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Chapter 973 Immigrants (4)

"Bind everyone, detain them, and prepare to let them be slaves!" Wu Liuqi said.

The immigrants from the Ming Dynasty came here not to exterminate everyone, but to make money. If all these people were killed, then who would be slaves for them?

Fang Guoan hesitated for a moment and asked, "General Wu, but they feed on human flesh, and this kind of vulgarity may be difficult to change. We imprison them as slaves. What if they kill each other and eat meat?"

"This is very simple. Now start educating them, kill them if you eat human flesh! This is what we teach them! If you don't care, you have to persuade them with kind words, and you have to let them know that if you don't change your barbaric habits, you will have to pay the price of your life." Wu Liuqi snorted coldly.

"But no one understands what they said." Zhang Bingzhen said with a look of distress.

"You scholars have many ways to do it, think of a way. You can always find a way to communicate with them. If you can't do this, how can you communicate and educate?" Lu Wang Zhu Changqing looked at Zhang Bingzhen and the others and said.

"Go back to the prince, let's give me a try." Zhang Bingzhen replied.

Then Zhang Bingzhen asked those scholars to try to communicate with the indigenous people. Wu Zhirong, Lu Lin and others volunteered to express their willingness to contact the indigenous people and try to communicate with them.

Wu Zhirong walked up to the prisoners, gestured with gestures, and tried his best to tell them that he was helping them, and also told them with gestures to tell them not to eat human flesh anymore, and at the same time they were muttering words.

Lu Lin said: "Mr. Wu, it's useless for you. They don't even understand what we mean. First of all, we must understand what their words mean, and then let them know what we are saying."

Then Lu Lin expressed the simplest meaning to the natives with gestures. The natives also replied with the words "baya" in their mouths. He imitated these words and made a small notebook to record them.

Not long after, Lu Lin understood some of the simplest words expressed by the natives.

Then the captured indigenous people were taken to the corpses. Wu Zhirong and Lu Lin told them with gestures that anyone who dared to try to eat the corpses would be executed.

At first, some natives did not understand what Ming Jun meant and dragged the body to the fire to roast it. As a result, the Ming Jun cut off the heads of those people without hesitation. After killing a few people, the natives understood that they could not eat human flesh.

After a period of "education", the indigenous prisoners changed their bad habit of eating human flesh and then officially became laborers. In contact with the indigenous people, a group of scholars such as Wu Zhirong, Fan Xiang, and Lu Qi gradually learned the indigenous language, so that they could better negotiate with the indigenous people.

This location is the Port Moresby in later generations. In the original history, it was not discovered by the British until 1873, and it was later than that of Australia by the British. But in fact, the Portuguese had already visited this island in the 15th century, but the Portuguese did not occupy the island because the island had a complex terrain and was not far from the coastline, with deep mountains and forests everywhere in the mountains, and the Portuguese colonists dared not go deep.

"The mountains and forests are all life-saving animals. Although this is a big island, we cannot occupy them all." Zhu Changqing said looking at the map.

Fang Guoan sneered: "What's wrong with it? We sent the army into the mountains and encircled and suppressed them, but we didn't kill all those who dared to resist? All the rest were our slaves!"

Zhang Bingzhen said, "It's such a big island with jungles. Although the weapons of the Shengfan are far inferior to ours, when they go into the deep mountains and forests, where can you find them? Today we kill a few of them, and in a few days they will cause trouble for us. And our people will lose one less. Your method of encircling and suppressing them with a large army is not a solution at all. According to my opinion, we should send people to contact with some natives who live more on the outside, and then educate them, and then provide them with weapons, so that they can fight against the Shengfan in the deep mountains, so that they can kill each other! Let's tell those who have been educated by us, so that they can capture more prisoners, and the prisoners can exchange weapons with us!"

Zhu Changqing laughed: "Okay! OK! You scholars have many ideas!"

"But provide them with weapons and let them kill each other. Do we have so many weapons to provide them with? We don't need weapons ourselves?" Fang Guoan asked.

Wu Liuqi said: "There is actually iron ore here. We can use local materials and make weapons here."

It was a long-term project to educate the savages. At present, the first thing the Ming army had to do was to build a port, a castle and a small town here.

"Our enemies are just some savages, and they don't need to spend huge amounts of money to build stone fortresses. We just need to simply use wooden fences to encircle a city wall. On the wooden city wall, a wooden castle will be built at any distance. In this way, no matter how many indigenous people are, they will not be able to break through our city." Fang Guoan suggested.

"But if the giant ship of the Thais comes, wouldn't this wooden castle be vulnerable?" Wu Liuqi asked.

Finally, after compromise, everyone agreed to build two stone turrets at the entrance of the harbor near the sea, and prepare to cast 32 pounds of giant cannons to defend against Western ships. On the inside facing the indigenous people, simply build a wooden castle and pull up a wooden fence.

The transit station is under intense construction. Wu Liuqi suggested to Lu Wang Zhu Changqing: "Your destination has not arrived yet, and the last general has not completed the task. We only need to leave a thousand people to stay here. All the rest of the people will be on the boat. We will walk a while to reach our destination."

Compared with Wu Liuqi, the commander of the fleet, Zhu Changqing still had to listen to Wu Liuqi's words. So Lu Wang brought most of the people to board the ship and continue the long voyage.

The first team to immigrate to Oceania in human history finally landed on the land of Oceania. Judging from the map drawn by Li Guodong, this is a large island that spans thousands of miles. In fact, this is no longer an island, but a continent hanging alone overseas.

The landing location was far and wide. It did not land at the nearest northwest corner, but chose to land at the southeast corner. Because the cliffs of this land reach the seaside, which is not conducive to building farms and developing land here, it is better to take a long way to land at the plains in the southeast corner.

After the Ming army landed on this land, they started from the seaside and started to build inland little by little.

"There are large grasslands here. Why did we forget to bring cattle and sheep when we set off?" Looking at the large grasslands reaching the seaside, Zhu Changqing sighed deeply.

Fortunately, there are many animals on this land, and two bird gunmen came with a strange animal. The animal had two powerful hind legs, but its front legs were very short. It is said that when the animal ran, it jumped on the ground with two hind legs.

The soldier also caught a small animal, which was living in the woods. When he grabbed the animal, it was still sleeping. When the person grabbed it, it was still lying on the human body to continue sleeping. However, this small animal looked very cute and made people unable to bear to eat it.

For more than a year after Lu Wang and his friends set foot on this continent, they basically rely on hunting to make a living. Fortunately, there are many animals that jump on two legs and can't finish it, which is enough to provide immigrants with sufficient meat.

But the meat of this kind is more mutton than mutton, and the taste is drier than beef, and it has a little sour taste of horse meat. Fortunately, the immigrants brought chili peppers, which can suppress the smell of mutton and sourness, and the taste is barely varied. Although it is not very delicious, people who have no other food can only eat this kind of thing.

There are a lot of fish in the sea, as well as extra large lobsters. The sea area here is calm and has rich aquatic resources, providing sufficient food for immigrants.
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