Chapter 309: The Luzon Natives
He also wrote a noun of the Yuan Dynasty: the rivers and mountains are beautiful, the wind and dew and the cold. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info send a voice to Sister Yue, borrow me from the monthly book to see this. The fish and dragons in the gully roar sadly, the reflected stars shake, and the sea air is long at night. Silver lanthanum is surging and is in danger of the Purple Mountain. The table is independent, Feixia Pei, cut the clouds. Rinse ice and fill snow, and look at every millimeter. Looking back at where the three mountains are, I heard that the immortals laughed at me and wanted me to return. Waving his hand from now on, the wind is even more miserable. This poem is not as good as Su Dongpo's poem, but it has a kind of atmosphere that does not eat fireworks in the world. In addition, Li Xiang changed to a peach blossom style to write, and with a kind of fairy spirit, Zhao Ji put it on his chest as a treasure.
The two of them took the words from the blackmail, and then left the Li family satisfied.
After that, Li Xiang began to urge the workers to speed up. Because this time coincides with the Xiaoice River period, it is very cold in winter. The cement he is making now is not the strong standard in his previous life, it can only be regarded as a general standard. There is no coagulation in winter. Once the blast furnace is not built in the depths of winter, it must be stopped and can only be restarted in the spring of next year.
Fortunately, the workers are now familiar with working at height. The speed is much faster than before, and with the continuous rewards, I also have the motivation to get faster and faster. When the height of the blast furnace reaches 70 meters, it can be seen from a long distance, and it is even more sensational, and some people even come to visit it at a distance.
In addition, Emperor Lizong listened to Li Xiang's suggestion, and still adopted the dark box operation method of the people as the surface and the officials as the inside, and handed over the cement to the Lu family and the Wang family for operation. This time, it was difficult for Lord Wang not to attract attention. As the height of the blast furnace increases day by day, the reputation of this cement also grows day by day. Now there are few people in the entire Great Song Dynasty who don't know that after Li Xiang invented things such as cannons, bicycles, etc., he also invented better solidification materials for building houses. Due to the secret support of the government, more than a dozen branches have been opened across the country, and workers have been recruited to Lin'an to learn the craft, although it will not be officially put into production until the spring of next year, which is a huge income. The people counted that the Lu family still had a few years to become the richest man in the Song Dynasty.
By mid-July, the blast furnace had finally been topped out. At this time, some people breathed a sigh of relief, and now some people are worried that if Li Xiang continues to build like this, will he break the sky.
In addition, there is another thing that has caused a sensation among the people, that is, the aborigines of the South Seas followed the sea ships of the seafarers to the capital to convince His Majesty.
When the ships were about to arrive at the wharf, countless people flocked to the wharf, more than when Li Xiang entered the capital. In fact, there are many foreigners who come to the capital, but this is a foreigner who "belongs" to the Great Song Dynasty, and it is also the first time that a local person has come to the Song Dynasty to worship the emperor since Emperor Lizong incorporated Luzon into the territory of the Song Dynasty. Finally, the boats docked, and the natives walked ashore under the guidance of the seafarers, but they saw the aborigines, but the girls present covered their eyes.
Li Xiang also heard this. He was curious about these native Luzon natives. In his memory, the indigenous people of Luzon existed for a long time, but civilization evolved very slowly. Due to its sparse population, Luzon produced abundant fruits, grains, and animals for hunting. Moreover, most of Luzon is located on the equatorial annex, the weather is warm and hot, there is no cold winter, and there is no need for heavy clothes to keep warm, and they have lived in a state of ignorance and food and clothing for a long time. Maybe those who misinterpret "Lao Tzu" must feel that this kind of life is not the indisputable dream state of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors when they saw this situation?
It was not until the invasion of the Europeans that not only killed them, but also occupied their lands, and as a result, the remaining natives were forced to flee to remote and harsh places to survive, and as a result, there were fewer and fewer such natives.
Of course, Li Xiang didn't believe that these natives actually knew to surrender to the Song Dynasty under the influence of the adventurers who went to reclaim the mining industry in the Song Dynasty. I don't know how these people were forced or captured by Haike, to please the emperor. It's just that he knows that things are not so simple, but he doesn't say that in order to occupy those vast places, there must be enough people to move over. This matter is different from Feng Chan Xiangrui made by Wang Qinruo, and it is a great good thing to use it well. After all, the road is so far, and not many people are willing to move there.
During this time, Li Xiang went from glass to cement and then to blast furnace, often running in and out of the city, and many people often stayed on the side of the road where he often walked to watch him. As Li Xiang imagined, it is not surprising that he has seen too much, and now there is no such sensational scene as when he first entered the capital. But he was often thrown in handkerchiefs by some bold girls, so that he went out refreshed in the morning and came back with a scent.
Seeing Li Xiang coming, many people automatically gave way to a road. But before the natives were seen disembarking from the boat, the attention was still on him, and they were still talking as they looked this way with their feet folded.
It wasn't until the natives got off the boat that the viewer's attention was drawn to it. It turned out that in order to make an uproar, these seafarers actually let them keep their original appearance, and only wore leaf-like clothes like shorts around their waists, and some of them also wore **** on their upper bodies. The girls present dared to see such a shameful scene, and covered their faces all, but whether it was real or fake, it is unknown whether they peeked through the cracks of their fingers. Even Yuru and Lu Shiya were so ashamed that they closed their eyes and said that these people were shameless, only Yuru's Yahuan Xiaoshi was still calm, and said: "Sure enough, as the young master said, these people are primitive and uncivilized. ”
Huo, Li Xiang counted, good guy, there are not many this time, there are more than two hundred. There were already eunuchs standing on the dock to greet them. The emperor should of course be cautious about such a grand event. Words are incomprehensible, but the eyes are the windows of the soul, Li Xiang saw the light of hatred in the eyes of those natives, and occasionally flashed, he was even more sure that the surrender was fake, and it was true that Haike was captured by force. But these natives saw so many people on the dock, and they were obviously scared again, they only have a few hundred people in a tribe, and a few thousand people can dominate one side, how many people is this? If they were as brutal as those seafarers, the two hundred of them would not be enough for the rest of the family. They tried to flee to the ship again.
But under the intimidation of those seafarers, through the language of the chatter, they calmed down and walked towards the city again. Li Xiang also admired the ability of those seafarers, who learned the language of the indigenous people so quickly. This is also forced, at this time, they do not have the ability or right to have a translator, and they go to a wide range of places, and they must learn the basic language of the other party in a short time before they can trade, and over time, their language talent also increases imperceptibly.
On the way back, Lu Shiya and Yuru were still chattering excitedly, saying that these natives were not ashamed. Li Xiang thought to himself, our ancestors have not yet transitioned from this way. (To be continued.) )