"America! I'm coming! Hahahaha~" Zhao Jia stood at the bow of the boat and shouted at the vast land in front of him, and Yang Shiliang and the others next to him also shouted loudly, in order to vent the excitement in their hearts. Four days after leaving the Taíno Islands, they finally reached the true American continent.

When Zhao Jia and their fleet approached the coast, they saw that the shore was lush and full of dense rainforests, according to the latitude, this should belong to the tropics, that is, near Central America, so it is normal for the jungle on land to be dense, and according to Zhao Jia's observation, there must be natives living in the jungle, because they see traces of human activities on the beach, but they dare not go ashore into the jungle, first, they do not understand the temperament of the local natives, and secondly, the danger of the jungle is too much, Maybe a small bug could kill someone, and they wouldn't dare take any chances.

It is precisely because of this that Zhao Jia and his ship sailed south along the coast of the Americas, hoping to meet the natives on the shore, and if they want to bypass the Americas, they must bypass the southern tip of South America, as for this is also the only way to bypass the Americas, of course, the northern end of North America can also be bypassed, but it is close to the North Pole, there are icebergs everywhere, and their ships cannot pass through at all, so it is safer to bypass from the southern end.

After driving south for two days, Zhao Jia and the others finally came to a peninsula protruding from the sea, and on the peninsula they finally found the local natives, and what shocked them even more was that the natives had established a fairly large city on the peninsula, and the city was not far from the coast, Zhao Jia and they could see the tall city wall on the land when they stood on the bow of the boat, and there were many natives rowing small boats on the sea to fish in the sea.

Regarding Zhao Jia's arrival, the natives of this city were very vigilant at first, but after Zhao Jia and they took the initiative to send someone to contact the other party. Finding that the native language here was somewhat different from that of the Tylenols, they could barely communicate, so they immediately made their intentions known and presented them with gifts to each other's leaders.

Relatively speaking, the natives of the Americas are still relatively simple, and the natives here are able to build large-scale cities. This shows that they have a higher degree of civilization and are more willing to communicate with the outside world, so when they learned that Zhao Jia and they came from the other side of the sea and brought a large number of novel goods, this made the local natives quickly let down their guard against Zhao Jia, and even the person in charge of the city also put forward a request to visit the ship, which was also in line with Zhao Jia's intentions.

Taking advantage of the other party's visit, Zhao Jia and the others also inquired more about the local area, such as they learned that these natives generally called themselves Mayans. It is the largest number of natives in the entire Central American region, and their Maya people have developed a very high civilization, and there have been slave city-states everywhere, and the city in front of them is one of the Mayan city-states, called Oaxac City, the total population of the city has reached more than 30,000 people, which can almost be compared with the upper county of the Great Song Dynasty, and this is not the largest city-state of the Maya. Some Mayan city-states are said to have populations of more than 50,000 people, although the size of such cities is far from comparable to that of the Great Song Dynasty. But it's also very good, you must know that the most prosperous city in Europe has a population of only tens of thousands at most, so in Zhao Jia's eyes, the civilization level of the Mayans is actually about the same as that of Europeans.

In addition, from the conversation, Zhao Jia also learned that the Mayan leader who visited the ship this time was actually a priest from the city of Oaxac. The Mayans believed in a variety of gods, believing that there were gods in everything in heaven and earth, and priests were the main medium of communication between the Mayans and the gods, and it was precisely because of this that the priests had great influence in the tribes and city-states. Gradually they took the place of tribal chiefs, combining theocracy and power, as was the case in the city of Oaxac, and in addition to the priests, there were military chiefs and administrators, merchants, etc., all of whom were nobles in the city-state, while farmers, artisans, and slaves belonged to the commoners in the city-state, and there was a huge class gap between the two sides.

After visiting the ship, Zhao Jia also set up a banquet on the ship, and warmly entertained the priests and other nobles of Wahak City, and as a result, after a banquet, the other party was even more happy, especially when they finally got the gifts given to them by Zhao Jia, these nobles of Wahak City widened their eyes, and Zhao Jia took the opportunity to ask for a transaction, and the other party agreed almost without thinking about it.

In fact, Zhao Jia didn't have much cargo on their ship, and the reason why they proposed to make a deal with Oaxac City was mainly to take advantage of the transaction to learn more about the other party's situation, after all, there are some things that can't be told by ears alone, and you have to see it with your own eyes, and if you want to go deep into the Maya to observe, the best way is naturally to make a deal.

It is precisely because of this, so on the fifth day of Zhao Jia's arrival in Ohaac City, the two sides launched a large-scale transaction in the open space outside the city, and not only the Mayans of Ohaac City came on this day, but also several surrounding city-states heard the news and also rushed to trade, and the Mayans who finally arrived definitely exceeded 100,000 people, and even the priests of Wahac said that this was the largest gathering of the Mayans in ten years.

For the Mayans, all the goods that Zhao Jia took out were novel, and they were much richer than the Taíno people living on the island, and there were many goods that could be traded, in addition to food, there were also animal skins, pottery, handicrafts, and so on.

In addition, Zhao Jia also found a very puzzling phenomenon, that is, although the Mayans have a high degree of civilization, all the tools are made of stone, and there is no metal products at all, when he was with the Taíno people before, he had already discovered this phenomenon, at that time he thought that the Taíno people had a low level of civilization, so it was normal to not know how to smelt, but when he came to Ohac City, he found that the Mayans here also did not use any metal tools, but with the level of their city-state construction, As well as the level of civilization of the society as a whole, it is impossible to completely fail to master any metal smelting technology, especially since they also know how to fire pottery, so it is even more impossible to know nothing about metal smelting.

In fact, not only Zhao Jia discovered this strange phenomenon, but also Yuan and Yang Shiliang and others also discovered this situation, and several people discussed it in private, but there was no result, and finally Yuan personally asked the priest of Vahak, and then he understood the reason. (To be continued.) )

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