Chapter 371: The Wasteland is Coming
The hilly area is not suitable for growing crops, if you have doubts about this, please refer to the Guizhou region.
Even today, when the sea water submerges most of the blue star, the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau is still strong. However, this is by no means a good place to grow food. Transforming the hills into terraces looks shocking from the sky, but if you really do it, it will not take a year or two to do it.
People need to remove sand and gravel and build ladders. Store water and turn the soil to pull out weeds. It takes at least three years to sow a little grain, and at least five years to have enough harvest to feed a family.
This is the reason why Tuntian, a big man in history, did not collect taxes for the first three years. It's not that they're generous, but the first three years were basically for nothing. Looking at Europe, Asia, the United States and Africa, there are few people who are as industrious as Asians. The miracle on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau cannot be replicated.
Swooping down from the Aconcagua Mountain, the plants along the way underwent various changes, but in the eyes of Du Lengqiu and Qi Xiaoxian, it was only a flash.
They are not familiar with the plants of South America, and they cannot tell the difference between the cold, temperate and tropical zones.
But at low altitudes, the snow and ice have long since melted, converging into springs, and eventually turning into waterfalls that fall from the sky.
This is an ice fountain that humans in South America can drink directly.
They skim low altitudes, and there are a few ragged men at the edge of the pool where the waterfalls converge, unkempt, typical of the wasteland.
If this style suddenly breaks into the city, it is possible that there will be a few Internet celebrities all of a sudden.
But now, this is the norm.
Seeing Du Lengqiu's immortal light in the sky like the sun, it swept by, but it scared these guys who were taking water. They dodged backwards in a daze, stepping on the rocks and falling to the ground.
One of them shouted, "......%¥¥##"
That's right, Spanish and Portuguese are so, Du Lengqiu sounds like a flock of birds arguing. Note that it's a quarrel, not a song.
Leaning against the treetops, skimming through the jungle.
Through the foliage, you can clearly see that the people here have completely turned into a state of barbarism. From south to north, flying all the way, I didn't see a single farmland.
Even in the Middle Ages, South America was fertile.
The Indians cultivated corn in the highlands and low-lying areas. Tortillas baked in stone are a traditional dish of the Indians.
As the earliest pioneers in South America, the Incas cultivated corn from the size of a finger to the size of a small arm today. This process lasted for two thousand years.
The plateau in the middle of the Andes Mountains, where Du Lengqiu is located today, is the birthplace of ancient civilization on the South American continent. As early as the 10th century, the Inca tribe of Indians living in this area established the Inca Empire, centered on Cusco in southern Peru.
At that time, the astronomy of the Inca Empire was extremely advanced, and even from the perspective of the twentieth century, it was one of the most advanced. They can observe the nine planets of the solar system.
Between 1438 and 1533, the Inca Empire used a variety of methods, from military conquest to peaceful assimilation, so that the Inca Empire covered almost the entire western part of South America. The power of the empire reached its peak during the reign of Monarch Vajna Capac.
The national fortunes of the Incas finally came to an end after three hundred years.
In 1526, the Inca Empire was discovered by the Spanish colonizer Francisco Pizarro.
In 1529, the Inca Empire was greatly weakened by a civil war over the throne.
In 1533, Pizarro led an army to invade the Inca Empire and designed to kill the last monarch of the empire, Atahualpa, and the Inca Empire fell and became a colony of the Spanish Empire.
It's not that the Incas are too incompetent, it's just that when an empire lasts for three hundred years, its internal problems are bound to accumulate and cannot be saved.
The rise and fall of three hundred years of chaos is not unique to one family.
Du Lengqiu looked down on the earth, and the undulating hills, rushing springs, dense forests, and the occasional gunshots through the mountains and forests together constituted the last lamentation of South America.
Boom! Boom!
Endless clouds of smoke and dust rose into the sky, followed by boiling, red-hot magma erupting from the mountain peaks. The lava sprayed in the air, and while it was still in the sky, it had solidified and turned into a rock that shattered at the slightest touch.
They descended from the sky and smashed the plants on the ground to pieces. The sparks contained in the rocks splattered and set the forest on fire.
volcano, causing wildfires.
Du Lengqiu's expression was solemn, such the power of heaven and earth, he was slightly shocked when he saw it.
There are 16 active volcanoes in the northern part of the Andes and more than 30 active volcanoes in the southern part. At 6,723 meters above sea level, Yuyeyako is the highest active volcano in the world.
Volcanoes in South America often cause earthquakes, mountains shake slightly, trees slump from side to side, and entire mountains seem to be destroyed.
The feeling of the end of the world startles the birds. The wings of the sky covered the sky, and the frightened screams of all kinds of birds converged into the most chaotic and unbearable noise.
"Master, are we just looking at it like this? Doesn't it say that cultivators like to do good deeds and accumulate external strength the most?"
Du Lengqiu glanced at him and said, "It's okay to look at some strange things." The cultivator accumulates external strength, which is even funnier than a thousand-mile horse-drawn cart. ”
The fire spread to both the south and the north at the same time.
Now that the continent is submerged, the wildfires are like the last straw that breaks the camel's back, leaving the South Americans in the vicinity completely desperate.
They stood by the flames, allowing them to swallow themselves, but they did not escape. A series of blows had completely shattered their hearts.
Suddenly, thunder shone in the sky, and dark clouds gathered like the wind. The sky seemed to be dripping with ink. A gust of wind swept the branches and leaves, and came horizontally.
In a moment, the raindrops the size of beans crackled and fell into the world.
Then, heavy rain poured down, extinguishing the fire that had just been ignited.
The people who survived the catastrophe smiled bitterly in the rain, and did not even cheer. This drastic world has long since made them lose hope of survival.
They just knelt on the ground, stretched out their arms, and prayed to God.
And at this moment, the volcano began a new eruption, and the hot speech poured out, and was poured by the raindrops, and immediately emitted a huge amount of white smoke.
Eventually, by the time the fire was extinguished, a large amount of ash had accumulated on both sides of the Andes. This is very fertile land. Unfortunately, there will be no one cultivating the land here.
No matter what time of the day, in times of war, there will never be farmers farming. The reason is also very simple, robbery is always a better way to get rich quickly than farming.
It's just that these guys forgot. The fields do not grow their own food.
Du Lengqiu went all the way north to the northern end of the Andes. In this mountainous and hilly area, which is less than 80 kilometers wide and nearly 9,000 kilometers long, only a few hundred thousand people live in it. It is not even as large as the population of a prefecture-level city in China.
And even with this little bit of humanity, their lives are extremely difficult.
Their dress is even worse than that of refugees, if it weren't for the occasional gunshots that resounded through the mountains and caused a long echo, Du Lengqiu would have thought that he had arrived in a primitive society.
Although there are still Brazilian highlands that have not been visited, Du Lengqiu is not interested.
The entire human society, except for China, other nations are only surviving, and there is no hope for rejuvenation. South America, a place that is too far from God and too close to a beautiful country, will eventually be drowned in the torrent of history, just like the Inca Empire back then.