The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 759 Australian Colony

Lin Yaocen smiled and waved his hands, "I'm just a secretary of the Ministry of Commerce, not some kind of envoy." He gestured to the surroundings, "We are all citizens of Ming Dynasty."

Hu Yuan couldn't translate such a simple sentence. There is no word for "zimin" in the native language, and he can't explain things like "Daming", "Ministry of Commerce", and "Secretary Affairs".

After deliberating for a long time, he stammered: "Well, that's how it is, as if we are...members of a tribe named 'Da Ming', a very, very large 'tribe'..."

A middle-aged indigenous leader carefully asked: "This is very, very big, how big is it?"

"How big... Our 'tribe' has to go from east to west for two or three years without stopping. There are tens of millions of people." When shopkeeper Hu said "tens of millions", he counted for a long time with his fingers—— The counting unit is only up to nine hundred and ninety-nine.

The natives looked at each other again and murmured in low voices, "Isn't this 'Daming' tribe bigger than hundreds of hundreds of our tribe?!"

"Blessed by the ancestors, this is too amazing!"

"Such a large tribe can only be built with the power of the lush god."

"That's right, that's right..."

Hu Yuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he just let them go, and briefly said what is "the Secretary of the Ministry of Commerce".

Seeing that they finally "got it", Lin Yaocen cleared his throat and continued: "I can help you live a better life and give you all kinds of useful skills, but my requirements are only two.

"One, all the tribes must respect the Son of Heaven and regard them as the co-lords. Two, in the future, your tribes are not allowed to fight without authorization, but if you have any disputes, you can come to me for arbitration."

After shopkeeper Hu had translated it again, the middle-aged native asked, "What is this 'Da Tian Zi'?"

Hu Yuancai explained for a while, but seeing that he really couldn't explain what the definition of "Son of Heaven" was, he had to sneak a glance at Mr. Lin, then turned his head and said in a low voice, "Probably the leader of the 'Daming Tribe'."

Lily Bell Flower immediately exclaimed, "Only an angel can lead such a large tribe!"

The other natives nodded one after another, "Yes, yes."

Seeing the expression of the natives, Lin Yaocen asked Hu Yuancai what they were talking about, but the latter faltered helplessly.

Unexpectedly, Master Lin laughed loudly and said: "Since the emperor is ordered by heaven, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is an envoy of God."

Another female native leader pretended to be bold and pointed at the short and fat native beside her, and said loudly: "'Ministry of Commerce', the Galu tribe often poach in our hunting grounds, you don't want us to fight with him, don't let us They came to steal?"

"Well, 'Secretary of the Ministry of Commerce' is not the name of an adult..." Hu Yuancai hastily explained the concepts of "surname" and "first name" again.

Lin Yaocen said: "What are you hunting back and forth for? Isn't it just to eat? If the grain is full, they will come to poach some of your birds and animals. Do you care?"

The female leader heard the translation, thought about it, and said: "No."

"That's it." Lin Yaocen continued, "As long as you listen to me, meals will not be a problem."

He has checked around recently. Australia is full of kangaroos and emus (a large bird like an ostrich). If you go out with a bow on your back, you can easily get half a month's ration.But for the aborigines who adopt extremely primitive hunting methods, they can only starve with their golden rice bowls.

The dumpy native asked again: "What if someone comes to attack our settlement?"

Lin Yaocen's eyes turned cold, "Those who are good at killing people will die. Those who are good at attacking tribes, Wulun Jiebu is a role model."

The aborigines were overwhelmed by his aura, and recalled that Bulun Festival was razed by "God's Punishment". Although they were not very comfortable with the anti-traditional thing of "not killing each other", they reluctantly nodded in agreement.

Although Lin Yaocen could see their expressions, he was not too worried. Given time, strict discipline and supplementary education, they would naturally get rid of their bad habits.

He gave these natives careful instructions, and let them disperse after lunch.

Less than a month later, with Xiaoquanzhou as the center, the lives of the Australian aborigines in the vicinity of [-] miles have undergone earth-shaking changes.

The first thing that bears the brunt is that several Chinese tribes have settled in and are in charge of management as "special envoys of the governor".However, the natives called them "those who worship the gods".

The special envoy first brought bows and arrows and a wheelbarrow to the natives, but these two things brought a qualitative leap in their lives.

Lin Yaocen also asked people to organize several tribes that were relatively close to each other and build a hunting team, which was trained and commanded by soldiers of the Ming army, and hunted in a "net" style on the grassland.

Thanks to the powerful power of bows and arrows and the low IQ of Australian wild animals, the hunting efficiency is astonishingly high. The hunting team can bring back half a month's worth of food after going out for half a day, and then happily transport it back to the tribe in a wheelbarrow.

Soon, Lin Yaocen had to strictly order hunting on demand, otherwise, at this culling speed, the natives would wipe out the nearby prey in a few years.

And these hunting teams became the embryonic form of Ming Dynasty's colonial army in Australia. Later, they went to Batavia with naval warships and made great military exploits.

Compared with bows and arrows and wheelbarrows, what attracted the natives most were two things that were very common in Daming—iron pots and seasonings.

With these two "artifacts", the taste of food immediately becomes wonderful.For the natives who have eaten salt and pepper and cooked in iron pots, let them eat dry-roasted food, it is more uncomfortable than killing them.

Not to mention that "the person who worships the gods" also has a mysterious way of making food-stir-frying.

The taste is simply indescribable!One bite and you can fly to the sky.So much so that for a long period of time, eating a meal of stir-fried vegetables has become the highest reward for the natives.

Of course, Lin Yaocen has always firmly controlled resources such as arrowheads, steel knives, salt, and horses in Xiaoquan Prefecture, and even iron pots are distributed for every [-] natives.

Due to increased productivity, nearby indigenous tribes soon had surplus labor.

Lin Yaocen authorized Hu Yuancai to gather the able-bodied men of the tribe and officially began to dig the copper mine. In just half a month, thousands of able-bodied natives rushed to the copper mine to work spontaneously.

These aborigines are idle anyway, working in the copper mine can manage food and housing, and can also earn "treasure money", why not do it?
After this kind of "treasure banknote" is in hand, it can be exchanged with the "person who worships the envoy" for food, salt, and pepper, which are all good things that can make the whole tribe covet.Even steel knives can be exchanged, which is a treasure that only tribal leaders and priests can have!It's just that the price is extremely expensive.

Following the instructions of the Emperor of Heaven, the colonies promoted paper money from the beginning.Firstly, the technical capabilities of the natives would never be able to counterfeit banknotes, and secondly, a large amount of gold and silver in circulation could be saved.

Inspired by salt, pepper and even steel knives, the aborigines worked with unprecedented enthusiasm. After another month and a half, the first batch of copper ore in Australia was shipped to Daming—more than twice as fast as that in Guinea!
At the same time, with the help of sufficient food and advanced tools, the indigenous tribes who chose to accept the leadership of Xiaoquan Prefecture have greatly improved their overall strength, and have almost completely won the wars with tribes farther away-those tribes that have not established ties with Ming Dynasty Protected by Lin Yaocen's rule of "not to fight without authorization" - even if they are not defeated, a hunting team jointly formed by the tribe will soon avenge them.

So more tribes came to Xiaoquanzhou to surrender.Not long after, with the spread of salt, pepper, horses and other things, the legend of "sacrificing the gods" began to spread throughout Northwest Australia, and Xiaoquan State almost became a holy place.

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