My Daming New Empire

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His first wife, Sophia, passed away ten years ago. Because he liked the plumpness of Westerners, he took several concubines, all of whom were Westerners.

This also led to the fact that the descendants of the entire Duke Liang's mansion were of mixed race, and the men were all handsome and the women were all beautiful.

Don't worry about his children and grandchildren, since Daming grew up and became a fief, all of them have already found wives.

In Yingtian Mansion, Zhang's family is full of descendants, and all the ladies and young ladies in Yingtian Mansion flock to him.

There was only one accident, and that was Zhang Han, Zhang Wu's grandson.

His mother is Princess Yongqing, the second daughter of Concubine Hu Gui. She was also proud and arrogant since she was a child, and she must find a stunning beauty as his wife.

But he fell in love with someone he shouldn't have liked, who was his cousin's Princess Hannan.

Princess Hannan is the granddaughter of Zhao Wang Zhu Gaosui, a rare beauty in the clan, but although she is younger than Zhang Han, her seniority is a generation higher.

Zhang Han was finally tempted, but he couldn't get over the obstacles, so he could only return to Nanhua City sadly.

In the past few years, Princess Yongqing has been heartbroken about her son's marriage, but Zhang Han seems to be at peace, and has always refused to get married.

Annoyed by Princess Yongqing's nagging, he simply ran to Lianggong Island, the family fief.

Lianggong Island is the Puerto Rico of the later generations. Like Jamaica, it is suitable for growing coffee. The advantage over Jamaica is that there are more flat land here, and it is also suitable for growing sugar cane and boiling sugar.

Although this is the Zhang family's fiefdom, like Yang Zhangde's Zhangde Island, there is little development now, and most of the island is still densely forested.

There are not many locals here, so the Zhang family started to recruit thousands of people to develop on the island. After decades of development, there are now about [-] Han people on the island. It was only ten years ago that they started to make a profit.

But no matter how much he hides, Zhang Han will always go home for the New Year.

The area where Nanhua City is located is the Rio de Janeiro of later generations. This is a very beautiful place and it is also the location of Zhongwangfu.

King Zhong is the seventh son of Zhu Zhanji and the first son to be entrusted.

His mother was just an ordinary concubine, so instead of competing with his brothers for those hot spots, he came to the east coast.

But after it became the trade center and shipping center in the eastern part of the Southern Continent, and opened the route with Xizhou, it became the most prosperous area in the Southern Continent.

As soon as Zhang Han arrived at the port by sea boat that day, he encountered a slave ship from Xizhou arriving at the port.

Those dark Kunlun slaves were driven off the boat one by one like animals, they didn't have the slightest will to resist, like walking corpses.

Zhang Han didn't have much sympathy. If Dongzhou wanted to develop, it needed more people to work in the plantations and mines.

Those jobs can't be forced by Daming's own people, nor can they let the aborigines who are almost the same as Daming people do it, they have to let them do it.

After asking his entourage to pack up the books and carry the luggage, Zhang Han was ready to go home first.

As soon as he got off the boat, he heard someone calling him.This is also a man who just got off the slave ship, with messy hair and dirty clothes. He turned his head and went hysterical, only to realize that the other party was actually Zhu Qitan, the seventh son of the King of Han.

"Little prince, why are you in such a mess? But there was a storm on the way?"

Zhu Qitan shook his head and sighed: "Not only that, we encountered a Europa fleet on the way, in order to pursue them, we went around two thousand miles before catching up with them and sinking their ship.

But then encountered wind and waves, and it took more than a month to reach Nanhua this time. If I can't reach the shore again, I am afraid that I will die of thirst at sea. "

No wonder those Kunlun slaves were so obedient, they were probably too thirsty.Even the little prince Zhu Qitan didn't have water to wash his face, they were lucky to be able to save their lives.

However, Zhang Han's attention was not here, but he asked: "Those white people still don't give up? How dare they cross the Western Ocean with their small boats?"

Zhu Qi said with a smile: "They are all poor and crazy, and they can only risk their lives. You don't know, how many white people are willing to sell themselves to us now, but we don't want to! Hahaha..."

Because Zhang Han's grandmother is Western and there are many Westerners in his family, he doesn't discriminate against Westerners much.Hearing that white people are having a hard time, I couldn't help saying: "Actually, there are quite a few literate Westerners. There are many of them, and they are better than those big cannibals and Indians."

Zhu Qitan nodded and said: "Although the words are reasonable, but just like the need to castrate the Kunlun slaves, curbing the development of the white population is also strictly prohibited by His Majesty. Unless it is the scholars and craftsmen that I need in Ming Dynasty, who would dare to use it!"

Although Zhang Han has Western blood, he has always considered himself a Ming Dynasty. He thinks that the law of the emperor's grandfather is wrong, and it should not be so strict to white people.

People like me, after three generations, won't they become real Daming people!

The two chatted for a while, and Zhang Han invited Zhu Qitan to the Admiral's Mansion as a guest. Among other things, he should at least clean it up.

But Zhu Qitan said with a smile: "Although we are in Dongzhou, I still have to be jealous of the General Secretary. I'd better go to live in Zhongwang's Mansion, take a good rest for a few days, and then go to the Admiral's Mansion to play with you. You want to take me to the last place in Nanhua City?" Enjoy the bustling Baihualou."

"It's easy to say, easy to say, no matter what woman you want, I guarantee to satisfy you."

The two bid farewell at the pier, and Zhu Qitan still watched the slaves being brought ashore.They will be cleaned well, and then quarantined for a few days, free of disease, before being auctioned at the auction house.

On the way home, Zhang Han kept thinking about the policy against white people.In his opinion, there are too many unreasonable things in it.

Zhang Han will not object to curbing the population development of white people.He also thought that this world was entirely dominated by the Han people.

Like here in Dongzhou, after 200 years, even the aborigines here have Han blood. No one in this world can beat the Han people.

He just wanted His Majesty to be a little more tolerant towards the white people, and slowly integrate them like he did with the natives here, instead of blindly suppressing them.

White people are not Kunlun slaves. These Kunlun slaves do not have their own culture, writing, and are extremely ignorant.And the white people, like the Han people, are also civilized people!

But what can I do?If he wanted to influence the emperor's grandfather, he might have to go back to Daming.

A thought rose in his heart, and he couldn't suppress it anymore.

Since I want to help white people, I can't help all white people.I should go to Europe to see for myself to understand the specific situation in order to be justified.

Well, go to Xizhou, then go to Europe, and then return to Daming from Europe.

But what excuse should I use?

Zhang Han pondered for a while, then smiled.As for his own marriage, as long as he said he would go back to Daming to find a wife, his parents would definitely let him go back.

On the side of the Admiral's Mansion, the Second Young Master returned to the mansion, which naturally aroused the joy of everyone in the mansion.As soon as Zhang Han got out of the car, he was surrounded by a group of older sisters, all of them stretching out their hands for gifts.

No matter which honorable family, almost all of them are yin and yang, not because they are all giving birth to daughters, but because all the boys are sent back to Daming to study.

There are many families, except those who are married, will also send girls back to Daming.

Not only does Ying Tianfu have a girls' school now, but it is also more convenient for girls to discuss relatives when they return to Ying Tianfu.

The requirements of the sisters and sisters must be met, even the little aunt who is a few years younger than himself has a lot of gifts.

After sending them away, Zhang Han kowtowed to his grandfather and parents.

All nobles, sons and grandsons of each family, who can inherit the title, must have one to stay in the capital.

After Zhang Feng and Princess Yongqing got married, they stayed in the capital.It wasn't until the eldest son Zhang Haiman came to the family fiefdom for three years to practice before returning to Yingtian Mansion to take over from them.

And Zhang Hai and Zhang Feng, the father and son, in order to control the family fiefdom, always take turns to come to Dongzhou and take turns to be hostages in Yingtian Mansion.

If you don't follow the rules of the imperial court, the imperial court will not care about your excuses, and there is no need to discuss directly cutting the title.