When Ruan Yuan and Mu Yongfu received Wilmington, more than 100 kilometers north of Wilmington, New York State was also handing over territory to the fleet sent by Damington.

When the Ming fleet arrived in Virginia, it was divided into two groups directly at the mouth of the Dongyi Inner Bay.

One went into Dongyi Bay, went to Norfolk, and then turned to Wilmington.

The other group went straight north into the New York Bay.

New York Bay is the mouth of the Hudson River, surrounded by the islands of Manhattan, Long Island, and Stanton Island in New York, and Hudson County in New Jersey.

These areas would later be the heart of the New York metropolitan area.

Now, the eastern part of the metropolitan area, the most populous place in the history of New York City, King County (Brooklyn) and the entire Long Island where it is located are assigned to the Ming Dynasty.

When Daming's fleet entered New York Bay, both sides of the bay were also crowded with people, far more lively than Wilmington.

Because the bay is surrounded by the largest urban area in the United States, the total population is now approaching two million.

The admiral of this fleet, who was also the commander of the navy in the Dongyi region in the future, Vice Admiral Li Changgeng.

Now standing on the deck of the Guangdong-type battleship Fujian, looking at the coast of Long Island on the right side with a telescope, and looking at the shore of this king county, the person said with a little doubt:

"The people on the shore seem to be very happy, do they know what we are here for?

"Didn't the people in Xichang say that the news of the cession of Long Island to Daming had already spread locally?"

The head of the army unit on board the fleet, Rear Admiral Lu Junde, said noncommittally:

"It's strange that they're all British, or American, or Canadian.

"Shouldn't they feel indignant and humiliated when their area was ceded to us?"

The person in charge of the administrative body of Changdao, Liu Luozhi, the left chief of Dongyi State, listened to the discussion of the two generals and said with a smile:

"Didn't General Lu say that they could be British, American, or even French-controlled Canadians, so where are they?

"If you put the Dongyi people to whom the Ming Dynasty belongs and these three identities together, they are already a little confused about their identity, which new identity are they willing to choose?"

Lu Junde seems to have understood a little.

Napoleon and Adams collaborated in promoting the War of Independence, and they themselves did not put forward clear slogans and declarations, and the forces involved were too complex to be too complex to mess up these ordinary people.

However, Li Changgeng still doesn't understand very well:

"Why do you want to be a Ming man so much? If you don't look in the mirror and look at your face, can you be like us Ming people? ”

The fleet just went all the way, leaving some of the patrol fleets cruising in New York Bay.

The fleet of officers and men was inserted into the fjord between Manhattan and Blicklin, and docked in the port of Brooklyn.

Representatives of the high-level, celebrity throughout New York City, and indeed throughout New York State, and even throughout the American North.

Gathered on the docks in Brooklyn, a warm welcome was prepared.

Lu Junde followed the two columns of soldiers, and when he walked down the gangway, he looked at the welcoming procession that greeted him not far away, and once again felt that something was not right.

There are both young and old among these people, and they are basically wearing new Ming-style formal clothes designed by His Royal Highness Prince Dashi.

Except for a few expressions that are not very good-looking, the vast majority of people are obviously welcoming from the heart.

Lu Junde glanced at Liu Ruzhi behind him, and muttered in a low voice:

"It doesn't feel quite right, Mr. Liu is careful to deal with it, and I pay attention to the situation around me......"

Liu Luozhi nodded lightly and walked at the front of the line.

At the same time, a group of people on the opposite side had already greeted them, and then took the initiative to report their homes here.

At the head was the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Acting Prime Minister of the United States, John Adams.

Then there was the Governor of New York, Morgan Lewis, and it was Lewis who went on to introduce others.

Next up is the governor of New Jersey, Joseph Bloomfield.

Baron George Macartney, former governor of the British colony of New York.

Former Governor of the British Colony of New York and Virginia: Earl John Murray Dunmore.

Son of former Bank of New York President Isaac Roosevelt, James Roosevelt (Franklin D. Roosevelt's great-grandfather)

There are also famous New York businessmen John Jacob Astor and Stephen Girard, two contenders for the richest man in the United States.

Other people who are not currently famous enough are not qualified to be introduced to Liu Ruizhi's direct acquaintance.

Some are not yet famous, such as another strong contender for America's richest man, Cornelius Vanderbilt.

Now he is only a twelve-year-old child, and his father, who is a farmer, is watching the excitement from a distance.

The ones that can be introduced are all local people who really have heads and faces, but Liu Ruzhi is not interested.

Liu Luozhi found an opportunity to interrupt Governor Lewis:

"We're here to accept Long Island, are all of you residents of Long Island?"

Lewis rightly said:

"We are all indeed Long Island residents, and we all have properties on Long Island.

"Those of us who are still working will occasionally come back to live, but when we retire, we will come to Long Island to retire.

"Two nobles of England are now retired in their estates on Long Island.

"So please also ask Lord Changshi to be gracious and allow us to take the national identity of Dongyi Kingdom."

Liu Luozhi listened to Lewis's explanation, and subconsciously looked at the difference between the architectural styles of Brooklyn and Manhattan.

Manhattan is full of high-rise buildings, and the steel jungle, especially in the Lower Manhattan area, is full of skyscrapers.

Now New York counties and cities have only Manhattan Island, not other areas.

Located in the mouth of the Hudson River, the island has a total area of less than 60 square kilometers, but its total population has exceeded 1.1 million people, or more than 18,300 people per square kilometer.

This has reached the scale of the core area of a modern megacity.

The Brooklyn area, across the river, is basically an independent courtyard with a courtyard.

Most of them are Thai-Western style buildings, but there are also many Ming-style courtyards.

Some villas are very exquisitely decorated, and they should be the houses of the wealthy class.

There are also a lot of ordinary small yards of similar patterns, and a large number of two- and three-story sparse buildings, which may be the houses of ordinary Brooklyn natives.

But all the yards and buildings are very low, and Liu Luozhi did not see a few buildings more than three stories on the way through Brooklyn by boat.

According to the information I have learned before, even the number of such gardens is not very large.

Long Island has a total area of 4,300 square kilometers and a total population of about 600,000.

The average is 140 people per square kilometer, which is lower than that of Jilin Province.

Those settlements are currently concentrated in the Brooklyn area, and much of the rest of Long Island is farm-based.

Historically, Brooklyn has been in this state for a long time.

So much so that it is called "the city of home" and "the city of trees", which shows what New Yorkers position Brooklyn as.

So the current state of Brooklyn is really where these people are ready to retire.

Their main assets now, financial investments, should be in Manhattan, and the factory may be in the New York Interior or even New Jersey.

They may only have a few houses or farms in Brooklyn.

The value of these things is not particularly high, and they can all be maintained at a certain certain level.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has obtained Long Island to establish the new Dongyi Kingdom, these people all want to engage in the national identity of a Ming vassal state.

Those who have retired will retire on Long Island, those who are still working hard will return to Manhattan to struggle, and those who will return to Long Island when they are old.

After Liu Ruzhi figured out what these people thought, he began to seriously consider whether he could allow them to do so.