A few days later, a new order came out of the White House.

With Sun Dexiao as the main body and Lin Zegu as the auxiliary body, we continued to lead people to explore the Appalachian Mountains. The goal this time is very good.

Large, expected to take at least three months to explore along the Susquehanna River all the way south of Lake Erie.

In the mouth of Jenny, the interim chief of the Susquehanna tribe, he knew the existence of the Shawnees, and from the mouth of the Dutch, who had already had a comprehensive relationship with the Great Xia Kingdom, he learned the existence of the more powerful Iroquois with firearms. Just in case, Sun Dexiao brought a battalion of Marines this time.

In addition to verifying the achievements obtained by Liu Wenjing and Sun Dehui in the early stage, the team also worked to contact the natives to see if they were willing to move to the flat ground east of the Appalachian Mountains, and also prepared to build a stronghold in places with a lot of hemlock, balsam fir and locust trees, that is, at the intersection of the East-West Susquehanna River in later generations, the British called Sanbury, and prepared to slowly control the entire Susquehanna River with this center.

Here, the Great Xia Kingdom was officially named "Sasquehanna".

The area is only more than a hundred miles away from Nebchu (Harrisburg) at the mountain pass. After being thrown into the river, the trees can go down the river. While flowing along the river, the bark is soaked in the water. A small boat will be stranded along the way, and the wood blocked by the dead wood piled up in the river will be pulled back into the river.

Sometimes, steam-powered ships can still pull a large amount of wood to reach Nibuchu directly. After arriving at Nibuchu, they cannot let the wood run around because they have entered the main channel. At this time, they will use a lifting machine to get the wood to the shore, slightly trim and put it in the wheel kiln to dry slowly, and then put it in the special warehouse of the dock to continue drying in the shade. Finally, they are transported to Chita Port by large ships.

There was a strong force of a battalion, but there was no connection with an important figure like Sun Dehui. After discussing with Lin Zegu, Sun Dexiao simply divided the team into two groups, one team exploring upstream along the east branch of Susquehanna, and the other team exploring upstream along the west branch.

During the autumn harvest season, both teams met natives.

The Eastern Branch is actually the main trunk of the Susquehanna River, and its source is closely adjacent to the Wuzhi Lake area in southern Lake Ontario, and the vast area south of Lake Ontario and between the Wuzhi Lake is the Iroquois nest.

South of Wuzhi Lake, a squad of 160 people met the Shawnees who were fighting against the Iroquois. This squad happened to be led by Sun Dexiao himself. After weighing the trade-offs, he decided to join the Shawnees and contacted the Shawnees' chiefs. The Shawnees took the initiative to go out to fight the Iroquois, and then lost to retreat into the mountains again.

The Iroquois were worried that they could not find the main force of the Iroquois, so they immediately gathered thousands of people to chase after them. In the canyon south of Wuzhi Lake and south of Lake Senica, they were ambushed by the Sun Dexiao and Shawnee coalition forces. Under the attack of Sun Dexiao grenades, small cannons and muskets, the Iroquois were defeated. The coalition forces chased them to the south shore of Lake Ontario and captured a large number of Iroquois prisoners.

However, Iroquois was composed of several large tribes, and the area south of Lake Ontario was too vast. Since the main force of the Iroquois had been defeated by the coalition forces, Sun Dexiao decided to enter the southern area of ​​Lake Ontario by the Shawnees, and he brought about a few thousand prisoners back to Pisachek Province.

After this battle, the tribal situation in the Great Lakes area suddenly changed, and the Iroquois alliance almost collapsed. Their remnants gave up Lake Ontario and the area south of Lake Erie, and changed their strategy to form alliances with the British and Dutch people against the French, turned to join the French who had advanced to the St. Lawrence River Valley near Lake Ontario, and obtained a large number of firearms from the French.

The Shawnees who replaced the Iroquois to occupy Lake Erie and the area south of Lake Ontario are not currently incredible. To the north, the Hurons, Ottawas, Miamis, Illinois and others who live in Lake Erie, are also a powerful alliance. After they learned that the Iroquois were defeated, they went south. At this time, the Shawnees already had many coercive guns given by the Great Xia people, and naturally defeated the Hurons who came to invade.

However, the Hurons Alliance has too many populations, and the Shawnees are still facing strong pressure. Fortunately, there is a strong Daxia behind them. With the support of the Daxia people, they barely maintained their position on Lake Erie and the southern shore of Lake Ontario.

The Hurons and Iroquois, who were also constantly captured from the Shaunes, reached a total of nearly 10,000 by the end of this year. Because the Daxia people treated the natives completely different from those of the Europeans, their beliefs (on the surface) were very similar to those of the natives. In addition, Nikan also had some people who were trained by the Governor of Utah, who were proficient in many American shamanistic rituals. These prisoners were blessed in disguise and finally lived in Pisachek Province with peace of mind.

In North America at this time, all the tribes with a large number of people were good at planting, because only tribes with stable sources of food rations had the possibility of continuously expanding their mouths, and those tribes that rely entirely on fishing and hunting would definitely not have too many people. This is almost exactly the same in the East and the West, because the native tribes at this time had not yet learned to domesticate livestock, which was even more so.

Sun Desheng gained tens of thousands of local people in half a year with his troops of only a hundred people, and this ability is naturally seen in Nikan's eyes.

At the end of the year, Sun Desheng was promoted to the commander and officer of another regiment of the American Squadron (Chen Muzhi Squadron). He was on par with Han Zilong.

On the other side, more than a hundred people led by Lin Zegu were exploring along the western branch of the Susquehanna River. On the way, they passed through the richest and most biologically abundant Algeny National Forest Park, the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains, and lingered there for a long time. Then at the end of the year, they arrived in the later Pittsburgh and Cleveland areas, and also arrived in the southern part of Lake Erie.

Here, when the Iroquois defeated the Iris, they only placed some of their alliance's young and strong people here to monitor the Iris, and asked the Iris to provide them with fur regularly so that they could trade with the British and Dutch. Therefore, after learning that the "Great Xia people" and the Shawnee coalition had defeated the Iroquois and drove them to the area east of Lake Ontario, the Iris rose up and rebelled. They united the Great Xia people to defeat the Iroquois who remained here and formed an alliance with the Great Xia people.

Finally, at the suggestion of Sun Dexiao, the Yili and Shawnees formed an alliance to jointly deal with the Hurons in the north and the New Iroquois in the east.

A new situation has arrived in the Great Lakes area.

After the Sun Dehui incident, Nikan transferred Feiyangtahun to the Hanhai Army and asked Sun Dexiao to serve as the commander of the Gray-Clothed Guard in Pisachek Province. The signs of reuse are obvious.

This year, the Daxia Kingdom achieved a bumper harvest of farmland in Pisachek Province. Five thousand armed immigrants, and on average, each household planted about twenty acres of staple food, almost all of which were corn, about three stones per mu, which was sixty stones, which was 300,000 stones. The Daxia Kingdom acquired half of them.

The so-called "acquisition" is actually paid at a symbolic price, because the country paid a lot of funds for this immigration, including transportation costs, building houses, providing seeds/farm tools, etc., half of which is 150,000 stones. In addition, 100,000 stones of wheat (Oriental Province) and rice (Venezuela) from the Eastern Province and Venezuela can fully meet the needs of the second batch of 5,000 immigrants and tens of thousands of native captives who have arrived.

In this year, the Great Xia Kingdom alone had a scale of nearly 50,000 people in Pisachek Province. In addition, the total number of white Europeans who had stayed here before exceeded 60,000. Although it is still not as large as the combined population size of Portsmouth, Massachusetts and New Netherlands, the Great Xia Kingdom has already ranked first in terms of the size of one province.

This is the first year. With the strong maritime transportation capabilities of the Great Xia Kingdom, it is a matter of time before it surpasses Europeans in the foreseeable future.

In this year, Nikan finally met the representative of the British.

It was Admiral Black, since it was him, he must have come to seek peace.

As Nikan expected, after learning that major European countries had established diplomatic relations with the Daxia Kingdom to varying degrees, Cromwell decided not to provoke the Daxia Kingdom for the time being after repeated weighing the pros and cons.

The final agreement reached between the two parties is:

The British were unwilling to give up Ireland, which was too close to Britain, and it was too dangerous to let a powerful country like Daxia stare at one side. However, since they had already gained a foothold on the East Coast, they also posed a threat to the other two colonial jurisdictions, and more than a thousand prisoners were in their hands, so they could not help but express it.

The British were very cunning. They stayed in Chita for nearly a month before reaching an agreement with Nikan to ced Newfoundland. Nikan originally wanted to obtain the future of Nova Scotia, Canada, but were told that most of the place was in the hands of the French. Afterwards, Nikan realized that the British were just "claiming" that Newfoundland was their colony and did not actually control the place effectively.

But Nikan was still satisfied. After obtaining Newfoundland, the Great Xia Kingdom had the nearest stronghold to Europe along the North Atlantic warm current and westerly wind belt.

What's more, Newfoundland was an important mining, forestry and fishery base in Canada in the future. Although it was wilderness at this time, it was still a good island. There were only a few Inuit people on the island. After this island, the Great Xia Kingdom could move forward and retreat freely.

After learning that they were facing strong enemies in the Americas and could hardly defeat them by their own strength, the British also increased their operations against the Massachusetts and Portsmouth colonies. They issued more privateers, captured slaves in West Africa on a larger scale than in history, and increased their immigration efforts to the East Coast.

In the original history, in order to maintain the purity of Protestantism, the British were unwilling to let the Catholic Church immigrate to the Americas, and they didn't care about this at this time. Since Protestantism is the state religion of Britain, it was just a half threat and half persuasion, allowing a large number of Catholics to migrate to the East Coast.

In that year, hundreds of large ships traveled and crossed the Atlantic Ocean. Due to sudden hurricanes, about half of the ships were buried at the bottom of the sea near the Faroe Islands. At that time, Europeans hated the people of Daxia in their hearts and named the hurricane "The Curse of Xia", which was known in history as the "Summer Curse Shipwreck". After learning about it, European countries arranged their own playwrights to write wonderful tragedies, especially the most exciting ones of the French dramatist Molière, which were gradually introduced by various countries and staged in their own languages.

In the European language, no matter which type it is, "Xia" cannot be pronounced, so in the end, he used "Hull" instead. Molière's tragedy "Hull" was popular on the European continent and spread to the Ottoman Empire. This made the Ottomans, who had recovered from the weakness of the fool emperor, relieved their efforts to attack the Crimean Governor of the Great Xia Kingdom, and Ukraine and Romania, and instead relaxed their oppression of the Persian Kingdom, and showed signs of alliance with it. This was shocking.
Chapter completed!