New Ming Empire mixed in America

The freight business at the San Francisco Port had basically stagnated at this time, and all was converted to passenger transport, and the fares were settled by the Xinming Empire.

For a time, there was an endless stream of passenger ships on the San Francisco Bay (San Francisco Bay). Except for the miners who were still panning for gold in the mountains, everyone else chose to move to the next county with $400.

That's right, because the miners didn't want to leave, Li Mingqi paid the remaining residents the money shared by these people.

You must know that one person can get 400 US dollars, which is not a small amount for a family of three.

So this time, under the temptation of $400, more people chose to leave. Even the white puppet soldiers began to follow.

Davis's men have grown from more than 1,500 to more than 600 now. Even the remaining puppet soldiers have sent their families away.

At first, Li Mingqi thought about using the money to find polar bears and buy Alaska, but he gave up after thinking about it.

Because this kind of territorial transaction cannot be participated by one person or a force that is not widely recognized internationally.

(Those who personally buy Alaska novels... I can only say that it may be because Goldfinger is different)

Besides, there are also people of the Xinming Empire in Alaska. From the appearance, those Eskimos living in igloos are the people of the Xinming Empire.

Therefore, Alaska has been the territory of the Xinming Empire since ancient times, and Li Mingqi cannot afford to buy his own territory.

Thinking of this, Li Mingqi added Alaska to the territory of the Xinming Empire on the world map produced by the Xinming Empire.

For the time being, this map only marks the territory that the Xinming Empire has a chance to acquire, which is the entire west coast of North America.

Looking at the map, Li Mingqi nodded with satisfaction. The scope of the Xinming Empire has become larger, which can be said to be gratifying.

While Li Mingqi was studying the map, Liu Erhe came over to report without seeing anything:

"Long live my lord, those miners are unwilling to pay taxes to us, and they even had some conflicts with Davis' Ming Xie army. You see..."

Listening to Liu Erhe's words, Li Mingqi was stunned.

You must know that although San Francisco is said to be a gold mountain, the place where miners pan for gold is not here.

At best, this is a transfer station in a high-speed service area, where miners stay, buy tools needed for gold mining, etc.

But if you think about it carefully, although the Port of San Francisco has not been taken over by you, San Francisco is now the inherent territory of the Xinming Empire, so it is normal to charge some taxes.

But judging from the way Liu Erhe was hesitating, it was probably Davis himself who made the mistake.

Are you a puppet army? If you don't do something outrageous, how can you live up to this name?

So Li Mingqi asked: "How many miners are there?"

"Back to Lord Long Live, there are probably more than two thousand people..."

Hiss~ This Davis is floating.

Although Li Mingqi occupies the urban area of ​​San Francisco, the port area is not smaller than the urban area, and commercial streets, banks, etc. are all located in the port area.

Of course, the current San Francisco Bank has been renamed Shin Ming Empire Royal Bank - San Francisco Branch.

Moreover, the full-time positions in the bank have been replaced by students who have graduated from the Royal Academy. These students will conduct internships here to prepare for the establishment of the Xinming Imperial Bank in the future.

Li Mingqi would like to mention here that all institutions with the royal prefix serve the royal family and must be distinguished from the regular institutions of the Xinming Empire.

Even the former Ming Dynasty had treasury and internal funds, let alone the current Xin Ming Empire.

Li Mingqi thought for a while and said to Liu Erhe:

"Inform Sun Laifu and ask him to send people to take over the defense of San Francisco Port. Then transfer Zhou Yuan, who was left behind in Yingtian Mansion, to serve as the district chief of the port area."

Zhou Yuan was one of the two talents recommended by Liu Youcai, and he is currently the mayor of Qingren Street.

Nowadays, there is a shortage of civil servants in the empire, so we can only transfer him here to deal with the emergency first.

Besides, the town of "Qingren Street" is about to be banned, and his tenure as mayor has come to an end, so it's just right for him to be transferred to San Francisco.

Li Mingqi in the current port area decided to treat it as a special zone and asked Zhou Yuan to popularize the laws of the New Ming Empire to the guys in the port area.

There are two reasons why the port area is retained now. One is because Li Mingqi also wants to rely on the port to collect some merchant ships and convert them into immigration ships.

Second, I still want to keep this port to cause trouble to those in Sacramento from time to time.

Li Mingqi doesn't know much about politics. But the only thing he understands is that professional matters should be left to professional people.

After receiving His Majesty's instructions, Sun Laifu immediately ordered the third regiment to move into the port area to take over defense.

The First Regiment of the National Defense Forces that followed Li Mingqi to San Francisco has been transferred back to Yingtianfu, and the Third Regiment of the National Defense Forces that stayed there has been transferred to San Francisco.

Previously, the first regiment of the National Defense Force was the main regiment, the second regiment was the reserve regiment, and the third regiment was the new regiment.

Now that the second regiment has been formed after being tempered in San Francisco, it is time for the third regiment to see blood.

Soon, these new recruits who had just come out of the training ground began to take over the port area under the leadership of some veterans.

The first step is to replace all the flags with the Sanchen Banner of the Xinming Empire, and then start building barricades and bunkers at various key locations.

Finally, there is the matter of taking over the shipyard. As for whether the owner of the shipyard agrees or not?

In a few days, the war criminals who participated in the "San Francisco Massacre" will be publicly executed.

If the shipyard boss chooses to take the money and leave, then everything will be easy. If he is not short-sighted, the Xinming Empire will not be stingy with those few bullets.

Davis led his Ming Xie army behind the soldiers of the National Defense Force and walked into the port with his head held high.

He was very discerning and asked people to pull away the onlookers at the port and drive them to allow the National Defense Force soldiers to pass. Davis led the National Defense Forces towards the settlement of the miners.

Because of the war, these miners were stranded in the port of San Francisco.

In addition, the people in the port area witnessed how San Francisco fell, so they behaved very well.

So these miners became the chicken that killed the chicken to scare the monkeys, and they were also the whetstone of the third group.

"Captain Liang, right ahead is the camp of those unruly people. These people have occupied the open space next to the dock and built privately. They refuse to pay taxes. It is a heinous crime!"

A close acquaintance followed Liang Youwen and introduced him to the situation of the miners.

"Most of those miners are desperadoes. Commander Liang, please be careful."

Although the tone of these pro-intellectuals' speeches is very strange, at least they can be understood.

Liang Youwen nodded, looked at the camp, which was not much better than the slums, and then ordered the national defense forces to prepare for battle.

Immediately, the National Defense Forces began to build mortar positions and build sandbags.

Seeing the arrival of the National Defense Forces, chaos broke out in the miners' camp. Strong white men armed with weapons emerged from each low tent. These men very skillfully began to form a team in front of the wooden fence outside the camp.

Seeing this scene, Liang Youwen frowned slightly. He was a machine gunner and rose to the rank of regimental commander based on his merits during the battle with the 9th Infantry Regiment.

Now that I saw that the miners were showing signs of resistance, I didn't hesitate at all and directly ordered the attack.