Originally, the destination of the Qing army's eastward expedition was Acapulco, Mexico, but they accidentally landed early and came to no man's land on the west coast of North America.

It is said that it is no man's land, but in fact it has not been discovered by Europeans, and there are very few local natives, and it is later called Vancouver (the border between Canada and the United States).

Historically, British Navy Captain George Vancouver only discovered Vancouver in 1792 (the 57th year of Qianlong), and in honor of his exploits, many places in the Pacific Northwest of North America were named after him, including Vancouver Island and two Vancouver cities.

Now, Hong Chengchou is a full hundred and forty years earlier than Vancouver!

The land on which Hong Chengchou landed is actually an island, which is later known as Vancouver Island.

Vancouver Island is about the same size as Taiwan Island, with more than 30,000 square kilometers, surrounded by islands, all of which are covered with dark green coniferous forests, lush vegetation, and water vapor.

The main island is even more forested, with towering spruce and fir trees growing in patches, and the woodlands and trunks are covered with table moss, and the branches are floating with pineapples.

It's as humid and lush as the Amazon rainforest, and biologists have named it temperate rainforest.

In fact, the latitude of Vancouver is about the same as the location of Mohe, the temperature of Mohe in the harsh winter is basically about minus 30 degrees, but the winter in Vancouver is above zero degrees Celsius, much warmer than the northern part of the Ming Dynasty.

It's summer, and the temperature here is generally around 20 degrees Celsius, which is very pleasant and very special!

It's the sea and the mountains that create the geographical wonders of this place!

Currents in the ocean warm Vancouver, and the huge North Pacific Current runs north along the west coast of North America, where Vancouver is located, bringing a much warmer climate than at the same latitude.

The warm currents in the ocean act like a giant fan heater so that Vancouver doesn't freeze during the winter months.

The towering Cordillera and Rocky Mountains in the northeast block the cold snap from the north, forcing the moisture-laden southwesterly winds from the Pacific Ocean to climb upwards and condense the rainfall.

Later, Canada's West Coast Naval Base was located in Victoria, the southernmost part of the island, which is also known as an ice-free port.

It can be said that Hong Chengchou and other Han military banners have been lucky.

In fact, it is not their luck, they sail east from the North Pacific Ocean in Asia, and basically settle in Vancouver.

From the Philippines, you can follow the ocean currents and reach Acapulco, Mexico.

Hong Chengchou didn't understand this, thinking that he had arrived at what the Spaniards called Acapulco.

However, he looked for a long time, but he did not see a living person around, and there was no trace of a sailboat docking.

The climate here is mild, the scenery is beautiful, warm as spring, and the flowers are luxuriant.

Looking at the charming scene of the mountain scenery and the sea view in front of him, Hong Chengchou couldn't help but sigh: "The climate here is mild, there are endless beautiful scenery, and the rich land sent by God, this is the most lovely land that human beings can imagine!" ”

The crowd was lively and jubilant for a while, and Niu Jinxing began to work on the back.

He smiled and said, "Regent, Amerika is the name of the Hongyi people, you can name this place again!" ”

Hong Chengchou nodded slightly, pondered for a moment, and said: "This land, in the extreme east of the world, is called Dongsheng Shenzhou!" ”

Although Hong Chengqi knew that the earth was round, he often looked at the "Kunyu Wanguo Quantu", and Amerika was in the easternmost part of the flat map, so it was called the extreme east, just like the Chinese said that Westerners have a reason.

As soon as the words fell, Niu Jinxing immediately followed up and said, "The regent is so literate!" This Dongsheng Shenzhou lives up to its name! ”

Dongsheng Shenzhou, also known as Dongbi Tihe Zhou, is one of the four major continents in the traditional mythological world, the other three are West Niuhe Continent, South Ganbu Continent and North Julu Continent.

Dongsheng Shenzhou is well-known to the public because it often appears in "Journey to the West".

"Journey to the West" in the Ming Dynasty was not a banned book as later generations said, because there was no record in the historical materials, on the contrary, there were multiple editions in the Jiajing Dynasty and the Weather Dynasty.

Not only that, "Journey to the West" is still a bestseller in Daming, and every year during the Lantern Festival, puppet shows are basically held in the Daming Palace, including the show of Sun Monkey making trouble in the Dragon Palace.

(From the "Chronicles of the Middle" written by Liu Ruoyu, a eunuch of the Chongzhen Dynasty, this old eunuch is a bit literate, likes to write a diary, specializes in recording court chores, and is still on an errand in the Forbidden City.) ）

Even the royal family let Sun Monkey enter the palace, how can "Journey to the West" be a banned book!

Some marketing accounts that like to bring the rhythm of the Ming Dynasty always like to take "the emperor takes turns", or that Che Chi Guo's fighting method alludes to Emperor Jiajing's cultivation of immortals, but in fact, it is all nonsense, and there is no historical data to prove that the Ming court banned Journey to the West.

There are also some historical inventors who always like to hold a pair of eyes in the literary prison, compete to be the censor of the Ming Dynasty and newspapers, worry about the Ming court, and ban Journey to the West privately.

Once the name is decided, it's time to build a central town and send scouts to explore the way.

The Han army established a large camp in an open area near the river.

After a short break, countless heavily armed Han scouts galloped in all directions, exploring this unknown world.

Soon after, the fleet discovered the real American continent not far away, and continued to explore further.

Not surprisingly, when the sentinels of the Han army were exploring the road, there was a fight with the local aborigines.

Not far from Vancouver, along the Columbia River, a group of Chenuk people lived.

They were well-established and hierarchical tribes, and some of the Chenuk tribes also owned slavery.

There are significant differences in the treatment of people of different social classes, and they are not even allowed to intermarry, trade, or even play with children.

The Chenuk people, who are good at catching bears, elk and buffalo, but are even more adept at salmon, live in long, narrow single-room buildings, usually a few dozen people living together.

Because the Chenuks lived on both sides of the river and near the Pacific Ocean, they had more advanced shipbuilding technology, and their main means of transportation was canoe.

Due to their different modes of survival, the Chenuks and nearby tribes had almost no conflicts on land.

However, with the arrival of the Orientals, all this changed.

Because the Columbia River is one of the great rivers that flow into the Pacific Ocean in western North America, with a total length of more than 4,000 miles, the basin is active and wide, and it is very suitable for human habitation.

This has also become the primary goal of Hong Chengchou's conquest.

It's just that what he didn't expect was that the Han Army Banner only dispatched a forward army of five hundred people to defeat the entire Chenuk Division.

The army had not yet started, and the victory in the first battle made all the Han army banner generals inexplicably stunned.

Who are the people living here? So weak?

Everyone, including Hong Chengchou, is more and more confident in the future!

In the end, at the suggestion of Niu Jinxing, the civil and military officials of the Han Army Banner collectively asked the regent Hong Chengchou to remove the banner of the Qing Dynasty and re-establish the country!

Hong Chengchou made three resignations and three concessions in a fake manner, and finally reluctantly accepted the persuasion of everyone and ascended the throne as the emperor.

On the fourth day of August in the eighth year of Tianwu, Hong Chengchou called the emperor in Dongsheng Shenzhou, the country name Dadong, and the year name Kaitong, which means that the earthquake is multiplied, the pole is opened, and the emperor is created from generation to generation!

Hong Chengchou was crowned as a prince, and the four kings and eight dukes were the founding fathers.

The four kings were Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, Zu Zerun, the king of Pingnan, Zuo Guangxian, the king of Jingnan, and Li Shutai, the king of Dingbei, all of whom were first-class princes.

The eighth duke was Wenchen Niu Jinxing and others, as well as Daniel Zhang, Zhao Liangdong, Sun Sike, Wang Jinbao and other younger generation of Ertarzi generals, who participated in the Battle of Kangxi to pacify San Francisco in history and were known as the "Four Han Generals of Hexi".

The establishment of the Great Eastern Kingdom made the Han Army Banner, which was originally in a poor mental state, instantly full of blood, and one by one they wanted to make contributions in the new world!