The tenth day of the tenth month of the fifth year of the United Nation is another day that will be remembered by later history.

On this day, the first truly located colony in the New World was born.

The colony is located on the southern west coast of the American continent (Australia, in fact) – because a few months ago, the Treaty of the Americas signed between the Eastern Song Dynasty and the New Zhou Dynasty stipulated the principle of "shelving disputes, joint development, and first-come, first-served". Therefore, in order to occupy a little more land on the "American continent", when the Eastern Song Dynasty carried out the second "exploration of the Americas", it carried with them criminals for colonial exploration.

There were also twelve galleys carrying large quantities of supplies, seeds, farm implements, ploughing horses, and other tools of production. Even in order to allow the criminals to live in peace in "Australia", a group of Nanyang indigenous girls were also brought in......

In short, it was a costly, determined and cost-effective colonial expedition.

The purpose of the operation is to open up the first permanent colonial base exclusive to the Great Song Dynasty on the American continent in "Australia", oh.

The expeditionary fleet of twelve sailing ships was first concentrated on Honolulu, later known as Timor. After completing the supply, he set out on the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th day of August in the 5th year of the United States, and first sailed all the way south for about 1,000 miles, and found the "North Shore of America", which may be the South Coast, if the "equatorial windless zone" is defined as the South Pole...... Anyway, I just found it.

Then twelve sailing ships sailed south (north) along the "coast of the Americas", stopping and stopping for more than a month, and finally found a fairly wide river, and also found endless open plains and dense forests on both sides of the river.

Obviously, this is a good place for farming!

There is also enough timber to be used to allow the people who settled here to build their homes, as well as some fishing boats to keep fishing afloat if agriculture does not yield a good harvest.

The admiral of the fleet, Xie Hao, who was also the admiral of the Nanyang Navy, sailed into this unknown river on the exploration ship "Shunfeng".

He stood on the stern of the "Shunfeng", looked around with a telescope, nodded with satisfaction, and said, "It's really good...... What a big plain, such a big river...... Hey, there are two ducks on the river, or black ducks, which look quite fat! ”

Xie Hao saw two black swans, a swan species endemic to Australia.

Chen Jiang, the captain of the "Shunfeng", suddenly said: "Please give the Admiral a name for this big river." ”

"Hmm," Xie Hao nodded, and said casually, "Let's call it Shuangyajiang." ”

"Shuangyajiang ......" Chen Jiang frowned, this name is a little too earthy, right?

"Good name, it sounds quite rich......"

"It's better to build a town here and call it Shuangyajiang City."

Xie Hao also said it casually, but several officers around him were quite in favor, so he pushed the boat down the river and said: "Since everyone thinks it's good, it's called Shuangyajiang...... Just in the south of the Shuangyajiang River, it is the peninsula that has a town called Shuangyajiang City. ”

Another time and space, Perth City in Western Australia, will be known as "Shuangyajiang City" in this time and space.

In addition, the large plains around Shuangyajiang City were later named "New Henan" by Zhao Kai. In the future, there will be no Western Australia and Perth City, only Shuangyajiang City, New Henan Province.

The name is a bit earthy, but this place is famous in the history of this plane!

Not only was it the first colony in the New World, but it also became the capital of the "New Song Kingdom", and the Shuangyajiang Academy, named after Shuangyajiang, also became the first university to begin in the New World.

A few hundred years later, Shuangyajiang University in Shuangyajiang City, Henan Prefecture, New Song Kingdom, is a place where many students from all over the world yearn to study abroad, and it ranks among the top ten universities in the world!

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"Taishang, this place is Shuangyajiang City in New Henan Province......"

"Oh, where is Da Song?"

"Great Song, the old minister is looking for ...... Oh, not here, this is a map of the Eastern Hemisphere, and our Great Song is on the Western Hemisphere. To go to the American continent to cross the Antarctic Sea. ”

"The Antarctic Sea? Where? ”

"In the southern part of the South Seas, where the extreme south is hot, and further south it goes around the Western Hemisphere. Now our Great Song Dynasty and Zhou Kingdom have landed on the American continent from the north and south respectively. The Zhou State established a Liangshan Town, and we set up Shuangyajiang City, a new Henan Prefecture......"

"Who's faster?"

"Naturally, the Great Song Dynasty is relatively fast, because it is relatively close to the south coast of the Americas from our Sandalwood Island, and there are only 1,000 miles of waterway. And Honolulu Island is also a major trading town, and there are fixed spice ships between Seongju, so you can send immigrants to Honolulu Island a little. We only need to set up a dozen galleys on Honolulu Island to travel between Shuangyajiang and Honolulu Island every year. ”

Chengdu Mansion, Shou'an Palace.

Zhao Ji, who has been raised in Chengdu Mansion, is listening to the latest geographical knowledge from Cai Jing, the old man who returned from Jiangning—of course it's outrageously wrong!

In front of the two of them is a globe dedicated by Zhao Kaijin, well, of course it doesn't look like the earth...... I don't know what planet it is?

Zhao Ji is not Zhao Gou after all, no matter how much he hates it, he can't let him go to the Storm Pavilion! Therefore, Zhao Huan was still very polite to this father who lived in seclusion in Chengdu, and not only spent a huge amount of money to get him a mansion in Chengdu as Shou'an Palace. also let Wu Haode do the affairs of Chengdu Prefecture, and change the responsibility for looting money and filial piety to the emperor.

And Zhao Ji's skin is also thick, not only spending the hard-earned money of the people of Chengdu lavishly, but also sending Cai Jing to Jiangning Mansion to ask for pension money.

Zhao Kai and Wu Meiniang were also filial, not only gave Zhao Ji a large sum of gold and silver, but also offered a pair of American kangaroos, a pair of American koalas, a pair of black swans (that is, the black ducks seen by Xie Hao), and a globe that was ridiculously wrong.

Although the globe was wrong, this did not affect the colonization activities of the Eastern Song Dynasty in "Australia".

Cai Jing, who is over eighty years old, is not wrong when he says that in the competition to "colonize America", the Eastern Song Dynasty has a great advantage.

Because that America (referring to Australia) is very close to the spice island of Sandalwood in the South Seas. There are other so-called "spice islands" near Sandalwood Island, which were the origin of spices comparable to India in the Middle Ages.

With these spice islands, there are also conditions for the establishment of commercial shipping routes - from Honolulu Island to the coast of China, there is a large number of merchant ships.

Therefore, the Eastern Song Dynasty could send the criminals to Sandalwood Island at a lower cost, and then use galleys to transport people to the so-called Americas.

In contrast, the colonization of the Great Zhou was much harder. The town of Liangsan on the Kamchatka Peninsula is not worth anything other than bear skins. Moreover, the wind and waves in the surrounding waters far exceed those in the windless area of the equator.

In addition, the North Pacific Ocean (known as the Great Oriental Ocean in this time and space) has strong winds in both winter and summer, which is very unfavorable for open-sea navigation.

Therefore, the cost of exploring North America in the Great Zhou Dynasty is much higher than that of the Eastern Song Dynasty in Australia - of course, with the development of Bohai Island, Liangshan Town and various island bases in the eastern ocean of Peking University, the cost of developing North America will gradually decrease in the future.

And for the Great Zhou Republic, now there is time!

Because the Europeans east of the east coast of North America have recently been busy dealing with the Western Liao Empire and the Golden Horde, and Spain is currently in the hands of the Celestial Sect, it is impossible to start a great voyage.

The trade routes between the East and the West were also made possible by the rise of the Christian Kingdom of Egypt.

Therefore, the merchants of Christian civilization were not interested in going to the North Atlantic to open up trade routes, which were even more terrible than the North Pacific!

Moreover, the transmission of information in this era was relatively slow, and the news of the discovery of the New World in the Eastern Song Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty could not reach the West in ten or eight years......

Therefore, it is not yet the turn of Westerners to worry about the "growth space" of the Great Zhou Dynasty and the Eastern Song Dynasty, but Zhao Huan, an official of the Western Song Dynasty in Chang'an Mansion, is worried about the "exploration of the Americas".

"Is this American continent really as big as it is indicated on this globe?"

Looking at the globe sent to him by Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan's face was about to turn brown.

Compared with the Eastern Song Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty, the Western Song Dynasty was originally poor. Not to mention the barren land, there is not even a sea port. can only watch the Eastern Song Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty make a fortune.

Now it's even worse, the Eastern Song Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty have fished a new continent overseas.

This new continent is said to be bigger than the Great Zhou and Song Dynasty combined! And it's borderlands, with large stretches of fertile plains...... This is simply God opening the back door for Wu Yijiu and Zhao Kai!

Now as long as the Eastern Song Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty carve up and digest this continent, their national strength will naturally far exceed that of the Western Song Dynasty. How else could the Western Song Dynasty compete with them?

More importantly, the emergence of the New World gave the Eastern Song Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty a goal to strive for and a direction for expansion.

And where is the direction of the Western Song Dynasty?

Expanding eastward?

In the current battlefields of Henan and Hedong, the Western Song Dynasty was still in a situation of being beaten. It's just that with the strong city defenses of Luoyang and Nanyang, and the rugged terrain of Hedong, he is struggling to hold on.

In the end, even if you hold it, you will lose many of your outlying strongholds. The situation in the future will only become more difficult.

As for the possibility of a decisive battle in Henan and Hedong...... Not at the moment. First, it really can't be beaten; Second, logistics and supplies can't keep up.

Especially on the battlefield in Henan, the Great Zhou Dynasty had the convenience of canals, while the Eastern Song Dynasty had to transport grain for thousands of miles!

It's only a matter of time before you lose......

Thinking of the future and fate of the country, Zhao Huan couldn't help but sigh.

"Your Majesty, don't you also want to go to the Shizi American Continent to get a piece of territory?"

The one who spoke was the current Privy Councillor Yao Gu, as the older generation of Western Army generals, he reassured Zhao Huan more than those young Zhuang factions.

Zhao Huan smiled bitterly: "What is there to catch?" So far away...... Even if there are mountains of gold and silver, it is not easy to transport them back. Besides, we don't have a sea port either. ”

Yao Gu smiled: "Your Majesty, it is actually not difficult to get Haikou. ”