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On December 7, 1716, a Spanish captain who had been transporting timber to Baja California reported to the local colonial officials that he was in the waters off San Francisco after returning to Mazatlan, an important seaport on the Pacific side of the Vice-Crown of New Spain, that two strange foreign ships were sailing along the coastline, and that if the captain had not sailed the ship to a shoal in time, the human ship might have been plundered by the other side.

Although the southern Chilean coast was attacked by the famous British pirate Sir Francis Drake as early as 1578 AD, although the Caribbean pirates had crossed the Isthmus of Panama to attack the Spanish colonies in Central and South America as early as 168o AD, although Britain and France had firmly controlled the eastern coast of North America from the mouth of the St. Lawrence River to Florida, there was still no maritime power from the north to the south to pose a threat to the new Spanish vice-crown on the Pacific side. Therefore, it is only natural that this report has attracted the attention of the Mazatlan port authority.

Residents of Mazatlan who heard the news speculated which European country had crossed the Arctic Ocean. Or is it the luck of a European country that occupies the east coast of North America that has a river that runs through the entire Big 6? Of course, there are also malicious speculations that the captain of the transport ship who reported the incident may have lied, and the purpose was only to find a reason for the loss of the hull of the ship that he had mistakenly entered the sandbank, so that the shipowner would not ask him for repair costs.

But no matter what the final considerations were, the Mazatlan port authorities reported the news of the presence of foreign ships in the northern waters to Mexico City as quickly as possible. However, it is a pity that the Kingdom of Spain, which lost the title of the First European Empire, was like a broken old machine from top to bottom, although it was still barely operating, but its operation efficiency was amazingly low, so that even the top of the colonies inevitably fell into a lethargic rhythm, and it can be said that in addition to the use of power for personal gain, other things have dragged on without exception.

Fortunately, several captains later responded with similar reports, and there were also alarm reports from the coastal towns of Baja California, which alarmed the highest echelons of New Spain. Under the orders of His Excellency the Governor, two patrol ships of the colonial navy finally set sail north in early February 1717 to find this mysterious foreign fleet.

However, inertia also spread among the colonial navy, and the Creole (Crio11o, native-born, later a white colony of Spanish ancestry) captains were reluctant to carry out the orders of the Peninsulars (referring to high-ranking officials from the Spanish mainland), and the Mestizo (European-Indian mixture) sailors were reluctant to leave the warm Mexican waters for the winter and head north, so the operation was greatly delayed until early March. The two cruisers were still stuck in the port of San Diego (San Diego) on the border of Upper and Lower California and did not want to continue north.

However, the surprising thing happened, the foreign ships that were frequently reported around the end of last year disappeared, and a search of qiē reports showed that this foreign fleet did not attack any colonial port towns at all, so that a certain socialite in the colony once commented in a joking tone that the incident was the collective hysteria of the countrymen.

The words of the courtesan soon became the conclusion of the whole incident, and the colonial naval cruiser that had not completed the task at all immediately returned to its home port quietly and silently without flowers, applause, welcome and medals, and returned to the original point, but the Spaniards lost the first time to understand and contain the colonization process of the Chinese Empire in the northern section of the west coast of America, and by the next contact between the two sides, the Chinese Empire had firmly established itself in North America??????

However, for the Chinese Empire on the other side of the world, there are still three major difficulties in gaining a foothold in Fusang Da 6:

The first difficulty is the long route - since the Chinese Empire has not yet mastered the route across the Pacific Ocean, it can only pass through Japan, the Kuril Islands, the Giant (Kamchatka) Peninsula, the Baleen (Aleutian) Islands, and the Kunpeng (Alaska) Peninsula This Northern Pacific Route to Fusang Da 6 is far from it, not to mention the strong wind and waves at sea, and the threat of sea ice drifting from the permafrost sea in the north, but the most important thing is that the suitable navigation period is only less than half a year, so that the initial supplies are difficult to transport;

The second difficulty is the rugged terrain to the west of Fusang Da 6 - in the eyes of the newcomers to the Chinese, Fusang Da 6 is an uninhabitable barren land composed of the Coast Mountains, the Mackenzia Mountains, and the Rocky Mountains, and as for the legendary gold mines, there is no way to see them, so that they have to rely on expensive and unguaranteed sea transportation to provide maintenance materials;

The third difficulty is the lack of pioneer population -- the focus of the present stage in China is to ensure immigration from the northeast in the north and the abbot in the south, and the establishment of the two main settlement areas not only leads to the lack of pioneers in the ordinary inner domain, but also empties in the local prefectures and counties.

These three difficulties made it a pure luxury to burn money on the Fusang Da6, and the Chinese court did not disagree with this, but Zheng Kezang suppressed all the voices of opponents with his absolute authority, so that Yiqiē finally acted according to the supreme king's heart. However, the problem of survival must be solved after all, otherwise once Zheng Kezhang is gone, the incident of burning the drawings of Zheng He's treasure ship in the past may not be repeated after the death of the people.

Therefore, after careful analysis, the Chinese court, which adheres to Zheng Kezang's will, is obviously different in the difficulty of solving these three problems, for example, the problem of long shipping routes is geographical restrictions, and before there is no fundamental revolution in transportation, even if Zheng Kezhang has great determination, it cannot be clearly changed; For example, the problem of the terrain on the west coast of Fuso hindering the westward advance was also unsolved by the Fuso Protectorate of China before the birth of yellow explosives, but fortunately, the obstacles formed by the mountains not only prevented the eastward advance of China, but also hindered the westward advance of the large Indian tribes and European colonial forces in a short period of time.

Therefore, the easiest thing for the Chinese court to solve was the population problem, and for the Chinese people, who were good at farming and were extremely thirsty for land, the rugged terrain and arid land could be transformed into suitable farming areas, and even the frozen soil in the north of Fusang could be used to grow food.

It was based on this consideration, at the insistence of the opinionated Zheng Kezang, that on the one hand, the Chinese court ordered a small number of condemned prisoners who had not been included in the abbot's colonization to be exiled to Fusang as the first batch of pioneers in the form of a grace pardon, and on the other hand, it ordered the Haidong Metropolitan Protectorate to force the Ainu people on Ezo Land, Kunai Island, and the Kuril Islands to move to Fuso as a whole. Finally, he ordered the Fusang Prefecture to send people to try to cross many mountains in the western part of Fuso, and to travel, contact, solicit, and capture Indians and their tribes of all ethnic groups in the east, in order to meet the needs of the self-growth of the population in the Fusang Metropolitan Protectorate in the shortest possible time.

In addition to the population problem that was solved in every possible way, the Chinese court also tried its best to solve the problem of insufficient supply, especially after the increase in the population of garrisons and colonies. To this end, the Southern Privy Council adhered to Zheng Kezang's intention and asked the First Fleet of Sailors in charge of the Fuso Sea Area to try to find the shortest route at present directly from the Japanese port of Fuso's westward voyage, so as to avoid the threat of sea ice and increase the seaworthiness time for a certain distance. In addition, the Southern Privy Council also reached an agreement with the Ministry of War and the Northern Privy Council to expand the First Fleet's squadron from the original four to eight, and to transfer the First Brigade of the First Division of the Longxiang Army, the White Corps and the Artillery Corps under the Fleet to the Upper Heilongjiang Fleet by way of secondment, so as to alleviate and partially solve the problem of insufficient material supply in Fusang while the Upper Fleet of Heilongjiang Fleet draws troops to support the Beihai Metropolitan Protectorate.

After doing what they could, the Fusang Protectorate and the First Fleet of the Naval Division received an order from Yang Hui Taoguang to prevent the Spaniards from bypassing the galleon trade and mastering the northern route to the Fusang Da 6 - although the Huaxia and Spain were temporarily in a friendly state through the French side, they were not allies after all, and in Europe at that time, the normal diplomacy of the two countries did not mean that there would be no war between the colonies because of the conflict of mutual interests and spheres of influence, not to mention that according to the latest news, they strongly advocated Xia FaLouis XIV, the French lord of Xiaxi's friendship, had died, the new king Louis XV was not concerned with international affairs, and his relations with the Spanish Bourbons were not as close as they had been, and the future direction of Xiaxi relations could only be described as uncertain - therefore, the First Fleet of the Chinese Naval Division, which had taken into account the worst outcome, then froze its plans to explore southward, and only maintained occasional cruises north of the mouth of the Nueva (Columbia) River, The main force retreated to the perimeter of the Shenmu (Queen Charlotte) Islands to prevent Spanish ships from accidentally crossing the 42° north latitude, which is now the Chinese colony of Fuso??????

Thirty years later, when the Northeast and Nanyang Prefectures and the abbots, Wu Qiao, Daiyu and other places of the clan and the inner domain were all regularized, the Fusang Metropolitan Protectorate was still just a sparsely populated exile for death row prisoners; A hundred years later, Songmo, Andong, Haidong, Whale Sea, Luzon, Pontianak, Machen and other prefectures have become provinces in the interior of China, and the total population of the principalities, marquis, boguo, and capital governors in Fangzhang, Wuqiao, Daiyu, Yizhou and other places has exceeded 50 million, and the Fuso Metropolitan Protectorate only has 300,000 registered and 20,000 people. But in any case, it was only when the emerging power tried to cross its territory beyond the Rocky Mountains that there was an irresistible resistance - it was precisely because of the existence of China on the eastern Pacific coast that the future United Mexican States would be able to retain the territory of Upper and Lower California and enjoy the benefits of the California gold mines after the loss of Texas and New Mexico - history has been completely different, even if a certain country has always claimed that the Americas are the Americas of a certain people, However, it still could not shake China's absolute superiority in the Pacific Rim region, and later people cheered "This is China's Pacific Ocean!" ”