A few high-level officials in Delaware, headed by Mitchell, were not very willing to accept Ming's conditions, but they did not have the courage to directly resist and oppose them.
Adams and Napoleon had already chosen to give up, and there was a high probability that they would not turn against the Ming Dynasty for the sake of the 40,000 people in Wilmington.
They also don't have the courage to leave directly. The officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty will definitely do as they ask, confiscate most of their assets, and let themselves leave with one thousand Ming Dynasty silver coins.
That will make you fall into the ordinary middle class, or even become the bottom middle class.
The Ming officials headed by Ruan Yuan did not communicate with them very much, but they chatted patiently with Stockton and other young people.
At the same time, more Ming and Yin soldiers got off the ship and left the dock in batches according to Mu Yongfu's order to receive and control the city hall, military camps, warehouses, bridges, and key intersections.
This is the de facto receiving town.
The top brass of Delaware, headed by Mitchell, watched groups of Ming soldiers running away with rifles on their backs, and immediately realized what they were going to do.
But several people looked at each other, stopped talking for a long time, and finally silently accepted the reality.
After all, this is just a small town with tens of thousands of people. No matter how powerful the local gangsters are, they don't have the courage to fight against Ming Dynasty.
Due to the simplicity, roughness and directness of Ming officials, what was supposed to be a simple greeting process on the dock turned directly into an actual handover process of city control.
The officials headed by Ruan Yuan waited on the dock for more than an hour, during which they just talked and chatted.
Knowing that Mu Yongfu had received a report from his subordinates, he knew that his soldiers had completely taken control of this small town of 40,000 people.
Then he left a group of soldiers to continue guarding the port. He took a sentry soldier and accompanied Ruan Yuan and other officials to Wilmington's City Hall.
Delaware officials, businessmen, congressmen, representatives of the new nobility, and the visiting Governor of Maryland and his entourage also went to the city hall.
Maryland Governor Bowen stood up and proposed that both parties sign a handover declaration document.
The purpose of Bao Yin coming from Baltimore was to cooperate with Ming officials in handling the territorial transfer.
Before the Ming Dynasty's representatives arrived, Bao Yin had several thoughts of preserving part of Cecil.
But this idea is not as strong as Delaware's Mitchell.
Because the core of Maryland is no longer on the peninsula, but across the fjord in Baltimore.
Bowen's main assets are also in Baltimore.
The land of Cecil and the peninsula to the south will be handed over to Ming Dynasty, which will not affect his wealth and identity at all.
After Bao Yin witnessed the negotiation process between Daming and Mitchell of Delaware, he decisively gave up these simple ideas that had not been proposed in his mind.
I decided to get it done quickly and return to Baltimore quickly.
Bao Yin took the initiative, and Mitchell knew that he could not escape, so he also stood up and expressed his willingness to sign the statement.
Ruan Yuan looked at the two governors and smiled:
"It doesn't matter to us originally. Since both of us want to sign, let's sign one..."
Ruan Yuan asked the clerk to draft a simple declaration document.
Delaware and Maryland relinquished all land in the Eastern peninsula, including Cecil and New Castle counties.
Bao Yin and Mitchell signed and confirmed as representatives.
Ruan Yuan nodded slightly, stood on the steps in the middle, and made another official announcement:
“From now on, Newcastle and Cecil counties and all the areas on the Dongyi Peninsula to the south belong to the territory of the Dongyi Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty.
"The title originally conferred by any country and the fiefdom in Dongyi Kingdom will not be recognized in the future.
"The titles in the United States and the United Kingdom will all belong to foreign titles from now on and will not have any special rights in the Dongyi Kingdom.
"The Dongyi King's Palace has two Changshi Palaces on the left and right. The left Changshi is in charge of the counties in Changdao, and the right Changshi is in charge of the counties in the Dongyi Peninsula.
“Existing institutions and personnel in the counties on the peninsula are temporarily retained, and will be eliminated and promoted through assessment.
“The original Delaware state-level government, parliament, and court institutions have all been dissolved, and relevant personnel can participate in the official assessment of the Changshi Mansion.
"Those who are proficient in the elegant dialect of the Ming Dynasty and can listen, read, and write in the elegant dialect of the Ming Dynasty will be given priority to be admitted as translators."
Listening to Ruan Yuanyi's stern announcement of the order, the expressions of the audience in the hall below varied.
Mitchell and other key personnel in Delaware state-level institutions all looked melancholy and sad.
From now on, Delaware is completely gone. For them, it is equivalent to finishing it off.
And it will be different from before in the future. If you want to be an official, you have to start from the grassroots level, and you can't go directly to a high position.
Ordinary businessmen and elites who intend to become managers, especially young people, are beginning to look forward to it.
Representatives of Wilmington's county agencies breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that their positions were temporarily saved.
At this point, the handover ceremony of the territory of Dongyi Peninsula has been officially completed.
Then Ruan Yuan stopped chatting with Bao Yin, Mitchell and others, and started working directly on site.
Receive all the information from the Delaware State Government, receive the basic information on the counties on the peninsula transferred by the Maryland State Representative, and compile it into the information of the Dongyi Kingdom's Youchang Shifu.
Accept the functions and existing institutions and facilities of the Delaware state government, and use this as a basis to extend the scope of management to the entire peninsula and establish the framework of the Dongyi Kingdom's Youchang Shifu.
The two long histories of the Dongyi Kingdom were actually two governors, and they were not the traditional governors of certain affairs in the Ming Dynasty, but similar to the colonial governors of modern Western times.
After Ruan Yuan put up the shelf of Chang Shi Mansion, he began to take over other counties on the peninsula.
This task is actually very simple to say the least.
Grassroots organizations in the United States are highly autonomous.
A group of immigrants from the Old World scattered and gathered into small settlements. A group of people discussed how to live their lives.
Almost all needs are solved by local people themselves, and any conflicts and problems are solved by themselves.
Public security issues also need to be resolved by the residents themselves. Most immigrants have firearms in their homes.
The settlements on these peninsulas are very even, with one or two thousand people being enough to serve as a county government residence.
In a place with such a sparse and even population, there are certainly no particularly wealthy places or people.
If the Ming Dynasty did not engage in the policy of giving up land but not people, and allowed these people to continue to live in the Ming Dynasty, then it would only need to send someone to inform them that the situation has changed.
Tell them that from now on they no longer belong to the United Kingdom or the United States, but from now on they belong to the Dongyi Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty.
It is estimated that the vast majority of farmers will not have any opinions, and even those who do have no place to vent their opinions.
But if this task is difficult, it is actually very difficult.
It is necessary to implement the management system after the Ming Dynasty in the local area and establish a Ming-style grassroots official organization.
It is necessary to train enough grassroots officials and apply the laws and regulations of the Ming Dynasty to rural areas.
It is necessary to establish new Ming-style schools, change the local education model and content, and at the same time promote the elegant language of the Ming Dynasty.
Even in remote areas of the Ming Dynasty, this would be a very complex civil affairs project.
What's more, there are still language and cultural barriers between ordinary people in the Dongyi Peninsula and the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, Ruan Yuan and Mu Yongfu both know that the second goal is impossible to achieve in the short term.
So Ruan Yuan temporarily retained the original county-level managers.
However, the two of them are not prepared to just let it go completely. Instead, they want to be prepared for subsequent direct jurisdiction.
After Ruan Yuan and Mu Yongfu discussed it, they planned to arrange three officers in each county and about a hundred soldiers per sentry.
The officers are responsible for delivering and interpreting notices issued by the Ming Dynasty and the Changshi Mansion, making statistics and recording the actual situation of grassroots villages and towns, and supervising and evaluating retained Taixi officials.
Soldiers protect and cooperate with officers, maintain local security and social order, take over and control local militia organizations, and maintain actual rule over the local area.
After eliminating possible resistance forces and integrating local militia organizations, the garrison in each county can be gradually reduced.
But to achieve this goal, each group of officers and soldiers must be equipped with a Thai-Spanish translator who understands the elegant dialect of the Ming Dynasty.
The common language of the main residents of the Dongyi Kingdom is English, while ordinary officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty basically do not understand foreign languages.
High-ranking officials and nobles of the Ming Dynasty rarely had access to foreign languages in their actual work and life.
Most foreigners with relatively high status can speak the elegant dialect of the Ming Dynasty, and the middle class are even more proud of knowing the elegant dialect of the Ming Dynasty.
The description of "a fluent and standard Ming Dynasty speaker" is a compliment often used by Thai and Western writers and media personnel.
There were no general foreign language classes in ordinary schools in the Ming Dynasty, because foreign languages were not tested in middle school and university examinations, as well as in imperial examinations.
Only schools that specialize in training translators offer foreign language classes, and only those who work in Honglu Temple and Xichang have foreign language requirements.
Moreover, Britain was not the world's hegemon at this time, and there was no United States to pick up the baton of British hegemony.
Therefore, compared to French, Russian, Spanish, and Latin, English now has no obvious special status.
There are already few people learning foreign languages, and even fewer understand English when broken down.
Nowadays, there is a special shortage of officials, and it is even more difficult to find people who understand English.
When screening manpower before this operation, we actually specifically asked if there was anyone who knew English.
Among the officials who finally came to Dongyi Kingdom, less than ten of them could barely understand a few simple sentences in English.
As for those that can be used for communication and office work, there is no one left.
In Wilmington, a larger city in Delaware, most of the senior officials in the state governments of Delaware and Maryland understand the elegant dialects of the Ming Dynasty.
Coupled with the support of West Factory and peripheral personnel of West Factory, the high-level handover work can proceed normally.
Next, Daming will take over and manage the counties below, or those scattered villages everywhere.
Most of the ordinary workers and farmers in those villages are illiterate and cannot understand the complex Ming Dynasty dialect.
Even the small landowners and factory owners below most probably don’t understand any Ming Dynasty elegance at all.
If Ming officials want to deal with them, they must be accompanied by special translators.
And this position of translator will be very important in the future.
If the translator cooperates with Ming officials and officials in making decisions, they may become "masters" who hold some power.
If the translator deceives the superiors and deceives the subordinates, or even deceives the Ming officials together with the locals, big troubles can also occur.
Therefore, you must be careful enough when choosing a translator.
After Ruan Yuan and Mu Yongfu discussed it again, they posted a notice for open recruitment of translators and asked people from the West Factory to recommend available personnel who had been investigated.
