After more than 20 minutes of shooting, the two photojournalists didn't plan to have lunch with Hong Tao, so they hurriedly packed up their things and ran, as if Hong Tao had a plague on his body. In the more than 20 minutes of filming just now, Hong Tao even sarcastically put all the insurance companies in the United States and Canada into it, and this thing was taken back to the headquarters, and the editor had to turn his hair gray, and he couldn't even take the two of them well. So for a crazy person like Hong Tao, it's better for them to stay away, and don't make do together if they can.

"No wonder you are not as good as those current affairs news reporters Niu X, people even dare to scold parliamentarians and presidents, you just heard me say bad things about insurance companies, you are afraid, virtue!" Hong Tao of course knew that these two photojournalists were not going to catch some planes, and they probably hadn't even bought plane tickets. However, Hong Tao does not hate them, let alone those insurance companies. He just felt that he was being slighted, and he could understand what they were doing, but he couldn't forgive their attitude.

On the question of He'en Jiao, Hong Tao was a little trembling just by reading the information and the stories he had heard. That place is simply a nightmare, let alone driving a small sailing ship, even those merchant ships and warships of tens of thousands of tons or 100,000 tons would not dare to try to cross this sea area lightly. With the development of science and technology, it is getting easier and easier to get through the horns, but that is also relative, if you are not careful, even if the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier goes, it will be finished.

Cape Horn is called Cape Horn in English and Cabode Hornos in Spanish, both words meaning headland, the kind of cliffs that jut out of the coastline by the sea. But Cape Horn is not a headland. It's a small island, so why should we think of a small island as a headland? This matter starts with the character of the name Hong Taolun.

Comrade Magellan is very unserious about his work. He led his fleet south along the eastern coast of South America to the entrance of a strait. When he saw the bonfire lit by the natives of Tierra del Fuego, he went up and asked. The two sides did not understand the language, and he guessed and guessed, and finally thought that this was the southernmost point of South America, so he did not continue to explore south, and led the fleet into the strait. He spent more than half a month in the labyrinthine waterways cut by ancient glaciers, and it took a lot of hardships to find a passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

Comrade Wheat and Hong Tao both have a stinky problem, that is, they like to name the borderlands after themselves as they walk. As a result, he named the strait the Strait of Magellan. The sea, which was much calmer than the Atlantic Ocean to the west, gave him the name Pacific Ocean. Hong Tao was very jealous of Magellan, and he felt that if he was to be reborn back to the 15th century, he would have to name this strait the Hongtao Strait, and what kind of Pacific Ocean, it would be called Hong Taoyang, and it would be appropriate to have three points of water in all three words.

But it was because Comrade Wheat was so lazy that he lost an opportunity to really discover the southernmost point of South America. The Strait of Magellan is not really the southernmost point of South America, it is 7 or 80 kilometers to the south. There's also a bunch of small islands. If he worked more seriously and drove the boat around for a turn, maybe there would be no horns of grace, and it would be called Wheat Island directly!

But Comrade Wheat is not serious about his work. At the time, people didn't know it, and they all thought that the Strait of Magellan was the southernmost point of South America. At that time, there was no Panama Canal, so the Strait of Magellan became the only channel connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It couldn't have been more important, especially for Portugal, the maritime hegemon of the time. Spanish seafaring was just emerging. The Dutch and the British didn't even play with them, and they didn't even know how to sail at that time. It's worse than Hong Tao.

At that time, Portugal discovered not only Cape Horn, but also the Cape of Good Hope, and was the first country in the world to complete a circumnavigation of the world. With these two charts, Portugal monopolized the trade in ivory, spices, gold, silver, and so on, and instantly became a huge rich man in Europe from a small traditional agricultural country! At this time, its neighbor Spain was not happy, and the original neighbor of Portugal was poor and white, and his life was worse than his own, so why did he suddenly become rich? We must inquire clearly!

So Portugal is using the secret of making money in a haystack was known to Spain, a neighbor, Spain said, no, I have to intervene in this matter, and the benefits can't be taken advantage of, so Spain also began to build big ships to prepare to grab business with Portugal. But in those days, there was not even a reliable navigation device and a complete map of the world, let alone weather shapes and forecasts, and the sun and stars had to rely on the sun and stars to determine the direction on the sea. It would be too difficult and too long for the Spaniards to wait for a new route to explore on their own.

What should we do? The Spaniards moved the pope out and wanted to take the pope together to become a shareholder of the maritime merchants. In fact, the Pope was not very satisfied with Portugal's own stuffy wealth, and hit it off with the Spaniards, so he called Spain and Portugal together, told the facts and reasoned, and finally got a nautical chart from the Portuguese, which was the route of the Strait of Magellan.

In order to show his fairness, the Pope was still more particular and did not do things too well, and in order to show his fairness, he specially demarcated the areas of Portugal and Spain for their own maritime merchants. From the Atlantic Ocean, a meridian line runs through the north and south of the earth, which is now the 50th parallel of west longitude, and the west side of this line belongs to Spain, and the east side belongs to Portugal, that is to say, the islands of the Americas and the Pacific Ocean belong to Spain, and Africa and Asia belong to Portugal.

The Pope's meaning is that none of you two teeth should bite anyone, everyone have fun together, in this way, the Pope will be able to reap the benefits, because he has shares on both sides, this old immortal!

This line also has a very bullish name, called the "Pope Meridian". With the patron's guarantee and Portugal and Spain co-signing, it was from this time that the European powers officially began to divide the world, no longer limiting their vision to one city and one place, even counting the sea.

These two countries comfortably dominated the seas for decades, living a prosperous life by trading and plundering the oceans, and slowly aroused the envy of the rest of Europe. The British and the Dutch were the most jealous, and they also wanted to grab some meat to eat, and began to send ships to explore these new routes. In the sixteenth century, the Spanish navy was still invincible, and the British suffered so much that whenever they encountered the Spanish fleet at sea, they would immediately be beaten by others. Some people may ask, the sea is so big, why not go elsewhere?

This was the problem of the development of navigation technology, the galleons at that time were slow and did not have navigation equipment, and the cruising ability was not very good, and a slight wrong direction was a dead end. These routes are all explored little by little by the predecessors with hundreds of lives, and new routes can not be opened up overnight. At that time, the British did not have the national strength to reopen new routes, so if they wanted to trade long-distance voyages, they had to compete with the Spaniards. The Dutch were not idle, they were competing with the Portuguese for the eastern route, and they were much better than the British in navigation, and they had already beaten the Portuguese away.

I have to say that the British are really tenacious, their faces are swollen, and they still go to explore this route unrelentingly. Their sailboat belongs to the type of wildfire that does not burn and the spring breeze blows and grows, it doesn't matter if one sinks, it doesn't matter if it sinks ten, as long as I pass one boat, it will be considered a success. God was also moved by the spirit of the British, and finally a British slave captain named Francis Drake survived the pursuit of the Spanish fleet and managed to escape from the West Indies.

The Queen of England immediately received Captain Drake, and then promoted him to the rank of captain of the Royal Navy. In the 16th century, there was a fart Royal Navy in England, which was a pirate ship issued by the queen for privateering. In 1577, Captain Drake received a secret order from the queen to explore the shipping routes to the Pacific Ocean again. This guy was lucky, when he entered the westerly wind belt from the east coast of South America, he encountered a storm, but he actually survived, not only did the ship not destroy the ship, but was also blown to about 56 degrees south latitude. He was the first person in the world to travel so far south.

In fact, a little west of his position, it was Cape Horn, but he was frightened, and when the storm had subsided a little, he hurried north with the remaining ships, and finally found the Strait of Magellan, and thus successfully entered the Pacific Ocean, and spent three years finally returning to England, becoming the first man in the world to complete a circumnavigation of the world. Comrade Magellan does not count, because after he arrived in the Philippines, he let the local natives kill him, and he did not have time to return to the place of departure, although his fleet returned to Portugal, it can only be regarded as a team achievement, and he has nothing to do with it personally.

The area where Captain Drake was blown by the wind was discovered by the Dutch a few years later. It was a very, very wide strait, with the southernmost tip of the South American continent to the north, and the outer islands of the Antarctic continent to the south, the South Shetland Islands. So this strait was named Drake Passage, and it is also the widest and deepest strait in the world, with 970 kilometers at its widest point and more than 600 kilometers at its narrowest point.

Because the Drake Passage is where the warm Pacific Ocean meets the icy Atlantic Ocean, the climate here is very active, with constant storms all year round and average winds above level 8. The Pacific and Atlantic Oceans are the most popular seas in the Pacific Ocean, and the Straits are considered by sailors all over the world to be the least accessible sea to Guò before the Panama Canal was opened. Storm Corridor, Devil's Strait, and Sailor's Graveyard are all its nicknames. (To be continued......)