1595: Opening Up a New World

To be honest, going to North America is pure fantasy. Transporting people there would be too difficult, and the only option would be to travel north. With the Ming Dynasty, Korea, and Japan all there, it's too unsafe. Crossing the Pacific via other routes is even more impractical. It's much better to go directly to Japan and try your luck. Becoming the King of Japan is a much better possibility.

The North Pole region, including the Superior Valley, contains sites such as the Caral site, which is also the site of the first civilization in the Andes Mountains of South America called the North Pole Culture (also known as the Caral period), which lasted from 3000 BC to 1500 BC (the same period as the Xia Dynasty in East Asia). The Xiaobei Culture period (Kalar Culture period),

They're such cowards. They've been persecuted by the Ming Dynasty so badly and still don't dare to rebel. They're practically rooted to the spot.

Novels featuring protagonists developing their careers overseas all have a major problem: the population issue is simply unsolvable! Between 1200 and 1800, over a period of 600 years, fewer than one million Chinese traveled abroad. It wasn't until after 1860 that the technology of ocean-going steamships gradually matured, and large steamships were able to transport thousands of people and make…

No, even if you establish a country overseas, you'll need a sufficient number of Han Chinese. With your current population, a small epidemic in this era would cause significant losses. Are you going to assimilate others, or are they assimil to you? North America is so vast, what use is your small population? Going to Southeast Asia would be more feasible, as it's closer to the Great Ming Dynasty. You could migrate people there and completely rule the country within a few generations.

Anyone with a little knowledge knows that North America wasn't a good place. It seems nice now because of the Industrial Revolution. In the agricultural era, the lack of mountains alone would have driven you to despair. One winter would have frozen you to death. Without modern technology, you couldn't even grow food in North America. Don't think that having plains guarantees food growth!

The plot was passable, but the basic knowledge was absolutely absurd. "Steel" refers to iron and steel, two different things. And the claim that the Ming Dynasty's steel production was inexhaustible is ridiculous. The Ming Dynasty didn't have any steel at all, and its iron production was mediocre.

You might think the Ming Dynasty's influence extended only to Southeast Asia, but in reality, it had large-scale military garrisons all over the world. Later in the Ming Dynasty, these garrisons were given to the Dutch and British by the Manchus, and the Yongzheng Emperor even hired the Dutch and British to hunt down Ming imperial descendants worldwide.

To put it bluntly, this book is a story about Europe, the Qing Dynasty, and the protagonist Sun leading a mixed group of traitors—Han, Black, White, and Japanese—to carve up China.

The protagonist doesn't distribute land to farmers, only grain. The land is all managed through farms and settlements, supposedly to curb land consolidation, prevent dynastic changes, and end three hundred years of cycles of order and chaos. This is highly illogical. The state continuously provides grain to feed the entire nation, with taxes deducted from the land allocated to each farmer.