Lieutenant Colonel Zhou Tong immediately asked with concern: "Major Xin, can that Laomai Strait pass through the five-masted naval warship?!" ”

Major Xin said with a slightly drunken feeling: "Our army will not forget to record hydrology...... The shallowest part of the strait was thirty meters deep, and the narrowest part was a kilometer wide...... I say it's a sheep's gut trail, but that's just an analogy...... Hehe......"

Lieutenant Colonel Zhou Tong immediately laughed, after all, they are the army, and they can't ask for too much hydrographic data, and they still need the navy to complete it in the end.

He's already a hero of the seas!

Then the naval officers took turns to salute their army brothers, and everyone listened to Major Xin Da speak.

"When we first arrived in the upper reaches of the Buyi River, some of the natives who herded alpacas were so frightened that they couldn't stop calling them for ...... Damn, I didn't expect the llamas to run so fast, and by the time we all got ashore, we were all gone......"

Yes, those natives certainly haven't seen a sailboat, and of course they're afraid.

However, when they had built a small barracks, the fellows came out of nowhere and watched from afar.

When Major Xin sent cavalry to contact them, they were frightened when they saw the horses, and began to gallop again.

This time, they took only one cavalry squad...... The cavalrymen had been ordered in advance by Major Xin not to pursue them.

The cavalry is expensive, and it is impossible to take unexpected risks for some of the natives here.

The cavalry probably frightened them, and for a month, they never showed up again.

When their barracks are basically completed, there will be no more people of more than 300 people living in marching tents or boats...... The natives reappeared in the distance.

It turned out that several kerosene gas lamps in their barracks illuminated the barracks exceptionally brightly at night, especially when there was no moon...... The fellows couldn't resist their curiosity, and began to look around again in the distance while herding alpacas.

Grazing on the grasslands is always inseparable from the water source, and if the livestock only eats grass, they will starve to death.

Major Xin said to his men at the time: "We just need to protect the agricultural technicians, if they don't come near us, we don't want to deal with them!" ”

Their task at that time was mainly to cultivate vegetable and grain fields that were sufficient for the livelihood of 10,000 people...... The people of the Federal Empire are delicate, and they can't just eat meat, but also food and vegetables.

If you only build a grazing base, it will be too simple...... And it won't be long before you eat mutton, beef, and fish every day.

Major Xin noticed that the fish in the river were about to overflow, and when they rowed the barge, they could feel the fish hitting the bottom of the boat!

They don't have to fish with nets, they don't have to fish...... Shoot the river fish directly with the oars!

After a few oars, a layer of river fish floats on the water...... Well, that's enough for a dozen people.

The taste of the fish is okay, and there is no muddy smell, but there are more bones, otherwise it is perfect.

The fish in the river here are not afraid of people, which means that the natives do not know how to fish at all, just as the people of the Inca kingdom do not eat sea fish.

But the waterfowl here are scared, and when the team goes to pick up their eggs, they fight back!

Of course, they're just for show, and if they do, they might turn into a roasted bird at night.

In fact, there has long been an unwritten rule among the players, and nothing will be swept away...... Whether it's picking up bird eggs or turtle eggs, at least a third should be left, and if you pick up enough to eat, the average bird egg will not be touched.

It seems that the natives do the same thing a lot, otherwise the waterfowl would not have seen them and would have been furious.

But, what a blessing they had, they found a large family of capybaras in a shallow pond with more than 100 capybaras, large and small!

Capybaras are inherently a social species, and they are mostly grouped in families, usually 10 to 30 individuals, including dominant males, one or more females, and one or more subordinate males of different ages who are young.

The size of their colony depends entirely on the size of their habitat and the number of predators they have...... Those creatures have a mild-mannered temperament, rarely fight with their own kind, rarely fight with other animals, and survive by being alert and escaping.

On top of that, they are extremely easy to raise when caught, making them an excellent source of meat...... The meat on its body is very delicious and not greasy!

Those guys are quiet by nature, they don't like to play, they are slow, and as I said before, when they feel danger, they will quickly jump into the water and escape.

They are good swimmers and divers, and only their nostrils, eyes, and ears are exposed to the surface of the water when swimming.

It can swim long distances underwater, or expose its nostrils to the surface of the water, and hide in aquatic plants for a long time.

Like hippos, they flee into the water to avoid predators when they are in danger...... Their main enemies are leopards and crocodiles, and now the Federation Empire is to be added.

Major Xin and a squad of men quietly surrounded the pond with barbed wire, and when they finally closed it, the guys found that it was not good, but they did not scatter and flee, but they all jumped into the water!

Haha, this pond is a natural farm!

If you catch a capybara in the future, you can just throw it directly into it!

However, several agricultural technicians who came with them were not very interested in capybara farming...... It turns out that those guys often steal vegetables, fruits, rice, and sugar cane, and when they eat, they even gang up and shout to the whole family!

So, the agricultural technicians think they are pests, predators.

Major Xin, they swore that nothing like this would happen, that they would take care of the barbed wire, and that they would feed them well...... Cut them some aquatic plants or reeds, and then put in some vegetable leaves, pumpkins or winter melons, and you're done.

They can eat even the whole corn!

The agricultural technicians went with them, warning them to keep an eye on the barbed wire.

During this period, the agricultural technicians surveyed the topography and topography, marked the direction and length of the various canals with lime, and then built a water lifting station in one part of the Buyi River, and a reservoir in the higher places.

Of course, the excavation of the canal was the heavy physical work during the entire construction process.

In the training of the Imperial Army, there were four major tiredness of men: harvesting barley, digging canals, running with weights, and ......

The four major tiredness of men in the Imperial Navy are: brushing big boats, digging canals, swimming with weights, and what......

Well, one can see how deep they are about digging the canals.

But we still have to dig it.

Major Sim had to contract a section of aqueduct like the fighters...... They can only use the tactics of resting people and shovels to get started.

In fact, it is not only necessary to dig out the ditches, but also to shoot the inverted trapezoids, and make them real.

Major Sin, who worked for two hours in one morning, had to take a break and give up the shovel to someone else.

He sat by the ditch, smoking a cigarette and watching feebly as his successor continued to dig.

Occasionally, he looked up and saw a group of natives still watching in the distance!

Damn, how could he forget those idlers?!

If they were to dig it out, and then they would do the final processing, wouldn't it be much easier?!

He immediately stood up and shouted at a few horsemen patrolling not far away:

"Quick, go back to the barracks, get some things, and seduce them to work!

Go around from the side and stop scaring them away! ”

At that time, the cavalry responded to the call.

When he said this, Major Xin raised his glass and motioned for Lieutenant Colonel Zhou Tong to have another drink.

After waiting for a while, Lieutenant Colonel Zhou Tong couldn't help it and said, "Did those natives seduce you?" ”

Major Xin sighed and said, "Where is it so easy to ......"

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