Around Wujia Bay, there is already a thick green that can't be grinded, and in the bay, two Discovery-class exploration ships with white sails are slowly heading south.

On the east bank of a river that flows from north to south into the sea, on a pier made of logs. More than a hundred sturdy men were gathered in one place, staring at the sailing ship in the distance.

They are now the only civilized people on this boundless continent!

According to Vice Admiral Wu Tiexin's order, these people were to hold out on their own around Wujiazhuang for at least two years, and they were to be prepared to hold out even longer.

Because there is a certain chance that the Discovery returning from Samurai Village will be shipwrecked and sunk on the way!

In this way, the Navy's Arctic Admiral Division based in Liangshan Town, Yinzhou, would not have known about the existence of Wujiawan and Wujiazhuang, and no new immigration and supply ships would have arrived.

If this were the case, the samurai colony would probably be lost to history many years later.

After all, this colony now has only men, no women, and has no ability to reproduce itself.

Even if there were women, there was no guarantee that these colonial pioneers would be able to scatter their children and grandchildren all over the New World. In the original history, in the process of colonizing the American continent, the ancestors from Europe did not know how many defeats they suffered!

The number of colonies destroyed by drought, floods, epidemics, and indigenous raids is too numerous to count.

And in addition to the above reasons, there is another factor that can also contribute to the failure of colonization, that is, economic bankruptcy.

Colonization is not always a sure bet, and it is also an extremely risky investment.

The historical Scottish kingdom failed miserably because of the "Darién Plan" to open up a colony in Panama, losing 400,000 pounds (about 100,000 kilograms of silver), and finally had to "sell" the country to England and rely on the financing of rich England to tide over the difficulties.

And this time, Wu Tiexin's exploration and colonization activities on the American continent were funded by Wu Haogu's private money. With his current financial resources, the expenditure of several million taels of silver can still be afforded.

Therefore, including Li Kui, the "colonial pioneers" who were stranded in Wujiazhuang need to worry about something, in addition to the wind and waves of the Arctic Ocean, that is, the Yin people who appear around Wujiazhuang from time to time.

Yes, there are indigenous tribes in the area around Wujia Bay. They were a group of extremely backward primitive people, who lived by fishing and hunting, but they did not have bows and arrows or iron or copper weapons, they lived entirely on stone tools and javelins, and they did not seem to have any large livestock or vehicles. Compared with the savage Jurchen in Yinzhou, there is still a lag!

When they spent the winter in Wujia Bay, the expedition team led by Li Kui dealt with them. There was also a little friction between the language barrier and other misunderstandings, and Li Kui used an axe (a weapon he got when he got it in Liangshan Town, Yinzhou) to kill several Yin people, and also captured a few of them.

I was going to ask something from them, but this group of Yin people didn't understand Henan dialect at all, and they didn't seem to know King Yin, Su Daji, Wen Taishi or something.

After imprisoning them for a month and winter, Li Kui found that several of them were infected with wind cold or wind heat, and they were very sick, and the medical officers who came with the ship were helpless. It's obviously a small problem, but they are dying one by one.

Wu Tiexin saw that they were pitiful, so he asked Li Kui to let them go, and gave them a little salt and a few calves (in order to facilitate production, some cattle and sheep were carried on the ship) as compensation (to compensate Li Kui for the killing), and let them take them back to their tribe......

And after this unpleasant contact, Li Kui's expedition team never saw a single Yin native again.

However, the discovery of indigenous people on the American continent was an encouraging blessing for the crew of the Enterprise.

Because the discovery of the natives proves that there are humans on this continent, and the existence of humans makes it possible for a more advanced civilization to exist.

Perhaps on the southern coast, the Endeavor could discover the cities and countries of the Yin people.

In this way, the Great Zhou Republic was able to establish free, equal, and reciprocal trade relations with the Yin people.

With trade, the development of the Americas can become a profitable undertaking and be accelerated. Otherwise, how long can a purely loss-making business last?

Of all the risks faced by the colonial enterprise, the risk of losing money is actually the largest.

Only a cause that can bring a lot of money to the colonizers can continue to attract the masters who want money and don't want to die. With the addition of these colonists one after another, a new world could appear in front of the Zhuxia country.

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Just when Wu Tiexin commanded the "Enterprising" to go south along the west coast of North America, to find the imaginary Yin people city and country. On the other side of the world, Chen Jiang, who was called a great seafaring pioneer by later generations, finally discovered an incredible fact at this time - the new continent that has been discovered is not one, but two!

Because since two months ago, he has commanded a formation of four "Shenjia-type" exploration ships to leave Shuangyajiang City and head south, trying to find a channel to Liangshan Town, Yinzhou.

However, when the fleet under his command sailed more than 500 miles south along the coastline, they suddenly found that the mainland had reached the end of its southward direction, and it had to turn around and head east.

After sailing along the southern coast of the American continent (Australia) for more than a month, Chen Jiang's formation was surprised to find that they had once again found the end of the continent after passing through a sea area dotted with many small islands.

After a resupply at the shore, Chen Jiang again led the formation south, trying to find the "Arctic Ocean". But after sailing 3,000 miles south, they still found nothing.

Although they did not find a route to Yinzhou, their adventure still achieved unimaginable achievements.

First of all, they knew that this so-called American continent and the continent discovered by the Zhou State in the Arctic Ocean were not one at all.

Secondly, the geographers of Yuntai Academy and Gezhi Academy have obviously been completely wrong in their estimation of the circumference of the earth! The Earth is much bigger than they thought...... If only it was still certain that it was spherical!

Third, the previous perception of the "South Pole Ocean" is likely to be wrong.

If the American continent is not connected to Yinzhou or the extreme north of Shenzhou (Asia). That means that the Antarctic Ocean cannot be the pole of the Earth, and the Chen Jiang formation is not in the Eastern Hemisphere (the Western Hemisphere in later generations). Because in the so-called Western Hemisphere (later the Eastern Hemisphere), the approximate distance from the Arctic Ocean to the Southern Ocean is not that far...... If the Antarctic Ocean were at the level of the Earth, then Chen Jiang's formation would have arrived on the coast of Japan or Europe long ago.

But in fact they only reached an unknown and boundless ocean, and the temperature became colder the further south they went.

However, it is still uncertain whether these discoveries will change humanity's perception of the planet they live on.

Because Chen Jiang's formation encountered a storm on the way back, the formation was blown away by a strong wind, and Chen Jiang's Shenjia No. 4 ship was blown by a strong westerly wind for three whole days, and he didn't know where to blow. Now although the west wind is no longer hanging, it has been replaced by a south wind, blowing Shenjia No. 4 to the north, and there is a vast and unfamiliar ocean in all directions, and I don't know where the "Americas" are? I don't know where Chen Jiang will blow to?

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When the life and death of Chen Jiang's formation were uncertain, Wu Tiexin's "Enterprising" was smooth sailing. Sailing south along the boundless coastline of North America at a fairly high speed – they are now under the impetus of the cold California Snap, sailing with the wind and naturally going fast.

However, the downwind did not bring much good mood to the crew of the "Enterprising".

Because they only saw the primitive and barren coastline along the way, they occasionally encountered a few indigenous tribes who drank blood, and they were all as backward as the natives they met in Wujiazhuang, and they could not communicate.

By the first day of the third month of the 18th year of the Republic, the "Enterprise" was already in a rather warm bay - this was actually the future port of San Diego, an important base of the US Pacific Fleet.

On this plane, it became the capital of Xinxiang Province of the United States of America, Xiaojinshan City.

Enterprise arrived here because the wind that had been sending it south had changed a few days earlier to the east.

Wu Tiexin did not dare to go with the wind, so he had to order the ship to anchor in an unknown bay. And sent an expedition led by Hua Rong to hunt around and collect supplies for the "Enterprising".

It's been almost a year since the Enterprise left Liangshan Town, and the food it carries on board is still adequate, but it's always good to add more.

In addition, Wu Tiexin did not give up on finding the remnants of Yin Shang, and wanted Hua Rong to search by the way while hunting.

And on a hot afternoon, Wu Tiexin, who was inspecting a construction site near a peninsula beach, saw Liu Yan, the head of the machine, who was rushing over.

"Admiral, look at it!"

A dirty rag was sent to Wu Tiexin.

"What is this?" Wu Tiexin took the rag, which was a very coarsely woven cotton cloth with strange patterns on it, and it was not a Chinese product at first glance.

"It was Hua Rong who exchanged a bag of salt from a Yin tribe." Liu Yan said, "Admiral, this can't be the Eastern Song Dynasty, and it shouldn't be Tianzhu's...... This is made by the Yin people! ”

"Yin Ren?" Wu Tiexin exhaled, "Great! ”

"And!" Liu Yan handed over a piece of golden light again, "Look at this! ”

"It's ...... Gold? Where did it come from? Wu Tiexin's breathing became rapid.

"It was also brought by Hua Rong, and he exchanged it for a small knife for cutting meat!"

"Iron knives for gold!?"

"That's right! Also, get a lot of gold back! ”