While the Dutch, the British, were there worried about their future, in the Atlantic, a Ming Navy cruiser was sailing at full speed toward New York. At this time, not only the officers and men on the "Meizhou" were particularly curious about the "New York", but even Peng Peng, who was about to become the interim governor, was also extremely curious about it.

For Peng Peng, who is already in his thirties, he originally just regarded this visit as an opportunity and looked forward to the promotion after returning to China, after all, as a demoted official in Wuchang, he was from a bad background, and the possibility of natural promotion was extremely small, but he didn't expect that by chance, he was actually appointed as the governor of New York by the deputy envoy.

However, for this "beauty difference", he secretly complained bitterly in his heart.

"How did you get to that kind of outland?"

Although he complained so bitterly in his heart, Peng Peng did not dare to resist this order, after all, he was demoted.

"New York, the Dutch New Netherlands, the Dutch colony in eastern North America, no less than the Ming Province, located in the Hudson and Lower Delaware River basins. The administrative center of New York, formerly known as New Amsterdam. ”

Unlike Peng Peng, as a soldier, Nie Ping did not have any resistance to his appointment, in fact, this is the difference between a soldier and an ordinary civilian official, and Nie Ping is still a military official, so after he accepted the appointment, he immediately collected local information through various means.

If Zhu Mingzhong had received their report at this time, he might have known that the so-called "New York" was not limited to Manhattan, but roughly included parts of New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Delaware in the United States. It is an extremely large colony, and of course, for the Ming Dynasty, it is only a leased land with a lease term of 99 years.

But Peng Peng and Nie Ping knew very well that after the British king signed the treaty, as soon as the excited Xiong Cilu returned to his residence, he shouted excitedly, "This is Liu Bei's borrowing from Jingzhou, and the new York is from the Ming Dynasty." ”。

"I know all of what you're talking about, and I know ......"

Peng Peng held a teacup in his hand, at sea, according to the rules of the sea, he could only drink persimmon leaf tea, which was the only "drink" of the navy and the merchant fleet, and Peng Peng, as the governor, was no exception.

"How could I not understand this, when the deputy envoy was negotiating, the official was present, but you don't know, you don't know,......"

With a long sigh, he drank persimmon leaf tea that didn't taste good, and Peng Peng said again.

"Did you know that there is another British colony not far from New York, called Virginia?"

"Hmm."

Nodding, Nie Ping didn't know why the Governor mentioned this place.

"The colonization of America, for the countries of Europe, was on a first-come, first-served basis, and the British went late, so the good places were taken by others, and the British went to the gravelly, swampy, and mountainous East Coast, where the land was sparsely populated, food was scarce, and there were frequent droughts; Although there were not many local Indians, they were very strong, and there was no such thing as a king who was captured by the Spaniards in the Inca and surrendered to them all. ”

With a mocking smile, Peng Peng continued to repeat the "history of blood and tears" he had learned from the British at the negotiating table.

"Sixty years ago, the British sent the first 105 colonists there, now Jamestown, the capital of Virginia, and they nearly starved to death, even if they barely survived for two years, only to have another famine. They killed all the horses, cats, and dogs, after which they had to catch rats to feed their hunger. Some people boiled their shoes and belts and ate them. A man was so hungry that he killed his pregnant wife and pickled it for the rest of the winter. In the end, the man was hanged, and eighty percent of his flesh became food for others. Because in that year, they ate everything they could, even the bodies that had been buried were dug out and eaten. ”

For Peng Peng, who has experienced the transformation of Jiashen, he does not feel strange to cannibalism, but that land makes him feel afraid.

"Later, even though they managed to survive the famine and barely gain their footing, the local natives attacked from time to time, and 45 years ago, the Indians launched an attack on British farms along the James River, killing 347 out of 1,240 Britons, there were only so many people there at the time, and the attacks never stopped. As more and more British people came here, the more frequent the Indian attacks became, and for the British, many whites died in the battle with the Indians, but more whites died of disease. From 1607 to 1624, a total of 14,000 Englishmen came to Virginia, but by 1624, 1,132 people were still alive, with a mortality rate of more than 90%! ”

Peng Peng's rhetorical question made Nie Ping stunned for a moment, and then he shook his head and said.

"Now there are 20,000 white people living in Virginia, and there are almost 10,000 black slaves, and the plantation industry was very developed......

Without waiting for him to finish, Peng Peng immediately retorted,

"That's because the British kept filling in with people, and they filled in almost 60,000 people in 60 years, so we have Virginia now. New York! ”

Looking at the map hanging on the bulkhead, Peng Peng smiled helplessly.

"There's a fart there! But just over 2,000 white people, and that place, I dare say, is the equivalent of Virginia forty years ago, and we have a thousand lives a year to fill it? ”

After such an exclamation, Peng Peng continued.

"It's not that the official doesn't want to, but we go to New York, but just to make wedding dresses for others, according to the agreement we reached with the British, the British can continue to immigrate to New York, and in the future the British can immigrate thousands of people a year, and what about us? Can we immigrate a thousand people from the homeland? If there are not enough people, in the long run, do you think, is this the Ming Dynasty, or the British? ”

Peng Peng's rhetorical question made Nie Ping stunned, he really didn't expect so much.

"Aren't there exiles?"

"How many prisoners are there? No matter how beautiful the world is, the Celestial Empire, except for the prisoners, who wants to come overseas, Nanyang, Tianya City plus Xiping, so many colonies, like sprinkling beans, separated, how many can be shared with us? ”

In addition to sighing like this, Peng Peng said helplessly.

"Now, what we can do is probably do our best!"

After such an exclamation, Nie Ping also fell into contemplation, and also had a trace of doubt about the future of New York, after all, the reason why a colony is a colony is because of people, and there are no people, or they are all other people, and in the end they are just making wedding dresses for others!

The 42-gun three-masted cruiser "Meizhou" sailed on the sea for another five days, and finally approached New York, the capital of New York. Unlike Jamestown, which ran along the James River about 32 miles inland to escape the Spanish attack, New York is located on a corner of Manhattan Island. On November 3, the day a heavy snowfall hit New York, the "Meizhou" sailed into New York.

Almost as soon as this warship, which has a completely different style from the British warship, appeared in people's sights, with a "they are coming", this city with a population of less than 1,000 people immediately fell into a boil, and in the past few days, everyone knew that the New York had been leased to Daming, and people had been anxiously waiting for this day to come.

During church services, the priest also told the faithful to be wary of these infidels. But when the day came, the people spontaneously made their way to the docks to greet the new owners of New York, and the Dutch, as merchants, were pragmatic and wanted to make a good impression on the new owners.

While people flocked to the dock from all corners of the city, the "Meizhou" was still slowly docking. The people on the dock looked curiously there,

"This is a very powerful warship!"

This is the impression left by the warship of the Ming Dynasty on William, who is a shipbuilder himself, and he can see at a glance that this warship is different from European warships.

Everyone seemed extremely cautious, and the gentry and the governor of the city stood there, but they stood there cautiously, and no one knew what kind of posture the new master of the place would come, because they were strange, so they seemed a little cautious.

They were so cautious, as were the ordinary citizens behind them, and many of them even had a hint of fear on their faces, and they even thought of the image of a barbarian, like a barbarian like the Indians.

The ship is getting closer.

Finally, they saw the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, wearing hats and black woolen coats, standing in a neat line on the side of the gunwale. Although the distance was not close, one could feel that these soldiers were different from the European soldiers they were used to, and that they seemed to be more formidable.

And the women in the skirts had begun to look at the British soldiers on the dock, comparing them with the Ming soldiers on the ship, and they were discussing the difference between the two from time to time, compared to men, women were more attracted by appearances. Even some of the women guessed from their standing posture that there must be many handsome officers among them, and perhaps they could have a good time with them if they had the chance.

Compared with the women's thoughts that shouldn't exist, the men will be nervous all year after year, but Richard Nichols, the new governor of York, always has a smile on his face, but there is a bit of loss in the smile, the arrival of the Ming people means that he will leave here and abandon the people here. He didn't even care about that, but he was still a little worried about the future of these people

"Oh my God! You see, they're white! ”