wild trail

Chapter 350
The scope of the fire was so wide that it burned for more than ten days. When everyone stood on the top of the mountain and looked into the distance, they could still see the faint light of the fire.

With such a serious forest fire, if it continues to burn like this, Poplar is a little worried that it will burn the entire jungle in the southwest.

It is easy to set fire and difficult to put out. After the fire is finished, the harm caused is not what Chen and Yang have considered.

Under the fire, most of their tasks are completed, and the next thing is to follow the footprints of the flames and clean up those that slipped through the net.

Although in such a severe forest fire, it is very difficult for any creature to survive, but just in case, the two also brought an army into skirmish formation to sweep the area.

Yancheng, in an ordinary house.

Zhao Langzhong from the Ministry of Rites is now tasked with teaching this dinosaur to read. Due to the difference in vocal organs, humans and dinosaurs cannot communicate with each other through sound.

Different language systems, the learning process of the dinosaurs is very slow. After a few months, apart from the numbers that are relatively easy to understand, the dinosaurs only learned more than 100 characters.

Most of these more than 100 are nouns. As for how to teach other vocabulary, I am worried about this poor Zhao Langzhong.

For example, a simple adjective is beautiful. He has to use a lot of beautiful things to explain the meaning of these two words. With such a slow teaching, he does not know how much effort he will need to get important information from this dinosaur man. can be realised.

Young Langzhong was lying on a deck chair in the small courtyard, basking in the sun leisurely. In the house, the dinosaur man was sitting on the chair, his snake-like eyes narrowed slightly, staring at Zhao Langzhong lying in the small courtyard, three fingers clenched into fists, Then he loosened it slowly. He knew that he could easily kill this short human being in front of him, but after killing him, he would definitely not survive.

Having been in the human world for so long, it knows how terrifying the humans on this new continent are, and they are not those stupid monkey-like guys on the old continent at all.

These humans are so smart, although it subconsciously thinks that these humans are beasts, but its rationality tells it that these humans are intelligent life that can be on an equal footing with its own race.

He didn't know if those same people who had escaped had returned to their own country. If the situation in the New World spread to the Old World, he didn't know what kind of storm it would cause.

Maybe there will be an extermination operation, the dinosaur thought.

Then he shook his head again, the situation in the Old Continent has nothing to do with him, how could those aristocrats care about the life and death of this unknown person, after the initial fear and fear, for such a long time, human beings did not harm themselves, but instead It's a little more comfortable to live in than the previous home.

Putting aside those messy thoughts in his mind, the dinosaur man picked up a book on the table, which is said to be a literacy book for human cubs.

"Human nature is good at the beginning!" It only knows these few words in this book, and thinks that human writing is too complicated, but after the patient explanation of this sentence, the human being in the courtyard roughly understands the meaning of this sentence meaning.

This sentence is very philosophical. He guessed that even the wise men in his own country might not be able to say such philosophical words, so he couldn't help admiring the wise man who wrote this book.

It does not understand the following characters, but this disease does not hinder its desire to read. Although human characters are complicated, some of them are very interesting hieroglyphs like stick figures, and occasionally they can guess what they mean .

Having lived in the human world for so long, he is very envious of human family relationships. Dinosaurs do not have the concept of family. After hatching, baby dinosaurs are not as weak as human cubs. Although young dragons have low intelligence, their physical fitness is far from Human pups are comparable.

The world of dinosaurs is a world where the strong prey on the weak. The strong can own everything, and the weak can only be at the mercy of the strong. As the lowest dinosaur, it is not entitled to the right to mate, and it does not know which of its parents it is. .

When seeing human parents raising their children, it is very envious of this kind of family relationship. He has an intuition that although the group of intelligent humans is relatively rare, it thinks that these humans may survive the siege of dinosaur civilization in the old continent. Maybe it can bring new changes to the decaying dinosaur civilization, and he hopes he can live to see that day?
Zhao Langzhong woke up from his lunch break, yawned, looked into the room, saw that the dinosaur man was studying, and nodded in satisfaction.

After several months of getting along, he has grown from being terrified of this strange creature to being indifferent now, and now he is able to treat this ugly guy with a normal heart.

Humans are more ruthless than plants and trees. I have been with this dinosaur for a long time. Although I can't call it a friend, at least I won't be an enemy.

After tidying up his clothes, Zhao Langzhong walked over slowly.

Zhao Langzhong's arrival did not arouse the slightest interest of the dinosaur man, and he carefully wrote the words on the Three Character Classic with three fingers holding the brush.

Zhao Langzhong glanced at the crooked water marks on the wooden board, and nodded in satisfaction. Wang Lang gave him more than a year to allow this guy to communicate with humans in a simple way. There is a lot of confidence in completing this task.

The dinosaur man put down his pen, grinned at Zhao Langzhong, raised his hand, and signaled Zhao Langzhong to sit down.

Zhao Langzhong smiled and sat opposite it. Although he knew that he couldn't understand his words, he still said slowly: "Your people will attack us soon. I really want to know what you think now. We The human country is so powerful, you will not win, you should work harder, learn our characters, and then tell your people, let them go back where they came from, after all, fighting will kill people, whose life It's not fate, it's wasted in fighting each other in vain."

The dinosaur man didn't know what this guy was muttering to him, but he just had to keep smiling and listen. From his contact with humans, he knew that this expression was a way of conveying kindness.

Two people of different species speak a language that neither understands the other. They talk about their own affairs without feeling anything abnormal. To outsiders, it looks like two psychopaths are talking.

Time passed slowly during Xia Guo's intense preparations for the war. When the second season of grain was received in the sixth year of Taichu, the sequelae of militarism began to appear.

This season's grain production has dropped by at least [-]% compared to a year ago.

There were no natural disasters in the main grain-producing areas of the Xia Kingdom this year. The reason for the reduction in production was the large loss of strong labor.

Listening to Kong Er's report, Wang Lang heaved a long sigh. Although the collective farm system was implemented, it could only be maintained at the current level.

The grain standard implemented by the Xia Kingdom today, with the reduction of grain production, prices have also risen a lot.

Half a year ago, three copper coins could sell a catty of corn, but now it has risen to five copper coins. The quality of life of the Chinese people has plummeted.

Except for the usual food and clothing, ordinary people basically don't have any spare money to buy extra things.

Although the quality of life of the common people has declined, it is a different story in the army. Most of Xia's tax revenue is used in the army, but the food supply of the soldiers has not been affected by the reduction in food production.

Wang Lang estimated that this state would last for a long time, but in the face of the survival of the race, no matter how difficult it was, he had to get through it.

In order to maintain domestic stability, Wang Lang ordered Jin Yiwei and the Ministry of Criminal Justice to arrest all those who caused trouble during this period and put them in prison.

Time passed by little by little, Xia Guo spent two years in the midst of intense preparations for the battle.

It took two years for the former recruits to become veterans, and the southwest region had been calmed down. After the two of Yang Shu came back, they told about the process of exterminating the insects, and Wang Lang immediately knew what the black liquid was.

Although oil is of little use in this era, refining it into gasoline bombs is a very good killing weapon.

With the addition of the Southwest population, the shortage of Xia's labor force was immediately alleviated. In the past two years, Li Mu has transported nearly 8 people to the Xia's mainland.

In addition to pioneering the southwest, Li Mu immediately dispatched a new ship to start whaling during the season when the whales return. The oil lamps and candles made from whale oil are very resistant to burning, and the appearance of whale oil immediately replaced them. The original material, with its abundant output, allows the luxury of candles to enter the homes of ordinary people, bringing light to the night.

Except for the uninhabited desert in the west, the mainland of China has been fully explored. Except for the human beings living in the corners, almost all the human beings on this continent have been concentrated by the Xia Kingdom.

According to statistics in the ninth year of the early days, the population of Xia Kingdom has exceeded 80.

With these 80 people, and the 20 troops who have been trained for nearly three years, coupled with the initial semi-industrialization, Xia already has the capital to defend the country.

The dinosaur, who has lived in the human world for nearly three years, is now able to communicate with humans in words. Although he can't speak, it and Zhao Langzhong have been learning from each other, and they can understand their own languages.

Now it already has a human name, which is selected from the Three Character Classic, called Fang Shaoshi.

Wang Lang learned from Fang Shaoshi's mouth that the country where the dinosaurs lived was called the Shilunjia Dynasty. There were almost a dozen countries in the entire American continent. The Shilunjia Empire belonged to the upper-middle level. Hegemony status, with a population of nearly 500 million people.

It's just that this powerful empire is currently fighting with the empires of the African continent. The level of civilization of the dinosaurs in the old continent is also high and low.

Due to geographical restrictions, the American continent has been at war all year round. The three continents of America, Europe, and Atlantis have conquered each other for hundreds of years. The military level is extremely advanced.

But the large area in the east is not as complicated as these three continents.

Three empires of similar strength in the East divided Asia and formed a delicate balance.

Although the old continent was ruled by dinosaurs, these dinosaurs were also divided into several races.

The dinosaurs in America are all tailless dinosaurs like Fang Shaoshi, and they look no different from humans in appearance.

But the dinosaurs in Asia and Europe are another completely different race. The dinosaurs there are smaller. Although they walk upright, they have a long tail behind their buttocks.

Regarding the situation of humans in the Old Continent, Wang Lang just let out a long sigh after hearing this.

Because the humans there were suppressed by the dinosaurs, although they were smarter than ordinary animals, compared to the intelligence level of humans in the mainland of China, the humans there were no different from fools.

For intelligent species, the humans there are beasts, and the dinosaurs have trained humans, which can be said to be no different from livestock.

After millions of years of reproduction, human beings have been divided into many breeds like pigs. The delicious meat has become the delicacy on the dinosaur table, and the clever ones have been trained as pets.

From a human point of view, it is natural that they are very angry at the fate of their own race, but from the point of view of dinosaurs, there is nothing wrong with them doing so.

As far as human beings are concerned, any animal can be food, or domestic animals and pets. If one day, the pets at home suddenly appear intelligent and establish a civilization more advanced than themselves, how will human beings feel?

Wang Lang only thought of fear and threat. He believed that the dinosaurs were the same. After the dinosaurs who fled back brought back the situation of the humans here, he believed that the humans on those continents would face annihilation.

After so many years, I don't know how many humans are left on the Old Continent.

But relying on Xia Guo's current strength, it is not enough to barely protect himself. If he wants to keep his fellow clansmen in dire straits, they have more than enough will but not enough power.

With his own judgment, Wang Lang can also understand how the dinosaur man Fang Shaoshi felt in the past three years. Let himself be on an equal footing with humans who were originally pets and livestock, and even become a prisoner. You can imagine how much pressure he has in his heart. .

Being able to persist for so long, and now adapting to the change of status, he had to take a high look at this side when he was young.

Wang Lang didn't know why Shi Lunjia Dinosaur Kingdom didn't attack Shenzhou after so long. Although the enemy didn't come for a long time, Xia Kingdom's armaments still didn't drop at all.

With the installation of bronze heavy artillery and steel field artillery, Xia's military level has increased several times.

Sea ships had bronze heavy artillery, which played a vital role in the coastal defense of Great Xia.

Xia Kingdom now only has a navy of 5000 people, and only ten warships, but if the Shilunjia Dinosaur Kingdom goes to Xia Kingdom again, even if they break through the navy's defense line with their huge numbers, the coastal forts will let these enemies experience it. What is a meat grinder war.

Although the principles of muskets and artillery are the same, the problem of insufficient power cannot be solved for a long time. A musket with insufficient power has no actual combat value at all, and the power of primitive muskets cannot be compared with bows and arrows at all.

(End of this chapter)