open sea

Chapter 611 Ya Nian
The severe winter of the third year of Wanli arrived as scheduled, but the Ming Dynasty expeditionary force in Northern Asia felt the severe cold here three months ago.

Although they had traveled far, the frigid regions of this vast continent were so large that the expeditionary forces thought they would spend their entire lives here.

But at least Magui's winter is much better than last year.

In May, his people established the first port at the eastern end of the Heishui Mohe Islands connecting Wangxia State and North America. It was at the site of the Jurchen Envoy Deer Department that had helped them have hundreds of clans and nearly a thousand people. In the territory.

But it was actually just a small outpost with five igloos and two wooden trestles, named Xialugang, and Jurchen soldiers stationed with two small flags.

Regardless of its size or location, Xialu Port only exists as a guiding route and has no other strategic significance, because ships can only arrive near this small port in summer, and at other times it is sometimes affected by ice floes, and sometimes it may not be possible at all. Pass the ship.

Magui's real port is located in a bay that sails nearly 36 miles northeast along the coast of Xialu Port. It is called Meiwan, and it does not freeze even in winter. It took [-] days to find an area on the beach where cargo ships and warships could dock.

The harbor was not named at first, but it was called Majiagang after the expeditionary army settled down. The soldiers of the expeditionary army who are still alive have now fully realized how difficult it is to acquire land here to show their ancestors.

No one has the original wishful thinking anymore, they just want to live here, because it is more difficult for them to give up the land that is easy to get.

The vast beach of Majiagang lacks a good harbor, but there is a large tidal mud zone, and there is fertile land suitable for growing food a little far from the coast; a large number of marine fish can be preyed on from the bay, and there are a large number of lakes distributed inland. Geese and ducks, as well as the birds that inhabit the area, serve as ample meat reserves.

In the northwest, there are Jurchens who call themselves Ya Ni An, and Ma Gui prefers to call them Ya Nian Bu.

The ministries range from dozens to hundreds and live scattered between the mountains, forests and lakes in the west and north. Most of them make a living by hunting. When Magui and the others passed by, several tribes attacked them and were wiped out to appease them. The Duo tribe has established a relatively good relationship with them-in fact, even Majiagang was guided to him by these 'Jurchens'.

Ma Gui has gradually felt strange. There shouldn’t be so many Jurchens in the world, but they all look the same. It would be too flattering to call them Han Chinese, and it would be too far away to call them Mongols. Than they will dress.

However, General Ma was very good at dealing with problems. He wrote these things into a long letter and carried them on his body until the Ming army who was looking for them came and sent them back to Chen Mu in Tianjin, asking him to name these people.

On the third day of November, the zodiac said: It is suitable to travel, enter the house, and bury.

A funeral is being held in Majiagang, and Ma Gui personally delivers the funeral.

The cause of the incident was that Chen Mu sent people to search for Magui after he became the Minister of Beiyang, and asked him to continue his mission. The search team followed the footprints they left on Shuihu Peak all the way south, found them, left some supplies and delivered them to the past Yongle Years A recorded map of the East.

The name of the map is "Picture of Tribute from the Fans of the World". It was completed in the 16th year of Yongle. Chen Mu himself had doubts about the records of the east side of this map. The natives of Merika are mostly good at riding and archery, but they can create a little possibility for Ma Gui, so they send someone to Ma Zongbing.

The location on the map is not clearly marked, and the level of cartography back then was not as good as it is now. General Magui suspiciously sent five Jurchen Banner troops riding horses and deer to the northeast to look for bison and horses. The wild horses were indeed found, which looked like little donkeys. The back is weak and cannot carry people.

Although the bison was indeed found, the two flag soldiers who came back alive and were frightened insisted that they had not found the bison, saying that it was a monster with a length of more than ten feet and a thick back, and that it was a conspiracy for the Yanian people to let them settle here , Let the monsters kill them.

A monster was hit by several guns before it fell down, and a dozen monsters came rushing forward with all their strength. Two bannermen rode fast on horseback, and the other three on deer ran slowly. Trampled bloody.

Later, Magui sent someone to bring back the corpse. A team of one hundred households walked for eight days and searched the place for several days. They found the frozen corpse, and found the bloody bison corpse not far away. , and all the way back took longer—the huge bison was too heavy.

The coffin was buried in the ground, and Ma Gui stood in front of the grave and worshiped, and then frowned and took people to see the cow carcasses brought back by the Banner Army. They were used to parting from life and death, especially after landing in North America, some people starved to death Frozen to death, people fell into the mud and drowned in the sea, but this was the first time someone was killed by livestock.

The number of people in his hands is getting smaller and smaller. Except for a few small banner troops stationed in the four emissary deer tribes on the western coast of North America, there are only 270 people left under him, and they temporarily settle in this city. in the port named after the surname.

Like the plans of those cities in the country, this harbor city, Majia Port, already has its own walls at this time, which are made of locally felled wood.In addition to the three warehouses for stacking goods, there is an empty school yard near the beach in the middle, and the designated neighborhoods are on both sides. At present, there are only two streets of earth-wood houses, which are temporarily covered with leaves, soil and wooden boards, which looks very good. is crude.

But Magui has built a tile-fired land in the north of the city, and soon they will have enough tiles to prevent the roof from leaking.

The bison's body was placed on the school field, surrounded by a few circles of flag soldiers. People only dared to look at it from a distance but did not dare to touch it close, for fear that this huge beast would come back to life and charge and kill.

Ma Jin pushed the crowd away, kicked the ox's head, took a measuring ruler from the ox's tail, counted one foot by one, then turned to Ma Gui and said, "The body is ten feet three inches long, and the shoulder height is six feet nine inches. Anyone hit by this thing will not be able to survive - those Yanian people let us come here because they are uneasy and kind."

"Oh, I only saw a piece of food weighing several thousand catties." Ma Gui didn't care about it. He walked up to lift the cow's leg, but he could only lift one. Panasonic clapped his hands and said, "Put the skin Grilled and chopped off, it’s probably not edible after being frozen for more than a month, but you can weigh the weight of this thing, after all, it’s just a cow.”

"Beiyang ships can go directly to Majia Port. Counting the time, a new fleet will arrive this month. They will bring cattle, sheep, horses, cloth and craftsmen, rations, and more flag troops. I will write to Chen Shuai again to ask for some [-]-jin Franco cannons, don’t worry, these big bulls can only be living targets.”

"After the new year, the fourth year of Wanli is a good year. We can reclaim our own fields and raise our own livestock. It's time for the Banner Army left in the Yanian tribe to teach a few natives who can speak Chinese. Do things with them. These trade exchanges, more people and more land, Majia Port is just the beginning, next year, we will continue to move eastward!"

　The authenticity of the "Picture of All the Fans of the World Paying Tribute" is doubtful, and the picture does not say that there are bison and wild horses in North America, but only that the natives of North America are good at riding and shooting.

　　It is said that in North America there are cattle backs like humps, and there are wild horses in the land. It is Li Zhizao's "Kun Yu Wan Guo Quan Tu" in the Ming Dynasty. More than seventy years have passed.

　　The first connection was when the Pope of the Yuan Dynasty sent fifty missionaries to China, and the next seventy years was the era of Zheng He.

　　Many things are contrary to my common sense.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)