New Shun 1730

This idea became stronger as they continued to go deeper into the river valley, saw new river valley plains, and saw the vast land and pleasant climate here.

This was especially true after a prospecting team with different routes crossed the Rocky Mountains and saw the huge and endless prairie.

This place is really suitable for growing wheat, rapeseed, or soybeans.

It is also very suitable for the equal-field village community - arable land, pasture, and grassland are separated to ensure that every family has grassland to raise enough cattle and horses for family use.

Although they were asked to find gold, the people of the surveying team were more shocked by the vast land here.

They didn't know that under the influence of Liu Yu, Dashun participated in the First World War in the Atlantic and focused on North America. In fact, the fundamental reason was that they were jealous of this prairie area, a huge prairie area equivalent to the Central Plains Plain area. The agricultural potential is no less than that of the Central Plains prairie area in terms of growing wheat, corn, sunflowers and rapeseed.

The purpose is to induce Britain to strengthen its control over North America. If Britain wanted to strengthen its control over North America but did not move its capital, then Britain could only choose to suppress North America's westward expansion. It would be too far from the sea to control it.

Even though they did not know what Dashun was doing on the east coast, some members of the prospecting team received a very disturbing news at the junction of the mountains and plains based on their yearning for this grassland.

The team members encountered a group of local aboriginal tents. With the help of a transfer translator, the chief received the members of the prospecting team.

And handed the pipe covered with feathers, branches, and other decorations to the members of the prospecting team.

This is a local ritual called "peace pipe".

According to their traditional culture, smoke is usually believed to attract the attention of the Creator or other powerful souls when praying.

Smoking such a pipe is equivalent to getting the tribe's guarantee: peace, trade, but no killing.

The members of the prospecting team also gave them sugarcane wine and sorghum wine, as well as two horses, one male and one female.

These natives called horses "elk dogs" because they had never seen them, and they used to rely on dogs or elks to carry things.

After a friendly exchange, the great chief Akishinue, through the translator, brought a very anxious news to the young people of the prospecting team.

"A few years ago, several yellow-haired people from the east came here. They wanted us to go to the woods to hunt furs, and hoped that our people would send him back in a canoe."

Through transliteration, the members of the prospecting team learned the name of this person, Anthony Fife.

He came here about five or six years ago.

The people of this tribe belonged to the Blackfoot Alliance, and because they had to help paddle a canoe to send Anthony east, they would pass through the territory of the Cory people. If they did not say hello in advance, they would be killed by the Cree people. The relationship between the Blackfoot and the Cree people was not very good.

Hearing this news, the young people surveying the prospecting team suddenly became anxious.

How big America is, the surveyors must know, because with the longitude and latitude measurement technology, looking at the stars, the longitude of the east coast and the west coast can be calculated.

But they didn't know what the hinterland of America looked like.

If a Westerner had come here five years ago to collect furs, and it was certain that the Westerner did not come on horseback, but by canoe.

Then, this means that there is a river that can reach here from the east coast, which is a dangerous signal.

Since they studied surveying, they naturally learned about the historical events of the Dashun surveying profession and the demarcation of the Luosha people.

They also naturally knew that the Luosha people came to the Heilongjiang River basin by canoes and birch bark boats, one river after another.

This is a very dangerous signal.

Because for the surveyors of the prospecting team, they believe that this vast grassland has a big place in the radicals' vision of the future.

In particular, they originally thought that Liu Yu's behavior of relying on capital to operate immigration and driving immigration by profit was too slow.

At night, the people in the surveying team had a small discussion among themselves.

Several very radical young people suggested: "I think we should split up. The captain will continue to look for gold mines, and we should go downstream along the river these people mentioned."

"Since we are measuring the river, we can go deep inland to understand the situation."

"It is also good to know if there are any particularly dangerous places. If we migrate in the future, we can occupy the dangerous places first."

"Didn't the Duke of Xingguo say that if we migrate, we must first occupy the river mouth, the pass, the fork and other places. Now the most convenient way is to go by river."

"Gold mines are good, but if we walk along the river, It is convenient, but I am afraid that the mining area will be robbed in the future, which will become a wedding dress for others. "

"If we find out whether the river is navigable and the distance, it can also help the court make a decision whether to move more people, build bastions, and station troops at the intersections and passes."

"Or, contact the various tribes on the grassland to prevent them from becoming the vanguard of Westerners."

"The ancients said that we should know the reason and the reason for doing things."

"If the reason is, the exploration is for gold."

"If the reason is, gold is just a tool for immigration. Immigration is the reason."

"Nowadays, the road is far away and the orders from above are not smooth. The ancients said: When you are outside, you will not receive your orders. Now that we know the reason, we cannot stick to the formality, so the few of us should go down the river to draw maps and accumulate humanistic information. , for the future.”

"I have also been to the Southern Ocean. If I think about it, this plain is more comfortable than the Southern Ocean. If we can occupy the land of the Central Plains in this situation, we can solve the problem of human beings and land."

"We need to find out whether the people who came here before are British or French."

The captain hesitated for a moment, but actually felt a little moved.

"What you said makes sense. It is especially important to know whether Anthony Fengdi, who explored this road, is a British or French person. These people can't tell clearly, they only say they are fur traders."

"But if you guys go along the river, how will you come back?"

These people said: "There is no need to worry about this. Isn't the imperial court currently fighting on the east coast? As long as there is a river, there is an entrance to the sea. As long as there is an entrance to the sea, there are probably villages and towns. And in this kind of place, if there are villages and towns, there must be vessel."

"If the downstream river mouth is in the hands of legal persons, and now they are allies, then that's good."

"If it is in the hands of the British, we will just turn back. If Anthony Fengdi can walk here in three or five people, we can also walk here in three or five people, so why can't we leave?"

After saying this, the person who insisted on exploring eastward gave another technical reason.

"Ten years ago, surveying and mapping were so complicated that you had to use a telescope to observe Tai Sui to determine the time and calculate the longitude."

"It's very different now. We can know the latitude and longitude just by looking at the stars, looking up star catalogs, and looking up almanacs."

"Three or five people are enough to draw a basic map. Although it is not accurate, the human geography, river direction, and mountain and river trends along the way are generally good."

"Besides, this place is located in a temperate zone, and there is no serious disease or miasma. The locals are not cannibals. As long as we live in peace with them, why would they attack us? It is always possible to send some glass beads and three or five bottles of wine."

"In the past, Zhang Bowang's journey to the Western Regions was not more dangerous than now? Now more than a thousand years have passed, is it possible that we can't do things that are more difficult than this that the ancients could do?"

"Before the imperial court sent people here, they already had backup candidates."

"One is worried about getting sick on the ship, the other is worried about not being able to adapt to the climate, and the third is that we all know that the Practical School has too many people and is overstaffed."

"After the surveying and mapping team has the star catalog method, there is no need for so many people. If a few of us are gone, it will not affect the business."

"If you succeed, you will be famous in the future, and you will be rewarded by the Duke of Xingguo. If you fail, you will be buried in the wild, so what are you afraid of?"

It not only talked about knowing what it is and why it is so, but also talked about basic technical issues.

The captain has always known that in recent years, people from the Practical School have been promoted internally, mostly based on performance.

Whether it's people in the military or people in surveying and mapping, risk-taking is encouraged from top to bottom.

This kind of risk-taking means that "completing the task is the bottom line. Beyond the bottom line, no matter how much fun you play, you will decide to stand out."

In particular, the internal performance of the army is even stronger. As a result, there have been many tricks to win more with less. Of course, it mainly relies on technological progress and tactical systems. It often engages in tactics of "advancing to attract the enemy and blooming in the center".

In terms of surveying and mapping, the superiors have always encouraged people to do other things after completing basic tasks.

Especially the special "King of Chu has a thin waist" and "What is good from above will be imitated by the subordinates" within the Shi School. They all know that the leaders within the Shi School like maps, grass, rocks, specialties, etc., so they often give these as gifts. thing.

Therefore, this logic makes sense.

Since a captain can be selected as a captain, in addition to being smart in his methods, he must also "know why" as the team members said.

Why prospecting?

Is it for gold?

Or for immigration?

Gold is the purpose?

Or is gold a means?

They obviously knew this.

It also has its own cognitive tendencies.

Moreover, the young people within the Practical School are filled with radical emotions - especially since the war is about to end, and a thirty-year window for promotion to a feudal lord has ended. This kind of anxiety about their future personal future also produces this kind of anxiety. Radical factors.

For the army, this battle is known to be a "class transition window" second only to the founding of the People's Republic of China. A large number of egoists who were the first to follow Liu Yu are working hard to train troops without deducting military pay, because they know that they can seize this opportunity to You may be granted the title of Marquis, so why be greedy for a while?

For people in the surveying and mapping department, although there will be more places to survey and map in the future, such as the Yellow River, such as lakes, such as land, etc.

However, the earth is too "small" and there are too few opportunities left for "the place will go down in history and I will be named after me. I will draw the picture first and the great immigrants will never forget me in the future."

This is also a kind of radicality under anxiety.

Since the Javanese Juyi period more than ten years ago, people in the Practical School have known that if you want to give a gift, it is better to give specimens of maps, flowers, plants and stones.

Now, for the captain, this is also an opportunity to "cater to the thin waist."

If it can be done, these people will certainly have merit, but how can they not be rewarded for their own decisions?

As long as... you are confident, you can separate these few people and still complete the basic tasks of prospecting and mapping.

And just as those few people said, the star chart and moon angle method, as well as the extra backup candidates from the beginning, gave the captain full confidence in completing the basic tasks.

After weighing the pros and cons, he said: "That's good. I see that these natives like horses the most. If you go down along the river, you may not need horses. Then use horses to exchange for some guides and translators."

"You take some gold, glass, strong liquor, etc., and set off tomorrow."

After that, the captain couldn't help but say: "If it's the French downstream of the river, it's a big advantage. France has a very small population in Fuso, and they want furs but not land."

"If it's the British downstream of the river, this is a very bad thing. Enclosure, heresy, and the British The island is small, and millions of people have come here. In the future, we must expand the territory, which cannot be supported by furs. "

"If so, this river is easy to navigate, and we must report it to the court. We would rather spend more money to build cities and settle in dangerous places such as the fork in the river to occupy the traffic first."

"I don't know if the world war will be over when you go down the river to the other side? If it is over, when demarcating the boundary, the river mouth is drawn to the British side. We must quickly notify the ministers and generals there."

"If the French block the river mouth, it will be a false alarm."