The altitude of the virgin forest increases as you go deeper, and from time to time you can see small puddles that are filled with rainwater from the sky, providing fresh water to the animals in the forest.
Continuing to go deeper inside, I saw some strange fruit trees. Most of the fruits they produced were as big as an adult's fist, with green and red colors and abundant fruits. There are many birds pecking at the fruits among the fruit trees, and there are also some unknown small animals climbing on the trees to pick up the red fruits to eat.
But when dozens of monkeys jumped over from other trees, the birds and small animals were frightened and fled one after another. It is estimated that these cute-looking little monkeys may be the overlords of this forest.
Li Mo looked up at the fruits, but after thinking about it, he still hadn't picked one to try. He walked through the dense forest and looked out. Through the gaps in the trees, he could see the vast sea around him. Wherever he looked, he saw no shadow like a merchant ship. It can also be judged from this that he is climbing to a higher altitude.
After walking through the dense forest for about half an hour, Li Mo finally saw a large lake with a visual inspection of an irregular circle with a diameter of at least thirty meters. The water here is very clear without any pollution.
Li Mo squatted down and held water in his hands, which was very refreshing.
If you have a water source, you have the capital to survive.
Li Mo jumped up happily, and then walked in one direction along the lake, waving the machete in his hand to sweep away the shrubs and vines. Surrounding this lake is a large piece of flat land. On one side of the flat land is a mountain wall about ten meters high. Countless thick vines grow along the mountain wall.
When Li Mo walked under the mountain wall, Yitong scanned it first according to his habit, and then he saw that there were many large and small caves behind the vines. Most of the cave entrances were more than three meters above the ground. Location.
The power of the strange pupil extended into the cave again, and then blue halos were seen radiating from certain objects. Humans once lived in the cave here.
Li Mo looked at other caves one by one. The remnants inside had a blue halo reaction, but he had not yet seen a intact ancient object from six hundred years ago.
Despite this, Li Mo was still very excited, and he began to sort out the vines with a machete. Firstly, the quality of the thick-backed machete is very good, and secondly, Li Mo's strength is extremely powerful, so those vines as thick as arms cannot withstand the blade at all.
He chose a cave with a slightly larger space. After clearing most of the vines around him, he discovered that there was a ladder extending to the entrance of the cave. It's a pity that those ladders have long since decayed after six hundred years of wind and sun, and their skeletons fell apart with a gentle squeeze with your hands.
Li Mo was not in a hurry. He walked to the other side and looked at seven or eight trees, then simply trimmed them, and then used those vines to bind them. It took him more than an hour to finally complete a three-meter-long ladder. He stabilized the ladder and slowly climbed up, finally stepping into the first cave that had ever been inhabited by humans.
This cave is a little damp, probably because it has been blocked by vines all year round, but now the gentle sunlight shines directly in, making the cave extremely bright, and the moisture gradually dissipates. The cave is about four meters deep, and there is still a bed made of trees inside, but it is no longer usable. There was a set of armor and weapons scattered on the ground, as well as a rotten and broken wooden frame.
Li Mo knelt down and took a closer look. It was a helmet, leather armor and a knife. The armor was nothing to look at, but it was the sword that caught his eye.
The scabbard is made of wood and fixed with a few pieces of iron sheet. After hundreds of years, the scabbard has become useless. The surface of the knife handle should have been wrapped with a layer of anti-slip technology, but it was rusty anyway. He gently pulled out the knife.
There are fewer rust spots on the blade, but there are several obvious chips on the blade. The blade of this knife is relatively straight, and the tip is slightly upturned in an arc shape. There is an edge 15 to 20cm from the tip to the back of the knife, which is generally called a reverse edge.
"Yan Ling Dao!"
Li Mo was familiar with this type of knife because it was the standard weapon of the Ming Dynasty army and was worn by both officials and soldiers. It is equivalent to moving the blade of the flat-headed hand knife back, retracting the sharp tip, and raising the tip slightly, and the entire blade is shaped like a wild goose feather.
As a famous military sword in ancient times, the formation of the Yanling Sword is inseparable from Chinese history. It gradually evolved from the Huanshou Sword to the Tang Sword and then to the Yanling Sword. The shape of the Yanling Sword can be traced back to the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
It started in the prosperous Tang Dynasty and became popular in the Ming Dynasty. This is the origin of the saying often said in storytelling dramas, "A general is born to be courageous and bold, with a Qiushui Yanfei Dao across his waist."
The Yanling sword has also gone through a long period of evolution. Some Yanling waist knives in the early Ming Dynasty did not have a back edge, and were closer in form to the style of a golden sword. The Yan Ling sword with a back edge was finalized in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and by the Qing Dynasty In the ancient times, the reverse edge of some Yanling waist knives even ran through the entire back of the knife.
Now Li Mo can be 100% sure that the first knife he picked up was the Xiuchun Dao of the Jinyiwei during the Ming Dynasty of China, and the knife in front of him is the Yanling Dao, the standard weapon of the Ming Dynasty army, which was used six hundred years ago. People from the Ming Dynasty army were once trapped on this island.
Putting this set of armor and weapons aside for now, Li Mo was going to go to other caves to see what new gains he could find. Before he left, he looked around in the cave, but he didn't expect that there seemed to be writing on the cave wall. When I first entered, I saw a kind of vine growing on the cave wall, but I didn't notice it.
Li Mo hurriedly used a machete to clear away the vines, revealing the carved writings. Li Mo reached out and touched it. It was in block letters and seemed to be about an event.
"When the official of the meeting was envoyed to sail through the Western Regions and select strong men from the south of the Yangtze River, the soldiers in the army fled in all directions, but the king did not avoid them, so he followed him under his command. The most important thing was that he was unwilling to leave his confidants. He made three trips over several years, traveling thousands of miles away, and returned without any harm. 4. On the way home, we encountered a tsunami and storm, causing the ship to drift and land on an isolated island beach. The ship was destroyed and hundreds of lives were lost. We were trying to survive, but we encountered pirates and killed them. More than ten years later, I finally passed away."
There are two characters "Zhao Zhong" left at the end.
This can be considered a legacy of the Ming Dynasty.
The compositions of the ancients are a bit bad, they are not clear enough, and not only are they awkward to read, but they also require careful consideration to understand the meaning.
After studying for a long time, Li Mo finally figured it out. In the Ming Dynasty, "Zhongguan" referred to eunuchs with official positions. The opening chapter tells that a Zhongguan eunuch was ordered by the emperor to go to sea and needed to recruit a group of people. No one dared to go. Only this man named Zhao Zhong was willing to follow. He became the right-hand man of the eunuch Zhongguan. The first three trips to sea were all successful, but on the fourth trip, a tsunami storm was encountered on the way back, causing the ship to veer off course and finally run aground on this isolated island.
The ship was destroyed, but a total of 158 people were lucky to survive. I wanted to survive here, but I didn't expect that there were pirates hiding on this isolated island. In the end, the two sides fought and wiped out the pirates. It took about ten years. Years later, everyone else died one by one, leaving him alone. He had no hope of life and finally took his own life.
If the entire article is translated, the middle-ranking eunuch naturally refers to Zheng He. Zhao Zhong followed Master Zheng on four voyages to the West. On the way back for the last time, he was stranded on this isolated island and died after surviving for more than ten years.
In order to convince the world that his throne was right, Emperor Yongle Zhu Di instituted a maritime ban and sent people to the Western Seas. Firstly, it was to combat pirates and promote the power of the Ming Dynasty. Secondly, it was mainly to conduct maritime trade with coastal countries and increase finances. income. During the seven voyages to the West, no one knows how many people died.
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