At the end of September of the 11th year of the Taichu Dynasty, the expedition ship left Ningyuan County, repaired the ships in the harbor city, replaced the supplies, and sailed into the distance again.

The voyage was going to be incredibly long, starting from Harbour City, rounding the southernmost point and sailing thousands of miles west to reach the continents and islands marked on the map.

It's summer in the south, so expeditions don't have to worry about the cold sea breezes they do in the north.

Although the route was extremely long, it was seen from the map that most of the time was along the coastline, and the previous navy's circumnavigation of the land also had a more detailed chart, as long as you follow the chart, the danger encountered on the way will be much smaller.

Before leaving, the sailors, who don't know how long it would take to return, find students in Harbour City who can write and ask them to write letters for their families.

Paper is still a relatively expensive thing in Xia Kingdom, but after the expedition took the reward, he didn't care about such a small amount of money.

He Tie also wrote a letter, which didn't say much, just said that everything is fine at the moment, and he will be able to get a lot of money when he comes back, and the life of the family will be better, and if possible, he also wants to move to the capital to live, and let his wife take care of the children at home.

Expedition ships sail south along the coastline, and their next stop is to reach Newport in the south, where after one last trimming, they will actually set foot in the area of human activity.

And in Ningyuan County, shortly after the expedition ship left, the captives of that terrible disease, who had been completely cured by the doctors of the Xia Kingdom, were escorted to Yancheng, where they would be interrogated by humans.

At the same time, in Yancheng, Fang Shaoshi, who had been given new responsibilities, ended its mission as a slave overseer.

Today's Fang Shaoshi can be said to be complacent, according to Wang Lang's instructions, the craftsmen and doctors of the dinosaur people were selected from the slave strongholds, and fifty slaves were selected from among the slaves, and they formed an organization similar to the Jinyi Guard.

It's just that this organization has no special impact on ordinary people, and the task of these people in the future is to return to the society of dinosaur people and carry out a series of underground activities, such as sedition, and propagating some ideas that are not conducive to the ruling class.

These guys who took refuge in humans, from the moment they agreed to the conditions of humans, were forever nailed to the pillar of shame of the dinosaur people, and became traitors to everyone.

Although Wang Lang agreed to exempt the dinosaur craftsmen and doctors from their status as slaves, they were severely restricted from moving within 10 kilometers of their residences, and they had to report to the local yamen every once in a while to explain their recent movements.

This method is very similar to the parole policy used in modern society for criminals.

Although they have not been completely free, they are undoubtedly fortunate for those of their fellow people who are still in dire straits.

Whether it is a human society or a dinosaur society, as long as intelligent beings can communicate, there is the possibility of mutual understanding.

After all, they are also intelligent creatures living on land, and although they look different, their lifestyles are not much different.

What humans can eat, dinosaurs can eat like humans, and their food, clothing, housing and transportation are basically the same as those of humans.

The craftsmen, who had gained some freedom, were not assigned by humans to do those extremely important things.

These artisans were scattered and made agricultural tools for the local people in various places.

Although Xia Guo has built some machinery and equipment to replace manpower, these things have great limitations.

In the case of water power, only a dam was built in Yancheng, and 70% of the industrial production of Xia was concentrated in Yancheng.

Although the Ministry of Industry also produces agricultural tools, agricultural tools account for only a small part of the production of the Ministry of Industry.

Most of the tools used by the people of Xia are still handmade.

Copper blacksmithing can be said to be a high-paying profession in the Xia Kingdom, and if people want to obtain agricultural tools, in addition to going to the state-run trading post to buy finished products, the rest can only go to the blacksmith shop to build.

Although it is not as good as the state-run in terms of quality, it is better because the price is cheaper, and most people will still prefer the latter.

However, striking iron is not something that can be mastered overnight, and most of the craftsmen are registered in the Ministry of Industry, and one percent of the craftsmen are producing things for the imperial court, so the number of craftsmen scattered among the people is not large.

The addition of dinosaur craftsmen has greatly alleviated the shortage of technical talent resources.

In the future, these dinosaur people will live together with humans for a long time, and they will come into contact with each other for a long time, and the habits and cultures of the two races will continue to merge.

In Copper Mountain City, a dinosaur man who has just escaped from slavery holds a small wooden plaque that proves his identity, and the symbol on it is the same as the one imprinted on his body, and he knows that this is a way to prove his identity.

But it does not know the human language, and if there is a literate person, he will see that the small wooden sign hanging from his waist has the three words "copper seventeen" written on it.

There were more than twenty people who had the same experience as it, and most of these people it knew, all craftsmen and doctors who had gone out with the army, and it felt extremely happy to think that it had finally escaped from the dark copper mines.

In the class of dinosaur people, the status of craftsmen is the lowest one, at the bottom of the pyramid of power, and belongs to the category of exploitation and oppression.

But now, with his own craftsmanship, he has escaped the miserable life of slavery, and the brave heroes who once thought themselves superior to others can only carry the heavy ore like cattle under the drive of human whips.

In the face of such a result, Tong Seventeen's heart has a feeling of thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi.

While the lucky ones were secretly sighing, next to the human officer in charge of taking over them, a young human with a relatively short stature showed them a piece of paper.

The human officials couldn't read what was written on it, but not all of the dinosaur craftsmen and doctors were illiterate, and these literate people knew the words of Shi Lunjia at this time.

It was this young human before, holding a document written in the text of Shi Lunjia to announce that they were separated from the status of slaves, for humans to write dinosaur characters, these captives are not surprised, after all, there is still a big traitor called Fang Shaoshi on the human society, it is understood that the shameless guy is not illiterate.

Tong Seventeen also knew how to read, squinting at the piece of paper, only to see that it was written what each type of work would do in the future.

He was a carpenter himself, so he only read the part about carpenters.

Humans have set aside a place for these dinosaur people to live in the city, but these houses are not free, they only have the right to use them for half a year, and they must pay rent after this half a year, if they don't want to sleep on the side of the road in the future, they can only work according to the requirements of humans to earn money to make a living.

And for these people, human beings will also charge heavy taxes for them, and the ordinary people of Xia Kingdom are taxed according to ten to one of their income, and for these people, taxes account for thirty percent of their income, which is a very heavy tax.

But now, even if they know that humans are exploiting them, what can they do, they can't fight them, so they can only reluctantly accept the arrangement of human beings, fortunately, they don't have to go to the precarious mine.

Copper Seventeen is a carpenter, he knows that although his craftsmanship is not the top in Shi Lunjia, but after looking at the rough wooden buildings of human beings, he is suddenly full of confidence in the future, believing that with his craftsmanship, he will definitely be able to survive in a place surrounded by aliens.

After reading the human paperwork, I saw the young human put away the paper, took out a flat wooden board from his back, and wrote something with a pen on it.

It didn't take long for the human to finish writing, and pointed the wooden board full of words at his people, only to see that it was written: "I will be your translator in the future, if there is anything you can come to the yamen to find me, my name is Chu Feng." ”

The two characters Chu Feng were written in human characters, and the young human pointed to these two sons and said them several times in human language, and Tong Seventeen knew that these two words were called Chu Feng, and they were also the first human characters it knew.

After the announcement was made, the men, under the watchful eye of several soldiers, left the mine where they had lived for a long time, and walked towards the human city that had once been viewed from afar.

The people of Tongshan City saw that these dinosaur people actually left the mine, which caused a panic among the unknown crowd, but after seeing those soldiers in armor, they finally breathed a sigh of relief, as long as these family queens were still under the control of humans, there was nothing to fear.

It's just that facing this ugly and tall alien race alone will inevitably make people feel uneasy.

The people pointed and talked about this group of people, and they didn't know what the court was letting these people into the city, weren't they afraid that these people would make trouble in the city.

But the court didn't seem to have the intention of explaining to the people, only to see those soldiers escorting these dinosaurs and sending them to the houses rented to them.

These houses are all stores in the neighboring streets, and unlike ordinary people, the only way for these people to survive is to open shops and work to support themselves with their own crafts.

From this day on, the people of Tongshan City suddenly found that there were suddenly some strange neighbors around them.

The people living near these dinosaur people were very dissatisfied with the arrangement of the imperial court, and went to the yamen to complain, and the government persuaded them to come back with just a few words, basically nothing was solved, and the people who could not get help, in order to vent their dissatisfaction in their hearts, could only throw stones at the homes of these dinosaur people, or curse them to die quickly, and the farther away from them the better.

But these dinosaur people seem to disappear after entering the house, and no matter how difficult the humans are, they have no intention of going out.

It had been three days since Copper Seventeen had come to its new home, and in the past three days, although the human civilians outside the door had not rushed in to dismantle it, it was still annoyed that the stones that flew into the courtyard still made it irritable.

The panic and anxiety made him a little sluggish, he knew that it would not work like this, if he didn't hurry up to make money, improve his relationship with humans, and prove his worth, let alone half a year, after eating the food for a month, he could only wait to starve to death.

Hiding in the house, Copper Seventeen scratched his head sadly, if it had hair like a human, it would probably have been pulled off a lot.

After thinking about it at home for a few days, it finally came up with a solution.

Since I want to judge my ability to eat in the future, why not use this as a breakthrough.

Thinking of this, Copper Seventeen immediately came to the spirit, and he didn't care about the scolding of the humans outside, and immediately the carpenter tools that the humans gave him, ready to make something to reflect his own value.

It walked around the house a few times and looked at the furnishings of the house, which were basically uncarved, just pieces of wood spliced together, with no beauty at all, and the only advantage was that it was strong and durable.

Seeing that there was no wood in the yard, he had to take tools and dismantle all the seats in the house, and he planned to make some small samples with his own craftsmanship, thinking about what human warriors are dinosaur art.

Although there are some differences between human carpentry tools and dinosaur people, with years of experience, it still understands how to use these things.

The tools seemed to come alive in its hands, and according to the ideas in its mind, it carved mysterious patterns on these ordinary wooden boards on his hands.

After a few days, the residents of the neighborhood seemed to find it boring to throw stones and debris at Tong Seventeen's house every day, and gradually this behavior became much less, and the people seemed to have selectively forgotten about this place, as if it did not exist.

But when the people gave up harassing Copper Seventeen, the gates, which had been closed for a long time, suddenly opened on this day.

Tong Seventeen carefully lay behind the door to observe the situation on the street, there were not many pedestrians on the street, and most of them did not notice this, which made him feel relieved.

But at this moment, I don't know which human shouted, and the surrounding pedestrians immediately focused their attention on this side.

This sudden turn of events startled it, and it quickly closed the door, hiding behind the door with its heart pounding.

The people surrounded his house one by one.

Listening to the noisy voices outside the door, Tong Seventeen was very frightened in his heart, although it had repeatedly struggled psychologically in the past few days to convince itself not to be afraid, but when it really faced humans alone, fear still occupied its heart.

Looking down at the furniture in his arms, which were many times smaller, Tong Seventeen struggled inwardly for a while, took a deep breath and opened the courtyard door a crack, and quickly threw something into the crowd.

It didn't know if it would be useful to do so, so it could only pray that humanity would understand what it meant and that there would be no misunderstanding.