Chapter 17, the twenty-seven moments of Chongzhen's four years (17)

The seventeenth moment: the real Australians are not miserable

Rewind the time to December of the third year of Chongzhen, on the northwest coast of Australia, thousands of miles away from Middle-earth

The surging expanse of the sea is like a blue dreamland, the waves are as gorgeous as jewels, and the rising sun casts patches of golden light from the eastern sky, jumping between countless troughs and crests until it merges with a golden halo that stretches for half a mile, like a mandala gathered on a string of vines, and finally turns into a dazzling halo of bright light.

The beach, the jungle, the blue sea, and the blue sky all seem so beautiful.

Under the baptism of the breeze, Li Wei sat on the beach by the sea with a melancholy face, enjoying the fresh green air and the absolutely pristine tropical forest and grassland...... And so on and so on ⊥ enough to the excitement of modern petty bourgeoisie. But at this time, Levi would rather curl up in his little kennel in Harbin, smelling car exhaust and industrial smog every day, and listening to the noisy square dance of street aunts......

- Because he was in Australia in the first half of the seventeenth century

What does Australia have in the 21st century?

- 7.7 million square kilometers of land, a melting pot of different races around the world, countless high-quality mineral deposits that can be mined in the open air and are of extremely high quality, the famous Sydney Opera House, the colorful underwater world of the Great Barrier Reef, the koalas and kangaroos as national symbols, the cute little penguins, and Palm Beach where the world's supermodels and rich people gather......

And what was Australia in the seventeenth century?

- There are only 700,000 backward indigenous people living in the Stone Age, as well as kangaroos, koalas, platypus, and many other marsupial mammals that are also behind their time...... At this time, Australia was still an isolated 6, and it was not until 17/year that the British began to colonize this land:

So, welcome to the Stone Age, free of industrial pollution, modern travelers from the 21st century

Alas, how did such a ridiculous thing come about?

Mr. Levi, a Chinese-Russian half-breed, sighed more and more melancholy, remembering the fog of the sea that had brought him here.

At that time, the "former paladin" Levi, who had just been rescued by Wang Qiu and Doraemon, and successfully crossed back from medieval Europe with his wife and children, and his wife Zhao Na, who had just given birth to a child, took the wealth looted from the Middle Ages to return to his hometown in the Northeast by the "COSCO Star" from Shanghai - this is an all-metal structure, 147 meters long, 66 meters wide, with a registered tonnage of 66 tons, and a full load of 11o6 tons, with green tourism as a gimmick, The modern five-masted intelligent sail control sail is mainly used as a luxury passenger ship on domestic routes.

Who knew that shortly after the "COSCO Star" set sail from Shanghai, it crossed to the west coast of Australia in 63 years in a fog, and immediately had a rear-end collision accident that crossed time and space, collided with a Spanish galleon of about 300 tons, and sank the poor little guy on the spot...... Then, from the lips of an angry Polish nobleman, Baron Andrew, the owner of the sunken Spanish galleon Radziville, the crew and passengers of the COSCO Star were incredulously able to learn where they were at the moment—south of the island of Java, south of the Timor Sea, near Port Derby in Australia...... Well, that's not the biggest problem, the real horror is that the time of this moment is 1/2/63

Green tourism is all in the 17th century before the Industrial Revolution, which is inevitably too green

In addition, the fact that the Poles of Eastern Europe, who had never had a seafaring tradition, were also in the fashion of seafaring colonization in this era, is equally shocking.

In short, the above-mentioned earth-shattering news simply made the whole ship go crazy, but no matter how mentally broken, the cruel reality that should be faced still has to be faced...... After displaying the magical props obtained from Doraemon, as well as various photos and videos taken in medieval Europe, as "veteran travel experts" and paladins canonized by the Holy See, Levi and his wife were unanimously elected by the dejected and mentally broken passengers as the supreme advisor and a member of the seven-member decision-making team, responsible for leading the more than 140 travelers to struggle to survive in this strange world.

- No way, he and his wife are the only ones on the entire ship who have the experience of surviving in the ancient world for a long time,

The first question after the establishment of the decision-making group is to continue to live in Australia, or to sail to this era of China's big 6 - according to Captain Wang Tiehammer, although the "COSCO Star" is sail powered, but still consume fuel, and the remaining fuel on the ship is only enough to sail to Guangzhou Bay at most, if you choose to go to the "homeland" of the Ming Empire, then it is destined to be a one-way journey with no return......

As a result, a big debate between "Ming Fan" and "Ming Black" immediately broke out among these traversers...... In the end, it was the skeptics who prevailed, feeling that in the absence of tangible evidence, they really could not believe in the "kindness and simplicity" of the Ming compatriots. Moreover, as a traverser who grew up in the new era, without being threatened by his life, I am afraid that few people are willing to kneel down when they see someone, wagging their tails like pugs and begging for mercy. On top of that, in Levi's experience, other humans were probably more dangerous than nature for those of them who were new to the world

And in this era, of all the land suitable for human habitation in the world, I am afraid that the combat effectiveness of the Australian aborigines is the weakest - even if the traverser is the most useless otaku on the side, the per capita combat power is only equivalent to O6 geese, it is estimated that the Europeans, Ming Dynasty people, Japanese and African black uncles in this era can't play, but it won't even be the aborigines of Australia can't play

In this way, the traversers on the "COSCO Star" finally chose to board the 6th Australian Big 6 and settle down on this land for the time being.

Since then, their identity in this world has automatically become "Australian".

However, the arrival of 6 Australia does not mean the beginning of a great epic, but represents the endless hardships of overcoming obstacles, as well as all kinds of endless and unbelievable troubles and dilemmas.

- From the very beginning of the disembarkation of the 6th Ascendant, the traversers and the Poles they rescued were besieged by the natives. Fortunately, the Stone Age Australian Aboriginal combat effectiveness was basically scum, and the tall Poles were armed with baseball bats, steel bars, kitchen knives, and long-handled iron pots...... And so on and all the other mess and the only arquebus, and the only arquebus, these natives who played with stone tools were beaten to the ground, and more than 200 slaves were obtained as a result—in any case, the Polish big nose was able to fall in love with and kill a fierce fighting people like the Russian Maozi for hundreds of years, and it was obviously still somewhat combative.

Then there was a vigorous construction campaign – first logging trees, building roads, and transporting supplies from ships on rafts through guò. From the containers in the hold, the traversers uncovered 7,000 tons of various metal tools and manufactured goods, as well as motorboats, forklifts and machine tools. There's even a set of cutting-edge microalgae conversion equipment for biodiesel: the research team of the equipment happens to be among the passengers, which means that as long as the biodiesel conversion equipment is successfully installed, the traversers will soon not have to worry about the fuel problems of the COSCO Star.

The site of the traverser's 6th climb, Derby Harbour in northwestern Australia, faces Golden Bay, roughly located in the transition zone between the rainforest and the savannah, and although the local trees are relatively sparse, they are still enough for a few hundred people.

Then, all kinds of hastily processed timber were transported by the traversers to the seaside slope that was scheduled to be a camp, and there was no need to lay a foundation, only a few piles were needed to start nailing wooden planks to build wooden houses - the climate in this part of Australia is very monotonous, there are two seasons a year, a dry season and a rainy season, and there are no typhoons or anything like that. These wooden houses are not only used as temporary shelters, but also for long-term living.

Then the trestle was built out of timber and earth: hundreds of laborers went into battle in several long columns, holding baskets and baskets with earth and gravel, which poured the earth into the sea like a conveyor belt, so that a rough trestle slowly extended from the shallows on the shore. When the Great Wall was built in ancient China, it relied on such a "human conveyor belt" to transport bricks and stones to the mountains.

Later, the traversers built brick kilns, fired red bricks, tiles, and pottery, and built several more red brick huts in addition to the wooden houses. In addition, there are high-quality open-pit mines, iron mines, copper mines and silver mines, just like those in the science fiction novel "The Mysterious Island...... Then the cement was made, and even a dozen small cement boats were made

A few months later, a small village and town had already taken shape, and at the general meeting to discuss the name of the settlement, the traversers first rejected the proposals put forward by Baron Andrew and other Poles to "Xinhuasha", "New Krakow", "New Vienna", etc., and they quarreled with each other over the names "New Shanghai", "New Tianjin", "New Henan", etc., and finally had to choose a name that had no national or regional color at all: "Zhongnan City".

But the problem is that although the construction of houses and wharves in "Zhongnan City" is gradually on the right track, the food crisis has not been resolved, and the daily supply of rice, noodles and other staple foods is getting less and less, and finally the supply has to be limited, making everyone feel a sense of survival crisis.

- Although Australian soil is full of kangaroos, and they are silly easy to shoot and catch, since the 6th of Australia, the traversers have been roasting skinned kangaroos on the campfire almost every day. But the problem is, the taste is ...... Hey, a strong smell of urea, if it weren't for hunger, I believe no one would be interested in kangaroo meat, and its special smell is enough to drive away a glutton. So much so that in later generations, few Australians were willing to eat kangaroos except for a few aborigines. Almost all of the kangaroo meat exported was sold to the Japanese. It is estimated that only this strange people on the earth will have a soft spot for kangaroo meat, which is rumored to be "effective in improving reproductive ability".

In terms of modern Chinese eating habits, kangaroo meat, a stinky thing, definitely needs to be cooked with heavy flavors such as spices, salty sauces and chili peppers to barely eat. Otherwise, just smelling the smell will be far away - but with the passage of time, the number of condiments on the ship is also rapidly decreasing, and soon they all have to be used in limited quantities, only the salt is sufficient for the time being because the traveler built a salt farm.

So everyone had to reluctantly eat the stinky stewed kangaroo meat, and get turtles, seabirds, shellfish and fish every now and then to change their appetite...... Although the agricultural team had reclaimed some fields, there were no suitable grains at all - only an old couple on the boat had some vegetable seeds with them, which they were going to plant in pots when they returned home, and now they all contributed, plus some wild fruits and wild vegetables collected, which could barely guarantee that everyone would not get scurvy. But there was no seed for rice and wheat: when the Poles set sail, they took with them some seeds to be used in the new six lands, but now they all sank to the bottom of the sea with the sailing ship.

In addition, the construction of power and water conservancy projects is also scratching people's heads - even though "Zhongnan City" is located in a coastal area, Australia's dry season precipitation is too little. The traverser originally planned to rely on a small stream with a relatively large drop to build a small dam, but just a few days after the simple dam was completed, the creek disappeared with a degree visible to the naked eye, leaving only a slightly moist riverbed, which made people stunned until this time, one of the people who claimed to have seen kangaroos in Australia for three years remembered: Australia has only two seasons, one rainy season and one dry season, and the dry season is often longer than the rainy season. That's why Australia is full of deserts, and most of the rivers are seasonal......

Seeing that water conservancy and electricity might not work, everyone had to build windmills and try wind power. But before the light of the electric light could be lit up three and a half centuries earlier on the Australian Big 6, the real doom finally came:

The dry season is over, the rainy season is coming, and the moody nature shows the travelers what it means to be truly upside down......

——The torrential rain for more than 30 consecutive days has caused the sea level to soar by more than 10 meters in one go, turning the lush coastal jungle into an underwater forest, the abundant grassland of the Inner 6 into a reed, and a few intermittent streams into sparkling rivers, and most of the traces of civilization that the Australian travelers have worked so hard to build have been submerged under the blue waves:

The wharf, which was built for a few months, is gone, but through the turquoise water, a gray-white trestle is faintly exposed; The road that had been painstakingly carved out to pull the wood had also strangely turned into a canal; The dozens of acres of farmland cultivated by the traversers on the banks of the stream (for the convenience of irrigation) were first turned from dry fields to paddy fields, and then from paddy fields to fish ponds; As for the newly completed Zhongnan City, it was first transformed into the water city of Venice in the torrential rain, and then further transformed into the lost Atlantis...... The whole thing went to the bottom of the sea

On the eve of the flooding of Zhongnan City, someone finally remembered to measure the altitude, and the result was shocked: the average altitude of this place was actually minus 50 meters

And the guy who claimed to have seen kangaroos in Australia for three years also vaguely recalled, according to travel magazines, Australia's Port Derby, that is, their time and space of the city of Central South City, the entire city is surrounded by a huge area of coastal tidal flats, these tidal soil will become hard and exposed to the seashore in the dry season, turning into a large area of lush grassland. If there is a drought for several years in a row, it will even turn into a forest...... But if human beings really treat these tidal flats as land, then the monstrous waves of the rainy season will teach you how to be a human being in minutes......

Fortunately, the rainy season here is only heavy rain, there is no typhoon, and the sea water is also rising little by little, so the traversers still have time to move like ants, carrying all kinds of materials to the high ground, and they are not too strict with the loss of zhòng.

The problem is, the hapless Australian traversers are getting things wrong again – the only vehicle they can get out of the Big 6, the COSCO Star, is swept deep into the bay by the tide in the chaos. When the rainstorm finally stopped, Captain Wang was shocked to see that his boat was trapped in a newly formed coastal lagoon, separated from the open sea by a large shallow tidal flat and a sand bar. If you want to sail, you will either have to dig an artificial canal, which is clearly beyond the limits of your traverser's ability, or you will have to wait until the next rainy season when the water rises......

Of course, if you want to talk about the good impact, it is not without - the cement boat built by the crossers on the beach before was originally worried about how to send the cement boat into the water. As a result, the rain did not stop for more than 30 days, and then I went to the beach to see: it was troublesome, and the cement boat had already entered the sea by itself.

The problem is that this bulky and fragile cement ship can't even go out to sea, let alone carry the traversers out of Australia's Big 6.

Then, another even more terrible nightmare came: the rainy season brought not only flooding problems to the city, but also all sorts of unsolicited bad neighbors: first, hordes of saltwater crocodiles - but for the well-equipped traversers, the crocodiles were not terrible, but they were hunted by the Polish big-nosed people, and they were given a bunch of good leather shoe materials. The ones that really make people feel unguardable and cold hair stand on end are the box jellyfish, Taipan snake, blue-ringed octopus, and red-backed spider...... These are Australia's most terrible killers

- First, someone accidentally fell into the water while fishing, and was greeted by several box-shaped jellyfish, so he convulsed and whimpered and sank to the bottom of the sea: according to the records in the biological illustrated, this jellyfish is highly toxic and deadly, and there is no antidote and no antivenom

Then, a little girl who travels through the street screams and is chased down a street by a coastal Taipan snake. Fortunately, two Polish strong men appeared in time, and after a human snake fight, the little girl was out of danger, and got a belt material, but the Polish strong men all entered the ward, and fortunately, the snake's poison was not fatal enough, and these two brave guys hummed and chirped on the hospital bed for a week, and finally slowly recovered.

Then, when someone was going to the toilet, a red-backed spider fell from the top of his head, so he immediately went to God: another name for the red-backed spider is more widely known than the scientific name - black widow, even in Australia in the 21st century, people die every year because of it

——The successive deaths of this kind suddenly plunged the entire settlement into a panic. The traverser decision-making group immediately issued relevant policies: first, it was explicitly forbidden to swim in the water, followed by a "pest control and sanitation cleaning", filling in the stinky ditches and stinky pools within a week, killing more than 20 leather shoe raw materials, killing more than 10 belt raw materials, and eliminating all kinds of reptiles and flying insects totaling more than 70 kilograms...... But even so, it still doesn't seem to give the travelers enough security, and many people are too scared to go out to sea to fish.

At the same time, by the end of November of '63, the last bit of rice and noodles in the "Australians'" stock was completely exhausted, and the vegetable fields were soaked in water, and it was impossible to resume production. Except for a small collection of treasured bread and canned food, it has to hunt turtles, birds, and kangaroos to survive - although there is a koala called "koala" to choose from, and it seems to know that this cute thing should be roasted as soon as its name is heard...... Even the most unrefined Australian aborigines have a hard time swallowing......

Seeing that everyone's living conditions were declining towards the level of savages, Advisor Levi couldn't help but sigh with a long sigh, but he couldn't think about it—first, the Doraemon magic props left by him as a souvenir were only two bamboo dragonflies and a shrinking lamp, which were useful when surveying the landscape, transporting supplies, and collecting ores, but they couldn't make something out of nothing...... During his days in the Australian wilderness, Levi regretted more than once, why didn't he think to get a [gourmet tablecloth] or a [period vending machine] in the days when he was with Doraemon?

Moreover, with the stranding and trapping of the "COSCO Star", everyone will not be able to leave this corner of the northwest coast of Australia for at least a year, even if they want to start again in a more resource-rich place on the Australian Big 6, it has become impossible.

Extremely pessimistic, Levi even began to have nightmares every day, in which more than 100 sailors and those big Polish noses were all dressed in rags, and some even wore leaves. Then the ship's doctor, Xie Jerry, said with a lonely face: "...... Comrade Advisor, there is bad news and good news...... The bad news is that we've run out of ammunition, and I'm afraid we'll have to learn how koalas gnaw eucalyptus leaves from tomorrow; The good news is that there are a lot of leaves in this place. ”

On the other side, a fat man is chasing his Labrador with a kitchen knife, shouting "I want meat, I don't want leaves". Farther afield, Captain Wang Tiehammer led a group of passenger representatives who were negotiating with several indigenous lords about their incorporation......

Fortunately, in this dark day, the incredible savior finally arrived - after nearly a year of arduous and lonely life, more than 100 traversers on the "COSCO Star" were surprised to find that they did not seem to be lonely in this world......

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On that bleak morning, as bleak as usual, Levi sat around a burning campfire with the others and handed a piece of roasted kangaroo tail meat, plus a boiled bird's egg he had just scooped up, to his wife, Zhao Na, who was the better part of the hard-to-swallow kangaroo meat. Then he picked up a piece of roasted kangaroo thigh meat with a strange smell, sprinkled a little salt, and frowned to bite into it.

However, before he could take a bite into the barbecue, he heard a warning gunshot from a nearby cliff, and then billowing smoke from the top of the watchtower at the top of the hill - the smoke had been used there for the first time since it was built

On the radio intercom, the watchman on the watchtower stammered and shouted, "...... Boats are coming."

The people who were eating breakfast by the campfire were suddenly panicked, and everyone was at a loss for a while. Comrade Li Wei, who calmed down the fastest, only had time to comfort his wife Zhao Na a few words, so he pressed the [bamboo dragonfly] to the top of his head, and then took off as quickly as possible, flying towards the bay, and at the same time raised the telescope hanging around his neck, squinting and searching for the sudden arrival.

Then, from the sparkling sea, he saw a strange red sword goshawk flag fluttering from the top of the mast, and a chimney on the deck, billowing black smoke...... Steam-sail hybrid galleon?

Suddenly, Levi only felt a "click" in his head, as if something had been broken.

“…… God, where did the steamships come from in the seventeenth century? It's not scientific, etc., is it that the Pole is lying to fool us? Now it's actually 183 years, not 63 years? Levi, who was messy in the wind for a while, couldn't help but speak incoherently.

As everyone knows, at the same time that he was suspended in the air and messy in the wind, on the deck of the galleon below, there were also several traversers who raised their heads and held binoculars, staring at Levi's "heroic posture" from afar, and they were dumbfounded and mentally collapsed one by one:

“…… Taishang Laojun? Is there a house on the west coast of Australia this year? Is there anyone else flying in the sky? It's not scientific."

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