In terms of port defense, California ports are tightly defended, and pirates cannot break through the port's defense.

But fifteen other ports were established one after another, and the California colonies with sufficient troops began to expand everywhere, with the expansion direction north and south.

To the north, we established ports along the western coast of northern North America to trade with the Indians. Fur and precious metals were the main calls of Indians, and they could generate some profits more or less. While trading, they also developed some resources around the port, which also had some profits.

In the northernmost Alaska colonial stronghold, soldiers discovered two large gold mines and five small gold mines there. The gold troops have arrived to organize mining.

Expanding southward means extending his hands to Chile and Argentina. By the end of the year, the California colonies set up a stronghold in Chile and two strongholds in Argentina. Each stronghold was guarded by two thousand soldiers, and they arrested indigenous organizations to work everywhere.

At this time, the maritime power of the American fleet had increased greatly. The original warships were eliminated by six old and inappropriate ones, with only 21 warships left, while the frigate increased to 35.

20 of these 35 frigates were manufactured by California Shipyards, while the other 15 were dispatched from Shandong. Although the ship was not large, the American fleet was already very powerful.

Currently, the Shandong Navy has superior artillery, and the superior speed of frigates is no longer afraid of any European country, even the maritime coalition.

After the British, French and Dutch attacks were frustrated, they once wanted to organize a joint fleet again, but the Dutch quit, and the Dutch had already lost a lot in the Far East.

This made them realize that they had aroused a terrifying emerging sea force.

The Dutch withdrew from the coalition first, which made Britain and France lose the courage to attack again. Louis XIII of France felt very distressed about the losses of the navy and did not want to continue to fight. In his eyes, a daughter was obviously not as good as his navy, and had a powerful navy to rule Wanfang.

The British were most worried about these Far Eastern people, but when France and the Netherlands were unwilling to get involved, they had to make other plans.

After more than half a year of procrastination, they signed a settlement agreement with the California colony.

The Dutch also sent envoys to California, asking the California colonies to recommend them to the Ming Dynasty for negotiations, and the Dutch wanted to redeem their captured personnel.

The Dutch had completely defeated from the Far East. Now the Shandong Navy stopped him when he saw Dutch ships, which completely lost the commercial trade in the Far East.

The profits of Far Eastern commodities are amazing. Although the fact that they lose their colonies cannot be changed, their hostile relationship with the Ming Dynasty can be changed.

As long as the hostile relationship is changed, goods from the Far East can be purchased.

California Governor Liu Yuan wrote a letter of recommendation for this, asking the Dutch envoy to take the Dutch envoy with a flying scissor ship that was about to return to Qingdao.

After more than two years of development, the California colonies have reclaimed more than 30 million mu of land, most of which are dry land and some paddy fields. All of these lands are planted with cotton, wheat and rice.

The colony already had more than 300,000 Indian slaves, and the planting was very extensive, even to the extreme, mainly due to insufficient labor.

The yield per mu is very low. After collecting several cotton pads in autumn, I only got 5 million dans of cotton, but the quantity is still terrifying. Textile mills in the California colonies cannot digest so much cotton at all.

Fortunately, a huge fleet arrived in California. After transporting the goods to California, the merchant ships returned to Shandong with cotton and other goods.

This fleet also brought more than 30,000 immigrants, which is undoubtedly good news for the California colony that lacks manpower. The lack of population in the colony is a very restrictive issue.

This population refers to the people of the Ming Dynasty. There were not enough people of the Ming Dynasty that California's industries had never been able to form a scale. The Indians were just coolies in agriculture and construction.

In order to solve the problem of insufficient labor, Liu Yuan sent his soldiers out to sweep the Indian tribe. In view of the situation where the Indians were not easy to enslave, the colonies only captured Indian women.

This method is widely present in European colonies, and Europeans have always killed Indian men and left only Indian women.

Indian men were not good slaves, they would resist, and they resisted frequently, only Indian women were very docile.

After the national integration plan failed and was rejected by Zhao Yan, the California colonies also turned to learn how the Spanish treated the Indians.

All those caught were women, but unlike the Spanish colonies, the California colonies strictly prohibited military and civilians from having family relationships with these Indian women.

This kind of slavery relationship will only last for one to two generations, and there will be no difficult-to-handle Indian descendants. After two generations, there will be only Han people in the colonies.

This world is so cruel. In such an era, when one nation encounters another, if the strength of the two sides is very different, then the things they possess will be taken away.

99% of the Indians in later generations were descendants of their maternal lines, and their patriarchal lines were Europeans. The real Indian nation has been massacred by Europeans.

They will sooner or later be destroyed by the Europeans, but now they are just changing people. In fact, Zhao Yan's appetite is not that big. North and South America are so big, it is still possible to leave a few large places for the Indians, provided that they leave or disappear on the land he likes.

The California colony made good profits this year, and made more than 20 million taels of silver in cotton cloth. This is the cotton planted and harvested last year. So much cotton cannot be processed this year, so it must be transported back to Shandong.

The income from furs was large. The colonies organized personnel to hunt wild animals everywhere and obtained more than 300,000 furs of various types, of which cowhide accounted for 1/2. These cowhides were acquired from Europeans, mainly obtained by Europeans trade from Indians on the East Coast.

There are also many bisons in central America, and many Indian tribes make a living by hunting bisons.

The number of commodities in the entire California colony has grown to hundreds, most of which are animal and plant products, many of which are not found in Shandong.

The value of these products reached about 15 million taels (after being shipped back), and traded with Spain and Portuguese, and bought some goods from the East Coast of the Americas and Europe. These goods were shipped back to California. When the merchant ships from Shandong arrived, they were loaded directly on ships.

Shandong's cargo was transported from California merchant ships to Panama and Spain and Portugal. Merchant ships from other countries gradually appeared in the Port of Dios in Panama. The British and French appeared there, while the Dutch did not appear there. They were still hostile to the Spanish.

In terms of transactions, both parties make money.

However, the transaction deficit was very large. The California colonies exchanged a large amount of gold and silver through the cotton cloth they produced themselves and the cotton cloth transported from Shandong, as well as ceramics, raw silk, tea, sugar and other goods. However, they did not buy too many European goods, and they specially selected goods that had market-cut insurance in the Ming Dynasty.

For both merchants, they were indeed profitable. The California colonies made money through trade. Although European merchants spent gold and silver, they could get more gold and silver after transporting the goods back to Europe.

Partly speaking, both sides are profitable, which led to the transaction. But in the overall situation, precious metals from European countries are constantly losing.

This loss rate is terrifying. The cargo value of a merchant ship is often millions of taels of silver, and this year there are fifty-eight merchant ships from Shandong to California.

For example, a merchant ship loads 200,000 taels of goods, and after arriving in the Americas, it will turn back to millions of taels, and then transport a ship of goods from the Americas to Shandong. After these goods are sold, the capital will turn into three to four million taels.

Currently, the trade from Shandong to the Americas is to transport goods to California first, and then sell goods in the California colonies, and the goods are also collected by the California colonies.

This makes it very professional.

First of all, the European colonists who were familiar with the Americas in the California colony knew the market price of goods. At the same time, the Ministry of Commerce will list the list of goods with good sales in China every month. Whether it is purchase or shipment, the Ministry of Commerce's personnel in the colony are the clearest, and they are formulating trade plans every month.

The trading center of America isthmus of Panama, which has become the most prosperous trade point, and the Spanish set up card to collect taxes here.

When there was no enough maritime power, the California colonization had to endure it for convenience, and the Spaniards also made a lot of money with a 20% tax.

However, with the growth of the maritime power of the American fleet and the peace talks with the three European countries, the taxes set by the Spanish could no longer tolerate.

At the same time in South America, the added strongholds in the California colonies had several skirmishes with the Spaniards, which led to the dissatisfaction of the Spaniards.

The Spanish were afraid of the power of the American fleet and had not yet endured it, but frequently protested to the California colonies and expressed strong dissatisfaction.

The California colonies also expressed dissatisfaction with the Spanish taxes, demanding that the Spanish open the Panama Isthmus for free and respond to the Spanish that the Ming Dynasty did not recognize the Spanish's sovereignty in southern South America.

Conflicts between the two sides began to arise.

Because the Spaniards were afraid of the strength of the American fleet, they still maintained a high restraint before the current contradictions escalated.

However, this does not mean that the California colonies are willing to give up.

In early October, Xue Qing led the American Infantry Brigade to California. After a month and a half of sailing, the American Infantry Brigade repaired it at Kingsoft Port for nearly half a month.

At the same time, Zhao Yan's order was brought to capture the Panama Isthmus and build the Panama Canal.

The Panama Canal of this era has not yet appeared. From the west coast to the east coast, it must be bypassed from the waters south of South America. This is difficult for California colonies to grasp the richness of the East Coast.

In terms of resource distribution throughout America, the land on the east coast is obviously more suitable for the development of agriculture than the west coast, so the raw materials on the east coast are much higher than the output of the west coast.

To get to the east coast, the Panama Canal must be dug.

The expansion of South America is not busy at first, and then the Spanish-controlled Central America isthmus of Panama and the Mexican region, which produces silver.

The California colony, which has been in the Americas for two years, has conducted a large number of investigations into the plague and rainy season in Central America. After investigation, it was found that the plague in Central America is actually not too terrible.

Cholera and yellow fever are the two main plagues. They can be avoided by working hard to drink water and preventing mosquito bites. Another peak period of the plague is the rainy season in Central America.

Whenever the rainy season comes, it is the peak of the plague, and it is not suitable for fighting in Central America.

The reason why Westerners are prone to infectious diseases is directly related to their drinking of raw water.

Xue Qing came to America this time and the fleet brought a mosquito-proof suit that covered the whole body. There were many small holes outside this mosquito-proof suit that could ventilate, and also brought many panacea and herbs to cure plague.

The preparation is very comprehensive and the consideration is very thorough.

Even during the rainy season, you can also fight in Central America after being equipped with various plague defense methods and having many doctors.

Moreover, all soldiers and people who came to America have grown cowpox in Shandong and have absolute resistance to smallpox.

Xue Qing's American Infantry Brigade is also equipped with a secret weapon - heavy machine gun.

At the same time, when Xue Qing arrived, he also conveyed the order of the military headquarters to transfer the 30,000 village warriors back to Shandong, but the California Governor was obviously unwilling to let these young people go.

These young people have not been in the Americas for long, only half a year. On the contrary, the Marine Corps who had arrived in the Americas have been two years.

Liu Yuan wrote a report, recalling more than 7,000 Marines from the previous period back to California, and then asked them to go home by boat. Most of the 30,000 village heroes remained in California, and only more than 10,000 people went home by boat.

The reason is simple. These 30,000 local brave men are enough to deal with European colonists and do not need to be transferred back to Shandong for training. However, there are indeed too many combatants. With the expansion of the California colony, there is no need to use so many people.

Because the American fleet is already sufficiently controlled by the sea, it is unlikely that people will be landed in the colony, so the colony does not need to retain so many people.

In terms of expansion, there are still insufficient merchant ships. Even if you build a place, there are not enough merchant ships to operate. Therefore, it is useless to expand properly, and too many people are useless.

Liu Yuan planned to leave these rural warriors in California for two years before sending them back to Shandong, so he disobeyed the orders of the military headquarters. As the governor of overseas colonies, he had the right to modify the orders of the military headquarters according to the situation of the colony and then report them to the military headquarters. However, if they were rejected by the military headquarters, the original order must be implemented.

It is not a big deal to keep these young people, and it makes sense to say that these young people have only been in California for half a year and have been sent back like this, and the personnel have been transferred too frequently.

However, the original Marines, whose families did not come to America together, were all very home-written, so they took this opportunity to let them go home and lie down.

In terms of mineral mining, the Golden Force of the California Colonial has mined 300,000 taels of gold and more than 1 million taels of silver this year.

Alaska's gold troops have mined more than 500,000 taels of gold, and their output is still expanding, and it is expected to reach million taels next year.

In all, the profits created by the California colonies, including trade, have reached 90 million taels of silver.

Although this number seems scary, the Spanish have mined gold and silver in Central America for a century, and the amount of precious metals they seized is very terrifying.

These precious metals are not all in the hands of the Spanish. The Spanish have a weak industrial foundation and most of the precious metals have been outflowed.

As of now, the world's silver mining volume has definitely exceeded 100,000 tons (there are a large number of open-pit gold and silver ores in Central America), and 10,000 tons of silver are about 320 million taels.

Not all the profits made by California are silver, many of them are goods. The actual silver shipped back to Shandong is only more than 50 million taels, which is more expensive than the Spanish mined in Central America.
To be continued...