open sea

Chapter 518
Most greatness in this world begins with taking a risk, and taking a risk means failing most of the time at first.

People who are in the midst of trials often don’t know that they are in the midst of trials. When they raise their eyes, they can only see boundless despair. Every necessary quality determines whether they will fail, but when those necessary qualities are achieved, it determines whether they can succeed. It is the tenacity of a person's heart.

No one is afraid of suffering. The most difficult thing is to be knocked down by suffering a few times and stand up again.

"There is a string of islands in the southern sea. From west to east, the savage Jurchen Heishui Mohe can come to buy and sell with rafts. You said you saw them living in an igloo and hunting by themselves with a dozen dogs. How far away do they live? Five or six hundred miles away?"

Ma Gui rubbed his face and asked the rider who lost his way six hundred miles to go down to rest, and then ordered his cronies to pull out the map of Wangxia Prefecture, survey and map the western coastal map of North America, and the map of Spain and South America. He stared at the map for a while without speaking.

"Co-author... Are we going far north?"

This is not the first time that Ma Gui wants to slap himself after he became the commander-in-chief of Kuwu Island. He himself can't remember how many times it is.

Because when these three incomplete maps were brought together, together with the letters returned by the Jurchen riders, he gradually had a rough guess about the production activities here.

The Jurchen said that Heishui Mohe was heading east on a raft to the small island. Ma Gui thought that he might have led the fleet to stop there. Stay on the island for a few days.

Regardless of whether it was the landowners in Wangxia Prefecture who were later called Chukechi people, or the native people who went six hundred miles south from Xihanmen and later called Aleuts, in the eyes of Ming people, there is no difference, and there is no other title.

This is the same whether it is a Central Plains person or a Jurchen.

There is only one title for them. According to the animals they depend on for survival, they are called the deer department or the dog department that are included in the savage Jurchen Heishuimohe.

Ma Gui also met a family there, and asked them for directions and how to sail to a place further north. He only used four interpreters, Jianzhou Jurchen, Beishan Jurchen, Savage Jurchen and the soldiers of the Deer Department. They left calmly with the answer they wanted, and in return left some spices from Nanyang and two sets of Ming army winter clothes.

That is to say, if he asked about the way to go east at that time, maybe this voyage was another result. The cape would be named Wangxia State, and the three guards of Kuwu Island may have successfully landed in North America. , and began to reclaim the land.

Facing the three pictures, Ma Jin didn't understand what they meant at first, but when he looked at them, he suddenly had a flash of enlightenment, patted his thigh and yelled, "I just said why there is no one here, let's go far away !"

But they didn't go far, they sailed to a place where only polar bears and walruses can survive.

Going too far.

Ma Gui clenched his fists and stood up, gritted his mouth and gritted his teeth, looked left and right, and went back and forth three times. Then he took a deep breath to calm down, and said: "Starting from Kuwu Sanwei, we have sailed for more than twelve thousand miles. , Fang arrived at Wangxiazhou; since Wangxiazhou sent a fleet to explore the road more than ten times, and sailed for more than two thousand miles, Fang decided to set off and sailed for hundreds of miles. .”

When he said this, the general and general who had led the army to strangle Mongolia for more than ten years in northern Xinjiang was crying: "More than 400 miles, more than [-] lives."

Just because I didn't ask one more question, is there a way to the east.

He was wronged, so wronged!

Ma Gui looked at the Baihusuo named by Ma Jin at the easternmost end of the Daming map in the west. At that place, Ma Jin led the fleet to go around the big bay of Nurgan Dusi's hometown for four thousand miles. Baihusuo was named in this way to remember this wrong way, and they thought that from then on, the road ahead was the right one.

Unexpectedly, that was just the beginning of another detour.

But self-pity is useless, and Ma Gui didn't complain too much here. He waved his hand and said, "Go and ask the rider if he remembers the way he came here. Send a mission of more than ten people, bring spices, gifts, and pack two Walrus Tusk will meet them again and ask them about the surrounding terrain and weather."

"If those envoys are not hostile to the Ming army, we need to borrow people and dogs and deer to draw sleds. I will transport these luggage to the south, and I don't know how many months it will take."

Ma Gui sat down slowly, he also smoked his pipe, and said: "Let them see the spices from Nanyang, the thick winter clothes, and our knives, and also their goods. If you help me this time, In the future, when the Ming ship docks, it will make a special trip to trade with this side and exchange needs."

"If there are no other accidents, the mission will send two cavalry, please send someone from the local envoy's dog department to escort and guide, and must arrive at the four thousand li hundred households before the year, and bring back the information we found. The weather there is worse than Wangxia The state is much better, and I estimate that the snow will melt in March."

He didn't know that the advance army of the expedition team stationed in Wangxia Prefecture had been ordered by the imperial court to be led by Ni Shangzhong and transferred back to Kuwu Island, and planned to go to America after the Spanish route. Most of them, as well as the tens of thousands of banner troops in North Korea and Mongolia, have been ordered by the imperial court to be transferred to Japan to support the Japanese king in conquering the samurai.

In today's Wangxia Prefecture, there are only three or four hundred flag troops guarding the fleet, and even they will sail back to Kuwu Island after the glaciers melt.

What's more, he didn't know that his brother and the soldiers he led were already dead in Daming, and all the rewards and orders were sent to the right guard of Datong, and his son went to the Yin officer of Jinyiwei.

The Ma family will not be able to hang Spring Festival couplets in the upcoming three years of Wanli.

He only knows one thing - he has found the way to North America, and he has actually seen this land for the imperial court. His mission has already had a good start!
After that, he turned his head and said to Ma Jin who was sitting on the side: "I reckon that the Ministry of Envoys there is no threat to us. It's a world of ice and snow, and there won't be too many of them. They should be as reluctant to die as we are, no Will want to come to fight with us, but we also need to take precautions."

Ma Jin smiled. On the ice field, they had never seen the deer and dog envoys on the other side. They were armed like archers in armor. They didn't even count as front courts. They were about to go to the Song Dynasty. Wearing armored helmets, armored waist rings, and longbows and spears, he is naturally brave, but against an expedition team that almost everyone has a flintlock—forget it.

"It's true that we are afraid of the cold and hunger, but we are not afraid of war." Ma Jin patted the icicles on his cuffs, and said with a stern look: "We came to America to fight wars by order!"

It was indeed like this at the beginning. Who would have thought that it would turn into being frozen under the order of disobedience and Xuanwanghua.

If it is just a war, no matter how big it is, it will be much easier than the environment they are facing now.

After finding the person and the direction, Ma Gui's heart to go south became more determined. Anyway, the road to the north was also blocked by the collapse of the snow mountain, and it was impossible to stay here forever.

Cannons weighing more than General Zhenshuo were difficult to carry, so they hid them in the Shuihufeng cave. They were worried that they would not be found in the future, so they specially erected several stone tablets near the left, with Magui's own poems and essays on them, hiding the cannons charade.

I didn't bring all the two-jin cannons with me, so I pulled out thirty doors and went with the army and luggage, drove the sleds, packed the luggage, pulled them with dogs if they could be pulled, and with deer if they could. Pulled by people, they headed south along the ice sea, surveying and mapping, exploring the new continent in their hearts!
　Good morning, Chinese New Year is coming soon!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)