"If your Majesty needs it, I am willing to go to America.m. The mobile phone is the most traffic-free and has no ads."

In the cabin of the stern building, Ke Qing proposed to the emperor. Li Shimin's Western Expedition was obviously a sign of making a comeback and returning to the Central Plains. Maybe this was not a matter of one or two days or even one or two years, but when he went northwest to conquer, he did have the opportunity to return to the Central Plains.

After all, it is an era of great navigation and a time of great geographical discovery. The earth is round, which is no longer a new thing in Dahua. Even the first grade geography textbooks in primary school have content at the beginning, and the seven continents and four oceans are not secrets.

North America and Asia are only separated by a narrow strait, and Li Shimin also knows this.

Even though the Northwest North America and Asia's Liugui and Yasha Kingdom are in ice and snow, after all, the envoys from Liugui and Yasha Kingdom can reach Dahua Hanjing to pay tribute. Even Dahua's merchants not only take a boat to America for trade, but also go to the cold area of ​​Northwest North America, named Alaska by the emperor and Siberia, the far north of Asia, to buy fur.

The coldest place also has the best quality fur.

No matter how difficult it is to walk, as long as you have the determination, you can still walk through it. No matter how far you walk, you will eventually reach it one day.

"Actually, it's not necessary. I know you're worried about something like many people, but this kind of worry is too much. The coldness of Alaska and Siberia is not ordinary cold, and the Bering Strait cannot be easily crossed. In theory, you can certainly reach Siberia from San Francisco, or even reach the Heihe River, North Korea, Liaodong, and return to the Central Plains. But in fact, if it's a well-equipped expedition team, there's still a certain chance. But if it's an army or a large army, it's impossible. The more troops, the less likely it is."

Marching expeditions and squad adventures are of course two different concepts.

The sky was already gloomy, and the fleet did not moor but ran on the Yangtze River at night.

The Yangtze River shipping is well developed. At this time, the river is full and there is no strong wind. There is still a bright moon shining in the sky. It is like daytime. Lights are hung on the boat, which slows down and sails freely.

Each boat maintained a certain speed and was brightly lit.

The ship where Zhang Chao is located is very big, and the queen and the others stay in the cabin below, while Zhang Chao is used to staying in the cabin on the upper floor, which is higher and can see further.

"Your Majesty, I always feel that Li Shimin is not a willing person. Now he has shown bad intentions in North America and has shown enough abilities. If he is given time, the eight colonial companies in North America alone will definitely not be able to control him."

"I also know that these colonial companies may not really work hard to suppress Li Shimin. For them, interests are the most important. Li Shimin is now showing off in North America. Colonial companies and Li Shimin are more beneficial to cooperate with them. It is normal for these people to cooperate with them. In the future, they may even sell banned ships, weapons, technologies, etc. to Li Shimin for the sake of interests."

"Then your Majesty is still sitting there?"

"Because North America is not a paradise now, not to mention that the Mayan city-states in Central America have hundreds of city-states with a population of tens of millions. Moreover, in the jungles of South America, there are also many city-states, and in North America, there are also Yin tribes of all sizes, and these people are not weak. After all, our Han family has pioneered colonial North America, but now the manpower is still insufficient. In such a harsh environment, having strong people like Li Shimin can indeed help the court open up a lot of situations."

"If we are busy with internal struggles now, the situation we have finally established may be lost. Li Shimin wants to return to the Central Plains and have this goal to have the motivation to conquer the native American Yin people and let him do it. To put it simply, how many years can Li Shimin live? With his current strength, even if he is in his lifetime, it is impossible to conquer North America even if he is unified. At most, it will be amazing to conquer the western region of North America. This must be supported by our Dahua. Otherwise, if we can just stick his neck, he will not think about it."

Ke Qing and others thought that Li Shimin was a threat, and this man was strong and he would definitely rebel. But Zhang Chao thought differently from them because the distance was too far.

Didn’t Li Shimin say that he was in the Western Regions or Northeast, he was in the distant America. Such a long distance allowed Li Shimin to be able to easily fight back to the Central Plains even if he had enough charm and means to integrate the indigenous peoples in western North America?

Impossible.

The grassland nomadic peoples in the northern Central Plains can rise and fall and invade the Central Plains from time to time because they are close, so they can just ride horses all the way. But North America is not possible. There are not enough ships, but advanced sea ships, as well as a large number of excellent navigators and sailors. They can't sail for a few months to return to the Central Plains, let alone try to cross the Bering Strait on land. The ice and snow can freeze them all to death on the road.

"What about the future?" Ke Qing asked.

Ke Qing didn't quite understand the emperor's idea and just indulged in such an anti-king existence as Li Shimin. Even if Li Shimin couldn't fight back in his lifetime, what about the future? Will Li Shimin's son Li Hong be beaten back? Will he just sit and see these people in North America eventually rebel?

"No matter what, North America will never be like the Central Plains or the surrounding princes. He is a new colony. It's a big deal, even if they really rebel and become independent, it's no big deal. The court has no loss to them. If they leave the court, as long as they are blocked by the court, they can only live as a savage."

"And they can't threaten the court at all. Even if Li Shimin now unifies the entire America, he can't threaten us at all. Of course, such a situation is impossible."

Zhang Chao's thinking is not something that ordinary people of this era can understand. To put it bluntly, Zhang Chao doesn't care whether America is controlled by the imperial court, and he really doesn't care. As long as this place can make the Han people gain a foothold, establish colonies there, and establish Han forces, especially not those with only the upper class Han people, who will sooner or later be assimilated by the local natives.

For Zhang Chao, the Han family took root in North America and established colonies. Culturally, they were of course a branch divided by the Central Plains. Economically, they could not be separated from the Central Plains economic and trade. They needed various commodities and materials from the Central Plains and also traded in the Central Plains.

In fact, the American colonies will always be a commodity sales place in the Central Plains, and will also always be a resource supply place in the Central Plains.

There is no foundation there, and it is impossible to establish a self-sufficiency commodity economic system from scratch.

Zhang Chao was interested in the American market. Besides, it was not easy for Li Shimin to control the Americas. The court only needed to constantly send people there and build new colonies. After the colonies had a certain population, they would then station troops and dispatch officials, and use the Central Plains as a strong backing. How much ability does Li Shimin have to challenge the entire Dahua?

No matter how strong it is, it needs to have a foundation.

On the one hand, there is a North American colony backed by Zhang Chao with the comprehensive strength of the entire Central Plains, and on the other hand, Li Shimin is single-handed. If Zhang Chao can't play with Li Shimin, then there is nothing to say even if he loses America.

"Let Li Shimin play the vanguard, he conquered the Yin tribes, and we sent people to build colonies. We traded with Li Shimin and exchanged the goods we made in the Central Plains for the slaves, livestock, fur, gold and other materials he had conquered."

Zhang Chao was indeed kind to Li Shimin. If ordinary princes dared to do this, they would definitely be killed by the court. But he is Li Shimin, and Zhang Chao is willing to give him another chance.

"As long as Li Shimin unblically posed the banner of rebellion for one day, I can tolerate him for one day."

Zhang Chao felt that he could still get along with Li Shimin, so that Li Shimin's ambition would help the court conquer and explore the Americas, and let him charge into battle.

There was Li Shimin in the Americas and Li Chengqian in Africa. Let these two fathers and sons open up colonization for Dahua and the Han family. The two new worlds were opened up, which was beneficial to Dahua. Not to mention anything else, the source of slaves also increased. Even the products in the Central Plains also had two more export markets.

Ke Qing expressed his willingness to go to America. He said that he had not lost his skills and might have done it quietly, but Zhang Chao did not agree in the end.

Let Li Shimin do it and see which step he can do.

When the moon reaches the middle of the sky, the fleet also lands on the dock and stays overnight.

The eunuch Li Chaoen came up and arranged for people to prepare something for rest for the emperor. It was still relatively cold in the evening in March, so he specially prepared hot water and a large bathtub for him.

Seeing that the barrel was very big and the water was plenty, Zhang Chaoen asked Li Chaoen to invite the queen over.

Cui Yingying was in the cabin under the daytime, accompanied by Du Shiniang and other concubines, as well as female relatives from the old cadres such as Hong Fu Nu, drinking tea and enjoying the scenery. This day was fulfilling.

The two are old and old, so there is nothing shy and polite.

The other people were removed from the cabin, and the emperor and the empress took off their clothes together.

Zhang Chao rubbed Cui Yingying's back, and the water vapor was swaying.

Later, Cui Yingying also rubbed Zhang Chao's back and massaged him. Both the couple knew the strength each other needed, which was very natural.

After taking a shower and changing into small clothes, the queen was hugged by Zhang Chao. Through the thin clothes, she could feel the heat of each other's skin.

Covered with a thin blanket, listening to the sound of water outside the cabin, the boat swayed gently with the waves, very rhythmic.

No one disturbed it, the cabin was very quiet, and there were guards with swords standing around the deck, but they stood solemnly like an iron tower under the night, without a trace of sound.

Amid the sound of waves, Zhang Chao hugged Thiran Niang and fell asleep deeply.

Both of them slept very sweetly until it was almost dawn that the guards on the shore became noisy, and then the boats also rang.

When Zhang Chao woke up, Cui Yingying was already looking at him with her eyes open.

"Have you woke up long ago?"

"I just woke up for a while. I slept so well last night. I haven't slept so well in a long time." Cui Yingying said with a smile, and stretched out her mouth and kissed him on the face.

"I slept well last night, as if I was back to the days after my newlywed twenty years ago."

"Time flies so fast. It's been more than twenty years in the blink of an eye. I'm old, with many wrinkles on my face and even white hair. But Your Majesty, I don't see you at all." Cui Yingying sighed a little. Now her grandchildren have a lot of grandchildren, and it's really time that never forgives people.

"I'm just as old."

After some warmth in the morning, Empress Cui, with a rosy face, served the emperor to wash up.

When Zhang Chao arrived on the deck, it was already bright.

When the boat stopped last night, I only knew that I had arrived in Hankou, but I saw a huge Yangtze River city by the river.

“The city is beautiful, and the river embankment is also very grand.”

After four years, Zhang Chao discovered that Hankou was getting bigger and bigger. An emerging town back then has now become a metropolis with a population of one million.

It can be said that Hankou’s development over the years has completely borrowed its geographical advantages.

Not only is the capital city located in the upper reaches of Hankou, but the opening of the Western Canal has made the western region of Hanjing communicate north and south. Hankou is close to the capital of the capital, with the benefit of the convergence of the Han River and the Yangtze River, and the momentum of the Western Canal. It can be said that it is difficult to develop. Especially in recent years, the imperial court has vigorously developed Jinghu and the southwest region, with national highways and canals, making Hankou more and more important land transportation.

The Jianghan Plain has been continuously developed over the years, with various embankments and fields built, and even building dikes and digging canals. This has made the two lakes, which were actually considered barbaric land, now become the big granary of the court, claiming to be the most important granary of Huguang and Lake. Although it is a bit exaggerated, it has indeed become one of the major important granaries of the court.

The Hetao Plain, Guanzhong Plain, Jianghan Plain, Central Plain Plain, Jianghuai Plain, Hebei Plain, and other granaries, including Liuqiu, Liaodong, Korea, Fusang, and even the Pearl River, Honghe, and Mekong River, which makes the imperial court really not short of food now.

Although there is no shortage of food, the imperial court has invested a lot of money in Jianghan in recent years, and the most important thing is to build dikes and open rivers.

In the morning and evening, the porridge made by Hongzi personally. Without adding anything else, it took a little more time to cook, and the cooking was very thick.

On the deck of the cabin, there is a table, a big umbrella, and drinking porridge in the river breeze. It really has a unique flavor.

"I heard that the Queen of Judgment Day is coming to Central Plains?" Hong Linzhiruo asked casually.

Zhang Chao nodded, "Well, I've already set off. I guess I'll be able to arrive in Hanjing in a few months."

"Do you go to Hanjing? Your Majesty is not in Hanjing. Didn't you just ask her to go to Yangzhou to wait for His Majesty? Maybe she has to speed up, otherwise His Majesty will go to sea to Fusang by then."

Zhang Chao smiled and said, "Why are you rushing to see me? Let her come to the Central Plains. It was the court's need for the situation there, just like Tubo Zanpu in Beijing."

"Isn't your Majesty going to bring the Queen into the palace?"

"When did I say I wanted to bring her into the palace, don't talk nonsense."

Hongxin glanced at the queen and asked again, "I heard that General Wang Xuance had proposed to let the second prince marry this queen."
Chapter completed!