Australia was a new land, and it was not until 1606 AD, the 34th year of the Ming Dynasty, that it first appeared in formal literature.

Who discovered Australia?

This is somewhat controversial, because as recently as 1606, navigators from two countries passed through here.

According to the chronological order, it should be the Spanish navigator Torres who discovered Australia first, but he only passed through the strait between Australia and the island of New Guinea and made a record, and did not actually land in Australia.

And then the Dutch navigator William. Janes landed on the Australian continent and named it New Holland.

This Australia is actually not far from the Nanyang Islands, and the island of New Guinea in the Nanyang Islands is not even more than 300 miles from the north of Australia.

It's an incredible thing, but that's exactly what happened.

In fact, it cannot be said that the Nanyang countries did not discover Australia, and the indigenous people of Australia were migrated from the Nanyang islands.

It's just that for thousands of years, there has been no relatively developed civilization in the Nanyang Islands, they don't even have a compass, and they can't tell the direction at all.

As for the people who were forced to drift to the Australian mainland, they basically encountered a typhoon, or lost their way at sea, they didn't even know where they were, so naturally there was no problem of not being able to find out, and even in the end, they became local aborigines because they were far away from civilization.

However, discovery and colonization are two different things, after the Spaniards and Dutch discovered this place, they did not start colonization, perhaps, they thought it was too far away, or maybe they found that the northern continent of Australia was dry and rainless and not suitable for farming, so they never occupied this place.

It was not until more than 100 years later, in 1770, that the British began to occupy Australia and declared it a British colony.

Of course, this is the history of later generations, in this life, Zhu Cijiong crossed over, naturally he will not give up such a vast and rich land to others, he has named this place Dongsheng Shenzhou, and is ready to use this place as a place for retirement in the future.

After the end of the European War, the Ming fleet appeared on the Australian continent one after another, the first to arrive here was the North Sea Fleet and the Second Army of the Praetorian Guard led by Shi Kefa, accompanied by Wang Zhengnan, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and hundreds of Jinyi Guard spies, as well as two hundred armed ships full of soldiers of the Second Legion of the Praetorian Guard and various materials.

They came here mainly to conduct surveys.

This survey was naturally arranged by His Majesty Zhu Cijiong, the emperor of the Ming Empire, because it was the emperor's will, Yang Geng, Shi Kefa and Wang Zhengnan did not doubt that there would be such a continent in the south of Nanyang, they set off directly from Dongdaying, all the way to the south, through Dongfan, through Luzon, and through the old port Chengxuan Political Envoy, so straight to the south, to the south, and then to the south.

Without the land of Australia, they would not even sail back to Antarctica.

Of course, this was impossible, and less than three days after the fleet passed through the old port of Chengzheng Envoy, a huge land appeared in front of it, and this land was so vast that it could not be seen far away with the latest telescopes!

Here, it should be the Dongsheng Shenzhou that the emperor said, Yang Geng, Shi Kefa and Wang Zhengnan have never doubted it.

After seeing the coastline of Dongsheng Shenzhou, the fleet immediately split into two, with fifty super battleships and one hundred armed fortune ships on both sides.

Every hundred miles, an armed ship would break away from the fleet and approach the coast, followed by five hundred soldiers of the Second Legion of the Praetorian Guard and several Jinyi Guard spies on small hand-cranked oars to land and scatter to begin to explore.

These people all had special telescopes and drawing tools, and their task was to find out the terrain within a hundred miles and draw a standard map, as for this depth, it was tentatively determined to be 500 miles.

Of course, 500 miles is actually a bit long, and the east-west length and north-south width of Australia are actually only more than 300 kilometers, that is, six or seven hundred miles.

Needless to say, the arduous process of unexplored land exploration was untouched, but fortunately, the Ming army was equipped with the most advanced weapons, and was not afraid of the attacks of natives and wild beasts.

More than a month later, the whole exploration was finally completed in danger, Yang Geng and Wang Zhengnan took the map, led the North Sea Fleet back to the East Camp, and Shi Kefa led the second army of the Praetorian Guard and two hundred Fuchuan warships to stay, waiting for the emperor to send someone to develop.

After Wang Zhengnan returned to the capital with the map, Zhu Cijiong immediately convened the relevant officials of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War to discuss the development of Dongsheng Shenzhou.

After discussion, the development plan of Dongsheng Shenzhou was preliminarily determined.

First of all, a large port city should be established in the eastern, southern and western parts of Dongsheng Shenzhou, and as for the northern part, the climate there is indeed dry and unsuitable for development;

Then, the railway was built to communicate with the various port cities, and the mineral deposits were explored along the railway, and the Tunwei Fort was built;

Eventually, 1 million households were stationed in the garrison to develop the area, focusing on grain production first, and then mining various mineral deposits when grain production became self-sufficient.

After the plan was decided, Zhu Cijiong immediately sent a construction corps to Dongsheng Shenzhou with relevant materials to start building a port and railway.

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Time flies, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle, and in a blink of an eye, it is the end of the eighteenth year of Chongzheng, and the New Year is coming again.

In this year, the Ming Empire seized control of the North American continent and helped the allies Spain and Portugal drive out the British army, and then controlled the whole of America;

In this year, the Ming Empire led the allies to defeat the anti-Habsburg alliance, and since then it has dominated the world and has no rivals;

In this year, the Ming Empire helped the Holy Roman Empire defeat the princes of the German Alliance, so that the German Alliance was reunited and became the Kingdom of Germany, and the king was Zhu Hejun, the second prince of the Ming Empire.

This year, there are too many happy events to celebrate, and the New Year's Festival is naturally very lively, which can be described as the whole world celebrating and welcoming the New Year.

After the New Year's Festival, Zhu Cijiong immediately issued a decree to canonize the eldest prince Zhu Hetou as the crown prince of the Ming Empire, and the Ming Dynasty fell into a celebration again.

Needless to say, the importance of the crown prince is not to be said, the tragedies staged by the dynasties in order to compete for the throne are unknown, it can be said that the crown prince is related to the stability of the entire dynasty.

In fact, Zhu Cijiong had long intended to be crowned the crown prince, because Zhu Hetou was almost six years old at this time, and you must know that he had already ascended the throne as the emperor when he was six years old.

However, the sudden attack of the anti-Habsburg coalition disrupted his plans, and the canonization of the crown prince was delayed again and again.

Now that the anti-Habsburg coalition has been defeated, the Ming Dynasty can be said to be peaceful in the four seas, dominating the United States, and the matter of canonizing the crown prince is naturally a matter of course.