Part 4 The Maritime Silk Road 75, The Song of the Silk Road
Marc and Felipe had already returned to Manila, and Governor Lavizares, having learned the truth of the incident, expressed his indignation at Father Simon Almeida. [Full text reading. 】
In view of Simon Almeida's eagerness to "discover" the New World, and even promised Felipe the post of future governor, General Fernando was unwilling, and after returning to Manila, he voluntarily resigned, refused the retention of Governor Lavizares, took out his savings for many years, hastily assembled an expedition, and set off for the depths of the ocean.
In the ninth month of the fifth year of Wanli (1577 AD), six galleons from Yuegang arrived at the mouth of the Bashi River, accompanied by Shen Qi and Felipe, and the governor of Lavizares personally led the officials of the authorities to the pier to greet them and welcomed them into the royal city of Manila.
The official friendliness of the Ming Dynasty and the righteous actions of Zhu Hui, Zhang Gou'er and others influenced the governor of Lavizares, and the city of Manila, where Chinese were not allowed to live in the past, now welcomed a large number of Chinese merchants, who were duly respected here.
So far, the galleon to the New World has reached seven, equipped with a million catties of raw silk (about 500 tons), all kinds of production and living equipment, accompanied by more than 1,200 seamen, there are as many as 3,000 weavers, patrol according to the inspection of Tian Youcai brought 300 soldiers of the Ming army, escort for the ocean-going fleet, Bashi River port has become the transit station of the Shen merchant group.
Going to the New World to do business is inseparable from Felipe's support, the members of the Freemasonic Business Group gathered at Shen Qi's home, invited Mr. Felipe to discuss the plan of the New World, because he missed the best time to set sail, Felipe was a little hesitant, he knew that now the black tide at sea has ended.
As early as April of the 44th year of Jiajing (1565 AD), Augustinian priest Udaneta led an expedition to Cebu Island, and two months later, they sent the schooner St. Pablo full of spices, with the help of the Kuroshio originating in the eastern ocean of the archipelago, along the waters east of Taiwan, sailing northeast (42 ° ~ 45 ° north latitude), at this time, the Kuroshio and the pro-tide meet, merge into an eastward current, which can reach today's Gulf of Mexico, opening the route from the Philippines to the New World.
Since then, in June every year, the Manila galleon sails north by the southwest monsoon, to the east of the Japanese Sea, and then follows the North Pacific tide eastward, traveling nearly 20,000 miles (about 10,000 nautical miles) for about six months to reach Acapulco in the New World.
The Kuroshio Current, which usually ends in August, is now ushering in the northwest monsoon at sea, and there may be unpredictable risks if you sail far away.
In fact, as early as the sixteenth year of Ming Zhengde (1521 AD), when Magellan's expedition made its first voyage around the world, the Spaniards arrived in Mindanao, and in the twenty-first year of Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty (1542 AD), King Charles I of Spain sent an expedition to the archipelago for a reconnaissance expedition, and the captain de Villalobos named it "Philippine Islands" in order to show his respect for the prince Philip. At that time, because of the lack of knowledge of ocean currents and wind directions, in the following 20 years, countless expeditions were sacrificed, and no one found the route from the Philippines to the New World, resulting in a large-scale Spanish immigration to the Philippines decades late.
When the Westerners were exploring this route, Hong Zhenren, who was entrusted by Yan Shifan to find the "overseas fairyland", led more than 30 big red ships from Jinfang Town, south of Satsuma, to the legendary kingdom of Yuhu, and arrived on the southwest coast of today's Victoria, Australia.
To this day, there is also a "Mahogany Boat Committee" in Australia, an archaeological team of historians, archaeologists and scientists who conducted scientific expeditions along the coast of Warrnambool, and finally found the legendary "Mahogany Boat" and dug up many mysterious relics.
In 2015, the archaeological team of the Spaniards and the Portuguese also went to Warrnambool to archaeology, they tried to find evidence related to their own country to prove that they first went to Australia, until 2016 Section 3.8, the "Redwood Boat Committee" officially announced to the world that by putting S-carbon for dating, no traces of Spanish and Portuguese colonists were found, but it was confirmed that the mahogany ship came from Nanjing, China during the Jiajing period. Of course, if the Genesis Chinese Network had released "Tang Ship" earlier and let those ghosts subscribe to view it, maybe they wouldn't have to work so hard.
I hope that institutions like the "Redwood Boat Committee" all over the world will learn from the lessons learned, take out your funds, subscribe to all the literature of our creation Chinese network, carefully study it, and then go to explore the investigation, which can ensure twice the result with half the effort and foolproof, I hope that friends who see this chapter will be widely publicized, and I thank you here!
Less gossip, back to business. In fact, before Hong Zhenren, our old captain Bai Haishan had already been to today's Australia, of course, there were many Westerners on board, but they were more unlucky and died in the vast ocean when they were shipwrecked......
If you take the northwest monsoon from Manila to the southeast, passing through countless islands, large and small, not only facing the threat of pirates, but also the legendary cannibals are daunting, Felipe's fears are not unfounded. Besides, Fernando's expedition had already set off, and he believed that he had lost the first opportunity to "discover" the Southern New World, and that he would no longer dream of being a "governor", so he insisted on waiting for the arrival of the Kuroshio.
If you wait for another half a year, the raw silk shipped to the New World will all be moldy, thousands of people will be stranded in Manila, and the huge expenses will also make Shen Qi unbearable, in order to persuade Felipe, Bai Haishan can be said to have tried his best, but it has never worked, until the governor of La Vizares got a secret report, and the Dutch people entrenched on the island of Leyte also went on treasure hunting, this sea guerrilla force actually caught up with Fernando's fleet, they fought a battle at sea, resulting in both defeats, and now, Fernando's expedition is on the way back.
Felipe was overjoyed by this news and rekindled his hopes, and he asked Governor Lavizares to write a letter to the king and ask King Philip to make him the first governor of the Southern New World when he was the first to ascend the Southern New World.
At the end of October of the fifth year of Wanli, the merchant fleet set sail from the port of the Bashi River, and under the command of the old captain Bai Haishan, sailed eastward from the Bass Strait, sailed along the northwest monsoon, and arrived at Mariana (today's Saipan) half a month later.
Felipe knew that the archipelago had been declared a permanent Spanish possession since Magellan's time, and seven years earlier, several explorers had come and renamed it "Mariana" after the Empress of Spain.
When replenishing fresh water on the island, they did not encounter any Spanish colonists, but they met a few Ryukyuan people, Zhu Hui and others inquired and found out that this was an expedition from the Ryukyu country, because their galleon hit the reef and sank, the owner of Naha Port Ye Mingshan died, and more than a dozen seafarers survived to the island, they saw the merchant travelers from the Ming Dynasty, as if they had seen relatives, all of them were willing to follow the merchant ships as sailors, and they no longer wanted to venture to hunt for treasure.
Felipe asked the Ryukyuan people for news about the southern New World through Makdang's translation, and at this time, a sailor took out a nautical chart, which was a copy of the Hong Zhenren flying pigeon biography, which clearly depicted a piece of land in the southern part of the archipelago.
So, Felipe went to the old captain Bai Haishan and asked to change the course and send him to the southern continent to have a look first, so as to realize his "governor dream", but Bai Haishan categorically refused.
Felipe's nonsense made everyone delay on this island for two days, and at this time, a dilapidated pirate ship floated over from the southern seas, there were more than a dozen sailors on board, they had not eaten for several days, and they were all dying after being rescued on the island, and after some rescue by Elder Moonsky and others, this group survived.
It turned out that they were all Lin Feng's subordinates, with Hong Zhenren's navigation chart, they had already arrived at the archipelago like a big turtle, Lin Feng thought he could find Hong Zhenren, but he encountered the attack of the aborigines on the island, although they had very rich experience in sea combat, but they could not withstand a protracted war, and finally ran out of ammunition and food, and could only forage for food in order to survive, and were finally scattered, and now Lin Feng does not know what to do.
Luo Amin heard the news, without the slightest sadness, Lin Aying is also ten years old, although Lin Feng is bad, but he loves this daughter very much, although the father and daughter have only been together for two years, but they have deep feelings, as soon as she heard that her father may no longer be alive, she cried loudly, eager to jump into the sea to find it, and was pulled by Tang Qiong and Tang Yao.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Min'er, Wu Lian, Han Xiaoyu and Xu Ajiao and others also came to persuade each other, they stepped on the bushes with wild flowers, and ran to the beach together, the sand here is white and fine, and very soft, the blue sky and the sea are integrated, and sometimes there are white clouds floating overhead, as if a group of fairies are playing in a dream.
At this time, a large flock of seabirds flew over Tang Yao's head, and a naughty bird scratched her little face, causing her to cry bitterly......
Tang Qiong, Han Xiaoyu, and Xu Ajiao kept comforting her, but Xiao Tang Yao was afraid that she would ruin her appearance and not be able to marry, so the more she cried, the more sad she became. ”
Xiao Tang Yao took the bronze mirror and took it again, and found that there were no scars, so she stopped crying, and shouted in surprise: "Look, look, I have a crown on my head!" ”
Zhang Gou'er looked at this bronze mirror carefully, and was taken aback, could this be the "magic mirror" that Xu Ling'er was looking for? So, he snatched the mirror away, turned to the Ryukyu sailor and asked, "Where did this mirror come from?" ”
The sailor replied: "Captain Ye Mingshan worked hard to hand over this mirror to us before he was killed, and it is said that this is the mirror of the princess. ”
It seems that Ye Mingshan should know the origin of this mirror, and there is no need to ask, this is the "magic mirror" Undoubtedly, maybe it was stolen by the concubine Niangniang from Xu Ling'er, and for her treasure hunting "great cause", this treasure was given to Ye Mingshan.
So, Zhang Gou'er hurriedly took the group of women away from the beach, took this mirror to find Zhu Hui, and after Zhu Hui carefully identified it, it was the "divine mirror" they salvaged in Kiso River.
The encounter between Lin Feng and Ye Mingshan frightened Felipe, and now, he never mentioned the exploration of the Southern New World, and the fleet left the Mariana Islands and continued to move forward, and it slowly became dark.
The galleon sailed on the dark sea, it was late at night, Zhu Hui couldn't sleep anyway, he came to the deck alone, looked up at the starry sky, prayed for the old father and Uncle Xu who were far away in Satsuma, took out the bronze mirror from his arms, and couldn't help but worry about Xu Ling'er and Guo Yi and others, those thrilling scenes in the past, sometimes passed in his mind, at this moment, he couldn't help but cry......
Suddenly, he felt like he had a fireball in his hand, and hurriedly threw the bronze mirror on the ground, at this time, a miracle appeared, only to see the mirror emit an upright pillar of light, straight to a star in the sky, after careful identification, it was the Sirius of the Twenty-Eight Nights, Zhu Hui knew that this star could only be seen in winter and early spring.
The pillar of light in the mirror slowly disappeared, and at this time, Sirius suddenly flashed, and turned dark red again, and there was an even more surprising situation, Zhu Hui found that the sea suddenly flashed with layers of red light, and the sailors who were on duty all exclaimed......
Zhu Hui picked up the bronze mirror, ran to the side of the ship to look down, only to see that there was a huge deep trench under the sea, and there was a splendid palace in it, which was shining in the cold water, and when he pointed the bronze mirror at the sea, the red light in the sea also disappeared, and everything returned to calm.
(Note: This is the Mariana Trench, the deepest point on Earth.) )
What is strange is that the exclamations of the sailors did not alarm anyone sleeping on the ship, and in the early morning of the next day, the sailors began to change shifts, and no one mentioned the adventure of last night, and Zhu Hui, who had not closed his eyes all night, felt a little tired, and he felt in a trance that all this was like a dream.
Bai Haishan was very experienced, he was also familiar with this route, the fleet spent another month, arrived at the Horununu Islands (today's Hawaii), rested on this archipelago for three days, continued to sail, as if blessed by the gods, the road was smooth and calm, they spent the Spring Festival on the ship, at the end of January of the sixth year of Wanli (February 1578 AD), everyone saw the legendary New World on the ship.
Looking forward to the beautiful new life in the new world, all the people were very excited, and some people danced with joy......
At this time, Felipe suddenly appeared on the conning tower to give a speech to everyone, and asked Mark to translate for him:
The story begins with Marco Polo......
Cortis led an expedition with less than a thousand men to attack the Aztec Empire......
The Aztec Empire fell, and the Spanish king set up a viceroyalty in the New World and began to expand his territory......
At Rico Peak, the richest silver vein ever discovered, and when the Europa people heard about it, they flocked across the ocean to build a city of Putosi......
Later, mercury began to be used to extract pure silver from mineral sands, which greatly improved the quality of silver, and became as rich as Portosey, which became a common saying for women and children......
Before Felipe finished speaking, Song He, Zhang Gou'er, Jingkong, Chen Xuewen and others surrounded Zhu Hui on the command tower, only to see him smile and wave his hand at Felipe, and said: "We have opened up a new route of the Silk Road, and it is up to us to sing the leading role in the future story." ”
So, Mark hurriedly took Felipe away and said to Zhu Hui: "Childe, please say a few words." ”
"Brothers and sisters of Acapulco, Portosi and the New World, this is an extraordinary journey, the Chinese children are here, bringing our thousands of years of history of Chinese civilization, we will cherish this hot land, take root here, everyone live in harmony, and open a new era......"
Before Zhu Hui's words fell, a thunderous cheer suddenly sounded......
Then, Han Xiaoyu started the way, and the sisters sang the famous song "Flower Tune" in Jinling, and the song resounded in the sky:
What a jasmine, what a jasmine,
The garden is full of flowers, and it can't compare to it;
I have the heart to pick a flower to wear,
I'm afraid that it won't sprout in the coming year......
The fourth volume is over, leaving a lot of suspense, rest for two days, and start writing the fifth volume of "Pirate Legend", this is a treasure hunt story, all kinds of pirates will appear, sailing, treasure hunting, adventure, exploration, sexual encounters, etc., and will also uncover the origin of the mysterious bronze mirror, so stay tuned, thank you!
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