1635 Han style rises again

On January 1683, 1, Yinzhou Governor's District, Wanlingbao (now Stockton, USA).

Pan Haifu looked at more than 200 Oron people (one of the Native Americans) gathered outside the stockade, waving wooden spears and shouting loudly, his face turned livid, and his heart was extremely annoyed.

"Which bastard didn't fasten his trouser belt tightly, exposing the egg?" He turned his head and stared fiercely at the dozens of immigrants behind him, "It's fine if the work is exposed, but you fucking You shouldn't have pulled up your trousers and ran back to the village to hide! Look, he brought the woman you spoiled and came straight to the door!"

After hearing this, everyone immediately showed obscene and obscene smiles, and they all looked at the two men who were exiled from the mainland in October last year.

Damn it, you're so gutsy!During the winter slack season, after drinking two mouthfuls of cat urine, I dared to go to the camp of the indigenous tribes and spoil their wives.What do you think of this place?

"Commander Pan, are you going to send the two of us out?" Yan Guiquan bit the bullet, pretending to be generous, and asked loudly.

"Crack!" Pan Haifu swung the scabbard, and slammed it fiercely, leaving a bright red bloodstain on Yan Guiquan's face, then kicked him to the ground, and pulled out the long knife, reaching his neck place.

"Believe it or not, I chopped you up and sent your head out?" Pan Haifu said fiercely, "Before you arrived in Yinzhou, didn't anyone teach you to follow the rules and obey orders? Like you I have seen this kind of bastard a lot. If you want to fight fiercely and challenge the authority of the Shangguan, it will definitely make your life worse than death!"

Half of Yan Guiquan's head was trampled on the mud, and a sharp knife was placed on his neck. The huge shadow of death instantly enveloped his heart, and the unruly expression he showed just now disappeared.

That's right, this is the wild Yinzhou, the place where the prisoners of Qi State were exiled.Whether it is the colonial officials who control them, the garrison officers and soldiers, or the companions who live and work together on weekdays, how can anyone be gentle, kind, courteous?

"Bah!" Pan Haifu withdrew his long knife, spat contemptuously at Yan Guiquan who was on the ground, then looked up at the dozens of silent immigrants nearby, feeling a sense of heartfelt satisfaction.

Well, in Wanlingbao, Lao Tzu is their god, and his life and death can be decided with one word!

"Jin San, go out and get in touch with those natives, and ask them what the rules are?"

"Commander, if those natives need us to hand over... these two offenders, how should we respond?" The North Korean immigrant named Jin San asked cautiously.

"Then there is no need to answer." Pan Haifu said coldly: "Let's prepare to fight against them! I still don't believe it, just because those natives don't even have a piece of iron, can they still attack our Wanling Fort? "

"Commander, peace is the most important thing between us and the natives." Wanlingbao civil affairs officer Ge Minghao dissuaded him: "You know, although the natives can't attack the village, they can fight against each other in the wild." I went out to launch an attack. When the weather gets warmer, whether it is hunting furs in the forest or planting and farming in the fields, it is not possible to be on guard against them all the time, right? In addition, the Governor's Mansion has an order, and the local fortresses need to be greatly recruited And unite the local natives, use their people's power for me, and help the local colonization. If they are killed, it will inevitably hinder our development and development of Wanlingbao."

"...Well, Lao Ge's worries are not unreasonable." Pan Haifu pondered for a moment, then nodded, and said, "Then let's be softer on those natives first, and give in. Jin San, go ask those natives People, see if we can pay some food, cloth, or nails, knives and other small items to settle the matter? Damn it, at worst, let Wanlingbao spend money to buy those two ruined native women. "

Hearing this, Ge Minghao breathed a sigh of relief.To be honest, he was really worried that this radical and bold commander would mess around and have an armed conflict with the local indigenous tribes.

Of course, we Qi people are not afraid of these natives. With advanced weapons and equipment, coupled with solid wooden barriers, more than 60 immigrants in Wanlingbao can repel the siege of hundreds or thousands of natives.

But these immigrants were ordered to come to this Grand Canyon area for colonization and development, and they can't fight and kill the natives in these places for some "in the crotch" things.

Where Wanlingbao is located, the weather is warm in summer, dry in the daytime, cool in the evening, with clear sky and no rain.The weather is also mild in winter, with light rain from time to time, and there is no snow in the whole area.Moreover, this place is located in a valley and a delta area, and is covered with a thick layer of black soil, which is extremely fertile. If it is further developed, it will definitely become the most important agricultural product base in this area.

In the eighth year of Hanxing (1678), three steam-sailing ships of Qi State brought more than 500 immigrants to land on the west coast of North America for the first time, and began to colonize this rich continent.

Although one of the ships ran aground on the coast of Mexico due to stormy weather, it was subsequently captured by the Spaniards.However, the people of Qi still managed to open up two colonies - Huining Fort in the north (now Victoria, Vancouver Island, Canada) and Huaiyuan Fort near the head of Dawan (now San Francisco, USA).

In the following four years, Qi State successively transported more than 300 exiled prisoners and [-] immigrants from Qin State, North Korea, Japan, Ryukyu, and Annan to North America, making the population of the entire colonial area very large. It quickly broke through more than [-], and more than ten large and small colonial strongholds were established.

Last year, the Qi cabinet directly named the vast North American continent Yinzhou, set up a governor's district, and appointed corresponding high-level colonial officials to manage this newly acquired land of no man.

Although the Yinzhou Governor's District is still in a state of local "blood transfusion" so far, the government needs to invest tens of thousands of Hanzhou silver dollars every year, which is suspected of being a financial burden.However, civil affairs officials who visited the area said that as long as the area survives the difficult start-up period, it will soon become self-sufficient and bring a steady stream of benefits to the government.

Gein, Yinzhou Governor's District occupies more than a dozen coastal strongholds, with large areas of mountains and valleys and peace dams, and the soil is fertile. After several years of cultivation, it becomes good land.This has positive significance for immigrants to quickly realize local food self-sufficiency.

In addition, there are extremely rich animal resources in the valleys and forests here, allowing the colonists to use the slack season to easily obtain a large amount of precious furs, and then sell them to North American trading companies, bringing huge commercial benefits to the Governor's District.

In the entire Yinzhou, the most densely populated area is Huaiyuan Bay (now San Francisco Bay). In addition to the governor’s residence, Huaiyuan Fort, the colonial government also established Wuding Fort (now Oakland City on the east coast of San Francisco), Wuchuan Fort in the bay. Fort Funing (today's South San Francisco), Fort Funing (today's Fremont), Fort Enping (today's Foster City in the south of San Francisco), Fort Dongxiang (today's San Jose), Fort Ninghua (today's San Francisco Richmond, the eastern city of the Bay Area), Fort Dehua (now Martinez City, Constable County, San Francisco Bay Area), and other strongholds, there are almost [-] immigrants gathered here, which can be regarded as a complete stand in this area heel.

When opening up the inland valley, the immigrants inevitably encountered the local indigenous Indian tribe - the Olone.These aborigines who have lived in this area for thousands of years are still in the primitive period of backwardness and ignorance.They mainly rely on collecting wild fruits for a living, and occasionally prey on fish in nearby rivers and streams, hungry and full, and struggle to maintain their own lives.

Because the tools they used were too outdated, they couldn't hunt some larger animals at all, so that these poor aborigines wore some tattered small animal furs to resist the cold winter.And in the summer, these people are like the natives in the Nanyang region, with naked bodies, collecting wild fruits in the mountains and forests.

In view of the lack of manpower in the colonial area, the governor-general of Yinzhou tried to bring these ignorant indigenous tribes with oriental faces under his rule and assimilate them.Therefore, the colonial government issued an order that, in the absence of any attacks from the natives, each colony point should treat the nearby native tribes with a "good-neighborly and friendly" attitude, and provide appropriate material aid in order to gain the recognition and attachment of the Qi people. , and finally "be the king's pioneer", increase the colonial expansion of Yinzhou.

When Wanlingbao was established in August last year, it used food, wine, knives, iron nails and other supplies to take hundreds of strong and strong natives from the three surrounding tribes for "self-use" to help immigrants build fortresses and houses. , Reclaiming wasteland, providing the greatest assistance for the smooth settlement of dozens of immigrants who first arrived in the area.

In this situation, the immigrants and the local aborigines have established a friendly and cooperative relationship of mutual benefit. Coupled with the same skin color, the same black eyes, and black hair, both parties have a natural sense of closeness.Given time, it should not be difficult to bring all of them under the rule of Qi State, and then make them households of Qimin.

But I never thought that the two exiled prisoners who had recently arrived from the mainland could not control their lower body. Taking advantage of a winter night, they rushed to the camp of the indigenous tribes and ruined their women, causing these indigenous people to gather outside the stockade and clamor. No end, ask for an explanation.

In fact, for these ignorant and backward aboriginal tribes, women have no concept of "chaste". Even in order to better entertain the visiting guests, the aborigines in the tribe will take the initiative to give their women to the guests to "warm the bed" .

However, the two culprits should have never done anything wrong, and even harmed the daughter of a tribal leader. What's more, the tribal leader is about to marry the daughter to another nearby The son of the tribal chief.After this happened, the leaders of the two tribes were furious, and they immediately joined forces, gathered more than 200 tribe men, and came to Wanlingbao aggressively to ask these outsiders for an explanation.

In the end, after some "negotiations", Wan Lingbao successfully resolved the potential conflict at the price of [-] kilograms of corn, three axes, and [-] iron nails, and "bought" the two aboriginal women. come over.In order to punish the perpetrators, the hard labor of the two exiled prisoners was extended for three years, and they were ordered to marry the two aboriginal women as wives.

In recent years, there have been more and more cases of immigrants intermarrying with local aborigines and giving birth to the next generation, and the local colonial government also strongly supports this.After all, in this remote wild land, there are very few women from the civilized world. If you just wait for the government to solve the marriage problem, it will be a year of the monkey.Besides, intermarriage with indigenous women can also quickly multiply the population, and further promote the "ethnic integration" in this area, and finally let Qi State control this vast land of no owner.
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On February 2, Huaiyuan Fort.

"In the past few days, have there been any unidentified ships breaking into the bay?" Feng Yiliang, governor of Yinzhou, stood on a watchtower built on a high ground, holding up his binoculars and looking towards the bay.

"Return to the governor, in the past ten days, we have not found any foreign ships breaking into the bay." A sergeant of the garrison replied: "Currently, we have set up three lookout posts by the sea, all of which are on duty day and night. Observe and alert the movement in the direction of the bay. If there is an alarm, use beacon smoke as a signal during the day and fire light as a signal at night.”

"Very good!" Feng Yiliang put down his binoculars and nodded with satisfaction: "The two armed ships that swam here half a month ago were probably from the Spanish exploration fleet in the south. Although the other party did not initiate any landing attacks at that time, they It is very likely that our colonial stronghold here has been confirmed. Maybe in a few months, a large number of Spanish armed men will attack us. Therefore, you must not take it lightly and be on alert .”

"Yes, Governor." The sergeant commander gave a non-standard military salute and promised loudly.

Half a month ago, three fishing boats from Huaiyuan Fort were fishing outside the bay when they suddenly encountered two armed merchant ships with a size of about [-] tons.The opponent sailed from the south with sails close to the coastline, and when he found the fishing boats working, he immediately forced them up, trying to capture them all.

Seeing that the other party was approaching menacingly and with obvious malicious intentions, the fishing boat quickly approached the shore. Relying on its familiarity with the hydrological and geographical conditions of the harbor, the fishing boat avoided the other party's siege, and sailed into the dock, under the protection of the coastal defense fort .

The two unidentified armed ships rushed across the headland, followed several fleeing fishing boats, and entered the bay.However, after being bombarded by several shore fire artillery for two rounds, he turned around and drove away from the bay in a panic, swimming back and forth near the headland.After wandering for two days, it may be that the strength he felt was not enough to launch an armed landing operation, so he turned back and left.

For the first time in so many years, Huaiyuan Fort was peeped by an unknown ship, which caused quite a shock among the immigrants.In addition to ordering several observation and guard posts on the seashore to closely monitor the situation at sea, Feng Yiliang, governor of Yinzhou, also ordered the initial armed mobilization in various colonial strongholds. Existing military invasion.

Without even thinking about it, the forces that can send ships to the vicinity of Huaiyuan Bay for search and exploration operations must be the Spaniards from the southern Mexican region.A few years ago, news came from South America that an armed immigrant ship from our country ran aground off the coast of Mexico and was captured by the Spaniards.It is estimated that from that time on, they already knew that our country Qi began to colonize the west coast of America.

If the Spaniards did nothing because of this, they would be underestimating others.Perhaps, they have already sent ships to conduct several rounds of exploration along the Pacific coast, but they were too unlucky to discover the existence of the Qi State's colonial stronghold.

Now that the Spaniards have discovered the location of Huaiyuan Fort, they will inevitably organize a landing army in the future, in order to uproot the forces of Qi that invaded America and defend the dignity of the Kingdom of Spain before the people of Qi can gain a firm foothold.

It is said that the Spaniards have always regarded the vast area north of Mexico as their own territory and named it California, but they have not actually occupied and developed it due to their own lack of strength.

Spain was the first European colonizer to reach North America, and they came to this new continent as conquerors.The army led by the famous Spanish military general Cortes, who once conquered Cuba and other Caribbean islands, easily defeated the Aztec Empire in Central America.As for other aboriginal tribes, if anyone is disobedient and wants to cause trouble, they will be wiped out by the Spanish army like a storm.

In fact, most of the Mexican areas where the Spaniards arrived were deserts, basically unsuitable for people from Europe to survive.So, why did they go through all kinds of hardships to develop these territories?For, for the Spanish conquistadores, life was not just wandering around, but poetry and gold mines beyond.Behind every Spanish conquistador, there was a dream of gold.

Because of its huge amount of silver mines, Mexico has the most densely populated Spanish population, the most intensive development and construction, and the most core territory of its entire American territory.The Spaniards established a large number of farms and mines in Mexico and obtained a lot of wealth from them.Countless indigenous people were forced to become coolies in mines and plantation slaves, providing cheap labor for the Spaniards.

However, the mountains are high and the forests are dense, the terrain is complex and diverse, and it is still in a wild California area. The extravagant and greedy Spaniards don't like it for the time being, and they don't have the energy and resources to colonize there.Anyway, it is the sacred territory of my Kingdom of Spain, so it is not a big deal to put it aside for the time being.

However, what the Spaniards never expected was that those annoying Qi people not only ran to the southern tip of America to compete with them for Patagonia and La Plata, but also crossed the vast Pacific Ocean, encroached on the west coast of North America, and reached Mexico. the back road.

The uncle can bear it, and the aunt can't bear it either. They must fight out to maintain the territorial integrity of the entire Kingdom of Spain and the dignity of His Majesty the King.

After more than four years of development, the governor's area of ​​Yinzhou in the Qi State has a population of more than [-] and more than ten fortresses. When the situation is critical, it can easily mobilize one or two thousand "fightable soldiers" and has initially established a firm foothold.Although this strength does not dare to take the initiative to go south to provoke the Spaniards, it is still somewhat certain to resist the Spaniards' cross-sea expedition.

Furthermore, there is also a squadron stationed in the Hawaiian Islands (now the Hawaiian Islands), with two professional sailing warships, which can be called in for help at any time. With the convenience of the location, they can still wrestle with the Spaniards.

"Alarm! A warning signal is coming from the beacon tower on the west side!"

Just as Feng Yiliang, the governor of Yinzhou, was full of ambition and was about to return to Huaiyuan Fort to check the winter training of the officers and soldiers of the garrison regiment, the voices of soldiers suddenly came from the watchtower.

Xunsheng looked towards the west side, and saw a beacon smoke rising from the sea in the distance, blowing by the sea breeze, drifting in Chaowan.

The Spaniards are here? !