The soldier was bold, and he stepped forward, gave his musket to his companion, and unsheathed his dagger and gave it to his companion, and then walked slowly forward.

The blacks watched him come alone, and they all stared at him intensely. The soldier walked up to the black man, pointed at himself with his finger, and then pointed to the Ming army behind him and said, "Da Ming." He said it several times in a row.

He picked up a small branch from the side, then drew a simple boat on the ground and said, "Boat." After a few words, he made another cut on the side of the boat with a branch, and then said, "The boat is broken, the boat is broken." ”

In fact, the black people naturally did not understand the meaning of what he said, but his gestures and graphics could still be understood. So the soldiers and they began to draw and tell the story of a ship that was destroyed and forced ashore.

Zheng Zha, who was not in a hurry, let the Ming army rest on the spot, and after almost an hour, the soldier finally explained the tragic experience of the group, and those black people also seemed to understand. A man who looked like a leader took out a bag made of bark and took out some unrecognizable food for the soldier to eat, and a black man took out a conch and handed it to the soldier and made a gesture of drinking.

The soldier put the food in his mouth with a smile on his face, looked like he was eating very sweetly, picked up the conch and drank the water inside, and nodded his head in praise again and again.

The leader was overjoyed, so he asked the blacks to take out more food and send it to the Ming army, and Zheng Zha saw that the soldiers were fine after eating, so he asked some of the soldiers to eat first, and took out some dry food and gave it to the black leader.

The dry food of the Ming army is fried rice noodles, which are added with butter, carrot powder, potato flour, and salt, and the taste is already very good. And the blacks had never eaten such delicious things, and everyone ate happily, glancing at the Ming army's dry food bags while eating.

Zheng Zha: "Wang Wen is doing a good job, continue to work hard, let them take us to the place where they live." ”

Wang Wendao: "There is no problem, we will slowly compare with them, and we will always understand the general meaning." What he gave us was supposed to be a kind of meat, and it tasted pretty good, so would the general like to try it? ”

Zheng Zhan shook his head and said: "Only thirty percent of the people can eat first, and there is nothing wrong with being careful before you are sure what it is." ”

At this time, several figures in the grass next to him swaggered over, Zheng Zha, first thought it was a human, but found that it was several beasts taller than a human. The blacks clamoured, and some pointed their spears at the beasts, while others threw their trefoiled weapons out of their hands, which slashed through the air, touched the beasts, and flew back into the hands of the blacks.

Zheng Zhan said with some interest: "This thing is a little interesting." But the soldiers had already taken up their muskets and aimed them at the beasts. The commander gave the order, and the fire rang out, and the beasts fell to the ground.

When the sound of the fire bell sounded, the blacks were startled, and when they saw the beast fall to the ground, the blacks all knelt down and kept kowtowing to the Ming army. They were frightened by the sound and power of the firecracker, thinking it was Thor's means.

Now that he has established his authority, it will be much easier to communicate with the blacks later. The black people took the initiative to clean up the beasts, and Zheng Zhan looked at the beasts carefully and said, "Sure enough, there are bags in front of them, and this is the kangaroo that His Majesty the Emperor is said to have." Your Majesty is thousands of miles away, and it is really a blessing for me to be able to know the things here. ”

Wang Wendao: "Why don't some of them have bags? ”

Zheng Zha reprimanded: "Your Majesty's letter said that this is a parenting bag, will you be a man to raise children?" Let's go and compare with them, and we'll see where they live. ”

Without Wang Wen opening his mouth, the blacks stepped forward and invited the Ming army to their station. Not far from here, they were in a small crooked hut with stone objects and strips of meat on the outside, which looked somewhat similar to the kangaroos they had killed.

The blacks did not farm, but only lived by hunting, occasionally gathering wild vegetables to eat. Zheng Zhan looked at the wasted and boundless land, and knew in his heart that this place had come to the right place.

Zheng Zha asked the others to get off the boat, leaving only a group of soldiers to guard the boat. After disembarking, the migrants quickly began to build houses by the sea, and not far from the construction site was a large area of fertile land. The old farmers among the immigrants thought that it was a good time to sow seeds, and after burning the field with a fire, they planted the wheat and potatoes they had brought with them.

The number of immigrants this time was small, with a total of more than 800 people from 200 households. While the Ming army and immigrants were building houses, the blacks stood by and watched, while Wang Wen led a few awake soldiers to compare with the blacks, striving to allow the two sides to have a simple exchange.

After Zheng Zha's military establishment on the seashore was completed, he left behind 500 soldiers and enough food to eat for a year. He found that there are a lot of kangaroos here, if you just kill kangaroos to eat, in fact, the Ming army and immigrants can also have enough food, which is one of the reasons why local blacks do not farm, because there is no shortage of food. It's just that the Ming people are not accustomed to eating meat, and besides, His Majesty the Emperor has instructed that every time you occupy a place, you must ensure that the food here must at least be self-sufficient, and it is best to have surplus food that can be stored, so of course this food must be planted well.

The immigrants also distributed some vegetable seeds, and they also scattered them into the soil, but this time they did not bring poultry or livestock, so such a large pasture was wasted.

After Zheng Zha returned to the capital to report the situation here to the emperor, Zhu Youxiao ordered chickens, ducks, pigs, dogs, etc. to be transported to Xinmingzhou, but ordered that rabbits must not be brought into Xinmingzhou. He also asked Zheng Zhan to send people to live in Japan, where he purchased some cattle and horses and brought them to Xinmingzhou, and at the same time, a group of Wu Youxing's students were also brought here to treat immigrants who were bitten by poisonous snakes.

Although I don't understand why rabbits are not allowed to enter Xinmingzhou, everyone strictly follows the emperor's orders. At this time, the Immigration Guidance Bureau also recruited more than 3,000 immigrants who lived in New Minnesot.

When Zheng returned here half a year later, the grain had already been harvested. This season's food was enough to feed the original settlers and troops for more than two years. The houses of the immigrants have also been repaired, and Wang Wen and the others have basically understood the language of the black people and can already communicate with them simply.

With the addition of new immigrants, more houses were quickly built here, and Zheng Zha gathered immigrants during the slack time, made simple repairs to the landing site, sorted out the appearance of a wharf, and established a military city, with cannons, which could control the landing site named Nanquan by the emperor.

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