Winter in the Great Plains of North America is coming soon. Since we are now in the cold Little Ice Age, the cold that ravages the Great Plains and eastern North New Zealand every winter is more terrifying than later generations... dozens of degrees below zero

The ice and snow is no joke!

Therefore, before the spring of the 27th year of Hongxing came, the three brothers Zhu Hehao, Zhu Hekun, and Zhu Hezhen could only watch and watch. The most they could do was to sell the quota of "gold mining with the team" - there were 10,000 quotas to be sold.

Going out is not easy!

After all, in California, Boston, Washington, the United States and other places, new gold mines will appear from time to time, and they are all buried very shallowly and are very easy to pan out - this shows that Canada, Waves, and China

, the gold mines in the four states of the United States are far from exhausted.

Since the gold resources at home have not been exhausted, naturally not many people are willing to go all the way to the Mississippi River to find gold.

Of course, 10,000 places can still be sold... After all, the gold mines currently being developed in four states in Canada, Poland, China, and the United States are already "overcrowded." And there are always "first comers" in gold mining.

There is a saying that "eat meat, and those who come after you eat soup". That is to say, the first batch of gold diggers to arrive at the gold mine and start digging for gold can often make a sudden windfall! But when others have finished all the easy-to-find gold,

The gold diggers who have just arrived belatedly can only find a little bit of gold slag.

Therefore, a newly minted large-scale gold mine is still very attractive to gold diggers, and it is still possible to fool 10,000 people.

However, this winter, paying 200 silver coins to go panning for gold in the Mississippi River is not the only attractive investment project in front of the nobles and common people of the United States of New Zealand... The big project of invading the Kingdom of New Spain is also before them.

in front of.

And this project has more attractive returns than gold and silver... White, Indo-European mixed-race girls are more attractive to many single gold diggers who have found gold, have no plans to return to their country, and have no wives.

The big Mississippi gold mine is much stronger.

After solving my wife's problem, I can find a piece of land in four states in Canada, Poland, China, and the United States, and open a farm or pasture. This life will be considered complete.

Therefore, by November and December of the 26th year of Hongxing's reign, this large-scale project to enter Mexico, led by King Jiaqing, had raised sufficient military expenditures and recruited tens of thousands of "rebels."

However, with such vigorous preparations for the invasion, if there is no news from Mexico City, then Don Juan Jose will be too imbecile.

Therefore, news of the Kingdom of New Spain's comprehensive preparations for war also reached Angel Castle in December of the 26th year.

"From the very beginning, we should not have pinned our hopes on the mob in the United States of New Zealand who only know how to steal money and women! The future of the Kaqing Kingdom still needs samurai like us from Japan!"

The speaker was a ferocious-looking young warrior with a shaggy beard. His face was also tanned. I don’t know if he was born that way or because he sunbathed too much on the beach at Angel Castle.

The person who listened to him was Princess Kaqing Shimazu Noyoshi. She did not wear the court dress of the Princess of Ming Dynasty for formal occasions, but wore a clean dark kimono with a dragon pattern symbolizing King Kaqing. Kneeling

Sitting in the Main Maru of Angel Castle, I held my knees and listened quietly.

"After the victory at Golden Gate Bay, we should immediately go south. We can definitely catch Don Juan Jose off guard. But they kept delaying it. In the blink of an eye, it was the 27th year of Hongxing... New Spain must be using all its strength to

We have been preparing for the war, and the opportunity to win easily is being lost bit by bit."

Shimazu Noyoshi's face was gloomy and he just nodded stiffly: "Yenjiu, King Jiaqing and I also knew that we needed to win a quick victory after the victory at Kinmen Bay, but King Hezhu was not enthusiastic about expanding southward, so we...

.”

"We don't need the cooperation of the King of the United States at all! Maybe he doesn't want us to grow beside the bed of the United States at all. Because after we capture the Valley of Mexico, we will definitely grow rapidly there...perhaps in just a few generations

,The army from Mexico will..."

"Enku, shut up!" Shimazu Noyoshi shouted angrily, "If your words are known to the King of United States, the end of the Shimazu family may not be far away!"

The young samurai named "Enku", whose surname is Shimazu, is the current head of the Shimazu family and the right minister of the Kaki Kingdom.

He is the direct grandson of Shimazu Mitsuhisa and the nephew of Shimazu Noyoshi. His father Takazuna died young, so he became the head of the Shimazu family after his grandfather Mitsuhisa lived in seclusion.

After reprimanding his nephew Enku, Shimazu Noyoshi explained to Masaki Hoshina, who was appointed Minister of Zuo: "Zuofu, my nephew is young and energetic. He likes to talk nonsense and cannot take it seriously."

Hoshina Masaki smiled slightly: "Actually, what you said makes sense. We can capture a lot of land in New Spain without the help of the United States."

"But how are we going to march?" Shimazu Noyoshi asked, "We don't have a navy... The navies of the United States and the Ming Dynasty are not under our control. Do you plan to let the Gyeongju warriors board merchant ships without escort?

Going south under certain circumstances?”

"Of course not." Masaki Hoshina said, "France, the Netherlands, and Spain still have some navies on the Pacific side."

"Isn't that enough?" Shimazu Noyoshi gritted his teeth slightly, "I'd better go to Washington City to plead with the King of the United States... If he doesn't agree to dispatch the navy, I will

Commit seppuku outside the white house!”

"Your Highness! No!"

"Your Highness, you can't do this..."

"No!"

When the important ministers of the Kaki Kingdom in Honmaru heard that their princess was going to commit seppuku, they all started shouting. Only the left minister, Masaki Hoshina, smiled and said nothing.

"Safu," Shimazu Noyoshi asked, "what do you think of this plan?"

"This is nonsense!" Masaki Hoshina shook his head and said, "In the whole world, there is only one person in the world who can make His Highness commit seppuku! Will Your Highness allow you to commit seppuku?"

Shimazu Noyoshi shook his head, "Then what else can we do now?"

"We can go by land!" Masaki Hoshina said.

"What?"

"By land?"

"How is it possible...it's more than 2,000 miles away!"

"And there is also the Sonora Desert. How will our army get through?"

Immediately, someone expressed different opinions.

Shimazu Noyoshi looked at Masaki Hoshina, who smiled and said: "The Sonora Desert is not impassable, especially in winter... It rains in that desert every winter, and everything revives after the rain.

, still very energetic.

In addition, starting from San Diego and crossing the Sonora Desert, it is only 1800-2000 miles to a relatively humid place that can be cultivated. If the army can travel 60 miles a day, it can be completed in a month. Start taking action now, and you can get it in the first month of next year.

It is much better to go to Xizhou than to worry about it in Angel Castle."

Shimazu Noyoshi frowned, "You mean, the army going south also carries two months' worth of food? It must weigh dozens of kilograms, can it be carried?"

"There is no need to carry so much rations." Masaki Hoshina shook his head with a smile, "35 days of rations is enough... 30 days of marching and 5 days of decisive battles. After victory, we can seize the enemy's food. Moreover, we march along the coast, so only

If we need to seize a port, we can get enough supplies from the Gyeongju Peninsula."

This plan sounds a bit risky at first sight!

“Are the risks too great?”

"Yes! What if we can't finish the 30 days?"

"What if the enemy defends the wall and clears the country and refuses to fight us decisively?"

Some of the important ministers present at the meeting must have raised different opinions.

"Don't think about what might happen!" Masaki Hoshina said with a smile, "But work hard to achieve the plan. Besides, our cost is still quite high... because it is not impossible to travel 2,000 miles overland across the desert.
Chapter completed!