Chapter 54: The Year of the Indians in China

The ship docked at Manhattan Island, New Yorkshire, a new immigrant city, which at this time was nothing more than a very small wooden castle, surrounded by a simple wooden fence, with a church made of stone and wood in the middle of the city, and the Dutch-built Governor's House, but now belonging to the British Duke of York. Except for these two relatively large buildings, the rest of the www.biquge.info are low-rise wooden bungalows.

It is not so much a city as it is a small town in the country, with only a thousand inhabitants, and their families are in addition to soldiers and sailors. It was still very deserted, the colonists first developed Central America, not North America, a large number of black slaves were sent to Central America, Latin-speaking Spaniards and Portuguese, in the local and Indians mixed to give birth to offspring, and their descendants combined with some of the black slaves sent later, which gave rise to a mixed Latin country of Mexico.

Obviously, most of the ports in the Americas were in Central America, and it was still a desolate place.

Because of the rise of the Nanyang Company and Wang Xinyu's trade with the British, the British were still friendly to the Han Chinese. In this era, the Europeans were a bunch of robbers, so they were weak and deceitful, and even if they were defeated, they would not let them go; If they meet a strong one, they will show favor instead. Later, the so-called English gentlemen were actually a group of robbers who made a fortune.

Zheng Jing rose on the North American continent and was already a force to be reckoned with. At that time, the British were not able to fully control the entire American continent, in fact, even during the period of American independence in real history, the British control in North America was only along the Atlantic Ocean and a part of the Great Lakes. It was not until after the independence of the United States that it expanded westward and southward, and the territory of the United States gradually expanded.

At this time, the British naturally could not choose to confront Zheng Jing, North America was too big, just one British, could not eat it all, and the British could not eliminate the Indians on the land of North America, so they could only provoke their own wars between Indian tribes and let them kill each other.

Zheng Jing's sphere of influence was still very far from the British's sphere of influence, one was on the Atlantic coast to the east; One is on the Pacific coast to the west, separated by thousands of miles.

The local British, who were also happy to do the slave business, transported the slaves from this boat, disembarked in New Yorkshire, and then they would escort Zheng Jing's Ming army to Xia, walk hundreds of miles through the North American prairies, reach the shores of the Great Lakes, and then take a boat to the western part of North America. However, the ship could only reach the central part of the North American continent, and it would need to disembark and trek thousands of miles of grasslands to reach the west.

Boats sail on the Great Lakes, where the lake is wide and deep, and the boat sails on the lake as if it were sailing into the sea, but the wind and waves are relatively small.

After five days and five nights of sailing, Yu Jackie Chan's boat on the inner lake arrived at the westernmost Ming army stronghold on the Great Lakes and docked at the shore pier.

Yu Chenglong looked at the small Ming army stronghold here, it was just a simple city built with wood and mud and fifty zhang in length and width, the city wall was made of mud, the city wall was not high, only one zhang, and there was a wooden baffle on the city wall, and a shooting hole was opened on the baffle. Although it is very simple, this kind of city is already an impregnable existence on the American continent, and it is already very good that the local natives can use muskets, they do not have siege weapons like cannons at all, and if they come to attack the city, even if many people die, they will not be able to take it.

In the city, in addition to the admiral garrison set up by Zheng Jing here, there was also a civil official wearing a bright red official robe.

The civil official saw that Yu Chenglong looked like a scholar, changed into Hanfu, grew his hair, and tied a headscarf Yu Chenglong looked really extraordinary, so the official came up and asked: "This gentleman, are you a scholar?" ”

Yu Jackie Chan arched his hand and replied: "Student Yu Jackie Chan see adults!" ”

The official smiled and said, "This official Sun Zhimi is the political envoy here." There is a lack of scholars here, and Mr. Yu can come from thousands of miles away, which is really a charcoal for this official! ”

Yu Chenglong said: "The student is a sinner, originally a county order of the Qing court, after being captured, he was exiled for tens of thousands of miles, and he came here, thanks to the love of the adults, the students are really grateful!" ”

Sun Zhimi said with a smile: "This official is here, mainly to civilize the local people, and let them learn my Han culture." The skin color of the natives here is similar to ours, unlike Hongyi, let alone Kunlun slaves, they are also people who can be educated. ”

Yu Jackie Chan was overjoyed and made a promise: "Educate the natives, convince people with virtue, let them submit to my China, and let me spread the way of Confucius and Mencius all over the world, this is a miracle!" ”

Sun Zhimi nodded and said: "But it's not in a hurry, it's almost the New Year, Mr. Yu should rest for a while, and wait until the New Year, and then educate the natives." Now that the natives are also on vacation, Mr. Yu can go to them to have a look. ”

The day after Jackie Chan arrived here, it was the traditional New Year of the Han people. The small town became lively, and not only the officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty prepared the New Year's goods, but even the local natives came to the town to buy the New Year's goods. Although the town was only a transit station, it was rich in goods, such as cloth, ceramics, ironware, grain, muskets, swords, and other goods needed by the local Indians.

With the exception of some Indians, who had learned to use silver, most of the Indians bartered their skins, horns, game, gold, jewelry, and other items in exchange for the goods and weapons they needed.

Seeing that many Indians who came to the town to buy goods combed the Han people's hair buns, wore Hanfu Confucian shirts, there was no oil paint on their faces, and their originally greasy and shiny hair was also washed cleanly, except for the thicker facial features and darker skin, they looked no different from the Han people, Yu Jackie Chan said happily: "I didn't expect that the natives here have begun to study, which is really gratifying!" ”

Sun Zhimi smiled and said: "In order to educate them, this official is very hurtful!" However, if they can cultivate a group of great Confucians among them, these overseas people will truly become the people of China! ”

In addition to the charm of Han culture, another important reason why these indigenous people will be sinicized is that the development of cowpox technology here has saved the lives of a large number of indigenous people and made them voluntarily submit to the Ming Dynasty.

Originally, the Indians were no more than the Chinese New Year, because the Ming army came here, and the Indians here also learned to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Some nearby tribes that are gradually being sinicized have also begun to celebrate the Chinese New Year lively.