Soon the meeting ended, and everyone left one after another and returned to their tents to rest.
Du Mingen took out his thick notebook and began to write:
Thousands of miles away from the Ming Dynasty, this place is uninhabited and completely desolate, but it contains huge wealth.
The rivers here are all filled with fish, a kind of red fish, so many that they crowd the entire river, so I named this place Fish Creek.
There are many kinds of animals here in Yuxi, and the number is extremely large. There are silly deers that are not afraid of people when they see them, and snow-white foxes with extremely beautiful fur without a stray hair. I think so
Once his fur reaches the Ming Dynasty, the nobles in the capital will definitely go crazy for it.
Perhaps because the dimensions here are too high and the climate is cold, it probably snows most of the year. Therefore, the fur of animals here is basically white. We call it white fox.
Snow fox.
There are also white sheep, which we call snow sheep. In addition, there is a brown bear here, which is huge and good at fishing. There is also a kind of marten in the river, both of which are extremely good at fishing.
In addition to these, we also discovered a gold mine here in Yuxi, a very large gold mine. The entire river is paved with a thick layer of gold sand. If you just pick up a handful of sand, there will be dozens of grains of gold sand.
The crew members were all deeply attracted by this Jinsha River. Everyone was frantically searching for gold nuggets on the river beach. Some even said they wanted to stop here and mine gold here.
But in the end, after the persuasion of Lin Shuhong, myself, and Eunuch Li, everyone was willing to continue to the Golden Continent and were not dazzled by the Jinsha River in front of us.
Yuxi and Jinsha River, although it is extremely cold and far away from the Ming Dynasty, it is a golden mountain that has not been opened to the public, and there is wealth everywhere.
Mr. Liu did not lie to us. The world outside the Ming Dynasty is indeed vast and contains endless wealth. This place in Yuxi is just the beginning. I will travel all over the world in the future.
It was written on the second day of September in the eleventh year of Hongzhi, and the place was Yuxi, thousands of miles away from the Ming Dynasty.
At this time, not only Du Mingen was writing a diary, many crew members were writing diaries, writing down everything they encountered today. This is what Tianjin Maritime College requires every crew member to do. If this kind of navigation diary can be
If preserved, it will be an extremely precious historical material, and it will also allow future generations to follow the footsteps of their predecessors and find the treasures discovered by their predecessors.
The fleet is not in a hurry to leave Yuxi. The fleet still needs to stay here for a few days to prepare firewood, meat, etc. Du Mingen is very open-minded and allows everyone to go to Jinsha River to pan for gold while they are busy with their work.
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This decision also made the crew members scream with excitement.
The crew was very busy every day. The hunting team members hunted back deer, snow sheep, brown bears and the like. They peeled off the skins and ate the edible meat. The uneaten ones were marinated into dried meat and prepared.
Take it on board to eat, after all, the taste of fish is not as good as that of venison.
At the same time, the crew also found that the red fish in the fish stream was extremely delicious and tastier than most sea fish, so the crew caught a large number of fish in the fish stream and dried these fish into dried fish.
, prepare to bring delicious food on board.
Everyone also named this red fish Xiyu, which means the fish unique to Yuxi.
Well, this can be regarded as a process of geographical discovery, naming unnamed places and naming unknown animals. Along the way, they have named many places and also named many new animals.
"Tsk, tsk, if this snow fox fur is brought back to the capital, it will probably be sold for several thousand taels of silver."
Tian Erniu carefully dried a piece of snow fox fur. This was a piece of skin that he had spent a lot of favors to get from the hunting experts on his ship. He was preparing to use it as a dowry for his daughter when she grew up.
dowry.
The monkey next to him was also drying a piece of snow fox skin. His snow fox skin was not finished yet and had several ugly holes. He said with some envy.
"Even if you give me 10,000 taels of silver, I won't sell it~"
Tian Erniu said with a smile, looking up, there were pieces of fur drying everywhere in the camp, including snow fox furs, brown bear furs, silly deer, mink, snow sheep and other furs.
The crew members were like locusts passing by, hunting almost all the animals in the area around Fish Creek, so that some had to go farther afield to hunt.
"How about Erniu discussing this matter. How about marrying your daughter to my son?"
Monkey rolled his eyes, smiled and said to Tian Erniu.
"You think so well. As for your little monkey, you should let him eat a few more kilograms of meat. Otherwise, even if he marries my daughter, he may be kicked out of bed in the future."
Tian Erniu smiled and said.
"Haha, maybe that's what monkeys are like~"
"Yes, yes, look at Monkey's body, it must be."
"Monkey, let your son lick his tongue to his nose, maybe Erniu will bring his daughter to your house."
When the people around heard this, they couldn't help laughing happily.
"Go, go, I'm proposing a marriage to the Erniu family. What are you trying to do?"
Monkey glared at the people around him and waved repeatedly. The crew members had a good relationship with each other. Many of them were already married to each other. Although the crew members were all young and the children in the family were often bigger, but
Such is the trend of this era.
"Er Niu, think about it, I will treat this bag of gold sand as a deposit."
The monkey took out a small cloth bag, which contained the gold sand he had collected in the past few days. Almost every crew member had such a bag containing gold sand, and some lucky ones even picked up gold nuggets.
"Go, go, let's see if your son can beat my daughter. I'm not afraid that your son will suffer in the future."
Tian Erniu waved his hands repeatedly and said with a smile.
Both of them come from the same village. They bought houses together in Beijing and Tianjin. The children of the two families naturally play together, and it is inevitable that they will fight with each other. Every time the monkey's son
They were all beaten to the point of crying by Tian Erniu's daughter.
"Haha, be controlled by your wife, be controlled by your wife, Erniu, let's decide what to do, just take this bag of gold sand."
When the monkey heard this, he smiled happily and handed the gold sand in his hand to Tian Erniu.
"It's really good~"
Tian Er was very happy when he was Newton. It is extremely difficult to collect this gold sand. After all, it takes a lot of time and effort to collect it one by one. The gold sand in this area was collected by monkeys with hard work in the past few days.
"Isn't it just a bag of gold dust? It's worth it to have a daughter-in-law~"
Monkey said grandly.
"Forget it, forget it, the child is still young, let's talk about it after we return to the Ming Dynasty. What's more, you are a naughty kid. You want to give me a bag of gold sand in exchange for my snow fox fur, and you also want to give away your precious daughter.
Just dream."
Tian Erniu said with a smile, and the people around him immediately laughed happily.
"Damn~ You've discovered all this."
Monkey couldn't help but said immediately.
"Haha~"
The people around him laughed even more happily.
"Dang~dang~"
At this time, the bell rang above the camp. It was Du Mingen who summoned the captain and deputy captain for a meeting again.
"Looks like we're about to set off~"
Tian Erniu put down what he was doing and said to the monkey.
In fact, just as Tian Erniu said, Du Mingen convened everyone again and decided to officially leave Yuxi tomorrow and set off again to continue to the Golden Continent.
The next day, the crew got up very early, packed up everything early, and carried all the things that needed to be moved onto the ship. They left the rich land of Yuxi with infinite nostalgia and longing for the Golden Continent.