The room goes through the late Ming Dynasty, and the back door leads to North America at the beginni

On May 17th, Liu Sheng personally took the hunting team to hunt.

The hunting team is mainly equipped with bamboo poles and spears, hunting bows, short knives, rope nets, as well as small items such as water bags, gold sore medicine, gauze, as well as shovels, hunting traps and other things needed to set traps.

"The mission of the hunting team these days is to find out the situation within the five miles surrounding the camp, such as what terrain is around, what beasts are there, and what beasts are suitable for hunting."

After leaving the camp, Liu Sheng explained the mission and some things he knew to Mao Chengguo and other members of the hunting team.

"As far as I know, there are three main types of beasts here, grizzly bears, mountain lions, and coyotes. In addition, everyone needs to be careful of venomous snakes and natives when hunting.

If you encounter natives, do not attack them. But if they take action, we don’t have to hold back. Understand? "

"clear."

"Okay, now let's divide into two teams and spread out to search and move forward. Remember to leave road markings along the way. The two teams will meet up once every mile we advance."

After giving the instructions, Liu Sheng asked Chief Shen Zhao to lead a group of people to the west, while he took Mao Chengguo's group to the east...

Liu Sheng and others explored along the stream to the southeast, exploring one mile on each side of the stream, and more than six miles in a straight line until the stream entered the river mouth.

This time, Liu Sheng explored more carefully.

He found that the trees here are mostly evergreen trees and mainly hard-leaved forests, such as oak, boxwood, pine, etc. However, the forest does not grow densely. The closer to the river, the sparser the trees are, replaced by shrubs and grass.

It can be said that whether they are trees or shrubs, many are common vegetation in the Mediterranean climate zone.

In other words, the area of ​​North America to which the back door leads undoubtedly has a Mediterranean climate.

Liu Sheng thinks this is a good thing.

Because the forests in the Mediterranean climate zone are not particularly dense, it is relatively easy to develop. It is suitable for human habitation and the cultivation of many crops.

Moreover, the rivers here seem to have a lot of water, which means that even in the hot and rainless summer, there will not be excessive water shortage.

Unfortunately, eleven people spent a day searching such a large area but failed to catch many prey. When the hunting party returned to camp before dark, they brought back only five rabbits, two turkeys, and an old and stray coyote.

Of course, if you consider that this is the first time for the hunting team to hunt in this forest and they mainly focus on exploration, these harvests are very rich.

If you want to harvest such prey in Tianmu Mountain, let alone one day, even three or five days may not be possible.

Therefore, when the hunting team came back, both the hunting team members and those who stayed in the camp to work were quite happy.

For three consecutive days, Liu Sheng led the hunting team to explore the other three directions of the camp.

I found that the west, south, and north were also plain woodlands, but the terrain gradually became higher as you went west.

Liu Sheng once climbed to the top of a big tree and looked to the west with a telescope. He found that a large mountain range could be vaguely seen in the distance. Occasionally, when the wind blows from the west, it carries a faint smell of salty sea breeze.

Going north, the vertical distance from the river does not change much. It can be seen that the river flows in a north-south direction in this area. I don't know whether it will change direction later or merge into other rivers.

In addition, traces of Aboriginal activities were also found in the upper reaches of the river.

Liu Sheng estimated that the Indian tribe upstream was at least twenty miles away from the one downstream.

On the fifth day, Liu Sheng asked Shen Zhaoxian and Mao Chengguo to lead the hunting team to officially start hunting, while Liu Sheng went to Liujiazhai to transport a batch of prepared bamboo to the North American camp.

These bamboos have been selected and are relatively thick, with a diameter of eight or nine centimeters, and have been simply dried and preservative treated with smoke.

Liu Sheng found a few experienced people and made four bamboo rafts in one day.

Each bamboo raft can carry about four or five people, but can be combined on the water. In this way, only four bamboo rafts need to be transported to the river, and they can be combined into one large bamboo raft, which is convenient for the fishing team to cast nets for fishing and even fight on the water.

Liu Sheng knew that fishing in the river would yield more and more stable harvests than hunting, but it would also be easier to be discovered by the Indians.

So on the day after the bamboo rafts were made, which was May 23, he led the hunting team and fishing team to transport the four bamboo rafts to the river more than six miles away.

Liu Sheng said: "You are fishing on the river, and I will lead the hunting team to cut trees on the bank and build temporary wooden houses for rest.

There may be natives fishing upstream and downstream, so try not to escape our sight. If something happens, we can provide timely support. "

Liu Changhe, the chief of the fishing team, said: "Don't worry, boss, we are all alert."

The fishing team uses the hand-cast net fishing method, also known as swing net, spin net, and hand-thrown net, which is suitable for fishing in areas with slow currents and shallow water.

The river in front of us is not fast, but it is two to three hundred meters wide. The middle of the river is relatively deep, so the fishing team fishes near the west bank.

Normally, one person is enough for a bamboo raft, but for safety reasons, Liu Changhe and Hu Dahai arranged three people for each bamboo raft, one to hold the pole, one to be in charge of emergencies, and one to cast the net for fishing.

The rest of the fishing team Yiren helped Liu Sheng and others cut wood on the shore.

The water in the river was clear. When Liu Changhe stood on the bamboo raft and looked into the water, he could actually see fish swimming by in groups, including several large fish over a foot long.

He is a fisherman who grew up near Zhenshui. He started fishing with his father when he was only a few years old. He has been fishing for nearly thirty years. It was the first time he saw so many fish by the river and he grinned with joy.

"My boss said that the natives also know how to fish, but I see there are so many fish in the river, so it must be that the natives here are not good at fishing."

Liu Dong, who was serving as a police sentry in the middle of the bamboo raft, also smiled and said: "Isn't this a good thing? It's just for us to catch."

As he spoke, Liu Changhe cast a net and pulled it up skillfully. There were more than a dozen!

Han Sanshun, who was behind the pole, couldn't help but exclaimed when he saw it, "It's so long! Isn't this one weighing more than ten pounds in one net?"

"Hahaha, there is no weight for ten pounds, but there is weight for seven or eight pounds."

When Liu Changhe laughed happily, surprise laughter also came from the other three bamboo rafts that were scattered.

This news let Liu Sheng and others who were logging on the bank know that the fishing had a good start, and they became more energetic for a while. An atmosphere of joy filled the river...

Sha Sanlang led a dozen tribesmen upstream of the river. Most of the veteran hunters were relatively relaxed, because the area upstream of the river was a familiar hunting ground for them.

There were only three teenagers holding their spears tightly and looking nervous. They were teased by the old hunters around them from time to time.

"Stop, be quiet!"

Killing the three wolves suddenly stopped, and with a word, both the veteran hunter and the young man who had just joined the hunting team for a few days fell silent.

Sha San Lang is named after killing three wolves. After becoming the chief of Shangluo tribe, he made almost no mistakes. He also led the tribe to participate in the alliance and won a war with the Juyu tribe. After seven or eight years in office, he made the tribe Ten or twenty people have been added, so the prestige is quite high.

"Look at the river." Sha Sanlang pointed to the river upstream.

Everyone looked around and saw some people fishing on the river in strange boats.

Le Shi, the strongest hunter, said angrily: "Which tribe are they from? They came here to hunt and fish without telling us. Have they forgotten the rules of this land?!"

Some other hunters also became angry——

"It's just that these people don't know the rules."

"They should first visit our tribe with gifts and obtain our permission before hunting and fishing."

"If you don't follow the rules, you are disrespecting our Shangluo tribe, and you may even intentionally become our enemy!"

"···"

As a relatively primitive fishing and hunting tribe, they do not need a large fishing and hunting territory. Because with the existing tools, their fishing and hunting efficiency is limited, the fishing and hunting resources within four or five miles of the tribe are enough to feed the tribe's existing population.

The old shaman said that the tribe's population has almost reached its limit. If the population increases again, it will have to split into two tribes to continue.

The forests here are large, the rivers are long and numerous, and there is no shortage of places suitable for fishing and hunting. People do not pay that much attention to the land.

Especially since this place is quite far away from Shangluo (more than five miles) - they rarely come to such a far place for hunting.

Therefore, what Le Shi and others were angry about was not that strangers came here to fish and hunt, but that these people did not follow the rules and visited Shangluo tribe.

Sha Sanlang saw the tribesmen and was about to rush over to question them, but quickly stopped them, "Don't worry, let's get closer first to see which tribe they are from and how many there are."

Afterwards, Sha Sanlang took a dozen tribesmen and carefully moved upstream.

Soon they arrived at the river bank, which was more than a hundred steps away from those people.

At this time, everyone's eyes widened, including Sha Sanlang.

Because the clothes of these people in front of me are so strange - they are not wearing clothes made of fur, and they are riding a kind of boat tied with thin straight tree trunks. They do not use arrows, spears, or net poles to fish, but Throw it into the river with a fine, soft net.

These people's hair is tied on top of their heads, their appearance is a little different from them, and the language they speak is even more incomprehensible.

Even Sha Sanlang, who had been in contact with many tribes with his father since childhood, didn't know where these people came from.

At the same time, they also found a group of the same people on the shore, cutting down trees and seeming to build houses by the river!

[Explanation] The concept of land in the fishing and hunting civilization is different from that of the farming civilization. Especially for the more primitive fishing and hunting tribes, some concepts are even more surprising than those of the farming civilization.

Therefore, the Indians would easily allow the Europeans to obtain land in their Americas and even help them survive. Of course, it cannot be denied that the exchange of benefits brought by the Europeans with goods that were not available in the Americas was also an important factor in promoting such things.

Therefore, this article sets the land concept of the Native American tribes as follows: they have a certain territorial concept, but they do not pay enough attention to land ownership. In addition, due to tool limitations, as mentioned in the article, it is enough for a tribe to have a certain range of fishing and hunting territory, and it cannot be used no matter how large it is. They pay even less attention to the land outside the territory that cannot be effectively utilized.