In the midsummer of the 15th year of Hongxing's reign in the Ming Dynasty, at this time in Peninsula City, Peanutton County, expeditionary officers and soldiers wearing red and black military uniforms finally arrived. Shiploads of soldiers disembarked from the Pacific sailing ship transporting troops. Before they could arrive from the Pacific sailing ship,

After they had recovered from the discomfort caused by the long life at sea, they were greeted by the officers sent by the American Army Admiral's Office on the pier and the whole team set off, passing through the increasingly prosperous streets of the peninsula and heading towards the newly built military camp outside the American Palace Castle.

The first batch of Chinese immigrants arrived in Peanut Village in the ninth year of Hongxing. It has been six years since then, but there were not many Chinese visitors in the first batch. The real large-scale immigration started in the eleventh year of Hongxing.

In the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, and four consecutive years, more than 10,000 to 20,000 people came across the ocean.

Just when people here in America thought that twenty thousand a year was an insurmountable upper limit, the port of Peninsula City suddenly became extremely busy in the first half of the fifteenth year of Hongxing's reign. Almost every ten days, a fleet of ships would arrive from across the ocean.

Drive over here.

There are not only Pacific sailing ships from China, but also Western sailing ships from the Dutch East India Company. In less than half a year, more than 40,000 people have been brought to America House. If this trend can be maintained until the end of the year, then the population of America House will be

In the fifteen years of Hongxing, the number will increase by more than 80,000, almost doubling it!

The composition and origin of the 40,000 people who arrived in America in the first half of the 15th year of Hongxing's reign were also very different from those in previous years.

Those who came to America in the past few years, excluding those in the upper class, mainly fall into three categories. One is the lower-level soldiers of the Qing army who were captured during the Ming and Qing wars - they are all single men, and most of them are "New Manchurian Peasants and Soldiers".

"He's not very good at fighting, but he's really good at clearing wasteland and farming!"

The second is the northern immigrants mainly from Shandong - most of these people brought their families, and they were deceived by the major shareholders of the United States. The reason why most of them came from Shandong was because Shandong was not completely occupied during the Ming and Qing wars, so in

The northern provinces have a larger population and are coastal provinces, so they are not so closed.

Moreover, the climate in Shandong is close to that of the American Gulf, and crops that can be grown in Shandong can also be grown in the American Gulf, so it is most suitable to develop in the American Gulf.

The third is a young girl from Japan...

With the joint efforts of the above three types of people, the desolate and primitive American Bay finally looked like a civilized world. The scale of agricultural production was also increasing due to orders provided by the American government. By the fifteenth year of Hongxing

During spring plowing, more than 800,000 acres of cultivated land have been reclaimed!

If the weather goes well, when the harvest comes this fall, millions of stones of flour and soybeans will be delivered to warehouses across America... This is enough food to feed 200,000 strong laborers for a whole year!

Coupled with the accumulation in the past few years, by this autumn, the food in the American Palace will be enough to support a war with the Spanish.

And the smell of gunpowder here in America Mansion is indeed getting stronger and stronger.

The pace of war is approaching!

The land contact between the two sides began in the summer of the 14th year of Hongxing's reign. The defenders of Hebian Fort, the outpost of the Ming Army in America, reported multiple "contact incidents" in May and June of the 14th year.

According to reports, the Ming army patrolling and exploring south from the Hebianbao outpost encountered Spanish Japanese mercenaries at least five times in the mountains, forests and river valleys south of Hebianbao!

Although both sides maintained restraint and did not open fire, the hostile attitude was still obvious.

At the beginning of the 15th century, through reports from some Indians who escaped being killed by Japanese mercenaries in Spain and ran to the territory of America House (of course there are Indians in the America House area), at a place about 30 days away from the Riverside Fort In the large valley, there are now many "dwarfs" building castles and cultivating land.

Moreover, these dwarves were very unreasonable. They burned, killed, looted, and then deported the nearby Indian tribes. It was so cruel!

The American Mansion of the Ming Dynasty has never done such unreasonable things! Because the American Mansion has been in existence since ancient times, there have always been only a very small number of Indians here...

After receiving a report from the American Government about the arrival of "tens of thousands of Japanese mercenaries" in California, the Ming court no longer dared to take it lightly.

Starting from the end of the 14th year, a large number of Young Guards, Black Cavalry Army (all in black) and Japanese Red Iron Artillery Corps (all in red) began to board Pacific sailing ships, and thousands of them flocked to the New World. .

And before these heavily armed soldiers began to arrive one after another, there were also many "stock refugees" from the prosperous Jiangnan area... Most of these people did not know how to farm. They were either small businessmen or handicrafts. Some of them, as well as some landlords and scholars (now no longer scholar-bureaucrats) who were living on land rents, all came to America with their families.

Although most of these people held United States stocks that could be exchanged for land in America House, most of them did not know how to farm. Therefore, after arriving in America House, they did not immediately exchange for land, but settled in Peninsula City.

Some of them relied on their crafts to make a living, some started small businesses, some opened schools, and some simply took the exam to become junior officials in the American Mansion - there are too few scholars here in the American Mansion, so there is a lack of qualified people. of officials.

Therefore, the arrival of these "stock refugees" has actually made the market in Peninsula City a lot more active, and also made the Yamen of America Mansion look more presentable.

However, Zhu Cihuan, Prince of Chongqing County in the Ming Dynasty, and his followers are very special beings - they are a combination of stock refugees and expeditionary troops!

Zhu Cihuan not only became an American by stock trading, but also became an American warlord... This is really bizarre. When he left Shanghai, he was still a refugee, and when he arrived at the port of Peninsula City, he already had 2,000 troops. The warlord king!

"What's going on? What's going on? Didn't you say that you got confused by stock trading and fled to America? Why are you still bringing 2,000 troops with you? Is this... you are not mistaken?"

In the American Mansion Castle, Wei Zhongcheng was frightened after receiving the report from his subordinates.

He had long known from the letters home from Wei Zaode that Zhu Cihuan, the foolish prince, had lost all his pension money in the stock market and had to run away to America.

When he thought about it, people who speculated in stocks must be in a very poor condition. There were many such people in Peninsula City struggling. Although Zhu Cihuan was the king of the county, he was never very favored, and this time he even lost everything to the emperor. It seems that I still owe a lot of debt for my pension money, so the situation can be imagined.

But today, someone told him that this prince brought 2,000 troops off the ship... What on earth is going on? Is it Zhu Cihuan who is here? It can't be the American "rich king" Zhu Hehao, right?

"Prefect Wei, Prefect Wei...the Prince of Chongqing County is here! Let's go and greet him!"

While Wei Zhongcheng was in a daze, Qi Yuanbi, the admiral of the American Army, had already entered the middle hall of the American government office while shouting.

"Is it really the prince of Chongqing who is here?" Wei Zhongcheng asked.

The American Army is not a simple field army, but a frontal army, in charge of all the Ming armies in the Americas, including the American Gulf Navy. The merchant ships docked at the peninsula pier are all at the mouth of the South Bay (the entrance to the American Gulf)

He was stopped by a clipper from the American Gulf Navy. After inspection, he was taken to Peninsula Harbor by the clipper.

Therefore, the information obtained by the American military admiral must be the most accurate.

"That's right! I also brought 2,000 Japanese guards with me," Qi Yuanbi smiled. "They were all deceived from Lord Ogura and several Japanese feudal lords when they passed through Kyushu, Japan. I heard that they also abducted Lord Ogura.

A niece."

"Wait a minute, is this the fifth prince or the third prince? Why does this sound so much like the work of the three princes?"
Chapter completed!