In fact, there is still a big gap between the navigation technology and the Western colonial powers across the Pacific Ocean, and the northern route of the Ming Dynasty is also an offshore route, taking advantage of the convenience of the Japanese warm current along Sakhalin Island and the Bering Strait, the whole voyage takes three months, and because a large section of the route is in the cold Arctic Circle, the polar night of the Arctic makes this journey seem extraordinarily long.

However, for Mao Xingjian, this trip turned from the initial frustration and disgust to the shock, the vast world, the shocking natural landscape, and the magical animals, all of which he had never dreamed of before in such a small place as Beijing.

But no matter how long the journey is, there is an end, and as time passes, the fleet is finally approaching the end.

The sky was getting brighter, but it was still cold, and the wet cable hung a long string of ice skates from top to bottom, and the splinters crackled and fell downwards with the clatter of the sailors' banging.

This trip is really blessed by God, actually did not encounter a bad weather, along the way calm as if there is really God's favor, the bow is like the front, the first mate from Fujian, or the actual captain of the Black Pearl Morisan can't help but pray to Mazu Niangniang, on the other end, the named captain, the prince is lying on the stern of the ship weakly, looking at the sea with large and small Xiaoice blocks from time to time.

Next to him, the new front-line reporter Han Xiaomo was writing front-line reports angrily. It's just that although the steppe wild girl is not illiterate, the little things she learned from Mr. Private School in the Baoketu Coal Mine are obviously limited, and the challenge of writing a report is really more difficult for her than the war with the Zarut Department back then.

On the contrary, this girl has a lot of energy, holding the Ming dictionary under her arm, while writing a few paragraphs, while flipping through the dictionary, I don't pay attention, I don't know when she stained a big black on her left cheek.

"At the beginning of November of the third year of the opening of the sea country, the New World far-away fleet broke through the eternal night on the horizon, and finally saw the long-lost sun, just like the ancient poem mentioned to keep the clouds open to see..., see...., what is the thing?"

elbowed Mao Xingjian, who was standing beside him, but unfortunately, the prince was watching forward with a telescope as always, with a cold appearance deaf to him.

Obviously I don't know anything, but I want to quote the scriptures, listening to Han Xiaomo's self-satisfied muttering, Mao Xingjian couldn't help but shake his head, and raised the telescope again, not to mention, there are really many whales in this era, just looking at the past like this, there are a few behemoths lazily exposing half of their backs and spraying mist.

However, at this time, Mao Xingjian's mind was not on the whale at all, just now, his first mate Li Chu came to report, according to the longitude and latitude mark on the route map, after walking for about half a day, he should be able to reach the new continent!

On this road, he can place his affection on the beauty and magnificence of nature and leave his troubles behind for the time being, but when he actually arrives at the place, the political problems he should face are still rushing to his face. Or just a puppet? If this is really a test for Mao Jue for him, how can he successfully hand over this answer sheet?

But before Mao Xingjian could think about these questions clearly, Han Xiaomo, who was writing bullshit and not informing the director, suddenly shouted in surprise.

"Land! See the land! We're in place!! ”

Finally put Gao Leng aside again, Mao Xingjian also raised the telescope suddenly, and in the circular field of vision, the blue ocean on the line of sea and sky finally receded, and a long black and narrow horizon came into view.

Looking at the horizon, even if his heart was full of complexity, the prince couldn't help but sigh.

It's finally here!

.........

This place has arrived in the United States in later generations, but it is not the mainland of the United States, but the largest state and the largest enclave in the United States, Alaska, and then the port where the fleet docked is the westernmost point of the narrow peninsula of Alaska, which protrudes from the continent, historically, in 1714, the Dutch discovered here, so it is named Holland Port, but this time and space, it is more than 180 years earlier in the Ming Dynasty to take the lead in opening up this route, so it is the turn of the Ming Dynasty to name it, called Fishy Haizi.

This is since the voyage, the first encounter of the Ming Dynasty large colony, Mao Jue's ruling characteristics are very good and happy here is vividly embodied, like the West Dutch Spaniards to build a colony, a region at the beginning of dozens of hundreds of people, development for thirty-four years, can have a population of five or six thousand is already a large colony, but this fishy Haizi Port is only a little more than a year and a half, there is already a scale of tens of thousands of people.

After all, this is the first port connecting the New World with the Old World, and it is also the end point of the New World fleet! The resources collected from the North American continent are gathered here, boarded the New World fleet, and transported back to China, and at the same time, the daily necessities and manufactured goods sent from Daming are also disembarked here, and then the trade radiates to the various colonies in North America, sitting on a new continent of business opportunities, and it is difficult not to be popular.

Seventeen sailboats were moored in turn in the spacious and cold port of Xihaiziwan, the heavy boarding ladder was heavily lowered, and the cement concrete port with Mao Jue's characteristics was carried on the port, and then from the Wa Kingdom, the Goryeo laborers began to be busy carrying up, carrying heavy cargo boxes to carry down, including the entire shelf of steel tools, gloves, shoes, as well as vases, large urns, scissors, glue, anyway, food, clothing, housing and all aspects of the goods, almost covered, In the shouts of hey, soon the empty port wood warehouse was piled up.

There are also a few boats, immigrants from the Ming Dynasty, the Wa Kingdom, Goryeo, and now some subject countries in Southeast Asia have their luggage on their backs, with fear and expectation of an unfamiliar environment, and they also got off the boat, Mao Jue is not absolutely righteous, and the Ming Empire also has an evil side, and in a black boat at the end, the three brothers with dark skin and steel shackles were also pushed off the boat in turn, and these people or Wu Sangui flickered in the name of recruitment. Or simply instigate the Bengal army to plunder the prisoners of war in the nearby state of Marata, there is no way, the New World lacks everything, and the most scarce thing is labor, especially cheap labor!

Anyway, the Western countries in history did the same, but they enslaved black slaves, and in order to occupy territory, even if it was infamy, Mao Jue did not hesitate.

But fortunately, this scene was not seen by Mao Xingjian, otherwise the prince would have to go crazy again, the Black Pearl is the flagship, and the docking is also docked at the forefront, such a busy scene, as soon as they got off the boat, Mao Xingjian and Han Xiaomo's eyes were attracted by the scene in front of them, and they hurriedly ran off the boat.

In terms of construction, it is certainly incomparable with the metropolis of cities and towns in the Ming Dynasty with a history of hundreds of years or thousands of years, but it is also very different from the wild and barren Gobi Desert in Mao Xingjian's imagination.

Because of the lack of cement and labor, a thick log planed bark, nailed in the foundation, nailed together with wooden boards, it constitutes the wall of the two- or three-story small building, the gap is plastered with cement lime, the basic warmth needs are reached, and the living space here is too large, each house has reserved a front and back two garden yards, coal and timber, the spacious streets are made of cobblestones and cement, the outermost edge of the port, but also with five logs in a row, out of a thick and strong walled wallOn the city wall, the urban citizen soldiers who wore Ming cotton armor and patrolled back and forth with flintlock pistols on their backs swayed out from time to time.

The street closest to the port is obviously a commercial street, with all kinds of signboards lined up on both sides, and Mao Xingjian even saw the Jingshi Quanjude roast duck and Donglaishun's shabu-shabu that he had been to.

However, what attracted Mao Xingjian's attention the most was the fishing port not far from the commercial port, no wonder it was called the fishy sea, it was really full of fish! The fat sea fish are shaved belly, the internal organs are discarded, and a layer of sea salt is smeared, and then they are hung on the shelves and stacked on the seaside, where the climate is cold and tight, and the sea breeze blows for a few days, and it becomes a large fat and high-quality dried fish.

The largest amount of cargo from the port of Fishy Haizi to the fleet of the New World is such barrels of high-quality dried fish.

The rich in the sea can simply step on the back of the fish to get on the shore, standing on the beach, seeing another big boat leaning on the shore, and the sea fish on the boat are still alive and jumping on the shore by buckets, it is not too fishy, the prince can't help but take a heavy breath of cold air with the smell of the sea.

"What a land of abundance!!"

(End of chapter)