The change of equipment of the first army and the transfer of the second division were all going on in an orderly manner, time passed day by day, the new year was approaching again, and Zheng Chenggong and Lu Wei finally returned with the fleet before the year.

Of course, Luo Jian and Shi Kefa received the news of the return of the fleet as soon as possible, and Shi Kefa, who was in a hurry, pulled Luo Jian and got on the train to Zhenjiang, he said that he would go to meet them in person, and Luo Jian knew that he was anxious to know the recent situation of Zhu Yujiao in North America.

Although it was the second time to travel by train, Shi Kefa still felt fresh, and Luo Jian also felt much more comfortable than riding a horse, and rushed to Zhenjiang Railway Station in more than two hours.

The railroad tracks of Zhenjiang Railway Station have begun to be paved into the distance, and the railway to Changzhou is under construction, and with enough experience, the speed of construction is much faster than before.

When the two arrived at the wharf, they saw three warships and more than a dozen merchant ships lined up in the Yangtze River, this is not all the ships going to the United States, the temporary port of Zhenjiang is too small, and some merchants' ships are anchored in Hangzhou Port.

Zheng Chenggong was still in good spirits, Lu Wei looked a little tired, and as soon as the two of them saluted Luo Jian and Shi Kefa, Shi Kefa couldn't wait to ask, "Is this trip going well?" Princess, are they going well? ”

"It's all going well, and we'll give a detailed report to the Metropolitan Governor and the Governor." Lu Wei hurriedly replied, hearing that it was quite smooth, Shi Kefa looked up at the sky, and seemed to breathe a long sigh of relief.

"Let's go back to Nanjing, shall we? Go back and talk slowly, go to my house, and ask people to find Cihuan and Zhu Yujian, they must also want to hear it. Luo Jian grabbed Shi Kefa, and now he heard the news that was quite smooth. I also felt greatly relieved.

When Luo Jian and Shi Kefa rushed back home from Nanjing Railway Station. A guard had already ridden a fast horse back to Nanjing to find someone. When Luo Jian returned to the outside of the mansion. There have been a lot of carriages parked outside the house, and it seems that there are really a lot of people who care about the news in North America, and even Yuan Jixian, Lu Zhenfei and Ren Minyu have also rushed over.

"It's nothing for me this time, so let's ask Brother Weisheng to talk about it." As soon as he sat down, Zheng Chenggong said anxiously, everyone understood what he meant, there was no war on this trip.

Lu Wei unhurriedly took out a small notebook from his pocket, it seemed that his long sea career had completely honed his temperament. Now Lu Wei looks very calm, and he no longer has the embarrassment he used to face many high-ranking officials.

"When we arrived in Hangzhou, we joined King Lu's fleet..."Lu Wei held a small notebook in his hand and slowly recounted what had happened after departure.

After the fleet converged with the fleet of King Lu Zhu Changshu in the port of Hangzhou, it joined the fleet of King Lu from Taizhou on the way and began to march towards the depths of the ocean.

"I didn't expect that in Hangzhou and Taizhou, there are many scholars who have to get on the boat and go to North America with the princess."

Lu Wei said that he didn't expect it, and neither did Luo Jian and everyone expect it, and when they heard Lu Wei say this, everyone showed unnatural expressions on their faces.

Luo Jian thought about it calmly and felt that this was an inevitability, thinking of another time and space at the end of the Qing Dynasty, when it was still a big debate about who was better in the imperial system or the democratic system, and at that time, various trends of thought in the West had been introduced into China in large numbers. In that case, there were countless people who supported the imperial system, such as Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao, and other generations of outstanding people believed that in China the imperial system was superior to the democratic system.

And people in this time and space have no opportunity to have more access to democratic ideas. However, the Nanjing government only made changes in the system, but did not ideologically preach the superiority of the democratic system to everyone, which made many scholars feel confused ideologically, not knowing how long this so-called government without an emperor could last, and they were more worried that this kind of system would cause greater war.

In fact, Luo Jian and Liu Lan discussed it calmly, and felt that the current Nanjing government is not adopting a Western-style democratic system, but is essentially a model of elite management of the country.

The feudal imperial system of thousands of years has been deeply rooted in people's thoughts, and the feudal rulers have been working hard to consolidate this system, both ideologically and in terms of rule.

Thinking of this, Luo Jian was a little helpless, he also wanted the idea of democracy to spread as quickly as possible, but with the current speed of knowledge dissemination and the cultural quality of ordinary people, it would not be possible to do it in ten or twenty years.

"Our ship has limited space, but the princess and King Lu have selected a dozen scholars to get on the ship..."

Lu Wei's words interrupted Luo Jian's thoughts, and everyone also shifted their attention to Lu Wei's words.

The huge fleet sailed all the way, the captains and first mates of several warships had rich sailing experience, avoided several major storms on the way, and arrived in the Hawaiian Islands after ten days.

What surprised Lu Wei and Zheng Chenggong was that the more than 200 people who stayed on the island had already taken control of Hawaii Island (Big Island), the largest island in the archipelago, and what made Zheng Chenggong feel incredible was that in the process of controlling the big island, these more than 200 people got along very well with the local natives.

Hearing this, Luo Jian knew that this was because of the strong integration of the Han nation, and because the vast majority of the soldiers left behind were farmers, and compared with the extremely backward farming methods on the big island, their farming methods were definitely much more advanced, and the spread of this advanced farming method was also one of the reasons for convincing the local natives.

Although in Luo Jian's mind, the development of his own nation is the most important, he does not want to see endless killings left behind to be criticized in the future era, and this kind of integrated occupation is what Luo Jian hopes to see the most.

"The princess was so attracted by the scenery of the island of Hawaii that she didn't want to go to North America."

Zhu Yujiao, who had never seen tropical scenery, was indeed attracted by the charming scenery on the Hawaiian Islands, and the fleet stayed on the island for three days, but under the persuasion of Lu Wei and Wang Duo, Zhu Yujiao reluctantly boarded the ship and continued to move forward.

Wang Duo didn't want to go anymore, he was choked by the wind and waves at sea when he was old, and he lay on the ship for more than a week before he slowly adapted to the sea voyage, and when the fleet arrived in the Hawaiian Islands, Wang Duo was also fascinated by the scenery of the island, and he didn't want to go long distances at sea.

Lu Wei and Zheng Chenggong used the map to persuade Wang Duo. Look at North America, which is bigger than China. Listen to Lu Wei and Zheng Chenggong describe the situation in North America in detail. This made Wang Duo willing to continue to go to North America.

Lu Wei and Zheng Chenggong's promise to Zhu Yujiao was that after she stepped down from the throne in the future, she could ask the Nanjing government to build a special palace for her on Hawaii Island and let her live on the island, which changed Zhu Yujiao's mind.

In fact, Zhu Yujiao is just dissatisfied with the extremely boring sea voyage, she has not forgotten the responsibility on her shoulders, her responsibility is to leave a dynasty for the descendants of the Zhu family, although this island looks very large. But how can it compare to the huge North American continent when you look at the map?

After leaving enough men and supplies on the island of Hawai, the fleet replenished some fresh water and vegetables, and continued its advance towards the North American continent.

After that, everything went well, and the fleet arrived in North America in just over twenty days.

After arriving in North America, Lu Wei and Zheng Chenggong learned that the situation in North America was very different from that of Hawaii Island, and that the more than 300 people who stayed on the North American continent were in an extremely difficult situation, and even now they are still gathered near Los Angeles, and more than 300 people have lost more than 50 people in more than half a year.

Although Zheng Chenggong and others frightened the local Indians with guns and cannons, the Indians' xenophobia was extremely serious. The more than 300 people left behind were basically exhausted and there was nothing more to attract them. The local natives began to demand that they leave.

With a mission in the first place, not to mention that it was impossible to leave at all now, more than 300 people, under the leadership of the battalion commander Ma Zhengwei, inevitably fought with the Indians.

In the initial battle, of course, Ma Zhengwei and his brothers prevailed, and according to Ma Zhengwei, they probably killed more than 2,000 people, but then the Indians came more and more, and it was clear that the different tribes began to unite.

There are fewer and fewer ammunition left, Ma Zhengwei no longer dares to take the initiative to attack, if the ammunition is exhausted, more than 300 people will face a desperate situation. Ma Zhengwei had to take his brothers to do everything possible to strengthen the castle left by the Francos, except for going out to grab some food, he has been sticking to the castle.

The poisoned arrows of the Indians took the lives of more than 50 soldiers, which made Ma Zhengwei extremely helpless, so he had to look at the depths of the ocean at the highest point of the castle every day, hoping that the fleet would come again.

Although Ma Zhengwei and the more than 300 people left behind had no achievements, Zheng Chenggong and Lu Wei were a little disappointed, but the matter has come to this point, and it is useless to complain about him. Zheng Chenggong and Lu Wei did not explain the details to Zhu Yujiao, Wang Duo and others, and both of them were worried that if they knew about these circumstances, they did not know how their mentality would change.

After carefully understanding the situation, Zheng Chenggong and Lu Wei discussed for a long time, and then decided that they must help Zhu Yujiao open up the situation.

According to the plan discussed with Luo Jian and others before departure, Zheng Chenggong began to lead the fleet to advance north along the west coast of North America.

Zhu Yujiao's 3,000-strong guards had also been fighting with the fleet, and Zheng Chenggong knew that he had to let them know how to deal with the local natives on the continent.

As the army continued to advance into the North American continent, King Lu and King Lu began to encircle their lands.

Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, had a fief near the sea and was most interested in Los Angeles, which was closest to the coast, and he chose a large area around Los Angeles as his fief.

Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, was more interested in large areas of land in the interior, and he chose a large area of Nevada in another time and space as his territory.

Although there were still a large number of Indians in the territories chosen by the two kings, neither took these local natives seriously, and there were powerful armies in front of them to clear the way for them, and they constantly demarcated their spheres of influence along the way.

The small number of people was a big problem, and in many places they arranged for only a dozen people to occupy a stronghold to claim the land.

Zhu Yujiao continued to advance with the fleet, to the vicinity of Washington State in another time and space, Luo Jian recommended them to establish the capital here, and in another time and space, the United States built the capital here on the basis of the general location of the capital, and the location of the capital is the most convenient to control the whole country, and this place is not far from the sea, which is also convenient for the new Ming court to control the coastal area, and can also use ships to conveniently transport materials.

With the help of Zheng Chenggong and Lu Wei, Zhu Yujiao's ****** chose a place on the great plain and settled down, but fortunately, the fleet carried enough supplies, and thousands of people began to sow wheat, sweet potatoes, and corn seeds on this land, and at the same time began to prepare materials for building cities and houses.

At the beginning of the business, everything was undoubtedly very hard, Zhu Yujiao chose to work with everyone, although Zhu Yuanjiao personally worked in the field with great symbolism, but the queen's example played a great role in boosting the morale of the army. In order to speed up their progress, Zheng Chenggong and Lu Wei ordered all the personnel of the fleet to be put into construction. (To be continued.) )