The surface of the North Pacific Ocean can only be described as vast. Even the men of the sea country, Chen Shangchuan and Shi Lang, who almost take the sea as their home, are the first time to see such a vast and boundless sea. The 800-ton Henan is not even a boat on this blue and empty sea, it is simply a slight.

Unlike the North, East, and South Seas, where islands and large areas of land can be seen from time to time, the North Pacific Ocean seems to have only water and no earth, and ships have been sailing the ocean for 41 days after leaving the waters off the coast of Japan, but they have not seen a single reef. The Henan seems to have entered a world of water, if it weren't for the fact that they had already obtained the Spaniards' charts and had already known the world they lived in the Naval Academy, Chen Shangchuan and Shi Lang might have suspected that they were sailing towards the end of the world!

After watching the sea view for more than a month, Chen Shangchuan and Shi Lang, the two old sailors, were a little unappetizing. So outside of routine inspections, the two of them didn't bother to go to the deck to look at the sea, but stayed in the stern to study the nautical charts and maps of the west coast of the New World obtained from Emperor Zhu The northwest part of the map of the west coast of the New World was drawn by Emperor Zhu from memory, and he was very familiar with the Vancouver area in later generations, and knew that it was a good place! Many of his friends, classmates, and bosses in his previous life have run away to go there, so he has long wanted to enclose this place, and it will be convenient for everyone to run over in the future, right?

On the map processed by Emperor Zhu, the location of the Americas Mansion has been indicated, which is the area of Vancouver and Seattle in later generations, and the destination of the Henan is there.

On the map, the House of the Americas is located in a huge bay about 1,500 miles north of New Spain. The topography of this bay is very peculiar, although it is huge, but it is not open, because there is a large island in the middle of the bay, and the big island almost fills the entire bay If the actual terrain is really the same as the map drawn, then the Americas is really a fundamental place given by God!

As long as a few forts are built on both sides of the waterway between this large island and the south shore of the bay, it should be able to effectively block the entrance to this huge bay, and the heaven and earth within the entrance are the foundation of the Ming Dynasty in the New World!

And within this bay, not only the area is huge, but also the distance between the north and south and the east and west is very long, the coastline inside the bay is very long, at least more than a thousand miles, the transportation in this is too convenient, it can be compared with the south of the Yangtze River!

Don't know what the climate is like there right now? Is the land rich? What is the size of the plain? Are there enough trees and minerals? If there are trees, are there any good fur-bearing animals living in the forest? If there are such good places, will there really be no owner?

It would be great if there was really no owner!

When Chen Shangchuan and Shi Lang were pondering the inaccurate map, a rush of footsteps sounded, followed by the sound of a loud report.

"Captain, first mate, land, see land, what a big piece of land!"

What a big piece of land!

Is that the New World? It's finally here!

Chen Shangchuan and Shi Lang raised their heads and glanced at each other, and they both saw faces that were irrepressibly excited.

"Let's go, let's go!" Chen Shangchuan had already taken a step as he spoke, and walked towards the hatch.

Shi Lang also hurriedly followed, and the two of them walked out of the cabin together, and then went up the stairs to the stern. By this time, there were already many sailors and passengers standing in the stern, deck, and bow of the ship, all trying to crane their necks and look east.

Chen Shangchuan and Shi Lang also stretched their necks to look, and what they saw was the hazy mountains and rivers in the distance!

Liu Liang, one of the thirty pioneers, also came out of the cabin at this time, went to the deck, and led his wife Liangzi, a short Japanese woman, who was originally not called Liangzi, and Liangzi's name was given by Xu Kan, the tun chief of Peanutun Tun.

This Xu Kan also worked as a green flag soldier, but he was better than Liu Liang to see the direction of the wind, in the Ming and Qing Dynasty confrontation years, he was keenly aware of the trend of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, so he came to the enemy with a horse, pulled two horses and ran to the Ming side, became a glorious Ming cavalryman, and also relied on his own merits to get mixed with Xiaoqi. However, his background is always a stain, and he doesn't have much ability, so it's difficult to go up.

Just when I was thinking about whether to retire with the official rank of Xiaoqi, it suddenly issued a document saying what kind of "overseas commander" to recruit, requiring a rough understanding of writing, proficient in infantry and cavalry, and using muskets, spears, bows and arrows, knives, javelins and other weapons, by the way, it is also required to be unmarried, and the official rank cannot be higher than the general flag.

There are a lot of requirements, but there are no requirements for academic qualifications, and if you are selected, you can be promoted to the third level immediately, and you can also receive a family fee of 500 taels of silver.

Xu Kan found that he actually met all the conditions, so he went to register, and he was successfully selected, participated in the corresponding training, and then also "sent" a wife! is not a Japanese, but a traitor's family member caught in the Northern Expedition, a teenage girl, who looks clean and well-read, and now follows Xu Kan out of the cabin.

Chen Shangchuan, Shi Lang, Xu Kan, Mrs. Xu, Liu Liang, Liangzi, and a number of other immigrants from the Shenzhou Continent and Japan all poured onto the deck and looked eastward, watching the land of the American continent getting closer and clearer!

"Admiral! The lookout post has spotted land, and I think we've arrived in the Philippine Islands! ”

When the voice of the report of Colonel Barbossa, the captain of the large armed Galen ship of the New Spain, arrived, the commander of the Eastern Fleet of the Kingdom of Spain, García. Morality. Admiral Toledo Mendoza is looking through the Report on the Situation in the Far East, written by Caballero and de Velasco.

The report was sent to Garcia only two months ago, when his fleet had just arrived in the port of San Diego.

And what this report says is about six or seven months ago, the situation in the Far East, which was quite serious!

The hegemony of the Spanish Empire in the Pacific is being challenged by the Ming Empire!

The Ming Empire, an ancient oriental country, has undergone earth-shaking upheavals in the past ten years!

Although the invasion from the northern Tatars and the large-scale civil uprising within the Ming Dynasty once pushed the Ming to the brink of collapse, they also awakened this sleeping oriental giant!

After losing a large part of the northern territory, the Ming Empire began a truly radical reform!

First of all, it was a financial miracle to get rid of many fatal evils, to rebuild the finances of the empire, to increase the fiscal revenue tenfold in a very short time, and to put no burden on the common people and merchants!

Then, the Ming Empire began to seriously study Western military technology. Excellent Dutch, Portuguese and French officers were hired, and a large European-style army and a small but difficult European-style navy were built.

At the same time, they also opened their doors to welcome merchants and artisans from all over the world, establishing a fairly well-developed financial system and a system of commercial law.

After a series of reforms, the dying empire has been renewed, defeating the Tatars in the north, restoring the empire to its former glory, and regaining its position in the Far Eastern world as the so-called Celestial Empire of the Ming Dynasty in the Far Eastern world, equivalent to Rome's position in Europe.

Therefore, the revival of the Ming Dynasty in the Far East is equivalent to the revival of Rome in Europe!

Considering that the population and economic size of the Ming Dynasty were almost comparable to the total size of all of Europe, the Spanish Empire had to take seriously this large, rich, powerful, and fairly progressive ancient state.

Any attempt to conquer the Ming Empire is extremely unrealistic