wild trail

Chapter 371 made a fortune

After drifting on the sea for more than a month, they finally saw the land, which made the crew rejoice immediately. The captain immediately ordered the signalman to send a signal to another expedition ship, and the two expedition ships began to sail towards the small island.

The small island ahead looked very close, but it took more than three hours for the expedition ship to reach the coast.

The ship found a leeward position to dock and landed on the long-lost land. The crew wept with joy.

After everyone disembarked, the captain immediately gave the order to be on alert, no matter how careful you are in this strange place, you can't be too careful.

This small island is a deserted island, without any signs of civilized biological activities. The deserted island is overgrown with weeds, and the chirping of birds can be heard from the depths of the island from time to time.

This is good news for the expedition team. As long as there are animals, the expedition team can almost find supplies on this small island.

The crew began to set up camp on the beach. According to statistics, although the two ships did not suffer any major damage in the storm just now, they still lost more than 40 crew members. This is the first loss of crew since they went to sea. Under the circumstances, the morale of the explorers was a little low for a while.

He Tie followed the rest of the sailors to search for dry wood in the nearby jungle. He walked through the cabinet door once before, and he is still terrified now.

After this sudden accident, he truly realized the horror of the ocean.

He thought of his family in his heart, he knew that he absolutely must not die, his wife and children were still waiting for him to earn money and go back to live a good life, and he still had to watch his son marry a wife and have children.

After I die of old age, my descendants can come to my grave and tell what interesting things happened in Xia Kingdom.

As night fell, a bonfire was lit in the camp.

The sentries held their weapons and patrolled the camp back and forth.

The captains of the two ships got together and asked the surveyors to determine their positions. Although the expedition team members didn't know why their worlds were spherical, the location knowledge learned from the dinosaurs was indeed accurate.

The surveyors use the sextant to determine their position.

"Captain, we are currently in a position a little north of Harbor City, on the same route as our destination. Depending on the situation, we should find it soon."

The captain nodded and said, "I see, you guys go down and rest first."

Knowing their location, the two captains breathed a sigh of relief. If they get lost in this vast sea, then these people may never return to Xia Country.

The expedition team passed the page peacefully. On the second day, some people were left in the camp to collect fresh water through distillation.

Another group of people, holding weapons, went deep into the laughing road to find food supplements.

The environment of this laughing path is very similar to the environment in the northern part of the mainland of China.

The trees were not broad-leaved forests like the southern jungles. It was late autumn, and the withered and yellow leaves fell on the ground in a thick layer.

He Tie, with a steel knife in his waist and hips, walked carefully on the dead leaves with a spear in his hand.

Are your eyes looking at the dead leaves under your feet?

His hometown is in Yancheng. As for the jungle to the west of Yancheng, he often goes there. He knows that in this environment, there is a possibility that there are terrible poisons hidden. Can't save myself.

The boots made of animal skins made a rattling sound as they stepped on the dead leaves.

After walking for an hour, the expedition team found some strange birds, but did not find any large beasts, so they were a little disappointed.

Although there is still a lot of food left in the cabin, they don't know how long it will take them to return to Xia Country for this expedition. After leaving this small island, it is not right to want to find another small island in the vast sea. It's that easy.

Although it is about exploration, it is impossible for the human expedition to go eastward. Their first goal is to find the dinosaur supply island, occupy it, and then return to the harbor again. As long as they occupy this place, it will not be so easy for the dinosaurs to attack the country of Xia.

Hundreds of explorers walked through the jungle and climbed a high mountain. Standing on the top of the mountain, they can have a panoramic view of the island.

This small island is not big, and the top of the mountain is already the center of the small island. It is estimated that it will take more than an hour to reach the other end of the small island after going down the mountain.

Just as the expedition team was about to go down the mountain, He Tie stepped on a stone, and the smooth stone threw He Tie to the ground.

When his butt hit the hard ground, the pain made him grin his teeth.

Seeing his embarrassment, the companion beside him suddenly burst out laughing.

He Tie felt extremely embarrassed at this time, and looked at the stone that slipped him in anger, and got angry. He stood up, picked up the stone, and was about to throw it viciously into the distance.

But he was stunned suddenly, he suddenly found that this stone was very unusual, the whole body of this stone was light yellow, it looked very much like the nitrate scraped by Xia Guo in the latrine, but the nitrate had already formed lumps.

He Tie immediately realized that he had made a major discovery, and quickly shouted: "Captain, captain!"

The captain looked back and saw a black-faced man calling himself.

"what happened?"

He Tie quickly ran over with the stone and said, "Captain, look at this stone."

The captain took the stone in doubt, stared at it, and the color of shock gradually appeared in his eyes.

"This...is this...is this nitrate?" the captain stammered.

He Tie nodded and said, "I also think it's nitrate. I used to do the job of scraping nitrate. This thing is very similar to nitrate."

The captain took a deep breath and tried his best to calm down his nervous mood. If this thing is really nitrate, then there must be nitrate mines nearby. If this discovery is brought back to China, it will definitely cause a sensation.

Xia’s saltpeter output has always been very low, barely enough for the army to use, and only a small part of it is used by the people. If there is a saltpeter mine, then he will make a fortune. Although this thing will definitely be owned by the country, the expedition team After discovering this treasure land, the reward from the imperial court will definitely be enough for him to eat and wear for a lifetime.

Swallowing his saliva, he quickly ordered the team members to stop advancing and search for this kind of saltpeter nearby.

Hundreds of people dispersed immediately, bending over to look for all suspicious stones on the ground.

The hard work paid off, and after constant searching, someone finally discovered the situation at the entrance of a cave.

When the captain got the news and rushed there, he was stunned by the scene in front of him.

I saw this kind of saltpeter everywhere in this wide cave, densely packed, as if the whole mountain was made of this kind of saltpeter.

"Brothers, let's get rich, get rich." The captain shouted excitedly.

Except for a few people who knew the situation, the rest of the team members looked confused.

Seeing their bewildered faces, the captain said excitedly, "Do you know what this is? It's fucking saltpeter. Just this one can eat and drink alone in the capital for a month."

As soon as this remark came out, the team members were stunned. What is the concept of eating and drinking for a month, and it is in Yancheng.

"Get rich!"

"Get rich!"

. . . . . .

There were bursts of cheers on the hillside, startling a large flock of birds in the forest.

Quickly find a piece of wood, this place will be the territory of my Great Xia from now on, and everything on this island is the property of my Xia Kingdom.

Dui Yunmen quickly found a piece of wood and split it in the middle with a steel knife.

The captain drew out the dagger at his waist. Since he discovered the island, he has the right to name it according to the laws of the Xia Kingdom. After thinking about it, he carved on the wood: "Saltpeter Island, at the beginning of September in the tenth year of Taichu. three!"

After finishing all this, order the team members to place the signboard on the uphill, and erecting the signboard proves that this place is an inseparable part of Xia Kingdom's territory from now on.

Captain Bing Mengyou immediately asked people to mine the saltpeter. Although the wealth in front of him was very tempting, he knew very well what his mission was.

Just let each team member randomly pick up some small pieces of saltpeter, and then continue to move down the hillside.

With these nitrates, the expedition ship can even store a large amount of ice, so much nitrate is enough for them to squander them casually.

As night fell, after walking for a day, I didn't see a large beast except for the discovery of the saltpeter mine. However, there are many birds on this island, and there is a bird that can make a "duo-duo" sound, which is the most on the island. A kind of bird.

This kind of bird has a fat body and can't fly. It is very easy to catch. The most important thing is that the meat of this kind of bird is very plump.

Since no large beasts were found, the captain decided to send his team members to catch a large number of these Dodo birds starting tomorrow.

The arrival of human beings has brought catastrophe to the birds on the island.

There are no animals larger than humans on this island. In front of humans, they don't even have a chance to escape.

Under the expedition of the expedition team, hundreds of different kinds of birds were captured in one day, among which the Duodu bird was the most, and a large number of bird eggs were found in the nests of those birds. It was definitely a pleasant surprise for the expedition team members.

Except for a part of the birds that were eaten that day, the rest of the captured birds were tied up with straw ropes, thrown aside at will, and brought back when they returned.

With saltpeter, they are not afraid of the problem of too much meat and can't finish eating it. With so much saltpeter, it is enough to make enough ice cubes to store these things, plus the winter that will come in the north in a few months, Don't worry about this kind of problem anymore.

In a few days, human footprints have traveled all over the northern part of the island. Whether it is birds or poisonous snakes, as long as they are all edible living things discovered by humans, they have not escaped the clutches of humans.

After the poisonous snake was killed, it was randomly stuffed into a pocket made of clothes.

The crazy hunting lasted for seven or eight days. Although this small island is not big, it has springs, which also solves the problem of drinking water for the hunting team.

Seeing the hunters returning with a full load, those who stayed behind on the beach were stunned.

Although someone came back and briefly talked about the situation of these people, they were still shocked when piles of birds gathered together.

Birds piled up like a hill uttered frightened chirping sounds, but they couldn't escape this terrifying place with their feet tied up.

When the hunting team took out the saltpeter, everyone was not calm. Everyone knew exactly what saltpeter meant.

The explorers realized that they had made a fortune, and bursts of cheers could be heard from the camp.

This night, people sing and dance on the beach to celebrate the joy in their hearts.

After a night of fun, on the second day, only more than 100 people stayed in the camp, and the rest of the expedition team took all the containers that could hold things and headed for the saltpeter mine.

The expedition team used their shoulders and backs to transport batches of saltpeter to the beach.And let the wizard and several expedition members row a boat to the other side of the island to collect fresh water.

After more than ten days of busy work, the two ships were loaded with a large amount of supplies, whether it was fresh water or food, enough to feed the 1000 people for several months without any worries.

As the saying goes, don't panic if there is food in the cabin.

The expedition ship, without any worries, set off at one time and headed towards the target location.

This time the expedition ship was very lucky. Although it sometimes encountered strong wind and rain, it did not cause much damage to the fleet.

Following the ocean current and sea breeze, the two boats slowly moved towards the east.

After more than 20 days of sailing.

A message came from the lookout on the mast.

"Captain, I found a small island ahead, which seems to have signs of human activity."

The captain was shocked when he heard the words. How could there be human activities on such a lonely island, it must have arrived at the supply point of the dinosaur man.

Immediately ordered the fleet to slow down, the artillerymen hurriedly responded, and the signalmen issued a warning signal.

The two ships approached the laughing road one after the other.

When the small island in front came into sight, no one found any signs of boat activity. There was only a lonely port standing on the coast, and there was no one on it.

"Prepare to dock. All personnel check their weapons and occupy the port immediately after landing." The captain shouted loudly.

He Tie was extremely nervous at the moment. Unlike most of the people on the ship, this was the first time his enemy was on the battlefield. He was lucky not to be selected for the previous conscription. In his impression, war was something far away from him.

A howling sound of "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooo".

He Tie immediately got up from the ground.Hurriedly came to the deck and lined up to gather.

The ship wandered around the port for a while, after confirming that this place was indeed deserted for unknown reasons.

They slowly approached the port.

As soon as the ship docked, the soldiers in armor quickly boarded the port along the wooden steps, and lined up as quickly as possible.

The archers quickly spread out and surrounded the city around the periphery of the infantry, staring vigilantly around.

(End of this chapter)