The fleet led by Chen Anping finally set sail. Under the watchful eyes of Zhou Peigong, Li Guangdi and Chen Tingjing, as well as a group of jubilant Ming villains, it slowly sailed out of the Fuguimen Strait and disappeared into the vast Pacific Ocean.
There were twenty-five New Continental-type sailing ships that followed Chen Anping to the New World, and there are now twenty-three sailing ships that followed him out. Two other sailboats were damaged by storms during the voyage. They have now had their rocket launchers and sub-cannons removed. After simple repairs, they remained in Fugui Bay to serve as ferries. The dismantled eight ten-unit rocket launchers and twenty sub-cannons were placed in Jinshan City and the Yinshan City under construction on the northern peninsula (called Yinshan Peninsula) of Fuguimen Strait to block the narrow Fuguimen Gate. strait.
The more than 300 sailors on these two ships also stayed in the New World and became the defenders of Jinshan City and Yinshan City. In addition, four assault boats and carrier boats (belonging to the two New Continental types) were also deployed near the Fuguimen Strait to undertake security duties.
After watching the mighty fleet leave, Zhou Peigong, Li Guangdi and Chen Tingjing looked at each other. Although they were all a little helpless, their expressions were already full of hope. The three of them have understood that the New World is a vast land, with stupid people and a lot of money... This time, the thousands of sailors who followed Chen Anping back to the Ming Dynasty each received a small piece of the New World's "native products"—— gold! Although each person only received a measly one tael of gold, everyone knew that the gold was a gift from the silly natives of the New World to the Ming Dynasty visitors.
And they also knew that the natives here in the New World did not deliberately mine gold. They did not have the technology or the need. Although the native tribes in the New World also do some business with each other, they mostly barter, and sometimes use shells left over from meals as currency. To them, gold is just a shiny stone picked up by the roadside... There is so much gold just picking it up. What does this mean? This shows that there is a large gold mine in the Fugui Bay area!
This place is a gold mining mecca!
With gold, this wealthy bay where evildoers are exiled will soon become very fragrant!
While the three of them were looking forward to the large number of gold diggers coming across the ocean to Fugui Bay, which would lead to the rapid development of Fugui Bay, they rode horses slowly back to Jinshan City. Before the three of them entered the city, they saw a group of Mongolians approaching on flying horses. The leader was Danjin Omu, the former general of Ge Erdan.
These Mongols also landed in Fugui Bay, but they did not stay long in the Fugui Bay area, which lacked pasture. After recovering a little strength, they split into two groups and went nomadic in the north and south directions. Among them, Dugar Alabutan led a thousand households northward and entered a river valley with fertile water and grass. Danjin Omu led another thousand households all the way south, spent a month walking thousands of miles, found a seaside grassland, and then stayed there temporarily.
According to the original plan, two thousand Mongolian families would "explore the map" while living in pursuit of water and grass on the north and south sides of Fugui Bay to restore and expand their herds. After the next batch of Mongols arrives, they will expand north and south along the coastline. The next batch of "evil gangs" will look for land suitable for farming on the territory explored by the Mongols to establish two new settlements. The Mongols will continue to explore while nomadic, while growing their herds and looking for suitable settlements for the next batch of migrating "evil groups".
If all goes well, in the next few years, a group of villains and a group of Mongols will arrive in the New World every year... and each group will be bigger than the last!
In less than ten years, the number of Han people and Mongolians in the New World will reach hundreds of thousands, and by then the American Kingdom and the American Khanate will be truly established!
"Danjin Omu'an asked, which gust of wind brought you here?" Zhou Peigong was very familiar with Danjin Omu, and he could also speak Mongolian, so he rode up to meet him.
Danjin Omu, a big Mongolian wearing a bulging Mongolian leather robe and two big braids beside his ears, also reined in his horse, then clasped his fists and cupped his hands and said: "Military Commander Zhou, we are on the soil of the Haizi grassland in the south. Some Western objects were found in the human tribe!”
"A Western object?" Zhou Peigong was stunned, "Have you brought it?"
"Bring it!" Danjin Omu quickly waved, took a Western sword and a cross from a Mongolian knight beside him and handed them to Zhou Peigong.
Zhou Peigong took it over and looked at it. It was indeed a serious Western product! The Western sword looked very sharp. It was made of fine crucible iron and had inscriptions on it. Zhou Peigong looked at the inscription and read out in a low voice: "Netherlands, made in Brussels...it is indeed a famous Western sword!"
"How did this Netherland's sword end up in the New World?" Denzin Omu didn't know where this "Netherland" was, so he just asked casually.
"This is a weapon made in the Spanish Netherlands," Zhou Peigong said. "The Spanish Netherlands is a Spanish possession, and the Kingdom of New Spain is also a Spanish possession... Danzin Anda, your people will not Are you nomadic to the edge of the Kingdom of New Spain?”
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Danjin Emu spread his hands, "I don't know either!"
"Where are the people from the indigenous tribe?" Zhou Peigong asked.
"No more..." Tenzin Omu said, "No more!"
"What?" Zhou Peigong was stunned, "Kill them all? You also..."
Danjin Emu quickly waved his hands to deny, "We didn't kill them all, there were still many people left...but for some reason, they were all dead when we escorted them over, as if they had died of smallpox!"
Sure enough, they are Mongolian villains...even more vicious than Zhou Peigong's Han villains!
"Smallpox?" Zhou Peigong frowned.
He knew that Danjin Emu's men had all been vaccinated against pox when they left the Ming Dynasty, but the vaccination was not 100% certain. It was inevitable that some people would still have pox seedlings... And those in the New World Because no one has had smallpox or been vaccinated against pox, the indigenous people have no resistance at all. Once smallpox spreads, many people will die!
Thinking of this, Zhou Peigong asked again: "Has everything been dealt with?"
"No..." Danjin Emu shook his head, "A few ran away!"
"Run away?" Zhou Peigong frowned even more. He picked up the cross and looked at it. The inscriptions on it were all in Latin letters, and the workmanship was also very rough. It should have been given to the natives by Spanish missionaries. .
Needless to say, we know that there must be a team of Spanish missionaries operating in the deserts and grasslands of the south!
If they find out that the Ming Dynasty's pioneering team has arrived in the New World, the Spaniards may take advantage of the fact that the pioneering team has not yet established a stable foothold and come to attack.
"Brother Pei Gong," Li Guangdi came up and said, "Now we are afraid that the Spaniards will find us!"
Chen Tingjing also came up, "Brother Pei Gong, how about we call back the people from Danjin Qianhu... Then it will be less easy for the Spaniards to discover us."
Zhou Peigong thought for a while, shook his head and said: "If the Spaniards have discovered the people of Danjin Qianhu, we will show our cowardice if we hide again! Moreover... we don't have enough supplies and livestock on hand. .”
"Brother Pei Gong, do you want..." Li Guangdi looked at Zhou Pei Gong and asked.
Zhou Peigong thought for a while and said: "We don't have to hide from the Spaniards... we should take the initiative to go south to find the Spaniards!"
"Looking for Spanish people?" Chen Tingjing was startled by Zhou Peigong's words, "We don't have many people!"
Zhou Peigong smiled: "The Spaniards don't know!"
Li Guangdi shook his head: "Even if the Spaniards don't know how many of us there are, they can still guess... After all, we just arrived!"
Zhou Peigong smiled and said, "Just arrived? How do they know that we have just arrived? And do they know who we are? The northwest corner of the New World is also an unknown place for Westerners like them!"
