Chapter 796: The One Who Came to Get Rich

After sailing south for only half a day, the Kinmen Strait appeared in sight, and after calculating the latitude and longitude against the map in his hand, the "Zhang Qian" let out a loud cheer, and finally found a place full of gold.

The happiest are the adventurers on the armed merchant ships, and Li Zhuo is one of them. The Yuhang Li family is not well-known in Zhejiang, and it can't compare to those big families of poetry and books. In the early years, they were all shady transactions, and it was not until a certain bigwig of the Li family climbed attached to Chen Xie, a general and general of Dengzhou, that the Li family stood out.

As a peripheral member of the Li family, if he doesn't want to make a fortune and be a buddy in the shop, Li Zhuo's life is still good. Twenty-three-year-old Li Zhuo is already a father of two children, and at the age of sixteen, he joined the Li family business to help so far. Last year, when his son went to school, he had to borrow money to buy it, and his daughter-in-law complained about this matter, which made Li Zhuo very annoyed. Catching up with the Li family to support Li Heng, a rear admiral in the navy, and recruit adventure team members, Li Zhuo saw that he had Wu Baiyuan's settling-in allowance, and his brain was hot.

When the money was taken home, the daughter-in-law knew the truth after not being happy for a while, and she panicked at that time, crying and making trouble all night. Regretting the words of asking the husband to look for the marquis, the daughter-in-law said a lot, and Li Zhuo also regretted it a little, but it was impossible to regret it if he signed the contract and pressed his handprint. After receiving more than a month of sailing and military training at the beach, Li Zhuo still bid farewell to his daughter-in-law and children and boarded the armed merchant ship "Feiyang", with a displacement of 1,500 tons, and the Li family spent 500,000 yuan to customize.

Along the way, we first arrived in Nagasaki, where we rested for seven days. The Dongying woman is so gentle, she spent twenty yuan and some canned luncheon meat before and after, the rural woman named Hanako. Treat Li Zhuo as a husband.

"Cheer me up!" Li Jinxian, the shopkeeper of the Li family who led the team, opened his throat and roared angrily, checking everyone's equipment, and if anyone was not ready, he kicked over. This cargo spent two years in the Dengzhou camp, fought a thief, and retired after injuring an arm. "The brothers are here to make a fortune. Don't lose your life because you didn't do a good job in a small place, the wife at home is still waiting for you to go back. ”

Li Jinxian speaks ugly and likes to beat and scold these adventurers of the Li family, but Li Zhuo doesn't hate him at all, because he knows that what this guy teaches everyone is the experience of saving lives. As for others, Li Zhuo can't control it. It was not the adventuring party that landed first, but a company of marines, and one hundred and fifty officers and men rowed hard and dispersed immediately after landing. After finding the commanding heights and arranging a defensive line, a signal flare rose in the sky, and Li Jinxian's broken gong voice roared again: "Get on the boat, move faster." XX, haven't you eaten? "One guy slowed down and was kicked hard in the ass, causing laughter and a little less fear of the unfamiliar environment. Heavy backpacks and rifles are also less overwhelming.

The landing site was at the southern end of the strait, on a flat beach. The squadron cruised around the strait, sending several small boats to probe the hydrological situation near the strait.

There were two teams of the Li family's expedition members, one team was one hundred and three people, three captains and deputy captains, and the rest were divided into ten teams. There are 10 people in each team, including one team leader. Don't look at this as a civil team. However, the equipment is all standard weapons purchased from the army at a large price, except for the absence of large-caliber artillery, everything else is the same as the army.

It took three hours before and after, and the expedition team was all landed, and there was only one company of marines. In charge of guarding, the expedition team has to put down their backpacks, put their weapons together, and take the tools in hand to chop wood and build the camp. The camp was about 200 meters away from the beach, and for the time being, we had to dig a trench and then set up two lookout posts.

Li Zhuo's mission is to lead his team to find water, and he, the captain, was awarded by his excellent performance in training. It was impossible to carry too many water pipes and other materials after sailing thousands of miles away, and it took an hour to find the water source at the foot of a small hill, but the bamboo could not be found. Just when Li Zhuo was at a loss, an officer of the Marine Corps came over with two people and scolded him with a stinking face: "Idiot, haven't you read the "Introduction to America" and "Adventure Survival Guide"? ”

It is a habit to find bamboo after looking for a water source, and it is the norm to use bamboo pipes to guide mountain spring water into homes in mountainous areas of Zhejiang. After being scolded, Li Zhuo remembered that he had indeed read the "Adventure Survival Guide" over there, and hurriedly reported: "We brought the equipment for drilling wells, don't we want to save it?" The officer scolded again: "It's not early, and if you don't dig a well, there will be no water at night, don't say it, you see that this water source is a full kilometer away from the camp, do you think it's safe?" There is this time wasted, and the water comes out of the wells. ”

Li Zhuo, who knew that he had made a mistake, did not quibble, and hurriedly ran back, it was almost dusk, and what he transported was the pressurized water well and pipes found in the materials transported ashore.

The week passed very slowly in the busyness, tired like a dead dog every day, and when I returned to the tent, I had to force the team members who were lying on the ground and didn't want to move to get up and boil water and take a bath. In the words of the bastard Lee Jin-hyun, ensuring hygiene is a necessary measure to ensure non-combat attrition, and if you don't want to die here, you have to obediently implement the regulations.

A week passed, not to mention gold, and the expedition team did not find even a single figure. The location of the colony was established, at the foot of a hill about two kilometers from the sea, where Li Zhuo found the water source. On the hill, the Marines built an improvised battery with sandbags and erected two 75 mountain guns, which could protect the entire camp at the foot of the mountain.

Sharpened wooden stakes were driven into the ground, and a simple fence was difficult to build. There was no shortage of trees in this place, but cutting them down was not an easy task, and until a certain level of safety was ensured in the camp, the six expedition members had to stay in tents.

The marine battalions on the fleet have all landed, and the army is not responsible for building camps, but as a platoon unit, they take turns to attack and find out the situation everywhere, and by the way hunt to improve their lives. Coupled with more than 2,000 naval officers and men, you can't always eat luncheon meat and chew compressed biscuits, right? Or hope to find the local natives and trade in exchange for food. But a week of things going on, it seems that all efforts have failed. No local aborigines were found, and no gold mines were found, and Li Heng, who had already landed on the shore, focused more on building the mountain in the camp. The dignified Rear Admiral, mixed up to his point, looks very sad.

Li Heng landed the next morning, personally carrying a sun and moon flag and a red flag, walked to the place identified as the colonial point fort, and planted the two flags on the hill with his own hands. The hill is not high, no more than 100 meters above sea level, and you can overlook the strait behind you and the land opposite.

To put it mildly, it's like a puppy peeing, and it's sure that this is the territory, after planting the sun and moon flag and the red flag, this realm is considered the territory of the Ming Dynasty, anyway, Li Heng didn't plan to let others come here again, it is inevitable to fight one by one, and two to kill a pair. Every morning, the first thing Li Heng did was to come out of the camp, walk to the temporary fort, and then stand on a high place and look down, this will be his territory in the future.

Today, as usual, Li Heng still walked up the hill to look around, and after making an inspection, he returned to the camp, and was about to enjoy a deer's leg lunch, when he heard it, there was a gunshot in the distance, and when he heard it, he knew that it was the gunfire of a 5-year-old rear-loading rifle.

Dai Zhi, who entered the bay with the fleet, was far away, and when Li Heng faced what was about to happen alone, he couldn't talk about apprehension in his heart, and he was a little nervous. According to the internal information read, this place is indigenous, and the devil knows what happened to the Marines who sent out? Not worried about his own safety, Li Heng is worried about his subordinates.

Standing up and glancing, the gunfire stopped, and Li Heng sat down with peace of mind and enjoyed a delicious lunch. When he was full of food and drink, the sound of horses' hooves sounded in his ears, Li Heng stood up in surprise, the entire fleet did not bring a single horse, where did the sound of horses' hooves come from? Could it be that the indigenous cavalry is coming?

After waiting patiently for a while, the situation was clear, when a team of expedition team was exploring in the nearby woods, they found two natives, shot and killed one and wounded the other, captured two horses, and sent them to Li Heng.

The person who made the meritorious service was none other than Li Zhuo, and early this morning he led the members of the squad to explore the south, opening up a small road by the way. While resting, the spearhead spotted two natives with ghost-like faces and feathers on their heads. If you hadn't seen the pictures beforehand, the spearhead would have been scared enough. Li Zhuo immediately led people to surround him, but the two natives were unusually brave, shouted hoist, and pounced on horseback, and the rifle sounded four times, and the two fell off their horses.

The wounded were being treated, Li Heng looked around the horse, and soon found that the horse had no hooves, and the weapons thrown on the ground were also rudimentary. The spearhead is actually polished out of stone, the bow and arrow are rough, and the arrow is made of bone. Is this thing enough to hit a dead person? When Li Heng finally understood the first Indian in "Introduction to North America", he used a sentence "Primitive civilization is comparable to the level of the Shang and Zhou dynasties." In fact, I still look down on these natives, and there were bronzes in the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

Li Zhuo touched an object strung with straw rope with both hands and handed it over, "General, please look at this." ”

Li Heng took it and looked at it, his eyes were red, the good thing about the trip to the Americas was to expand the territory, and the ugly thing was to make a fortune. This thing in front of me is really a good thing, and he weighed it a few times in his hand and said, "Dog head gold, at least two kilograms, where did you find it?" ”

"Found in a fur coat on horseback!" Li Zhuo's answer shocked Li Heng's spirit, and he shouted: "You must save that indigenous spy." (To be continued......)