The few high-level leaders in Delaware led by Mitchell were not very willing to accept Daming's conditions, but they also did not have the courage to directly resist and oppose them.

Adams and Napoleon have already chosen to give up, and there is a high probability that they will not be enemies of the Ming Dynasty for the sake of the 40,000 people in Wilmington.

Likewise without the courage to leave directly, the officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty would definitely do as they asked, confiscate most of their assets, and let themselves leave with a thousand Ming silver bills.

That would make you fall into the ordinary middle class, or even the bottom middle class.

The Ming officials led by Ruan Yuan did not communicate with them much, but chatted with Stockton and other young people quite patiently.

At the same time, more Da Ming and Yin soldiers got off the ship and left the dock in batches according to Mu Yongfu's order to take over and control the city hall, barracks, warehouses, bridges, and key intersections.

This is in fact the receiving town too.

The Delaware executives, led by Mitchell, watched the groups of Ming soldiers running away with rifles on their shoulders, and immediately realized what they were going to do.

But several people looked at each other, stopped talking for a long time, and finally silently accepted the reality.

After all, this is only a small city of tens of thousands of people, and no matter how powerful the local snake is, it doesn't have the courage to confront Daming.

Due to the simplicity and directness of the Ming officials, what should have been a simple greeting process on the dock directly turned into a process of handing over control of the actual city.

The officials headed by Ruan Yuan waited on the dock for more than an hour, during which they were talking and chatting.

Knowing that Mu Yongfu received a report from his subordinates, he knew that his soldiers had completely controlled this small city of 40,000 people.

Then he left a group of soldiers to continue to guard the port, and he accompanied Nguyen Yuan and the other officials to Wilmington City Hall with a sentry soldier.

Delaware officials, businessmen, congressmen, representatives of the new aristocracy, and the governor of Maryland, who had come to visit, also went to City Hall.

Maryland Governor Boin stepped forward and proposed that the two sides sign a handover statement document.

The purpose of Bao Yin's rush from Baltimore was to cooperate with the Ming officials in handling the territorial transfer matters.

Before the arrival of the representatives of the Ming Dynasty, Bao Yin had several thoughts of keeping part of Cecil.

But the idea was not as strong as Delaware's Mitchell.

Because the core of Maryland is no longer on the peninsula, but Baltimore across the fjord.

Bao Yin's main assets are also in Baltimore.

Cecil and the land of the peninsula south of it were handed over to the Ming Dynasty, which did not affect his wealth and status at all.

After Bao Yin saw the negotiation process between Daming and Mitchell in Delaware, he decisively gave up these simple ideas that he had not put forward in his heart.

I decided to get things done and return to Baltimore.

Bao Yin took the lead, and Mitchell also knew that he couldn't escape, and he also stood up and expressed his willingness to sign the statement.

Ruan Yuan looked at the two governors and smiled:

"We didn't care, since both of us wanted to sign, let's sign one......

Nguyen Yuan asked the clerk to draft a simple declaration document.

Delaware and Maryland gave up all land on the entire Dongyi Peninsula, including Cecil and Newcastle counties.

Bao Yin and Mitchell signed on behalf of the firm.

Ruan Yuan nodded slightly, stood on the steps in the middle, and made an official announcement again:

"From now on, the counties of Newcastle and Cecil and all areas of the Dongyi Peninsula to the south belong to the territory of the Ming Dongyi State.

"If the original state canonized, the fief is within the territory of Dongyi State, and it will not be recognized in the future.

"The titles of the United States and Great Britain will all belong to foreign titles in the future, and there are no special rights in the Dongyi Kingdom.

"The Dongyi King's Mansion has two Changshi Mansions on the left and right, the left Changshi governs the counties of Changdao, and the right Changshi is responsible for the counties of the Dongyi Peninsula.

"The existing institutions and personnel in the counties of the peninsula will be temporarily retained, and they will be promoted through assessment and elimination in the future.

"The original Delaware state government, legislature, and court institutions are all dissolved, and relevant personnel can participate in the official assessment of the Changshi Mansion.

"Those who are proficient in Daming Yayan and can use Daming Yayan to listen, speak, read and write will be given priority as translators."

Listening to Ruan Yuanyi's solemn announcement, the expressions of the audience in the hall below were different.

Mitchell and other core personnel of Delaware-level institutions all have melancholy and sad expressions.

Delaware is completely gone from now on, and for them, it is equivalent to a straight stroke.

And in the future, it will be different from before, if you want to be an official, you have to start from the grassroots level, and you can't go directly to a high position.

Ordinary businessmen and elites, especially young people, who are interested in becoming managers, are beginning to look forward to it.

Representatives of county-level agencies in Wilmington City breathed a sigh of relief, and their positions were temporarily retained.

At this point, the handover ceremony of the territory of the Dongyi Peninsula is officially completed.

Then Ruan Yuan did not continue to chat with Bao Yin, Mitchell and others, but directly started to work on the spot.

Received all the information of the Delaware government, received the basic information of the counties on the peninsula transmitted by the representative of Maryland, and compiled the information of the right chief historian of the Dongyi country.

Accept the functions of the Delaware government and the existing institutions and facilities, and expand the scope of management to the entire peninsula on this basis, and establish the framework of the Dongyi State Right Changshi Office.

The two long histories of the Dongyi Kingdom are actually two governors, and they are not the governors of certain affairs in the traditional Ming Dynasty, but the colonial governors similar to the modern times in the West.

After Ruan Yuan put up the shelves of the Changshi Mansion, he began to take over the other counties on the peninsula.

This task is actually very simple, if it is said to be simple.

Grassroots organizations in the United States of America are highly autonomous.

A group of immigrants from the Old World scattered and gathered into small settlements, and a group of people discussed how they would live.

Almost all the needs are solved by the locals themselves, and if there are contradictions and problems, they are also discussed and dealt with by themselves.

The security problem also had to be solved by the residents themselves, and most immigrants had firearms in their homes.

The settlements on these peninsulas are still very evenly populated, and one or two thousand people are enough to become county government seats.

In a place with such a sparse and uniform population, of course, there are no particularly rich places and people.

If Daming doesn't carry out the strategy of not wanting people and allowing these people to continue to live in Daming, then just send someone to inform them that the sky has changed.

Tell them that they will not belong to Britain or the United States in the future, and they will belong to the Ming Dynasty in the future.

The vast majority of peasants do not have any opinions, and even if they do, there is no place to vent them.

But this task, if it is difficult, is actually very difficult.

It is necessary to implement the local management system after the Great Ming Renwu Dynasty and establish a Ming-style grass-roots official organization.

It is necessary to train enough grassroots officials and apply the laws and regulations of the Ming Dynasty to the villages.

It is necessary to establish a new Ming-style school, change the local education model and content, and at the same time promote the Ming Yayan.

Even in the remote areas of the Ming Dynasty, this will be a very complicated civil affairs project.

What's more, there is still a linguistic and cultural gap between ordinary people on the Dongyi Peninsula and the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Ruan Yuan and Mu Yongfu both knew that the second goal was impossible to achieve in the short term.

Therefore, Ruan Yuan temporarily retained the original county-level managers.

But the two are not ready to directly and completely leave it alone, but to prepare for the subsequent direct jurisdiction.

After Ruan Yuan and Mu Yongfu discussed, they planned to arrange three officers in each county, and about a hundred soldiers at one outpost.

The officer is responsible for transmitting and interpreting the notices issued by the Ming Dynasty and the Changshi Mansion, statistically and recording the actual situation of grassroots villages and towns, and supervising and evaluating the retained Taixi officials.

Soldiers protect and cooperate with officers, maintain law and order in the area, take over and control the local militia organizations, and maintain de facto rule over the area.

By eliminating the possible resistance and consolidating the local militias, the garrisons in each county can be gradually reduced.

But to achieve this goal, each group of officers and soldiers had to be equipped with a Tessie interpreter who understood the Da Ming dialect

The lingua franca of the main inhabitants of the Dongyi Kingdom was English, while the ordinary officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty basically did not know foreign languages.

The high-ranking officials and nobles of the Ming Dynasty were rarely able to use foreign languages in their actual work and life.

Most of the foreigners with relatively high status can speak Daming Yayan, and the middle class is even more proud to understand Daming Yayan.

The description of "fluent and standard Daming Yayan" is a common compliment used by Tessie writers and media personnel.

There are no universal foreign language classes in ordinary schools in the Ming Dynasty, because foreign languages are not tested in middle school and university examinations and imperial examinations.

Only schools that specialize in training translators have foreign language classes, and only those who work in Honglu Temple and West Factory have foreign language requirements.

Moreover, Britain at this time was not the world hegemon, and there was no United States to take over the baton of British hegemony.

Therefore, English today does not have a significant special status compared to French, Russian, Spanish, and Latin.

There are fewer people who learn foreign languages, and even fewer people know English.

Now there is a special shortage of officials, and it is even more difficult to find people who can understand English.

Before this operation, when we were screening people, we actually asked if there were any people who knew English.

In the end, among the officials who came to Dongyi Kingdom, less than ten of them could barely understand a few simple words of English.

As for the communication and office, there is no one.

Wilmington, one of Delaware's larger cities, and most of the senior officials of the Delaware and Maryland state governments understand the Ming dialect.

Coupled with the support of the West Plant and the peripheral personnel of the West Plant, the handover of the high-level can be carried out normally.

Next, Da Ming is going to take over and manage the counties below, or the villages that are scattered everywhere.

Most of the ordinary workers and peasants in those villages were illiterate, and it was impossible for them to understand the complex Daming dialect.

Even the small landlords and small factory owners below most of them don't understand any Ming Yayan at all.

If the Ming officials want to deal with them, they must be accompanied by a special interpreter.

And this translator will be very important in the future.

If the translator cooperates with the officials and officials of the Ming Dynasty to make decisions, he may become a "master" who holds part of the power.

If the translator deceives the superiors and subordinates, or even deceives the Ming officials together with the locals, he can also make a big mess.

Therefore, you must also be careful when choosing a translator.

After Ruan Yuan and Mu Yongfu discussed again, they posted an open recruitment notice for translators, and asked people from the West Factory to recommend available personnel who had been investigated.