"How long is it going to take?"

It has been two full months since Cheng Pu's first tour of the camp after his "grounding". At this time, the location of the military camp was already hot, different from the heat in Liaodong, but it was still quite hot!

In the previous month or so, plus these two months, there were already a lot of prey caught, but there was still a lot of difference from the amount Cheng Pu wanted. He had planned to stay two months later, in the autumn months, and bring enough prey in exchange for enough seeds. However, at this time, the priest of the Indian Palm approached him and expressed his intention to set off immediately. Cheng Pu disagreed, but the sacrifice naturally had his reasons, but as soon as he expressed it, Cheng Pu and the rest of the generals were surprised.

"It takes five to eight months to go back and forth? So long? ”

Following Cheng Pu, Cheng Pu's lieutenant couldn't help but ask.

The sacrifice was calm, saying that it was like this before, with their foot strength, if they only went to one tribe, it would be enough for about two or three months. But considering Cheng Pu's requirements, they have to go to at least a dozen tribes to get it, so it will take a lot more time, and this is still taking into account the role of horses.

Cheng Pu didn't know what to do for a while, so he could only let the sacrifice rest first, and then discuss it with the deputy general and others.

In fact, there is nothing to discuss, after all, Cheng Pu's understanding of this continent is only a little bit that they have learned in almost a year, except for the pamphlet given by Gongsun Du. Therefore, it is already their luck to have a sacrificial leader who understands this, and there is no need to refuse, and the most important thing is that the words of Vice General Cheng Pu make it impossible for everyone to refute at all-

"At the moment, we've only found one potato, and it's still far from enough, even if the potatoes planted a few months ago were harvested, I'm afraid it's still far from enough. Therefore, whether it is to make up for the gap in the number of potatoes, or to find sweet potatoes and corn, it is necessary to go to each tribe first, if you can take this opportunity to find the best, if not, then you must find more Indian tribes as soon as possible, exchange, or ......"

The words are not exhausted, but they know the meaning!

Cheng Pu and the others were all flashing in their eyes.

However, then there was a disagreement over who would stay.

Cheng Pu insisted on leading the army in person, but his deputy general and the rest of the generals were different, and the reason was very good, that is, during the time when Cheng Pu was injured and treated, the atmosphere in the army was not very good, and they were worried that Cheng Pu would have an accident again, and then it would be difficult to go back.

It sounds a little ridiculous, but it's just the way it is. There is and there is no commander who is proficient in water warfare, it is completely different, both for the reasons of experience and his own ability. Otherwise, how can there be the words "if a soldier instigates one, he will instigate a nest"! The reverse makes sense.

The dispute between the two sides was finally decided until the sacrifice of the Indian Palm people came again. In the end, Cheng Pu suppressed other voices with his own prestige and went in person.

Subsequently, after two days of sorting and arrangement, Cheng Pu set off with two thousand five hundred sailors who had been hunting during this period of time, and their riding skills had been significantly improved, and there was a faint cavalry posture. The heavy shield soldiers stayed in the camp as the strongest guard force, no way, this trip, relying on speed, the heavy shield soldiers are obviously cumbersome, not meeting the requirements of this trip.

The reason why they could not catch up with this group of Indian Brown tribes that had been exterminated and recovered was because the heavy shield soldiers went with them and did not carry horses, otherwise they would have caught up before they fled into the forest. Moreover, the heavy shield soldiers are strong in the defense, and the guard camp can be said to have appropriately played its strengths.

In the following five months, Cheng Pu followed the Indian palm people to sacrifice and visited more than ten tribes, some of whom were willing to trade on an equal footing, and naturally some of them wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob and sit on the ground to raise prices. It's just a little bit of this meaning, but whoever kicks his nose in the face, Cheng Pu doesn't bother to tell them more, and the three thousand cavalry are galloping back and forth in the tribe, starting to do business. On the contrary, there are more seeds than those of other tribes.

However, this is also, people change and change, you can't change everything, you have to leave a part! Especially the tribes that have just harvested will definitely have to leave some seeds to be replaced next year. Well, the idea is good and worth encouraging!

The huge harvest also made Cheng Pu think differently, but in the end he still pressed it, because there were too few people in his hands, if there were 30,000 or 50,000 people, no, or 10,000 or 20,000, he would dare to try the edge of the Brown People. However, the fact is that he had only four thousand, oh, now there are only over three thousand nine hundred.

Even so, on the whole, the harvest of more than five months is still good, and the speed has obviously dropped a lot when I catch up. The number of potatoes is almost enough, and the sweet potatoes have also been obtained, and it is believed that at most there will be another year next year, and enough seeds will be obtained.

The only nerve-wracking thing is corn.

These more than ten tribes didn't even have such a thing, and the news that they had never heard of this thing after a little inquiry turned out to be troublesome.

Back in the camp, Cheng Pu summoned the generals to mention the matter. However, it is clear that in the face of this situation, everyone is at a loss in this unfamiliar place, and there is no effective advice.

In the end, Cheng Pu decided to wait for the snow to melt next year and then look for it further away. This year, it's already cold, and the weather looks like snow, so forget it!

In this way, Cheng Pu and others spent the second snowy winter in a foreign country, but the difference is that this time there are houses and a larger amount of wood for heating.

When the snow began to melt, Cheng Pu still arranged for people to hunt in exchange for seeds, and at the same time prepared to reclaim the land, plant, and most importantly, sent hundreds of people to start a search into the depths of the continent according to the words of the Indian palm people.

Time was not in a hurry, but Cheng Pu and the others were worried. Because they were about to set out again to exchange seeds for the tribes, the spies sent out failed to bring back the good news, as if corn did not exist at all, as if Gongsun Du had said something wrong.

Cheng Pu and the others naturally didn't believe it, they just felt that they were unlucky and couldn't find it, but in fact it was really like this. When the last tribe was trading, Cheng Pu got a clue from the tribe's sacrificial mouth.

It turned out that after last year's transaction, the sacrifice of this tribe tasted the sweetness, and after thinking about it, according to Cheng Pu's description, he arranged for the tribe's warriors to look around. In terms of familiarity with this land, it is natural that these Indian brown people are the best, so they really found it under their intentional search. At first, the priest thought it was a good thing, so he tried it, but it turned out that it was terrible to eat, and it was so hard that it was useless.

However, he didn't give up, but there are a lot of animals that like to eat this thing, so when he wanted to study it again after many days of the sacrifice, he found that the thing was gone, and there was not even any residue left. This made him worried, but it was cold, and he didn't want the warriors of the tribe to go out on an adventure, so he temporarily stopped thinking.

Soon after the snow melted at the beginning of the year, the priest thought about it again, but when the warrior who had found the corn took him to the place to look for it, he saw nothing but green grass all over the ground.

Now when Cheng Pu and the others came again, it was a few months later, and looking at the countless prey they had exchanged, a gambling thought couldn't help but rise in their hearts, so they brought it up.

"Your Excellency, look?" The priest looked at Cheng Pu with burning eyes, but he just didn't say where the specific place was.

Cheng Pu listened to the translation of the sacrifice, looked at the expression of the sacrifice, and still didn't understand what it meant, his face turned cold, and said: "If the situation is true, this commander will naturally have a reward." ”

With these words, the sacrifice was naturally ecstatic, and immediately took Cheng Pu and the others to that place.

After that, Cheng Pu really found corn under the leadership of the sacrifice, so he gave all the remaining prey to this tribe, so that the sacrifice was so happy that he couldn't find the north. Well, maybe he couldn't tell the difference between the southeast and the north!!

It's just that Cheng Pu has a headache, corn, according to the description in the booklet given by Gongsun Du, needs to be dried and preserved. Let's not talk about how to dry it, let's talk about how to store it on the return trip, which made him have a big head for a while. This time I was adrift on the sea, and there must have been a lot of rain, and then there was the sea breeze and waves, and the cabin was already very wet, how to get it?

Although he had a headache, Cheng Pu still harvested the corn first and prepared to bring it back to the barracks.