Isaac Roosevelt wore the uniform of the translator of Dongyi and returned to his home next to New York Bay with a sad face.

Father James Roosevelt couldn't help but laugh when he saw his son's appearance:

"Oh, my child, this dress is really spiritual, and the design of His Royal Highness Prince Daishi is truly amazing.

"Even if His Royal Highness the Prince is not an aristocrat, this design will definitely be popular."

Isaac looked at the clothes on his body, and he was indeed quite satisfied, but this identity made him feel complicated.

James put his arm around his son's shoulders and asked with a smile:

"Why don't you speak? What made you change your mind? ”

Isaac briefly recounted what happened at the ceremony:

"I feel like a coward now......"

James still has a smile on his face:

"You made the right choice, it's for our family and our clan, my Isaac has grown up.

"In the Ming society, government officials had a much higher status than businessmen.

And the imperial examination is the only way to enter the Ming officialdom.

"If our family is completely excluded from the imperial examination by the Ming Dynasty, we will forever lose the opportunity to enter high society.

"For the sake of our family's future, we need someone to work in the imperial court of Dongyi Kingdom.

"He will be the foundation of our family's stability and prosperity......"

Isaac stopped talking with a bitter face.

He just understood what his father meant, and knew the serious consequences of being "blacklisted" by Daming, so he changed his mind.

As James was thinking about how to comfort his son, there was a dull noise outside the window.

Both father and son subconsciously bowed their heads.

James pulled his son and squatted under the window:

"Don't get up, I'll go see ......"

James went to the window and looked around through the window.

The dull sound sounded again, and James was sure it was the sound of a cannon firing, but it should be far away.

James picked up the binoculars in the window and looked out where the sound was coming from, but it was blocked by the buildings and the shoreline.

However, after a little calculation, James judged that the cannon sound was at least a dozen kilometers away.

Probably in the Lower New York Bay, or even on the Atlantic Ocean just outside the entrance to the Lower New York Bay.

New York Bay actually has two floors, inside and outside.

The inner layer is the bay between Long Island, Manhattan Island, Staten Island, and Hudson County, New Jersey, also known as Upper New York Bay.

The outer layer is south of the entrance to Upper New York Bay, the bay between the South Coast of Long Island and the South Jersey Coast of New York, also known as Lower New York Bay.

James, based on the sound that he could type, determined that the shelling, as well as the possible fighting, took place on the surface of the sea.

"It is likely that the Anglo-French forces are attacking Staten Island or New Jersey ......"

James basically relieved his heart and beckoned his son to stand up:

"Don't be nervous, we are now Dongyi people who belong to the Ming Dynasty, we are not Americans or British.

"Whether it is Britain and France, the United States, or Canada, they will never dare to let the shells fall on the land of the Ming Dynasty......"

Isaac was also a little lucky:

"We are now Ming people, so we don't have to worry about the invasion of war......"

James swallowed:

"If it weren't for the fact that Long Island had been assigned to the Ming Dynasty, the place where the British and French forces attacked at this time should be Long Island, or even Brooklyn, where we are located, and the shells might have landed directly in the yard of our house......"

At the same time, residents living in the southernmost part of Long Island have seen the battlefield through their windows.

A fleet under the British and French flags forced its way into Lower New York Bay and was engaged in an exchange of fire with shore guns on Staten Island.

Staten Island belonged to the State of New York, which in later generations belonged to a district of New York City and is now an independent county.

Staten Island and Long Island are the entrance barriers to Upper New York Bay.

Now, all the explosions and shelling, on the side close to Staten Island.

Another fleet under the banner of the Ming Dynasty had also been inserted into the side of the entrance to the bay near Long Island to patrol, apparently on the lookout for the Anglo-French fleet approaching Long Island.

While the fleet on the surface of the sea was shelling the coast and suppressing the shore artillery, a large number of small landing ships were rushing to the beach, apparently preparing to land and seize Staten Island.

The brutality of the landing battle was not far behind the positional war.

But the most special thing about this fight is that it has an audience.

Staten Island is only 1.5 kilometers from the closest point on Long Island.

As it guards the entrance to Upper New York Bay, there is a military base in this closest place.

A large number of artillery pieces were just across the bay, firing at the sea to the southeast.

In the fleet of the British and French forces, the closest to Long Island was only five or six kilometers away.

Residents of the southwest corner of Long Island can see the battlefield without even using binoculars.

With binoculars, you can even see the muzzle storm of the battleship and the people on the landing craft that are rushing to the beach.

As soon as the fighting broke out on the coast, word spread.

The residents of Linn County began to figure out what was going on, and knew that the southern artillery was the British and French forces attacking the United States.

The mood of the residents of Linxian County at this time is quite complicated.

Because they were all Americans just a few months ago.

As James Roosevelt said, if it weren't for the return of Long Island to the Ming Dynasty, it might be his own home that would be bombarded now.

Several lawmakers in New York and New Jersey, who did not want to stay in Dongyi as interpreters, began to congratulate their decision.

The land of Daming is the safest place, and the talents who work for Daming are the safest.

While the Dongyi State was preparing for the imperial examination, reorganizing the militia, and re-registering the household registration and assets, the other countries were not idle.

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The main forces of the naval and army forces of the British alliance arrived at Yinzhou one after another.

The war between Britain and France to "quell the rebellion" had begun.

The two armies attacked in two directions, on both sides of the Appalachian Mountains, from Virginia and Tennessee, to the north.

But in the past few months, Napoleon and Adams have also been building defensive lines and mobilizing their troops in full force.

The Anglo-French armies on both sides of the Appalachian Mountains were firmly blocked under the defensive line.

The armies of the two countries launched several attacks in succession, but none of them achieved substantial results.

It is to be expected that the army will be plunged into a war of attrition again.

On the contrary, the navy has achieved certain results.

The navies of the United States and Canada, which were originally a small number of Anglo-French escort fleets, were not the main fleets in the first place.

They also do not have the ability to build capital ships and a large fleet on their own.

Therefore, after the arrival of the main fleets of Britain and France, they quickly took control of the sea control in the northeast of Yinzhou.

A small number of naval vessels in the United States and Canada were either damaged, sunk, or hid in harbor and did not dare to go out.

Then the Navy imposed a total containment and embargo on the United States and Canada.

The maritime links between the two countries have been completely cut off.

Since it was difficult for the army to achieve results and the navy had absolute superiority, Britain and France decided to try to land at sea.

Capture Staten Island at the entrance to New York Bay, then attack Manhattan further.

Nelson and Wellesley orchestrated the battle and communicated the purpose to Daming before it was carried out.

Staten Island is too close to all of Daming's Long Islands, separated by a bay less than two kilometers away.

In order to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings and troubles, it is necessary to inform Daming in advance.

So the Ming garrison fleet appeared on the sea to monitor the landing of British and French troops in the United States.

On the other side, the Ming army also stood behind and on the side of the Anglo-French forces, watching the Anglo-French forces attack the American positions.

The Ming Dynasty helped the British and French hold the line of defense agreed upon at the beginning, and delivered it to the main forces of the British and French forces that arrived one after another.

Then the Ming began to take over the Mississippi region on the east bank of the lower reaches of the Honey River from the British.

This was part of the remuneration that Zhu Jingyuan and Britain and France agreed to pay to Daming.

Mississippi is a typical agricultural state in the southern United States and is a well-known production base for cotton.

With a total area of 120,000 square kilometers and a total population of less than one million, more than half of whom were Mo slaves.

According to Zhu Jingyuan's plan, the population of the land received by the Ming Dynasty in Northern Yinzhou was to be sent to Dongyi State.

Zhu Jingyuan originally asked for the Dongyi Peninsula and Long Island, in the name of rehousing the Taixi people in the receiving area.

Zhu Jingyuan really planned to send them over.

First sent to the uninhabited areas on Changdao and Dongyi Peninsula to open up wasteland, and then find a way to send it back to Taixi and Mozhou.

The fertile land of Mississippi had to be emptied of the Tessi and Mexican populations.

Only when the Ming immigrants control and use these lands themselves, can those lands really belong to the Ming Dynasty.

However, due to the very scattered local population, the number of immigrants in the Ming Dynasty is relatively limited.

So it's impossible for the locals to send them all away in one go.

The final decision of the acceptance command was to gradually send the original residents away with the entry of the Ming immigrants.

When the Ming immigrants took over a village and a farm, they sent away the original owners and slaves of the village and the farm at the same time.

Of course, according to the practice of the Ming Dynasty to receive land, local residents could not keep or take away all their assets.

From Mississippi to Dongyi, it is a migration within the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and it is allowed to carry assets worth 10,000 silver bills.

The most important asset to the local Tessie immigrants was the Moxican slaves.

After assessing the market value of the current Mo slaves, Command stipulated that each Tessie could take a maximum of thirty-two slaves.

The excess was to be taken into custody by the receiver and then sold to Americans in other areas.