In addition to these admirals, those clans were also active. Before, they had only heard that there were gold mines in the South Seas, but they had never seen them, so they were not positive.

But now that this large piece of doghead gold was discovered, this huge gold mine appeared in front of him, everyone's mind began to turn.

When the fleet left Turtle Island, they also looked at this desolate island, and they also became pleasing to the eye.

But they weren't ready to move yet, because this was the first place, and it was said that in Nanzhou, there were also gold mines, and they were bigger.

However, this place is still the best place in their hearts. Because it is very close to the South Seas, it is not far from here to the Spice Islands, and the Interior Supervisor has merchant ships to the Spice Islands all year round, so it is not remote.

It is said that it will take a month or two to walk from here to the south of Nanzhou, and that is the real barbarian land!

On this voyage, the clan personnel were divided into four large ships, which belonged to a formation, and were escorted by four warships, supplied by four supply ships, and were responsible for liaison with each herald.

Since last year, the emperor decreed that all palaces and county kings should send their own sons, and the county kings should follow their grandsons.

These palaces already have a hunch, I'm afraid that the emperor is going to cut the domain again.

But there are Taizu's golden books and iron scrolls, and Zhu Di originally rebelled against the throne because of the cutting of the domain, so he attaches more importance to his reputation and righteousness, and cares more about the clan's righteous support for him, so the princes are not afraid that he will act perversely like Zhu Yunwen.

They didn't dare to disobey Zhu Di's holy decree, but at the same time, they were all people who didn't see rabbits and didn't scatter eagles, anyway, they had already made up their minds, if the conditions given were not enough, they didn't think they would easily move the domain.

Forgive this Zhu Di for the sake of leaving a name in the history books, and he didn't dare to do anything with them.

Of course, only some feudal princes who have not made mistakes will be so tough, and the feudal princes' mansions, which have the handle in Zhu Di's hands, have been planning from the beginning on how to strive for their own maximum interests.

Zhu Zhanji actually doesn't care what these clans think, no matter whether these clans are capable or useless, what he needs is their names.

Even if they are pigs, at least they are all surnamed Zhu.

In the future, the world will enter a stage of rapid development, and the backward means of communication and transportation will not allow the central court to effectively control the remote corners, so they will need to occupy the name of righteousness.

They are capable people, but Zhu Zhanji will worry that after they become powerful, they will ignore the central court and establish themselves as kings.

If they are all incompetent, it is only necessary for them to occupy this position, which is more convenient to intervene and manage later.

Even if they are angry and resentful, it is a big deal to change their children and grandchildren to be the princes in the future, these places will always be in the hands of the descendants surnamed Zhu.

So, he just planted some eyeliner on the boat and tossed them around.

It is not yet time, and if you want the clan to move overseas, you need not only their willingness, but also the approval of the whole society on this matter.

Otherwise, just one harsh clan will put the royal family in a difficult situation and fall into the point of being in a state of gold.

Even if it is an emperor, in terms of customs and customs, he must follow the rules of this era.

The fleet continued to sail, and most of the clans felt that it didn't matter, although the gold mines here were discovered, maybe there would be better ones to come.

And although the island is large, it is too hot, and most people are not satisfied with the environment here.

However, the sons of Zhu Li, the king of Jin, were imprisoned one after another because of their father and brother, and now they are panicking, and among all the clans, they are the people who want to move overseas the most.

Zhu Li, Zhu Jixi, and Zhu Jixi were abolished and imprisoned one after another during the Yongle period. Zhu Jixi didn't miss the love of father and son, imprisoned his biological mother, steamed his father's maid, imprisoned his brother Zhu Jixi, and nephew Zhu Meigui.

A few years ago, the emperor sent Jinyiwei to Taiyuan to investigate, abolished Zhu Jixi, and rescued Zhu Jixi and Zhu Meigui, but he still has not returned the throne, and the Jin Wangfu is walking on thin ice.

Zhu Jixuan, the king of Qingcheng, once participated in the case of Zhu Jixi's false accusation of his brother Zhu Jixi, and now Zhu Jixi is imprisoned in the Fengyang high wall, he is afraid that the emperor will remember that he has also participated in the false accusation case, so this time he went to sea, and he made up his mind to leave Daming as soon as possible.

Although this turtle island may seem harsh to others, it is a treasure in his eyes.

This Turtle Island is huge, larger than the entire Jiangnan area of the Ming Dynasty. Although there are some poisonous snakes and poisonous insects on the island, there are endless forests and all kinds of precious timber.

Especially this gold mine, as long as it is properly managed, even if most of the income is handed over to the imperial court every year, it can earn hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, plus immigrants farming and selling timber, it is much stronger than now.

He is now stationed in Fenzhou, and his annual income is only 10,000 taels of silver, and at the end of the year, there is not much silver left in his hand.

So seeing this, he wanted to contact the various clans and take this gold mine into his own hands.

As long as he takes the initiative to move the domain, presumably the emperor will no longer remember his mistakes.

"The fourth brother really doesn't care about his homeland at all and wants to move overseas?"

The person who spoke was Zhu Jihuan, the king of Ninghua, who was the fifth son of the king of Jin, and was more valued by the royal family than Zhu Jixuan, the fourth son.

Zhu Jixuan was worried that he would be deposed, but Zhu Jihuan was not worried about this.

"I don't want to do this, but I'm not like the fifth brother, now I'm afraid I am the one who wears the guilt in the emperor's heart, if I make meritorious service to the guilt, I am afraid that the emperor can forgive."

Zhu Jihuan sighed: "Although this Turtle Island is large, it is sparsely populated, and it is said that there are cannibals on it. It's going to be tough here. ”

Zhu Jixuan shook his head and said: "I don't think so, although the population here is small, it is close to my Daming, and it is convenient for immigration." And with this gold mine, the worst can be a rich man, the king of the mountain, and he doesn't have to live in fear in Daming. ”

Seeing that he had made up his mind, Zhu Jihuan sighed and said, "Then how does the fourth brother want me to help you?" ”

Zhu Jixuan said: "For my brother, I want to invite the fifth brother to go to the grandson to find out, what are the regulations for this clan to voluntarily move overseas." ”

At the same time, in the other rooms of this ship, there was a lot of discussion about Turtle Island among the other clans, and this rich gold mine attracted more than just Zhu Jixuan.

Now the only ones who can play carefree and enjoy are the children of the clan who have not yet reached adulthood.

Like Zhu Zhanjun, Zhu Zhanyong and them, they don't have any worries about this at all now. For them, this trip to sea is to come out to see the world.

In the face of the temptation of the clans, Zhu Zhanji never gave a positive answer, but just sent everyone away with a little peace of mind.

Because this matter was suppressed under Xie Jin's strong initiative.

Due to the experience of his previous life, Zhu Zhanji likes to cut through the mess quickly and solve it directly.

But this kind of personality may be a good thing in business, but for people who play politics, such a character is really out of place.

Because there is no right or wrong in politics, and there is only compromise in politics.

You can fight the world right away, but you can't rule the world right away, and you can't solve anything by force.

Politics is an art of compromise, and cutting through the mess with a quick knife will only make things worse and worse.

According to Zhu Zhanji's intentions, all overseas territories should be divided into separate territories. Then these clans were divided into feudal offices, and in each place, one or two military guards were arranged to maintain law and order.

The vassal king managed the civil affairs, the army managed the military administration, and then used gold mines and land to maintain basic survival, and trade to revitalize the links between each fiefdom.

A military guard in the Ming Dynasty is about 5,500 people, and a local guard, or guard, is about 3,000 people. These people, including their families, plus the officials and retinue brought by the vassal king, there were about 20,000 people.

No matter where so many people started to develop, with the help of the Ming Dynasty, they were able to maintain their basic rule.

But this matter is completely impossible to do in front of great Confucians like Xie Jin and Jin Chun.

It's the same thing, but to implement it, you need to do it in a different way.

For example, even if the Imperial Family wanted to do so, the Imperial Family should never propose to divide the feudal kings overseas.

Today, it is still a clan society, and the power of the clan is an important part of society, and the social influence cannot be compared with later generations.

For example, each family has its own laws, its own rules. The imperial court recognized the rewards or punishments given by the clan to the clan disciples.

Below the county level, the management of the clan is an effective supplement to the management of the imperial court.

In this era, the laws are not perfect, and people are more concerned about human feelings.

If the minister of the court wants to return to his hometown, he needs to resign three times, and the emperor has to keep it twice, and the third time he can agree. Otherwise, it means that the emperor is very dissatisfied with this minister and has a great opinion.

Even the emperor usurped the throne, and he needed three exhortations from the ministers, and the emperor was "humble" before he "reluctantly" ascended the throne.

In such a social environment, if such a plan were proposed by the royal family, it would make people feel that the royal family was unkind.

If they can't even take care of their own relatives, who would believe that they can take care of the people?

Therefore, even if Zhu Zhanji wants to divide the clan overseas, this matter cannot be settled by him now, he must first brew this matter in society, and then "reluctantly" agree.

What they said made sense, and Zhu Zhanji was certainly willing to listen to it. He knows his weaknesses and shortcomings, and he is willing to act according to the current set of rules without affecting the big picture.

Therefore, he has to hype up this matter first and stir it up now.

Anyway, the matter of sealing is not something that can be implemented in the past two years, and it will not be possible until he returns to Daming at the earliest.

If it doesn't go well, it won't be possible until he ascends the throne.

So now he doesn't say anything at all, and he doesn't mention the separation. Just on the side of the army first, to prepare for later.

The journey from Turtle Island to Nanzhou is very boring.

Because of the headwind, the fleet now sails at only four or five knots per hour, only a little faster than a human can walk.

At such a speed, in the vast sea, it is like a turtle crawling.

The officers and men of all armies can learn to read and play cards every day to kill time, but the stuffy environment of the cabin still makes many people's mood gradually become low.

Zhu Zhanji has also been studying recently, and he was originally the least disliked of Confucian scholarship, and always believed that the decline of the ancient Eastern kingdom had a very close relationship with Confucianism.

But I have been in this era for a long time and have become a person of this era. He gradually realized that despite all the shortcomings of Confucianism, it had very obvious advantages in the formulation of social rules, the maintenance of the rule of the imperial court, and the establishment of the centripetal force of the nation.

So recently, he also took one or two hours a day to listen to Xie Jin and Jin Chun explain Confucian scriptures to him.

He didn't want to be a Confucian student, he just needed to understand the role that Confucianism could play in the development of society, and then make better use of this power.

His eagerness to learn made Jin Chun particularly happy, and when he lectured to Zhu Zhanji every day, he was always full of energy.

Although life on the ship was boring, the old guy's spirits were getting better and better.

But Xie Jin has a deeper understanding of Zhu Zhanji, he has been teaching Zhu Zhanji since he was a child, and he knows very well what kind of person Zhu Zhanji is.

In particular, since Zhu Zhanji began to implement Gewu, he has actively promoted the study of numbers, letters, and geometry, and has also led to the study of Jiejin, including the Xie Zhen period and Xie Zhenliang.

They know better that a utilitarian person like Zhu Zhanji does not study Confucianism in order to be a Confucian, but to decompose Confucianism.

Because for Zhu Zhanji, showing learning and practical learning is what Zhu Zhanji really likes.

When the time enters May, the dry season begins in the Nanyang region. Occasionally, there would be rain for the next hour, and then there would be the damp heat that was breathless.

There weren't a few rains in the sky throughout June, and it wasn't until they arrived at Turtle Island that it rained again.

Once the flotilla had rounded the Torres Strait, it cautiously followed the perimeter of the Great Barrier Reef and headed south.

Previously, the sun was seen rising in the east and setting in the west, and most of the time, the sun hung in the south.

But now, the sun has reached the north, and the sun's trajectory from left to right has now changed from right to left.

Everyone feels a sense of oppression that time and space are subverted, and the land is barely visible in sight, and the beautiful ocean scenery is now tired of everyone.

Passing by a few small islands once in a while can no longer attract the attention of others, except for making the navigator nervous for fear of hitting the reef.

Because starting from the north, it is necessary to start surveying and mapping the coastline of Nanzhou, and the fleet is also scattered, even if it is Zhu Zhanji's Chinese army, there are only more than 100 ships at present.

The soldiers who were sent out were given a pamphlet detailing some of the natural environment in the northern part of Nanzhou, and the prevention and control of poisonous insects and snakes.

Especially those surveyors of Yulin Weixue, each of them is worth a thousand gold in Zhu Zhanji's heart.

Almost every soldier in the world is an all-rounder. Although most of them are illiterate, or only know simple words.

But they are all field soldiers, and they are also engineering soldiers, and they can also farm, and they all work hard and complain.

And these cadets of Yulin Weixue have received cultural courses, geography courses, astronomy courses, etc., and each of them has received two or three years of professional course education and special forces education.

These seeds can be said to be the most powerful technical soldiers in the world.

When the time entered July, the main fleet finally sailed out of the equatorial windless zone, felt the cool sea breeze, and the people of the fleet were in high spirits.

At this time, Zhu Zhanji became nervous. Because July is a hot summer for the Ming people, but the Nanzhou they have come to now is now in winter.

Although the temperature has not yet dropped due to the equator, it is necessary to guard against the flu caused by this climate change.

In later generations, the flu was only a minor illness, but nowadays, it is very likely to kill people.

Every accompanying physician of the fleet was mobilized, and almost every ship, a physician was arranged to do a good job of protection.

The further the boat goes south, the temperature gets cooler and colder, especially in the morning and evening, and it is already necessary to wear thick clothes.

However, this decrease in temperature makes the voyage much more comfortable.

The morale of the soldiers was raised again, because everyone knew that they were about to reach their destination.

Their first destination was a bay on the east coast near the Tropic of Capricorn, which would later be Brisbane.

The main reason for choosing this as the first destination is that it has a world-class natural harbour and there are plenty of fresh water resources.

Of course, more importantly, there are many mineral resources here, and there are many mines within the city limits of Brisbane alone, and the Yaleman copper mine in the northwest of the city is one of the top ten gold and copper mines in Australia.

Due to its superior geographical environment and climate, it has become one of the most suitable bases for the development of Nanzhou, and it is more suitable for large-scale development than the harsh environment of the north.

The fleet finally reached the Tropic of Capricorn, which meant that the fleet had completed the complex terrain of the Great Barrier Reef and could sail near the coastline.

The fleet had only been heading west for a day before it could see the coastline of Nanzhou. Being able to see the mainland, everyone in the fleet was in high spirits.

No matter who you are, no matter how much you like the sea, you always have a sense of expectation for the mainland.

Because human beings are always terrestrial animals.

There were pilot ships constantly testing the water depth, and Zhu Zhanji's flagship also sailed to the water area only a few kilometers from the coast, where the trees on land could be clearly seen.

"Your Highness, yesterday you could see that the shore was full of white sand, why is it still like this today?"

Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "This is the most famous beach in Nanzhou, and it is said that it is nearly a thousand miles long from north to south. ”

From Fraser Island, the northernmost part of the Sunshine Coast, to the Gold Coast in the south, there are beaches with beautiful sandy beaches.

In fact, in the eastern part of Nanzhou, most of the beaches are sandy, which is indeed a miracle of nature.

In the evening, the messenger ship came with a message that the strait had been discovered.

Brisbane is known as a world-class bay mainly because it has three connected islands that form a natural breakout.

And the three islands, just in the direction of the north, opened a strait less than ten kilometers wide. The entire direction facing the sea to the east was surrounded.

In later generations, cargo ships of the 200,000-ton class can be docked here, which is not a problem at all for the largest wooden ship of less than 10,000 tons.

Taking Zhu Zhanji's flagship as an example, this ship was more than 100 meters long, more than 50 meters wide, and had a draft of just over 6 meters.

In other ports you may need to be careful to dock, but here it is not difficult at all.

However, it was getting late, and it was not the typhoon season in Nanzhou, so other ships began to send people ashore to check the terrain when they entered the bay area, and these big ships were still parked on the sea surface of the bay area.

On the second day, the advance boat entered the main channel of the area, which later became the Brisbane River.

The soldiers who remained in the base camp began to go ashore and set up camp on the shore.

When they returned in the evening, they had not only caught a kangaroo and a few koalas, also known as koalas.

Asked Li Liang to send a few koalas to the rear cabin to tease a few women, he couldn't wait to ask, "What's the situation on the shore?" ”

Zhang Fengshan, the leader of the team, saluted respectfully and replied: "The last general led two hundred men to march along the river for about twenty miles. The course of the river is twisted and turned, and in twenty miles we have turned twenty-seven bays.

The banks of the river are densely wooded and densely forested. The land here is a mixture of loess and laterite, which is not very fertile, and because of its proximity to the sea, it is relatively alkaline.

The last general and his subordinates are currently working on a map of this place, but because it is a hilly area, it will take at least five days to draw a detailed map. ”

"Have you found any natives?"

"I was about to report to His Highness, and as soon as I went ashore today, the last general found traces of human activity, and he also found this ......."

Zhang Fengshan presented a crossbow arm of a rough wooden hard bow, which was discarded by the natives because it had been broken.

Zhu Zhanji was not interested after looking at it, this processing technology was so rough that Zhu Zhanji suspected that they were scraped out of stones.

Zhang Fengshan continued: "But the last general searched with everyone for a day, and he didn't see the natives, let alone the cooking smoke. I'll go out and search again tomorrow. ”

Zhu Zhanji knew that the natives of Australia mainly lived by hunting and gathering, and they did not know how to fish, so they rarely went to the seaside.

Brisbane is hilly on three sides, low hills, and facing the sea on the other, and is not an area that natives like to move.

He nodded and said, "Go out tomorrow to search, bring more glass things and salt." That's what the natives loved. You bring enough luggage, dry food, and a larger range of activities, so you don't have to rush back. ”

"Yes!"

After handling official business, I returned to the rear cabin, only to see a few women busy making a nest for the koala. Their lives are monotonous, and now they can't help but be happy with such cute little animals.

Even those interracial women, who lived cautiously on weekdays, stayed in the hall at this time to watch a few koalas.

Na Ma Xin was holding a little koala who was still a cub, and he was reluctant to let go. It's a pity that these koalas don't give her any face, lazily nestled in her arms, and don't want to deal with her no matter how funny they are.

When she saw Zhu Zhanji, her cute big eyes were full of anticipation. "Your Highness, shall we raise it?"

(Australia is not ready to write in too much detail, because there are not many struggles here, speed up to Western Asia, Western Europe.) ）