After arriving on the American continent, the weather was much milder and the air was humid, especially comfortable.

The expedition consisted of 200 men, carrying enough water and dry food, and each armed with a musket and broad-bladed machete to cut through the dense jungle.

The rest stayed on the shore, finding flat heights to set up sturdy tents and hunting game for the expedition members.

The jungles near New York are no better than those in South America, and in the Middle Ages, most of the coasts of South America were primeval forests, accompanied by the dangerous Amazon jungle.

Here, in North America, the situation is much better, with only the occasional encounter with unknown creatures and bypassing.

Walking through the dark and damp jungle, the tall trees are dense with foliage, and the sunlight shines through their gaps, casting countless spots of light on the way.

The Pioneer's arms were scarred by the thorns, but they were already numb with pain, and they waved their machetes indifferently, blazing their way forward and carving their marks on the trunks.

In this way, I don't know how long later, they finally saw the light of day again, and came to the edge of a small cliff, and what greeted them was a vast plain!

Using hook locks, they slid down the cliffs one after another, and after a short rest, marched deeper into the plains, where a clear river blocked their way as the sun waned.

Rows of coniferous trees grow along the river, stretching along the river into the unseen distance, and what a magnificent view if you look down on it from a hot air balloon.

Zheng Fei picked up the river water and washed his face, wiped it dry, looked at the distant horizon, half of the sunset that had disappeared, took out the wine jug and took a sip of beer, and said with a smile: "I won't go back tonight, stay here for the night, and call the others over tomorrow to cut down these trees to build a house." ”

"What do you want for dinner, catch fish?" Hans swallowed, rubbing his hands and staring at the fat perch in the river.

"I've eaten more than a month at sea and haven't eaten enough fish? Look, there's a deer!" Zheng Fei looked across the river and whistled.

"Wow, wow, wow, brothers, don't be stunned, let's go!"

For dinner, the sea bass soup was stir-fried with venison, and the expedition members were eager to lick the pot clean.

The reason is that Zheng Fei personally cooked and made a Chinese meal with venison, and among the hundreds of cuisines in the world, Chinese food is the most delicious and unmatched.

No matter how tall the Michelin restaurant is, it can't make the flavor of fish-flavored shredded pork and West Lake vinegar fish.

After eating, they didn't gather around the campfire, they went to bed early, and they were tired from traveling so long during the day.

Lying in the tent and listening to the sound of slowly flowing water, Zheng Fei took a sip of red wine before going to bed and closed his eyes.

The North American plains at night are quiet and harmonious, with occasional meteors skimming the sky, leaving a perfect tracer.

The next day, dawn broke.

A simple loaf of bread and the people were put into the intense work, and before they could build a wooden house, they had to build a bridge, and there were many flora and fauna on the opposite bank, and Hans had picked up coal there yesterday while hunting.

Zheng Fei didn't work with them, because he was lazy and had nothing else.

Carrying a jug of wine, a bag of beef jerky, and a bag of salt-baked peas, he sat alone in the shade of the trees by the river and admired the scenery of North America.

And so it goes, day after day.

During this time, the craftsmen built dozens of not very elaborate carriages, and with the black-maned horses brought from the island, they did not have to walk all day.

On this day, it was probably autumn, the sky was high and crisp, and in the blue sky, a few eagles and a hot air balloon were soaring.

The wind was very small, and Zheng Fei sat in the hanging basket of the hot air balloon, holding Britney, looking down on the plain with the survey team led by Santiago, who was looking for mineral resources.

At the same time, the shipyard was built in the wide basin of the river, which leads directly to the sea, and the boats built can be sent directly to the sea to be soaked, and in a few months they can be used in the open sea.

George was a ready-made naval engineer who spent almost all of his career learning about ships, and in this regard, da Vinci was really inferior to him.

Speaking of Da Vinci, after leaving the island, he spent two months immersed himself in the study of the steam engine, except for the occasional entry into Vivien's room to relax, and spent the whole day in his little broken tent, eating the food brought to his mouth, sleeping two or three hours a day, and concentrating on the study of the steam engine on paper, and throwing waste paper all over the floor.

The steam engine is a reciprocating power machine that uses a connecting rod composite device, and it is not easy for someone who has not been exposed to mechanical principles to create it.

Zheng Fei didn't understand the mechanical principle, so he could only let da Vinci figure it out by himself, tell him some basic physics knowledge such as Newton's laws, and let him study it by himself.

A super genius with an IQ of more than 200 is very different from a normal genius, and it only takes a little enlightenment knowledge for da Vinci to knock on the door of science and technology.

Just give him time and anything is possible.

In the afternoon, the team successfully discovered the mine, which was less than two meters below the surface, and was easy to mine, and the mining area was very large, and at least tens of thousands of tons of coal could be mined.

Zheng Fei urgently needs one thing right now – labor.

The fleet was now less than 900 men, many of whom were women and children, and about 600 men in the prime of life who could be used as laborers.

What are 600 people enough for? 150 tables of mahjong.

Therefore, Zheng Fei began to think about returning to the European continent, selling the gems and gold, and hiring a group of laborers, if it was still not enough, he could only go to Africa to catch black slaves.

He will be a conscientious master, be kind to black slaves, and treat them as workers rather than slaves, because he has his own moral bottom line.

On a trip to the Americas, he had to take some of the specialties of the American continent and sell them in cabins to the European nobles who had no money to spend.

Since I have to leave in the near future, I don't have time to go to Mexico and other Central American regions, so I can't take hobbies like cigars and tequila with me.

There is only one way to choose from, bartering with the local aborigines.

Use tools to exchange animal skins, an axe can be exchanged for several animal skins, and animal skins are a rare luxury in the eyes of the aristocracy, every year there will be a noble girl who loves beauty, and does not hesitate to buy fox skins, and ask someone to make a fox fur coat and wear it to her sweetheart.

A high-quality animal skin can be sold for a hundred silver coins in Europe, and 10,000 pieces is a million, and it only takes a few thousand axes to exchange it!

The fleet has dozens of blacksmiths, and it can be produced in a week.

With this idea, Zheng Fei prepared to take his elite soldiers and march towards the mountains outside the plain.

[I'm a little late, I'm sorry to be even late, there is a shift after 12 o'clock ~ I'll be idle after the 10th, plus the list, every day is stable and explosive!] (To be continued.) )