In the fifth lunar month, the tense sky over the Americas was 'dark clouds', and the clouds of war had accumulated thicker and thicker in the past two years. In many places, the Spanish colonial government was already 'driving out' Chinese goods. If a smuggler is found, it is a direct hanging, not just confiscation of the smuggled goods.

As a result, revolts broke out in various parts of Spanish America, internal contradictions became increasingly fierce, and the flames of war in the southern tip of the Americas were still burning.

But there are also 'calm' places, such as the junction of Deng and Spanish Florida.

There was originally a small European town with English, French, Hispanic, German, Italian, etc., and a few small villages on the periphery, with a total of 15,600 people.

In this era of America, it is not easy to live in a non-prosperous area, where more than 1,000 people can live.

But just last year, more than 3,000 Orientals poured in, much to the local town council and residents.

They never thought of resisting by force, for at least five hundred of the three thousand people who poured in from the East were armed with guns, and they dragged four cannons, and a cavalry corps.

This directly made everyone up and down the town dumb.

Hundreds of guns are aimed at a small town with a population of less than 1,000 people, and against a village with a population of only 1,200 people.

Under the protection of these guns, a group of small laborers with short hair dressed in uniform canvas overalls wielded shovels and hammers and opened a quarry at the foot of a hill 1,800 meters from the town. The stone here is made of serious granite, which is not very expensive in the Americas today, but it is absolutely necessary. This can be used as a fortification, whether it is a pillbox, a city wall, a fortress, or a turret, granite can serve as a permanent fortification. It is even stronger than the current inferior earth cement.

With the power of cannons and rockets in this era, it would not be easy to deal with a fortress built entirely of hard stone.

Broken stones from quarries are also useful. After the large rock mass was blasted open by the black powder, the large stones were transported away, and the small pieces of crushed stone could be used to pave the road, but this also required manpower to break it.

As for the steam-type air breaker that has been commonly used on large-scale construction sites in China, I am sorry that such high-level equipment will not come to this place at all. It's not safe right now, there's a danger of war, so keep it simple.

Most of these Japanese have already shaved their hair when they boarded the ship, and there was no way to do it if they didn't shave, and they had two meals a day after shaving: one dry and one thin, and occasionally mixed with salty crackers with minced meat. Those who don't shave their hair also have two meals, but all of them are thin.

The Japanese also attached great importance to hairstyles, and after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, Chinese businessmen who went to Japan to do business were ridiculed and discriminated against by the Japanese because of their money rat tails and horse coat robes, especially Japanese samurai. Tsukiyotou is a symbol of the 'ruling class' in Japan, and many lower-class samurai can't eat enough to eat, but Tsukiyotou is unusually neatly groomed, and he has to wrap his hair when he goes to work for merchants.

But now they are tempted by food, and it is okay to insist on one or two days, ten days and a half months has reached the limit, and one or two months is simply impossible. Many people can't hold on and shave their short hair one after another. No matter how much attention is made, it can't be bigger than the belly. The sky is big, and the belly is the biggest.

These Japanese were laborers, and their role in the Americas was that of the Chinese laborers who were used as piglets in the original plane. It's just that the Chinese treat them much better than the historical American animals treat Chinese workers.

Even why these people came to the Americas thousands of miles away to make a living, the reason is similar to that of the Chinese laborers in the original time and space.

I can't get along in the country, and I have nothing left for the poor. When you come to the Americas, no matter how hard and tiring the work is, there will always be something to eat, right? There is also a salary that is not low for Japan.

After the Tokugawa shogunate did the first business of exporting labor, they would make a second and third payment when they saw the benefits.

The Chinese Immigration Bureau is more engaged in women in Japan, and this labor force still needs to be organized by the Japanese themselves. The daimyo of those places where there are many refugees and displaced people are now generally engaged in the export of labor. It's just that their company is very easy to set up, and it does make money when it makes a business, but it doesn't have much business.

They are not a USCIS that has a cabinet to pay for, and they can hoard people first and then ship them to the Americas. These local daimyo are engaged in the export of labor, that is, after there is an order, they wave the food organization men, and the direction is not only for the Americas. They also take orders for business in Sakhalin and the Outer Northeast, where the environment is very harsh.

The Japanese laborers in Pensacola arrived in Deng in the middle of last year, and only replaced the previous group in March, and they came to Pensacola, a natural deep-water harbor near the sea, that is, they planned to directly sweep this area of territory at the beginning of the war, and then the troops directly attacked Cape San Blas, and the northern part of Florida was opened.

If you can't preemptively let the Spaniards preemptively deploy naval and army fortifications around the small town of Pensacola, it will be really troublesome.

Chen Ming was very worried that after the outbreak of the Sino-Spanish War, the Spaniards would learn from Feng Ting, the commander of the Korean Shangdang County 2,000 years ago, and use the strategy of leading the way to the east to teach Florida to the Americans.

With a few days of delay on the Spaniard's side in Pensacola, the deal could be done.

Although Chen Ming didn't take the lighthouse country at this time in his eyes at all, but now his main target is the Spaniards, and the big fat is in front of him, but he can't take care of looking at Lao Mei, at this time, more is better than less, isn't it?

It's just that Chen Ming is not at ease with the founding father of Lao Mei, and he is not sure that there is no Pingyuan Jun.

At this time, the power of the local state government in the United States is amazing, and the local state government in the south has already sent troops into the city before Philadelphia has agreed. [From 1790 to 1800, Washington was the capital of the United States before it was founded. 】

Besides, Pensacola is also a very suitable place as a military port, not to mention the natural deep-water harbor, the peninsula that stretches into the sea from the right is like a big tea canopy, covering most of the water in front of Pensacola, which is a natural seawall.

It's just that North America has always been on the periphery of the Spaniards' sphere of influence, and to be honest, Pensacola really can't attract the interest of the Spaniards with its single seaport geographical advantage. The long east coast of the Americas has too many excellent harbors. The development of the Spaniards is to select a place with the best location advantages and the best economic benefits for themselves, and then focus on investment and operation.

So, Pensacola is just a very ordinary town for you. The port terminal is also a small civilian dock, and large warships cannot dock, let alone repair yards, shipyards, and so on.

Today, there are about 4,000 Oriental people in Pensacola, half of whom are immigrants - 2,000 immigrants, 400 households, which is very strong. The other 2,000 or so, a battalion of militia, this is a military force, and the rest are all Japanese laborers.

The Japanese don't look short, but they obey orders, are docile and obedient, and work hard. It is a good slave worker choice.

The labor force is stronger than that of the Koreans twenty years ago, and much higher than that of the natives of the South Seas.

The militia battalion is an army 'organized' by the six feudal states of the Americas, such as Deng Guo. In fact, they hired the former American Dispatch Army.

As the foundation of the future feudal armies of large and small feudal states, it is reasonable that these troops should be supported by their lords. Now that they were rented out, the soldiers of the Dispatch Army did not feel that they had been bought or disrespected, but they were glad that they could receive three salaries.

One is the basic salary, and the other is the training subsidy. Yes, the war that is about to break out now is 'training' for the sending army/vassal militia.

There is also a subsidy for 'training' given by each vassal state.

Three salaries added together, this amount is really not low. It is much, much higher than the Japanese laborers who are immersed in coolies.

Now, 2,000 Deng immigrants have set up a town-level stronghold and two village-level strongholds opposite the town of Pensacola.

The fortifications – all from this quarry not far from the town of Pensacola.

Four production teams/400 Japanese laborers worked in and out of the quarry.

The remaining Japanese also had to be responsible for brick kilns, lumber yards, construction teams, etc.

The former attacked the raw materials for the construction of villages and towns, while the latter expanded the city, built the city walls, leveled the docks, and built the roads on the basis of the initial strongholds, and in short, the work was very large. It is said that five more Japanese production teams and 300 Indians will be sent here in the east to build and expand the port south of the harbor.

Obviously, the enlarged port will definitely not be limited to civilian use. And there were definitely fortifications and batteries, forts.

Today's sky is not very good, it is cloudy for most of the day, and it rains at four o'clock.

By the next morning, the rain had stopped, but the air was still damp.

Mr Fernández hates rainy weather and hails from the northwest of Portugal, which is the sunniest place in all of Portugal. Why he came to North America doesn't need to be said, Fernandez has a limp on his leg anyway, and he seems to be emotionally inclined towards Spain.

Anyway, after he came to North America with a limp leg, Fernández's leg joint always hurt a little when it rained, so he moved from Havana, Cuba, where he first landed, to Chile. It's just that Chile suffered a lot of damage in the last war between Central and Western America, and Fernández was forced to leave there, and he came to Pensacola.

Pensacola is not a wind-wrenching place, with more than 1,000 mm of rainfall a year.

But Fernández found the true meaning of his life here, and he once again touched his beloved cannon in the closest place to the Chinese. Although it was only a pitiful three-pounder gun of a small caliber, and it was 'in service' for more than a hundred years.

In his youth, Fernández was an artillery officer in the Portuguese army. He also served in the army of the Tatar Empire, and before being captured by the Chinese, he was very brave enough to help the Tatar army kill and wound the Chinese as much as possible. Because of this, the Portuguese suffered heavy losses, and their soldiers and officers, who were sent by the big men to help the Tatar army, were treated like hell in the Chinese prisoner of war camps.

It's just that Fernandez's limp leg has nothing to do with the Chinese. But his hatred of the Chinese and Portugal does not seem entirely unreasonable.

It's just that in the face of the current situation, he is helpless, and in the face of absolute strength, his personal efforts seem so insignificant.

Even during the rainy season, he had to rely on the 'plaster' of the Chinese he hated to be more comfortable - the dragon and tiger strong bone sticker, which could have been bought for 1 piece of eagle ocean, that is, 1 peso. There are five stickers in one box, but now you can only buy two.

This is the treasure that Fernández occasionally discovered, and that day his leg was so painful that he ran into a Chinese doctor who came to treat him. Among the Chinese, only these doctors are good people.

They come to Pensacola once a month for a free clinic, and if there is an emergency, there are two Spanish doctors in Pensacola, but their level is so bad that they use a soldering iron, an axe and a chainsaw in addition to bloodletting.

Compared with such terrible things, although the Chinese's medical skills are like witches' witchcraft, relying on a large number of grass roots and bark to cure diseases, they are always more believable.

Because the Chinese themselves have been treated like this for thousands of years. Whether it is an incomparably noble emperor or an ordinary commoner, the diseases contracted are cured by these 'grass root bark'.

The doctor had come to treat a boy who had broken his leg after being kicked by a frightened cow in the rain, and seeing his painful appearance, he sponsored a sticker for free.

Fernandez was surprised to find that this black ointment of the Chinese was really useful. The effect is very good after pasting.

As a result, Fernandez has become a loyal user of Dragon Tiger Strong.

It was only with renewed tension and confrontation between China and the West that the Chinese closed the door to the town of Pensakla four months ago, and a Ying Yang could buy five strong bone stickers before, but now only two stickers can be bought.

Although the efficacy of this drug is really good, its price is too tricky. Whether it's five or two silver pesos, that's the devil's price. Greed has completely consumed them!

Outside the window, there was a burst of military trumpet orders, which were the militia of the Chinese on the opposite side conducting military training, and the rainy days were uninterrupted. Unlike the soldiers of the Spanish Army, who gambled, drank, slept and fought in their free time, the Chinese militia looked more like a real army.

Whether these people are spirited, or observance of strict military discipline, or a sense of honor in their profession, as a former officer, Fernandez dares to say responsibly: that is far more than the native Spanish army.

He had seen a lot of Spanish troops in the Iberian Peninsula, Havana, and Chile, and it really wasn't a strong army.

Especially in the Americas, these are even worse than the native legions, mixed with native white and mixed-race colonial armies.

Originally, as an enemy, a dose of ointment and a doctor's small favor could not buy Fernandez, a determined warrior.

Especially now that he had heard from Mr. Mayor that he had heard of a bad news rule, which minimized his perception of the Chinese: in order to prevent unnecessary conflict, the Chinese suggested that the town of Pensacola remove the artillery aimed at the west and hand it over to the Chinese for safekeeping.

The vassal states and overseers in the Americas themselves were responsible for stirring up trouble and intensifying conflicts. But they can't easily fire this first shot—