Dreaming Back to the Great Ming Dynasty Text Volume 464 [Fukuyama Coda] Gold deposits are found everywhere on the west coast of the United States, especially in California!
The two larger ones were one discovered near Los Angeles and one in Southern California. However, they only attracted a few hundred gold diggers and did not cause a sensation, mainly because those places were full of Indians and Americans settled here.
But not many.
Now, the place where the natives are taking them is the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River, a gold mining site that caused a sensation in the United States.
After walking northeast for about three days, the Ming Dynasty expedition encountered a second indigenous settlement in the woods by the river, and the number of indigenous people here exceeded a thousand.
The relationship between the two settlements is very good. Although they are very close to each other, they can complement each other.
The first indigenous settlement can obtain rock salt and bison horns. The second indigenous settlement specializes in exquisite pottery. They make a living by fishing, hunting and collecting wild fruits, and their agriculture is more developed. They often exchange rock salt for
Each pottery has no shortage of food, and they will disperse when they multiply to a certain scale, so there is no need to fight for survival.
There are larger tribes in the upper reaches of the river, and the natives of the second settlement migrated from the upper reaches.
This is the most suitable place to live on the west coast of North America. It is rich in resources and has a pleasant climate. It can be said to be a blessed place. However, precisely because it is so rich, human development has been slow, and it has not even entered a slave society.
War and natural disasters were the driving force for progress in the early stages of human society, but there are no wars or natural disasters here!
Yes, there are floods, but they are seasonal river flooding. After the floods recede, the land becomes more fertile.
After the exchange between the two indigenous leaders, the big tribe immediately collected nugget gold and exchanged it with Zhu Hai for two iron axes on the spot. The tribesmen celebrated with songs and dances.
In order to exchange for more iron axes, the indigenous people went out collectively and took Zhu Hai to the river beach.
The confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River at this time was very different from that of later generations. Because there was no hydropower station built upstream, and there was no California North-to-South Water Diversion Project, it was relatively much narrower and the water flow was more turbulent.
By the way, the United States after World War II was indeed like a beacon for mankind. In the 1950s, it was able to carry out the North-South Water Diversion Project. It not only rectified the floods in Northern California, but also solved the water shortage problem in Southern California. If it were replaced by the United States in the 21st century, this would be the case
It is a huge project, and it is estimated that it will take 20 to 30 years to vote.
In the fertile delta where the two rivers meet, Zhu Hai encountered the third indigenous settlement, where there were two to three thousand tribesmen and a large amount of farmland for growing broad beans.
When we arrived at the south bank of the river mouth, everyone's eyes were wide open.
Through the clear river water, under the sunlight, the shallow water area actually shone with little golden light.
“Sands!”
Someone shouted, and the rest of the team members rushed over. Zhu Hai couldn't suppress him for a moment.
Li Changzhu took off his shoes and rolled up his trousers and jumped into the water. He held up a handful of sand with both hands. It was visible to the naked eye that it was mixed with several grains of gold sand. He swallowed his saliva and said: "Duke, it is more powerful than the Golden River in Johor. This is not gold mining, it is gold mining."
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Seeing more and more team members entering the river, Zhu Hai scolded: "Why are you panicking? Come up and check around!"
There are two rivers in total. The one in the south has less golden sand, and the further upstream you go, the harder it is to see gold. But the river in the north is just crazy. We walked online for several miles, and we can actually see golden sand everywhere.
Therefore, these two rivers have Chinese names, called Liujin River and Shanjin River.
After exploring for a whole day, the natives were looking for nugget gold, but they didn't know how to collect gold sand.
Li Guangcheng was very itchy and advised: "Duke, stop exploring and quickly make some sand nets to dig for gold!"
Zhu Hai pointed at the natives who were looking for nugget gold and said with a smile: "How much gold can we find with dozens of people? We should make sand nets, let the natives help dig for gold, and then exchange them with various iron tools!"
"Yes, the governor is still wise, and we can reap the benefits!" Li Guangcheng said flatteringly.
Unfortunately, there was no bamboo here. Everyone searched around the river and found patches of wild flax. The indigenous people living by the river were already able to tie flax ropes to weave nets, but unfortunately they did not know how to weave linen cloth.
Zhu Hai called three indigenous leaders over, asked his subordinates to skin hemp on the spot, and taught them how to make a simple sieve. Then he used the sieve to pan for gold, piled the collected gold sand together, and placed an ax next to it to indicate that they could exchange it.
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The natives were so happy that they learned to make sieves one after another, and then jumped into the river to pan for gold.
Zhu Hai, on the advice of Onmyoji Hu Yuan, left half of the people to supervise the gold mining, and the other half to explore the rivers further downstream. The two rivers converged and flowed into a large lake. The expedition team thought it was a lake, but it was actually an inland extension of the bay.
, the lake water is fresh water with a relatively high salt content.
Continuing downward, the large lake converges and reaches a river valley.
Across the river valley, there is a wide bay.
Hu Yuan held a compass in his hand and used a knife to draw a simple diagram on the ground: "Duke, we have made a big circle and continue walking west or southwest along the shore. We will probably return to the place where we landed.
. Next time you come, you can take a boat directly to the northeast, and you will definitely be able to reach the Liujin River and the Shining Gold River."
Zhu Hai laughed: "That would be more convenient!"
Li Guangcheng suddenly said: "Duke, I have observed in two native villages that they don't have anything thick to keep out the cold. Since they can survive without keeping out the cold, the winter here may not be as Mr. Hu said.
So cold."
"How is that possible?" Hu Yuan retorted, "It's common sense that winter is cold and summer is hot. The summer here is only over ten degrees, and the winter must be extremely cold. The further north you go, the colder it gets, and the further south you go, the hotter it gets. We should hurry up
Head south before winter."
"That's not necessarily true. The Governor said that the earth is a round ball." Li Guangcheng raised his fist with a smile, "This fist is the earth. The Ming Dynasty is north of Temasek, but if you turn your fist over, Temasek is not north of the Ming Dynasty.
How can you say that it gets hotter as you go south and colder as you go north?"
Hu Yuan was immediately stunned, clenching his fists and thinking hard. He was not a disciple of the school of physics, but had studied physics books on his own. This issue was obviously beyond his cognitive scope.
Zhu Hai said with a smile: "Then we have to wait another two months. The natives will not be able to survive, but we will freeze to death, right?"
Two months later, according to Hu Yuan's calculation, it was already the late autumn of the Ming Dynasty.
The temperature did drop, but what surprised Hu Yuan was that the temperature only dropped by a few degrees, which was different from the Ming Dynasty and Nanyang.
Hu Yuan wrote in his logbook: "There are many strange things in Fushan. In midsummer, the highest daily temperature is 20 degrees; in mid-autumn, the highest daily temperature is more than 10 degrees; in mid-winter, there is no snow at the coldest time, and the temperature is inevitable
Above zero. Such an anomaly cannot be guessed by my knowledge. Perhaps the great master of physics, Wang Shilang, can explain it."
The sailing team members spent the Spring Festival at Mazu Lake in Fushan.
In the past few months, they have explored the surrounding three hundred miles and encountered six indigenous tribes. The tribes further upstream of the Golden River, the indigenous tribes there are more fierce, and there are thousands of tribesmen.
We need to rely on the large number of people to steal their iron tools.
Zhu Hai decisively ordered the shooting, killing more than ten people on the spot. These natives dispersed in a hurry. They were already gods walking on earth.
At the same time, Zhu Hai drove the boat to the northeast, crossed a strait, and then crossed a river valley before arriving at the large lake they encountered before. Along the large lake to the west are the Shining Gold River and the Liujin River.
This makes traveling very convenient. You can go directly by boat to collect gold instead of taking the dangerous and unpredictable land route.
When the ship arrived at the mouth of the river, the natives were stunned and lay on the shore to worship, even worshiping Zhu Hai as a god.
After the Lantern Festival, the fleet finally headed south to find Magellan's route back home.
When they left, they took with them more than eighty sacks of gold. Those sacks were originally used to hold food.