Chapter 845: Southern Song Dynasty

Nowadays, most of the people in Jiaozhi are bartered for commodity exchange, and copper coins are mainly circulated in the upper class.

After the new currency came out, it was secretly relieved that Su You was secretly relieved after officials, sergeants, and workers began to distribute and use them in various places.

It turned out that it was not that the cochins were lazy, but that there was a lack of circulation and exchange.

To break the model of self-sufficiency, there needs to be enough goods and enough money.

In fact, the population of Cochin is not quite large, but in addition to the coarse rice belly and bamboo walls to protect from the rain, the population who knows that there is another way to live is relatively small.

People already feel very satisfied to be able to live like this, and their satisfaction, in Su You's opinion, has become laziness.

The only way to solve the problem at the root is to make them not satisfied with the status quo of life.

Judging from the transaction volume of the first Jiaozhou City Silkworm City after having sufficient currency, Su You felt that he might have misunderstood these locals.

The Western Army requisitioned and left behind a lot of things that could not be brought back, such as military rations, medicines, and some matches, kettles, belts, leather bags, pots and pans, stoves, shovels and other logistics and military supplies.

Su You also asked Li Wensheng to open a shop in Silkworm City, responsible for handling these materials, and then triggered a rush to buy.

The most rushed purchases are the families of military personnel and prisoners, because they already know that these things are really easy to use.

So Su You was relieved, it really happened that you didn't have the heart to be motivated, it turned out that there was nothing new under the sun.

People, willing to strive for a better life, that is the norm, is the vast majority.

July also ushered in a major event, Shao Bowen's scientific research ship, finally frightened by Su You, looking forward to the stars and the moon, returned safely!

After Shao Bowen returned to Maliujia, he learned that Su You had become a Jiaozhi transfer envoy, so he rushed to Jiaozhou to meet him.

Su You rushed to Ninghai Port to greet him, and the first thing he said when he saw him was: "Counting that you should have arrived here two months ago, what's going on?!" ”

When he saw Shao Bowen, Su You thought of a book - "Captain Grant's Children", who was also a sailing captain who was less than twenty years old.

Only half of the people on the boat came back, and seeing Su You's worried look, Shao Bowen said with a smile: "Teacher, don't worry, there are still half of the people staying at the station, and Lin Sui will lead the team there." ”

"The reason why I came back two months late is because this trip is a little far......"

This expedition brought back a lot of animal and plant specimens and materials, as well as charts, ocean currents, and wind direction records.

Su You took everyone ashore and gave them a celebration.

The crew of the scientific research ship are the backbone of science and technology, Su You is their ancestor, this voyage, more proof of the correctness of the science and technology earth theory, now see the great mentor who has been worshipped, just like the star chasers in later generations to see idols.

After talking with Su You, I learned that Shao Bowen had really run far.

After leaving Malyujia, Shao Bowen sailed along the archipelago to the southwest, and in February of the ninth year of Xining, the research ship crossed the equator at Srivijaya, passed through Boni, Korisha, and finally under the guidance of Korisha's guide, it went all the way to the uncharted sea area further southwest.

Along the way, there are countless small countries and small islands, the islanders are still in the civilization period before the three generations of ancient China, most of them are naked, decorated with clay painting bird feathers, take the grass hut as the house, and the flint as the weapon, catch birds, beasts, fish and insects for food.

The main grains are taro, palm heart, plantain heart, cold potato, and yam.

However, there is a lot of fruit, and the research ship has exchanged a lot with the locals.

The funny thing is that some of the islands have strong folk customs, and they are obviously not opponents, and they have to come up to challenge.

It turns out that if a ship passes through and does not trade with it, it is to look down on them.

Shao Bowen is not the kind of maritime merchant who does not agree with Zhang San, so in the end he had to use some canvas and exchange some cattle and sheep, but there was no shortage of fresh meat along the way.

In that area, the wind and waves were calm, the speed of the ship was very slow, Shao Bowen mainly steady, along the small island to carry out leapfrog exploration, in June of the ninth year of Xining, only to arrive at an island of 25 degrees 25 minutes east longitude and 13 degrees 58 minutes south latitude.

The longitude here is determined by the prime meridian of Bianjing, which is actually the later Groot Island.

On that island, Shaw found a group of savages, swarthy, tall, friendly and docile.

This group of people also has a system similar to the chieftains of the previous three generations, but the number is small, only one or two thousand, and they live by gathering and hunting.

The arrival of the research ship surprised the group of people, and worshiped Shao Bowen and his party as gods.

In a cave where they worshipped, resembling a temple for the natives, Shao Bowen found ancient petroglyphs left by their ancestors.

On the petroglyphs, there is a small boat of the kind on Wangaxi Island that I saw on the way here.

The ship looked as if the Chinese character for "Yong" had been flattened, so Shao Bowen called the group of Yong Guren.

The people of this place are simple, so the expedition team decided to build the observatory on the top of the hill here.

Over the course of a year, with the help of the local natives, they established a stronghold and also taught the local people how to build wooden houses, plow, graze, and burn pottery......

There are a lot of tortoiseshells, shells, sea cucumbers, these things are worthless here, the first two, after people eat the meat, they throw the shells everywhere, and the last one, don't eat at all.

Shao Bowen remembered Su You's teachings, and after setting the location of the observatory, he prepared to return.

As a result, the wind direction was unfavorable, so Shao Bowen left Lin Sui to build a base station, and he led half of the crew to continue to explore and sail to the southwest.

Only then did I realize that I was in a huge bay.

After rounding the northeast corner of the bay, you can continue sailing southwest along the coast.

As a result, the more I sailed, the more surprised I became, and after two months of sailing, the wind was getting stronger and stronger, and the ship was getting faster and faster, and this coastline had no end!

It's not an island at all, it's a new continent!

To the east of the continent, the waters are warm and there are endless coral forests underneath.

It's really a forest! What five-foot coral trees, seven-foot coral trees, all over here!

The animals on this continent have also refreshed the cognition of the scientific expedition personnel, what kind of strange things are they?!

A two-legged giant rat with a bag on its belly, a beast with duckbills and duck feet, a huge bird that can't fly, in short, is the kind of ancient wilderness described in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas"!

The local aborigines are also very similar to the Song people, but it is still a primitive tribal model, with grass as a skirt, a land for a stove, and wine making, as well as the tattoo and carving customs of the ancient Wuyue people, and processing techniques such as wood carving and stone tools.

They love singing, dancing and music, and love to sing and dance around a campfire beating wooden drums.

Shao Bowen believes that this is a microcosm of ancient society, a precious relic of the kind of barbaric era recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and he focused on the investigation here for two months.

It wasn't until the wind changed again that he returned with a variety of specimens and records, so it was a lot of delay, but he thought it was well worth it.

This is something more important than the Southern Sky Star Chart, and it has great reference significance for revealing the social composition before the rule of the three generations!

In the same way, there are wars in this land, there are greed, and there are tribes who once wanted to attack them, but Shao Bowen is very cautious, never far from the waterways, and the guard is also far away, and whoever attacks him will only suffer.

In vain, the expedition team added a lot of specimens of the three generations of ancient war patterns and weapons.

The farther south went, the more bad the wind and waves, and the terrible shores and coral reefs, so Shaw did not continue, but finally reached a sandy area that looked like it had been sprinkled with gold, and after taking a latitude and longitude survey, he drove the boat back.

The farthest place that Shao Bowen reached was at 42 degrees 02 minutes east longitude and 27 degrees 28 minutes south latitude of the Great Song Dynasty longitude and latitude.

This site, named Golden Beach by Shaw Bowen, later Brisbane, Australia.

This continent was named Southern Song Dynasty, and the island where they established the astronomical observatory was named Ming Group Island.

"Classic of Mountains and Seas": "The Ming group lives in the sea. ”

Yi, that is, Yiluo, it should be said that Shao Bowen's ability to choose a name is much better than Su You's own.