In Saeki Bay, Bungo Country, Japan, the moon was sparse at this time. Waves of waves hit the rocks on the beach. Each wave was fierce, but in the end they turned into countless tiny water drops.
A small boat is trying to travel between the waves. There is a person standing on the bow of the boat, looking back, wanting to take another look at the land of Japan.
He didn't know how long it took before he suddenly turned his head and looked forward, and saw a light somewhere on the sea. Through the mist of the sea, it is faintly projected. A few shirtless sailors on the boat, with only some cloth wrapped around their buttocks, were very energetic. They quickly paddled and rowed towards the place where the light came on.
After a while, the boat was approaching, and the light emitted turned out to be a rather old Chinese-style bird boat with ten thousand stones. The sailors on the deck had also seen the approaching boat and immediately threw down several rope ladders. The man standing at the bow of the boat had quick eyesight and quickly grabbed one of the rolls. Then he turned his head and glanced at the vague mountains in the distance, sighed, and climbed up the rope ladder.
There were several lanterns hanging on the deck of this Chinese-style bird ship, emitting dim light. With the help of these lights, the man who climbed on the deck could see two tall Westerners coming up to him: "Master Shimazu! Mr. Shimazu old!"
The man who boarded the Otori ship was Mitsuhisa Shimazu, who had lost the war and had to escape by ship and leave Japan.
Those who greeted him on the ship were Spanish Ambassador to Japan de Velasco and Shimadzu Army's artillery chief instructor Barbosa. These two Spaniards were relatively reliable. When the Toyotomi army began to lose the war, they worked hard to prepare a retreat for Shimazu Mitsuhisa and his men. For the New Kingdom of Spain on the other side of the Pacific, Shimazu Tsumitsu Hisashi and his men are all pretty good warriors!
Arranging the escape of the Shimadzu family was a piece of cake for the Spaniards who were very familiar with the North Pacific route. Especially the explosion of the Ming Dynasty's shipbuilding industry in the past decade or so has turned large hard sailing ships like the Wanshi Big Bird Ship that can cross the Pacific into a bad street existence.
Even the Spanish Navy, which was at war with the Ming Dynasty, was able to get a lot of big bird ships - some were stolen, and some were purchased from businessmen from other countries. Within a few months, they got five of them. There are as many as sixty ships!
As for sailors who can operate hard sails, the Shimadzu family is not in short supply, because there is a shipping route between Satsuma Domain and the Ryukyu Kingdom, so the Shimadzu family has many sailors who can sail and operate ships.
In addition, the Spaniards in Shimazu's army were all sailors of the original Eastern Armada. Although they do not know how to operate hard sails, hard sails are easier to use than soft sails, so after a short period of training, many of the veteran sailors can already use hard sails skillfully.
After Shimazu Mitsuhisa stood firm on the deck of the big bird ship, he looked around and found that there were many short Japanese people bowing to him on the deck. So he forced out a smile and bent down slightly: "You are all loyal people. Although we have suffered temporary setbacks, as long as we persevere, one day we will surely regain Japan!"
Then he asked de Velasco: "Your Excellency, Ambassador, is this the last ship?"
"It's the last one," Debelachos nodded. "The other ships have already set off."
"So...how many people were transported in total?" Shimazu Mitsuhisa paused, "How many Japanese?"
"About eight thousand were transported..." De Belacos said. "A total of fifteen soft sailing ships and fifty-seven hard sailing ships participated in this evacuation operation, a total of seventy-two ships. On average, a ship can carry 150 passengers, and a total of 10,800 people can be carried. In addition, there are more than 2,300 sailors on the 57 hard sailing ships who are filled by evacuees... ...A total of more than 13,100 people were evacuated.
Among them, there are more than 5,300 Westerners and about 8,000 Japanese...even half are men and women, and most of them are strong and can survive in the New World. Moreover, the Duke of Florida will set aside a piece of land in the Kingdom of New Spain that is larger than the Satsuma Domain for you and your subordinates to live in. "
"Really?" Shimazu Mitsuhisa couldn't believe it - the Satsuma clan was a pretty big clan!
"Really, really!" De Velasco said with a smile, "New Spain is huge, maybe as big as 100 Japan, with a population of only a few million, so there is plenty of room for you. As long as you can provide new facilities for the new Fight for the Kingdom of Spain, and the Duke of Florida will treat you well.”
De Velasco was not lying, he had received a personal letter from Don Juan Jose.
In the letter, Don Juan José told de Velasco that the Indian expedition hired by the Kingdom of New Spain had arrived in the Gulf of America and had sent back very valuable information - there was a place better than Don Juan. Jose originally envisioned going further north, but what was surprising was that the climate there was very comfortable and very suitable for Europeans to live.
In addition, because the land is cut by mountains and rivers, there are no large plains, so there are not many indigenous Indian residents. The indigenous Indian residents on the Great Plains mainly rely on hunting bison to survive, while the number of bison in the Gulf of America is not large (relatively In terms of the Great Plains), they could not support too many Indians. Although they had very good agricultural conditions, the Indians did not know how to farm...
It seems that the people of the Ming Dynasty really found a very good land!
They will multiply there in large numbers for the foreseeable future!
The Kingdom of New Spain was too far away from the Gulf of America and was temporarily unable to send an expeditionary force. So the wise Duke of Florida (Don Juan Jose) came up with the genius strategy of Eurasia - he ordered de Velasco to carefully select between 6,000 and 8,000 warriors and farmers from the Shimazu family. "Refugees", required to have an appropriate ratio of men to women, and to carry agricultural tools and crops, transport them all to California, where they will be cultivated and cultivated... In this Duke's plan, California will be the site of an attack on the Gulf of America The base camp! The samurai brought to the New World by Mitsuhisa Shimazu will also become the vanguard of the New Kingdom of Spain in attacking the Gulf of America!
"100 Japan...only a few million people!" Mitsuhisa Shimazu's heart twitched, no wonder the people of Ming Dynasty want to become your enemies! If I were the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, I would have to fight with you landlords for such a huge territory!
No, we can’t let go of such a big piece of fat! Mitsuhisa Shimazu said: When we get to America, we must have more children! A woman must give birth to at least ten...a new Japan must be born from a woman's belly!
We must let these white ghosts know how powerful Japanese women are!
Japanese women who can endure hardships, are obedient, and are willing to give birth are of course strategic resources in the New World! Especially for the colonists of the Ming Dynasty who also belong to the Shenzhou race - to occupy more land in the New World, they not only rely on the army, but also rely on the belly of women!
The difficulty and cost of transporting women from the mainland of the Ming Dynasty to the New World was relatively high, because the common people who were willing to go to the New World were almost all singles - they had wives, children, and hot pots, so they were not very willing to go to America. Even if they are willing to go, the price the United States government has to pay is very high, so it is not economical.
The United States is a capital country, so of course it has to consider economic interests!
The most economical method is to transport young bachelors from the Ming Dynasty to the New World to farm, work, and hunt. At the same time, girls were bought at low prices from chaotic and poor Japan, shipped to the New World and sold to Ming immigrants who made a little money...
So when that clever son of Philip IV wanted to fight the Ming immigrants (were they different?) with Japanese refugees. Xu Kan and Liu Liang, the first batch of Ming immigrants to set foot in the New World, have already established a business company specializing in "trans-Pacific marriages" - exchanging Japanese women for almost nothing for mink skins, and then transporting the mink skins back to Ming Dynasty. sales.
How sinful!
