Xie Qinggao was only interested in the customs and language of these students, and last year he saw more than a dozen Shengfan strongholds, which could not even be called feudal societies, they were simply simple camps, because Xie Qinggao had already discovered that these people would not stay in one place for a long time, but would chase animals and fish to migrate back and forth.

When Xie Qinggao visited the Indian camp, in addition to giving some small gifts, he would sometimes treat the patients he encountered, and if he was cured, he would often treat them as gods. There will be conflicts, even if it is to treat people, it can develop into a very bad result, once Xie Qinggao led the people to meet a large Indian tribe, and after careful temptation, established contact with the other party, and successfully entered their camp.

Finding that many people in the tribe were suffering from dysentery, Xie Qinggao, out of kindness, treated an Indian child who was suffering from dysentery, and used the expensive cinchona cream they brought to make the child much better, but they were almost captured by the Indians that night.

After they escaped, they didn't know what was going on, so they asked people to sneak back to the neighborhood to investigate, and it turned out that the students actually tied up the little girl who had been treated by Xie Qinggao and them, and set up a fire next to it, and they were going to burn it to death.

Xie Qinggao rescued the little girl and ran away. It took him almost half a year to understand what had happened. It turned out that they had violated the authority of the tribal shaman, it had always been the shaman's duty to cure the sick and save people, and the disease was regarded as a punishment from heaven, but the doctor next to Xie Qinggao actually showed a miracle, which made the little girl's condition significantly better. The shaman told the elders of the tribe that Xie Qinggao was a demon, and that was why they were besieged. As for burning the little girl, it is said that it is to appease the wrath of the gods.

Xie Qinggao understood these reasons after he mastered the local language through the little girl, and he had always thought that it was those who wanted to make money.

After that, there were many conflicts, such as accidentally entering the hunting ground of the Fanren who was hunting, and sometimes being attacked; But when they shot and killed a brown bear that was being pursued by the Fanren, they were respected by the Fanren.

In short, everything is wonderful, and in the same situation, sometimes it gets really bad, and sometimes it is a good opportunity to get closer. It's like that medical visit, and it's like breaking into the other party's hunting ground, you may become friends with the other party, or you may become enemies with the other party.

However, most of the time it was still friendly, especially after Xie Qinggao mastered the basic communication skills, he quickly expanded his contact with the Indians in this area, and invited some Indian tribes to visit their camp, and took a little gift with him when he left. Sometimes it's a beast you've just hunted, sometimes it's a fish with a few ropes of grass. Their favorite is salt and wine, and as for the grain, they don't know how to eat it yet.

What Chen Zhouquan saw was that these people who came in and out of the camp were actually those Indians that Xie Qinggao had contacted.

Chen Zhouquan soon met Xie Qinggao and told him that he needed food.

Due to Zhou Lang's special attention to colonization, and even temporarily gave up the development of galleon trade, in addition to bringing the most popular raw silk last time, Zhu Li's fleet brought most of the supplies needed by the colony, Xie Qinggao They were extremely rich in food, and gave Chen Zhouquan a large amount of food, enough for a thousand people to eat for a year.

Chen Zhouquan began to worry about how to take away the grain, last year and half of his people died, and the rest were so skinny that they couldn't do heavy work at all. And he came here in the hope that Zhu Lian would take away all the people who were leaving, and he didn't know how much he could stay.

At this time, Chen Zhouquan's mood eased a lot, because their mood was relieved in Zhu Li's camp, although this place was the same as their camp, all of them were bachelors, but there was wine, which Zhu Li kept for trade, and they did not spare money, in exchange for a large amount of wine, seeking to get drunk. After eating and drinking, people's spirits and spirits are different.

Chen Zhouquan gathered people and asked those who were willing to stay, and sure enough, there were still not many people who were willing to stay, and most people were expecting Zhu Lian to come and pick them up, and in the end, only people in their early 100s were willing to stay with Chen Zhouquan.

Such a little people don't need so much food, Chen Zhouquan discussed with Xie Qinggao, and exchanged some wine to take away, these things can be released at a critical time.

On the way back, they had to go upstream, and their boat needed to be stretched, and at a distance of fifty miles, they had to pass a waterfall, which was three or four feet high, and they had to drag the boat ashore first, carry grain and other things, and then continue along the river to the south, all of which were extremely hard.

Chen Zhouquan personally led people to pull fiber, and the one who stood side by side with him was the brother who persuaded him to ask for help.

He was very curious about this person, and he was not impressed, he remembered that when this person was in Taiwan, he stayed and did not follow him to the Northern Expedition in Zhejiang.

"Song Ming, I remember that you are the local lord who stayed in Chiayi County, right? Why did you come here with me? ”

This man's name was Song Ming, and Chen Zhouquan had gained a foothold in Taiwan at that time, purged the landlord forces in central and northern Taiwan, confiscated a large amount of land, and rewarded meritorious heroes, which were given to a large number of leaders under him. Some gave up their military careers and went to be landlords with peace of mind, but Chen Zhouquan did not keep them, because there were too many soldiers at that time, and some of them could not be supported.

Song Ming said: "Don't mention the big brother." After you were defeated in Zhejiang, Taiwan was taken over by Zhou Lang's grandson. As a result, someone came to me with the title deed and sued me, saying that my family's land belonged to theirs. The lawsuit was defeated. Without land, my family can't drink the northwest wind. At this time, I saw the list of the eldest brother recruiting people to open up the wasteland, so I unveiled the list to vote for the eldest brother. Who knows where the Americas are. ”

The area controlled by Chen Zhouquan in north-central Taiwan was finally recovered by Wang Fuqian in a Huairou way, and the officials set up by Chen Zhouquan saw that Chen Zhouquan's general trend had gone, and they surrendered one after another. Of course, those middle and high-ranking officials kept their wealth, but a large number of landlords who were converted into small and medium-sized officers were unlucky.

When they confiscated the landlords' land, a large number of landlords fled to Fengshan County, and some took the land deeds with them. The officials appointed by Wang Fuqian later were extremely partial to those old landlords and were very hostile to the Heaven and Earth Society.

Chen Zhouquan scolded extremely angrily when he heard this: "Dog thief! Add insult to injury! ”

Song Ming sighed: "Big brother, don't be angry, become a king and lose a villain, it has been like this since ancient times." Now let's open up these lands, but it's all our own, and no one can take it away! ”

Chen Zhouquan was silent for a moment: "So you didn't go back?" Still want to open up a wasteland here? ”

Song Ming nodded: "What if you go back?" I can't sit back and eat empty. I still have some savings at home, and my wife will probably be able to guard me for a few years, and in a few years, the land here will be opened, and then I will take them over and live in peace. ”

Saying that, Song Ming's strength seemed to be a little stronger, and he stretched the rope straighter.

Chen Zhouquan pretended to have a heavy heart in his heart, he stayed in Taiwan so many "meritorious ministers", I am afraid that the current life is not good, the brothers have done a big thing with their own knives and licked blood, and in the end they don't even have the capital to settle down, he feels ashamed.

Chen Zhouquan didn't tell anyone what was going on, but after returning to the camp, he seemed to be a different person, began to organize people to rebuild the camp, and seemed to have regained his vitality, but compared with the past, he became silent, and no matter what work he did, he took the lead in hard work, and he didn't blame anyone for being lazy, so he silently took over the opponent's tools and continued to work, so that the lazy people were embarrassed.

The camp was quickly rebuilt, and they moved to a higher place, a mile from the old camp, and the fields that had been cleared last year were not thrown away, and after a winter, the crops began to grow again, and with the water of the snow, they seemed to be growing well, and when the grain was harvested, they were even able to feed themselves.

But Chen Zhouquan still led everyone to continue to open up the wasteland, and last year the livestock also died a lot, and now the main force of the land reclamation has become people.

The situation improved a month later, and the Zhu Lian fleet came to the colony again, bringing more supplies. The supply that should be given to Chen Zhouquan this year, Xie Qinggao has already given it last time. But Zhu Mian still provided a new batch of aid, and he sent Chen Zhouquan some livestock, 200 Mongolian horses, 80 pigs, and a large number of iron tools.

Zhu Lian and Chen Zhouquan still have some incense, when he was forced to have no choice but to go to Chen Zhouquan, Chen Zhouquan was named the king of Zhenhai, although he has not taken this title seriously, but because of this, he established contact with Zhou Lang, so that he has his current future, speaking of Chen Zhouquan is also kind to him, hearing that Chen Zhouquan had a bad disaster last year, Zhu Lian couldn't bear it, so he provided support.

On the way back, he took away more than 300 of Chen Zhouquan's men, and sent someone to visit Chen Zhouquan and ask him what else he needed, and he would bring it next year. Zhu Lian didn't come to visit by himself, not because his self-held identity is now higher than Chen Zhouquan, but because the relationship between the two is quite awkward. This is also the reason why Chen Zhouquan left the camp and returned before Zhu Lian's arrival.

The reply Zhu Lian got was a list, all of which were Chen Zhouquan's brothers, and they all agreed to follow him to open up the wasteland. Chen Zhouquan brought a thousand people as a pioneer, and first came here to establish a foothold, and then planned to pick up these people. A few months ago, he had even given up recruiting these people to the Americas, but now he felt that the brothers who remained in Middle-earth might not have a good life. Instead, he had to call them all in advance.

As for the family members, he hesitated, or not to bring them over.

Before the arrival of this winter, Chen Zhouquan made the most adequate preparations. Their brick kiln has not yet been built, but bricks are not necessarily needed to build houses, and wooden houses are not warm or moisture-proof, and some people have proposed to use adobe to build houses. As a result, everyone lived in adobe houses before the winter.

Chen Zhouquan also prepared sufficient warm clothes for everyone, and once there was good weather, he urged these people to dry; The reserve of firewood is also sufficient. But this winter, there are still people who fall ill and die. After spring, there are eighty of the hundred or so left.

But this time the blow to Chen Zhouquan was far less big than the last time, and he still calmly organized people to open up the colony.

Their news reached Zhou Lang's ears with Zhu Li's fleet, which returned the following year.

Zhou Lang was shocked by this mortality rate, he didn't expect the price of opening up the original land to be so high.

Zhou Lang did not know that it was even more difficult for Westerners to establish colonies than this, and the British built more than a dozen settlements in order to gain a foothold in North America, but the first 18 settlements could not gain a foothold.

The first successful colony, Jamestown, was quickly reduced to 60 of the 500 settlers who landed in the first year, and the second group of settlers found that their settlement contained a large number of human bones in the kitchen.

In contrast, Chen Zhouquan's group of people did not have such a large mortality rate, and they did not fall into the situation of cannibalism.

Zhou Lang believed that with the construction of the first successful base, the subsequent colonists would greatly improve their situation, learn from the experience of the pioneers, and obtain various materials from the advance base to cope with the local environment.

The export of civilization to overseas colonies is actually the simplest, and Zhou Lang concluded that as the most successful farming people of mankind, it would be unscientific if the Chinese could not gain a foothold on the fertile soil of North America. But whether Chinese civilization can bring progress to other civilizations, Zhou Lang is still not confident, for example, can the experience of Chinese agricultural civilization be replicated in India?

Now he had to think about it, because Henry Pitt had established a foothold in western India, and with the help of Zhou Lang's army, he managed to capture Karachi and deal a devastating blow to the army of the three local Muslim lords, who had no rival in the whole province of Sindh.

Henry Pitt believed that they should not be confined to the port of Karachi, but should rule over the entire province of Sindh, but there were disagreements between the two men about the way they ruled.