"The Ryukyuan people can be divided into two categories, one is the semi-civilized natives, they know the existence of the Tang Dynasty, they also know the strength of the Tang Dynasty, and after seeing us, most of them are willing to provide themselves with food and fresh water. The other type is the uncivilized natives, most of these natives live on some small islands, they don't know anything about the outside world, when they find us, in addition to attacking, they run away and hide and don't want to communicate with us, and they regard us as a flood beast...... but some of the natives see us, and send the young women of the tribe over to ......, haha, it's really funny! ”

When he said this, Zhen Thirty-one showed a look of secrecy on his face, and smiled mysteriously, as if to say, you know!

Zhen Jiu was a little dissatisfied and said: "Thirty-one, let you go to Ryukyu to investigate the situation, it won't take you two months, how did you run to the Great Ryukyu Island, you won't say that the wind blew you over!" ”

Zhen Jiu did have a reason to be unhappy, he was the supreme leader of this fleet, and his subordinates did not stop their own orders, and it took more than four months to reach the island of Taiwan, which was the range demarcated by Zhen Shi, which made Zhen Jiu very faceless in front of Zhen Qian.

Zhen Thirty-one bared his teeth at Zhen Jiu and said: "Lao Jiu, don't be angry, after we arrived at Xiandao at the southern tip of the Ryukyus, we were indeed ready to return, and after sailing at sea for two months, do you think the people on the ship don't want to come back?" ”

Zhen Jiu snorted coldly in his nose, although he had already known the reason why Zhen Thirty-one did not return on time, but as long as he thought about it, his stomach was on fire.

For this matter, Zhen Seventy-two was not happy in his heart, he went to Sado Island without non-stop command like Zhen Thirty-one, Zhen Thirty-one did not return as planned, so that many of the original plans had to be changed, especially on the route to contact Datang, because Zhen Thirty-one had to be interrupted for a month.

Zhen Thirty-one showed a helpless expression, coupled with his somewhat honest appearance, it was indeed very deceptive.

Zhen Qian didn't speak, in fact, he also had a problem with this matter, because he didn't think about it at the beginning, and he had a bit of a taste of paper talk about sea navigation, Xiandao is only more than 200 miles away from Taiwan Island, how could Zhen Thirty-one not check it out after he knew it?

Curiosity kills cats!

When Zhen Thirty-one was preparing to return to Xiandao, it also happened to be Zhen Qian's journey from Datang to the Japanese Kingdom, and when he encountered a storm off the coast of Xikaido, Zhen Thirty-one also encountered a storm on Xiandao, but because it was close to the island, he avoided the attack of the storm in time, as for whether it was because the direction changed at that time, or whether Zhen Thirty-one just wanted to go to Taiwan Island in his heart, it no longer matters.

"We were about to return home when we were hit by a storm, and when the storm stopped, a large island appeared not far from us. At that time, I wondered if this island was the Great Ryukyu Island that the owner said, and I was a little curious, so I leaned in! ”

The corners of Zhen Seventy-two's eyes twitched, and then his face became unnatural, why didn't he think of this reason at that time?

The Tang people did not have the spirit of pioneering and enterprising, the Song Dynasty navigation trade was the most prosperous, but the Tang Dynasty was the beginning of the navigation trade, in the south of the Tang Dynasty there have been many international trade ports, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Ningbo and other places of ocean trade has formed a scale, to the late Tang Dynasty, Guangzhou has become the center of the entire navigation trade, and the number of foreigners who have settled in Guangzhou has exceeded 200,000.

After Zhen Thirty-One knew about the Great Ryukyu Island, it would be strange if he didn't explore it?

"The host is right, the Great Ryukyu Island is indeed very large, we landed at a place at the northern end of the Great Ryukyu Island, where we met the aborigines of the island, these natives are very wary of us, but in the next exchanges, knowing that we are from the Tang Dynasty, we became friendly, some of them can also speak Chinese, after asking, I found out that they had been with us a long time ago, but at that time it should have been around the end of the Sui Dynasty before and after, and some Han people who fled from the mainland settled on the island."

Historically, the Han people were not unaware of the existence of the island of Taiwan, but because of the limitations of navigation technology, it was inconvenient to travel back and forth.

Only under special circumstances, some Han people ventured to the island, such as at the end of the dynasty because of the disaster, and for example, they drifted to the island in a storm, but because of the small number of people, they did not change the indigenous people on the island, but integrated into the indigenous people, which is also the reason why the island knows that there is a Han country on the other side, as for where the indigenous people on the island come from, this point has always been different, and Zhen Qian is not very clear, but what does it matter?

"There are many natives on the island, there are thousands of small ones, and there are tens of thousands of people in the big ones, but the way of life of the natives is very different, and the natives who live in the plains know how to grow some food, but they grow food differently than we do, they just sprinkle their seeds in the soil, and they don't see them farming, and let their seeds grow ...... on their own. There are also some natives who live in the mountains, these natives are more ferocious and savage than the natives who live in the plains, and will often go down the mountain to hunt the natives on the plains, I heard that the purpose of this is to prove their bravery, and the meaning of our coronation ceremony is similar, only by killing a person from the other tribe and cutting off the head of the other party can we prove that we are adults, only in this way can we gain the respect of the tribesmen, in order to marry a wife and have children, such a ritual is called headhunting, very cruel and bloody, when we investigate along the Great Ryukyu Island, There were several attacks by the natives of the mountains, and on one occasion we were surveying a large river that stretched into the island, and we almost died at the hands of the natives, and the situation was called a dangerous ....... ”

Zhen Thirty-one explored from north to south on the west coast of Taiwan Island, during which he looked for more than a dozen ports that could be docked, Zhen Qian looked at the map drawn by Zhen Thirty-one, compared it with the map in his mind, and found several very famous ports in later generations.

Zhen Qian did not interrupt Zhen Thirty-one's narration, after all, he knew about the existence of Taiwan Island, but he did not know what the situation of Taiwan Island was in the Tang Dynasty.

"The area of the Great Ryukyu Island is indeed as big as the master said, we sail all the way, as long as we land, we will always meet the natives of all sizes, the natives on the plains are quite friendly, but the natives on the mountains are extremely fierce, they are not willing to communicate with us at all, and in desperation they have fought a few battles with the natives of the mountains, the weapons in the hands of those natives are not a threat to us, but they have a blowpipe in their hands, which hides poisonous needles, as long as they are shot by this poisonous needle, almost no one can survive......", Saying that, Zhen Thirty-one took out a blow pipe from his arms and put it in front of him, and everyone took it out one by one to observe, and they could smell a pungent stench on the poison needle, which was obviously coated with venom.