Off the coast of the Americas, a few rudimentary-looking ships float on the surface of the sea, with hard sails that can eat the wind in all directions, and can sail in any direction, and if you look down from above, you can see that these ships are moving in a pocket shape, and in the area surrounded by them, a group of whales are playing, and there is no danger approaching them. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

A tall, resolute-faced teenager stood in the middle of a ship, holding a telescope, looking at the whales not far away, these whales are simply the overlords of the sea, and there are not many natural predators that can threaten them in normal times, so they have almost no sense of crisis, even if they see a ship approaching them, they don't even think about escaping.

"Launch!" However, as soon as the ship entered the firing range, the young man on the bow immediately roared, and then he shot several crossbow arrows with long ropes from his boat, and then the other ships around him also fired several arrows, and the sharp arrows pierced the thick skin and fat of these whales, and pierced deep into their bodies, causing these whales to let out a sharp scream, and then struggled to escape.

Unfortunately, all the struggles of these sea elves were in vain, the barbs on the arrows made it impossible for them to break free from their bodies, and the long ropes made it impossible for them to escape, even if they could lead the boat to swim for a while, but in the end they also died of exhaustion, and finally they were pulled to the side of the boat, and then a small boat came to their corpses, cut their stomachs with a sharp long knife, and threw away the whale's internal organs, because if they did not do so, the whale's internal organs would quickly decay, resulting in high temperatures, If you can't get back to the shore, the meat will be spoiled.

Without the internal organs, the whales are much lighter, and although their ship is simple, it is very large, and there is a special winch on it, which can easily lift the whale to the front deck, and the whale entrails that fall into the water also attract a lot of vicious sharks, as a result, the ship fires crossbow arrows again, and after a while, the bow is full of sharks of all sizes.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, today's harvest is three big whales, four small whales, and thirty-seven sharks, this new type of crossbow arrow invented by His Highness is really powerful!" At this moment, I saw a very sturdy man come over and report to the young man at the bow of the boat, this big man was bare-chested, revealing a sturdy upper body full of oil, especially his arms were extremely thick, looking almost thicker than ordinary people's legs, and his bearded face was also very excited, and his gaze at the young man was extremely respectful.

"General Xue is polite, no matter how powerful the weapon is, it also needs to be operated by people, and it is also thanks to the general that you practice day and night, so that the soldiers can skillfully use the new crossbow arrows!" Facing the praise of his subordinates, he saw that this tall young man smiled very indifferently and said that he was Li Chengdao who had been exiled to the Americas, and as for the general in front of him, it was Xue Wanche who came to the Americas with him.

"General Xue, it's not too early, let's go back quickly, today is the Shangyuan Festival, and it is estimated that the city is ready for the Lantern Festival!" At this time, I saw Li Chengdao look up at the sunset in the west, and immediately opened his mouth to command.

Hearing Li Chengdao's order, Xue Wanche immediately agreed, and with his order, several ships immediately began to return, but Li Chengdao walked from the bow to the stern at this time, breathing a somewhat salty sea breeze, looking at the sunset in the west, and his face also showed a little nostalgic look, because on the side where the sun set, there were many people who made him miss and care.

The fleet under Li Chengdao's feet is not just used to hunt whales, in fact, this is the navy he personally formed, but his people don't know how to build ships, so these boats are bought from the bearded guest, and they also invited the people from the bearded guest to teach them to operate the boat.

After a while, the fleet came to an estuary on the coast, which was a very wide river, and the first city-state they occupied was built on this river, and Li Yuanji insisted on building another Tang Dynasty in the Americas, so this river was also renamed the Tang River by them, and the area they controlled was also called the Tang Dynasty.

After the establishment of the American Tang Dynasty, Li Yuanji wholeheartedly wanted Li Chengdao to succeed to the throne as the emperor, which could also be more cohesive, but Li Chengdao felt that he was too young, so he wanted Li Yuanji to ascend the throne, but Li Yuanji would rather die, and in the end Li Chengdao had no choice, so he could only use his young age as a reason to agree with Li Yuanji that when he was fifteen years old and an adult, he would officially ascend the throne as the emperor.

The fleet entered the Tang River and went upstream, about two miles or so, and immediately saw a simple but very busy wharf, many fishermen took small boats, with a day's harvest ashore, and then sold the fish to the merchants on the shore, although most of these people were local Maya, but with the arrival of Li Chengdao and their arrival, these Maya people have become more and more like the Tang people in terms of lifestyle.

It is worth mentioning that the people on these docks have begun to use currency when doing business, instead of bartering as before, but now Li Chengdao and they have only found a few iron mines and gold and silver mines, and have not found enough copper mines, so the coins used now are also iron and silver coins, and one silver coin can be exchanged for a hundred iron coins, after all, iron is also very precious to them now.

The navy has a special wharf, several large ships were quickly parked on the wharf, and the soldiers who stayed behind also immediately got on board, and then helped to hoist the whale to the shore, there are special butchers who have been preparing for a long time, and after a while, a huge whale will be decomposed, the whale is full of money, whale meat can be eaten, whale oil can be used as fuel, and fish skin can be made into leather armor, and now the armor worn by the soldiers of the Tang Kingdom is almost all leather armor made of whale skin, after all, the steel production cannot go up for the time being, and can only be given priority to supply into weapons, Moreover, the Mayans did not have iron tools, and the protection of leather armor was sufficient.

Li Chengdao asked people to carry a few barrels of whale meat into the car, and then drove away from the dock in person, although he was the crown prince, but the American Tang Dynasty was short of manpower in all aspects, although there were many Mayans under his rule, they didn't dare to trust it too much for the time being, so some key places were used to bring the Tang Dynasty soldiers, and sometimes even Li Chengdao had to do things himself.

After a while, the carriage came to a big city not far from the river bank, at this time the sun had set in the west, but the big city in front of him was brilliantly lit, and everyone in the city was preparing for this year's Shangyuan Festival!