On a June day, the sun is shining high and the sky is clear.

In the northwest of the Ming Dynasty, at the junction of the Eurasian continent, Vice Marshal Sun Chuanting is leading 200,000 troops and nearly 300,000 allied troops of the anti-Habsburg powers to confront each other on the front line of the Wu River.

At this time, the land of the extreme east of the Ming Dynasty, the port of Edo, which was in the east of the country, was full of joy.

On the sea, countless armed ships of the Ming Empire are lined up neatly, and there is no edge in sight, and by the port, countless ordinary people from Dongying are crowded together, admiring the power of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, Tagawa Nanazaemon was already twenty-two, as early as two years ago, he succeeded to the throne as the king of Dongying, the Ming Zheng clan, a double king, and was honored for a while.

The reason why the Ming Empire gathered thousands of armed ships was not to come to Dongying for business, but to prepare to set off from Edo Port and rush to the North American continent to open up the first overseas colony.

The Ming Empire and the North American continent are separated by more than 20,000 miles, and the large expedition team sent by Zhu Cijiong took nearly three months to return from the North American continent.

The expedition team had found a natural harbor below the snow line on the North American continent, judging from the map they brought back, it should be Seattle or Vancouver in the future.

This is a name with quite the characteristics of the Ming Dynasty, which means that there are mountains full of gold and silver, and it is extremely rich.

Of course, Zhu Cijiong knew that the Jinshan or San Francisco in the later generations was not there, but what did it matter, in this life, it would become a colony of the Ming Empire, and the place name was not how he wanted to take it.

In order to occupy and develop the North American continent, Zhu Cijiong ordered the Ming Royal Shipping Company to gather 1,000 armed ships, and ordered the North Sea Fleet to send ten super battleships, carrying the Tianxiong Army, the Loyal Army, and countless grain and grass materials, from the new port of Dongdaying, to the Edo port of the subject country of Dongying, and then from the port of Edo, to the port of Kanayama on the American continent.

This time, he specially sent the generalissimo Lu Xiangsheng, who was both civil and military, and extremely strong, and put him in charge of all matters related to the occupation and development of the North American continent.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng was chatting happily with the king of Toei, Tagawa Shichizaemon, on the dock, while more than 100,000 soldiers of the First Army of Toei were lining up in a neat line to board the armed fortune ship.

The main reason why he came here to take a turn was to pick up the First Legion of Dongying.

The expedition did not investigate the exact situation on the North American continent at this time, and their main purpose was to determine where the port would be built.

It takes a lot of people to build ports and naval bases, and how many natives there are in the local area and where they gather, the Ming Empire still doesn't know anything about this, and it is naturally unrealistic to recruit people in the local area temporarily, and it is impossible for the Tianxiong Army and the Loyal Army to nest there to build infrastructure, which requires the transfer of other people's manpower to work.

It just so happened that Dongying had two vassal legions, and they often participated in the construction of railways, and building a port was also considered a journeyman, so Zhu Cijiong decided to let Lu Xiangsheng go to Dongying halfway and bring the first army of Dongying with him.

Originally, if 1,000 armed ships were to be stuffed in, 500,000 or 600,000 people would also be stuffed in, but this time they had too many supplies to bring, not only the army's grain and grass, weapons and ammunition, but also the cement and steel needed to build the port and base, and the artillery needed for the defense of the base, etc., which could not fit so many people at all.

Of course, this is only the first wave, and after this wave is delivered, there will be a second wave, and at that time two more vassal legions will have to be transported, as well as the materials needed to build factories such as steel mills, machine factories, train yards, and large power plants.

Building a railway over there is not an overnight thing, and it is obviously not very realistic to transport rails and trains from Daming, Zhu Cijiong decided to open a factory directly there, and look for iron ore and coal mines there, like train carriages and rails, which have little technical content, are directly manufactured there, and Daming himself transports locomotives over at most.

Tagawa Nanazaemon and Lu Xiangsheng are the kings of the subject country and the generalissimo of the Ming Empire, so it seems that they don't have much in common, but they have been chatting for a long, long time, and even after all the 100,000 men and horses of the First Legion of Dongying have boarded the armed fortune ship, they are still talking.

What's going on here?

The topic is mainly brought up by Tagawa Nanazaemon, as the head of a country, he has to think about his people, such a narrow place as Toei, the population has exceeded 30 million, and at this time he can't restrict births, so he can only find a way to emigrate.

Originally, at the beginning of the Ming occupation of Siberia, he applied to His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire to move some of the people of Dongying to Siberia, but His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire did not agree.

The reason why Zhu Cijiong did not agree naturally had his considerations, because Siberia is not suitable for relocating too many people because of the climate, and if there are too many people, it will cause a shortage of food, because for the time being, there is still too little and too little grain production.

If there is no food, the population limit is limited, and the maximum number of people who can move there is tens of millions, and if there is more, I don't know how much capacity will be wasted just to transport food there.

And over there is a newly occupied territory and a treasure trove of resources, Zhu Cijiong naturally wants to control it in his own hands, although Dongying is now a subject country of the Ming Dynasty, but who knows what will happen in the future.

As the emperor of the Ming Empire, he had to think more than Tagawa Nanazaemon, and he didn't want to cause unnecessary trouble by the time when the population of Dongying in Siberia exceeded that of the Ming Dynasty, so he simply rejected Tagawa Nanaemon's application.

But this time it's different, the climate in North America is suitable, the population is temporarily unlimited, and there is no problem in relocating hundreds of millions of people in the past, so there is no need to restrict the migration of Dongying's population at this time.

Dongying can be moved, and other subject countries can also be moved, of course, it is mainly the population of the Ming Dynasty, and after immigration, the officials and garrisons over there must also be the subjects of the Ming Empire in the future, so that the people of the Ming Dynasty will form the mainstream over there, and they are not afraid that these vassal states will turn the world upside down.

After Zhu Cijiong revealed this tone, Tagawa Nanazaemon became interested, the reason why he pulled Lu Xiangsheng to talk was for the matter of immigration, Lu Xiangsheng was in charge of all matters on the North American continent, that is to say, for a long time, he was the governor over there, and this person naturally had to be wooed well.

Lu Xiangsheng was also very polite to Tagawa Nanaemon, because this is not only the king of Dongying, but also the son of the king of Zhennan, the younger brother of Zheng Chenggong, the generalissimo of the Ming Empire, can be said to be more noble than him, and he naturally does not dare to slack off.

There is always a time to get together and part, and after a detailed exchange of views with Tagawa Nanazaem on matters related to immigration, Lu Xiangsheng and Tagawa Nanazaem finally stepped on the long-awaited super battleship.

Subsequently, with ten super battleships in front and a thousand armed ships behind, the first real colonial fleet in the history of the Ming Dynasty finally set off, aiming directly at the North American continent!