Chapter 1,290 The expedition fleet, from Alaska to Kamchatka
"Law! Law!"
In the early summer of June, the coast of Alaska is full of colorful life. Light red trees and yellow and white grass flowers bloom on the blue seaside. There are also birds with bright feathers jumping among the sparse trees, spreading their wings and flying from time to time.
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A handsome Jurchen stallion was leading two docile Yakut mares and two lively white foals, eating young grass on the beach and resting leisurely. Especially the handsome horse.
The stallion stared up at the golden sunset with its bright eyes, as if it was about to fly into the sky and become a Pegasus riding on the sea and flying in the sky.
"Lord God, what a spiritual horse! This posture of looking up at the sea and reflecting the sunset is really shining and beautiful!..."
Priest Chimel shouted in surprise, like a child weighing one or two hundred pounds. He held a charcoal pencil in his hand, and while looking at the island, the sunset and the horses, he drew quickly on a large wooden board. Of course, he drew
What is drawn is not a sketch, but an outline drawn with charcoal. Next, he has to carve out the pattern on the wooden board based on the drawn outline, and finally paint it carefully with various pigments. This is the most traditional method among the plateau tribes.
The exquisite painting techniques, carved wooden paintings and murals are abstract and simple, but also have a unique plateau charm...
"Hmm...Priest Master's painting..."
Two steps away, the horse breeder Sukeichiro, wearing a golden charm, secretly glanced at the wooden board with a complicated expression on his face. He had also gone to temples to worship and had seen the lifelike Buddha statues and murals, especially the terrifying ten
The eight levels of hell gave him nightmares for many days. Compared with the paintings of Buddhist monks, the painting skills of this god priest were a bit too difficult to understand...
"Ahem... Lord God! When will the big ship filled with whale meat arrive from the east?..."
Sukeichiro was not interested in art, he only wanted to eat meat. Thinking of the delicious and filling whale meat, he couldn't help but lick his mouth. He looked to the east, looking at the endless sea, and his heart was full of expectation.
"It is good to believe in the Lord God! Not only will you be given golden talismans, wives, houses and fields, but you will even be given whale meat! Praise the Lord God!"
There is always a huge difference in conditions between the extreme north coast, where there is a freeze period, and the west coast, which is open to navigation all year round. The ports in the extreme north have a very difficult time, and they have to consider the issues of food, fuel and winter every year. They have their own surplus
The output is not much, and supplies for rear support are needed to expand the size of the settlement and absorb more northern tribes.
Therefore, after the ice thaws every spring, the transport fleet will depart from the whale harbor and start sailing to various ports on the far north coast. The fleet will be fully loaded with pickled whale meat and salt, loaded with rich coal and a small amount of metal tools.
and some supplementary or exchanged tribal members.
Then, the transport fleet will set off in April and May, following the labor-saving Alaskan Warm Current, arriving in sequence at the Kamei Fish Port, the Divine Eagle Wing Port, the Divine Gold Stream Port, the Divine Blood Bay Port, and finally the Divine Whale Port at the end.
.The fleet will anchor at each port, leaving a batch of supplies, especially the largest amount of whale meat and salt. When it finally arrives at Shenda Whale Port, it will be almost July. Due to the limitation of ship speed, the fleet
There is no time to go west to the Shendadi Port at the beginning of the island chain, so the galleys from the Shendadi Port can only go to the Great Whale Island to transport supplies to supplement the more difficult Aleutian Shenqi Island Chain.
As for the transport fleet, they must start their return journey immediately in July, so that they can rush back to the whale harbor where they started before the freeze in November, which is later in the south... and then, from November to April, they can still
In more than five months, in addition to repairing the ships, you can also visit Beigang and Nangang on the north coast of the west coast. Whether it is Beigang with a population of 2,000 or Nangang with a population of 1,000, it is better than the ports on the far north coast.
There are too many. The cultivated potato fields look so exciting!
As for the far north coast, the largest port, Condor Wings, has only six to seven hundred people. Each port is half farming and half fishing and hunting. The further north you go, the less output you get from farming. You can see the development potential at a glance.
Not to mention the nook and cranny of Shenjinxi Harbor, sitting on the Big Golden Mountain of Juneau on a large island, where nothing grows...
"God bless you! Although the winter here is as cold as in Ezo...but there are meat, fish, potatoes, wives, and apprentices to help with the work...It is really much better than the previous days.
Times! I don’t know how other people are doing, are they nourished by me?…”
Thinking of his current life, horse breeder Sukeichiro couldn't help but smile happily. Last month, after two mares gave birth to foals successfully, the chief priest of Chimel was very satisfied.
Why call him a "Master of Horse Breeding"?
It is said that this position is higher than that of ordinary samurai, and he is a "nobleman of the martial arts family". He also has a nobleman's outfit, wearing Lao Gao's feather crown on his head, and a large circle of feathers on his body. He looks really majestic.
! This makes him so happy that he no longer hugs his wife while sleeping, but hugs her clothes instead...
"Dad! My son is unfilial and can't go back. I can't help Erlang with his marriage... All I can do is kowtow to you and leave another child for the family on this island far to the east.
The descendants will never die... Don't worry! Your daughter-in-law is a good childbearer! She has a strong body and can carry me around on her shoulders..."
The horse breeder, Sukeichiro, stayed where he was. Somehow, he thought of his parents who had worked so hard all their lives, and his younger brother who wanted to marry the daughter of a samurai. The head of the Oyizaki family did give them sailors who went to sea
, made many promises, including letting his younger brother marry the daughter of a samurai and become a samurai who can hold a sword...
But now the people, horses and property of this boat were cut off by the sudden appearance of the East China Sea tribe, and they have not returned to Ezo land at all. The wealth that the Uyizaki family finally squeezed out was all thrown into the sea, completely destroyed.
If the promise is gone, will it still count?
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The horse breeder, Sukeichiro, tilted his head and looked at the setting sun in the West Sea, falling into the sea little by little. And layers of darkness also appeared from the eastern sky, covering them softly. It was getting dark, and the horses had to go back.
While resting in the stable, he had to take a quick nap, and he had to get up to feed the horses at night!…
As the sun sets thousands of miles west, we can see the divine island chain from the horse-breeding Shenda Whale Island. Shendadi Port is the starting point of the island chain. There are two snow peaks standing outside the Shengaoshan Port. The mother port of Shenxue is surrounded by three islands.
The last island of Goddess is surrounded by green grass. The ports on these four island chains can be said to be the most difficult extreme northern stronghold of the kingdom. It snows in spring, fogs in summer, snows in autumn, and winter
It's a violent ice storm. It's the "extremely cold place" that's most suitable for exile. It's much more powerful than Lingnan and Ninggu Pagoda...
Going further west, after arriving at Kamchatka Island, the Shenshuangyan Port near the hot spring mountain and the Shenanshan Port at the southernmost tip of Kamchatka are much better! Thousands of Kingdom reindeer herds are located in the Kamchatka Island.
The Riak deer are driven by tribesmen who convert to the main god and regularly graze back and forth between the two ports.
"Ouch! Ouch!"
The running deer stopped, and the Samoyed and Alaskan dogs howled and drove the first deer into the enclosed deer pen. Then, the following deer also poured into it. The deer tribe members who were driving the deer started to move.
They all took a long breath and looked at the port under the setting sun. There, the three long-sail boats that were originally moored had disappeared. And the originally bustling and busy camp suddenly lost half of its men.
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"O great god of the sea and thunder! The great chief priest has taken one hundred and fifty strong men to set out for the big island in the southern part of the island!..."
"Blessed by the great gods! These are almost half of the warriors in the camp... The chief priest must come back smoothly!..."
"The ancestors, the sacred mountain deer, and the blue sky, please protect the tribe!"
