In the next three days, the expedition team followed the Lushui River and stopped and walked.

When noon is approaching every day, Ruchi will land, use the electronic sextant he carried to measure the altitude angle of the sun, and find the local latitude by looking up a book "Navigation and Astronomical Episode" published by the British. As for longitude, it doesn't need to be counted. Just apply the longitude of Sacramento in later generations, that is, 121 degrees, 29 minutes, 35.99 seconds.

In addition, at each river switch, Ruchi also lets people mark prominently on the shore; for example, tie a red cloth strip high in a tree trunk in the correct direction, or draw a five-pointed star and a large arrow on the rock with white paint.

On the morning of the fourth day, when the fleet passed a "U"-shaped river bay that opened to the west and continued to walk north for more than ten kilometers, they saw oaks and poplars with twisted torso everywhere on the river bank, with huge yellow canopies covering the sky and the sun. Wild grape vines hanging on both sides of the blue water flow, birds chirping on the trees, and salmon more than a foot long swims around in the depths of the clear river. Such a beautiful scenery made everyone in the expedition immerse themselves in it.

For some reason, Ruchi felt that this place should be not far from the target, so he decided to land and measure it. Soon, the data was obtained. After comparing the astronomical calendar, it was 38 degrees, 32 minutes and 12.76 seconds north latitude. He knew that every minute difference was 1.849 kilometers, while later Sacramento was located at 38 degrees, 34 minutes and 53.99 seconds north latitude, so he could just walk four kilometers north to get a pole and hold a flag.

When the fleet continued to sail north for more than half an hour, Ruchi felt that the distance was almost the same, so he ordered the ships to dock on the east bank. However, just as everyone was on the bank of the river and was about to transport tents and other supplies from the boat, the Indian named Baibai suddenly raised his hand to warn him. He encountered wild animals during camping several times before, and Baibai reminded him like this.

"Everyone is on guard!" With the order of the platoon leader, the members of the expedition team hurriedly put down their things, lowered their bodies, and raised the leverage rifle in their hands.

The oak branches whirled by the wind, and the river behind him was flowing, and time seemed to pass extremely long. Ruqi, who was squatting in the grass, held a lever rifle, whirring heavily, and his little eyes were dripping.

Just when he was nervous, he saw hundreds of Indians with faces and hands and feet painted like flower melons from behind the bushes and trees more than ten meters away. They all had disheveled hair, black and yellow and red feathers on their heads, and their skin looked dark and dirty, holding bows and arrows or wooden spears and round shields, shouting loudly, and their eyes were full of fierceness.

At this moment, I heard someone from the other side say something loudly. Ruqi then turned to look at the Miwak man lying beside him, and gestured with his mouth, which meant that it was your turn to...

It was not until more than a year later, when Ruqi finally could communicate with the Indians in Mandarin that he realized that the fierce Indian natives he had met were actually Miwaukee people. But they were from the Miwaukee people in the mountains, and those in the Lushui belonged to the Miwaukee people on the plains.

Of course, Ruqi was also impressed by the "delicious food" he ate when he went to the indigenous village that day. The other party not only took out the roasted oak, but also brought him a bowl of paste-like food that could not be described. Ruqi pulled it with a wooden spoon and found that there was something like a bulb, green grass seeds, unknown mushrooms, and even two big grasshoppers.

Ruqi has eaten roasted grasshoppers, but it is too difficult to cook grasshoppers... The problem is that he couldn't resist the instigation of Baibai's smile and the undeniable gaze of the other chief. Ruqi gritted his teeth and thought to have fought for gold! Then he tilted his neck and drank it. The grasshopper didn't even dare to chew it, so he swallowed it directly. So early the next morning, Ruqi and more than a dozen subordinates vomited and diarrhea. Fortunately, the expedition team such as Norfloxacin and Bernardelli were brought, and he and his thirty soldiers escaped by chance.

According to the vain, grasshoppers are rare delicacies that the Miwackers in the Plain.

Ruchi asked, why don’t you eat it?

Bai Bai smiled and said, "We are mountain Miwauker and live by the sea, so we like to eat mussels and abalone the most, and we don't like grasshoppers."

Ruqi laughed and scolded, you are a big liar!

Well, since Luci and his expedition came here before the Spaniards, he took the initiative to name the plain where he landed on the landing place "Lu Shuiyuan".

The Lu Shui was actually an impact plain formed by the intersection of two rivers. The Lu River was naturally the north-south direction, and the east-west direction was a river called "Kum Mayo". Many years later, Lu Qi understood what it meant. This is the name of the Neesonans, meaning "Round House River"; it originated from the residential style of the Neesonans. In addition to the Miwaukee people on the plain, this area is also home to the Neesonans, Maidun and Wentu people, with a population of tens of thousands.

In order to get closer, Ruchi made a stone pancake for the chief with the flour he carried on the boat the next day. After tasting it, the Indians nodded and said that the taste was very good.

In North America in this era, most Indians had no idea what flour was, and they had never even seen wheat. Their main source of starch intake was oak.

Afterwards, Ruchi had a difficult negotiation with the local chief of the Miwauker. In the end, he used thirty scissors, thirty knives, ten hammers and two golden insulation blankets, and provided the village with two hundred bags of flour every year, and obtained a piece of river-backed land covering an area of ​​70 square kilometers for fifty years.

In fact, in the Indian culture, they never think that they have the right to own land; on the contrary, all living beings belong to land. Therefore, in their concept, the land only has temporary right to use, but no permanent right to possess.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! Half a year later, when thousands of Chinese miners arrived here, a small town called "Lu Shuicheng" also rose. However, among the miners from Borneo, this place is simply called "Erbu" and Kinmen is "Dabu". Since there are very few Chinese women coming here, many single miners intermarried with local Indian women and gave birth to a large group of offspring that are mixed-race but not mixed-race.

As for the local Miwauker people, they were gradually influenced by Chinese culture. From language, diet, clothing and residence, to the end, like Chinese, they would burn incense and kowtow to their ancestors during festivals. However, in addition to their parents and ancestors, there was also a wolf god and an eagle god in their ancestors.

However, everything has to be divided into two sides. As more and more Chinese people crossing the sea, a large smallpox infection broke out in various Indian villages in the Lushui River Basin three years later. Although medical staff in Beihai Town tried their best to rescue them, the number of Indians on the Lushui River Basin has decreased by more than one-third. Since then, local Indians reluctantly accepted cowpox and other vaccines, and their population has gradually increased.

Ruqi and his team stayed in the future Lushui Town for three days. By casting drones to repeatedly compare the surrounding terrain and rivers and later generations, he finally confirmed that the "Kum Mayo" in the local population is the "American River" in another time and space; and the location where gold is produced is located somewhere on this Henan Fork tributary.

The expedition team set out again, and this time there were two more Plain Miwak people in the team. Such a good business partner, the local chief did not want to give up easily, so he let his son Livanu and another young man named Wuye be guides; the former name means "Roaring Bear" and the latter is "Dance Turkey".

Livanu was the guy who was planning to ambush the expedition a few days ago. When he first saw Ruchi, he was very curious about the cowhide belt tied around his waist. After Ruchi figured it out, he untied his armed belt and gave it to him, including a sharp dagger. The chief was so happy that he gave him a large necklace made of shells, glass beads, wood and feathers.

To be honest, the expedition team's journey seemed very smooth, mainly because Bai Bai and another guy named Su Ke were accompanying him to help explain to the indigenous people, otherwise they would definitely fall into a big fuss.

In the traditional impression of later generations, the Indians, as natives of North America, had no power to fight back when facing European colonists. However, that was the case in the industrialization era in the second half of the 19th century. The Spaniards who occupied western North America are actually very afraid of these natives; they could only occupy the land by deception rather than starting a war.

Not to mention anything else, during the War of Independence more than ten years ago, the Continental Army was defeated by the Iroquois tribe, which was allied with the British army. In the "Wyoming Battle" that later called the Holocaust, more than 300 white people were scalped and countless people left their homes to flee.

When the Second British-American War broke out more than a decade later, the Iroquois League will usher in a highlight moment. They will work with the British army to break through Washington, burn the presidential palace, and thus a landmark was born - the White House.

Because it is the dry season, the four assault boats have to move slowly along the winding and narrow "Roundu River" river channel. When the group entered the mountain area two days later, some sections of the river were too shallow, and everyone had to carry the rubber boat and walk forward with difficulty as the water flow that only touched their knees. The hardships along the way were really hard to describe.

For example, when I went camping in the mountain the first day, the aroma of cooking food attracted all the bears, wolves, and wild boars. Although the soldiers who were on guard shot and scared away the animals, they also scared the Chief Master and another companion, and almost ran away without a trace.

Later, when they passed by a village in Nessonan, the other chief was quite surprised when he heard General Ruchi mention "Kolumah", because the name came from the Nessonan word "Cullumah", which means "beautiful". After confirming that the expedition was going to Koolumah, the chief who received the gift decided to take them there in person.

Since it was already upstream of the tributary of the Nancha tributary of Yuanwu Henan, the charge boat could not pass at all, so everyone had to leave the boat in the village and then backpack and walk forward.

After walking for two days, the group came to a deep valley with ups and downs before the sun sets. The mountains and forests are densely covered with streams, and the thick redwoods and yellow pine are gurgling. At least four or five people can hold the thick redwoods and yellow pine. After eating, Ruqi, who was already tired and was about to fall apart, got into the tent, fell asleep, and was not awakened until the next morning by the cry of birds outside.

When Ruqi came out of the tent, except for the sentries on duty, several people in the tent were still sleeping. Under the gaze of the sentries, he walked to the stream, scooped up cold water with his hands, rinsed his mouth, washed his face, and felt a shock. It was not until this time that he began to look at the scenery around the camp. After looking around for a while, the guy walked with his hands behind his back and walked along the left bank of the stream. After walking more than ten meters, he suddenly saw something shining in the stream.

At first he thought it was an opal, which was a kind of black transparent stone. He often saw it since he entered the mountain. Ruqi instinctively decided to ignore the thing and continue walking forward. However, after walking a few steps, he turned around unconsciously and squatted down and observed it carefully. He found that the thing did not look like opal, but a few shining pieces, and then leaned over and took out one of them.

This fragment was about half the size of Ruqi's palm, and only one of the corners was shining. When he wiped the black sludge and algae covered with the rest with his hand, the golden light of the whole fragment immediately appeared. Ruqi's head buzzed, and even his excited hands were trembling.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! This is not a big opal, it is clearly a thin gold piece like scales!

Ruchi didn't bother to go back and wake up the sleeping expedition team members, so he bent over and took out a few other pieces of debris from the stream, and found that they were all the same golden scales. The guy was immediately excited. Then he walked along the stream and searched, and walked out more than a mile. When Bai Bai, who looked anxious, shouted to find him, he had more than 30 pieces of debris in his shirt and pockets.

After returning to the camping site, Ruchi did not explain, and plunged into the tent, opened his backpack, took out the stainless steel cup for drinking water from it, took out a golden sheet from his pocket and put it in it; then he took out a tightly sealed brown glass bottle and a plastic dropper from another bag. When the cap was opened, a pungent smell came out.

He held his breath, took a few drops of colorless solution from the bottle with a plastic dropper, carefully dripped it on the gold piece in the cup, then tightened the bottle cap, and turned his attention to the stainless steel cup.

After a while, there was no response to the acid drops on the golden flakes. Ruqi then confirmed that what he found was gold, and the purity was not low!

God! I found it!

Ruqi grinned silently. All he thought about was that he had worked so much to help Zhao Xin find gold. What should he ask for him?

At this time, everyone in the expedition team had woken up. They gathered together in groups of three or five and whispered, saying, "What's wrong with Lord Lu?" After a while, Lu Qi finally figured it out. He waved to the platoon leader who led the team and whispered a few words. The more he heard the other party's eyes became brighter, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

After everyone ate a few bites of dry food with hot tea and grass, they took out hammers, shovels and other tools from their bags. They teamed up with five people and started to work along the surrounding stream.

A shovel here and a few hammers there, making the Indians confused. They found Ruqi to gesture and asked. Ruqi thought about it and felt that this matter could not be hidden at all, so he took out a piece of gold from his pocket and showed it to several Indians.

"kic'aw!" The Chief Neesonan and Livanu both cried out in surprise. Only then did they understand why these outsiders were coming so far.
Chapter completed!