Lin Jun led the American fleet to sail on the sea for another month and a half, and finally arrived at the Peru Pioneer Fort. The speed of these warships was quite good, mainly because the blessed ship was slower, but the most stable sailing was also the blessed ship, and the soldiers lived on the ship with relatively comfortable living conditions.

Cao Li and others, with 700 soldiers, had already established rule around Pioneer Fortress. The Spaniards allowed them to rule the Indians around Pioneer Fortress, but agreed that they could not be involved in other areas.

Cao Li and his team managed these Indians relatively roughly. After all, the military education committee was only good at ideological education and was not good at administrative management.

The main purpose of these Indians was to provide enough food for Pioneer Fort. Although the management was rough, there was not much oppression.

The holidays at Pioneer Fort were boring. Apart from reconnaissance, there was only waiting. Finally, in mid-April, Cao Li waited for the arrival of the fleet.

Cao Li couldn't help but be very excited. What surprised him even more was that the American fleet actually had two additional warships, with three warships, and two troop transport ships.

"Sir, this is a letter from the Lord." Lin Jun took out a letter and handed it to Cao Li.

Cao Li took the letter and read it carefully. The letter was very long, with a map in the envelope. After reading it, Cao Li spread out the map and said, "Sir, let us go north and occupy this area of ​​North America. The adults said that this area called California has gold everywhere on the surface of the strata. At the same time, the semi-desert area next to it also has a large amount of gold and silver mines."

"What the fleet has to do in the next year is to send administrative personnel and Marines to California, and then ask them to capture Indians, open farms and shipyards in California, and dig gold on the surface of the formation. There is a large basin in eastern California, where there are many gold and silver minerals, but the journey is quite difficult. After the Marines arrive in California, they can explore the east according to the situation. However, the adults recommend that the conservative method is to explore the east for a distance year by year, set up supply points along the way, and you can find a road to the big basin in less than a few years." Cao Li pointed to the map and said that the big basin is naturally Nevada and Utah, which is the third largest gold producing area in the world, second only to South Africa and Australia. It also has a large amount of silver mines, but the geographical conditions are relatively harsh. The Sierra Nevada Range was difficult to cross in this era, and there were harsh terrain and climates such as deserts and blizzards.

"In the next year, the fleet will join forces with the Franchises to sweep the east coast of America and attack the British and Western colonies. The British colonies are in southern North America, that is, the northern part of the Franchises. The Red colonies are even more under the jurisdiction. Our mission is to seize ships, and it is best to capture some white slaves and transport them back to Denlai."

"Will Franjimen join us?" Lin Jun asked worriedly.

"Don't worry about this. One of them believes in Roman Catholicism and the other believes in Protestantism. Franchises said that they are still fighting in Europa! The Holy Roman Empire is a religion that suppresses the development of science and technology, so we should help Franchises, suppress the Protestant forces, and let their Catholicism continue to be popular." Cao Li has already learned about the situation in America and Europe. "We just have to use the strait they guarded (Magellan Strait) to go around the east coast. If they don't cooperate, we can walk the strait below (Drake Strait). Three months ago, I took a boat to go around the east coast. The strait was just relatively high in wind and waves. It's not dangerous to be careful with a large-tonnage sailboat like ours."

"Okay! Then when will we set out?" Yang Yichuan asked.

"Let everyone rest for two days first, and set off in two days." Cao Li decided.

...Two days later, Cao Li left behind 300 men to defend the Pioneer Fort, and led 3,400 Marines and more than 800 other members to sail and head to California.

They were sailed for more than half a month and finally arrived in California. They logged in San Francisco, which was named Kingsoft by Zhao Yan.

This place is still a region without any colonists. California lives with a large number of Indian natives, and the Indian native civilization is much higher than that of Hawaii.

As soon as they entered San Francisco, they immediately conquered the local Indians. Marines began to capture the Indians everywhere as slaves. On that day, they defeated an Indian tribe and successfully captured more than 5,000 Indians.

The conquest of the Indians was obviously much bloody. The rise of a nation must be based on the flesh and blood of other nations. These Indians were massacred by Americans in history. In the bloody conquest of the Indians, it was difficult to form any guilt in Zhao Yan's heart.

The Marine soldiers were obviously much more moderate than the Americans' massacre. They did not kill these natives indiscriminately, but adhered to the usual style of captives in the army and tried their best to catch them alive.

After California Governor Liu Yuan led his men to survey the terrain of Kingsoft, he began to direct these Indian slaves to build a bastion. According to the convention set by Zhao Yan, he began to slam the stone tablets and declare territorial sovereignty.

Then a large number of personnel were sent to explore the surrounding terrain and minerals. What Liu Yuan cares most about is iron ore. Only by finding iron ore can enough labor tools be produced and the demand of the Hawaiian Islands can be provided.

Five days later, the exploration team discovered a not-so-large iron mine fifty miles away, and then found a coal mine not far away. Liu Yuan immediately asked a thousand Indians to go there to mine and began to build blast furnaces under the mine.

The Marines began to capture the Indians in large quantities, which caused great trouble to the food supply. So the Marines stopped capturing and instead occupied the Indians' arable land. Liu Yuan directed the Indians to continue farming, which solved the problem of food supply.

To capture more Indians as slaves, more food is needed. The ocean is undoubtedly the best choice, and the ocean's supply capacity is much greater than that of land.

The shipyard also began to be built. This time there were hundreds of shipwrecks coming to America, and there will be shipwrecks coming to America one after another.

California is much better than Hawaii, but it is also much more complicated.

Shipbuilding, textile industry and mining industry will become the main industries. Shipbuilding industry requires a large amount of logging, textile industry needs to plant cotton, build water conservancy, and gold mining industry also requires a lot of people.

Food production has become a key existence. Only when food is sufficient can enough manpower be invested in these industries. Personal productivity has become the biggest key.

The more people a native can support, the more people other industries can invest.

Therefore, extensive management has become the best way to do it. California owns countless land, as big as 411,000 square kilometers, nearly twenty times the size of Hawaii.

A native can cultivate hundreds of acres of land, but it requires a large amount of livestock. When the fleet set off, the largest number of cannons and shells were carried, and there were not a few livestock at all.

So Liu Yuan asked the First Fleet to go to Central America to trade with the Spaniards and buy livestock from them. At the same time, Liu Yuan began to build a turkey farm.

The Indians mastered the technique of raising turkeys, and their decorative feathers were from turkeys.

Turkey is a large chicken, and the adult rooster can weigh ten kilograms. Liu Yuan tasted the taste of turkey and found that this turkey tastes very delicious.

"You can raise turkeys in large quantities and then make smoked chickens and transport them back to Denglai." Liu Yuan thought of a way to expand his wealth and quickly took out a pen to record it.

After staying in Kingsoft Port for ten days, the First Fleet took 500 Marine soldiers and began to sail towards Central and South America. Three warships would take 500 Marine soldiers to rob the east coast of the Americas, while the Meng Tian and Qi Jiguang traded with the Spaniards on the west coast to transport horses, mules and other livestock bought from the Spanish.

The Spanish have been colonizing in the Americas for nearly a century, and they certainly have no shortage of livestock.

Cao Li led a fleet of no cargo and arrived at the Isthmus of Panama in just eight days. When they drove into the Port of Dios, the Governor of New Spain was very surprised. He could not have expected that the fleet of the Orientals would arrive so soon. According to the report of his subordinates, their warships seemed to be seized from the Dutch. The Governor of New Spain attached great importance to it and went to the port to greet him in person.

The Governor of New Spain has had contact with Cao Li before, and both sides know some of the other's background.

Cao Li held another meeting with the Spaniards in Port Dios, and the Spaniards readily agreed to the livestock transaction.

The fleet found that the Spanish horses were very tall in the port of Dios, with many heavy horses, far from comparable to Mongolian horses.

"It is very common for horses such tall in our Europe, and we usually use horses to cultivate the land." said the Governor of New Spain.

This attracted the attention of Cao Li and others. "We need a large number of stallions, and we need all kinds of stallions. As long as they are transported, we will purchase them at a high price."

The Governor of New Spain agreed immediately, saying that he would transport a batch of stallions from Europe as soon as possible.

Then Cao Li discussed the issue of borrowing the passage with the Governor of New Spain. When the Governor of New Spain heard that they were going to the east coast to sweep the British and Dutch people, he immediately agreed with joy.

Originally, he was worried that these Easterners' fleets would pose a threat to the ports on the West Coast when they arrived at the West Coast, but now it seems that these Easterners obviously did not put their ideas on them, and could also use them to deal with the British and Dutch.

"Those British people have captured a large tract of New Spain's territory. If you want to plunder their ports, I can send a few guides to assist you." The Governor of New Spain deliberately encouraged the First Fleet to plunder the British.

Although the Spaniards were deeply afraid of the British, they did not dare to use force rashly because this was likely to trigger a war, and both sides were using private licenses.

The Spaniards were deeply troubled by privateer licenses. Their merchant ships had sharply reduced their fiscal revenues under the harassment of British pirates, which is why they had to expand their fiscal revenues in the Far East.

Cao Li and others were also overjoyed, and they thought that it would be more convenient to move.

After five days in the Isthmus of Panama, three warships of the First Fleet sailed south. They would detour the east coast from the Strait of Magellan, plunder the ports and ships of the Dutch and British, and expand the fleet's strength as much as possible. The two blessed ships carried a thousand livestock to the north and returned to the Port of Kingsoft.

(To be continued)
Chapter completed!