Chapter 14: The Southern Expedition Failed
Hearing this, Chubby rolled his eyes and shrugged, "Liu'er, you are stupid, isn't the lower class cabin the bottom cabin, where the boatmen and the rest of the people live!" ”
"Oooh!"
Jiang Liu'er rubbed her forehead in embarrassment. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
It's scary to be uneducated.
"I haven't been to the bilge yet! It's a little exciting to think about! "The little fat faction has never seen the world, and is eager to try.
"I haven't been there either."
Jiang Liu'er also pouted and shook his head, but there was not much sparkle in his eyes, he faintly felt that the bilge should be the area of the building and the ship.
Needless to say, as far as he knows, most of the shipwrights recruited by Xu City are some prisoners of the Qin Empire who carry their lives on their backs and are traitors, and their conduct is really not good, and what Jiang Liu'er is worried about is that he will encounter some unpredictable situations.
It is not easy to pass through the mezzanine and corridors in this medium-sized cabin, and you can imagine how big this flagship-like building ship of the entire fleet must be!
In Daqin, which goes back more than 2,000 years, it was able to build such a large-scale wooden building ship, and form a large-scale fleet to sail away, which shows the handwriting and unrivaled courage of the First Emperor.
This is not the era when Zheng He went to the Western Ocean for thousands of miles and was full of ships, nor did he have the shipbuilding technology that had reached its peak after thousands of years of accumulation, and there were no well-trained naval officers and men who could sail high on the turbid seas and sail high and sail day and night, and it was really not easy to organize such an unprecedented voyage.
And the materials recorded by later generations have also largely verified the truth.
Xu Fu should have really arrived in the Wa Kingdom, and there is definite evidence in the island country in the 21st century that Xu Fu is the legendary Emperor Shenmu of the Wa Kingdom, and he also left three treasures of the so-called Jade Mirror Sword!
Speaking of treasures, Jiang Liu'er couldn't help but feel a fierce move in his heart, no matter what, Ning Xin'er's hints about the bilge cubicle, intentionally or unintentionally, aroused his endless interest in the treasures collected by the First Emperor.
If you have the opportunity, you must take a look, Jiang Liu'er can't help but be moved.
History says that Xu Fu went to sea for the first time in 219 BC, did not find the elixir, and after returning for fear of being blamed by the First Emperor, he lied that he had seen the elixir, but he met the shark monster in the sea, and instigated the First Emperor to send more crossbowmen and archers to fight at sea, shoot the monster, and then lead 3,000 boys and girls to the sea again, and then never return.
In memory, this should be Xu Fu's first time going to sea.
This also means that they will come back, and there may not be the so-called Jade Mirror Sword among the treasures that Xu Fu has looted, but the things collected by the entire country of the dignified Qin Empire will definitely not be bad!
What made him more interested was what Xu Fu encountered in the process of his first eastward crossing, which would allow him to be exempted from accountability after returning in vain, and even lead the team to sea again?
In other words, it was Xu Fu who said something to the First Emperor, which made Yingzheng, whose health deteriorated, rekindle his ambition to rule the empire for thousands of years, and believed in what he said, and tried his best to let him cross east to Penglai for the second time.
Just like in the middle of his imperial rule, because of a proverb that "those who die in Qin, Hu Ye", in 215 BC, he sent the general Meng Tian to lead 300,000 troops to attack the Xiongnu in the north, recover Henan, and build the Great Wall wall that stretches for more than 10,000 miles in the northern frontier of the empire.
Ying Zheng, the founding hero who dominated the world, has always been an enigmatic emperor.
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"By the way, Xiaopang, I remember that there should be more than 1,500 boys and girls recruited by Mr., and such a ship should not be able to fit it!"
Jiang Liu'er frowned and looked at the chaotic scene of the group of children gathering in front of her, and couldn't help but ask suspiciously.
"It's natural!" Chubby sighed and said:
"Although the ship we are on is the flagship, it has to live with only a few hundred boys and girls, including the shipkeepers, cooks, and stewards who are in charge of guarding, as well as other warlocks and astrologers!"
"The rest of the boys and girls are carried by other ships, and of course there are some warships and fighting ships in the fleet, and the total number of ships is about twenty or so."
"So many ......"
Jiang Liu'er was slightly surprised, you must know that in addition to Zheng He's voyage to the West, several famous voyages in the Western Age of Discovery in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, including Dias, Columbus, da Gama, and Magellan's sailing ships were only a few, and the displacement was less than 1,000 tons.
Although the aircraft carrier squadron that dominates the sea in the 21 st century has a strong displacement, there are only a few destroyers, frigates, nuclear submarines, and supply ships that escort the sea, and of course the combat effectiveness of the two is not the same, after all, there is a technological difference of more than 2,000 years.
"That's a lot!"
Xiao Fat sneered, "Do you know how many warships were built by my Great Qin Tiger Division in the southern expedition to Baiyue at the beginning of this year??? Saying it scares you to death! ”
"How much?" Jiang Liu'er's eyelids suddenly jumped fiercely.
Xiaopang habitually looked around left and right, and said in a positive voice: "Tell you Liu'er, there are as many as 100 ships!"
"Oh my God! So much! ”
Jiang Liu'er had a long mouth, and her eyes were full of incredulity.
However, after a little thought suddenly flashed through his mind, his face began to change from surprise to gloom, and his dark eyes were like deep black holes, which were out of reach, and he was faintly uneasy.
"That'...... Is the commander of Great Qin Tu Sui? ”
Jiang Liuer said.
Somehow, when he asked this sentence, he was faintly apprehensive in his heart...... Saddened...... And an indescribable bitterness.
"Yes, after General Yangwu Tu Sui is also a famous general, he has great achievements, and with the strong crossbow and huge fleet of Great Qin as the backing, he will definitely expand his territory and win the flag!"
Xiao Pang seemed to have vaguely seen the scene of Daqin's jet-black sharp warriors sweeping through South Vietnam, attacking the city, and triumphing, and said with a bright face.
Jiang Liu'er's face was full of bitterness, as if this short-lived empire that was more than 2,000 years different from herself was really closely related to herself, and she smiled bitterly with a little worry: "Hehe...... Hopefully......"
It is indeed recorded in history that in 219 BC, the Qin army of 500,000 people marched south to Baiyue, and the commander was Tu Sui, who was appointed by the first emperor.
Although the southern expedition achieved a lot of results, it was actually a failure, Tu Sui led the army to advance all the way without occupying any time and place, and finally even he was shot and killed by the Yue natives, and died in the vast jungle.
Later, in 214 BC, the First Emperor Yingzheng once again sent 500,000 Qin troops led by Ren Huan Zhao Tuo to the south to build the Ling Canal, and finally succeeded in pacifying Nanyue, setting up Guilin, Nanhai, Xiangjun and other administrative divisions, expanding the empire's territory to the vast South China Sea.
Of course, that's an afterthought.