Yu Chenglong not only talked about what he saw and heard in the Americas, but also said that after he went to the South Seas, he took a boat all the way to the west, and lived in the seaside castle in Kunlun Prefecture for a period of time. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Kunlun Prefecture is rich in products, gold and gems are not less than the Americas, but Kunlun Prefecture has a hot climate, the miasma is too heavy, and the local people live with dark skin like ink, nostrils facing the sky, and strange appearances of Kunlun Nu. Kunlun slaves can adapt to the climate of Kunlun Prefecture and are not afraid of miasma, but they can't be educated. Yu Chenglong said.

Huang Xigon asked, "Doesn't it mean that in overseas wild places, local barbarians can be educated?" ”

"Yes, yes!" Yongli nodded, "Can't you educate them?" ”

Yu Chenglong replied with a smile: "That's also a matter of people, the natives of the Americas and the natives of the South Seas can be educated, although they have darker complexions, their minds are not too stupid." But the Kunlun slaves are really unable to educate, they have low intelligence, for hundreds of years, they have been the slaves of the big cannibals, and now the big food empire has fallen, the rise of the Taixi countries, and the Kunlun slaves have become slaves of the Taixi people. Every day, a large number of slave ships sailed from Kunlun to the Americas, and the Taixi slave traders made huge profits, and the death rate of Kunlun slaves was extremely high. But the funny thing is that the first slave trader who captured Kunlun slaves from Kunlun Prefecture was the mixed descendants of the Great Cannibal and Kunlun slaves. ”

Whether it is Yongli or Huang Xigon, they have seen the appearance of black people, and they feel very disgusted by the appearance of black people. The indigenous people of Southeast Asia, although darker, also look much more pleasing to the eye than the black people.

Yongli frowned: "The big cannibal can actually find a female Kunlun slave as a wife and concubine?" ”

"There are always a few people who are different." Yu Jackie Chan replied.

At that time, there were indeed some heavy tastes among the Arabs, so they chose a few black slave girls to be their little wives, and as a result, many mixed-race offspring were produced, and most of those blacks lived in East Africa, as well as the border between North Africa and Central Africa. It is precisely because several black countries, such as Ethiopia, are mixed-race blacks, that they have been able to build their own civilization. But there was no anti-racism back then, and black people of mixed race did not consider themselves black, and they were the first slave traders in Africa.

Huang Xigon said: "Your Majesty, the world is so big, I am only a corner of this earth. There are many uncivilized lands overseas that are much larger than my Ming Dynasty, and Nanwang Zhi is in the whole world. If I want to expand my territory, I will inevitably have a conflict with the Taixi people. Now Nanwang is building a large number of ships, just to open up overseas territories. ”

Yongli nodded: "I'll send someone to the south to have a look, ladies and gentlemen, who do you think is appropriate?" ”

Wu Yingqi stood up and replied: "Yes, let's send King Jin to take a look!" ”

"Okay, then let Li Sixing, the king of Jin, go to the south to have a look." Yongli nodded. After all, Yongli is still the most trustworthy King of Jin, Li Dingguo supported himself so much back then, and now that Li Dingguo is gone, Yongli can trust his son.

Wu Yingqi also trusted Li Sixing, because Li Sixing had secretly expressed his loyalty to him, and in fact had become the right-hand man of Wu Yingqi's department of the Wu family's army, and Wu Yingqi needed to use Li Sixing if he wanted to deal with Wu Shifan.

After Li Sixing received the holy decree, he took his soldiers out of Beijing from Dongbianmen.

"Welcome King Jin!" The officers and men on the wharf stood neatly and saluted Li Sixing and his party.

Li Sixing boarded a steam river gunboat, as soon as he got on the ship, he was shocked by this gunboat wrapped in iron sheets, although the ship is not big, but it looks like a floating castle on the water, the gray-black hull has a heavy metal texture, the iron plate is full of rivets, there is a rotating gun emplacement in the front and rear of the ship, there are two gun emplacements in the middle, the ship's superstructure is two stories high, and there is another floor below the main deck.

"This ship is really magical, it doesn't need wind power, it doesn't need manpower, it is powered by some steam engine. The Tartar captives captured there in this domain all call this boat the Water Fire Dragon! There is also a land fire dragon in your south, which also uses a steam engine. Li Sixing walked onto the bridge and said with interest.

Captain Qin Ping walked up and arched his hand and said, "Please help the prince, I'm about to start the ship." ”

Li Sixing nodded and held on to the armrest on the bridge. The captain pulled the whistle, only to hear a long whistle that shook the sky, and a puff of white smoke came out of the chimney. Then there was a deafening roar from the power compartment at the bottom of the ship, and puffs of white water vapor erupted from the power room, and white water splashed from the stern of the ship.

The soldiers on the dock had already untied the cable, and the sailors on board retracted the cable and pulled up the anchor chain. With the roar of the steam engine, the gunboat slowly left the dock and sailed southeast.

Li Sixing sat in the captain's room, the captain's room of this gunboat is not large, it is just a room less than one zhang long and wide, because this gunboat is not big, this ship is only 12 zhang long, one zhang and four feet wide, with a displacement of more than 100 tons, the ship is equipped with two 76-mm main guns, two 37-mm secondary guns, and two hand-cranked machine guns are also reserved for gun positions. The captain's cabin was behind the wheelhouse, a small house less than a foot square, with round portholes, a single bed in the room, a desk next to it, a wardrobe under the bed, and a washbasin in the room. Almost every inch of available space was used, but although the captain's room was small, it still looked quite cozy.

As the river gunboats sailed on the canal, it was already dark, and Li Sixing lit the oil lamp in the cabin and listened to the rumbling roar coming from the bilge.

For this epoch-making ship, Li Sixing was indeed very amazed by the magic of the south. During the day, he had gone down to the power compartment at the bottom of the ship, only to be in it for less than two minutes before he escaped from the power compartment in a sweat, which was as hot as a steamer. At this time, it is already late autumn, the autumn is high and cool, the climate is not hot, but the power compartment is full of high temperatures, you can imagine that in summer, the boiler soldiers in the power compartment do not know how difficult it is.

The gunboats arrived at the confluence of the canal and the Yellow River and docked at a wharf.

"Lord Wang, a big project to control the Yellow River is going on here, is the Lord going to take a look?" A pro-soldier asked.

Li Sixing nodded: "Let's go, let's take a look!" ”

The group got off the boat and walked along the embankment for a while, and saw the people under the embankment. I saw that the embankment was densely packed with people, who dug up the soil and strengthened the embankment; Some people dug in the open ground outside the embankment, digging a hole in the pond to be used to store water; Others have dug water inlets into the original embankment, which were used to divert water from the river into the reservoir.

A mile outside the embankment, there are also a large number of people working on the construction of the outer embankment.

"Once the Yellow River control project is completed, the river will be firmly tied in the middle of the double-layered embankment, and it will never burst again." Li Sixing sighed.