Chapter One Thousand and Four: The Voyage Diary of the Learned Man, the Salt Fields of the Yanxi Department, and His Majestys Royal Way
"God bless you! In mid-March, no ice floes can be seen in Whale Harbor. The sea near the coast is blue and bright, as if it is the reflection of the falling sky... In fact, around the entire Whale Harbor, there are only ten
In February, January and February, there were obvious freezes. In November and early March, there were only floating ice blocks deep in the west side of the harbor. What surprised me even more was that these ice floes would
Following the current, it flows northwest along the coast, and then gradually melts... This process of drifting and melting gave me a vague guess: that the current leading the fleet to the west is a long, warm current!
Perhaps it is because the bright divinity of the Lord God falls from the sky and is hidden in the depths of the sea, thus making the sea water warm?..."
"I told Zuvalo my conjecture, but he didn't seem too interested. In the past half year, he personally experienced the wind and snow in the North, and he seemed to have aged a lot... I carefully
Looking at his face, it feels like a moose in the northern mountains and forests. There are many wrinkles and folds, especially around the eyes, which makes people feel sad, kind and vicissitudes of life..."
"Well, it seems that a boatload of people who stayed in Whale Harbor have undergone such changes, and several people have fallen ill. It seems that the cold winter on the northern coast is still too harsh for the warriors and sailors of the kingdom.
I think your Majesty is right! If we want to continue going west, we must recruit more men from the northern tribes to serve as sailors in the fleet, and even train them to become warriors of the kingdom!..."
On the gray and gray hills, the knowledgeable Mickey and the exploration captain Zuvalo stood side by side, looking at the sailing diary in their hands, and feeling the cold wind of October autumn. This kind of cold sea breeze, this
The wind blew, like the early spring in March, bringing a nasal sound to both of their breaths.
Seeing the "moose" recorded in Mickey's diary, Zuvallo raised his eyebrows, rubbed his old face, and his eyes suddenly became sharp. Mickey, the knowledgeable man, gave a light "cough" and quickly stretched out his finger, pointing to follow up.
A piece of writing.
"God bless you! Of course, after not seeing each other for more than five months, Zuvalo has become so old because he has worked very hard! When I was in the warm Jinshan Port, I was warming up to the bonfire with the cedar shaman and drinking herbal tea.
, chatting about the tribes on the northern coast, talking and laughing... He had already rowed a long boat, and under the leadership of the Makka guide whale dog, before the end of last year, he explored a circle of Qianli Long Island in the northwest. "
"Zuvarro said that he met many Chislaus tribes on this long island, but they were all very small, with only one or two hundred people in most of them! These tribes all make a living by fishing, and most of them are strong.
He is a very good fisherman and can fish in a small kayak, so naturally he is also a good source of sailors..."
"There are many rocks, rugged cliffs, and complex terrain around Long Island, which is still a bit dangerous. Fortunately, he hired a few more guides from the local Slaus tribe, and he was able to safely circle around Long Island.
He said that he had discovered a good natural port on the north side of Long Island. There was a lot of fishing around, and the tribes were not strong, so they could annex them through 'marriage'..."
"Ha! This guy Zuvalo has been thinking about this kind of 'marriage' conversion and annexation all day long. Along the way north, he has married eight or nine tribal wives! The young priests, young warriors and sailors of the fleet all
He pushed him out and married a local tribal woman... Witness the Lord God! He has no control over the vitality given by the Lord God. No wonder he grows old so fast!..."
"Damn it! Mickey! I'm doing this, constantly marrying wives, isn't it for the purpose of exploring the west? You actually arranged me like this in the voyage diary to be handed over to His Majesty?..."
"Uh! Cough! Zuvalo, listen to me...at that time, I hadn't turned a corner yet...this...that...His Majesty said that things should be done with integrity and in a clever way...
Your plan is... very good! Praise the Lord God! Zuvalo, you are very powerful and very methodical! It has greatly accelerated the kingdom's northward colonization!..."
Looking at the wide-eyed and angry captain Zuvalo, the knowledgeable Mickey was sweating on his forehead. He hesitated to comfort him with a hesitant explanation for a long time. Then he quickly turned the page and pointed to the content at the back.
"Zuvarro, look! This page is all about your achievements! You opened up a crucial new salt field for the fleet!..."
"Praise the Lord God! I am surprised. Zuvalo was able to discover a natural salt field less than two hundred miles southwest of Whale Harbor! It is not accurate to say that he discovered it. The Makka people of the Whale Division
, I often go to this area, dig out the salty salt soil, and mix it with fish soup to drink. Even the streams around the salt fields have a salty taste, so they are called salt streams by the locals..."
"From January to March, when there were freezes and ice floes on the sea, Zuvalo took the number of people in the fleet and dozens of men from the whale department to boil salt in the salt fields. Of course, according to His Majesty's instructions
The method mentioned in Shenwei University was that they first dug some salt ponds, introduced salt water into them, and let the sun dry them for some time. After the salt water was very salty, they poured it into clay pots, lit a fire and boiled it into salt grains... Among them
The most troublesome and time-consuming thing is to use an ax to cut down trees for fuel..."
"A salt-producing place like this is naturally indispensable for tribes to occupy it. In the Bay of Hundred Lakes to the east, many tribes gather. And in Salt Creek, not far from the Bay of Hundred Lakes, there is also a tribe of seven to eight hundred people.
The large-scale Klallam tribe is called the Salt Creek tribe..."
"The tribes in the Yanxi tribe and the Bay of Hundred Lakes are not short of salt. The exchange value of salt is not high in the Bay of Hundred Lakes area. Because there are many small lakes dotted in the bay.
It's a salt lake, and you can get stable salt water all year round... Zuvalo didn't know what method he used, but he reached an agreement with the old grandmother of the Salt Creek tribe. The Salt Creek tribe sent dozens of men to help him boil the salt.
He will provide sharp axes that can chop down trees, soft Kingdom cotton cloth, and beautiful Kingdom gems..."
"Lord God, forgive me! I seriously doubt that he has done anything else...but I don't have a good idea to ask. I think it is just the methods he is used to. But in any case, in order to reserve more food to supply the upcoming support fleet
, salt is always important, important, important! In fact, I have left manpower and told the follow-up support fleet to mediate the Sequoia Tribe and the Leaf Grass Tribe of the Tolowa people who are fighting each other, so as to better develop
The great salt marsh at 42 degrees north latitude..."
Seeing this, the exploration captain Zuvalo rubbed his eyebrows, glanced at the Knowledgeable Mickey angrily, and said in a deep voice.
"Witness the Lord! Mickey, you like to do this! If it hadn't been for the kingdom's support fleet, which delayed for more than ten days between these two large tribes, it wouldn't have arrived at the Whale Harbor at the end of April..."
"What's more, these two large Tolova tribes are enemies of each other and have been fighting for so many generations. How can they be so easy to mediate? And even if the two sides are mediated, what good will it do to the kingdom?... It's better to do what I say.
, sold weapons to two large tribes respectively, and exchanged the prisoners they captured, so that they would continue to fight evenly and become weaker! And when the time is right..."
"God bless you! Zuvalo, just like His Majesty said... We represent the kingdom and should spread the faith of light among the tribes in the North! These tribes are not fools. There are some things... we shouldn't do!
At least you shouldn’t do it proactively, and you shouldn’t do it so obviously!…”
Mickey the Knowledgeable looked solemn and responded seriously. In fact, his moral bottom line has become much more flexible since he set off from the kingdom. But he always firmly believes that what the fleet should really do in this vast northern land
The purpose is to spread the faith of the main god, bring enough food, warm clothes, better metal tools, burn bricks to build houses, and bring a better life to the many tribes along the way! And this is "a
The real "right path" in "Zhengyiqi"!
"Well... okay! You're right..."
Hearing that Mickey brought out His Majesty's royal order again, exploration captain Zuvalo rubbed his eyebrows and nodded helplessly. Along the way, the fleet used salt, food and flint to replenish sailors from tribes everywhere, and
It was not the result of forcibly recruiting and kidnapping people with the help of strong force... it was also the result of being restrained by His Majesty's royal order and Mickey's insistence.
"God bless you! Perhaps, this is what your majesty means, what kind of royal way and what kind of enlightenment!... After all, these tribes in the north are our common ancestors, long-lost brothers of the Jiao people... And whether they believe it or not, we are all