The ocean-going fleet managed to avoid the stormy reefs at sea according to the charts provided by the Portuguese and the charts taken from the Spaniards, and by the way robbed the Spaniards of two ships, but after robbing them of silver and some of their food, they were released again. Finally saw the continent seven months later.

During the journey, though, the fleet also anchored at some small islands to replenish fresh water and fresh vegetables, and hunted some animals for tooth sacrifices. Although the fleet had brought enough food, enough carrots were added to the food, plenty of oranges were brought in, and plenty of soybeans and mung beans were brought to sprout. Although there is a special boat trawl to hunt some fish every day to supplement nutrition, and there are students of Wu Youxing who serve as the boat doctor. Eleven people died of illness in the entire fleet, mainly accompanying students and civilian officials.

Seeing the land, everyone was extremely excited, and Zhang Qianfang chose an open beach to prepare for landing. There was no way for the three Daifuku ships to dock, so they could only be parked about two miles offshore. Catch-up boats and canopy boats are slightly stronger and are able to anchor up to 300 paces offshore. Although it was not satisfactory, there was no way to find a suitable berthing dock for a while, so I could only go ashore first.

Geng Zhongming was one of the first officers to go ashore, and he led his soldiers to the beach first, then reconnoitred the nearby terrain, and then issued a flag to the ship that it was safe to land.

The second group to come ashore were civilian officials and students led by Zhou Yanru. After Zhou Yanru and the others stepped ashore, they walked a little crookedly, so they asked Geng Zhongming what was going on. Geng Zhongming said with a smile: "It's all the same, after sitting on the boat for a long time, as soon as you get ashore and don't shake, you won't be able to walk steadily, and you will be fine soon." ”

At this time, soldiers from one direction blew the alarm with a whistle. Geng Zhongming hurriedly asked the soldiers to protect these civilian officials and students, and ran over to look, only to see a few knights slowly approaching.

These knights were not red-haired like the Spaniards or Portuguese, they were also black-eyed and dark-haired, dressed in leather and cloth coats, with feathers on their heads, and looked at the guards suspiciously.

Seeing their strange appearances, Geng Zhong ordered his soldiers to aim their guns at them. At this time, Zhou Yanru gasped and followed, and hurriedly said: "They are the same as us, don't kill them." ”

Geng Zhongming said: "I don't know who they are, they have bows and arrows and knives, we must protect the safety of the adults." ”

Zhou Yanru said: "They got off the horse, there should be no malicious intent, let them come over, ask first." ”

The knights got off their horses, looked at Zhou Yanru's appearance, and exchanged a few words with each other, but the Ming people couldn't understand it. Zhou Yanru stepped forward and said: "This official is a member of the fourth rank of the Ming Dynasty, looking at your appearance, it is somewhat similar to my Han people, but the former dynasty abandoned the people?" ”

The knights looked at Zhou Yanru's official uniform, and one of them asked, "Period Spirit?" Zhou Yanru is a fourth-grade official, and the official uniform is embroidered with a unicorn pattern, his mind turned very quickly, and he asked uncertainly: "Do you know the unicorn?" ”

The knights exchanged glances and said together, "Period Spirit, Period Spirit." The knight who had spoken earlier asked, "Yin Di'an?" ”

Zhou Yanru replied: "Yin Di'an." It was in an affirmative tone. The knights immediately knelt on the ground and began to kowtow, but not to the Mingren, but to the sky, and shouted while kowtowing: "Yin Di'an, Yin Di'an......"

Zhou Yanru remembered a thing at this time, when the emperor summoned them before coming, he specifically told him about the remnants of Yin Shang in the Americas. The emperor only said that he had heard about it, and that it might be a remnant of Yin Shang, and asked him to try to see if he could contact them. He always thought that it was impossible for there to be the remnants of Yin Shang in this ocean-going land, so at that time, he just felt that the emperor didn't know where to hear the rumors, although he kept nodding his head, he actually didn't believe it in his heart, but now it seems that what the emperor said is only afraid that it is true.

He waited for the men to kowtow and asked, "Are you Yin?" ”

The leading knight said, "Yin family, Yin family." He looked very happy.

At this time, Zhang Qianfang got off the boat with the second group of people, and he asked strangely: "Lord Zhou, who are they?" ”

Zhou Yanru said with a smile: "We have found our fellow villagers, these are the remnants of Yin Shang, and the emperor really knows everything!" ”

Zhang Qianfang remembered that when the emperor had not yet ascended the throne, he asked him to find Yan Siqi and Zheng Zhilong, and he very much agreed with this sentence: "The Holy Son of Heaven is omnipotent, this is the blessing of the Ming Dynasty." ”

Most of the people in the expedition fleet finally came ashore, and during this time, Zhou Yanru and those remnants of the Yin Shang used to communicate with each other very happily with their limited pronunciation and gestures. In the end, those remnants of Yin Shang invited Zhou Yanru to go to the place where they lived, and Zhou Yanru agreed.

Zhang Qianfang asked Geng Zhongming to lead a bureau of soldiers to escort Zhou Yanru and several civilian officials and students. Those remnants gave up their horses for Zhou Yanru to ride, and Zhou Yanru was able to stand firmly on the ground, how to be willing to get on the horse, so everyone walked together.

After walking for a while, Zhou Yanru and several literati were so tired that they had to sit on their horses and walk slowly. After more than an hour, they finally came to the village of Yin Merchant.

A remnant of Yin Shang had already returned to the tribe to report the situation, so the entire tribe came out to greet the Ming people. Everyone kept asking, "Yin Di'an?" And the Ming army replied according to what Zhou Yanru said: "Yin Di'an!" ”

Song Yingxing asked: "Lord Zhou, the conditions they live in are too hard, and looking at their house, it can only be regarded as a tent at all." ”

Zhou Yanru said: "Yes, they are our poor relatives, and we have the responsibility to help them, so as to get their help." ”

The Yin merchants prepared sumptuous food, and the Ming discovered that the potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, and pumpkins that had just begun to be cultivated in China were all common here, and there was also a kind of red and pointed little eggplant-like thing, and when you ate it, it was as if it was on fire, much spicier than dogwood.

Song Yingxing said: "This thing is good, you must take it back to plant." ”

Zhou Yanru said: "We have this there, we call it pepper, some people call it eggplant pepper, few people eat it, it is raised as flowers and plants and other things to enjoy." ”

After eating, the elders in the tribe had a long conversation with Zhou Yanru, most of the time the two used gestures to talk, while Song Yingxing listened carefully beside him, and sometimes when he heard a similar sound, he wrote it down on a piece of paper, ready to discuss its meaning later.

Zhou Yanru figured out one thing through conversation, the Yin family they were talking about meant their king, in a place called Cusco. At other times, the conversation between the two sides is basically chicken and duck, but the same appearance characteristics of both sides make the Yin family first regard the Ming people as their own clan and are very friendly to the Ming people.