In Japan, Bungo Province, and Saeki Bay, it is the moon and the stars are scarce at this time, and the waves crash on the rocks of the beachhead in waves, each wave is menacing, but in the end they all turn into countless small droplets.

A small boat is trying to pass between the crests and drums. At the bow of the ship stood a man looking back, trying to get a better glimpse of the land of Japan.

I don't know how long it took for him to turn his head and look forward, and he saw a light somewhere on the sea. Through the mist of the sea, the looming projection came. A few of the sailors on board, shirtless and with only a strip of cloth wrapped around their buttocks, were in good spirits, and hurriedly paddled their oars and headed for the place where the lights were on.

After a while, the boat had already arrived, and the light turned out to be a rather old Wanshi Chinese-style big bird boat. The sailors on deck had also seen the approaching boat and immediately threw down a few rope ladders. The man standing at the bow of the ship had a quick eye and grabbed one of the rolls at once. Then he turned his head again to look at the vague mountains in the distance, sighed, and climbed up the rope ladder.

There were several lanterns hanging on the deck of this large Chinese bird ship, emitting a dim light, with the help of which the man who climbed the deck could see two tall Westerners coming up to greet him: "Shimazu-sama!" Elder Shimazu! ”

The man who boarded the Otori ship was the one who lost the war and had to flee by boat, leaving Shimazu Mitsuhisa in Japan.

He was greeted on board by De Belasco, the Spanish ambassador to Japan, and Barbossa, the chief artillery instructor of the Shimazu Army. These two Spaniards were still relatively reliable, and when the Toyotomi army began to lose the war, they tried to prepare a retreat for Shimazu Mitsuhisa and his men - for the New Spanish kingdom on the other side of the Pacific, Shimazu Mitsuhisa and his men were quite good warriors!

Arranging for the Shimazu family to flee was a piece of cake for the Spaniards, who were very familiar with the North Pacific routes. In particular, the explosion of the Ming shipbuilding industry in the past ten years has made the large hard sailing ship that can cross the Pacific Ocean become a rotten street.

Even the Spanish navy, which was at war with the Ming Dynasty, was able to get a lot of big bird ships - some were looted, and some were bought from merchants from other countries at the expense of money, and within a few months they could get as many as fifty or sixty ships!

As for sailors who can operate hard sails, the Shimazu family is not scarce, because there is a route between the Satsuma domain and the Ryukyu Kingdom, so the Shimazu family must have many sailors who can operate sails and ships.

In addition, the Spaniards in the Shimazu army were all sailors of the original Eastern Armadada. Although they do not know how to handle hard sails, hard sails are easier to use than soft sails, so after a short period of training, many of them have become proficient in using hard sails.

After standing firmly on the deck of the big bird ship, Shimazu Mitsuhisa looked around and saw that there were quite a few short Japanese on the deck bowing to him. So he squeezed out a smile and bent down slightly: "You are all loyal people, although we have suffered temporary setbacks, but as long as we persevere, there will definitely be a day when Japan will be recovered!" ”

Then he asked de Belasco: "Your Excellency, this is the last ship?" ”

"It's the last one," Debellachos nodded, "and the other ships are already on their way." ”

"So...... How many people were shipped out? Shimazu paused, "How many Japanese?" ”

"About 8,000 ......," said de Belakos, "were 15 schooners and 57 schooners participating in the evacuation, a total of 72 boats, with an average of 150 passengers and a total of 10,800 people." In addition, more than 2,300 sailors on the 57 hard-sailing boats were filled by evacuees...... In total, more than 13,100 people were evacuated.

Among them, there are more than 5,300 Westerners and about 8,000 Japanese...... Men and women are split equally, and most of them are strong enough to survive in the New World. Moreover, the Duke of Florida will also set aside a piece of land in the New Spanish Kingdom that is larger than the Satsuma Domain, for you and your subordinates to live in. ”

"Really?" Shimazu Mitsuhisa couldn't believe it - the Satsuma Domain was quite a big domain!

"Really, really!" De Bellasco laughed, "New Spain is big, maybe the size of 100 Japanese countries, with a population of only a few million, so there are places where you can be accommodated." As long as you can fight for the Kingdom of New Spain, the Duke of Florida will treat you well. ”

De Bellasco is not talking nonsense, he has already received Don. Huang. José's handwritten letter.

In the letter, Don. Huang. José told de Belasco that an Indian expedition hired by the Kingdom of New Spain had reached the Benesque Gulf of America, and that it had sent back very valuable information that had been sent back by Bidon. Huang. José had originally envisioned a farther north, but surprisingly the climate was very comfortable for Europeans.

In addition, because of the cutting of mountains and rivers, there are no large plains in that land, so there are not many indigenous Indians - the indigenous Indians on the Great Plains mainly rely on bison hunting to survive, and the number of bison in the Gulf of America is not large (relative to the Great Plains), which cannot feed too many Indians, although there are very good agricultural conditions, but the Indians do not farm......

It seems that the people of the Ming Kingdom have really found a very good piece of land!

In the conceivable future, they will multiply there in large numbers!

The Kingdom of New Spain was too far away from the Gulf of America to send an expeditionary force. So the wise Duke of Florida (Don. Huang. José came up with the genius of Aria - he ordered de Berasco to carefully select 6,000 to 8,000 "refugees" from among the samurai and peasants of the Shimazu family, to demand an appropriate ratio of men and women, and to bring agricultural tools and grain to California, where they could cultivate and farm...... In the duke's plan, California will become the base camp for the attack on the Gulf of the Americas! And the samurai brought by Shimazu Mitsuhisa to the New World will also become the vanguard of the Kingdom of New Spain's attack on the Gulf of America!

"100 Japan...... Only a few million people! "Shimazu Mitsuhisa's heart is pumping, no wonder the Ming people want to be your enemy! If I were the emperor of the Ming Kingdom, I would have to fight with you landlords for such a large territory!

No, you can't let go of such a large piece of fat! Shimazu Mitsuhisa said: When you get to the Americas, you must have more children! A woman gives birth to at least ten ...... To give birth to a new Japan with a woman's belly!

Be sure to let these white ghosts know how powerful Japanese women are!

Japanese women who can endure hardships, are obedient, and willing to give birth to children are of course strategic resources in the New World! Especially for the Ming colonists who also belong to the same race of the Shenzhou - to occupy more land in the New World is not only by the army, but also by the belly of a woman!

And the difficulty and cost of transporting women from the Ming Dynasty to the New World are relatively high, because almost all the civilians who are willing to go to the New World are bachelors - wives, children, and hot kang heads are all there, so they are not very willing to go to the Americas. Even if they were willing to go, the price to pay for the government of the United States would be very high, so it would not be economical.

The United States is a capital country, and of course economic interests must be considered!

The most economical way was to transport young bachelors from the Ming Dynasty to the New World to farm, work, and hunt. At the same time, young girls were bought at low prices from chaotic and poor Japan, and shipped to the New World to be resold to Ming immigrants who made a little money......

So that clever son in Philip IV wanted to use Japanese refugees against Ming immigrants (is there a difference between them?). ). Xu Kan and Liu Liang, the first Ming immigrants to set foot in the New World, have already set up a trading house that specializes in "transpacific marriages" - exchanging Japanese women for mink skins that are almost given away for nothing, and then shipping mink furs back to Daming to sell.

What a sin!