The 20 fleets, set off in turn, at the location of San Francisco in the future, they sent a group every morning and afternoon, and it took almost 10 days to complete the dispatch, and their routes were slightly different, the location and route, slightly fine-tuned, they were not sure about Hawaii, and what islands they would encounter in the middle, but they would follow the course and go to Dinghai.

Perhaps, for them, it is a very crazy and dangerous journey, almost certainly, there will be people who can't go back, in the relay voyage, there are people in danger, not to mention this, across thousands of kilometers, across the entire Pacific route, the pacific calm, is also relative, the ocean is the ocean after all, full of all kinds of uncertainties, danger is also unexpected.

The captains who fought on the ocean did not know that this was a danger, but the yearning for adventure still made them accept the task, they were the best captains and sailors, and at the same time, they were fully prepared for their ship.

The two or three years of sea exploration have not only trained a group of very outstanding sailors, but also made the Dinghai Navy gradually familiar with the ocean, and they all know what and how much they need for ocean-going navigation.

With all kinds of convenient food, fresh water tanks for storage, some supplies and all kinds of tools, it can be said unceremoniously that the sailors of the Dinghai Navy are much happier than the sailors of the 18th century.

For sailing, the biggest nightmare, sepsis, can be easily treated by vitamins, even if vitamins are not synthesized, but some solutions can still be solved, such as bean sprouts, or dried vegetables, and sealed cans, etc., they all contain vitamin C.

There is no threat of sepsis, and at the same time, these sailors have been fighting on the ocean for more than 3 years, and they are already familiar with the ocean, so the possibility of problems themselves is small.

Dinghai flying clippers, from the appearance to the present, almost 5 years, in the exploration of the northern channel, while exploring, while summing up all kinds of lessons and lessons, in the middle, there are technical and discipline, there are also the ship itself, this clipper, has been very good, very suitable for sailing on the ocean.

It is all kinds of factors that make North America open the adventure of exploring new waterways, perhaps, there will be danger, but on the sea, there is no danger at all, it is impossible, but as long as the danger is in a controllable range, compared to the adventure, to find a more economical waterway, is what they are concerned about, to save one-third of the time between North America and the navy, this is already very tempting.

The fleet finally set out, one by one into the ocean, in the beginning, they would act together, and in the middle, they would make a certain fine-tuning, along a certain line of latitude, so that they could be separated a little more, and it would be easier to find some islands.

This method is correct, but 80 ships, even with the support of the powerful telescope of the Dinghai Navy, can search not many sea areas, compared to the huge ocean of the Pacific Ocean, the island is just a drop in the ocean, although Hawaii is in the Pacific Ocean, it is a relatively large kind, but it is also easy to miss, unless it is a large number of ships, carpet search.

The Pacific Ocean, at least, after entering the west coast of North America, seems relatively empty, and there are relatively few islands in the Pacific Ocean itself, and the west coast, even more so, has walked for many days without encountering an island.

It may take many days to reach Dinghai all the way west along the Tianpingyang, a distance of two or three hundred kilometers a day, and it is destined to be a very dangerous and exciting journey.

On the North American side, the adventure from the central part must have been beyond Zhao Xin's expectations, but even if there was a telegram, Zhao Xin had no way to stop it, let alone yet, and when Zhao Xin knew the news, I am afraid that the fastest fleet was already approaching the sea area of the Dinghai Navy.

In fact, the first exploration, the loss was not large, the time of their travel, just separated from the time of the formation of a large number of tropical storms, this, in the Dinghai Navy's long-term observation of the Ryukyus, Hainan also knew that in the summer, a large number of tropical storms will be formed, maybe in the southern hemisphere, it will be just the opposite, but the area they have been sailing in the northern hemisphere, this point does not need to be considered.

There was no storm, and those who participated in the expedition were relatively good navigators, 80 ships, and in the end, only one ship had problems and was abandoned, and the crew was transferred to other ships, which was considered not to have lost a single one.

But this time I explored, only in the Pacific Ocean, found 3 islands, 2 of which are still the kind of unusable, very small, just a small island reef, the only island that can be used, is also a very small island, only less than 2 square kilometers as large.

In fact, when you go directly to China from the west coast of the Americas, it is located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, in the location of San Francisco, at 37 degrees north latitude, and this location, roughly, is in the north of China, the south of Zhuo County, which is about 39 degrees north latitude.

In the Pacific Ocean, it is not that there are no islands, a huge ocean that occupies a third of the entire world, how can there be no islands, but in the entire Pacific Ocean, the distribution of islands is very uneven, there are many in the north, that is the Aleutian Islands, and there are many in the south, and in the southwest, that is, on the New Zealand side, where there are several large archipelagos, and then in the southeast direction,

Most of the islands, located near the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn, sail along the 37th parallel, and are very lucky to be able to encounter an island.

The dimension of Hawaii is at 21 degrees north latitude, a difference of 11 degrees, that is, one or two thousand kilometers, this distance is very large, and it is almost impossible to rely on accidents to find it.

In the subsequent exploration, Hawaii is not so easy to find, Zhao Xin also generally knows the location of Hawaii, but for the latitude and longitude line, the difference of one degree is about 110 kilometers, a millimeter, a thousand miles, Zhao Xin can only be on the original basis, keep going south.

Because of the first expedition, not only found more and closer routes, but also all returned, which is also an exciting exploration of the situation, in the case of ensuring safety, avoiding the time point of the summer tropical storm, such an expedition, if it encounters a storm, it is a small probability.

Can you really rely on such a vague method to find North America, of course, as long as you follow a fixed shipping lane, but in this way, the final effect will not be very good.

Such an adventurous move across the ocean, after stabilizing North America, tried some, but did not find Hawaii, fortunately, found a few other islands, which can be regarded as a fixed foundation, and a route located in the middle of the country, which reduces a lot of cost, appeared.

This route, compared to the north, take the route of the Kuril Islands and the Aleutian Islands, maybe in the northern ports, the impact is not very large, but for San Francisco, and even the islands near Los Angeles, it is really a lot of savings, at least 4000 kilometers of voyage, which is placed on the clipper ship, that is, more than ten days.

Relying on the help of several islands, the voyage can be divided into several sections, especially after the south from China, to the Ryukyus before going deep into the ocean, and then under the division of the islands, the range of each section is reduced to about 3,000 kilometers.

3,000 kilometers is completely different from the range of 10,000 miles, the degree of danger and controllability, which also improves safety to a great extent.

However, the discovery of the waterway is not as important as the islands, for example, Hawaii, Midway Island, once occupied, it is equivalent to an important fulcrum in the surrounding seas, especially Hawaii, which is definitely the most important island in the entire Pacific Ocean.

Zhao Xin didn't know the exact location of Hawaii, but he knew that Hawaii should be in the tropics, but where it was, I don't know, 37 degrees is definitely not, then further south.

The first attempt, only 80 ships were used, and after that, although there were dangers, this exploration was not without benefits, and if you find Hawaii, you will have a high degree of control over the entire Tianping Ocean.

Gradually to the south, sure enough, at the location of the Tropic of Cancer, some islands were found, but it is not Hawaii, Hawaii is really difficult to find, and even has found about 20 degrees north latitude, or even 19 degrees, and still has not been found, many times, they are all passing by in the detection range.

In a long-term exploration, there will definitely be casualties, and in a large-scale exploration, and on such a long-term voyage, there will inevitably be storms, force majeure and the like, and in the second time, there will be casualties, and after that, it has remained above the level of three thousandths.

It's not a huge number, but as their exploration of the ocean deepens, more and more, the deaths rise.

For the huge Dinghai Navy, under the premise of large-scale population growth, similar losses are acceptable, and for the exploration of the interior of the Pacific Ocean, for the exploration of various islands, this is of great benefit to the control of the Pacific Ocean.

There is nothing difficult in the world, only afraid of people with hearts, under the premise of continuous exploration and continuous southward, Hawaii is such a large island, it is destined to be discovered, you must know that Hawaii is not an island, but a group of islands, as long as one is found, the rest, it is logical.

However, unlike other islands, the island of Hawaii has a population, and there are several sources of population, some from the 4th century to the 9th to 10th centuries, but at this time, the population was not very large, about 40,000 people.

These populations, under the strength of the Dinghai Navy, could not make any big waves at all, and once they were divided and disintegrated, they disappeared without a trace.

The discovery of Hawaii was only discovered after two years of unremitting exploration compared to the initial exploration of the Central Route.

The discovery of Hawaii marks that China's control of the ocean has reached a limit, you know, Hawaii, but the most important island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and the islands after it are the icing on the cake, including Midway, including some islands in the south.

Now, whether it is Zhao Xin or Ding Haijun, they have not realized this, after taking the Kuril Islands, as well as a series of lands in North America near the Tianping Ocean, as well as the Aleutian Peninsula, it is equivalent to saying that the three sides have been included in it, as long as Hawaii in the Tianyuan position is taken, everything will not be a problem,

The discovery of Hawaii, representing the North Pacific, the Eastern Pacific, and the Central Pacific, is basically under the absolute control of the Dinghai Navy, and the route to the Americas has also been found to be more than one, not to mention the north, that is the earliest route, the Central, Midway Island as the core route, they are located at about 28 degrees north latitude, just like the ports in the south of the Americas, on a similar latitude and longitude, this straight line.

The other is Hawaii-centric, where ships can be resupplied and repaired in Hawaii, and they receive great support, although they make a slight detour, but they can communicate with the vicinity of Central America and have great support for the development of Central America.

After the discovery of Hawaii, the exploration of the entire shipping route has entered the final stage, and three or four shipping lanes are enough to support the connection between the Dinghai Navy and the Americas, and the next step is to explore the Pacific Ocean to a deeper level.

After more than 2 years of exploration, as well as the digestion after the discovery of the Americas, the Dinghai Navy can transfer the huge exploration fleet back, and now the war in Southeast Asia has come to an end, and the Indochina Peninsula and Indonesia are basically under control.

If it were someone else, maybe they would stop here, because the territory under control was already large enough, whether it was land, arable land, or resources, there was enough, and no matter how much it was, there was no way to develop it.

But Zhao Xin did not stop, in later generations, in the study of world navigation, the Americas should be left by God to the Europeans, because the difficulty of getting from the Atlantic to the Americas is much less difficult than the difficulty of the Pacific Ocean to the Americas, as long as they enter the age of navigation, they can almost inevitably discover the Americas.

If the Americas are left to Europe, then Australia, which is left by God to Asia, is the southeasternmost part of the entire Indonesian island, where is only one step away from Australia, as long as it crosses a few hundred kilometers of ocean, in the latitude and longitude, only a few degrees away, but he can find a huge continent, although the area is not as large as China, but the resources contained in it, China is very longing.

Historically, a joke was played with China, the loyal dog that has led the world for thousands of years has fallen behind in modern times, the Americas were discovered in Europe, and Australia is the same, and now, since Zhao Xin has traveled to this era, he has also made clippers and galleons, and even the Americas have been discovered, Southeast Asia has also been occupied, and it is logical to discover Australia.