Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 482

In the sea area to the east of New Jingzhou Mansion, a fleet of [-] Aegis ships, [-] Longya warships and [-] Spike warships is heading south at full speed.

This time Taichang didn't bring many ships, and the sailors and soldiers on all the ships had been reduced, and he didn't bring any soldiers.

There is no way, he doesn't even know how big the new Jingzhou mansion is, let alone how long the coastline of the new Jingzhou mansion is.

He didn't know how long it would take to sail around the New Jingzhou Mansion, let alone where to replenish the water source.

Therefore, he can only reduce the number of personnel as much as possible to ensure the supply of fresh water.

This time, he brought a total of less than [-] sailors, and more than a hundred ships were filled with fresh water. Under normal circumstances, they could sail at sea for more than a month without replenishing fresh water.

For more than a month, they can sail at least [-] miles.

In other words, if the coastline of the new Jingzhou Prefecture is only about [-] miles away, they can make a detour and return to the original point.

If it is more than [-] miles, there is no way.

Because he ran out of time, he had to rush back to Nanyang within two months, otherwise, it was very possible that he hadn't returned when the letter from the King of Spain arrived.

Although this exploration of the new Jingzhou Prefecture is important, it is not as important as the alliance with Spain.

Therefore, he can stay here for more than a month, even if he can't finish exploring, he can only rush back.

On the top floor of the flagship, a huge square table has been pieced together at the bow of the ship.

The square table is more than ten feet long and wide, and the blueprints on the square table are also pieced together, and the length and width are exactly ten feet wide.

This is the drawing they are going to use to draw the map of the new Jingzhou Prefecture.

The drawing has been divided into a hundred small squares of one foot by a faint dotted line, and one foot above this represents a thousand miles.

Sun Chuanting, Zhang Yuanfang and other navy generals were carefully staring at the precision compass in front of them, and at the same time drew the shape of the coastline on the manuscript paper with fine brushwork.

No way, these days they can only use this method to measure and draw maps.

Anyway, the fleet has been sailing along the coastline for about ten miles, and the speed of sailing is constant, about one hundred miles per hour.

In this way, the error of the coastline they drew based on the azimuth changes of the precision compass is only a few miles at most.

These days, such an error is nothing at all. After all, they survey and map a coastline that is tens of thousands of miles long.

Song Yingsheng is also leading a group of newly promoted Jinshi to help observe the topography of the coast at the window on the right. Where there are mountains, where there are rivers, and where there are basins, they will record them according to the observations of large and small telescopes. , for Li Zhizao's reference.

Li Zhizao ran at both ends, constantly drawing a large number of dotted lines with charcoal pencils on the big map as marks based on the reference terrain and coastline shapes they surveyed and mapped.

Everyone was very busy, but Taichang sat there frowning and thinking.

It has been more than ten days, and the coastline has been extending southward, and there is no sign of turning westward at all.

In other words, the coastline of the new Jingzhou Prefecture must be more than [-] miles.

Because the coastline has four directions, one direction is more than [-] miles, can the other directions not be [-] miles?
They were still driving in the north-south direction. He estimated that the east-west coastline would be longer than the north-south direction.

From the looks of it, he must not be able to follow everyone to finish surveying and mapping the coastline of the new Jingzhou Prefecture.

The surveying and mapping of this coastline is impossible, let alone the surveying and mapping on land.

What's next?

He is definitely going to leave, and it is very likely that he will not come here within a year or two.

Who is in charge of this matter?
How many troops did he leave to garrison here?

Also, he had to leave enough ships, otherwise, not to mention surveying and mapping, it would be a problem for the remaining people to transfer food and fresh water.

These are really a headache!

Alas, this new Jingzhou Mansion is too big, it may not be enough to explore it all in one year, let alone develop it.

It has to be said that this is a happy trouble.

He, the emperor, is actually worried because the expanded territory is too large!
There is no way, it is useless to occupy this territory, it has to be defended, developed, produced resources, and obtained benefits, otherwise, why occupy it?
The reason why he ran over in such a hurry was because of the resources here.

This new Jingzhou Prefecture is most famous for its minerals. It seems that there are gold, silver, copper, iron, coal and other minerals, and the reserves are scary, especially iron ore, which is famous for a lot.

In addition, this place is also very suitable for the development of animal husbandry. In later generations, this place will be called "the country riding on the back of sheep". Huge profits can be made by raising sheep and cattle.

The problem, these have to be developed by people!

Who is going to develop it here?

He couldn't help scanning around carefully.

This time, among the civil servants and military generals he brought with him, Sun Chuanting was the most powerful.

Do you want to keep him?
Thinking of this, he slightly raised his hand and said, "Bo Ya, stop for a while, I have something to discuss with you."

After that, he got up and walked to the study.

When Sun Chuanting heard the words, he quickly put down the brush in his hand and followed.

Taichang came to the study and ordered someone to move a stool for Sun Chuanting to sit down with him, then sighed slightly: "Bo Ya, you have also seen that the coastline on one side is so long, I'm afraid I don’t have time to accompany you to explore here.”

What does the emperor mean by saying that he wants to keep me?

Sun Chuanting hurriedly cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, let this minister accompany you to fight the world. I am still young, please don't leave this minister here to retire!"

Uh, well, Sun Chuanting is indeed still young.

At this moment, he is only in his 30s, so it is a pity to keep such a young and capable general here.

Hearing this, Taichang couldn't help but said: "Then what do you think we should do? There must be someone responsible for the development of such a large site. It's a pity that it is so barren here. Moreover, we have to leave a large army to garrison here , Those barbarians in Europe may rush over at any time."

Sun Chuanting has actually considered this issue. He thought about it, and then carefully suggested: "Your Majesty, I feel that the development method of Dongfan is good. Sending guards to guard the natural harbor suitable for building a port, basically There is no need to worry about European barbarians coming to snatch it.

Moreover, all the Tunwei family members can also be brought over to grow land, raise cattle and sheep, etc., so that it will be slowly developed. "

Dongfan's model is really good.

Problem, the territory here is too big!

Dongfan can almost hold it by building five acropolises. I am afraid that fifty acropolises here are not enough!
How many guards did Ming have in total?

At this moment, Daming Tunwei has become a hot commodity.

Because there are too many newly opened territories, guards are needed everywhere.

Alas, there is no way. To defend such a large area, we really have to send garrison guards. Not to mention building fifty acropolises, at least twenty or thirty acropolises must be built.

Taichang sighed slightly: "It seems that only the inland garrison guards have been moved to the past. Isn't this called New Jingzhou Mansion? We moved all the garrison guards of the Huguang Capital Division and Huguang Xingdu Division here. What do you think?"

Your Majesty, you have the final say!
Sun Chuanting cupped his hands very simply and said: "The emperor is wise."

You guys are afraid that I will keep you here, so you don't dare to say more, right?

Taichang said helplessly: "Then tell me, who will be in charge of such a large site here?"

Sun Chuanting thought about it carefully, and then said cautiously: "Your Majesty, what do you think of Duke Ding?"

Well, Dingguogong is from the younger brother of Chengzu Empress Renxiao, and the royal family can be regarded as blood relatives. The so-called fat water does not flow to outsiders' fields. It is not bad to hand over the new Jingzhou mansion to Dingguogong to take care of it.

Of course, it is impossible for such a large piece of land to be entrusted to a given country as a fief.

Anyway, this place is as big as dozens of Java islands, and at that time, it will be fine to seal off a land that is about the size of the British government and give it to the government.

Thinking of this, Taichang nodded slightly and said, "Okay, I'll leave it to Duke Ding to be in charge here."

In the next few days, the fleet continued to sail southward, and the coastline of the new Jingzhou Prefecture seemed to extend southward without end, which made Li Zhizao a little confused.

Could it be that this is really a piece of land larger than Eurasia?
This is of course impossible.

They sailed south all the way for about half a month, and the coastline finally turned westward and no longer extended southward.

In other words, they have already explored the eastern coastline.

However, at this time, they had to return.

Because Taichang must return to Nanyang, after all, at this time, the most important thing is to form an alliance with Spain.

(End of this chapter)