My Daming New Empire

But unlike Daming, it is full of plains, forests, fertile land, and all kinds of rare animals.

What surprised him even more was that human beings did not seem to be the masters of this land.Although there are many aborigines encountered along the way, these aborigines are very small in scale, many tribes have less than 500 people, they live a difficult life here, and they have no interest in trading when they see the Ming people.

In other words, they have no sense of trading at all.

These tribes are more primitive and more backward.

And the land they occupy is vast and boundless, and it seems to be bigger than the original Ming Dynasty.

It took them half a year to arrive at the southern tip of the Eastern Continent's Southern Continent since they arrived in the North Continent of Dongzhou in June last year.

This distance alone has exceeded the distance from Daming to Nanzhou.

Such a large two continents, but only a few natives survive, and a large amount of land is barren, it is really wasteful.

Especially after coming to the east of Dongzhou, this feeling became stronger, because there is fertile land everywhere, but only weeds grow.

The living conditions of the natives in the west are even worse, but they already have civilization, but here in the east are the real natives.

As an advance expedition team, Yang Dao had no intention of conquering this place. He and his subordinates just recorded the terrain here, and recorded all the natives encountered in detail.

Originally, he was a little curious why the natives here would rather live in the sinister west than occupy the fertile plains.

But after he came here, he knew the real reason.

First of all, this ocean named Atlantic Ocean by His Royal Highness is much smaller than the Daming Ocean, but it is windy and dangerous.

Although their fleet is all new-type ships, they have been sailing here for three months, and have encountered more storms and waves than the previous year, and the ships have been repeatedly damaged.

Their boats are not good, and it is even more difficult for the small boats of the natives to sail here.

Secondly, although the west is barren, there are still large tracts of land cultivated after all.But here, wild animals far exceed humans, and the living environment of humans is worse than in the west.

The main reason is that there are many swamps, grasses, rivers, and forests on this land, which lead to rampant miasma, making it difficult to survive.

What Yang Dao didn't know was that what he saw was just some fur.

The real reason is that because the American continent is north-south, the living climate and environment are very different, and the living conditions are different, which makes it difficult for humans to adapt.

Moreover, although the natives of the American continent had no natural enemies, their civilization development lagged behind, and their numbers could not increase, so naturally there was no pressure to survive.

Especially in South America, because it is north-south, and the Amazon region in the middle is not suitable for survival, it makes human migration difficult.

The indigenous peoples of South America developed slowly from the northwest to the southeast, mainly from Bolivia in later generations to the center of the South American continent.

But the arrival of white people in later generations changed the development trend here. After the white people conquered this land, they found that there would be no population development after killing the natives, so they migrated black people here in later generations.

In the beginning, the natives of South America mainly lived in the north and northwest, that is, Colombia, Peru, Chile, and Bolivia.

The natives living in Brazil and Argentina are pitifully few.Although it is because there are many miasmas and animals here, it is mainly because their civilization develops slowly, which leads to the rapid expansion of the population.

Seeing such a large piece of unowned land here, the spirits of the entire fleet were extremely excited.They knew very well that returning to Daming was a great achievement.

Traveling north along the east coast of the South American continent, except for the southern plateau of Argentina, which is only suitable for grazing, there are flat grasslands that stretch for thousands of miles.

Most of the area here is very suitable for growing food, but also for hunting.

Along the way, as long as the fleet soldiers go ashore to hunt for two days, they can harvest enough meat to last for half a month.

However, at the mouth of the Amazon River, when they landed, they did not expect such a harsh natural environment. As soon as they landed, they breathed miasma.

Although they have all kinds of medicines to treat miasma, no one died of miasma, but local crocodiles, piranhas, and even ants and leeches can easily kill human beings.

The 400 people who landed searched for two days and lost 20 people. The others boarded the ship in a panic and almost failed to bring back the corpses of their colleagues.

Stumbling all the way, or thrilling, or dull, or nervous, or boring.It took the fleet three months to finally arrive at the northern peninsula of the Southern Continent (the Guajira Peninsula in Colombia) marked on the map by His Royal Highness.

It is said that Magellan discovered a super large peat mine here, and the peat in the fleet had long been used up, and the rest of the journey was logging and drying to provide power.

Moreover, Yang Dao has also discovered that the size of the waves, the consumption of peat is also very different. In the Atlantic Ocean with high winds and waves, the consumption of peat is more than [-]% more than in the Daming Ocean.

So when he was bored on the boat, Yang Dao kept studying the relationship, using his not-so-advanced mathematics to calculate the force offset between the wind and waves and the power.

Coming to the northern part of Nanzhou, the wind and waves here are obviously much smaller.At this time, there are still two months before the meeting with Yi Xin, and half a year before the meeting with Di Pingxia.

In other words, if they can successfully find the peat mine with abundant peat reserves, they can have a short vacation and have a good rest.

Moreover, the northern part of Nanzhou is much richer than the southern part. There are many tribes living here, and these tribes are full of friendliness to them.

Although their fleet was not mainly for trade, the internal supervisor also sent a delegation of 30 people, plus more than 100 indigenous young people recruited along the way, they formed a trade team.

Everywhere they went, although they could not speak the language, they could quickly use words and actions to reach a trade agreement with the local aborigines.

The gold here is really very rich. In many tribes, even children wear golden necklaces around their necks.

Many children are willing to trade gold collars for a sugar cube.

Of course, these inmates would not be so tasteless. They would rather take out 100 yuan of candy in exchange for a gold collar weighing nearly a catty.

There are also the shining glass beads, which are the favorite of the local natives. They are very happy to be able to exchange a gold collar for a string of glass beads necklaces.

The ship arrived at a tribe called Marazufe, which is also the later Maracaibo, one of the largest oil bases in the world.

But in this era, this place is just an ordinary small tribe, because it is surrounded by swamps, and the development here is far behind other places.

Malazufe means a place where snakes abound in the local dialect.As soon as the Ming soldiers came ashore, many people hurried back to the ship in fright.

There are too many snakes here, but the local tribes are not afraid at all.They live with snakes, eat snakes, and many utensils are made of snake bones.

Yang Dao witnessed a huge snake bone with his own eyes, which was twelve or thirteen meters long and as thick as a bucket, enough to swallow a person, and was regarded as a fetish by the natives here.

It is less than two hundred miles away from the peat mine marked by His Highness, but the natives here have never seen the white stinky man coming by boat.

This made Yang Dao a little puzzled, where did those white-skinned people land from?

When they entered the bay of the peninsula, they had carefully surveyed it. The east side of the peninsula was full of shallows, which was not suitable for landing. Could it be that they landed from the other side of the peninsula?

Another Qianzong Han Jin who graduated from the Habayashi School of Health with Yang Dao said: "Brother Yang, we have the map and globe bestowed by His Royal Highness, so naturally we have targeted targets wherever we go. But back then, those stinky people didn't have a map, they all relied on groping. Perhaps the two peninsulas at the mouth of the bay were regarded as small islands, and this bay was missed.”

Yang Dao nodded and said, "Then let's move on, bypass the peninsula, and land from the north side. There are too many snakes in this tribe, it's a bit of a panic."

After spending two days, the fleet arrived at a bay on the north coast of the peninsula, where there was a deep-water port, and it was only eighty miles away from the marked peat mine.

Although it is only March, the climate here is hot and the seasons are like summer.

There are also many native tribes in the area around this bay. They fish in shallow seas in wooden boats that can accommodate up to ten people.

The Ming soldiers who landed were regarded as gods as soon as they landed, and many tribesmen came to worship them.