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Chapter 147 Treating the Aboriginals to a meal
The people on the boat quickly disembarked. The factory workers, escorted by two hundred households, went to explore the nearby area, while the Huotou Army began to set up pots and make rice.

Li Tianxin called the group of linguists and gave them a rough explanation of the situation here.

"This is the situation. Learning the language of the natives, or teaching the natives to learn the Mandarin of the Ming Dynasty, is indeed extremely difficult. After all, there is no comparison. It is like a baby learning to speak."

"But I believe you will be able to achieve something. You are all people with extraordinary talents in language. I won't put any requirements on you. You just try your best to learn and teach. Just take your time."

Xu Faming stroked his beard and smiled and said: "Even if a baby learns language, it can take several years to achieve success. If we study hard, I believe it won't take long."

This is indeed the truth. If a person lives in another place for a few years, he can always learn some local language. Even if he cannot speak it, he can generally understand it without any problem.

This is without deliberately studying. If you deliberately study and just study without doing anything else all day long, you will soon get results.

After explaining to the linguists, Li Tianxin called Zhang Qianhu and generals at all levels, including Paul and Daniel, and told them: "These aborigines are related to our Ming Dynasty's century-old plan and cannot be taken lightly."

"You must take good care of your subordinates and do not allow them to act recklessly. I will not forgive anyone who dares to bully the natives."

After hearing this, the generals of the Ming army clasped their fists in response. Paul and Daniel also bowed and accepted the order after listening to Chen Hang's translation.

It was Li Tianxin's plan to guide the civilization of the Native Americans and integrate them into the Ming Dynasty's social system.

He is unwilling to follow the European path, but he can achieve his goal in his own way.

More than two hours later, the people sent back by the aboriginal leader came back, and he also brought back hundreds of aborigines.

The leader was an old man, wearing a crown made of eagle feathers on his head, an animal tooth necklace hanging around his neck, relatively complete linen clothes, and holding a cane with an animal tail tied to it.

Not surprisingly, this old man should be the chief of this tribe.

The people who came with him were all strong young aboriginal men. They held stone spears and axes in their hands and simple bows and arrows slung on their shoulders. They were obviously warriors in the tribe.

Most of the aborigines are barefoot, and only a few wear straw sandals made of hay.

Seeing the arrival of a large number of aborigines, the Ming army officers and soldiers also gathered one after another and stood behind Li Tianxin and others.

The old chief looked at these visitors from a foreign land who were beautifully dressed and had extraordinary bearings, and a hint of awe appeared on his face unconsciously.

When the middle-aged leader saw someone coming from the tribe, he quickly put down his work, cleaned the knife, and wiped it dry on his only trousers.

Then he sheathed the knife and put the knife on his waist. Then he met the old chief, took the initiative to lead him to Li Tianxin, and said something.

The chief leaned on crutches, bent down to Li Tianxin, and said a series of words, but unfortunately Li Tianxin could not understand a word.

He could only smile and said: "We are here to help you live a good life. You may not understand it now, but you will understand it in the future. Since you are all here, let's have a meal together."

After saying these words, Li Tianxin told Zhang Qianhu on the side: "Say hello to the brothers and invite these natives to eat together. There is no need to save the meat in the store. Make more."

"Yes."

Under the puzzled eyes of the chief and the aborigines, Li Tianxin made a follow-me gesture to them and led them towards the place where the Ming army soldiers were cooking.

The configuration of the Huotou Army of the Ming Army was that one small flag managed one hundred households, which was equivalent to one cooking squad in charge of one company in later generations.

The cooking utensils include two simple stoves, two large iron pots, two folding tables, a large steamer, and several large iron basins.

One of the two pots is used to steam rice, and the other is used to stir-fry or stew soup. The folding table is used as a chopping board.

What soldiers use to eat is a stainless steel multifunctional lunch box.

At this time, the operation team of the Huotou Army was lined up on the coast. The meals were already prepared. Riding in the large iron basin, the Ming Army soldiers took out the stainless steel lunch boxes they carried with them and began to line up to prepare meals.

As the aborigines approached this area, their nostrils couldn't help but twitch, and they all swallowed saliva subconsciously.

They have never smelled such fragrant food. After all, they now only know how to barbecue and cook in stone pots. The only seasoning is the salt obtained by boiling sea water.

Salt boiled directly from sea water is edible, but it is definitely not clean.

While the aborigines watched helplessly, a group of Ming army soldiers began to distribute stainless steel lunch boxes to them one by one with spoons in the boxes, and then guided them to line up.

Li Tianxin arranged three fire-headed troops to prepare meals for the aborigines. Those brothers who had not eaten for the time being could only wait and make more meals later.

Anyway, the factory fans and the escort team who went out to explore have not come back yet, and Ben will start a small stove for them soon.

When the aborigines took the first bite of food, there were screams of exclamation one after another along the coast.

Then the aborigines, led by the old chief, began to kneel down and worship again.

The objects they knelt down were not limited to Li Tianxin and others, but also the Ming army officers and soldiers who distributed lunch boxes to them and brought them meals. They were all the objects they knelt down to.

Bai Feifei and others who were watching looked at this scene and were quite touched.

Shen Lang sighed softly and said: "Although it is very unaccustomed to these natives to kneel down and worship at every turn, from this incident we can see that these natives know how to be grateful."

Li Tianxin nodded in agreement and said: "Yes, some races are kind-hearted in nature and always grateful. Heaven and earth give them food, so they respect heaven and earth. Nature gives them food, so they respect nature."

"But there are also some races of people who are selfish and evil in nature. If you give these people good things, not only will they not be grateful, but they will think of ways to take away all your good things."

Speaking of this, he looked at the Portuguese and said solemnly: "Although people should not be biased, through my research, these Europeans are indeed that kind of race."

Everyone frowned subconsciously when they heard this. They had also discovered before that the Portuguese looked at the natives with a bit of condescension and arrogance, which made them very unhappy.

Bai Feifei looked at Li Tianxin and said, "Since you know what their virtue is, why bother raising tigers?"

Li Tianxin smiled and said: "First of all, they are not tigers and cannot be a problem."

"Secondly, because of their selfish and greedy nature, their concept of home and country is very weak. If they are allowed to attack their own country in the future, they will not have much resistance."

"They are willing to surrender to the strong. As long as you remain strong, their loyalty to their master will be higher than to the king of their own country."

"But once you weaken, they will betray you without hesitation when they find an opportunity."

Panda'er said nonchalantly: "Then just stay strong. I'm not an arrogant person, but I dare say that there aren't many people in the world who are stronger than us."

Li Tianxin said proudly: "Be more confident, not less. As long as those legendary immortals don't come out, there will be no one in this world who is better than us."

Hearing his words, a surge of pride surged from the hearts of everyone. Zhu Qiqi laughed and said, "Can't we still be called immortals now?"

Li Tianxin shook his head and said: "It can't be called that. If we really become gods and immortals, I'm afraid we won't be in this world."

Shen Lang's expression moved and he asked tentatively: "You mean...ascension?" Li Tianxin nodded and said: "Exactly, the various legends circulating in the world may not be groundless. In the past, we were not sure whether there was a way to achieve enlightenment and become an immortal in this world. people."

"But now that we have embarked on the path to immortality, it is obvious that immortals are real, but why are there no traces of them in this world?"

"Obviously, when a person truly cultivates to the point of transforming into an immortal, he will most likely ascend and leave this world."

"This is beyond our control. It belongs to the rules of heaven and earth. When the time comes, I'm afraid we won't be able to leave even if we don't want to, unless we voluntarily give up our cultivation and die of old age in the world."

Everyone was silent, they knew that what Li Tianxin said was probably the truth.

If immortals and their like can remain in the human world, then there will never be any trace of them in the world.

Just like the Patriarch Chunyang mentioned by Shen Lang before, he was born in the Tang Dynasty, but he was still walking around the world during the Southern Song Dynasty. At this time, he was already over 300 years old.

But no one has seen him again after the Southern Song Dynasty, and his whereabouts are self-evident.

Li Tianxin waved his hand and said: "It's too early to talk about those things now. We are still far away from that realm. We should live to at least two hundred years old before considering those issues."

Panda'er laughed and said casually: "That's true. Being able to live freely in the world for 200 years is something that we couldn't even imagine before. Why do we want to think so far now?"

Shen Lang also smiled and said: "That's right. Let's consider first how to lead the people to live a good life."

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This time Li Tianxin did not step forward to help the kneeling aboriginal people, because there were Ming army soldiers to do it.

Zhang Qianhu helped the old chief up, put the lunch box back into his hands, and patted his shoulder with a smile.

Others also helped the aborigines up, sat down on the ground with their lunch boxes, and ate with them.

Although both parties could not understand each other's words, the smiles on their faces were the best communication.

Linguists do not forget their work when eating. Xu Faming is holding the lunch box in one hand and pointing to the lunch box with the other hand. He can't help but say to the aborigines: "Lunch box, lunch box, lunch box..."

After a few times, the aborigines suddenly realized that this thing was called a lunch box.

Another person pointed at the spoon and said: "Spoon, spoon..."

In this way, they taught the aborigines to speak Mandarin bit by bit, just like teaching young children how to speak.

And to accumulate vocabulary, they also have their own methods.

For example, the linguist pinched his own clothes and shook them, then pinched the clothes on the aborigines and said: "Clothes, clothes..."

Or point to the fish and say: "Fish, fish..."

The aboriginal people will subconsciously say their pronunciation of clothes and fish. In this way, wouldn't there be two words that can be translated into each other?
Li Tianxin and his party came to the American continent, and the first meal they invited the aboriginal people to eat came to an end soon.

All the aborigines were full, because they saw that the Ming army soldiers could add more to their lunch boxes after finishing their meals, so they followed suit.

After the fire-headed army who prepares food is added to them, they will bend down again and again.

After finishing the meal, the Ming army soldiers did not take back their lunch boxes. They had spare ones with them, so there was no problem in sending a batch to the aborigines.

After the meal, the aboriginal people started to pack the pile of fish together. With so many people, the processing speed was naturally very fast, and they quickly packed more than thirty sacks.

It goes without saying that these fish were dried in the sun when they took them back. After all, they couldn't preserve the fresh ones.

When he was about to go back, the old chief came to Li Tianxin, gestured respectfully, and pointed in one direction from time to time.

Li Tianxin quickly figured out that the old chief wanted to invite them back to his tribe.

Li Tianxin did not refuse. He called Zhang Qianhu and asked him to bring a hundred-household team, several hand-operated generators, and corresponding tents and quilts, and follow the aborigines to the tribe.

As for the others, they camped on the coast for the time being, waiting for the exploratory factory fans to return.

After the base is built in the future, they can officially communicate with the indigenous people, gradually improve their lives, and at the same time let them provide labor.

Li Tianxin was naturally prepared for this trip. Some basic mechanical equipment could greatly speed up the starting stage.

For example, a steam forging machine can quickly create the necessary tools and equipment, a steam electric furnace can smelt various metals, a textile machine can weave and spin yarn, and so on.

With these basic equipment, they can quickly build a self-sufficient base and then further supply the indigenous people.

But the first step is definitely to settle down and solve the housing and food problems.

After these problems are solved, it is time to explore mineral deposits, especially coal mines, iron mines, and copper mines, which are the most important minerals in the early stages of development.

Fortunately, Brazil is quite rich in mineral resources, so it shouldn't be difficult to find them with a little effort.

In addition, although development is important, he will not forget the fundamental purpose of going overseas.

When he finds potatoes, corn, peanuts and other crops, he will first send a ship to send the things back, but he is in no rush to go back.

Now the fleet's coal is almost exhausted, but the remaining coal of the five ships is concentrated on one ship, which is enough to support one ship back to the Ming Dynasty.

I followed the aborigines for more than an hour, about five or six kilometers, and passed through several jungles before finally arriving at a tribe that lived near the water.

In this era, there were five social forms in the American continent, namely: nomadic hunter-gatherers, settled hunter-gatherers, tribal clans, farming chiefdoms, and nations.

Wandering hunter-gatherers wandered around, and after the edible wild animals in one area were harvested, they moved to the next area.

Such groups are often small in number, some are in groups of three or five, and some are in groups of dozens.

Sedentary hunter-gatherers live in a fixed location and then go out to other places to gather and hunt. There are also few people.

A tribal clan is a big family, and all members of the clan are blood-related relatives.

Agricultural chiefdoms are large tribes like those in the Yan and Huang Dynasties, with relatively large numbers of people, ranging from hundreds to thousands.

Finally, there are countries. Today, there are three countries in North and South America, that is, the three major civilizations, namely: the Aztec Empire, the Inca Empire, and the Mayan City-States.

The tribe that Li Tianxin and the others came to at this time was a farming chiefdom. Their food source mainly relied on farming, but also supplemented by gathering and hunting.

To Li Tianxin's delight, when they approached the tribe, they could see patches of land planted with potatoes and corn.

(End of this chapter)