The empire was infatuated with temperate zones, mainly survivalism. Most of the empire's land is located in temperate zones, so naturally they are more willing to immigrate to places with similar climates. In fact, with some choices, the empire is more willing to open up the middle temperate zones and warm temperate zones in temperate zones. This is a climate similar to the Central Plains area of ​​the empire's land. The reason is that this place with alternating heat and temperature difference between the four seasons is suitable for almost all imperial subjects.

According to statistics from the Ministry of Overseas Affairs, whether it is the people of the Central Plains or the people of Jiangnan, they can adapt to the migration of overseas central and temperate areas, making the people of Jiangnan from growing rice to growing wheat, sorghum and millet, which is only a technical problem. In this climate zone, animal husbandry can be developed and brought about a wider range of food. After all, at the beginning of the pioneering stage, grain production was relatively low, and hunting and animal husbandry would be easier for people to survive.

The most obvious is the development of American provinces, but if you choose to develop subtropical areas, the northern immigrants from the empire will not be so easy to adapt, and some subtropical humid and hot climates will also lead to more diseases. This has suffered a considerable loss when developing South Africa and Australia.

Although the subtropical zone is also part of the temperate zone, in fact, the subtropical zone is also the most popular climate zone in the overseas development of the empire. The reason is that in the overseas development of this era, the cultivation of cash crops was the primary driving force for the development of overseas territories. Only with strong cash crops can we bring economic development and drive other industries. The best-selling cash crops are tobacco, cotton, tea, sugarcane, spices, coffee, etc. These things can be planted in both the tropics and the subtropical zones, but the empire does not like the tropics, so it must develop subtropical areas, such as Cape Town, Australia and other places.

Theoretically, the tropical areas have more rain and heat advantages in the cultivation of cash crops, but in fact this is not the case, because all cash crops consume land fertility, and there is no difference between two ripening per year and three ripening per year. For example, rice cultivation in Kowloon region can obviously achieve three ripening, but most of them adopt the cultivation twice a year. In South Africa, Australia and other places, large farms also have fallow strategies.

The reason why overseas expansion does not like the tropics is very simple. Too hot and humid will inevitably lead to a large number of deaths of early immigrants. Because there is no agricultural civilization in tropical areas, there is no such operation as seizing mature land from indigenous people to reduce mortality. The empire's expansion of tropical areas was more based on strategic considerations. For example, the Nanyang area could not be avoided, and the early empire's ocean navigation technology was relatively low, so it could only be explored nearby.

The other tropical territory is Yingzhou on the east coast of Africa, which is Madagascar. The development of this place mainly occupies this offshore island and can be completely territorized.

In the wider African continent, most of the land is in the hands of African development companies. In southern Africa, the empire owns two provinces, Cape Town and South Africa. However, the establishment of South Africa is more to let African development companies be pioneers. They joined forces with the Portuguese to sweep away the local indigenous people and sell them to plantations along the Americas or East Africa coasts. The vacant land was sold to the imperial government because most of them were tropical savannas and there was no decent economy, so African development companies did not feel sorry for them.

Seeing that he persuaded Li Su, Zhao Wenting struck while the iron was hot and said: "If we follow the rules set by His Majesty the Supreme Emperor, the Governor of Peru will not be all returned to Spain. First of all, the unbreakable Potosi must belong to the empire. Even though it belongs to the tropical region, it has an alpine climate, which is acceptable. The La Plata region (Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay) and Chile will definitely not let go."

Although as Zhao Wenting said, the land captured will not be completely returned, Li Su was still a little unacceptable because the places Zhao Wenting said were not densely populated areas.

"Okay, Lord Zhao, thank you for your advice." Li Su bowed and thanked.

Zhao Wenting smiled. He was a scholar-official in the old era and liked people like Li Su who knew etiquette the most, especially a noble family member. Zhao Wenting smiled and said, "Criminal, you should go back to Cusco quickly while His Highness Yu has not returned yet, otherwise others will gossip."

"No, this time it was King Yu who transferred me back." Li Su said, and then took out the transfer order.

Zhao Wenting was stunned when he heard this. He took the transfer order from Li Su and saw that it was indeed written by Prince Yu. The only mistake of Li Su was that he did not arrange the army first according to Prince Yu's orders, but returned directly with a corner of command. Considering that his deputy was an experienced lieutenant colonel officer carefully selected by Prince Yu from the Glory Brigade, it was not a big mistake. However, Zhao Wenting still sighed long, because he realized a big thing: "My God, it is indeed the same as what they said. Prince Yu is going to be the boss again..."

The reason for transferring Li Su back was that King Yu was leaving, but Zhao Wenting felt that the matter in Peru was not over yet. You should know that the ultimate goal of Peru's war was to seize Potosi, and Potosi was located on the Bolivian Plateau, just between Lima, Chile and South Port. Although the force level is not a problem, time will be consumed for a long time. At the same time, we should also contact the American provinces to prepare to seize the Panama region. These are the two goals of the first phase of the American strategy.

But without doing anything, King Yu was about to become the boss of the hand. But when he thought about it, Zhao Wenting understood that he had dealt with the officials of the Lifan Academy of the army that had fought against the Western Expedition and knew that this was King Yu's usual behavior. This highness was not only not greedy for power, but also a little disgusted with power. Even the emperor said that King Yu could not sit in the office with teeth on his butt.

But speaking of this, the generals who worked under King Yu also liked his style, so that they would have more opportunities to make achievements.

As Zhao Wenting expected, after learning that Prince Rong, Li Su, had been studying foreign languages ​​abroad, King Yu, who had been studying foreign languages ​​abroad, also went to the Governor's Office and held a small military and political meeting, handing over the military and political power of South America to Zhao Wenting. The military command was led by Xu Zichang, the commander of the Honor Brigade. This military and political team had two tasks. One was a hard indicator and had to occupy the Potosi Silver Mine as soon as possible. The other was the KPI set by Li Junwei for the Expeditionary Force - robbing 50 million taels of silver or equivalent in the Peru Governor's District.

"King Yu, this is a bit difficult to deal with. The Peruvian Governor's District is rich, but now we are mainly targeting whites and powerful people. Those who hide in and out of the world may not be able to catch them..." Zhao Wenting saw that the responsibility was transferred to him, so he hurriedly begged for forgiveness.

Li Junwei said: "Mr. Zhao, you are so stupid. Now we are doing something like killing chickens and getting eggs. Even such things can be done, so naturally I don't care about doing something like cooking rabbits and dogs. When I negotiate with the King of Spain, before the handover, let the garrison rob everything that can be robbed, and whoever has the money will rob it!"

"I understand, I understand..." Zhao Wenting wiped the sweat from his face.

Li Junwei did not make things difficult for Zhao Wenting. He left Lima in November of the 26th year of the empire. His destination was Nangang. Of course, it was just a transit station. Li Junwei was really going to the Caribbean area, but he went north again. The first fleet of expeditions alone would not work. In Cape Town, local fleets and troops arrived one after another. As long as Potosi was defeated, Li Junwei would send troops north. This was an explanation to Shen Jing, and in fact there was no need to wait. The decision to attack Potosi was made because it was a silver mine city. With it, it would be possible to assure the imperial subjects that King Yu would make a profit in the Americas, but now he had robbed Peru's Governor's wealth that had accumulated for nearly two centuries, which was already a big profit.

When King Yu arrived at the Port of Valparaiso on a ship, the port commander came to the ship and arranged for King Yu to take a temporary rest at the headquarters. This headquarters was the original church. Li Su saw that the pedestrians were in a hurry on the street, and only the port was in extreme busyness, and he was immediately confused.

"Criminal, King Yu said he would go to Nangang by land, so he had to wait here for about three days. Santiago City will arrange a guard to come and let Your Highness set off." The major in charge of resting King Yu discussed King Yu's itinerary with Li Su after Li Junwei rested.

"What's wrong with this place? When we occupied this place just now, it was not so messy." Li Su asked.

The major said helplessly: "The quarantine operation is underway here, especially outside the city. It is very chaotic, with Spaniards everywhere, which is very difficult to deal with."

Li Su was puzzled: "How did you make it like this?"

The major could only sigh: "It's not...it's because of King Yu's new order...ah, isn't this a matter of nothing to find trouble?"

This major is familiar with Li Su, who was from the imperial guards and came from Shen Jing with King Yu. After arriving in the colony, these people were valued together with the military officers and held military power. Because of this, they talked to Li Su a little casually.

After the empire had just occupied Chile, Li Junwei issued a civil order. Like most of the current Peruvian Governor, he pointed the finger of the liquidation at the white groups and the Indian chief class, and wooed the Indians, mixed-race people and a small number of blacks, and attracted them into the army. Of course, in order to stabilize public security, all the gunpowder, firearms and lead in Chile were confiscated. What made the empire most popular with the people was that Li Junwei publicly declared that the imperial emperor was the protector of the Indians.

However, as the war in Peru progressed smoothly, the empire's policies in Chile gradually gathered, especially after the arrival of the main legions from the Nangang area and a large number of Italian troops from the African colonies, the policy was tightened to the extreme. Just recently, King Yu's new order was issued to the Chilean region, and a new round of interpretation of the empire's policy of protecting Indians, that is, to carefully define the Indians.

In the past policy, the Empire protected all colonial residents except the white Spanish, but now only included Indians. Mixed-race people cannot be considered Indians, whether they are mixed with whites or blacks. Moreover, what the Empire wants to protect Indians must be authentic natives. Indians who believe in Catholicism cannot be considered natives, and Indians who only speak Spanish are not counted.

In other words, the empire only recognized that the Mapuche and other Indians who were not conquered by Spain were Indians, but other people who were not protected had nowhere to go. Therefore, the occupying military agencies did not carry out expulsion operations, but increased taxes and corvee, which led to the resistance of many locals. Some people formed resistance in the mountains, forests and wilderness after fleeing, and the local troops stationed were constantly clearing out. The two sides were tense and the situation was in chaos.

Although local military and political officials in Chile were complaining, Li Su knew why Li Junwei did this. Chile was not Peru. This fertile land was a colony favored by the empire and would not be returned to the Spanish. The empire could not tolerate the land under its control with more than 400,000 Catholic people, and it still occupies an absolute population and economic advantage locally.

"Okay, don't complain. Do your own thing well. Some things you don't recognize are not because it is wrong, but just because the height you have reached is not enough. Do you know?" Li Su warned his partner, but he was talking about his feelings recently.

Due to the chaotic situation in Chile, Li Junwei had to form a battalion, and together with a gold and silver escort escort, and more than 70 wounded soldiers retreated from Peru, they went to Nangang by land. As for sea routes, Li Junwei did not want to go to the violent westerly wind belt, even though this season was a rare and relatively mild season.

Li Junwei has always been cautious in his personal safety. He has never been afraid of taking risks, but he never takes his life to take risks.

Because he arrived at Nangang before the New Year, Li Junwei was in a good mood. However, after arriving at Nangang, he found that the cruise ship of the First Expedition Fleet had already arrived at the port. However, the bad news was that Li Junwei only saw five warships, one of which occupied the dock for maintenance. Li Junwei immediately summoned the fleet commander Zhao Longcheng.

"We encountered many problems when we passed through the Magellan Strait. The collision between ships was the most unlucky. The Jingyuan was hit with a piece of floating ice. Fortunately, the rescue was timely and did not sink. The climate there was really bad. Even with the help of several experienced subordinates of Horayshaun, an accident still occurred. In addition to natural disasters, I think the quality of the crew is also a problem." Zhao Longcheng reported that Li Junwei was a little relieved. At least the Jingyuan did not sink. Now the ship has been repaired in the Southport and went to the Naval Shipyard in Cape Town for overhaul. Only there is a dry dock where the ribs can be replaced.
Chapter completed!