In later generations, although Australia was known as a country on the back of sheep, agriculture and animal husbandry were very developed, but in this era, there was no agriculture and animal husbandry in the whole of Australia.

Before the arrival of Westerners, Australia's Aboriginal people had not learned to grow crops, and they lived mainly by hunting and gathering.

People don't grow crops, and all their food depends on wild fruits, plant roots, and all kinds of meat.

Compared with the Indians of the Americas, who have long been experts in planting, the Australian natives are very primitive, and they rely purely on luck to eat.

The people here are so primitive that they can't grow, weave, or smelt, and can only simply breed, that is, they keep wild animals in captivity and chase water and grass to survive.

Although there is wild wheat here, at most they will roast the wheat kernels and eat them, not even boil them.

It won't be because they lack tools, and the people here don't make pots at all.

Even weapons, people here only know simple spears, darts, arrows, and knives.

Their houses are also built only with mud, weeds, and tree branches, which is comparable to the primitive style of the African continent.

Therefore, they have never eaten flour, and the meatloaf baked with flour is a delicacy that they have never tasted at all.

The native gave the meatloaf to the children, and when he saw their happy expressions, he turned around again.

He fumbled around his body, took off the necklace made of some animal bones that hung around his neck, and held it in his hand.

Turning back to the place where the exchange of food began, he placed the necklace on the ground and retreated.

Zhang Wu understood what he meant, and waited for him to go back before he stepped forward to pick up the necklace. I don't know what kind of animal bone it was made of, and it has been rubbed very smooth.

He couldn't help but slander in his heart, damn, this ghost thing may be very valuable in their hearts, but what he wants more is the gold jewelry they wear!

Of course, it would be nice to know where the gold was obtained.

He picked up the necklace and looked at it, then turned back to ask a few subordinates. "If any of you still has gold coins on him, lend me some of them first."

He was originally hopeless, because gold coins are still very rare and expensive for ordinary soldiers, and now that he is going to the ocean, no one is willing to come out with gold coins.

But to his surprise, Duan Renzhi, who liked to talk and laugh all day long, took out two gold coins.

Because Duan Renzhi likes to socialize and has a good personality, he was sent by Sunan to be responsible for liaison by his side.

He smiled and said, "When my subordinates were in Star City, they won the championship because of Keju, and each member of the team was rewarded with two gold coins by His Royal Highness. ”

"I'll pay you back later." Zhang Wu took the gold coin, held it in his hand and held it up.

He first made the other party see the color of the gold clearly, then made a gesture to put it in his pocket, and then made a gesture to return the bone necklace to them.

After doing this a few times, and seeing that the natives understood, he put the bone necklace back in its place and led the crowd to retreat.

The other party really understood his movements, and when he saw them retreating, he couldn't wait to rush over. He happily put the necklace around his neck again, then took off the gold-like ornament and laid it there.

But the matter was not over, and when he put a piece of it, he seemed to feel that he could not get too happy, and took off a yellow bracelet from his wrist, put it on the ground, and made a gesture to put food in his mouth.

It's July, it's the season of winter in Nanzhou, and the days of this small tribe are obviously not good, they are short of food, and they care very much about what they eat.

Zhang Wu stepped forward and picked up the bracelet and pendant, and looked at it carefully, it was indeed made of gold.

His heart was happy, and his expression when he looked at the other party was much gentler.

Although it was not yet possible to tell how high the price of gold was on the other side, judging from the other party's expression, it was obvious that they thought that gold was not as valuable as the bone necklace.

Since that's the case, then he won't be polite.

He turned around and said to Duan Renzhi: "Go and bring a few more meatloafs, as well as coarse cloth and glass skewers." ”

Duan Renzhi made a military salute, quickly ran back to the location of the Chinese army, found a young army general in charge of baggage, and took a piece of cloth and a box of glass strings from the cart.

But there weren't many meatloaf, and there were more than a dozen truckloads of kangaroo jerky smoked when we camped last night.

This kangaroo meat was hunted during their march. After the kangaroo is killed, the kangaroo is skinned and the internal organs are removed, leaving only the meat in the water to cook.

These cooked jerky are then stretched, smeared with spices, and let them air dry.

Although the temperature here is not high and the jerky dries slowly, the jerky does not rot.

He casually beckoned a soldier, picked up a kangaroo hind leg, and followed him to the front.

They put the jerky and the cloth, as well as the box of glass skewers, on the floor. Zhang Wu picked up the bracelet left by the other party and gestured again, indicating that he still wanted these things, and then retreated.

Zhang Wu was very careful, afraid that the other party would not understand what these things were, so he first tore off the cloth and made a gesture on his body. Then I opened the box with the glass skewers, afraid that the other party would not open the box.

This time, the other party's speed was faster, and before they could retreat, the other party couldn't wait to run over, pick up the hind legs on the ground and look at the fabric, and finally fixed their eyes on the box of glass strings.

The man shouted, and several more people came from their ranks. They saw that the fabric was not unusual, but they hung the glass strings on their bodies, and then tried to cut a piece of jerky that had not yet hardened with a knife, and several people shared it.

Afterwards, a few people were grunting and not knowing what to say, and one of them picked up the glass skewers, hind them, and ran back to their base camp at the edge of the woods.

After a while, more natives came running, each of them holding several pieces of gold in his hand, and the strong man who looked like a leader also took off a golden knife hanging from his waist.

Putting them down, they made another gesture of putting food into their mouths and retreated.

Looking at the small pile of gold on the ground, Zhang Wu couldn't help laughing, turned around and said, "Let someone pull a cart of kangaroo jerky...... No, two cars coming. ”

There are about 200 people on the other side, and a cart of kangaroo jerky is not piled up much because it has to be air-dried, about two or three hundred catties, which is not enough for one catty for the other party.

These kangaroo meat are hunted by them along the way, and there is no cost at all, and marinating these jerky means consuming some spices.

Although this spice is expensive, the cost is very low, and for Daming, it is simply negligible.

But now the other party has put a small pile of gold, the gold is very heavy, this small pile, I'm afraid there are more than a thousand taels.

Although these gold impurities are a little more, no matter how you calculate them, they are making a lot of money.

Thinking about the cost control and profit calculation of their class learning, the higher the profit, the better. Those who do so are profiteers, and the best trade is what both sides earn, so that the trade will last.

So he hesitated for a moment and "generously" decided to give the other party two carts of jerky.

In Dongying, the war in Bengkulu gave Zhang Wu some experience in fighting. But in trade, he is just a newcomer, and he can only talk on paper.

But Zhang Wu is really a bit clumsy, and the transactions between him and the natives do not conform to the norms of commodity trading at all, but because of this reality, he has won the favor of the natives.

The natives, apparently having never seen a cart, were in a very happy mood to see the soldiers pulling two carts of dried meat and placing them on the hay piece by piece.

At this time, a child who looked to be only seven or eight years old, saw so much dried meat, and couldn't wait to run over when the Ming soldiers were still unloading the meat.

The natives were shocked, and by the time they remembered shouting for the little child, he had already run to the side of the Ming soldiers, looking at the pieces of meat with greedy eyes.

The natives became nervous, made defensive movements, and looked at the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

And the soldiers of Daming were also a little confused, looking at this little child, they didn't know what to do to her, and finally their eyes were fixed on Zhang Wu's body.

Zhang Wu smiled, turned around and looked at Zhang Wei and said, "Give me a piece of caramel on your body." ”

Zhang Wei has liked to eat candy since he was a child, and on this expedition, he brought a lot of caramel from home. When I arrived at the old port, I used my pocket money to buy a lot of Nanyang caramel candy.

Zhang Wu knew this younger brother's hobby, so he directly asked him for a piece of candy.

Zhang Wei said with a smile: "It's better to coax the child or me to go out, you go over, I'm afraid I won't scare him into crying." ”

From the purse on his waist, Zhang Wei took out a piece of candy, and then walked towards the child with a smile.

This child is much darker than Daming's child, and his arms are smeared with white paint like a ghost.

It was winter, but he had only a kangaroo skin on him, and the hills were full of dry grass roots, branches, and stones, but they didn't even have shoes.

Walking in front of the little child, he squatted down, originally wanting to reach out and touch the little child's head, but thinking of their experience in the country of Majapahit, he quickly withdrew his hand.

He put the candy in the little child's hand, then took another piece of it himself and stuffed it into his mouth.

The little child quickly put the candy in his mouth, and then laughed intoxicated by the sweetness in his mouth.

He turned around and ran back, and at this time, the tension between the two sides eased, and the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty continued to unload the meat.

The little boy ran back to his tribe, but took the candy out of his mouth, shoved it into a woman's mouth, and let her lick it, then gave it to the other children, and finally shoved it into his own mouth.

One of the children began to cry, but this time, anyway, the child refused to share it with them.

But he was very smart, and when he saw that the little kid was crying all the time, he pulled him and walked to the side of the Ming camp again.

This time, even the others did not dissuade them, wanting to see what the Ming soldiers would do.

And Zhang Wei was not stingy, and gave the crying child a piece of candy.

But he didn't expect that the other party was getting more and more inches, and this time, more than a dozen children came at once, all of them surrounded him and asked him for candy.

He simply took off his purse and gave all the sugar to the children.

Seeing that he was no more, the children gave up, but they had no fear of the Ming soldiers, and looked at their clothes curiously, and playfully climbed up and down on the freshly unloaded and dirty carts.

Zhang Wu's heart moved, and he ordered: "Let the front army, the right army, continue to explore, and the Chinese army will bury the pot here today." ”

At the sound of an order, in addition to the more than 100 soldiers left behind to guard, the others found a dry ditch nearby, and then began to dig pots and stoves.

For them, digging a pot stove by the side of a ditch with a drop can be done in a quarter of an hour with only two soldiers.

The others scattered around, either to pick up dry branches or to cut hay and find clean water.

The natives were given kangaroo meat marinated in spices, but they did not leave the woods, and kept a close eye on the movements of the Ming soldiers.

When they saw that it was not long ago, the Ming soldiers pulled two carts of twenty cauldrons and began to light a fire there to cook.

The adults didn't dare to come, but a group of children became bold, and when the Ming soldiers were busy, they followed them to fetch water, and ran behind the convoy carrying water.

A bold child climbed onto the waterwheel, and the Ming soldiers did not stop him, which made the other children dare to climb onto the waterwheel and sit on it happily.

A three- or four-year-old child couldn't keep up and cried, when a Ming soldier walked over, picked him up, and put him on the waterwheel.

The movements of the Ming soldiers were all seen by those natives, and seeing them so kind, their vigilance gradually softened.

The row of burning pots and stoves frightened the children at first, but after a while, they walked through the crowd, looking curiously at the strange things around them.

It's winter, and by the time the aroma of kangaroo broth in a cauldron comes out, the sun is already setting.

However, at this time, the children refused to go, smelling the fragrance that they had never smelled before, and they looked at the fragrant cauldron one by one.

"Team Leader Zhang, I have roughly figured out that there are about two hundred and thirty people in this tribe, there are almost not many old people, about forty children, one hundred and thirty forty women, and only sixty or seventy men in the prime of life. Judging by their subordinates, they don't look like they've split from a tribe, but they look like they've just escaped from fighting with other tribes. ”

Zhang Wu also saw that many middle-aged men were injured, and said affirmatively: "It should be like this." The language barrier of the natives here is a big problem, and it would be very helpful for us to understand the situation here if we could subdue this tribe. It's just that it's not easy to teach them to speak in a short period of time. ”

Chu Dayun on the side said with a smile: "This is a headache for the above, anyway, as long as we can subdue them, it will be a great achievement." ”

Zhang Wu also laughed, nodded and said, "Let's go, let's contact them again and use food to seduce them." ”

In the long course of history, no nationality was aggressive at the beginning.

It was only later because of faith and the encroachment of resources that the national character changed.

Until then, as long as the survival of their own people is not threatened, no one wants to use knives and guns.

Even the Mongolian Yuan, who once almost occupied the entire Eurasian continent, is the world's most famous barbarian representative of the barbarian people, because of the lack of resources for thousands of years, the difficulty of survival, including the invasion and oppression of other peoples, and finally led to the change of national character.

There are also cannibals in the tropical rainforest, the formation of such a primitive barbaric national character, which is also due to the lack of resources and the difficulty of survival, which leads to the same kind as food.

But in Nanzhou, which has not been invaded or persecuted by foreign peoples. In addition to the struggle between tribes due to the competition for resources, when other tribes did not show ill will, they also longed to communicate with the outside world and live in peace.

When the Ming army showed goodwill and used the soldiers' own large bowls with broth for them to eat, their panic was greatly alleviated.

Eating the broth of the Ming Dynasty, this vulgar food, because of the oil, salt, and spices, made these natives feel that it was supreme delicious.

They also wanted to hide the rice bowl sent by Daming, this kind of ordinary celadon bowl, less than ten yuan a piece in Daming.

If it was in Daming, Zhang Wu could directly call the shots and give it to them, but not now, because if it was given to them, the soldiers themselves would not have a bowl.

Zhang Wu used various gestures, and it was not easy for them to understand that these bowls were not given to them. But in the end, they still hid a dozen of them and refused to return them.

Zhang Wu had no choice but to forget it.

But after eating Daming's meal, they didn't say that they knew that Daming people liked gold, and after eating, they gave almost all their gold to Daming.

Moreover, in front of the bonfire lit by the Ming soldiers, they also sent more than a dozen indigenous women to perform their national dance hip dance for the Ming soldiers around the bonfire.

Although these indigenous women were dark-skinned and strange-looking, they were all strong and toned.

They wore fur only on their upper bodies, bare buttocks, exposed their huge buttocks, and then wore their hair scattered, shook their heads and buttocks, and then slapped their buttocks with their hands and circled around the campfire.

This scene made the Ming soldiers all shy, but they were extremely excited, and they almost turned into werewolves one by one.

Although they didn't dare to rush forward because of military regulations and shyness, they were reluctant to watch the nosebleeds one by one.

So much so that these dozen women returned to the tribe's settlement, and the Ming soldiers did not return to their souls, and overnight, I don't know how many people couldn't sleep all night.

Zhang Wu is not unexperienced with women, and he can't stand it when he sees this scene, although these women are ugly and have rough skin, but not to mention, they are all in good shape.

In this specific environment, these Ming soldiers were disdainful and excited.

On the second day, the army boiled porridge and steamed buns early in the morning. This time, without the greeting of the Ming soldiers, those natives came over by themselves.

This time, almost half of the people who fell were here, and it seemed that after the night, they were defenseless.

In order to envelop them, he also directly ordered to give these natives two steamed buns each.

Although he won the favor of these natives, because of the language barrier, Zhang Wu never thought about how to win them over.

They still have a task to do, and they dare not delay, so they can only prepare to see if they are still there when they come back, and then take them back to the camp.

But what they didn't expect happened, when they left, these natives were at the back of their team, and the children even climbed directly onto the carts.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Wu couldn't help but laugh and ordered to go down and not to expel these natives.

They had only a few possessions, which they had loaded with a few skateboards, and Zhang Wu became more and more sure that they were a group of failed deportees.

There were only more than 200 of them, which was not a burden for Zhang Wu. There are many kangaroos here, and the Ming soldiers hunt a few more, which is enough for them to eat.

And these natives also saw the muskets of the Ming soldiers this time, and the kangaroos that they usually need to chase for half a day were killed by the Ming soldiers when they were far away.

When the muskets rang out, they fell to their knees in fright and prayed.

Maybe in their hearts, these Ming soldiers are gods.

Zhang Wu and the others continued to move forward, exploring, and when it was time to camp and eat in the evening, these natives followed.

And this time, they're all here.

The soldiers also did not expel them, but did not let them into the core protection zone. And whether or not they saw their women perform hip dancing the day before, this time they were all looking forward to eating, and they performed again.

So much so that the protection of the camp that night was much looser.

When they slept at night, they watched the Ming soldiers get into the tents, but this time they didn't dare to go in, and they slept in the field one by one, wrapped in animal skins.

Under Zhang Wu's intentional arrangement, three large tents were arranged for them, which could make those children warmer a little.

"Team Leader Zhang, today is July 16. It has been seven days since we set out, and now we are three hundred miles away from the base camp in a straight line, and according to the route we have come, it is almost four hundred miles. ”

Zhang Wu looked at the detailed map they had depicted, nodded and said, "We have a maximum of eighty miles a day, and it will take five or six days to go back, that is, we have three more days to explore at most." ”

Chu Dayun nodded and said: "The Chinese army should not move again, and it takes too long to set up camp every day, so let the front army continue to explore a distance, and the big camp will stay here." Then the camp went back a day earlier to prevent the rain from delaying the trip. ”

On the march, Chu Dayun has the most experience, and Zhang Wu can't compare to this point. As for the navy, because they mainly rely on ships to navigate, and at present they rely mainly on young armies for exploration on land.

Zhang Wu took Chu Dayun's suggestion and let the Chinese army stay where they were, preparing three days' rations for the other soldiers and letting them travel lightly.

As soon as these arrangements were made, they heard a commotion outside, and before a few of their commanders could send someone to inquire, a herald hurried into the big tent. "Team leader, Mr. Duan, they found a huge piece of dog's head gold!"

Zhang Wu was overjoyed in his heart, and laughed loudly: "Let's go, let's go and have a look." ”

Only Sunan was a little dumbfounded, and muttered: "It's Xiaozhi again, he's really a lucky general!" ”

Duan Renzhi was arranged by Southern Jiangsu to listen to orders in the Chinese army, mainly responsible for the liaison and transmission of orders between the navy and Zhang Wu.

But this guy can't be idle, and often takes his subordinates to hunt.

However, this time he did not hunt, but returned from Ma Dezhong, who was in charge of the left army, and when he passed through a dry ditch, he tripped over a large rock.

When he kicked the big stone in frustration, who knew that the skin was loose, revealing the golden color.

When Zhang Wu and the others rushed to the lower ditch on the slope of the mountain, which was less than five miles away from the Chinese army, there were already twenty people surrounded here.

Most of them were some of the people in charge of surveying and mapping the terrain, and they were also extremely jealous of Duan Renzhi's shit luck.

They walked around the place several times, but they didn't find any gold here, and the geological surveyor always thought that the soil here didn't look like gold.

But there is such a large piece of dog's head gold here, it is even more impossible to say that there is no gold mine.

Yes, this is a huge piece of dog's head gold, half a human high, with a thickness of nearly half a meter and a length of nearly two meters, that is, this stone weighs several thousand catties.

Originally, most of the stone was in the earth, but now it has been dug up and exposed.

The clerk of the Ministry of Works kept beating the stone with a small hammer, trying to remove all the impurities from the stone.

Zhang Wu saw that this stone was also fluted, and when he was in the Ming Dynasty, the largest dog's head gold he had ever heard of weighed only a few dozen catties.

It was also on Turtle Island this time that I saw a piece of dog's head gold of more than 200 catties, but now this dog's head gold is not less than 2,000 catties of gold.

The exposed part, the mesh of gold and stone is densely mixed together, and it looks shocking.

He looked up at the surrounding scenery and said to several surveyors: "Record the surrounding topography in detail and determine the detailed direction, in my opinion, we have made a great contribution this time." ”

According to some regulations of exploration, no matter what minerals are found, there are rewards and military merits, such as the dog's head gold and valuable medicinal materials found by the soldiers, and they can get a reward of thirty to half of them.

This piece of dog's head gold is the part that has been exposed, and I am afraid that there are one or two hundred catties of gold, three thousand taels. According to the minimum standard, you can also reward about 10,000 silver coins.

Because it is a collective action, these rewards are collectively earned. But Duan Renzhi, who found this piece of dog's head gold, can at least take one-third of it, which is more than 3,000 silver coins.

The other 1,200 people can divide more than 6,000 silver coins, at least one person can divide three or four silver coins.

Zhang Wu punched Duan Renzhi with a smile and said with a smile: "When you get to a prosperous place, you must invite Lao Tzu to taste the taste of a little Western beauty!" ”

Duan Renzhi was also extremely happy, and said with a smile: "It must be!" ”

They don't know that what they are discovering now is the Yaleman gold mine that Zhu Zhanji knows about in the later generations.

This is a copper-gold mine, although it cannot be ranked among the top ten gold mines in the world, it can only be regarded as one of the top ten gold mines in Australia. But this gold mine is easy to mine, stripped of the topsoil, and the vein zone is underneath.

After discovering this piece of dog's head gold, two geologists began to let people dig down the wadi channel.

Since there is doghead gold, there is definitely a mining belt, which is not visible now, it can only be that the surface ore belt is covered with soil and grass.

And while they were busy digging the earth, another herald came to report that they had found another large tribe in the north.

However, this tribe was reluctant to contact them, and they were more defensive, so they just exchanged some salt and glass skewers with them, and took the initiative to interrupt the trade.

However, these transactions also allowed the right army to earn a few hundred taels of gold.

Zhang Wudu felt that he was extremely Tailai, at first he felt that the position he was arranged was difficult and there was nothing, but now he realized that this is a blessed land!

He no longer looked down on trade with the natives, and although he could make a lot of gold, it was not his own.

He knew that this time he went to sea, Zhu Zhanji wanted to expand his territory, and then divide it overseas.

Their Zhang family was originally a small family, like a treasure land with a large gold mine, and they couldn't touch it. But what if there are gold mines and land, but they are not particularly noticeable?

This time, they only explored a few hundred miles of land, there are mountains, rivers, and large grasslands.

Although the land is not very fertile, since there is grassland, it is good to open a pasture here.

If the Zhang family can obtain a fief of hundreds of miles, it can be regarded as a small prince, and it is not a hundred times stronger than being an empty lord in the Ming Dynasty?

He knew very well that it all depended on what his cousin meant, as long as he said a word, not to say a fief of hundreds of miles, it was a fief of thousands of miles, it was possible.

His heart beat violently, and the more he thought about it, the more excited he became.

At first, he hated the desolation of this place, but now, the more he thinks about it, he feels that this is a treasure.

I have to say that his reaction is relatively slow, others have thought of this place for a long time, and have been working for this for a long time, and he didn't think about it until this time.

While they were exploring here, there were already many clans that were tempting Zhu Zhanji and wanted to settle down here.

In the past few days, the news of the discovery of various minerals has come every day, which makes the hearts of these clans more and more excited day by day.

This is not like the harsh environment of Turtle Island, after they landed, they found that although the land here is not fertile, the environment is almost the same as that of the Ming Dynasty.

The bay where they landed, several islands blocked, this place became Taiping Port.

After landing, the rivers here are criss-crossed, green mountains and green waters everywhere, and a few small mountains are crossed, and the mountains are boundless grasslands.

What's more, this is the first natural harbor between Nanzhou and Daming, and it can become a trade center between Daming and Nanzhou in the future.

If you can be a soil emperor here, who would want to return to Daming and be a captive vassal king!

However, Zhu Zhanji is now hanging their appetite, disagreeing, but he does not object, only saying that it will be decided by the emperor to return to Daming in the future, and this matter will be suppressed first.

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