England, hoping to gain gold fortune on the North American continent, finally did not have the luck of the nouveau riche like the Kingdom of Spain. In 1607, the settlers of Jamestown, who had just settled in North America with various dreams of making a fortune, were faced with a wild and primitive land that was a hundred times worse than the worst place in Europe.

Famine, disease, poverty, and the fierce revenge of the native Indians triggered by the shameless acts of the immigrants not only kept the arrivals from returning, but also made the magnates of the London Company of England gloomy about the prospects of the North American colonies with only input but no output.

But this finally came to an end one day in 1612, when the Jamestown petty officer, John Brown, came to an end. Rolf made a name for himself in North American history when he successfully introduced Caribbean tobacco to his garden, saving the precarious and uncertain future of England's colony.

In 1614, the first tobacco from the colony of Jamestown, Virginia, arrived in England. Even though the reigning King James I of England was a clear hater of tobacco, the price of tobacco per pound carried out of the cabin was still as high as £4! Tobacco has finally become the gold that the colonists have always wanted to find.

Jamestown is proud of its money, and people don't need money anymore, because tobacco is money. If this green gold were to be used as a means of income, Jamestown's per capita income would be several times higher than that of England. For a time, even the streets of Jamestown were planted with tobacco!

However, this still did not change the greatest difficulty in the development of Jamestown's colony, which was hunger and lack of people. Growing food and tobacco requires a lot of manpower, and very few of the new immigrants who are shipped to North America each year survive the multiple baptisms of disease, famine, and war.

The surrounding Indian tribes were few and fierce, and they could not learn from the Spaniards to enslave the Indians. Not only do they not have enough manpower, they don't even have wives!

In 1619, Jamestown's tobacco exports reached a new level. The import of "luxury goods" to Europe began. A sailing ship brought more than 90 women from England, 120 pounds of tobacco and one woman, the price was clearly marked, and the children were not bullied. In the same year, a Dutch merchant ship brought in 20 black Africans and sold them to Jamestown, and there were black slaves in North America.

That's still not enough! Tobacco, a cash crop, is far more cruel to the soil than grains, and often has to be abandoned for two to three years. To rotate to new land to plant. Expanding tobacco cultivation would require the acquisition of new land, which was solved by the simple thinking of the Jamestown colonists, that is, expansion by force, but the brutal toll of war would inevitably lead to an even greater shortage of population.

The London Company, the owner of the North American colonies, came up with the idea of indentured slaves, and the honest countrymen, who had been seduced by wonderful promises but could not afford to buy tickets, were transported to North America, and then the few who were left to be freed after a few years of hard work.

But it's still not enough! This time, even the judges of the city of London, England, were involved. Under the law of the time, it was a capital offence to steal property valued at 40 shillings. But in the face of the overcrowded law and order situation in London, England in the early 17th century, such laws only made London's executioners more relentless at night. So the judges hit it off with the directors of the London company. Almost all offenders were guilty of theft, and it was a uniform of 39 shillings. So a wave of "thieves" were sent to North America, among whom there were not only real thieves, but also murderers, rapists, and homeless people. Even psychopaths.

Adventurers, unscrupulous soldiers, money-grubbers, indentured servants, criminals, and slaves, no North American colony has ever been as complex and intriguing as Jamestown, and its inhuman development has finally come to an end a few decades later.

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Sunday, June 7, 1634.

At the southern tip of Binzhou, the American Republic of China. On the north bank of the Potomac River on the boundary between the United States and Britain and the Azores stipulated in the Treaty of America, Britain and France, on the site of Washington, D.C., in the future United States, a town that exudes a small modern fresh atmosphere ushered in a sunny morning.

Gangneung City was established in the early spring of 1632 as a national municipality. It is currently the southernmost town in North America except for overseas territories. Gangneung City has a wide terrain, faces water on three sides, and has a superior geographical location, facing the strategic development direction, which is the English colony of Virginia on the other side of the Potomac River, and is also the outpost of the southern part of the Sino-American territory that still maintains peace with England.

In just 27 months since its establishment, the urban population of Gangneung City has exceeded 4,000, making it the fastest growing new colonized town in a unit of time. The reason is simple: at least seventy percent of the citizens are old citizens who were encouraged to relocate from the capital cities of Manchester City, Jersey Town, West Point and other places, so although the population has increased rapidly, there is no significant difference between the social stability and the early towns.

The surrounding land of Gangneung City is extremely fertile, abundant forest resources, and there is a coal mine of high scale and quality, coupled with its special strategic position, it has received three-year policy-based counterpart economic assistance from the capital Mancheng City and Shuangwan City of Bermuda, so the local government budget of Gangneung City is sufficient, and the layout of municipal construction in the urban area is reasonable.

The throne of mayor of the municipality directly under the central government is held by Lin Chaoen, the former mayor of Porter City, Songzhou, who is "good at the forefront of national strategy". According to an unwritten internal rule, only the core strategic focus of the city's local administrative institutions, only the core strategic focus of the municipality and towns, by the public personally served as the top local administrator, and many cities and towns are taken over by local officials trained in the more than ten years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, such as the former mayor of Yinggu Town, Sun Hongyi, the former mayor of Yingu Town, who has been promoted to the new cabinet of the government, and Mao Jian, the former mayor of Yushu Town, has become the mayor of the capital Mancheng.

Some of the later development ideas of Lin Chaoen's helm in Porter City, an important town in the north of Songzhou, have been moved unchanged this time, and coal mining, wood processing, comprehensive agriculture, winemaking, cement and bricks, and tobacco import and processing are the economic framework that Jiangling City has built today. Gangneung City is the only place where it has been established to date with the least number of branches of large state-owned or private enterprises, and more than ninety percent of the enterprises are founded by ordinary citizens themselves.

The establishment of the coast guard, a new organization for land security in China and the United States, also began in Gangneung City. In order to reduce the burden of the navy's personnel and daily combat readiness, from 1632 onwards, the small coastal patrol ships that originally belonged to the navy began to be transferred to the Ministry of Police, and the coast guard department was established to be responsible for the daily security patrols of coastal towns. This functional adjustment. All of a sudden, the burden on the naval command on combat readiness has been greatly reduced, and a large number of officers and men have been freed from it, and the maritime defense combat readiness function has become more specialized.

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Early in the morning, a small sloop entered the mouth of the Potomac River and headed limply towards the river port of Gangneung City, where the local coast guard patrol boat, which was responsible for the safety of inland waterways.

It was a merchant ship from the colony of Jamestown, Virginia, England, and as is customary, it was supposed to carry a large amount of tobacco on board at this time. Today, spurred on by butterfly wings, tobacco cultivation in Virginia has far exceeded historical production over the same period, and tobacco prices have fallen below 1 shilling (50 cents) per pound. But the tobacco trade in Huamei remained the largest financial source for the Virginia colonial administration.

At the beckoning of the tin horn, the English sloop lowered its sails and slowed down with great cooperation, but the coast guards of Gangneung City, who were gradually approaching, vaguely smelled a trace of blood in the humid early morning air. A sharp-eyed coast guard even found that the sailboat was carrying traces of the aftermath of the battle.

Several coast guards who boarded the ships of England were stunned by what they saw. The deck was littered with blood and flintlock marks, and a middle-aged man in England with a blood-red calico wrapped around his chest and arms was leaning against the mast and dying, next to a middle-aged man in the role of a doctor, still continuing to treat the wounded with his chest injuries.

"Sir...... Save...... The captain ...... "The middle-aged English doctor, who was a little powerless, turned his head. Pointing to the seriously wounded man in front of him, he stammered a few Chinese words, naturally with a lot of English in between.

"Met a pirate? Hurry up to the patrol boat and send it to the hospital to save people first! "When I was a kid 13 years ago, I immigrated to the gorgeous Scottish Youth Coast Guard. At this time, he grabbed his scalp, but he didn't understand the meaning for a while, "How many of you are on the boat?" Guys, maybe we need someone more proficient in English to come over. ”

said. The young coast guard turned his head to the side of the ship and raised his hand towards the captain of the coast guard team on the patrol boat.

At this point, the hatch of the cabin deck, which was supposed to be filled with tobacco, opened. More than 20 men, women, women, and children, all of whom were sloppy and sloppy, climbed up one after another, and one by one gathered around the seriously injured captain, and several of them were crying with their children in their arms.

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"What?! Illegal stowaways from Jamestown? ”

In the mayor's residence, Lin Chaoen had just gotten up and was washing under the service of his Chinese wife, when he received a message from the city police chief, and the boxed toothpaste in his hand accidentally fell to the ground. I hurriedly went down to pick it up, but I ended up with another hand, and half of it was wasted.

This toothpaste, which is made with calcium carbonate friction, refined salts, glycerin, saponifying active agents and peppermint flavor, makes this 17th-century bad breath remarkably fresh. The lowest end of the "Beauty" series of toothpaste is $1 per box in China, and the wholesale price in Europe is more than $3, but one box is enough for a family to use for several months.

The popularity of toothpaste in China and the United States has reached more than 80%, and it has gradually become a potential daily consumer product in many families in European countries, and some high-end products with special plant flavor formulas for European aristocracy have even exceeded $50 a box.

"Bothering you to wash up, Mayor Lin!" The Chinese police chief hurriedly squatted down to pick it up, but his slightly dirty fingers accidentally poked into the box, and the whole box of high-end toothpaste that had only been opened for a few days was scrapped.

"Let's sit down and have a bite to eat...... By the way, how many people are there? ”

The servants finally rushed over to clean up the mess, and Lin Chaoen, who had finally finished washing, threw off the towel that wiped his face and sat back at the table. The wife of a beautiful Chinese young woman hurriedly brought a plate of fried dumplings, a poached egg and milk, and the three children on one side were already grabbing all kinds of breakfast and munching on it.

"A total of 35 people, all of whom were indentured servants, except for the crew. Including 22 men, 13 women, including 3 children. The captain was seriously wounded, shot in the left arm and chest, and is estimated to be difficult to treat. Fortunately, they have a doctor who has survived until now. The Chinese police chief politely took the chopsticks. I secretly envy the family breakfast in front of me.

"That should have escaped." Lin Chaoen thought about it for a while, and he probably understood the reason, "England is in a hurry to go to the hospital, and Virginia is unlucky enough......"

"Mayor Lin, what should we do about it? The city does not have the right to administer immigration. The police chief quickly put down his chopsticks and sat up straight.

"Quarantine and settle down first, and then take refuge in power, and I will explain it to the cabinet." Lin Chaoen came out of his mouth with an extremely fresh word, and even the Chinese police chief, who had immigrated to Huamei for more than 10 years, was slightly stunned.

"Refugee status persecuted by the colonial authorities of England, based on humanitarian resettlement. Got it? Lin Chaoen smiled and raised the milk glass.

The captain eventually died a few hours after being taken to the Gangneung City Hospital, but the remaining English indentured slave smugglers were properly housed in a forest farm dormitory on the outskirts of the city, where each was given a wooden badge that was said to be a temporary refugee card. With this wooden plaque, you can get a part-time job at a designated company. Soon, these people discovered that the standard of living of the freedmen, whom they had envied in Jamestown, was nothing short of scum compared to here.

Lin Chaoen was just a whim of kindness this time, what he didn't know was. Soon, the colony of Virginia, England, will set off an irrepressible wave of indentured slave smuggling, even involving some freedmen.

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The population of the entire colony of Virginia, England, has grown to more than 7,000 people. New colonies such as Charles City and Yorktown have also been built one after another, thanks to the "excellent regional environment" that is already adjacent to China and the United States. The trade of tobacco, cotton, iron ore, timber and other industrial and agricultural specialties in the vicinity for various commodities and materials in China and the United States played a key supporting role in the expansion of the Virginia colony.

On the island in the middle of the James River, the town of Jamestown has grown considerably over the years. Even with the massive increase in the population of the entire Jamestown area, and the arms deal, the threat of the Indian Bauhatan tribe has been greatly reduced. A large number of plantations were also established on the north and south banks of the south of the James River.

In order to obtain monetary income, Jamestown's economy was extremely deformed. Tobacco cultivation, cotton cultivation, and iron ore mining have become the main social productions, while thankless traditional agricultural and livelihood projects are difficult to develop. Before the colonial trade restriction bill was put on the head, Jamestown was able to import a large amount of grain, livestock, wine, cloth and clothing, and high-quality livelihood goods that were much cheaper than those in Europe through the raw material trade without or with little use of precious metal currency, and enjoyed the "global economic integration" life that would only be possible in hundreds of years in advance.

This has become the basic rhythm of Jamestown's survival and development, and it is also one of the few places in England where it can "earn" silver dollars from Chinese merchants and maintain a surplus of trade. Beginning in 1630, more than 400,000 pounds of tobacco, 1 million pounds of cotton, and 10,000 tons of iron ore were exported annually to Huamei. Hundreds of thousands of dollars and silver coins flowed into Colonial Virginia every year, and it is no exaggeration to say that Jamestown today has become the "richest" direct domain of the King of England, although it has contributed little to the manufacture of local goods.

Since the completion of the city of Gangneung, not far to the north, this bilateral trade has become closer, and some small Huamei trading companies have simply built a temporary trading post in Jamestown and live here from time to time. While building relationships with the local English population, they are buying or selling goods to cope with competition from the country's powerful corporations, and even small traders are already considering partnering with Jamestown plantations to continue to expand their raw material industry.

If nothing in particular had changed, this harmonious situation should have allowed the immigrants of Jamestown to live a fairytale life. Unfortunately, starting in 1633, King Charles I of England foolishly interfered in the affairs of the Church of Scotland, leading to the outbreak of the "Bishops' Wars" and the sudden Irish rebellion in early 1634, which led the English royal family to force a large-scale tax increase in Virginia.

An additional land tax is paid per acre of tobacco or cotton fields, and a tonnage tax is paid for each newly built sailing ship. It also stipulated that Virginia must import a certain amount of wool produced in England every year, and even made every indentured slave in the Virginia colony pay a tax "in return for the king's favor" when he regained his freedom. All this, in order to pass on the financial burden of the local people, in an instant, squeezed the local people, who are less than one-thirtieth of the population of the city of London, to the fullest.

In fact, colonies should have a colonial consciousness, but since the inhabitants of Jamestown established their own colonial parliament in 1619, the principle of "freemen must be consulted when raising taxes" has been implemented for many years. Coupled with the fact that he was becoming more accustomed to dealing with China and the United States, the king of England's brutal economic policy immediately caused panic, and even Harvey, the local governor of England, was at a loss for the king's series of incredible withdrawals.

It is said that the day Charles I's levy order arrived in Jamestown was May 14, which coincided with the 27th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown. Harvey, the governor of Virginia, forced an order to reaffirm the king's policy of raising taxes, despite the opposition of the colonial council. In order to prevent rebellion, Harvey imposed a shackle system similar to that of black slaves for all indentured slaves, and in the event of bad behavior, the contract of sale of indentured slaves was automatically extended for 24 months.

As soon as the Governor's proclamation was posted, the popular discontent in Jamestown was aroused, and even some of the local plantation owners protested, and the enforced slaves who were about to be freed burned several plantation warehouses in anger, and the commotion almost affected the temporary warehouses of Chinese merchants. Annoyed, Governor Harvey began to order his soldiers to drive away the rioters, and shot some of the indentured slaves who behaved in a radical manner.

This kind of recklessness did not solve any of the current problems of England itself, but it was the prelude to the "expulsion of Governor Harvey" in Virginia's colonial history, but for different reasons.

A group of indentured slave families who could not stand the oppression finally met together and planned to steal the sloop Cornwall to leave China and the United States. However, they were unlucky, and when they were about to board the ship in the middle of the night, they were discovered by the soldiers patrolling the docks, and then there was an armed clash that killed a number of escaped indenture slaves, but fortunately, the captain was seriously injured and reluctantly drove the boat out of the James River. (To be continued......)