Nearly 20 days have passed since that day when the soldiers of the army cremated the dead brothers. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

During these 20 days, Lord Zheng first sent envoys to this Java country and agreed on a series of measures for the future.

It encompasses commerce and trade between the two countries, tribute, and the responsibility to maintain peace in the seas.

Then, Lord Zheng sent a part of the personnel to re-measure the topography, mountains, and coastline of this Java country.

The reason why the imperial court will order people to redraw the topographic map every time they go to a country is because today's saints want to have a comprehensive understanding of the overseas world and want to shine the light of the Ming Dynasty to every corner of the world.

Don't look at this Java country, it is just a small place, and its position is the key point for the fleet to the south.

Although this voyage is called going to the Western Ocean. But the route that the fleet is currently sailing has always been southward.

In this regard, Lord Zheng meant that the fleet would first go south to Java, and then go all the way west after ordering the ministers of Java to pay tribute.

In fact, many generals in the fleet expressed their incomprehension of Lord Zheng's decision.

They believed that if the fleet came to this Java country, it would consume a lot of manpower, material resources and time, so the gains outweighed the losses.

This is because the island of Java is the southernmost point of the known range in the South China Sea. And if the fleet came to this Java island, if it wanted to go west, it would have to go back the way it came.

This comes and goes, to say the least, it takes three months.

But for this matter, Lord Zheng meant very resolutely.

"The south of the South China Sea is Java. And in the south of Java, there is another vast land that the world cannot know."

This sentence is what Zheng He said to his subordinates.

And all the generals on the ship could not and could not refute his words.

For the purpose of their journey was to search for that man, to search for all the land where they could hide........

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Unconsciously, the time at sea flies by again.

In fact, on this Qianshan Crossing, except for Su Wushi, most of the cultivators don't go out of the house much on weekdays.

Unless some people have just made a breakthrough or comprehended the essentials of the martial arts they practice, they will choose to come to the deck to breathe.

Because, after all, this cultivation requires the accumulation of years. And these cultivators, as soon as they cultivate, often spend three or four days.

Therefore, they don't care about life on the sea, whether it is boring or not.

And for Su Wushi, who has been at sea for a long time, he is also very clear about the performance of these people on the ship.

Therefore, in addition to the necessary practice, he spends most of his daily time fishing with the crew, or playing mahjong with several people for several hours.

Not only that, but because of Shi Wuwei, it was impossible for several people to play with him anytime and anywhere. Therefore, in desperation, he had to find the four immortals of Meigu downstairs, and taught the four people how to play mahjong.

But what he didn't expect was that when the crazy four people first came into contact with this small wooden card, they were already in a state of obsession.

And in the days to come, these four people asked Su Wushi every once in a while to fight with them until dawn.

So, in general, his life is very leisurely, and there are no worries in his heart.

So, the nearly three months passed in a blink of an eye. Since leaving the island of Java, the fleet has been moving northwest, and finally came to the middle station of this Western trip, the old port.

The old port, according to the records of the Song Dynasty, is also called the water city, is the Western Regions fleet sailing eastward, or the Central Plains merchant ships sailing westward.

As everyone knows, this ancient country of Loulan is located on the Silk Road, that is, in the middle of the Hexi Corridor. It is a hub connecting the Western Regions and the Central Plains trade.

However, due to the impact of the Western Regions at the end of the Tang Dynasty and the rise of the Mongolian iron cavalry at the end of the Song Dynasty, this land in the Western Regions has been ruled by foreign races. And it is a mess, and the desert is becoming more and more desolate. It can no longer be used as a trade route.

Since the severance of the Silk Road, it has been difficult for Persian merchants in the Western Regions to trade goods with merchants in the Central Plains by land.

Therefore, since the Song Dynasty, the merchants of the Western Regions have found another way to trade with the Central Plains from the sea.

This is also the reason why the route formulated by Zheng He is called the Maritime Silk Road.

But this does not mean that the trade between the two countries has been dominated by silk.

Thousands of years ago, the Silk Road was mainly on foot because the two sides of the trade could only rely on manpower or camels and horses. Therefore, the only thing to carry can be a light but expensive goods like silk.

However, with this sea, with merchant ships, all tangible goods could be traded.

Whether it's tea, porcelain, copper coins, gold and silver, etc....

Therefore, the value of this sea area has greatly exceeded that of the Silk Road.

And the old port where everyone is anchored at this moment, because the draft of the port here is extremely deep, and the depth is long, enough to stop thousands of ships.

Not only that, but its geographical location is the only place where the Western Regions can lead to the Central Plains.

Therefore, this unique geographical condition also makes this port extremely prosperous, and all kinds of people gather, far from the small island of Java, which can be compared.

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At this moment, it is mid-afternoon.

On a street next to the harbor where you can see the sea clearly, Shi Wuwei and a few people are sitting in a simple pergola, drinking tea.

It's just that there is an unfamiliar face in today's group.

And this person is the one in the Thousand Mountains Crossing, the 'Bai Xiaosheng' from the Mo family, Mo Changkong.

"Hey, I really didn't expect to be able to drink a sip of hot tea in such a place. I didn't expect there to be so many Central Plains people here." Su Wushi was satisfied.

He really didn't expect what he was seeing at the moment.

The paved streets along the coast, the endless shops along the streets, and the familiar faces from the Central Plains among the shops. All of them are telling the world that this is a coastal town in the Central Plains.

"Hahaha, Brother Wushi. In fact, thousands of years ago, many Tang people began to live here. In the past thousand years, because of the escape of war or trade, many Han people have settled here and done business."

At this time, I saw Mo Changkong smiling while gently shaking the treasure fan made of unknown things in his hand.

I have to say that based on this appearance, this Mo family son is not much worse than Su Wushi. Moreover, when he speaks, he always gives people a sense of lightness.

Seeing this, Su Wushi also smiled pleasantly, "It seems that Brother Changkong is indeed as the outside world says, well-informed."

"Hahaha, Brother Wushi, I'm smiling."

However, just when these two friends, who had seen each other like each other, were talking and laughing, Shi Wuwei spoke up and asked.

"Brother Changkong, do you know who this Chen Zuyi is?"

But before Mo Changkong could answer, Su Wushi preemptively said, "Hey, didn't Lord Zheng say it, isn't it just a pirate, what's the big deal?"

But for Su Wushi's words, Mo Changkong didn't seem to agree.

I saw him shake his head, and said thoughtfully, "Brother Wushi, this Chen Zuyi is not an ordinary pirate who can be compared."

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