Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 478 Plague ([-])

Three years later

Yangong 220 five years summer (435 years)
Fan Island
In the southeast of Starblossom City, in a lush tropical rainforest, an expedition team came here to search for treasures. (West of Bandung)

The so-called treasures are nothing more than various indigenous tribes, which can be captured as slaves, or gold mines, silver mines, and gemstone mines. Even finding a river valley plain suitable for immigrants to open up wasteland is excellent, and they can be rewarded by the government of Yan State .

They followed the stream to this miasma-filled rainforest, full of poisonous snakes and beasts, but they had already gotten used to it.

The expedition team carried gunpowder and Artemisia annua, which are essential items for exploring the rainforest. Both gunpowder and Artemisia annua can effectively prevent mosquito bites.

At the same time, they carry a special kind of knife, which is similar to the later Nepalese machete. It is also loved by the expedition team because it is very suitable for cutting thorns in the forest.

click!
A young man in the expedition cut off a branch blocking the way, and he stepped forward without experience.

suddenly!

"Ah! Help me!!!"

The front turned out to be a swamp, and the surface was covered with leaves, which could not be seen with the naked eye. The young man fell directly into the swamp.

However, something even more terrifying happened. A dragon (crocodile) bigger than a human came out of the swamp and bit the young man's neck. The corpse was dragged into the depths of the swamp.

hiss--

Everyone was too scared to move, for fear of attracting the attention of other dragons (crocodiles) in the swamp.

Watching their companions being bitten to death by Jiaolong (crocodile), everyone could only mourn for him, after all, this is the daily life of explorers.

It is not so easy to find treasures, risks and opportunities coexist.

During the land reclamation period of Yan State in the Spice Islands, there were countless pioneers who were killed by crocodiles and pythons.

Wanting to live in seclusion is not only tiring, but if the place where you live in seclusion is too remote, you have to be careful not to be killed by wild animals.

Due to the vast land and sparse population, the territory is too large, so Yan State encourages the people to hunt animals in the mountains and forests.

The captain of this expedition is named Ran Ran, a descendant of Ran Min, who has been completely transformed into a country of Yan. He is 26 years old this year, and he is also a young man.

"Let's go around the swamp, everyone, be careful, grab the branches next to you, and don't fall into the swamp." Ran Ran reminded the team members.

The 23 team members carefully walked around the swamp and continued upstream towards the stream.

Finding treasure along the direction of the water flow is the easiest and relatively safest way, and the survival rate is at least higher than running around.

When they finally bypassed the swamp, a giant rainforest python suddenly rushed out and swept away a team member.

Everything was too fast, and by the time everyone reacted, the giant python had already wrapped the team member into the depths of the rainforest.

Everyone's faces were pale, and this place was much more terrifying than imagined.

At night, the expedition team found a relatively open high place, surrounded it with stones to block wild animals, lit a bonfire, and set up tents. The tents were surrounded by mosquito repellent grass, which were collected along the way.

In the team, a young girl is drawing a map on paper. She is Ran Ran's younger sister, Ran Xiaonan.

Maps are also an important tool. Maps in unfamiliar areas can also be sold for a good price. Many guilds are buying maps from explorers, and using these maps to carry out land reclamation layout.

Therefore, it is natural that there are "fake maps" scammers. These scammers claim to be explorers, scribble maps, and then sell fake maps to guilds and plantation owners to make money.

The birth of a new deception is always related to the development of reality, that is, social existence determines social consciousness.

If it wasn't for Yan Kingdom's enthusiasm for land reclamation, there would be no guilds to buy maps, and if there weren't guilds to buy maps, naturally no one would forge maps to make money.

In order to deal with these new deceptions, Yan State Yushitai also promulgated corresponding legal provisions to severely punish liars who forged maps, and after the parliament deliberated, Shangshutai also established a special map certification agency [Map Department], explorers can bring The staff of the certification agency "Map Envoy" walks the map again, and after confirming that it is correct, the map will be recorded and stamped by the [Map Department].

[Map Department] is subordinate to [Department of Land Reclamation]. In other words, Yan Kingdom regards map exploration as part of land reclamation.

Shangshutai (Shangshu Ling)——Reclamation Department (Reclamation Shangshu)——Yu Tu Division (Yu Tu Shilang, Yu Tu Envoy)

The system is determined by the specific national conditions. Because the country of Yan has a great demand for maps, it is necessary to set up a special [Map Department] to manage them. If it is the Central Plains, there is no need to establish such an organization. A pile of officials who eat dry food is a waste of national resources. After all, the Central Plains does not have such a huge map demand.

In the same way, because the Yan Kingdom does not face the risk of war all year round like the Central Plains, it does not need to maintain an overly large army. If it blindly follows the Central Plains and maintains a large army like the Central Plains, it will only increase the waste of national resources.

Whether it is the Central Plains learning from the Yan State, or the Yan State learning from the Central Plains, we must pay attention to the national conditions and not copy them. The result of copying is often the result of acclimatization.

In the middle of the night, everyone began to sleep, and three people took turns to watch the night.

slam-la-

The moon is hidden in the dark clouds, and the rain is pouring down.

Rumble!
There was a burst of thunder, and the bonfire was extinguished by the wind and rain.

Qiuqiu——

There were some strange sounds in the forest, but they were not very audible under the rain and thunder.

suddenly!

call out!
A feathered arrow was shot, and the member of the expedition team who was on duty at night was shot in the heart, and then fell to the ground and died.

Dozens of indigenous people in grass skirts rushed to the open high ground with wooden spears and tore open the tents.

"what!!!"

The girl Ran Xiaonan was the first to wake up, she screamed.

The rest of the people were also awakened one after another, but they had already been subdued by the natives, and they were powerless to resist.

"Please don't hurt us. We are just passing by here and have no intention of offending you." Ran Ran, the leader of the expedition team, communicated with the other party in Chinese and gestured with his hands in an attempt to use body language to communicate.

"Evil man!"

Unexpectedly, these indigenous people can speak Chinese, but they are not fluent.

The members of the expedition team were shocked to meet the natives who could speak Chinese, but these natives seemed to hate them very much.

After some exchanges, Ran Ran and the others finally found out that these aboriginals were aboriginal tribes living in the rainforest at first. They were originally cannibal tribes isolated from the world. Here, get in touch with them and bring them the advanced farming civilization of the Central Plains, teach them Chinese, farming, and weaving, and let them live in the city walls to avoid the threat of wild animals.

However, all this changed in an incident decades ago, when the evil Yan army invaded Xingfan City, so the rebels were massacred, and most of the rest were captured as slaves.

Only aborigines like them who are familiar with the terrain and a Han girl with good hands and feet escaped from Xingfan City and returned to the primeval forest to live a hard life.

Now, Yan Kingdom takes Xingfan City as the center, and keeps opening up wasteland in all directions. By the way, it destroys the indigenous tribes encountered in the process of opening up wasteland.

Therefore, the natives of these cannibal tribes hated the Yan people from Xingfan City very much, and believed that these outsiders with advanced civilization were a group of evil devils.

In the descriptions of the indigenous tribes, the people of Yan State possessed indestructible and terrifying artifacts (referring to iron weapons), as well as the indestructible protection of evil gods (referring to iron armor), and could control a powerful evil creature (referring to war horses).

(End of this chapter)