Nikan quickly woke up. At this time, the banquet was almost over, but Nikan's itinerary for this day was still not over.

Sun Demao, Han Chengying, Wang Wenhui, Sun Desheng, Mu Zhan, An Ning, and Lin Laifu stayed. At this time, Nikan also asked Sun Dezhao and Sun Deen to participate, while Har Edun was listening through the curtain.

In an jurisdiction like Yingzhou, Nikan did not set up a governor who assisted the governor in charge of government affairs. All three prefectures had prefects/guards. Sun Demao also served as the prefects/guards of Oregon Prefecture. It was simply that when problems were encountered in the other two places, he, the governor, would be arranged uniformly.

"Your Majesty, as of the first half of this year"

As expected, Sun Demao was reporting on the situation.

"From the first day of coming to Yingzhou, to today, it is exactly nine years. At the beginning, one thousand households could be moved from the local area every year. After mobilizing several wealthy merchants, it increased to about one thousand five hundred people every year. After the steamships were available, the exchanges were not greatly affected. The speed of immigration increased very quickly, reaching three thousand households a year."

"Even so, to this day, there are only 40,000 herdsmen who have moved to the jurisdiction, including about 15,000 households in Yingzhou and Oregon, about 15,000 households in Kennevik, plus about 5,000 soldiers, craftsmen, and officials, a total of about 45,000 households."

"There are most likely young couples who are willing to move here. At the beginning, there were not many children, and there were only about three people per household on average, which combined was only more than 100,000."

"Wait," Nikan suddenly thought of something, "Xu didn't build a city on the territory of the Blackfoot. How many people are there under his command now?"

Sun Demao smiled and said, "Xudu's city is only three miles in a radius, and it is surrounded by wooden fences. In recent years, he has used his two sail albatrosses purchased from my country to migrate a total of about 1,500 households, but they are all made of strong men, and they are all from Jinhua."

"His city is called Xindongyang. Every time the immigrants who move here must go through Yingzhou to Xindongyang, and they have to rest in Yingzhou for three or five days before setting off. Therefore, we are very clear about the number of people from each other."

"I heard that the vast area near Xindongyang and the vast area east of the east are endless grasslands, and countless wild livestock. The black-footed people followed these livestock and lived in water and grass. There were also a large number of people, with about tens of thousands of households. Xu Du married the daughter of the largest tribe leader and called himself the King of Yue. His subordinates planted some wheat near Xindongyang, and exchanged furs with the natives with grain, cloth, and iron tools."

"Half of these furs were sold to me, and half of them were sold to Zhejiang using the return ships. In this way, with their ginseng fields in the mountains, these two items could support them. Xu Du had fifty horses under his command. Although most of them were retired horses from our country, they were enough to overwhelm the natives on the prairie."

Nikan nodded. If someone like Xu Du expanded on the land of Canada in later generations, he would have no objection. However, if he wanted to develop the land of America in later generations, it would be possible to conflict with the Great Xia Kingdom, and the second, it would be very likely to be used by the Spanish.

This time, why did Nikan bring one hundred albatrosses? Naturally, a large number of immigrants were moved in at one time. In addition to the five hundred retired soldiers and their families, five hundred farmers, and a whole tribe.

This tribe is the Ora tribe, which was the tribe that suddenly disappeared from the Nibchu prairie before. It moved to Hulunbuir under the nose of the Maoming'an tribe. After learning that Ghent Muyou occupied the Nibchu prairie, it moved back to Nibchu. In the past, they were the Daur tribe in the Heilongjiang River Basin.

After learning that there were vast lands in the far east, mostly warm places, the new Haladamachi, the Aola tribe, was moved. By the seventh year of Dongxiao, his Aola tribe had also expanded to about 500 households. After Nikan agreed, the Aola tribe moved to Yingzhou as a whole. Of course, if you want to migrate from the sea at one time, it is impossible to bring too many livestock. You can only choose some that can be used as stallions, breeding sheep, breeding cattle, and a small number of mares, ewes, cows, and most livestock still need to be purchased from the herders who came here in the past few years.

The migration of herders also gave birth to an industry, that is, those who specialize in cultivating the above-mentioned stallions and mares, of course, only the government officials of the Daxia Kingdom can do this.

After the herds arrived, they first borrowed money from the Yingzhou Branch of Daxia Bank to purchase livestock. After the livestock herd was expanded, some of the livestock were sold to the market to repay the loan. In order to avoid the significant losses caused by the sudden death of the livestock herd obtained through the loan, Daxia Country developed a new business.

Daxia Insurance.

Most of the people who are willing to move to Yingzhou will spend a few silver coins to purchase maritime insurance. After arriving in Yingzhou, farmers and herders can purchase accident insurance caused by the epidemic. Of course, if there is a loan, the interest rate will be raised as insurance. For example, those herders will get two documents when lending to Daxia Bank, one is naturally a loan document and the other is an insurance document.

Daxia Kingdom will definitely encourage those who are willing to travel thousands of miles to Yingzhou, no matter what industry they are engaged in, and both loan interest and insurance costs are very favorable.

This time, the five hundred old soldiers, five hundred farmers, five hundred herders, and the whole 1,500 households that followed Nikan were naturally not prepared for Yingzhou. However, after Nikan learned about Xu Du's situation, he was afraid that someone like him would take the lead and prepare to concentrate on being placed in a place south of Yingzhou.

South of Yingzhou, close to the coastline, is California later generations, and in California, the best place is naturally near San Francisco.

However, San Francisco has a new name now - New Golden State.

These 1,500 households were all about to move to Xinjinzhou, where there was also a native tribe who made a living by fishing - the Chumashi people. However, the Chumashi people were similar to the Chinook people near Yingzhou. They were not good at fighting among the many natives in the Americas and had a higher civilization.

Let’s take down the Central Basin, where California, especially the coastal mountains and the Sierra Nevada, the best farm in the United States in later generations.

According to the normal historical process, it will take another hundred years for the Spanish to enter California, because it is not so easy for the Spanish to reach California on land.

"Your Majesty, most of the people who have moved here are farmers, only about 3,000 herdsmen, of which 300 are on the Pitt Grassland near Yingzhou, and the rest are all near Kenavik."

"Wait," Nikan interrupted Sun Demao's report after hearing this, "Are these more than 3,000 households all west of the Oregon River or have they been distributed east?"

"Your Majesty," Sun Demao replied, "For the time being, they are distributed in the areas west and south of the Oregon River. With the efforts of herders, there are no traces of bison herds there. Grizzlies and wolves have been wiped out by herders. They are already the best pasture."

"East to the Oregon River, the area is far more than west. It is the main migration area of ​​bison herds and antelope herds, and it is also the place where native tribes like Nezper and Spokane hunt and kill bison. If our herdsmen enter, they will inevitably have conflicts with them. Look..."

Nikan asked: "What big tribes are there nearby? What is the specific situation? Let's talk about it first."

"Pu", Sun Demao opened a curtain on the wall behind Nikan, revealing the map inside.

"Your Majesty, in the Oregon Prairie, the most important tribe is the Nezper tribe. They are entrenched in the Rocky Mountains, near the Snake River, and migrate completely according to the migration of the bison herds. In summer, they move to the vast pasture east of the Rocky Mountains, where the local natives call Montana, and in winter, they move to the more moderate Oregon."

"According to my understanding, there are about 10,000 households in Nezper, who are strong by nature. Originally, Blackfoot people often went deep into the Nezper area east of the Rocky Mountain. I heard that after the First World War, the Blackfoot people were defeated. From then on, the entire east and west of the Rocky Mountain, the area centered on the Snake River, became the Nezper ranch."

"Oh?" Nikan was a little surprised. According to the information he received from later generations, this black-footed man was extremely powerful.

"Your Majesty, although the number of Nezper's troops is not large, they are rich in obsidian in the Rocky Mountains and Snake River areas under their control. Haha, these natives do not know how to smel iron tools. Most of them use wooden sticks to fight with sharp obsidian as weapons, so..."

Nikan nodded and thought to himself: "Obsidian, no wonder, not only are some uncivilized natives in the United States used it, but even higher civilizations in the Aztec Empire and the Inca Empire are the most valuable resources. No matter how many people in Blackfoot are, even if they use stone tools like the Nezpers, the tribes with Obsidian are still dominant."

Sun Demao continued: "It is divided into two parts, one is mainly west of the Rocky Mountain. The tribal chief is called Tatanka. He has a good relationship with us, but it is just a exchange of supplies. The chief east is a witch and we have not yet contacted it. However, if we want to occupy the entire Oregon prairie west of the Rocky Mountain, it is mainly a conflict with Tatanka's tribe."

"In the south of the Nezper people, the middle and upper reaches of the Snake River, a tribe called the Shoshones occupied. There are large deserts around it, but there are also many tribes entrenched, some called Navajo and some called Utah, each with their own characteristics. The Navajo people are good at planting, the Utahs can smel silverware, and the Nezper people are powerful tribes that hunt bison herds. The Shashones who live in it become intermediary merchant tribes. Of course, they also plant some crops and fish from the Snake River."

"Your Majesty, what I just said, the easternmost point has penetrated thousands of miles away, and the southernmost point is almost the same. Although our immigration scale far exceeds the Spanish, it is enough to occupy these places within a hundred years, plus the New Jinzhou you want to go to."

Nikan nodded. This is not good for immigration at sea. Due to ship restrictions and risks, it is completely impossible to carry out large-scale operations.

What Sun Demao just said just now, according to his memory, has included Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and California in the future. The available land area must have exceeded 400,000 square kilometers. This has not included mountains and deserts, which is equivalent to the entire North China Plain. In the past 100 years, it is enough to occupy and manage these places well.

However, these places also have owners, so it is not easy to take them down safely.

"Dermao, it seems that what we are facing now is to take over most of the remaining Oregon Prairie and the Idaho area occupied by the Shoshones. What about your opinion?"
Chapter completed!