"Brother Gongming, get off the boat......"

"Ahh......hh

When Li Kui's voice sounded in the ears of Song Jiang and Song Gongming, the former big man of Liangshanbo, a famous man on the Jingdong underworld, and everyone paid tribute to the timely rain of three points Song Jiang Song Gongming, who was already seasick and dizzy, had more breath and less air intake, and he was almost dying.

Seeing Song Jiang's appearance, the Liang Shanbo brothers who were escorted to the "Enterprising" with him were all sad.

Brother Gongming is such a good person, so righteous, and has so many friends in black and white, how did he end up like this?

God doesn't have eyes!

Oh, and you can't really blame God for this. Heaven and earth are not kind! Oh my God, you have to do this? Liang Shanbo's gang fell to this point today entirely because Song Jiang didn't have a brain.

After they made an accident in Liangshanbo, Yunzhou, they voted for no one, so they went to Taihang Mountain to cast Kong Yanzhou's garbage. As a result, when the republican army came, Kong Yanzhou came and fled to abandon the village, rolled up gold and silver, and fled to Guanzhong with a few beloved concubines to join the Western Song Dynasty.

And when he escaped, he hid it from Song Jiang and others, and he also arranged defenses with great care, and treated Song Jiang and others as meat shields. As a result, Song Jiang, his brothers, and minions suffered heavy casualties, and in the end, 108 people were captured alive. All of them were sentenced to the autumn queen!

However, he did not really behead, but changed the sentence to exile as usual - now the Great Zhou and the Eastern Song Dynasty don't slaughter people much, and they are all thrown to the colony. If the crime is bigger, throw it to the place of birth, and if the crime is smaller, it will go to the people who are familiar with it.

Song Jiang and his subordinates are guilty of treason, and there is nothing to say, just go to the most difficult place.

It was supposed to go to Nandingzhou (Mekong Delta) south of Champa to open up the wasteland, but it turned out to be just in time to explore the eastern ocean. So one hundred and eight people were sent to the Enterprise to be the first generation of residents of the New World.

It's just that this Gongming brother fainted as soon as he went to sea, and he fainted all the way to Japan, and he couldn't look at it, can he still go to the New World?

"What's going on? Is there someone who can't do it? ”

At this moment, the voice of a petty officer of a Marine who was in charge of guarding the "Prisoner's Deck" on the Enterprise suddenly came from above the staircase passage.

"It's okay, it's okay, it's just a little seasick!" Wu Yong, the military advisor, hurriedly replied, and then beckoned Li Kui, Hua Rong and a few other heroes to help Song Jiang, who was dying of breath, up.

"Brother Gongming," Wu Yong still whispered in Song Jiang's ear, "Don't hold on, if the people above see you like this, maybe you will just throw it into the sea to feed the fish!" ”

was frightened by Wu Yongyi, Song Jiang, who was still half-dead just now, was a spirit, and he even forgot about seasickness.

"Ah, ah, I'm fine...... Iron Bull, help me out, I'm going to get off the boat. ”

"Eh, brother, the iron bull is holding you." Li Kui had great strength, supported Song Jiang hard, and took three steps and two steps to go all the way up from the "sinner deck" to the upper gun deck.

The captain of the "Enterprising" is Wu Tiexin, the son of Olga for Wu Hao. He is different from all the other sons of Wu Haogu, and he yearns for not the Jin Ge Iron Horse, but the blue sea.

So he did not enter the Knight Academy, but was admitted to the Lushun Naval Academy, and now he has become a rear admiral, and has become the admiral of the "Eastern Ocean Exploration Detachment".

When Song Jiang and the others came down from the Enterprise, he had already arrived at Kamakura Castle and met his big brother Wu Yiyong.

……

"Fifth brother, this is a map of the Great Oriental Ocean drawn by merchant ships and whale ships operating near Bohai Island. See, this is Bohai Island, this is Bohai City. Once you're refueled there, sail northeast or east. ”

Inside Kamakura Castle, Takeshi stands in front of a large hanging map, pointing with a wooden stick.

Wu Tiexin, who listened to him, was the fifth son of Wu Haogu, so he was called the fifth brother. He is the concubine of Wu Haogu, not the concubine. The status of the samurai family cannot be compared with Wu Yijiu, Wu Yiyong, and Wu Yixin.

So it's a smart way to take a different path. He wants to stay in the army, I don't know how many years he will be suppressed by his two older brothers?

But in the navy, he is the only "second generation of martial arts", and he is naturally on the rise.

And if this mission to explore the eastern ocean is successful, then the seat of the navy's military aircraft will be able to sit for him sooner or later.

"Is this a peninsula or an island? Are you sure it's connecting the New World? Wu Tiexin looked at an island on the map that was only half drawn and asked.

This island is the Kamchatka Peninsula, which was explored by ships operating around the island of the Bohai Sea.

However, these ships don't go very far, so they explore part of the Kamchatka Peninsula without even knowing it's a peninsula. I thought it was part of the New World......

"How far?" Wu Tiexin asked.

"About four or five thousand miles."

In fact, from Bohai Prefecture on Bohai Island (Hokkaido), you can reach PetrovPavlovsk, the warmest place on the Kamchatka Peninsula, almost 4,000 miles. This is an ice-free port located north of 50 degrees north latitude, and the average temperature in winter is within minus 10 degrees, which is still tolerable for the Han people.

And from PetrovPavlovsk in Kamchatkapetrovsk to the east, you can slowly explore along the Aleutian Islands in the direction of North America - there are fur-bearing animals such as seals in the Aleutian Islands, so as long as there is a need for fur, there will be hunters going east.

In addition, the Great Zhou could also hire some savage Jurchens who were accustomed to cold climates to establish a stronghold there.

With a stronghold, future ships will be able to travel east along the Aleutian Peninsula in the summer. It's a matter of time before you reach the west coast of North America, the closest habitable places to China, the Vancouver and Seattle areas, which are about 8,000 miles away from PetrovPavlovsk Kamchatkam.

But because of the North Pacific Warm Current and the Aleutian Islands to take advantage of, it wasn't too much of a hassle in the past.

"Four or five thousand miles...... If the wind is favorable, it won't take long. Wu Tiexin looked at the map, "There are islands along the way that can indicate the course, and it should be easy to get there." ”

The biggest risk of sailing in this era is not the wind and waves, but the loss!

So sailing along the islands and coasts is the first choice for most captains.

Sailing northeast from Bohai Island, there are islands along the way to point the direction of sailing, and once you find the Kamchatka Peninsula, you can sail directly along the coast in search of sheltered bays.

"This time, we just need to find a bay in 'Yinzhou' that can be opened up as a port." Wu Yiyong said to his younger brother, "You must return before the weather gets cold...... Later, the Discovery and Enterprise used Kamakura as a base to explore 'Yinzhou'.

It's a long-term errand, so take your time! ”

At this time, you can see the importance of taking the Kanto Plain in Japan.

With the support of the Kanto Plain, it became easier not only to explore North America, but also to colonize North America step by step.

If the "Discovery" and "Enterprise" did not stop at Bohai Island, they would go north directly from Kamakura and arrive at PetrovPavlovsk in Kamchatkammo, which is 5,000 miles. And if you want to start from Goryeo or Haizhou, it will be seven or eight thousand miles! You have to run an extra 6,000 miles back and forth!

In this way, the "Discovery" and "Enterprise", as well as the future colonial transports, will carry a lot of people and materials.

If you travel 6,000 miles more, you will have more supplies and fresh water, and you will have fewer passengers.

Moreover, the work of opening up a colony in Petrovpavlovsk in Kamchatka also required logistical support from the Kwantung Plain of Japan.

Don't think that if you throw one hundred and eight heroes there, people will find food by themselves.

For a long time, the colonies needed food and household goods from the Kanto Plain...... Even women had to be transported from the Kanto Plain.

Colonization! Of course, including breeding, only how can men reproduce? Let Song Jiang and Li Kui hold hands? It doesn't work if they hold hands......

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"Brother Gongming, the people above said that we will board the ship tomorrow, and your body is ......."

"It's okay, it's okay, it's good to rest for a few days." Song Jiang smiled bitterly, "The brothers all came out of Liangshanbo together, and even if they die, they will die together......"

"Brother Gongming, don't say this." Li Kui was a little anxious, and glared, "We have to live well!" Now that there is nothing left, there is only one life left, which can be cherished. ”

"You iron bull, when did you become so good at talking......

"That's all what the officials above said...... They also said that the place they were going to send us to this time was called Yinzhou, and it was likely that no one had been there before. When we get there, we're the King of the Mountain. And as long as we can live there until next summer, they will send us food, clothes, and women......"

When it comes to women, the expression on Li Kui's face is also wonderful, he hasn't tasted a woman for a long time.

Oh, of course Li Kui in this time and space has a wife, and there is more than one!

How can a dignified human trafficker, the local tyrant version of Li Kui, who once owned 1,000 acres of land, beat a single?

Not only did Li Kui have wives and children, but all the 108 heroes who were transported to Kamakura by the Enterprise had wives, and a hero had an average of three wives...... But now the wives are with others, and they are exiled by themselves.

Basically, I won't see my wife and children in Da Zhou in this life. If you want to be a woman again, you can only look at Wu Yiyong to send them Dongying Niu.

"In addition," Wu Yong said, "the officials above also said that when we arrive at the place, if there are no difficult enemies, they will leave our 108 brothers behind." Their people will all withdraw to Japan. The next year will be on our own. ”

There were also more than a hundred savage Jurchen mercenaries on the Discovery. However, Wu Tiexin did not intend to let them stay in "Yinzhou", but prepared to let them move with the ship and use them as a task force for the two exploration ships to search the island.