Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 702 Lies in the Forbidden Area
The Amazon rainforest is a forbidden area for humans, and even the locals dare not swim in the river.

This lie was widely spread in later generations.

Why do you say this is a lie?
In fact, anyone with a little brain can see that this is a lie at a glance.

Because this sentence is inherently contradictory. Since the Amazon rainforest is a forbidden place for human beings, why do people live there? If no one lives in it, where do the locals come from?

Therefore, this lie itself is a bit unreliable.

Is this a misunderstanding of the forbidden area, or is it a misunderstanding of human beings? Since it is a forbidden area for humans, why are there still people living in it? Could it be that the locals are not human beings?
There is another lie about the Amazon rainforest that is even more ridiculous.

The Amazon rainforest is the lungs of the earth, which provides more than one-fifth of the oxygen in the entire earth. It cannot be developed, and once it is developed, there will be a serious lack of oxygen.

This can only fool those who don't know the source of oxygen.

In fact, more than 80.00% of the oxygen in the entire earth is produced by marine algae, and the oxygen produced by plants on land is less than one-fifth of the entire earth.

Is there only one Amazon jungle on earth, and there are no trees anywhere else?
Of course not, in fact, the area of ​​the Amazon jungle is less than one-fifth of the entire earth's forest area.

As for why these lies are spread, the reason is actually very simple.

Because the colonists just want to plunder the resources here.

What is a forbidden area for human beings, that is farting.

Before the Portuguese and Spanish colonized here, there were more than 1000 million Indians in the Amazon jungle, and at that time the Portuguese and Spanish combined were less than 500 million.

In terms of numbers, Portugal and Spain are the forbidden areas for humans!

Perhaps, in the eyes of the colonial robbers, the humans here are not human beings.

What else can't be developed here is even more bullshit.

When the colonists cut down trees here, they didn't say that it couldn't be developed.

The mahogany trees that can be seen everywhere here were cut down by the colonists into rare trees here. Is this called undeveloped?
Also, teak is the favorite of Europeans.

Europeans used to use teak when building houses, laying floors, making furniture, even building ships, and building palaces, etc. The amount of consumption was quite astonishing.

The Amazon jungle is also the place with the most teak reserves.

According to the historical records of the Europeans themselves, the forest coverage here was originally more than [-]%, but after they colonized for hundreds of years, they forcibly cut the forest coverage here to less than [-]%.

This is what they call can not be developed here.

In fact, they just ate and wiped away, chopped and snatched away all the precious resources here, so that they can live a prosperous life, and then said to the Indian tribes here that they have nothing to eat or clothes to wear. Can not develop!
They also told others that this is a forbidden place for humans, so don't come here!

In fact, they have been plundering the undeveloped forbidden land for hundreds of years.

Continental colonial robbers have this virtue, plundering other people's resources, making them poor, and making all kinds of lies to deceive others, so that others cannot develop.

They lied, they cheated, they built a world of lies, plundered wildly, occupied all kinds of resources, and enjoyed a luxurious life. Others are not entitled to enjoy life, and can only be exploited and oppressed by them!
This is the world dominated by European colonial robbers.

Then, what would it be like in the world dominated by Da Ming?

At the mouth of the Amazon River, the huge fleet of the Daming Navy was heading upstream along the north bank of the river, slowly heading southwest.

Taichang can be regarded as having seen the world, but he couldn't help being secretly surprised when he saw this wide river that seemed to have no boundaries.

My God, how wide is this river?

If the water in the river hadn't been slowly flowing in one direction, he would definitely have thought that the fleet was still sailing in the sea, not in the river.

At this moment, the fleet is about ten miles away from the north bank of the river, but when he scanned the south with the binoculars, he couldn't see the south bank at all!

No wonder the colonists didn't develop here.

The development here is also too difficult, and it is basically impossible to build a bridge within a distance of nearly a hundred miles from the estuary.

Just kidding, who built bridges that are tens or even hundreds of miles long these days?
If the bridge cannot be built, the traffic on both sides of the strait will become a big problem. The traffic is not convenient, and it is conceivable how troublesome it is to develop.

Of course the colonists would not have a headache for this kind of thing.

It's not easy to develop here, so let's develop other places. Anyway, there are plenty of colonies, and they don't need to make trouble for themselves.

As for the Indian tribes here, even if they die of poverty or starvation, it has nothing to do with them.

Of course, this was the idea of ​​the colonists.

Taichang's idea is to overcome difficulties and develop here.

So, how to overcome this difficulty?
In fact, there is no way.

The water flow here is quite gentle, and the crossing of ships is not a problem at all. As long as more piers are built on both sides of the river, and more ships are built, the traffic problem will basically be solved.

He thought about it carefully, and then said to Li Shuchu: "Berke, it seems that the shipyard must be built here.

The river is too wide, and it is basically impossible to build a bridge. Only boats can be used to connect the two banks.

If there are not enough boats, the traffic problem cannot be solved. "

When Li Shu heard the words, he couldn't help nodding and said: "The emperor is wise, it happens that the inexhaustible timber here is very convenient for shipbuilding. Perhaps, in a few years, water cities like Suzhou will rise here."

Uh, yes, there is simply not enough wood here, and it is so convenient to build a boat!

In fact, Taichang hadn't considered the material issue yet, his mind was full of traffic issues just now.

Now that Li Shuchu said this, he suddenly realized that this is also a good place to set up a shipbuilding base!
The wood in the Amazon jungle is really inexhaustible. At least, there must be no problem in building tens of thousands of ships.

Moreover, they can cut down trees and plant more trees at the same time, so that the wood is really inexhaustible.

Perhaps, a civilian shipbuilding base can be set up here to turn this place into a real water town.

The fleet drove on the vast and boundless river for about an hour, and finally a circular entrance resembling a bay appeared on the river bank in front.

The boat Ma Xianglin sent to guide turned north, and soon, the entire fleet entered a river about two miles wide, and there were dense figures and a row of piers under construction not far ahead.

The Santa Ana stronghold established by the Portuguese finally arrived.

This place is like a calm bay, which is very suitable for building a pier.

Soon, the Emperor docked at a newly built large pier.

This pier should have been built by Ma Xianglin's order day and night, because the Portuguese did not have a warship as big as the Emperor, and it was impossible to build such a large pier.

Taichang looked at the exhausted Ma Xianglin and the others on the pier, and couldn't help but secretly nodded.

As soon as the hanging ladder was lowered, he took a group of entourage to the pier quickly, grabbed Ma Xianglin who was about to kneel down to salute, waved his hands back hurriedly, and said kindly: "Everyone has worked hard, No courtesy, no courtesy."

Ma Xianglin hurriedly led the crowd to cup their hands and said in unison: "Thank you, Your Majesty."

okay.

Taichang shook his head slightly, and then he said with concern: "How about it, it's all right if the soldiers haven't returned it, no one has been poisoned by heat?"

Ma Xianglin quickly replied: "Your Majesty, don't worry, the general ordered people to prepare enough herbal tea for them every day, and everyone is fine."

As long as it's okay, he's really afraid of the horrors here like rumors.

Taichang nodded slightly, and then asked again: "How wide is the river, have you sent someone to check it?"

Ma Xianglin was also a little shocked and said: "The general has already brought people to investigate, the river here is really a bit scary, if you cross it from the mouth of the sea, it will take at least five hours to reach the south bank from the north bank.

This is a fork of the main river, but it takes about an hour to reach the island in the middle of the river from here.

If you want to cross from here to the south bank of the big river, you have to pass through a small island more than a hundred miles wide in the middle, and the entire voyage will take more than five hours. "

My God, this means that the main road at the mouth of the Amazon is at least four or five hundred miles wide!
Can this still be called a river?

This is simply a large lake!
(End of this chapter)