"Because of what? You mean, third brother! ”

"It's because new continents have been discovered, and new species have been brought back!" The man called the third brother told the reason.

"It's really fake!"

"Can you be a marquis?"

"Suck!"

Several people looked at each other, and suddenly the younger and more active old seven thought of something, and then his eyes lit up: "Third brother, do you remember the island we visited when we went to sea the year before last?" ”

Hearing Lao Qi's words, the third brother thought for a while: "Seven dogs, what did you say about the time when we were almost finished?" ”

"Yes, that's that time, third brother, do you remember that island? Isn't that also not recorded on the chart, will there be any reward for this newspaper? ”

After several people heard this, their eyes immediately lit up: "Dog, you are smart, you can think of this!" ”

"I didn't learn it from a few older brothers!"

"Remember the route?"

"I probably remember!"

"Okay, let's go to sea again, find that island, find something, and report it to the official!"

“……”

When the news arrived in South Vietnam, it was even more boiling, most of the people who came to South Vietnam to beg for a living, most of them were displaced people in the Central Plains or some people who wanted to make a fortune, hearing the news, all their eyes burst out, South Vietnam lacked everything, but there was no shortage of small islands that had not been discovered.

Some small islands are still full of spices, these islands are controlled by people, and then picked back and sold to the buyers, and then sold back to Chang'an, which also makes the price of spices in Chang'an plummet, but there is still a lot of profit margin, but more small islands are the kind of desert islands without any resources, these islands used to be indifferent to this group of explorers, and they couldn't find anything valuable and left them behind, but now it's different, you can draw a good chart, report it, and you can get a reward.

So countless red-eyed people, like crazy, kept starting to go into the water, trying to find an island that had not been discovered, if they were lucky enough to discover a new continent or something, maybe they could also be like Xu Xiake, and they could get rewards.

And Zheng Yanping, who got the news the earliest, has been drifting at sea for a month, and everyone on the boat was full of morale from the beginning, and began to be a little demoralized.

"Brother Yanping, where is the big island you are talking about, we have been looking for it for a month, and we still haven't found anything!"

Zheng Yanping stood at the bow of the boat, holding a telescope, constantly looking into the distance, his eyes were resolute: "Believe me will arrive soon, I learned about this from the mouth of a native on the South Vietnamese side, it is said that in the southeast of South Vietnam, there is a huge island, the area is very large!" ”

“…… But we ......"

"Brother Yanping, our fresh water is running out, if we can't find a place to replenish fresh water, we may all die on the ship!"

"Yes, Brother Yanping, let's go back, we almost capsized in the last storm!"

“……”

"Land, land, land ahead!"

Just when a group of people were about to give up, a thin child who was climbing on the pole of the boat suddenly shouted loudly, and Zheng Yanping immediately took out his binoculars and looked in the direction pointed by the child, his eyes lit up completely, not far away, a stretch of coastline that could not be seen loomed, he seemed to have found a new continent!

Yu Zhiqian looked at the music in his hand, and breathed a long sigh of relief, as he thought, with the power of Xu Xiake's example, the enthusiasm of the entire people has been mobilized, many people dare to take a broken boat and dare to go into the water, although these people may die in the sea, but this spirit must be passed on, passed on from generation to generation, Yu Zhiqian believes that in the near future, the people will be able to find a sea passage to Africa and Europe!

What are Europeans doing at this time? Yu Zhiqian squinted his eyes and thought, now according to the chronology of the Common Era, about 700 years AD, the Renaissance movement of the Europeans has not yet begun, and the current Europe seems to be still in a barbaric and backward region, and what about the current Yutang Empire? There is no such thing as one of the most powerful countries in the world.

Not to mention the gunpowder that has been researched now, even if it is with cold weapons, how many countries can compete with the Yutang Empire?

Now the Yutang Empire has come to the peak era of cold weapons, with the use of pulley sets and gears, now the Yutang Empire's bows and crossbows and other equipment have been fully replaced with pulley sets, a bit like the competitive bows of later generations, ordinary soldiers can pull a few stones of strong bows, as for the large war machines, such as catapults, etc., have been equipped with gears, and can be quickly assembled, and the long-range strike capability can cover thousands of meters.

In addition, with the continuous upgrading of the forging process, now the Yutang Empire has begun to enter the steelmaking era. The folk have begun to popularize a large number of iron ores, Yu Zhiqian found several iron ores, although the quality of iron ore is not high, but it is easy to mine, coupled with the continuous exploration in recent years, the quality of iron in the Yu Tang Empire has been very good.

In addition, it is the population, as Yu Zhiqian guessed before, the population of the Yutang Empire has ushered in a wave of explosive growth, there is no shortage of food in the past two years, the number of newborns born every year has far exceeded that of previous years, and the number of newborns has been adjusted twice in the previous assessment of a county order, but even so, the worst results far exceeded the standard.

That is to say, there is no big problem, after fifteen years, the youth and strength of the Yutang Empire will be at least a quarter, and now the total population of the Yutang Empire is not counted, but it should be very simple to break 100 million in the next few decades, a nation with a population of more than 100 million, plus world-leading technology, coupled with the spirit of eternal exploration, think about it, I feel very terrifying.

There are no problems within the empire, as for the external enemies, in the first year of Yu Zhiqian's ascension to the throne, the grassland alien races wanted to go south, but they just thought about it, the 110,000 grassland alien races had just been assembled, and they were ready to move, and the result was that they were wiped out before they could be detained.

Yu Zhiqian didn't pay too much attention to the battle report, but just glanced at it, the northern defenders roughly used less than 100,000 troops, and easily defeated the grassland alien race, if you have to describe that war, it is like a modern army slaughtering a barbarian army.

Several alien armies in the grassland are very miscellaneous, and most of the weapons scimitars are secretly smuggled and sold by the Yutang Empire, as for who smuggles them, anyone with a discerning eye knows that the emperor is the only one who dares to smuggle iron weapons on a large scale with such fanfare.

Those scimitar weapons, in the hands of foreign races, are all treasures, but in Chang'an City, no one cares about them, and the quality is really poor, but the smuggling group under Yu Zhiqian sold these broken weapons at sky-high prices, and the grassland aliens are still very happy.

In addition, the Du Kang wine sold by Yu Zhiqian has also become a sought-after commodity on the grassland, and a jar of high Du Kang wine can be exchanged for six or seven sheep, a cow or two horses on the grassland, which has caused the Yu Tang Empire to slowly start to have no shortage of horses.

Now in Yu Zhiqian's eyes, the biggest enemy of the entire Yutang Empire is not the alien race on the grassland, but the Yutang Empire itself, as long as there is no internal chaos, the Yutang Empire can still be strong for hundreds of years.

"Your Majesty, there is news from Dongying's side, and it has begun to return, if nothing else, it will be able to return in three months!"

After Yu Zhiqian heard the news, he frowned: "How could it be so long?" Does it make sense that he has already returned at this time? ”

It's almost the New Year, Yu Zhiqian has been waiting for Xu Fu in Dongying, but there has been no news about this guy, Yu Zhiqian even changed his clothes, will this guy not come back after going to Dongying, just like the legend?

Toei, Kyoto.

Kyoto City is the capital of the Eastern Wing Kingdom.,The current Eastern Ying Country is not a unified country.,It's still in a state of division.,The most powerful thing is this country called the Eastern Ying Kingdom.,Of course,This is also the orthodoxy of the Eastern Ying Kingdom.,The rest of the ununified areas,The strength is not strong.,It's just that it's been united.,There is no chance for the Eastern Ying Kingdom to break through.。

Xu Fu walked on the streets of Kyoto, and it has been about a year since he came here, but he still feels a little surprised, this Kyoto City, no matter what direction it looks at, looks like a miniature version of Chang'an City, and even the costumes of the people here are imitating the clothes of the Yu Tang people.

The reason why Xu Fu was able to come to Dongying was entirely because there was a traitor among the Tang envoys sent by Dongying, and he handed over the charts of Dongying Kingdom, and Yu Zhiqian sent Xu Fu to Dongying Country with 3,000 soldiers, not to fight, but to envoy Dongying Kingdom, as for what the real purpose is, Xu Fu knew very well in his heart that he was just here to fight an outpost for the empire, and the empire was ready to destroy Dongying.

Before, Dongying kept saying that his king called himself the king, but after Xu Fu came, the investigation was very clear, and the king of the Dongying people claimed to be the emperor, not the king in their mouths. So what is an emperor?

And as I learned more and more about Dongying, the more I could see some of the small ambitions of Dongying, such as Dongyingguo always wanted to set foot on the mainland, so I always had a strong desire for Goguryeo.

I found a restaurant at random and walked in, Xu Fu is about one meter eight tall, he is a giant in Dongying Kingdom, the height of Dongying people in this era is too short, only about one meter three or four, a gap of half a meter, the giant tiger makes ordinary Dongying people look up to Xu Fu.

"Welcome!"

After seeing Xu Fu, the boss immediately greeted him, and then quickly recognized Xu Fu's identity, there is no way, it is too high, and when he sees such a tall person in the Dongying Kingdom, he knows that it is a messenger from their Shangguo Yutang Empire.

Xu Fu smiled, ordered some food casually, glanced at the store, and found that there was a girl in the store who was looking at him affectionately, and couldn't help but immediately move her head away, this is the first time Xu Fu has encountered this situation, since coming to Dongying Kingdom, there have always been women who want to get close to him.

"Hey, I'm going to go back, otherwise, there will really be a mess!"

Xu Fu shook his head and continued to be in a daze, after coming to Dongying Kingdom, not only Xu Fu, but even the three thousand soldiers who came with Xu Fu were warmly welcomed by the people of Dongying Kingdom.

These 3,000 soldiers are the elite selected from the Qianniuwei, all of them are tall and powerful, although not everyone can be a hundred, but it is no problem to fight Dongying people, one to fight ten, of course, if it is Dongying people, a dozen hundred may be possible, after all, the gap in weapons and equipment is too big.

Of course, it's not to fight with the Dongying people, after the Dongying people saw the Yang Empire coming, let alone a war, they couldn't wait to immediately gather a group of women to come over to warm the bed for the soldiers of the Yutang Empire, yes, warm the bed, to put it more bluntly, they want to borrow (species), and the Dongying people obviously found the gap between themselves and the Yutang Empire.

The first is the difference in the height of people, they are also soldiers, an ordinary soldier in the Yutang Empire has about one meter seven, and the soldiers of the Dongying Kingdom are only one meter four, just like an adult beating a child, there is no power to fight back at all, the difference in height brings a gap in strength, so the emperor of the Dongying Kingdom secretly issued this order.

However, the temporary success rate of this plan is not very high, although many soldiers did not hold back and went out to find a few women, but most of the soldiers still held back, no way, the women of Dongying Kingdom are really a little stumbling now, small people, big thick legs, big thick arms, plus dark skin, there are really few who can look at it.

After Xu Fu finished eating, he quickly went out of the city and returned to his station, waiting quietly, and after about half an hour, several Dongying people came to Xu Fu's room.

"Mr. Xu, this is the result of this month's exploration, and the map drawn!"

Xu Fu nodded, took the map, looked at it carefully for a while, took out a few glass cups from a box and handed them over: "You have worked hard, I don't need to trouble you in the future!" ”

After hearing Xu Fu's words, several Dongying people were stunned: "Mr. Xu, is it because we are not good enough?" ”

"No, I'm leaving, I've been out for so long, I need to go back to my country!"

"I see......"

After a simple greeting with a few Dongying people, several Dongying people left happily with glass cups, while Xu Fu looked at the map in his hand, the corners of his mouth curled slightly, his task has been completed, and there is no need to continue to stay in Dongying country, he has been out for more than a year, and he is really a little homesick.

took out a small box from under his desk, took out the key and carefully opened the box, and then took out all the silk cloths inside, these silk cloths are drawn on the map of Dongying Kingdom, the drawing is very detailed, and even Dongying Country itself does not have such a detailed map!

ps: I'm going to open a new military book, so I've put down the update here, and I'm writing a new outline and so on, but I've also updated 120,000 words in the twenty days of this month, and I'm not lazy