Although the Eastern Song Dynasty worked very hard to keep the secret of discovering the New World south of the windless area of the South Sea. However, the intelligence room of the Military Aircraft Division of the New Zhou Capital learned this amazing news at the beginning of the fifteenth year of the Republic!

"Really? Really discovered the New World? In Xuzhou Yunlong Villa, Wu Haogu looked at Wu Yijiu and Wu Yixin who sent him the news in a little surprise.

Wu Yixin has now also grown into an older brother who has given Wu Yijiu a bit of a headache - he has been leading troops in the northern steppes for the past few years. It's the military backstage of Queen Bei Xi Xiao! Whenever Queen Xiao's Beixi army is uneven, Wu Yixin will send troops to pull it out.

After several years of hard work, Wu Yixin finally promoted himself to the status of army general and deputy military aircraft.

And on the northern grasslands, there is no longer anyone who dares to resist the existence of Queen Xiao!

Not long after serving as the deputy capital military aircraft, a new continent suddenly appeared in front of him.

"My lord," Wu Yixin nodded, "they must have discovered a new continent, located less than 1,000 miles south of the windless belt of the South Seas, and it should be a continent no less than China!"

Moreover, the theory of the circle of the earth has also been confirmed. Because the expedition ships of the Song Kingdom found that south of the windless belt of the South Sea, the further south they sailed, the lower the temperature...... It must be close to the extreme cold of our north. ”

"My lord," Wu Yijiu also said, "It's true to see that Yin Ren Dongdu is true...... The continent they discovered should be in the east of the earth, that is, the place where the Yin people crossed eastward! It can also be reached from Japan to the east. ”

"Oh." Wu Haogu nodded, noncommittal.

Of course, he knew that the "Earth Circle Theory" had already appeared. Moreover, by observing the changes in the starry sky in different regions, the scholars of the New Zhou and Song Dynasty also calculated the circumference of the earth. Although the data is not accurate, it is still a very remarkable achievement.

After calculating the circumference of the earth, scholars from Gezhi University put forward the theory of "North and South Poles". However, unlike later generations when the Earth's poles were divided, Chinese geographers now consider the Arctic to be an extremely cold place, while the Antarctic is an extremely hot place.

So the equatorial windless belt is considered the South Pole, and the south of the windless belt is considered the Western Hemisphere...... Oh, not the Western Hemisphere, but the "Eastern Hemisphere".

Because in the consciousness of the Chinese, Japan is east of China, and the American continent is east of Japan. If you want to divide the earth into things, China is undoubtedly in the west, and the United States is undoubtedly in the east.

And the geographers of Yuntai Xuegong and Gezhi University regard the equatorial windless belt as the South Pole. Therefore, the "Australian continent" that has just been discovered is naturally located in the east of China, and it is undoubtedly the legendary place where the Yin people crossed to the east.

As for whether this continent is connected to the extreme north of the Great Zhou Dynasty, it is also unknown.

Because the Far North is too cold to explore.

"Did you calculate the distance?" Wu Haogu asked.

He didn't point out the mistakes of the geographers. It's not that I don't want to, but I can't do it.

Because scholars' understanding of the circumference and shape of the earth is based on a large number of mathematical calculations and measurements - because there is a large error in the measurement, the result of the calculation is also a large interval. In this way, their perception of the earth will inevitably be wrong.

And if Wu Haogu wants to support their mistakes, he must convince them with more accurate measurements and calculations. Otherwise, empty talk is not a rigorous and scientific attitude.

Moreover, errors based on scientific observation and calculation were still great progress for medieval China—this was not an observation and calculation promoted by Wu Hao's ancient golden finger, but a spontaneous study by rationalist and positivist scholars.

This kind of spontaneous, empirical and rational scientific research has become a very common activity in the current academic circles of the New Zhou Dynasty and the Eastern Song Dynasty.

"Not far." "According to calculations, the west coast of the New World is about 5,000 miles away from the Bohai Island. Even by galley, you can get there quickly! And we have explored a large area of the sea to the east of the Bohai Island, and found a chain of islands leading to a huge peninsula. Maybe that peninsula is part of the Yin Continent! ”

It was the Kamchatka Peninsula, which would be called "Yinzhou" in this time and space.

"When will the Navy be able to explore there?" Wu Haogu asked.

"This summer!" Takeshi said, "The Discovery and Enterprise are ready and will soon sail to Kamakura, Japan. After a short rest, he immediately set off for Bohai Prefecture, where he resupplied and sailed to 'Yindi' to explore. There will also be marines from the savage Jurchen and traitors captured on the Taihang Mountain, and if they find an uninhabited bay in Yindi where they can build a port, they will leave both the marines and the traitors there for the winter, and let them build a castle port as a long-term solution. ”

Now that the Eastern Song Dynasty has discovered the New World, the Great Zhou cannot be left behind...... So the exploration of the Eastern Ocean, which has been delayed for a long time, is finally about to accelerate!

If you don't hurry up, the new continent will be surnamed Zhao!

There are competitors' colonization, but it's just different!

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Japan, Kanto Plain, Kamakura Castle.

In Japan's Kanto Prefecture, where the terrain is predominantly plain, the Miura Peninsula where Kamakura is located is a rare and dangerous place. The entrance to the peninsula and the Kanto Plain is only about 20 miles wide, with a relatively flat east side and a few low hills to the west.

Kamakura, on the other hand, is located on the west side of the entrance to the Miura Peninsula, facing the seaside of Sagami Bay, and is a flat land surrounded by low hills. All you need to do is defend the surrounding hills and control the bay at the same time to ensure that Kamakura Castle is foolproof.

At the same time, Kamakura Castle is located between Sagami Province, Musashi Province, Anbo Province, Kamisokoku, Shimosokuku, and Izu Province (which belongs to Tokaido).

By means of water transportation from Sagami Bay and Musashi Bay, the troops stationed in Kamakura were able to quickly reach the six reidominates mentioned above. Most of the Kanto Plain is under control. In addition, through the control of Mt. Hakone in Sagami Province, he was able to block the choke point from Tokaido to the Kanto Plain.

The terrain of Kamakura is so important that it is no wonder that the Kamakura shogunate historically placed its own place of foundation.

It should also be mentioned that the Yokosuka base, the largest naval base of the later US imperialists in the Far East, is also on the Miura Peninsula, only 12 kilometers from Kamakura.

The Yokosuka base in later generations is now the home port of the Great Zhou Navy's Oriental Fleet. Known as the "Uraga Military Port", the fortress, docks, warehouses, forts, and other buildings are being built at the fastest speed.

The Kamakura Fortress and the Kamakura Port, as well as the Navy's Kamakura Battery, have now been built and put into use.

Therefore, Takeshi Yoshiyu's Overseer Division moved into Kamakura Fortress last winter.

In a sense, Japan has entered the Kamakura period.

It's just that the "shogun" who ruled Japan was not from Genji, but from the continent of the western part of the sea.

However, this "general" from a foreign country here in Kanto did not encounter the stubborn resistance imagined by his father Wu Haogu. Because the Japanese samurai group of this era has not really taken shape and has not really learned to fight. At best, they were the manor stewards or thugs of the emperor, the ministers, and the high-ranking samurai (semi-ministers), and they were no match for the battle-hardened Great Zhou Republican Army.

They also did not have a very strong sense of statehood, and their loyalty to the emperor was limited - this was not the time when the emperor was deified, and the so-called samurai at the grassroots level were not interested in the emperor, they were only loyal to any power that could provide the asylum (shelter).

Any force, of course, including the "Kamakura Shogun Righteousness". More than a year and almost two years after Takeshi landed in Japan, he had already gained the allegiance of a large number of wealthy Kwantung clans. He also married with the wealthy clans of the Kanto region, such as the Anzai clan, the Miura clan, and the Kamiso clan, and married the daughters of the three wealthy clans as his side room.

At the same time, the forces of the Kanto Genji, Taira, Fujiwara clan, and the imperial family were swept away by Wu Yiyong's army, and many of the Kanto landlord bullies who resisted the liberation of the Great Zhou Dynasty were also swept away. At least half of the land that had been cultivated in Kanpachi Prefecture (at this time, the eastern part of Japan was not well developed, and there was still a large amount of wasteland) was redistributed to the Republican Army soldiers who followed Wu Yiyong's expedition.

The other half of the land that had been reclaimed was allocated to the "progressive samurai" who pledged allegiance to Kamakura.

In addition to allocating land, Wu also vigorously promoted marriages between Republican Army soldiers and local wealthy families in the Kanto region, and sought to create an armed group called "Sunday Integration" as the backbone of his rule over Japan.

While pacifying the eight states of Guanzhou and building a new ruling group, Wu Yiyong did not forget the development of industrial and commercial cities.

To the north of the Uraga Military Port and to the east of Kamakura Castle, on the narrow plain along the coast, a building called "Miura City" (about the place where Yokohama was later formed) has begun to take shape.

In other parts of Japan, Takeshi's conquest also made considerable progress.

The Tohoku region of Japan, east of the Kanto region, has now been largely pacified by Takeshi's army. Hiraizumi Castle, the residence of the Oshu Fujiwara clan, was breached by the army of Takeshi Yoshiyoshi in the autumn of the 14th year of the Republic of Japan. The head of the Oshu Fujiwara clan, the leader of the Mutsu Dewa Oshi, who made Fujiwara Kihiro surrender, moved to Haizhou with the whole clan and became the ancestor of the Haizhou Fuji surname.

The Gao regime, which occupied a part of northeastern Japan and the island of Bohai, also surrendered to Kamakura later, and provided its own Bohai Iron Cavalry to Wu Yiyong.

If you look at the map, it is not difficult to see that Japan has been divided into two from the middle. Wu Yiyong's original plan has been fully realized.

The Zhou Kingdom, which controlled the Kwantung and Northeast regions, sent legions to support the exploration of the Yin Continent.

Two large exploration vessels, the "Discovery" and the "Enterprise", set sail at this time.

Another exploration of the New World is about to begin!

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