"The Francophiles have sent a small boat..."

Lu Wei slowly narrated, although Luo Jian had already said that the Francophone was Spain, Lu Wei still habitually called it the Franco.

The Spaniards were frightened by the huge body of the "Yue Fei", and did not dare to act rashly, but only sent a small boat to learn about the situation of the fleet.

Fortunately, the fleet had been prepared before departure, knowing that there was a great possibility of encountering some European countries, so it was prepared to prepare some interpreters, which made it not difficult for Lu Wei and Zheng Chenggong to communicate with the Spaniards.

When they learned that the fleet was going to South America, the Spaniards gave up, Peru had become a Spanish colony, and when they learned that huge warships from the East were going to Peru, the Spaniards decided to fight at all costs.

Zheng Chenggong's fleet, except for the "Yue Fei" and "Huo Quai", which were battleships armed to the teeth, each of the other three merchant ships was also equipped with more than a dozen guns, and it was almost the same to say that they were warships.

From the expressions of the envoys sent by the Spaniards, Lu Wei and Zheng Chenggong knew that they could not tolerate the fleet going to Peru, and the closest to South America was Peru, and neither Lu Wei nor Zheng Chenggong was prepared to go to other places, which would take more time.

When Zheng Chenggong saw the Spanish fleet in an offensive formation through the telescope, he immediately ordered the fleet to prepare for battle.

Although the Spanish fleet far outnumbered Zheng Chenggong's fleet, the technical generation gap meant that it was a battle without suspense.

The battle lasted for more than an hour, and ended with the Spanish fleet waving the white flag after sinking five ships, and the main gun on the "Yue Fei" had not yet fired a single shot, in Zheng Chenggong's words, which was called "keeping a hand".

It has to be said that the Europeans at this time were the best at learning, and the Spaniards were completely impressed by the powerful firepower and maneuverability of the fleet. After the surrender, the commander of the Spanish fleet actually put forward a request to visit the "Yue Fei", but Zheng Chenggong, who had long been instilled by Luo Jian with the concept that advanced technology must be kept secret, naturally did not agree.

The Spaniards began to retreat and demanded cooperation with the Chinese navy to share maritime supremacy, which was beyond the scope of the fleet's mission, and neither Lu Wei nor Zheng Chenggong dared to agree. He said that he would wait until he returned to China for instructions.

With the entourage of the Spanish fleet, the landing from Lima was very smooth, and the fleet was warmly received by the Spaniards in Lima, and the goods carried by the fleet were soon taken over by the Spaniards in Lima, which saved Lu Wei and Zheng Chenggong a lot of trouble.

However, Lu Wei and Zheng Chenggong were in a hurry to complete the task, and after all the goods carried by the three merchant ships were gone, they immediately led the fleet along the coastline towards the Amazon River basin, sending small boats ashore in search of rubber trees along the way.

Shortly after leaving Lima, rubber trees were discovered. But these rubber trees are very scattered, and their seeds have not yet reached the ripening season, which makes Lu Wei and Zheng Chenggong very helpless.

Or Lu Wei reacted quickly, since the seeds were not ripe, then go all the way to harvest rubber, how to harvest rubber has already been experimented in Nanjing, which is not difficult.

When the seeds of the rubber trees began to ripen, the fleet harvested rubber along the coastline. When they arrived on Panama Island, Lu Wei and Zheng Chenggong were overjoyed by the extremely rich rubber tree resources on Panama Island. The fleet stayed on the island of Panama, and almost everyone in the fleet, except for the necessary personnel left behind, became rubber workers.

While picking seeds and harvesting raw rubber, time flies very quickly, and two months have passed in a blink of an eye. Finally, all the cabins were filled with raw gum and seeds, and both Lu Wei and Zheng Chenggong knew it was time to return.

What neither Lu Wei nor Zheng Chenggong expected was that the fleet encountered a major storm just three days after setting off from Panama Island.

Although the ships withstood the test of the storm, the course of the fleet deviated greatly, and the fleet began to move towards the west coast of North America.

"Finally we landed here." Lu Wei pointed to the map and said. Luo Jian took a closer look, and the location where Lu Wei said that they landed was actually Los Angeles, USA, in another time and space.

After Zheng Chenggong and Lu Wei landed on the west coast of North America, Zheng Chenggong immediately led people to explore the interior and found that in addition to some relics left here by the Spaniards nearly a hundred years ago, the rest of the continent were local natives.

Both Lu Wei and Zheng Chenggong knew that these natives were the Indians mentioned by the Metropolitan Governor before they set off. The Indians did not welcome the arrival of Lu Wei, and many tribes even launched attacks on them.

"But this time we didn't kill again." Zheng Chenggong said.

Zheng Chenggong ordered the troops to release their guns into the sky, but what he didn't expect was that the gunshots frightened these natives to their knees, threw the sticks and spears in their hands and began to worship Zheng Chenggong and the others.

"The food we brought attracted them, and the leaders of several tribes were friendly to us." Zheng Chenggong said proudly.

"I don't think it's a civilised land, and the climate here is very good, which is very suitable for growing wheat. I discussed with Oki and left more than 300 people on the site left by the Francos in the past, and prepared to build a castle here. Lu Wei took Zheng Chenggong's words and continued.

Lu Wei and Zheng Chenggong were drinking water and talking at the same time, but they didn't notice that Luo Jian had completely entered a state of daze.

Luo Jian didn't expect that Lu Wei and Zheng Chenggong's ocean voyage would go to North America, let alone that the two of them would also leave people in Los Angeles to prepare to build a city.

In another time and space, although the Europeans had set foot on the North American continent nearly 100 years ago, that is, in 1542, the British did not really begin to colonize North America until the seventies of the eighteenth century.

Luo Jian has a feeling of time and space disorder, according to the current trend, I am afraid that there will be no more United States in the future, and the fate of the tens of millions of Indians slaughtered in North America in another time and space history may change from now on.

Now that it has taken root on the North American continent, it must be allowed to grow into a towering tree, and the mass migration of Europe to North America at the end of this century must not be allowed to happen again, Luo Jian thought secretly in his heart.

However, population is a big problem, and now the whole of China, including the Manchu Dynasty, is only 60 or 70 million, and the development of the Hawaiian Islands, which have been actually occupied, also needs a large number of people, and in addition, Taiwan will also face the problem of development.

The more Luo Jian thought about it, the more he felt that this matter was over, and after driving away the Manchus and building a strong country, his mission in this time and space would be completed, but now it seems that driving the Manchus away is just the beginning.

Shi Kefa first discovered Luo Jian's abnormality, and raised his hand to make Lu Wei and Zheng Chenggong stop talking.

"Xinghua, what are you thinking? Started to be in a daze again? ”

"Population, population is a big issue." Luo Jian said subconsciously.

"Xinghua, what do you say? What does population mean? Shi Kefa asked in surprise.

"Huh?! You see, this continent is huge, much larger than our country, and if we want to actually occupy these places, we have to migrate a lot, and our population base is still too small. Luo Jian pointed to the map and explained to everyone.

"Actual occupation? Xinghua, are you saying that we are going to occupy all this land? Shi Kefa really couldn't understand Luo Jian's thinking.

"This..."Shi Kefa's words made Luo Jian fall into thought again.

The North American continent is too far away from China, and if you want to actually occupy it, it is indeed too difficult, and you have to think about it differently.

"You can't actually occupy it, you can colonize it. I don't believe that the big businessmen are not interested in this large area of fertile land, let them go, and the government will provide support and help. By the way, aren't there still many people still looking forward to the establishment of the Ming Dynasty? Let them go there and build a Ming court, Brother Xian, what do you think? ”

Luo Jian's words made everyone in the room stunned, including Shi Kefa, who all looked at Luo Jian stupidly.

"What? Do you think there's something wrong with my words? Luo Jian felt that there was nothing wrong with his thoughts, and he was a little strange that everyone was in a daze.

"Xinghua, I really don't know what's going on in your head? When Emperor Chengzu sent Zheng He to the West, I heard that it was to prevent Emperor Jianwen from founding a country overseas, and then threaten the Ming Dynasty. And now you're encouraging them to build a court? ”

Shi Kefa was the first to react, and looked at Luo Jian with some amusement and asked.

"Hehe, why are you in a daze, it's because of this?" Luo Jian laughed, although he had lived and worked with Shi Kefa and others for so long, some differences in concepts could not be integrated in a few years.

"You all see, this land is much larger than ours, and it has no less resources than we do, and the population living on it is very small, and it seems to me that they will do us no harm in building a country." Luo Jian said firmly.

"To tell you the truth, if we don't occupy this continent, in another fifty or sixty years, the Europeans, as everyone calls the Europas, will migrate to this continent in large numbers, and in another one or two hundred years, the descendants of these people will build a strong country on this continent." Luo Jian pointed to the location of Europe on the map and said to everyone.

"And let the people of the first emperor to establish a court, no matter what, they are the same ancestors as us, with the same civilization background, and no one can say the development after hundreds of years, but I believe that two countries with the same ancestors can always help each other in the world, what do you think?"

Luo Jian was recalling the fact that the United States and Britain had been hugging each other for a long time in another time and space, while talking, listening to Shi Kefa bow his head and ponder, Zheng Zhilong looked at Luo Jian still in a daze, obviously Luo Jian's words were beyond the scope of his cognition, but Lu Wei and Zheng Chenggong looked at Luo Jian with a kind of fanaticism.

"Governor, we still have too few ships." Zheng Chenggong's irrelevant words broke the silence in the room.

"Sen'er, don't worry about this, we already have two warships similar to the 'Yue Fei' in the Guazhou shipyard about to be built, and the shipyards in Nanjing and Hangzhou are also building large merchant ships, and soon our sea strength will be multiplied."

The answer to Zheng Chenggong's words was Zheng Zhilong, as the secretary of the Admiralty, the construction of these warships and large merchant ships was his responsibility.

"Really? That's great! I heard Francois say that the English of Europa are about to become the overlords of the seas, and I still don't believe it, and the next time we go to Europa to do business, I want to meet their so-called 'King of the Seas'. Zheng Chenggong said excitedly. (To be continued.) )