Chapter 1429: The Great City

The further south they went, the more lively the bazaar became, and the richer the species used for exchange in the bazaar, many of which were things they had not seen before.

For example, cocoa, a coffee bean-like thing, can be used to make beverages.

There are also a variety of fruits and vegetables – pumpkin, red tomatoes, kidney beans, guava, apples, papayas, peanuts, sunflowers, custards, avocados and cashew nuts.

A lot of things need to be named separately because they are not Middle-earth at all.

Locals also roll up the leaves of a crop and put them in a pipe made of corn cobs to swallow the smoke.

The peanuts here are also larger than those grown in Middle-earth today, and there is also a kind of chili pepper that the flat pot knows his father will love.

Chili peppers are much larger and more spicy than Dogwood fruit, unlike Dogwood, which has to be carefully processed to remove the bitterness and make spicy rice oil.

Bian Jar felt that if he brought this thing back to his father, and brought the ginseng back to his mother, he might be able to escape punishment.

Wildlife is abundant, and the locals have a lot of meat and almost no poultry and livestock.

Their main sources of meat are fish, migratory birds, bison, wild boar, argali, reindeer, and an animal somewhere between sheep and camels.

The only ones that have been domesticated in earnest are alpacas and a chicken that is four or five times larger than the Middle-earth chicken, with a long ribbon-like sac hanging from its mouth, which the chair names in the picture "spitting chicken"; and a duck that was also several times larger than Middle-earth, with a head full of red sarcomas, which the chair named "Tumor-headed Duck".

The aborigines' supplies were to be obtained through exchange, and the natives liked to decorate, and Chair thought he had found another proof that the natives were descendants of Middle-earth immigrants - they also played with jade.

The most on the L-Horn is metal, mainly imported coins and silver coins.

There are very few gold coins, and copper coins are not very valuable because they are not very valuable, and they are also not carried much on the left-handed screw.

There are also a lot of metalworking materials, such as brass.

The aborigines here also knew the value of gold, and although they knew that the metal in the hands of these amazing strangers was not gold, it did not stop them from loving brass.

Bian Jar heard the story of the third uncle of Hangzhou, they like to use foreign money to make jewelry, so he also made copper coins with small holes, cut cowhide into small strings and wear them into necklaces, and made ornaments, which are very popular with the locals.

They also found a problem, that is, the people here speak a variety of languages, almost every settlement speaks a different language, and the degree of civilization development of the settlement communities almost hundreds of miles apart is very different.

Some use rudimentary catapults, some have crude bows and arrows, and some have developed more elaborate angular bows.

Strangely, however, the tribes that used long-range weapons tended to be more primitively educated, while the weapons used in the more developed agricultural civilizations were often spears and javelins made of stone.

Some of the lord's guards used weapons that were even plank-like chopping weapons made of hardwood, with a ring of finely polished obsidian teeth embedded around the edges of the weapons to enhance their lethality.

Even more strange is that although their stone tools were anomalously beautiful, the natives did not have metal tools.

This puzzled them with the jars and chairs, because in many settlements, the crew found magnificent stone buildings that were either temples or imperial tombs.

Without metal tools, how could these majestic stone buildings, neat stones, and exquisite carvings be made?

Another puzzling thing is that from the perspective of architecture, many buildings have the same cultural style, the clothing of the local aborigines, and the beliefs are also similar, which can be seen to have originated from the same civilization.

But tribes thousands of miles apart often don't know each other's existence.

When everyone got together to chat, they speculated about all kinds of answers, and finally agreed that the chair's statement was relatively reasonable.

It was here that there was once a fairly developed civilization, and that civilization once left a brilliant cultural relic, but then it was completely destroyed by famine, plague, or war.

The people of today are the inheritors of the civilization of the first period, or when that civilization fell, these tribes were still just barbarians in the wilderness.

When civilization is gone, it takes a long time for these barbarians to come to these ruins to form settlements, and then in the process of redeveloping civilization, something is lost.

For example, the production of metal tools, such as the production of vehicles.

The mood of the flat tank was actually not very good, because the expedition had actually failed.

They had searched from fifty degrees north latitude to ten degrees north, but they had not been able to find an outlet to cross this continent, and this land, inferred from the long coastline, should have exceeded the area of New Song Continent.

Bian Can and Zhao Xiaoyi were walking in the market, and Bian Can said to Zhao Xiaoyi: "We should go back." Further south, you will step out of the trade wind belt and into the equatorial windless zone. ”

Zhao Xiaoyi said: "Then take this place as the last stop, and we will go home after purchasing." ”

The storage capacity of the L-Screw is amazing, and in addition to machinery and supplies, it is capable of carrying 160 tons of cargo.

Flat Jar didn't have a good impression of this southerly land, because he had already found traces of "human sacrifice" in many temples.

The temples here are mostly hollow, and they are filled with human bones, which, judging from their state, were mistreated before they died.

This bloody ritual is also recorded on the elaborate frescoes in many temples.

In fact, they also did this kind of behavior in the northern Atan, but because of the low productivity, there was no such large-scale war, so it was much smaller than the temple human sacrifice they said they saw.

Unlike the ruins here, there are tens of thousands of bones inside.

This will undoubtedly bring serious health problems, and the flat cans are now somewhat suspicious, and the extinction of the last civilization is because of this.

It's a pity that they can't understand the epic poems of the local wizards, otherwise they might be able to find some clues.

Several majestic warriors, dressed in ornate leopard-skin skirts with feather crowns and animal skin crowns draped over their heads, appeared in front of them.

Moreover, the group of people in the flat jar were gorgeously dressed, leather boots, silk clothing, polished and shiny belly armor, as well as exquisite jade with them, and the goods they sold were novel and unique, all of which indicated that they were not simple identities, and would naturally attract the attention of the nobles here.

The time has come for Zhao Xiaoyi to pretend to be forced.

Several of the samurai muttered a few words, and no one could understand them, but the pictographic stick figure resembling an oracle bone inscription was roughly understood, and the chair handed the stick figure to the samurai leader, who smiled when he saw it.

The painting shows a group of people coming from the sea in a large ship, and finally reached the north side of the place, and then passed through several city-states to come to them.

Each city along the way is marked by a temple that is unique to the local city, and in many places, the samurai leaders are also known.

At the edge of each Ayutthaya temple there was also an adult sitting on a chair with a tribal ritual vessel in his hand, and the little men on the boat would go to visit such an adult and offer a lot of gifts.

Then there is the exchange of supplies, and the little people on the boat are surrounded by small gold coins, and the adults are covered with all kinds of local products that can be understood at a glance.

The samurai leader muttered a few more words, and motioned for Zhao Xiaoyi and his party to go with them.

Soon, Biancan and his party met the city lord.

The lord of the castle was a sturdy middle-aged man, dressed in a cotton robe woven with beautiful patterns of dyed cotton threads, with a feather tiara and a jeweled breastlace, and he looked very polite.

The middle-aged man also had ministers like Zai Zhi under him, but he was smart, and the two sides exchanged views amicably using the painting mode invented by the chair.

Chair found that the "Prime Minister" was highly skilled in mathematics and astronomy, and when asked how long they had been sailing, the Prime Minister used a set of symbols to calculate time, the largest of which was fifty-two years.

Fifty-two is a magical cycle, and the flat jar and the chair look at each other, and both see the incredible in each other's eyes.

The people here have a very good grasp of astronomical knowledge.

In ancient China, the days named after the sun, moon, fire, water, wood, gold and earth were called Qiyao, also known as "Star Zhou".

In the Han Dynasty, in order to make up for the error of rotation and revolution, Xingzhou was divided into Ping Zhou and Runzhou.

Every fifty-two star weeks is a year.

Every fifty-two years, the alignment of the stars goes through a great cycle and returns to their original positions.

These astronomical achievements, the people here even know!