On the west coast, the fleet of the Oriental Military Government sailed southward, and the aborigines of the Demarcation Peninsula who followed the Ming army's expedition in order to fight for freedom returned to the north.

Shao Tingda sent eight Dafu ships to transport them back and forth along the coast in batches, although the Zhuangyuan Bridge was only 1,7800 miles away from the boundary monument, but it had to rely on the two legs of the aborigines, and they would walk for a long time.

In fact, the aborigines marched not slowly, and the most sophisticated hunters of the various tribes led the way, not because they knew the way, but because they could run.

The most common hunting method in North Asia is chasing, which is very stupid and very scientific, whether it is a pronghorn antelope that can reach a speed of 80 kilometers per hour or a bison that weighs a ton and a tank of 60 kilometers per hour, hunters can always fill their stomachs by chasing.

They sprint fast, humans sprint slowly, but humans jog faster than most animals, and in order to avoid humans, beasts must sprint, because of their thick hair, they keep sprinting to get heat stroke, and they have to stop to rest in order to dissipate heat.

People are different, as long as there is water in the body, people sweat while running, and they can always catch up with their prey in the end.

Such a hunt sometimes lasts for thirty to seventy miles, so that on the march these runners run at the front of the line to find their way, and when they make a mistake, they run back and out again, very fast.

It is precisely the rich natural environment of Asia that makes their march slow, the aboriginal army does not have a baggage team, a dozen or even dozens of tribes gather thousands of troops, and the war leaders elected by each tribe lead the division of troops through the forest, where to eat and go, it is strange that the march can be fast.

Zheng Tu led his subordinates to dock from Shao Tingda's fortune boat, the scene was very magical, eight red-headed fish-eye fortune boats put down more than 30 small oars, under the leadership of several lower-level officers of the Ming army holding the flag, more than 600 aboriginal troops in neat armor and armor, all Spanish armor, muskets landed and rested, looking majestic.

Chen Mu watched the two Ming army troops on the shore converge and salute the sea, patted the side of the ship with satisfaction, and ordered his subordinates to give the order to set sail.

"This man, it's different with the iron guy."

What would have happened if the indigenous people of this land had met the Chinese first?

Zhu Xiaoen shook his python robe and said, "Your Majesty will issue a royal seal and give you a knighthood, but if you are not a general, maybe no one will be interested in this land itself." ”

"In Beiyang and Beijing, I also know some officials, they are not ignorant of overseas, they are just not interested, from Beijing to Yangzhou is farther than from Dublin to Paris, but from other people's words, it seems that Paris is not as prosperous as Yangzhou."

Speaking, Zhu Xiaoen shook his head and said, "You claim to be the Heavenly Empire, and the people call themselves the people of the Heavenly Empire, just like the Heavenly Kingdom described in the scriptures, I have never seen God appear, just as I rarely see Chinese interested overseas." ”

Chen Mu turned his head and smiled: "You haven't been to Yangzhou, how do you know that it is more prosperous than Paris?" ”

Saying that, Chen Mu couldn't help but pout, and then said: "It's a pity, I haven't been to Yangzhou either." ”

"In Beijing, Tianjinwei and even Beiyang, people share the common knowledge that Yangzhou is more prosperous than Beijing, some people say that Yangzhou is 400,000 people, and some people say that Yangzhou has 800,000 people, and it is difficult to imagine what it is like to feed so many people in one city."

"Is it difficult? Yangzhou City is not only Yangzhou people, it is the most prosperous place for commerce, the population is mobile where trade is prosperous, most people make a living by serving a few, as long as there is money, it is a good place for pleasure. ”

"Chinese businessmen are happy, and all of you are happy." Zhu Xiaoen said with envy: "The merchants of Europe are also very powerful, and the big families can lend millions of gold coins to the king, finance wars, support the pope, or engage in expeditions, just like the Fuger family in Spain, who control Spain's copper, silver, mercury, textiles, and customs, and put power in every overseas territory of Spain." ”

"It is likely that the generals will meet their families in South Asia, and there will be such merchant families in every town in Europe, and their tall houses are lined with bazaars, supported by beams, covered with stucco, mortar, and wire mesh, and their houses are piled with expensive Chinese silks, Turkish carpets, and Nanyang spices in containers."

Chen Mu grinned, his fingers gently propped between his lips, it sounded like European businessmen were not pitiful at all, on the contrary, they were very rich.

"They were all peasants, but wealth made them wear gold and silver, and they were made to bear things they should not bear—and the down-and-out knights hated them, and hid in ambush in the woods outside the town, stealing the goods and cutting off their right hands."

This is a bit bloody, Chen Mu can see that this kind of behavior is not only for money, but also for the purpose of venting anger and deterrence.

Zhu Xiaoen was very satisfied with General Chen's expression, and he nodded slowly and in distress: "The world is moving in the wrong direction, and merchants have the wealth to hire more peasants and use gold and silver to buy armor to arm them. ”

"It should not be like this in the eyes of the aristocracy, an English peasant with a broken fir bow or a cheap bird gun can shoot a knight through the throat at once, even if the knight stabs a spear into the peasant's chest, the two lives are not equal in their eyes."

Saying that, Zhu Xiaoen turned his head to Chen Mu with pride and said: "We are not like this, like the Ming Dynasty, fifteen hundred years ago, there was no difference between killing a Roman commander with an axe and stabbing a young soldier to death with a spear. ”

Listening to the rare glorious story of the Celts, Chen Mu almost wanted to applaud, he turned his hands in front of his chest and explained: "The military law of the Ming Dynasty is different, and the commander of the enemy army on the battlefield must be recorded as a general, and he will usually be promoted to two levels. ”

"The aristocracy will be eliminated, like you said, the world is developing, even at this time, knights have more advantages in obtaining wealth than farmers before the merchants started, but they didn't do it, and we used to have people who were born nobles, but in the Han Dynasty they were gone."

"The son of heaven of the Han family is a peasant, and the two founding emperors of the Han Dynasty are both peasants, and the same is true of the national dynasty." Chen Mu said with a strange smile that revealed the secret of heaven: "But you may not be like this." ”

"Just now you said that you will meet the family you said in South Asia, do you think they will rebel? The new aristocracy that the Spaniards say, is that them? ”

Zhu Xiaoen's head shook like a rattle, and said: "They will not rebel, the wealth and power of the Fugger family are all over every corner of Spain, those new nobles are nothing compared to them, it is the adventurers who will rebel, those people have nothing but everything they have grabbed in the New World, and now these things have been snatched by the general." ”

"It's like the down-and-out knights who ambush the merchants, but I don't think they just want to take the general's right hand."

The sea breeze hit Chen Mu's cheeks with a salty taste, and the weather gradually warmed up, and Chen Mu's shoulders shrugged.

"Coincidentally, I'll send their right hand to Mexico."