In mid-April, warm winds blow and the fields outside Orca City waft the scent of freshly turned earth, and it's time for the expedition to the Americas.

The day was cloudless, and the coast was once again bustling with festivals. Sailboats with white hulls lined up on the pier by the sea, their masts almost piercing the sky.

Unlike the last time the sea was opened, there was a lot of sadness in the excitement this time. Before the crew got on board, it seemed that they always had all kinds of things to say to their families, and the family would also hold the crew and give them a thousand instructions.

The Propaganda Department organized a farewell choir, and without carrying amplification equipment, came to the front of the traveling team and took turns singing in front of the team: "...... This one went to the ocean and that one crossed the sea, and this one went for three years and two years, and he didn't return it......"

The singers are carefully selected young boys and girls. There are only three young men, but there are more than two dozen young girls. This made the crew members, who were all men, drool a lot, and the song was about the separation of men and women, and they were eager to set off at once, and return from distant America to-morrow, so that they could meet these girls again.

Zhu Monkey stood under the shed by the sea with Duyan and his children, looking at the twenty sturdiest and fastest ships in the world in the distance, and complained: "Hypocrisy. ”

He has presided over killer whales for a long time, and it is not that he has never been out to sea. When he went to Luzon, a thousand kilometers away, he drove a sailboat about 20 meters long, brought more than 30 people, and loaded it with food and water for half a month.

After that, when he went to sea, he basically used this kind of equipment, and he traveled all over the surrounding area and Southeast Asia. He said that he would not send it again when he was sent to the gate of the city, and others did not even know that he had gone to sea to explore, but only when he went fishing.

Now, it was the same expedition, but it was a little farther, and the stone beak brought a whole thousand people, nineteen thirty-meter-long ships, and one forty-meter-long ship. 200 horses, 40 dogs, and 1 killer whale......

If that's just the case, the red monkey doesn't think so, after all, the back and forth of the Americas is said to be more than 20,000 kilometers. There are more people, the boat is bigger, and it doesn't matter if you bring a few horses and a few dogs.

What he didn't like was the supplies that Lin Ji had equipped the fleet.

Two years of food, summer clothes and winter clothes for a thousand people, these basic natural things need not be said.

Lin Ji said that people who do not eat vitamins for a long time at sea will get septicaemia, so they left a large number of beans and let them sprout to eat on the ship. And that's reasonable. But Lin Ji was worried that sometimes the weather was too cold for the bean sprouts to grow, so he installed a few glass greenhouses for the Three Princes and other ships to grow vegetables and sprouts!

There is no such glass conservatory even in Orca City, I heard that it is only in Chaolin City. There are a lot of glass inlaid in the house, and the red monkey is hot to see. Many people in Orca City don't have enough glass, but they use broken glass to inlay their windows.

Lin Ji was also worried that this would not be safe, and he also prepared a lot of vitamin tablets.

This is already a three-pronged approach, right? But that's not all, Lin Ji is worried that these are not complete, and he has equipped the fleet with a lot of tempting juices and canned fruits!

The juice and canned fruit were not tasted much by the monkey's own children, and they were all carried onto the ship. Du Yan and Zhu Hou's little wives complained a lot.

And that's just the fight against sepsis. In terms of other food, Lin Ji was worried that the food on the ship was too simple, and prepared a lot of sugar, wine, cured meat, dried vegetables, various pastries, biscuits, instant noodles and so on for the ship.

Zhu Monkey had read the list, and the food categories on the ship were no less than the stocks in his Duke's Palace.

Zhu Hougui is a duke, and he has a lot of knowledge over the years, so he understands all of the above. But for others, he doesn't quite understand.

Lin Ji installed solar panels, a diesel generator set and a high-capacity battery pack on the Three Princes, and equipped them with radios, movie projectors, searchlights, stereos, computers, digital cameras, etc.

The ship's radio station is of the same level used by Orca City, and the farthest transmission distance is three thousand kilometers. This did not allow the fleet to remain on the same page with Huaxia after arriving in the Americas. But you can report the situation to Killer Whale City in time in the early stage, and if you are lucky, you may be able to listen to the radio sent by Chaolin City.

The ship is also equipped with a 100-kilometer level intercom radio, which allows people who come ashore to keep in touch with the ship. It can also greatly facilitate their landing expeditions. The team members are equipped with these to go ashore, and when they meet the natives, they can almost play the role of the gods: Look, we can talk to people a hundred miles away, do the gods in your legends have such abilities?

Digital cameras and computers can be used to record the hydrology and geography along the way, searchlights can help in bad weather, movie projectors and stereos and the like, which the red monkey does not understand. The explanation given by Lin Ji is to pass the time of boredom.

Also to pass the boring voyage, Lin Ji also equipped each boat with an entertainment room. In addition to a small amount of gym equipment, there is also mahjong! This kind of game of 144 cards randomly combined to get the optimal solution, Zhu Monkey and his wives became addicted to it after learning it. Equipped with a movie projector and sound equipment...... The vermilion monkeys regretted that they did not go on the expedition with the team.

Where is this going on an adventure? You don't have such a complete set of equipment when you go out to play, do you?

In addition, the ship is equipped with doctors, carpenters, blacksmiths, boatmen, etc., as well as related workshops. No matter what problems arise in the fleet, they can basically find someone to solve them. In Zhu Hou's opinion, if Stone Beak didn't want to come back, he could directly build a kingdom through these people outside.

With such a complete set of equipment, Zhu Monkey felt that it was too pretentious to say goodbye. If Stone Beak couldn't understand the Americas in this case, he would feel panicked for Stone Beak.

The crew gradually finished saying goodbye and returning to the team, and after the roll call, they got on the ship and stood on the side of the ship to wait for departure. Lin Ruins also appeared on the dock with a stone beak. Zhu Monkey and the others also walked behind Lin Ji and saw off Shi Beak with officials at all levels.

The stone beak wore a new commander's dress, but he carried a large bow on his back and a quiver waist knife at his waist, which made him look quite heroic. Lin Ji and the others on the opposite side were also dressed formally. In the team, Ping Li stood on crutches and was also wearing a military uniform with a pen body.

As the reports of the ships were finished, the stone beak made a military salute to the forest traces: "Report to the king, the fleet is ready, ask for instructions!" ”

"Let's go!" Lin Ji waved back.

The stone beak turned around and boarded the bridge to board the ship, and then the bridge was retracted, and the drum and flag on the flagship were played at the same time: departure.

The singing on the shore stopped, and the send-off people stopped shouting and instructing, quietly listening to the commands in the fleet, watching the fleet lift anchor, leave the port, and raise the sails.

"This is going to drift across the ocean, and then crossing the sea......"

I don't know who sang a sentence, and many people shed tears. After crossing 20,000 miles across the ocean, will they be able to return safely?