open sea

Chapter 997
When Chen Mu saw Yang Zhaolong, the little governor in the southeast of Xinming Island had a beard and sideburns connected together. The longest beard on his chin was nearly an inch, and the shortest beard showed stubble. cry.

The minister of the East was so frightened that the Australian aborigines had raised their troops.

After asking clearly, Chen Mu let out a long breath. After a long time, this kid lost his composure because the depression he had been floating in the sea for more than four months was released after seeing him.

Mr. Chen, who brought his brother-in-law back to the yamen, counted on his fingers for a long time, but he still couldn't figure out why Yang Zhaolong was able to float on the sea for four months.

"The northern route is [-] miles along the coast of Daming and then along the coast of Asia, and none of the previous voyages lasted more than three months. When you came from Xinming, why did you travel by sea for four months, or more than four months?"

As Chen Mu said, he pointed at Yang Zhaolong's chin, and said, "And this beard, did you stick out your chin when you were sleeping in the lower cabin?"

"It's a long story, brother-in-law, let me start from the beginning, that bastard Li Hualong."

Mentioning this name, Yang Zhaolong became angry, patting the tea table so that the cleansing items such as knives and elastic noodles brought from others on the small square table rattled, and he did not forget to raise his hand to apologize to Chen Mu: "Brother-in-law, don't blame me for scolding me!" He, the first person to board Xinming is me, right?"

"I stayed in Xinming for two years, and the imperial court sent Li Hualong here. Indeed, I didn't pay attention to the strategy and management. I regarded it as a place for fun, but there are more than a dozen villages on the northern coast, and the reclaimed land and pastures are all To my credit."

"He is an official sent by the imperial court. I really don't want to seize power or anything with him. I will give it to him and play around the big island by myself. Is my benevolence exhausted?"

"I drove Xiaoyang again in the southeast. At that time, I wanted to sail back to the country and go to Beiyang to find you, but he came over and said that the imperial court asked me to be the little governor of the southeast. I should be the governor. It’s not bad, it can farm and raise horses, and it has a good port.”

Chen Mu raised his eyebrows: "You circled Xinming? Then there should be a big island in the north and east, did you find it?"

Interrupted by Chen Mu, Yang Zhaolong was stunned for a while, and then he said: "The big island in the north is Guinea, right? Surrounded by dozens of small islands, it was named by the Portuguese. I asked the natives where it is, and the natives Minda girls say Guinea, and they call it Guinea, and Guinea means girl in their language.”

"The eldest girl thought he asked if he was a man or a woman."

Chen Mu discovered that Yang Zhaolong had the potential to become a great explorer—curiosity.

Not everyone is interested in knowing what Aboriginal people mean when they say an unintelligible sentence.

But for Yang Zhaolong, can you not be curious?On Xinming Island, the natives regarded him as a god because they knew how to train dogs. This group of people paid tribute when they came back from nomads when they had nothing to do. They just wanted to see if he was dead.

With this kind of experience, who wouldn't become curious?

"East, the east is not an island. From Guinea to the southeast is a circle of islands. Those islands have everything. There are two big islands, which are about the size of Guinea."

Chen Mu said: "New..."

He wanted to say New Zealand, but the experience of going overseas for several years told him that in the later world, everything with "new" in its name has not been discovered in this era-for example, Xinxiang?

Wrong, it was New York.

"What's new? It's not new. The Maori Ministry went there more than 200 years ago. They call it the place of white clouds, and the scenery is beautiful, so I call it North Wangyunzhou and South Wangyunzhou."

While Yang Zhaolong and Chen Mu said these words, they glanced at the small knife for shaving on the tea table from time to time, and as they talked more and more, they looked at the small knife on the table more and more. The more impatient he became, he finally turned his head and glanced at his maid, and raised his chin.

The razor finally started to move by itself. When the razor scraped his cheek, Yang Zhaolong said slightly: "I don't want to stay in one place for more than three to five years. After all, the world is so big that there is no place like Banzhou; but Li Hualong Let Your Majesty take my brother to Xinming, and the people of Bozhou, if they knew I would not go to sea, who would have thought of going to sea and destroying their family?"

Chen Mu nodded slowly.

He had heard about this incident. On the one hand, he could understand that the Yang family could not accept the centuries-old relocation of Bozhou to Xinming, but on the other hand, he also thought that this was probably the greatest honor given to Yang by the court.

"Reformation is the general trend. Our generation's reform is the best time for the Yang family." Chen Mu raised his hand and said, "Xinming, Guinea, and Wangyun Prefecture, how wonderful! Don't care where they are, as long as they are in harmony with each other." The land in Banzhou was the same size before, so the harvest in the future will be more than that in Banzhou, it just needs some cultivation.”

"Look at Chang Sheng. Three years ago, this was a small fishing village. Every year, only three months when the caravans arrived, there was a short period of prosperity. Now? Hao Jing is not as good as this."

Chen Mu was actually a little absent-minded. For a long time, the problem of setting up local administrative agencies on the east coast has troubled him. The composition of the people there determines the situation that is completely different from that on the west coast. In the past, it was probably difficult for the Jinshi faction to play well among the various tribes.

But when he fixed his eyes on Yang Zhaolong's shaven face again, it was as if a bolt of lightning had struck his head, and Chen Mu asked, "What do you want to do when you come to Asia?"

"I don't know, I'm just afraid that my brother will kill me."

Chen Mu could feel that Yang Zhaolong was not joking, what he said was a declarative sentence.

"By the way, brother-in-law, when I came here, I found eight small islands in the middle of the sea. They are not too big, but there are [-] to [-] native households living on each island, and the scenery is extremely beautiful."

Then, Yang Zhaolong, who had shaved his beard, got up and walked to the map hanging on the wall behind Chen Mu, clicked in the middle of the sea, and said: "It should be the middle, I can't tell east, west, north and south on the sea, but Liu Qianhu said yes In the middle, Deputy Liu Qianhu."

"He left a hundred families and three boats there. There is food and water on the island, enough for a large fleet to replenish, as long as some goods can be sold to the natives."

After all, Yang Zhaolong sighed full of worry and looked at Chen Mu again: "I don't know what I can do here, and my heart is very confused. If Wangyunzhou is not too close to Xinming, I really want to spend my whole life with Mao Li The chief lay on the grass and watched the clouds."

Suddenly he turned his head and smiled to himself: "Maybe I'll get tired of watching it after two years."

"I remember that you all have read a lot of books?" Chen Mu didn't stare at the location on the map that should be Hawaii. His eyes were fixed on the bay where Ming merchant Li Yuxi landed on the east coast of the Longhouse Alliance. Another world is called New York. place, asked: "What was Xinxiang called in ancient times?"

"Xinxiang in Weihui's Mansion? It used to be called Xinzhong Township, which happened in the Han Dynasty." Yang Zhaolong asked, "Why did my brother-in-law suddenly ask about this?"

"It doesn't sound good, forget it."

Chen Mu shook his head before he heard Yang Zhaolong say: "It was called Muye earlier, King Wu defeated Zhou, and eight hundred princes would fight against Muye in an alliance."

"Hi Muye, let this place be called Muye, how about... how about going to be the magistrate of Muye?"

(End of this chapter)