On the other side of the earth, North America California!

After nearly a year of operation, the California colony exported 300,000 taels of gold and more than one million taels of silver to Shandong last year.

This year, slicing of cotton have been planted in California's Golden Delta.

The colonial Indian natives had reached 150,000, and the cotton planting area exceeded 300,000 mu. As soon as autumn began, there were indigenous people who picked cotton everywhere.

Due to extensive planting, the cotton yield per mu is only about 80 kilograms, but it is also very considerable. By collecting all the cotton, you can get about 480,000 dan of cotton.

Forty-eighty-thousand thousand dans of cotton can be spinned into nearly 450,000 dans of cotton. American cotton is not sold by weight. A dan of cotton can be sold by a ruler, and it can be sold for about twenty-five taels, with a total value of more than one thousand one million taels. After deducting costs... there is almost no cost.

Those Indian natives are now treated better, but their wages are still very low and they have to be taxed. The production cost of each leverage of cotton is less than one tael of silver. In addition, the textile factory is built in California, so it saves the shipping cost of transporting cotton back to Shandong and then transporting cotton to the Americas. After textiles are made into cotton, the cost is about one tael. The cost of textile mills is at most two taels, and the cost of a leverage of cotton is only three taels.

The transportation uses your own ship, and there is no need for freight, just pay military pay. Therefore, the profit in cotton cloth is more than 10 million taels per year.

Cotton cloth is always very profitable at the beginning. Not only is it so painful to have precious metals in the Americas, but its textile technology is also much behind Shandong, making huge profits a normal phenomenon. However, as the cotton cloth output increases, the huge profits will decrease, but profits will not decrease as the output increases.

In addition to cotton cloth, shipyards are also developing very quickly.

With enough shipwrecks and enough labor, the shipyard has begun to build 500-ton frigates.

Twenty frigates will be launched in the first half of next year.

The food problem was generally solved after the increase in fishing boats and the planting of sweet potatoes.

In the mining of precious metals, the gold brigade heading to California began to dig underground gold frantically. At the end of November, 500,000 taels of gold were mined.

There is really a lot of gold underground in California and it is very easy to mine. It is often a nugget of gold that is not needed to be refined.

At the same time, the California colonial forces also found a large number of marten on several coasts in California, and they were in groups, which were so large that they were scary.

Sea marten, also known as sea marten, belongs to the genus of ferrets, with fish and shellfish as the staple food, and can dive into the sea six meters deep for about half an hour. Before the end of the 17th century, there were many sea martens, but sea martens were hunted and killed wildly because of their most noble fur and were almost extinct for a time.

Later, thanks to unremitting protection, the number of sea marten gradually increased.

Most of the marten in Asia are minks, and only the fur of sables can be compared with that of marten. However, in the Americas, marten is everywhere.

mink, this is an existence that is no less valuable than gold. mink has three characteristics: "Wind blows the fur and the fur is warmer, snow falls off the fur and the fur is not wet when the fur is falling off the rain falls off the fur and the fur is not wet." A complete marink is transported back to the Ming Dynasty and can definitely be sold at a price of hundreds of taels.

Liu Yuan immediately formed a hunting team in May, established strongholds on several coasts where a large number of sea marten were concentrated, and hunted sea marten that had been ashore for a long time.

Since Zhao Yan once confessed that the hunting of wild animals should not be excessive and sustainable development should be ensured, Liu Yuan stipulated that no marten was hunted during the breeding season, and no more than 50,000 martens were hunted in California every year. According to a skin of at least 100 taels, five million taels of silver can be earned every year.

It is obviously not a wise choice to catch a light at a time, so if you catch a light at a time, you will naturally be worthless if you have more marten skins.

At the same time, the marten was arrested and killed, and there was no more arrest in the future. Sustainable development is the most basic common sense that a time traveler has. There are too many tragic phenomena caused by the development model of severing children and grandchildren in later generations.

In terms of the number of sea marten groups discovered, 50,000 can still be supported every year, but it cannot be too long. It must be stopped for several years every few years of hunting.

However, whether it is cotton, gold or mink, the most profitable is the plunder in the Caribbean.

After continuous development, the American fleet has reached eighteen warships, and it also has nearly twenty pirate ships. This year, it has won four warships. In addition to warships, there are fifty large merchant ships.

The strength of the American fleet is no less than that of the first fleet.

Since the number of warships and pirate ships increased, the American fleet has expanded rapidly like a snowball, and most of the pirates in the Caribbean Sea were suppressed by the American fleet.

The largest pirate in the Caribbean Sea is now the American fleet. In terms of plunder, the American fleet is still so unscrupulous.

Generally speaking, except for Spain and Portugal ships, all ships from other countries are snatched. Those merchant ships encounter the American fleet and are like sheep entering the tiger's mouth, and rarely can escape. After all, the merchant ships carrying cargo are too slow, and the pirate ships in the American fleet are all warships, but they are not comparable to those small pirate ships, so the speed is naturally much faster.

Only those warships can escape the plunder of the American fleet. Yes, even warships are within the robbery of the American fleet.

In addition, the pirate ships snatched by the American fleet were also put into use. Some European pirates who had been scattered in the Caribbean for a long time were all captured and surrendered.

These pirates are very familiar with the Caribbean Sea. They grabbed fifty merchant ships in a year, but in terms of speed, they are still a little slower, far less than the speed when the Dutch started.

The reason for this is to beware of the attack of the maritime coalition forces.

The Spaniards revealed a message to the fleet that the three countries, Britain, France and the Netherlands, are forming maritime coalition forces, among which the Netherlands and France are the most active. Although the British are not active enough, they are also responsive.

The three countries of Britain, France and the Netherlands are very conflicting.

First of all, Britain and the Netherlands are similar in thought and religion, but their competition in trade is very fierce. France is a powerful country on the European continent, but this refers to the army, which is hostile to the Netherlands and Britain in terms of thought, religion and system. The Dutch lived in the lowlands and were afraid that the cities would be flooded, and they were afraid that they would be trampled on by France like trampling on grapes, and they were even more afraid that they would be surpassed by the British in trade.

These three countries are willing to form a maritime coalition, which is obviously annoyed by the American fleet.

The American fleet robbed fifty large merchant ships under constant looting. These were fifty, and the cargo on each large sailboat was worth more than one million taels.

After sharing the game, the Dutch suffered the most serious losses. Whoever made them the sea coachman, they would go to almost everywhere in the port.

The Battle between Britain and the Netherlands was caused by Britain's ban on Dutch merchant ships from entering their ports. As a result, the Netherlands launched a war but was defeated.

The second is Britain and the last is France.

But the French king Louis XIII was angry because his colony was attacked by the American fleet and his daughter was robbed by the damn Far Eastern people.

Louis XIII was an emperor who dreamed of governing Wanfang. He attached great importance to overseas colonies, so he sent his daughter to the colonies on Finland for inspection.

Louis XIII was furious and decided to send warships to wipe out the Far Eastern people.

At the same time, the Spanish revealed to various countries that the stronghold of the American fleet was located - Port of Kingsoft, California. At the same time, the Dutch hated the group of Far Eastern people who suddenly emerged, so the two sides hit it off and even found the British, and the British agreed to form a coalition.

After nearly half a year of preparation, in August of the tenth year of Chongzhen, the Netherlands, Britain and France formed a maritime coalition with a number of warships of hundreds of ships.

This coalition is so vast that it is far beyond the Spanish invincible fleet.

At the same time, the coalition forces had 15,000 French soldiers, 5,000 British soldiers and 5,000 Dutch soldiers. If they were not included in the navy, the soldiers reached 25,000.

This coalition has both a powerful army and a powerful navy.

The Spanish were stunned. It was too big now. The power of the American fleet was not enough to withstand such a huge maritime coalition.

The Spanish played a balanced approach, that is, they were afraid that the American fleet would be too large and that they were destruction. Because the existence of the American fleet could serve as bodyguards for their treasure ships, after all, the relationship between the two sides was an allies. The reason for checking and balancing the development of the American fleet was that the American fleet's combat power was too strong, and the expansion speed made the Spanish feel extremely terrifying.

Under such circumstances, the Spanish quickly sent messengers to inform the American fleet.

When Cao Li heard that the Netherlands, Britain and France had formed such a huge maritime coalition, he was stunned for a moment, with hundreds of warships!

This is definitely not something the American fleet can compete with at present.

If it is twice as high, it is not afraid, but the American fleet can only fight for 18 warships. In addition to some inequality pirate ships, the maritime coalition formed by the Europeans is five times the strength of the American fleet.

As for the land soldiers, California has only 5,000 people, but this coalition has 25,000 people, which is also a five-fold gap.

Liu Yuan was also shocked when he received the news.

The California Governor's Office hurriedly held a meeting to discuss countermeasures, and the atmosphere at the meeting was a bit heavy.

"Although the strength is five times different, it is not necessarily a defeat. First of all, although our navy cannot be said to be sure to win, we are sure to win when fighting on land." Cao Li stood up and said, "We should first ensure the absolute security of the colony, so we need to strengthen the fortifications against Jinshan and other places. In the case of maritime operations, we can adopt a strategy of avoiding the enemy's edge, and it is best to defeat them one by one."

"Well, it's not bad." Liu Yuan nodded and agreed: "We only need to build more bastions and add superior artillery, it is almost impossible for the three-country coalition forces to capture the colony."

"But we must ensure that the shells, food and fresh water are sufficient," Cao Li said.

"There is no need to worry about shells and artillery. Last month, the Clippers ship transported 100,000 shells and 500 artillery pieces from Shandong. Our current shells still have 200,000, which is enough to deal with them." Liu Yuan said that the ten Clippers ships just arrived last month and transported a lot of arms supplies, which is needed in the next six months.

(To be continued)
Chapter completed!