Chapter 1191: The First Great Geographical Discovery - Raiding the Camp
(Because there was only one change yesterday, I gave 500 words to book friends)
"Jerónimo, I don't suspect you of a lie, but this matter is really important, and you are often confused, so I have to come and see for myself. And I brought the whole tribe here, which is enough to prove that I did not suspect that you were lying. Chief Zilika said.
After saying this, he turned his head again to look at the place in front of him, which was now very quiet and dimly lit, and said to himself, "There are ten people in each soft room, and there are at least a thousand people in the whole place, and there should be people on board." ……”
"The weapons they use are also very strange, they are made of something very peculiar and look very hard." Chief Qi Lika picked up a long strip of arrows that Cao Guangxiao accidentally left in the forest: "They use this weapon with wood in the middle, but arrows are also like this. ”
"These people are also a little different from us, they are whiter, and they don't have tattoos on their faces, arms, or calves. Their leader (referring to Zhu Bai), the person with the most gorgeous clothes should be their leader, and his appearance is similar to that of ordinary people. ”
"Chief Zilika, it seems that they are not from the south. The people in the south like to bleed, and the leader looks very strange. Another middle-aged man said. When he was younger, he had traveled to the south, and he had come into contact with those who had built huge stone platforms, and they were completely different from the group in front of him.
"They may be from the sea! It could be some island in the middle of the ocean. Legend has it that there are many islands in the sea, and the people of the islands are good at building ships. Chief Zilika said.
"What should we do with them?" Jerónimo asked.
"They should be fought!" "This is our home, the beasts of the mountains, the fish and shrimp of the sea, and the land are ours!" And they are aggressors! ”
"But there are many of them, and," said another young man, pointing to the arrow in Chief Zilika's hand, "and with such a sharp weapon." ”
"It's night, it's dark, they can't see ours. And we are very familiar with the terrain, and even if we fail, we can escape under the cover of the forest and night. If that fails, recruit more tribal warriors to come and destroy them together! ”
"And I also got instructions from the gods, who don't want his peace to be broken by these foreign sea people!"
After he said this, everyone had no objection, lifted the spear with a sharpened stone tied to his head, and slowly hurried towards the camp of the Ming army. The chieftain Zilika removed the iron head of the arrow and attached it to his spear.
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"Until now, I couldn't believe that there really was such a vast expanse of land on the other side of the sea!" A young man dressed in a straight clothes with a moon head on his head knelt on the straw mat, picked up the wine glass on the small table in front of him and took a sip, and said with a sigh.
"And it's borderlands! God really favors Daming! Another young man in the same outfit as him also said with emotion.
These two are the leaders of the samurai sent by Sagami Province to 'escort' their own women this time, one of them is named Miura Yuzhen, and the other is named Fujiwara Keiku.
"That's right, but since we've seen it, this land won't belong to Daming alone." Miura said: "The mainland that came to the East from Japan, especially our Sagami country, is closer to the mainland than from the Ming country, and we have also seen this route, although it is difficult to build ships suitable for sailing, but it can be built." ”
"We must not let the Ming Kingdom dominate this continent." He continued, "This is both a gift from God to Daming and a gift to Japan. There are too many people in Japan, there are more than 10 million people on the three small islands, and now the grain grown is almost not enough for the domestic people to eat, but now that the Ming Dynasty has opened up trade, it can not only make money, but also import cheap Ming rice to eat, and later there is even cheaper Nanyang rice. As a result, the Kansai Imperial Court feared that Nanyang rice would be too cheap and would bankrupt the farmers in the country and thus the daimyos. Of course, perhaps the Ashikaga family is happy about this. ”
"Youzhen, their surname is Yuan. Even if you don't recognize them as kings, there's no doubt that their ancestors were Genji. Fujiwara Keijiu said suddenly.
"That kind of foreign country, even if the Ming Dynasty bows down to the ear, don't think that I will admit that he is the king." Miura Yuzhen said hatefully: "Don't mention their family." Japan is closer to the mainland in the east than the Ming Dynasty is to the mainland in the east, so we can organize our own fleet, cross the sea to the mainland, occupy a place as an overseas territory, let the farmers who have no land in the country come here to farm, and then send the samurai from each family who are willing to go overseas to manage the farmers. Now because there are too many samurai in the country, many samurai are hungry and have to go to the Ming Dynasty to fight as soldiers, and they can come to this continent in the east in the future, which can not only feed themselves, but also continue to serve Japan. ”
"I don't think the land here is suitable for growing rice. When I was a child, I lived in the countryside for a long time, and I also went to Daming, so I can distinguish between different soils. Fujiwara Keiku said.
"Why do you always say useless things!" Miura Youzhen glanced at him dissatisfied: "If you can't grow rice, you can grow wheat, the people of the Ming Dynasty can eat wheat, and we Japanese can also eat wheat." ”
"The important thing is to get the Ming people to agree that we occupy a place. This continent is so big, the area will not be smaller than the mainland of the Ming Dynasty, and the population of the Ming Dynasty is not large, and they have a lot of places to immigrate, and it is impossible to fill this land in a short time, or even a few decades. Why can't we Japan occupy a side? ”
Fujiwara Keijiu suddenly said: "It is said that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty sealed the entire land across the sea to Zhu Bai, the king of Xiang, and I think he must have regretted it when he knew that this land was so big." In the future, a country on a par with the Ming Dynasty will emerge here, even if it is a hundred or even two hundred years from now. ”
"The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty will never allow this to happen. He will crown a lot of princes and even county kings to come here as kings, and he can finally send those princes in the country away. This will give us the opportunity to obtain the ownership of a certain piece of land from the prince who has been sealed to this side, even if it is a very cold place in the north. He continued.
"That's a good point." Miura Tomozhen said approvingly: "And we can also unite with the merchants of the Ming Kingdom." Even though the merchants of the Ming Kingdom were now of a higher status than before, they were still lower, and they were still restricted from buying land in the country. Join forces with us to control a piece of land and become a lord in their own fields, and they will definitely be willing. ”