A large clipper ship anchored in the Pearl River was the "New York", and this voyage was the maiden voyage of the New York. It was also the largest tonnage merchant ship built in the New York colony.

Compared with the native oak wood that only exists in Liaodong, in the New York colony, there are hundred-year-old oak everywhere, which is why as early as the beginning of the development of the New York colony, the colonial government established shipyards, and the early immigrants also used logging and shipbuilding as the main industry. The abundance and inexpensive timber made the ships of the New York colony much cheaper than the mainland, which was the reason for the popularity of the ships built by it.

In the past ten years, the New York colony has not only built hundreds of merchant ships, but also built more than a dozen warships, and now these merchant ships are widely used in trade in Africa and the Tianzhu Sea, and even the naval fleet of the Xiping colony in the Cape of Good Hope, half of the warships are also built by the New York colony.

Standing on the merchant ship "New York", John Lively looked a little lost.

"How? Did you get a reply? ”

A friend's inquiry, made John Lefrett shake his head,

In two days, the New York will depart.

"If you really can't do it, you just go directly to the academy and ask, in this way, whether you succeed or not, you will always die, right?"

Li Qianyi said.

"I'm different from you, you're Mingren, I'm ......"

John Leverett's voice paused, and then he spoke.

"I'm a colony, and if I'm a native, I'm not even qualified to enter the Ming Dynasty."

Now the Ming Dynasty is open, he is open to scholars and their families all over the world, and he is also conservative, and foreign ships can only sail to the South Tianmen in the Strait of Malacca, and continue to sail to the South Ming Sea, which is considered a pirate.

At the same time, the Ming Dynasty also forbade scholars and outsiders other than their families to enter, even the natives of the colonies or Zhuxia.

The Celestial Empire is not someone who wants to come!

But for anyone who has ever been to the Celestial Empire, they will be fascinated by the Celestial Empire.

They are fascinated by the calm, peaceful and beautiful life here.

"I don't know what heaven looks like, but the Celestial Empire, maybe the closest place to heaven!"

Ten years ago, at Harvard College, a Harvard graduate alumnus wrote about the Celestial Empire, to which he and his family had already moved.

In his letter, everything in the Celestial Empire is perfect, the closest place to heaven. In the travelogues of Europeans, the Celestial Empire is forever associated with heaven.

Only now, this paradise is closed to Europeans.

Of course, as a scholar, John Leverett longed to come to the Celestial Empire not because it was closest to heaven, but because he was eager to learn the latest scientific knowledge at this time.

John Livelytt, a Harvard graduate, was in the New York colony when he interacted with the Ming scholars of the colony, and although he could always learn a lot from them, there were very few scholars in the New York colony, and most of them were not well-known scholars.

Actually, the colonies were backward. With the exception of a few shipbuilding engineers, the New York colony lagged far behind the Ming Dynasty academically. There wasn't even a steam engine there. Because of this, three years ago, John Lefrett made a decision to go to Daming to study.

His decision was supported by Harvard College, and they even petitioned the governor of the New York colony of the Ming Dynasty in the name of the academy - only New York was leased to the Ming Dynasty according to the treaty, and the New England Confederation region, which was united by Massachusetts Bay, New Haven, Connecticut, and Plymouth, as well as New Jersey and Rhode Island, still belonged to Britain. Their petition was rightfully denied.

However, John Levery did not give up, he was a professor at Harvard College, first studied the law of the New York colony, he first resigned and moved to New York, lived there for two years, and then naturalized in the colony. He then received a letter of recommendation from the Governor, who was allowed to pass the Academy's examinations under the Colony's Education Order to go to the mainland to study.

Of course, this does not mean that his path to education will be smooth sailing. He also needs to have the college agree to admit him. Although he now has a Chinese name "Li Jie", he can still feel the strange eyes of the professors during the interview.

He is a naturalized person.

And not a native naturalized person, but a naturalized person in the New York colony.

"The colonists are also the Ming people. And you're already naturalized, as for what else......"

Li Gan glanced into the distance, and then said.

"Otherwise, don't think about it so much, right now, maybe there's some New York and New England, but maybe in the future, New York and New England will merge into one colony, who knows?"

Li Qianyi's words made John Levery silent for a while, and during the two years he lived in the New York colony, he had made many friends, and those seemingly gentle friends had always been obsessed with the lease of the colony, and they were also eyeing New England.

"Maybe one day, our army will take New England."

Even the friendliest of Akitoshi believed that this was a possibility. It is precisely because of this that John Leverett's heart is always entangled, and now that he has become a naturalized Mingren, it stands to reason that he should be on the side of the Ming Dynasty, but deep down, he knows that he is more inclined there. Even the reason why he chose to study in Daming was because he hoped that after completing his studies, he would introduce the science here to the Americas and bring it to Harvard.

"Maybe."

John Lefrett shrugged his shoulders helplessly, his eyes tinged with concern.

Only when you come to Daming will you know how powerful Daming is.

When he came to Guangzhou and boarded the dock of Guangzhou, although he had been prepared for everything he was going to witness, he was still shocked at this moment. He had never seen such a bustling city, on the docks, everywhere was slow people, and the streets were also crowded with people, like the tide. In the eyes of Europeans, these Orientals, regardless of gender, age or age, have similar appearances. The spectacle of so many people huddled together horrified John Leverett on the docks.

At this moment, he even felt a kind of fear, a fear of the human power of the Celestial Empire. There is no doubt that at this time, only in Daming can you see so many people in the world. Such a huge number of human resources is enough to make any European country in this era tremble.

As he said maybe, a voice in John Leverett's heart told him that it was impossible to even avoid it!

Because of the steady stream of immigrants, they are constantly entering the North American colonies. Staring at the immigrant hostel in the distance, he couldn't help but think in his heart - perhaps, this day will be soon.

Just as he fantasized about how the steady stream of immigrants would change the colonies in North America, a small sampan rowed to the side and one of the postmen on board shouted.

"Li Jie, Li Jie, Li Jie of the "New York", there is your letter! ”

The letter was sent from the academy, and John Livelytt, who was extremely nervous, no, he should be called Li Jie now, tore open the envelope, glanced at the contents of the letter, and then shouted excitedly.

"I was admitted, I was admitted to Yushan Academy......"

On the deck of the "New York", looking at the letter Li Jie shouted excitedly, he raised the admission notice in his hand, and while accepting the congratulations of others, his eyes skimmed to the immigration hostel from time to time, and there was only one thought in his heart - no matter what, one day is a day, maybe when he graduates, the colony will really become one, who knows?

When Li Jie said goodbye to the "New York" and took the sampan to Guangzhou, in the "immigration hostel", the immigrants were still undergoing simple medical examinations to prevent the outbreak of epidemic diseases on the ship, after all, in the cramped cabin, infectious diseases are deadly.

Poor medical check-ups can lead to epidemic diseases on migrant ships. More than a decade ago, the first batch of migrants sent from a migrant shelter suffered a cholera attack on a migrant ship, killing more than a dozen people. To this end, the government has strengthened its supervision of immigration centers, and immigration offices have further standardized the procedures for medical examinations for immigrants. Hygiene and epidemic prevention have become the most important work of migrant shelters.

The cafeteria is located on the first floor of the shelter, and the layout, also in reference to the ship's cabin, is lined with 8-seat tables to provide immigrants with simple meals, although simple, but the food is not bad. In addition to this, the migrant shelter has shops, bathrooms, a library, a children's playroom, a recreation room, a barber room, classrooms, and more. It also has a corresponding educational function, including social etiquette, information on the place of emigration, general knowledge of hygiene, religion and other courses. In addition, there is a children's school and a tour of the zoo is held. For Li Mingdian's children, visiting the zoo is undoubtedly the happiest time, after all, they have never been to the zoo.

In addition, the government compiled a special "Guide to North American Routes" to inform the settlers of the items they had to carry on their voyages, including clothing, household items, and easy-to-carry agricultural and carpentry tools, after all, the price of such agricultural tools in the colonies was much higher than in the mainland.

Finally, after seven days of waiting, Li Mingdian and his family received a notice to board the ship, and before boarding, the migrants had to send all their luggage to the courtyard of the immigration center for inspection by the clerks.

"Everyone, pay attention, in addition to farm tools, tools and carry-on clothes, such as cotton, silk, etc., all need to pay tariffs, you must not lose a big one because of a small one, you know?"

Despite the clerk's notice, in the "cabin", Li Mingdian still said to his daughter-in-law.

"Wrap this silk tightly, wrap it around your waist, wrap it a little more......"

Like all immigrants, Lee has the idea of tax evasion, and the immigrants will wrap silk around their waists.

In the colonies, silk and cotton cloth could be sold at high prices, especially the former. For these immigrants, a few pieces of silk might make their lives in a foreign land a little easier.

Maybe the clerks can also understand their feelings, so the inspection is not strict, let alone a body search, and even the luggage, it is just a simple check, tie the name card to the bundled luggage, and store it in the ship's warehouse, and only when the ship is near the equator, can you take out the single clothes and replace them.

On the sixth day of the third month of the eighth year of Xingqian, on this day, the immigrants in the immigration hotel were busy until the evening. After packing up everything and before leaving, as has always been the custom, the migrants gather in the temple next to the harbor to pray for the safety of navigation and success in a foreign land.

Although, according to the custom of the sea dealers, they should worship Mazu themselves, the immigrants are often more accustomed to visiting the temple, after all, the temple has infiltrated all aspects of their country in the past few decades.

In the early morning of the seventh day of the fifth lunar month, Li Mingdian's family and the immigrants gathered in the auditorium after a simple breakfast. The shelter distributes numbered plates for the beds and introduces the transport supervisors and assistants of the immigration companies that accompany the ship. Finally, the director of the migrant shelter took the podium and encouraged the migrants to have "grand ambitions" to develop overseas, and finally the director on the stage shouted.

"Immigrants who sailed overseas, let us bow to the north together and thank His Majesty the Emperor for his kindness!"

Under the leadership of the director, the immigrants collectively bowed to the north.

This process is full of rituals, in fact, it is also a ritual specially established by the official immigrants, so that the immigrants can be grateful to the royal family, so that they can remember that their new life is benefiting from the royal family.

After the bows, the migrants, dressed in costumes, set off from the shelter in a procession and walked along the road in front of the shelter towards the port. Unlike the first generation of immigrants, most of today's immigrants have attended social studies and have queued up in social studies, and when they leave in a line, they will always look left and right, and their eyes are full of nostalgia.

"Second son, remember, remember, this is Guangzhou, it is the Ming ......"

Like everyone else, Li Mingdian hugged his young son and wanted him to remember everything in front of him, and they knew that after leaving Guangzhou, they would never return to Daming and return to their homeland.

Originally, the vast majority of immigrants were desperate and frustrated second sons, and some of them were even full of resentment in their hearts, but when it came to the day when they were far away from the Ming Dynasty, people still couldn't help but have mixed feelings in their hearts, and many people couldn't help but shed tears. Looking at everything around him, his eyes are full of reluctance.

As the migrants enter the docks, the bands of the nearby schools play a rousing march to see them off. In addition to the band, students from several nearby social schools also came to the pier to see them off. With the accompaniment of the band, those children who were only eight or nine years old waved the sun and moon flags

While singing "The Song of the Immigrants" to the beat of the band.

"Onward! Compatriots, across the ocean, towards the south, towards the new summer...... Towards the unexplored rich land, become a heroic pioneer, and let that foreign land bathe in the glory of Chinese civilization......"