Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 481 Daming Adds Another Province
New Yangzhou Mansion, that is, this large island newly discovered by the Daming Fleet.

This is naturally the place name given by Taichang.

He didn't bother to think about it anymore, so he just followed "Shangshu. Yugong".

The world is divided into Kyushu, the southeast is called Yangzhou, and the southeast is called Jingzhou.

This big island is located in the east of Java, south of Luzon, and should be regarded as the southeast of Nanyang, so take the new Yangzhou capital directly.

And there is no need to think about the big island in the south, although the others have not arrived yet, the name has been chosen, and it is called New Jingzhou Mansion!
At this moment, the wharf of New Yangzhou City is being built rapidly, and the city wall of New Yangzhou City has also been planned, and the foundation is being dug.

This is the mouth of a fairly large river, and there are many people living along the river.

These people heard that the Great Tomorrow Dynasty was building a city here, and that there were countless good things bestowed on them, so they frantically gathered here, crying and shouting to join the ranks of building the city.

There is no way, the things made by Daming are so good, they haven't seen such good things for decades or even hundreds of years, they want to make more money and buy more.

Naturally, Taichang never refuses anyone who comes, and recruits as many tricks as possible.

Of course, getting these people to help build the city is not his main purpose. His main purpose is to let these people be guides and gather all the people on the island so that he can find out the shortcut to New Jingzhou Mansion.

Because right now he doesn't know exactly where the new Yangzhou City is located.

If Mao rashly led the fleet to the south to find the new Jingzhou Mansion, it would probably cost thousands or even thousands of miles.

In this way, going back and forth is not very convenient.

After all, thousands of miles or even thousands of miles of sea are prone to sea storms.

Although it is unlikely that the Daming Navy fleet will capsize when it encounters a sea storm, it is very likely that it will be blown away by the sea storm.

It is naturally not advisable to open up new routes so hastily.

He remembered that the closest place between New Yangzhou Mansion and New Jingzhou Mansion seemed to be only three or four hundred miles away.

If you can find out about that place, that would be great. The navy fleet can even make a round trip in a day, which is very safe.

Therefore, in the past few days, he has been ordering the sailors to drive the dragon-tooth warship and the wolf-tooth warship to pull the local guides along the river bank and along the coast to pull people everywhere.

However, the new Yangzhou Mansion is really too big. The width of the east and west coastlines may not be several thousand miles, and the width of the north and south is estimated to be more than a thousand miles, and there are not many people on it.

Anyway, after a few days of searching, they only gathered a few thousand people.

The population here is more than ten times sparser than that of Java Island.

In other words, the big island, which is several times larger than Java Island, may only have a total of tens of thousands of people.

"Hey, where is the closest point to New Jingzhou Mansion?"

Looking at Li Zhizao's constantly improved map based on the exploration of the navy officers and men, Taichang couldn't help but sigh slightly.

Hearing this, Sun Chuanting couldn't help cupping his hands and said cautiously: "Your Majesty, must we find the closest point? If not, we'd better line up more than a hundred large ships and sweep to the south, so that we can definitely find the new Jingzhou Mansion."

Alas, you don't know how big the New Jingzhou Mansion is.

They didn't even need to line up the big boats to find the new Jingzhou mansion. The problem, after finding the new Jingzhou mansion, they had to find the nearest point, otherwise, it would be too troublesome to go back and forth.

Taichang still shook his head slightly and said: "Sharpening a knife is not a mistake for a woodcutter, let's wait."

Sure enough, sharpening a knife is not a mistake in chopping firewood.

Not long after, Zhang Yuanfang rushed back with a large fleet of ships.

Excitedly, he rushed to the flagship, ran to the meeting hall, and excitedly said, "Your Majesty, the general should have found the closest place you mentioned."

Hearing this, Taichang couldn't help asking with great interest: "Oh, what's going on?"

Zhang Yuanfang said excitedly: "Wei Chen found a dozen families of fishermen at a river mouth in the southeast, and there is a densely packed island there.

They said that a day or so of boating full speed south along the islands would bring out a continent, which was a bit dry and had little water.

This is similar to what you said, your majesty, and their small fishing boats row at full speed at most three or four hundred miles a day. "

That's right, it should be.

Taichang couldn't help but excitedly said: "Where is the exact location?"

Hearing this, Zhang Yuanfang quickly pulled out a blank piece of paper and put it on the map that Li Zhizao was revising, then picked up a fine brush and explained while drawing: "Weichen led the fleet to sail along the coast to the southeast. It's been a full day of driving.

According to the display of the compass, the coastline along the way should be in this shape.

Then, here is a river that flows into the sea due north, and there is a small island with a radius of about ten miles about three or four miles in front of the mouth of the river.

According to the fishermen here, there is a small island with a radius of more than ten miles to the southeast about [-] miles away, and to the south of that small island are densely packed islands. As long as you pass through those islands, you can reach the mainland. "

Well, it's only a day's flight.

Hearing this, Taichang ordered without hesitation: "Decree, one hundred thousand Shenji Battalion soldiers will be left here to continue to build the port and the city, and Yu Zigao will stay here after returning from the Nanyang Fleet. People, get ready to go."

He sent three naval fleets out in turn to find people.

On this day, Yu Zigao led the fleet to the north, while Zhang Yuanfang led the fleet to the south.

Now he doesn't have to wait for Yu Zigao's fleet to come back, anyway, Zhang Yuanfang and Qi Panzong's fleet has more than [-] iron-clad warships and nearly forty dragon-tooth warships, which is enough.

Soon, more than [-] giant ships set off with five large fishing boats and more than [-] Spike warships.

In the afternoon of the next day, they came to the mouth of the river mentioned by Zhang Yuanfang, and saw the small island with a radius of more than ten miles.

The fleet continued to drive southeast for more than [-] miles, and sure enough, they saw a small island with a radius of more than ten miles.

And on the south side of this small island, there is a densely packed island, and they can see a bunch of large and small black spots even without binoculars.

After thinking about it for a while, Taichang ordered the fleet to go back to the mouth of the river in front and rest for a night.

After all, there are still three or four hundred miles of sea in the middle, and it was dark when they drove past, and they couldn't see anything, so there was absolutely no need for him to rush for half a day.

Early in the morning of the third day, the fleet continued to set off, detouring the small island more than ten miles ahead and heading south, passing through a series of densely packed islands of all sizes. Before noon, there was a sharp peninsula ahead.

The width of this peninsula is less than a hundred miles, but on both sides are coastlines that can't be seen at a glance, extending straight to the south.

This is the New Jingzhou Mansion, that's right.

Taichang was turning the binoculars to scan the terrain on the peninsula, when suddenly he stopped.

Because he saw a string of huge characters engraved on a boulder on a hill near the coast, and these characters were painted with a white background.

Obviously, this word was not engraved by the ancients, but by people of this era, and it has not been many years since it was engraved, and the white background inside can still be faintly seen.

What kind of ghost word is this, I can't understand it!

He immediately recruited Chen Siming and a bunch of other experts, and let these people identify them.

Chen Siming took a look at the telescope and said decisively: "It seems to be in Dutch."

The general translator who specializes in Dutch translation heard this, looked at it through the binoculars, and then bowed his hands and said: "Your Majesty, it is in Dutch."

Taichang was rather curious: "What does this string of Dutch words mean?"

Natong said cautiously: "This string of Dutch characters means New Holland."

cut!
It seems that the Dutch have been here before, but they don't have enough manpower to explore and develop, so they engraved a place name first, indicating that this place belongs to the Netherlands.

Also the New Holland territory.

Pooh!
This territory does not belong to whoever arrives first, but to whoever has the biggest fist!

You guys like carving place names on boulders, don't you?
Taichang ordered without hesitation: "Send someone down, scrape off the string of characters, and then engrave it on the Ming Nancheng Announcement Minister, New Jingzhou Mansion. The characters should be bigger and deeper, and filled with red paint."

Since then, Daming has added another province.

Nan Cheng announced that the name of the Political Commissioner was based on the southern continent on the "Complete Map of Kunyu Ten Thousand Kingdoms".

Of course Taichang knew that this was not Antarctica, so he would not take any Antarctic envoy.

After the name was engraved, he ordered people to find a harbor at the tip of the peninsula, and began to build a pier.

Anyway, this place has already been found, so there is no need to rush to explore.

To be on the safe side, it is better to build the port terminal first, and transfer the materials or even fresh water along the new Yangzhou government.

The reason why the Dutch did not develop here is probably due to insufficient manpower.

The main reason is estimated to be the lack of water and supplies in the north of the new Jingzhou Mansion, and they simply don't have the ability to build supply points along the way to transfer supplies from Batavia, which is now Xinxiangfu.

These are naturally not a problem for Daming.

(End of this chapter)