The coast of East Asia is more than 20,000 miles away from the North American continent, and in ancient times, without planes and ships, could anyone have crossed such a long distance to reach North America from the coast of East Asia?

According to the analysis of wind direction and ocean currents, only with sailboats, without any other power equipment, in September every year, if you raise the sails from the coast of East Asia, the wind and the water are smooth, and nothing matters, two months later, you can reach the coast of North America!

This is not a purely theoretical analysis, many people have practiced it, they prepared enough water and food, took a wooden sailboat, followed the monsoon and ocean currents, passed through the Ryukyu Islands, the southern part of the Toei, the southern part of the Aleutian Islands, and really reached the North American continent.

Of course, Lu Xiangsheng and they don't need to rely on monsoons and ocean currents, they use all steamships, and the speed is much faster than sailboats, if they go directly in a straight line and insert it through the middle of the Pacific Ocean, they can reach North America in less than a month.

However, no one dares to do this because it is not safe.

At this time, the storm at sea is quite scary, few people dare to cross the ocean directly, generally with the land or the edge of the island chain forward, so that the storm can also find a place to hide, if you float directly on the ocean, the storm is almost certain death.

After leaving the port of Edo, the large colonial fleet did not sail directly east, but followed the Toei Islands all the way north, passing through Kamchatka Peninsula to the Aleutian Islands.

The so-called Aleutian Islands are a semi-circular arc island chain where the southern part of the Bering Sea meets the Pacific Ocean, along the Aleutian Islands to the east, you can reach the northern part of the North American continent, and then sail south along the coastline for a period of time to reach the bay where the port of Jinshan is located.

At this time, the bay where Jinshan Port is located is not a barren place, and the last expedition team did not all return to Daming after finding here, most of the officials of the Ministry of Industry and related technicians stayed, and some of the Jinyi Guards and the elite of the Navy and Army also stayed.

They had built simple wood-and-stone docks on several coasts that were more suitable for ships to anchor, and they had also built a small bastion near the coast as a base and slowly searched everywhere.

As soon as the colonial fleet led by Lu Xiangsheng resisted, the people left behind were naturally excited, they were really lonely overseas, the last expedition set off from Dongdaying, and it took nearly two months to arrive here, the road was only far away, it can be imagined.

People who are far away from home generally can't help but miss their hometown and relatives, and the people of these expeditions especially miss Daming and miss their homeland, you must know that this is nearly 20,000 miles away from Daming, what if the expedition goes back and has an accident, what if the next fleet can't find here?

If the expedition team fails to bring the news back to Daming, or the follow-up personnel can't find it here, then they will really become lonely ghosts!

The officers and men in the colonial fleet are also very excited, you must know that they are all army troops, and they have basically sat on ships, but they have never sat for so long like this time, and they have been adrift at sea for a month, and they can finally go ashore.

Lu Xiangsheng is even more excited, since the ancient Wenchen military generals all to open up the territory and expand the territory as the highest glory, from the southeast peninsula, to South Asia, to Siberia, he almost participated in the large-scale expansion of the history of the Ming Dynasty, and he was also promoted from a corps commander to the generalissimo.

However, in the previous few operations, the emperor was basically personally commanded, and he was just assisting on the sidelines, but this time, he was the first time he really led the army to expand the territory for the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, according to the emperor, this side is even larger than the territory of the Ming Dynasty itself, and larger than the newly occupied Siberia, what a glory it is to occupy such a large territory for the Ming Dynasty!

After going ashore, he first ordered the officers and men of the various legions to use several nearby simple ports to unload grain, grass, baggage and other materials, and then he summoned the relevant personnel to hold the first high-level meeting of the colonization of the North American continent in the conference room of the improvised fortress.

There were not many people attending the meeting this time, except for Lu Xiangsheng, there were only Yang Zhong, the chief general of the Loyal and Brave Army, Zu Dashou, the chief general of the First Army of Dongying, Zhao Mingfeng, the envoy of Jinyi Weinan Town, and Chen Tailai, a member of the Ministry of Industry.

Yang Zhong and Zu Dashou came with him, while Zhao Mingfeng and Chen Tailai came with the last large expedition and stayed here to be responsible for building the port and scouting around.

The main purpose of this meeting was to find out the surrounding situation, determine the location of the port and base, as for the colonial expansion, it will not be carried out until the fleet returns to bring the second group of people, after all, there is no industrial base here, and there is no steel to build a railway.

Regarding the location of the port and the base, it is mainly based on the opinion of Chen Tailai, a member of the Ministry of Industry, because he is an expert in this area, and he has led relevant professionals to inspect here for nearly three months.

According to him, it would have been better to build the harbor in the inner bay near the southern coast, about the location of the future Port Angeles, mainly to avoid the storms outside, but also to facilitate the loading and unloading of supplies.

According to his research, the joint army and navy base would have been best built in the trailhead south of the bay, where it would later be in Seattle, because there was a huge freshwater lake.

The location of the site is so coincidental, it can be seen that the opinions of ancient and modern China and foreign countries on many things are the same, and it also proves that this Chen Yutai is indeed an expert in this area.

Lu Xiangsheng naturally has no opinion on this, a person can't do everything, if you want to say that there are few people in the Ming Dynasty or even the whole world who can compare with him now, but when it comes to the construction of this port and city, he is just a layman.

Then there is the question of the exploration of the surrounding situation, this is mainly the responsibility of Zhao Mingfeng, the envoy of Jinyi Weinan Town, before Lu Xiangsheng came, he had already begun to explore, like the large freshwater lake that was discovered by his Jinyi Wei secret agents, and he also drew a simple map of the vicinity.

Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help frowning when he saw the simple map he took out, not that the map he drew was too sloppy and couldn't see clearly, Chen Yutai and his Jinyi Wei secret agents were trained, and the map drawn was exactly the same as the current standard map of the Ming Dynasty, and even the warp and weft lines were on it.

The main reason why Lu Xiangsheng frowned was that there were too many Indian tribes here, and around this bay, there were more than ten Indian tribes detected by Jinyiwei!

For the Indian tribes, the emperor has already had a countermeasure, but there is an Indian tribe in the city construction site chosen by Chen Yutai, which is really a bit troublesome, will people let you build a city on their territory?

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