Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 780 The Adventures of Bahia
More than [-] miles to the west of Salvador, the main city of Bahia, in the open space left after the deforestation, an unknown number of teams transporting timber are passing through it.

De Sierra and his party were one of them. Their first day seemed to be going well, except that they occasionally encountered some teams going to pull wood in the afternoon, and they did not meet anyone else.

Even if these timber delivery teams meet each other, they will not stop and chat enthusiastically. Everyone seems to be very tired, and they don't have the mood to talk at all.

This is naturally a good thing for De Sierra and the others, because only one person in their team can speak French, and it would be troublesome for them to stop to chat with them.

Fortunately, nothing happened along the way, until the sun went down, and the team in front stopped to bury their pots for cooking, and then they stopped and prepared to eat.

Naturally, this meal should be richer, because everyone didn't have enough at noon.

However, they couldn't figure out whether these ten sheep were meat for several days.

If calculated according to the quantity, the meat of these ten sheep plus the bones and internal organs weighs at least seven or eight hundred catties. Even if they can eat more than fifty "French infantry", they can eat at most five sheep in one meal. catty.

Under normal circumstances, with some soup and corn on the cob, two or three catties of mutton per person would be enough.

In other words, these ten sheep are likely to be their meat for two days.

The question is, if counting on the basis of thousands of people, it would be good if each of these ten sheep could eat half a catty of meat.

Can half a catty of mutton per person be considered a full meal?

They are all strong men, and they are all tired all day, half a catty of mutton will be gone after a few mouthfuls, and they are not full at all.

How to do it?

Desiera, Desilao and the leader of the Jinyiwei Baihu discussed for a while, but still made a decision.

The lamb chops are all chopped, stewed with nine pots of corn cobs, all the lamb is skewered, and grilled to eat, then take a bag of beef jerky and stew with a pot of soup.

Anyway, they brought a full hundred packs of beef jerky, and the empty space in the interlayer was filled with corn cobs, so they wouldn't go hungry even if there was no meat supply on the way.

Soon, Shangbaijinyiwei's elite began to chop lamb chops, cut lamb, and prepare barbecue sauce.

The others set up the pot, lit the fire, stewed the corn cobs and beef jerky first, and then each of them found a finger-thick branch and sharpened it to prepare for the barbecue.

This meal really gave them a delicious meal, but they had to clean up the scene after eating.

Those sheep bones and corncobs should not be thrown on the ground directly, because the slaves in other teams basically chewed up the corncobs and swallowed them.

During their journey, they had never seen corn cobs on the ground, let alone sheep bones.

So, they had to dig a hole to bury these things.

When sleeping at night, De Xie La and others don't have to take turns to be on duty. Instead, those elite guards pretending to be slaves are on duty in turn.

Early the next morning, they followed the team in front of them and started on the road again.

However, after driving for more than an hour, they found a farm on the side of the road ahead, and the team in front hadn't turned in yet.

Then the number of farms began to increase, almost every few miles there was one, either on the left side of the road or on the right side of the road.

It seems that the anti-Habsburg alliance army is preparing to stay here for a long time, otherwise so many farms would not be built.

When the Jinyiwei Baihu who led the team saw this situation, they knew it already.

Then it was approaching noon again, and the team in front finally entered a farm. This time what they wanted was another cow and more than ten chickens.

These guys, you don’t feed the captives, so much meat, won’t dozens of people eat you to death!
It seems that these French infantry are masters in this colony, and they can eat whatever they want.

Seeing this, Jin Yiwei Baihu, the leader of the team, thought about it carefully, and then said to De Silao: "This time, you go up and make friends with others, and ask them what they planted."

He wanted to know about his harvest. After all, if he opened so many farms and didn't feed the slaves, there must be something wrong.

[-] infantry plus less than [-] navy will definitely not be able to eat so much food. What are you using the extra food for?
If it is to grow food and sell it for money, that is not right. After all, the area they have opened up is more than one million acres of land at most. Compared with the tens of millions of acres of North American Indian tribes, it is not worth mentioning.

What's more, they themselves have to eat a lot, and the Portuguese here also have to eat a lot.

If people spend so much effort to earn hundreds of thousands of stone grains of silver, then their brains are flooded, and they might as well sell a few more boats of wood.

Desilau didn't think so much, he just nodded slightly, and then asked, "Then what meat should we order this time?"

Jin Yiwei Baihu, the leader of the team, thought about it for a while, and then said seriously: "Just ask someone for a few sheep and a few pigs, and say that you have a big appetite, and you can eat very much, and it depends on how much they give you."

This is actually from the side to understand other people's income.

After all, these colonial robbers robbed the money for their own enjoyment.

If people have more income, they will naturally eat and give whatever they want, and don't care if it is wasted.

If the income is not enough, then you must save some food.

In this case, the farmers here probably have to find a way to control the quantity. If they are given too much, the other teams will have nothing to eat, and they will not be able to pay the errands.

Desilau didn't think of the meaning of asking these, he was just shocked by the number.

How many sheep and how many pigs?

Pigs these days are three to four hundred catties a head, even if the internal organs are removed, there are more than 200 catties of meat.

It's not bad if the fifty or so of them can finish a pig in one meal!

If you want so much, will people give it to you?

After the group entered the farm, Desilau once again kindly revealed his half-Portuguese identity, and the farmer was really overjoyed.

After he was done, he pretended to be curious and said, "Every time I go back and forth, I feel that there are a few more farms. What are you growing, and you need so many farms?"

The farmer said without hesitation: "This is not what we need, but Prince Condé needs, that guy not only wants us to grow sugar cane and corn, but also wants us to try to grow cocoa beans and coffee beans.

Cocoa beans and coffee beans, you know, are very valuable.

Coffee beans, in particular, are worth as much as gold. "

Well, it turns out that these farms are also trying to grow cocoa beans and coffee beans in addition to sugarcane and corn, and finally found some useful news.

Desilau nodded slightly, and then pretended to look forward to saying: "I want a few pigs and sheep, do you have any more?
There is no way, the lads under my hand are too good to eat, they are still not full after asking for ten sheep yesterday. "

This is simple, if you speak up on your own, it's not easy to say.

Anyway, these pigs and sheep don't belong to him, he just keeps them and helps them deal with them. If there are not enough pigs and sheep, let them give them away.

The farmer here nodded without hesitation: "Yes, yes, just wait a moment."

Not long after, he led people to bring them five pigs and five sheep.

Seeing this, Desilao was startled.

Good guy, five pigs is more than 1000 catties of pork. If fifty people eat it for two meals, the fat will make people tired to death.

Of course, he wouldn't tell others about this. After they helped them deal with it, they set off immediately.

This day really made them delicious. At noon, they ate pork ribs stewed with corn, and at night, they had all kinds of stewed meat, roasted meat, fried meat, plus haggis soup, roast lamb, grilled lamb chops, and even corn on the cob. Save it, you will be full after eating meat and soup.

In the next few days, there were still continuous farms on both sides of the road, and there seemed to be no one else on the road except for the team transporting timber.

This is really a bit strange. Isn’t the anti-Habsburgs afraid that the Portuguese in these farms will run away with slaves or embezzle all kinds of materials produced?
They only found out when they inquired.

These Portuguese didn't dare to run at all, because the surrounding area was full of infantry from the anti-Habsburg alliance leading people to cut down trees, and they couldn't even run.

As for the misappropriation of all kinds of produced materials, it is even more like a dream. Once the harvest time of various crops comes, people will bring people over to harvest them, and they can't even swallow a single hair.

I have to say that the anti-Habsburg alliance army played this trick very well.

However, playing this way is also prone to mistakes.

For example, once an imposter enters their spying team, it will be the same as entering a no-man's land, and no one will care about it at all.

They even thought that this trip could go back to the business without any surprises.

Unexpectedly, when the convoy came to a place less than a hundred miles away from El Salvador, a small river suddenly appeared in front of it. Cards are set up there to check the teams crossing the river.

After the front team crossed the bridge, the French infantry who set up checkpoints even ordered the convoy's slaves to lift all the wood out of the car, and then checked them one by one.

When Desiera and Desirao saw this, they couldn't help being shocked.

Jin Yiwei Baihu, the leader of the team, was also secretly drumming in his heart.

Fortunately, they didn't hide their weapons and equipment in the hollowed out tree core, otherwise, it would be over in one fell swoop!

Question, how to pass this level?
If they rashly go up to let others check, will they reveal their secrets?

After observing carefully for a while, he found that the French infantry who were intercepted seemed to be staring at the wood for inspection, and some of the wood was intercepted by them, and the slaves in the front convoy carried them into the car and pulled them into the city.

Then there was no more, after the slaves who pulled the wood came back with their carts, the slaves of the entire convoy carried the rest of the wood onto the carts, and continued to set off, pushing the rest of the wood away!
What is going on here?
No matter what happened, we had to cross the river!

They haven't found any important news in the past few days. No matter what, they have to go to El Salvador to investigate.

And if you want to go to El Salvador, you have to cross this small river.

Seeing this, Jin Yiwei, the leader of the team, thought about it carefully, and then waved decisively: "Let's go, they probably just wanted to retain some of the wood. As for what they did with the wood, wait a minute, Desieira, you pretend to hold us and push the wood into the forest." Go check it out."

Well, it's fine if you just keep a little bit of wood.

Desilao hurriedly pretended to lead the convoy towards the stone bridge.

As a result, they stopped them as soon as they crossed the river, and asked them to lift all the logs out of the car, and then stared at the logs for careful inspection.

Why do these people intercept the wood here? What are these woods used for in the nearby city?

(End of this chapter)