This is probably the Ming version of "Robinson Crusoe", right...... And it's not a solo drift version, it's still a crowd drift version.

Listening to the story of the Tibetan Sea monk, Zhang Shou couldn't help but have such a thought, and he felt a little embarrassed in his heart.

That place in the Americas, which countless people in later generations thought was a much better place - not to mention the free air, let alone the climate and environment, and many people yearn for it - most places are not too hot, not too cold, the land is fertile, suitable for the growth of crops, there are seashores, waterfalls, the Great Lakes, there are Yellowstone...... It can be said that development and scenery are at the same time.

However, compared with the interconnected continents of Asia, Europe and Africa, the early American continent has always been a large island completely isolated overseas, with no cultural and economic exchanges, and can only be silently closed on its own. What's more, compared with wheat and rice, which are relatively easy to domesticate in Asia and Europe, it took me an unknown number of years for corn and sweet potatoes to be domesticated from their initial form to their later form.

Moreover, in the era of complete isolation from the world, no foreign enemies, at most city-state wars, there were no natural enemies, and there was not much momentum for development. Even if it develops to the extreme of slavery...... Years of natural disasters have knocked you down.

Zhang Shou still remembers that until later generations, he could often hear all kinds of hurricanes and tornadoes in the news, blowing down houses at every turn and causing urban waterlogging. From this, it can be seen that going back hundreds or thousands of years, the living environment of that place is definitely not good, plus there is nothing to sacrifice to the heavens and gods to kill a person's head, and the so-called amazing civilization has not even entered the Iron Age......

Therefore, in that place, a handful of seafarers who did not have strong ships, and whose cannons were estimated to have sunk, and who did not know whether the muskets could be used or not, wanted to guide the natives to climb the technology tree when their own scientific and technological level was not high enough, and the population and settlement of the natives, as well as the resistance of the ruling class, the enemies of the external city-states, and all kinds of natural disasters were all big problems.

To develop such a huge continent, it is absolutely impossible without the backing of a strong country.

Daming is a powerful country, but how can the fleet that will drift across the ocean to the Americas, and then encounter shipwreck, how can it get strong assistance from the state? Moreover, as far as he had gotten from the Weinan Bo Zhang Kangna, at least he had never heard of an official fleet going to the continent to the east according to the records of the globe, and the merchant ships were probably not interested in taking such a risk.

Whether it is because the land of the Ming Dynasty is enough, and he is unwilling to waste money on ocean voyages, or for other reasons, it is unknown.

Moreover, Zhang Shou couldn't help but think of another deeper question, does the Dharma name of Zanghai Monk have any other meaning? Is this guy able to tell that story so well, is it true that he can only hear it, or has he experienced it firsthand before? These two people...... Maybe there are more crew members, and they won't be idle to find a new continent, right?

This is not like Columbus, with the support of the queen, who in the Ming Dynasty would fund such a meaningless move? The businessmen are too busy with sea trade to do business! If someone is funded, then they must know exactly that continent, and know that there are some people living on that continent! And yesterday, the old salted fish showed their mouth, and they went more than once!

Zhang Shou's thinking became more and more divergent, and when he was almost demonstrating the possibility of Emperor Taizu's exile on the American continent, Lao Xianyu spoke again: "Actually, the fragments of the stele I gave Dr. Zhang to you before were the steles carved by the original group of seafarers, and I don't know if it was a problem with the material of the stele, or if it was a natural or man-made disaster later, the stele was broken, and they still carried it when they migrated." ”

He looked at Zhang Shou with blazing eyes, and his face could not see the usual oily, cunning and sophisticated, but instead had a very serious expression: "If Dr. Zhang said that those handwriting are very similar to the words on Taizu's manuscript, then, I boldly guess, those people who fell above may have been sent by Emperor Taizu back then, so they carved a monument to praise Emperor Taizu?" ”

If I hadn't heard Zhu Ying say that Taizu set sail after the Zen throne and then never heard from him again, and then came into contact with a lot of things, I would really think your bold speculation sounds reasonable......

Zhang Shou secretly sighed in his heart, and then said thoughtfully: "Maybe, the possibility of what you said is not small." ”

Speaking of which, he looked sideways at Zhu Ying, and saw that the eldest lady's always bright and colorful face was a little dazed at this time, full of expressions that I was in a daze. He thought that she was a little dazed by the impact of that series of messages, so he simply stretched out his hand and shook it vigorously in front of her several times.

"Yingying, Yingying?"

"Ahh Zhu Ying came to her senses, and when she saw that Lao Xianyu and Zanghai were all looking at her, she glared at the two innocently, and then yawned and said, "Hey, I just heard that I was worshipping the gods and was thinking about Pi Thangka, the person of the Wu Sizang Xuanwei Division...... I didn't expect there to be anything more barbaric than them. ”

"Old salted fish, I just blamed you for it. If you hadn't happened to be there, the poor seafarer would have been buried in a foreign land for the rest of his life. By the way, did you bring back the bones of him and the others? If you don't have the money to return to their roots and bury them in their hometown, I can fund you with a little money. has been trapped overseas for so many years, and it is only then that I met the Chinese, which can be regarded as a legend. ”

With her attitude of both caring and not caring, the old salted fish couldn't help but muttered in her heart, secretly wondering if she had heard her own speculation? However, he reacted quickly, and immediately said with a smile on his face: "Then I will really thank you on behalf of them." ”

Zhang Shou smiled, but he didn't mention the so-called Taizu handwriting stele, but looked up at the sky and said: "It's getting late, this vegetable garden won't be finished for a while, since they have all eaten dinner, we should also have a good meal and rest for a night before getting down to business." ”

"Ahem, look at my memory." The old salted fish hurriedly patted his head, and then salivated and said, "There are all kinds of fresh melons, fruits, vegetables and vegetables in this vegetable garden, but the tomatoes were planted in a greenhouse in my other vegetable garden before, and there are not many in total, and there is no stock here, Dr. Zhang, don't you want to show your skills?" ”

Seeing Zhang Shou smile, he was noncommittal, and the thick-skinned old salted fish added: "If you are too troublesome, why don't you instruct me to grill two fish?" I don't have much chili pepper stock in Cangzhou City, but there are a lot of dried ones here, and there are quite a few types......"

Before he finished speaking, Zhang Shou coughed and said: "Okay, the kitchen, tableware, condiments, and ingredients, you can find them all for me, and you can clean them up after you finish it, but what to do depends on my mood." ”

"Okay, okay, I understand, I understand!"

Zanghai originally despised the old salted fish for being so soft and spineless in front of the children of the powerful - even if it was pretended. However, when he saw Zhang Shou take Ah Liu with a basket of utensils that he didn't know what to go down to the kitchen in person, and then saw several large dishes of fresh vegetables coming out of his own vegetable garden, and finally two grilled fish were delivered, his eyes straightened.

The future uncle of the Zhao Guogong Mansion...... How can this cook? Don't they all say that gentlemen are far away from cooking?

When the meal was over, it was the turn of the old salted fish to carry the Tibetan sea with contempt to clean those plates, dishes and chopsticks. Facing the whole set of porcelain plates and bowls with exquisite colors and beautiful glazes, seeing Zanghai's praise, as if some messy words were coming out of his mouth, the old salted fish hit the other party with his elbow, and stopped people from talking with his eyes, but he chattered.

"I've told you that Dr. Zhang is a very different person, and I see that he can't fight anything else...... Even if he can't fight, the young man next to him is also a first-class master. Tsk, no wonder she can be worthy of the eldest lady of the Zhao Guogong Mansion......"

It wasn't until he was chattering that he finished washing the whole set of tableware that seemed to be worth a lot of money, and then saw Zhu Hong and Zhu Yi come to take it away, and asked for hot water to scald it one by one.

This Tibetan Sea Courtyard is his own territory, and there are so many apprentices with good martial arts Wang Feng, Zanghai is very incomprehensible to the old salted fish's too cautious style, seeing that this is going farther and farther, he can't help but stop angrily.

"Although my dozen or so apprentices are not top-notch, they are not blind and deaf, do you need such a bow and snake shadow? Cangzhou is a place, even if it is a dragon crossing the river, it has to be allowed to sit on the ground. ”

"Don't talk about this old calendar! In front of the great prince, the top cross-river dragon, and after the Mingwei general Zhu Tingfang, a strong passer-by, what about the tiger? Who has jumped? Chivalry violates the ban with martial arts, who dares to really fight with the government? Even Yunhe, that stupid boy, was also forced to be cornered, so he did something stupid in a fit of anger, but he didn't dare to oppose his mother. ”

The old salted fish sneered at each other a few words, and seeing that the good brother who had been doing so for many years still didn't think so, he said angrily: "Be careful, you think I said that the little brother next to Dr. Zhang is a master and is flattering?" That kid is amazing. Hundreds of pounds of stone fragments, he carried them and left. And looking at the capable guards around the eldest lady, they all respect people. ”

Zanghai couldn't help but snort coldly: "According to what you say, whoever the court sends down, we all have to kneel and fuck it?" ”

"Send corrupt officials and corrupt officials, of course, to retreat, otherwise people may extort money; Send Qing officials and capable officials, and also retreat, otherwise people are likely to hold the martial arts. Otherwise, how do you think Cangzhou City is so lifeless these days? Yunhe doesn't matter, the eight people who were locked up in the palace with him, all of them kowtowed to their masters and learned martial arts, do you think whose master came out for them? ”

Seeing that Zanghai was speechless, the old salted fish sighed and said: "Like us, only in a place like Cangzhou, where martial arts are prosperous, can it be like a drop of water falling into the sea and not being visible." Do you still want to jump? Afraid that people won't know that we are back home? ”

"But since I have fallen into the eyes of the court, don't think about getting out. That's right, don't stare at me, how do I know that I can be targeted even if I sell salted fish on Shuishi Street? How did I know that stinky boy in Yunhe would rebel? In short, anyway, it's not the enemy or the government who came to the door to ask the guilt, so you might as well give it a try......"

"What to try?"

Zanghai's face was as black as a pot helmet: "You want to tell people that when we crossed the ocean to the eastern continent after nine deaths, we were funded to find the whereabouts of Emperor Taizu?" The pair of young ladies outside are top dignitaries, once they tell the current emperor, it's strange not to cut us with a knife to confuse the public! ”

"I have seen a lot of knowledge in my words and deeds in the past two days, and if people want to cut me, they will rush at me Yunhe's uncle, and they will already arrest me and cut me with a knife...... I forgot to tell you, because when that kid in Yunhe was chased by me, I almost implicated the second son of the Zhao State Mansion. In short, my Zhu family and them are destined to be fateful! ”

Seeing that Zanghai had a disgusted expression on his face, the old salted fish sighed.

"I don't want anything else, I just think about what Old Master Mu said when he saw us before he died, and I feel that it is not a way for us to hide in Cangzhou incognito. Not to mention anything else, will the melons, fruits, vegetables and vegetables grown from the seeds that we have brought back from such a distant place in this vegetable garden always be eaten by ourselves and never let outsiders know? ”

"What those people are doing on that continent in the far east, it's been buried like this all along? Their ashes are buried in your Tibetan courtyard, and they will never return to their hometown? Don't stare at me, I know that as long as we go out separately and quietly go to their hometown, it is not impossible to bury their ashes in the ancestral grave, or the mountains and rivers of their hometown, but the descendants should not know the merits of the ancestors. ”

Seeing that the monk of Zanghai was finally speechless, the old salted fish breathed a sigh of relief and said: "To be honest, I have never seen so many powerful children from the capital in my life like in the past few days. So, I'm going to give it a try. If you really lose your life, you deserve it. ”

"You deserve it yourself, what are you pulling me into the water......" Zanghai glared at him angrily, but finally said helplessly, "I know, if you want to try, you can try, I have to be responsible for the large number of people I have here who need to eat." Anyway, I've already said that you brought the people back, and I'm just helping you raise them, and I won't admit anything else! ”

"Okay, then it's decided."

The old salted fish smiled and suddenly raised his head as if he was aware.

But the wall not far away was empty, only the bright moonlight, as if what he had first felt was only an illusion.

Although there was not an empty house in the lower courtyard of Zanghai, Miss Zhu still slept in her special carriage. As for Zhang Shou, he set up a special cowhide tent outside the carriage and sprinkled it with insect repellent medicine, although it was a little cramped, but it was not difficult for him to accept. After a night walk and eating, he was about to fall asleep when he returned to the tent when he heard the sound of someone tapping the cowhide gently.

The next moment, Ah Liu's head poked in. Seeing Zhang Shou beckoning, he took off his shoes and went in, and then sat cross-legged in front of Zhang Shou. Without Zhang Shou asking, he relayed the words he overheard one by one, and finally said: "Although I hid quickly, I think that the old salted fish found me." ”

Zhang Shou has always trusted Ah Liu's judgment, he muttered silently for a while, and finally smiled: "Since he is silent, you should not have such a thing." Don't worry about it, wait for the poor dagger to see, and then do the calculation. ”