"I don't know. We don't understand the language of the barbarians, so we don't understand why they abandoned the city!" The scholar shook his head. Welcome to reading
In fact, these are the cities left by the Mayans, and the "barbarians" they refer to are the descendants of the Mayans! The Mayan civilization in the classical period was extremely prosperous. By 900 AD, the classical Mayan civilization ended, and many Mayan cities
It was abandoned, and historians did not figure out the reason until Wu Dong traveled through it in later generations. Some said it was because of war, some said it was because of plague, and some said it was because of peasant rebellion, collective suicide, etc. In short, the Mayans
These cities were abandoned.
"Are there any cities that have not been abandoned?" Yelu Dashi asked.
"There should be more than 1,000 soldiers from the navy still exploring the environment here." The scholar said.
They stayed in the Mayan city for two days, and they were more and more amazed by it! The civilization level of this city was extremely high. In addition to the texts, calendars, and temples that had been discovered, they also found that this city had extremely excellent cultural heritage.
Drainage system! In addition, there are abandoned fields around the city, and it can be seen that there is an extremely sophisticated irrigation system there.
A few days later, naval officers and soldiers discovered more villages, but they never found a city again. It was not until April that they discovered a truly inhabited city, but the size of this city was smaller than that of the abandoned city.
The scale is much smaller, and there does not seem to be a highly developed civilization like the Abandoned Land there, it is just a simple population gathering place.
In addition to these, naval officers and scholars from the Academy of Sciences discovered many crops! These crops are very different from the crops in the Central Plains, and some crops are very strange to them! For example, corn, pumpkins, tomatoes, etc. that were common in later generations,
The Mayans have already begun to eat these crops, but the Central Plains people have not yet seen these crops.
In mid-April, a large number of ships returned from the north and south directions. Chao Gai, Yelu Dashi and others also returned to the coastline, and they joined the naval officers and soldiers.
"How about it? Is this a continent?" Chao Gai asked immediately when he saw the naval division commander for the first time.
"It is a continent, and it is an extremely huge continent! We have been walking all the way north and south for twenty days, but we still have not reached the end. No one knows how big this continent is!
On land, our navy officers and soldiers are moving forward, and there is no end in sight! If this is not a continent, what is it? According to the report of the Academy of Sciences, here
The products are extremely rich, and they even discovered some iron ore, copper ore, and some precious gems! Moreover, according to our investigation, the population here is very limited, and there is no unified political power here at all! There are only a few small
There are villages and towns, and the people who rule here are at most some chiefs! It will be easy for us to occupy this continent!" the division commander said excitedly.
"You want to occupy this continent?" Chao Gai said in disbelief.
"This is natural! The mission of our army is to expand our territory! Now that we have discovered the New World, why not occupy it?" the division commander laughed.
"If we really occupy this place, our land area can at least double!" said another naval officer next to him.
"This place is too far away from the Central Plains. Even if we occupy this place, ordinary people will not come here." Chao Gai shook his head.
"The products here are rich, and people will definitely come! Businessmen will definitely come. If farmers can't live in their hometowns, or there is too little land, they can come here! This place is much better than the barren northern ice fields.
!" said the teacher.
"Are we going to stay here now and occupy this place?" Chao Gai said.
"That's not necessary! Our mission is to move forward and continue to explore. Now we only need to record this place. In the future, the main fleet of our navy will naturally come here! When the fleet of more than 100,000 people arrives, that will be
When we occupy this place," the division commander said.
"Where are we going now?" Chao Gai asked.
"Let's... go south first! It's getting colder and colder to the north. It seems to be the same as the north of our Central Plains. Ice sheets will appear by then! Let's go south and see how big the land is first. If possible, let's continue east
." The teacher thought for a moment and said.
Daliang's fleet moved again, and more than 5,000 people headed south. They went south for more than two months. During these two months, naval officers and soldiers also landed again to inspect the environment of the mainland. They found anomalies on the mainland.
It is so desolate that sometimes they can only see endless forests and not even a single person. The forest area here is huge, and there are unusually wide rivers in the forest. The animal species here are also very different from those in the Central Plains. This
The novel world makes everyone excited.
But they still haven't reached the end of the continent!
"This place is much bigger than the Central Plains!" Chao Gai said.
They were in Central and North America before, but now they are going all the way south, almost passing through the entire South America. This place is naturally much larger than China.
"Yes, and there is not much population here, at most there are some scattered small countries! Sooner or later we will all occupy this place!" the naval division commander said excitedly.
"Even if we occupy this place, even if the people from the Central Plains are willing to come here, it will not be easy to govern here in the future. It is really far away from the Central Plains!" Yelu Dashi said calmly.
"This... if shipping develops, this place will be closely connected with the Central Plains, and governance will be easier." said the division commander.
"This is possible." Yelu Dashi nodded.
In July, the weather is gradually getting colder! It is actually summer now, but it seems to be winter here! In fact, this is the seasonal difference between the northern and southern hemispheres of the earth, and it is indeed winter here!
Navy soldiers occasionally entered the mainland and found it snowing on the mainland, which surprised everyone.
In August, the fleet finally reached the end of the continent.
"It's so cold here! We just sent a small boat to explore ahead. The wind and waves ahead are very strong. Let's find a sheltered place to stop and rest for a while, and then move forward through the wind and waves." The division commander said.
They found a sheltered place. On the one hand, the soldiers took the time to rest. On the other hand, the workers were urgently repairing minor problems on the ship. On the other hand, the division commander sent more people to explore the environment ahead.
In August of the eighth year of Datong, Daliang's fleet finally crossed Cape Horn, the southernmost tip of South America, and continued onward.