My Daming New Empire

Because of the hot climate, most of the men and women here have no cloth at all, they only cover their crotch with straw curtains, and even hug the woman's breastfeeding thing outside.

But they pay special attention to the headgear. Everyone has ornaments on their heads, as well as shells and gold ornaments on their necks and wrists.

These Ming soldiers had gradually gotten used to the nudity of the indigenous women, but they still couldn't bear it when they got here.

For these women, the nudity is a bit too much.

And these months have been busy surveying the water regime along the coast and the border of the mainland. The soldiers have been holding back for several months. Seeing these smooth-skinned and plump women, they can't hold back anymore.

Han Jin couldn't take it anymore, so he set his sights on a strong woman under the boat, and said softly, "Brother Yang, for the sake of peat, let the fleet rest here for a month!"

Yang Dao shook his head with a smile and said: "Since there are natives living on the shore, there must be no miasma. The waves here are flat and the water is deep, which is also suitable for camping. How about this, I will lead the team to find peat mines this time, Han Brother stay here and garrison."

Han made a salute, "Obey!"

Those aborigines on the west coast, after nearly a year of training, have now become the mouthpieces of the inner eunuchs.Although they may not understand the language here, but if they come forward to communicate with the locals, the two sides will soon be able to communicate easily.

The two sides quickly reached a consensus on trade, and everything that the Ming people brought was what they wanted.Especially those steel knives and daggers are regarded as treasures by the local natives, and they are willing to exchange them with gold of the same weight.

The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are also very popular with the local natives. Like Dongpu, there is a custom of changing species.Many husbands gave away their wives willingly, thinking that they would give birth to children like Ming soldiers.

The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty rested there for five full days, and many nearby tribes sent out the women they thought were the most beautiful to borrow seeds from the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

But they were unwilling to sell women to Daming people, and they were unwilling to accept money.

The climate here is warm, life is easy, and many tribes are very large without existential crisis.So they don't want to sell women, they only want to borrow seeds.

This is just the opposite of the southern part of the Southern Continent, because the environment there is too harsh to support too many people.

The soldiers of the fleet were a little reluctant to leave, but there were more tribes and more women in front of Yang Dao to seduce them, so those soldiers barely cheered up and followed Yang Dao to the inland.

They were also accompanied by a thousand strong men selected from the local tribes. They pulled the fifty remaining carts and followed Yang Dao and the others.

For native Americans who can't make round utensils, carts are simply black technology.They were all stunned to see that the trolley was full of thousands of catties of food and could still move forward.

When the Ming people asked them to send 500 people to help transport the peat, and then these carts would belong to them, they agreed without saying a word.

For a primitive tribe, these fifty carts are a huge fortune.

At first, Yang Dao didn't regard the eighty miles as a difficult task. In his mind, no matter how difficult the road was, he could still reach it in two or three days.

However, when he came to a boundless swamp, he began to worry.

Swamps are difficult to transport, and carts full of peat must not pass through the swamp, so they can only send people to look for peat mines first, while looking for a more solid road.

It took five full days before they found a way out along the swamp.On the other side of the former army, when they came to the place marked on the map, they saw black peat exposed outside before digging.

This Cerrejón coal mine, which can be rated as one of the top ten coal mines in the world in later generations, occupies an area of ​​nearly [-] square kilometers and is the best open-pit coal mine in the world.

However, the excavation was not smooth, because their arrival alarmed the giant pythons here.When a giant python with a length of ten meters raised its head high and knocked four people flying with its tail, all the natives fled in fright.

The soldiers of Daming were also stunned. Hundreds of them fired firearms in panic, but the giant python was killed and dozens of soldiers were injured.

Now, no one dares to dig coal.

(I have been busy for a few days, and the new year is over, and the normal update will resume tomorrow. I will try my best to make up the debt slowly.)

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"God, has Mr. Yang Qian ever seen such a huge python?"

Yang Dao looked around at the wounded soldiers, they all shot at the giant python in a panic, because it was shot bullets, so the stray bullets injured their own people.

It's not because of lack of training, it's because this giant python is too amazing.

Yang Dao shook his head and said: "A few years ago, I heard that the Southwest soldiers once encountered a five-foot-long python in Bagu (Myanmar). I thought it was a rumor, but I never thought that I would encounter one today."

One of the generals laughed and said: "In the Beijing Zoo, there is also a giant python, which is more than half smaller than this one. It's a pity that I panicked too much and beat this giant python to death."

Yang Dao shook his head and said: "This place is [-] to [-] miles away from Daming, and it is inconvenient to ship and transport. If you do evil on the ship, you will cause huge losses, so don't mention this matter again. If you encounter such a big snake again, you will kill it as usual. The skin and snake bones can be sun-dried and shipped back.”

Huang Yu, the governor of the General Administration Department who was in charge of recording the animals, took a detailed note of the characteristics of the big snake, and approached it with a smile. "Mr. Yang Qian, this big snake probably weighs two thousand catties. We can eat a catty of fresh and tender snake meat for half of the cooking."

Yang Dao grew up in the mountains of Jiangxi when he was a child, and eating snakes was not taboo there.So he also said without any psychological barriers: "Well, this snake meat must be very tender for an extra meal in the afternoon."

But some northern soldiers turned pale when they heard that they were going to eat snake meat.General Manager Xu Chong, who was by Yang Dao's side, was originally from Hebei, and quickly said: "The subordinates don't have such a good fortune, so let this kind of delicious food be given to President Yang Qian."

Yang Dao looked at the fleeing natives and said, "Go and gather the natives to appease the people. In addition, snakes usually live in groups. There should be more than one snake here. Let the soldiers be more careful and don't make the same mistake again."

Xu Chong also knew that the performance of Cai Cai's soldiers was not up to par, so he formed a circle and shot. As a result, the snake only slightly injured four people. They rushed to shoot, but their own people injured more than [-] people.

This is also the reason why their navy soldiers rarely experience war, but this must not be an excuse.After returning to the fleet, they will definitely be punished.

At this time, the head of the internal prison followed Jia Chuan cautiously to the side of the giant python, exclaimed for a while and turned around and said, "Mr. Yang Qian, now the natives think that this peat mine is guarded by snake gods, and they refuse to dig coal no matter what. "

Daoist Yang took a breath and let it out slowly. "Patience to dissuade, we can appropriately increase the bargaining chip. If we still do not comply, we will use force! Let's see whether it is the snake god or my Da Ming's musket."

Yang Dao is not a ruthless person, but the leadership education he received told him that as a general, kindness does not command soldiers.

Leading the army is like a game. It is impossible to not lose a piece. It is the right way to win the greatest victory with the least loss.

In order to achieve the goal, we should go forward bravely and never hesitate.

The 5000 of them have arrived at the northern part of the southern continent of Dongzhou. Some of them have to measure the terrain, and some have to guard the port. If they want to transport millions of catties of peat to ships more than 100 miles away, they must rely on the strength of the local natives. .

Just relying on them, I'm afraid it will be difficult to finish the transfer in two months.

Jia Chuan sighed and said, "Let's try again at home to see who has the most objections, so we might as well kill chickens and scare monkeys."

However, what they did not expect was that the appearance of muskets shocked all the natives.They regarded muskets as the weapons of the gods. They had suspected that the Ming people were gods, but it was only because the Ming people had been entangled with their women for a few days that they lost their awe.

Now when the musket is released, everyone is afraid.When the muskets of the Ming people were aimed at them, everyone surrendered.

This kind of musket that emits white smoke and makes a loud noise scares them more than snake gods.

In addition to the 500 people who are responsible for pulling the carts to transport peat, it can pull 300 catties at a time, but it takes four days. If you want to gather [-] million catties of peat, it will take more than half a year.

Of course, Yang Dao and the others didn't have so much time to delay, so they took out more glazed bead necklaces and asked the natives to send more people to help the Ming people transport peat.

Although they have no wheels, they make a kind of drag trailer out of round trees.Although this kind of trailer is not as easy to use as a cart, it is labor-intensive and time-consuming, has higher requirements on the road surface, and is easy to be damaged.

However, there is a lot of loading, not to mention the people of Ming Dynasty bothering to make a cart.

Jia Chuan used cloth, glazed beads, and iron objects to attract more and more people from the nearby tribal leaders.When the number of people reaches 20, it will take less than [-] days to transport the required peat to the boats by the sea.

At this time, Yang Dao and the others relaxed and enjoyed the unique style of South America.

Yang Dao and the others are located in the later Colombian Caribbean region, and the ethnic group living here is the Tayrona.