The room goes through the late Ming Dynasty, and the back door leads to North America at the beginni

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"I will see you, Your Majesty!"

"Flat body."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

When the ship docked, Liu Sheng got off the ship and walked onto the pier. Longyang prefect Gao Xiucheng led a group of civil servants to pay homage.

Liu Sheng stepped forward and patted Gao Xiucheng on the shoulder, saying with a smile: "I didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, you have become a prefect, not bad."

Although Liu Sheng's pat on the shoulder was too bold, Gao Xiucheng felt relieved and said hurriedly, "Thanks to your Majesty's guidance, I can learn and improve here and realize my ambitions."

Gao Xiucheng was originally the only son of Gao Dequan, a landlord in Gaojiazhuang on the plain near Tianmu Mountain. Later, he followed the Ming army of Ruyang Prefecture to suppress the Xi army. After the defeat, he was captured and sent to North America.

Later, Gao Dequan surrendered to Hui and helped capture many Ming troops, making great contributions. Gao Xiucheng was soon released from the prisoner camp and soon joined Hui's army at that time.

Initially, he worked in publicity at the Shangli Bureau of Xichu County.

If he were outside, with twenty or thirty years, as long as he didn't make any mistakes, he would probably have been promoted to a ministerial-level leader.

However, since official positions in North America are generally low (with high salaries and other benefits), although Gao Xiucheng has worked diligently for twenty or thirty years and accumulated a lot of merit, he was only appointed as the prefect a few years ago.

In Dalai, a fourth-rank prefect means nothing.

But in North America, the prefect can be called a "frontier official."

Because, even if another thirteen years have passed, there are only four prefectures in North America.

The first prefecture to be established was Laichu Prefecture, followed by Longyang Prefecture, then Shangluo Prefecture and Jindian Prefecture.

Shangluo Prefecture is located in the upper reaches of the Xinluo River, and Jindian Prefecture is located on the grassland in the upper reaches of the Jinlong River. Both were upgraded to prefectures a few years ago.

As for Longyang Mansion, it was upgraded to a prefecture more than ten years ago.

The first prefect was Yang Minghe, the former magistrate of Longshou County.

Five years ago, North America was changed to Tiankai Special Province. Yang Minghe was transferred back to Tianchu County and promoted to Left Governor. Gao Xiuchengcai was sent to serve as the second prefect of Longyang.

Liu Sheng exchanged a few words with Gao Xiucheng and other officials of Longyang Prefecture, and then was led by Gao Xiucheng to inspect Jinshan Port and other places.

After years of land reclamation and construction, Longyang Prefecture now has four counties.

They are Longshou County (the capital city), Jinshan County (San Francisco), Haibei County (Vallejo), and Haidong County (Richmond).

The population is about 300,000, of which about 230,000 are Han people, and the remaining 70,000 to 80,000 are naturalized natives.

When Liu Sheng inspected Jinshan Port, he saw many natives.

Most of these natives are young, appearing to be in their teens, and the oldest is no more than 30 years old.

Their hairstyle and clothing are no different from those of the Han people, and they even speak fluent Chinese.

Only from their facial features and skin color, they can be seen to be slightly different from the Han immigrants, because the facial features of the natives are relatively similar to those of the Mongolians, and their skin color is relatively slightly darker.

Therefore, when Liu Sheng was resting in the Jinshan County Government Office after the inspection, he said these words to Gao Xiucheng and other officials.

"Judging from the situation in Jinshan County, our policy of naturalizing natives over the years has undoubtedly been successful. If we rely solely on immigration, it would be difficult for the population of Taiwan in North America to increase so quickly."

The so-called naturalization means making the natives submit and then educating them so that they can change from barbarians to Chinese.

"Especially after me, no one can immigrate to North America. So the population growth in North America must rely on encouraging the Han people to have more children, and secondly, we must persist in naturalizing the natives and turn them into Han people."

"The natives here are not like the Mongolian, Tibetan, Miao and other ethnic minorities. Not only do they not have a written language, but their customs are also scattered and lack a system."

"This means that it is very easy for us to transform and integrate them. It is estimated that in just two or three generations, the descendants of the natives will completely forget their roots and become true Han people."

"From the Central Valley to the vast North American continent, there are millions of native people, not to mention many, so the policy of naturalizing native peoples has great potential."

Gao Xiucheng and other officials couldn't help but nod their heads after hearing Liu Sheng's words.

But when I thought about what Liu Sheng said, "After him, no one can immigrate to North America," I felt a strange feeling in my heart, and I couldn't help but think wildly.

Although Liu Sheng did not look old and looked like a man in his 40s or 50s, officials who had followed him for many years, such as Gao Xiucheng, knew that he was nearly 60 years old.

Emperors have rarely lived long lives.

Even if Liu Sheng could live longer than Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty and live to be over seventy, he would only have a dozen years left to live.

At that time, although the Liu Bei royal family could still come to North America through that immortal gate, they could no longer send people or bring troops over.

By then, I'm afraid it will be difficult for Dalai to actually control North America, right?

I don’t know what will happen then.

Among the crowd, those who were ambitious could not help but secretly look forward to it when they thought about it, and they guessed that there was no possibility for their own country to split the land and establish a country.

He has no ambition and only wants to build North America in a down-to-earth manner, but he is secretly worried that this paradise will become a place of conflict and be destroyed by war in the future.

Gao Xiucheng had this worry.

He was born into a family of scholars in the early Ming Dynasty. When he was young, he witnessed the various disasters brought about by the war in the late Ming Dynasty. At that time, he was young and full of scholarly ambition, and he also wanted to support the Ming Dynasty and save the people from dire straits.

Later, by chance, I joined the Xia tribe. I was influenced by Liu Sheng's thoughts and personally participated in its construction for twenty or thirty years. I witnessed everyone slowly building this wild land of North America into an overseas paradise. Naturally, I didn't want my years of hard work to be ruined.

He wanted to ask Liu Sheng how to arrange his "afterlife", but in the end he didn't open his mouth.

After all, Liu Sheng was still alive in front of him, and it would be too disrespectful to ask about his affairs after his death now.

I can only endure it.

He thought, maybe he would die before Liu Sheng.

Among the "veterans" who pioneered North America, the older ones, Guo Sanhai and Yan Yuanshan, both passed away a few years ago.

As for the earlier groups of immigrants who arrived here, more elderly people died.

The current Tianlai Province governor, Liu Dachuan, is already over sixty years old and is about to step down.

Although Gao Xiucheng is only in his early fifties, birth, aging, sickness and death are unpredictable. It is hard to say when he will fall ill and die.

Liu Sheng couldn't read minds, so he didn't know what Gao Xiucheng and others were thinking.

Although he is nearly sixty years old, he does not feel that old.

Before he traveled through time, there were many people in their sixties and seventies who still worked at their posts. There were also many old people who lived to their eighties and nineties.

Although the medical conditions in Dalai today are far inferior to those in later generations, they are still much better than those in the Ming and Qing dynasties in history.

He had a good physical condition and had been exercising regularly. If he had not risked going to the second road, he felt that he could have lived to at least eighty years old, not inferior to a certain "perfect old man".

However, when it comes to his affairs after his death, he has really considered how to arrange things in North America.

It’s just that it’s not Gao Xiucheng’s turn to tell it to others.

Liu Sheng stayed in Jinshan County for two days before he took Hongniang and others, escorted by the imperial guards, and took a ship to the Chu Prefecture.

He was not in a hurry. He visited the three counties of Haidong, Haibei and Longshou to learn about the conditions of various industries and the living conditions of local people.

After all, he had been gone for more than ten years. Some things were difficult to grasp without seeing them with one's own eyes, relying solely on the written descriptions in telegrams and memorials.

Only by seeing it with your own eyes can you have a clear idea.

Perhaps it is because the immigrants have experienced hardships and cherish a peaceful life more, or perhaps it is because the naturalized natives are simple and honest, but the other three counties of Longyang Prefecture look pretty good in terms of industrial development and people's lives.

Naturally, the contributions of the two prefects and the many officials under them are also part of this.

Gao Xiucheng also accompanied him all the way to Longshou County. Liu Sheng praised him generously and praised him several times, which made Gao Xiucheng even more moved.

Due to the delay in the inspection, the fleet carrying Liu Sheng and his entourage did not dock at the Luoxi County port until a few days later.