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Chapter 22: America or Asia

Li Jundu didn't understand the emperor's meaning, but he was completely disappointed at this time and could no longer listen to these remarks. Now his future is decided by the emperor's words, and the emperor has also made it clear that he has withdrawn from the competition for the throne. More than 20 years of hard work and struggle have been wasted, and Li Jundu's heart is almost dead.

On the morning of the next day, the first one to the British Prince's Mansion was the princess and his children. Li Jundu gritted the bullet and greeted him, thinking that he had always been wrong last night and beat his wife. Although his dream was shattered, he still had a virtuous wife and a pair of children, and this was the only one he left. He must not lose it again. However, he has always been macho. He respected his wife as guests since he got married and rarely quarreled, but he never had to coax him. Now that he has made such a big mistake, Li Jundu really doesn't know how to apologize.

Chen Yourong returned to the palace without any slut, and spoke as usual, as if nothing had happened last night. Her daughter was also chattering about the things in the palace of Concubine Li, especially the toys from the third prince Li Junwei when she was a child. She had her play with them all yesterday and took a lot of them back, not to mention how happy she was.

At noon, after arranging a nap for his children, Li Jundu mentioned what happened last night and apologized repeatedly. Chen Yourong apologized when he saw her husband for the first time. He was embarrassed and shameless. He just said that he was too angry. The emperor who should have beaten him with his own hands, so he stopped getting angry. Instead, he asked her husband what the emperor said last night.

After all, it is a husband and wife. Li Jundu cherishes the people in front of him very much at this time. He put down all the rules in his daily life and told Chen Yourong the original words. Chen Yourong said, "The emperor said it is not difficult to make you an emperor. Although he doesn't know what it means, he will not blame you in the end. He also wants his uncle and mother-in-law to participate in your affairs. I think he will not be punished. In this way, I am really relieved. By the way, what was the thing the emperor sent last night?"

"I've read it, it's all in the study." Li Jundu was in the mood to read last night, only knowing that there were books inside. At this moment, his wife mentioned it and hurriedly went to read it together, but found that four large boxes had big locks. She asked the guards who were on duty last night, and said that there was no key left. Li Jundu said, "Get the knife."

"Prince, this is a gift from the emperor, even a box is not easy to damage." Chen Yourong hurriedly stopped her husband.

Li Jundu didn't care at all: "The father never cared about these."

Chen Yourong said: "That's the past! The prince has not gone out in the palace for these days, so I don't know a lot of things. I went to Shenjing with the Empress. I heard about a lot of things. Prince Cheng Zhaorui made great contributions in Japan, but because he casually abandoned the treasures given by the emperor, he was severely blamed. Prince, the emperor is moving the capital to Shenjing. I must reiterate the rules that were not important in the past. Zhaorui is the first to be the first to be the second one."

Li Jundu thought to himself that the emperor has been in Beijing for the past seven or eight years, and has never been to Nanjing or Shenjing. He has been away from the administrative center for a long time. Those officials and congressmen in Shenjing are used to life without the emperor, so they should beat them well, otherwise where is the emperor's authority?

But when Li Jundu thought of this, he would not be in a bad mood. After all, it had nothing to do with him.

At this moment, someone claimed that King Ying was attending the door. Li Jundu ordered someone to take him to the living room to serve. He himself sat in the study room and could not come out for a long time. Chen Yourong looked at his children. He heard about this and rushed to the study room. He saw her husband fall on the table with his feet and was gnawing an apple. The sound of bark was mixed with a small song. Chen Yourong asked: "Prince, the attendant sent by the emperor is here, why are you so slow?"

Li Jundu said, "I definitely don't know where I found the old master and a sour scholar. When I came to me, I just talked about some great principles of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism. What can I say? Believe it or not, I will definitely shout, Confucius said, " Confucius said, "What a bullshit, if it weren't for the advice of the subordinates, my father would have burned the Confucius Temple in a fire back then, and I still care whether Confucius made an appointment or not, our Li family has never made any appointments with Confucius."

"Then you shouldn't be like this..." Chen Yourong said.

Li Jundu took a book and covered it on his face, saying disdainfully: "If you don't make an appointment, I won't make an appointment even if it's Confucius and Mencius! If you can't stand it, just stay with delicious food and drink."

An'er giggled constantly when she heard this. When Chen Yourong saw that his daughter was coming, she asked, "Didn't you go see the teacher? What does it look like?"

An'er's eyes were wandering around, as if she was talking, thinking about it, and she said, "I took a secret glance and felt like Li Kui, the black whirlwind on the stage! Daddy, Grandpa, who sent a gentleman like that, did he teach you how to learn kung fu?"

"Black Tornado?" Li Jundu muttered. Although he should not behave like a person, the teacher is still not related to Li Kui.

An'er smiled and said, "It's just like a black whirlwind, like an iron tower, with several scars on her face, which is so scary."

"Then invite the attendant to come." Li Jundu was moved by his daughter's words, and he also wanted to see what the black whirlwind attendant looked like.

As soon as he saw that man, Li Jundu cheered in his heart: What a brave soldier! As his daughter said, this man is eight feet tall, big feet, with calluses on his hands, dark and rough skin like a tree bark, and his eyes ejaculated. Li Jundu has never seen such a brave soldier, but they are all in the army, and they are all tough and arduous choices!

"The little Li Kui has seen the prince for a thousand years!" The man's military salute was standard, his voice was rough, but he didn't expect to be called Li Kui.

"You really call Li Kui?" Li Jundu asked.

Li Kui smiled and said, "That's the nickname given by his brothers below. He is used to it and calls it that way. His real name is Li Goudan, but he is still not as good as Li Kui after all. He used this name when applying for an ID card."

"So that's it, get up." Li Jundu said, looking at him, always feeling that he didn't look like a well-educated man, so he asked, "You are a postmaster sent by your father. Where did you work?"

"The villain is from Shandong. When he was in the Ming Dynasty, he was in trouble as a enemy. Later, he followed the Lu Jianguo. He went to sea with a few brothers to do inexpensive business with his brothers. He was caught by the emperor. He remembered that we had resisted the Qing Dynasty and did not kill him directly. We didn't want to be a prison slave, so we chose to go to America for twelve years. Before we came back, the young man served as the pioneer team leader and used the rank of lieutenant colonel. He originally returned with gold robbery. Half a month ago, the senior emperor arrested the emperor's servant. The young man had long wanted to see what kind of hero the emperor was, so he came. The day before yesterday, he met the emperor and said that he would come to the royal palace. He heard you ask him, and he would tell the truth. He said this... this... this is called a servant." Li Kui was quick-witted, and in a few words, Li Jundu solved most of his doubts.

As he said that, he took out a key from his waist and said, "Prince, this is given by the emperor. You know how to use it."

Li Jundu took the key, and there was a red rope tied to the key. He remembered that the locks of the four boxes seemed to have ropes of different colors. One happened to be a red rope. He tried it and opened it. He found that it was full of materials, books, albums, and maps. He took out a map and opened it and saw that it was the map of the Empire's colonies in the Americas.

After thinking a little, Li Jundu understood the emperor's arrangements and the meaning of the words he said before leaving. Obviously, the throne of the empire has nothing to do with him, but it is still possible to be an emperor in other places. The mountains of America are high and the emperor is far away, so it is also a place to go.

"You have been in the Americas for more than ten years, and you know everything you want to come there." Li Jundu said.

Li Kui nodded: "I know a little bit about the relationship between the local barbarians, all parties in the West, inside and outside the company, and most of the smaller ones in the colonial towns have been to them."

"Li Kui, when did you arrive in the capital?" Li Jundu asked.

Li Kui said: "I arrived the night before yesterday."

"So you didn't even wander around when you arrived in the capital?" Li Jundu asked.

Li Kui nodded: "Of course, the country is different from the colonies, and the laws are even more different. The young man is carrying the imperial prison on his body, and he is afraid of causing trouble, so he didn't go anywhere."

"Okay, I will read these information for two days. You can go and have a look around in these two days. Come and give Li Kui the 300 taels of silver." Li Jundu said happily.

Three hundred taels are not a small amount for Li Kui. If he can get the money for nothing, Li Kui will naturally be happy and go happily.

Li Jundu looked at the other three unopened boxes and sighed several times. He didn't know what information was inside, it was other information about America, or there were other places. Speaking of which, Li Jundu looked down on America.

Although Li Junduo did not know much about the colony outside the half of the earth, he still knew it briefly. This colony had been developed for 17 or 8 years, but it was too far away from the empire. It would take half a year to leave Shenjing to the Americas, and it would take three months to come back. Normal immigrants would not go to at all, because the empire still had many colonies that need to be developed in the South China Ocean, Australia, and the Indian Ocean region, so naturally they would not invest in the Americas on a large scale.

Therefore, the American colonial development is still in a relatively slow state. It is just because the Americas have three extremely profitable commodities, American ginseng, gold and silver. Therefore, the American development companies are in a profitable state, but there are only three to six ships coming and going every year. It is also when these ships go to the Americas and pass through the port to take serious prisoners. Death prisoners and a very small number of immigrants to the Americas. At most, there are only seven or eight hundred people, and at least two hundred people. But this is just the statistics of the empire. Because the route is extremely long and cannot be docked, only two-thirds of the people can arrive at each time. These immigrants reproduce and live in the Americas, and with the number of people stationed in the Americas, there are only 20,000 people. This is the basic foundation of the empire in the Americas.

In addition, there are people who have integrated into the local indigenous people and Thai countries, as well as various slaves and surrendered tribes. The population is over 300,000, which seems inconspicuous, but it is already a considerable force. It is comparable to Spain and Portugal, which have been colonized for hundreds of years in the Americas. The imperial colonies are on the west coast of North America, separated from the American continent from the British, French and Dutch colonies and are not bordered by the Spanish colonies. They can be said to be the number one force on the west coast of America.

Even so, the small American colonies, the wild land far away from the empire, are not something that the dignified King of Kings can like. After all, he was only one step away from the throne. Although he was only in his twenties and had to maintain his health, he would have at least thirty years to show his ambitions, but even if he received the full support of the empire and had pioneered in the Americas for thirty years, he would eventually be just a small emperor with a population of one million. It is completely incomparable to the empire such as the empire with a population of over 100 million. What's more, Li Mingxun could not be in charge of the empire for thirty years. Will the prince still support himself in opening the Americas? Not to mention support, he would not even accept the overseas lands.

But if there is no choice, Li Jundu would still go to America, at least there can achieve something there. He has heard his father several times that America is a rich continent, with rich resources and superior geographical location unique. As long as there is enough time to develop, there will be prosperity no less than the empire. If these prosperous places are unified, a strong country that is not weaker than the empire will be born. Therefore, even half of the earth is far away, the empire is still committed to developing and colonizing the Americas. Even if it cannot be monopolised, it cannot be allowed to develop.

Although it is far away and wild, for Li Jundu, it is better to be a free life or a leisurely prince.

During the study of American materials, another attendant came. This was a professor at Imperial University who carefully studied the history of Thais' colonial history. Obviously, he was still targeting America. Li Jun treated him sincerely. After all, the professor talked about it for many years. When he met Li Kui, who returned from America, although the two had a huge identity and cultural differences, they still had a happy chat.

On the fourth day, the third attendant came to the palace of the King of Ying, and this attendant was a Hezhuo, who was also the highest religious leader of the Tianfang Sect in the empire. He was also the only Hezhuo recognized by the empire now.

Li Jundu not only knew Rishit, but also met him personally during his reign. His title of Hezhu was granted by the emperor, the reign. Li Jundu still respected this religious leader who was committed to the localization and secularization of the Tianfang Cult. After Rishit came to the British Palace, he took out a white key and opened two boxes. The information in the box was the most detailed about Central Asia and South Asia, especially in India.

Rishit and Zhuo were very familiar with these two regions. Five years ago, he set out from the empire, took a boat from Guangzhou to Penang, then took a hajj boat to the holy city of Mecca, and then returned to the empire on land. In four years, he traveled to Central Asia and most of India, and had contact with the Tianfang Cultists and the Tianfang Cult regimes in various places. Because he held the imperial royal family and official talismans, the empire regarded it as a religious person like Master Xuanzang of the Tang Dynasty.
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