I want to be emperor

Although Luo Zhixue had never been to New York in his previous life, he could still understand some basic conditions of New York through many developed Internet information.

Such as the prosperous Manhattan, filled with a large number of financial institutions, and money flowing everywhere... There is also the huge Central Park and the Empire State Building on the island.

But... the New York that Luo Zhixue saw, which is currently the New Dan City of the Great Chu Empire, is completely different from the New York in the original time and space... even two completely different cities.

In later New York, the central city was on Manhattan Island, but in the New Dan City of the Great Chu Empire, its central city was on the west bank of the Hudson River, which was later known as New Jersey.

And the Manhattan area belongs to Yorktown in the contemporary Chu Empire... Like Xindan County and New York City, this name has the flavor of the European colonial period!

Because these three names are actually transliterated words that the Dutch colonists and British colonists used to call the local area.

In the early years, the Chu people were more cautious in naming their overseas territories... they would choose some words that fit the Chu people's language habits, and discard the original names to highlight the local area's new look and completely remove the traces of the indigenous people. .

However, as the number of overseas territories increases, and at the same time they become more and more confident, the Chu people are becoming more and more casual in naming their overseas territories...basically they will use the original local names, and use transliteration or free translation. method, intercept two or three characters as the name.

For example, Cadiz, the seat of the European governor... This name is a typical transliteration. Before the Chu people arrived, the Chu people called it this place. After they occupied this place, they simply did not change it and continued to use this word.

The same is true in New York... The Chu people first directly translated the name 'New Amsterdam' from the Dutch colonial period, intercepted the first two scales, named it Xindan, and established Xindan County...

Later, when a town was established on Manhattan Island, based on the original British colonial name of this place, New York, that is, the 'New Duke of York', the two scales of York were directly used as the name of the town area, that is, York town.

Later, a government was established in Xindan County, and it was named New York based on the direct transliteration of the word "New York".

Therefore, the three names of New York City, New Dan County, and York Town actually have a lot of origins. Before this name, these three words actually referred to the same place.

However, New York under the rule of the Chu people placed the central city on the west bank of the Hudson River... There is no special reason, just because the east coast terminal of the North American East-West Railway was established here, and at the same time, they were not willing to spend money on it. A very large railway bridge should be built on the Hudson River...and ordinary bridges cannot be built on this river, because this river is an important waterway, and many sea ships even have to enter it and dock.

Its shipping function is similar to that of the Huangpu River in Songjiang Prefecture. It cannot be said that just building a bridge will block the channel.

After comprehensive selection, the train station was placed on the West Bank, and then a new urban area was built in the West Bank area around the train station.

The original old city, Yorktown (Manhattan), was not abandoned, but continued to exist as part of the city.

It's just that because the administration and the headquarters or offices of a large number of companies are located in the West Bank area, York Town on the East Bank will develop towards living, agriculture and even leisure facilities in the subsequent development...

The local government planned a large-scale leisure park on the island, and planned some living communities around the park. The suburban areas are large areas of various fruit and vegetable planting bases to meet the needs of the local urban population of Xindan City. .

How should I put it... The urban layout of Xindan City under the rule of the Dachu Empire was the opposite of that of New York in later generations...

As for why this situation occurs, it is naturally because the Chu people have no historical baggage. At the same time, there was already a railway when they first came here to develop, and they did not need to guard against attacks from surrounding indigenous people.

And New York looking like this... gave Luo Zhixue a strange feeling... This was different from the inherent impression in his mind in his previous life.

In my mind, New York should be full of high-rise buildings on Manhattan Island... But in fact, the Manhattan Island that Luo Zhixue saw, except for some buildings along the coastal port, were all low-rise residential communities farther away. The other is a large vegetable field... This layout is a very established suburban layout of contemporary Chu cities.

The West Bank area is supposed to be a suburb...but it has many buildings and factories. There are several large ports on the river bank, and a large number of ships are moored at the docks of these ports.

In addition, there are several temples and Taoist temples in Xindan City... Luo Zhixue also saw a typical Western church building on Manhattan Island, but when he got closer... there were three big characters of 'Qingfeng Temple' hanging on it. !

On a Western-style church building not far away, there are large gilded characters of 'Yongding Temple' hanging in the sun, shining brightly in the sun...

Just...a very weird feeling!

This place... doesn't look like New York, but rather like an industrial city in the Chu Empire!

Yes, the overall feeling is the same as that of the countless small and medium-sized local industrial cities that Chu people have seen... there is almost no difference.

After realizing this, Luo Zhixue couldn't help but smile... In this time and space, the New York he knew would no longer appear again.

It will be replaced by the new Dan City of the Chu people...

Not only is the New Dan City of the Chu people, but also the New York City of the Chu people, the Dongmei Province of the Chu people, and the Americas of the Chu people!

The entire American region has become the territory of the Great Chu Empire, where the Chu people will survive in the future!

As a time traveler and as the emperor of an empire, nothing can give Luo Zhixue a similar sense of accomplishment.

The various overseas expansions that I have vigorously promoted are just for these things.

Get more living space for the Chu people!

At this point, Luo Zhixue boasts that he has done pretty well... not to mention unprecedented, but absolutely unprecedented!

In thousands of years of history, no Chinese ruler has been able to secure as much living space for the Chinese people as he has.

There were so many people in Chu that they could give birth to babies at will... so many that people in Chu even felt that there were too many places to manage, and eventually began to expand and contract, and eventually adopted colonial policies in India, Europe, and West Asia!

If it weren't for the fact that the land acquired through previous expansion was too much...and if the Chu people couldn't keep up with the birth rate, the Chu people would not let go of most of India, West Asia, Europe, Africa and other places.

The prerequisite for the Chu people to colonize... is that the population cannot keep up, and at the same time there are too many places!

This point is different from the starting point of any country's colonization in human history... although what they did in the colonies was similar.

After wandering around Xindan City, Luo Zhixue not only looked at the city, but also inspected several major local factories, one of which was worth mentioning, the New York Navy Yard.

Just by looking at the name of this shipyard, you can tell that it has a strong military flavor... This is a shipyard built according to the needs of the navy. It is mainly responsible for repairing the navy's large and medium-sized warships and manufacturing some inland gunboats, offshore patrol ships and other small vessels.

Its positioning is similar to that of Cadiz Shipyard, South Africa Shipyard, and Colombo Shipyard. They are all important maintenance bases of the Dachu Empire Navy in its overseas territories.

At this time, more than a dozen ships of various sizes have entered the dock of this shipyard for inspection and maintenance. Just like when they were in Cadiz and South Africa, the technical team of the inspection fleet was inspecting the technical staff of the local general shipyard. With the support of a large number of ordinary workers, all ships in the inspection fleet will be inspected and maintained in detail!

Although Luo Zhixue and many accompanying officials will take a train all the way to Jinshan City on the west coast via the North American East-West Railway, many ships in the inspection fleet, including the two Tianjin-class battleships and the Royal Princess, will detour to South America. Then it passes through the Strait of Magellan at the southern end of South America, and finally enters the Pacific Ocean, and then goes to Jinshan City to wait for the Holy Spirit to return home.

Why did the inspection fleet go through the seemingly wider Drake Strait in the south when heading to the Pacific... but instead took the narrow Strait of Magellan... That's because the Drake Strait looks wider, but is actually wider than the narrow Strait of Magellan. More dangerous.

If it is July in the Drake Strait, which is the winter in the southern hemisphere, the temperature is only about minus 20 degrees... Even in the summer, that is, around December, the temperature here is not high.

The cold is actually nothing. The most important thing is that this place has strong winds and waves all year round... Waves of ten to twenty meters high are common. Under such wind and waves, even a 10,000-ton ship will rock back and forth like a small sampan.

Moreover, there are a large number of floating icebergs swaying around in the strait all year round... ships may hit icebergs if they are not careful.

Therefore, this seemingly wide Drake Passage... is actually one of the most dangerous sea areas in the world!

Therefore, ships that circumvent South America generally use the Strait of Magellan, rather than the wider Drake Strait to the south.

Of course, the Strait of Magellan is actually very dangerous... There is no way, but any strait that connects two oceans is actually very dangerous due to the action of ocean currents... Cape Horn in South Africa, the Strait of Magellan in South America, and the Delray Strait, all have similar characteristics. This is one of the reasons why the Chu people spent huge sums of money to build the Panama Canal and the Suez Canal... In addition to shortening the voyage, saving shipping costs, and improving shipping safety are also important reasons.

According to the scheduled plan, after completing the overhaul, the inspection fleet will go around South America alone to Jinshan City, where it will perform maintenance while waiting for the Holy Pilot.

Luo Zhixue, on the other hand, will take the train with his family...as well as a large number of accompanying civil and military officials and more than 10,000 Guardsmen, inspect all the way west through the North American East-West Railway, and finally arrive at Jinshan City.

Of course, after Luo Zhi learned about America, he was no longer too anxious. He had plenty of time anyway, so he could take his time... The same was true for the inspection here in Xindan City.

Except for the intensive inspections in the first two days, Luo Zhixue took a casual look at the rest of the time, and then went home in the afternoon.

In the afternoon, I usually spend time hanging out with the queen and the children, or watching the dance performances of Xina's European princesses.

On the seventh day after arriving in Xindan City, he took his people to the northern suburbs for hunting.

Generally speaking, he entered vacation mode after arriving in Xindan City...

After all, Luo Zhixue's overseas inspection this time was not just an inspection in a purely political sense... although this was the main reason.

But at the same time, he also wanted to take a walk, go shopping...well, take a trip or something.

Therefore, the overall itinerary is relatively relaxed, and you will not rush to one place and then go to the next place... This person can hold it, and the ships in the inspection fleet cannot hold it.

Luo Zhixue took a leisurely vacation in Xindan City for half a month before boarding the imperial special train and embarking on a new inspection trip.

The scale of the inspection train is the same as that of the inspection fleet, which is also huge... except for the two royal special trains and three armored trains brought along with the fleet.

The entire team also includes hundreds of different trains.

There are a large number of special trains responsible for transporting personnel, as well as freight trains transporting heavy weapons of the Guards, logistics and ammunition, and freight trains transporting various general supplies.

The entire inspection train... there are more than a hundred trains.

And this is actually based on the fact that a large amount of materials are replenished every day along the way.

When the special inspection train set off, an armored train carrying more than 20 train arrays loaded with Guards soldiers and weapons and ammunition had already set off five days in advance!

These Guards will set off in advance to inspect the railway lines along the way and leave some soldiers to garrison at all the train stations they pass through.

And fully deploy the train station where the train station is planned to stay overnight!

In addition to the 1st Cavalry Regiment and the more than 4,000 accompanying infantry and artillery soldiers, other Guards soldiers will continue to roll forward in repeated rotations to ensure safety along the line.

On the day when the royal car passes by, the local railway lines, including the train station, will be closed, prohibiting the passage of any trains and prohibiting people from approaching the train station.

Therefore, the North American East-West Railway, which has been extremely busy since its completion, has experienced a large-scale outage for the first time in history!

Fortunately, half a year ago, the East American and North American provinces in the Americas had already coordinated with the local railway companies, planned the railway transportation plan in advance, and issued a large-scale announcement three months ago. Later, a large-scale in-depth overhaul of the entire railway line was carried out, requiring passengers and enterprises to plan their travel and material transportation to avoid this time period.

Because of advance planning and timely notification, in order to avoid losses, many companies began to increase transportation efforts in the first few months, and then reduced grain transportation half a month later, and almost stopped large-scale transportation three days ago. .

Therefore, the suspension of the East-West Railway in America this time did not have much economic impact.

Otherwise, if we do this temporarily, the economic impact on North America will be very significant, and many companies may go bankrupt as a result.

But because of advance planning, it’s not a big problem…

The huge train fleet of the royal train moved all the way along the railway line, but it is worth noting that it did not go directly to the west... The direction of the North American East-West Railway does not draw a straight line between Jinshan City and Xindan City!

In fact, this railway line is winding and winding, and it also goes around several large bays due to economic and geographical factors!

For example, in New York City, to the west of New Dan City, there is actually not a plain, but a huge mountain range, the Appalachian Mountains.

Faced with such a large mountain range, we naturally cannot ignore it and just rush over the mountains to build a railway. That does not mean that it cannot be built, but the cost is too high and there is no need.

At the same time, there are also coastal cities south of New York that the Chu people are planning to vigorously develop, such as New Sweden, Baltimore and other places.

When building railways, this economic factor also needs to be considered.

Therefore, this railway was actually built first from New York to New Sweden, a coastal city in the south...well, that was later called Philadelphia.

At first, the Swedes came to immigrate to this place and established a colonial town. Later, the Dutch came and captured this place. Soon after, the British came and captured this place... Well, it was still the Duke of York!

After the Chu people took over this place, they directly adopted the local name of New Sweden and established this place as an important transportation hub for the East-West Railway.

Not only does the east-west major railway line pass through here, but there is also a straight line southward to Baltimore and Richmond further south.

This southbound railway is actually an important north-south trunk railway in the North American railway construction plan.

New Sweden County, located at the intersection of two railways, has become an important railway transportation hub. In addition, New Sweden City itself is a riverside and coastal city.

It is right on the edge of the Drava River and only dozens of kilometers away from the mouth of the Drava River, so shipping is very convenient.

This unique transportation function has given the city considerable development opportunities. The city's population has reached more than 10,000, and there is a large amount of farmland surrounding it.

When Luo Zhixue came here, he got off the special train and went to the farmland outside the city to have a look... When he was in Xindan City before, although there were farmlands in the suburbs, they were mostly planted with fruits and vegetables, and Luo Zhixue was too lazy to go , so I didn’t see much of it at that time.

After arriving in New Sweden, it was the first time that he saw the real agricultural landscape in North America... And when Luo Zhixue looked at the almost endless, flat farmland in front of him... he finally understood why the Americans rose in the original time and space. It went so smoothly.

This place... is simply a place chosen by heaven.

Such a flat and fertile land has abundant water resources and a very good climate. As long as such a good place can be properly utilized, it will be easy to build a great power in modern times.

But now, this good place belongs to the Chu Empire and the Chinese people!

In another hundred or two hundred years, it is hard to say how the Chu Empire will become like this in the future, but the Chinese people who own not only East Asia but also North America and even the entire Americas will definitely still be the most powerful nation on earth!

And this is what Luo Zhixue pursues!

He not only wants the Great Chu Empire to be strong, he also wants the Chinese nation to be strong...and the latter is even more important in his heart!