Daming: I help my wife be the empress

The American Exploration Squadron has only one mission to establish a base during this trip, and that is Seattle.

As for the follow-up section of the southbound terminal (Los Angeles) along the west coast of America, at most a few strongholds will be established, and a new development base may not be established until the next visit.

Therefore, after the engineering team built several simple trestle bridges and brought in more tools, the squadron consisted of more than 1000 people, most of whom disembarked from five large ships, and were assigned various tasks to work hard.

Mainly felling trees and leveling the land, but also arranged for special personnel to find suitable soil and locations, and prepare to open kilns and burn bricks.

As the top leaders of the internal affairs, Yu Chenglong, the supervisor of the army, and Yu Guozhu, the logistics officer, led the other civilian officials and officials of the fleet to be very busy.

This feeling of building a development base, or an immigration base, from scratch on a piece of land rich in resources still fascinates Yu Jackie and other civil servants.

On the other side, the commander of the squadron, Shi Lang, had a small meeting with the commander, Ruan Jin, and other senior and senior officers of the fleet, and asked Ruan Jin to command an ironclad cruiser to explore inland along the bay.

Because on the map given by the imperial court, the most suitable place to establish an immigrant base is not the port where they anchored at this time, but go southeast along the bay, and there is a large lake on the east side of the land on the east coast when the southeast end of the bay is approaching. .

Of course, the port they are in is also good, suitable for berthing ships, and also suitable for guarding the passages in and out of the bay. It is not wrong to build a port sub-base here first.

When Shi Lang got ashore, he saw Yu Jackie standing on a high slope overlooking the entire port, so he walked over.

Seeing him coming, Yu Chenglong said, "Zunhou (Shi Lang), what do you think of naming this place Donglaigang?"

Shi Lang didn't care about the right to name a port, and said with a smile, "It's as long as the supervising army likes it."

"Then let's call it Donglaigang."

Shi Lang stood next to Yu Jackie and looked at the port, and found that it was more beautiful from another angle - the land formed a large half-circle on the east side, enclosing the port, which undoubtedly reduced the wind and waves here a lot.

There are hills one mile away, with many tall trees growing to form a forest, and further away are mountains, but the mountains are not too high, and there is a small river flowing out of it, which is just convenient for them to cut wood in the mountains.

According to the exploration of the Marine Corps, there are not only other rivers but also some small lakes a few miles away, and there is no shortage of fresh water and fertile soil.

At this time, Yu Chenglong said again: "It's still relatively cold here, we need to store more wood for the winter. In addition, there is not enough food, so we have to exchange some with the surrounding natives."

Shi Lang smiled and said, "It shouldn't be difficult to hunt here, and we can also fish.

I saw just now that there are quite a lot of fish in this bay. With our big net, after a few nets, there is almost one fish for each person in the fleet. "

"At that moment, I arranged for people to fish, and tried to let the soldiers drink fresh fish soup at night."

···
a few days later.

Li Xiangen took two civil servants, escorted by fifty marines, and began to visit the surrounding tribes.

After several days of investigation, they found that there were three tribes south of the port. The closest one was the No. [-] tribe they encountered on the day of landing, and the No. [-] tribe in the southeast.

Across the middle of the two tribes and further south for more than a dozen miles, there is a larger tribe No. [-].

But even the No. 300 tribe has only two or three hundred people.

No. 200 and No. 70 tribes only have [-] people, and the average number of adults who can hunt is about [-].

As for how many people in the No. 100 tribe can hunt, the Marine Corps has not been able to find out clearly, but it is estimated that there are at most [-] people.

Li Xiangen and two clerks slowed down the speed of the marines, and after leaving the port for half an hour, the marines said, "Walk another two miles, and you will arrive at Tribe No. [-]."

He just finished speaking, and the soldiers who were exploring the way in front withdrew and said: "I have met people from the No. [-] tribe. I have already expressed the meaning of the deal with them. They understand, but they don't want us to continue to approach." their tribe."

Everyone looked at Li Xiangen.

Li Xiangen said: "Okay, it's the same when trading outside."

Soon, the group came to a clearing in the forest, and saw a dozen or so natives waiting, but there were other half-hidden natives around.

Li Xiangen came forward with the goods and communicated with the natives.

This time he brought some sugar again, then dried salted fish, and then cotton cloth.

The short knives were not brought anymore—the higher-ups were worried that the short knives traded would eventually become the weapons of the enemy. Although they were not afraid, they still didn't want to trade too many short knives when they didn't know much about these natives.

During the transaction, Li Xiangen first took out a sugar bowl and said loudly, "Sugar!"

The other party didn't understand what it meant at first. After listening to Li Xiangen repeating it several times, he learned to make a similar sound, "Sugar?"

Li Xiangen nodded quickly, "Sugar, sugar."

Then he put the sugar on the open space, took out another piece of dried meat, and repeated: "Meat."

This time the leading native quickly imitated the pronunciation of "meat", then shook his head, took out their prey, and shouted: "#!"

Li Xiangen immediately followed suit: "#!"

In this way, Li Xiangen patiently used the opportunity of trading to learn several words from the natives, and at the same time let the leading natives learn several Chinese characters.

The soldiers of the Marine Corps could not help but admire it when they saw it.

"Counselor Li is really quick to learn the language of the natives. He is worthy of being an official of Honglu Temple."

"I feel that after ten and a half months, Counselor Li can communicate with these people in local language."

"I have also dealt with these natives a few times, but every time I made gestures and even made eye contact."

"Haha, then you're quite amazing, you can actually flirt with the natives!"

"Fuck you, you're just flirting with the natives."

"What's wrong with the eye contact? The native girls here are not ugly."

"Why, did you see it?"

"···"

After Li Xiangen finished the transaction with the No. 1 tribe, in exchange for more than 200 catties of dried meat and dozens of animal skins, the soldiers of the Marine Corps behind him were already addicted to the nasty jokes of the native girls.

Li Xiangen laughed when he heard this, and interjected: "You guys, is it appropriate to joke about girls from other tribes in person? Be careful of being caught by them as son-in-law!"

Immediately, some soldiers laughed and said: "If the girl is beautiful enough, I would be happy to be the son-in-law!"

Seeing the excited faces of the soldiers, Li Xiangen suddenly realized something.

It has been more than half a year since everyone left Japan. The soldiers are young and strong, and now I am afraid that they will feel pretty when they see a sow, not to mention that the natives here look similar to them.

'When you go back, you have to talk to the supervising army, and let him pay attention to restraining the soldiers, and don't do anything bad to attract the hostility of these native tribes. '

'However, the needs of the soldiers have to be resolved... When the spring begins to get acquainted with these native tribes, maybe you can consider asking their girls if they are willing to marry outside? '

'But even if the natives are willing to marry outsiders, there are more wolves and less meat. '

Thinking about these questions, Li Xiangen followed the Marine Corps to the vicinity of the No. [-] tribe, conducted a successful transaction again, and learned some local languages.

After eating some dry food for lunch, the group headed to the No. [-] tribe.

Zhetong, the team leader on the road, said: "Not to mention that there are many people from the No. [-] tribe. We have never dealt with them before. When we encounter them, we must be careful, and don't fall into the hands of the natives."

"understand!"

The soldiers responded one after another, but they didn't care too much.

They are dressed in fine cotton armor, as long as they are not very unlucky, even if they are attacked, they will be fine.

Conversely, with the flintlock guns in their hands, or even relying on sword armor for close combat, one person can beat ten natives.

In fact, if the military and political officers hadn't done a good job in ideological work and the discipline of the troops was relatively strict, it would be impossible to say that all the soldiers would have looted these native tribes. It doesn't matter how much property the native tribes have, what matters is that they have women.

The desire for women of the soldiers who have been abstinent for more than half a year cannot be ignored.

When they were four miles away from the No. [-] tribe, the soldiers who were looking for the road in front rushed back and said, "The team is in charge, there is a group of natives in front who are being chased by another group of natives, and they are approaching our side!"

"Is there anyone from Tribe Three?"

"I don't know."

Hearing this, Zhetong hesitated for a moment what to do.

Li Xiangen said: "Captain Zhe, maybe we can save the people first, and then ask them about the situation."

Hearing this, Zhetong nodded, "Let's go, do as Counselor Li said."

Second more.

Good night~
Correct the typo later.