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"Master Miao, this place in Europe is not good, these places have been wandering around in the past few days, but they are far worse than our Fuzhou!" Chen Wu, deputy commander of the Fifth Fleet, pouted and said.

"Okay, this sentence has been said several times by Knicks in the past few days, and the Metropolitan Governor has long said that the cultural differences between the East and the West are very large, and people think that the places that are not good are good? Besides, it's okay in this city, and it's not much different from the ordinary prefectures over there. You still haven't been to London, England, that place is no worse than our Fuzhou City, and it is also a big city! Miao Quanchen waved his hand and said to Chen Wu, he had been to London and knew that there were still good places in Europe.

"Yes, this is only the place in Europe. It's to see more. However, in the past two days, our goods have been extremely smooth, those hillbillies, who have never seen the world, a white porcelain ornament can be sold for twenty taels of gold, really"

"Hehe, the Metropolitan Governor has long said that these things of ours are the most sought-after goods in Europe, and besides, our things are indeed very exquisite, and it is not unusual to sell them at a high price." Miao Quanchen also said with a smile, this time he led the team to Europe, and selling things was also one of the tasks.

"Alas, by the way, Master Miao, I have been hearing the Metropolitan Governor mention in the Naval Officer Academy, in addition to Asia, to which our Fujian belongs, there is also Europe and Africa that we passed by before, the Americas that have been praised by the Metropolitan Governor, do you understand?"

"You ask me. I don't know. I haven't been there either! But didn't the Governor say it? The Americas are not inferior to our Asian continents, by the way, they are still divided into South America and North America. It is said that it is also a large land and abundant products, when most of the place is still barren land, and a large number of people want to develop it, European countries have taken the lead, hum, with our development speed. In a few years, I will be able to get a piece of the pie! ”

"Of course, a North American, bigger than our Daming, that's okay. Of course we're going to get a piece of the Borderlands, and it's got to be the biggest! It's just that I've always had a question that is very strange, the Metropolitan Governor has never been to those places, Master Miao, you say, how does the Metropolitan Governor know about these things? ”

"That's why you're stupid. This God's instructions! Most of our governors are the true sons of heaven, and they should rule the world. Let's try our best to assist the Metropolitan Governor and be a hero from the dragon in the future! ”

"That is, in the future, we will all have a fiefdom, even overseas, it is enough to pass on to future generations!"

The two chatted enthusiastically, both full of longing for the future, in their opinion, the Mawei Army will be able to dominate the world sooner or later, and then expand overseas, it is time for them to show their talents, and when the time comes, Geng Jingzhong may promise that a large territory will be divided, leaving it to the soldiers as Yongye Tian, as the foundation of the heirloom!

In fact, Geng Jingzhong does not know much about the current situation in the Americas. However, from the history books I have read before, I can still remember that after Columbus discovered the New World in 1492, Portugal, the Netherlands, France, England and other countries came one after another, and various countries successively established some invasion bases in the Americas. And the famous British Empire, where the sun never sets, has not made many moves at the moment, and the troops should be said to have been there since last year. Originally, in this huge campaign to colonize the Americas, it was lagging behind almost all the Western European countries, but since last year's seizure of the Dutch territory, it has begun to catch up.

Prior to the establishment of Britain's first colonies on the Atlantic coast, explorers from six European countries had surveyed the coasts of the Americas. First the Portuguese, Danish, Italian, British, Spanish sailors; Then there were the armed Spanish conquistadors, who had driven north from Mexico a hundred years earlier, in the mid-16th century, to explore the Great Southwest; In the late 16th century, the Spanish monks of St. Francis established missionary communities in Florida, Georgia, and the two Carolinas, but it was the British who first established permanent colonies.

In the first half of the 16th century, after the conquest of Mexico and Peru, Spain first established colonial bases in the Gulf of Mexico on the Atlantic coast of North America, present-day Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Texas. Later, a new Spanish colony was established in North America, which included the contiguous zone between the present-day southwest and Mexico, as well as the contiguous territories of Central America, South America, and Spain. In the first half of the 17th century, Dutch colonists founded New Amsterdam (later New York) in North America, which later expanded into the colony of New Netherlands.

In the 16th century, the French established the colony of Nofasco in North America, which included the eastern part of present-day Canada and the vast area of the Mississippi River in the United States. The British also began to explore the southeastern part of the Americas in the 16th century, but the invasions were in the 17th century.

Sixty years earlier, the British crown had granted charters to two joint-stock companies, the London Company (also known as the Virginia Company) and the Plylaus Company (later merged with the Massachusetts Bay Company), a group of large merchants and landed aristocrats, granting them the privilege to develop the North American colonies. It was a comprehensive combination of overseas commerce, smuggling, piracy and the slave trade. In May 1607, the London Company sent the first immigrants to North America and founded James City.

These immigrants were not like the horsetail army immigrants to Luzon, these immigrants included speculators, bankrupt gentlemen, white indentured slaves, etc., a total of only one hundred and five people. Originally built as a grassy wilderness, immigrants built a church, a gun emplacement, and a few huts to begin their new life in North America. The mortality rate of immigrants was extremely high due to plague, smallpox, yellow fever, and the national revenge of the Indians. Only thirty-two of the first immigrants survived.

In the same year, the immigration areas established by the Plymouth Company were unsuccessful. At this time, the bourgeois revolution in England was becoming more and more intense, and the secessionists, the most radical of the English Puritans, left England for Holland in August 1608 due to the cruel persecution of the Anglican Church. Some of them decided to move to North America and signed an immigration contract with Virginia.

In September 1620, under the leadership of the priest Brest, he sailed to North America on the Mayflower. The Mayflower carried about 180 tons of weight, was 90 feet long, and carried 102 passengers, including 35 secessionists, craftsmen, fishermen, poor peasants, and 14 indentured servants.

On November 21, he arrived at Cape Cod and disembarked at Plymouth on the first day after Christmas. Prior to the landing, the Separatist leader presided over the elaboration of a common Mayflower: Convention signed by forty-one free adult men in the cabin. Its content is: organizing civic groups; Prepare just laws, decrees, rules and regulations.

This convention laid the foundation for self-government in the New England states and was of great significance to later developments. Since then, Jamestown has grown into a Virginia colony. After the outbreak of the bourgeois revolution in England, many royal and landed aristocrats also migrated to Virginia, and most of them became the new aristocrats and large plantation owners of the region.

These include the Washington family, the Mordison family, and the Monroe family, which are famous families in later generations. On the whole, the current European colonization of the Americas is mostly predatory rather than constructive. In particular, the colonization of the Americas by countries like Spain was almost always destructive and predatory. Many places are looted and left behind. The so-called colonies are more just places for them to plunder resources. (To be continued......)