Chapter 344 Confirmed in the eyes that he is a true Confucian (please subscribe!)

Not long after, Guo Yuan and his party entered the "city center" of Xiaoquanzhou.

It is said to be the city center, but it is actually a huge granary in the middle of a bunch of camps. Next to it is a drying field. There are two strange-looking animals and a bunch of sea fish on the ground.

There are also a large number of unnamed fruits, and more than a dozen naked indigenous people are peeling and sorting them there.

Later, Guo Yuan learned that the animal was called a kangaroo, and the fruits were large mangoes and baobab fruits. They had been picked not long ago and were now taken out to dry.

These things are almost everywhere in Australia, supplementing 30% of the expedition team's rations.

There is a saying that Australia is really a rich place. As long as you work a little harder, you won't starve to death.

Next to them, there are Ming people who are leading the indigenous people to dig for water, process animal skins, weave threads with simple looms, feed a very beautiful long-tailed bird, or shout and practice with short spears.

A busy and lively scene.

After reading this, Guo Yuan was filled with admiration. He turned to Chen Xin and said, "What a prosperous scene. Mr. Chen, your business is really good. There are probably hundreds of natives here. You have only been here for more than two months.

How did you find so many slaves?"

Guo Yuan is not the Holy Mother. It is their honor for the natives to be slaves to the Ming Dynasty. Logically speaking, they should be destroyed humanely, and then leave a pure land without natives for the Ming Dynasty.

On the side, Wang Qinian continued: "Mr. Guo, although we have been in Xiaoquanzhou for a short time, we have already become famous in the neighborhood for repeatedly taking in slaves or homeless natives, and natives often come to seek refuge. Especially the elderly.

, young children, usually the victorious tribe will slaughter them, but now many of them are bought by us to survive. Now there are more than 150 indigenous people in the village."

The woman said with hatred on her face: "Okay! The sharp spear stopped attacking our tribe and came to sneak attack on the 'shipman'. This is our tribe's only chance!"

At this time, the two of them stopped.

After collecting the information here, Wang Hongzhuan nodded and indicated that he could return.

Chen Xin touched his head and checked his eyes. He was definitely a true Confucian.

"Red Snake Tooth, how many people from the Belunjie tribe have come in total?" The speaker was a stout woman carrying a boomerang and a stone knife on her waist.

Everyone nodded, it was indeed like this. When Wang Qinian thought about this, he thought of the copper mine that he had been dreaming about, so he cupped his hands and said: "Master Guo, there is a copper mine thirteen or four miles from here. We have people explore it.

, there are ores covering a radius of more than a hundred feet, some of which are even exposed outside the soil, making them very easy to mine.”

Guo Yuan then suggested: "But they can be taught Chinese properly. If the natives and Ming people can communicate better, the work efficiency will be doubled!"

The two began to debate, each with their own reasons. Guo Yuan hurriedly reassured the two of them: "Don't panic, sir. The governor will definitely report the situation to the emperor when he returns this time, and he will bring more immigrants over by then!"

Australia's copper and iron ore are of high quality and easy to mine. Until the 21st century, Australia was the world's top ore exporter.

Chen Xin immediately waved his hand and said: "Wang Baihu is too impatient. Even though the governor brought more than a thousand people, it takes at least seven or eight hundred people to mine a copper mine. They also have to build camps, farm, and hunt."

, alert patrol, I estimate that when there are 3,000 people in Xiaoquanzhou, it will be suitable for mining."

Several other people said together: "Killing Spear! Blessed by the God of Lush!"

"It seems they are quite determined." The woman said again, "Did you see the sharp spear?"

He immediately brightened up when he mentioned this topic: "In addition, there is an iron mine more than a hundred miles southwest of Xiaoquanzhou. The iron contained is so pure that it is almost melted into refined iron. There is also a gold mine, although it is far away.

It's a bit far, but we can build a new camp..."

However, before returning, Wang Hongzhuan left behind a ship and most of his manpower, leaving only a hundred National Defense Force soldiers for himself in the prosperous city of Xiaoquanzhou.

It was so good, but he was afraid that a Holy Mother official would come up and point fingers, saying this won't work, that won't work, and he had to work hard to influence the natives.

Guo Yuan met the Emperor Zhu Kezang and talked about Australia together. He could hear the Emperor's disdain for the indigenous people here.

The man named Red Snake Ya was a dark-skinned young man covered in muscles. He seemed to have just returned from the mound on the opposite side. He gasped and said, "At least two hundred soldiers."

A strong woman wearing only a grass skirt asked the leader: "Velvet Flower, why do you think Sharp Spear and the others came to attack the boat people? They just live in the loser's settlement, and they don't compete with other tribes for prey.

, I only know how to dig soil all day long..."

As the saying goes, if the emperor does not like it, his ministers will naturally hate it even more.

"Follow me soon. Even if you risk your life, you must kill Limao. Our tribe can no longer withstand the next round of Belun Festival attack."

It is evident that Australia can support the income levels of developed countries just by selling these mineral deposits and wool.

Guo Yuan shook his head and said: "It's okay to take them in as coolies, but be careful not to overpopulate them. Otherwise, they will not be prioritized, and it will be easy for them to work more and eat less."

In a bush three miles away from Xiaoquanzhou, seven or eight curly-haired Australian aborigines with no clothes, ropes around their waists, and tattoos on their faces held short spears and crouched under the trees, but their eyes were fixed on the people who were more than a hundred steps away from them.

A mound.

And Guo Yuan also stayed to help develop Xiaoquanzhou City.

Chen Xin chuckled and said: "Most of them are slaves we bought from nearby tribes, and some are escaped from tribes such as 'Tonatu' and 'Shuhu' who were defeated last month."

"I saw it, his two sons are here too."

Afterwards, Guo Yuan reported the situation here to Wang Hongzhuan and his staff.

Chen Xindao: "What Mr. Guo said is absolutely true. The population of our previous expedition was too small, so absorbing the indigenous people was a last resort."

It was night, Mr. Chen, Mr. Guo, Wang Baihu and the stewards from Xiaoquanzhou gathered around the bonfire, eating mango brown rice, roasting kangaroo meat, watching the indigenous people singing and dancing, and discussing the construction of the Australian colonial settlement.

, also has a different taste.

Velvet Flower said coldly: "The greedy snake god has entangled the heart of Sharp Spear. He coveted the ship's weapons that contained divine power, but he didn't want to exchange them for slaves or animal skins, so he brought tribal warriors to rob the ship's people."

It turns out that the "ship people" they refer to refer to the Ming Dynasty's overseas expedition team. Because the expedition team often used sea ships to dock and people came and went from the ships, the indigenous people called the Ming people "ship people".

"But the boat people have many knives, spears with magical power, and even a kind of blow dart that can be launched into the sky. Can the sharp spears really beat them?" Red Snake Ya asked doubtfully.

Australia had not even invented the bow and arrow at this time, and the flintlock guns held by Ming Dynasty soldiers were only a special kind of "blow dart".
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