Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 403 The first colony in North America
Daming's colonial ships Jiuxiao and Lucky moved along the warm current of Japan and the cold current of California. It took a little more than a month for the sea voyage to reach the North American continent from Dengzhou Port of Daming.The Ming Dynasty chose to colonize the North American continent, and it must be the west coast. At this time, the west coast of North America was still a place where European colonists did not set foot.

The climate on the west coast of North America is relatively mild. Although the Rocky Mountains affect the slightly rugged terrain, there are still some areas with fertile plains.

The Ming Dynasty’s colonization of North America was still relatively small. Basically, a batch of people were recruited and sent to a preset colony point to build towns.The Europeans are also in a similar way. There is no such thing as the Ming Dynasty colonizing Java and other places, sending a large number of people in a short period of time.

The west coast of North America is a vast land that has not been developed at all, and there is no such thing as Java that allows many people to survive from nothing at one go.Bai Mingxiu also didn't expect to develop any minerals and resources from North America and send them back to the mainland for cash. Therefore, for a period of time, the strategy of the Ming Dynasty to colonize the Americas was based on the people going to these colonies to survive and gradually improve their living standards. .

The anchorage chosen by the Nine Heavens and the Good Luck was the Strait of Georgia, another plane on the border of the United States and Canada. The place where the immigrants landed was Vancouver, which was familiar to people in Bai Mingxiu's era.

Although the overall scale of the continuous plain is not as large as that of the North China Plain and the Northeast Plain, this lower mainland plain is extremely fertile black soil. The mild oceanic climate makes this land very humid. The temperature difference between winter and summer here is not big, unlike North America. The land area is extremely cold, and the winter is even better than many places in the Ming Dynasty, and it is relatively mild.Here you can farm, graze, and fish near the sea. There are endless temperate and subarctic broad-leaved forests and coniferous forests, which can provide a lot of wood. It can be said that it is a unique place to live.

Bai Mingxiu, who has already logged into Bu'an, stepped off the boat and looked at the land, feeling very emotional: "Although I have never been here in my previous life, I heard that the climate here is suitable and has attracted a large number of Chinese immigrants. Let's take a look at the scenery here today. It's quite magnificent. Such a beautiful place, let Daming accept it with a smile."

The leader of the escort group was named Yuan Shishi, with a rather strange name, a bald head with a medium build, a big belly, but exceptional strength.

Yuan Shiyi explained: "The lads have all disembarked with me to work! The women and children will stay on the boat first, and our bodyguards will disembark to cut wood and give up a camp. After the camp is built, the women and children Get off the boat and bury the pot to make food, and we will be settled on this land."

The name Escort Group suddenly became appropriate in relation to Ming's North American colonization.According to the Ming Dynasty Colonial Manual, the immigrants sent by each ship belong to an immigrant cooperative in principle, which is a variant of the agricultural cooperative, and the president is the leader of everyone.In addition to immigrant cooperatives, there are also escort groups.Escorts are also immigrants, but compared to ordinary immigrants, Escorts are an armed organization. All escorts have weapons and obey the orders of the leader of the Escort. They may be engaged in production, but the main job is to protect the safety of immigrants .So the bodyguards will hunt, fight, and sometimes even need to build houses and fortresses.

Escort exists to protect other immigrant compatriots who are unable to protect themselves. From this perspective, Escort is different from those cowboys, more just and responsible.But in the same way, escorts yearn for freedom and unrestraint, eager to challenge nature and be aggressive.

Yuan Shishi commanded a group of strong bodyguards, together with the young and middle-aged men among the immigrants, they disembarked and worked together.The president of the immigrant cooperative is a 40-year-old farmer named Zhao Mancai. He has little education and is very docile, but he is very good at handling crops and can plant fruit trees.

"Boss Yuan, I, Zhao Mancai, have never read a book. The superiors said that we have come to this new place and we need to give it a name, so that people from Dayang Company can repay us. Look, what should we name it?"

Yuan Shishi didn't know that this place was called Vancouver on another side, but he knew that Bai Mingxiu was mixed in with this group of people, and now he was just a small leader, standing there with an M1 rifle on guard against possible The enemy can't get involved in any topics.

Yuan Shiyi thought for a while, and said: "I heard that Western Baipi named the colonies and added a new one in front of the name of their hometown. It is really rustic and uneducated. We still have to think of a better name. If you give the emperor the ear of the dragon, we can be regarded as honorable. This is the first time we have arrived in America, and we can also be regarded as opening up the territory for the Ming Dynasty. To celebrate the emperor, it is better to call it Long Live City."

Zhao Mancai is just an old farmer, and he thinks everything is profound. He clapped his hands and praised: "Long Live City, what a name! We are wishing the emperor and his old man long live long live long live long live."

Bai Mingxiu, who was standing guard on the side, felt like vomiting blood when he heard it. These two bastards actually gave such a silly name, but Bai Mingxiu thought about it, and the original North American continent was all given by low-level names from Europeans. Finally, from now on, the place names will not have any overlap with those in Europe. They are all names with different meanings. Even if it is a long live city, it sounds quite imposing, doesn't it?

Men with saws cut down big trees one after another. The place they chose was a relatively flat area, close to the sea, and also had an inner bay, which was suitable for a port. Can be developed into a pier.

The carpenters turned the wood into fences and other objects, and other people have already set up tents and other things. Immigrants have entered this new camp one after another, and it seems that there is a lot of life here.

The immigrants had plenty of food, including rice noodles and all kinds of bacon and other shelf-stable foods.However, Yuan Shili knew how to maintain the morale of the immigrants who had just sailed away for more than a month.

"Bu'an, before it's dark, hurry up and take the boys out to get some live animals and come back. Everyone has to eat something fresh. We just came to this treasured land today, so we have to celebrate." Yuan Shi shouted to Bai Mingxiu.

Bai Mingxiu was helpless, "Boss Yuan, there are hundreds of people in our camp, how much can we fight? Besides, didn't we bring some cattle and sheep?"

"Those cattle and sheep are treasures, they will have cubs in the future, that's enough, there's a lot of gossip, go hunting!"

(End of this chapter)