Before horses were shipped to Europe, there were no horses in the Americas themselves.

So, those natives are running on foot. There were about twenty or thirty men, and they set up ambushes along the way, constantly attacking with flying stones and javelins, until the bison was exhausted to death, or bleeding so much that they could not run.

The natives were not greedy, and when they only hunted a bison, they stopped pursuing it.

The men divided the carcass around the prey, and a strong man quickly disemboweled, took out the heart of the bison, and offered it to the chief.

The leader held his bloody heart and opened his mouth to bite it, while the rest of the natives laughed and cheered.

After only two symbolic bites, the leader gathered his heart and tied it to his shoulders with dry grass. The bison carcass was divided into dozens of parts, each of which the natives had in their hands, but the internal organs were discarded in place except for the heart.

Suddenly, the natives stood up vigilantly and pointed their weapons into the distance.

A Daming expedition of fifty people slowly walked towards the natives. The natives did not attack immediately, but curiously observed each other's clothes, as if they had never seen such a dress before.

The distance between the two sides was twenty or thirty steps, and Zhu Hai shouted: "We have no malicious intent. ”

The indigenous leader also stepped forward and said, "Quack......"

Chickens and ducks talk about it, I don't know what to say.

Li Changzhu was sent over to negotiate, and the man was armed with an iron axe, and he deliberately pointed the handle of the axe towards the natives to show that he had no malicious intent.

The indigenous also sent a person, and soon came face to face with Li Changzhu, dancing and dancing without knowing what he was talking about.

Li Changzhu handed out the iron axe and said, "Send it to you, take it." ”

The native was stunned, curiously took the iron axe, put down the bison leg on his shoulder, and split the axe into the beef leg. Looking at the chopping part, the native was ecstatic and ran back to the chief, who also tried it with an axe.

Suddenly, the leader held the iron axe alof, and the natives around him cheered loudly, and actually danced around the axe in celebration.

The Ming expedition team is amused, these natives don't know it, and an ax is actually happy like this.

After the natives finished dancing, the leader hung his axe around his waist and led his men over. In addition to the heart of the cow, they piled all the wild meat they had hunted on the ground.

The leader pointed to ......the iron axe and the beef on the ground.

Zhu Hai also began to smile and gesture: "You mean, exchange beef for an axe?" ”

The leader thought that Zhu Hai was not satisfied, so he pointed to the herd of bison that ran away, as if to say that he could hunt a few more cattle to make up the difference.

Zhu Hai looked at the other party for a long time, barely understood, waved his hand and said, "No, no, this is a gift for you." ”

Zhu Hai asked people to bring the beef back, pointed to the axe again, and kept waving his hand to express his meaning.

The leader probably understood it, and immediately became even more happy, walked to Zhu Hai's side, chattered a word, and turned to point to the northeast.

"It's ...... Invite us as a guest? Zhu Hai muttered.

Deputy Captain Li Guangcheng hurriedly reminded: "Governor, be careful, don't be harmed by these natives." ”

Zhu Hai said: "The guns are all loaded with ammunition, and if something goes wrong, they will fight immediately. ”

The natives carried the beef and led the Ming expedition to set off, and after walking for about an hour, they finally came to their settlement.

They are all thatched huts, and there are not many of them, and the tribe is estimated to be a few hundred people.

Moreover, there are crops near the settlement!

An expedition member ran over to check and excitedly ran back and said, "Dugong, these natives are growing beans (broad beans)!" "Le

"Anything else?" Zhu Hai asked.

The expedition team members shook their heads: "No, only Hu Dou." ”

The Rocky Mountains act as a natural barrier to human migration and the spread of crops, and these natives have not seen anything like corn or sweet potatoes. They mainly lived by hunting and gathering wild fruits, and also developed a more primitive agriculture, but the variety of crops cultivated was relatively simple.

As soon as the expedition team arrived at the settlement, the natives came to watch, many of whom were still holding clay pots, as if they had learned to make pottery.

The leader held an iron axe high, chattered for a while, and pointed to Zhu Hai and these people, probably to introduce the situation. He demonstrated the power of an iron axe and slashed at a piece of wood, causing the people to exclaim.

The natives began to get busy, cooking food in clay pots. I saw them throw in dried broad beans, and then they threw in something like grass seeds, and they also threw in some unknown wild fruits, and then they threw in some beef and butter, and finally sprinkled in a little gray-black stone salt.

Most of the beef is roasted, and I know how to season it with berries, so it smells good.

After the beef was roasted, the leader personally handed a piece of beef leg meat to Zhu Hai enthusiastically. And wrap the stone salt in leaves, eat a mouthful of meat by yourself, and then dip your fingers in a little salt, as a demonstration of the correct way to eat stone salt.

Zhu Hai curiously licked a sip of stone salt, in addition to the salty taste, it was bitter and astringent, and he didn't know what impurities it contained. He asked for a packet of salt, much whiter than stone salt, and gave it to the indigenous chief with a smile.

The leader took a dip, his eyes widened, and he made all kinds of gestures.

Although there is no yellow race at this time, the skin color is still very intuitive. The Chinese and the Native Americans, both of whom belong to the yellow race, are at least not as separated from the white race.

The first meeting between the two sides was very harmonious, and after the natives had eaten their fill, they even performed a dance for the Ming expedition.

That night, everyone slept badly, and they were always on guard against the natives' plots.

Fortunately, there was nothing wrong all night, and the next morning, the leader took the initiative to come to Zhu Hai and pointed to the waist knives and iron axes on their bodies.

"What else do you want?" Zhu Hai was a little unhappy, feeling that the natives were too greedy.

The chief had many hides brought, most of which were bison's skins. He also brought hats made of feathers, and finely polished stone javelins...... A large pile of various items, all placed on the ground, pointed again to the iron tools on the expedition members.

"Swap?" Zhu Hai shook his head and said, "We don't need this. ”

The chieftain was very annoyed, and asked his people to collect treasures, including colorful stones, intricately patterned pottery, and even necklaces made of wolf's teeth.

The members of the Daming expedition kept rummaging through this pile of garbage.

Suddenly, the voice of one of the expedition members trembled: "Dog...... Dog's head gold? ”

These crew members were recruited from Singapore, which is located next door to the Johor Gold Mine, and they have heard the legend of ko's head gold countless times.

Zhu Hai hurriedly went over to check and handed it to the other team members, and everyone unanimously identified it as dog's head gold.

Zhu Hai picked up the gold and said, "I want this, but it's not enough, ten pieces of gold for an axe!" ”

The leader said he didn't understand.

Zhu Hai personally squatted down, drew an axe on the ground, and drew ten patterns of dog heads with gold shapes.

The leader now understood, but he could go through the entire settlement, and there were only two pieces of dog's head gold.

Frustrated for a while, the leader suddenly became happy, and pointed to the northwest and kept gesturing. He pointed to the gold, then to the axe, and then continued to point to the northwest.

Zhu Hai also pointed to the northwest side, and then pointed to the gold, and asked, "You mean, there is still dog-headed gold over there?" ”

The leader thought that Zhu Hai understood, and danced and laughed.

To the northwest of this place is the source of the American Gold Rush!