Great time travel

Chapter No.17, 27 moments in the four years of Chongzhen ([-])
No.17 Moments: Really #奥斯汀人无疑

Turning back the time to December in the third year of Chongzhen, the location is the northwest coast of Australia, thousands of miles away from Middle Earth

The vast and surging sea is like a blue dream. The color of the waves is as gorgeous as gemstones. The rising sun casts pieces of golden light from the eastern sky, jumping between countless troughs and wave crests, until it meets a stretching The half-mile-wide golden halo converged and blossomed like a mandala gathered on a bunch of vines, and finally turned into a blindingly bright halo.

The beach, the jungle, the blue sea, the blue sky, everything looks so beautiful.

Under the baptism of the gentle breeze, Li Wei sat on the beach by the sea with a melancholy face, enjoying the green and pollution-free fresh air, the absolutely original tropical forest and grassland beauty... and so on. excited about something.But at this moment, Li Wei would rather curl up in his little kennel in Harbin, smelling car exhaust and industrial smog every day, and listening to the noisy square dance of street aunts...

——Because he was in Australia in the first half of the seventeenth century!
What is Australia in the 21st century?
——The vast land of 770 million square kilometers, the melting pot of different races all over the world, countless high-quality mineral deposits that can be mined in the open air, the famous Sydney Opera House, the colorful underwater world of the Great Barrier Reef, as Koalas and kangaroos, national symbols, naive little penguins, and Palm Beach, where supermodels, beauties and rich men from all over the world gather...

What about seventeenth-century Australia?
——There are only 70 backward aborigines living in the Stone Age, as well as marsupial mammals such as kangaroos, koalas, platypus, etc. that are also behind the times... At this time, Australia was still an isolated continent until 1778 The land was colonized by the British in the 21s - so welcome to the Stone Age without industrial pollution!Dear modern travelers from the [-]st century!

Alas, how did such a ridiculous thing happen?

Mr. Li Wei, a Chinese-Russian mixed race, sighed more and more melancholy, recalling the sea fog that brought him here.

At that time, Li Wei, the "former paladin" who had just been rescued by Wang Qiu and Doraemon, successfully traveled back from medieval Europe with his wife and children, and his wife Zhao Na, who had just given birth to him, a family of three. Some of the wealth collected in the Middle Ages returned to his hometown in Northeast China on the "COSCO Star" from Shanghai. This is an all-metal structure with a length of 147 meters and a width of 165 meters. It has a registered tonnage of 5000 tons and a full load of 11000 tons. Tourism is a gimmick, and it is mainly used as a modern five-masted intelligent sailing galleon used by luxury passenger ships on domestic routes.

Unexpectedly, shortly after the "Cosco Star" sailed from Shanghai, it traveled to the west coast of Australia in 1630 in a fog, and immediately there was a rear-end collision accident across time and space, hitting a ship of about 1630 tons. The Spanish galleon sank the poor little guy on the spot... Then, from the owner of the sunken Spanish galleon Radziwill, a distraught Polish nobleman, Baron Andrew, the "Coscostar" The crew and passengers were unbelievably aware of their current location—south of Java Island, south of the Timor Sea, near Derby Port in Australia... Well, this is not the biggest problem. The real horror lies in this moment The time was January 1, 2! ! !
Green tourism has traveled to the seventeenth century before the industrial revolution, which is too green and environmentally friendly!

In addition, the fact that the Eastern European Poles, who had never had a nautical tradition, were also following the trend of nautical colonization in this era is also shocking.

In short, the above-mentioned earth-shattering news made the whole ship go crazy, but no matter how mentally broken down, the cruel reality that should be faced... After showing some magical props obtained from Doraemon , and after various photos and videos taken in medieval Europe, as "senior cross-travel experts" and holy knights canonized by the Holy See, Levi and his wife were unanimously elected as the highest advisor and seven people A member of the decision-making team, responsible for leading the more than 140 traversers to struggle for survival in this strange world.

——No way, only he and his wife on the whole ship have the experience of long-term survival in the ancient world,
The first question after the establishment of the decision-making group was to continue to live in Australia, or to sail to mainland China in this era—according to the captain Wang Tiehui, although the "COSCO Star" is powered by sails, it still consumes fuel, and The remaining fuel on board is only enough to travel to Guangzhou Bay at most. If you choose to go to the "homeland" of the Ming Empire, then it is destined to be a one-way journey with no return...

As a result, a big debate broke out among these traversers between "bright fans" and "bright black"... In the end, the skeptics prevailed, feeling that it is really impossible to believe without real evidence The "kindness and simplicity" of the Ming compatriots.Moreover, as traversers who grew up in the new era, if they are not threatened with their lives, I am afraid that few people are willing to kneel down and beg for mercy like pugs.Most importantly, based on Li Wei's experience, for newcomers like them, other human beings are probably more dangerous than nature!
And in this era, among all the land suitable for human habitation in the world, the fighting power of the Australian aborigines is probably the weakest - even the most useless otaku on the side of the traversers, the per capita combat power is only equivalent to 0 Goose, probably can't play the Europeans, Ming Dynasty people, Japanese and African black uncles of this era, but it won't even be able to play the Australian aborigines!
In this way, the travelers on the "COSCO Star" finally chose to land on the Australian mainland, and temporarily settled down on this land.

Since then, their status in this world has automatically become "Australian".

However, landing in Australia does not mean the beginning of a great epic, but represents the endless hardships and difficulties of overcoming obstacles, as well as various unimaginable troubles and predicaments... After the novelty at the beginning of the journey passed, everyone Then I found myself on the stage of an absurd drama, with poor and hysterical bad actors playing guest roles.

——From the moment they landed, the traversers and the Poles they rescued were besieged by the natives.Fortunately, the Australian aborigines in the Stone Age were basically scumbags in terms of combat effectiveness, and those tall Poles held baseball bats, steel bars, kitchen knives, long-handled iron pots... and other messy things and only a matchlock As soon as the gun was ruthless, the indigenous people who played stone artifacts were soaring, and there were more than 200 slaves. In any case, Poland's big nose can kill each other like Russia's Maozi. Obviously, obviously, obviously Still have some fighting power.

Next, there is a vigorous construction movement-first logging, road construction, and transshipment by rafts to move materials from ships.From the containers in the cargo hold, the traversers discovered seven thousand tons of various metal tools and finished products, as well as motorboats, forklifts, and machine tools.There's even a fairly sophisticated plant for converting microalgae into biodiesel: the research team for this facility happens to be among the passengers!In other words, as long as the biodiesel conversion equipment is successfully installed, the travelers will soon not have to worry about the fuel problem of the "COSCO Star".

And the landing place of the traverser - later Derby Port in the northwest of Australia, facing the Golden Bay, is roughly located in the transition zone between the tropical rainforest and the savannah. Still, it's enough.

Then, all kinds of hastily processed wood were transported by the traversers to the seaside slope that was scheduled to be a camp, and there was no need to lay a foundation, just lay a few piles and start nailing planks to build wooden houses - the climate of this place in Australia Very monotonous, there are only two seasons a year, a dry season and a rainy season, and there are no typhoons.These built wooden houses are no problem for long-term living, not to mention being used as temporary residences.

The next step is to build the trestle bridge with wood and earth and stones: all hundreds of laborers went into battle together, forming several long queues, holding baskets and baskets, which were filled with soil and gravel, and dumped the soil into the sea like a conveyor belt, making a Rough trestle bridges slowly stretch out from the shallows on the shore.When ancient China built the Great Wall, it relied on such a "human conveyor belt" to transport bricks and stones to the high mountains.

Later, the traversers built brick kilns, fired red bricks, tiles and pottery, and built several red brick huts outside the wooden house.In addition, they also miraculously discovered high-quality open-pit coal mines, iron ore, copper mines, and silver mines, just like the scene in the science fiction novel "Mysterious Island"... and then made cement, even small cement There are more than a dozen boats out!
A few months later, a small village and town has taken shape. At the plenary meeting to discuss the names of settlements, the traversers first rejected the proposals of "New Warsaw", "New Krakow", and "New Vienna" proposed by Baron Andrew and other Poles. " and other proposals, and internally quarreled over names such as "New Shanghai", "New Tianjin", and "New Henan", and finally had to choose a name that had no national or regional color at all: "Zhongnan City".

But the problem is that although the construction of houses and docks in "Zhongnan City" is gradually on the right track, the food crisis has not been resolved. Everyone feels a sense of existential crisis.

——Although the land of Australia is full of kangaroos, and they are stupid and easy to shoot and capture, since they landed in Australia, the traversers have roasted skinned kangaroos on the campfire almost every day.But the problem is, the taste... Hey, a strong smell of urea, if it is not driven by hunger, I believe no one will be interested in kangaroo meat, its special smell is enough to drive away all gluttons.So that in later generations, except for a few aborigines, few Australians are willing to eat kangaroos.Almost all kangaroo meat exported was sold to the Japanese.It is estimated that only this strange nation on the earth will have a soft spot for kangaroo meat that is rumored to "effectively improve reproductive ability"!
According to the eating habits of modern Chinese, kangaroo meat, a stinky thing, absolutely needs to be cooked with strong flavors such as spices, salty sauce and chili to barely eat it.Otherwise, just by smelling it, you will stay away from it - but as time goes by, the number of seasonings on board is also decreasing rapidly, and soon they will have to be used in limited quantities. Only table salt is sufficient for the time being because the traverser built a salt field .

So everyone could barely eat the stinky stewed kangaroo meat, and bought some sea turtles, seabirds, shellfish and fish every now and then to change their appetite... Although the agricultural team of the crossing people had reclaimed some fields, there were no suitable ones at all. Grain Seeds—Only an old couple on the boat brought some vegetable seeds with them, and they were going to plant them in flowerpots after returning home. scurvy.But no one had any seeds of rice or wheat: when the Poles set sail, they took some seeds with them, preparing to use them for reclamation on the newly discovered land, but unfortunately they all sank to the bottom of the sea with the sailboat .

In addition, the unsatisfactory construction of power and water conservancy projects also makes people scratch their heads - even though "Zhongnan City" is located in a coastal area, Australia's dry season precipitation is too little.The traversers originally planned to build a small dam to generate electricity by relying on a creek with a relatively large drop. Unexpectedly, just a few days after the completion of the simple dam, the creek disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye, leaving only slightly The wet riverbed made people dumbfounded... Until this time, a guy who claimed to have seen kangaroos in Australia for three years remembered that there are only two seasons in Australia, one rainy season and one dry season, and the dry season is often longer than the rainy season .That's why Australia is full of deserts, and most rivers are seasonal...

Seeing that hydropower generation might not work, everyone had to build a windmill and try to generate wind power.But before the light of the electric light came on three and a half centuries earlier on the Australian continent, the real doom finally came:

The dry season is over and the rainy season is coming. The moody nature has fully demonstrated to the travelers what is called a real upside-down...

——The torrential rain for more than [-] days in a row caused the sea level to rise by more than ten meters in one breath, turning the lush coastal jungle into a submarine forest, and the inland grassland with rich water and grass into a reed marsh. The continuous creeks have turned into sparkling rivers, and most of the traces of civilization created by the Australian traversers have been submerged under the vast expanse of blue waves:
The pier, which was built a few months ago, is gone, but a section of gray-white trestle bridge is faintly exposed through the blue water; the road dug hard to pull the wood has also turned into a canal strangely; (In order to facilitate irrigation), the dozens of acres of farmland reclaimed first changed from dry fields to paddy fields, and then from paddy fields to fish ponds. It further turned into Lost Atlantis... The whole thing went to the bottom of the sea!
On the eve of the flooding of Zhongnan City, someone finally thought of measuring the altitude, and was shocked: the average altitude of this place is minus 50 meters! ! !And the guy who claimed to have seen kangaroos in Australia for three years also vaguely recalled that according to the introduction of travel magazines, Derby Port in Australia—that is, their Zhongnan City in this time and space, the entire city is surrounded by huge seaside tidal flats In the dry season, the soil brought by the tide will become hard and exposed on the seashore, turning into a large lush grassland.If the drought lasts for several years, it will even turn into a forest... But if human beings really treat these tidal flats as land to develop, then the monstrous waves in the rainy season will teach you how to be a man every minute...

Fortunately, the rainy season here is just heavy rain, there is no typhoon, and the sea water rises up little by little, so the traversers still have time to move all kinds of materials to the high ground like ants moving their houses, without being too affected. serious loss.

The problem is, the hapless Australian traversers made a mistake in their busy schedule again—their only means of transport that could leave the continent, the "Cosco Star", was washed into the depths of the bay by the tide amidst the chaos.When the torrential rain finally stopped, Captain Wang Tiehui was shocked to find that his boat had been trapped in a newly formed coastal lagoon, separated from the open sea by a large area of ​​extremely shallow tidal flats and a sand bar.If you want to sail, you either have to dig an artificial canal—this is obviously beyond the limit of the ability of the traverser, or you have to wait until the next rainy season when the water rises...

Of course, it’s not without good influences—the cement boats built by the traversers at the seaside were still worrying about how to send the cement boats into the water.As a result, it rained non-stop for more than [-] days, and I went to the beach to have a look: yes!Don't bother, the cement boat has already entered the sea by itself.

The problem is that this heavy and fragile concrete ship can't go far out to sea, let alone carry the traversers out of the Australian mainland.

Then came another, more dire nightmare: the rainy season brought not only floods to Zhongnan City, but also all kinds of uninvited bad neighbors: first, swarms of salt water Crocodile—but for well-equipped traversers, the crocodile is actually not scary. After being hunted by the big noses in Poland, they gave everyone a bunch of high-quality leather shoe materials.Box jellyfish, taipan snakes, blue-ringed octopuses, red-backed spiders are the most terrifying killers in Australia that really make people feel hard to guard against.
——First, someone accidentally fell into the water while fishing, and was greeted by several box-shaped jellyfish mothers, so he convulsed and died, and sank to the bottom of the sea: According to the records in the biological illustration, this jellyfish is highly poisonous!lethal!There is no antidote!No Antivenom!
Then, a little girl who traveled through screamed and was chased and killed by a coastal taipan snake all over the street.Fortunately, two strong Polish men discovered it in time. After a battle between humans and snakes, the little girl was out of danger and got a belt material, but the Polish strong men all entered the ward. Fortunately, the poison of the snake was not deadly enough. After a full week of humming and chirping pain in the hospital bed, these two brave guys finally recovered slowly.

Then, another person dropped a redback spider from the top of his head when he was going to the toilet, so he immediately went to see God: Compared with the scientific name, another name of the redback spider is more widely known-the black widow!Even in Australia in the 21st century, people die because of it every year!
——The successive deaths of this kind suddenly plunged the entire settlement into serious panic.The traveler decision-making group immediately issued relevant policies: firstly, swimming in the water was strictly prohibited, followed by a "insect extermination sanitation cleaning", filling up some smelly ditches and puddles within a week, and killing the raw materials of leather shoes More than ten of them killed more than ten of the raw material of the belt, and the total number of all kinds of reptiles and flying insects eliminated exceeded [-] kilograms... But even so, it seems that it still can't bring enough sense of security to the traversers, and many people are too scared. Dare to go fishing.

At the same time, by the end of November 1630, the last bit of rice and noodles in stock on hand by the "Australians" was completely exhausted, and the vegetable fields were soaked in water, making it impossible to resume production.Except for a small collection of biscuits and canned food, you can only live by hunting turtles, birds and kangaroos-although there is also a koala named "koala" to choose from, and once you hear its name It seems to know that this cute thing should be baked, but after the real thing is baked...even the Australian aboriginals who don't pay attention to food can hardly swallow it...

Seeing that everyone's living conditions are rapidly declining towards the level of savages, Consultant Li Wei can't help but sigh, but he can't think about it—first of all, there are only two Doraemon magical props around him as souvenirs. Bamboo dragonflies and a miniaturized lamp are useful for surveying landforms, transporting materials and collecting ores, but they can’t be created out of nothing... During the days in the wilderness of Australia, Li Wei regretted more than once, why did he go with Doraemon at the beginning? During the days when Meng A was together, I never thought of getting a [gourmet tablecloth] or a [period vending machine]?

Moreover, with the "Cosco Star" being stranded, no one will be able to leave this corner of the northwest coast of Australia for at least a year. became impossible.

Under extreme pessimism, Li Wei even began to have nightmares every day. In the dream, there were more than 100 traversers on the ship and those Polish noses, all of them were dressed in rags, and some even wore leaves.Then the ship doctor Xie Jerry said with a look of desolation: "... Comrade consultant, there is a bad news and a good news... The bad news is that we have run out of ammunition and food. I am afraid that we will learn from koalas to eat eucalyptus leaves from tomorrow; okay The word is that there are a lot of leaves in this place."

On the other side, a certain fat man was chasing his Labrador with a kitchen knife, shouting "I want to eat meat, I don't want to eat leaves!".And farther away, the captain Wang Tiehammer and a group of passenger representatives are negotiating with several indigenous leaders about merging into their tribe...

Fortunately, in this dark day, an incredible savior finally arrived - after nearly a year of hard and lonely life, more than 100 travelers on the "Cosco Star" were surprised to find that they were in the It seems that there is no loneliness in this world...

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On that gloomy morning as usual, Li Wei and others sat around the burning bonfire, and handed a piece of roasted kangaroo tail meat and a boiled bird egg he had just picked up to his wife Zhao Na—— Among the hard-to-eat kangaroo meat, kangaroo tail meat is considered a better-tasting part.Then he picked up a piece of roasted kangaroo thigh with a strange smell, sprinkled it with a little salt, and frowned, about to bite it.

However, before he could bite the barbecue into his mouth, he heard a warning gunshot from the cliff not far away, and then there was billowing smoke from the top of the watchtower on the top of the mountain - since it was built, there This is the first time that Beacon Smoke has been used!

On the intercom, the lookout on the watchtower stammered and shouted: "...boat! boat! A boat is coming!"

The people who were eating breakfast by the campfire were caught off guard and suddenly panicked, and everyone was at a loss for a moment.Comrade Li Wei, who calmed down the fastest, only had time to comfort his wife Zhao Na, and pressed the [Bamboo Dragonfly] on top of his head, then flew into the sky at the fastest speed, and flew towards the bay. Raising the binoculars hanging around his neck, he squinted his eyes to search for the unexpected guest who came suddenly.

Then, from the sparkling sea, he found a strange red-bottomed double-sword goshawk flag flying on the top of the mast, and a chimney on the deck, billowing black smoke... steam-sail hybrid power Galleon? ! ! !

All of a sudden, Li Wei only felt a "click" in his head, as if something had been broken.

"...God! Where did the steamship come from in the seventeenth century?! This is unscientific!! Wait, is that the Pole lying to us? Now it is actually 1830, not 1630?" The messy Li Wei couldn't help being so incoherent.

As everyone knows, at the same time that he was suspended in mid-air and was in a mess in the wind, on the deck of the galleon below, there were also several traversers raising their heads and holding binoculars, staring at Li Wei's "heroic posture" from a distance, and all of them were stunned. , mental breakdown:
"... Taishang Laojun? There is actually a house on the west coast of Australia these days?! There are people flying in the sky?!! This is unscientific!"