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Chapter 1627 New England Colony
Plymouth, in the New England colony of Massachusetts, is covered in snow at the moment, and it is a cold year.

Receiving the round-the-world fleet was Governor William Bradford of Plymouth, one of the Puritans of the famous Mayflower.

In the snow, a group of people were hunting with muskets and horses. They left footprints in the snow.

"Lucky for you, we in New England are much more prosperous than we were 20 years ago, when we got here half the population died within six months."

The gray-haired Governor of Plymouth led the way, talking to Zheng Zhihu, Zheng Chenggong and others about what happened here while walking.

Ling'er was wearing a thick cotton-padded jacket, a small navy coat, and a small musket hanging from his waist. His childish face was still intact, but he had become completely different from before he set off, with a little more resoluteness.

The voyage around the world needs to go to various places in the world, and there are many storms and disease attacks on the way. Everyone may die. Linger also had two high fevers on the way, but she survived.

He went to the unknown Bering Strait, San Francisco where there was a gold rush, Peru where the silver mines were rich, the frigid Tierra del Fuego, the Portuguese Rio de Janeiro, and the Caribbean where pirates were rampant. He saw places that his peers had never seen before.

Now he is located in Colonial New England, where there are many small hills, with winding coastlines, marshes and lakes, all products of the ice age.

They hunted in winter at the invitation of the Governor of Plymouth, an important source of income in the eyes of the colonists, and a pastime with invited guests.

"May I ask, how does your New England colony ensure the operation of the economy?" Zheng Zhihu walked side by side on the snow with the governor of Plymouth, Bradford, and asked him a question.

"Freighters regularly bring glass, casters, shoes, hats, bales of canvas, pewter, iron, brass, from London, all manufactured goods which our colony does not produce, or produces little. The ships are unloaded in New England , and then replace it with the goods we produce here. The commodities we produce here are mainly agricultural products such as wheat and rye, beef, pork, etc., as well as fish products such as herring and mackerel, and the special products are fur and tobacco. "Governor Bradford Germany introduced them to the trade pattern between the New England colonies and the mother country.

There is no need to hide this kind of thing, because you can find any merchant ship between London and New England to know how they operate.

The products that North America can currently provide to the suzerain country are only agricultural, animal husbandry and fishery products, and the technology here is very backward.

"When we 'Mayflower' first arrived in New England, we also encountered such a cold winter. Fortunately, we got the help of the natives here, so we were able to tide over the difficulties. But now more and more English, Irish and Scottish people With the arrival of people, our territory has gradually expanded outwards, and there has been friction with the aboriginals here, and they may become our enemies. When you go hunting, you must be careful not to break into the aboriginal villages, or you may be attacked." Bulla Deford said.

Indigenous...Zheng Zhihu knew that the colony of San Francisco also used a group of aborigines to dig gold mines. It is generally difficult for outsiders and local aborigines to be compatible. It depends on what means the outsiders plan to use to deal with them.

"We have a stronghold on the west coast of North America, and the west coast is closer to our mainland." Zheng Zhihu said.

"The land on the west coast is too far away. I don't think there will be any intersection with your colony on the west coast." Bradford said.

"Really?" Zheng Zhihu stayed in the San Francisco colony for a while, and knew that the east and west coasts were separated by the Rocky Mountains and a large number of virgin forests, and there was no intersection at present.

The hunting team found several elk in the forest near Plymouth. They held muskets and quietly approached these unlucky guys.

"Ling'er, follow my sister later." Hannah was also wearing a navy coat. She was holding a Dreiser rifle, carrying a standard luggage, and a navy intern armband on her right arm.

"Yeah." Ling'er hurriedly followed the crowd lightly. He was too young to use a heavy standard musket, so he only had a short-barreled musket for protection.

After a group of people got close to the elk, they set up muskets and fired. Accompanied by loud gunshots and gunpowder smoke, two elks were hit, and the rest were frightened and fled.

Ling'er did not take part in the battles during the voyage around the world, but Zheng Chenggong and other crew members who knew his identity would take him with him when hunting.

"It's a gift from God to be able to capture two prey so quickly." Bradford brought the colonial militia over to harvest the prey.

Suddenly, arrows flew over and landed around the two injured elks!Feathered arrows were stuck in the snow, and one of them was only ten meters away from Bradford!
"enemy!"

Zheng Chenggong suddenly looked in the direction of the arrow, a hillside, where several figures appeared.

"It must be a native!"

Bradford and others ignored their prey and hid behind bushes to load ammunition.The pellets in their barrels had been ejected from the elk hunt just now, and they had to awkwardly reload the powder and pellets.

"Ling'er, hide behind me!"

Zheng Chenggong, Hannah and the others led Ling'er to look for obstacles almost at the same time, and they looked at the enemies that appeared with some doubts.

Holding a short-barreled musket in her little hand, Ling'er nervously hid behind a boulder.

It seemed that it wasn't just a few aborigines who were shooting arrows. Dozens of aborigines with spears, bows and arrows appeared on the snow-white hillside, and some of them held shields.

From time to time the Bradford and Colonial militiamen fired into the air, and the snow echoed sporadically.

Zheng Zhihu, Zheng Chenggong, and Hannah did not participate in their conflict this time, but were just on guard.

This group of aborigines, who were still in the cold weapon era, were very afraid of the matchlock guns in the hands of the colonial militiamen, and they did not take the initiative to attack. They seemed to be just warning these outsiders not to approach their territory.

"These natives, who used to be like brothers to us, are now constantly flocking to immigrant thirst for land without end, distrust is spreading among us, and we are completely enemies."

Bradford reluctantly motioned Zheng Zhihu and the others to leave here.

"Each colony has its own troubles... Shall we continue hunting?" Zheng Zhihu asked.

"Try to avoid their territory. I don't want to clash with their old chief yet," Bradford said.

(End of this chapter)