Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 521 Traveling Around America
Compared with voyaging around the world around the "World Island", the fleet's voyage in the Americas is somewhat boring.Even if some colonies have established some ideas, they are still far from those cities in Asia and Europe with hundreds of thousands of years of history.Many places are large open areas with no people.

Therefore, the Global Fleet will not stay in one place in the Americas for a long time, except for the more important colonial points, such as Jun'an, where they stayed for three weeks. The soldiers and fleet personnel of the Ming Army helped to build a large number of facilities and expand the dock. , some other colonies, basically put down the immigrants, did a little work and left.

After that, Bai Mingxiu successively sent people to build new colonies in Savannah, Miami, New Orleans, Buenos Aires and other places, and they also took Chinese names respectively: Cenzhou, Maizhou, Jichi, Yinan .These colonial points are still relatively simple, and if they are described with accurate words, it should be the Walled City, which may be more accurate.When facing any non-modernized regular army, facilities such as castles and walled cities are still very effective and can protect the safety of the residents here.And in many cases, this kind of setting is more to give the immigrants who are helpless in foreign lands a kind of psychological security guarantee.

The scale of the walled cities built by the Ming people will not be particularly large, but they are not too small. For example, the walled city in Yinan covers an area of ​​2 hectares. There are a large number of houses built in the walled city, which can accommodate thousands of people.These strongholds also have specialized defense facilities, such as watchtowers, battlements, and machine gun ports.Even because the walled city is mainly a wooden structure, it is specially treated with fire-resistant paint.

As for the former Spanish colonies, Bai Mingxiu did not colonize them, but started to garrison troops first. Garrisoning troops is the best way to declare sovereignty.Although the scale is not large, basically a company-sized Ming army squad is enough to make local whites, immigrants and mixed races dare not make mistakes.

Bai Mingxiu sent one company to Havana, Cuba, one company to Panama City, one company to Bogota, one company to Lima, and one company to Santiago.It is obviously unrealistic for a hundred people to suppress such a large colony, but as long as they exist, it is impossible for these locals to come up with any tricks.With the continuous arrival of immigrants from Ming Dynasty, all this will naturally be reversed.More importantly, these former Spanish colonies can no longer receive immigrants from Spain, so their ethnic expansion is tantamount to extinction.Coupled with the hostility of the Indians towards them, it was clear that some people were having a hard time.

When Bai Mingxiu was in Madrid, he also specifically discussed with the Spanish side. If there are people in these colonies who do not want to be under the rule of Ming Dynasty, then the existing Spanish colonies such as Mexico can further accept these people.

The months-long colony reception trip was generally peaceful, and the Portuguese even sent ships to help transport the Spanish colonists out of these colonies like licking dogs.When they left these colonies, the Spaniards were devastated, but there was nothing they could do.In fact, similar dramas have often been staged in history. The change of hands of a colony often means that the previous colonists will be expelled.

Bai Mingxiu did not do very well. Although more than [-]% to [-]% of the whites were sent away, a small number of recognized European immigrants stayed.Most of them have a skill, and they are relatively docile, and they also accept the rule of Ming Dynasty.

In this process, the most exciting people are the local aborigines.For example, in Peru, the Spaniards enslaved a large number of Incas and let them mine and plant for themselves.These Incas lived and worked in extremely harsh conditions, and the death rate was very high.When Daming came here, because no population immigrants were sent for a while, and the Spaniards were driven away, the Incas were liberated all at once.

The chief of the garrison told the Incas that they could organize their household registration, live on this land as free people, and run their own businesses.Most of the means of production and things that the Spaniards could not take away were given to these Incas, and the Incas were very happy.

The garrison also organized these Incas to start production and life in the form of Ming-style agricultural cooperatives.They work as a collective, own their own means of production, and can obtain their own production results. They only need to pay a certain amount of taxes to the Office of the Propaganda and Consolation Division of the garrison representatives.The gold and silver mines left by the Spaniards were also taken over by the garrison and changed to a basic salary plus performance rewards.If local people continue to engage in mining, they only need to work 10 hours a day, and the more mining, the greater the bonus.

Although a large number of Incas had developed a fear of the silver mines, they heard that they could leave here and left immediately.Da Ming was not upset by this either. Compared with the Spaniards who got into gold and silver, Da Ming did not have such an urgent and urgent need for mining gold and silver mines.Bai Mingxiu wanted to develop the colony well and consolidate the economy.This is also a very obvious cognitive difference between him and the people of this era. People think that gold and silver are money, but in fact Bai Mingxiu only uses gold and silver as currency or a code name, and what he pursues is real social wealth, industrial strength and technology. level.

For this series of colonies, Bai Mingxiu only pursued control, and did not set any grand development plans. Although the Immigration Affairs Department of the Daming Lizhengyuan will continue to send immigrants to these areas, before a certain scale, what size is set? The goals are unrealistic, so these American colonies may be a barbaric growth situation for decades.Only some places with more strategic significance, or areas that produce strategic resources, may receive some priority attention.

The last few stops of the Ming Dynasty Global Fleet in the Americas are the three colonies that have been established on the west coast of North America, Long Live City (Vancouver), Gangjiang (Portland) and Los Angeles (Los Angeles).Due to the continuous sending of immigrants here by Ming Dynasty in the past few years, the population of Long Live City has expanded to more than 2000 people, and it gradually has the appearance of a remarkable town.

The Ming Dynasty Global Fleet also brought some supplies to the residents here, and did some military-civilian joint construction activities before leaving the North American continent and walking into the depths of the Pacific Ocean.They visited Hawaii, but did not carry out substantive colonization and occupation activities. Before returning home, their destination was Edo Bay, Japan.

This nominal vassal state known as "a strip of water" for a long time has been in a war with the Xuanfu Division of the Ming Dynasty for two years.Zheng Chenggong has already completely controlled Kyushu Island and extended his power into the Kansai area.The shogunate tried many times to make peace with Ming Dynasty, but they were all rejected. During this period, Japan fell into a desperate well, and all the samurai classes could see that there was only one reason for not negotiating peace, that is, Ming Dynasty wanted to annex Japan is gone.

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