The Viceroy's fleet had to pass through the Maldives Islands as it headed south.

His lord had written the strange name of the archipelago directly on the chart given to him, but it seemed to him better to call them the Pearl Islands.

That's more than a thousand charming coral islands, scattered in bunches on the surface of the Tianzhu Ocean!

From a distance, the blue water, the snow-white sand, and the emerald coconut trees on the island form a beautiful picture!

In fact, the Governor of the Second Junior had passed through here on his first voyage, but at that time, he had no intention of enjoying any beautiful scenery, and the most important thing was to be able to complete the task.

But this is no longer the case------ during the short stop he sent sailors to the island to hunt turtles and pick coconuts, he held a telescope to observe the island, admiring the beautiful scenery.

He even had an idea that if he had some free time in the future, he would build these islands a little and sell them to those rich merchants, so that someone would buy them.

Lieutenant Colonel Wang Ding wears light brown sunglasses and a summer short-sleeved blue military uniform, chewing gum lightly in his mouth.

He walked to the side of the Governor of the Second Child, and held on to the side of the ship and looked towards the island in the distance.

They had to catch a herd of turtles here, which proved to be not only an extremely tasty source of meat, but also an extremely susceptible species to survive on long voyages.

The Governor of Dog Gnawing once reported that the longest surviving turtles on a ship were up to two years.

Of course, just splash seawater on it twice a day and put it in the humid environment of the bottom cabin.

It's much easier than keeping other species alive, and it's almost effortless.

Of course, when cooking turtle meat, you should add more pepper and chili pepper, as the spicy flavor can suppress the fishy smell and bring out the umami flavor of the turtle meat.

Many of the sailors who participated in the voyage had already learned this method, and some even had a special space in the bilge of the sea boat to store live turtles.

Stir-fried soybean sprouts with turtle meat, spicy seaweed soup with turtle meat, and mushroom vermic------elli stewed with turtle meat can make people swallow their tongues!

This time they had to catch 200 of them, so that they would not have to stop for them when they reached the island of Mauritius.

Fresh coconut needless to say.

In his binoculars, the Governor of the Dog saw a sailor as nimble as a monkey, quickly climbing the coconut tree, and then hiding in the broad leaves of the coconut.

Under the coconut tree, two other sailors were waiting, pulling sheets.

After a while, a coconut fell, and they quickly tightened the sheet to pick it up, and then when the coconut bounced, they threw it aside and went to pick up the next one.

Their movements were very consistent, and in a short time they were all gone.

The second lieutenant governor showed a smug smile, look at it, my sailors picking coconuts are all first-class in the world!

Lieutenant Colonel Wang Ding said lightly: "I just heard from the sailors that there are two or three thousand inhabitants on an island more than forty miles away from here, and I heard that they are Hui people------ I promise to send a company to bring them all to South Africa, and it will not hurt their lives too much." ”

The second governor did not put down the monoculars, and said: "I already knew------ they are too short in stature, they are not suitable for farming at all, and they are not even strong enough to fish------ the three of them are not able to withstand one Tianzhu labor, but we have to supply three more supplies, which is too much of a loss." ”

Lieutenant Colonel Wang Ding despised those people and stopped fighting their ideas.

After replenishing enough turtles and coconuts, they will have to set off again, and dozens of barge boats are quickly rowing to the dozen large sea boats waiting for their return like ducklings returning home.

The Governor looked at his pocket watch, they had been here for three hours.

This sea area is calm, the highest waves are only 1.5 meters------ and you can see colorful coral reefs on the bottom of the sea in shallow water.

A sailor suddenly jumped out of a barge boat into the sea, and when he showed his head again, he was holding a large lobster that was two feet long!

Well, that guy's underwater kung fu is good.

After he lifted it onto the big ship, he claimed to dedicate it to the Governor of the Second Child.

Many sailors extended their middle fingers to him------- I don't know when it began, this gesture was first popular in the navy, and then among ordinary sailors, which was extremely contemptuous------

Everyone knows that at sea, lobsters are worthless, and they are dedicated to the Governor of Little Er, which is clearly to be rewarded!

Sure enough, the second governor of the junior had four canned fruits in his share given to him!

The quota for the average sailor is ten per person; the number of those with higher official positions is fifteen; The petite two governors were the most, twenty-five.

Canned fruit is the favorite of the voyagers!

That guy is clearly taking advantage of others-------

The man in charge of the senior staff's supply warehouse reluctantly gave the guy four cans, and then asked him to do some work for him, and then felt more comfortable.

The guy had to run to the bottom cabin and work with the warehouse manager to re-water the sprouting soybeans, and help him get some more mung bean sprouts and sweat profusely.

I don't know who I learned from to get fresh vegetables by sending bean sprouts in the bilge, but it's very easy to use anyway.

At most, the long-distance sea ship can only bring some shallots and potatoes from Liuqiu Island, and at most pumpkins, these three vegetables------ for a long time, no one is not annoyed!

It was a genius idea to use the method of sprouts to solve it, and all kinds of beans are very easy to carry and preserve, and it can be sent uninterrupted during the voyage.

So, as soon as it came out, no one didn't do it.

I don't know when it started, the legendary voyage disease, saying that it will lose teeth, rotten skin, rotten mouth and other things, has long disappeared!

Those are all made up by people who don't dare to go to sea, right?!

The man in charge of the warehouse himself thinks that he is close to the Governor of the Second Lieutenant, because he was on board the last voyage.

He didn't like the stinky sailors to take advantage of the second governor, and in the vast sea, except for seafood, everything to eat was particularly expensive.

Governor Xiao Er and Lieutenant Colonel Wang Ding ate raw and cut lobster at night, they just dipped in mustard and soy sauce, cut and ate with a knife, and drank some coconut sake at 40 degrees together.

Of course, spiced peanuts are indispensable.

There was no need to go to the senior staff's restaurant to eat tonight, and both of them felt at ease.

The southern climate of Tianzhu Sea is relatively hot at this time, and the biggest wind and wave in this season is only level six, which is simply the surface of the lake for long-distance voyagers.

Lieutenant Colonel Wang Ding didn't quite understand a special order from the imperial king, and even asked them to catch two kinds of strange birds, find a way to raise and breed them in South Africa, and have the opportunity to send them to Liuqiu Island in large quantities!

Lieutenant Colonel Wang Ding had seen those two kinds of birds------ one was called a dodo, and the other was called an elephant bird.

He knew that the dodos were on that island of Mauritius, and the ones he had seen had been brought back to the island on his last voyage!

The bird was bigger than the largest goose he had ever seen, weighing twenty kilograms and more than a meter tall, but its wings were only the size of a palm, it could not fly, it was a slow runner, and it was not too afraid of people.

The male breed is better looking than the female breed, and the feathers on the body are colorful.

The meat is said to be delicious.

The so-called elephant bird, which was transported from Madagascar to Liuqiu, is even more bizarre-------

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