It's already very cold in Northern California in October.
Of course, California is just a temporary name within the Huben Army, and this land will have to be renamed in the future.
Company commander Xie Jin climbed down from the side of the steamer and climbed onto a small sampan next to the big ship. The sea near the shore was very rough, and it took Xie Jin some effort to stand firmly on the small sampan.
I almost fell into the sea.
This is not because Xie Jin is not skilled in skills, but because Xie Jin is an army company commander and is not good at shipboard operations.
The soldiers on the small sampan were all waiting for Xie Jin. When they saw the company commander getting on the boat, they all started paddling and headed towards the mainland to the east.
Xie Jin looked at the coastline in the distance and couldn't help but have some thoughts.
Xie Jin was the first group of the New World Pioneering Army, and their mission was to establish the first stronghold of the Han people on the west coast of the New World.
Xie Jin had no idea about the New World before. After all, this place is too far away. Although this place has been marked by the prince and drawn on large and small maps, it has never given Xie Jin any impression. After all, the Han people have been here for thousands of years.
They have never expanded externally and have always guarded the ancestral land within the Great Wall. How have they ever traveled to places tens of thousands of miles away?
Therefore, although everyone knew that there was a vast continent tens of thousands of miles away to the east after the prince's education, the people in one town and nine provinces had no idea about it.
Because it's really too far.
However, what Xie Jin did not expect was that one day he would actually be sent to this continent as an officer to conquer this land on behalf of the Han people.
An ironclad ship loaded with coal and supplies carried Xie Jin's company and sailed to Northern California. It took too long to cross the Pacific. In order to make room for fuel and supplies, the 700-ton steamer had
All the gunners have been withdrawn. There are more than 30 sailors and more than 100 land soldiers on the ship.
Twenty-five days after setting off from Tianjin, the advance team arrived in Northern California.
One town and nine provinces have already occupied the Indochina Peninsula, the Southeast Asian Islands and Australia, and now they are occupying the New World. How vast will the territory of the Han people be?
The prince's career is truly jaw-dropping.
The coastline was getting closer and closer to the small sampan, and Xie Jin couldn't help but have some thoughts.
It has been fourteen years since Xie Jin joined the Huben Army. Fourteen years ago, Xie Jin was a seventeen-year-old boy when he joined the army. Now he is a thirty-one-year-old junior military officer. In the past fourteen years, Xie Jin's life has undergone earth-shaking changes.
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The year Xie Jin joined the army was the twelfth year of Chongzhen. The Tatars broke through the border and invaded the capital and ravaged the capital. Xie Jin took his mother and sister to avoid trouble in the county. As a result, he missed the crops and almost starved to death. In the end, he was selected by the Huben Army. From then on
With the military pay from Huben's army, all the small vendors worked hard to sell him things on credit so that his family would not starve to death.
At that time, Xie Jin's family of three farmed 19 acres of dry land and were as poor as they could get. My younger sister was thin and small due to malnutrition since she was a child.
However, since Xie Jin joined the Huben Army, his family has become as rich as a rocket.
At the beginning, Hu Benjun's monthly income was three taels a month, which was already very considerable. Xie Jin spent money reluctantly at that time, saving money desperately, and brought money to his mother and sister when he went home every month. But this
A generous monthly salary was not enough to measure Xie Jin's future. After serving as a soldier in the Huben Army for five years, Xie Jin was promoted to squad leader. The monthly salary rose to seven taels, and later to eight taels as the standards of the entire army improved.
When Xie Jin's sister got married, Xie Jin spent one hundred taels of silver on a dowry so that his sister could marry in glory. This enviable dowry was discussed in Dadong Township for more than half a year.
In the eighteenth year of Chongzhen, Xie Jin went north with his army to destroy the Tatars and occupied Liaodong, and then he was allocated 300 acres of farmland in Liaodong.
This 300-acre farm suddenly made Xie Jin a wealthy man. Xie Jin contracted the farm to a "service team" and received two to three hundred taels of silver every year from the land rent.
Not long after that, Xie was promoted to platoon leader, and his monthly salary became more than ten taels. After another four years, Xie was promoted to company commander, and his monthly salary became thirty taels.
Xie Jin has been fighting in the army and got married very late, at the age of twenty-five. However, this "late marriage" did not affect Xie Jin's competitiveness. His wife is the most beautiful girl in Dadong Township. Xie Jin bought a piece of land next to the old house.
On three acres of land, a large house with three entrances was built.
Of course, Xie Jin's big house is empty most of the time. Most of the time, he lives in the Fanjiazhuang military camp. His wife lives with him in Fanjiazhuang, and he also has a luxurious villa in Fanjiazhuang.
Xie Jin was only a company commander in the Huben Army, and his position did not seem to be high. But to ordinary people, Xie Jin was already an outstanding officer. The soldiers in the Huben Army were the envy of ordinary people, let alone those who were in charge of more than a hundred soldiers.
Company Commander? Today, Xie Jin has become a well-known figure in his hometown, a successful person envied by everyone.
Xie Jin understood that he was not a talented person with outstanding abilities. His success was all due to the prince's career. It was precisely because the prince's career was snowballing that he was able to follow the rising tide and become more successful.
However, now the prince has conquered the New World, North America! How far will those who follow the prince develop in the future?
Does the prince really want to lead the Han people to occupy the whole world?
Now everyone in one town and nine provinces firmly believes that the prince is descended from the stars, and the prince's reputation has reached an incredible level. Many people who have become rich have even built shrines to Li Zhi in villages and cities, and worship the prince as a god.
Looking at the increasingly clear North American coastline, Xie Jin was speechless.
The small sampan moved forward little by little and finally stopped on the beach.
Xie Jin jumped off the sampan, stood on the beach, loaded the shotgun, and shouted: "Diamond skirmisher formation, cover each other and move forward!"
Xie Jin, representing the Han people, set foot on this vast land for the first time and was a little nervous.
According to Wang Ye's introduction in the book, North America is not a no-man's land. There are indigenous people called Indians here.
Of course, there are white people on the east coast of North America, including the Dutch, British, and French, who have established colonies on the east coast of North America and are constantly immigrating to this land. But that is on the east coast, on the west coast of North America.
There are no white people.
Xie Jin led his team to explore the depths of the land.
What came face to face was a dense forest of fir trees. The fir trees were different from the fir trees of the Ming Dynasty. Each tree was very huge, dozens of meters high. The gaps between trees were often one or two meters. Xie Jin felt that
You can ride a horse in the woods by yourself.
There were plants everywhere that were not found in the Ming Dynasty, which made the soldiers very curious. The soldiers walked forward with their guns raised, gradually relaxed, and began to look at the surrounding situation.
The temperature is about 12 or 3 degrees Celsius, which is about the same as Tianjin. Because it is on the seaside, the humidity is very high. The sun shines through the gaps between the leaves of the fir trees, and it warms Xie Jin's body.
The climate conditions are similar to Tianjin, which is a fertile land suitable for Han people to explore. 8)
