Ji Yan looked at the "map" that took him most of the day, took a lot of effort and brain cells to get out like a ghost drawing, and was a little speechless.

Although I am not very satisfied, this is my own hard work after all, the first work.

He blew vigorously at the "map" that had not yet dried in ink.

Because Zheng He's fleet has now sailed into the subtropical region, and now June is the typhoon season, so the wind and waves on the sea at this moment are not small, and the climate is unusually hot and humid.

Although the wind and waves are strong, this treasure ship is very stable, and living on it does not feel at all on the sea, similar to on land.

Ji Yan couldn't help but admire, this shipbuilding technology is so good that it leads the world, it is the best in the world, and it is very necessary to be selected as one of the eight wonders of the world.

However, although the boat is very stable, there is one thing that cannot be avoided due to the limitations of the times.

That is the humid and hot climate temperature, the cabin is exactly the same inside and outside, after all, there is no epoch-making invention of air conditioning.

So now on the ship, no matter what you write, it's wet, and sometimes even if you blow it hard for a long time, the ink can't dry.

It's a lot of work.

More than a month has passed since he met him from afar at Liujiagang Wharf in Taicang, and Ji Yan has never seen Mei Yuning and Ruan Xiaoyi again.

However, Ji Yan was not too flustered, anyway, he estimated that it would take a year or two to go to sea this time, and there was still time.

Ji Yan was on a boat with Zheng He, and Mei Yuning was on a medium-sized warship with the other Jinyi guards, and the ship type was a lucky ship.

Ruan Xiaoyi was with the other craftsmen, on a medium-sized grain ship, which was also a fortune ship.

The division of warships and grain ships is divided according to the purpose of the use of ships, the medium-sized is the size of the ship, and the Fuchuan is the ship type, because this type of ship originated in Fujian, so it is called the Fuchuan, which is the most common small and medium-sized ship to go to sea in ancient China.

By analogy, it would be as if the core ships of Zheng He's fleet were a dozen or so large treasure ships.

Two more days have passed since Zheng He talked to Ji Yan.

On this day, Ji Yan was watching the "Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms" bought from Taicang in his room, and he heard the boiling outside the cabin, which was very lively.

You need to know that this ship is the flagship of the flagship, and Zheng He himself is also there, so the whole ship is usually cautious, for fear of touching the moldy head, but at this time, it is unusual, and a group of people cheered and jumped outside.

Ji Yan was naturally very curious, so he pushed the door out of the house, and saw that the deck was crowded with people, and many people couldn't hide the excitement on their faces.

Listening to these people's discussions, Ji Yan knew the reason.

The fleet could already see the land in the distance.

It has been more than ten days since the fleet sailed south from Fujian, drifting in the endless ocean, and everyone finally saw the land again, and it should be their destination.

Ji Yan also ran to the deck on the side of the ship excitedly, trying to find a way to establish a person's position, leaning on the guardrail on the deck, looking at the endless land in front of him from afar.

At this time, Wang Jinghong also came out of the cabin, but fortunately it was Wang Jinghong, who had a more kind temper.

He asked the people around him what was going on, and then he also stood on a high place, looked into the distance, and then looked at the excited everyone, only smiled, and returned to Zheng He's cabin without saying anything.

After less than half a day, some small passenger ships could already be seen passing around the fleet, and those who passed by the passenger ships along the way all stood on the deck, raised their heads and looked at the huge and majestic treasure ship and this huge fleet in amazement.

When the visual fleet was still more than ten miles away from landing, a small fleet of five ships came from the direction of the land dock and took the initiative to greet Zheng He's fleet.

It was the king's envoy of the Champa country who took the initiative to come forward to welcome him.

The first overseas stop of Zheng He's fleet was Champa, which naturally had already been subordinated to Champa.

But no one knows when the fleet will arrive.

As the host, the Champa country has no good way but to sit and wait, day and night by the sea, staring at the sea.

It's like those women who are waiting for their husbands to return from going to sea.

Fortunately, the people of the Ming Dynasty are not negative men, they are true to their words, and they will come, otherwise they are really worried that there will be many more Wangfu stones wearing official uniforms in the port of Zhancheng.

It was typhoon season, the clouds were thick and windy, and the visibility on the sea was not very high, so when Zheng He's fleet slowly appeared from the sea level, the officials of the Champa State immediately went out to sea to greet them, and at the same time quickly informed the king of Champang.

The officials and kings of the Champa State were so affectionate to Zheng He's fleet, but they didn't really have such a soft spot for the Ming Dynasty.

To put it bluntly, the stakes are still at stake.

Since the Ming Dynasty stationed troops in Yunnan and Guizhou, the army of the Jiaozhi State was like a monkey with their hands and feet tied, anxious to scratch their ears and cheeks, they did not dare to harass the border of the Ming Dynasty again, and could only take the southern Zhancheng State out of anger.

To say that the people of this Jiaozhi country are not very easy to use, but they don't want to die when they fight, and all the people are soldiers, so the southern Cham city country is very difficult to defend, and recently it has suffered a few defeats.

Therefore, the Zheng He fleet that arrived at this time was a real savior for the Champa Kingdom.

The envoy's ship approached Zheng He's treasure ship, did not board the ship, only shouted and communicated with the flagship, and decided on the precautions for the fleet to dock and land.

Subsequently, five small boats from the Cham city led the team, and the "great saviors of the people of Champa" slowly approached the Cham wharf.

This Champa wharf is a deep-water port, since ancient times it has relied on as a maritime trade transit station in Southeast Asia for its livelihood, because the wharf is very large, and it is now the typhoon season, so there are not many merchant ships, the entire nearly 200 ships, most of them can be berthed.

The fleet then landed on the shore in order.

On the first day, the personnel of Zheng He's fleet naturally found a large open space to camp, or found a post inn and other places to stay.

On the second day, the king of Champa led his "civil and military officials", which was estimated to be pouring out his national strength, putting on a luxurious guard of honor, and warmly welcoming Zheng He and others with tears in his eyes.

"Relatives are here, the monkeys from the north have bullied us badly."

I guess this is the voice of the king of Champong.

Zheng He first read the edict of the Ming Emperor to the people of the Champa Kingdom, and rewarded the King of Champa and his subordinates.

At the end of the ceremony, Zheng He and some Ming officials held secret talks with the king of Champa.

Ji Yan was not invited to the talks.

However, in the evening, Wang Jinghong returned to the camp and summoned Ji Yan.

The outcome of the meeting was left to rest for now, but Ji Yan was informed that he could set off to find the map.

Wang Jinghong informed Ji Yan that an agreement had been reached between the king of Zhancheng and that the Ming Dynasty fleet would not leave the waters of Zhancheng for at least two months.

Ji Yan can lead two people out of the camp tomorrow, and he has two months to collect as many maps as possible.

Ji Yan received the order and took the talisman from Wang Jinghong.

He thought so, "After all, Champa is friendly with the Ming Dynasty, so there should be many people or many ways to get the map of Champa and related sea areas." ”

Therefore, he planned to go north directly from the Champa country, at least to the border between Cochin and Champong, and strive to get a map of Cochin.

If you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you get the tiger?