gluttonous adventure king

Chapter 276 Guatemala
"why?"

"It must be Panama, because in the whole of Central America, only Panama is useful to us and needs to be fought for. Although other places will also be available, they will be delayed. We need the Panama Canal."

China Shipping even has to buy a [-]-year operation right for a port in Greece, let alone a super waterway intersection like the Panama Canal.

Descending from the volcano, at around [-] pm, we have entered the border of Guatemala.

"Unlike El Salvador and Honduras, my Guatemala visa was not processed domestically."

To enter Guatemala, you have to find a country that established diplomatic relations with China at the same time, and then apply for a visa in this country.

Surprisingly, if you're immigrating from China to Guatemala, you don't need anything.

Those who are clamoring to immigrate every day can go to Guatemala without any formalities, and it only takes six weeks.

The per capita GDP of this country is about [-] US dollars, but the rich are very rich, and the common people are very poor, which is a consistent South American custom.

This country is not as chaotic as El Salvador, but it does not mean that this country is not black. On the contrary, Guatemala is darker than El Salvador.

El Salvador is a country with a lot of murder crimes. Guatemala is a country with serious sexual assaults and murders. In the whole of last year, there were 14 pregnant girls under the age of [-] in Guatemala, and most of them were uncles. people.

But compared to foreigners, it is much safer.

"However, I entered from the wild, and the stamp to enter the customs has gone through other procedures in advance. If you come to travel and enter through the customs, it is better to prepare a small amount of money. They will definitely blackmail you. A dozen dollars will be enough. , how long you delay, you won’t be able to solve the problem.”

The key point is that there is no diplomatic relationship.

Many people who like to travel abroad are discussing visa-free things every day. Guatemala has visa-free visas for 140 countries and regions. If someone really thinks that they can give up their motherland for tourism, don’t immigrate to the United States or Canada. , to Guatemala.

After you become a Guatemalan, you can stay in Guatemala all year round. You come to 140 countries around the world in rotation, and you can stay in one country for three days.

"Like El Salvador, Guatemala is also a country of volcanoes. They are also at the junction of three plates, but judging from the frequency of volcanoes and earthquakes, they are far less serious than El Salvador."

Upon entering Guatemala, it feels familiar.

The earth is no longer that bright and abruptly shiny khaki, the trees are a little thicker, and the mountains become less strange.

The scenery of lakes and mountains looks similar to some wild scenes in China.

Fang Hong walked a little leisurely in the forest, but he could still feel aftershocks from time to time.

"Brother Gun, you are walking so slowly, are you looking for something?"

Fang Hong shrugged: "It's really smart, I'm looking for a kind of pepper."

"What chili?"

"Chinese pepper."

"WTF?" Water lovers are puzzled. Everyone knows that Central America is the origin of chili peppers, and they went to the origin to find out what Chinese peppers are.

Fang Hong laughed when he saw the barrage: "You have misunderstood. The first pepper discovered in the Western world is called Chinese pepper. Si I collected pepper seeds. Due to the misunderstanding of geographical cognition at that time, he mistakenly believed that the pepper originated from China, so he named it Zhonghua pepper. Chinense is Latin, meaning China. The wrong name has been used for a long time and has become a customary name. So far, Chinese pepper has been identified as one of the five major cultivated species of pepper in the world, and the other four are annual pepper, bushy pepper, berry pepper, and hairy pepper."

Before the Age of Discovery, Europeans, especially European nobles and royal families, were proud of using Chinese products.

You should wear silk for your clothes, ceramics for your plates, tea for your drink, and sugar for your snacks. Everyone must read Marco Polo.

However, the establishment of the Great Arab Empire (Turkey captured Constantinople and established a super empire) blocked the possibility of Europeans getting Chinese goods.

At that time, the most powerful force in Europe was Venice. At that time, Venice was just a city-state and had no ability to trade with China and Arabia.

Of course, Europeans who think they have a glorious tradition still believe that the end of the Crusades led to the disconnection of exchanges between the East and the West.

If you think about it with your brain, you will know that the Crusaders are a group of bandits who went to rob the Middle East, but failed. To paraphrase the joke, the mother bear looked at the hunter and asked, "Are you here to hunt or to prostitute".

The truth is that Turkey separates the Eastern and Western worlds.

Therefore, the royal families of European countries began to support sailing, because the theoretical basis at that time believed that the earth was round, and it was possible to go to China from the west.

The first is Columbus. Columbus arrived at a small South American island. The crew said that the mission failed and they failed to find China. Columbus changed his mind and said that he did not find China but found India.

It’s right to think about it. Spain was just established back then, and the Spanish royal family supported Columbus’s adventure with a lot of money. Columbus was ashamed to say that he couldn’t find it?The fact is that Columbus had a good life. Later, a large number of silver mines were discovered in South America. Now the Spanish royal family will not care whether it is China or India, as long as they have money.

Columbus himself was not the legendary adventurer, but an illiterate. Columbus gave his own ideas based on the theory of the circle of the earth. He believed that the earth was in the shape of milk, with a hemisphere below, and the point above was heaven. Columbus Ready to use the money backed by the Spanish royal family to find a real paradise.

And Indians should actually be called Indians. In most Latin languages, the two words are the same.

Then the Dutch adventurers of the sea coachman also came to Central America. The Dutch adventurers thought, since the lump below is India, then from a geographical point of view, it is the legendary Greater China, so they thought that the Caribbean was once Quanzhou is famous all over the world, so they named this pepper as Chinese pepper.

Time has passed, and chili has really spread to China, and it has become the most popular dish in the world today-Sichuan cuisine.

"In this adventure, the most important thing is to look for Chinese peppers. Peppers have been domesticated for 7000 years, and primitive humans knew how to use this plant. In the Mayan civilization, don't think that they used peppers as seasonings. , they use chili peppers as a hallucinogenic substance for trysts with gods."

Imagine a Mayan, who swallowed chili raw, was pissed off, and then had a cut in his arm to bleed, and then fell into hallucinations, saw the god of heaven, and saw the feathered snake god.

The original varieties of peppers we are talking about are actually the original varieties of the five major pepper varieties brought out of Central America, not the natural varieties of peppers. At this time, they have been screened for 7000 years, and in the next few hundred years, the world Pepper breeding in China is faster, and peppers have changed more in 300 years than in the past 7000 years, and more than in the past tens of millions of years.

Fang Hong really wanted to know, when chili was introduced to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and then Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, what was the taste of the first chili fried pork made by people of that era.

"If you want to find Chinese peppers, you have to find the Mayans who are still living in caves."

(End of this chapter)