However, Zhu Beiguo told everyone that it turned out that the Dutch's dragonfly landing exploration and the corresponding navigation records were not very reliable, and perhaps the captain of the ship just happened to encounter the less developed tribes, which often happened in the process of such fancy exploration.

In fact, only the records of ancient Chinese books show that the coastal residents here have a very high degree of civilization, and the historical records record that the residents here have already entered the agricultural era.

"Don't come here, under the ancient tears, hundreds of miles in the mountains, and down in the fields. Vulgar monsters. The climate is hot in spring, summer and autumn, and slightly cold in winter, so people are disease-free; On the contrary, miasma kills people and animals...... When a mortal dies, he will be researched and his brain will be irrigated with water to nourish his corpse, and he will be buried without decay. The people boil the sea for salt, and make coconut milk for wine. There are chiefs. Real estate suma, tortoiseshell, cotton flowers, betel nut. The goods of trade are made of Zhancheng South cloth, iron wire, copper tripod, red silk, five-color cloth, wooden comb, grate, green ware, and coarse bowls. ”

This is the record in the Yuan Dynasty navigator Wang Dayuan's "Daoyi Zhiluo", where the place name "Yao Lai Be" is the transliteration of Sulawesi.

Wang Dayuan, a well-known person in the history of navigation in the old world, once "attached thousands of miles" when he was young, and traveled to the South Seas, India, and West Asia several times.

It is said that he may have even reached Australia, North Africa, and the Mediterranean coast.

It is still said that he never recorded rumors when he wrote books, and no matter how lively and popular the rumors were, he did not record them. He wrote a travelogue based on only one principle: never record everything he passed unless he saw it with his own eyes.

Therefore, Wang's "Daoyi Zhi" and "Daoyi Zhiluo" were highly valued by Chinese and foreign academic circles in the old world, especially in the international academic circles in the old world, and Wang's reputation was far higher than that of previous emperors and statesmen in Chinese history.

It's just a pity that the more vivid and detailed "Shimayi Chronicles" was later destroyed in the war, leaving only this abridged version of the "Shimayi Chronicles".

At this moment, in the cabin of the Pride, Zhu Beiguo, Dr. Zhu Da has a copy of "Daoyi Zhiluo" in his hand.

The book is Zhu Beiguo's private collection, not the materials in the library on the fifth floor of the Red Mansion.

The General Assembly had passed a resolution that all physical books and materials in the five-story library could not be taken out of the Red House gates.

This book was specially picked up by Zhu Beiguo before Zhu Beiguo entrusted Anna to his home, and he also brought other books by the way.

Now, Li Sanduo was sitting next to him, and the two were discussing the landing of Manado, and it was obvious that they would definitely need to understand the folk customs there before landing.

Li Sanduo looked at Brother Zhu with admiration as he held this ancient book printed on rice paper and read aloud the fragments without difficulty.

Whether this book is traditional Chinese or vertical, and it is the kind of vertical arrangement from right to left, most people feel that it takes their eyes to glance at it, but Brother Zhu reads it with relish.

In Li Sanduo's eyes, compared to everyone who runs to the computer data room to check information at every turn when they encounter problems, Brother Zhu's method of obtaining information is very compelling, and he feels that the grade is indeed more than a few losses higher than that of everyone.

After reading an ancient book, Zhu Beiguo said to Li Sanduo that although this is a record of 300 years ago, the current era is still on the eve of great changes, and the changes in the social outlook are quite slow.

Zhu Beiguo went on to say that from the book's records, it can be concluded that there is not no business to be done here, especially in the coastal areas.

First of all, the crops and minerals of the nearby hilly areas, as well as high-quality timber, especially kapok, are all we need.

Also, if you expand the map, you can clearly realize that this is a strategic point in the South Seas, where Sulawesi is located in the center of the South Seas, and Manado controls the northward point of the Spice Islands trade lane.

At this time, the Dutch already controlled the port of Makassar in the southwest of Sulawesi, so why don't we take control of the port of Manado in the northeast of the island?

What's more, Cao Limei also emphasized that there are large copper mines near Manado, not to mention that there are also rich tropical animal and plant resources here.

In addition, Cao Meizi strongly recommended that the name of Manado be abandoned, and it is said that the ladies of the Red Mansion did not like it.

After all, the maps used in everyone's hands are copied by hand by the ladies one by one, and their opinions must be respected, and in the end, everyone unanimously agreed, and it will be called Minado in the future, which is a very beautiful name, isn't it?

In short, this strategic place with a beautiful name and a future is worth occupying, no, it should be said that it is inevitable!

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"Spectacular view of the volcanic peninsula!"

Just when Zhu and Li were discussing the landing on the Pride, Gu Jin was standing in the cockpit, looking at the land with a telescope in his hand, he looked at the endless coastline, and couldn't help but let out this sigh.

On the first class of the Nicole, the crew on duty, including Xu Zhi, were also using binoculars to observe the lush land in the distance.

At the eastern end of the peninsula, Krabar is said to be an active volcano that is smoky all year round.

According to the landing plan, hydrographic surveys near Minado Port were a must-do, and there was also a plan for a landing that would stop at a glance.

Obviously, Gu Jin had no intention of exploring the nearby large copper mines, because it was a deep valley peak, covered by clouds and fog, and it was a very dangerous thing to go there to explore without sufficient preparation and sufficient manpower.

All in all, Captain Gu has always been reluctant to take risks, and if he can, he will not land, which is the principle of going to sea that he has always adhered to.

Anyway, the development of Minado Port is a matter of the future, and the central task at hand is to go to Holo Port, and Captain Gu doesn't want to make trouble......

However, there was a small news from the Pride ahead, they met the enthusiastic locals, and the crew was a little out of their way.

Gu Jin was surprised when he heard this, why is this?

"We are surrounded by small boats from the locals, and we are doing business with the locals!"

Li Sanduo conveyed the situation facing the Pride to Nicole on the walkie-talkie.

The arrival of the Pride did not bring any fear or shock to the locals, probably mainly because the Pride did not use steam power at the time, but slowly cruised around the coastline with its sails outstretched.

In short, many small wooden boats of various colors suddenly appeared from the coast, and they were loaded with all kinds of fruits, both men and women.

Sure enough, the locals were dressed in the same way as Wang Dayuan's description: "Men and women wear buns, wrap red cloth, tie green cotton cloth tips......

However, the crew on deck were very surprised by the swarming boats, and they were very wary at first, and even had to go back to the cabin to get AK47s for self-defense.

In the old world, Li Dade, who had traveled all over the five continents and four oceans with the ship, knew that it was the locals who wanted to do business with guests from afar, but this kind of scene was rare in the Nanyang generation in the old world, but it often appeared on the islands of Oceania and the South Pacific.

So Li Sanduo laughed, and he shouted to the crew, hurry up and put away your weapons, and prepare to take out the gadgets you don't need to exchange with the locals for fruits to eat......

Soon, the Pride lowered the gangway, and the suspicious crew members tentatively descended to the gangway.

Immediately, more than three small wooden boats quickly approached.

At the bow of the ship was a woman dressed in calico, the rocking bow of the boat did not prevent her from standing as steady, and she held a large bunch of bananas above her head with both hands, and grinned at the sailor standing at the front of the gangway.

At this time, standing at the front was Tian Jiali, he was very hungry for fruits, so the first "adventure" stood at the front, saw a large bunch of bananas in front of him, he originally wanted to pay the silver directly, he suddenly hesitated, and one hand groped out a string of chrome key chains from his coat pocket and handed it to a shirtless man on a small wooden boat.

The man took the chrome keychain and looked at it repeatedly in the sun for a long time, then showed his black teeth, said something that Tian Jiali couldn't understand, and actually returned the keychain.

Well, the first commodity trade between the New World and the Old World ended in failure.

"Xiao Tian, it's useless for people to take that thing, you can try this."

Li Sanduo shouted down on the freeboard, he was holding a large stainless steel soup bowl in his hand, and handed it to the person next to him after speaking, and finally the big iron bowl was passed to Tian Jiali's hand.

The swarthy man's eyes lit up when he took the iron bowl, and then he motioned to the woman next to him to hand over the banana to Tian Jiali, who immediately had a bunch of big bananas in his arms, so heavy that the young man almost fell into the water without standing firm.

Then, when Tian Jiali wanted to turn away, another bunch of bananas passed to the people in the queue at the back, and surprisingly, the transaction did not stop until half a boatload of bananas was emptied.

A large stainless steel soup bowl can be exchanged for half a boatload of bananas in !?

So the crew got excited, obviously, in the eyes of the natives, the stainless steel iron bowl is very valuable, and in the eyes of everyone, this transaction is also very cost-effective!

As a result, this classic, textbook-style "trade theory of comparative advantage between regions" transaction was naturally and smoothly completed.

However, only Li Sanduo understands that this is not a good deal, because these wild or semi-wild bananas, if they are not eaten or sold, will rot in the woods after a week and a half, and that stainless steel iron bowl, here, is a cooking utensil ten times stronger and more durable than clay pots and pottery, and can be used for many, many years!

What's more, this is something from an old-world supermarket, selling one less thing, so it's really unclear which side takes advantage of it.

However, Li Sanduo has his own considerations, at present, the crew has not eaten real fruits for many days, and even few vegetables, which is an indisputable harsh fact, so for the sake of everyone's health, he thinks that this transaction is still very necessary.

What's more, Nima is a real banana! It's been two and a half years, and everyone has never eaten fresh bananas!

Nowadays, in Lao Wang's vegetable garden, the only fruits that can be counted as fruits are strawberries and tomatoes, and there is no ordinary fruit that is common in the old world.

Now, I finally saw this long-lost fruit with my own eyes, and it is so gluttonous!

The crew took out their knives, iron cups, sparkling resin earrings and necklaces, stainless steel knives and forks, iron cooking utensils, and even kitchen knives, and exchanged a large number of bananas, coconuts, betel nuts, dragon fruits, snakeskin fruits, and other familiar and unfamiliar tropical fruits with the owners of these small wooden boats, and a variety of familiar and unfamiliar tropical fruits were piled up on the front and rear decks of the Pride.

The deal continued until the sun went down, when the nearby villagers gradually rowed away, leaving the Pride alone on the sea.

In the old world, Gu Jin once drove an ocean freighter to dock at Minado Port, but he didn't let the Nicole come over this time, after all, it was Manado three hundred years later, and no one knew what the current hydrological situation was there, so he didn't want to take this risk.

So the Nicole just anchored far away on the sea, although the villagers were very surprised that a "city" suddenly appeared on the sea in the distance, but this "city" just stayed there far away, looking harmless to people and animals, so after causing a small surprise and a little panic among the villagers, it quickly stopped.

After all, the business in front of you is real.

Since then, the people here have formed an indissoluble bond with the Australians, and this barter trade, which began with the exchange of bananas and iron bowls, has brought the two sides closer and closer......