Yang Zhaolong walked out of the wooden house with a shy stomach and yawning, looked at the high sun and rubbed his eyes, and sat on the threshold boredly and scratched the back of his neck.

Even in the desolate and ancient Xinming, the nobles from the ancient empire in the north were served, which made Yang Zhaolong's appearance look like he still maintained the posture of a noble son of Banzhou, but his body had changed a lot.

The most obvious is the leather boots and the short shirt.

Not only Yang Zhaolong, but everyone in Xinming took off their thick-soled fast boots, and cut their robes to one foot and four inches.

In the first few months of Xinming, there were no horses, no cattle, people had to trek through mountains and rivers across the grassland, the robes did not meet the needs of local survival, and the cloth-soled boots were not wear-resistant enough, and they could only be changed by the environment if they could not change the environment.

Yang Zhaolong touched the upper armor of the crocodile leather boots that wrapped his calves, and a few wild dogs that were rampant in the settlement saw their owners get up from a distance, and ran quickly with their tails wagging slightly.

The maidservant who got up early served the meat plate, and Yang Zhaolong took out a small saber to cut the meat pieces into one by one and feed them, feeding them half full, and then got up and washed his face. Wearing a shirt with canvas patches on knees and elbows, wearing iron armor, a whistle, and horses galloping from afar.

At first, there were only more than 1,000 people who landed in Yanglaigang, and later two fleets were sent from Daming, and now there are more than 1,000 people in Xinming, and more importantly, pigs, cattle, sheep, and horses were brought.

With these livestock, the people's lives are a little easier, and it is easier for Yang Zhaolong to travel farther away.

Before the arrival of the horses, Yang Zhaolong had never left Yang Laigang for thirty miles, and finally mustered up the courage to prepare for a while, and went east along the edge of the coast, and encountered a crocodile in the big river in the east.

The palm of the thunder was thrown a little farther away, and it was only by the bird's gun that it was put at the head to kill two, and there was another one that was washed away by the river, and I couldn't find it.

Just that time, Yang Zhaolong was so scared that he didn't dare to go out for half a month, and thought about writing a letter to his brother-in-law several times to say goodbye and asking him to ask Gao Ming, but in the end the letter was written but was burned by him.

"Birds, dry food, water, and bone-setting medicine are all prepared, which is much more dangerous than fighting with people."

A banner army of the general banner led the horses and rode behind them, driving five wagons to carry food and water, and even some cotton cloth from Luzon. Yang Zhaolong rode his horse around the well in the center of the settlement, turned around the horse a few times, raised his whip and pointed to the port, and said: "Liu Baihu, this time you go west along the coast, bring more water and grain, travel five hundred miles, draw the surrounding terrain, and I will go south to see the local natives." ”

Seven wild dogs followed the war horses and ran forward with their teeth bared on their teeth, and since they tamed this group of wild dogs, Yang Zhaolong became the top predator within a radius of forty-eight miles from Yanglai Bay.

The reason why the mileage is accurate is because there is a big river forty-eight miles to the east, and there are earth dragons in the river.

However, the day before yesterday, the outpost fifty-six miles to the south had reported that while hunting in the direction of the south, they had found traces of people and livestock.

Liu Baihu nodded in response, this is a down-to-earth Ming army officer, and in another month, he will be able to bring half of the flag army back to defend Manchurian Boyi.

According to the news brought by Shang Jia before, Lin Feng has received the general's order to raise and lead his troops to Manjapahit's baggage, and then there will be a new flag army to change the guard here, and he can finally return to the populated place.

Xinming's place is good, the scenery is beautiful, and the products are abundant, but Liu Baihu has a little mustard in his heart.

No matter how you look at it, this place is suitable for raising livestock, raising a pig and raising a sheep, and you don't need to feed yourself to get fat, but it is not suitable for feeding people.

This will be his last voyage in Xinming, sailing 500 miles to explore Yang Zhaolong's way.

Yang Zhaolong didn't have the idea of homesickness, but he really felt that it was not easy to be a parent in the past few months.

He greeted Liu Baihu, and told his subordinates several times, from putting nitrate in the ice cellar for meat to taking care of cattle and sheep, from plowing the fields and watering the land to grinding rice and noodles, all the forests and forests explained for a long time, and then he personally led the team around the dense forests by the sea and went to the grassland.

"When I finally see people, I don't believe that there are no people in such a land!"

Yang Zhaolong has been thinking about seeing people for a long time, dozens of horses are speeding on the vast grassland, he talks to himself over and over again, one will say that when he sees people, he will first release his guns to knock over and capture prisoners, and then he will not be able to send some cloth to the conflict.

Yanglaiwan to the south, in addition to the settlement of the people of Xinming, there are carpentry paths in the forest, when entering the open field, the wooden stakes laid every other mile become a guiding sign, bypassing the snake nest rat hole hidden under the grass, zigzag to the south.

Ten miles apart, there are small post stations with wooden house structures, each of which has five families, and they have a horse, two dogs, and a few sheep.

Their dog is not a wild Xinming wild dog like Yang Zhaolong, but a yellow dog specially sent from Daming, loyal and reliable, of course not as fierce as wild dogs, but they are the best sentinels in the wild.

Even if everyone rides horses, after all, there is no road and they dare not let go of the ride, and when they reach the outermost part of the fourth small post station, it is almost dusk.

"Childe, they are red, painted with white ash, with few clothes, and they are grazing around with animals that are very large like sheep and horses." The people on duty on the edge were the strongest Miao people, with swords around their waists and spears in their hands, and the wooden walls leaning against the long birds, pointing to the distance and saying, "They have weapons." ”

"What weapon?"

"Spears, knives, darts." Miao Bing said with some embarrassment, and said, "It seems to be made of stone." ”

Stone?

A few months after landing in Xinming, Yang Zhaolong was not surprised by the animals he had never seen, so he was not surprised to hear that there were things like sheep and horses, he looked at his handcuffs, thought about the stone spear again, and said, "Take me to find them, go." ”

Nomadic, herding while walking, but Yang Zhaolong has never heard of anyone who grazes on two legs.

It didn't take long, only more than ten miles, and the group followed the sentinels to the tribe of the Xinming natives, a few miles away, Yang Zhaolong saw the firelight, and then saw the natives gathering together to dance around the bonfire from the telescope.

"Ten and twenty-one strong men, twenty or thirty women and children, and their women are as strong as the men; They were really lucky to meet Yang. ”

These natives were much closer to him than expected, and it was only seventy miles away from Yang Laigang, Yang Zhaolong turned over and dismounted, beckoned a small flag to lead the horse, and the two small flags acted as flank ambushes, leading twenty people with some cloth to slowly walk towards the natives' bonfire.

The people of a place, no matter how backward in technology, are well-deserved apex predators, and these people obviously haven't fought for a long time, otherwise they wouldn't be dancing defenselessly in the field.

It wasn't until Yang Zhaolong had reached two hundred paces that they discovered that there were unknown intruders in the territory, each with a spear and a dart, cautiously and cautiously looking at the guests they had never seen before.

"I, Yang Zhaolong of the Ming Dynasty, Xinming County, no, the governor of the New Ming Dynasty! Put down your weapons, these cotton cloths will give you...... Boom to the sky! ”

Young Master Yang crossed his waist and roared for a long time, and Tian shamelessly proclaimed himself the governor of Xinming, and what answered him was a flying stone spear.

The sound of the gun sounded in Xinming.