Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 763 Australia's new waterway, the empress talks about Yingzhou!

Zhaowu seven years, June [-]th.

Auntie Zhu was reviewing the memorial in the main hall, when Zheng Sen hurried over with a telegram from behind, and said with a happy face: "Your Majesty, a telegram has been sent from the Malacca Governor's Mansion, and the squadron exploring the Australian sea route has returned!"

Auntie Zhu's eyes lit up when she heard this, "Show me the telegram!"

"Yes!"

Zheng Sen handed the telegram to Liu Zhu, who put it on the imperial case.

Auntie Zhu read it quickly, and she was also full of joy.

The squadron exploring the Australian mainland set off from Luzon last summer.

As early as 1606, the Spaniard Torres' ship passed through the strait between Australia and New Guinea. In the same year, the Dutchman William landed on the Australian mainland and named it New Holland.

However, because the northern part of the Australian continent is relatively barren (after landing a little further south is a plateau desert) and uninhabited, the Spaniards and the Dutch were not active in their follow-up exploration of Australia.

It was not until 1770 that the British James James landed in Botany Bay near Sydney, and he declared that the Australian mainland belonged to the King.

It was not until 1788 that the British used this place as a penal colony for immigration development.

Today, the Dutch start their journeys to Australia from Batavia, take the Java Sea, cross the East Timor Island, and then cross the Timor Sea to the north coast of the Australian mainland.

According to the voyage information given by Aunt Zhu, the squadron of the Ming Dynasty set out from Luzon Island, went south along the east coast of Greater Luzon (Philippines), crossed the Strait of Maluku, passed through the Banda Sea to East Timor, and then passed through the Banda Sea. Timor Sea to the north coast of Australia.

On his return journey, he took the west route opened by the Dutch, so he arrived in Malacca.

On the surface, the route taken by the Australian Expeditionary Squadron mainly passed through the Spanish and Portuguese maritime spheres of influence on the way out, and it also needed to pass through the Dutch maritime sphere of influence on the return journey, which seemed very dangerous.

But in fact, after the Ming Dynasty captured the Visayas, there were not many Spanish warships left in the South China Sea, and even a squadron could not be formed, so they could only hide in Mindanao and the Sulu Islands.

It is the Spanish fleet carrying silver and other goods from South America back to Europe. They must be careful when coming here, and most of them will choose to take the Atlantic route next year.

As for the Portuguese, their power in this area was squeezed by Spain to the very last. Although there are still some colonies, they dare not compete with Ming Dynasty for territory.

Therefore, the eastern and southern waters of the Greater Luzon Islands have actually become unclaimed lands, waiting for Ming to explore and occupy them.

Although the Dutch used to make enemies everywhere like Teddy in the sea, now they also dare not go against Daming.

For one thing, the Ming Nanyang Navy and the newly formed Western Navy are now powerful enough to deter all major forces in Nanyang.

Second, the Netherlands now has a lot of business with Daming, selling some of Daming's products to Europe by transshipment, earning a lot of money, the businessmen who control the country are laughing so hard, how can they offend Daming?
This telegram has a lot of content, but it only gives a general account of the fleet's experience in exploring Australia.

It has been more than a year since he set off in the early summer of last year and returned to Malacca now. He must have experienced a lot of things, which cannot be detailed in a single telegram.

Judging from the telegram, because of the voyage data given by Aunt Zhu for later generations as a reference, the squadron exploring Australia went quite smoothly as a whole, and completed all the exploration tasks assigned by Aunt Zhu.

It mainly explored the later generations from Darwin to St. Paul, and then passed the Torres Strait.After that, head south and explore to Sydney in later generations!

It can be said that we have traveled about one-third of Australia's coastline!

At the same time, it also assigned personnel along the way to establish strongholds on the north coast, east coast of Australia and the south coast of New Guinea.

···
Although it would take several months for the Australian Expeditionary Squadron to return to Nanjing, Auntie Zhu asked people to disclose the relevant news the next day, and asked Da Ming Pao to report on it.

And that night, Auntie Zhu and Hao Guangming were on the bed, facing the map, and changed the names of the island of New Guinea and the mainland of Australia.

"Surely it can't be called Australia, why not just call it Australia?" Hao Guangming murmured and made a suggestion.

Aimee Zhu shook her head, "Look at the information, Australia is derived from the name Australia, and Australia is derived from the early name 'Australis Land' (meaning: Southern Continent) given to this continent by the British. Let's just use what Australia looks like?"

After flipping through various historical materials for a while, Aimee Zhu's eyes suddenly lit up.

She said: "Look, some unofficial histories say that some people in China may have visited Australia during the Song Dynasty, and they collectively called the east, west and south of this large island in Nanyang as 'Ocean'.

In later generations, the continent of Australia was also translated as "Oceania" in Daxia, so it would be better to just call it Oceania.What does Xianggong think? "

Hao Guangming was not allergic to the three words, and said, "Not much. Our side is called Shenzhou, and the New World to the east is called America, and then there are Europe and Africa. Doesn't it destroy the formation if you call Oceania? Why not call it Oceania?" What about the continent?"

Aunt Zhu said: "Yangzhou and Yangzhou are accented, and there is a place called Yangzhou in Ming Dynasty. In addition, our 'zhou' and 'zhou' are the same at this time, so it must not be called Yangzhou."

The two continued to check the information and found that there was a sailor named Wang Dayuan who had been to Australia during the Yuan Dynasty.

In addition, the son of Lu Xiufu in the Southern Song Dynasty led the participating navy into Nanyang after the Yashan naval battle, and later established the "Lu Song" somewhere in the Java Islands (one said "Resong", and it was also said to be established in the depths of Luzon Island) .

In order to completely wipe out the forces of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty sent troops to Nanyang, and some Yuan soldiers stayed on a certain island in Nanyang later.

The most abundant evidence, which is almost convincing, is that Zheng He sent ships to Darwin Port in later generations during his voyages to the West.

Because a mahogany shipwreck from the Ming Dynasty was found there, and buried objects such as Buddha statues on the land that clearly belonged to the Ming Dynasty were excavated.

There was a translator named Ma Huan in Zheng He's fleet, who described the Australian continent in his book "Ying Ya Sheng Lan", calling it "Parrot Land" and "Parrot Land".

Later Ming and Qing geography works such as "Kun Yu Wan Guo Quan Tu" and "Kun Yu Tu Shuo" also mentioned "Bing Ge Di".

But the official name must not be called "Parrot Land".

Seeing this, Auntie Zhu felt that it would be better to take the homonym of the initials of "Yinggedi", and said, "Why don't you call it Yingzhou?"

Hao Guangming had already looked away at this time, and said: "Yes--Haike talks about Yingzhou, it is hard to find letters in the misty waves. Having a well-known name can also promote the enthusiasm of immigrants."

"But they say that Yingzhou is in the East China Sea, and some say it belongs to Japan." Auntie Zhu was confused again.

Hao Guangming smiled and said, "Yes, it is said that it is in the East China Sea, but why can't I find it? Because the direction is wrong. Yingzhou is actually in the south of Nanyang."

"Then it's called Yingzhou, it sounds nice." Aunt Zhu made up her mind and changed her mind.

Then, the two discussed and named New Guinea "Yanzhou" because there are many volcanoes here and it is a strange and dangerous place.

As for New Zealand in later generations, the southern island was named Fengzhou and the northern island was named Huangzhou, collectively known as Phoenix Island.

The southernmost big island in Australia, later known as Tasmania, was named Xuanzhou.

As for the other islands, Aunt Zhu plans to name them for the people of Ming Dynasty who will land on the island sometime, so as to stimulate the enthusiasm of the people of Ming Dynasty to explore overseas islands...

June [-]th.

The voices of the newspapermen selling Da Ming Pao were obviously higher than usual, with excitement.

"Headline! The Nanyang New World route has been successfully opened!"

"Your Majesty named the new continent Yingzhou!"

"The latest news on Newland Yingzhou is in this issue of Da Ming Pao, come and buy it, it will be gone in a while!"

"···"

Hearing the cries of the reporter, some people who were not planning to read it, or who were not in a hurry to read it, gathered around to buy it.

Many newspaper men took to the street with a large stack of newspapers on their backs. After shouting a few times, the newspapers were sold out in a short time.

The restaurants, teahouses, bookstores and other places where the newspapers were consigned, the "Da Ming Pao" was also sold out very quickly, so the shopkeepers sent their staff to contact the newspaper office to urge the newspaper.

Taking Nanjing City as an example, at noon, everyone was talking about the Yingzhou New World.

"Isn't it said that Yingzhou is in the East China Sea? Why did it go to the south of Nanyang?"

"It is said that the fairy island can move, so I must have run over by myself."

"You guys are all wrong, we want to talk about science. In my opinion, this Yingzhou is just south of Nanyang, so people can't find it in the East China Sea."

"Hey, this Yingzhou is as big as four-fifths of Ming Dynasty? Is it true?"

"Such a large place is an uninhabited land? How is it possible? Could it be that the land above is barren?"

"Hey, look, the article on the third page says that people from Song, Yuan, and Zheng He's voyages to the Western Seas all went to Yingzhou. Moreover, the legendary daughter country may be in Yingzhou or the surrounding islands!"

"My daughter's country is in Yingzhou? If it's true, I'll definitely go and see it if I get the chance!"

"Yingzhou is so big, the court might seal out several vassal kings this time, right?"

"It's so far away, is there any prince willing to go?"

"It's not too far away, right? At least it's closer to the Americas that Westerners say. America is so far away, and Westerners can go to it. Yingzhou is right on the edge of Nanyang. Why can't they go? Besides, if the imperial court draws a fiefdom, the vassal king Do you dare to go?"

···
　Second more.

　　Good night~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)