Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 706 Everything is a cloud

Is the Amazon jungle really a forbidden zone for humans?
of course not.

Because there were many primitive Indian tribes here.

However, it is true that there are some dangerous places that locals are afraid to go.

These places either have dangerous animals such as leopards, poisonous snakes, and crocodiles, or terrifying species such as electric eels, piranhas, and parasitic fish.

Ordinary people really only have to run for their lives when they encounter these things. Even the primitive tribes here don't have any good equipment and no good way to deal with these things, so it's normal not to dare to approach them.

Taichang originally thought that cleaning these things would be troublesome.

Of course, the trouble he thinks does not refer to dangerous animals such as leopards, poisonous snakes, and crocodiles. These things are just clouds in front of the well-equipped Ming army.

The trouble he sees is electric eels, piranhas, parasitic fish and other scary species hiding in the water.

Unexpectedly, these things are also floating clouds in front of experienced fishermen.

Taichang was already eager to try the method proposed by these old fishermen.

As for quicklime, because the city is going to be built here, a lot will naturally be pulled over.

As for the liver and lungs of any animal, you only need to send dozens of teams to hunt in the jungle.

He plans to deal with the parasitic fish first, then kill the electric eels, and finally deal with the piranhas.

Early the next morning, he set off with a fleet of more than a hundred Spike warships.

There are quite a lot of tributaries of the Amazon River. According to the statistics of later generations, there are tens of thousands of tributaries of the Amazon River, and they are densely packed, just like spider webs.

Fortunately, the soil in the north of the estuary is relatively compact, and there are not many tributaries, only a dozen or so in total.

Moreover, it is rumored that there is only one parasitic fish.

These parasitic fish are less than an inch long, and they are quite small. They hide under the water, so people can't see them.

But fortunately, wherever there are such parasitic fish, they are recruited.

For example, fish carcasses floating on the river or carcasses of other animals.

The tribe here is quite experienced. If you see some corpses floating on the river for no reason, and there are fish or other animals struggling desperately in the water, with blood flowing, then there must be parasitic fish.

Seeing this terrifying scene, Taichang couldn't help feeling a little creepy. It's really scary for this invisible and intangible little fish to drill into the flesh and blood vessels.

The faces of the old fishermen who came with the boat did not show a trace of emotion. They directly took a few bolts of cloth, tied them with stones, and blocked the two ends of the several-foot-wide river, and let the boats filled with lime pass through this section of the river. Evenly spread out, and then the quicklime blocks fell into the river like raindrops.

More than ten boats of quicklime weigh hundreds of thousands of catties. This section of the river is neither wide nor deep, and the bottom is estimated to be densely covered with several layers of quicklime.

At the beginning, there was only a little white smoke on the river, and after a while, the whole river boiled.

The strange thing is that in this section of the nearly [-]-step long river, not a single big fish was scalded out of the water by the boiling water.

After a while, when the white steam gradually dissipated, Taichang raised his binoculars and scanned the water surface carefully. Sure enough, there were many small white fish floating densely on the water surface, especially in the cotton cloth area on both sides.

Of course, it's also possible that the fish wasn't white, and it's quite possible that the fish only turned white after being cooked.

In short, the parasitic fish here should be cooked after this cooking, and they can no longer parasitize.

The next step is to hunt electric eels.

Naturally, the number of electric eels cannot be too large, and the distribution area cannot be determined. The primitive tribes here only know that there is a tributary that is more than [-] miles long.

There is no way to surround this one, so we can only use eel nets to go all the way from the mouth of the river along the river.

At the beginning, they didn't catch any electric eels at all, but they caught a lot of big fish and small fish, because the mesh of the eel net is not as thick as a finger, basically even slightly larger fish can't escape.

Ten old fishermen commanded ten Spike warships to use five huge eel nets for nearly an hour, and they went along the river for more than ten miles. The fish on the ten Spike warships almost covered the deck. Pick up an electric eel.

Taichang held up his binoculars and followed far behind, with a wry smile on his face.

Finding an electric eel in such a long river is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Perhaps, he shouldn't bring people to hunt and kill electric eels. After all, this thing is not poisonous. Moreover, it is impossible for this thing to be a mess of electricity. As long as you don't catch it, it is basically unlikely to be electrocuted. arrive.

In other words, this thing is actually not very deadly, as long as you see it and don't provoke it.

Of course, you can also distribute more bamboo clips, and clip them when you see them.

Anyway, this thing is not very harmful, it seems that there is no need to mobilize so many people to hunt and kill it.

He was about to order the fleet to turn around, when there was a sudden exclamation from the front.

It turned out that there was something wrong with a net of fish that had just come out of the water.

Taichang couldn't help raising his binoculars to have a look, good guy, all the fish in a net were standing there with their belly upturned, and there were a few eels about the thickness of three fingers rolling in the fish pile.

Excitedly, several old fishermen leaned forward with bamboo clips, and caught them in the pile of fish. Soon, several electric eels about arm's length were clipped out.

An old fisherman couldn't help admiring: "The eel is so fat, it must be delicious when grilled!"

Well, few people have ever eaten grilled electric eel.

Taichang shook his head helplessly and smiled bitterly: "Okay, pass the order, the fleet should turn around, let's go back first, this electric eel, everyone just remember what it looks like, if you see it in the future, don't grab it with your hands, nothing will happen."

The fleet returned to the port wharf, and it was only about time.

At this time, more than ten teams had hunted dozens of large animals and returned, and they were slaughtering them there.

Seeing this, Taichang simply ordered people to remove the caught fish and dead electric eels off the boat first, and then loaded the buckets of viscera, blood, and scraps of meat left over from the slaughter on board the boat. Under the guidance of the chief, he rushed to another tributary.

There are quite a lot of piranhas in the Amazon jungle, and there are actually three of the more than ten tributaries.

So, he decided to try a tributary first, otherwise, he might not be able to clean it up today.

This is a tributary with a width of more than twenty feet and a length of about thirty miles. It is not known how many piranhas there are in it.

How do piranhas clean up such a long river?
A group of old fishermen discussed for a while, and soon distributed the barrels of offal, blood, and broken skin to twelve boats.

Immediately afterwards, they each took out a special net bag, poured a bucket of internal organs, blood, and minced flesh into it, and put the net bag back into the bucket.

At this time, six ships directly left the fleet and drove upstream at full speed, while the remaining six ships were evenly spread out at the entrance.

After about half an hour, the six boats began to twist and wriggle slowly on the river like snakes as if they had been agreed upon. Throw it into the water, and tie the top thick cable to the stern.

After a while, it was as if a pot had exploded in the river water, and an unknown number of palm-sized fish frantically surrounded the net pocket and began to bite.

The veteran fishermen on the boat immediately waved and ordered the six fishing boats to head upstream at full speed.

Naturally, Taichang gave the order without hesitation, and the rest of the fleet followed closely behind.

This scene is really spectacular. Behind the six fishing boats, there are densely packed fish heads, and more and more fish heads are gathered. The more and more fish heads are gathered, they are stretching several feet long, and they are still getting longer.

The six fishing boats drove wildly for nearly half an hour, and the six fish that set out in front also came towards them. Both sides slowed down almost at the same time, and then slowly passed by each other.

At this time, the water surface among the twelve boats was already crowded with piranhas, so densely packed that it made one's scalp tingle.

Twelve veteran fishermen poured another bucket of viscera, blood, and scraps of flesh into the water almost at the same time, then swiftly untied the cable hanging from the net bag, threw it into the water, and then took out the extinct net. Seal the two ends of the river, and slowly go to the middle.

This whole bag, a full bag of six big nets, I'm afraid there won't be a thousand catties of piranhas.

Immediately afterwards, several fishermen hooked out the net bag in the water with a hook and lock, poured a bucket of internal organs, blood, and broken skin into it again, and threw it into the water again.

This time there was no boiling water in the water, but there were still quite a few piranhas that slipped through the net.

They kept pulling up the net bag, tearing off the piranhas on it and throwing it into the bucket, and then kept lowering the net bag, making the boat slowly twist back and forth several times on the water surface until the net bag was pulled out again. There were no more piranhas, so they drove the boats over to report.

The piranhas in this river should have been cleaned up.

The question is, how to deal with the densely packed thousands of catties of piranhas.

After thinking about it for a while, Taichang ordered someone to sail over to pick up some old fishermen.

After several old fishermen bowed their hands respectfully, he asked straightforwardly: "What do you think is the right way to deal with these fish? Bury them or burn them, or chop them up and throw them into the river to feed the fish?"

This is too wasteful, right?
Several old fishermen looked at each other, and one of them bravely summoned up his courage and said, "Your Majesty, why don't we roast these fish and eat them?"

what?
Hearing this, Taichang couldn't help being dumbfounded.

He froze for a moment, and then asked with a little curiosity: "Do you think this thing is edible?"

The old fisherman nodded without hesitation and said, "Your Majesty, this meat-eating fish must be delicious. Why don't we try it first, and if there's nothing wrong with it, I'll bring you another one to try?"

Uh, this.

I can't eat anything casually.

Taichang thought for a while, then nodded slightly and said: "Okay, let's try it first, pay attention, if you want to eat it, you will feel uncomfortable, so don't eat it."

Several old fishermen hurriedly cupped their hands and bowed to obey the order, and then they couldn't wait to go back to their respective boats. They asked people to take out the charcoal brazier, lit some firewood and threw it in.

Obviously, they felt that it would taste better roasted than boiled.

Immediately afterwards, more than a dozen old fishermen took out sharp knives and picked some finger-thick firewood to sharpen. He stabbed it in his mouth and pierced it in half.

These vicious piranhas are no different from ordinary fish in their hands, and they are not ambiguous at all when they hold them, and they are not afraid of the fangs of those piranhas.

Immediately afterwards, they quickly broke open the fish maw, scraped off the fish scales, rinsed the processed piranhas in the river water, took them up to touch some salt, and then grilled the fish on the charcoal brazier.

They didn't seem to be satisfied after processing one piece, and everyone didn't want to stop. After processing one piece, they picked up firewood and continued to chop.

(End of this chapter)