Tobacco is a special commodity. Most people who are exposed to tobacco for the first time will not think that this thing is a good thing, but what is terrible is that this thing is easy to make people recall it.

Many people in the Ming Dynasty felt that after smoking tobacco, this thing had nothing but choking. Whoever spent money to buy this thing would ruin his mind.

But when I returned home, I always unconsciously thought of the smell of tobacco. I wish I could smoke tobacco again now. There are not only one or two people who feel this way.

The next day, many people came to Sander's stall to buy tobacco. The price of ten cents per pound is much more expensive than food. However, this thing is durable and according to Professor Sander's smoking method, one pound of tobacco cannot be consumed in a month.

At this time, Sander introduced the various benefits of tobacco, which immediately resonated with the people. Some people who spent money to buy tobacco immediately felt that they bought tobacco for their health, and their hearts were immediately balanced.

The tobacco brought by Sand was sold out in less than three days after it opened. Sand, who seized the business opportunity, quickly returned to the tribe and purchased tobacco from the tribe's people. Almost all the tobacco in the tribe was purchased by him alone and returned to Tokyo again. Some merchants who smelled the business opportunity began to contact Sand. As long as the price was appropriate, they were willing to purchase all his tobacco.

Some people were willing to take over the whole thing, so Sand naturally wanted to reach an agreement with the merchants of the Ming Dynasty. Sand was responsible for purchasing tobacco from various tribes and the merchants were responsible for purchasing them.

Sand successfully earned his first pot of gold in his life and became the richest person in the tribe. In order to win over Sand, the Ming merchant monopolized the tobacco business and proposed to marry his daughter to Sand.

It is naturally something that Sander dreamed of being able to marry a Ming woman as his wife. He agreed immediately and married a Ming woman and gaining the Ming nationality became a matter of course.

A poor boy became a Ming Dynasty man by working hard to marry a woman from the Ming Dynasty. Such inspirational stories were circulating among the natives, and Sande became a child of other people's families as the natives said.

This spontaneous assimilation is far less silent than the assimilation forced by guns and cannons. This assimilation will not make the natives feel resentful. After joining the Ming Dynasty, they will truly think that they are the people of the Ming Dynasty and are willing to fight for the prosperity and prosperity of the Ming Dynasty.

These future events are not something that Wang Jin, the current admiral of the Ming Navy's Oriental Fleet, can know, and his mission is not this. After putting down the immigrants, most of the ships will be loaded with goods purchased by Tokyo City for more than a year and start returning. Along the way, they will stay in various bases for a short time and conduct some transactions. By the time they return to the Ming Dynasty, all ships should be fully loaded.

Any act of letting a ship return to the Ming Dynasty is a waste of naval ships. The service life of wooden sailboats is very short. If a ship has been used for ten years, it will basically not dare to run far away from the sea, otherwise it will be difficult to withstand the heavy storm.

A ship must earn as much wealth as possible within ten years to enable the naval shipbuilding industry to develop healthily. Otherwise, if you can't even recover the cost of building a ship, it wouldn't be a loss-making deal.

Wang Jin has more important things to do. He wants to lead the fleet to continue sailing south, find a route to bypass the west coast of the Eastern Continent, and enter the east coast of the Eastern Continent.

This route that had never been taken must be full of danger. Wang Jin did not dare to take all the ships of the Eastern Fleet. The fleet that followed him south only had ten sea ships of one thousand materials.

The other warships were left by Wang Jin in the Ming military port outside Tokyo. On the one hand, they ensured the safety of Tokyo City, and on the other hand, they conducted an arrangement to investigate the eastward inspection at the other end of this land to welcome Wang Jin's arrival.

Wang Jin led ten warships to the south. After supplying a supply in the later port of Guayaquil, the fleet continued to move south. The coastline I saw along the way was either cliffs or desert wasteland. Is this desert wasteland a place of wealth described by the emperor?

How to survive such a place of wealth, even the land cannot be planted, and how to solve the problem of eating, with these questions, I finally found freshwater supplies in an oasis of the river. The desert wasteland along the way made Wang Jin Xinsheng alert. After finally finding the water source, he must replenish freshwater for at least one month to avoid the desert wasteland ahead.

This oasis oasis is not large in area. The local natives plant some corn here and a fruit that Wang Jin had never seen before. This fruit is somewhat similar to the sweet potatoes that Wang Jin discovered this time. They are all grown in the soil and need to be dug out and cooked in water.

These fruits are as big as a fist of a child. They are soft and have no taste. It is a good food to fill hunger when hunger is hungry. Wang Jin remembered this food and traded some of these fruits with the natives with the Ming Dynasty's specialties. Because they looked like the taro of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Jin gave the fruit the name of taro.

If you continue to set out with this fruit, you will still be endless desolation. Such a place is almost a desperate situation for human survival. The emperor told him that there are countless silver mines, copper mines, saltpeter mines, and sulfur mines on these desolate lands. If you can dig these natural saltpeters back, the Ming Dynasty will no longer have to rely on the painful method of simmering manure to boil nitrate.

Half a month later, Wang Jin's fleet entered the middle of a broken island along the mainland, and the weather became extremely cold. Wang Jin looked at the calendar books on the ship and found that it had entered the spring of the 20th year of Xuande.

Looking at this complex terrain and waterway, Wang Jin knew that the real challenge had begun. His training in the navy over the years has made him an absolute old seahorse.

Holding the latest Qianli Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile, looking at the upside down terrain in the distance, he shouted: "Observer!"

"arrive!"

"Always pay attention to changes in sea conditions. The weather is cold. Change shifts in a quarter of an hour. We must ensure that there are always observations on the mast."

"yes!"

"Drawer!"

"arrive!"

"The terrain and landforms that the fleet passes along the way must not be drawn onto the sea chart."

"yes!"

"Distance finder! From now on, we have to calculate our voyage for a moment, and we must clarify the distance we have taken."

"yes!"

"Every position must be motivated to a point. We will enter a very complex environment. If we are not careful, we may all be buried at the bottom of the sea."

Under Wang Jin's order, the fleet's flag-language officer began to send flag-languages ​​to each ship. When the fleet sailed to Dawson Island in later generations, Wang Jin found that this island was divided into two waterways. The waterway on the right side of the island was narrow and the waterway on the left was wide.

At this time, Wang Jin needs to make a decision as soon as possible. Such a decision is the most difficult. Although there are sketches drawn by the emperor for him, where should this broken island go? Only by walking it can you remember it.

In order to remember this water-dividing island, Wang Jin ordered a temporary rest and recuperation on the island. While resting, a stone pillar more than ten feet high was built on the high ground on the island. A inscription was erected in front of the stone pillar. The Ming Navy's Oriental Fleet discovered this unmanned deserted island, so he erected a monument to prove it - the admiral of the Oriental Fleet Wang Jin in the spring of the 20th year of Xuande.

The officers under his command were a little puzzled. The Ming fleet had traveled so many places, except for the places they actually occupied, and no monuments had been erected in other places to declare sovereignty. Why did they erect monuments on this very desolate broken island?

Wang Jin smiled slightly and explained: "If I want to occupy other places, I just need to send people here, but do you think I, the people of the Ming Dynasty, can live here?

Moreover, if we can really communicate with the two oceans here, it will be a strategic place that is an absolute strategic place. It is not an exaggeration to call it the two oceans lock keys. Even if we cannot occupy it now, this monument will be evidence in the future. Whether we want to seize this place, we must first ask whether the Ming Navy is willing or not."

Leaving Dawson Island, the fleet changed its course from the southeast to sailing eastward. A few days later, the fleet plunged into the Bay of Inutil in later generations. When the lookout found that land appeared in front of him, Wang Jin knew that he had taken a detour.

Located in a high latitude area in the southern hemisphere, the weather is already very cold in April, and there is already white snow on the land. It seems that a snow has just fallen.

Since you are on the dock, you don’t have to hurry to sail. Go ashore to find a clean water source and complete fresh water supply. This thing is easy to solve, so you can install more food, but you can’t install more fresh water. The thing will not circulate for a long time, and everything in the water can grow.

Therefore, in the sailing era, food is not the most difficult problem to solve. The most difficult problem is fresh water. During the sailing process, there must be some places to replenish fresh water.

When you climb Tierra del Fuego, you will see lush beech forests everywhere. The leaves of tall trees are red. It will take not much time to enter the long winter, and there will be a white world covered with ice and snow everywhere.

Wang Jin carefully inspected these tall trees. This is a very ideal shipbuilding wood. Although the hardness cannot be compared with mahogany, it is the best material for boards.

The woods are dotted with gurgling streams, which will eventually gather together to form lakes. Just when Wang Jin ordered to prepare for water collection, he suddenly found a flash of fire in the distance.

The firelight represents human civilization, which means that there are still humans living in such a desolate place. This made Wang Jin more vigilant. He did not want to conflict with the indigenous people who were completely incompatible on this deserted island. He just wanted to replenish Danshui and chose to leave.

However, things went against my wishes. Where the fire flashed, the existence of the Ming Navy seemed to be discovered. Soon a group of giants wrapped in some animal skins ran towards the Ming army.

Wang Jin held up a thousand-mile mirror and looked at the giants running over in the distance. They looked like forty or fifty people. These giants were holding primitive bows and arrows in their hands. Wang Jin instinctively felt the danger.

Since there are only ten thousand warships, there is only one thousand-level Marine officer and soldier who can operate with the ship. It is this thousand-level Marine Corps who went ashore to replenish Tamsui.

"Enemy attack!" Wang Jin shouted loudly.

The well-trained Marine Corps dropped the bucket and quickly assembled, forming four square formations. Seeing that the army was ready for combat, Wang Jin felt a little relieved. At this time, the giant was less than 200 steps away from the Ming army. Wang Jin shouted: "Stop, if you don't stop, our family will order the shooting!"

Hearing the sound, the giant seemed to pause for a moment, then raised the bow and arrow in his hand, quickly forming a hunting formation.

At this time, the Marine Corps soldiers could also see the giants coming from the opposite side. These savages wearing only some simple animal skins could not even effectively cover their own private parts. The soldiers' first thought was that these giants, more than ten feet tall, were monsters, and their hands holding guns began to tremble. They would not be eaten by these monsters, right? This is the idea of ​​most soldiers.

Wang Jin keenly discovered the psychological changes of the soldiers. If he did not launch an attack at this time, the morale of the soldiers would collapse. If he didn't do it well, he would have to be caught and roasted to eat by these weird people.

"shooting!"

"quick!"

Soldiers who are well-trained and not cowardly in the face of the enemy find that their hands that pull the trigger are trembling, but the commander's orders must be executed, otherwise they will be shot by the commander first if they are not eaten by the monster.

The gunfire sounded unevenly in the first row. At this time, the juren had 150 steps away from the Ming army. Whether the enemy could be hit by luck at this distance was all up to luck.

The loud noise of muskets scared the giants. Two unlucky giants were hit by the platoons in the first round. Although they were not hit by the vital points, they were enough to make the two giants lose their combat effectiveness.

The giants seemed to be frightened by the gunshots, and they threw away the bows and arrows in their hands, crawled on the ground and spoke language that Ming Jun could not understand at all. Looking at their pious appearance, they seemed to be praying.

Ming Jun looked at the funny appearance of these giants, his fear just now suddenly disappeared, and he was ashamed of his cowardice just now. For a moment, Ming Jun did not dare to approach these giants, and could only look at them from afar and watch the giants perform.

The giants prayed for a long time and found that the Ming army opposite did not intend to pay attention to them. They couldn't help but secretly raised their heads and looked at the Ming army, and found that the Ming army was still pointing at them with the fire-burning tube.

The body language in this world is common. Although the giants have low IQ, they can understand that these uninvited guests are worried about their attacks.

The giants now regarded the Ming army as gods, so they dared not attack the Ming army. They knelt on the ground and raised their hands high.

Seeing these giants clumsyly holding their hands and begging for mercy, Ming Jun suddenly felt the threat removed and distributed people to start binding the giants.

Although the Ming army had no idea to hurt them, they could not relax their vigilance against them. What if these monsters suddenly launched an attack when the Ming army was fetching water?
Chapter completed!