My Daming New Empire

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He was also invited to visit the Coal Mine Museum after the coal mine was closed, and he clearly remembered that the coal mine was by the sea, only a few hundred meters away from Lota Port.

Therefore, in addition to marking the Cerrejon coal mine in northern Colombia, he also marked the Lota coal mine.

Anyway, the current design of the steam engine is a large boiler, and it has not been designed as a special furnace for coal. Even if there is no coal, the crew only need to prepare some dry firewood to continue driving.

It's just that if the firewood is not burned, it will consume a little more manpower.

After listening to Liao Zhi's introduction, Yang Dao and the others' worries disappeared.

A few of them tested the approximate distance, and found that they bypassed the South American continent and arrived at the northeast of the southern continent. The distance was not far from the distance they walked from Daming to here.

Calculated in this way, as long as they can replenish coal in front, they can save a little and make more use of sails, and they can get there.

After the business was arranged, a group of generals began to chatter.

They also met a lot of indigenous women in Dongzhou. Although their skin color was similar, they were not as beautiful as Ming women.

However, the women here are much stronger, and many women have the plump gourd figures that Ming people like.

The local women, like the Dongying women, fell in love with the fitness of the Ming men.Even if they don't like it, they will be pushed into the arms of the Ming people by the men of the tribe, hoping to use the men of the Ming Dynasty to change their genes and give birth to children like the Ming people.

Except for newlywed men like Yang Dao who still miss their wives, most of the generals enjoy the local women with peace of mind.

As for those soldiers, many of them took the opportunity to go ashore during this period, and with a glass bead, they could change into a woman and throw themselves into their arms.

Yang Dao didn't want to feel sorry for his wife, so he was upset when he heard it, so he couldn't help but change the subject and said, "We've been separated for more than a month, and I don't know how Commander Di sent them, what's going on now."

Liao Zhi said with a smile: "I have unparalleled firearms and excellent equipment. As long as it is not a heavy rain night, the opponent will use the number of people to fill, otherwise I will not suffer at all."

Du Yue, another Qianzong who was educated by Habayashi Guard, said with some concern: "I'm not afraid of anything else, but I'm afraid of contracting the epidemic!"

Yang Dao laughed and said, "Didn't you read the medical books published in March? The epidemic is not an epidemic, but a virus. Who would have thought that the miasma and death caused by trauma are all caused by germs!"

In the middle of the Northern Continent thousands of miles away, two large armies faced off on a flat grassland.

After landing on the American continent, Di Pingxia and the others have discovered that this place is completely different from the barrenness of South Continent, but presents a lively scene.

Although no country has been established here, tribes of different sizes have been trading and fighting with each other.

Using only a string of glazed beads, the tribal leader at the place where they went ashore arranged for four tribesmen who were familiar with the surrounding terrain to be their guides and lead them out of the mountain.

Over the past month, several young Tongs who are talented in languages ​​have not only learned to speak from the four guides, but also learned their languages ​​from people from various tribes along the way.

Although most of the time they can only express with actions, they have also learned a lot of simple languages ​​of various races.

For example, hello, transaction, coin, no, etc. words.

It seems that the time they came was not very good, because as soon as they left the North and South Mountain Range, they encountered the local crow tribe going westward and fighting with the Blackfoot tribe.

The Blackfoot tribe lives in the semi-hilly area of ​​the mountains. They live by planting tobacco leaves and hunting. Their folk customs are strong, but their number is small.

The Crow tribe is a branch of the Hidatza tribe in the western Great Plains. Their life is mostly based on bison as an important source of food. The bison provides them with meat, clothing, robes, tent covers, tendon ropes, containers and shields.

In addition to these, they also grow grain and sugar beet, which is also one of their main foods.In the crow society, food processing, building houses, and sewing clothes are all women's jobs, and only war is the task of men.

Because of their huge power, they almost occupied the entire western foothills (from Yellowstone Park to most of Montana) and wanted to monopolize the entire tobacco trade.

Yes, the crow tribe is also a businessman in this area. They regard tobacco planting as a major event and must hold a ceremony.According to their traditions, tobacco is a divine gift that can defeat the enemy.

Among the crow people, they even established a tobacco society.The Tobacco Club is different from other clubs. It is equivalent to a sect. It charges membership fees and has a set of complicated initiation ceremonies; both men and their wives can participate.

Therefore, even if you see people from the crow clan smoking tobacco and turning into lunatics one by one, you don't need to be surprised.

Because they have to smoke once a day, it is as essential to them as eating.

The crow tribe is very powerful, and their main branch, the Hidacha tribe, has occupied a large area of ​​plains, and has been heading east, competing with the Dakota tribe for the land of the Dakota people.

Ming soldiers are no longer interested in this kind of primitive confrontation. In their view, it is no different from children fighting.

They don't even have iron tools, how powerful they can be with bronze weapons and wooden sticks!

Moreover, there seems to be no horses in Dongzhou mainland, and the people here don't know how to make wheels, so it's inconvenient to carry anything. This is not so much the army, but the common people.

Seeing the scene in front of him, Di Pingxia ordered with some boredom: "Show the flag and send envoys to negotiate."

Tong Shi Wang Quan looked at the battlefield that seemed to be on the verge of breaking out in the distance, feeling a little scared. "My lord, the opponent wants to fight!"

"Countless, what are these mobs afraid of? Call me if you don't obey. I, Daming, will become the master of this place in the future, and they all have to be obedient to me."

Di Pingxia's personal guards immediately took out three well-wrapped flags from the car, this one was the Daming dragon flag, the other was the Daming military flag, and the other was their Shenji Battalion flag.

The three flags, the dragon flag and the army flag are all nine-meter-long bamboo poles, and the battalion flag is seven meters long. When the flags were unfurled, both sides looked over curiously, and it was obvious that they couldn't fight for the time being.

As soon as the Ming army appeared, they had already discovered it. As the number increased, they were also guessing which side's soldiers it was.

But when the flag was raised, the people got closer and closer, seeing the clothes on the Ming soldiers, they fully understood that this was not the tribe they were familiar with.

The four guides had actually completed their tasks at this time, but Di Pingxia only asked them to give them a catty of salt each, and they were more than happy to serve as temporary translators.

I can't fully understand the language between the body and them, but I can guess [-]% to [-]% of them even if I guess blindly.

They also don't understand the language of the Crow Clan, but they understand the language of the Blackfoot Clan, and many of the Crow Clan also understand the language of the Blackfoot Clan, so they can communicate with each other.

The Crows were originally local businessmen. When they saw the clothes Daming was wearing, the iron knife hanging in his waist, and the round iron pipe in his hand, their eyes almost popped out.

Throughout the Americas, steel cannot be refined now, they can only refine gold, silver, and bronze, because the melting points of these metals are much lower than steel.

However, this does not mean that they do not know ironware.Because in nature, there are still many iron melted by meteorites, and even some extremely high-purity iron ore, which can barely make iron tools.

Under the protection of [-] guards, Wang Quan approached the teams of both sides step by step. Instead of paying attention to the less-crowded Blackfoot Clan, he went directly to the more crowded Crow Clan.

But before he got close, the fighters of the crow tribe rushed towards them as if they were crazy.

Scared, Wang Quan turned around and ran away, but the two hundred soldiers did not retreat. They were divided into two rows. The front row squatted down, and the back row stood up straight. They aimed at the people in the crowd in front, ready to shoot at any time.

The two hundred households couldn't be sure of each other's intentions for a while, but they had clearly learned during the training of the army formation that no matter what time, they could not let the other party break up their own army formation.

Therefore, as long as the opponent does not slow down after entering [-] meters, they can only fight each other.

They raised their arms high and shouted, "Get ready..."

And Di Pingxia in the rear immediately shouted. "Go to 400 more people, aid..."

There was a booming gunshot, and there was a puff of smoke in front of him.

This sudden loud noise shocked everyone, and those Blackfoot tribe who watched the excitement immediately turned around and ran away.

The crow warriors who rushed up were also scared out of their wits at this time. They were not frightened by the power of the muskets, but by the huge sound.