“Shall I, my brother, will he be able to win the eight states soon?”

Wu Haogu, wearing a sheepskin robe, carried his back to the water side of Nanyunlong Mountain in Xuzhou City, strolling while talking to his son Wu Yi for a long time.

Yunlong Mountain is located on the edge of Yunlong Lake and Yunlong Mountain in the south of Xuzhou City, and there are mountains and water, which is a rare good place on the side of Xuzhou.All around them are mansions, which belong to the noble merchants in the Xuhai area.When Xuzhou City was flooded by the Yellow River, it was soaked in water and was almost deserted.Most of the original owners also fled to Gangnam.Therefore, after the Zhou army entered Xuzhou, the manor of "no owner" (cannot find or is owner) was confiscated.After the decision of the big week to Xuzhou as the winter capital and then take out the auction, sold to the elite of the Republic of Great Weeks.

Wu Haogu spent 80,000 silver coins and bought the largest and most luxurious Yunlongshanzhuang.Later, 20,000 silver coins were used for renovation, which became his residence during the Xuzhou period.

“It should be soon!”Wu Yijiu said with a smile, "Now in Japan's severe winter, their Beiland and Zhongshan roads are blocked by heavy snow, leaving only Tokai Dao to go."After Tamagawa, the samurai of Japan's model country have been killed and wounded.Blocking the East Coast should be easy.

In this way, the eight states of Kanto have become a big urn, and you can catch the urn!With Big Brother's ability, the eight states should be pacified before the end of the snowmelt season next spring.”

“All right!”Wu Haugu laughed, "As soon as the eight states arrived, Japan was half dead."There are eight fertile land, we can at least put up 50,000 military households... there are so many military households, the whole of Japan will be ours sooner or later!

Now we can start exploring the Eastern Ocean!”

The so-called Eastern Ocean is the Pacific Ocean!

For the vast majority of Zhou people, the Eastern Ocean is an unknown sea of mystery.

However, there are not many people who are interested in exploring the Eastern Ocean, at least Wu Yi has not been interested in it for a long time.In his view, exploring the eastern ocean and finding what kind of place to cross the East is better than strengthening the investment in the South Ocean and the West.

Now on the other side of the East Song Dynasty, but in the south, the west under the blood!

Just when Wu Yiyong liberated the Japanese people, Zhao and Wu Meiji, the aggressor husband and wife, were planning the battle of the Chao Nan River and preparing to invade the sacred territory of the Zhenla Empire.Take the rich Chao Nan River Plain (50,000 square kilometers) for yourself!

In addition, Ceylon's bright top of the Holy See also expressed its surrender to the East Song!

This means that most of the Ceylon land has become a possession of the Eastern Song Dynasty.

After the capture of Ceylon, the East Song can continue westward, to the legendary vast and wild black continent...

Aren’t the known black continents more desirable prey than the unknown Great Eastern?

The mind of Wu Yi has a long-standing, of course, Wu Haogu knows a little.

This kid doesn’t want to put too much public money into the unknown.

But it does not matter, the funds for the equipment of several expedition ships can still be taken out.

"San Lang, explore the affairs of the Eastern Ocean, and arrange it for the Father."Wu Haugu looked at a piece of Xiaosei Yunlong Lake, "the Discovery Discovery Discovery ship started the year before, next summer will be able to test the voyage, the following spring should be able to start exploring."

Discovery is an exploration ship, a sailboat used to search for uncharted waters.The "truth" class hull was used, plus three-masted soft sails.Only the upper cannon deck, equipped with eight 12-pound guns.

In order to keep the crew in the vast sea for longer, the Tianjin Shipyard's all-mentor craftsmen designed a more comfortable cabin and a larger cargo compartment.

The number of sailors was limited to 90 in order to reduce the consumption of fresh water, food and other supplies.

According to the design, only one supply is required, and Discovery can persist for four months in the vast sea without having to call the port to add fresh water and food.

In addition, Discovery will carry enough pickles and tea for 12 months to avoid scurvy on the crew when traveling to and from the New World.

The Discovery also prepared a large amount of salt and high-purity distilled spirits.The former is used for pickled meat or trading with the natives - if you have the opportunity to find some small island that can be hunted, the crew of the Discovery will naturally not let go.At that time, it is necessary to use salt to pickle the meat.As for high-purity liquor, it is used to exchange water, and a certain alcohol concentration can avoid the spoilage of fresh water.

In other words, in the case of a certain supply, the Discovery can persist in the sea for 12 months!

From Japan to the Americas, there are 7000-8,000 kilometers of range, even at 8 kilometers per hour, 1000 hours is enough, that is, 42 days.

Wu Haugu prepared enough redundancy for the Discovery to ensure that it reached the other side of the ocean.

In order to ensure the success of the exploration, Wu Haogu will add several times the insurance factor.That is to say, four "discovery" class team was sent at a time.

In this way, even if one or two sailing ships are lost during the voyage, the remaining ships can still complete the exploration mission.

Now the construction of the four "discovery" class is in Tianjin and Lushun shipyards, and by the spring of the Republic, it will be able to sail.

The New World will soon be discovered.

...

In Xuzhou City to prepare for the exploration of the new mainland in Wu Haogu, this time probably did not dream of, in Jiangning City, there is also a big person on the "in the East" story of the "in the East" miss.

He also owns a sailboat similar to Discovery.

This man is the good old son-in-law.

It’s too dangerous to be on the side of the bed!

So we must try to find a way to retreat... the land of "Industrial East Pass" may exist?

Look for nothing and lose nothing?

It was with this idea that after the emergence of the soft sailing ship, known as the "Shen ship" type, Zhao Qin did not think of using them to form a fleet - because Zhou Guo began to attack Japan, Zhao Qiao believes that the peace between Da Zhou and Dongsong can be maintained for at least another decade.

Therefore, the East Song does not need to immediately upgrade its fleet, and can wait until the larger and stronger sail gunboats appear before changing.

Before this, the use of the "Shen ship" type sail ship for long-distance expedition, but it is a good choice.

...

“Your Majesty, where do you want to explore?”

In the newly completed Chongzheng Temple of Jiangning Imperial City and Zhao Qin asked the right is that the naval aircraft of the Eastern Song Dynasty is expensive.

He was the commander of the Jijia war fleet, and later "Zhan An" became the general of the navy of the official army.Later, the memory was arranged into the East China Sea Marine Master as the Admiral, and now he is the first hand of the East Song Shui Master.

“How is the East of Japan?”Zhao asked.“It is said that there is a great land in it, a land of the Indwellings.”

“This...” is a bit of a lackluster.

Why is this God so unscathed?

What is the "East of the Yin people", a legend ... and do not know where it came from?

In any case, this old Navy who has run the sea for a lifetime has never heard such a ridiculous story.

Even when the king of Wu was to cross the Yin tribe east, it was also to go to Japan, how could he go further east?

How easy is it to navigate?There are islands so big in Japan that are not going up, why go east?

Sailing is for the dead!

"Sire," Cheng Gui said, "the East of the people's crossing is nonsense ... based on nonsense, it is not desirable to explore the Great East Ocean."And to explore the Great Eastern Ocean is best to start from Japan, and Japan is being attacked by Zhou, we went to increase misunderstanding.

If your majesty wants to explore the distant sea, it is better to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the South Ocean Islands.You may find some fertile islands suitable for Han people to move.”

Although the Great Zhou Republic and the Eastern Song Dynasty have reached the South China Sea, their activities are limited to the Three Buddha Straits and the Java Island.

There has been no in-depth investigation into the eastern part of the South China Sea Islands.

However, both countries know that there are some islands in the eastern part of the South China Sea, because merchants from the two countries will purchase spices from some islands in the eastern part of the South China Sea Islands.

To covet the wealth of spice islands, you want to organize a large-scale voyage to the South Ocean at the right time.See what the indigenous people on the island can incubated...

“So...” Zhao Qian thought, “That’s okay.

It’s expensive, have you ever heard of the earth?”

“The round?”It is expensive.

"That is to say, the earth in which we live is not flat, but a huge ball of incomparable balls."Zhao explained, “It sounds absurd, but after my research, I have come to the conclusion that it is right.

So in theory, our ships can reach the northern waters as long as they sail to the south.”

How is it possible?Think about it: There is nothing wrong with the official brain, right?actually studied the earth is round, and also think that the ship can reach the northern waters all the way to the south...

Fortunately, the big Song (East Song) side is the second holy dynasty, with the Queen Mother in charge, the country can be thriving ah!

Zhao Qian did not feel that he had any problems at all - in fact, he had come to the ground through astronomical calculations.Before the Central Plains War, Yuntai Xuegu Palace (Yuzhou Island) and Qingcheng School Palace had jointly engaged in an astronomical observation of the circle.A number of observatories have been set up in Jingzhaofu, Xijing, Kaifeng Province, Yingtianfu and Haizhou.Through observation and calculation, the conclusion of the circle of the earth was reached, and it was calculated that the circumference of the earth was about 30,000 miles.

In addition, simple optical observations can also prove that the circle is round - because after the use of the best telescope, the visual distance of people will change with the height.As long as the calculation is carried out, the conclusion of the circle can be drawn.

Therefore, Zhao Qin wanted to organize a round-the-world voyage to prove the correctness of the "ground circle".