That day and night, Zhao Kuangyin thought about it for a long time, and the next day, at the court meeting, Zhao Kuangyin passed on the news.

Zhao Dezhao, the king of Liang, recounted what he said yesterday in the court, and hundreds of officials in the court sat down, stretched their necks and were surprised, and then Zhao Kuangyin asked the chamberlain to take out the giant world map and the map of the Great Song Dynasty from the Funing Palace.

The chamberlain brought two maps, and then

"This is the map of the world, this is the map of the Great Song Dynasty, please see, what is the difference?" Zhao Dezhao pointed and poked on the map, and then introduced it.

Is this a map? Or the map of the world, it turns out that my Great Song Dynasty is just a little bit, the ministers all thought of it in their hearts at the moment, and then the temple began to boil.

"Your Highness, is this really a map of the world?" Wang Pu asked.

"That's right, Xianggong Wang."

“……”

Zhao Dezhao said: "Father, what the child said today is for the strategic consideration of my Great Song Dynasty, in the future, the ocean will become a place for countries around the world to compete for territory, and now there are still some unexplored places in the world waiting for my Great Song Dynasty to go and send troops to occupy them." ”

"His Royal Highness King Liang, is it really as you say?" Wang Pu asked.

"This is what the Taoist of Fuyao said, and the Hu people from the Western Regions, the barbarians from the south, and the blue-eyed and white-skinned people from the extreme west have never known about these places, and this king has searched for ancient classics, and no one has mentioned this place among them, so this king speculates that these places have not been occupied by anyone, so this king proposes to let my Great Song fleet explore those places first."

That is the ocean, Zhao Dezhao must let the ministers of the DPRK and China pay attention to it from this moment, and in this era, the ocean is not completely in the hands of other countries, why not turn to the ocean, and accumulate more strength on the ocean, it is a beneficial thing for Zhao Dezhao and the Great Song Dynasty.

"Your Highness thinks well, but now my Great Song should concentrate my troops in the country, and my Great Song Dynasty will conquer the Jiangnan countries next, if you divide the troops at this time, it is indeed a bad thing, and it is not conducive to my Great Song Dynasty." Wang Pu said bluntly.

"Wang Xianggong, this matter is still to be discussed, now my Great Song Dynasty is not going to directly send troops overseas, but through the official or civilian fleet, first explore those places, and in the spring of this year, the imperial court has sent countless people to Liuzhou to build deep-water ports, supervise shipyards, and build ships, and now it has some results. And the exploration of Liuzhou also filled the treasury of the Great Song Dynasty with a lot of ......"

"If that's the case, that's a good thing." Zhao Kuangyin got up from the dragon seat and then said.

According to what Zhao Dezhao said just now, Liuzhou is indeed a successful example, and above the court, Fan Zhen and other officials thought for a while.

After consulting with the ministers, Zhao Kuangyin decided to find a new continent to prepare for the unification of the Great Song Dynasty.

In February of the third year of Jianlong, the imperial court ordered that the Great Song Dynasty opened the pace of overseas exploration, and this was the first time that the Great Song Dynasty official sent ships to explore the unknown world overseas.

At Kaifeng Wharf, Zhao Dezhao led Zhao Kuangyin's secret decree to transfer Kaifeng Shipyard river ships, Yangzhou Shipyard sea ships, and Liuzhou Shipyard sea ships, and at the same time recruited private fleets to jointly organize overseas exploration trips, explore unknown new worlds, and find new life and new civilizations.

At the same time, drawing on the experience of the last time, Zhao Dezhao invented the compass style of later generations, and at the same time prepared to use the existing glass manufacturing technology to produce and develop cans for navigation. And in order to prevent the occurrence of scurvy, Zhao Dezhao specially ordered people to make a large number of canned oranges, and some other different cans, and these cans are easy to transport, easy to store, and not easy to deteriorate, so they were well received by Emperor Zhao Kuangyin.

In addition to these, Zhao Dezhao asked Wu Lingqing to draw a more detailed map, and also prepared for them those routes in the future, using ocean currents and other things to make the ships reach their destinations faster, so this preparation was fully prepared for this voyage.

Moreover, this time, Zhao Dezhao's Guangwei Group and Wu Lingqing's Wujia Car Dealer also privately invested a lot of financial resources in the navigation business of the Great Song Dynasty.

The fleet headed for three destinations, one for the American continent, one for Oceania, and the other for Africa.

Each of the three fleets has a code name, the "Tenjin" for the Americas, the "Poseidon" for Oceania, and the "Earthgod" for Africa.

Among these crew members, some of them are Zhao Dezhao's personal followers, including Changchun Hall and the Flying Sparrow Organization.

In the first year of Jianlong in Yangzhou, Camel, Wu Xiaowu, and Qingyu were sent by Zhao Dezhao in three different directions because of their merits, and there were also other Changchun Hall and Flying Sparrow people among them, and their task this time was to monitor the sea ships and coordinate the men and horses under the hands of Changchun Hall and the Flying Sparrow Organization.

After a month of preparation, the ship's supplies are ready and ready to go.

In early March, Emperor Zhao Kuangyin ordered the ships to be ready for departure, and the crowd was crowded around the pier of the Bianhe River in Kaifeng that day, and the people were watching. It is said that the fleet went south this time to find the legendary place, and the people gathered around, and Zhao Kuangyin had to send the forbidden army to be stationed at the dock that day to maintain order.

When all the preparations were in place, the voyage was about to begin, and the ship left the dock and began to head south.

At this moment in Yangzhou, there was already a post official who passed the emperor's news to Yangzhou shipbuilding, and Yangzhou shipbuilding officials also prepared many sea ships and some supplies, waiting for the Kaifeng crew to go south.

In mid-March, Kaifeng's ships had arrived in Yangzhou, and then they changed to sea vessels and began to head south, then along different routes, heading in their respective directions. And according to the currents of the respective routes.

Ships heading to the American continent leave the mouth of the Yangtze River and head north, then pass through Japan, then follow the Japanese Warm Current to the north, and then follow the North Pacific Current.

A fleet headed for Oceania, headed south through the Liuqiu Strait (Taiwan Strait), then sailed to the South China Sea, passed through Srivijaya and, after being resupplied by Sriwijaya, headed south again in search of Oceania.

The third branch, from Kaifeng to Sriwijaya, followed behind, and after the supply of Srivijaya began its journey westward, then out of the Strait of Malacca, on the front line near the coast of the Angkor Dynasty, and then along the equator against the current, passing through the countries of South Asia, all the way west, with ships sailing above the sea.

The road ahead is long, surrounded by an endless blue ocean, and the crews of the three directions have been floating on the sea for a long time, but they have never seen the place Zhao Dezhao said.

After a long time at sea, a feeling of unease began to spread on the ship, for it was a route that no one had ever sailed before, and since it had entered the current, no islands had been encountered, so terror grew among the crew.

Fortunately, Zhao Dezhao also prepared sufficient supplies for the crew, and there were also cooks from Guangwei Restaurant on the fleet. Although the crew had such emotions, it did not affect the voyage.

For the western front, this is the most relaxed, because South Asia is a country, some of which also paid tribute to the Central Plains Dynasty during the Tang Dynasty, and it is not yet sparsely populated, while the eastern and southern routes are still unknown because of the sparse population, so the difficulty is also extremely great.

The most difficult thing is the eastern route, the places where the Tenjin passes are all oceans, and the Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean in the world, and it is indeed lonely in the vast sea.

At sea, in all three directions, all moving forward.