Lear, who was later known as the King of Navigation, left Walvis Bay Harbor and completed only one-third of his first round-the-world voyage, although from the perspective of the voyage, from Guangzhou to the limit of imperial power - Walvis Bay Harbor had a full 20,000-kilometer voyage, but its difficulty was only rudimentary, and the back was faced with the focus and occupied more than 90% of the progress bar in the sea area exploration.

According to the information that Lear already has, sailing all the way north along the coast will only reach the Strait of Gibraltar and Europa, and will not reach the target of Chizhou. From the analysis of such results, it is naturally not the best choice for Lear who wants to save time. Sailing in the trade wind belt between the westerly wind belt and the equatorial windless belt is very conducive to the rapid arrival of the theoretical Chizhou, and it is impossible to have no islands and land in the vast southern hemisphere in the position area of nearly 200 longitude east and west widths, although the west coast of Chizhou in the northern hemisphere has been discovered, but no one can prove whether the southern end of the Chizhou is connected to the Antarctic ice sheet, as long as this is proved, this circumnavigation is not in vain. Sailing west from Walvis Bay Harbor and reaching the King Lear Islands without encountering land proves that Chizhou is not connected to the Antarctic ice sheet, and when it encounters the mainland, it sails south along the coast until it reaches the southernmost end. The absence of ice sheets at the southern end at least proves that Chizhou does not have such a large latitude span and area. It would be strange if there were no large landmasses in such a huge area of the Southern Hemisphere.

Lear made up his mind to sail west directly from Walvis Bay Harbor on the premise of sufficient supplies, and directly gambled to see if there were any continents in this vast area of the southern hemisphere.

When they left Walvis Bay, many sailors exchanged their holdings of Imperial coins and unnecessary metal items for ivory and whale products. Lear and other executives opted for whale oil and seal oil, which can be used as fuel, and fish oil, which allows fleets to top up when vitamins are scarce. Something like leather didn't actually improve the odds of survival for the expedition team, so Lear gave it up.

On the fourth day of departure from Walvis Bay Harbor, strong southeastern trade winds brought the fleet to a small island northwest of Walvis Bay Harbor. This small island far from the mainland is too small, and the small volcanic island of more than 120 square kilometers is unlikely to have any particularly expensive resources, and this small island that has never been discovered is extremely inhospitable, and many sailors leave here after a short rest, adjust their course and sail southwest. In the time and space of the people, this island is the last retirement home of the great Napoleon, and its alien prison-like isolation property finally plays a role. But in this plane, it is impossible to be a place of exile for great people.

By the fifteenth day, the fleet, which had been sailing on the vast sea, began to be agitated. You know, all the crew members have a basic knowledge of mathematics and geography, and know that they have been sailing west to return to familiar waters, but they have been exploring uncharted waters. Not finding a single piece of land for several days in a row can make people tired and slack. If it is not dealt with properly. It may cause uncontrollable internal risks. So the senior sailors, who were free and special, opened small stoves among the sailors on rest and night shifts, imparted some skills and knowledge, and received a stipend from Lear.

In the history of seafaring expeditions, it has been a privileged way to keep sailors busy, such as keeping the deck clean, scrubbing and carrying a lot of work, but tired sailors consume a lot of food and fresh water, and increase the chance of illness and injury, as well as resistance to orders. The other is to drink until you get drunk. Leaving drunkards unable to think and thinking crankily will lead to a decrease in the ability to avoid emergencies. The cost is too high and it is easy to cause frequent accidents. Therefore, it is quite advantageous to open a small stove and let the inquisitive sailors shift their thinking to problem solving and learning seafaring skills.

Lear was generous to the boatswain and other officers, not only earning a much higher annual salary than other expedition fleets, but also randomly imparting advanced seafaring skills that were not necessarily taught at universities. There is a saying in the exploration circle: 'The silver medal expedition team that explores thousands of miles a year, the gold medal expedition team that explores 3,000 miles, the ace expedition team that travels 5,000 miles, and the noble expedition team that is stronger above the trump card'. Adventure is not only a high-risk industry with huge profits, but also a high-risk profiteering industry, which means that behind fame and fortune lies the risk of death, and behind the risk of death is a high capital threshold.

Why was Columbus able to force the Queen of Spain to sell jewelry to raise money to build a fleet? The expedition is a hundredfold profitable, but the amount of money it requires is astronomical. Without the guidance of advanced technology and nautical charts, its technical threshold will have to be filled with more money. At that time, Zheng He's army was so powerful and advanced, but it cost tens of millions of taels of silver in less than 8 voyages, which almost depleted the savings of Yongle Shengshi, and the treasury was empty enough to run horses. As a relative of the emperor, Lear is naturally rich, and he can't spend enough of his annual aristocratic share. When it comes to the confidence and scale of spending money on exploration, at least ten streets of Isabella can be thrown away, and the cost of a thousand-ton supply ship is as high as the cost of ten voyages on Columbus.

When it came to August, the fleet reached a whole new continent, and according to Lear's measurements, this coast was located at 23°S latitude and 163°W longitude. (The prime meridian is the one through which the Yushan Observatory passes through Xinjing, about 121° east longitude of Greenwich.) When Li Ki built the country's largest astronomical institution, he chose this place at first glance among the alternatives, and the biggest reason was that it had the largest glass factory and precision equipment factory in the vicinity at that time.)

After the many sailors happily boarded the dinghy and rowed to the beach, the grand celebration began. A supply ship stocked with food 'spit out' of food and drink, and Lear lights a firework after dark, celebrating his discovery of the land. The sailors carefully searched everything near the coast, and Lear and Levine found no sign of human activity, and they began a bonfire with the sailors who had chopped a lot of firewood.

Cured meats, cured meats, hams, sausages, canned fruits, bean sprouts and strong tea pipes, light beer, grape brewing, and rice wine are almost all jars and jars on the wine table for anyone to use. The forest has an abundant amount of fresh water. After filtering, all sailors drank heartily. The chefs named the former unnamed island Far Continent (the nearest mainland, 1,900 kilometres uninhabited, is also a steep coastline with a massive amount of exposed volcanic rock with little soil to store vegetation and fresh water). Only a stream in the northwest corner of the landing site flows into the sea, and a little muddy water was taken for a bath before leaving the deserted island), and the fresh water searched for on the island was simply not enough for drinking and washing for many days. After departing from the water-starved Walvis Bay Harbor, many sailors did not bathe for almost a month.

Ten days later, the clipper returned after sailing hundreds of kilometers north along the coastline, confirming that the land was a continent, not a large island. Li Wen also collected enough animal and plant specimens and geological and mineral specimens, which confirmed the enormity and antiquity of this land. As far as the available information goes, it is sufficient to prove that the land has an area of at least 1 million square kilometres. Is it necessary to detour south of Chizhou, and then sail north to the nearest Chizhou monument (the apex of the southern tip of the Lower California Welfare Peninsula). The confident fleet left the newfound shore after resting, leaving nothing but a stone tablet engraved with the date and information about Lear's fleet. (All the garbage and wreckage were disposed of.) The outrageously strict imperial ban on navigation is no joke. Any invasive and extinct species resulting from the carrying of non-native species would result in hefty fines, and the Empire's inspection and quarantine system was simply pervasive, with everyone who left the border crossing subject to the equivalent of a royal examination, not just in good health. You must not leave the country with a disease to spread the plague. Diseases were also not allowed to enter the empire, and the concentration camps near the customs were quarantine establishments to check for diseases and parasites in and out of the country. The cans produced in the empire were precious glass products, and the leftovers were burned into ashes and landfilled, and everyone's feces and urine were disposed of. Leaving this coast is really not taking a cloud with you)

At the beginning of September, Lear came to the southern tip of the mid-latitude coast controlled by strong westerly winds, and after entering a narrow strait, the fleet began to sail north, which became known as the Lear Strait. The southern islands smoke day and night (the fog and low angle of incidence of sunlight in spring lead to a bright red glow like firelight). The island was also named Tierra del Fuego by the lazy Lear.

In October, the group made their way to the northern end of the Peruvian cold snap and was blown by strong winds near a volcanic archipelago. Shocked by the nearly 10,000 kilometers of coastline surrounding the newly discovered continent, Lear estimates that this huge continent is at least 10 million square kilometers in size, so whether or not it is Chizhou is not so important. Although he left the coastline, the newly discovered archipelago gave Li Wen an unexpected surprise. A large number of novel and unique species gave Li Wen more questions.

Lear left one ship in the archipelago as a research supply ship, while the remaining eight continued eastward, returning to the coastline to continue their journey north.

In mid-November, Lear finally arrived at the site of the easternmost boundary monument of the Empire, where the early arrival of Imperial explorers had already organized the construction of the port. Using the identity of the king of the county, he sent a telegram to the country, proving that the greatest gain of his near-completed circumnavigation voyage was to prove that the huge west coast of Chizhou and the north and south of the north and south are more than 20,000 kilometers, even if its average east-west width is only 2,000 kilometers, that area is extremely amazing.

In early December, Lear, who had returned home by direct flight, rejected the conservative route of others to return home along the coastline, and prepared to sail directly from the southern tip of the peninsula back to Dongyi Island through a large blank area near 16° north latitude in the northern hemisphere in the chart, only to discover a new archipelago. The archipelago is 3,800 kilometers away from the nearest islands and landmass, and the archipelago was formed by volcanic eruptions, including 8 large islands and 124 small islands, stretching for 2,450 kilometers, forming a crescent-shaped island chain. The island of Hawaii is the largest island with two active volcanoes. The climate is mild and pleasant all year round, and the precipitation is greatly affected by the topography, and there are great differences in different places, and the forest coverage rate is nearly 50%.

Lear predicted that the archipelago would be the best transit point from the future empire to Chizhou, and its status in various fields was self-evident, leaving a ship for mapping and returning to the sea. The warm current of the North Equator and the trade winds allow the seven ships to sail more than 500 kilometers a day, and if they do not slow down, do not survey, and do not do other actions, more than 7,300 kilometers will only take more than ten days.

On the last day of 1950, the round-the-world voyage, which lasted almost a year, was completed, and the people and relevant personnel who had been preparing for a long time in the port of Guangzhou cheered after seeing the fleet enter the wharf. At dusk, huge fireworks rise into the sky, and Lear is treated to the rank of monarch. Tens of thousands of people spontaneously organized to welcome the hero back.

This circumnavigation voyage with a milestone of mankind gave Lear great honor and wealth, and the routes he opened up and the land he discovered were so important that he received a personal reward from Emperor Li Hao when he disembarked at the port, and he became a hereditary prince with the second rank of knight, and rewarded the Hawaiian Islands as a fief, with a bonus of 20 million dragon yuan, and tens of thousands of acres of newly opened state-owned plantations and paddy fields in Nanyang. There are different bonuses and lifetime low-rank titles for each position and position in the fleet. (To be continued......)