1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 66 Military Assistance
If others know that we have gold, they will most likely want to grab it!

"Xiaotian is right!" After a long silence, Cao Xiong said slowly: "Although we have fallen, our self-protection ability is still insufficient. If the discovery of gold here is rumored, it will definitely bring us a lot of trouble. Disaster!... Which literati said that the person who carries the ingot is right, but you are wrong if you carry the ingot on your body!"

"Every man is not guilty, but pregnant Bi is guilty!" Qi Tian said in a low voice.

"Well, that's what it means!" Cao Xiong gave Qi Tian a glance, and continued: "So, everyone sitting here, don't talk about gold to outsiders....Oh, and, those of you who came back to search for mines, Keep your mouth shut! If you leak the news, I will... I will chop off your head!"

"I can't keep everyone's mouths shut, if..." Seeing Cao Xiong staring at him viciously, Niu Hu didn't dare to say anything later.But I made up my mind to find other people in a while, and I must keep this secret.

Regarding the matter of blocking the discovery of gold, everyone has reached an agreement and strictly enforced it. This is related to whether they can have a safe living environment after they first arrive in Hanzhou.

"Damn it, this is coal!" Qi Tian shouted excitedly after taking the black stone from Marciolo.

"Yes, sir." Marciolo nodded with a smile. Although the other party was young, he knew that Qi Tian had a high status in this pirate gang, so he was very respectful.

"Have you found a lot of coal? Can it fully meet the firing needs of the earthen kiln in the camp?"

"The distribution of the ore veins we discovered may have a radius of two or three miles." Marciolo said, "I think it can fully meet our needs!"

"That's great! The burning value of this coal is much higher than those firewood bushes. ... How far is it from our camp?"

"Oh, about two or three leagues away."

"Huh?" What is the unit of length for a league?Qi Tian looked at Marciolo in astonishment, "...How long will it take you to walk from the mining area to the camp?"

"Well, it will take about three hours."

Oh, walking for three hours, the pace is about five kilometers, which is about fourteen to five kilometers.This distance is a bit far!We don't have horse-drawn carts or anything, we rely on people's backs?That would treat people like livestock, too much effort!
For future generations, the distance of more than ten kilometers is nothing!But at present, there are no roads, and there is not even a primitive means of transportation. Looking helplessly at the coal, it is actually impossible to use it.And the scattered nearby iron mines are actually looking at the moon in the water.Could it be that you have been burning wood?

At this moment, Qi Tian especially wanted to build a road leading to the mining area.With only a few hundred of them, unless there is nothing else to do, it may take half a year, and maybe it can be repaired.

There is a shortage of people!

"You said, these aboriginal people are really brainless!" Sitting around a rough wooden table, Yu Fukun shook his head and said, "I have told them that we don't help, and they still rush I yelled. I gestured and said that I want to move the stones I like for us, and I can move as many as I need!"

Everyone smiled, and fought for the natives, and there was nothing to make up for them after they died.

"I'm thinking, this group of natives may have met a formidable opponent. This time, if it wasn't for the help of Huzi and the others, they might have been wiped out!"

"If we don't help them, will they be wiped out by our opponents, will it affect us?" Qi Tian frowned and gnawed on a piece of kangaroo meat, saying that after eating this thing for six or seven days in a row, his stomach began to resist.

"Xiaotian, what do you mean to say, the other party will come to us after destroying them?" Qi Dajiang looked at Qitian and asked.

"After all, we killed many people from each other in that tribe."

"With those wooden fences outside, I'm afraid they may not be able to block the opponent's attack!" Hu Wenjin said.

"Could it be that they still need to send someone to help them kill their opponents?"

"It's not necessarily necessary to send people there." Qi Tian thought of the proxy wars of imperialism in later generations, "We can provide military assistance! Huzi said that they hardly have iron swords, and they all use wooden sticks and stones to fight. , and without any organization. In this case, we sell them swords and send two or three people to guide them in combat. In this way, we don’t have to rush to the front, and we can get their rewards with peace of mind.”

"Is this... doable?" Cao Xiong asked suspiciously, "Won't it burn me!"

"Probably not. The scale of their tribal wars is a little larger, and there are no more than a thousand people. Usually, there are hundreds of people, or even dozens of people. How can they threaten us!" Qi Tian said firmly. Said.

Because later generations have verified that in the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries, the level of development of Australian aborigines was at most the middle and late stage of primitive society.They don't know how to farm or raise livestock, and their productivity is extremely low.Not to mention ironware, I have never even seen pottery.

With this level of productivity, the tribal population will certainly not be too large.Moreover, they are all nomadic tribes.Once the places where they gather, wild fruits for picking and animals for hunting become scarce, they will migrate.The harsh living environment will further stifle their population size.

"We only need to provide them with a small amount of swords, which is enough to change the strength of a tribe. What they pay is to carry the coal we need to our camp. It is not too much. We can provide us with two thousand catties of coal a day. Yes! In addition to swords, spices, salt, cloth... can be exchanged with them."

"Do we need coal that much? There are so many trees here, enough for us to burn!"

Protecting the forest is everyone's responsibility!It would be too wasteful for such a large virgin forest and such fine wood to be used as firewood.

"With coal and iron ore, we can smelt iron! How nice it is to make weapons and farm tools by ourselves. We can even make guns and cannons!"

"Okay, let's do it like this!" Cao Xiong made a final decision, "Let's exchange swords for their coal. Then send Niu Hu and a few people to teach them how to fight....By the way, go and block the news of Jin Zi!"

The plan was made, Hu Wenjin found Niu Hu and made some gestures with the aborigines who came with him. After talking with the duck for a long time, the other party still didn't understand.

Niu Hu spoke impatiently, pulled out the long knife and handed it to an old native aborigine opposite, then pointed to the coal on the table, picked it up and put it in his arms.

The natives on the opposite side were so happy that they held their long knives and gathered together, singing and dancing.

Damn it, why are you only thinking about getting a knife.You still have to give me coal!

Niu Hu rushed forward, slapped these excited natives vigorously, and shook the coal in his hand to them.

The aborigines on the opposite side probably understood what Niu Hu meant, pointed to the coal, and then nodded.

"Well, I'll leave it to you to deal with these aboriginal people in the future!" Hu Wenjin couldn't help laughing when he saw Niuhu complete the communication with the other party so simply and rudely, "I'll take a few people with me tomorrow, follow them, and take them with me by the way." These savages are fighting!"

In the early morning of the next day, under the watchful eyes of everyone, Niu Hu led two people as the military teaching group of the aboriginal tribe of the Black Valley (black coal is produced near Gein, and was named by everyone as the Black Valley), followed by more than a dozen happy aboriginal tribes. People return to the tribe.

These dozen or so natives were holding forty long and short swords, and each of them was equipped with a piece of clothing.Two old natives held several packets of salt and spices tightly in their arms.Of course, all this needs to be repaid with coal.

(End of this chapter)