It's finally done, Rollo is going to be tired to death, and it seems that he can only watch four shifts tomorrow. Now it's 350 votes, as if there are 9 more! It's going to be fought this month!

Just when Chen Dexing and Mo Yingniang were about to set up a festival to cross Wen Tianxiang, our champion of Wenda finally completed the slow long march and arrived at the place that would later be known as the bottom of the valley of Mexico.

In the middle of a wasteland, Wen Tianxiang squatted on the hillside, staring at the scenery in the valley in the distance.

In the middle of the valley, there are large complexes of buildings!

Even if he didn't use a telescope, just looked at it from a distance, Wen Tianxiang suddenly felt a shocking feeling in his heart.

These buildings seem to have been carved out of stones. Even if he was twenty miles away, Wen Tianxiang could feel the grandeur of these stone buildings. Every building looked so magnificent, especially a hill of stones, as if it was bigger and grander than any house Wen Tianxiang had ever seen in the Song Kingdom.

This "hill" has five floors, is about 20 zhang high, and has a circumference of hundreds of steps at the bottom. There is also a treadway in front of the hill that leads to a straight path that looks like a street. At the end of the north end of the straight, there is a smaller stone "hill", and in front of this "hill" there is a square surrounded by twelve platforms, as if it were a place for military parades - these two "hills" are not two fortresses, right?

Wen Tianxiang, who was the champion in the Great Song Dynasty and was also a learned man, couldn't even guess how this "hill" made of big stones was built? How were the stones mined and transported to this valley?

How could a person who could build such a magnificent building be a barbarian? How could there be no iron and bronze? There is no copper and iron. How did they dig out the stones? It's impossible!

It seems that the natives living here should be similar to the Han Chinese. No, maybe it's more capable than the Han Chinese. There are so tall stone houses here. I think it's much more difficult to build than the wooden houses that can be seen everywhere in Lin'an.

"No one! It was as if it was empty and uninhabited! ”

The one-armed Taoist Yang Aguo held the telescope with his only hand and carefully observed it over and over again, and finally shook his head. "There's really no one...... It's a ruined city, and it looks like it's been uninhabited for hundreds of years. ”

Hundreds of years? This was built by the natives of Mingzhou hundreds of years ago?

"How so?" Wen Tianxiang asked suspiciously.

"There are no houses for ordinary people...... Yang Aguo has experienced the era when Liaodong was occupied and abandoned by the Mongols, and has seen countless deserted cities and villages. I have a lot of experience in "archaeology". "There are some stone houses, and two fortresses, but they can't be inhabited by ordinary people. What about the houses of the common people? There is no trace of them, apparently abandoned for a long time. ”

Meng Qi had already stood up at this time, and he had also looked around with his binoculars. There really are no people here! And there are only tall stone buildings. There were no low-slung dwellings - in his opinion, most of the houses of ordinary people were made of wood or straw...... If there is rice here. Of course, these wooden and thatched houses are not as reliable as the big stone houses, and they will be almost destroyed in the decades or even centuries after they are abandoned.

"There's really no one there!" Covered his lips and shook his head, "It's strange that there are no people in such a big city...... On our way south, we met a lot of wild people, all of whom lived in tents, so wouldn't they move here? ”

The way the Indian Eight Banners went south. It's a long time! Along the way, they crossed mountains and deserts, and from time to time fought with poorly equipped barbarians - after crossing a large desert area, the population seemed to become dense, and the Indian Eight Bannermen who went south often encountered some Chichmec tribes. Most of these tribes are warlike, and the Eight Banners of the Indians often take the initiative to challenge in order to loot supplies. So the fighting was very frequent. However, in all the big and small battles, the Indian Eight Banners won.

Because the weapons of those barbarians are too poor. It was as if they had no bows, and their weapons at long range were only javelins. The most commonly used hand-to-hand weapons are a stone spear more than five feet long and a very strange "mace". The head of the mace is not set with nails, but pieces of obsidian, sharpened.

But these did not cause much damage to the Indian Eight Banners, because Meng Qi would order his Indian Eight Banners to shoot arrows before the enemy approached!

Of the 10,000 Indian Eight Bannermen, there were at least five or six thousand who wielded longbows. That's a rain of arrows! And those barbarians who are enemies of the Eight Banners of the Indians, who don't even have decent armor, at most a small shield, how can they stop the clusters of arrows that rain down? Often a few rounds of feathered arrows, plus a spear charge, can settle the battle.

However, these barbarians are still more advanced than the Indians of Jinshan, first of all, they have cloth. Moreover, it is cotton cloth, and there are many cotton armors in the trophies of the Eight Banners of India. Obviously, there are people here in Mingzhou who grow cotton and can weave cloth.

In addition to cloth, the Eight Banners of India also seized a lot of corn from their opponents - the name should not be called corn, but Mayami. This is said by the shark through the sea, and this yellow, grainy grain is the rice of the Mayans.

With cotton cloth and Mayami, it shows that at least some of the indigenous people of Mingzhou have mastered certain agricultural and textile techniques. But they really don't seem to have wheels! At least there was no invention of a vehicle with wheels, even cloth could be woven, and there were no wheels......

And just a day ago, the Indian Eight Banners soldier in charge of reconnaissance brought news that the city had been discovered in a huge valley!

And it's a huge city with lots of splendid architecture! It is in stark contrast to the backward itinerary of the surrounding Mingzhou indigenous tribes!

At this time, I saw several figures rushing towards the hillside in the distance, they had no bird feathers on their bodies, their clothes were all Han style, and they had a bun on their heads, which were forked with rice hairpins. At a glance, you know that it must be the Eight Banners of India.

The first one was Wen Tianxiang's proud protégé shrimp learning shrimp leader, he is now the leader, leading a warrior of more than 300 people with the Indian Eight Banners and Yellow Banners. They are all spearmen, and they have made a lot of contributions on the way south.

Meng Qi handed over a bag of soju, and after Shrimp Xuedao took it, he took a big sip, and then reluctantly gave it to the Indian Eight Banners who followed behind.

Meng Qi asked, "How?" ”

Shrimp Xuedao smiled: "No one." "He speaks Chinese, and now he's much more proficient in Chinese." Both stone forts were unguarded, and several large stone houses were empty and probably uninhabited for hundreds of years. There are also houses that seem to be buried. In addition, there is a small river running near the city, so getting water should not be a problem. There is also a nearby forest where trees can be cut down. ”

Meng smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "Good, good!" Hurry back and sleep for half a day, and tomorrow tomorrow at dawn, we will move to the city. ”

Shrimp Xuedao hugged his fist and left. Wen Tianxiang stood up and stared at the city in the valley. After a while, he said: "There are mountains on both sides, and the surroundings are so open, it is a good place!" Brother Meng, do you want to use this as a base? ”

Meng laughed, raised his hand and pointed around, and said with a smile: "Don't you think this is a good place?" There are dangers to rely on, there are cities to rely on, the terrain is open, and the climate is very comfortable, neither hot nor cold. And there are many indigenous tribes around, if we use this as a base, attack from all sides, grab food and people, and then use the captured slaves to repair the big city in front of us, how can we not make it the basis for my Ming Dynasty to open up Mingzhou? ”

Obviously, Meng Qi's mind changed again, and he did not intend to take slaves back to Jinshan, but to establish a slave regime in this part of the Valley of Mexico.

Wen Tianxiang was silent, wrinkled his eyebrows and said, "Speaking of which, Brother Meng wants to create a ...... here." Undertaking? ”

Meng nodded and looked at Wen Tianxiang and Yang Aguo, "Now we have tens of thousands of soldiers in our hands, and there are almost no opponents along the way, why bother plundering people back to Jinshan?" This journey is a long way, and I don't know how many people will be lost. It's better to use this as a base...... Lay down a piece of heaven and earth! ”

Yang Ah didn't say anything, just looked at Meng Qi, and then looked at Wen Tianxiang. It sounds a little weird to cover up...... Lay down a piece of the world? Whose heaven and earth is it?

Meng Qi grinned and said: "When we lay down more territory and subdue some more population, we will be able to fight a few state capitals here in Mingzhou, and then I will be the governor and Yang Daoren will be the altar master." ”

He glanced at Wen Tianxiang again, "Wen Zhuangyuan just travels around the world, this itinerary will definitely not be missed, maybe it can be a little earlier." ”

"In advance?" Wen Tianxiang's face was pale, he didn't want to get involved in the internal affairs of Beiming, he just wanted to pass on the Taoist system in Mingzhou as soon as possible, and then go to Tianzhu and Flynn for a visit.

Meng Qi said: "A certain picture given by the king of Ming, I found that this Mingzhou is a dumbbell-shaped, with two large ends and a thin middle. And we are now in the middle of Mingzhou, the east and west ends are close to the sea, and the two seas are not far apart. If he can gain a foothold here, he will be able to reach the so-called Atlantic coast in a few months at most. It must be much easier to find a waterway from there to Flynn and Tianzhu. ”

"Can you find a boat to cross the sea?" Wen Tianxiang asked with interest.

"How can I not find it?" Meng pointed to the Pyramid of the Sun in the distance (they were now at the bottom of the valley in Mexico and saw Teotihuae, which the Mayans had built in their early years). "You could have built such a big castle hundreds of years ago, but now you can't build a big ship?"

He paused, and then said, "If you are still not at ease, Wen Zhuangyuan, you can ask Shark Tonghai to take a few hundred people to escort you to the city of the Mayans in the west, and you will be ...... It can be regarded as the envoy of the official family of the Great Song Dynasty. How is it? ”

That's a good idea. Wen Tianxiang touched his beard and nodded slightly. Not to mention whether you can find a big ship in the west, it is also good to go to the legendary Mayan city to open your eyes. Maybe we can spread the Confucian Taoism! (To be continued......)