In the midsummer of the fifteenth year of Hongxing in the Ming Dynasty, at this time, in the peninsula city of Peanutun County, the expeditionary officers and soldiers wearing red and black military uniforms finally came. Boatloads of soldiers disembarked from the Pacific galleons carrying troops, and before they could recover from the discomfort of a long life at sea, they were greeted by officers from the Admiralty of the American Army on the docks, and marched through the bustling streets of the peninsula toward the newly built barracks outside the Citadel of the Americas.

The first batch of Chinese immigrants arrived in Peanutuntun in the ninth year of Hongxing, and it has been six years since then, but there are not many Chinese visitors in the first batch. The real scale of immigration began in the 11th year of Hongxing, and more than 10,000 but less than 20,000 people came across the ocean in 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th years.

Just when people here in the province of America thought that 20,000 a year was an insurmountable limit, the port of Peninsula City suddenly became extremely busy in the first half of the fifteenth year of Hongxing, and a fleet of ships would sail from across the ocean almost every ten years.

There were not only Pacific galleons from the Celestial Empire, but also Western galleons of the Dutch East India Company. In less than half a year, it has brought more than 40,000 people to the province of the Americas, and if this trend can be maintained until the end of the year, then the population of the province of the Americas will increase by more than 80,000 in 15 years of Hongxing, almost doubling!

The composition and origin of the 40,000 people who arrived in the province of the Americas in the first half of the 15th year of Hongxing were also very different from those of previous years.

A few years ago, those who came to the Americas, except for those who were in the upper class, were mainly three types of people, one was the lower-level soldiers of the Qing army who were captured in the Ming and Qing wars - they were all bachelors, most of them were "new Manchurian peasant soldiers", they were not very good at fighting, and they were good at cultivating wasteland!

The second is the northern immigrants, mainly from Shandong, who have families and have been fooled by the majority shareholders of the United States. The reason why most of them came from Shandong was because Shandong did not all fall in the Ming and Qing wars, so it was more populous among the northern provinces, and it was a coastal province, so it was not so closed.

Moreover, the climate of Shandong is close to that of the Gulf of Americas, and the crops that can be grown in Shandong can also be grown in the Gulf of the Americas, so it is the most suitable for development in the Gulf of the Americas.

The third is a young girl from Japan......

With the joint efforts of the above three types of people, the desolate and primitive Gulf of the Americas finally has the appearance of a civilized world. The scale of agricultural production is also getting bigger and bigger under the impetus of the orders provided by the government of the Americas, and by the time of the spring ploughing in the fifteenth year of Hongxing, the cultivated land that has been reclaimed has exceeded 800,000 mu!

If the weather is good, by the time of this autumn's harvest, millions of stone flour and soybeans will be sent to warehouses across the Americas...... That's enough food for 200,000 strong laborers to eat for a whole year!

Combined with the accumulation of previous years, by this fall, the food of the American Province will be enough to support a war with the Spaniards.

And the smell of gunpowder here in the Americas Mansion is indeed getting stronger and stronger.

The pace of war is approaching!

The contact between the two sides on land began in the summer of the fourteenth year of Hongxing. The defenders of Fort Riverside, the outpost of the Ming army of the Americas, reported a number of "contact incidents" in May and June of the 14th year.

According to reports, the Ming troops, patrolling and exploring south from the outpost of Fort Riverside, encountered Japanese mercenaries from the Spaniards at least five times in the forests and valleys south of Fort Riverside!

Although both sides exercised restraint and did not open fire, the hostile attitude was evident.

By the beginning of the fifteenth year, through the reports of some Indians who had escaped from the killing of Japanese mercenaries in Spain and fled to the territory of the Americas (of course, there were Indians in the area of the Americas), in a large valley about 30 days away from the riverside fort, there were now many "dwarfs" building castles and cultivating land.

And these dwarfs are also very unreasonable, for the nearby Indian tribes, they will first burn and loot, and then expel from the country, which is really cruel!

The Ming Dynasty has never done such an unreasonable thing! Because the House of the Americas has been around since ancient times, there have always been only a very small number of Indians here......

After receiving a report from the American Government about the arrival of "tens of thousands of Japanese mercenaries" in California, the Ming court did not dare to ignore it any longer.

From the end of the fourteenth year, large numbers of the Young Guards, the Black Cavalry (all dressed in black) and the Japanese Red Iron Artillery (dressed in red) began to sail on Pacific sailing ships, and thousands of them flocked to the New World.

And these heavily armed soldiers began to arrive one after another, and there were many "stock refugees" from the affluent Jiangnan region...... Most of these people did not know how to farm, and they were either small merchants or handicraftsmen, and some were landlords and scholars who sat on land rent (now they were not scholars), and all of them came to the Americas with their families.

Most of these people held United States stocks that could be exchanged for land in the Americas, but most of them did not know how to farm, so when they came to the Americas, they did not immediately exchange land, but settled in the city of the peninsula.

Some of them relied on their crafts to eat, some of them started petty businesses, some of them opened schools, and some of them simply went to the examination of the petty officials of the Americas, where there were too few scholars, so there was also a shortage of qualified officials.

Therefore, the arrival of these "stock refugees" has made the market of Peninsula City a lot more active, and it has also made the Yamen of the American Province more presentable.

However, Zhu Cihuan, the king of Chongqing County of the Ming Dynasty, and his followers are very special existences - they are a combination of stock refugees and expeditionary forces!

Zhu Cihuan not only became an American, but also became an American warlord...... This is really bizarre, when he left Shanghai, he was still a refugee, and when he arrived at the port of Peninsula City, he was already a warlord king with 2,000 troops!

"What's going on? What's going on? It's not that the people who fled to the Americas after speculating in stocks and speculation still brought 2,000 troops? This ...... Make no mistake, right? ”

In the castle of the American Mansion, Wei Zhongzhong, who received a report from his subordinates, was frightened.

He had already learned from the letter sent by Wei Zaode that Zhu Cihuan, a stupid prince, had speculated in stocks and lost all the emperor's pension money, so he had to run away to the Americas.

In his mind, people who speculate in stocks should be very depressed, and there are many such people in Peninsula City who are struggling. Although Zhu Cihuan is the king of the county, he has never been very favored, and this time he lost all the emperor's pension money, and it seems that he still owes a lot of debts, and the situation can be imagined.

But today someone told him that the prince had taken 2,000 troops off the ship...... What the hell is going on? Is it Zhu Cihuan who came? It can't be the American "local tyrant king" Zhu Hehao, right?

"Wei Taishou, Wei Taishou...... The king of Chongqing is here! Let's go and greet it! ”

When Wei Zhongzhong was in a daze, Qi Yuanbi, the admiral of the American Army, had already entered the middle hall of the American Mansion while shouting.

"Is it really the king of Chongqing?" Wei Zhongzhong asked.

The American Army is not a simple field army, but an army of one side, which is in charge of all the Ming armies on the American side, including the Gulf of America Naval Division. The merchant ships docked at the Peninsula Pier were stopped by the clippers of the Gulf of the Americas Navy Division at the mouth of the South Bay (the entrance to the Gulf of Americas), and after inspection, the clippers were brought to the Peninsula Harbor.

Therefore, the news obtained by the Admiral of the American Army must be the most accurate.

"That's right! also brought 2,000 Japanese guards," Qi Yuanbi smiled, "They were all deceived by Grandpa Ogura and several Japanese feudal lords when he was passing through Kyushu, Japan, and I heard that he also kidnapped a niece of Grandpa Ogura." ”

"Wait, is it the fifth prince or the third prince? Why does this sound so much like the work of the three kings? ”

"It's all the same...... Qi Yuanbi laughed, "Are they all brothers!" Are you still honest as the fifth prince? Is it really honest to cheat the emperor's pension money away to speculate in stocks? ”