Chapter 1,429 Big City

The further south you go, the more lively the market becomes, and the more species are exchanged in the market, many of which are flat jars that they have never seen before.

For example, cocoa, a substance similar to coffee beans, can be used to make drinks.

There are also a variety of vegetables and fruits such as pumpkin, red tomatoes, beans, guava, apples, papayas, peanuts, sunflowers, custard apples, avocados and cashews.

Many things require flat cans to be named separately, because they are not a product of Middle-earth at all.

The locals also roll up the leaves of a certain crop and put them into pipes made of corncobs to smoke.

The peanuts here are also larger than those cultivated in China today, and there is also a kind of chili pepper in a flat jar that I know my father will definitely like.

Chili peppers are much larger than Chinese dogwood fruits and have a more pure spiciness. Unlike dogwood, which requires careful processing to remove the bitterness and make spicy rice oil.

Bian Guan thought that if he took this thing back to his father and the ginseng to his mother, he might be able to escape punishment.

The wild animals here are very abundant, and the local people have many sources of meat and hardly use poultry and livestock.

Their meat sources are mainly fish, migratory birds, as well as bison, wild boar, argali, reindeer, and an animal between sheep and camels.

The only ones that have been successfully domesticated are alpacas and a kind of chicken that is four to five times larger than the chickens in China, with a long ribbon-like meat pouch hanging from its mouth. The chair named it "Tui Shou Chicken" in the picture.

; and a kind of duck that is also several times larger than that of Middle-earth. Its head is covered with red tumors. The chair named it "Turn-headed Duck".

The supplies of the aboriginal people are obtained through exchange. The local people like to decorate. The chair thinks that he has found another evidence that the local people are descendants of immigrants from China. They also play with jade.

The most abundant items on the Zuoshuoluo are metals, mainly imported coins and coins.

There are very few gold coins, and because the value of copper coins is not high, there are not many on the left-hand screw.

There are also many metal processing materials, such as brass.

The indigenous people here also know the value of gold. Although they know that the metal in the hands of these magical strangers is not gold, it does not hinder their love for brass.

Bian Guan heard his third uncle tell the story of Huihui in Hangzhou. They liked to use imported money to make jewelry, so he also punched small holes in copper coins, cut cowhide into small strings and threaded them into necklaces to make jewelry, which was very popular among the locals.

welcome.

Bian Guan and the others also discovered a problem, that is, the people here speak a variety of languages, and almost every settlement speaks a different language, and the settlements are almost hundreds of miles apart, and the level of civilization development is very different.

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Some use crude slings, some have crude bows and arrows, and some have developed more sophisticated horn bows.

However, the strange thing is that tribes that use long-range weapons tend to have relatively primitive cultural levels, while the weapons used in more developed farming civilization areas are often spears and javelins made of stone.

The weapons used by some of the city lord's guards are even plank-like chopping weapons made of hardwood, with a circle of beautifully polished obsidian teeth inlaid on the edges of the weapons to enhance their lethality.

What is even more strange is that although their stone tools are unusually exquisite, the locals do not have metal tools.

This point puzzled Flat Jar and Chair, because in many settlements, the crew found magnificent stone buildings? Was it a temple? It was an imperial mausoleum or the like.

Without metal tools, these majestic stone buildings, neat stones? Exquisite carvings? How were they made?

Another puzzling thing is that from the architectural point of view, many buildings have the same cultural style? The clothes and beliefs of the local aboriginal people? There are also similarities, and it can be seen that they originated from the same civilization.

But tribes separated by thousands of miles? Often don't know each other's existence.

When everyone got together to chat, what did they speculate? There were all kinds of answers. In the end, they all agreed that the chair's statement was relatively reasonable.

There once was a fairly developed civilization here, and that civilization once left splendid cultural relics, but was later completely destroyed by famine, plague, or war.

Today's people are the successors of that first period of civilization, or in other words, when that civilization collapsed, these tribes were just barbarians in the original barbaric wilderness.

When civilization disappeared, it took a long time for these barbarians to come to these ruins to re-form settlements. Then in the process of re-developing civilization, something was lost.

For example, the production of metal tools, such as the production of vehicles.

Bian Guan was actually not in a good mood because the expedition had actually failed.

They have searched from 50 degrees north latitude to ten degrees, but have not been able to find the exit across this continent. Judging from the long coastline, the area of ​​this land should exceed New Songzhou.

Bian Guan and Zhao Xiaoyi were walking in the market. Bian Guan said to Zhao Xiaoyi: "It's time for us to go back. If we go further south, we will exit the trade wind belt and enter the equatorial windless zone."

Zhao Xiaoyi said: "Then let's make this our last stop. We will go home after shopping."

The storage capacity of the Left-Helix is ​​amazing. Excluding machinery and supplies, it can also carry 160 tons of cargo.

Bian Guo didn't have a good impression of this land in the south, because he had already discovered traces of "human sacrifice" in many temples.

Most of the temples here are hollow and filled with human skeletons. Judging from the condition of the skeletons, those people were tortured before death.

Such bloody sacrificial acts are also recorded on the exquisite murals in many temples.

In fact, Atan and the others in the north also behaved like this, but due to low productivity, there was no such large-scale war, so the scale of human sacrifices in the temples that Bian Guan and the others said they saw was much smaller.

Unlike the ruins here, there are often tens of thousands of corpses inside.

This will undoubtedly bring about serious health problems. Nowadays, flat cans are somewhat suspected. The extinction of the previous civilization was due to this reason.

It's a pity that they don't understand the local wizard's epic, otherwise they might be able to find some clues.

Several majestic warriors dressed in gorgeous leopard skin skirts, with feather crowns and animal skin crowns on their heads, appeared in front of them.

Moreover, Bian Gu and his party were dressed gorgeously, with leather boots, silk clothes, polished belly armor, and exquisite jades that they carried with them. The products they sold were novel and unique. These all indicated that they were not a simple identity, and would naturally attract the attention of the nobles here.

of attention.

It's time for Zhao Xiaoyi to show off.

Several warriors muttered a few words, but no one could understand them, but the pictographic simple drawings similar to oracle bones were roughly understandable. The chair handed the simple drawings to the warrior leader, who laughed when he saw them.

The painting roughly shows a group of people sitting on a large ship, coming from the sea, finally arriving at the north of here, and then passing through several city-states before arriving at them.

Each city along the way is marked by a temple that is characteristic of the local city. In many places, the samurai leaders are also aware of them.

There is an adult sitting on a chair next to each big city temple, holding a unique ritual vessel of the tribe. The little people on the boat will go to visit such an adult and offer expensive gifts.

Next is the scene of exchanging supplies. The little people on the boat are surrounded by small golden coins, while the adults are surrounded by various local products that are clearly drawn at a glance.

The warrior leader muttered a few more words and motioned for Zhao Xiaoyi and his party to follow them.

Soon, Bian Guan and his party met the city lord.

The city lord is a sturdy middle-aged man, wearing a cotton robe woven with beautiful patterns with dyed cotton threads, a feather crown and a gemstone breast chain, and he looks very elegant.

The middle-aged man also had ministers like the Prime Minister under him, but he was smart. The two parties used the painting mode invented by the chair to exchange opinions in a friendly manner.

The chair discovered that the "prime minister" had great attainments in mathematics and astronomy. When asking how long their voyage took, the prime minister used a set of symbols for calculating time. The largest period was fifty-two years.

Fifty-two is a magical cycle. The can and the chair looked at each other and saw the incredible look in each other's eyes.

The people here have a very good knowledge of astronomy.

In ancient China, the days were named after the sun, moon, fire, water, wood, metal, and earth, which were called Qiyao, also known as "Star Week".

In the Han Dynasty, in order to compensate for the errors in rotation and revolution, the star cycle was divided into flat and runn weeks.

Every fifty-two weeks is one year.

Every fifty-two years, the arrangement of the stars will go through a major cycle and return to their original positions.
Chapter completed!