In fact, the entire empire was preparing for these two large-scale wars in Europe. Not only canned food, weapons such as guns, ammunition, etc., tents, leather boots and other supplies were preparing. In Ceuta, Xijin, and Lisbon, the goods in the warehouses grew every day, waiting for European countries to fight and purchase them at home.

The business opportunities that emerged in North American colonies were only a small part. The two areas that really got development opportunities were still in the Xijin and Suez regions. No matter what industry they developed, people were the first factor. After all, the North American colonies lost to insufficient population.

For example, the canned food factory planned by Duan Yi and Luo Fei began to be put into production at the end of the 35th year of the empire and successfully convinced the investment of Prince Yu's Mansion. The canned glass produced became an important logistical support for the Atlantic Fleet, and also provided merchant ships traveling between North American colonies and other places.

However, after the production line of tin tin cans started, the cans produced did not show the expected big sale, mainly because they were competed for the imperial homogeneous products.

The world's cheapest tin iron production line is located in several provinces in the empire's Nanyang provinces, relying on large-scale tin ores produced in the Nanyang region. In this regard, Nanyang has advantages.

Among the canned foods that Europe can accept, especially the military's favorite canned foods, are canned beef and canned pork. In terms of ingredients, the Xijin region has obvious advantages. Therefore, Nanyang produces canned bodies and sells them to Xijin, and uses Xijin's abundant animal husbandry and grain and a developed industrial system to produce canned food and then transport it to European countries.

In comparison, North American colonies have no advantages in animal husbandry products and cans, and the only advantage is seafood. However, canned fish are far less than beef in the army, and canned pork is popular and far less energy provided, not to mention that canned military rations cannot be pure meat, but also have to be combined with grain, vegetables and fruits. In these aspects, North American colonies have greater disadvantages.

During the war, the Swedish military once placed an order from a canned factory in North America to purchase the canned herring they like, but the business was unable to be completed after only half a year. Because the canned factory is in the port area of ​​Atlantic City, the taste of canned herring is really unbearable. What is most unacceptable is that this canned food would explode. In the end, it was rejected by the Atlantic City Court for safety issues.

But this does not mean the failure of canned food factories, because North American canned food factories soon discovered that with the increase in the intensity of the war, the people of European countries were in dire straits, and the demand for cheap meat food in coastal cities increased greatly, and the cheapest one was dried salted fish. Duan Yi's canned food factories relied on the production of cheap salted fish and sold them to the Netherlands, Britain and other places, making a big profit.

On the contrary, the factory's main production share of canned food at the beginning decreased a lot, just to provide services to merchant ships and warships.

Back in Atlantic City from Newfoundland Island, Luo Fei immediately raised help to build a canning factory, but he was surprised to find that Duan Yi did not need his own help on this territory.

Duan Yi had a very good personal relationship with Bai Jingyu, the governor of the North American colony. After careful investigation, I found out that Duan Yi's sister married a son of Bai Jingyu, and Duan Yi himself came this time and was also considered an imperial envoy.

"Luo Fei, you said you are a boy who was a soldier and became the general manager, but he was still a strict person. Duan Yi has been here for these days, but he didn't know anything about it. Why? You two guys are going to go to the prince to put on my shoes together." Bai Jingyu asked with a smile in the Governor's Mansion.

Luo Fei was startled, but Duan Yi was not panicked at all and said, "Honey, you joked about us again. Who doesn't know that in this North American fiefdom, the prince trusts you the most. To be honest, the last time he returned to China, Prince Yu's mansion was in chaos because of this incident. You don't know. Those uncles wanted to come here to make money, but they were suppressed by the prince, and they didn't let anyone come."

"That's right, most people can't do this job." Bai Jingyu's face turned red with a blushing drink and said, "Isn't that? Last month, I went to the Navy Ranch to inspect and there were also white devils who shot me black guns."

Duan Yi and Luo Fei smiled, not exposing Bai Jingyu's cowhide. Bai Jingyu actually did a very comfortable job, because he could almost openly embezzle and accept bribes, extort and increase taxes. Of course, these damage can only be used for local people, but not for the citizens and Indians. The purpose is naturally to drive those white men out of the fief of King Yu.

But to be honest, Bai Jingyu did a very good job. As a greedy person, he was able to master that degree. It was difficult for oppression to survive and not allowed to unite and rebel. This was also a skill. At the same time, he could also control himself and would not extend his hands to the local finance or navy because of greed.

"I asked someone to check your canning factory. I found you a piece of land in the port industrial area. There are several warehouses on the land. It was originally from the navy, so it was cheaper for you. It's right here..." Bai Jingyu pointed to a corner on the map and said.

Because he hasn't come back for many years, Duan Yi is not so familiar with the local geography. He glanced at him and said, "It seems to be a little bit off."

Bai Jingyu immediately became unhappy and said to Luo Fei: "Duan Yi, I think I cheated him. Luo Fei, tell him, is that good?"

Luo Fei said directly: "Brother Duan, the location I chose for you is definitely good. To be honest, the things this canned factory needs are nothing more than workers, fish harvests and fuel for processing fish. It is close to the Nancheng District, where there are many Indians, especially some Hurons, who were brought from the five major lakes in the north, so it is perfect to pack up the fish. The warehouse we leaned against was a coal warehouse, which was solved with coal problems. It was also in the port, and the fish came to this factory from the boat for less than an hour."

"Well, so that's the case, husband, thank you."

"We are all a family. As for investment, we'll talk about it when you get too big."

Duan Yi quickly got up and poured wine for Bai Jingyu. The three of them exchanged greetings. Bai Jingyu put down his chopsticks and said, "Are you going to settle the factory first and then go to Ceuta to submit the work, or come back after the work?"

"I'm going to hide it from my husband. I'm going to do this factory for my wife and brother-in-law. His family has some industries in Suez and Lisbon, and he also runs a canning factory in Xijin. My main thing is to finish the errands assigned by the prince."

"Then where are you going next?"

"I'm going to settle the factory in the past two days. My brother-in-law will arrive on the next boat. When he arrives, I will go to Xinshang first and then to Songjiang Valley to check it out. Finally, I will go to the inland. The prince is very concerned about the situation in Indian areas, especially the Iroquoi League. Although you can learn a lot from you, according to the prince's wishes, you still have to walk and take a look with your own eyes." Duan Yi introduced his itinerary.

What he mentioned is New Shanghai, which was the second largest city in the North American colonies, and Songjiang is the Hudson River.

In the first five years of the development of North American colonies, Atlantic City was almost the entire North American colonies of the Empire. When he was still marching the East Coast of North America with Fitz James, the Empire required two colonies, Massachusetts and Connecticut. Massachusetts is the economic center, and Connecticut is the closest food production place.

In the past seven or eight years, the empire had a strong control over Massachusetts, where Atlantic City was located, but it did not have enough control over Connecticut. The local Protestants were very united. If they were destroyed, the nearest grain production area of ​​the colony would be gone. With the reality that there were more and more immigrants, Bai Jingyu had to compromise with the Connecticut area in order to achieve stability.

Three years ago, Britain had a nominal mortgage loan but actually sold North American colonies to the empire. At that time, Bai Jingyu began to seek alternative areas in Connecticut.

After conducting an in-depth investigation of the colonies that were originally from Britain, Bai Jingyu discovered that the colonies in the New York area were very suitable for the role of Connecticut in North America.

The climate here is similar to that in the north of the empire, with abundant water and soil. After the expansion of Sweden, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, most of the Indians were driven away, and the local area also developed a considerable scale of agriculture, and wheat was planted.

More importantly, when he was conquering North America, this place was under the jurisdiction of Fitz James, who had long returned to Britain to be the governor of Ireland. Because he was already a British warlord, he had already broken up with his father James II. In order to cultivate his own power, Fitz James promoted his subordinates to the colonial army very early, rather than the half-hearted Irish Legion.

As a result, after Fitz James left, a large number of people in the central colony, mainly Catholics, migrated back to Ireland, leaving behind many vacant farms and abandoned farmland, and these were almost available.

So after the two sides finalized the loan agreement, Bai Jingyu immediately sent troops to occupy New York, expanded the port, and placed all the landless farmers who migrated from the empire in this new colony. The local name was changed to Xinshang.

The Xinshang region developed very quickly, not only in agriculture but also in commerce. Unlike Atlantic City, a port city facing overseas, there is a Hudson River leading to the Great Lakes region in Xinshang region, which is now renamed Songjiang. The inland shipping brought by this river can connect the Indians and French forces in the Great Lakes region.

Although Xinhu is just a town with more than 1,000 people, and there are only more than 7,000 immigrants around it, the development momentum is very fast. Bai Jingyu is not afraid of Duan Yi going to see it. Even if he sees something, it is still a trivial matter.

"You can go to see the Xinshanghai area, but I suggest you don't go there for the time being." Bai Jingyusi thought about it and was still preparing to tell the truth.

"Why, may our conflict with the Iroquois League have not ended yet?" Duan Yi asked on his own initiative.

The Iroquoi Alliance is the leading Indian tribal alliance in the Great Lakes region. It now has five allied tribes, a tribal alliance that can dispatch tens of thousands of warriors. During the attack on North America that year, Li Junwei also sent people to successfully instigate the Iroquoi Alliance with generous gifts and defeated the Anzaren.

After that, the two sides first maintained a period of friendship, but at the beginning of the thirty years of the empire, conflicts gradually arose between the two sides. The key lies in population issues.

The development of the colony requires population and cannot be met by immigration alone. The colony's Governor's Office and the Empire's Central Committee repeatedly ordered the distance from the Ansas people. All policy preferential and subsidies of the Empire in the colony have nothing to do with the Ansas people. In this case, the use of the North American natives is inevitable.

In Atlantic City, the population of the indigenous people is comparable to that of the empire immigrants, which is evidence.

But population is equally important to Indian tribes, but they simply cannot compete with the imperial colonies.

The colonies had abundant material enjoyment, not to mention anything else, alcohol was sufficient. Some imperial merchants went to Indian tribes to recruit workers, and only needed to promote beer and drink casually, many people went to work.

This works just as well, and even works better for the Iroquois League.

Because the Iroquois Alliance belongs to a strong social system of matriarchal society, they are called long houses, and the whole family lives in a huge wooden house. The one who is in charge of the family is a woman. Men have no right to inherit property and do not have much freedom in the tribe.

On the contrary, going to the imperial colony to work has both material enjoyment and freedom of life.

I thought that a large number of Iroquois people would never return after going to Atlantic City, and the relationship between the two sides became tense. At the beginning, the chiefs and chiefs of the Iroquois League would send people to search, but most of the people who went to search for it were never returned. During the 32nd year of the empire, the two sides even met and confronted each other in the border area. It was the navy who dispatched two land battle camps to scare the group of indigenous people.

Later, a chief of the Iroquois League personally took people to Atlantic City and found that those people were not killed by the Eastern people as they thought. On the contrary, they lived a good life. These compatriots took off their animal skin clothes, put on cotton and linen clothes on the boat, carried bags at the dock during the day or carried bricks at the construction site. In the afternoon, after receiving their wages, they ran to the tavern to drink and brag.

Some of the people who came early even had their own houses in Atlantic City and married Indians from other ethnic groups.

They were not killed, but they were happy and didn't want to go back.

In the end, this problem was not properly resolved. The Iroquois League had to retreat to the west for a hundred miles, distance itself from the colonies, and regulate trade between the two sides. The Iroquois did not return to the tribe. The relationship between the two sides was still tense, and conflicts broke out on the border occasionally.
Chapter completed!