After nearly a month of sailing, Zhang Ning finally found the future San Francisco according to the nautical chart, and after entering the port, the entire fleet began to set up camp here and explore around. With this port as the center, the fleet explored and mapped the coastline to the north and south.

The results of the investigation made Zhang Ning a little disappointed, they didn't find any gold mountain, but fortunately, he saw a treasure land with fertile soil for thousands of miles.

Inside the port, there is a large bay and several large rivers, the upper reaches of which are a central valley.

The climate is also mild, with some extremes but mild for the most part.

What does it mean that the climate is mild, there is enough water for you, and there is a flat valley?

This means that just by building a water irrigation system here, it can be turned into a land of abundance, but the problem is that there is no one.

It is far away from the mainland for tens of thousands of kilometers, and it takes at least four months to go back and forth, if there are some unfavorable weather and other factors on the way, maybe it will take five months to go back and forth, almost half a year, the journey can be said to be quite long, if it is not for the Honolulu Islands as a supply point in the middle, immigration will become very difficult, despite this, the immigration efficiency is still not high.

Now that Daming is constantly immigrating to the South Seas and Australia, it is obvious that he will not put the main force of immigrants on the west coast of the Americas for a while and a half.

However, immigration will definitely be carried out, and Zhang Ning's fleet is the vanguard.

After landing at Jinshan Bay, more than 2,000 soldiers of the fleet immediately launched the activities of tuntian and fort building here. In order to form a base that can support the activities of immigrants.

It's a very safe place. The Spaniards have not yet expanded into North America. The Indians could not threaten these heavily armed soldiers.

As long as the fortress was built, it would be difficult for even the Spaniards to attack it. This means that several times the number of troops is needed, but several times the number of troops must be transported, and supply is another problem.

The basic policy for the Indians here was to communicate with them, and when it hindered the expansion of the settlement, to integrate the Indian tribes who were willing to submit, and to expel those who were not, by force. and prohibit massacres in general principles.

At this time, the fleet set up a stronghold in the Americas, did not carry out large-scale migration, and the contradictions with the Indians were relatively small, and conflicts did not occur frequently. When the scale of immigration in the future becomes large, there will inevitably be contradictions between races.

Although the Ming Dynasty's policy towards the Indians was relatively soft, it still could not get rid of the route of military conquest. Only by conquering them can Huairou be effective, otherwise it will only be considered weak.

The Indians are innocent, but the punishers are innocent.

The world is moving forward, and the Indians are unwilling to develop. Even not accepting a more advanced civilization, it is normal to be beaten.

The fleet at the same time as setting up a stronghold. After probing along the coastline, the warships exploring south made contact with the Spaniards.

The two Ming warships visited several Spanish ports and made a circle around Central America before returning to Jinshan Bay. Of course, the warship did not sail into the port, but sent small boats to the port for a visit. The Spaniards in these ports did not dare to refuse, after all, these two warships were relatively large in tonnage, and they were full of heavy artillery, and if they wanted to forcibly attack the port, the Spaniards might not be able to stop them.

At this time, the Spaniards' port defense forces in Central and South America were not so strong, after all, across the Atlantic Ocean, the forces that could be transferred to the Americas were limited. Moreover, the Spaniards still colonize everywhere, and there are many such ports along the coast, and the defense force of a single port could not even stop the British pirate Drake before.

After strengthening the port defense force, it is not a big problem to resist pirate attacks, but it is not so easy to face these two large-tonnage Ming warships.

After the Spanish governor in Mexico learned the news, he was directly taken aback, Daming is now famous in Europe, and Spain is no stranger to Daming.

A few years ago, the Ming Dynasty suddenly went berserk, as a previous governor in the Philippines had feared, and began to develop maritime power, directly driving the Dutch and Spain out of Asia.

In recent years, the types of goods exported to Europe by the Ming Dynasty have gradually increased, and among the new commodities, the most popular are chemical dyes and weapons and equipment.

When the Ming Empire's cannons and flintlock pistols were exported to the European continent, they were quickly robbed by various countries, and now these flintlock pistols and cannons can be seen everywhere on the battlefield, and the flintlock pistol has also become a thing that countries are vying to imitate, but the quality is still not as good as the flintlock pistol of the Ming Empire, mainly because of the gap in metallurgical technology, but the flintlock pistol was made out by the Europeans.

However, to the shock of the Mexican governor, the Ming Empire left an emissary in their port and wanted to negotiate trade with them.

Being able to trade with the Ming Empire is something that cannot be desired. Today, trade with the Ming was monopolized by the Portuguese, much to the dismay of Spain and the Dutch.

In particular, countries like Spain have a great dependence on the goods of the Ming Dynasty. Because the Spanish colonial model was a plundering model, they did not develop colonies, and internally because of the plundering of a large amount of precious metals from the Americas, which led to serious inflation and suppressed the development of local industry.

As a result, the Spaniards have long relied on imports from other European countries as well as from China. In the past, China mostly only supplied light industrial goods, such as cotton, raw silk, ceramics, spices, and tea. Today, however, China is beginning to be able to export heavy industry products to Europe. For example, a large number of steel products, munitions, etc., what can be bought in European countries, can now also be bought in Daming.

Nowadays, the Spaniards have to change hands with the Portuguese to buy these goods, which is naturally very uncomfortable.

At this time, Da Ming suddenly put forward a trade request, how could the Spaniards not be overjoyed. At this time, the Spaniards had been driven out of Asia, and for the Ming Dynasty, trading with the Spaniards was also very much in the interests of the Ming Dynasty.

Spain is like a country that has made money, but uses it all day long to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble, and pretend to be forced to smash people, such a country is no threat to the Ming Dynasty.

In the same way, the Spaniards had precious metals in their hands, and they could earn a lot of these precious metals by trading with the Spaniards, and at the same time, the Spaniards also had South American colonies, and the Spaniards only did two things in the South American colonies, one was to plunder precious metals, and the other was to exploit labor to develop plantations.

On the other hand, the Spaniards restricted agriculture in South America, which made the daily necessities of the South American colonies have to be transported from the mainland, which has the advantage that these South American colonies cannot do without the mainland, and once they are separated from Spain, they will not be able to play. In this respect, the Spaniards were wiser than the British colonial system. In the process of colonization, the British opened factories everywhere, although the colonial interests were high, but once they developed to the point where they could be self-sufficient, if they were fine in normal times, once they had to fight a war and ask the colonies to contribute money and efforts, they simply stopped doing it.

The advantage of trading with the Spaniards was that they could also get raw materials from South America. (To be continued.) )