The Dutch had no ships and could only defend with turrets. Their turrets were completely silenced from the second wave of artillery bombardment on the side of the warship.

And Cao Li's warships are nothing wrong.

The Dutch were blown to pieces by artillery and left hundreds of corpses and retreated, and retreated to a place where the fleet's artillery could not attack.

Eliminated the Dutch artillery threat, the Marines began to land in the port and quickly occupied the dock. The Dutch were frightened by the artillery on the warships and dared not stop it.

Marine soldiers moved artillery and rockets from the ship and began to bomb the Dutch. Two thousand Dutch soldiers had no ability to resist the powerful firepower of the Marines.

First of all, the distance is too far, so far that their artillery cannot fight back, while the Marines' rockets and artillery are designed with grenades, and the shells are extremely lethal. If the Dutch wanted to counterattack, they had to rush through the death front that was more than a thousand meters long.

The Marines continued to advance, but the Dutch also kept retreating. Cao Li frowned when he saw it on the boat. There were only 500 Marines, and it was obviously not worth it to fight muskets with the Dutch who died and injured more than 1,500 people. But if he didn't get close, the Dutch would not surrender obediently.

"It seems not that easy to solve the battle." Yang Yichuan said as he looked at the situation on the battlefield.

As expected, the Dutch dropped the artillery and ran into the rainforest. The Marines did not dare to enter the pursuit at all. Cao Li suddenly seemed to have thought of something. He even didn't want the artillery discarded by the Dutch and hurriedly asked the Marines to retreat.

"This is Central and South America, with many mosquitoes and flies everywhere, which is simply not a place for people to stay. It would be better if you don't want such a colony." Cao Li remembered what Zhao Yan told him in the letter, "And these mosquitoes will also spread plague."

When Yang Yichuan thought of the plague, he shivered and said, "You have to let the doctor boil some herbs for soldiers who have been bitten by mosquitoes."

"Um!"

...The American fleet ran out of Panambuco in shame, and did not want to stay in such a ghost place for a moment. They retreated to the fleet outside the sea and began to re-form the itinerary.

Cao Li divided the fleet into two parts and divided the ten ships that the Xiangshan escorted the prisoners back to Kingsoft, and these ships will be equipped in Kingsoft.

This time when I came to America, the fleet brought enough artillery and ammunition, and there was no difficulty in installing it.

At the same time, Cao Li reminded the returnees to always protect the Dutch from revenge. The Dutch are likely to attack Kingsoft and the defense of the port must be improved as soon as possible.

Fortunately, Kingsoft Port is a very easy-to-defend port. That port is like an inner lake, with only one waterway to enter. As long as the waterway is guarded to death, it will be foolproof.

Cao Li took the Qingdao and Kingsoft to continue northwards and began to plunder ports and merchant ships on the Caribbean Sea and the east coast of North America.

Both warships were loaded with advanced artillery, and naval battles were not awesome to any opponents as long as they were not too large. However, Cao Li's subsequent robbery of the port was not smooth.

First of all, those ports are alert. Once the people at the port are vigilant, it will be difficult to loot the port. They touched two British ports in a row, but they all returned in vain. After all, they only had two ships, but they also grabbed more than 20 fishing boats.

Cao Li, who wanted to plunder some slaves and livestock, had to give up this idea and instead targeted the merchant ships and pirates who were traveling. The Caribbean Sea was a paradise for pirates, and their main target of plunder was the Spanish treasure ship.

As mentioned above, Spain is a country with weak industrial industries, so they cannot export enough goods and cannot plunder raw materials. They can only continue to maintain it with treasures.

Spain's main income in Central and South America is gold, silver, gems, etc. Each gold transport ship contains crazy profits, so there are so many pirates in the Caribbean.

Among the merchant ships traveling between America, the Dutch had the most ships, and they took over half of the world's ocean-going trade.

The Spanish started mining, the Dutch engaged in trafficking, and the British opened factories.

Cao Li chose to rob the Spanish ships, but he would rob the Dutch ships and the British ships when he saw them.

It’s obvious! The mining is not enough to worry about. There are so many ships engaged in trafficking that do not rob them of nothing. The potential for opening factories is the greatest, and it is most likely to become the main enemy in the future. We must firmly suppress them.

As for pirates, although the ship is not very big, the mosquito meat is also meat. If you grab it back, you will be equipped with a new pirate ship and you can continue to engage in the robbery.

The first month passed like this, and Cao Li's results were very generous. He grabbed five Dutch merchant ships and one British merchant ship in the Caribbean, two pirate ships, three frigates and a Dutch warship, and more than twenty fishing boats in the Caribbean.

But those Caribbean pirates are not as easy to deal with as the phenomenon. Their ships are smaller, and once the warships chase them, they hide in shallower waterways, and the warships dare not enter at all.

Cao Li also spent a lot of effort to catch these two pirate ships. The six merchant ships vary in size, ranging from 300 tons to more than 1,000 tons.

After a month of battle, only five soldiers were killed in the fleet, and it was very simple to deal with those merchant ships. The fleet's artillery not only had a long range, but also had a high power, fast firing speed, and more accurate.

When encountering a merchant ship escorted by frigates or warships, the fleet usually first lies at a lower level, paralyzing the enemy's warships from afar, and then sending a former prisoner to take a small boat to persuade him to surrender.

If you do not surrender, you will go around to the upper level and sink these warships.

However, those merchant ships are very easy to deal with. They generally do not resist desperately. As long as they show enough strength, they will be obediently raising the white flag. At the same time, they are loading goods, which is very slow and it is very easy to chase.

The worst thing to deal with is pirates. When they saw such a large warship coming, they turned around and ran away. They had no chance to find them bad luck.

This is also why the Pirates of the Caribbean have been prosperous.

It took Cao Li a month to return to Jinshan with the trophy. At this moment, Jinshan had already initially looked like a colonial.

The bastion was finally built under the hard work of the Indian natives. Under the command of the Indian natives, logging, mining, arable land and fishing every day.

Liu Yuan began to ask someone to count the value of the spoils. The goods on the five merchant ships were probably valuable. When Liu Yuan saw the more than 20 fishing boats brought back by Cao Li, he was overjoyed.

"With these fishing boats, the food problem can be solved a lot. We can capture more Indians and the gold mining industry can also begin." Liu Yuan said happily. In order to speed up the construction of the bastion and the fort construction this month, many Indian natives were arrested, and hundreds of natives returned to heaven because of insufficient food to maintain high-intensity labor.

There are currently more than 20,000 indigenous slaves in Kingsoft, of which 5,000 are participating in the shipbuilding industry, 5,000 are mining and smelting in mines, and 9,000 indigenous people are carrying out land reclamation and water conservancy construction.

"It's really gold everywhere?" Cao Li asked curiously.

"Of course, just dig a few shovels and you can find one piece. If there are enough personnel, we can transport 150,000 taels of gold back to Denglai every year, and there should be millions of taels of gold in the ground!" Liu Yuan estimated, "Adults said that as long as we pass through the eastern mountain range, we can find more gold and silver, but the mining is not so convenient."

"That's ten million taels of silver!" Cao Li was shocked. Ten million taels of silver was astronomical, which was astronomical, which was one-third of the fiscal revenue of Denglai last year. "What are we doing to dig it out in one breath?"

"Anyway, gold cannot escape in the fields. Reclamation of California and shipbuilding are the top priority. With ships, we can immigrate here on a large scale."

When talking about the ship, Cao Li suddenly became energetic and said, "There are so many Europa ships. We should build more schooners and then distribute them to the entire American waters, so that a large number of ships can be captured every month."

"Well! The schooner is indeed suitable for the water environment of North America." Liu Yuan nodded in agreement.

North American schooners are ships built to adapt to the waters of North America. The sailing rate is extremely high, seven or eight times higher than other types of sailing ships.

This is also the prototype of the fly-scissor ship. Unlike the fly-scissor ship, North American schooners do not have that high speed, but can carry artillery.

"This time we intercepted seven warships and twelve merchant ships. Our cannons are no longer equipped and used. At the same time, we have enough ships and we should organize a return fleet. However, our number of warships has reached ten. I think we should divide a group to return to Denglai. The first fleet still needs to deal with the Red Barbarians and Zheng Zhilong in the local area."

"This is fine. Let's divide five ships to return! But the Ministry of Military Affairs has to arrange another group of sailors and marines, and try to make as many cannons and ammunition as possible." Cao Li agreed readily. It was not very useful for these warships to stay in the American fleet. First of all, the artillery was not equipped enough, and the warships could only be used as merchant ships, and there were not enough sailors.

"After the goods on the merchant ship are sorted out, you will be responsible for escorting the fleet southward to trade with Franchisemen. We need to fill the ship before returning to sail." Liu Yuan said to Cao Li.

"kindness."

...It took two days for the staff of Kingsoft Merchant to sort out the goods on the five merchant ships. Most of these goods are local specialties from the Americas, so there is no need to be vacate them anymore and transport them back to Denglai.

The other half are goods from the Ming Dynasty, India, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe, and are goods prepared by the Dutch to sell to the Americas.

These commodities were eliminated, and the products from the Ming Dynasty were eliminated, as well as the products that were not needed by the Ming Dynasty.

These eliminated goods are goods to be sold to the Spanish, and then local specialties and raw materials are purchased from the Spanish.

Those retained goods are ready to be shipped back to Denlai.

After five days of preparation, the fleet brought enough gold and sailed to Panama City to trade with the Spanish.

The goods that the Spaniards could export to them were: rubber, fur, mahogany, cotton, stallions, mule, gold and silver, gems, and other local specialties.

However, in this trade, the fleet lacked commodities, so it exported precious metal currency to the Spaniards. The cotton bought will be processed into cotton cloth in Jinshan, and then sold back to exchange for gold and silver.

The livestock used for service was also transported back to Jinshan and then used for cotton cultivation in California. Stallions were transported back to the horse farm in Denlai to improve horse breeds and cultivate better military horses.

Rubber is something the Spanish are very happy to see new fiscal revenue. This kind of thing is of no use to the Spanish, but it can be sold for money.

Therefore, the Spaniards controlled all the rubber in Central and South America and used the rubber cutting method taught by Cao Li to produce rubber.

Redwood is red sandalwood, yellow sandalwood and other things are precious woods in the Ming Dynasty. Furniture made of these woods can be sold at a higher price.

There are many rich people in the Ming Dynasty, and every household is a consumer of these furniture. They attach great importance to the quality of furniture and have a very good market.

The Governor of New Spain looked at the huge fleet of the Far Eastern people like a monster. When their fleet arrived, they had only three warships, and now they had become ten warships, fourteen merchant ships, and two extremely fast sailing ships.

Fortunately, these Far Eastern people are allies with them. They not only do not rob their treasure ships in the Caribbean, but sometimes they also escort the treasure ships for a distance.

Most of these looted warships and merchant ships were Dutch, while others were British and Portuguese. After Cao Li arrived in Panama City, the Governor of New Spain negotiated with Cao Li on the issue of Portuguese warships.

Cao Li had a very good reason and refused to hand over the Portuguese warship. The Governor of New Spain and a colonist in Portugal had to raise the issue of returning the Portuguese crew.

"If the Portuguese could transport rubber, mahogany and cotton to Port Dios to trade with us, we would be happy to release these crew members." Cao Li also made a request.

"There is no problem with this, but we need to agree on the details of the transaction." The Portuguese agreed happily.

Trade is beneficial to them because it can bring them fiscal revenue, especially cotton and rubber, which are a new financial source for American colonists.

In this world, the textile industry was ruled by the Ming Dynasty, and the textile industry in European countries was in a slump, which led to the fact that cotton could not become a fiscal revenue for American colonists, because in the slump of the textile industry, the price of cotton was extremely low.

Only extremely low prices can make their textile industry survive, which is why Ming Dynasty merchants like to buy cotton from the Philippines.

After three parties agreed, the California Chamber of Commerce established branches in Port Dios and Panama City, and acquired Spanish and Portugal goods without restrictions.

The goods purchased from the East Coast of America are collected at Port Dios, and then shipped to the other side by a mule and horse team, and then transported back to Kingsoft by sailing.

Spanish goods on the West Bank are collected in Panama City and then transported to Kingsoft by sailing.

Panama City does not have much cargo and cannot fill all ships, so the fleet buys a lot of goods that are not very profitable.

Ten days later, the fleet was divided into three parts, one of which was composed of ten merchant ships and five warships, sailing westward towards Hawaii. The other part was two armed merchant ships carrying cotton and some livestock back to Jinshan.

Cao Li, with three warships, two fly-scissors, the Meng Tian and Qi Jiguang, sailed to the Magellan Strait, and he was going to rob the East Coast of America again.

This time, Cao Li brought 1,500 Marine soldiers, intending to give a ruthless port and stronghold to the British and Dutch people on the East Coast.

...After the merchant ship carrying cotton and livestock returned to Jinshan, Liu Yuan could start planning the matter of textile factories and farms. Jinshan was not very suitable for developing farms on the peninsula of the port, and there were no rivers to develop the textile industry.

Therefore, you should take a boat to the California River inside the port to the east to the plain area with dense water networks, which is a suitable area for the development of the textile industry and the rich land.

The California River is the Sacramento River in later generations. Liu Yuan and others were the first colonists to arrive here, so they naturally named the river.

(Saccaratumu River: originates from the Klamath Mountains in northern California. It flows south and south, passes through the Cascade and Nevada Mountains, flows through the northern section of the Central Valley, merges with the San Joaquin River to form a delta and injects into the northern section of the San Francisco Bay. It is 615 kilometers (382 miles) in length, and the basin area is about 70,189 square kilometers (27,100 square miles). The 412 kilometers (256 miles) section can be navigated. The ocean-going ship can reach the city of Sacramentum. The main tributaries are Pit, McCloud, Feather and the Ameriga River. The basin has one of the world's richest agricultural areas).

The water surface of the California River is very wide, and sailboats can travel far along the river. Liu Yuan left 500 Marines to defend Jinshan, leaving 1,000 soldiers, and led the administrators to the long-demarcated stronghold to open up new towns there. Liu Yuan named the new stronghold as New Zhaojia Fort according to the Europeans' naming of the colonial stronghold.
To be continued...