Isn't this... kangaroo? Chu Yun half-squatted down and looked at the gifts brought back by the Oceania Expedition Team in the wooden cage.

There was a chubby kangaroo inside the wooden cage, with small round eyes staring at Chu Yun.

"This is a unique animal we found in Oceania. We are all called kangaroos. I thought that you may not have seen it before, so I brought it back to you, Lord Jung." The expedition team members who returned said proudly.

They lived near Melbourne Bay for nearly two years, and there was almost no industrial product in the area, so they had to catch a kangaroo back to prove that they had indeed arrived in Oceania and established strongholds in the area.

However, the kangaroo has really seen it, and Chu Yun also knew that the kangaroo brought back was called a short-tailed dwarf kangaroo. It was the smallest kangaroo, about the same size as a rabbit, and was not afraid of humans at all, and would even ask people for food.

"I have never seen such a strange creature. It seems that you have indeed arrived in Oceania." In order not to undermine their enthusiasm, Chu Yun had to pretend that he did not know the kangaroo they brought back.

"Yes, more than 400 people have established a small town in the local area and established contact with a nearby indigenous tribe. They will come to help us work in their spare time, and we only need to divide some of the crops we planted in the local area for them as rewards. The tribe has made enemies with another indigenous tribe and also asked us to help them attack another indigenous tribe. After conquering another indigenous tribe, we divided up the captives. So our farmland and plantations have the first free labor force, and we only need to provide them with three meals a day." Members of the Oceania Expedition Team reported to Chu Yun.

Can it still be like this? Chu Yun could hardly imagine that the Oceania expedition team used this method to get along with the indigenous people, using the grain they planted to buy labor, and also obtained free labor by intervening in the struggle between the indigenous people. Although the process must have an iron and bloody side, this is also a way for advanced civilizations to invade backward civilizations. The hunter-gathering civilization of the Stone Age was as fragile as thin paper in the face of nomadic civilizations and firearm civilizations.

The Oceania Expedition Team was already very kind and maintained a relatively friendly relationship with the first tribe that they came into contact with. For the Stone Age tribes, being able to eat enough was the most important thing. Under the temptation of food, they acted as the agricultural labor force in the new town. Maybe they could not understand why farming and livestock can produce a large amount of food.

"After two years, the crops in the new town should be mature enough. What are the appropriate crops in the local area?" Chu Yun is still very related to crops in the Melbourne region.

The higher the crop yield in the local area, the more suitable it is for colonization. Food is the basis of all human activities. If you don’t have enough food, if you organize many people to go to mining, it will cause famine in the local area.

"We divided all the seeds of crops we brought over into farmlands and found that wheat, barley, corn, and millet are suitable for planting. In the first year of our arrival in Oceania, we also hunted and gathered wild fruits locally to supplement the shortage of food. Later, after we opened farms and pastures, the food was not only self-sufficient, but also supplied to nearby indigenous peoples. In order to obtain our food and work for us, our farms and pastures were even bigger." said the return expedition team.

"Oceania is vast and sparsely populated, and the local natives will not have food shortages. Are you here to ask for food from you?" Chu Yun was a little surprised.

"You don't know that the food they can find in their tribe is good. But first of all, they lack the way to preserve food, and secondly, they barbecue with fire, no seasonings, and no cooking methods. So we easily conquer them with the seasonings we brought over and kitchenware. So when the tribe who was kind to us hunted wild game, they would also bring them to our chefs for cooking, and they were willing to share these wild game with us." said the members of the expedition team.

It’s amazing that even indigenous tribes can conquer seasonings and cooking techniques…

Through conversations with the expedition team, Chu Yun basically learned about the living conditions of the Oceania exploring team on the other side of the ocean. Among all the civilizations that Chu Yun conquered, some indigenous tribes in the depths of the Spice Islands were originally lagging behind. However, the overall civilization level of the Spice Island tribes is probably higher than that of the indigenous people in Oceania who are isolated from the world, and the indigenous people in Oceania are still living tens of thousands of years ago.

"We have lived in Oceania for two years. The only thing we don't understand is why the local indigenous people are far less than us and their development is so backward." The expedition team asked Chu Yun.

"They arrived in Oceania in an unknown way 40,000 to 50,000 years ago, and since then they are isolated from other civilization circles in the world, so they are so backward. The development and progress of civilization requires exchanges and competition, internal competition, external competition... For them, the current level of civilization is enough to cope with the local environment, and there is no motivation for development. The evolution speed of civilization does not mean that it has completely stagnated, but has slowed down. The pan-continent we are in has a larger population, and different regions have formed their own unique civilizations. Different civilizations influence each other, which has led to the current situation." Chu Yun said.

"Mr. Military Master, how do you know that they arrived in Oceania from other places 40,000 to 50,000 years ago? Oceania is isolated from the world and it is impossible to reach without great navigation technology!" The two returning expedition members asked in confusion.

"This is a speculation by scholars of the Academy of Sciences. It may be that someone was riding a canoe brought to Oceania by wind and ocean currents, or it may be that there was an ice connection on the sea surface between South China and Oceania in the past." Chu Yun mentioned two hypotheses.

However, whether it is the "drift theory" or the "glacial theory" cannot be confirmed, and it may never be confirmed. After all, it was something that happened tens of thousands of years ago.

The two expedition members who returned from Oceania looked at each other, but they did not expect that the Oceania natives came from the outside world. Oceania was like a natural cage, bounding their civilization outside the pan-continent.

"I will stay this kangaroo. You can go down and rest and return to your respective hometowns. Thank you for your hard work to come to the capital to report, and the military will give you an extra compensation." Chu Yun said.

"It is our honor to be able to see the military leader. How dare we ask for compensation again!" the two of them said flatteredly.
Chapter completed!