Chapter 17, Twenty-seven moments in the four years of Chongzhen 17 Moment 17: True Australians have no misfortunes Let's go back to December of the third year of Chongzhen's reign, on the northwest coast of Australia, thousands of miles away from China.
The vast and turbulent sea is like a blue dream.
The color of the waves is as gorgeous as gems.
The rising sun throws golden brilliance from the eastern sky, jumping between countless troughs and crests, until it meets a long line.
The half-mile-wide golden halo gathered together, blooming rapidly like a mandala gathered on a bunch of vines, and finally turned into a dazzling bright halo.
The beach, the jungle, the blue sea, the blue sky, everything looks so beautiful.
Under the baptism of the gentle breeze, Levi sat on the beach with a melancholy face, enjoying the green and pollution-free fresh air, the absolutely original tropical forest and grassland scenery, and a series of things that are enough to excite the modern petty bourgeoisie. thing.
But at this time, Levi would rather curl up in his little kennel in Harbin, smelling car exhaust and industrial smog every day, and listening to the noisy square dances of the street aunts.
Because he was currently living in Australia in the first half of the seventeenth century.
What is Australia in the 21st century?
A vast land of 7.7 million square kilometers, a melting pot of different races around the world, countless high-quality mineral deposits that can be mined in the open air, the famous Sydney Opera House, and the colorful underwater world of the Great Barrier Reef.
Koalas and kangaroos are national symbols, cute little penguins, and Palm Beach is home to supermodels and rich men from all over the world.
What about seventeenth-century Australia?
There were only 700,000 backward aborigines who lived in the Stone Age, as well as many marsupial mammals that were also behind the times, such as kangaroos, koalas, and platypuses.
At this time, Australia was still an isolated continent.
It was not until 1778 that the British Colonization and development of this land began.
So, welcome to the Stone Age without industrial pollution, modern travelers from the 21st century.
Alas, how did such a ridiculous thing happen?
Mr.
Levi, a Chinese-Russian man of mixed race, sighed more and more melancholy, recalling the sea fog that brought him here.
At that time, the "former Paladin" Levi, who had just been rescued by Wang Qiu and Doraemon and successfully traveled back from medieval Europe with his wife and children, and his wife Zhao Na, who had just given birth to a child, and their family of three, took them with them.
Some wealth collected in the Middle Ages was taken from Shanghai on the "Cosco Star" Returning to my hometown in the Northeast, this is an all-metal structure, 147 meters long, 165 meters wide, with a registered tonnage of 5,000 tons, and a full load displacement of 11,000 tons.
It uses green and environmentally friendly tourism as a gimmick, and is mainly used as a modern five-masted luxury passenger ship on domestic routes.
Intelligent sail control sailboat.
Unexpectedly, not long after the "Cosco Star" weighed anchor and set sail from Shanghai, it traveled through the fog to the west coast of Australia in 1630.
Immediately afterwards, a rear-end collision occurred across time and space, and it collided with an approximately 300-ton ship.
The Spanish galleon sank the poor little guy on the spot.
Then, he pulled up from the sunken Spanish galleon.
From the words of Baron Andrew, the owner of the Weir, a frustrated Polish nobleman, the crew and passengers of the "Cosco Star" learned in disbelief that their current location was south of Java Island, south of the Timor Sea, near Derby Port in Australia.
Well, this is not the biggest problem.
The really scary thing is that the time at this moment is January 2, 1630.
Green tourism has gone so far as to the 17th century before the industrial revolution.
This is too green.
In addition, the fact that the Poles in Eastern Europe, who have never had a sailing tradition, are also following the fashion of sailing and colonizing in this era is equally shocking.
In short, the above-mentioned earth-shattering news simply made the whole ship go crazy, but no matter how much the spirit breaks down, the cruel reality that we have to face still has to be faced.
It showed a number of magical props obtained from Doraemon, and Among the various photos and videos taken in medieval Europe Later, as "senior time travel experts" and paladins canonized by the Holy See, Levi and his wife were unanimously elected as top advisors and members of the seven-person decision-making group by the lost and broken passengers, responsible for leading the more than 140 people.
The time traveler is struggling to survive in this strange world.
There was no other way.
Only he and his wife on the entire ship had the experience of long-term survival in the ancient world.
The first question after the establishment of the decision-making group is whether to continue living in Australia or sail to mainland China in this era.
According to captain Wang Tiechui, although the "COSCO Star" is powered by sails, it still consumes fuel, and everything on board The remaining fuel is only enough to travel to Guangzhou Bay.
If you choose to go to the "homeland" of the Ming Empire, it is destined to be a one-way journey with no return.
As a result, a big debate broke out among these time-travelers.
In the end, the skeptics prevailed, feeling that it was impossible to believe the compatriots of the Ming Dynasty without concrete evidence.
"kind and honest".
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Moreover, as a time traveler who grew up in the new era, I am afraid that few people are willing to kneel down and beg for mercy like a pug when their lives are not threatened.
The most important thing is that based on Levi's experience, for newcomers like them, other humans may be more dangerous than nature.
And among all the lands suitable for human habitation in the world in this era, the Australian indigenous people probably have the weakest combat effectiveness.
Even the most useless otakus here are the time travelers, whose per capita combat effectiveness is only equivalent to 0.5 geese. , I guess I can’t beat the Europeans, Ming Dynasty people, Japanese and African black uncles of this era, but I can’t even beat the Australian aborigines.
In this way, the travelers on the "Cosco Star" finally chose to land on the Australian continent and settle down on this land for the time being.
From then on, their identity in this world automatically became "Australian".
However, landing in Australia does not mean the beginning of a great epic, but represents the endless hardships and obstacles, as well as all kinds of endless and unimaginable troubles and difficulties.
After the novelty at the beginning of the time travel passed, everyone discovered that He was actually on the stage of an absurd drama, starring poor and hysterical poor actors.
As soon as they landed ashore, the travelers and the Poles they rescued were besieged by the natives.
Fortunately, the Australian Aboriginals in the Stone Age were basically scum in terms of combat effectiveness.
They were beaten by those tall Polish guys with baseball bats, steel bars, kitchen knives, long-handled iron pots and other messy things and only a matchlock gun.
After being ruthless, I took the indigenous people who played stone artifacts to flow, and therefore obtained more than 200 slaves, no matter what, the Polish big nose can be able to kill each other like Russia's Maozi fierce fighting people for hundreds of years. of.
Next, there is a vigorous construction movement, starting with logging, building roads, and transporting materials from ships through rafts.
From the containers in the cargo hold, the travelers discovered a total of 7,000 tons of various metal tools and manufactured products, as well as motorboats, forklifts and machine tools.
There is even a set of quite cutting-edge equipment for converting microalgae into biodiesel: the research team for this equipment happens to be among the passengers.
In other words, as long as the biodiesel conversion equipment is successfully installed, travelers will soon no longer need to use the "Cosco Star" The fuel problem of the number is worrying.
The landing place of the traversers was later known as Derby Harbor in northwest Australia, facing Golden Bay, roughly located in the transition zone between tropical rainforest and savannah.
Although the local trees were relatively sparse, it was not suitable for just a few hundred people. , it’s still enough.
Then, all kinds of hastily processed wood were carried by the traversers to the seaside slope planned as the camp by manpower.
There was no need to lay a foundation.
They only needed to lay a few piles and start nailing the boards to build the wooden house.
The climate in Australia is very monotonous. , there are only two seasons in a year, one dry season and one rainy season, and there are no typhoons or the like.
Not to mention being used as temporary residences, these built wooden houses are also suitable for long-term living.
The next step is to build the trestle bridge with wood, earth and stone: all hundreds of laborers go into battle together, forming several long lines, holding baskets and baskets filled with soil and gravel, pouring the soil into the sea like a conveyor belt, making a Rough trestles slowly extend from the shallows on the shore.
When ancient China built the Great Wall, it relied on such a "human conveyor belt" to transport bricks and stones to the high mountains.
Later, the travelers built brick kilns, burned red bricks, tiles and pottery, and built several red brick huts outside the wooden houses.
In addition, extremely high-quality open-pit coal mines, iron ores, copper mines and silver mines were miraculously discovered, just like the scene in the science fiction novel Mysterious Island.
Then cement was manufactured, and even small cement ships were built.
More than a dozen A few months later, a small village took shape.
At the general meeting to discuss the name of the settlement, the traversers first rejected the "New Warsaw", "New Krakow" and "New Vienna" proposed by Baron Andrew and other Poles. " and other proposals, and there was a lot of internal quarrel over names such as "New Shanghai", "New Tianjin", "New Henan", etc., and finally had to choose a name that had no national or regional color at all: "Zhongnan City".
But the problem is that although the construction of houses and docks in "Zhongnan City" is gradually getting on track, the food crisis has not been solved.
The daily supply of staple foods such as rice and noodles is getting less and less, and finally the supply has to be limited, making everyone Everyone feels a sense of existential crisis.
Although kangaroos are everywhere in Australia, and they are easy to shoot and capture, travelers have been grilling skinned kangaroos on bonfires almost every day since landing in Australia.
But the problem is, the taste has a strong smell of urea.
If it were not driven by hunger, I believe no one would be interested in kangaroo meat.
Its special smell is enough to drive away all gluttons.
As a result, in later generations, except for a few indigenous people in Australia, few Australians were willing to eat kangaroos.
Almost all kangaroo meat exported is sold to the Japanese.
It is estimated that this strange nation is the only one on earth who has a soft spot for kangaroo meat, which is rumored to "effectively improve reproductive capacity" Judging from the eating habits of modern Chinese people, kangaroo meat, a stinky thing, definitely needs to be cooked with strong flavors such as spices, salty sauce and chili peppers before it can be eaten.
Otherwise, just by smelling it, you would stay away from it.
However, as time went by, the number of condiments on the ship was also rapidly decreasing, and soon they had to be used in limited quantities.
Only salt was sufficient for the time being because the time travelers built salt fields.
So everyone could only eat the smelly stewed kangaroo meat, and get some turtles, seabirds, shellfish and fish every now and then to change their appetite.
Although the agricultural group of the people had cultivated some fields, they had no suitable grain seeds at all.
There was only an old couple on the ship who brought some vegetable seeds with them, planning to plant them in flower pots after returning home.
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Now they have donated all of them, plus some wild fruits and vegetables collected, which can barely protect everyone from scurvy.
But no one had any seeds of rice or wheat: when the Poles weighed anchor and set sail, they took some seeds with them to cultivate on the newly discovered land.
Unfortunately, they all sank to the bottom of the sea with the sailing ship. .
In addition, the unsatisfactory construction of power and water conservancy projects also makes people scratch their heads.
Even though "Zhongnan City" is located in a coastal area, Australia's dry season precipitation is too little.
The traverser initially planned to build a small dam to generate electricity by relying on a creek with a relatively large drop.
Unexpectedly, just a few days after the simple dam was completed, the creek disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye, leaving only a slight The wet river bed made people stunned.
It was only then that a guy among the travelers who claimed to have seen kangaroos in Australia for three years remembered: Australia only has two seasons, one rainy season and one dry season, and the dry season is often longer than the rainy season.
That’s why Australia is full of deserts, and most rivers are seasonal.
Seeing that water conservancy power generation might not work, everyone had to build windmills and try to generate wind power.
But before the light of the electric light came on on the Australian continent three and a half centuries ahead of schedule, the real doom finally struck: When the dry season ends and the rainy season arrives, the moody nature fully demonstrates to travelers what it means to be truly earth-shaking.
Thirty days of continuous heavy rain caused the sea level to rise by more than ten meters in one breath, turning the lush coastal jungle into an underwater forest, the inland grassland with rich water and grass into a reed swamp, and several intermittent rivers.
The creek turned into a sparkling river, and most of the traces of civilization created by the Australian travelers were submerged under the vast expanse of blue waves: The dock that was built just a few months ago has disappeared, and only a section of gray-white trestle is vaguely exposed through the blue water; the road that was painstakingly dug to haul wood has also strangely turned into a canal; travelers are walking by the stream To facilitate irrigation and reclamation, several Ten acres of farmland first changed from dry fields to paddy fields, and then from paddy fields to fish ponds.
As for Zhongnan City, which was just completed, it first turned into a water city Venice during heavy rains, and then further turned into a lost city.
All of Atlantis went to the bottom of the sea On the eve of Zhongnan City being submerged, someone finally thought of measuring the altitude, and was shocked: the average altitude of this place was actually minus fifty meters.
The guy who claimed to have seen kangaroos in Australia for three years also vaguely recalled Well, according to the introduction of the travel magazine, Derby Port in Australia is also the Central South City in their time and space.
The entire city is surrounded by huge beach tidal flats.
The mud brought by the tide will become hard and exposed in the dry season.
On the seaside, it turns into a large area of lush grassland.
If there is a drought for several consecutive years, it will even turn into a forest.
But if humans really develop these tidal flats as land, then the huge waves in the rainy season will teach you how to be a human being in minutes.
Fortunately, the rainy season here is just heavy rain, there is no typhoon, and the sea water is rising little by little, so the travelers still have time to move all kinds of materials to the high ground like ants moving, without being too affected.
Serious losses.
The problem is that the unlucky Australian travelers made another mistake while they were busy.
Their only means of transportation to leave the continent, the "Cosco Star", was washed into the depths of the bay by the tide in the chaos.
When the heavy rain finally stopped, Captain Wang Tiechui discovered to his shock that his ship had been trapped in a newly formed coastal lagoon, separated from the open sea by a large and extremely shallow tidal flat and a sand bar.
If you want to sail, you either have to dig an artificial canal, which is obviously beyond the ability of the traverser, or you have to wait until the water rises in the next rainy season.
Of course, the good impact is not without the cement boats that the travelers had built on the beach before.
They were originally worried about how to launch the cement boats into the water.
As a result, the rain has been pouring for more than thirty days.
I went to the beach again and saw: Don't bother, the cement boat has already entered the sea on its own.
The problem is that this kind of heavy and fragile cement ship cannot go to the open sea at all, let alone carry the travelers out of the Australian mainland.
Then, another more terrifying nightmare came: the rainy season brought not only floods to Zhongnan City, but also all kinds of uninvited bad neighbors: first of all, swarms of salt water Crocodiles But for well-equipped travelers, crocodiles are actually not scary.
After being hunted by the Polish big noses, they gave everyone a bunch of good leather shoe materials.
The most terrifying killers in Australia are box jellyfish, taipan snakes, blue-ringed octopuses, and red-backed spiders.
First, someone accidentally fell into the water while fishing, and was greeted by several box-shaped jellyfish.
Then he convulsed to death and sank to the bottom of the sea: According to the records in the biological illustration, this kind of jellyfish is highly poisonous and has no antidote.
No antivenom Then, a little time traveler girl screamed and was chased down a street by a coastal taipan snake.
Fortunately, she was discovered in time by two strong Polish men.
After a fierce battle between humans and snakes, the little girl escaped and got a piece of belt material.
However, the strong Polish men were all admitted to the ward.
Fortunately, the snake's venom was not fatal enough.
After these two brave men lay groaning in pain on the hospital bed for a full week, they finally recovered slowly.
Next, someone was going to the toilet and a red-backed spider fell from the top of his head, so he immediately went to see God: Compared with the scientific name, the other name of the red-backed spider is more widely known as the black widow, even in the second century In Australia in the eleventh century, people died every year because of it.
The succession of such deaths immediately plunged the entire settlement into a serious panic.
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The time traveler decision-making group immediately issued relevant policies: first, they banned swimming in the water, and then launched a "pest control and sanitation cleanup".
Within a week, they filled in several stinking ditches and pools and killed two people who were raw materials for leather shoes.
More than ten animals were killed, more than ten pieces of belt material were killed, and a total of more than 70 kilograms of all kinds of reptiles and flying insects were eliminated.
But even so, it seems that it still cannot bring enough security to the travelers.
Many people are too scared to go out to sea.
Got fishing.
At the same time, by the end of November 1630, the last bit of rice and flour in the "Australians'" inventory was completely exhausted, and the vegetable fields were soaked in water, making it impossible to resume production.
Apart from a small collection of biscuits and cans, they can only survive by hunting turtles, birds and kangaroos.
Although there is also a kind of koala called "koala" to choose from, and its name seems...
I knew I should bake this cute thing, but after it was baked, even the Australian aborigines who were not particular about their diet would have a hard time swallowing it.
Seeing that everyone's living conditions were rapidly declining towards the level of savages, Advisor Levi couldn't help but sigh, but he couldn't imagine that first of all, the only Doraemon magical props he kept as a souvenir were two bamboo dragonflies. and a zooming light, while surveying the landscape and transporting Supplies and minerals are very useful, but they can’t be made out of nothing.
During the days in the Australian wilderness, Levi regretted more than once, why he didn’t think of getting a gourmet tablecloth or something when he was with Doraemon.
Here comes a vintage vending machine Moreover, with the "Cosco Star" stranded and stranded, no one will be able to leave this corner of the northwest coast of Australia for at least a year.
Even if they want to start over in a more resource-rich place on the Australian continent, it will be impossible.
It became impossible.
Under extreme pessimism, Levi even began to have nightmares every day, in which more than a hundred travelers on the ship and those Polish big noses were all dressed in ragged clothes, and some were even dressed in leaves.
Then ship doctor Xie Jierui said with a lonely face: "Comrade consultant, there is bad news and good news.
The bad news is that we have run out of ammunition and food.
I am afraid that starting tomorrow, we will have to imitate the koalas in chewing eucalyptus leaves; the good news is that this place There are many leaves.”
On the other side, a fat man was chasing his Labrador with a kitchen knife, shouting "I want to eat meat, I don't want to eat leaves."
Farther away, Captain Wang Tiechui was leading a group of passenger representatives to negotiate with several indigenous leaders about incorporating into their tribes.
Fortunately, in these dark days, the incredible savior finally arrived.
After nearly a year of arduous and lonely life, more than a hundred travelers on the "Cosco Star" were surprised to find that they were in this...
It seems that I am not alone in the world On that gloomy morning as usual, Levi and others sat around the burning bonfire and handed a piece of roasted kangaroo tail meat and a boiled bird egg he had just taken out to his wife Zhao Na in distress.
Among the kangaroo meat that is eaten down the throat, kangaroo tail meat is considered the best tasting part.
Then he picked up a piece of grilled kangaroo thigh meat that was full of strange smell, sprinkled it with a little salt, and frowned as he was about to bite it.
However, before he could take the barbecue into his mouth, he heard a warning gunshot from the cliff not far away, and then thick smoke ignited from the top of the watchtower on the top of the mountain.
Since its completion, the beacon smoke there has been This is the first time it has been used On the radio, the lookout on the watchtower stammered: "Ships, boats, boats are coming."
Everyone who was having breakfast by the campfire was caught off guard and suddenly panicked, and everyone was at a loss for a moment.
Comrade Li Wei, who was the quickest to calm down, only had time to comfort his wife Zhao Na for a few words before he pressed the bamboo dragonfly over his head, then jumped into the air as quickly as possible and flew towards the sky above the bay, raising his hand at the same time.
With the telescope hanging around his neck, he squinted his eyes to search for the sudden arrival of uninvited guests.
Then, from the sparkling sea, he discovered a steam-sail hybrid sailboat with a strange red-backed double-sword goshawk flag flying on the top of the mast, a chimney erected on the deck, and billowing black smoke.
In an instant, Levi felt a "click" in his head, as if something was broken.
"God, where did the steamships come from in the 17th century?
This is unscientific, etc.
Could it be that the Pole is lying and deceiving us that it is actually 1830, not 1630?"
Levi, who was messy in the wind for a while, couldn't help but say this Becoming incoherent.
As everyone knows, while he was suspended in mid-air and messy in the wind, on the deck of the large sailing ship below, there were also several time travelers raising their heads and holding telescopes, watching Levi's "heroic appearance" from a distance, and each of them was dumbfounded. , mental breakdown: "Tai Shang Laojun, there are actually houses on the west coast of Australia these days, and people are flying in the sky.
This is unscientific" oshow7: