Australia.

Dingnan Port on the southeast coast of Australia.

It has an excellent deep-water harbor with a pleasant climate, and there are flat and open plains near the harbor.

Compared to the northern part of Australia that Li Zhi chose to see the most, it is a red and hot desert, a terrible place that is rare in water.

Fortunately, the navigator told him that it was not the place he wanted to stay. They sailed along the coast, occasionally shored and replenished supplies. After a long voyage, they arrived at the East Coast.

Compared to the north, the climate on the east coast has become cooler, and the land conditions on the coast are getting better and better, but they sailed to the southeast coast and landed in a place called Sydney Bay.

According to the navigator, when he first discovered this, the lookout whistleman on the mast was eating a pear. He pointed at the harbor excitedly and shouted, "Look."

The person below smiled and said, "What are you looking at? Are you looking at Sydney?"

Later, everyone found that this place was very beautiful, so they smiled and called it Sydney Bay. They also planted the seeds of pear here, and they have been here several times since then.

After Li Zhi landed, he found a pear tree on the shore of the harbor. It is said that the adventure fleets would plant some pears here every time they came. They also built fences for these pears to protect them. Now the earliest pear tree planted has fruit.

Compared to his father Li Shimin who led nearly 30,000 people when he set out from Luzon, Li Zhi's team had a relatively small population, with only more than 5,000 people.

After landing, Li Zhi gave this place a name Dingnanwan and Dingnan City, and he also regarded Sydney as the national tree of his country.

Log in to Dingnan and start building a camp.

However, there are more than 30 tribes of all sizes and nearly 10,000 indigenous peoples on this fertile harbor plain. These indigenous people did not welcome their arrival. On the first day they arrived here, several people who went out to hunt and pick were abducted by the indigenous people.

At first, Li Zhi thought he was lost.

But the next day, the heads of those people were thrown to the camp gate, which could not have been the behavior of a beast.

Li Zhi resolutely fought back, and he organized a thousand troops, equipped armor and weapons, and then fought back.

The natives were very fierce, but they were far from their opponents. Cheng Qian conquered several tribes in a row, killed more than a hundred natives, and captured hundreds of people.

But things didn't go well, and the natives began to fight guerrilla wars with him.

These indigenous people are not unified. They are very scattered themselves, but they have always had fixed territories and boundaries, and they do not cross the line between each other.

Li Zhi's arrival invaded their territory and they attacked one after another.

The natives could not defeat Li Zhi on the front, but they often came to attack him like wild animals.

Especially when Li Zhi sent out to hunt and log wood, people who collected wild fruits were often attacked, which made people panic.

Li Zhi did not stipulate that every time he went hunting, at least a hundred people had to go out. Moreover, if he went to log, at least hundreds of people had to go together.

Before the village was built, he had to build a camp during the day, leaving a group of people to guard it at night, and then the rest returned to the boat to sleep.

Such endless troubles made Li Zhi very angry, but he couldn't find any good solution.

Early in the morning, Li Zhi rode a horse to inspect the camp he was under construction.

Temples such as the Confucian Temple, Wu Temple, Dragon King Temple, City God Temple were first built, and then there were Duke's Mansion, Council Hall, Warehouse, Barracks, etc. The city walls were made of double-layer logs and then filled with soil. The city was not big, but with the city walls it could be safer, with houses to live in, and even with yamen, there was order, and with shops, you could exchange houses.

They had already opened a piece of arable land outside the city, planted a few simple farms, and planted seeds of various crops brought from the Central Plains.

More than 5,000 people were all divided into land for them, but this year, the system of collective farming and distribution according to needs is still adopted.

We have to wait until we can safely spend this year, and then we can let everyone farm themselves next year. However, because the cattle and horses transported in limited quantities, Li Zhi's Secretary of State still suggested that he implement the commune model first.

Let dozens of households form a community, work together and cultivate land together, so that they can make full use of cattle, horse and tillage tools and labor, and have better results in the early process of land reclamation.

After those lands are cultivated or more cattle and horse ploughing tools are transported from the Central Plains, it will not be too late for everyone to divide the fields and get households.

So now there are dozens of communities under Australia, and generally there are 20 to 30 households in a community, which jointly reclaims wasteland and farms. Young and strong people have to take time to train and rotate on defensive patrols.

The indigenous prisoners captured became Li Zhi's private property, and they cultivated the fields of his Duke's mansion for Li Zhi.

Li Zhi also used some slaves to reward those who made contributions to combat and to make contributions.

"Mr. Ao, the people who went out to patrol this morning discovered something strange."

The simple logs were built in the Australian National Assembly Hall, and the Minister of Military Affairs reported to Li Zhi.

"What strange thing?"

"The patrol discovered a temporary indigenous camp. These people seemed to be preparing to attack us, but our patrol found that they were all dead."

"Diet? Who killed it?"

"It's a plague!"

When Li Zhi heard the name of the plague, his face was pale. If a plague broke out in such a ghost place, he could not even be prevented.

"Is it a plague? Where are those patrols now? Are they isolated?"

"It's indeed a plague, but fortunately, it's time to be sure that those people get smallpox."

Smallpox, the most terrifying plague, is highly contagious and has a high mortality rate. In the past, the Central Plains also changed their qualities when they heard about smallpox. However, later Zhang Chao invented the method of receiving cowpox, and most of the Tang people took cowpox. But after taking cowpox, they would no longer be infected with smallpox.

"We estimate that these smallpoxes were transmitted by our people." The Secretary of Military Affairs told Li Zhi his inference.

Most of the Tang people had vaccinated vaccinated with cowpox and were not afraid of smallpox. However, among the more than 5,000 people brought by Li Zhi, there were many slaves from all over the country, some of whom had vaccinated vaccinated vaccinated vaccinated vaccinated vaccinated vaccinated vaccinated vaccinated vaccinated vaccinated vaccinated vaccinated vaccinated vaccinated vaccinated v

Now, there is no doubt that among these people who have not been vaccinated, I don’t know who got smallpox and was infected by contact with the natives.

"Check and register immediately to see who among our people have not been vaccinated with cowpox. Isolate those who have not been vaccinated in batches, so that our doctors can find a way to see if they can get acne juice from the cows and inoculate them."

Most Tang people such as Li Zhi took the acne, so after hearing that it was smallpox, he felt relieved. However, many slaves had not taken it, and he was also worried that these new subjects would be infected.

The investigation began soon, and these new free people who came to Australia were asked about registration and quarantine.

Next, the patrol found more indigenous bodies nearby, all of whom died of smallpox infection. Even someone in Li Zhi's camp was finally infected with smallpox.

Fortunately, the quarantine was timely, and more than 100 people were infected with smallpox, less than 20 people survived, becoming pockmarked faces, and the rest died soon.

The doctor successfully got cowpox and began to inoculate the remaining people.

By planting vowel, the acne caused by people with cowpox, the more than 3,000 people in Dingnancheng who have not taken acne have also been planted with acne and no longer worried about smallpox infection.

"Duke Ao, I have a plan to deal with the indigenous people." The Secretary of Military Affairs proposed a sinister trick, throwing the indigenous bodies that died of smallpox into the areas where the indigenous people are active, and spreading the smallpox to them.

The methods of using plague are indeed ruthless, but this method has not been found in history, and even many wars have been used.

For example, the war between the Western Han Dynasty and the Huns also used the method of plague.

Li Zhi was also annoyed by the harassment of the indigenous people. After hesitating for a while, he still agreed to the proposal of the Minister of Military Affairs.

"Twist the bodies of indigenous people who died of smallpox around us, so that the indigenous people cannot gain a foothold within a hundred miles of our lives."

Smallpox is powerful, and the natives who don’t know how to treat acne and prevent epidemics.

Although they are fierce and fierce and more accustomed to the geographical and climate here, they cannot resist the invisible and intangible ceiling.

As the Australian Army was deliberately spread, tribes of hundreds of miles nearby began to be infected with smallpox quickly.

Every day, people die.

Even the death of the entire tribe.

There are less than one ten people who can survive after infection with smallpox.

The natives finally realized that the plague was transmitted by outsiders, who no longer defended their territory and began to flee inland in panic.

In a month, there was no indigenous person within three hundred miles.

The natives left at least ten thousand bodies.

After hearing the summary of this number, the young Li Zhi couldn't help but be amazed.

"Send someone to bury these bodies!"

The nearby natives had gone far away and no one came to harass them. The construction of Dingnan City ushered in a climax.

Several ships leading the way, carrying some Australian native products are about to leave.

Li Zhi was sent to the dock with great reluctance.

"This is my memorial to the emperor, I hope it will be submitted."

"Please rest assured that Duke of Australia, we will definitely submit it to Your Majesty."

"I hope you can come next year and send us some cattle, horses and tillage tools. It is best to send us some pigs and sheep, breed pigs, sows, breeding goats, ewes, and cows. The climate here is good and it is very suitable for grazing and breeding."

It is certainly good to farm here, but there is such a big place that you can't grow it. If you grazed, it can be easier and you can also provide milk. And wool, cow, pork skin, etc. can be woven and made of leather, and can be used to make clothes and shoes.

After all, when you get here, you will mainly rely on self-sufficiency in the future.

It’s impossible to live in ten years, everyone can only live in a grass skirt.

The navigator took away only three pilot ships, and the remaining dozens were left to them.

Put the anchor and set sail.

The boat left the harbor and looked at the boats in the harbor and the small town on the shore getting farther and farther away, and the people on the boat were also sighing.

I don’t know if these thousands of people can take root here.
Chapter completed!