Chapter 2535
Tom Wang led the fleet to leave East Asia for the other side of the Pacific in 1652. More than three years have passed since then. According to the news that was later returned, the fleet spent several months exploring at sea, passing through the Hawaiian Islands, and successfully arrived at the west coast of North America the following year, and established stations in the Hawaiian Islands in the middle of the Pacific and San Diego Bay on the North American coast. . Wang Anguo joined the army very early and followed Tom Wang to North America that year.
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. San Diego Bay has been set foot by Spanish colonists more than a hundred years ago, and colonies have long been established there. Haihan and Spain have been hostile for many years, and there will inevitably be a fight after they meet again. This will be a problem for the advance fleet operating far away from the local area. It is said to be a big test.
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 both Tao Hongfang and Bai Letong had been in contact with Wang Anguo, but that was more than ten years ago. Wang Anguo had lived in Sanya for a short period of time, and The place where he studied at that time was naturally a school that only second-generation students were eligible to attend.
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 is naturally difficult to recognize each other based on appearance and body shape. It wasn't until names and identities were exchanged that a few people 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 want to 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 requirements, we cannot disclose it to you.”
Wang Anguo was strict with his words, so it was difficult for Ha Jianyi to continue questioning him. He also knows that the status of the advance fleet is a very high-level military secret. Ordinary people may not understand where this fleet has gone, and all the equipment, training, and combat plans of this fleet are kept separately from the navy. Although they have to report to the Ministry of National Defense, they do not need approval. They are one of the few troops that can enjoy this kind of special treatment. But even if Wang Anguo refused to disclose the mission of returning to China, Ha Jianyi could probably guess it.
When the advance fleet set out that year, it was mainly 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 try to increase the population as quickly as possible to consolidate the local colonial area. The fastest way is to recruit immigrants from within 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 its destination, it will certainly 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 has to rely on domestic supply. And because the route to the other side of the ocean is too far away, there is currently no ship company familiar with this route in the country. Therefore, 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 open up farmland and sow grains near the station. It's just because of the limited manpower and the Spanish activities nearby that we can't do it for the time being. I don’t dare to open the stall too wide.” “In addition to the Spanish, 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. Most of the people make a living by fishing, hunting, farming and animal husbandry, advocating nature, and believe that all things are animistic. They have their own language, live in tribes, and have no cities or countries. ”
Bai Letong interrupted: "According to what you said, since they have entered the farming 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. Perhaps there are cities and countries established by Indians far away from the coast."
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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 time 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 and more.
However, agricultural civilization did not develop 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, in addition to the Western colonists, the local area suddenly had a powerful foreign civilization called Haihan. As a relatively backward civilization, the Indians faced even greater competitive pressure.
But for the young generation Chuan, the presence of the Indians only aroused their curiosity, and they did not feel that the local indigenous residents could pose a threat to the advance fleet with strong ships and guns. Similar to this kind of action of conquering indigenous people in unfamiliar areas, Haihan had a precedent of dealing with local indigenous people in the process of establishing colonies on Taiwan Island and the South China Sea, and the Indians were just a new target.
(End of chapter)