The territory of the Ming Dynasty is a large circle smaller than that of the Qing Dynasty, in fact, the Ming Dynasty's ruling range in the Northeast is only not small, since the veteran Feng Sheng, Fu Youde Lanyu out of the Northeast, defeated the Northern Yuan Taiwei Naha out, the Ming Dynasty's dominance in the entire Northeast has been determined, and the northern territory has been to the Outer Xing'an Mountains. Not only the three northeastern provinces in later generations, but also a large part of the Soviet Union were included, and even almost reached the Arctic Circle, all of which were under the jurisdiction of the Nuer Gandu Division.

At that time, the ancestors of the Jianzhou Jurchens were still called Huli Gaibu, and they also survived on the other side of Heilongjiang, which was too inconspicuous among the many Ming vassals.

There is also a large island in Nuer Gandusi, Bitter Leaf! That is, Sakhalin in later generations, which Russia called Sakhalin.

Those pirates are also from Sakhalin, with hairy faces, and belong to the same clan as the Ezo people in Hokkaido, the Wa Kingdom, and are called Ainu by later generations, and the head owner with a collapsed nose and particularly strong minority characteristics should be the pre-Evenki, Nivkh and other Jurchen ethnic minorities.

It is indeed called the bitter cold land, a year can have a small half a year is a cold winter, but even if it is only half a year, it is enough to cultivate a season, when Mao Jue traveled to Heilongjiang in later generations, he also heard about the fishery, forest and gold mines here, Vladivostok's abundant purple gold is said to come from here, and more importantly, it provides a new space for Mao Jue to expand his life.

Heilongjiang Jilin does not dare to open up now, so first take the big island of Kuye, which can be regarded as laying a bridgehead for the future march, and more importantly, there is space to settle these more than 70,000 people in the customs to solve the urgent need, these more than 100 heads for Mao Jue, it is simply a big trouble.

It seems that he is destined not to have the blessing of spending the New Year at home, so he sent Su Mu Yeertai to return to Hamgyong Road first, and then Mao Jue began to pack his bags at home and prepare for his journey north.

Although this time it was easier than the War of the Japanese Kingdom, the place where I went was even colder, and Su Yi and Yu Leer, who had been out for a year, were confined at home, but Aderena, who had been "unwell" since returning to Dongjiang, was filled in by Mao Jue on the accompanying list.

I only came back a few days and had to go out again, the old man was angry and stomped his feet, Mao Jue set off, Mao Wenlong simply didn't go out to see him off, and listened to the opera and sang music in the back garden of the house, and the three women were sent to the door.

"The master can have a safe journey, rest assured at home, the concubine will take good care of the old lady and take care of a few younger sisters!"

This parting for more than half a year, Chen Jiao is now more and more housewife-like, with two red eyes of the girl farewell, she is dignified and steady with the corner of the skirt heavy squatting salute, poured a blessing.

People's hearts are long, looking at this girl, Mao Jue felt a little apologetic in her heart, and the past was put aside, at least after she started, Mao's house was in good order under her management, and after the old man's family moved from Phi Dao, she couldn't find any reason under her care, as a daughter-in-law, Chen Jiao really fulfilled her obligations, and the Chen family did fulfill the responsibility of aiding the East Jiang in the Middle East, but the last time she came back, she gave this girl a dismount.

Looking at the full head of hair that she lowered her head, her heart moved, Mao Jue suddenly stuck to Chen Jiao's ear, and said quietly and urgently.

"I heard that the north is prolific with purple gold, this time I'll bring you some back, and hit a few golden hairpins, okay?"

For the first time, this tone was the taste of a husband to his wife, but Chen Jiao, who listened to it, was stunned like a lightning strike, looking at her stunned appearance, and couldn't help but smile at the corner of Mao Jue's mouth.

"That's it!"

Cleanly took the reins from Sakurahime's hand, turned over on the horse, and waved his hand violently with a smile at the relatives of Mao's mansion who came out to see him off.

"I'm leaving!"

The sound of the horse's hooves rushed out suddenly, which woke up Chen Jiao, and a blush appeared on the pretty and delicate face of the Jiangnan lady, she lifted the corner of her skirt again, and squatted slightly in the direction of Mao Jue's departure.

"Master, have a safe journey!"

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This time he went north, Mao Jue didn't bring a regiment, just recruited the second-line guard troops of each guard and fort along the way, and fought in Fusang, more than 30,000 Dongjiang soldiers and more than 6,000 Shandong soldiers have been tired for a year, and Zhang Chi is the king, and it is time for them to rest.

Moreover, although this time it is considered an expedition, but the face of the enemy is not a grade, even the old and weak Su Mu Department with cold weapons can beat the strongest barbarian pirates and flee, so it is considered half training, and the Dongjiang militia equipped with muskets and bayonets should not be much worse, all the way to the north, recruiting local militias, and when they arrived at the coast of Lutun Island and the mountain-building coast where the Dongjiang horse riding team was trained, Mao Jue almost gathered more than 2,000 troops.

Here Mao Jue wants to thank Mao Wenlong, don't look at the old guy who doesn't care about things now, it seems that he is really taking care of his life, but as long as he is there, Mao Jue can rest assured even if he hits the sky, whether Kong Youde, Shen Shikui or Wen Meng, they are all his old subordinates, and Mao Wenlong's prestige in the Dongjiang River cannot be replaced by anyone, although he does not doubt the loyalty of his generals, but if something really happens, Mao Wenlong is his Mao Jue's strong backing, and he can control the scene at any time.

About mid-November, he arrived at the northernmost tip of Hamgyong Road, but the distance to travel was still delayed to the eighth day of December, no way, Mao Jue's manpower and material resources were still invested in the south coast of Lee's North Korea, and the largest Xiongjin shipyard was also there, although the shipyard on Lutun Island had been opened, but the manpower was only more than 1,000, and the wood had only begun to be hoarded.

Although this time it is not too far away, Mao Jue has a lot of things to bring.

On the cement-paved Dongjiang Avenue, it was simply stuffed with horse-drawn carriages, and the rice of the Wa Kingdom that had just landed on the Iron Mountain was immediately pulled to the north coast, followed by seeds, full bud rice sticks, potato chunks, big bags of sweet potatoes, and some cars were filled with truckloads of fat pigs.

At the beginning, there were no horses, pigs, goats, chickens and ducks on the American continent, these livestock were brought to the Americas with Western sailors as meals, and finally multiplied, and even later, the North American Indian tribes that had never been out of cavalry developed into nomadic tribes because of the development and growth of horses.

In addition to these livestock seeds, there are also a lot of industrial products, this time it is not to fight, four first-class style battleships, thirty second-class battleships, and fifty transport ships and fishing boats composed of a huge fleet, the gunpowder base is only one-third of the original, and even a small half of the artillery has been unloaded, and the remaining space is filled with all the industrial products of the Dongjiang River, sacks of cement, steel bars refined from the Iron Mountain Mine, all kinds of tools, axes, chisels, spinning wheels, and the largest number is the coal block that can be called industrial black gold, Truckloads of coal, compared to the Western colonizers to open up the North American continent, Mao Jue is simply eighteen kinds of martial arts, it is estimated that Magellan, Columbus saw his fleet, and his eyes were red and bleeding.

There are also 20,000 refugees in the Guannai who fled to the Iron Mountain this winter, and the Dongjiang River is already the edge of the sky for these Guannai people, and this time they will be taken farther to the north, and everyone's faces are full of fear of the unknown.

Fortunately, these people had just been beaten a while ago, and they were specially eliminated by Mao Jue, and Song Xiance negotiated with Song Xiance that the dozen or so leaders of the homeless people and their cronies were grudges Song Datou didn't know which black coal kiln to dig coal, on the one hand, there was no leader, and on the other hand, there were thousands of Dongjiang military lords with bayonets and flintlock pistols to watch, and the homeless people in their early 20,000s were carrying their luggage in an orderly manner, and boarded the Dongjiang fleet in rows.

Su Mu Yeertai really didn't lie, on the shore, the last time they Su Mu and the barbarian pirates battle traces still stayed on the beach, three of the barbarian pirate warships ran aground here, really similar to the Viking pirates seen in the movie, this kind of ship is also a long ship built up of wooden planks, fifteen to twenty meters, one mast to two masts, a boat can almost sit about fifty people, but compared to the Vikings, the skills of these Jurchen pirates are really regressive, at this end of the Sumu Bu's position in the distance, Mao Jue dug an arrow out of the sand.

The bluestone arrow is already half broken.

If this is placed in the future generations, it is estimated that it will be locked in the museum and treasured layer by layer, looking at the traces of polishing on it, Mao Jue is also fascinated.

But this kung fu, a reminder sounded behind him.

"Master General, the tunhu are almost on board, Lord Su Changmei Su ordered the officials to come and ask the master to board the ship."

It was Luo Zhige who spoke, after all, in the future, Sakhalin Town will also be alone, and there will be at least seven or eight days of sea contact, and there must be a trustworthy man to guard there, he was promoted by Mao Jue from Tunhu, and he has also been in charge of Tunzhen in White Horse City for several years, this time Mao Jue entrusted him with a heavy responsibility, and two regiments will be built on Sakhalin Island in the future, which will be led by him.

Subconsciously looked to the north, a large area of sail shadows calmly stopped broadcasting on the edge of the trestle built with cement into the water, among them, Mao Jue was inseparable, and the Black Pearl, which had been blackened with tung oil as a whole, was in the forefront, and in front of the bow of the Black Pearl Brass Mazu statue, a beautiful shadow was wrapped in a red skirt, looking at the sea attentively, not Adriana or which?

This mission doesn't stop building new colonies! casually threw the bluestone arrow behind him and slapped it, Mao Jue stretched his waist easily.

"Expedition!"

(End of chapter)