Chapter 2535

In 1652, Tom Wang led the fleet to leave East Asia for the other side of the Pacific. More than three years had passed. According to the news later, the fleet spent several months exploring at sea, passing through the Hawaiian Islands, and successfully arrived in the following year.

Wang Anguo joined the army at an early age and went to North America with Tom Wang.

During this period, Western colonists had not yet invaded Hawaii, and there were only indigenous residents there. It would not be too difficult for the Haihan Fleet to build a supply port at Pearl Harbor, its long-decided destination. And San Diego Bay was established more than a hundred years ago.

It has already been set foot by Spanish colonists and has long established a colony there. Haihan has been hostile to Spain for many years. There will inevitably be a fight after they meet again. This is a big test for the advance fleet fighting far away from the local area.

As a senior staff officer of the Ministry of National Defense, Ha Jianyi had been exposed to some information about the advance fleet's battles in North America. He knew the difficulty and risks of this fleet's local operations, so although he could have expected that Wang Anguo's military rank should be that of his father.

factors, but I don’t dare to underestimate them at all.

Since Wang Anguo was "one of our own", Ha Jianyi did not hide his identity. He called him aside and introduced him to Tao Hongfang and others. Unexpectedly, after the two sides introduced each other, they discovered that Tao Hongfang and Bai Letong were

Both of them had contact with Wang Anguo, but that was more than ten years ago. Wang Anguo lived in Sanya for a short period of time, and the place where he studied at that time was naturally only for second-generation students.

School.

It’s just that Wang Tom has been away fighting all year round. Affected by this, Wang Anguo was picked up by his family after finishing primary school courses in Sanya. He has never returned to Sanya since then, so his contact with Tao Bai and Tao Bai was limited to their childhood classmates.

, meeting each other after many years, it was naturally difficult to recognize each other based on appearance and body shape. It was not until the names and identities were announced to each other that the few of them remembered this past event.

Although Wang Anguo left Sanya very early, he also understood that he, Tao Hongfang and others belonged to the same special class, so he did not see anyone else at the moment, so he moved a chair to sit with the four of them.

What Ha Jianyi is most concerned about is naturally why Wang Anguo appeared in Hangzhou. Wang Anguo also explained this: "This return to China is mainly to deal with some military affairs and needs to contact the Donghai Region. But regarding the specific situation,

Due to confidentiality regulations, we cannot disclose it to you."

Wang Anguo was so strict that Ha Jianyi could not continue to ask questions. He also knew that the status of the advance fleet was a very high-level military secret, and ordinary people may not be able to understand where the fleet had gone, and this

All equipment, training, and combat plans of the fleet are also listed separately from the Navy. Although they must be reported to the Ministry of National Defense, they do not require approval. They are one of the few forces that can enjoy such special treatment. But even if

Wang Anguo refused to disclose the mission of returning to China, but Ha Jianyi could probably guess it.

When the advance fleet set out that year, it was mainly composed of combat troops. Although it also brought some immigrants, they were basically military family members and craftsmen responsible for logistics, and the number was extremely limited. Now that a station has been established on the other side of the ocean, it is natural to find ways to

Increase the population as quickly as possible to consolidate the local colonial area. The fastest way is to recruit immigrants from the country and transport them in batches to the other side of the ocean for resettlement.

In addition, although the advance fleet has established a station at the destination, it will definitely not be able to open special facilities such as shipyards and arsenals locally in the short term. Therefore, the update and replenishment of armaments still have to rely on domestic supplies. And because the routes to the other side of the ocean are too long,

It is too far away, and at this stage there is no ship company familiar with this route in China, so the advance fleet can only send people back to purchase supplies and equipment, and then act as navigators to bring these things back to the station.

Since Wang Anguo's mission to return to China could not be discussed, Ha Jianyi turned the topic to the progress of colonial construction in North America: "I heard that the advance fleet has built a port and a military base there. How is the situation now?"

Wang Anguo responded: "The climate in the bay we went to is actually similar to that of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, so it was relatively smooth to cultivate farmland and sow grains near the station. It's just because of limited manpower and the presence of Spanish people nearby that we can't do it for the time being.

I don’t dare spread the stall too far,”

"In addition to the Spaniards, there is also an indigenous race called the Indians. They also have black hair, black eyes, and yellow skin. Their appearance is somewhat similar to the people here. These Indians mostly make a living by fishing, hunting, farming, and animal husbandry, and they respect nature.

, believe that all things have animism. They have their own language, live in tribes as groups, have no cities, and have not established a country."

Bai Letong interrupted: "According to what you said, since they have entered the agricultural era, how come they haven't established a country?"

According to the knowledge they have learned, the development of social productive forces will lead to the emergence of private ownership, followed by the emergence of classes, and the organizational form of the state will emerge from this.

Wang Anguo shook his head and said: "The continent there is very vast. What we can currently reach is only a hundred miles around the coast. Maybe there are cities and countries established by Indians far away from the coast."

Tao Hongfang asked curiously: "What are the differences between the crops grown by the Indians and those in our country?"

Wang Anguo responded: "Speaking of this, I also find it very strange. Almost all the crops we see locally are grown in our country. However, the local indigenous people do not grow rice and wheat. Their food crops are corn, sweet potatoes and

All kinds of beans.”

For the sake of publicity, the Travelers do not indicate the origins of the various crops they brought to this era. However, in fact, many crops in later generations originated from American Indians, such as corn, sweet potatoes, peanuts, tomatoes,

Chili peppers etc.

However, agricultural civilization did not develop and grow in the Americas. At its peak, there were only some regional tribal alliances or city-state civilizations, and then the development process was interrupted by Western colonists. Of course, in this time and space, except for Western colonists

, suddenly there was a powerful foreign civilization like Haihan in the local area, and as a relatively backward civilization, the Indians faced even greater competitive pressure.

But for the young generation Chuan, the presence of the Indians only arouses their curiosity, and they do not think that the local indigenous residents can pose a threat to the advance fleet with strong ships and cannons. Similar to this kind of conquering the indigenous people in a strange area

In terms of human actions, when Haihan established colonies on Taiwan Island and the South China Sea, there was a precedent for dealing with local indigenous people, and the Indians were just a new target.
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