Chapter Ninety-Three: The New World

Henry IV also made a fortune, as the main forces of the Duchy were also heavily damaged due to the death of the Duke of Burgundy in the Battle of Paris, and Henry IV effortlessly annexed them, consolidating England's sphere of influence on the European continent.

Walking through the streets of Paris, Zheng He and his companions saw for the first time those ancient Greek sculptures, and they saw Poseidon, Apollo, Athena, Venus, Aphrodite......

These sturdy and beautiful fruit images of men and women that are impossible to see in the land of the Ming Dynasty are so perfectly shaped, so flamboyant and powerful, and Western culture has a strong heartfelt shock to the people of the Celestial Empire.

For Zheng He, this shock is even deeper into the soul, he has never been so deeply aware of his shortcomings, his imperfections.

Subsequently, he fell into a deep confusion and melancholy, which made him feel that this world was becoming stranger and stranger, and finally, the theory that Su Yu had told him resurfaced in his mind, and a strong desire appeared in his heart and in the hearts of all those who accompanied him......

So, shortly after the conquest of Europe, Zheng He once again gave an order that stunned and expected everyone in the fleet: set sail all the way to the west, to the depths of the Atlantic. He wondered, and all the people in the fleet who had traveled almost half the world wanted to know, to the west, where they would go.

Before leaving, Chen Zuyi smashed a stone tablet at the port of Calais, which had been ceded to Daming-

"Wherever my generation goes, it is all China, and the emperor and the queen are the same as the earth"

Chen Zuyi didn't know that the line of inscription he laid down with all his might would become a thing that countless people of the Ming Dynasty would do when they went out for many years to come.

The fleet was full of all kinds of supplies, and at Su Yu's suggestion, it not only carried a large number of fresh vegetables and fruits, but also requisitioned the local people to make a large number of pickled vegetables temporarily.

The fleet set sail from the ports of London and Calais at the same time, heading for the depths of the Atlantic.

They walked, walked, walked, but they couldn't see the land, in the past voyages, the fleet was along the coastline, although the front is unknown, the coastline can give everyone an inexplicable sense of security, this time it is in the vast sky and water to find an unknown destination.

During the two-month difficult voyage, a pair of eyes looked at the distance where the Atlantic Ocean was connected by heaven and water, looking forward to the coast of his hometown emerging there, but what he saw was always a vast expanse, and his mood was constantly depressed, but fortunately, Su Yu's identity as a diva was there, and she used her authority to constantly inspire the Ming army.

Eventually, the land appeared, but it was not the land of dreams, but a strange world of natives with agaves and cacti, the same skin color as them, but with broken hair and tattoos.

When the soldiers of the Ming army set foot on this continent, they did not cheer as Yang Su and the others imagined, but hugged their heads and cried.

The voyage without seeing land for more than two months almost exhausted the fleet's food and fresh water, and the ships were also damaged, so the first thing he did when he docked, Chen Zuyi landed with the striker to look for food.

They soon met the local natives, because of the encounter in Europe, the Ming army was extremely vigilant, and almost started fighting directly, but fortunately, Yang Pingfan landed with Su Yu to find the materials needed to make the cable, and stopped the conflict in time.

After a simple gesture exchange between the two sides, the misunderstanding was resolved, the Ming army expressed their difficulties, the Indians were worthy of the reputation of hospitality, the elder gave an order, and the tribe soon offered corn and all kinds of roasted animal meat to the guests who came from afar, as well as extremely strong tequila, so that the Ming army solved the urgent need, and the two sides also initially established friendship.

Because many ships were damaged to varying degrees, and although there were two crossers to guide them, the ability to preserve fresh vegetables and fruits in this era was really not good, and many crew members contracted scurvy due to lack of vitamins, and the two factors caused the fleet to be unable to continue in a short period of time, so Zheng He ordered to temporarily dock in the local area to rest.

Then the Ming army began to land on a large scale, building camps on the coast, and the exquisite craftsmanship of the Ming carpenters made the Indian tribes envious, and Zheng He immediately ordered that the tribe be allowed to send people to study.

When the tribesmen saw the war horses of the Ming army, they were even more surprised, you must know that because of geographical isolation, the native wild horses on the American continent were extinct as early as tens of millions of years ago, and in the original time and space, the reappearance of the horse herd in the Americas still had to wait until the Europeans came before they were reintroduced.

In order to repay the food provided by the local tribes, the Chinese not only taught the local tribes various advanced construction techniques, but also generously sent hundreds of high-quality war horses.

The horses were owned by the Ming army, and the horses were captured from Europe, because the castration technology of the Europeans was really backward, so many horses did not complete the gelding processing, and the more than 100 horses continued to breed and grow, becoming the biggest reliance of the local Hudson Indian tribes and the Ming army to sweep the American continent later.

The backwardness of the local area exceeded the imagination of the fleet, there were no horses, no wheels were invented, not even iron and bronze tools, the tools used were actually stone tools made of obsidian, and they lived a wild life of fur and blood, but their hospitality and generosity surpassed that of any indigenous tribe that the Ming fleet had encountered before.

After gaining a firm foothold in the local area, at the suggestion of Su Yu, Zheng He sent accompanying military doctors, carpenters, and blacksmiths to the Hudson tribe to teach them various advanced operation methods and techniques, and even the midwives on the ship also went to the tribe to teach various health and safety production methods, and under the technical indoctrination of the Ming army, the Hudson tribe completed the transformation from the Stone Age to the Iron Age in a very short period of time.

Although many local natives have been encountered in previous voyages, those people are either black and blue-eyed, not in line with the aesthetics of the time, so many people are holding a fire in their hearts.

When they arrived in the Americas, the local Indian tribes were all authentic yellow people, in line with the aesthetics of the Ming soldiers, and the local people were enthusiastic and unrestrained, and because of the long-term conflict with the surrounding tribes, there were more women and fewer men, and the demand was strong.

This matter was known to the old scholars of the fleet, shouting that the people of the Celestial Empire were in the company of the barbarians, and they were willing to degenerate, and asked the Lord to immediately order the prohibition of this kind of behavior, Zheng He couldn't make up his mind, after all, forcibly curbing physiological needs was against human ethics, so he threw this question to the queen of heaven.