Occurring in the first year of the Great Liao Guangming (1133), the exploration of the Black Continent was not actually successful. Because the fleet of the Enlightenment Church had an armed conflict with the Arab colonists who believed in the Celestial Religion on the island of Zanzibar.

At this time, Zanzibar was a spice island and a slave island, and the cloves produced were sold all over the world, claiming to be the most fragrant place in the world. Of course, it is also an island of wealth!

In the era of the sailing trade, silk, porcelain, spices, cotton, slaves, etc., were the main trade goods. Among them, Huaxia has two exclusive!

And Tianzhu accounts for one and a half, that is, cotton cloth and some spices.

The spice islands and Zanzibar in Southeast Asia largely account for the rest of the spice trade.

In addition to producing spices, Samba-Gorre was also an early slave island!

The Arabs of the Middle Ages were the largest slave traders in the world, and they achieved far more in the slave trade than later European colonizers.

Because the European colonizers traded slaves, that is, they were buying and selling coolies, which was a crude business, and did not develop a variety of slave markets like the Arabs - slaves of all colors, races, and occupations were an important part of Arab history. No one can deny it! Even the Ghulam Guard, the military force of the Arabs, was filled by purchased slaves.

It can be said that without slaves, there would be no Arab civilization in the middle and late stages - without the protection of the Ghulam Guard and the Mamluk Guard, the Arab feudal lords would not even have their lives, what civilization is there?

As for the Ottoman Empire, the successor to Arab civilization, their sultans could not have been born without slaves, because most of the sultans' mothers were bought white slave girls. And the soldiers of Ghanishari, who defended the Sultan, were also slaves......

The island of Zanzibar, ruled by aristocratic Arab merchants from Oman, was an important part of the Arab slave trade. It was a transit point for the East African route, one of the four main slave routes, where slaves and ivory were collected from all over East Africa and transported to Zanzibar before being shipped to the Arabian Peninsula or India.

At a time when the Arab maritime map is shrinking, Zanzibar is more important than it was at the same time in history.

So before the fleets of the Bright Heavens and the Oshishi Empire left the port of Ahvaz, the Arab merchant ships that had sent messages to Zanzibar left the port of Oman.

Upon receiving the news, the emir of Zanzibar immediately ordered preparations for war, recalling a large number of warships and Ghulam warriors from ports all over East Africa. Preparing to wait for work in Zanzibar, the naval army of the Dashi Empire was caught off guard.

However, contrary to the expectations of the Arabs, the exploration fleet of the Oshishi Empire and the Enlightenment Sect converged with four sail gunboats from the Eastern Song Concession in Suez Harbor at Paradise Island (Socotra, which is also a stronghold of the Enlightenment Religion) and headed south together.

These four sail warships were originally going to return to Xingzhou to rest, but the commander of the formation temporarily received a request from the governor of Ceylon Island to "escort the holy woman", so he waited for Mo Niangzi on Elysium Island.

After that, the four gunboats of the Eastern Song Dynasty followed the fleet of the Dashi Empire and Mo Niangzi in a daze, and went to Zanzibar "by the way".

As a result, there was a fight with the Arab flotilla in Zanzibar!

Four warships armed with 18-pound guns showed their might in this battle known as the "Battle of Sambakuer", which caused heavy losses to the armed merchant ships of the Arabs.

Subsequently, the "Oishi Guard" carried by the fleet of the Oishi Empire landed in Zanzibar and went on a killing spree, completely conquering the entire island!

Therefore, this battle of Samba Gor has become the first battle of the "Big Stone Guard".

The so-called Great Stone Guards are actually the Ghulam Guards of the Great Stone Version of Yelu. All the warriors came from the tribes of the Gollus and Kipchaks in Central Asia, and some from the Caucasus Mountains.

The warriors were all teenagers, twelve or thirteen years old or even younger, and were brought to the court of Tabriz by the merchants of the empire, and became Dashi's students and slave warriors, and after six years of rigorous training and brainwashing by the Bright Heaven Doctrine, they became the sharpest sword in the hands of Yelu Dashi.

They were also very distinctively equipped with a mix of hot and cold weapons – instead of heavy smoothbore guns that were placed on mounts to fire, they were armed with light smoothbore guns that could be held with flat ends in both hands. Because of the reduced weight, these Guards soldiers were able to carry their swords in hand-to-hand combat.

And Yelu Dashi also designed a standard tactic for them of "artillery bombardment - shooting at close range with muskets - hand-to-hand combat with swords".

The Battle of Zanzibar was the first appearance of the Oishi Guards and the tactics of the Guards.

And the results of the debut are also surprisingly good! The Arabs of the Ghulam warriors were gently crushed one by one like eggs in front of the Oshi's Guards.

The battle for Zanzibar was a complete one-sided massacre!

After the massacre and occupation of the fertile island of Samba-kir, the "explorers" of the Oishi Empire and the Illuminati religion abandoned their plans to continue southward and established a colony on the island instead.

This is also the first overseas colony of the Western Liao Empire!

The first overseas colony of Western Liao, the first appearance of the Western Liao Guard, plus the first overseas exploration of the Bright Heaven Doctrine world. Taken together, the significance of the three events is naturally extraordinary.

Therefore, this failed exploration became the beginning of the Western world's entry into the Age of Discovery!

It's just that this West is not Western Europe, but the Western Liao Empire, which built its capital at Tabriz.

Later, the Kingdom of Egypt, which had close ties with the Western Liao and Eastern Song Dynasty, also joined the sequence of the Great Voyages.

Just two years after the Battle of Sambaguir, the Indian Ocean Fleet of the Kingdom of Egypt left the port of Suez for an exploration of the East African coast.

The Egyptian fleet went further than the fleet of the Great Stone Empire and reached the island of Madagascar. And the city of Malagasy was established on the island of Madagascar as an overseas colony of the Kingdom of Egypt.

This voyage and the opening of the Malagasy colony can also be seen as the beginning of the age of great exploration for Western Christian civilization.

Only this time they were a little late.

And the Great Stone Empire and the Kingdom of Egypt, two non-mainstream players in the Age of Discovery, began to explore East Africa one after another. The Black Continent exploration fleets of the Eastern Song Dynasty and the New Zhou Dynasty arrived in East Africa successively.

Compared to the Kingdom of Egypt and the Great Stone Empire, their exploration of East Africa is very specialized. Several Shenyi and Discovery-class exploration vessels circled the coast of East Africa for several months, eventually reaching the southern end of the African continent, and also bypassing the headland known as "Chenjiajiao" and entering the Atlantic.

Although the original "Black Continent Exploration Team" of the Eastern Song Dynasty and the New Zhou Dynasty did not complete the voyage around Africa, it stopped at the west coast of South Africa in later generations. However, the two colonies of "Chenjiagang" (located near Chenjiajiao, belonging to the Eastern Song Dynasty) and Nanzhou Town (located in the southeast of the South African coastline, belonging to Xinzhou) established by the two expeditions in South Africa have become important bases for further exploration of the west coast of Africa and the realization of round-the-world voyages.

The circumnavigation of the world in Africa and the waters south of the New Song Dynasty is another major event that can change the course of history.

This voyage, which can be called a feat, was proposed by Zhao Jue, the second son of Zhao Kai and Wu Meiniang, who was called the "prince of navigators" by later generations.

At that time, he was a graduate of the Shanghai Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he successfully calculated that the distance between Xindongying (New Zealand) and Chenjiajiao in the Black Continent was about 30,000 miles. At the same time, he also looked through the logbook and found that there was a westerly wind band that continued to blow eastward in Africa and south of the New Song Dynasty.

In other words, the exploration ships need to depart from Xindongying and sail all the way to the east to the wind, and they can reach Chenjiajiao in a few months.

At the call of Zhao Jue, Zhao Kai and Wu Meiniang approved the "Round-the-World Voyage Plan" in the fifteenth year of the United Kingdom (1141), and implemented this plan in the seventeenth year of the United States.

The flotilla of four "Shen C-type" sail exploration ships sailed 15,000 miles west from New Dongying Island to the southernmost point of South America.

This was the first time that explorers from this plane had reached the southernmost tip of South America. However, this is not the first time that South America has been discovered, three years before the start of the "Round the World Voyage Program". 2,000 American cavalry of the Zhou State (filled by soldiers who had emigrated to the Americas) under the leadership of Xiao Yi (the son of Wu Haogu) invaded the "Yin Land", broke through many Yin countries, and plundered gold. He also learned about the existence of South America from one of the city-states called "Maya", and saw silver and bronze objects from South America.

This is a great discovery!

Therefore, in 1140 Western Calendar, three "Discovery" class exploration ships arrived in South America under the leadership of Wu Tiexin, and established the first colonial stronghold on the South American continent off the coast of Ecuador - Silver Mountain City.

Because the existence of South America had long been known, the ships carrying out the "round-the-world voyage" did not continue to explore north, but chose to bypass the southern tip of South America and then continue eastward. Finally, more than a month later, I arrived in Chenjia Town, South Africa. Thus completely proving the theory of the circle of the earth!

Later, the expedition completed its voyage from Chenjiazhen to the coast of Xinsong and Xinhenan, and finally arrived at Xindongying again. It is a true circumnavigation of the world.

Fifteen years after the first circumnavigation of the globe, the process of great geographical discoveries is still in full swing. Unknown coastlines are constantly being discovered, new shipping routes are being opened, and the general appearance of the earth is finally being explored and can be presented on maps and globes.

At least the gray-haired Wu Haogu can now finally be completely sure that his soul has not left the earth......

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