Chapter 20: April Day on Earth

It's April on earth, and the climate in the Rocky Mountains is getting warmer.

This is the perfect time for spring planting.

Since Yin Susu's tribe is known as the clouds on the hills, the altitude is naturally not low.

However, both the Indians and the Chinese are very good at cultivating land in the mountains.

In fact, in Civilization 5, the reason why the Inca civilization was able to become the king of farming was because of their characteristic improvement "Terraces", which have the most terrifying plot yield in the game as long as the location is well chosen.

But reality is not a game after all.

The thin fields in the mountains can't compare to the black soil plains of the Mississippi River in any way.

However, for Chinese workers from Liangguang, Fujian, Zhejiang and other places, the land here is already quite good.

They reclaimed a sunny slope and planted corn, wheat, soybeans, and peanuts, all in small quantities.

When the Mayflower first arrived on the East Coast of North America two hundred years ago, the Puritans from England had no agricultural knowledge or wilderness survival skills.

The kind-hearted Indian tribes could not bear to freeze to death in the bitter winter cold of the American continent, and offered to help.

The Indians taught them to grow corn and pumpkins, to make traps to catch wild animals, and to spend the winter in the wilderness.

The "kind" Puritans, on the day of the harvest, held a grand thanksgiving banquet.

This is the arrival of Thanksgiving.

But they were not grateful to the Indians who had selflessly helped them.

They were thankful for God's mercy and for directing these uncivilized savages to bring food and clothing.

Praise be to God, and guns are the reward given to the Indians.

Two hundred years later, a similar scene played out on the west coast of North America.

The Yin people, who were favored by Zhu Fugui and Lao Li, found that the Chinese workers were cultivating the land, so they took the initiative to provide seeds.

These Yin people are as enthusiastic as they were two hundred years ago, but this time the people they help will not do such a thing as a beast.

And the Chinese laborers were much quicker to get started with planting than the Puritans.

After learning the planting experience of the Yin people, the Chinese workers taught the Yin people many agricultural tricks.

Don't look down on Yinren's planting experience.

According to archaeological data, after the ancestors of the Yin people came to the North American continent, it only took 1,000 years to cultivate corn from an inconspicuous grass like dogtail grass into a high-yield crop.

It is almost impossible for later generations to imagine that the huge corn cob was only half the size of a fingernail.

This is definitely not a simple shit luck, nor is it an isolated case, there are many works in the glorious history of crop domestication.

Potatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, tomatoes, peanuts, peppers, cocoa, tobacco, rubber, sunflowers, papayas, pineapples, cashews, guavas, ......

It can be said that a history of agriculture is half of the history of modern mankind.

Their contribution to modern agriculture was also greatly benefited by the Chinese ancestors.

In addition to plant domestication, in terms of animal domestication, the Yin people have also done the best they can under the existing conditions.

They succeeded in domesticating alpacas and alpacas, two of the only large animals in the Americas that could successfully domesticate them.

But after all, alpacas are no match for camels and horses.

They are nothing but wool and meat spit, and they simply cannot be used for transportation and bearing.

The lack of effective animal power means a lack of means of communication.

The wise and industrious Yin people did not eventually develop a giant empire comparable to that of the Old World.

This also laid the groundwork for their eventual tragic fate.

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The land reclaimed by the Chinese workers is still within the sentry area of the Yin people, but it is slightly independent compared to the village.

Qi Wenchang walked on the edge of the field carrying a heavy sack, and the look of surprise on his face had not completely dissipated.

"Second Brother ......"

A rusty, with a hint of Guangxi accent in Chinese, sounded.

An Indian woman with a big pigtail walked away with a hoe on her shoulder, with a hint of shame.

"Six sons?" Qi Wenchang glanced at the grass hut with a wry face.

"Second brother, no, Ah Xiang came to help hoe the ground again, and by the way, he sent us some pumpkin seeds, I'll fry them when I go back, and send them to Xiao Wansui!"

Yang Liuzheng smoothed the wrinkles on the grass bed while sorting out his clothes, and said with a sneer, "These Yin people are really uninformed, and they don't know the beauty of eating melon seeds, it's really a waste." ”

"Hehe, where can Your Majesty see these spit out seeds? Don't pretend. And if the Yin mother-in-law sends it like this, I'm afraid that their family's melon seeds will be gone next year, right? ”

Qi Wenchang sneered, ignoring Yang Liuhong's face as a big horse monkey, and asked, "What about Changgui?" ”

Zhang Changgui, the fifth surviving elder of the seven brothers, is working in the fields at the moment.

Yang Liu went out and found him.

Then, Qi Wenchang carefully inspected the surroundings of the house, and then closed the doors and windows.

Seeing Qi Wenchang's cautious appearance, Yang Liu asked a little anxiously, "Second brother, are you planning to escape again?" ”

"What? You don't want to? Qi Wen gave him a long look.

"Uh...... Yes, of course ......"

Yang Liu sneered, "But I think these Yin people are quite simple, they are not bad, and they don't mean to harm us anymore, and I also promised Ah Xiang and her mother to help renovate the house in a few days...... The rainy season is coming......"

Finding that the two elder brothers were looking at him with strange eyes, Yang Liu's voice became smaller and smaller, and he hurriedly said: "The key is that Xiao Wansui is still here, we can't put Xiao Wansui in danger anymore......"

"By the way, second brother, didn't you go to see Xiao Banzai today? What did he say? And we really want to carry Long Live the Heavenly King, long live with this Xiao Zhu? ”

Seeing that Yang Liu, this kid, finally didn't mention Yinren's mother-in-law, and when it came to business, Qi Wenchang let him go.

He stood up, bowed in the direction of Zhu Fugui's stone house, and said: "Zhu Ming has won the country for 270 years, and the Qing demon has stolen my artifact for 220 years.

Furthermore...... As long as we are for the sake of the Chinese people and the people of the world, we will not be regarded as betraying King Hong. ”

Yang Liu and Zhang Changgui have always convinced the second brother, and when they heard him say this, they also nodded, expressing their willingness to follow Zhu Ming together.

"Just ......"

Compared with Yang Liu, who has a detached personality, Zhang Changgui has read some books, has the identity of a child, and his mind is relatively meticulous.

He asked: "It's just that now that we are in Citigroup, and this great tomorrow is so young, will it ......?"