It could be seen that Lin Xi was a little afraid that his soul would be swallowed by the beast.

Shivering, such behavior has long been far away from people like her, but Jian Chen still heard the chill in her heart.

Xunzi once said that Mozi is hidden from use but does not know righteousness, and Zhuangzi is hidden from heaven but does not know people. Now it seems that we have to face the same situation. If you are hidden from the heavens and do not know people, you will not be able to distinguish between animals and people. If we do not know what is right, we will lose our moral ethics. ”

"Since we believe that the movement of the sun, moon and stars and the evolution of all things are the way of heaven and earth, then heaven and earth and even the gods have no personality. Morality is not given by the personality of heaven and earth, but from the cultivation of the acquired and the influence of society. ”

"You've just seen too much cruelty and darkness along the way, especially after seeing the actions of those cannibals when you get to the island. It's not that the beasts are devouring your soul, it's just that you're near a herd of beasts. Don't be afraid, just wait until you get back. ”

Lin Xi snorted, turned around to look at the moa that had been dissected, and said with a wry smile: "When I was a child, I caught butterflies as specimens, and occasionally caught small snakes or other things, but they were all very small. Such a bird is so big that it is not hunted for food, and it is not the same as stepping on an ant. The bigger, the more pitiful, the more people can think too much. ”

"Well, I don't want that. If you feel depressed, then let's go back to a society where there are people as soon as possible. ”

"Hmm."

The news of the trip to the Galapagos Islands cannot be said at this time, and it is only possible to find an opportunity to go after leaving, which is not too far from the mainland and is also on the way home.

After the expedition in New Zealand was completed, and a sufficient number of notes and samples were accumulated, the fleet set sail again.

From the Black Swan River to here, they have seen enough novel worlds to be full of freshness about the journey below.

But Jian Chen knew that there would never be anything new after setting sail from here, and that across the vast South Pacific, the Spaniards had already established forts and strongholds seventy years earlier, and there would be no more land that no one had ever set foot in, habitable or settled.

During the difficult voyage in the storm belt, Chen Jian still insisted on telling stories and reading books to the people on the ship when there was no violent storm, so as to ease the long and boring journey, and also to let them know more about the culture he wanted them to know.

It's just that other people's lives are full of fun, but Chen Jian is boring and tight, so he can only flip through the books that he has read countless times again.

After a month and a half of arduous sailing, the people finally saw the coastline of the mainland again, but soon after landing, the aborigines here had some Spanish speaking and could communicate.

I thought it was another piece of land that I had discovered first, but I was instantly spoiled by the Spanish words that came out of the mouths of these aborigines.

Even without the nautical clock, everyone knew that the next destination was their hometown, and that all this dreamlike journey to the southern hemisphere was over, and it was inevitable to devote themselves to society.

The fleet made several stops along the coastline on its way north, and Jian Chen stayed in the Atacama Desert for a while, trying to find a natural harbor that was not yet empty at this time.

As the driest desert in the world, the good natural environment here has given it the best grade sodium nitrate ore and iodine ore, which are extremely absorbent, and non-arid areas can easily seep into the surface.

With the popularization of simple photography such as silver salt photosensitive and egg white photosensitive paper, iodine will become more and more used, and the sales will also increase.

And the large amount of saltpeter ore here is also something that Chen Jianzhi must obtain, which is the most valuable nitrogen fertilizer before the synthetic ammonia technology, and there is no one.

With the establishment of the sulfuric acid industry, chemical wet phosphate fertilizer is no longer a problem, even if the technology is not mature, with struvite, the use of phosphate fertilizer can also be guaranteed to promote.

There are already a lot of potash mines, the Republic has a lot of potassium chloride mines, and there are also carnallite mines worth mining in Thailand.

Of the three types of fertilizer needed for crops, nitrogen fertilizer is the only one left.

The reason for this is not only that these nitrogen fertilizers can make money and increase food production, but more importantly, they can help the country to complete the concentration of land.

Operational farm capitalists can afford such fertilizers, and it is difficult for small farmers to use them, not only because of the cost, but also because the popularity is not easy to spread to small farmers.

The use of various cocoon carts, seed drills and horse-drawn threshers has a tendency to concentrate land, but these alone are not enough.

Once saltpeter is mined here, the presence of yeoman farmers will be gradually squeezed by the coastal plantations and large areas of cotton and wheat cultivation. The increase in yields caused by the release of fertilisers will reduce the price of food in the short term, thus bankrupting homesteaders.

Either sell their land to work in the city, or be forced to choose the Mexican party's proposed homesteaders' joint farm plan, with no second option.

The saltpeter reserves here are sufficient, and Chen Jian feels that even if the Great Wilderness City is developed, it will still be enough to maintain agricultural consumption for about 200 years. As long as the development of the synthetic ammonia industry is completed within 200 years, there will be no sudden famine that may result from a sudden shortage of fertilizers and an excessive increase in population.

As for the use of explosives, this is secondary, the world can't consume so much sodium nitrate for the time being, and the research on the passivator is estimated to be only done by his own husband in the school palace, and it will not spread out for the time being.

In addition, there are also amazing copper reserves here, which should be the largest in the world. Spain just started minting copper coins on a large scale more than a decade ago, and now the price of copper on the world market is rising, which is also worth mining and profitable.

It's just that the conditions here are a bit harsh, and as one of the driest deserts in the world, it's normal to not see a drop of rain for more than ten years.

The fleet found a natural harbor suitable for docking, but did not find the mouth of a river within fifty miles of this natural harbor.

Chen Jian did not give up, continued to the north, and finally found a small river. At the mouth of the river there are local villages, and there is a Spanish translator, according to the transliteration of the locals, the name of the river is "Loa".

Chen Jian had heard the word before, and it was very common in mythological books or games associated with voodoo dolls, sacrificial living people, feathered serpents, or the like, and it was probably an animal god. Chen Jian couldn't figure out what it was.

However, the aborigines here have basically chosen to be forced to integrate into the society at this time, and the most prominent evidence is that these residents gladly accepted the silver coins when Chen Jian took them out.

In the name of an expedition along the river, the fleet anchored near the mouth of the river for a while to trade with the local aborigines, and Chen Jian led an expedition of more than 50 people up the Luoa River.

It is a freshwater river that runs through the desert with very little current, but it brings a generation of oases along the river valley to this uninhabited desert. The Spanish had already established their rule here, but the foundation of their rule was extremely weak, and there were no large settlements in the area because of the barren land.

Led by a local Spanish-speaking guide, a team of more than 50 people went to the depths of the Atacama Desert, inquired about the distribution of nearby salt lakes, prepared enough water, compass and food, and the guide chose to wait here, while Chen Jian and the expedition team tried to go in the direction of the salt lake.

Fortunately, although there is a drought here, it is only a drought, and there are not too many storms, as long as there is water, it is easier to survive than those quicksand and black sand storm areas.

Before stepping into the desert, Jian Chen cheered up the expedition team and said, "The climate here is extremely arid, which is very suitable for the existence of some special minerals. If we are lucky, we can find minerals such as saltpeter, which will be a great help to the world to be free of hunger. ”

Everyone looked at this desert shrouded in yellow sand and death, but they were not afraid, and they circled the earth, and saw more from cannibals to various monsters.

Since it was something meaningful to humanity or to the race, this expedition became much more meaningful, encouraging each other to march towards the interior of the desert.

Two days later, we were already in the area of the salt lake, and a large number of saltwater lakes were dotted with saltwater lakes in the desert to endure the torment of the sun, and layers of white mineral salt and alkali were spread on the ground.

For the locals, it makes no sense. But for a group that has entered the post-agricultural era, it is full of meaning.

This is the saltpeter mine, and Chen Jian knows that this is the saltpeter mine, but he still does some simple experiments, and then shouts loudly with a disguised excitement of sudden discovery.

The people of the expedition team accompanied Chen Jian for a while, and then they all said that they would strictly guard this secret. In the future, whether to buy it legally from Spain, or to exchange it elsewhere, or to wait until the future war in Europe broke out, many people have already had ideas in their minds.

The people who came with Jian Chen to investigate were convinced that an area that could make Jian Chen Jian excited to such an area was completely worthy of being developed by war, because even the discovery of the vast grasslands and arable land around the Black Swan River did not make Chen Jian so excited.

Since the excitement has also determined that there is now value in mining here – even from the point of view of capital profitability it is worth mining, but the rate of return is lower than that of maritime trade.

There is no rain, there are not many storms, there is no quicksand, and there is a freshwater river not far away that can be replenished.

At least one thing is certain, this will be the easiest place in the world to build a cast iron or wrought railroad at this time, and steel rails are not needed, as the drought here makes it less likely to rust.

After taking samples of the ore here, staying for a few days and taking enough notes, the expedition returned to the seashore after drawing the general flow of the Loa River.