The Dutch had no ships and could only defend themselves with batteries, which were completely muted by the second wave of bombardment from the warship's broadside guns.

And Cao Li's warship has no.

The Dutch, who had been blown up by the artillery, left behind hundreds of corpses and retreated, until they were out of reach of the fleet's artillery.

Eliminating the artillery threat of the Dutch, the marines began to land in the harbor and quickly occupied the docks, which the Dutch did not dare to stop because of the artillery on the warships.

The Marines removed the guns and rockets from the ship one after another and began to bombard the Dutch, and the 2,000 Dutch soldiers were powerless to resist in the face of the Marines' strong firepower.

First of all, the distance was too far for their artillery to return fire, and the rockets and artillery of the Marine Corps were designed with grenades, and the lethality of the shells was amazing, and the Dutch had to rush through the death line more than a thousand meters long if they wanted to fight back.

The marines continued to advance, but the Dutch also kept retreating, Cao Li frowned on the ship, the marines only had five hundred, and it was obviously not cost-effective to fight with the Dutch who had more than 1,500 dead and wounded. But if they didn't get closer, the Dutch wouldn't have surrendered obediently.

"It doesn't seem so easy to settle the battle." Yang Yichuan looked at the situation on the battlefield and said.

The development of events turned out to be so, the Dutch dropped their artillery and ran into the rainforest, the marines did not dare to enter the pursuit at all, Cao Li suddenly seemed to think of something, and even the artillery discarded by the Dutch was not wanted, and hurriedly asked the marines to retreat.

"This is Central and South America, and there are so many mosquitoes and flies everywhere that it's not a place for people, so don't want such a colony." Cao Li remembered what Zhao Yan had told him in the letter, "And these mosquitoes can also spread the plague." ”

When Yang Yichuan thought of the plague, he couldn't help but shudder, and said, "I have to ask the doctor to boil some herbs for the soldiers who have been bitten by mosquitoes." ”

"Hmm!"

…… The American fleet ran out of Panambuco in such a gray way, and did not want to stay in such a ghost place for a moment, and the fleet that withdrew to the open sea began to reformulate the itinerary.

Cao Li divided the fleet into two parts, and sent the Xiangshan to escort the ten captured ships back to Jinshan, which were to be equipped at Jinshan.

On this trip to the Americas, the fleet brought enough artillery and ammunition, and there was no difficulty in equipping it.

At the same time, Cao Li told the returning personnel to always guard against the retaliation of the Dutch, who were likely to attack Jinshan, and the defense of the port must be perfected as soon as possible.

Fortunately, Jinshan Port is a very easy port to defend, that port is like an inner lake, only one waterway can enter, as long as the waterway is guarded to death, it is foolproof.

Cao Li, on the other hand, continued north with the Qingdao and Jinshan, and began to raid ports and merchant ships in the Caribbean and the east coast of North America.

Both warships are loaded with advanced artillery, and naval battles are not intimidating to any opponent, as long as the scale is not too large. However, Cao Li's subsequent raid on the port was not all smooth sailing.

First of all, those ports are guarded, once the people in the port are vigilant, it is difficult to plunder the port, and they have touched two British ports in a row, but they have returned in vain, after all, they only have two ships, but they have also grabbed more than 20 fishing boats.

Cao Li, who wanted to plunder slaves and livestock, had to abandon this idea and instead turned to the passing merchant ships and pirates, the Caribbean Sea was a paradise for pirates, and their main object of plunder was the Spanish treasure ships.

As mentioned above, Spain was an industrially weak country, so they could not export enough goods and plunder raw materials, so they had to keep them on their own.

Spain's main income in Central and South America was gold, silver, and precious stones, and every gold ship contained insane profits, so there were simply a lot of pirates in the Caribbean.

Among the merchant ships that traveled to and from the Americas, the Dutch were the most numerous, and they accounted for half of the world's ocean-going trade.

The Spaniards were mining, the Dutch were trafficking, and the British were factories.

Cao Li's choice of plundering was that the Spanish ships were not robbed, and the Dutch ships and the British ships were robbed when they saw them.

It's obvious! There is no need to worry about opening mines, because so many ships engaged in trafficking do not rob them for nothing, and they have the greatest potential to open factories, and they are most likely to become the main enemy in the future, and they must be resolutely suppressed.

As for the pirates, although the ship is not very large, the mosquito meat is also meat, and if you grab it back and equip it, it will be a new pirate ship, and you can continue to invest in robbery.

The first month passed like this, and Cao Li's results were very rich, and in the Caribbean he was able to capture five Dutch merchant ships and one British merchant ship, as well as two pirate ships, three frigates, and a Dutch warship, as well as more than twenty fishing boats.

But the Pirates of the Caribbean were not as easy to deal with as they might seem to be, their ships were smaller, and when the warships pursued them, they hid in the shallower waterways, and the warships did not dare to enter them.

It also took a lot of effort for Cao Li to catch these two pirate ships. The six merchant ships were of various sizes, ranging from 300 tons to more than 1,000 tons.

After a month of fighting, only five soldiers had been killed in the fleet, and it was easy to deal with the merchant ships. The fleet's artillery not only had a long range, but was also powerful, fast and accurate.

When encountering a merchant ship escorted by frigates or warships, the fleet usually first paralyzed the enemy's warship from a distance, and then sent a former captive to persuade him to surrender in a small boat.

Without surrendering, go around to the upper hand position and sink these warships.

The merchant ships were very easy to deal with, they generally did not resist to the death, as long as they showed enough strength, they would obediently raise the white flag, and at the same time they were loaded with goods, and they were very slow, and it was very easy to catch up.

The most difficult thing to deal with is the pirates, when they see such a big warship coming, they turn around and run, and there is no chance to find them.

That's why pirates of the Caribbean have endured.

It took Cao Li a month to return to Jinshan with the booty, and Jinshan at this moment had already taken on the appearance of a colony.

The fort was finally built under the hard work of the indigenous Indians, who cut wood, mined, cultivated the land, and fished every day under the command of the indigenous Indians.

Liu Yuan began to count the value of the loot, and the goods on the five merchant ships were estimated to be worth more money, and Liu Yuan was overjoyed when he saw the more than twenty fishing boats that Cao Li had brought back.

"With these fishing boats, the food problem can be solved a lot, we can catch more Indians, and gold mining can begin." Liu Yuan said happily. In order to speed up the construction of forts and forts this month, many indigenous Indians were captured, and hundreds of indigenous people returned to heaven because food was not enough to maintain high-intensity labor.

At present, there are more than 20,000 indigenous slaves in Jinshan, of which 5,000 are engaged in shipbuilding, 5,000 are engaged in mining and smelting, and 9,000 are engaged in land reclamation and water conservancy construction.

"Is there really gold everywhere?" Cao Li asked curiously.

"Of course, as long as you dig a few shovels, you can find a piece, and if we have enough manpower, we can bring back 150,000 taels of gold to Denglai every year, and there should be millions of taels of gold in the ground!" Liu Yuan estimated, "Your Excellency said that as long as we have to cross the eastern mountain range, we can find more gold and silver, but it is not so convenient to mine." ”

"That's ten million taels of silver!" Cao Li was shocked, 10 million taels of silver was an astronomical amount, which was one-third of Quandlai's financial revenue last year, "Why don't we dig it out in one go?" ”

"Anyway, gold can't run in the ground, reclamation of California and shipbuilding are the top priorities, and with ships we can migrate here on a large scale."

At the mention of ships, Cao Li suddenly became energetic and said: "There are a lot of Europa ships, we should build more schooners and distribute them throughout the American seas, so that a large number of ships can be captured every month." ”

"Hmmm! Schooners are indeed suited to the waters of North America. Liu Yuan nodded in agreement.

The North American schooner, itself a vessel made to adapt to the conditions of North American waters, has a very high sail rate, seven or eight times higher than other types of sailing ships.

This is also the prototype of the clipper, which, unlike the clipper, does not have the same high speed, but can be loaded with guns.

"This time we intercepted seven warships, as well as twelve merchant ships. Our artillery is no longer enough to equip and use, and we have enough ships, we should organize a return fleet, but we now have ten warships, I think we should divide a group to return to Denglai, and the First Fleet still needs to deal with Hongyi and Zheng Zhilong on the mainland. ”

"That's no problem, let's split up five ships and go home! However, it is necessary to ask the Ministry of War to allocate another batch of sailors and marines, and as many artillery and ammunition as possible. Cao Li readily agreed, these warships are not of much use in the American Fleet, first of all, the artillery is not enough, the warships can only be used as merchant ships, and there are not enough sailors.

"After the cargo on the merchant ship is sorted out, you are responsible for escorting the fleet south to trade with the Furrons, and we need to fill the ship before returning home." Liu Yuan said to Cao Li.

"Yes."

…… It took two days for the staff of the Jinshan Merchant House to sort out the goods on the five merchant ships, most of which were native products of the Americas, so they didn't need to be dumped out anymore and could be transported back to Denglai.

There are also a small half of the goods from the Ming Dynasty, India, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe, which the Dutch are preparing to sell to the Americas.

Some of these commodities have been eliminated, including the goods of Daming, and the goods that Daming does not need.

These obsolete goods were to be sold to the Spaniards, who then bought souvenirs and raw materials from the Spaniards.

Those goods that have been retained are ready to be shipped back to Denglai.

After five days of preparation, the fleet took enough gold and sailed to Panama City to trade with the Spaniards.

The Spaniards were able to export to them rubber, furs, mahogany, cotton, stallions, service horses and mules, gold and silver, precious stones, and other local products.

However, in this trade, the fleet was short of goods, so it exported precious metal currency to the Spaniards, and the cotton bought would be processed into cotton cloth in Jinshan, and then sold back for gold and silver.

Servant livestock were also brought back to Jinshan and then used for cotton cultivation in California. The stallions are brought back to the horse farm in Denglai to improve the breed and breed better horses.

Rubber, on the other hand, was something that the Spaniards were very happy to see in the new revenue, which was of no use to the Spaniards, but could be sold for money.

Therefore, the Spaniards controlled all the rubber in Central and South America, and used the rubber tapping method taught by Cao Li to produce rubber.

Mahogany is rosewood, sandalwood, these things, in the Ming Dynasty is a precious wood, with these wood made of furniture can be sold at a higher price.

There are many wealthy people in Daming, and every household is a consumer of these furniture, they attach great importance to the quality of furniture, and have a very good market.

The Doge of New Spain looked at the vast fleet of the Far Easterners like a monster, and their fleet, which had only three warships, had now become ten, and fourteen merchant ships, and two galleons of great speed.

Fortunately, these Far Easterners were allies with them, and in the Caribbean not only did they not plunder their treasure ships, but sometimes they escorted them for some distance.

Most of these plundered warships and merchant ships were Dutch, and some were British and Portuguese, and after Cao Li arrived in Panama City, the governor of New Spain negotiated with Cao Li on the issue of Portuguese warships.

Cao Li's reasons were very good, and he refused to hand over the Portuguese warship. The viceroy of New Spain and one of the Portuguese colonists had no choice but to raise the question of the return of the Portuguese crew.

"If the Portuguese can transport rubber, mahogany, and cotton to the port of Dios to trade with us, we will gladly release these crews." Cao Li also made a request.

"There's nothing wrong with that, but we still need to agree on the details of the deal." The Portuguese readily agreed.

Trade was beneficial to them because it brought them revenues, especially cotton and rubber, which were a new source of revenue for the American colonists.

In the world at this moment, the textile industry was ruled by the Ming Dynasty, and the textile industry in European countries was in a slump, resulting in cotton not being a financial income for the American colonists, because the price of cotton was extremely low in the case of the textile industry.

Only very low prices can keep their textile industry alive, which is why Ming merchants like to buy cotton from the Philippines.

As a result of a tripartite agreement, the California Chamber of Commerce established branches in Puerto Dios and Panama City to acquire Spanish and Portuguese goods without restrictions.

Commodities purchased from the East Coast of the Americas were collected in the port of Dios, where they were transported by mule and horse teams to the other shore and transported back to Gold Hill by sailing ships.

Spanish goods from the West Coast were gathered in Panama City and transported by sailing ships to Gold Mountain.

Panama City did not have a lot of cargo and could not fill all the ships, so the fleet bought a lot of goods that were not very profitable.

Ten days later, the flotilla was divided into three parts, one consisting of ten merchant ships and five warships, and sailed west to Hawaii. The other part consisted of two armed merchant ships, loaded with cotton and some livestock, and returned to Jinshan.

Cao Li took three warships and two clippers, as well as Meng Tian and Qi Jiguang, to the Strait of Magellan, and he was going to the east coast of America to plunder.

This time, Cao Li brought 1,500 marines with him, intending to give a ruthless blow to the ports and strongholds of the British and Dutch on the east coast.

…… After the merchant ships carrying cotton and livestock returned to Jinshan, Liu Yuan began to plan for textile mills and farms, which were not very suitable for the development of farms on the peninsula of the port, let alone the development of the textile industry.

Therefore, it is necessary to take a boat from the California River inside the harbor to the east of the plain, which is a well-networked plain, an area suitable for the development of the textile industry and rich land.

The California River was later known as the Sacramento River, and Liu Yuan was one of the first colonists to arrive here, so it was natural for them to name the river.

(The Sacramento River: Originates in the Klamath Mountains in northern California.) It flows south-south and west-west through the Cascade and Nevada mountain ranges, flows through the northern part of the Central Valley, and joins the Sanjoaquin River to form a delta and then empties into the northern San Francisco Bay Stream. It has a total length of 615 kilometers (382 miles) and a basin area of about 70,189 square kilometers (27,100 square miles). The 412-kilometer (256-mile) stretch of the river is navigable. The ocean liner can go up to Sacramento City. The main tributaries are the Pit, McLeod, Feather, and the American River. The basin has one of the richest agricultural areas in the world).

The California River is so wide that sailboats can travel far along the river. Liu Yuan left 500 marines to defend Jinshan, and the remaining 1,000 soldiers, and sailed with the administrative staff to the stronghold that had been demarcated long ago, where a new town was opened.

New Zhaojiabao is located north of the Gerzlibend, home to two rushing tributaries of the California River, ideal for water-powered textile mills and farms.

The land is fertile, full of wild beasts, and surrounded by Indian tribes.

"What a place of anointing!" The Marines who came ashore couldn't help but sigh.

"It's a pity it's a little desolate."

"Our Denglai was also very desolate at the beginning, but in two or three years it has been governed by the general and flourished, and I think it will be able to flourish here for ten years at most."

"Our focus in Denlai is not in the Americas, in Asia we still have the Indonesian archipelago and Australia and Hokkaido that are not occupied and developed."

The soldiers talked a lot and exchanged their views, and the literacy and ideological education in the army also broadened their horizons.

"If there is a woman, it will be good to have a home here after being discharged from the army." Some soldiers sighed, "If you bring my mother here, this will be a paradise." ”

"Haha! Commander, isn't this going out to catch us guys! ”

…… The large fleet of returning ships, after a month of sailing, arrived in Hawaii.

To Guo Zhiyun's surprise, the fleet actually brought a lot of iron tools and some livestock, and looking at this large-scale fleet, it is obvious that the Americas are developing well.

In addition, there were more than 600 white slaves in the fleet, and as soon as these white slaves appeared in Hawaii, they immediately caused the Hawaiian natives to exclaim, and then they screamed.

"What did they say?" Guo Zhiyun asked the interpreter on the side, he had not had much time to learn the indigenous language, so he did not understand it.

The interpreter said, "Your Excellency, these natives have always been called 'White Gods' there. ”

"Call their chief and ask what's going on." Guo Zhiyun said.

Soon the chief of the indigenous tribe was called in, and the chief stumbled through their religious legend, and their religious legend said that the skin of the god was white.

This attracted Guo Zhiyun's attention, and at his request, the fleet left fifty white slaves in Hawaii.

Hawaii, which produces a large amount of fishmeal, coconuts, turtles, etc., is all moved into the cabin, and every merchant ship is loaded to eight points full.

Then Guo Zhiyun handed over the administrative report to the fleet, and asked the fleet to take the report back to Denglai. This report is submitted semi-annually by overseas governors.

Guo Zhiyun proposed various material support in the report.

After loading the cargo in Hawaii, the fleet headed for Nagasaki. After the fleet left, Guo Zhiyun asked the fifty white slaves to be placed on the islands to work with the natives.

This recruitment has had a great effect, and the natives of the island have become extremely afraid of the soldiers and civilians of the Ming Dynasty, because the white gods in their beliefs have been enslaved by the Ming Dynasty.

The indigenous women, on the other hand, went mad, and in their spare time they made friends with the white slaves, and at the instigation of their chiefs or husbands. When the Governor's Office discovered this phenomenon, it immediately asked people to take strict precautions.

At the same time, Guo Zhiyun also thought of a new way to raise the positive surname of indigenous women, and those who behave well were allowed to spend the night with these white slaves.

For a time, the number of active surnames of indigenous women skyrocketed, and there were only twenty-five places per day in the entire archipelago.

"Hmmm! Next time, let the American side catch the Europa woman over, it is estimated that even if it is ugly, it will increase the positive surnames of these natives a lot. Guo Zhiyun thought in his heart.

The Hawaiian Islands have been cultivated by indigenous people, and so far, the remaining arable land has been planted with sugar cane, and sugar will be produced next year.

At that time, cane sugar was exported to the Americas and exchanged for gold and silver in the hands of Spain.

…… After more than a month of traveling, the fleet finally arrived at the Saimoto long term, and after they arrived in Nagasaki, they learned the news of the defeat of the Denglai army, which made the crew very excited.

They left some of their cargo in Nagasaki, then loaded it onto the brass of the book and sailed back to Qingdao.

Shortly after they sailed out of Nagasaki, they saw a sailboat flying the moon flag on the sea, and it was holding a clipper boat with a hook.

The hulls of the two sides kept moving closer, and then sideboarded. Hundreds of men jumped out of that sailing ship and engaged in a fierce battle with the sailors on the clipper.

"It's a pirate, get on it." Lin Jun hurriedly shouted, and the two warships equipped with artillery quickly rushed over, and when they arrived at the scene, the battle was over.

The pirates managed to take control of the clipper, but they apparently didn't know how to steer the sailboat, and were soon sideboarded by the warship, and the Marines jumped on the clipper and fought the pirate again......

(To be continued)