Hou Xian was not well-known in later generations, but in this era, he was the most intelligent and capable talent in the huge group of internal servants.

In the first year of Yongle, because of his Tibetan status, he was appointed by Zhu Di as the minister of the Qin Mission, led the Tibetans in Qinghai, sent envoys to Tibet, and publicized the Ming policy to the Tibetan ministries.

In the fourth year of Yongle, he sent an envoy to Qianzang again, and persuaded a group of religious leaders such as Harima to invite them to Nanjing smoothly and accept the official positions and titles of the new dynasty.

Because of this, he was named a eunuch by Zhu Di.

After that, he not only participated in Zheng He's second and third voyages to the West, but also made several separate missions to various Indian countries, turning more than 20 countries in India into vassals of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, he went deep into Tibet three times, and also reached the Mara dynasty (Nepal) in the Himalayas in search of the birthplace of Buddhism.

This is a messenger whose merits are second only to Zheng He in history, but he is even harder than Zheng He, and in this era, his fame is even greater than that of Zheng He's original deputy, Wang Jinghong.

He doesn't have much military talent, but his diplomatic talent should not be underestimated. Even Chen Cheng, who claims to be the first person in Ming diplomacy, admires Hou Xian when he mentions it.

In Chen Cheng's view, Zheng He benefited from the emperor's attention and had outstanding military talents, but his diplomatic methods were slightly inferior.

And Hou Xiancai is the same person as him, relying on eloquence and vision, who has made great contributions to the expansion of the Ming Dynasty.

Such a person, when facing the tribes of South America, is naturally good at dancing with long sleeves, and in just one year, he will gather all the northwestern parts of South America under the command of the Ming Dynasty and accept the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, to be able to convince the tribes, Hou Xian did not rely entirely on force, but more on his personality charm and teaching.

The Inca civilization was a very peculiar closed civilization, although they had a language, but they did not have a written language, and only relied on knotted ropes to keep records.

The arrival of the Ming Dynasty not only brought advanced civilization, exquisite fabrics, but also beautiful writing.

All this made the Incas ...... No, there is no Inca civilization yet, they all call themselves Quechua.

The advanced civilization of the Ming Dynasty made them obsessed with it, and the same skin color and appearance made them take the initiative to belong to the Ming Dynasty and accept the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

This is more effective than the conquest by force of force by the Sibals.

Relying on force can only make them passively accept. Now, they take the initiative to learn the words and language of the Ming Dynasty, and are willing to serve the Ming people.

For example, since last year, they have taken the initiative to accept the Yellow Emperor's calendar, and in this year's alliance, there was a scene of them using Chinese characters to remember.

The Ming people not only called them language and writing, but also taught them to make wheels and carts, which greatly increased the range of activities of all Indians.

In addition to wheels, the Ming people also brought with them the manufacture of various tools, even including the technology of ironmaking.

In terms of agriculture, the Ming people also taught them to grow wheat and rice, enriching the food of the Indians.

All this has made them, the Indians, who are almost no different from the Ming people, enter a period of rapid development.

At the beginning of the twentieth year of Yongle, all the tribes began to move and marched towards Wangxi City, the base camp of the Ming army by the sea.

Each tribe sent a patriarch or elder, as well as a king, hoping to go to the Ming Dynasty with the Ming navy to see the weather of the Heavenly Empire.

In order to compete for the 3,000 places given by Hou Xian, the major tribes and countries fought for each other, and it took three alliances to distribute the shares.

Three thousand places is also the largest share that Hou Xian can give, and the fleet explores Dongzhou, but it is not just to bring this group of people back to Daming.

Almost every tribe had to send a representative to the Ming Dynasty, except for the Inca area. There is also the Aztecna area, which includes some small tribes in South and North America.

And the fleet of 30,000 people, in recent years, many soldiers have found wives or concubines in the local area, and there are tens of thousands of them.

What's more, almost every ship was loaded with seeds of various crops, especially rubber saplings, and nearly twenty large ships were loaded.

This trip to Dongzhou can be described as a bumper harvest.

In March, Yang Dao led the fleet back to Wangxi City after an eight-month voyage.

The fleet successfully completed its mission, not only taking back Di Pingxia and his party, but also drawing a coastline map of the north and south continents of Dongzhou.

Because of the sextant positioning, the accuracy of the map drawing is not much worse than that of later generations.

It's just that the topographic map of the mountains and rivers of the mainland is poisonous. This time it was impossible to draw it. These can only be filled slowly in later years.

More important than the coastline map is the water map along the way, with these maps, the future Ming fleet wants to go to the east of Dongzhou, there is no need to be cautious groping.

As for the loss of four ships and more than a thousand people, Hou Xian did not take it to heart.

Because it was an accident, not anyone's fault. Moreover, Yang Dao and they experienced the death of the chief officer, and they were forced to take the position, and he did it well enough, and there was no operational error.

Therefore, Hou Xian just comforted Yang Dao, asked them to repair it for ten days, filled all the boats with peat, and prepared to leave Wangxi City and go to the north.

In the past year or so, Hou Xian has also discovered a peat mine more than 400 miles northeast of Wangxi City.

There were men sent by various tribes to transport enough peat to Wangxi City, and the fleet was not afraid of the difficulty of replenishing peat in the future.

According to the nautical chart given by Zhu Zhanji, the route for the return trip was the Pacific Ocean Current, which is 10 degrees north latitude.

Except for a brief rearmament in Hawaii, where it would be on its way, the fleet would travel directly to Luzon along the heart of the Pacific Ocean.

Unlike sailing along the continental shelf, this voyage will be a huge adventure. Although there will be no major storms in the area between May and August, there is still no bottom in everyone's hearts.

However, this was arranged by Zhu Zhanji, and because of the huge trust in Zhu Zhanji, no one dared to say that he would return along the same route.

Of course, their worries were unwarranted, because the North Pacific Circulation, the safest shipping route in the Age of Discovery, was not one of them.

As long as you don't sail on this route after August, there will be no problems.

Moreover, from May, sailing along the North Pacific gyre, not only with the water, but also with the wind, the speed of the fleet will never be low.

Therefore, although the generals of the fleet were a little worried, they still followed Zhu Zhanji's instructions and chose the place of return in Panama in the future.

At the same time, Yi Xin, who had been emperor of the Aztecs for two years, reluctantly left the Aztecs, who had already been submitted, and prepared to go to the meeting place.

He didn't want to go back to Daming, he had been the emperor for two years, and he was already immersed in this glory.

But he had to go back, because even if he wanted to come back here to be the emperor in the future, he would first have to go back and persuade Zhu Zhanji to continue to send him over.

As for Zhonglian Bofu, he had already left it behind at this time.

How can that small island located between the hungry and eastern wings of Korea be compared to being an emperor in a land bigger than the Ming Dynasty!

In late April, several ships left behind in the northern mainland of Dongzhou also carried the local tribal leaders to Panama City in later generations, which was named Jiulian City by Hou Xian, meaning that this is the land of Jiulian in Dongzhou.

And this place does bear the name, in Hou Xian's heart, this place is more suitable for garrisons than Wangxi City, and the Ming Dynasty only needs to station a navy here, not only to guard the north and south, but also to control the east and west.

However, Hou Xian was not much interested in digging a canal proposed by Yang Dao to connect the east and west oceans.

He is also sixty-two years old this year, and he does not have a few years to live. This exploration of Dongzhou has made a great contribution, and after going back, let's enjoy Qingfu for a few years.

He actually admires Yang Dao, who blames himself, such a young man with affection and righteousness is rare among military generals.

Although he is an internal servant, he can't have too much contact with Yang Dao, a military general, but he has also decided that when he returns to the capital, he must recommend this young man to His Royal Highness Taisun.

Since he wants to dig the canal, it is better to send him here later.

There are not many others in Dongzhou, but the population is still quite large.

According to a survey conducted by household officials, the population of Dongzhou is no less than 30 million. Although it is not as good as Daming, there is absolutely no shortage of manpower needed to dig the canal.

In addition to the 1,200 soldiers and more than 100 old peasants who had been determined to stay in advance, the entire fleet lost nearly 2,000 people, and the remaining 26,000 people were all gathered together.

April 26 is the auspicious day of the zodiac elected by the Qin Tianjian. In order to avoid the typhoon that may occur after August, the fleet did not wait for May 1 to depart, and set sail a few days earlier than originally planned.

It took a whole day for the fleet to leave the port, and by the first day of the fifth month, all the ships had entered the Great Ming Ocean, that is, the intended route of the Pacific Ocean.

At this time, everyone noticed the difference in this route.

Everyone was terrified of the trip, and they wouldn't see land for months. Damingyang is so huge, and the future is uncertain.

But as they made their way west, the currents of the sea pushed them forward, and here it was smoother than many of the inshore ones.

And now the wind is smooth, the fleet is galloping, and it can run more than 80 miles every hour, and it can travel thousands of miles in a day.

This speed was something that no one expected, and it also made everyone forget about the fear of the sea for a while.

Except for the Polynesians who drifted on the ocean, their fleet was also the first time that humans had left the offshore sea and marched into the interior of the ocean on a large scale.

Those Indians were even more shocked one by one, such a huge sea ship, it was enough to make them frightened, and now it was running like flying, so that these Indians thought that the Ming people were blessed by the gods.

However, the speed of the voyage overwhelmed many ships, and within a few days of traveling, a cargo ship leaked water and the sails were more expensive than anyone expected.

As a last resort, the fleet could only lower part of the sails to allow the ships to be lowered.

Just as the fleet was moving west at about 10 degrees north latitude, a fleet arrived in the eastern state of Luzon and began to build a cement dock at the mouth of the Cagayan River in the northernmost part of the island.

Their arrival was warmly welcomed by the Zhizhou Jiezhen Period, and the first time, the Jiezhen Period took the newspapers of the last six months and read them carefully.

The release period was in June last year, and after Zhu Gaochi's July Seven had passed, he was awarded the title of Zhu Zhanji and boarded a cargo ship bound for Luzon.

On this trip, he carried not only a team of more than 300 officials, but also a delegation of more than 700 craftsmen and agronomists.

Of course, it is not possible for all of these people to be officials assigned to Dongshan State, but to supplement the officials of the whole of Luzon.

They first arrived at Beiming Street in Luzon and met with the political envoy Xu Chai Lao.

The imperial court sent more than 1,000 people to Luzon at once, and Xu Chai Lao was overjoyed.

Luzon was promoted from the government to the chief of affairs, and officials at all levels lacked a lot of power, not to mention a thousand people, even another thousand people have a place arrangement.

Among them, the Xie Zhen period, who was only twenty-five years old, but was awarded the post of Zhizhou, was of course the most valued by Xu Chailao.

He not only met the various requirements of the understanding period, but also gave important tasks to some officials brought by the release period.

Moreover, in order to show his respect for this champion, he also arranged for his two grandsons who had just passed the Tongsheng examination to visit Xie Zhen as a teacher.

For Xu Chailao, a great talent like Xie Zhen is the most respectable.

Because of having such a boss, it was smooth sailing for Xie Zhen to be an official in Luzon.

However, being the head of a fledgling state, from the very beginning, he encountered numerous difficulties.

Because of this state, even the state capital has not yet been determined.

It took a month to go through the entire state, and finally chose the location of Tuguegarao, the capital of Cagayan in the future, to build the state city.

It is located in a bend of the Cagayan River, almost in the middle of the entire valley, and can accommodate large boats downstream, and it is easy to connect with the natives in the mountains upstream.

The imperial court stopped collecting the output of the Baguio gold mine for a year, and now the Baguio gold mine has four pits, which can produce 150,000 taels of gold per year, except for the miners' money, leaving 30% for Luzon, which can net more than 100,000 taels of gold per year.

One hundred thousand taels of gold, which is one million taels of silver, was used to build the cities of the three state capitals, although it was not rich, but it was definitely a lot.

Moreover, now the city of Daming has been canceled the city wall, and the biggest cost is missing, and the funds are more than enough just to build various yamen.

The expenditure of 300,000 taels of silver attracted many craftsmen and merchants in the Ming Dynasty, who not only brought various technologies, but also activated the local economy.

In more than half a year, the urban construction here has begun to take shape.

Moreover, Xie Zhenzhi knew very well that he would not work in Luzon for too long, and he did not build the yamen magnificently, but took out fifty or sixty thousand taels from a small amount of funds to build a large wharf by the river, as well as a number of markets and warehouses.

For him, it's the results that matter.

In addition to supervising the construction of the city, he left all the construction of the city to the officials of the Ministry of Industry, and his main energy was spent on educating the people and building roads.

He also put aside his champion shelf, and even personally led the farmers to the field to plant seedlings.

The envoys who explored Dongzhou returned, bringing back many seeds of crops and rubber saplings. Luzon is a sugarcane producing area and rubber plantation area that Zhu Zhanji attaches great importance to.

At Zhu Zhanji's suggestion, he also chose to plant sugarcane and rubber in addition to rice during the Xie Zhen period.

The local natives of Luzon are actually relatively lazy, the local products are abundant, all kinds of fruits are available, they are not much interested in farming, and they are lazy if they can.

Growing rice is hard, but growing sugarcane and rubber is much easier.

Sugarcane only needs to be harvested once, and the government will collect it directly in the state capital, and then transport it to the sugar factory to boil the sugar.

As for rubber trees, once planted, benefit for many years.

Therefore, after vigorously promoting rubber planting during the liberation period, the effect is not bad, and now in the surrounding areas of the valley, many rubber saplings have been planted.

But for Dongshan Prefecture, which covers an area of 30,000 square kilometers, there are still too few saplings.

At the beginning of this year, he received news from the internal supervisor that the fleet bound for Dongzhou would return in May, and in July and August, he would be able to return, and the first stop on his return was Luzon.

So during this time, he traveled to Beiming Street many times.

On the one hand, he persuaded the internal supervisor to allocate him a little more saplings, and on the other hand, he persuaded Xu Chai Lao to let his Dongshan Prefecture get more saplings.

Only when these two aspects of the relationship are all done, it is possible to get more rubber trees than others.

Now, many officials are not enthusiastic about the cultivation of rubber trees. Because rubber trees are not like rice and sugar cane, they can be profitable in that year.

Rubber trees take years to produce rubber, and for officials, their performance is not evident during their tenure.

But the Xie Zhen period was different, and he knew early on that Zhu Zhanji attached great importance to rubber trees. Especially after the first batch of rubber was transported back to Daming last year, Zhu Zhanji immediately arranged for Lan Yan's chemical research institute to nitrate and vulcanize the rubber, and obtained some rubber samples.

According to different treatment methods, rubber products with different softness and hardness are obtained. There are so many things that hoses, hard shells, and rubber can make, and many things are unheard of in the unpacking period.

It's just that because the amount of rubber is too small, most people don't know the importance of rubber now.

Although there will be no harvest of these rubber trees during his tenure, as long as these saplings are planted, it will be a great achievement in His Royal Highness Taisun.

Uncle served as the first assistant of the cabinet, and the Xie Zhen period naturally had an important information channel than others, which was also his biggest advantage in addition to his own talent.

In mid-May, after half a month of sailing, the fleet slightly deviated to the northwest and arrived in Hawaii, located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

In Zhu Zhanji's information to the fleet, it was labeled Honolulu, mainly because of the abundance of sandalwood.

Although Hawaii was famous at home and abroad in later generations, Zhu Zhanji also visited it many times. But Zhu Zhanji is not clear about the history of Hawaii.

Until the 18th century, it was almost isolated from the rest of the world, and it was not until the 18th century that a detailed history was recorded here.

So apart from the name Honolulu, Zhu Zhanji did not provide much information about the simple description of several main islands.

When they arrived, they were surprised to find that language was no longer a problem when they came to these almost isolated islands.

Although it is 108,000 miles away from Nanzhou, the natives here belong to the same ethnic group as the people on some small islands near Nanzhou, and their language is also similar.

The fleet originally had a general recruited from Nanzhou a few years ago, and although their tone was slightly different from that of these natives, they could also communicate.

In the face of such a huge fleet, the tens of thousands of natives living on the island did not have any idea of resisting at all.

They regarded the Ming fleet as gods, and when Hou Xian wanted to bring several islands under the management of the Ming Dynasty, they directly agreed.

Today, Hawaii has a population of less than 40,000 people, and they fish and grow sugar cane, pineapples, bananas, etc., and do not have wheat and rice as staple foods except fish and fruits.

The fleet stayed in Honolulu for half a month, repaired the ships, sent people to survey several islands on horseback, and when they left, they took dozens of teenage boys on the islands with them.

They will be taught the Great Ming language, and they will later become the general affairs of the mission.

And because the Polynesian natives on the island are still living on their own, there are several tribes on one island, and the tribes are too small, and the mission does not even bring their leaders, but just let these leaders take their children away for education.

The Ming Dynasty would not be willing to see a tribe formed here in the future, so it would be scattered like this, which would be more conducive to the rule of the Ming Dynasty in the future.

The geographical location here is very important, and it will definitely be an important supply point in the future, and by the time of leaving, Yixin was already planning to set up a naval water village here in the future.

Leaving Hawaii, the fleet was still a smooth sail, with hardly any wind and waves along the way. It was only in the Marshall Islands in later generations that the fleet ran aground and lost a forward ship because of the inability to evade.

On the sixth day of July, the fleet successfully arrived at the predetermined area in the northern part of Luzon, and except for the half month spent in Honolulu, the fleet traveled 37,000 li in only 55 days.

Everyone was shocked by the journey, it was a trip that was originally planned to take three months, and there were no storms during the journey.

The Great Ming Ocean is also the Pacific Ocean, the widest point is 38,000 li, and the fleet departed from Panama to the Philippines for a straight-line distance of about 35,000 li, plus a detour of a distance, and actually sailed 37,000 li.

In this way, even if some of the sails were lowered, the fleet still sailed nearly seven hundred miles a day.

This kind of sailing speed is something that no one could believe before.

At the wharf at the mouth of the Cagayan River, the release period is in July, and it is already waiting here.

Waiting here at the same time as him were the representatives sent by Xu Chai Lao and the internal supervisor, although they promised to give half of the saplings to be planted during the Xie Zhen period, but because they did not know how many saplings the fleet would bring back, the specific distribution was not determined.

When Xie Zhen knew that the fleet had brought back more than 100,000 saplings and two full ships of seeds, Xie Zhen's mouth couldn't stop smiling.

With the exception of ships loaded with rubber saplings and seeds, the other fleets did not dock in Luzon.

They have been away from home for more than two years, and what they miss most now are their relatives at home.

When they learned that the emperor had won a great victory in the western expedition and had just returned to China after passing through Luzon half a month ago, how could they think of repairing in Luzon?

The boat borrowed the south wind, and in less than half a month, they could enjoy the joy of family at home.

Traveling 100,000 miles, Daming, we are back.