Saint. Francisoco, Fortress of Presidio.

This fort on the high ground on the southern shore of the Golden Gate Strait in San Francisco is now the center of New Spain's rule in California. Governor de Velasco began to defend California's long coastline after relocating the Shimazu family to the northern part of the Satsuma Valley (northern part of the Central Valley).

California's coastline is so long, hundreds of Spanish miles (more than 2,500 kilometers) that it's impossible to defend it. It's not enough to have all the armies of New Spain in California!

Therefore, De Berrasco can only choose to focus on deployment, and the areas he focuses on deploying are three. One is the saint. Francisoco's Golden Gate Strait, where he had the fortress of Presidio built, and cannons were erected to block the entrance to the strait.

The second is the area of the City of Angels, which is the so-called Los Angeles area, Los Angeles is a transliteration, which means the City of Angels, which was the name given by the first Spaniards who arrived here in 1542.

However, until 1661, there was no real "city" here, and it was De Bellasco who built the Citidad of Angels fortress near a very beautiful beach, which became another large stronghold of the California colony.

The third is San Diego Harbor, which has always been a large Spanish stronghold in California. Before de Belasco became governor of California, San Diego was the only significant Spanish presence in California.

After De Belasco's arrival, he decided to push the Spanish line of defense in California, the outpost to the Satsuma Valley, and then to the Satsuma Valley. Francessoco, City of Angels, and San Diego are the main support points.

At the same time, he also moved the Governor of California from San Diego to San Francisco. Fortress of Presidio in Francisoco.

However, no matter how hard he tried, there was no way to pose a substantial threat to the Ming Dynasty's colonial activities in the Gulf of America. There were even some counter-effects...... The Celestial Empire, which originally didn't seem to care much about the Gulf of America, has significantly accelerated the construction of its colonies in the past few years!

Not only through the issuance of shares in the country, but also raised a huge amount of money! And also constantly sending immigrants and troops to the Gulf of the Americas.

In contrast, the power that the Kingdom of New Spain was able to devote to California was very limited...... Even if the bankers of Amsterdam had lent a large sum of money to the Kingdom of New Spain for God's sake, it would not have changed much.

Because even if the Dutch found out in their conscience that they could lend money to New Spain, they would not be able to help Spain conjure up enough population to fill the empty California!

Spain itself has a population of only 5.6 million, and the population of the Ming Dynasty and the vassal states is about 200 million! How do the Spaniards compare to them?

But it was the Celestial Empire's great advantage in seizing the territory of the Americas that made Debelasco and Don. Huang. José didn't dare to take it lightly - if he didn't take advantage of the fact that the population of New Spain was still several times larger than that of the House of the Americas (not counting the Indians), and when the population of the House of the Americas prevailed in the future, it would not be a question of whether New Spain could keep California, but whether the Mexican nest would be snatched away by Chinese......

And today to visit St. One of Francisco's Dutch merchant ships brought another piece of bad news that made both Governor de Velasco of California and Commander of the California Squadron Bassabo a little shocked.

The United Kings of the Celestial Empire have arrived in the Americas!

"Are you sure it's the King of the United States?" Barsabo asked.

"Not entirely sure," said the Dutch captain, "but certainly a prince of the Ming Dynasty...... Because I saw the Yellow Dragon Banner, which was the flag of the Ming Dynasty emperor! In addition, the Palas de las de las ceremonies were held to welcome the prince's arrival. ”

De Belasco nodded: "Then you can't go wrong!" He nodded to the Dutch captain, "Thank you for the news!" ”

The Dutch captain smiled and said, "Your Excellency, this is what I should do...... I am also a believer in God! ”

Debelasco said approvingly: "God will bless you!" ”

The Dutch captain said, "I think so too...... And I also brought dozens of persecuted Catholics from Japan who wanted to join Mr. Shimazu. ”

The Dutch merchant certainly wouldn't tell de Bellasco that his merchant ships had also transported more than 100 Ming Dynasty "stock refugees" to the Americas......

"Okay, thank you very much!" Deberasco laughed, "Arrange for them to disembark, you'll get a bounty!" ”

The Dutchman bowed to de Belasco, and then left with one of his lieutenants.

"Governor ......," said Barsabo in a low voice to de Belasco when he saw the Dutchman gone, "don't you think that the Japanese population in California is growing a little fast?" ”

Shimazu Mitsuhisa and the others arrived in the New World two years earlier, in 1660, with more than 7,000 arrivals. Now, the number of Japanese in the Satsuma Valley has exceeded 12,000!

The reason why it has grown so much is that in addition to natural reproduction, there are constantly Japanese people "smuggling" from Nagasaki to seek refuge in Shimazu Mitsuhisa.

Although these people all profess to believe in God, they came to Shimazu, but de Bellasco does not remember that Shimazu Mitsuhisa is a Catholic!

"We still need Shimazu!" "And we need guys who are smuggled in from Japan...... Without them, we cannot defeat the Chinese in the Gulf of Americas!

Major General, do you remember the fraudulent surrender plan that Mitsuhisa Shimazu mentioned to us a month ago? ”

Basabo asked: "Is it the method of false surrender to lead the Ming army to the Satsuma River Valley?" ”

"That's right! This is the way! "It's clear that we don't have the strength to go on an overland expedition to the Gulf of the Americas, at least not yet."

And the risk of going north by water is also very high, not only will you face the powerful Ming Dynasty navy, but the navy's capacity is also limited. It would be nice to be able to transport 10,000 expeditionary troops at a time, and it would not be enough to win by relying on this alone. So the best way is to bring the Chinese over. ”

"They're going to be fooled?"

"Of course!" De Belasco smiled, "Because those Japanese are really hardworking...... Within two years, a castle was built in the northern part of the Satsuma River Valley, a large area of farmland was opened, and a large amount of grain was hoarded.

If the Ming army had the support of Shimazu Mitsuhisa, they would have been able to use Satsuma Castle as a stronghold and seize the entire river valley, and even the Saint. The fortress of Presidio in Francisoco! ”

In the past two years, Shimazu Mitsuhisa and his men have worked hard in the spirit of a Japanese workaholic, opening up 100,000 acres of farmland in the Satsuma River Valley, of which 50,000 acres are paddy fields where rice can be grown.

Although flooding was common in the northern part of the Satsuma Valley, the Japanese were able to avoid the damage by carefully selecting the areas to be cultivated and constructing water conservancy facilities. Therefore, these 100,000 acres of farmland can bring a harvest of more than 200,000 stones every year.

With this food, the Ming army will be able to station tens of thousands of elite soldiers in the Satsuma River Valley!

These tens of thousands of elite soldiers did not need to fight the Spaniards in a decisive battle, as long as they could hold on to the danger and consume military rations with the original Spaniards, it was enough to force the Spaniards away from north-central California.

It was precisely because he realized the importance of the area around Satsuma Castle that Shimazu Mitsuhisa came up with the idea of using the deception to introduce the Ming army into the Satsuma River Valley, and then gather and annihilate it.

"Governor, do you really believe in Mitsuhisa Shimazu?" "In my opinion, he is no different from those Chinese. ”

"I don't believe him!" De Belasco's face had sunken, "So I'll make them hand over the hostages, hand over all the women and children!" If they dare to betray, then they will lose their loved ones! ”

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