My Daming New Empire

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But in Nanzhou, which has not been invaded or persecuted by foreign nations.In addition to the struggle between tribes caused by resource competition, when other tribes did not show any malice, they were also eager to communicate with the outside world and live in peace.

The Ming army showed goodwill, and when the soldiers used their own big bowls filled with broth to eat, their panic was greatly relieved.

After eating Daming's broth, this crude food, because of the oil, salt and spices, makes these natives feel that it is supremely delicious.

They also want to hide the rice bowl that Daming sent over. This kind of ordinary celadon bowl costs less than ten yuan a piece in Daming.

If it was in Daming, Zhang Wu could directly decide to give it to them, but not now, because if it was given to them, the soldiers themselves would have no bowls to use.

Zhang Wu used all kinds of hand gestures to make them understand that these bowls were not for them.But until the end, they still hid a dozen or so and refused to return them.

Zhang Wu had no choice but to forget it.

But after eating Daming's meal, they didn't say nothing. They knew that Daming people liked gold, and after eating, they gave almost all their gold to Daming people.

Moreover, in front of the bonfire lit by the Ming soldiers, they also sent over a dozen aboriginal women to perform their national dance hip-clapping dance for the Ming soldiers around the bonfire.

Although these indigenous women have dark skin and strange faces, they are all strong and fit.

They only wore fur on their upper bodies, bare bottoms and huge buttocks, then disheveled their hair, shook their heads and buttocks, slapped their buttocks with their hands, and circled around the campfire.

This scene made the soldiers of Ming Dynasty extremely shy, but extremely excited, and almost turned into werewolves one by one.

Although they didn't dare to rush up due to military regulations and shyness, they couldn't bear to watch the nosebleeds flowing one by one.

So much so that when the dozen or so women returned to the tribe's settlement, none of the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty returned to their souls. In one night, I don't know how many of them could not sleep at night.

It's not that Zhang Wu has never experienced women, and he couldn't stand seeing this scene. Although these women are ugly and have rough skin, let alone, they all have good figures.

In this specific environment, these soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were both contemptuous and moved.

On the second day, the army cooked porridge and steamed buns early in the morning.This time, the natives came over by themselves without being greeted by the Ming soldiers.

This time, almost half of all the people who fell came, it seemed that after one night, they were defenseless.

In order to win them over, he also directly ordered these natives to be given two steamed buns each.

Although he gained the favor of these natives, but because of the language barrier, Zhang Wu has never thought about how to win them over.

They still had tasks to do, so they didn't dare to delay, so they could only check to see if they were still there when they came back, and then take them back to the camp.

But a scene that they didn't expect appeared, when they left, these natives were attached to the back of their team, and those children even climbed directly onto those scooters.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Wu couldn't help laughing, and ordered to go down, not to expel these natives.

They only had a few belongings, and they were filled with a few skateboards. Zhang Wu became more and more sure that they were a group of failed deportees.

They only have more than 200 people, which is not a burden for Zhang Wu.There are many kangaroos here, and the Ming soldiers hunted a few more, which is enough for them to eat.

And these natives also saw the muskets of the Ming soldiers this time. The kangaroos that they usually had to chase for half a day were beaten to death by the Ming soldiers when they were far away.

When the musket sounded, they knelt on the ground and prayed in fright.

Perhaps in their hearts, these Ming soldiers are gods.

Zhang Wu and the others continued to move forward and explore, and when they set up camp for dinner at night, these natives followed.

And this time, all of them came over.

The soldiers didn't expel them either, they just didn't let them enter the core protection zone.And no matter whether they saw their women perform hip-clapping dance the day before or not, this time they all looked forward to eating and they performed again.

As a result, the protection of the camp was much relaxed that night.

When they were sleeping at night, they watched the soldiers of Ming Dynasty get into the tents, but this time they dared not go in. They wrapped themselves in animal skins and slept in the wild.

Under Zhang Wu's deliberate arrangement, three big tents were arranged for them to keep the children warmer.

"Leader Zhang, today is already July [-]th. We have set off for seven days, and the current position is [-] miles away from the base camp in a straight line. According to the route we came, it is almost [-] miles away."

Zhang Wu looked at the detailed map drawn by them, nodded and said: "We have a maximum of eighty miles a day, and it will take five or six days to go back. That is to say, we still have three days of exploration time at most."

Chu Dayun nodded and said: "It is not appropriate for the Chinese army to move any more. It takes too long to set up camp every day. Let the former army continue to explore a certain distance, and the big camp will stay here. Then the big camp will go back one day in advance to prevent it from falling. The rain delayed the trip."

On the march, Chu Dayun had the richest experience, which Zhang Wu couldn't match.As for the navy, because they mainly rely on ships for navigation, they currently rely on young troops for exploration on land.

Zhang Wu adopted Chu Dayun's suggestion, asked the Chinese army to stay where they were, and prepared three days' rations for the other soldiers, so that they could move forward lightly.

As soon as these arrangements were made, there was a noise coming from outside. Before the chief generals sent someone to inquire, a messenger rushed into the big tent. "Team leader, Mr. Duan and the others found a huge piece of dog's head gold!"

Zhang Wu was overjoyed, and laughed loudly: "Go, let's go and have a look."

Only Sunan was a little dumbfounded, and murmured, "It's Xiaozhi again, he is really a lucky general!"

Duan Renzhi was arranged by Sunan to listen to orders in the Chinese army, and was mainly responsible for the liaison and transmission of orders between the navy and Zhang Wu.

But this guy can't stay idle, and often takes his subordinates to hunt.

But this time he was not hunting, but came back from Ma Dezhong who was in charge of commanding the left army. When he passed a dry river ditch, he tripped over a big stone.

When he kicked the big rock angrily, who would have thought that the skin would loosen, revealing a golden color.

When Zhang Wu and the others rushed to the river ditch on the hillside less than five miles away from the Chinese army, there were already 20 people surrounded here.

Most of them are people responsible for surveying and mapping terrain, and they are extremely jealous of Duan Renzhi's shit luck.

They walked here several times, but they didn't find any gold mines here. The official of the Ministry of Industry for geological survey always thought that the soil quality here didn't look like there were gold mines.

But there is such a large piece of dog's head gold here, it is even more impossible to say that there is no gold mine.

Yes, this is a huge dog's head gold, half a person's height stone, nearly half a meter thick, and nearly two meters long, that is to say, this stone weighs several thousand catties.

Originally, more than half of this stone was buried in the soil, but now it has been dug out and exposed.

The official from the Ministry of Works kept beating the stone with a small hammer, trying to remove all the impurities in the stone.

Zhang Wu was also taken aback when he saw this stone. When he was in Daming, the largest dog's head gold he had ever heard of weighed only a few dozen catties.

It was also on Turtle Island this time that I saw a piece of dog-head gold weighing more than 200 jin, but now this piece of dog-head gold with stones weighs no less than [-] jin.

In the part that has been exposed, the net-like gold and stones are densely mixed together, which looks shocking.

He looked up at the surrounding scenery, and said to several surveyors: "Record the surrounding terrain in detail, and determine the detailed position. In my opinion, we have made a great contribution this time."

According to some regulations of the exploration, when going out to explore, no matter what minerals they find, there are rewards and military merits, such as the dog's head gold and precious medicinal materials discovered by the soldiers, they can get [-]% to half of the rewards.

This piece of gold with a dog's head is the part that has been exposed. The gold is probably one or two hundred catties, 3000 taels.According to the minimum standard, about [-] silver coins can be rewarded.

Because it is a collective action, these rewards are obtained collectively.But Duan Renzhi and the others who found this dog's head gold can get at least one-third of it, which is more than [-] silver coins.