“On April 5, 4th year of Xingping, the Great Han Dynasty

The weather is getting hotter and hotter. Starting from the Murdoch tribe, we have encountered more than ten tribes of all sizes along the way. These tribes have different languages. There are more than ten translators carried by our fleet. A sentence requires translation from seven or eight people to turn from Haiwa's mouth to Chinese.

Both the sergeants on the boat said that if you want the people in Dongshengzhou to learn to speak Chinese, it is better to teach them to write Chinese characters.

After all, along the way, we have not found a tribe with our own words.

But even around the Han Dynasty, only the Han Dynasty had written words. Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel hopeless about discovering another civilization with written words."

“On April 7, the fourth year of Xingping, the Great Han Dynasty

Rubber tree! We discovered a species of suspected rubber tree!!

This tree is very tall and very tall. The tallest one is nearly 30 meters long. After cutting the trees, we found that this tree will leak milky white juice.

Because the trees were too big, we spent a day digging a few small trees and cut off the upper half, wrapping the roots and soil together with ropes to store them, hoping that these trees could persist until we return to the Great Man.

In addition to the roots, we also collected some fruits suspected to be tree species.

Great, we got another one of the ten plants that the general values ​​the most.

In addition, Master Gan said that these trees seem to be traces of artificial planting, and we are planning to sail south tomorrow to find traces of native tribes."

“On April 9, the fourth year of Xingping, the Great Han Dynasty

Incredible! This is not a tribe!

We found a port, a mature port!

After seeing the gifts we offered, the chief of the local port welcomed us. Through the difficult translation, we learned that this place is called Huqi and belongs to Maya.

Maya should not consider itself a tribe, because we found that the Maya actually had their own words.

This is really unimaginable. Even the Huns did not create their own words. Before Maya, I even thought that there was no words in the entire Dongshengzhou.

Since there is his own writing, the Maya must not be an ordinary tribe, but a country.

Out of respect for the civilization with written words, Commander Zheng and Chief Gan proposed to treat the Maya State as an equal capacity. We have shown our identity to Huqi's chief and expressed our hope to meet with the Maya State. Huqi's chief said that he needed to ask the king for advice.

We decided to gain a deeper understanding of the Maya State during this time, the only place in which Dongsheng State may be called a country.”

"On April 11, the fourth year of Xingping, the Great Han Dynasty

After two days of in-depth understanding, we found Maya was strange.

This country, like tribes such as Murdoch, has no iron tools. Black stones are commonly used as tools, no horses or vehicles, and has not tamed large livestock such as cattle, pigs, and sheep. Transportation basically relies on manpower and water flow.

But the difference between the Mayans and Murdoch tribes is that the Mayans rely more on farming, but their farming methods are extremely primitive. They first cut down the trees and burn them after they dry up, so as to obtain the flat land and ash fertilizer that can be cultivated, and then sow seeds.

We got a lot of crops we were looking for in Maya, such as sweet potatoes, but the Maya place more emphasis on corn.

We also confirmed here at Maya that the seed we had previously obtained at Murdoch was corn.

Although Maya did not tame the cow, she tamed the dog.

In addition, the Mayans had pottery and their own calculation methods.

This calculation method is completely different from that of us Chinese. We are one to ten, and they are one to twenty. It is difficult for me to describe their calculation logic, but Master Gan seemed to understand it quickly.

Master Gan was very interested in some of the Mayan astronomical calendars. Although the translation was difficult, Master Gan had a great conversation with local Mayan scholars.

This is really a magical place.”

"On April 18, the fourth year of Xingping, the Great Han Dynasty

We arrived at the capital of the Maya, which they called Sakhs.

It is said that Sachs had built a city a thousand years ago. If we counted this way, the Mayan civilization history is the longest we know so far.

The king of Maya summoned us, and they felt amazing about our arrival, and said that he had his wizard divination, and the god of Maya said that our arrival would lead Maya to a greater glory.

We presented the gift and handed over the letter of the country. The Mayan King was very happy with the iron, porcelain, silk, glass and other gifts I had never seen before. He gave us some jade and gold. When we learned that we wanted to get the seeds of the crops, the Mayan King said that he would collect the seeds of the crops being planted in the territory and let us bring them back. We also gave the Mayan King seeds of wheat and corn.

The city of Sachs is large and has many large buildings. What interested us the most is their altar, which is flat-topped and vertebrae. The king did not allow us to go up, but allowed us to observe, and a sacrifice was held to express our joy for our arrival.

This sacrifice was a bloody human sacrifice. We did not stop it, nor could we stop it. After the sacrifice, it was a celebration banquet. The food eaten by the Mayans was OK, and it was made of corn, but I missed the noodle soup a little."

"On April 20, the fourth year of Xingping, the Great Han Dynasty

According to the agreement, the Mayan king gave us many seeds of crops, one of which they called cocoa, which tasted very sweet, but they said that the greatest effect was not eaten, but used for enema to communicate with the gods.

The Mayan god...the habits of our Han gods seem to be a little different...

Master Gan said that the gods of the Han people only need to burn incense to communicate, and the Mayan wizard expressed envy.

Out of thanks to the Mayan King, we proposed some technical improvements in their farming and left them a simple vehicle. The Mayan King was very happy with the appearance of the car and gave us some jade and gold."

"On May 3, the fourth year of Xingping, the Great Han Dynasty

Although I have left Maya and continued to sail south for two days, I am still recalling the little things I saw in Maya.

Although the Mayans still had the bad habit of sacrifice, they were hospitality and enthusiastic about astronomy, and did not like fighting and war. Otherwise, they would have occupied the entire northern part of Dongsheng Prefecture, and we, the Han Dynasty, should be able to live in peace with them in the future.

After all, Dongshengzhou is very big and there can be two countries."

"May 8, the fourth year of Xingping, the Great Han Dynasty

The weather was getting hotter and hotter. We thought we were at the southernmost end of Dongsheng Prefecture, but after passing a long walkway, another continent appeared.

Is there a continent as big as we have walked before?
Chapter completed!