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

Chapter 706 Great Voyage (25)
"Rome! It must be Rome! It's not some New World!"

"Miss Huamei, you are drunk."

Winter of 490 year 701 of the Republic ([-])
Li Huamei went to "Rome Continent" for the third time. This time, her main purpose was to continue exploring southward to determine whether "Rome Continent" was Rome or the New World.

Although the last expedition had guessed that it was the New World, it was not yet completely certain.

"What if we arrive in the Germanic region north of Rome?"

"As long as we continue to go south, we will definitely find Rome!"

Li Huamei explained this based on the description in "Journey to the West".

This time, the Republic specially hired an Arab scholar who knew Latin from Dashi. This Arab scholar also knew Tianzhu language.

The communication process is that the expedition team speaks Yan language, which is then translated into Tianzhu language, then translated into Arabic, and finally translated into Latin.

Emperor Shakti personally wrote a letter of credence and submitted it to the Roman Emperor, hoping to establish trade cooperation with the Roman Empire.

The expedition team first arrived at the Wangzhi Islands (Hawaiian Islands), where they rested for a month and replenished enough food and fresh water.

The indigenous people of Wangzhi Islands established a cooperative relationship with the expedition team.

The expedition team presented them with more advanced iron tools, and they provided food and fresh water to the expedition team.

"Next time I come here, I must conquer this archipelago and establish a transfer station."

When leaving Wangzhi Islands, Li Huamei looked at the beautiful islands behind her and murmured to herself.

They have a cooperative relationship with the island's indigenous people and have not conquered the island's indigenous groups.

forty days later
Spring of the second year of Republic 490 (702)
The fleet once again arrived at Lihuamei Plain (Los Angeles) and then sailed south along the coastline.

After passing by the Lantern Clan again, I exchanged some handicraft products from them for some livestock as fresh food.

Li Huamei and others came to [Yuli Civilization (Mayan Civilization)].

After "Roman Li (corn)" was brought back to the Yan State, the people of the Yan State took a new name - Yuli.

Because the fruit of "Roman Li (corn)" is crystal clear and looks like nephrite, it was renamed "Yu Li".

And because the words "Li" and "Mi" are sometimes connected, some people call it corn.

The expedition team's last expedition discovered that this civilization (Mayan civilization) was not Rome, so they gave it a new name - Roman people/Roman civilization.

Now, it is called [Yuli Civilization/Corn Civilization] because the local indigenous people like to grow corn very much.

At the same time, because the endless ocean is calm and calm, it was named "Pacific Ocean".

The city-states of the Maize Civilization (Mayan Civilization) were concentrated in the east, and there were relatively few city-states on the Pacific coast.

Li Huamei and others have not yet come into contact with the civilization on the east side of the "Roman Mountains (Andes Mountains)", and have only come into contact with some city-states along the coast on the west side of the mountains.

However, many of the corn people city-states along the coast on the west side of these mountains are branches of the corn people city-states on the east side of the mountains.

What does that mean?

They are the Corn People (Mayans) on the east side of the mountains. When the population in their city-state is large enough and exceeds the carrying capacity of the land under their productivity conditions, a part of the population will be separated and migrate to the surrounding areas to establish new city-states.

In fact, the early Greek civilization, Phoenician civilization, and Yanhuang civilization all developed in this way.

The population of the tribal city-state was too large and could not be fed, so some people were allowed to migrate further away and establish a new independent city-state.

This new city-state is completely independent and does not have to obey the orders of the mother state. However, most of the time it is the younger brother of the mother state. At the same time, it has the same origin and culture as the mother state.

"So, what we are in contact with is only the secondary civilization of the Corn People, and the real mother civilization of the Corn People is actually on the east side of the mountain range?"

Li Huamei made reasonable guesses based on the available information.Of course, she still firmly believed that these corn people (Mayans) were just barbarians located in the north of Rome, and the real Romans must be further south.

The corn people city-states on the west coast can be roughly divided into three factions.

They are [Divine Dynasty (Tikal Alliance)] [Jungle Dynasty (Parker Alliance)] [Holy Snake Dynasty (Calakmul Alliance)]

These are the three most powerful city-states of the Corn People. These three mother city-states have split into many small city-states, and at the same time they have formed alliances and vassals with other small city-states that have existed for a long time.

In the words of the Central Plains people, that is, although the current corn people civilization has almost more than 300 city-states, the total population may be more than 500 million, with an average of only 2 or [-] people per city-state.

However, most of these large and small city-states, except for some independent paradises, belong to one of the three major alliances.

Similar to the Three Kingdoms period in the Central Plains.

The kings/rulers/city-state masters of the corn people like to wear clothes made of leopard skins of jungle leopards (jaguars). Warriors, priests, and merchants like to wear cloth clothes. The common people at the bottom wear the cheapest animal skin clothes. Slaves do not. clothing.

The Maize people (Mayans) have mastered textile technology and can weave cloth, but the output is very low, and ordinary people cannot afford to wear cloth.

Li Huamei learned all the above information from the king of a friendly city-state.

Some of these corn people city-states along the coast choose to cooperate with the expedition team, some choose to fight against the expedition team, and most of them are not interested in the expedition team and do not conflict with the expedition team.

"In terms of political system, the Corn People are similar to the Xia Dynasty in the Central Plains. In terms of astronomy, they have reached the level of the Zhou Dynasty in the Central Plains. However, in terms of weapons and military, the Corn People are very backward, and may not be as good as the ancient Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors period in the Central Plains."

This is a preliminary judgment made by the expedition team on the Corn People civilization (Mayan civilization).

The expedition team came to the [Golden Snake City-State], which is a corn people city-state that cooperates with the expedition team.

According to the owners of this city-state themselves, hundreds of years ago, their ancestors were chased by enemies and had to jump off a cliff. They thought they would die, but a beautiful golden snake actually saved their ancestors. So, Their ancestors built a city-state on the west side of the cliff mountains, near the ocean. This is the origin of the Golden Snake City-state.

This is a local mythological story, similar to Liu Bang's killing of the white snake, so the expedition team just listened to it and did not take it seriously.

The reason why we were able to have good relations with the Golden Snake City State started from the last time we encountered the "Roman" attack.

The cornman city-state that attacked the expedition was called [Eight-Legged God City-State], and it was in a hostile relationship with [Golden Snake City-State].

The expedition team killed more than 300 [Eight-Legged God City State] soldiers, which made the nearby [Golden Snake City State] see the value of the expedition team.

So, when the expedition arrived at their city-state, the ruler of the Golden Snake city-state took the initiative to show his kindness and sent beautiful women and various livestock to form an alliance with the expedition.

"I heard that you are going to the south? That's where barbarians live!"

The king of the Golden Snake City State said to Li Huamei.

Next to Li Huamei stood a corn man attendant who had barely learned the language of the Yan State. He was dressed in the clothes of the Yan State and translated the words of the Golden Snake King for Li Huamei.

The Corn People, who were very backward in the eyes of the expedition team, actually called other surrounding indigenous civilizations barbarians. It seems that no matter which civilization is more advanced than the surroundings, it will have the idea that it is the center of the world.

In the description of the Golden Snake King, the indigenous civilizations south of the Corn Civilization were very barbaric and backward.

"They don't even know how to farm or weave cloth. They can only pick wild fruits from trees for food and use leaves as clothes. They are all a bunch of dirty barbarians."

"Friends from the sea, instead of going to those barbaric lands in the south, why not stay and help me conquer other city-states. You will have all the beauties, jewels, gold and silver, and livestock you want!"

The Golden Snake King also wanted to persuade the expedition team to stay and help him expand his territory and conquer other corn people city-states.

The Golden Snake King took a fancy to the advanced and powerful weapons and equipment of the expedition team, and wanted to use the power of these overseas visitors to fight for the remaining six generations and unify the world (corn civilization).

But the expedition team refused. They accepted the order of His Majesty the Emperor Shakti to confirm whether this continent was Rome or the New World. They had no time to expand the territory for an indigenous king.

"Dear Your Majesty, we will naturally help you when we come back, but we have more important things to do in the south now."

Although they looked down upon these backward corn people, the expedition team was still very polite and respectful.

(End of this chapter)