Da Ming started to ascend the throne

Chapter 970 Landing in Australia
After seeing the densely packed boats on the sea, a few natives who were fishing on the shore seemed to see monsters. They threw away the tree forks and ten spears in their hands and fled desperately to the jungle on the shore.

The ships that came were the Ming Fleet. Ding Wang Zhu Cijiong was standing on the deck of the Wanli iron-clad battleship, holding a telescope in his hand to observe the mysterious continent ahead.

He heard his father say that there are iron mines, silver mines, and copper mines on this continent, so he led 3 people to occupy it, but when he really saw this continent, Ding Wang Zhu Cijiong felt very disappointed.

He didn't see a single house, and all he saw were wild grass and dense forests. If it was as good as what the emperor said, why was there no sign of human habitation here?
At this time, the captain of the Wanli, Shen Wannian, walked up to Zhu Cijiong and asked:
"My lord, we have finally arrived, and we haven't even landed in a port here?"

Zhu Cijiong put down the binoculars and said:

"Check to see if there is a place in deep water where you can go ashore. If you can't find the soldiers, put down the boat and land. Everyone else will bring their weapons and tools and wade ashore."

"Yes"

Shen Wannian is a new generation of captain who grew up in the Ming Navy. He promised and immediately sent an order to find a coast suitable for docking, and soon found a coast about two kilometers away that was suitable for warships and ships to land on.

The water here is very deep, and small warships can drive directly to three meters from the shore, and use the springboard carried on the ship to land. He immediately reported the news to Scenario King Zhu Cijiong:
"My lord, you can dock not far ahead."

Zhu Cijiong nodded:

"Order some soldiers to guard the battleship, and others to land quickly!"

"Yes"

This fleet is huge, not only has one armored warship, but also twenty sailing warships, and fifty transport ships, among the 3 people, there are 2 soldiers and more than [-] aborigines and Ming people from the South China Sea Province. Is to open up this piece of new land.

Zhu Cijiong gave an order, and the soldiers and civilians began to bring their equipment ashore. There were a lot of daily necessities and various tools, and they had to be moved ashore, as well as war horses and portable firearms.

The artillery is temporarily placed on the battleship. If necessary, it can be moved up at any time. Zhu Cijiong only asked the soldiers to bring fifty mortars for backup. Of course, they will carry rifled guns with them. They just came here and know nothing about this continent. It is impossible for Zhu Cijiong not to be prepared.

There is nothing on the mainland. After they go ashore, they first need to find a place suitable for living and farming. Otherwise, what should they do if so many people eat and drink, there will be no problem for the time being, and they will run out of food after a long time.

When you come to this continent, you must first look for land that can be cultivated. China has been an agricultural nation since ancient times. Finding cultivated land must be the first priority, and then it is to live in peace.

Only when you find a suitable place to live can you build a house and live there. There are tall trees everywhere, so building a house is not a problem.

With the map and route map given by his father, Ding Wang Zhu Cijiong only needs to follow the route to find it.

King Ding led his subordinates to check the terrain during the day, and set up tents on the road to sleep at night. It took almost half a month to determine the place to live.

Although they found the place suitable for farming according to the map according to the map, the place was full of barren grass, and it seemed that there was nothing else to do except provide fodder for war horses.

I heard that gold and silver are everywhere here, but what I saw was weeds everywhere, and the soldiers who started to follow Ding Wang Zhu Cijiong to pick up gold excitedly became dumbfounded.

"Prince Chitose, there is no fertile land here, it is full of weeds and animals, look at that big rat that blows people to death..."

Although Ding Wang Zhu Cijiong was also a little disappointed, he knew that his father asked him to open up wasteland.

"Don't worry. Although weeds are everywhere here, there aren't many big trees. As long as we get rid of the weeds, won't we turn them into fertile fields? Don't worry, as long as you do your best, I won't treat you badly. I will give you 50 taels per person." The silver settlement fee..."

It took a lot of rhetoric for King Ding to persuade his subordinates to open up wasteland, and he did not use the authority of the prince to suppress them.

Among them are quite a few veterans who fought for the Ming Dynasty to recover Batavia, and they will still resolutely obey King Ding Qiantui's words.

As for bringing those natives, they don't dare to bully them, they just work honestly.

From then on, more than 2 people began to work hard under the management of veterans. Although everything had to be started from scratch, thousands of acres of fertile land were cultivated in the past few days.

The area here is too large, and more than 2 people are not enough. King Ding asked Shen Wannian to bring people back and bring 5 people here, and it was the kind of whole family.

Agricultural production mainly depends on natural endowments and is closely related to natural geographical elements such as terrain, climate, water source, soil and biology.

If, from the perspective of topography, there are two topographic factors that have the greatest impact on agriculture and animal husbandry, they are the Great Dividing Range in the east and the Great Artesian Basin in the middle.

The Great Dividing Range is located in the east of the mainland and is the most important mountain range here. It generally runs north-south and is basically parallel to the eastern coastline. It stretches for about 3000 kilometers and has a width of about 160 to 320 kilometers. It is very large in scale.

Although the Great Dividing Range is a relatively ancient mountain range, the average altitude is still about 1000 meters, and the highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko, is 2230 meters above sea level.

The Great Dividing Ridge effectively blocks the southeast trade winds from the Pacific Ocean, making the windward slopes on the east side of the Great Dividing Ridge rich in precipitation and suitable for planting.

Crops that require more water can be planted, while the leeward slope on the west side of the Great Dividing Range has less precipitation, so only crops that require less water can be grown, such as wheat.

Generally speaking, the precipitation on the west side of the Great Dividing Range is relatively less, and the distribution of the natural zone on the surface is dominated by the grassland natural zone, which is suitable for the development of animal husbandry.

For example, the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia is a world-renowned mixed agricultural distribution area, where sheep and wheat are mainly raised.

However, the local atmospheric precipitation is difficult to meet the needs of agricultural production. Fortunately, the local area is located in the "Great Artesian Basin".

The underground of the Great Artesian Basin is rich in groundwater, and the groundwater here is confined water.

After breaking through the rock formation, the underground pressurized water will rise to the surface and be ejected out of the surface to form an artesian well, which can provide a source of production water.

When reclaiming land suitable for farming, Ding Wang Zhu Cijiong and the others finally discovered that there were still human activities here.

But they are all very primitive aborigines. They have very few clothes and their skin is not very dark.

At first they held bows and arrows and stone spears in their hands, and they followed the Ming army quietly from a distance, but they did not hurt the Ming army.

If they didn't attack the Ming army, it was impossible for the Ming army to bully them. For the time being, there was no dispute between the Ming army and the natives.

Later they discovered that the Ming army had no malicious intentions, and gradually many aborigines no longer feared the Ming army, and sometimes came out to give the Ming army some meat.

Ding Wang Zhu Cijiong also asked the Ming army to send some steamed buns to the aborigines to eat.

The meat sent by the natives was all the meat of those big rats. At first, the Ming army dared not eat it, but later found that it tasted pretty good.

Because of the language barrier, both parties communicate through gestures and movements.

In fact, it's not that the aborigines didn't attack the Ming army. If a few people landed, they would definitely be attacked by them.

How could they turn a blind eye to strangers invading their turf.

It was just that the Ming army had too many people, and they dared not do anything. Gradually, they found that the Ming army had no ill intentions towards them, so the natives began to accept these strange guests.

(End of this chapter)