Influenza, smallpox, and plague, these are the three major infectious diseases that changed history.

The reason why it can change history is because these three diseases could not be effectively controlled at that time, resulting in large-scale deaths.

The Han people are still relatively resistant to influenza, and influenza viruses, including plague, have never caused extermination because of the good hygiene habits of the Han people for thousands of years.

Only smallpox, every once in a while, will cause indelible wounds to the Han people.

The reason why Zhu Yuanzhang was able to defeat Meng Yuan and why Daming was able to establish a country was actually due to smallpox and plague.

In today's Ming records, in the second year of Zhishun, the plague broke out in the Ming Dynasty, and the mortality rate of the Han people was not high, but the Mengyuan people could only wait for death if they were sick.

During the founding of the Ming Dynasty, most of the northern part of the country was empty, not mainly because of war, smallpox and plague played a very important role.

The body of the Mengyuan people also has an irresistible characteristic of smallpox, and the Han people are infected with smallpox, and three or four out of ten will die, but they will die seven or eight, and they will not be able to escape.

The Han people contracted the plague, and one or two out of ten would die, but the Mengyuan people would die three or four.

This difference in physique also caused the Black Death in Europe, and half of the entire European continent died at once.

Because the Europeans were physically resistant to smallpox, but they were simply not resistant to plague and smallpox.

The Black Death, which broke out decades ago, was first transmitted to Europe by the Mengyuan people, and it is recorded in detail in the records of the Great Cannibals.

In 1345, the Mongols, who occupied Central and West Asia, attacked a city-state called Jiafa on the Black Sea coast, and Jiafa declared himself a vassal to the Eastern Roman Empire.

In the face of the brave and warlike Mongols, the garrison was fortified and cleared, and the city was closed without a fight. The Mongols besieged the city for a year, but they could not take it for a long time, and the plague spread among the army.

Knowing that the plague was contagious, the Mongols used a stone-throwing machine to throw the bodies of infected soldiers into the city. The Canadians did not understand the plague and ignored the corpses thrown in, which was inexplicable. After the corpse decomposed, a terrible plague broke out.

The Cafa people died in large numbers, and the whole city was terrified, and the city gates were opened, and they fled in a hurry. And the Mongol army outside the city did not retreat without a fight, and the plague did not spare them, and they had no immunity.

The surviving Cabes fled by boat to their suzerain, the Eastern Roman Empire. However, news of the outbreak of the plague in the city of Garpha had spread throughout Europe, and all the ports refused to allow them to land.

Venice allowed their ships to go ashore after forty days of quarantine at sea, intending to stop the arrival of the plague. But the germ-carrying rats on board could swim, and they had long since swam ashore, and the terrible Black Death began to spread throughout Europe.

The Black Death killed about 25 million Europeans, nearly one-half of Europe's population at the time, and caused horrors that could only be matched by the two world wars of the twentieth century.

And the familiar Spanish flu, which would have been fine if it had happened in the East. Because at that time, the Chinese medicine of the East had a very good effect on the treatment of influenza, and the Oriental physique was very resistant to the flu.

But the flu killed between 25 million and 40 million people in Europe over the course of three years, interrupting World War I.

However, no matter how strong the Oriental constitution is to the flu, when the disease is infectious, it can still cause great panic.

Fortunately, this was in the fleet, and after each ship was quarantined, the flu could not be transmitted.

So this flu did not spread, and the number of direct deaths was only more than 200 people, compared to the fleet of more than 60,000 people, this proportion is very small.

The flotilla docked off the coast of Perth for a month, and it was not until the fleet that explored Nanshan Island and Beiyuan Island returned that the epidemic was under control and the lockdown was lifted.

Nanshan Island and Kitahara Island are the later New Zealand, and their names are based on the topography of the two islands. For this, Da Ming does not have the heart to touch it at present, or the heart is not enough.

Only after Daming's development in Nanzhou stabilizes can it be possible to develop them. First, send a small fleet to determine the direction, engrave the monument, and engrave the mark of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition to the two islands in the north and south, including Tasmania, this fleet will do simple exploration and positioning in preparation for future management.

After the flu epidemic was over, the soldiers landed on the coast one after another. At this time, tens of thousands of natives had gathered on the coast of Perth.

Some of them learned the news of the Ming fleet from the Nuga tribe, and more of them came to see the excitement from the nearby natives.

They looked at the fleet of the Ming Dynasty with curiosity, and regarded the Ming people as gods, and in their opinion, only a god could build such a large ship.

After learning the news of the arrival of the Ming fleet from the Nuga tribe, they all came with a large amount of gold, wanting to exchange iron, salt, bowls and pots with the Ming people.

But the Ming people never got off the ship, and when the Ming people got off the ship, they did not exchange with them with various materials, but first sent down more than 200 corpses.

Because they died of illness, the bodies of these people were not brought back to Daming, but were buried on a hillside facing Daming not far from the coast.

It took another two days for the group to disembark. By this time, the morale of the fleet was already infinibly low.

Death, especially this kind of death caused by the plague, which cannot be prevented and can only be passively endured, has always been the most feared thing for everyone.

They are willing to die for Daming, but they are not willing to die such a meaningless death.

After the personnel went ashore, the Ming soldiers who had been suppressed for more than a month also broke out.

Many of the soldiers who were still virgins did not want to die in such an identity, and chose to break their bodies on the bodies of native girls.

This time, there were more soldiers than in Adelaide, who threw themselves into the natives.

Moreover, in the process of qualifying, there were also several cases of bullying of local natives, and the extremely suppressed soldiers could not control their emotions, and murders occurred.

However, Zhu Zhanji had already taken precautions against this, and this time he did not kill people because of this, but only made quick compensation and whipped the soldiers who made mistakes to atone for their crimes.

The natives did not value their own lives very much, although they were angry when they died. But in the face of Daming's compensation, the "exquisite" rice bowl and the precious iron pot can quickly dissipate their anger.

Therefore, although there was some friction this time, it did not affect the "overall situation" of the entire Ming Dynasty's contact with the natives.

After a chaotic week, the Ming soldiers organized again to map the surrounding area.

And this time, the Ming soldiers only used a small number of people, because those natives were willing to act as guides for the Ming soldiers in the face of food and shoes.

Although the language barrier is incomprehensible, Zheng and the others have invented a set of communication methods that use language, expressions, and movements through several months of contact.

Although these exchanges are unlikely to allow the two sides to cooperate in detail, nor can they help Daming to understand the local situation in detail, some simple exchanges are still no problem.

And the Bodington gold mine in the southwest of Perth, one of the world's top 10 gold mines, is also the most clearly marked gold mine on the map.

This is because the Botdington gold mine itself is not far from the sea. And this gold mine is not like other gold mines, which stretch for hundreds of miles, but is a very concentrated, easy-to-mine giant gold mine.

The Glasberg gold mine on Turtle Island, although it is also more concentrated, is located on the top of a mountain. The Beddington Gold Mine, on the other hand, has only two mines, located in the hills less than 50 kilometres from the sea.

Of course, there is more than one gold mine in Perth, which was only discovered in the late 20th century, and Perth was developed here because the British discovered the golden sand in the first place at the mouth of the river.

The concentration of gold mines here is arguably the highest concentration in the world, and not far from Perth, Kalgoorlie is also one of the top 10 gold mines in the world, which means that there are two of the world's top 10 gold mines.

In particular, Kalgoorlie is located in the center of the Gobi Desert, but it is full of gold, and there are gold mining areas everywhere in thousands of square kilometers of land.

However, because it is located inland, the transportation is inconvenient, so Zhu Zhanji did not think about developing it at all for the time being.

The Bodington gold mine was successfully identified, and in addition to this, a number of scattered gold fields near Perth have also been discovered.

At this time, in order to improve morale, Zhu Zhanji ordered the soldiers to take turns on duty and build supply points. The rest of the people can go to the gold mining area to collect the golden sands, and all the harvest is their own.

This really raised the mood of the soldiers, and gold will always be one of the most attractive things in the world at any given time.

These soldiers are soldiers, in addition to eating with a mouthful of food, isn't it just to seek wealth!

In this era, mentioning those nihilistic patriotism is empty words.

The imperial court had no silver, and it was difficult to mobilize even a large army.

Because of the flu and gold rush, the Ming army stayed in Perth for more than a month, and at this time, it was already early December.

The exploration of a southern continent was originally intended to take three or four months, but now five months have passed, and there has not been a circle around the continent.

Zhu Zhanji knew very well that since he left Nanyang, all directions and channels were unfamiliar. No matter how anxious the people left behind in Nanyang are, it will be difficult for them to find themselves.

And there is no news of Zhu Zhanji for half a year, and the news cannot be delivered to Daming, and now Zhu Di may have put a lot of pressure on them.

It's time to go back......

As for the Beddington gold mine, it was still lost there, just like the previous gold mines.

With the ability of the natives, they can't mine gold at all, and at most, they can pick up some bits and pieces of gold nuggets or golden sand, which will not harm the interests of the Ming Dynasty.

What's more, when the Ming people brought more goods, the gold in their hands finally fell into the hands of the Ming people.

On the fifth day of December, the army set out from Perth and sailed north along the west coast of Nanzhou.

This time I went back again, and the speed was still very slow, but because I sailed close to the coastline, life was not difficult.

There is no way to choose this season, if you come to Nanzhou along the northwest monsoon in January, it is certainly fast.

But at that time it was the typhoon season in Nanzhou, and the fleet only had to experience one typhoon, and it was not known how many ships and how many people it would lose.

Originally, the fleet also wanted to go to Timor Island, although the Timorese there had not directly traded with the Ming Dynasty, but they were attached to the Majapahit and were not without contact with the Ming Dynasty.

But now the north-westerly wind is blowing, and the sailing towards the island of Timor is a positive headwind. As a last resort, the fleet was in the northwest of Nanzhou and chose to sail to the northeast.

Along the way, although the main fleet has not docked, the cadets of Yulin Weixue, under Zhu Zhanji's arrangement, have done detailed surveys and maps of the entire coastline of Nanzhou.

From the waters off Darwin, the fleet returned to Turtle Island, and from here turned due west.

As soon as the fleet arrived in the Maluku Sea, they met the internal supervisor and the fleet left behind in the South Seas who came to greet him, and everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw Zhu Zhanji and them come back safely.

Daniel Zhang, who stayed in Star City, and Zhang Qian, have lost a lot of weight in the past six months, and Zhang Qian was even more excited to shed tears when he saw Zhu Zhanji.

Zhu Zhanji and they have been gone for half a year without any news, and they will receive inquiries from Zhu Di almost every month in Nanyang, not to mention how much pressure they have.

On the 29th day of the Lunar New Year, Zhu Zhanji's ship finally arrived at the old port.

Although it was still a hot summer, and they were going to spend a Spring Festival in the hot summer, everyone's mood was much higher.

This is not only because of the relationship between the Chinese New Year, but also because in the old port, there are the largest number of Chinese in Nanyang, and there is also the largest chicken village in Nanyang.

Zhu Zhanji recuperated here for a few days, and everyone was tired on this voyage, and his women were all much thinner.

wrote a long letter to Zhu Di, writing about his experience in Nanzhou and some ideas on how to develop Nanzhou.

Of course, what is more important is to copy all the navigation route maps from Nanyang to Nanzhou, the longitude and latitude of each island, and the solar orbit at different times in each region, and send them back to Daming.

With this nautical chart, even if Zhu Zhanji was not at home, Daming could directly send people to Nanzhou to prepare for future development.

It was only after the fifth day of the Lunar New Year that Zhu Zhanji had the heart to pay attention to the situation here in the old port.

Since the Ming army directly eliminated the Wanmao forces in Bengkulu, this area has now been directly managed by the old port.

Shi Jinqing has gradually become a real local overlord from the original local power and the nominal suzerain.

However, in the implementation of the sinicization policy, he still did not come up with an effective management system, which made Zhu Zhanji a little disappointed.

He is not Xie Jin, Jin Chun has been in contact with Zhu Zhanji for a long time, and has accepted Zhu Zhanji's new thinking, he is still the same old way of behaving and doing things now.

Zhu Zhanji has nothing to do about this.

Because his rule is currently in the interests of the Ming Dynasty, he cannot be replaced because of his shortcomings in this area.

Then you can only change him slowly and let him do things in his own way.

In this process, the most effective way is to assign him a direct, clear task.

On the sixth day of the first lunar month, Zhu Zhanji met with Shi Jinqing and his daughter Shi Second Sister and son Shi Jisun in the suburban palace.

Zhu Zhanji made it clear that he would promote the Chinese dialect on Sumatra, and when he returned from the West, there would be at least 50,000 or more Chinese-speaking people on Sumatra within a year.

mentioned this, and he did not hide his disappointment in Shi Jinqing.

"Lone originally thought that you, as the ruler of the new Three Buddhas, would actively promote this policy after Lone announced in May that the countries of Nanyang would adopt the official language of the Ming Dynasty, but Lone did not see your actions.

Moreover, most of the natives on the island still celebrate the Western Green Religion Festival, and the most important Spring Festival in the Ming Dynasty is still only celebrated by the Han people, and those natives are excluded. ”

Shi Jinqing replied tremblingly: "The old minister has been derelict in his duties and disappointed His Highness. ”

"In addition to promoting the mixed living of Han and Tu people this year, I want you to vigorously promote Han festivals and costumes, so that the clothing, food, housing and transportation of the native people on the entire island are inseparable from the control of the Han people, may it be done?"

Shi Jinqing hesitated for a moment and replied: "The minister has done his best, and he is dead!" ”

Zhu Zhanji understands that the thinking of a person like him has been fixed, and if he does not enter oil and salt, it is difficult for him to fall into himself in an all-round way.

He looked at his son and daughter again, and decided to focus on Second Sister Shi, the woman who left a tragic record in Nanyang.

Second Sister Shi is also a capable woman, in history, he and Huang Guigu, the queen of the Boni Kingdom in the same period, have left many records in history.

After Shi Jinqing's death, Shi Jisun took control of the power of the old port, and Shi Jisun only served as the nominal monarch for a period of time before being ousted.

She controlled most of the southeastern part of Sumatra, but because the Ming Dynasty abandoned the South Seas, the Chinese power became rootless.

After that, the tribes gradually stopped listening to the nominal capital of the old port, and went their own way, some attached to Aceh, some to Malaga, and some to Manjahpa.

Thirty years later, Malaja unified the Malay Peninsula and began to attack the old port.

But under the leadership of her children and grandchildren, the old port held on for nearly twenty years before it was completely destroyed.

Since then, the Chinese in Nanyang have no longer to rely on and have become lambs to the slaughter.

It was not until more than 300 years later that another Chinese kingdom was formed on Borneo, but it was only more than 100 years before it completely perished.

After they left, Zhu Zhanji summoned Daniel Zhang and Zhang Qian, and learned from them in detail about the current power entanglement in the old port, so that they would be slightly biased towards Second Sister Shi's side in the future and lend a helping hand when she encountered difficulties.

On the 10th day of the first lunar month, Zhu Zhanji convened a plenary meeting of generals and ministers. They were informed that after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the army would officially set out, a decision that was opposed by almost all of them.

The northeast monsoon, which blows from the northern Pacific Ocean, reaches the equator and forms a wind vortex with the local depression.

The low pressure in the windless belt of the equator, even the monsoon can only retreat. Wind direction is affected in the South Seas, partly forming the Indian monsoon and partly becoming northwesterly.

Nowadays, the fleet sailing to the Western Ocean is a real sail against the wind, and even if the sails of today's ships have been corrected by Zhu Zhanji, it is more conducive to the realization of Bernoulli's principle, but it is still impossible to sail against the wind in this era.

Sailing against the wind, no matter how strong the use of the sail is, there must be at least a deviation of 15 degrees, otherwise it will not be able to form a forward suction force at all.

If you go northwest at this time, passing through the Strait of Malacca to the direction of India, you can only rely on the direction of the ocean current.

It's like a boat with no power, floating with the waves and just resigned to fate.

In the South China Seas, the water depth is only 50 meters on average, and there are almost no major currents.

Zheng He, who has a long experience, is firmly opposed to setting off now, that is, at least until the end of January and early February, when the northwest monsoon stops.

Zhu Zhanji was not a person who insisted on going his own way, and after asking everyone's opinions in detail, he also felt that he had neglected the backward navigation methods of this era, and had an urge to take out the steam engine now.

However, today's steam engines are not yet mature, and even if they are installed on ships, they can only be small boats at most, and they cannot carry large ships.

If you want to truly conquer the seas, you have a long way to go.

The fleet set off on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month and took three days to arrive at Star City.

Today, Star City has been gradually built, and it is conceivable that it will become a trade center in the South Seas in the future.

And Malaga, don't want to be a strong country in the future.

Anyway, no matter how strong they are, they are only the situation of more than a hundred years, and in the end they are still cheaper than the Portuguese.

Here, the fleet waited until the eighth day of the second lunar month, the day before Zhu Zhanji's birthday, when the northwest wind finally stopped.

On Zhu Zhanji's birthday, he didn't even celebrate his birthday, and with an order, the whole army set off.

This voyage was even more difficult than going to Nanzhou, because it was still a bit windy to go to Nanzhou. But now, this weak wind makes the fleet not much faster than climbing.

But no matter what, the fleet is still moving slowly, and if you really want to get the wind, you will have to wait for three months, and Zhu Zhanji can't wait.

On the ninth day of the second month of February, it took three days to set off from Star City and arrive at Malaga, which in the afterlife was only a three-hour journey.

By the 17th of February, the fleet had arrived in Kedah, the former capital of Bangka and the largest rice base in Malaysia. However, now the state of Bangka has long since disappeared and is now ruled by Siam.

After arriving here, the Strait of Malacca became wider, and the fleet did not need to face a positive headwind, so the fleet adjusted its direction and sailed north.

When the fleet arrived in the waters of Phuket, the long-awaited wind finally arrived.

Zhu Zhanji's heart that has been tense has finally let go, although this short voyage took half a month, but the future journey will be much smoother.

The fleet did not go to the Bago Dynasty, where the regime was now in turmoil, and Wang Jinghong had already led the fleet to trade with them and reconcile their conflicts.

Now, Wang Jinghong is waiting for the main fleet in Kezhi. Whether it is Bago or Bangge Thorn and other countries, Zhu Zhanji will not go again.

When he held the competitive tournament in Star City, he had already met their kings and princes, and he was unwilling to spend too much time and energy in front of these small countries.

Now he has only one goal, and that is Hurmus. It was the area near Bandar Abbas, the exit of the Persian Gulf, and was an important hub for trade and transportation in West Asia.