Daming Xinjin Port.

"I'd rather miss a handful of soil in my hometown, and don't miss ten thousand taels of gold in my hometown!"

Zhu Fugui took out a small bottle of Lao Baigan, sprinkled a small amount of fresh soil into it, and handed it to Yin Weasel, whose eyes were red, and he raised his head and poured down the wine.

This scene seems to be familiar with the return of Yan, and the reason is that the wealth is in the nesting doll......

Well, it's not a nesting doll, at most it can only be regarded as a scene reproduction.

Zhu Fugui didn't expect that he would bid farewell to his beloved general on the dock twice in just one week.

The difference is that when Donald was sent to Port Angeles, Donald was on a foreigner's big ship;

When bidding farewell to Yin Weasel, he was in Xinjin Port in Daming, and Yin Weasel took Daming's own warship, Dingyuan.

Zhu Fugui's generation grew up watching movies like "Jiawu Fengyun", and the mighty, tragic, and humiliating Dingyuan and Zhenyuan two ships are nightmares that cannot be forgotten.

Maybe it's a little unlucky, but Zhu Fugui still stubbornly named the first generation of capital ships of the Daming Navy Division Dingyuan and Zhenyuan.

This can be regarded as a little habit of Zhu Fugui himself, not pleasing the head, just to alert himself.

Of course, it won't be long before these two offshore vessels, converted from tin cargo ships, are converted.

Since they were originally inland waterway vessels used in rivers, the paint of these two ships could not resist the corrosion of seawater and had begun to oxidize and peel.

Then, the exposed metal quickly corrodes.

Zhu Fugui hoped that they would hold out until Wang Zhonghuang and Morishita returned, and then they were honorably listed in the Ming Imperial Museum.

When the time comes, they will be dubbed the first ships of the Empire.

It is also common knowledge that there were two ships in the first ship of the Empire.

In fact, purely in terms of combat power or navigation ability, the Dingcheng and Zhen 2nd ships are far inferior to the Zhu Chenggong naval division training ships.

However, in order to train qualified ocean-going sailors to transport immigrants back to their hometown in China as soon as possible, Zhu Fugui added a heavier burden to Zheng Baoguo and Zhu Chenggong.

Now they are on their way to Kodiak Island.

Kodiak Island is an island in Alaska that is now part of the territory of the Russians.

However, the Russians could not even hold Alaska itself, and if it were not for the sudden outbreak of civil war in the United States, Alaska would have been sold to the Americans long ago after the Crimean War.

So Kodiak Island is almost an uninhabited island.

Why almost?

This is because a large number of whaling ships travel to Kodiak Island every year.

It is said that it is a whaling ship, but it is not actually there to catch whales.

Kodiak Island is home to the world's largest terrestrial carnivores, and is on par with polar bears and even larger than polar bears.

If the Siberian tiger can go back and forth with the Far East brown bear, then this behemoth, which can weigh up to 800 kilograms, is not something that any kind of cat can compete with.

The reason why these brown bears are so much larger than the average mainland brown bear is because of the abundant natural resources on Kodiak Island, the northern sea lions.

These fat, meaty animals are the second largest carnivores in the world, after elephant seals (note that they were previously land, this time including pinnipeds that enter the sea).

They are so large that they can be used directly as an alternative to the whaling industry.

The whaling industry was one of the most important industries of this era.

Before the rise of synthetic chemicals, whale oil was an irreplaceable raw material.

The white man forged the prosperity of modern industry with the blood of countless whales and sea lions, and then a hundred years later, the descendants of these pirates turned into environmental fighters, pointing fingers at the people of the Third World.

Zhu Fugui's main reason for sending Zhu Chenggong was naturally not to engage in environmental protection.

But his main purpose was to use his camera to record the atrocities of white people destroying nature, and by the way, he also caught some sea lions himself for "scientific research".

The reason why they chose to do it to sea lions with rolling flesh is that in addition to their meat and oil, they also have much better fur than whale skin, and secondly, it is naturally because their ability is limited.

Whaling is a technical job, tracking, killing, and decomposing oil refining are all technical work.

But it's much easier to catch sea lions.

Bring spears and muskets, just land and stab them around.

All in all, for the sake of Daming's scientific research vision, Zhu Chenggong is heading north.

The Dingyuan, who was ordered to be in danger, this time will escort the envoy of the Ming Jinyi Weinan Town, and the honorary viscount Yin Weasel of the Ming Dynasty to the Garibaldi Mountains to participate in the four-year Sioux Seven-Color Flame Conference.

Unlike the usual hanging of the Great Bright Sun and Moon Flag, this time a flag was hung with a crow gliding in the thick fog.

This is because this time, Yin Weasel went to the Garibaldi Mountains to participate in the meeting as a representative of the new tribe after the union of Yunwu and Raven, the Fog Raven Tribe.

Garibaldi is located north of the Greater Bay Area in Vancouver, Canada, and is directly accessible by waterways.

In this era, the relations between the Canadians and the Indians were okay, or in other words, there was a not-so-strong alliance between the British and the Sioux.

The British, the king of-stirring sticks, are happy to see these desperate Indians give their own rebels some eye medicine.

As a result, as the only force among the Indians that can still build and fight, the Sioux have long been active on the U.S.-Canada border.

When he was surrounded and suppressed by the U.S. Army, he often retreated into Canada and returned a mouthful of blood.

Originally, Zhu Fugui had forgotten that Daming still had a group of relatives who were quite capable of fighting, but after being reminded by Maple's mother-in-law, he learned that there was such a thing as a tribal alliance conference, so Zhu Fugui would have to intervene anyway.

In Zhu Fugui's cognition, the so-called alliance is used to split.

Whether it's the "Unbreakable Alliance" or the Avengers, the final outcome is pretty much the same anyway.

Zhu Fugui was not interested in being a feather duster for the British to educate filial sons, but he was very interested in the population of the Sioux Alliance.

To be honest, if it weren't for the Yin people, there would be less than 1/5 of the population of Suzhou Mansion now, and Zhu Fugui would still be a little worried about the host and guest issues.

But history is so cruel, when a nation has only 200,000 people left, then they are lovely.

In fact, the Sioux were not alone in their resistance to the U.S. federal government's westward expansion policy.

Over the past few years, the various Indian tribes of the southern plains: the Alabajo, the Shaians, the Kamanches, and the Kiowa have risen up to fight the colonists.

However, it is clear that there is no chance of victory in the plains against the US border guards.

The U.S. border guards, of about 4,000 men, wiped out the scattered forces, eliminated the young and strong, and sent the remaining Indians to the Mao Buchang reservation.

Relying on the advantages of the mountainous northwest and the Canadian border, as well as the civil war that happened to break out in the Americans, the Sioux barely managed to win some victories and retain their strength.

According to Granny Maple, the Sioux Alliance is extremely powerful, with tens of thousands of warriors.

Zhu Fugui didn't believe half a word about this kind of nonsense.

Zhu Fugui consulted the relevant information, although there is no exact data, but according to sporadic records, as well as the 21st century Sioux population back, Zhu Fugui estimated that the total population of the Sioux Alliance at this time should be less than 50,000, and the so-called soldiers should only be a few thousand.

(The population of the Sioux in the 21st century is 100,000, and according to the proportion of the total Indian population increasing by three times from 1900 to 2015, the Sioux population should be about 30,000 in 1900 and about 50,000 in 1863.) ）

Unlike the Shosuni people, the Sioux have always been staunch anti-American fighters, which makes Zhu Fugui, the anti-American leader, very appreciative.

Therefore, Zhu Fugui specially approved thousands of catties of rice for Yin Weasel for diplomatic activities.

Of course, Zhu Fugui didn't plan to buy the Sioux Alliance with such a small thing.

In fact, Zhu Fugui had no interest in taking over the entire Sioux Alliance, because Da Ming's current size was simply not capable of controlling them.

There are only three tasks that Zhu Fugui gave to Yin Weasel:

First of all, wealth is not exposed, but you can't walk at night in brocade clothes, master the scale, show strength but don't attract unnecessary attention.

The second is to have a good relationship with the chiefs of the major tribes, and make a familiar face to facilitate future cooperation.

The third is to hire a group of warriors from small and medium-sized tribes as mercenaries to participate in the foreign legion of the Ming Dynasty.