Indeed, who said that there is no place in North America now?

There are still some in North America!

"Stop loading!"

In Boston Harbor, Lin Hao suddenly walked out of the cabin and said to the busy crew on the deck. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Lin, what's wrong?"

Captain Larson, who was chatting with a young white man, said.

Beside them, a black slave who bent over like a prawn, was carrying a heavy cotton bag to the cargo hatch, this is the return cargo of the Sea Eagle, and now the cotton mills around the Ming Dynasty are running wildly, as if they are never filling the mouth, devouring the cotton all over the world, and then weaving into beautiful cotton cloth and then selling it all over the world, even the distant Americas are also woven into this network, and the vast majority of the cotton cloth on the Sea Eagle is from the Ming Dynasty.

"Mr. Hancock, I'm sorry, we have to miss the contract this time, the Seahawk has another urgent mission, and here is the liquidated damages for this shipment."

Lin Hao didn't answer him, but directly handed the man a check and said.

"Okay!"

The man took the check, first looked at the numbers on it, then took off his hat and saluted, "So contemptible people are very much looking forward to our next cooperation." ”

"Yes, I believe we will cooperate often in the future."

Lin Hao smiled and said.

Immediately afterwards, the man shouted to stop the ongoing loading, and after settling the payment for the cotton that had been loaded on the ship, he took his men directly off the ship, while Lin Hao and the confused Larson walked into the cabin, he opened the map and pointed to a location and said: "Set sail immediately, the target is here." ”

Larson didn't say much, according to the rules of the Universal Company, the escort has the final decision, and he is only in charge of the ship, and the escort will go wherever he wants, and then he ordered the ship to sail, and the Sea Eagle sailed directly out of Boston Harbor and sailed south at full speed along the coastline of North America. Their goal was an estuary hundreds of miles south of Charleston, which was the territory of the Indians, and if it was still the original history, it would become the thirteenth British colony in North America in a dozen years, and the name of the colony would be Georgia, and the name of the estuary they went to would be Savannah.

Of course, none of this will happen.

Just as the Seahawk sailed out of Boston Harbor, another Universal's merchant ship, the Averald Fortune, sailed out of Delaware Bay, which was supposed to sail for Philadelphia, but before it could enter the mouth of the Delaware River, it turned around and headed south along the course it had come. At the same time, the Polaris, a merchant ship of Universal Corporation that had just sailed out of Havana with cane sugar, also changed its original route to West Africa, turning north and heading north along the coast of Florida, while another merchant ship, the Exocet, sailing from West Africa to the Florida Strait, also changed its course and went straight to the same destination.

It was also at this time that the seventh detachment of the Ming Navy's Nanyang Fleet, which included eight cruisers, and a whole brigade of marines, left port in distant Cape Town, or Dingyuan Mansion in the Ming Zhaonan Province.

Four days later.

The Sea Hawk arrives at its destination.

The Fuxing arrived at its destination.

The Polaris arrives at its destination.

The Exocet arrives at its destination.

"Daming Navy Reserve Soldiers Gather, Daming Navy Reserve Soldiers Gather!"

On the deck of the Sea Eagle, Lin Hao whistled and shouted, and then on this merchant ship with a total of 120 crew members, a total of 70 crew members put down their work as quickly as possible, and then completed the assembly on the deck according to their belongings, among which 20 people belong to the reserve, and the remaining 50 people belong to the reserve, all the merchant ship crews of the Ming Dynasty have such an identity, either the reserve or the reserve.

"Now, as a captain of the Daming Navy Reserve, I announce on behalf of the country that you have been officially conscripted into the army and incorporated into the first post of the Yinzhou Task Force of the Daming Marine Corps, and I am your sentry commander, and now I will start distributing weapons."

After Lin Hao finished speaking, he then said to Captain Larson: "Your Excellency, as a merchant ship registered in Daming, the Sea Eagle is now officially requisitioned as a naval transport ship as a naval reserve ship, if you are willing to continue to serve on this ship, then as a member of the Foreign Legion of the Navy, you will receive a monthly allowance of one hundred dragon yuan until the navy dismisses you or you resign, and you can choose to become a subject of Daming later." ”

"More than happy to oblige."

Larson said with a shrug.

In these years, those who went to sea and ran the ocean were basically outlaws, as long as they had money, they could do anything, not to mention that they could become Ming subjects.

At the same time, this scene was also staged on three other merchant ships, four merchant ships quickly completed the identity change, and then raised the Qinglong flag representing the Ming Navy warships, and the two hundred and fifty Ming crew members on the four ships were transformed into Daming Marine Corps soldiers. As for the Swedish crew on the ship, they became mercenaries of the Foreign Legion, and then the four boats were lowered by small boats, and the heavily armed Ming soldiers began to land, and quickly occupied the area of the estuary, which was actually completely empty, and then quickly erected the flagpole to raise the Ming flag.

The first Ming colony in eastern America was born.

"Escort."

Just when the dragon hugged the sun and moon flag was raised from the east coast of North America, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ming Empire also officially held a press conference, announcing that it would escort ships in the North Atlantic.

"We absolutely cannot tolerate piracy, since the beginning of this year, a total of five Ming merchant ships have been attacked by pirates in the waters south of the Nova Scotia Peninsula, resulting in the death of twelve Ming crew members, and more than 40 injuries, one of the merchant ships built in Sweden even suffered serious losses, so that it had to be scrapped after arriving in Boston, in order to avoid such a tragedy again, the Ming Navy will set up an Atlantic Fleet, and carry out escort in the waters south of the Nova Scotia Peninsula."

The spokesman said solemnly.

"Excuse me, Your Excellency, do we have a naval base in the east of Yinzhou?"

A newspaper interviewer asked blankly.

"There was no before, but now there is, the Ming Marine Corps Yinzhou Task Force has raised the Ming flag in the south of the British territory city of Charleston, an estuary that has not yet returned to Shun, the emperor has decreed that the first colony of the Ming Dynasty in the east of North Yinzhou will be established there, and named Xinbo City, and a military port will also be built there as the home port of the Atlantic Fleet!"

The spokesman said.

"Your Excellency, that is our British colony."

A British diplomat, who was also invited, protested.

"Your Excellency, there is our colony."

The spokesman smiled and said: "As far as I know, the southernmost point of your colony should be Charleston, and the location of Xinbo City belongs to the borderland, since it is a borderland, then the first come, first served, we first established a settlement there, and it is naturally ours." As far as I know, the main den of pirates is in Nova Scotia, where your country belongs, and since your country's garrisons in the colonies are unable to deal with pirates, and they are also unable to ensure the safety of the Northern Yinzhou route, we will have to send a fleet to carry out the necessary escorts. ”

"Huh?"

The diplomat was dumbfounded.

The British were indeed dumbfounded, although the Ming Dynasty drove the colony to less than 150 kilometers south of Charleston, but they were helpless about it, because it was indeed not theirs, and South Carolina was actually not officially established, it was the territory of the Indians, and for the European colonists, such a place was the first to grab.

And now, it was Yang Feng who grabbed it first.

"You see, there are still places in Yinzhou, and we can establish colonies according to our needs for all the Yin people's territories."

Yang Feng said proudly.

"Your Majesty, but I'm afraid it's very difficult for us to have immigrants go over, after all, it's too far away, and there are no good things, but you don't need to go that far if you cultivate cotton."

Prime Minister Shao said.

"No, we don't need to grow cotton, there's another use there."

Yang Feng said.

His use is very simple, it can be used as a smuggling base, the reason why the East India Company colluded with pirates is nothing more than to monopolize the sales rights of oriental goods in the North American colonies, but the common people in the North American colonies will not like it, the East India Company makes money and eventually falls into the pockets of those aristocratic capitalists in London, and this is their hard-earned money, then smuggling is the most popular, before they need to smuggle to the distant Danish territory in the Caribbean.

It's thousands of miles away.

And it is very small, the Danish territory is the two small islands of St. John and St. Thomas in the later US Virgin Islands, which together are less than 200 square kilometers, which cannot support large-scale smuggling trade, and it was already very crowded before.

But Xinbocheng is different.

It's only a thousand kilometers from Philadelphia, which is not worth mentioning to the smugglers, and behind it is the vast plains of central North America, and it can even cooperate with the Indians to transport it to the Tennessee River, and then into the Ohio River to the heart of New England, in short, the British colonists of North America will cheer for this, and the city will also be parasitic on the European colonists of North America like a cancer.

It's not just the British who suffered.

The French suffered no less.

For goods there could also pass through Indian territory into the Mississippi Passage and then smuggle into the sphere of influence of the French East India Company, and the Spaniards were also affected, because they were stuck in their northward expansion, just as the British were blocking the way from north to south, and the Spanish in Florida were blocking the way to the north.

It can be said that the old order in the whole of North America has been completely disrupted.

However, it is too early to say success, because the British will not fail to say that although it is impossible to attack openly, it is still necessary to have a black hand, but fortunately, the fleet is rushing to reinforcements at full speed, as long as the people there support until the fleet arrives. (To be continued.) )