Dong Shutong held Zhumu's hand, and both of them were dressed in fine clothes and stood on the platform in front of the temple gate.
From a distance, it really looks like a god.
The Yin Di'an people's sacrifices incorporate many elements of Chinese sacrifices to heaven, making them appear more mysterious and solemn.
On both sides of them are Yin Di'an priests wearing traditional costumes.
Under the steps, a huge square paved with red stones stretches all the way to the lake, and a water-friendly platform is built beside the lake.
The blue lake water is like a huge mirror.
Lake Titicaca is a plateau lake with calm water and clear blue waves.
Dong Shutong has stayed here for many years, and this is not the first time he has seen such a scenery.
But this scene still made him feel very shocked.
Especially now looking down from a platform dozens of meters high.
"Huha!" With the appearance of the two people, the tens of thousands of Yin Di'an people gathered in the entire square began to boil.
The Donghua Empire is the empire of their Yin Di'an people, at least that's what they think.
Hundreds of years have passed since the glory of the Inca Empire.
But today's scene seems to have brought them back hundreds of years ago.
It's just that there is no bloody human sacrifice on the high platform at this time.
And their king also turned into a gentle, beautiful, generous and brave queen.
Only such a woman deserves to be the king of all Yin Di'an people.
And the man next to him, the man from across the ocean, is the royal husband respected by all Yin Di'an people.
The current Donghua Yintian people have accepted the theory that their ancestors migrated from the other side of the ocean.
The Chinese who came from across the ocean were their brothers and sisters of the same clan.
Even the most clumsy lie will become the truth after being told a hundred times, let alone such rhetoric spun by the state.
We cannot say this is a lie here, because we have indeed found a lot of tangible evidence that this is true.
Under the conditions at this time, the state's propaganda only makes this theory more popular among the people, and it is not considered to be a lie.
With the blessing of this theory, the Chinese in Donghua and the Yin Di'an people live in harmony.
In addition, the communities between the two are relatively dispersed, which also avoids some conflicts.
The Yintian people mainly live in plateau pastures and the Amazon rainforest area in the northeast.
The Yindi'an people on the plateau ranch now raise alpacas with the support of the Donghua government and earn a lot of money. The down produced by one alpaca is worth at least one Chinese yuan.
This one Hua Yuan is equivalent to hundreds of soft sister coins in later generations.
A Yindi'an herdsman family can raise up to several hundred alpacas.
Every household is worth ten thousand yuan. This is not an exaggeration at all.
The largest purchaser of camel hair is Yunmei Group.
Donghua’s royal family also has a lot of shares in the company.
They have been developing camel hair products into luxury brands and selling them all over the Greater China Circle.
Because alpacas can only be found on the plateau of South Amelia, alpaca has always been very scarce.
With the stability within the Greater China Circle, the number of wealthy classes is increasing.
Yunmei Group's business is also growing.
Dong Shuyun already has two children and is now settled in Xinjing City, where he sits at the local headquarters of Yunmei Group.
Her husband Cai Shusen is the garrison commander of the capital and is responsible for guarding the safety of the entire capital.
The couple usually respects each other as guests and lives a happy life.
The third concubine of the Dong family also moved to Xinjing to live with her daughter.
The younger sister, Dong Shumei, is now in her twenties, not yet married, and is responsible for the operation of the entire Yunmei Group's overseas industries.
This girl runs outside almost every day.
However, she holds many noble titles. She is not only Dong Shuheng's sister, but also the princess of the Donghua Empire. She is a guest of the upper class almost wherever she goes, and no one dares to make things difficult for her.
Let’s talk about Donghua’s community setting.
The entire empire's direct-administered areas were divided into communities, with the largest and most numerous being the Chinese community, followed by the Yindi community, and the Latin community.
In addition to the part of the Yintian people living on the plateau, there is also a part living in the Amazon region.
This is the main rubber production area of Donghua Empire.
Seventy percent of the rubber plantations here are controlled by the royal family.
Dong Shutong was not a saint. He was a businessman and was a good businessman.
The largest company in the entire Donghua Empire may be their royal family.
He not only owned rubber plantations, but also owned a large number of mines.
And they are all high-quality and scarce mines.
Some of the Yin Di'an people in the rainforest area opened up farmland to grow rice under the guidance of the government.
The remaining people work in rubber plantations and become professional rubber tappers.
The territories of the Donghua Empire and the Busi Empire are intertwined here.
In most places there are no clear boundaries.
The control center of the Busi people is in the eastern coastal and southeastern plateau areas. Their control over the vast rainforest area is very weak.
So a situation emerged. Donghua's farms and rubber plantations in the rainforest area continued to expand eastward without the knowledge of the Busi people.
The Busi people will build strongholds along the river to declare their ownership of the land here.
However, these strongholds of theirs are very crude, and the number of soldiers stationed there is pitiful.
There are many wild Yintian people in the local rainforest.
Sometimes these people are so hungry that they even hunt the Busi strongholds.
Of course, their food may include soldiers at the outpost.
The Busi people are very far away from the core area under their rule to the upper reaches of the Amazon River.
Sometimes there is only one supply event a year.
When the supply ship arrives, they often find that the entire outpost has been abandoned and has become a habitat for wild animals.
But the soldiers who were originally at the outpost could not even see their bones.
No Bushi wants to come here to guard the frontier.
When Donghua did not appear, Busi was the powerful country here. Milu and Perivia did not dare to offend each other, and there was no situation of invading Busi's territory.
At that time, the Busi people did not need to station many troops in the rainforest area. They only needed to send people to patrol regularly.
At that time, Milu and Perivia were underpopulated, their own land could not be developed, and they had no plans to enter the rainforest area with harsh climate.
But then Donghua rose and wars continued with neighboring countries.
The Busi people resisted the urge to join the war and eventually withdrew from the war, but they also strengthened defenses at the junction of the west and Donghua.
They began to move up the Amazon River and set up strongholds and outposts.
Especially after Donghua acquired the Acre area controlled by Perivia.
The Busi people are even more nervous, because from the Acre area along the Jurua River and the Purus River, the two main tributaries of the upper reaches of the Amazon, it is easy to defeat the Busi people's strongholds in the upper reaches of the Amazon.
Cut off.
Even Busi risks losing the entire Amazon basin.
Donghua set up a river rapid response force here during the war with Grenada.
This unit is equipped with lightweight diesel speedboats, which are very suitable for activities in inland areas.
When the upper reaches of the Amazon enter the rainy season, these speedboats can even leave the river and shuttle through the forest.
Therefore, in the rainforest of the upper reaches of the Amazon, the Donghua Empire has already taken a great deal of initiative.
Because of this, these Yin Di'an people from the Donghua Empire living in the Acre area dared to pretend to be wild Yin Di'an people to take down Busi's outpost and push Dong Hua's border here to the northeast.
Advance.
Dong Shutong never issued a clear order to the local authorities to attack the Busi people.
On the surface, the Donghua Empire and the Busi Empire are friendly countries.
Donghua is even negotiating with Busi, hoping to obtain navigation rights to the Amazon River, so that the northeastern Iquitos and Acre regions of the Donghua Empire will be connected to the Atlantic Ocean.
Of course, they now have another passage, which is the narrow passage from the northwest into the Bunama area.
This is now also a vassal state of the Renaissance Army.
The Bunama government has become a protectorate of Yangtze River security.
In fact, he surrendered to the Renaissance Army.
The Canadian Army was stationed in Punama City in the name of Yangtze River Security. At the same time, it controlled the Port of Colon in Punama.
A small Canadian-Chinese fleet is stationed here. It can be considered that the Chinese maritime power has officially penetrated into the Caribbean.
However, the situation in the Caribbean is very complicated, and Canada's small fleet is very low-key here.
The Canadian and Chinese soldiers here still carry out activities in the name of Yangtze River Security.
Small countries in Central Amelia will still employ them.
They are also employed on transport ships as security forces stationed on board.
The Caribbean is rich in pirates.
"Husband, this place is so beautiful."
Standing on the majestic high platform, receiving the worship of his subjects, Zhumu whispered to his husband.
They communicated so quietly that no one could hear them.
Everyone stayed away to show respect for them.
"Yes, Zhumu, it is indeed beautiful here, but when you stand here, they are all your background."
"Huh, I just know how to make people happy."
This girl from Yin Di'an has been married to Dong Shutong for nearly ten years.
She grew from a little princess of the Yin Di'an tribe, a brave female warrior, to the current empress of the Donghua Empire.
But her original intention has not changed. On the one hand, she wants her people to live a stable and equal life.
On the other hand, you should concentrate on helping your husband do a great career.
"Zhumu, I want to thank God for sending you to me." Dong Shutong said, looking at the sky as blue as the lake.
He also recalled the scene when he was sold as a piglet to Milu.
The uppercase English letters "ml" were branded on the chests of those Chinese workers, which was the number of the destination to which they were sold.
They have no hope and can only be squeezed to death by the mine owners in the mines.
Dong Shutong still retains the mark on his chest.
If he hadn't run out at that time, if he hadn't met the kind-hearted Yin Di'an girl Zhu Mu, if he hadn't had the help of his younger brother who later traveled across the ocean.
So his bones now have probably rotted in the guano mine, and may have become part of those high-quality natural fertilizers.
Everything seems to be realized under the guidance of a pair of fateful hands.
Dong Shutong knew that he was not the chosen one. If there was any chosen son, it would be his long-lost brother.
But in his impression, that younger brother was just a nerd who wanted to gain fame.
Is it true that some people are born late bloomers?
He and Zhumu already have three children, and the eldest son is the designated first heir to the throne.
The second son was named Duke of Tingen, and the younger daughter was named Princess of Braguay.
In order to strengthen his control over those vassal states with attached empires, Dong Shutong planned to adopt the enfeoffment method that is currently more common among white people.
Perlivia has been divided among five or six lords.
Originally, the white forces in Perlivia were divided into lords.
Generally speaking, a lord manages his own city like a small city-state.
But the resources of the entire Perlivia were re-divided.
The interests of those lords who surrendered to the Donghua Empire were partially preserved.
Of course, in exchange for this status, they have to give up a lot of their resources.
The resources of the entire country were divided into three parts, one part was in the hands of the lords, one part was distributed to the local Yin Di'an people, and the other part was returned to the hands of the Donghua Empire.
Dong Shutong will use this part of the land to resettle Chinese people there.
His younger brother Dong Shuheng once quietly told him that Chinese people were the basis of his rule.
On the surface, it can be said that the Chinese and the Yin Di'an people are of the same family, but Dong Shutong must firmly remember in his heart who is his basic base.
Even though Zhumu is his wife, she fully supports him.
If there were not so many Chinese in Donghua, and Dong Shutong knew that, he might not be able to command these Yin Di'an people.
When they first fought against the white people together, the Yin Di'an people could still fully support them.
But now that the white people have been defeated, those Yin Di'an tribes may not necessarily continue to support them.
Human nature is inherently selfish, and conflicts will inevitably arise when distributing benefits.
The current Donghua Empire can still maintain a stable and upward state.
It relies on hundreds of thousands of Chinese-dominated troops.
There are also tens of thousands of Chinese local officials.
Within the Donghua Empire, white people basically had no political status except in those white territories attached to it.
They cannot serve as local administrative and peace officials.
Only vetted white youths can join the army, which is the only way they can change their family's political status.
The Yin Di'an community will also set up a dual management model, that is, an imperial official and a local Yin Di'an will be jointly managed.
White communities did not have such privileges and had to accept imperial management.
Currently, Perlivia has basically been under the control of the empire.
Dong Shutong will also implement the "Tweening Order" here to further disperse the territories controlled by the white lords.
These things seemed to the upper-level civil servants of the Donghua Empire to be simple strategies.
But it's very effective.
This is the wisdom of the East.
It seems simple to us, but in the eyes of those white people, it is mysterious and like magic.
"Shu Tong, sometimes I worry that everything is just a dream. I worry that I will suddenly wake up and then everything will disappear from my eyes. You, your children, and our empire."
Dong Shutong held his wife's soft hand a little tighter: "Zhumu, if all this is really a dream, I am willing to accompany you in this dream for the rest of your life. If we wake up one day, we will wake up together.