Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1152 There are many divergent roads, and today is safe ([-])
As the boat slowly arrived in Honolulu, Meng Songlu, who fell into self-doubt and belittled himself, gradually regained a little confidence.

Although the story of the three generations has already become a myth.

But the information left by the myth gradually corresponds to this primitive era.

His own self-confidence has been found, and the infinitely beautiful belief of the three generations has further collapsed.

When the ship arrived in Honolulu, the islanders here were already familiar with this kind of big ship and the merchants of Dashun.After seeing the big boat, many people drove small boats and approached the big boat, holding high things like taro, coconuts, and pigs.

Moreover, some people have already mastered some simple, awkward-sounding Chinese.

"cloth".

"scissors".

"iron".

Obviously they want to use these fruits, vegetables and meat in exchange for some gadgets like cloth scissors that they want most.

The place where the boat stops is one of the best natural harbors around here.

The natural harbors of this year are almost the same.

The water is deep enough.

In front of the port, there should be an island as a natural breakwater.Or there are mountains behind to block the trade winds.

It is best to have a freshwater river nearby, but the freshwater river cannot face the harbor directly, otherwise it will cause erosion and sedimentation.

Or it's in the bay.

The few natural harbors or military ports in Dashun are basically like this; the military ports in Europe, including the Raksha barbarians, are also similar.

Dashun people call this place Honolulu.

People on the island call it Wahu.

What Dashun Whale Sea Company is looking at is not the deep-water port in front of it, but a port in the bay in the north that is rich in pearls.

The reason why Whale Sea Company doesn't like this deep-water port and prefers Pearl Harbor is simple.

Because Whale Sea Company plans to use this place as a place for wilderness hunters who hunt furs to spend the winter.

The deep-water port in front of me has strong winds and waves in winter and light waves in summer, which is suitable for trading; the port in the fjord rich in pearls has severe northeast trade winds in summer, but calm winds and waves in winter, which is very suitable for long-term moorings in winter.

The previous expedition team searched around, and in the entire island group, there are really only two suitable ports for berthing.After all, the world is materialistic, and it is always inevitable that some places become ports.

There is also a man on board who understands the Honolulu language and is the captain's "adopted son".The captain of the ship had been here when he was testing the lunar distance and longitude method and drawing charts.Not this island, but nearby islands.

At that time, the island was experiencing a taboo called "tabu". During the taboo period, coconuts were not allowed to be eaten.A child may be naive, or simply greedy. He ate a coconut and was about to be executed after being caught. The child ran away and was rescued by the people on board.

The child who was rescued on the boat acted as an interpreter, and after a while, a boat approached the big boat.

The person on the boat seemed to be an elder, with only a circle of cloth around his waist, and a simple cloak made of bird feathers behind him.They can also weave cloth themselves. Although they don't have cotton, flax and wool, they use the fibers in the bark to extract the fibers after retting.

Although there are no iron bronzes, the level of weaving is probably at the level of the Shang Dynasty, not too bad.Of course, good and bad have always been dynamic. Historically, the Chinese who came to Honolulu commented that the weaving skills of the people here were too poor; while the Russians who came here exclaimed that their weaving technology was very good and amazing.

After getting permission, the elders in the small boat climbed onto the big boat by rope.

There was another person who came up with him, whether it was a servant or a close servant.

Holding a cut coconut shell in his hand, there are some human teeth inlaid on the edge of the coconut shell, which looks very weird.

When the elder coughs, the servant or valet holding the coconut shell covered with human teeth will lift up the coconut shell and let the elder spit the phlegm into it.

There were people who had been here several times on the boat, so they waited for these first-timers with Meng Songlu, and explained that the teeth on them belonged to the enemies of the tribe. After killing the enemies, they pulled out the teeth and inlaid them on the coconut shell. Spit inside.

Meng Songlu felt a little disgusted, not that this kind of behavior was barbaric, but that it was not aesthetically pleasing.

Since he has read history books, he naturally knows the story of using the enemy's skull as a wine cup in history. There are many records in the history books inherited by Dashun.

But pull the fuck out of the tooth and spit in it, like spitting in an enemy's mouth.No matter what, it feels more disgusting than using a skull as a wine glass.

The captain quickly brought out the wine and some candied fruit, cane sugar and other things, and the elder didn't refuse, so he drank wine with these people on the boat.

General communication, that child is competent.

Of course, general communication does not require that child, and there is nothing wrong with it.

It is nothing more than exchange and barter.

But for a deeper communication, that child is not competent.

Children don't know how to translate some proper nouns, so they can only repeat them with transliteration, which means they don't say anything.

After drinking most of the wine, Meng Songlu seemed to understand what the elder said. He seemed to want to exchange some muskets or cannons.

There seems to be no gold on the island, or very little.

But they were able to produce pearls, but the quality of these pearls was not very good.

It seems to be that the chief of the island thinks that he is the form of a shark on land, so the ancestors of the past generations and the family gods of war need to use pearls from the sea in official sacrifices.

The finest pearls are used in sacrifices.

Inferior pearls are actually worthless.

Dashun's pearls, whether they are sea pearls or east pearls, all have good channels.

For example, the Great Lakes Dongzhu in France.

For example, sea pearls in Ceylon.

The good pearls from Honolulu are used for their own sacrifices, and because they are only used as sacrifices and have not participated in world trade, the number is not large.

After all, pearl mining requires professional hands, or takes up a lot of labor.But there was no trade before, and the productivity of the people on the island was not enough, so naturally they would not go for pearl mining on a large scale.

But "fortunately," this group of people came here not for trade, but to interfere in Honolulu's politics.

There are guns and cannons on board, and they are also used as subsidies provided by the company.

It's just that whoever gives the guns and who supports them is another matter.Who knows if this tribe in front of me is worth supporting?
The elder's request to exchange muskets was shelved because he could not produce enough trade items.

But after the warm hospitality and the presentation of two mirrors, a piece of cotton cloth, and two bottles of wine, the elder still happily invited these people to the island.

And the nearby temporary ban was quickly lifted, allowing women to approach merchant ships and do some transactions and exchanges with sailors.

It's definitely safe on board.

It's hard to say if you go to the island.

But at this time, Meng Songlu must take up the responsibility of being the leader of the semi-official status.

Before going to the island, the captain ordered Meng Songlu again.

"Brother Meng, the weapons on board need to choose a suitable person to support. You only have two months."

"It's not safe to give you a large number of weapons. They may choose to rob and steal. You have too few people. Moreover, once the blood is shed, it will be very detrimental to the company. The company hopes to let some employees Come here for the winter, the death rate in the arctic winter is too high, the company can't afford to keep pulling people in and out."

"Our ship will wait here for two to three months. We will not choose to sail northeast until September, when the most violent trade winds have passed."

"During this period, the weapons will be placed on the ship and will be safe. When September arrives, we still have our own task, and we have to draw a map of the distant coastline and coordinates of latitude and longitude."

"That is to say, you have to figure out the situation on the island, the tribal disputes, and make a decision on who to support within three months."

"This is not the Central Plains, so there is no orthodoxy. You don't want to bring in the emotions of the Central Plains, but choose a person to support and educate him. Because everyone is a barbarian, so you only need to consider it from the most realistic point of view. This is Xingguo Gong Let me pass on the words."

Meng Songlu was a little excited, and it was the first time he felt the need to "decision-making", "take responsibility", and "decision-making related to a population of almost 10".

The pressure is on the body, but there is no taste.

After responding, he brought more than a dozen people, armed with muskets and short knives, and followed the elder to the island.

The people on the island first led them to visit their "temple".

Naturally, it is too shabby, but apart from being shabby, it has the taste of the ancient books of the pre-Qin period.

The God of War, carved out of simple stone, is fierce and fierce, and is in the same position as Chi You. There are many sacrifices in front of him, and there are two corpses of the sacrifices.

On the right is the god of spring, who is in charge of the recovery of all things, and may also be in charge of fertility.

On the left is the God of Autumn, who is in charge of harvesting fruits, and the sacrifices in front are more abundant.Bananas, coconuts, and roast pigs.

From Meng Songlu's point of view, these "worshiping evil gods" are surrounded by simple fences and stones. As far as the workmanship of the statues is concerned, the temples in any county town are probably more delicate than those here.

As outsiders, they can only watch from a distance and cannot enter these sacrificial places.

Not far after passing the sacrificial place is the "king's palace" of the local tribal chief.

Near a pond were six thatched huts, a very simple kind of thatched hut with leaves and branches for the roof.

But it seems that there is already a sense of hierarchy and orientation.

The elder said that the largest one is the chief's dining room, where the chief eats.

The two next to it are the bedrooms of wives and concubines.Because men are superior to women, even the chief's wives and concubines cannot eat at the same table with the chief, and they cannot eat coconuts or pork.

Next to it is a living room.The chief will meet them here for a while, and when he meets other elders or receives envoys from other tribes, he will also meet in the living room.

The remaining two rooms are the kitchen and workshop.

Of course, from Meng Songlu's point of view, this house was not built according to etiquette.

Regardless of whether it is rough or not, the main house should face north and south, the kitchen should be used as a side room, and the wives and concubines' bedrooms should be in the back and should be surrounded by walls.

This makes the four wide open, like what words?Thinking about it again, this is just right, making a clay figurine from a ball of broken mud is easier than changing an old clay figurine into the desired clay figurine bit by bit.

(End of this chapter)