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"In the 14th year of the beginning of the Republic of China, November [-]th (Datong new calendar)."

"From Hakodate, Japan, it took 167 days to see the mainland. There are no islands along the way, only some small reefs. Your Majesty's method is feasible, and no crew member has scurvy. However, it has been turbulent for several months, and the drinking water has been sealed. Still a small part of it deteriorated, coupled with climate change, 82 people fell ill successively, and 1 person died of illness before landing..."

"Landing location, 120 degrees east longitude, 38 degrees north latitude."

The prime meridian is set in Nanjing!

Latitude calculation, slight error.

This is not San Francisco, but it is not far from San Francisco, about tens of miles north of Roseburg.

Roseburg in history was the first colonial stronghold in California after Russia occupied Alaska.Using three blankets, three pairs of breeches, two axes, three hoes and some small beads, he bought a large piece of land from the natives.In order to prevent Russia from expanding southward, Spain established a settlement in San Francisco.

Since Fort Rose was unable to solve the food crisis in Alaska and had limited access to fur, the Russians had entrenched here for 29 years and sold the colony of Fort Rose to the Americans.The price was $3, and the Americans refused to pay.

Li Quan sent an exploration team of dozens of people, divided into three groups and rowed the boats to the shore.

6 people guarded the three landing points, blowing the horn every 15 minutes to prevent the exploration team from finding their way back.

It's a pity that after searching for an hour, no larger river was found.

The exploration team returned to the ship for the night and continued southward the next day.They didn't stop after passing Roseburg. It didn't take long before they observed a river flowing into the sea with binoculars.

That river is the Russian River in the United States in later generations. Its mouth is the town of Jenner in the United States, which is 90 kilometers away from San Francisco.

The exploration team did not land immediately, but rowed a small boat around the mouth of the sea, tied iron blocks with ropes and threw them into the water to detect the specific depth of this sea area.

"Commander," Liu Ying quickly came over to report, "This place can barely be used as a port, but it cannot dock large ships. Our ships may run aground."

"Get fresh water first."

"Yes!"

Li Quan didn't know where he could meet the river, so he sent a boat to fetch more fresh water first.

The emperor allowed him to recruit 1000 soldiers, but Li Quan only recruited 350, all of whom were veterans or farmers.Among them, 50 soldiers remained in Sakata Port, Japan, to protect the property of the business hall there.

These 300 people were fully armed, with a flintlock, waist knives and spears, as well as chain armor and cotton armor.

Li Quan proclaimed himself the commander of Datong Sea Exploration, and asked his subordinates to call him "commander".

In addition to 300 soldiers, there were more than 300 crew members who went to sea and sailed, all of whom were retired from the navy early.In addition, more than a dozen adventurers were recruited, all young people who dreamed of traveling the world.

In order to appease his subordinates, everyone gave them a settling allowance, and everyone had shares in the company, which could be inherited by their family members even if they died.

There is no way, if you don't do this, it will be difficult to gather people's hearts. Who the hell wants to go overseas with you?

Well, there are.

Li Quan asked the emperor for 30 felons, and bought Nanyang female slaves as wives for these felons.He intends to learn from the European colonists, choose an excellent place, and throw these people down to establish a colonial stronghold.

Small boats were lowered one after another, and hundreds of people rowed small boats into the river.

Fearing that the sea estuary would be too salty, I paddled upstream for a few miles, then filled a wooden barrel with fresh water and brought it back.

"Someone!"

shouted a soldier.

But I saw more than a dozen canoes paddling upstream. These people were wearing animal skins, and one of them had colorful feathers on his head.

Kashaya, offshoot of the Pomo Indians.

He is short and strong, with reddish complexion and straight black hair. He is good at weaving reeds, and his currency is rosary beads (made of magnesite and shells).

The guy with two feathers on his head picked up a spear from the canoe, pointed at the Chinese and chattered for a while.

"Captain, I'm going to deal with the natives!"

Ouyang Chun volunteered. He is only 17 years old this year and has a high school diploma.There is no shortage of money in the family, but he volunteered to sign up for a long voyage, and even asked his parents to divorce him. Obviously, he is restless and desperate.

"Go, be careful." The captain instructed.

Ouyang Chun asked his partner to row the boat over, and the Kashaya people were quite vigilant, and surrounded the boat with their canoes.

Ouyang Chun took off his hat, pointed to his own head, and pointed to the person who put the feather on the other side.

The man probably understood it, approached with a canoe, took Ouyang Chun's hat, and put it on his head very happily.

Chapter 895 [Buying Land]

Kill that Indian, and save his soul.

These words come from the founder of the first Native American boarding school in the United States.

The Indians on the California side were first harmed by Spain and Mexico, and then ushered in the bloody methods of the Americans.

The scalp of a California Indian can be exchanged for $5.This policy was implemented for more than 20 years before and after the Second Opium War, and the number of Indians in California dropped by four-fifths.

Another 100 years later, in the name of protecting women's health, the U.S. government performed sterilization operations without the knowledge of women. About 7 Indian women were forcibly sterilized.The implementation time of this policy has been from the Great Depression in the United States to the withdrawal of the United States from Vietnam. China is about to carry out reform and opening up.

In California in the middle of the 17th century, there were still a large number of Indians. After all, they were not overwhelmed by the colonists.

The name of the sharp spear general's baby is sea otter. When the midwife was washing him by the river, she saw a group of sea otters swimming past her eyes.When he became an adult, he single-handedly killed two wild wolves with a spear, and changed his name to "General of the Spear".This kind of heroic name can even be passed on to children and grandchildren.

Today, the sharp spear will lead people out to fish, and he will meet many strangers in the river.

These strangers were tall and pale, and wore strange clothes.

The spear will get a gift, a hat from a stranger.Then, the stranger invited them, as if they were going to do something by the sea.

Everyone was very curious, and General Sharp Spear agreed to follow.

The boat, what a big boat!

The clansmen stood on the beach, looking at the huge floating boat, they had completely lost their ability to think.

"Ship God!"

This group of Kashaya people knelt down one after another and bowed devoutly to the five big ships.

They believe in Kuksu religion, which teaches that all things have animism, and the main god of each tribe is different.The common beliefs of all ethnic groups are the ancestral land and the tribal holy land, and then the main god is established according to the actual situation, and the main god can be replaced.

Mountains have mountain gods, rivers have river gods, and boats naturally have boat gods.

General Sharp Spear also knelt down. Such a big boat must be the incarnation of the ship god.And these "white people" in front of them are mostly the messengers of the Ship God, no wonder they are so mighty and tall.

Li Quan heard that he had met an aborigine, and was planning to come to communicate in person.

Fearing that the ship would run aground, he took a small boat to the shore, and as soon as half of his foot stepped on the beach, he saw a group of natives kneeling down and worshiping.

Li Quan instantly understood two things:

First, the aborigines regard ships as gods, and this situation can be exploited.

Second, when the Spanish galleons arrived in the Americas, they must have been further south, otherwise the natives here would not have missed them.

With a smile on Li Quan's face, he ordered the herald next to him: "Raise the command flag, and fire a few shots at the sea to the south."

"Boom boom boom!"

The sound of the guns rumbled, and large splashes were splashed on the sea hundreds of meters away.

General Sharp Spear was bowing down to the ship god when he suddenly heard the roar of the ship god, as terrifying as thunder.He opened his mouth wide and looked at the water splash, then at the giant ship in the distance, and then at the envoys of the ship god around him.

"Take me to meet your chief." Li Quan said.

The sharp spear general couldn't understand at all, he turned around and said something, so a few natives got up, got into the canoe and rowed away quickly.

After about two or three hours, the fresh water supply of the fleet was nearly half full, and finally more Kashayans came to the beach.

The heads of the leading aborigines are covered with colorful feathers.

The sharp spear general hurried over, took off the hat, and pointed to the giant ship and said: "Those are the incarnations of the ship god. When the ship god roars, it will make a sound like thunder, and it will also throw boulders and splash water. These white people , is the messenger of the Ship God, they are very friendly and presented me with a hat."

Chief Warg led his people forward. His observation was very keen, and he knew at a glance that Li Quan was the leader. He beat his chest and saluted, "Dear ship god envoy, welcome to the Kashaya tribe. I am the tribe leader. Wargs, are you staying here for a long time, or are you going to leave after a while?"

Li Quan cupped his hands and said, "I'm...forget it, you won't understand no matter how much you say. I..." Li Quan pointed to himself and introduced, "Li... Quan."

Warg was confused for a while, but Li Quan was still repeating.

Finally, the wolf also understood, pointing to himself and said: "Wolf..."

After the self-introduction of both parties, the next thing is not right.

The warg kept pointing towards the giant ship, as if asking for information about the ship.Li Quan, on the other hand, pointed to the upper reaches of the river, intending to send people to the indigenous tribes.The two couldn't understand each other, not to mention the difficulties in communicating, they could be regarded as playing the piano against each other.

When the river empties into the sea, there is a large amount of alluvial flat land, and a sandbar has been washed out.

The people explored to determine the water level of the high tide, and then cut down the vegetation on the sandbar to set up camp.I have been floating on the sea for nearly half a year, and I am eager to go ashore to rest. The small trees I cut down can be used to replenish fuel, and the charcoal brought by the boat is almost exhausted.

The wargs also took their clansmen back and gathered to discuss how to deal with the envoy of the ship god.

There are countless gods they believe in, and every plant and tree may be a god, so they will not easily enshrine the envoy of the ship god as a father.At most, it is just a distinguished guest.

When the aborigines went back, Li Quan sent two small boats to keep up.

The warg didn't object either, since it was a distinguished guest, it was right to entertain him.

The person who led the team to visit the indigenous tribe was named Ye Qun, and he was a naval mission officer who retired early.He walked six or seven miles along the river, and saw a large number of houses.

Most of the houses are wooden structures, but there are also some rammed earth houses.

There is even a huge public house, which is used to gather clan members for meetings, similar to a large auditorium for the whole clan.

There is still a small amount of cultivated land near the residential area. It seems that they don't know how to plow the land. They burn a large area of ​​slash-and-burn cultivation, and the seeds are scattered and wait for harvest.

However, the weaving technology is very advanced, and we can use reeds to weave exquisite baskets. Ye Wei saw a group of natives returning with a whole basket of fresh fish.

These aborigines can also burn pottery, and they use pottery to fetch water and cook rice.

The warg chattered and took Ye Qui to a rammed-earth house.The tribal elders then undressed and sat waiting to heat the stones and pour water on them.

Zizizi... A burst of white smoke rose.

Good guy, these aborigines can also take a sauna, and judging from the size and decoration of this earthen house, it seems that taking a sauna is a very important activity.

That night, everyone ate, drank and danced around the bonfire, and the wizard presided over the whole celebration.

Ye Yu and the others were invited into the public housing and lived there overnight.

The next day I continued to observe the situation and found that this place is already privately owned by the family.Groups of men went hunting and fishing, and the harvest was distributed according to the team's contribution.Women also gathered in groups to gather food in the woods, and whoever gathered it would own it.The old people stayed in the settlement, weaving baskets, firing pottery and so on.

If the harvest is good, some will be handed over to the public, which is equivalent to collecting taxes.

How much tax each family has paid is recorded by knotting a rope, and then stored in a public warehouse.

Of course, taxes can also be paid in money, and the currency is beads made of ore and shells, which can be strung with rope.Similar to currency, it is commonly used in hundreds of miles, and goods can be purchased across tribes.

"The aborigines here also seem to be fighting a lot." Zhu Guisheng quietly said to Ye Qui after looking around.

Ye Yu nodded: "I see."

They saw the shield, made of wood and leather, this thing can only be used to deal with the enemy, it cannot be used to deal with wild animals.

The main battle weapon is also a bow and arrow, and it is a composite bow, and the arrow is polished from animal bones.

The aborigines should be in the era of tribal alliances, where multiple tribes form an alliance and then work together to deal with another alliance.

The entire social structure is as follows: blood-related families form clans, close clans form tribes, and multiple tribes form tribal alliances.According to the strength of the strength, the leader of the alliance is elected, and the alliance holds a meeting to deal with internal affairs.When a tribe is attacked, the entire alliance mobilizes to fight.

Because agriculture is underdeveloped, slavery has not yet been born, and it is useless to capture slaves.

Two days later, Chief Warg visited Li Quan again, and he brought a lot of shell and bead coins, as if he wanted to buy Chinese clothes.

He first pulled his own animal fur coat, then pointed at Li Quan, and then kept dangling beads and coins.

Seeing that Li Quan still didn't understand, he asked a clansman to take off his clothes, and continued to point at Li Quan.Next, put the animal skin coat on the ground, and then put the beads and coins on the ground.Immediately, the positions of the leather garments and coins were exchanged, thus deducing the exchange process.

Li Quan finally understood, but he picked up the beads and threw them back on the ground, shaking his head to show that he didn't need them.

The warg also understood, with a disappointed expression on his face.

Li Quan called the adjutant, gave orders, and quickly brought some cotton cloth, an ax and a hoe.He put these things on the ground, and put them where the animal skins were.Then, point to the place where the beads and coins are placed, push all the beads and coins away, and point to the alluvial flat land at the mouth of the sea.

Several bolts of cotton cloth, an iron axe, and a hoe were exchanged for a large piece of land where the river emptied into the sea.

The warg instantly understood what it meant, shook his head again and again, and pointed to the area to the north.They are unwilling to exchange along the river, but the forest in the north can be sold. This is probably the reason why the Russians in history did not establish a stronghold along the river, but insisted on running to the north to build Rose Fort.

It's very simple, the local aborigines don't sell here, only the forest in the north.

Li Quan increased the number of cotton cloth to eight, four iron axes, two hoes, and a waist knife.

In front of the chief wolf, he chopped trees with axes, dug with hoes, and chopped thorns with knives.

The warg's eyes straightened immediately, he had never encountered iron products before, and the power of iron objects completely attracted him.