Yixin didn't know that his landing by coincidence would reveal a secret that had been hidden by history.

In later generations, scientists from various countries have confirmed from DNA, race, and blood that many Indians belong to the same race as Oriental Asians.

Anthropologists around the world generally agree that the Indians migrated to the Americas mainly from Asia via the Bering Strait between 15,000 and 20,000 years ago.

Intuitively, many Indians live like Chinese.

The Inuit children's photo in Alaska, the boy with the hanging bun, is no different from the children in North China.

There are also the Indians in the jungles of Central and South America that you see in some pictorial magazines, and you would think that they are a minority in southern China.

There is no doubt that most Indians, including Eskimos, possess yellow characteristics: black and straight hair, yellow skin, spade front teeth, and a cyan birthmark on the buttocks of babies at birth, which Caucasian and black people do not have.

Throughout the American continent, from Canada and Alaska in the north to Peru and Chile in the south, there are many tribes with distinctive characteristics of the Oriental, including culture.

The "Olmec civilization" in Mexico, the mother of American civilization, is inextricably linked to the culture of the Shang Dynasty in China.

Wu Geng (known as Lu Father in historical records) and other members of the royal family fled to the American continent to multiply and leave cultural relics after the failure of the "Three Prisons Rebellion" launched by King Wu's younger brothers Guan Shu, Cai Shu, and Huo Shu at the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty.

Skeptics think, if this being the case, why is there no more hieroglyphs on the American continent, not even wheels, except for a few oracle bone inscriptions?

Overall, there has never been a denial that Asians ever set foot in the Americas, as there are tribes in the northwestern parts of Canada, Mexico, and Peru in South America that have left records of people from Asia.

However, it would be a stretch to say that all Indians are of Asian origin.

All of this is overshadowed in history because of the genocide of the Amerindians by whites.

Before white people set foot in the Americas, there were more than 30 million Indians in the Americas, with more than 500 tribes.

But in later generations, these tribes almost all disappeared, and no one was able to restore the truth of history.

And now, there is no white invasion in the whole of America, and the people on this continent are still growing freely and savagely.

Instead of focusing on finding someone at first, Yixin first sent the fleet to cruise in different directions, hoping to find companions.

Before the departure of the fleet, various precautions have been formulated, and in such a situation, the first thing to do is to gather the fleet and look for companions.

It took them only five days to find all their lost companions, but they had to wait a while to join them all because of the damage to their respective ships.

Because of the discovery of ships from the Mongol and Yuan periods, they immediately decided to change course and use the site where Yixin landed as a temporary base to find the local natives.

Holding a map of the Americas, they were instructed by Zhu Zhanji when they set off that their landing places should be in the area of Vancouver and Seattle in the future.

Because only here, there is a gap in the Andes Mountains that runs through the American continent, from here into the central and even eastern parts of North America.

In addition to this, all of North America all the way to Mexico in the south, there are endless mountains, plateaus, and deserts blocking the way.

And the Great Lakes region of central North America, with its endless plains and countless rivers, is the most suitable land for farming.

However, it is not the main Indian settlement here, because the Indians of the Americas are mainly in Mexico in the south and Chile in South America.

The main reason why this is the case is due to the weather.

Most of the Indians did not have perfect textile technology, and the Inuit in the north, they used animal skins to make clothes, but in the cold season, there were still countless casualties.

For them, cold weather is the worst enemy.

As a result, most people live in tropical areas, even if the land is not suitable for farming.

For the Native Americans without wheels, who had a pitiful range of movement and little need, warm weather was far more important than fertile farmland.

But now that they have been blown into the archipelago further north, they did not expect to meet the descendants of Meng Yuan who crossed east.

Yang Dao went to sea this time, although he was only a thousand generals, but as a cadet soldier learned from Yulinwei, he was the most valued intellectual general in this era.

So there were twenty steam galleons on this trip, and he was assigned five. Including one first-class battleship, three second-class battleships, and a coal carrier.

In addition to sails, this steam galleon required a large number of soldiers, and a thousand soldiers under his command did more work than the soldiers on other ships.

When the storm comes, other ships can only lower their sails and go with the flow, but the steamship is different and can still move forward against the wind and rain.

This also caused none of the twenty steam galleons to suffer much damage, except for a few broken masts.

This also made Hou Xian see the superiority of this kind of steam sailing ship, just the fact that it can resist the storm makes it seem that such a ship is superior.

For the past few days, he has been busy liaising with the fleet, and then transporting the supplies needed by those ships to wherever they are needed.

It also left him without time to go ashore and go with the army soldiers in search of the natives.

It was a beautiful day, and they needed to transport the masts and drying planks to a large island four hundred miles to the south. A total of ten ships were stranded on that island, and they could not set sail again without repairing them.

The midday sun was a little fierce, but the temperature was not high, and Yang Dao sat under the awning on the deck, still studying the entire map of the Americas.

He had heard His Highness say that because it was drawn in a hurry, the scale of this map was not standardized, and it could only be used as a reference.

A 100,000-mile mountain and a desert block the way to the east, and it is not easy to go to the east.

They were the Navy, and this time the mission was to transport the Army for landing operations and then to draw nautical and land-based charts.

Yang Dao had already received the task, and their twenty steam sailing ships were going to be the main force to draw the charts of the east coast.

Therefore, his main energy now is focused on studying how to bypass the cape in the south of Dongzhou and then reach the northeast of Dongzhou.

The lookout on the mast suddenly shouted, "Mr. Qian, I found the cooking smoke." ”

Yang Dao didn't care at first, because there were also Ming soldiers scattered on the island, and it was not surprising that they raised a fire.

From the deck, the continent in the distance was a shadow, and it was impossible to see where the cooking smoke was.

Yang Dao pressed the map with a paperweight and said, "Is there a ship there for repairs?" ”

The lookout on the mast climbed down the mast with great speed like a monkey. "My lord, there are no ships of our army there, either a lost ship, or the indigenous ...... here"

Yang Dao became interested at this time, took the telescope in his hand, hung it around his neck, and then climbed up to the mast.

For many days, most of the lost ships had been found, and no ships had been found in sight.

Yang Dao quickly searched for a puff of upward smoke, although it was too far away to see clearly, but he could find that the smoke did not rise from the sea, but from the mountain.

He immediately shouted: "Turn the rudder to the left twenty degrees and reduce the speed." Immediately send a speedboat to survey the depth of the water and the reef. ”

The crew heard his shouts and immediately passed on his orders and got busy in an orderly manner.

The sailors on deck lowered their sails, adjusted the sails, adjusted the power of the steam engine, while the navigator in the bow, one by one, passed his orders to the crew below the stern who mastered the rudder.

The distance between the two places was almost ten miles, and although the speed of the ship had slowed down, in two quarters of an hour the ship was already close to the shore.

No damaged ships were found in the places where the ships passed, and no broken planks were found. This means that there are no storm-sunken ships and trapped soldiers.

Yang Dao's heart became more and more agitated, is it really a native person, is it a native person, or as His Royal Highness said, Meng Yuan or a remnant of the Southern Song Dynasty?

Do they still speak the Chinese language? Do you recognize their comrades from the land of their ancestors?

The five ships searched for more than half an hour before they found a suitable harbor for the ship, and before they got off the ship, Yang Dao's heart was already excited.

Because he saw a few new boats, although these boats looked like small sampans, but the style was indeed the style of the ships of the Central Plains.

This means that the people here are closely related to them.

The two heralds were tested in the harbor for a long time, because the water was too shallow, not to mention the first-class battleships, even the second-class battleships could not dock.

Yang Dao couldn't wait any longer, so he directly used the flag language and ordered all four herald ships to be dispatched, first sent three hundred musketeers to the shore, and then personally landed on the land here.

He had a full crew of 1,120 men on five ships, and there were nearly 1,000 army soldiers on board, but because they were helping to repair the damaged ships, there were no outsiders on board.

He left about half of his men to guard the ship and sent six hundred soldiers to land.

In this port, Yang Dao did not dare to be careless in the slightest, although he saw the traces of human life here, but when he arrived in an unfamiliar area, the first thing to pay attention to was the breeding of all kinds of germs and miasma.

They had already experienced the environment that the locals were accustomed to before, and the Ming people might get sick after they went, and the Ming people also brought disaster to many natives.

In Xizhou, because of their arrival, many tribesmen died inexplicably.

It wasn't until later that the head of Zhonghe Zidao found out that it was the virus carried by the Ming people, which was accustomed to the Ming people and had no effect, but it was highly toxic to those natives.

At the port, the soldiers immediately set up several cauldrons, found dry firewood, put the prepared medicinal herbs into the pot and boiled them.

After boiling a few pots of medicinal soup, each soldier drank a bowl, put peppermint oil and mothball-made sachets under his nose, and according to Yang Dao's arrangement, they were divided into five hundred-person teams and began to search in different directions.

Each centurion had ten swordsmen, who were responsible for opening the way, twenty shieldmen, who were responsible for cover and transport, five liaisons, and the remaining sixty-five musketeers who were responsible for searching and fighting.

Yang Dao personally led a team of 100 people and went directly to the direction where the cooking smoke was found.

Until now, it is still unknown whether it is an island or a continent, there are many mountains and few lands, and although the jungle is not dense, the trees are quite tall, most of them are pines.

For this kind of environment, Yang Dao is still relatively reassuring. Although it is summer, there may be snakes, insects, rats and ants, but because the place is northerly, it is not as dangerous as the tropical rainforest.

While in the South Seas, he experienced the hot and humid primeval rainforests there. Not only are there vine creatures that make it difficult to move an inch, but there are also more poisonous insects inside, which is a crisis step by step.

However, the search was over before it had even begun, because the local natives had already spotted them, and as they were about to set off, they found a dense crowd of people coming out of the woods with wooden sticks.

The natives were dressed in coarse linen garments, and most of them had sharpened wooden clubs in their hands, but a few had iron weapons in their hands, and even a few of them had delicate short bows and rough longbows in their hands.

The style of those short bows looked like that of the Mengyuan people, but the longbows were only made of flexible branches and boiled animal skins, and they were completely incomparable to the short bows.

Seeing the bow and arrow in the opponent's hand, the shield man immediately squeezed to the front of the team and covered his comrades.

Yang Dao was startled by the sudden appearance of the crowd at first, but quickly calmed down.

After observing for a while, the coarse linen clothes showed that the other party did not have advanced textile technology, but only learned to draw silk from soaked linen.

If there are no iron tools, it means that the other party's steel smelting technology is very backward, or it may be that there is no iron ore in the local area.

As for the iron tools in their hands, it is very likely that they were left by their ancestors.

I just don't know, they still don't understand Da Ming.

Seeing that the other party did not have a direct attack formation, he walked from the phalanx of soldiers to the front. In the face of these natives with skin colors similar to himself, he didn't have much intimacy, but he didn't have much hostility either.

He clenched his hands into fists. Then bow down. Although this posture is not necessarily the etiquette of the natives, whether it is in Nanzhou or Xizhou, this posture of bowing often represents kindness.

Even if the natives don't understand these etiquette, they can know that it is not aggressive.

Compared with Yang Dao, the soldiers were much more nervous, and the muskets in their hands were aimed at those archers one by one, for fear that the arrows in their hands would shoot out.

Yang Dao stood up straight and said word by word in the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty: "Can you understand what I said?" ”

The crowd on the other side was a little confused, but there was also some commotion, a strong man who obviously looked like a leader and wore a string of animal bones around his neck came out of the crowd, and asked bluntly in words with a little Shanxi and Shaanxi accents: "Southern Song Dynasty?" Meng Yuan? ”

Yang Dao was overjoyed, and immediately turned around and shouted: "Cao Fugui, come forward." ”

Cao Fugui was one of the people they specially selected when they came, he was from Shanxi, and his accent was similar to that of the other party.

Cao Fugui, who was also delighted, came out of the crowd, and he saluted the leader, saying in Shanxi dialect: "We are from the Central Plains, and we ...... today."

Before he could finish his words, the other party screamed and rushed over. "Central Plains...... Loved ones ......"

The natives put down their weapons one after another, and their faces showed excited expressions, and some even cried.

Cao Fugui was frightened by the big man, thinking that the comrades behind him were watching, so he didn't dodge.

The other party was not hostile, and directly opened his arms, hugged his somewhat thin body, and patted his back with a pair of big hands.

The two men hugged each other, and the body odor on each other's body was a little big, which made him a little inexplicably awkward.

Yang Dao's heart was full of excitement, since the other party was a descendant of Huaxia at that time, and he could communicate simply, then the first step for them to come to Dongzhou was still going quite smoothly.

Dahan let go of Cao Fugui, and then stammered to introduce himself: "I...... Jochi. Thousand households. ”

Yang Dao understood as soon as he heard it, Jochi'er, Qianhu, this all shows that the other party is a descendant of Meng Yuan.

He was secretly glad in his heart, fortunately it was just a thousand households, and he was up and down with his own thousand households, if the other party was a thousand household heads, he would be a little embarrassed by his thousand households.

He stood up straight and said slowly, "Yang Dao." The Ming Navy is a thousand generals. ”

"Da Ming? Navy? ”

This kind of communication is a little slow, but in the communication between each other, they still introduce their identities to each other.

This Jochier has nothing to do with the Southern Song Dynasty, they are the descendants of the Mengyuan people who were blown to the north by a typhoon in the eighteenth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1281), when the Yuan Dynasty went on its second eastward expedition to Dongying, and then was carried by the ocean current to the northeast of the Americas.

At the beginning, their fleet lost its way and could only resign itself to fate, but because of good luck, it was blown here.

When the fleet docked, there were more than 1,000 Mengyuan soldiers on it, and about 3,000 natives lived on this island. These natives make a living by fishing and picking wild fruits.

The Mongol people, all of whom were strong men, killed the men of these natives, left the women, and then survived on the island.

Now one hundred and forty years have passed, all the natives have the blood of the Mengyuan people, but they are not very literate, and when they come here, there is no pen, ink, paper and inkstone, so they can only fight against nature.

Therefore, most of the nearly 5,000 people on the island no longer speak Huaxia, but some simple communication is still no problem.

At this time, Yang Dao also knew that this was not the mainland, but an island connected by several large islands.

Because of the damage of the ships, they also do not understand the technology of shipbuilding, and can only make some small boats, although they have some contact with the mainland, they are not close.

And, because of the mountains, even the other natives here have little contact with other places.

Hearing this, Yang Dao was a little disappointed, because they didn't communicate with the mainland, which meant that they couldn't communicate with the natives on the Dongzhou continent at all.

They found these people and could not act as guides, at most as thugs.

No, not even thugs, because the Ming soldiers didn't need their force at all, they only needed them to be coolies.

At their warm invitation, Yang Dao arranged for a hundred soldiers to guard the herald ship in the port, and let a second-class warship report to the chief soldier Hou Xian and Yi Xin, and he himself led five hundred soldiers to Jochi'er and their tribe.

In their tribe, there are also a few old people who speak Chinese better and know more about history.

Following them, Yang Dao and the others climbed over two low mountains and came to a valley.

Most of the houses here are shaped like yurts, but they are all fixed with mud and grass roots.

But there are also some wooden houses, which are built of logs, because there are not many such houses because of the lack of nails.

But no matter what kind of house it is, the layout of the house is no different from that of the Central Plains.

Not only did they cultivate farmland on the island, but they also raised some wild boars and cattle. But the wild boars and bison here are different from the Ming and the West, and they are obviously more ferocious and difficult to tame.

Most of the time, farming still relies on manpower.

The conditions on the island are limited, and the people here are not living well, which can be seen from their clothing.

In order to live, people had to live in dispersion. There are only four or five thousand people on the island, and there is not a single idler, and these more than 1,000 strong men led by Jochi'er are already the largest force on the island.

When they saw the neatly dressed Yang Dao and them, a group of old people cried excitedly, when they were young, they had heard the elders talk about prosperity in Middle-earth, but everything was just a distant dream.

Without shipbuilding technology, without tools, they could only watch the originally damaged ship decay.

When they saw Yang Dao, although they knew that the dynasty had changed, they had no national hatred, only the cordiality of the same roots and ancestors.

When they knew that they could also return to Daming with the fleet, or they could choose to follow the fleet to conquer Dongzhou, they immediately became excited.

These islanders slaughtered pigs and cattle and warmly entertained their distant "relatives".

Yang Dao didn't know that on this island, which was later called Graham Island, there were 10,000 descendants of the Mengyuan people, and after hundreds of years of evolution, most of them no longer knew Chinese.

But in their housing, their customs, and their totem worship, it is still the real Mengyuan style.

Including the history recorded by later generations, they have always been considered to be a more advanced civilized people than the natives.

It's just that because they offended the surrounding natives at the beginning, they have not been able to develop to the mainland, but only a nation has slowly developed, and finally after it has grown to about 10,000 people, because of the lack of resources, the population can no longer go up.

But what if all these people went to the mainland? With more resources, 5,000 people, it can eventually become 50,000, 500,000, or even more.

In the north of the island, Hou Xian and Yixin got the news and had more confidence in the expedition to Dongzhou.

More advanced technology, a happier life, and perhaps without killing, most of the natives can follow closely behind the Ming Dynasty.

(Kavin, I don't know if I should write this story.) I want to write in detail, but there is too much space. I can only write it briefly first, and then use a few chapters according to the time period to write out the process of exploring Dongzhou. ）