My Daming New Empire

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The reason why history can be changed is because these three diseases could not be effectively controlled at that time, leading to large-scale deaths.

The Han people are quite resistant to influenza. Influenza viruses, including the plague, have never caused a genocide due to the good hygiene habits of the Han people for thousands of years.

Only smallpox, every once in a while, will cause indelible trauma to the Han people.

The reason why Zhu Yuanzhang was able to defeat Meng Yuan and the reason why Ming was able to establish a country was actually due to smallpox and plague.

According to the records of the Ming Dynasty today, in the second year of Zhishun, the plague broke out in the Ming Dynasty, and the death rate of the Han people was not high, but the Mongolian people could only wait to die if they got sick.

During the founding period of the Ming Dynasty, most of the northern areas were empty, not mainly because of the war, smallpox and plague played a very important role.

The bodies of Mongolian and Yuan people also have the characteristics of being irresistible to smallpox. When Han people contract smallpox, three or four out of ten will die, but seven or eight of them will die, but they cannot escape.

When the Han people contracted the plague, one or two out of ten would die, but the Mongols would die three or four.

This difference in physique also caused the Black Death to rage in Europe, and half of the people in the entire European continent died at once.

Because the physique of Europeans is relatively strong against smallpox, but they are almost completely immune to plague and influenza.

The Black Death that broke out decades ago was first spread to Europe by the Mongols, and it was recorded in detail in the records of the Great Cannibal.

In 1345, the Mongols who occupied Central Asia and West Asia attacked a city-state called Jiafa on the shore of the Black Sea, and Jiafa surrendered to the Eastern Roman Empire.

Facing the brave Mongols, the Jiafa people fortified their walls and cleared their fields, closing the city without fighting.The Mongols besieged the city for a year, but could not attack for a long time, and the plague spread in the army.

The Mongols knew that the plague would be contagious, so they used trebuchets to throw the bodies of soldiers who died of the disease into the city.The Jaffars did not understand this plague, nor could they understand how they ignored the thrown corpses.After the corpse rotted, a terrible plague broke out.

The Jiafa people died in large numbers, and the whole city was terrified. They opened the city gates and fled in haste.The Mongolian army outside the city retreated without a fight. The plague also did not let them go, and they were not immune.

The Canadians who survived the catastrophe fled to their suzerain country-the Eastern Roman Empire by boat.However, the news of the plague outbreak in the city of Adda has spread throughout Europe, and all ports have refused them to land.

Venice quarantined their ships at sea for forty days before allowing them to land, in an attempt to prevent the spread of the plague.But the bacteria-carrying rats on the ship could swim, and they had already swam ashore, and the terrible Black Death began to spread throughout Europe.

The Black Death killed about 500 million Europeans, accounting for nearly half of the European population at that time. The horror it caused was only comparable to the two world wars in the [-]th century.

There is also the Spanish flu that everyone is familiar with. If this flu happened in the East, nothing would happen at all.Because at that time, oriental traditional Chinese medicine had a good therapeutic effect on influenza, and the oriental constitution was very resistant to influenza.

However, this flu directly caused the deaths of about 500 million to 4000 million people in Europe within three years, interrupting the First World War.

However, no matter how resistant the constitution of the Orientals to influenza is, when the disease spreads, it can still cause great panic.

Fortunately, this is on the fleet. After each ship is quarantined, the flu cannot be transmitted.

Therefore, this flu did not spread, and the number of direct deaths was only more than 200 people. Compared with the fleet of more than 6 people, this proportion is very small.

The fleet docked on the coast of Perth for a month. It was not until the fleet that explored Nanshan Island and Beiyuan Island returned that the epidemic was under control and the blockade was announced.

Nanshan Island and Beiyuan Island are the New Zealand of the later generations. The names are taken according to the topography of the North and South Islands.For this, Daming currently has no intention of meddling, or in other words, there is more than enough energy.

Only after Da Ming's development in Nanzhou stabilized, it would be possible to develop them.First send a small fleet to determine the position, engrave the stele, and engrave the mark of Ming Dynasty.

Except for the North and South Islands, including Tasmania, this fleet will do simple exploration and positioning to prepare for future management.

After the flu epidemic was over, the soldiers boarded the coast one after another.At this time, tens of thousands of natives had gathered on the coast of Perth.

Some of them learned the news about the Ming Fleet from the Nujia tribe, and most of them came from the nearby aborigines to watch the excitement.

They looked at Daming's fleet curiously, and regarded the people of Daming as gods. In their view, only gods could build such a large ship.

After hearing the news of the arrival of the Ming fleet from the Nujia tribe, they all came with a large amount of gold, intending to exchange ironware, salt, bowls and pots with the Ming people.

But the people of Daming never disembarked. When the people of Ming disembarked, they did not bring all kinds of supplies to exchange with them, but sent down more than 200 corpses first.

Because they died of illness, the bodies of these people would not be brought back to Daming, but were buried on a hillside facing Daming not far from the coast.

After another two days, the brigade began to disembark.At this time, the morale of the fleet was extremely low.

Death, especially the death caused by the plague, cannot be prevented and can only be passively endured. It has always been the most feared thing for everyone.

They were willing to die for Daming, but they were unwilling to die in such a senseless way.

After the personnel went ashore, the Ming soldiers who had been suppressed for more than a month also erupted.

Many soldiers who were still virgins did not want to die in such a capacity, but chose to break themselves on the bodies of native girls.

This time, more soldiers than in Adelaide devoted themselves to those native girls.

Moreover, during the qualification process, several cases of bullying the local natives also occurred. The soldiers who endured extreme depression could not control their emotions, and murders occurred.

However, Zhu Zhanji had already been prepared for this. This time he did not kill because of this, but made quick compensation and whipped the wronged soldiers to make atonement.

Those natives don't value the lives of their own people very much, although they are very angry when they die.But in the face of Daming's compensation, the "exquisite" rice bowl and the precious iron pot can quickly dispel their anger.

So although there were some frictions this time, it did not affect the "overall situation" of the whole Ming Dynasty's contact with the natives.

After a chaotic week, the soldiers of Ming Dynasty organized again to survey and map the surrounding area.

And this time, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty only used a small number of people, because those natives were willing to act as guides for the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty when faced with food and shoes.

Although there was a language barrier, Zheng He and the others invented a communication method using language, facial expressions, and movements through months of contact.

Although these exchanges cannot allow the two parties to carry out detailed cooperation, nor can they help Daming understand the local situation in detail, but some simple exchanges are still no problem.

The Boddington Gold Mine in the southwest of Perth, one of the world's top ten gold mines, is also the most clearly marked gold mine on the map.

This is because the Boddington Gold Mine itself is not far from the sea.Moreover, this gold mine does not stretch for hundreds of miles like other gold mines, but a very concentrated and easy-to-mine giant gold mine.

The Grasberg gold mine on Turtle Island, although relatively concentrated, is located on the top of the mountain.The Boddington Gold Mine has only two mining areas, which are located in the hills less than [-] kilometers from the sea.

Of course, Perth is more than just this gold mine. This gold mine was only discovered at the end of the [-]th century, and Perth was developed here because the British discovered gold sand in the estuary at the beginning.

The gold mines here can be said to be the most concentrated place in the world. In Kalgoorlie not far from Perth, it is also one of the top ten gold mines in the world. It is equal to this place. There are two top ten gold mines in the world. .

In particular, Kalgoorlie, although located in the center of the Gobi Desert, is full of gold, and there are gold mining areas everywhere on the land of thousands of square kilometers.

However, because it is located inland and the transportation is inconvenient, Zhu Zhanji didn't think about developing it at all for the time being.

The Boddington gold mine was successfully found, and besides here, some scattered gold mining areas near Perth were also discovered.

At this time, in order to improve morale, Zhu Zhanji ordered the soldiers to take turns on duty and build supply points.The remaining people can collect gold sand in the gold mining area, and all the harvest is their own.

This really raised the soldiers' emotions a lot. No matter when, gold is always one of the most attractive things in this world.

These soldiers serve as soldiers, besides making a living, isn't it just for money!

In this era, mentioning those nihilistic patriotism is empty talk.

The imperial court has no money, and it is difficult to mobilize even the army.