Almost every day, Yuzhang City changes at a speed visible to the naked eye. Houses were built one by one, and even a shipyard was built outside the city. Not only did the long-distance ships need to be renovated, but the timber in this area was extremely rich, not only with a large number of giant sequoia, but also with countless oaks. These oak trees are the famous North American oak trees, and they are the best raw materials for shipbuilding in the world. Faced with such rich resources, it is naturally a normal operation to establish a shipyard.

The natural good harbor, the inexhaustible trees, all of which meant the prosperity of the city. Compared with the Europeans, the Ming Dynasty's immigration was so strong that it was far beyond their imagination that the first batch of immigrants had exceeded their imagination. At this time, after half a century of development, the population of the British Virginia colony was only 10,000.

Even in the third month after the immigrants arrived in the New World to establish Yuzhang City, many women became pregnant. These women were all indigenous women. In the past three months, the immigrants swept almost all indigenous tribes within a hundred miles of Fangyuan.

This kind of sweep not only ensures the safety of Yuzhang City, but also enriches the city's population. Thousands of women become trophys and are assigned to some sailors who are willing to settle here and active exiles who work. Many of them are already pregnant, and perhaps next year, the population here will increase significantly again.

Although time will dilute everything and make people slowly forget the past. But Lulu is still very painful!

Her brother died, and even his head was still hanging outside the city walls. All the warriors in her tribe died, and only the woman survived as the trophy of the conqueror. The same was true for herself.

However, compared to other women, she was lucky. Although she became a maid to outsiders, she only needed to teach the language of the little Marquis' tribe and serve him in daily life. Instead of having children for his master like others, she would only feel even more painful.

"Lulu, as far as you know, are there other tribes nearby?"

Once again, Li Yide asked the native woman around him that Lulu was not her name, her name was very verbal, and it was translated into Chinese as "dew on the leaves", so he named her "Lulu".

In the past three months, he not only learned the language of the natives from this woman, but also learned a lot of information related to the native tribes through her. It was through the information they provided that he was able to sweep away nearby tribes to ensure the safety of the city.

"Little Marquis, if you cross the Rocky Mountain, there are the prairie on the other side of the mountain. There are many tribes on the prairie. I heard my father mention them, they make a living by capturing bison."

Got to climb over Rocky Mountain!

As he muttered in his heart, Li Yide shook his head. There was no need to climb over that mountain now, because there were too few immigrants and the exiles, it was too early to disperse them all.

However, in order to get the reward, he had to send hundreds of exiles to hunt in the mountains and forests to obtain fur. Fur is one of the rare local products here that can be brought back to China. What else is there besides fur?

It's trade.

Trade with the natives?

This is obviously impossible. Half a month ago, the shipyard built a small Spanish-style sailing ship full of porcelain, silk, cotton and other goods. Under the guidance of Xu Anlin and others, it sailed to New Spain and pretended to be the Spanish to carry out trade.

At this moment, we can only rely on those exiles to hunt in the forest and get fur.

"If you can't get enough profits and return, you will definitely be laughed at by them..."

Li Yide said to himself.

...

For Chen Kun, who was in the mountains, he didn't know that the master was still muttering about fur. A month ago, he and a few brothers left Yuzhang City and captured prey in this forest where there was no end. He was a child who grew up in the mountains. He had been hunting in the mountains with his father since he was a child, and had also encountered bears, wild leopards, and wild wolves. Dangers were everywhere in the mountains. However, at that time, it was to avoid the Jurchens.

Now, he hunted to get rid of the title of "exiled". If he could do it again, he would never have the intention to make money and hurt the passing merchants. Then he was arrested and exiled here by the Tiqi.

The only thing that comforted him was probably that he had started hunting here again. In this month, they had encountered brown bears, wild wolves and various other beasts that were bigger than humans. These beasts eventually turned into leather on wooden boats, and now the wooden boats are full of all kinds of furs.

"Brother Kun, when will we go back? I miss my wife at home."

The so-called wives are native women. They are all women who have wives. They are exchanged for their own labor. Although wives are natives, having a wives here is an enviable good thing.

Just to live a good life, they had to leave Yuzhang City and go to the mountains to hunt.

"No hurry, don't hurry, get more fur back. Maybe when the little marquis is happy, he will give us a few more acres of land..."

Chen Kun said gasping.

Any exile who pays a value of one thousand taels of fur can be free, and for every one hundred taels of fur can be paid, five acres of land can be obtained.

Land and freedom are the promises the little marquis gave them.

He was breathing, and Chen Kun walked in the forest with sweat. Although it was already October, it still did not snow here and the sun was not fierce. However, after walking for a long time, he still sweated a lot. Occasionally, while searching for prey, he continued to walk deep into the forest.

The sun had already begun to set west, Chen Kun and his brothers were extremely tired. He sat on a rock, and as he was singing water, he suddenly felt stunned, staring at the big tree beside him, and then rushed towards it with a look of joy.

"Brother Kun, what's wrong..."

Ignoring the brother's shouts, Chen Kun came to that place in a hurry. He saw two plants with small coral beads growing near the roots of the tree swaying in the mountain wind. The red beads shone like rubies. On the branches more than one foot high, there were green leaves. The leaves were oval and slightly pointed, and the five-petal leaves looked like big palms.

"Brother Kun, Brother Kun..."

Chuaner and the others also followed with muskets.

"This, what is this..."

"What, what...we, we have such good luck, so good, this, this is..."

Chen Kun murmured, looking around nervously. This was not too tight. Seeing that the other side of the big tree was covered with this kind of grass, the red beads almost dyed the earth red.

Suddenly, his heart was beating wildly. At this moment, Chen Kun's head began to be congested, his face turned red, and he was so excited that he was about to jump up.

"Brother Kun, what's wrong with you?"

Ignoring the brothers beside me, holding back the excitement, Chen Kun stared at the "red carpet" and said.

"Boat, we, we are developed..."

Not developed, but freedom!

Free!

Chen Kun looked a little excited...

A few days later, Chen Kun and his group returned to Yuzhang City by boat. Although their ships were filled with fur, there were as many as twenty-six bears, but the discount was only about two hundred taels. In the early plunder of the colonies, the plunder was not necessarily the natives, and they often squeezed their own people more severely, especially in North American colonies without gold and silver mines. In colonies such as Virginia, many of the residents there were not so many residents, but rather serfs, and serfs from the Virginia Company!

However, Chen Kun and the others didn't think there was anything about this. At least the government kept their word. After recording the money according to the head, they also distributed ten acres of land to them according to the total price. Although they were finally assigned to the head, each person only had more than one acre of land. Even so, it would be better than having no inch of land.

While the brothers were delivering fur at the dock, Chen Kun and the boat arrived at the little marquis.

"The little man greets the little marquis!"

Li Yide asked:

"What's wrong with you?"

"Your Majesty, the little man and his brothers went to the mountain to hunt this time, and found a treasure in the mountain!"

"Baby? What baby?"

Could it be silver?

Li Yide saw Chen Kun unfolding a cloth bag.

"Ginseng!"

Ginseng, although the gold mines in San Francisco have not been discovered, ginseng is produced in Rocky Mountain, which is one of the most important production areas of American American ginseng!
Chapter completed!