Chapter 229: Culture and Cuisine
Niu Jinxing gave an explanation to Fu Guan about Zhu Youxiao's strategy in the Americas, and then followed Yu Hualong's fleet to New Luoyang, for the territory in North America, they just supported it according to Zhu Youxiao's intentions, and sent some people to live here, leaving half of the fleet as a tool for future exchanges, and the places they most wanted to go to were New Luoyang and New Chang'an, where was the place they were most concerned about.
Bidding farewell to Zhao Shujiao, Fu Guan, and Man Gui, Yu Hualong and Niu Jinxing took the remaining fleet of more than 100 ships and sailed all the way south, this time they didn't plan to rob the Spaniards again, because the time of the last robbery was not long from now, and it was estimated that they didn't save enough to impress their minds, and they occupied almost three months in Zhao Ducheng and Fu Guancheng, so they directly made a full supply in Fu Guancheng, and went straight to the territory of Yidao and Bull along the straight line.
After half a month of sailing, the fleet successfully arrived at the first destination, looking at the stronger knife and bull than a year ago, Yu Hualong and Niu Jinxing were also sincerely happy. When Yidao was sold to a different place, although it was very strong, it was just a character, and it was still not very strong physically, after all, there was not enough to eat at that time, and the same was true for bulls, but now it is different, here they are all leaders, plus Li Shaoxian's help, the days of lack of food and clothing are gone, and now they are living very well.
Since defeating the Spanish attack with the help of Li Shaoxian, Yidao and Bull they have expanded a lot to the northeast, including Peru in later generations, crossing the northern mountains, and controlling the upper Amazon in their own hands. These people have also joined their territory, which has expanded their territory several times compared to last year.
With the management level of Yidao and Bull, they would definitely not be able to manage such a huge land, and it was also thanks to the help of Li Shaoxian that these areas were divided into more than a dozen small provinces, and the hardcore subordinates of Yidao and Bull served as the leaders of each place, and then controlled them from the weapon, so that these areas began to develop well, and the social order was very stable. On this basis, whether it is the residents of the dense forest, the grassland or the deep mountains, in order to obtain better living conditions, they have come out one after another, and they have merged with a knife and a bull to form a powerful national alliance. In the primitive society, people have very little interaction, only the neighboring tribes have some relations, which has caused a language barrier, which affects the mutual communication between them, in order to solve this problem, Yidao and Bull discussed with Li Shaoxian, using a unified script to standardize the language problem, and the forced Spanish language is definitely not good, so it began to try to promote the culture of Chinese characters.
Chinese character culture has a very good place, that is, there are a lot of pictographs, and the primitive culture is evolved from hieroglyphs, which makes people very easy to accept, in order to vigorously promote Chinese character education, Li Shaoxian, a guy who is both civil and military, selected the pictographs in Chinese characters and printed them into books, and explained the change process of the text little by little, which allowed the indigenous Indians to combine and interpret a small number of hieroglyphs they retained, and finally achieved remarkable results. However, there are also many Chinese characters that have changed their shape here and become somewhat inexplicable, but this does not hinder people's communication, and after a few hundred years, a kind of Chinese called South American Chinese has been formed in the South American continent, which can basically be used in common with Chinese, just like the English English and American English in later generations.
With the wide spread of Chinese characters and Chinese here, and the integration of local written language, the mainstream culture of Ming society has also begun to take root here, people's living habits naturally began to advocate the way of Ming, raw and cold food will naturally be abandoned, cooked food, food culture began to prevail here, at the same time, various epidemic diseases began to decrease, people's physical condition began to improve significantly, the infectious diseases brought from Europeans became less, and the population began to increase rapidly. The same traditional Chinese medicine has gained popularity.
With the arrival of Yu Hualong and Niu Jinxing, the fleet naturally brought countless local goods from the Ming Dynasty, and the most popular thing here was the lighter, which surprised the two of them. In fact, this is a very natural phenomenon, fire is an idol worshiped by many peoples, because its appearance has made people's eating habits change dramatically. The harsh natural conditions have caused people in primitive life to lose their health early, and malnutrition has always been a part of the entire social life. When they reach a certain age, malnutrition causes tooth loss, and people who have lost their teeth cannot use the raw fruit and indigestible raw meat, and what awaits them is to die step by step. With the use of fire, many foods become more edible and relatively nutritious, which has a great impact on increasing people's life expectancy. When people's life expectancy becomes longer and longer, the experience of the elderly can be passed on from generation to generation, which promotes the rapid development of society.
The preservation of fire is a very difficult thing, in addition to easy to cause fire, there is also the possibility of extinguishing because of poor storage, the biggest hidden danger is rainy weather, unless there is a very good storage environment to preserve, the loss of fire source may cause the extinction of the tribe, this is people's simple perception of fire. Therefore, in the primitive tribes, the fire has become the most important thing of the tribe, whether it is the use of heavenly fire, that is, because of the fire caused by thunderstorms, or the ancient drilling wood for fire, these are very accidental phenomena, now a light dozen can get the fire lighter naturally became people's pets, who does not like this very convenient thing?
The degree of lighter selling here is beyond people's expectations, and the pots and pans related to eating make these indigenous Indians interested, wonderful cooking methods, complex cooking processes, and finally delicious food, which greatly tempted people's appetite, so that the indigenous Indians flocked to the vulture, and some Ming craftsmen who had just landed became the object of their pursuit, which made Niu Jinxing cry and laugh.
The pursuit of delicious food, so that other products of the Ming Dynasty are more popular here, from the original iron pot for each family or each small tribe to cook rice, to the later stir-frying, cooking rice using different pots, and then put some different foods into a pot to stew the formation of hot pot, which greatly enriches people's diet, especially the hot pot this way of eating, it can make many people eat together, and can also sing and dance in the process of eating, increasing people's endless fun, So that everyone can enjoy it to the fullest.
Wonderful food naturally cannot lack seasonings, the fleet will naturally bring some commonly used spices here, as for those precious spices will naturally not be too much, those in the Ming Dynasty are extremely precious things, can only appear in the restaurants opened here in the future, ordinary people are impossible to buy, only after arriving here to start extensive trade, it is possible to enter some people's tables, these are things in the future, can not solve this problem for the time being.
Li Shaoxian's genius idea solved the method of promoting Chinese characters in mainland South America, which made the Ming culture spread rapidly here. A small lighter here opened the way for the Ming lifestyle to flourish here, this is something that even Zhu Youxiao can't imagine, it seems that as long as the grassroots officials are under pressure, their ideas are really endless. This also opened up an idea for Zhu Youxiao to colonize more places in the future, especially for places that like food. The end result is that Chinese cuisine with various spices has become popular all over the world under the vigorous promotion of the Ming Dynasty and has become an alternative form of Chinese civilization.