Just as Katata was carefully observing the black clutches riding the wind and waves, she accidentally noticed that a black monster bird suddenly flew over the heads of the ships, then rose rapidly, and finally stopped steadily above the turret on the other side.

"Kaknu?" Because he believed in the prophecy of the Soaring Eagle, Kata instinctively believed that it should be a peregrine falcon.

The Indian girl hid behind the rock and glanced at her tribe, and her tribe members were also alarmed by the explosion. At this moment, these people came to the bushes on the hillside of the sea with bows and arrows from it, staring at the big eyes and observing the movements on the other side.

"The Soaring Eagle didn't lie to us, there is really a white ship!"

"The white house above is square."

"Who saw my daughter? Katata~~"

Katata did not hear the call of her parents and tribe members, because the thousands of frightened sea lions on the beach made a noise that was far more noisy than the explosion. They opened their mouths and howled, quickly shaking their fat bodies, and jumped into the sea one after another.

In an instant, a layer of gray-black blankets surged on the sea surface of the northern side of the Bay of San Francisco, and their bearded little heads floated and sank on the water surface, looking at strange visitors with vigilance and curiosity.

Chen Yingqi, sitting in the speedboat, patted his companions on the shoulders, pointed at the panicked animals not far away, and shouted loudly: "Xiao Chai, you see there are sea lions here too!"

Su Chong, who had changed his name to "Chai Rong", looked at him with a cold bulb in his hand and said in surprise: "It's so much! I'm not short of meat now!"

There are many such animals on the southeast coast of Kuye Island. The local Feiyakans usually hunt in autumn to obtain sufficient oil and fur to survive the long winter.

After Beihai Town occupied Dabo Town in the south of Kuye Island, sea lion skin and oil became a local specialty. Not to mention that oil is a good health medicine after simple processing. The key is skin. As long as you get to Anping Port, you will be snatched away by merchants from all over the world.

The only thing that is the beauty is that the sea lion meat is both firewood and fishy. It can be fresh when you eat it for the first time, but it will be difficult to swallow if you eat too much. Nowadays, in Dabo Town, south of Kuye Island, old residents do not like it, and only those new island farmers like it.

However, under Liu Zheng's suggestion, in order to ensure the population of local sea lions and seals, Dabo Town only hunts in autumn every year, and controls the number to less than 300 heads. After all, rare things are expensive!

After listening to his companions, Chen Yingqi said disdainfully: "What's so delicious about this thing? The skin is valuable! Go and catch a few heads after the war!"

Chai Rong nodded quickly after hearing this, deeply agreed with the idea. As a former Eight Banners Armored Soldier, he never thought that he would travel thousands of miles to the other end of the sea.

It is now the 10th month of the lunar calendar. Compared with the Kuye Island where the snow and cold winds are yelling, the climate here makes him feel very comfortable, neither cold nor hot, and even the sea breeze blowing on his cheeks is warm.

After three years of labor service in the Heishi Town coal mine, Chai Rong and Chen Yingqi finally regained their freedom. However, because they could not return to their hometown in Shengjing for the time being, they stayed in the coal mine and became formal workers, and they could get a salary of 10 yuan per month. Although they didn’t pay much money, because the winter on Kuye Island is too cold, and they would get a waste of money if they didn’t work for at least four months a year, so the average income was OK.

Former Qing army prisoners of war like them now have more than 1,000 people on Kuye Island, and at most nearly 3,000. Most of these people's homes are in Shengjing and Wula, Jilin. Since the Northern Navy has not gone south, even if they return to the mainland, they will have a hard time returning home. They will be imprisoned if they sneak back. In desperation, some people continued to stay in the coal mines, some were recruited by the oil fields, and some went to the ranch in the Espresso land.

The idea of ​​the Civil Affairs Office was to let these people stay on Kuye Island to settle down, share the land, and take over the family. The problem was that five years later, the renovated swamps in the southern Kuye Island could only grow some beets and rye, and the yield was not high. Even if ten years of tax exemption conditions were offered, many prisoners of war were unwilling to do so.

Faced with this situation, civil affairs are also very troubled; Beihai Town is now too large, and there are more places with better farming conditions than Kuye Island, and they are also urgently needed to develop. Not to mention anything else, just the newly acquired Nenjiang Plain, it is not too much to throw away 10,000 or 20,000 people over.

Today, the agricultural population of Dabo Town is almost all from the island country. The poor farmers recruited in the area of ​​Yuezhong and Echigo are mainly engaged in cattle raising, fishing and farming. Although the work is hard and the climate is cold, the policy of 100 acres of land and ten years of exemption from land tax is very attractive to them. Moreover, the Civil Affairs also promised these people that they could become naturalized as naturalized as long as they worked for five years.

Last summer, the North Navy Training Department came to the coal mine in Heishi Town to recruit soldiers. When they learned that in addition to getting a monthly allowance of 20 yuan silver dollars, they could also return to the mainland for training for one year, many people signed up without hesitation. Even if the primary condition for joining the army was to cut their braids, they would have sacrificed their best, as long as they could leave the ghost place.

Back to the Spanish fortress, after a lot of trouble, all the soldiers' families hid in the church, and the Indian male and female slaves were driven and locked in the dormitory. The second lieutenant who stayed in the fortress then sent a sergeant to lead fifteen soldiers to the fortress to support.

Although the name of this place is both "royal" and "fortress", it is actually a large courtyard with adobe walls. At most, it can resist attacks from Indians and beasts, so the fort becomes very important.

When the soldiers wearing iron helmets arrived at their destination, a deafening explosion came from the direction of the fort, frightening the war horses under their crotch, constantly spinning in place and stopping. The soldiers saw a black smoke rising in front of them, and their faces changed drastically.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! When they came to the fort tremblingly, they saw that the earth platform used to set up the cannons was blown down halfway, and several bronze cannons were scattered across the ground, and all seven or eight people, including the lieutenant, fell in a pool of blood.

Faced with such a tragic scene, the sixteen Spanish soldiers were at a loss. You should know that the main enemy of Spain in the whole of California is the Yuma people living in the lower reaches of the Colorado River. In Northern California, "I am the only one who bullies people, no one can bully me."

At this time, everyone no longer had the courage to stick to the fort. They instinctively thought of their families behind them. If it weren't for the persistence of the sergeant in the team, even the survivors who were still breathing were ignored. So when the soldiers of the overseas corps rushed to the beach, fired a gun and threw a few grenades closer to them, they found that the Spaniards had run away.

On the Thunder God, Wang Yuanfang, who was in charge of leading this expedition, saw the red flag raised on the fort from the picture of the drone's return, and ordered the landing troops to be stationed on the spot through the walkie-talkie, waiting for the arrival of the subsequent troops.

The deputy Luqi, who was standing beside him, put down his telescope and turned around and asked, "Comrade Lao Wang, isn't Jinshan far away from the sea?"

Wang Yuanfang thought for a while and replied, "It seems that there are more than 40 kilometers away from the sea, and it is called Koloma. But I heard from Zhao Xin that gold sand can be found in the surrounding riverbeds. Those earliest gold diggers made a fortune by relying on this one."

"Now Boss Zhao has sent it again. But will something happen if he gets so much gold back?"

Hearing Ruqi say this, Wang Yuanfang shook his head slightly and said, "We just need to do our own thing well, don't worry about anything else. He naturally has a way."

The reason why Ruqi came is mainly because this guy's mentality has changed since he finished his political experience at the beginning of the year and became a member of the 22-person committee of Beihai Town. He felt that as a main member of the committee, if he always stayed in the steel factory in the future, he would not show his due identity and status at all.

Although the process issues of the converter workshop are also very important, after all, construction is still under construction and has not yet been put into production, and there are others who can be replaced in this position.

In war, Luqi thought it was not possible, so when he learned about the civil affairs and military industries of Beihai Town, he found that the boss's position was occupied by others, and he could only be a deputy at best. In his mind, he had to build an industrial boss like Zhang Bo.

After thinking about it, hesitated for several months. When he heard that Zhao Xin was going to organize an expedition to come to North America, he felt that his opportunity had come, so he volunteered without hesitation.

In fact, as the plan to develop the Nenjiang Plain after the Mid-Autumn Festival came out, coupled with the gold-eating beast of the steel mill, the current gold output in Beihai Town is no longer enough to support the procurement of massive materials, which has led to the plan to develop North American gold mines being launched in advance. The overseas corps originally planned to be sent to West Java were also sent here.

Zhao Xin was worried that no one would go to North America to take charge, so he was overjoyed when he heard this. Although this expedition was mainly based on Wang Yuanfang, he was temporary. After all, he would have to take his wife back to Bacheng as the governor of the city at the beginning of next spring, and He Xiwen and Ding Guofeng also needed his support in military terms.

In another time and space, gold mines in the Koloma region were mined for more than a hundred years, and were forced to close down until they were too expensive. During this period, a total of 5.8 million ounces of gold were extracted, but geologists estimate that 80% of the gold was still sleeping underground.

The problem is that the Kloma mining area is only part of the Northern California gold mine. Historically, during the gold rush of 1848-1855, the total gold mine output in the entire San Francisco area reached 12 million ounces, with an average of 45 tons per year. Currently, among the gold mines in Beihai Town, except for Hiraki Kinshan, all other places are weaker than that in comparison.

Since West Borneo is nominally ruled by Beihai Town, Zhao Xin can bluntly ask Luo Fangbai and Xie Jie for gold miners, and the latter dare not disagree. If there are too many, just five thousand people will be fine.

Zhao Xin’s plan is to use the gold mining industry to drive the Chinese to settle here and quickly occupy the vast area from Upper California to western Canada’s gold mining area. At that time, whether it is the gold sand obtained from the river or the mineral sand obtained from mining, they will be acquired by Beihai Town. Anyway, all countries are basically in the silver standard in this year, and there are still quite a lot of silver in Beihai Town.

Besides, at that time, you can exchange silk and tea for silver with the Spanish Governor's Office in Mexico, which has always been the largest silver-producing area in the world.

Just when the people in the "Royal Fortress of St. Francis" felt that the disaster was coming, a long arrow with a whistle made a sharp whistle, shot out from the bushes dozens of meters away, and floated on the open space in the fortress.

A Spanish soldier stepped forward and picked it up. He saw a note tied to the shaft of the arrow. When he opened it, he didn't recognize him at all. He hurriedly took the arrow and reported to the only remaining officer in the fortress.

Second Lieutenant Desora took the letter and opened it and found that it was written in Latin, which was a letter of surrender. The above said that they had to surrender for two hours, and they had to surrender, otherwise the lives and property of the people in the fortress would not be guaranteed.

"Shameless!" Desora's face turned pale. After thinking about it, he ordered his subordinates: "Go and call Monk Verez over."

Soon, the head of the monastery with a crown-shaped Mediterranean hairstyle ran over. After reading the letter, he was confused and thought to himself, "What the hell is "Republic China"?

It is no wonder that many Spaniards in California have almost never been to the East. The only way they know the East is through the "Manila fleet" between the Philippines and Mexico.

The monk was still digesting the contents of the letter of surrender. Second Lieutenant Desora was carefully studying the whistle arrow that was more than one meter long and the thickness of his thumb. What he could be sure of was that this thing was neither Indian nor Russian or British. It was astonishing to think about it.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Secretary, I want to go out and talk to them. Their letter is written in English. Apart from you, I only know a little English."

"I'll send two soldiers to escort you over."

"No, I'll go alone."

"Well, Father. If you insist, you must be careful, they will attack us without reason, and the people who come here are not kind!"

Half an hour later, Monk Verez, wearing a brown cloak and a rope, met the invaders who called themselves "Republic China" outside the fort.

He was surprised to find that these people had a yellow face similar to that of the Indians, but they did not have those strange paintings on their faces, and their cheeks were not bearded and their hair was very short; even the style of clothes and hats they wore were very different from what he had seen.

After meeting the other party's army officer and introducing his identity, he asked the most concerned question: "Who are you? This is the territory of the Kingdom of Spain and belongs to California. God is above, why do you attack us for no reason?"

The officer standing in front of Monk Verez was named Li Shi, whose original name was Li Dashuan, and he was twenty-two years old this year. Eight years ago, Xu Dayong spent twelve hanging money to buy it from Kaifeng City, and stayed in Xuzhuang for half a year and was sent to Beihai Town. Li Shi studied in the elementary school in Beihai Town for four years, and then went to the Young Military Academy for two years. After the establishment of the Overseas Corps, Li Shi, who was already a lieutenant, was transferred here and promoted to one level.

"Chinese! We come from the other side of the sea, east!" Li Shi said in a broken English: "Here, the Borderless Land! You are the invaders. What should be said is already written in the letter very clearly. For two hours, you must surrender, otherwise you will launch an attack!"

"No, it's not like this! Mr. Officer, what I just said is very clear. I am a Franciscan monk, who was appointed by the Bishop of the Diocese of California to come here to spread the gospel of God and bring civilization to this wild land!"

Regarding the issue of these missionaries, Ruchi told all the officers and soldiers on the way here. He used the examples of Spanish colonists conquering America to show everyone that although these people appear to be kind and kind, there is actually nothing good inside.

Li Shi couldn't think of how to refute in English for a moment, so he sweared: "Bad civilization! You are just a group of despicable bastards!"

Seeing the soldiers around him suddenly burst into laughter, Monk Verez guessed that what the other party said must be nothing good.

Li Shi pointed to the Thor on the sea and gave an ultimatum: "Did you see that boat? There are hundreds of soldiers on it, and they will soon be ashore. You don't have much time left. If you don't surrender, we will fire directly and flatten the fortress!"

"Those people are just a bunch of unreasonable demons!"

The dejected monk Virez returned to the fortress and told Lieutenant Desora what he saw. When he learned that the enemy was coming from the other side of the sea, the Lieutenant was stunned and thought that we had no grudges and grudges with the people of the East. If they did this, wouldn’t they be afraid of revenge in the Kingdom?

"This is an important intelligence to be reported to Monterrey immediately. If their next step is to attack there, the Governor must be prepared early."

The Monterrey he mentioned was the Spanish capital of California, surrounded by mountains and sea, and is more than a hundred miles away.

"So the conditions they put forward?"

Second Lieutenant Desora pondered for a moment, sighed, and said in a difficult tone: "Father, I know that you have put in countless efforts in this monastery, but we are just a few people, and there are many women and children. Continuing to fight is tantamount to killing death in vain. Father, you have to work hard for you to go there again, and I say that in the name of the fortress commander, we are willing to surrender as long as they can guarantee the safety of everyone's lives and property."

When Monk Verez came to the fort for a second time to ask for a visit, he was shocked to find that there were another hundred more powerful soldiers holding weapons here. Only then did he realize that Li Shi was not talking big.

An hour later, the Royal Fortress of St. Francis opened the door, and under the supervision of hundreds of gunmen, all the defenders in the fort surrendered.

During this period, a Spanish soldier was unwilling to hand over a dagger with a gem on his waist and had an argument with Chen Yingqi. After receiving Li Shi's instructions, Chen Yingqi raised his leverage rifle and shot several times at the other party's feet, which scared the Spaniards present in a cold sweat.

Second Lieutenant Desora looked at the weapon in the other party's hand with lingering fear, his eyes full of shock, and he thought that his decision was so wise!

Neither Wang Yuanfang nor Ruchi planned to keep these people for dinner, so all the Spanish were ordered to take their homes and leave immediately. However, when the monks planned to take the imprisoned Indians away, they were stopped. Although several missionaries protested, the soldiers of the overseas corps ignored them at all. When the monks wanted to be silly, they simply threw the man outside the gate of the fortress.

At this point, Beihai Town's first stronghold in the North American continent was taken down, and thus it also embarked on the pace of expansion in the new world.
Chapter completed!