Chapter 37 Spitsbergen Islands (1)

"P146T1631W7814 arrived."

Whenever Lorraine did something related to his duties, his tone was particularly stiff, and Huang Xuan stepped on the hard ground and walked out of the dimensional passage, which was much stronger than the rootless environment under his feet in the passage.

"Where is it now?" Huang Xuan said, took a sharp breath of cold air, and said, "It's so cold." ”

As he spoke, his whole body suddenly warmed up, and Lorraine replied: "In the year 1631, the geographical location is near the city of Longyearbyen, in the Spitsbergen Islands, near the Arctic Circle, the current temperature, 2 ° C, I have put on an energy circle for you to keep the temperature, but I still recommend that you quickly get dressed." ”

"You made me wear less." Huang Xuan looked at the long-sleeved T-shirt on his body, this is still considering that the visual impact of short sleeves is too ......strong, although he no longer feels cold, Huang Xuan still shivered, stomped his feet, and said, "Find someone." ”

"There is a lot of human activity 3 km to the west. Please also note that you can stay on P146 for a maximum of 84 hours. ”

"It's just three and a half days, it's so complicated." Huang Xuan shrunk his neck, always feeling that he was out of touch with the hard frozen soil nearby, shook his head, and took a step in the right direction.

On the way, Lorraine began to search for plane information, this is the most important step, not only to determine the current security, but also to determine the key steps to stop, before the space-time oscillation occurred, the environment of each plane has been fully investigated, but in the current space-time desert environment, the data are outdated, the only thing that can be pinned on hope is the standard plane similarity, if this is also a plane that has undergone severe space-time oscillation and developed, then it usually has a high degree of similarity - at this time, The space-time desert has become an advantage, if it is in the era of the Great Plane, where is there any similarity at all, countless merchants have already destroyed everything that can be destroyed, if not, how can space-time shocks happen.

As the closest human settlement to the North Pole, Spitsbergen has a pitiful amount of vegetation, especially in areas close to the interior, where only a slight amount of moss is exposed.

As he walked, Lorraine began to educate Huang Xuan about the basic information of the region, which was so numerous and complicated that he was overwhelmed, thinking that if he really listened to it, then as long as he traveled a few more time and space, history and geography would be considered a teacher.

Spitsbergen, also known as Svalbard, was part of Norway in the time of Huang Xuan, but is currently owned by the Dutch.

In the 17th century, the Netherlands was the most powerful country in the world, known as the "coachman of the sea", and Spitsbergen was also highly regarded as its colony.

The air seemed to be cold, and the sound of people talking could be heard in the distance, and through the open field, a small fishing village could be seen.

"It seems to be a bazaar." Huang Xuan quickened his pace, the warmth of the energy circle was good, but he still preferred clothes. "What was worth in the 17th century." He's already thinking about what to change? Polar bear fur suit? Wouldn't it be a little too heavy?

"Tulips." Lorraine's answer almost made Huang Xuan vomit blood, and he suddenly remembered that he seemed to have heard similar information just now, it seems that there was a time when the Netherlands was trading tulips like crazy, and people sold their assets to buy tulip bulbs to hoard, and raced to buy newly bred sick varieties, so that a rare tulip was sold for thousands of guilders, worth 30 times the average annual income of the Dutch at that time.

Of course, this madness will inevitably come to an end, and when the frenzy is over, the cherished tulips have lost more than 90% of their value, and the common breeds are mostly fed to livestock. This was hailed as the first economic bubble in history, which seriously affected the economic order and even the economic strength of the Netherlands. However, this thing was expensive before it depreciated.

"Tulips are still worth a lot now?" Although he already knew that he was born near the Arctic Circle, Huang Xuan couldn't help but ask.

"Based on the similarity of the planes, the sales of tulips are at a high level."

Huang Xuan was slightly disappointed, he knew that bringing a batch of tulips would definitely be better than some famous products such as "Forever Augustus".

Several small sailing boats appeared in front of Huang Xuan's eyes quickly with three sails, a style that has never been seen since the electric age, and they all have their own sails, which are sewn from canvas with vertical seams. Ropes tied to the sails and threaded together with movable rigging have not yet been invented, so the sails are far from as large as people think.

Seeing the boat coming, the people in the fishing village shouted one after another, and at this time, several men of the Nordic race also came out of the low wall and saw Huang Xuan.

At this moment, their faces must have been shocked. Huang Xuan shrugged, if he was near the Arctic Circle and saw a yellow man walking around in a T-shirt, he would probably scream, after all, there are more people to fight monsters.

"Hoegaathet (How are you?) Huang Xuan was the first to greet him, and he had Lorraine as his translator, and his voice was very similar, completely like Huang Xuan himself speaking Dutch.

"Hoi" A man stretched out a hand and replied, Huang Xuan showed a happy expression, and asked loudly, "Hello." How far is it from Longyearbyen? ”

"Right ahead." A young man looked curiously at Huang Xuan, who was gradually approaching, pointed to the west, and said, "Where are you from?" ”

"Amsterdam, my friend." Huang Xuan deliberately showed friendliness, the famous Viking has long been famous, he smiled and said: "I went to Amsterdam from Guava Island, and now I am an employee of the East India Company. ”

Guawa Island is today's Indonesia, and as far as the Chinese are more familiar with history, the Dutch East India Company used Guawa Island as a base to invade Taiwan, and was finally driven out by Zheng Chenggong a hundred years later. However, the young man in front of him obviously didn't know where Guawa Island was, but every Dutch knew about the East India Company, and when he heard that Huang Xuan was so familiar with the life of the Dutch, the middle-aged man standing at the back stepped forward and said, "If you want to go to Longyearbyen, you can come with us later." ”

"Thank you so much." Huang Xuan shrank and said, "Can I change some clothes with you?" I can trade spices for that. ”

Although spices have ceased to be the legendary violence since the 17th century, they are still expensive, but they are located in the northernmost part of the globe and are more marketable in Europe. The middle-aged man shook his head, but promised to give him a set of clothes.

Huang Xuan accepted embarrassedly, he couldn't vacate a large amount of food from the plane passage now, but a few young people were very enthusiastic, especially when Huang Xuan wore a seal skin, his image changed greatly, and he was closer to them.

The small sailing boats that had brought in some fish and algae, as well as a large number of shrimps, and many of them were Norway's famous jellyfish shrimp, which Huang Xuan knew were more expensive than the broken boats that carried them, but now they were just food for the fishermen's leisure.

Looking at the jellyfish shrimp casually thrown on the ground, Huang Xuan suddenly felt refreshed, and the cold air became no longer so biting.