One of Xia Xun's ships went to Venice with Fei Yinglun, and several others sailed to Spain.【】
And at this time, in a far away place...
A large ship ran aground crookedly on the beach, its giant anchor half sunk into the sand.
This big ship was exactly the same ship that Xia Xun and Xu Hu thought had perished in the sea, and the same ship that Ren Juying was riding on.
They were swept away by huge waves in a storm and drifted no matter how far they were, and completely lost their way.
There was no pilot on the ship, and the compass was broken. They could only go in the direction they thought was correct. As a result, the ocean current was flowing in this direction, and the wind was also blowing in this direction. The ship was traveling very fast, farther and farther, when they
After walking for several days and still no land, I finally realized that I was going in the wrong direction.
Fortunately, a large amount of drinking water and food were stored on their ship, so there was no need to worry about this for the time being. They adjusted their direction, thinking they were heading back in the opposite direction, but in the end they were just heading in another, more wrong direction.
After another long journey, this group of unfortunate people encountered another big storm, and were finally thrown into this huge blue harbor.
Their ship had already split and leaked while at sea. When the wreckers discovered that the ocean current was flowing toward the shore, the entire crew tried their best to drain the water and finally managed to reach the shore by using the dual effects of wind and ocean current.
But the ship was beyond repair, the damage was too severe, and many huge rivets were left in the sea along with the broken hull. They couldn't get the wood to build a strong ship because there were no rivets.
Ren Juying stepped on the soft sand with bare feet and shouted to one of his subordinates: "You, you, you, stop talking and call those birdmen over!"
The bird people he was talking about were local aborigines whose skin color and facial features were similar to them.
The people here speak a strange language and dress very strangely. They are wrapped in fur clothes, with large areas of exposed bronze skin, and wear strange hats with colorful pheasant feathers on their heads.
People seem to be dressed like this, so Ren Juying is called Birdman.
The birdman was an old man with the most feathers on his hat. When he heard Ren Juying talking to them, he walked to him with a smile and nodded friendly. Behind him, there was a man holding a wooden spear.
A strong warrior followed closely behind, and it was obvious that he was the leader of these natives.
Ren Juying took a bite of the roasted sweet potato in his hand and said in a rough voice: "This thing of yours is quite sweet and delicious, but you make me fart after eating too much. I asked you if you still have the big soybeans, please change them again."
Give it to us, there are 1,780 people here, and we have quite a lot to eat."
Sweet potato was the name Ren Juying gave to the food he ate. After they were stranded, they were warmly entertained by the local indigenous people and sent them a lot of food, most of which they had never seen or heard of.
Because the skin of this sweet potato is red, it is similar to the sweet potato in the south of China. It also grows in the ground and has a similar shape. Ren Juying calls it a sweet potato. As for the sweet potato that grows on something like a stick, it is bright yellow.
The large rice grains were called big soybeans by him.
In return, Ren Juying also gave a lot of help to the group of people who rescued them. This tribe was at war with a nearby tribe. Ren Juying led his pirate soldiers to participate in the battle. These local natives didn't even have iron weapons. They
Holding a simple wooden spear and stone ax, there is no match for Ren Juying and others.
Ren Juying's ship not only had swords, spears, and halberds, but also bows, crossbows, and firecrackers. In this battle, they were like chasing rabbits, killing all the way to the other side's lair. Not only did they kill the other side's leader, but they also killed the young men of the tribe.
The women were snatched back, and these women are now owned by them.
If the points were not enough, Ren Juying had already appeased the subordinates who had not snatched their wives. Once he understood the situation here, he would lead them to snatch more women. Each person should be worthy of at least two. The woman they snatched was not far ahead.
In the woods, a wooden house was built according to Ren Juying's order.
However, what worried Ren Juying the most was that he had nowhere to get copper and iron. When he learned that these locals only had a few iron tools, which were said to be made from big rocks falling from the sky, and nothing else, his heart dropped.
Half a year,.
His ship was badly damaged. Without copper and iron to make rivets, he couldn't build a strong ship. So how could he get home? Although some of his crew members knew how to smelt iron, it would take a long time just to find iron ore.
It would take years and months to refine enough steel to make ship nails.
The old man couldn't understand what Ren Juying was saying, but he seemed to understand his gestures. He took a puff of cigarette and nodded with a smile.
Ren Juying frowned and waved away the smoke that sprayed in front of him. The people here rolled a kind of dry leaf foam with coconut leaves, lit it and inhaled the smoke. This was the first time he saw local people swallowing clouds.
He was very curious about vomiting and tried it, but he was choked and coughed, and he stopped trying after that.
Ren Juying sighed sadly, turned around to the huge harbor that was as calm as a big mirror, put his hands on his waist, and murmured to himself: "What a damn unlucky place, where did I drift to? I
I won’t be able to go back again…”
"Hey! Old bird man, what is this place?"
Ren Juying pulled the bay in front of him and gestured to the old man with feathers. The old man roughly guessed that he was asking about the situation here.
The old man is the chief of the tribe here. Their tribe has settled here for generations. The bay next to their home is named after their tribe. The old man smiled happily, pointed to his tribe not far away with his cigarette, and said:
“Caribbean!”
The old man pointed to his heart again and said: "Caribbean!"
Then the old man pointed to the sea again and said with great pride: "Caribbean!" Indian: a brave and upright person.
Ren Juying originally expected to hear the name of this place. If he had heard of it before, he would be able to roughly determine his location. However, he had never even heard of this name in his dreams. He couldn't help looking up to the sky and sighing: "Caribbean, Caribbean, spicy next door...
…”
The old chief nodded happily, took a deep breath of cigarette, and leisurely blew out a smoke ring.
The smoke ring grew bigger and bigger, trapping Ren Juying in it...
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Xia Xun only stayed in Spain for three days. As Fei Yinglun said, Spain is now in a mess. It is really a mess. However, he does not have a huge fleet like Zheng He, but he brings a lot of treasures, each of which is in chaos.
The crew members were generous and even attracted some people to take up their own ideas.
So three days later, Xia Xun hurriedly set off for the French port of Marseille. Xia Xun wanted to travel around the country here and wait for Zheng He to arrive. Based on his understanding of Zheng He and the road signs he left along the way, Zheng He would definitely
Catch up. Zheng He commanded a fleet that was ten times more powerful than him. It was not difficult to pass the Cape of Good Hope safely.
In fact, Zheng He hurriedly and slowly arrived at the Cape of Good Hope. Because Xia Xun encountered wind and waves here and turned quickly around the cape without leaving any mark here, Zheng He's fleet had already stopped here.
Come down.
While they went ashore to collect drinking water, food and fruits, they sent several ships to explore the way ahead, looking for instructions left by Xia Xun before continuing the entire fleet's voyage.
After Xia Xun's fleet arrived in Marseille, it caused a sensation. Xia Xun's fleet did not have the super giant treasure ship that Zheng He was riding. Although the hull was generally larger than European ships, it did not cause much surprise. It was surprising.
What's surprising is that everyone in this fleet coming from afar has an oriental face.
Since Genghis Khan's army marched overland to the Danube River, this was the first time that Europeans saw so many faces from the East at once.
After a brief meeting and discussion with the local governor of Marseille and the nobles, they decided to immediately meet with the captain of this fleet from the east. They urgently needed to figure out how this sudden fleet arrived from the east.
Came here.
Unfortunately, they failed. The commander of the fleet had already gone ashore and asked the people on board. The answer they received was always: "No comment!"
Xia Xun had never been to France in his previous life. Not only was he here in this life, but he was also in the France of the century. Xia Xun was full of curiosity about this place.
Xia Xun didn't take Su Ying and Tang Sai'er with him. Although he believed that the security here should be much better than that in Guli, it was better to investigate first. He didn't want to loot the palace again and lead to the chaos of the entire Earth Sea.
The fleet pursued him and fled into the Atlantic Ocean.
His interpreter had almost no use here. Fortunately, because Arab merchants spread throughout Europe, many people here knew Arabic. The interpreter Jiang Xu knew Arabic, so Xia Xun asked him to hire a guide and translator.
Come on, as long as the other party understands both French and Arabic, plus his interpreter, he can also communicate.
The interpreter went to find someone, and Xia Xun stood on the dock waiting, admiring the different and oriental customs of this place.
After a while, Jiang Xu came back excitedly and shouted: "Sir, sir, I found someone who can actually speak our Chinese!"
Xia Xun turned around and saw Jiang Xu striding towards him, accompanied by a tall white man wearing a cloth shirt worn by poor local people.
His hair is messy reddish brown, and his facial features are rough. If you look closely, he can be regarded as Zhou Zheng, but his facial features tend to be concentrated in the center. And at the center of the facial features, the tall and big nose is even more prominent.
, so at a glance, you will only notice his big nose.
With a head of disheveled auburn hair and a big nose, from a distance, he looks like a chow.
This red-haired "Chow Chow" greeted Xia Xun with a smile on his face, and introduced loudly in his somewhat stiff Chinese: "Hello, distinguished gentleman from the far east, my name is Jacques Dak. May I ask, sir?