A small village that cannot be smaller, a group of poor women and children without clothes covering their bodies, and a disgusting pot of monkey meat soup. The whole village is full of weirdness.

There was no food, no rice, no fruit, no poultry and livestock, and even the most fish in Southeast Asia. Wang Chen and others found nothing except monkey broth that no one dared to eat.

Logically speaking, if you don’t get anything, just leave quickly. Time is very tight and the task is heavy. However, after Wang Chen saw the little girl who could speak Chinese, he suddenly felt a sense of compassion. He really wanted to hear the story the little girl was going to tell.

These Chinese soldiers never expected that the entire Brunei region had run out of food at this moment. After only half a year of war, the entire northern Bailayi had been consumed.

All the villages had no food, and the army stole the last grain of rice, a bunch of bananas, some dried fish and poultry and livestock from each village. At this moment, the indigenous civilians could only starve at home and wait for death. Even the monkey just now was not caught from the forest, but was a pet raised by the little girl's house.

While listening, Wang Chen reviewed the Nanyang materials he had learned before. Gradually, a large economic framework emerged deep in his mind, and he seemed to have understood something, a deeper secret beyond the surface of war.

Borneo is a very large island with abundant natural resources. It has spices, rubber trees, forest resources, gold, and inexhaustible seafood from the sea... and there will be oil resources in the future.

The people here have much better lives than the people of the Qing Dynasty. They will not go hungry on weekdays. There are river seafood in the sea, bananas and various coconuts on the trees to fill their stomachs by eating a little bit of it.

Some tribes will cultivate some farmland and plant rice and eat some rice. But strangely, no tribe will plant too much rice, and they still put the security of survival on the most primitive collection.

Fishing, hunting and gathering are the first and most primitive ways of survival for human beings. Although eating is easy to see the weather, it is difficult to get security. On weekdays, these tribes live extremely leisurely, and only spend a little time collecting food every day. The rest of the time is entertainment and even lazy daydreaming.

This is also one of the reasons why Chinese in Southeast Asia do not like to hire natives the most. They are too lazy, because the fishing, hunting and gathering civilization will definitely raise many lazy people. They will be more diligent when they are hungry, and as long as they are not hungry, they will immediately become extremely lazy.

If this lifestyle is compared with the diligent Chinese, these indigenous people are undoubtedly happy. The Chinese, a nation that has emerged from the agricultural civilization, must work most of the year, because agricultural civilization has an important attribute that is more important than fishing, hunting and gathering civilization, that is, storage.

Life like the indigenous monkeys seems to be very leisurely on weekdays, but once an emergency occurs, their ability to resist is also very weak, such as war.

In this war, these sultans and local kings in Brunei actually wanted to take advantage of the chaos. If there was no early military invasion by Tsarist Russia, they would not have taken the initiative to attack the Chinese reclamation areas even if they were killed.

Originally, these local kings only wanted to resolve the war within half a month. They thought that the Chinese armed forces had been completely eliminated by Tsarist Russia. At this moment, the wealth of the Chinese was like coconuts falling from trees. As long as you bend down to pick them up, you can get it at your fingertips.

But I never expected that the Chinese in Southeast Asia had already been united. The Bai Layi tragedy directly shocked the Chinese circle in Southeast Asia, and millions of Chinese began to concentrate resources to support this war.

The local kings' mouths hit the big stone all at once. Except for taking advantage of the first few days, they lost almost every battle afterwards, which dragged the war for half a year.

In the final analysis, war is a matter of competing with the economic strength of both sides. Although the Tu Wang has many people, they are not as powerful as the Chinese in terms of economic heritage.

The more war the Chinese Guards fought, the more money and food, the more arms, the more soldiers. On the other hand, these indigenous monkeys, in addition to the large population, the less money and food they fought, and the more arms they were consumed, and the more they were consumed, the more they were, the more they were, the more they were, the more they were, the more they were, the more they were, the more they were, the more they were, the more they were, the more they were, the more they were, the more they were, the more they were, the more they were, the more difficult it was for the indigenous people.

All the warehouses were eaten up, the poultry and livestock raised by the people were stolen, and even the little jerky on the wall was stolen by the army.

The war also destroyed the natural environment of the entire region. The chaotic war directly reduced the local security to negative numbers. The people did not dare to leave their villages, especially women who disappeared immediately as soon as they went out.

It is not safe even to hide in the village. God knows when a group of soldiers will come to vent their anger and use these indigenous women as tools for entertainment.

Bananas rot on the trees, the fish swimming in the river also escaped the smell of blood, and the beasts in the jungle hide as far as possible... This is the end of the fishing, hunting and gathering civilization. A war directly exposed the biggest flaw in their civilization. Their ability to resist disasters is really poor.

"So that's it... It turns out that even if we don't fight this war, these indigenous coalitions will collapse. But why can't these South Asian monkeys enter the agricultural civilization? Why..." Wang Chen scratched his head and was confused.

"Sir...we...we can't store food! We don't have sea boats like you..." The little girl woke up the dreamer with a word.

It seemed like a flash of lightning came in Wang Chen's mind. Some of the knowledge he had learned in school was suddenly connected together, and he had an epiphany.

Borneo has been connected with the Central Plains since the Jin Dynasty, and during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, boats and ships traveled frequently. Zheng He reached his peak when he voyage to the West. During such a long period of time, many immigrants from the Central Plains have also come. In theory, farming technology has been passed on long ago. Why can't it be popularized? Why can't it be officially upgraded to agricultural civilization?

It turns out that the answer is here, the natural climate is curbing!

The Nanyang region is tropical, with high temperatures and humidity mostly typhoons and heavy rains! Such weather is undoubtedly suitable for rice growth. Rice is a job for lazy people to do. With diligent Chinese farmers, they can make rice all year round and mature once every three months.

In fact, the natives are not unaware of farming techniques. They have understood after so many years, but they are not as hardworking as the Chinese because they cannot get out of the cabin of rice.

An important symbol of agricultural civilization is the barn. Human beings must have the awareness of storage before agricultural civilization can develop.

Human beings have learned to store, that is, they have added double insurance to civilization. For example, when encountering wars, natural disasters, etc., the stored food can save lives and help everyone resist crises.

But how do you store rice in Nanyang? In humid weather, rice will sprout in less than a month, and these indigenous monkeys cannot solve this problem at all.
Chapter completed!