However, such ambitions are inconvenient to be exposed prematurely, and the vastness of the Pacific Ocean not only allowed Westerners to spend 200 years to explore, but also made the coastal residents of our country, who initially explored by land and sea, quickly give up their desire to go east into the ocean. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Some people have even said that one of the reasons why ancient China could have started the Age of Discovery in advance but did not take shape in the end was because of the geographical location at the eastern end of the Eurasian continent.

Because the eastern end of the continent is far from North America much farther than the western end of the continent - although the Bering Strait will certainly protest against this, neither it nor the Aleutian Islands are unsuitable for navigation in winter. Moreover, the existence of Greenland encourages Eric the Redbeard and others to continue to explore westward, not to mention the nourishment of the North Atlantic Current, which greatly increases the latitude suitable for the development of civilization. So the English and Vikings, even before their southern counterparts, began to explore westward.

As for the discovery of the African continent and the opening of East Asian routes, it can only be the first to get close to the water in southern Europe.

In fact, the discovery of the American continent, which was the most important for modern colonization, was also the first to be near the water.

The blockage of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has allowed China's civilization to have a relatively independent development process, but China, which is located in a corner of East Asia, has since lost its superior geographical location in the world.

All Corning could do to address this limitation was to reach out to the sea, where land communications were almost dominated by deserts and grasslands. As for which direction to focus on, of course, it is the West that brings more trade, and the land-rich southern Australian continent, rather than the Pacific route, which only has Mexican silver fleets.

It can be said that Kuroda Nagamasa is just an idle move for him.

His focus is on Australia and Southeast Asia, and later on the South Asian subcontinent and Central Asia. Before the chaos in the Central Plains, he needed his main forces to occupy various advantageous positions. Golden horn and silver edge grass belly, except for the northeast occupied by the Jurchens, the other three corners, he has to contract.

However, this place is not very suitable as a large rear. The Australian continent is the first choice.

Kuroda Nagamasa didn't know his route yet, which was to the first half of the Australian mainland. He only knew that after setting off from the Wa Kingdom, the atmosphere on the ship had finally become much more normal.

During the previous voyage, the sailors were basically fishermen from the Shandong Peninsula, but after some supplies from Japan, at the request of Kuroda Nagamasa, Oda Nobunaga went to negotiate and finally replaced the sailors with Japanese people.

Although there will definitely be Corning's eyeliner in it, Kuroda Nagamasa has already guessed that his father and Oda Nobuto's status in Corning is definitely not a simple contributor. In that case, even if Corning didn't add eyeliner to his side, someone would tell him about his every move.

Speaking of which, how did Corning get in touch with his father and the others? Even if he didn't die at the beginning, he shouldn't have anything to do with Kang Ning of the Central Plains Ming Kingdom.

He wanted to ask clearly, but it was still a crowded place. If I think I asked myself, my father wouldn't answer.

At this moment, a strange sound came from the sea, which frightened Kuroda Nagamasa to draw his katana and hurriedly ran to the side of the ship. He didn't believe much in the legends of the monsters, but he was still quite afraid of pirates. I don't know that the strange sound just now was not a clarion call for pirates to attack.

But the moment he stood on the side of the boat, he found that the nine ghosts beside him were pointing excitedly and saying, "Look at that whale, it's really not small. ”

"Whales?" This thing is not unfamiliar to the Japanese people, but he Kuroda Nagamasa is not Shimazu Yoshihiro after all, and he doesn't know that much about sea creatures. It was the first time he had actually seen a whale, and he had only heard it before.

The whale was breathing on the surface of the water, and the jets of water from the outer nostrils were constantly pounding into the endless sky like an upside-down waterfall.

At this time, Oda Nobunaga brought out an atlas of seafood, which had been slightly organized by the Great Library, and included many whales, except that more than half of them could not be fished.

But this is an exception.

"Sperm whales?" Oda Nobunaga quickly found the right color map, and Kuroda Nagamasa was very curious about how this great prince of the world could care so much about whales. However, he continued, "My lord once told us that the best way to train sailors was to hunt whales. Do we want to act, you say? ”

He asked Takataka Kuroda about this.

However, Kuroda Nagamasa wondered who the lord Nobunaga was talking about, and could it be that it was Kangning.

It can't be, Oda Nobunaga was so ambitious back then, how could he recognize Kangning as the main prince?

This kind of thing, he Kuroda Nagamasa can't accept it.

However, what he couldn't accept even more happened next.

I saw that the guy Akechi Mitsuhide walked up to Nobunaga as if nothing had happened, first handed over a water bladder, and after Nobunaga took a sip, he took it back and took a sip himself.

It seems that their friendship is the same as it was many years ago. However, they should all be dead. Nobunaga Masashi died in the Honnoji Rebellion orchestrated by Akechi Mitsuhide.

It can be said that these two people are enemies of life and death, and the original friendship should have collapsed after Honnoji Temple.

However, Akechi Mitsuhide didn't seem to have planned any conspiracy, he just muttered lightly: "Sperm whales generally live in groups. We can't afford to be embarrassed by them on our first voyage. There is no ground reference for this route, and if it is easily changed, it is easy to get lost. ”

Takataka Kuroda also said, "The Pacific Ocean is too vast. Once we get lost, we will have to rely on the supplies on board. ”

Hearing them say this, Oda Nobunaga naturally gave up his original plan.

However, the word trek seems to touch the worries of the Nine Ghosts. He ran over to check the compass, then screamed in surprise.

Oda Nobunaga paced dissatisfied. He wanted to reprimand the Nine Ghosts Jialong, but after seeing the compass, he also let out a frightened sound.

Now, everyone knows that something bad must have happened.

Kuroda Nagamasa and the others rushed over like crazy, and when their heads surrounded the compass, they did see a scene that frightened them.

The compass pointer, which originally indicated the direction, was constantly shaking. At first, the amplitude was not large, but the more people came around, the more expressive he seemed to become, and he actually "danced" on the board.

After a long time, Oda Nobunaga muttered, "We've been lost." ”