I am the king of the dead

Chapter 974 The Born Navigator Arrives at Cuba Island

Kuai Lin married Miss Philippa as the Governor of Liberty City in the Ming Dynasty. This wedding caused a huge shock in Portugal, because Miss Philippa was never married. There is no one who is worthy of the identity of Miss Philippa. Obviously, the identity of the governor of Liberty City complements each other.

Kuai Lin did not pay too much dowry, because Miss Philippa did not have a dowry, and Liberty City and the Free Islands were not dowry. The dowry, that is the territory conquered by the villains from the east.

So Kuai Lin just married Miss Philippa according to the customs of Ming Dynasty, with three matchmakers and six hires.

In Lisbon, Kuai Lin and Philippa completed their wedding in the presence of Cardinal Jaime, another sister of Philipa.

In Liberty City, Kuai Lin married Philippa in a Chinese wedding ceremony. This mixed wedding between Daming and Taixi made Philippa terrified. She never thought that her wedding could have two customs, even for the sake of Alfonso V chose to get married only after the political exchange, but Philippa was still very satisfied with his wedding.

Kuai Lin is very familiar with the temperament of Thai and Western ladies, so he doesn't care much about whether Philippa is faithful in marriage. He is a devil, but after marriage Philippa actually read the female ring, yes What Kuai Lin never thought of anyway.

After he returned to the City of Liberty, he began to pick on the whole of Thailand and the West again. The deep-rooted contradiction between Britain and France became hot again. Facing the Teutonic Knights who were retreating in Poland, it was like a sudden He was as brave as taking a Dali pill.

Kuai Lin also met the envoys of the Songhai Empire. The envoys asked Daming to return the City of Freedom, the Freedom Islands, and the lands occupied by the Juanma River. The empire's back is on fire.

After two confrontations, the Songhai Empire finally realized clearly that Portugal is not easy to mess with, and Ming is even more difficult to mess with.

Because Daming took the opportunity to capture a large number of natives, cut off the eggs and sent them to the manor, which not only satisfied the developed plantations, but also had spare energy to transport them to the outside world. To Kuai Lin's great surprise, they came from Portugal and Spain. The merchants in the country do not want eunuchs, but natives with bells. However, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty had a decree that eunuchs were still the main ones sent to Taixi.

During the confrontation, Kuai Lin also discovered some unknown past events of the Songhai Empire.

In a large number of stone inscriptions of the Songhai Empire, there is a saying that there is land on the other side of the sea.

This kind of stone carving is full of strange power and chaos. In the description of the stone carving, there are countless sea monsters in the Atlantic Ocean, including the banshee who confuses sailors with singing, sea beasts as big as mountains, and a vast and boundless land.

In a stone inscription of the Songhai Empire, it is clearly recorded that the natives of the Songhai Empire reached the other side of the sea, communicated unfriendlyly with the local natives, and returned successfully.

But the Songhai Empire believed that the seas of these sailors were unknown, and sank them all into the sea, and burned all the goods they brought back.

There are not many of these stone carvings, and Kuai Lin did not record them in any of his inscriptions, so he chose to destroy them.

The first time to cross the Atlantic Ocean will be the Daming Ocean Fleet, the Skyrim Exploration Fleet led by Tang Xing.

"Our current location is 154° east longitude, 22° 42 north latitude, about [-] miles away from the capital." Sailor Fan Dexing put down the sextant in his hand, made some calculations, and added it on the globe After that, it's a whole new world.

The Age of Discovery is still going on.

He is not using a simple quadrant to determine the latitude and longitude, but a more accurate sextant, and three copper watches given by the emperor for confirmation. It has been more than two years since he went to sea, and these are extremely accurate. The copper watch is still an artifact of positioning on the voyage.

"A boat master who can pinch and count." Tang Xing put down the binoculars in his hand and looked at the thirteen ships staying in Shuosui Bay, feeling quite relieved.

There are two volcanic craters in Shuosui Bay, the big one is about two hundred feet high, and the small one is only three feet high. Under the volcanic rocks, there is a quiet beach. On the beach, there are countless flamingos. The sailors were hunting flamingos to improve their food. This long journey finally had the time for the toothbrush festival.

There are also some sailors who are burying monuments, which is what the Ming Dynasty Ocean Fleet must do wherever they go.

What a huge wave of three feet high, in front of the free Tang Xing, still couldn't take away even a boat from him.

Shuosui Bay was named by Tang Xing, because the bay here is like a fat ear of wheat. The once active volcano brought extremely fertile land here. Tang Xing named the island 'Wojing Mountain', 'Wojing Island' means a fertile and prosperous scene. (Now the island of Cuba.)
Fan Dexing looked at Tang Xing and had to admire this man who belonged to and conquered the ocean, and the ocean was his home.

During the voyage, the compass suddenly failed, which terrified everyone, and even the needles of the clock jumped. Fan der Xing immediately timed and prepared an hourglass. After leaving the sea area, he re-timed to prevent loss. exact location.

He has been trained many times in the Maritime Hall for these things, but what makes it difficult for Fan der Xing is that when even the compass cannot guide the direction, the astrology on the Atlantic Ocean is difficult to provide accurate directions, and the fog is confusing. When he couldn't even see the sun, Tang Xing was able to accurately guide the fleet to reach this sea area smoothly.

Tang Xing, a born navigator.

"The appearance of islands means the appearance of land." Tang Xing said to Fan Dexing: "There should be a vast land to the north, and there should also be a vast land to the south."

"Because of our position, we can clearly see that to the north and south, there are islands and they are getting denser."

Tang Xing has rich ocean-going experience. If it was just an isolated island in the sea, he would not have guessed this way. However, what the Daming Ocean-going Navy has discovered is an archipelago, and there should be continents from north to south.

Fan Dexing nodded and said, "I think so too."

"We're going to separate here, and we're still meeting here after three months." Tang Xing immediately made a decision. The ocean-going fleet is not just sailing around the world. There are some things along the way, and we need to bring back some information, especially about The gold, silver and copper that Daming lacked, as well as various crops, had to be brought back.

For some landmark buildings, monuments should also be named.

Tang Xing told Fan Dexing: "Don't have any trust in the natives. We look different from them. In their eyes, we are not too different from monkeys. Don't get in touch with them too much. The disease they carry has passed on to us, and everyone will suffer."

"Finally, I wish each other the best of luck."

In the early morning of the next day, the morning mist was hazy, and the Daming Ocean Navy divided into two, and started a new exploration. Three months later, all the ships returned to Shuosui Bay again. After exchanging information, Tang Xing joined forces again and headed south , heading south.

There are indeed continents in the north and south, and the level of civilization is almost the same as that of the Songhai Empire.

The tribes along the coast of the northern and southern continents are highly closed, and there are a large number of deformed children caused by inbreeding marriages in the local area. Several Japanese in the Fan der Hang fleet stayed in these tribes.

Because these Japanese committed crimes on the boat, the crimes that should have been sunk in the sea were given to these tribes as gifts because of their dealings with the local aborigines.

These aborigines know that children born to close relatives are mostly deformed, but the closed environment makes them so. These tribes have a custom that after a foreigner visits, if he wants to stay for a few days, he must marry a local woman as his wife , It doesn't matter whether you will stay or not, it is important to keep the children.

After Fan Dexing gave these sunken prisoners as gifts to these tribes, the wizards of the tribe gave Fan Dexing their crop seeds.

To Fan der Hang's surprise, the aborigines of the northern continent were slightly short, but their feet were large, which meant that they were short because they did not eat well, not because they were born short. Yes: These natives have yellow skin, black hair, and black eyes.

He didn't know the relationship between these natives and the Ming people, but they really looked alike...

Because of this, Fan Dexing left a sentence, like me from Ming Dynasty.

Fan Dexing would never have imagined that it was precisely because of these few words that Daming chose to be merciful to a certain extent when exploring the North and South Continents in the future, and this land ushered in unprecedented vitality.

In these small tribes, people worked all day to grow crops such as corn, beans, squash and peppers, fished, gathered oysters and clams, and collected honey and beeswax.

In addition to these subsistence farming activities, they also handcraft small crafts – small painted pottery vessels decorated with geometric patterns.

Fan Dexing got a bunch of these pottery products. Even if they were so simple, just taking a plate from the boat was enough to shock the natives, but Fan Dexing still took these gifts very solemnly.

There were no horses on this continent, at least Fan der Xing hadn't seen one.

This is a farming society. Although it is primitive, it already has the ability to make pottery, and there are geometric patterns and characters. Even if it is very simple, it still has the embryonic form of civilization.

These men and women also grew a crop of tufted white bells, an inedible but most valuable thing they had grown, which Van der Hang was sure was cotton.

Compared with the cotton grown in the Ming Dynasty, these cottons are more fluffy, with larger flower buds and more cotton.

These cottons thrived in cornfields, and each fall, after harvesting the food crop, the soft cotton balls were picked and many bolls were placed in baskets or bags to be carried back to the huts built of mud and wattles.

There, the cotton seeds are painstakingly removed by hand, the cotton is patted on palm mats to soften it, and the fibers are twisted into strands of cotton yarn several inches long.

Then, using a slender wooden spindle with a ceramic disc and a spinning bowl to support its rotation, they twisted the yarns together to form thin white threads.

Van der Hang saw, saw their production tools, wooden spindles and spinning bowls, and a kind of dolly loom consisting of two sticks tied with warp thread, one hanging from a tree and the other The roots are hung on the weavers, and these aborigines weave cotton thread into cloth like a dance.

The cloth was strong enough to be dyed with indigo and carmine to give various shades of dark blue and crimson.Some of the cloth was worn by themselves, and some of the cloth was dedicated to their tribal leaders to sacrifice to the sun god.

The ships of the Daming Navy headed south again.

In May of the 14th year of Jingtai, the southern hemisphere was in severe cold, and some differences occurred in the Ming Dynasty Ocean Fleet. These differences became more and more serious with the reduction of food.

It's not that Tang Xing, the commander of Fandu, didn't expect it, but that Tang Xing didn't allow the fleet to replenish the food on board, which caused a certain degree of panic.

Tang Xing had his own concerns. Firstly, conflicts would easily arise without the communication. Second, he did not add any supplements to prevent possible epidemics from infecting the entire fleet. Thirdly, the most important point was that There is still an extremely sufficient amount of food on board, which is enough to support the fleet back to Songjiang Mansion.

But there is a rumor spreading among the Japanese. This rumor includes but is not limited to: the ship’s food is reduced, and the Daming navy will kill and eat the Japanese, just like the Japanese used to kill each other on the ship, choosing people to eat ;The food of the ships decreased, but the Daming Navy did not reduce the supply at all. They were hungry, but the Daming Navy refused to give them any food; Powerless to resist.

When such rumors spread, Tang Xing chose to look for the bay to dock.

He gathered all the Ming soldiers, including the Ming army and the Japanese, unloaded all the food on board, opened it, and put it on the beach.

Tang Xing stood on two big sandalwood boxes, and the tooth flag behind him was rattling, he leaned forward, stretched out his hand and said loudly: "I know, some of you are a little confused, why don't we replenish the food? This is the answer! Your Majesty has prepared food for the ocean fleet for three full years!"

"And we supply along the way, and there are still two years of food left, and here is everything."

The faces of all the soldiers changed, not only the Japanese, but also in the Daming Navy, there were also various rumors. In short, food was decreasing and when people's survival was challenged, everyone would become an unconscious makers of rumors.

Tang Xing had led the army for so many years, so he naturally knew that at this time, the most important thing was to put his words in the open so that everyone could see clearly.

Tang Xing said sharply: "These sandalwood boxes and these mothballs were specially ordered by His Majesty to prevent the grain from deteriorating! These boxes are much more valuable than these grains. For this ocean trip, Your Majesty, as the most honorable emperor in the world, , I have to do everything myself, ask about everything, check everything, and I have prepared for 11 years!"

"Open some other boxes."

Nearly a hundred commanding officers opened hundreds of other boxes, all of which were neatly packed with cotton clothes and cotton shoes, all brand new.

Tang Xing pointed to those padded clothes and continued: "Did you see it? These are prepared for the fear of the temperature difference between the north and the south when we are in the ocean. We have traveled all the way, either at the equator or in summer. This is the first time we have met. For severe cold."

"But His Majesty has thought of it."

"You can question me. I, Tang Xing, was originally born with mud legs. I haven't washed the mud on my legs, and I can't wash them clean. You question our generals, generals, and commanders, but you should trust your majesty. !"

Tang Xing's words made everyone lower their heads.

It has been 11 years. The Daming Navy should know best what kind of person His Majesty is. The rumors of the Japanese are everywhere. The Daming Navy also has rumors. Ocean voyages are indeed a tormenting thing. A firm belief, in such a boring voyage There are also voices of doubt.

It doesn't matter, His Majesty told the soldiers of Daming that as long as His Majesty is still there, Da Ming will be invincible against the sky, against the earth, against people!
"Do we have it too?" a Japanese asked tentatively.

Tang Xing nodded seriously and said: "There are also Japanese people. Your Majesty said that if you show bravery, you will be treated like eagle dogs as Daming's hawks. Along the way, you are very qualified to be Daming's hawks."

"On the way, it's like I've treated you badly. I pat my conscience and say, those sons of a bitch warriors are domineering over you. After being dealt with by me, have I ever starved you?"

"No!" The Japanese rejoiced. When they set off from the country of Japan, they knew they were going to be treated as dogs by humans, and they were also treated as dogs in the country of Japan. They just didn't expect that they would be treated like humans when they were treated as dogs by Daming.

Tang Xing jumped out of the wooden box, looked around, and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty is mighty!"

"Your Majesty is mighty!" There was a hoarse voice on the beach that went straight to the sky!

Tang Xing did not open all the boxes. His Majesty provided adequate protection for food and clothing, and the fifty barrels of shochu was the best proof.

These thirteen ships are just a waste of energy, and it is more than enough to support the fleet back to Songjiang Mansion. The ocean-going fleet of Ming Dynasty, each ship is a thousand-year-old ship, but each ship has more than 200 people.

When the hearts of the people disperse, the team will disperse. Even if there is an internal strife, everyone will be suspicious of each other. At that time, the ocean-going fleet will start to be on guard against each other, facing the huge waves and those natives. When being harassed, how can you safely leave your back to your comrades in arms?

Tang Xing did not choose to deal with it with high pressure, but pulled everyone to the shore, made it clear, made it clear, and reunited people's hearts.

Cohesion of people needs a symbol, and there is no doubt that His Majesty is the most suitable symbol. Even the Japanese worship this symbol.

Tang Xing and His Majesty the Emperor had one position for the Japanese ashigaru and samurai, that is, the eagle dog, but even the treatment of the eagle dog was enough to make the Japanese ashigaru feel grateful.

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At sea, the biggest enemy is not the storm or boarding the ship, but those comrades who once shared life and death have become enemies. ——The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the commander of Fandu, and the navigator Tang Xing.

　At sea, the biggest enemy is not the storm or boarding the ship, but those comrades who once shared life and death have become enemies. ——The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the commander of Fandu, and the navigator Tang Xing.Ask for a monthly ticket, woo! ! ! ! ! !

　　
　
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