Chapter 417: Winter in Alaska
In fact, the Sioux, or Sioux, should be considered one of the most famous among all the Indians.
In addition to their inferior farming skills to the Mayans, their fighting skills also allowed them to hold on to this vast habitat.
Most of the Sioux live in the western plains of North America, and they still live mainly by hunting, supplemented by farming.
And the Maya, who were the most famous in later generations, also belonged to the Indians.
But the way the two became famous is a little different, one is to rely on their own force to dominate for a while, the other is to rely on cultural inheritance, and a certain movie to let many people who have never known them know that there is such a thing?
But in any case, it doesn't matter whether they are civilized or barbaric.
Under the powerful oriental civilization, they can only withdraw from the stage of history in this era.
It can even be said unceremoniously that the Chinese civilization of this era is the most powerful civilization in the entire world.
After landing again, Li Yuanjing's fangs were completely exposed.
Directly sent two thousand troops to storm the tribe that the Soviet Department called a powerful tribe.
The battle situation is naturally one-sided again, and the so-called strong is only relative.
In the face of the Tang army, which is armed to the teeth, what area will they take to resist?
In this battle, the Tang army captured thousands of people, and Li Yuanjing did not show too much mercy on the treatment of these thousand people, and directly pulled them to the mine to open the mine.
Let the people of the Soviet Department supervise and lead them, and then send a thousand men to work while they are in charge of the vigilance, and mine as much coal as possible to replenish the fleet.
"This voyage is still a bit hasty, we should build a few more transport ships and come out again!" The eldest grandson shook his head a little helplessly.
In fact, he'd already figured out the problem.
Of course, the eldest grandson didn't think that Li Yuanjing hadn't found out.
Otherwise, why would those converted transport ships appear?
Although a full load can allow them to sail for two months, the endurance is still too small for now.
Especially in the absence of any resource supply grounds, this voyage is becoming more and more reckless.
What if they don't find a coal mine on the land they go to next?
Even if you find a coal mine, you can stop and search, then develop, and then then deal with and replenish in the later stage, and this set of processes can be regarded as fast in three months.
"How can there be so many absolutes in this world?" Li Yuanjing smiled.
In a hurry?
Perhaps!
But is it really not worth it?
Not necessarily!
The road they took this time was actually to pave the way for future generations.
This is also the reason why Li Yuanjing has repeatedly explored the scale of the coal mine, and if the scale is right, he can plan a permanent port here for the supply of ships.
But these are far from enough, in addition, Li Yuanjing also plans to set up two or three supply points in the middle, so that the fleet can directly sail to the ocean without supply ships.
In fact, the development of society is inseparable from the development of the transportation industry, and it can even be concluded that the more powerful the development of the transportation industry, other industries will definitely follow with the vigorous development, which are almost complementary to each other.
Li Yuanjing is very clear about the future development process, so Li Yuanjing does not plan to do those things where his children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren.
What he wants to do now is to start the first industrial age, but there are many aspects involved in an industrial age.
It doesn't seem to matter whether you know it or not, as long as you can come up with the concept and make the steam engine more and more powerful, the rest is the business of those professionals.
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Winter in Alaska seems to come early, and it's still September, and the weather here can change as it goes, with all of a sudden heavy snow and strong winds.
The temperature dropped suddenly, and even the strong soldiers, many of them fell ill with a cold for a while.
The busiest of these times were the medical officers of the fleet, constantly running around, but the current situation was a dilemma for them, and there was nothing they could do.
They underestimated the winter attack power here, even though they had heard it mentioned by Ruka before.
And Ruka had previously warned that winter was coming, and their current preparations would not be able to cope with the whole winter.
But many people scoff at this, what are they wearing?
Two layers of big cotton jackets, big cotton pants, and big cotton boots, what kind of winter can't resist?
But reality slapped them hard, including Li Yuanjing.
As a result of carelessness, the entire ship, the boiler warehouse became a sweet spot in the eyes of everyone.
Although the fleet was stationary, the boilers were warmed up at regular intervals every day, and even the flames in the boilers were uninterrupted for twenty hours.
It is nothing more than to control the amount of coal burned and the size of the flame.
At this time, being able to guard such a hot baby as the boiler can definitely make people wake up with a smile when they sleep.
"I don't think we can wait any longer, we have to leave as soon as possible, or find a solution!" The eldest grandson said.
"Your Highness, the question that must be resolved now is, what should be done with those sick soldiers? These people must be quarantined, otherwise there is a high chance that they will be transmitted to others, and once the entire fleet is sick, it will be catastrophic! Said the accompanying chief medical officer.
"No, the mine is going to stop, more than twenty people died yesterday, and nearly fifty people have died in just three days, and if this continues, those captives will riot!" Fang Yiai also followed suit.
The affairs of the coal mine are mainly in charge of Fang Yiai, and the matter of the dead man is actually a bit unexpected.
The soldiers of the Tang Army naturally knew the dangers caused by coal burning, and even the entire people of the Tang Dynasty knew about it, because when promoting coal, they had been clearly told what environment they should use it.
Even if the conditions don't allow it, you must open the windows, if it's too cold to open them all, then open a third, and dare to seal the house tightly to burn coal, then wait to kick your legs.
But these natives didn't know, they still thought that this thing was valuable, and Tang Jun did it on purpose, and then secretly hid some while they were working.
When I returned to the shed at night, I took it out and put it on, and the heating effect was really good.
But when the coal is burned, there will be a smell, and they are worried that the Tang army on patrol will smell this smell and find them.
So, a group of people did not die to seal the shed, one is too cold, the seal is tighter to help keep warm, and the other is to avoid them from being discovered.
Then the more than 20 people in the entire shed kicked their legs overnight.
"The problem of soldier isolation is easy to say, you can try to use wood reinforcement, tent isolation, and use straw and dry leaves to keep warm outside, then the house is lit on fire, it should not be a big problem." Xue Rengui said.
Many tents had been crushed by the university, causing the soldiers to have to withdraw to the ship and return to live in the cramped cabin, although the air quality was a little worse, but the victory was that the seal was tight enough, although it was still very cold, but fortunately, the cold wind outside could not blow in, only the time when the wind was changed regularly every day was more uncomfortable.
But this choice also greatly increased the frequency of illness among soldiers, and Xue Rengui had to find a way to solve this problem.