Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 344 Confirmed that the eyes are true Confucianism (please subscribe!)

Not long after, Guo Yuan and his party entered the "city center" of Xiaoquanzhou.

It is said to be the city center, but it is actually a huge granary in the middle of a bunch of camps. Next to it is a grain drying field. There are two strange-looking animals and a bunch of sea fish on the ground.

There are also a large number of unnamed fruits, where more than a dozen naked natives are peeling and sorting.

It was only later that Guo Yuan found out that the animal was called a kangaroo, and the fruits were big mangoes and baobab fruits, which were picked not long ago, and were taken out to dry at this time.

These things are almost everywhere in Australia, supplementing [-]% of the rations of the expedition team.

There is one thing to say, Australia is really a rich place, as long as you work a little bit harder, you will never starve to death.

Next to them, there are Daming people leading the aborigines to dig water, process animal skins, weave threads with simple looms, feed a very beautiful long-tailed sparrow, or hold a short spear and shout for drills. A busy and lively scene.

After watching it, Guo Yuan was amazed and turned to Chen Dao: "What a thriving scene, Mr. Chen, your business is really good. There may be hundreds of natives here. You have only been here for more than two months. How did you find so many slaves?"

Guo Yuan is not the Holy Mother. It is their honor for the aborigines to serve as slaves to the Ming people. Logically, they should be destroyed humanely, and then leave a piece of pure land without aboriginals for Daming.

Chen Xin laughed and said, "Most of them are slaves we bought from nearby tribes, and some of them escaped from tribes like 'Tuonatu' and 'Shuhu' who were defeated last month."

On the other side, Wang Qinian continued: "Master Guo, although we have only been here in Xiaoquanzhou for a short time, we have gained a reputation in the neighborhood because we have repeatedly taken in slaves or homeless natives, and natives often come to vote. Especially the elderly , young children, usually the defeated tribe will slaughter them, but now we buy most of them, so that they can continue their lives, and now there are more than 150 indigenous people in the village."

Guo Yuan shook his head and said: "It's okay to take them in as coolies, but we must not allow them to overpopulate, otherwise the priority will be irrelevant, and the tail will be too big to lose. Let them work more and eat less."

Guo Yuan met the emperor Zhu Kezang and talked about the affairs of Australia together. He could hear the emperor's disdain for the aborigines here.

As the saying goes, if the emperor does not like it, the courtiers will naturally hate it even more.

Chen Xin touched his head and checked his eyes. He was definitely a true Confucian.

It's really great, he was afraid that an official of the Holy Mother would come up and point fingers, saying that this is not good, that is not good, and he has to influence the natives with his heart.

Chen Dao said: "Master Guo's words are very true. Before that, our expedition team had too few people, so it was a last resort to absorb the natives."

Guo Yuan also suggested: "However, we can properly teach them Chinese. If the natives and Ming people can communicate better, then the work efficiency will definitely increase!"

Everyone nodded, it was indeed so, when Wang Qinian thought of this, he thought of the copper mine that he had been dreaming about, so he cupped his hands and said: "Master Guo, there is a copper mine in the [-]th or [-]th miles, we let people explore it , there are ores in a radius of more than a hundred feet, and some are even exposed outside the soil, which is very easy to mine."

When he brought up this topic, he was immediately in high spirits: "In addition, there is an iron mine more than a hundred miles southwest of Xiaoquanzhou. The iron is so pure that it is almost refined iron when melted. It's a bit far, but we can build a new camp..."

Australia's copper and iron ore are of high quality and easy to mine, and they have been the world's top ore exporter until the 21st century.

It can be seen that Australia can support the income level of developed countries by selling these mineral deposits and wool.

Chen Xin immediately waved his hands and said: "Wang Baihu is too impatient. Even the governor brought more than 1000 people, but at least 800 people are needed to mine a copper mine. People have to be divided into building camps, farming, hunting, and guarding. Patrol, I guess, when there are [-] people in Xiaoquan Prefecture, it is suitable for mining."

The two began to argue, each with their own reasons, Guo Yuan hurriedly comforted them and said: "Don't panic, my lords, the governor will definitely report the situation to the emperor when he returns this time, and bring more immigrants over by then!"

This time, the two stopped.

Afterwards, Guo Yuan reported the situation here to Wang Hongzhuan and his staff.

After collecting the information here, Wang Hongzhuan nodded, indicating that he could return to the voyage.

However, before returning to the voyage, Wang Hongzhuan left behind a ship and most of his manpower. He only left a hundred National Defense Force soldiers for self-defense for this thriving Xiaoquan City.

Guo Yuan also stayed and helped develop Xiaoquan City together.

It was night, Mrs. Chen, Mr. Guo, Wang Baihu, and a group of stewards from Xiaoquan Prefecture gathered around the bonfire, eating mango and brown rice, roasting kangaroo meat, watching the aborigines singing and dancing, and discussing the construction of the Australian colonial site , It is also not interesting.

In a bush three miles away from Xiaoquanzhou, seven or eight curly-haired Australian aborigines who were naked, roped around their waists, and tattooed with totems held short spears in their hands. A mound.

"Red Snake Tooth, how many people have come from the Belun Festival tribe?" The person who spoke was a stout woman with a boomerang and a stone knife on her waist.

The man named Red Snake Tooth was a muscular, dark young man who seemed to have just returned from the opposite mound. He gasped and said, "At least 200 soldiers."

"It seems that they are determined." The woman said again, "Did you see the sharp spear?"

"I see, his two sons are also there."

The woman said with hatred on her face: "Okay! The sharp spear stopped attacking our tribe and came to sneak attack on the 'boatman'. This is our tribe's only chance!"

"Follow me closely later, even if you try your best, you must kill Limao. Our tribe can no longer withstand the next round of attacks from Bulun Festival."

Several other people said together: "Kill the sharp spear! God of prosperity bless you!"

A burly woman in a grass skirt next to her asked the leader, "Velvet Flower, why do you think Limao and the others came to attack the boatmen? They just live in the loser's settlement, and they don't compete with other tribes for prey. , I only know how to dig the soil all day long..."

Velvet Flower said coldly: "The greedy snake god has already entangled Li Mao's heart. He coveted the boatmen's weapons with divine power, but he didn't want to exchange them with slaves or animal skins, so he brought tribal warriors to rob the boatmen."

It turned out that the "boat people" they mentioned referred to the Daming Overseas Expedition Team. Because the expedition team often used sea ships to dock, and people came in and out from the ship, the indigenous people called the Daming people "boat people".

"But the boatmen have a lot of knives, spears with supernatural power, and even a kind of dart that can be shot into the sky. Can sharp spears really beat them?" Red Snake Fang wondered.

Australia hadn't even invented bows and arrows at this time, only that the flintlock guns held by Ming soldiers were a special kind of "blowing arrows".

(End of this chapter)