amount of this food is sold to Europe, vassal states and colonies in Africa.
Grain export is a very important economy here!
In addition, Huanghuangzhou is also a huge meat warehouse. There is a vast fertile grassland in South Huanghuangzhou, which is one of the best grasslands in the world.
The Ming Empire moved a large number of nomads to the Southern Golden Continent for grazing. At the same time, it also vigorously developed the large farm economy and encouraged Han immigrants to develop designated animal husbandry.
At the same time, here in Northern Huanghuangzhou, there is also a large area of land that has not been cultivated and is used as pasture. There are also a large number of herdsmen grazing here.
These factors also promoted the rapid development of animal husbandry in Huangjinzhou. The unique natural environment, coupled with the vast land and sparse population, made the animal husbandry here very famous in the entire Ming Dynasty.
The beef and mutton produced in Golden Continent are not only of high quality, but also extremely cheap. They are sold in large quantities to colonies and vassal states in Africa.
As a result, the local animal husbandry in many vassal states and colonies cannot develop at all, because even the cattle and sheep shipped from the Golden Continent are cheaper than the local cattle and sheep, and you simply cannot compete.
Although agriculture and animal husbandry are developed, the real biggest industry here in Golden Continent is mining!
From the earliest batch of gold prospectors arriving in Huanghuangzhou until now, the gold fever in Huanghuangzhou has never faded and is still very hot.
Here in Huangjinzhou, everyone seems to have a heart for gold mining. Everyone wants to be an explorer, explore the unknown world, and find exciting treasures and wealth.
It started with gold and silver, and now it has gradually added oil, copper mines, iron mines, diamond mines, etc. Various versions of legends are circulating throughout the Golden Continent.
There are too many stories of people getting rich overnight.
Here in Penglai City, you can even see the protagonists in many stories, running around with a few horses, a few people, and a few guns, finding a gold mine, and then reaching the pinnacle of life.
, and became the protagonist that people are striving for in legends.
The mining industry in Golden Continent is extremely developed.
Not only are there many large and small mines, but more importantly, the mining industry here in Huangjinzhou is gradually adopting mechanized mining, the technology is becoming more and more advanced, and it has the most advanced exploration technology and mining technology in the world.
Even if the Huanghuangzhou people who are obsessed with the dream of gold study, they naturally have to learn majors and fields related to mining, even here in Penglai City.
These local Ming people in Huangjinzhou also spent money to build a Huangjinzhou University of Mining. All the majors in it are related to mining. They specialize in cultivating mining technology, researching exploration and mining technology, and cultivating talents in this field.
Driven by many conditions, Golden Continent produces a large amount of gold, silver, copper, oil, tin and other precious metals or minerals every year.
Let’s not talk about gold and silver. This is hard currency and it is everyone’s favorite thing in this period.
The importance of copper is also becoming more and more prominent.
Especially with the rapid development of the electrical industry, the demand for copper has rapidly expanded. The price of copper has also increased, becoming more and more expensive, and copper mining has also become extremely profitable.
The value of copper mines is getting higher and higher, and the people of Ming Dynasty are going crazy looking for and mining copper mines all over the world.
In the past, copper was the exclusive property of the imperial court. Private individuals could not mine copper, let alone mint copper coins privately. However, now it is gradually liberalized. In addition to not minting copper coins privately, the mining of copper mines, the use of copper, etc.
There are no restrictions.
There is no way. Copper is an important resource. It is widely used in the electrical industry. Copper is indispensable in all aspects. It is impossible not to relax restrictions.
With abundant resources, unique and superior natural conditions, and the support of the powerful Ming Empire, Golden Continent is developing very fast. In the entire Ming Dynasty, Golden Continent's development speed can be ranked at the forefront.
This also created the prosperity of Penglai City, making Penglai City bigger and bigger and more prosperous and lively.
But at the moment Liu Jin is not very interested in the prosperity of Penglai City.
This is the second time Liu Jin has come to Penglai City.
The last time he accompanied Emperor Hongzhi to Huangjinzhou, he also visited Dongpenglai City, stayed at Tian Erniu's house for a while, and spent the New Year here in Penglai City.
At that time, Penglai City was already quite prosperous and lively, and now it is even more prosperous and lively than when we first came here.
The Ming people here in Huangjin Continent are mainly concentrated in a small number of immigrant towns. Penglai City has a population of several million people and is the largest city in Huangjin Continent.
The total population of the entire Golden Continent has now exceeded 30 million. Of course, the people here are Han Chinese. As for the local population of descendants of the Yin Shang, it is impossible to count.
The Aztec Kingdom and the Inca Empire were vassal states of the Ming Empire. The population statistics of the Ming Empire did not include the population of vassal states, colonies and vassal states.
Such a huge population is mainly due to the fact that the Ming people in Golden Continent are really fertile.
The people of the Ming Dynasty here would basically have several concubines who were descendants of the Yin Shang, and they would also buy some female slaves from Europe, who could not only work and farm for themselves, but also give birth to children.
Coupled with the rapid development of medical technology in the Ming Empire, especially after the development of penicillin, the mortality rate of newborns and children in the Ming Dynasty was greatly reduced.
The combination of these factors also led to the rapid expansion of the population of the Ming Empire, especially the population growth rate here in Golden Continent was even more terrifying.
In just a few decades, the population of Golden Continent has exploded from tens of thousands to a massive population of 30 million. This speed is really too fast.
The population of more than 30 million is basically concentrated in a small number of urban areas, which has also allowed the towns in Huanghuangzhou to develop rapidly, becoming larger and larger, more prosperous and lively.
When he was in it, Liu Jin could clearly feel that Penglai City was more lively and noisy than when he came here.
If you look carefully at the people in the streets and alleys, you can clearly feel the strong mixed-race atmosphere here.
Looking around, you can see a large number of blond and blue-eyed people. These people wear Ming Dynasty costumes, speak fluent Ming dialect, and call the people around them brothers. Yanran is an authentic Ming product, but just looks like this.
Not quite like a Ming Dynasty person.
Maybe the waiter in the store, the pork manager selling pork on the street, or the driver driving the goods. These people are all blond and blue-eyed.
In later generations, they would be called foreigners, but here, they are out-and-out locals, and out-and-out Ming people.
Because their father is from the Ming Dynasty, they have received the cultural influence, education, etc. of the Ming Dynasty since childhood. Half of the blood of the Ming Dynasty people also flows in their blood. Except for a slightly different skin, there is no difference between them and the people of the Ming Dynasty.
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Mixed race children are very common here.
In addition to those whose appearance is different and who can be easily identified as being of mixed blood from East and West, most of them are mixed blood between people from the Ming Dynasty and descendants of the Yin and Shang dynasties.
You can't tell any difference between these people at all, because there is almost no difference in appearance between the local descendants of the Yin Shang and the people of the Ming Dynasty.
There is no difference at all among mixed-race children. Those with dark eyes and black hair are the most mixed-race children, and they cannot be distinguished at all.
Of course, here in Huangjinzhou, people don't distinguish this, and they don't care about it. It doesn't matter whether they are mixed-blood or not. What is important is that they are of the Ming Dynasty.
As long as they accept the education, thought and culture of the Ming Dynasty, that's all. As for the other things, it seems that they really don't matter to the people of the Ming Dynasty.
Liu Jin didn't have much time to visit Penglai City. What he really wanted to go to now was the Aztec Kingdom and the Inca Empire.
In later generations, these two Indian countries eventually disappeared in the long river of history under the invasion of European colonists, leaving only a few relics telling the story of the extremely glorious great civilizations and civilizations that once appeared on this land.
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Now, because of Liu Jin, a time traveler, the Aztec Kingdom and the Inca Empire have been perfectly preserved and continued, and they have become vassal states of the Ming Empire.
The development of these two kingdoms descended from the Yin and Shang Dynasties also became rapid.
First of all, in terms of population, historically because Europeans brought diseases such as smallpox to the Americas, they almost wiped out the indigenous Indians on the American continent.
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During the process of colonizing Golden Continent, the Ming Dynasty also brought diseases such as smallpox and plague, which once killed a large number of people in these two countries.
But fortunately, the Ming Empire provided timely rescue and medical support, allowing these two countries to survive. Later, with the exchanges with the Ming Empire, trade and so on became more frequent.
The most important thing is that these two countries are constantly learning from the Ming people and gradually accepting the assimilation of the Ming people. They learn the Ming people's language, writing and knowledge, and gradually accept the Ming people's customs, living habits, etc.
All of this allowed the local indigenous people to recover quickly. Not only did the population not decrease anymore, but it began to grow rapidly like the people of the Ming Dynasty.
The idea and concept of having many children and being blessed has also been spread to the local indigenous people. With medical technology and sufficient food, it is difficult for this population not to grow.
The second is in terms of cultural and social progress.
In the past, the local indigenous Indians were still very barbaric and bloody. It can be seen from their extensive use of human sacrifices that their level of civilization was still very low.
The lands in the East had gradually abandoned the bad custom of human sacrifice as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but here in Golden Continent, human sacrifice was very popular.
If it doesn't rain, some people will be sacrificed. If a plague occurs, large-scale sacrifices will be required. If the Tengu eats the sun, it will be terrible. At least thousands or even tens of thousands of people must be sacrificed.
Such large-scale and frequent barbaric human sacrifices have resulted in the development of civilization in Golden Continent being always very low, which is why they were unable to fight against European invaders.
Likewise, in the face of European invaders, on the soil of the East, whether they are Ming people, Koreans, or Japanese people, they can deal with them with ease. The situation in the Americas and Africa will not happen, and they will not be fully colonized early.
The reason is that the level of civilization development in America and Africa is low. Most areas are still in the primitive tribal stage and have not yet developed into feudal society.
When facing colonists from Europe, they often had no resistance and were easily colonized by European colonies at a very small cost.
This is the root of the tragedy in Africa and America throughout history.
Now, history has undergone tremendous changes. The people of the Ming Dynasty are vigorously promoting in Huangjinzhou that these Indians are descendants of the Yin Shang, and they have a common ancestor with the people of the Ming Dynasty.
It's just that their ancestors made mistakes, so they were exiled to the Golden Continent by God. As long as they are willing to devoutly submit to and learn everything about the Ming Dynasty, they can also return to become the noble Ming Dynasty people.
Such propaganda ideas gradually became popular in Huangjinzhou and were accepted by the local indigenous people. They learned from the advanced civilization of the Ming Dynasty and promoted the development of local civilization and society in Huangjinzhou.
In the Kingdom of Azte, many large cities in the Inca Empire are almost full of Ming style. Sometimes you even think that you are in a Ming city.
Because whether it is the style of the surrounding buildings, people's clothing, food, etc., almost all have been changed to the Ming Dynasty. Even electric lights, which Europeans have not yet used, have begun to become popular in some big cities.
And the Ming Dynasty people like to watch football, and they also like it. There are a large number of football fields, and the Ming Dynasty movies are also very popular here.
It can be said that almost every aspect has been fully enlightened, and the entire civilization has rapidly transformed from a primitive and backward barbaric civilization into the most advanced civilization on the planet in this era.
In the Kingdom of Azteca and the Inca Empire, you can see concrete roads extending in all directions, and you can also see a large number of cars running at high speed.
You can see people of high status and status in these two countries drinking tea, reciting poems, chatting about the world, ancient and modern events, and discussing global current affairs and politics.
Their living standards have far exceeded the living standards of Europeans, Middle Easterners, Ottomans, and Persians during this period.
Everything is on par with and learning from the Ming people. In addition, it is a vassal state of the Ming Empire, relying on rich mineral resources, etc., this development speed is very fast.
Liu Jin originally wanted to look for some ancient ruins, ancient civilizations, etc. in these two kingdoms, and carefully study the true origins of these descendants of the Yin Shang in the Golden Continent.
But when I arrived in the cities of these two countries, I felt it was boring and disappointed, because except for a few pyramids, everything else was almost the same as that of the Ming Dynasty.
ps: I went to kill a pig last night and my hand was injured. It hurt for a day~~~The pig is really strong. It kicked people away in one go. Today is a big chapter of 5,000 words~~
