Chapter One Thousand Two Hundred and Forty-Eight: The Far North Route Connecting East Asia (Part 1)
March is the cold ice age. The North Pacific north of 50 degrees north latitude is still white and crystal clear, a world of bitter cold and death. The extreme northern route connecting North America to Northeast Asia is the coldest and shortest coastal route in this era.
Starting from Whale Harbor at 49 degrees north latitude, it finally arrives at Kamchatka Peninsula at more than 50 degrees north latitude.
The first half of this far north route is along the coast of Alaska in North America, with the warm Alaska Current, reaching as far north as the Sacred Blood Bay Port at 60 degrees north latitude. The second half is the windy Aleutian Islands and the cold Thousand Islands Cold Current.
The Kamchatka Peninsula we visited was actually even colder and more difficult!
Thousands of miles of ice dominates the North Pacific, and the Alaska Warm Current can only flow under the ice. Nine hundred miles north from the starting point of Whale Harbor (N48, W124) to the northern tip of Vancouver Island, which is the kingdom's northernmost route
The second port is Kambei Fish Port (N50, W127).
"God bless you! The ice outside the port has melted. In another half month, the fishing boats can go into the sea to fish... The number of people in the port has increased again. When planting potatoes this year, we still need to plant more varieties!...
Well, it snows heavily this winter, which is very difficult. The Herzk tribe on the other side is also having a hard time. When navigation is possible, I will take some fish catch to the other side to appease the small tribes who are struggling to survive, and bring them back to supplement the supplies.
population!…"
Priest Chief Fish stood by the port, looking at the narrow strait in the east and the faint mountains on the other side. Standing beside him were not only two kingdom warriors holding axes, four Slaus fishermen with fishing hooks, but also
There are three Hertsk hunters wearing wooden beast hats. Whether they are Slaus people or Hertsk people, they are generally a head taller than the warriors of the kingdom, and their bodies are also larger.
The ice this winter was very thick, and cold waves were particularly frequent. A group of more than 30 people from the Herzk tribe stepped on the thick ice and fled to Vancouver Island. In the end, they were lucky enough to be absorbed by Kambei Fish Port and chose
Take refuge in the Lord God.
There were actually about a hundred people in this tribe, but after one winter, only more than thirty were left. The extreme cold and heavy snow, lack of food and fuel, the ice made it difficult to fish, and the tribe had no food reserves.
…these small fishing and hunting tribes in the extreme northern continent have such limited ability to withstand cold disasters. And in the vast inland depths further east, there are countless scattered small tribes like epiphyllums that thrive in the cold winter.
destroy.
"Well... there are already three hundred and forty people in the port, and a large potato field has been developed. We are closest to the whale port. When the freeze thaws in April, we still have to send a long ship south to bring a load of pickled whale meat.
Then go to the surrounding tribes to recruit people!…”
After more than two years of development, Kambei Fish Port has more than 300 people, and the development speed is not very fast. The characteristics of this port are that it is on a safe island, and the other is that it has planted large potato fields.
, so it can also be called "Tudou Port".
Compared with the ambition and rapid expansion of the priests of the west coast kingdom, the priests of the extreme north coast are much more unpretentious. What they are thinking about is how to hoard food, how to save fuel, and how to let the tribes in the port survive the winter... Here
In the desolate and gray extreme northern continent, the issue of survival always comes first! And the cost of raising a tribe is really high, far from being compared with the warm and fertile west coast.
The ice sea reflects the vast sky, and the floating ice shines white. Going north from Kambei Fish Port, you have to travel a full 1,400 miles before you reach the next Kingdom port, Condor Wing Port (N55, W131). This place
The size of the port is obviously much larger than that of "Tudou Port", with rows of low-slung shacks built on the ground. On the ice-covered shore, two long boats were moored, and hundreds of tribal people
Scattered on the ice, they all guarded their own fishing holes and competed in ice fishing with patience and luck.
"Ah! God bless you! The fish took the bait and jumped up! Wow! It's a big white fish!..."
“I also caught one!…”
“I caught three!…”
"Shhh! Keep your voice down... The priest didn't catch any pineapples, and his face looks very ugly... When it's over, each of us will give one to the priest!..."
"No, you can't give it directly to the priest. The priest may not be happy... let's give it to the priest's wife!"
"Ah? Why would the priest be unhappy if we gave him fish?..."
"What do you, a Qingit fishman, know? The priest's wife is the daughter of the chief of our Qinxi'an Yingdao tribe! She told us that the priest is thin-skinned and restrains himself even on a straw bed. He is not serious..."
"Ah! Please lower your voice and tell me carefully...I...I will give you a fish!..."
"Hoo! Hoo!... There is nothing theological about ice fishing... It all depends on luck!... All my luck is used to protect the tribe... The Lord God bless me!..."
The pineapple priest was wrapped in thick fur and squatted beside the cut-out ice, waiting patiently and helplessly. Next to him was the tall and strong Qinxi'an wife Qinyan, who looked at the fish without a smile on her face.
Her husband is holding a fishing harpoon in his hand. She is the daughter of the chief of the Yingdao tribe, and she also has a natural influence on the more than 300 Qinxi people in the port. And she is also very satisfied with herself.
Her husband, especially compared with Zuvarro who married another longsword of her aunt, who disappeared as soon as she was pregnant with the child...
Yes, among the many ports on the far north route, the Eagle Wings Port, which has continued to marry into the Eagle Island tribe and has received support from the coastal tribes, is probably the most populous port in the far north! There are more than 600 people in this port.
, almost twice the size of Tudou Port. The population is composed of more than 100 people from the kingdom, more than 300 Qinxi people, and about 200 Qinjit people. In front of the main god temple here, there are also two
The totem pole of the Gen tribe. One is the eagle totem worshiped by the Qinxi people, and the other is the fish totem worshiped by the Qinjit people, so it can also be called "Osprey Port".
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The two totem poles correspond to each other, like the heritage and symbols of the North, and correspond to the creatures in the water and sky. And when the white eagle flies north
After a hundred miles, we came to a winding bay with shining gold and stone, which is the Kingdom's port on Douglas Rich Island, Shengjinxi Port (N58, W134).
The current size of Shenjinxi Port is similar to that of "Potato Port", with a population of about 300. The biggest feature of this port is undoubtedly the Juneau Gold Mine, which is the richest in North America and has extremely amazing reserves.
District. This is a "gold rush port" sitting on a gold mining belt, which can drive all the kingdoms of the Old World crazy!
However, a warm bonfire was lit in the temple, and thousands of kilograms of gold sand on the altar shone with light. Priest Marigold, wearing a thick fur, sat cross-legged in front of the altar, holding a stone carving knife in his hand. He was listless and had nothing to do.
One by one, he carved the emblem of the Lord God on the golden amulet. Beside him, gold amulets weighing one kilogram were piled into small piles, at least hundreds of them, thrown around like useless stones...
"O God! How annoying!... There are obviously so many gold mines here, and there is divinity predicted by His Majesty himself!... However, the chief priest Chimel, who is in charge of the second fleet, did not leave a long ship for me! No matter what
Whether it’s the Condor Wing Port in the south or the Divine Blood Bay Port in the north, both have received supplementary support from longships!…”
"Ah! Could it be that my port with its gold mines has to be ranked last in the entire far north route? Could it be that my marigold, a descendant of a great noble, is not as good as those civilian priests?...
No, at least it’s better than the long fish in Tudou Port...right? That’s the second to last?...Ah! My lungs are so angry! I won’t carve it anymore!”
"boom!…"
Priest Jinzhan had an angry look on his face, raised his hand and threw it away bitterly, using the one-pound golden talisman as a Frisbee, and threw it out of the door of the small temple. And when he looked carefully, in the snow outside the door,
More than ten or twenty gold talismans have been thrown away, but no one has picked them up, not even the groundhogs!…
In fact, Priest Marigold's estimate was good. Among the ports on the far north route, Jinxi Port sits on a large gold mine. The land is very barren and the fishery resources are only average. In the second support fleet,
In the opinion of Chief Priest Chimel, this place is "very unsuitable for farming", and the kingdom's supply of longships is very limited, so naturally it was not arranged here.
Therefore, there was only one long boat and dozens of canoes parked beside the frozen port of Jinxi Port. Then we traveled northwest for more than a thousand miles and arrived at the Kingdom’s Divine Blood Bay Port (N60, W145
), but three longships were frozen!
Chief Priest Chimel attached great importance to the Divine Blood Bay Port, and allocated two longships, leaving more than 150 kingdom headquarters here. With the addition of these kingdom forces, the Divine Blood Bay Department also rapidly expanded to
There are about 500 people, and there are many warriors in the headquarters, so they can still control the situation and continue to attract the surrounding tribesmen...
As the successor to the Far North Route, the reason why Chimel made such an arrangement was out of consideration for development potential and a stable base. This port at the intersection of "Blood Bay" and "Blood River" has the largest port among the ports in the Far North.
It has excellent fishery resources, and also has the most convenient waterway transportation, connecting the vast hinterland of the Far North Continent. It has great geographical advantages!
A large fish population can support more tribes and support a larger kingdom port. Convenient transportation means that there are many connected tribes, which can be easily absorbed and converted! In fact, not far to the west of the Blood Bay is the magnificent
Tianshen Zufeng, and the Changwan tribes at the foot of the mountain beside Longwan. And because the extremely tall Shanshenzufeng mountain range blocks the cold wave coming from the north, it is almost a rare warm and fertile soil on the entire Alaska coast, and it is the place with the highest tribal density.
.In fact, Zuvalo also had a similar plan, which was to move the captured deer hunters in two ships to the Port of Divine Blood Bay...
"The Lord God witnesses! The Divine Blood Bay Port is the most critical waist and abdomen on the extreme northern route. It is our 'Tiger Yao Port'!..."
Last summer and autumn, after the chief priest Chimel left these words of encouragement to the strong tailed leopard priest, he continued to sail westward with seven long ships to send warmth, no, support to Zuvalo thousands of miles away... As for
In the current early spring ice age, the position of the chief priest of Chimel...
"Ahem! Sukeichiro, how long will it take for these two strange four-legged beasts to give birth?..."
"Ah! Master officiant, please don't come close, don't come close! Horses have a bad temper when they are pregnant and will kick you!... They are almost ten months pregnant... In one or two months, they will give birth to a pony!...
"
Note: The Easter Egg Chapter is the overall map of the Far North Route.
