Unitary"

The sky is blue and the sea is blue, flocks of seagulls chase the boat, and the sea breeze blows across the deck, bringing a slightly salty sea breeze, which is refreshing.

Standing on the bow of the ship, looking into the distance, the sea and the sky are colorful. Boundless. It makes people feel the vastness of the world and the insignificance of people, and their hearts naturally rise. A lot of emotion.

Because he left the mainland. also got rid of the rules, silently barefoot, wearing a wide kudzu robe. There was no hair tied up, and his long black hair flew in the wind, coupled with his indifferent demeanor. makes people feel that they can just take a horizontal flute and a concubine of a fan in their hands, and they can become immortals.

Xavier stood behind him, looking at the young Ming Guo, who had not spent much time together, but the gentle temperament of this young man, his elegant and unwise conversation, and his great and exciting speech all made the well-informed European priest heartbroken, although he was well-informed and had come into contact with many excellent and great people. But there is no one who, at such a young age, can have such a bearing.

"Truly like the Son of the East when he was young," Xavier thought to himself, "perhaps he is the Son of the East."

Shen Mo never looked back, he was immersed in his thoughts, and mankind went from ignorance to civilization. It has gone through thousands of long years, and in the process, many civilizations have risen and fallen alternately. Turned into the dust of history, only the Chinese civilization, although it has also suffered the ups and downs of glory and disgrace, has always remained at the forefront of the world, and has been the leader of the world for nearly two thousand years, and has always been admired by the world, proud and proud.

But now, the history of all mankind has reached a turning point, and the age of the ocean has arrived, and it will change everything that has passed, the strong and the weak will be reshuffled, and the good and the bad will be redefined, in the process. Once a weak country may take advantage of the situation to rise up and dominate the world, and a once strong country may be reduced to fish and sink, this is an era of great exploration, no matter how glorious your history is, it only depends on whether you are determined to go deep into the ocean and whether you have the ability to win the supremacy of the sea!

It's a pity, in that history of silent past lives. China did not do a good job, although after the opening of the sea in Longqing, the Ming Dynasty was already involved in the maritime trade. Earning a steady stream of vast wealth, but this wealth was not enjoyed by the central government, leaving the state with little interest in maritime trade, and even restricting it from time to time. In the Qing Dynasty, foreign rulers never regarded the Han people as the same kind as themselves, and the idea that non-our people would have different hearts, let them go to sea as a Han escape from their rule, and ruled them to unswervingly enforce the strict sea ban. Since then, he has closed off the country, and Yelang is arrogant. Completely left behind by the world. finally created the history of unprecedented humiliation and sinking in China,

Is it really hopeless? Silence doesn't think so, at least during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty was still enlightened and confident, and there was still infinite hope! This is also the psychological pillar that Shen Mo can always struggle. is like what Uncle Tang Shunzhi said: "Do it when you know you can't do it." It is not what a mature politician should do, what must be done must be possible. ”

Is it possible? Yes!

In fact, China's navigation has always been ahead of the world, and the Song Dynasty was able to travel across the ocean, reach the Persian Gulf, and earn endless wealth; In the early years of this dynasty, a huge ship with a length of more than 40 zhang could be built. A task force of 2,300 warships and 20,000 or 30,000 troops will be formed, no matter where they sail. The Ming fleet led by Zheng He was the only powerful and unchallengeable force at that time, in other words, when Zheng He was mixing on the ocean, what Columbus, Magellan, and grandmother were still nursing in their stomachs; When the fleet of the Ming Dynasty was showing off its might on the sea, what kind of sea coachmen, the invincible armada, or the like were trees in the forest?

Although in the eighth year of Xuande and the year of the Dysprosium, after Zheng He returned from his last trip to the West, the fleet never started cobalt again, and official documents such as Zheng He's navigation charts were also in the imperial court's dispute over the rights and wrongs of going to the West. It was burned by Liu Daxia, the secretary of the military department at that time. The navy of the Ming Dynasty declined, but the level was still above the level, and no one dared to come to the sea to provoke, and you did not see that the arrogance of the Ming army was so arrogant, but he never dared to fight with the Ming army at sea; Spain and Francophiles crisscrossed the world, but they had to do business with the Ming Dynasty obediently, which was still the weakest time for the Ming Navy.

"My Chinese civilization, since the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, Yang, to Zhao and Song Zhaoji, and then gradually declined so far, sailing against the current, not advancing or retreating. If you don't pull yourself together, you will definitely lag behind the Tessie powers

You don't see that the Westerner warships have sailed all over the world, artillery, shipbuilding, and navigation are all beyond the reach of my Ming Dynasty. If you still don't wake up, I will know the sea frontier. All of them are other soils, rich along the coast, and turned into scorched earth. If there is no strong navy, it will be bullied, and if there is no strong navy, it will be taken captive, how can I tolerate the dirt of my ancestors and the humiliation of my wife and children? At this time, to invigorate the Ming Dynasty and reshape the heroic style of the Han and Tang Dynasties, it will start from the ocean! Navy". In the sea voyage, Shen silently wrote the beginning of "Ocean Age", accompanied by the undulating waves, his heart was surging, his thoughts were flying, and he was conceiving the road of Daming to the ocean, although this road was destined to be difficult, although it was likely to fail, but he still resolutely stepped on it, even if it went down, it was also in the direction of facing the ocean; Even if you become a sinner for the ages, you have to drag this land nation into the water!!

Firm in his will, his silent expression became resolute, and he learned a little about Xavitt's naval level and colonial situation in detail, and it turned out that at this time, Prince Enrique, who had opened the Age of Discovery, had passed away. If you weren't afraid of me, you would have come to my boat to talk about six" "Alas, okay" Seeing that the adult was so resolute, Sanchi had no choice but to agree, and climbed up the ladder first.

Seeing that he successfully boarded the big boat, Shen Mo also held the ladder with both hands, took a deep breath, and sighed secretly: "I have a fear of heights" and gritted his teeth to climb up, not daring to look down, because as long as he looked at it, "his hands and feet will be weak, and he will fall down directly, and if he is unlucky, he will fall into the sea."

Fortunately, his judgment was correct, no one dared to blame him, Qi Mo still boarded the ship smoothly, and when his feet landed on the deck, he suddenly felt a sense of weakness, and almost softened to the ground. Sanchi hurriedly stepped forward to help. But he refused, and stood silently holding on to the railing for a while before he could walk as usual, and said to the few leaders who came to greet him: "Let you see and laugh." ”

Even if a few people laughed in their hearts, they still said very respectfully: "Distinguished guests, please go upstairs, my godfather has set up a banquet to welcome your arrival."

Shen Mo nodded and smiled: "Okay, I'll bother a few people to lead the way." ”

The group then went up to the top floor, and the guards along the way glared angrily, and kept beating the back of the knife, making a terrifying sound, and several people said in their hearts. Climbing a soft ladder is weak, doesn't this directly scare the soul?

But fear of heights and courage are not necessarily related, silently ignoring those unfriendly actions, chatting and laughing with the people who greet him, all the way up to the top floor, only to see that this place is heavily guarded, and idlers are not allowed to enter. The noise disappears naturally.

After inviting him into the room, those people also retired, and before going out, they said to Sanchi: "This big brother, let's go down and drink."

Sanchi was silent, but said silently: "Don't worry about me, go ahead." Then he nodded. I followed the group down.

There was only silence left in the room," he looked at the cabin, Japanese-style tatami mats, Chinese-style coral screens, Western table clocks, Persian tapestries, and even a large section of wood carvings from South America, which fully showed the identity of the owner and the wood carvings.

He was watching, a hearty laugh came from behind the screen, and then a short old man in a Confucian robe appeared in front of Shen Mo, if he hadn't seen his portrait, Shen Mo would have even doubted this. The old man with an unattractive appearance and a gray beard is Wang Zhi, the old shipowner who crisscrosses the four seas and threatens the southeast.

Wang Zhi was also looking at Shen Mo, and he was also extremely surprised in his heart, although he had already known Shen Mo's age. But when I saw him in person, I was still extremely surprised, and I couldn't imagine that the big man who built the city, opened the sea ban, developed commerce and trade, set up Shanghai, and collected Xu Hai "made far-reaching big things, so young.

The emotion in his heart did not affect the movements of the two, and he bowed his hand silently and politely: "Are you the old ship owner?" ”

It was in Xia Wang who returned the salute with a straight smile, and his accent was very similar to Hu Zongxian.

"I have admired the name of the old shipowner for a long time, and I finally saw it today, really, it is better to meet than to be famous."

"Each other, each other." Wang Zhi invited Shen Mo to sit down and said, "The old man admires the prestige of Lord Shen even more. It's really a hero from ancient times, and the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves. ”

Hearing him regard himself as a senior, Shen Mo knew that he felt that he was too young, so he smiled and said: "Old ship owner, we have been friends for a long time, through Brother Haifeng." I have also dealt with each other many times, so we should know each other well. You don't think I'm a junior, so I have some prejudices. ”

"Of course not, Lord Shen is famous, and the old man admires him very much" Wang Zhi smiled and said, "Let's talk while eating." As he spoke, he clapped his hands, and two women in curvaceous kimonos came in from the outside and lined up the beautiful utensils in front of them. After a silent look, it turned out that the old shipowner had a treat to Japanese food.

Under the service of the kimono woman, the two cleaned their hands. Wang Zhi smiled and said: "When people are old, they prefer light. I fell in love with Japanese food, although it originated in China, but there are many unique and exquisite features. So this time, I specially invited the most famous Japanese chef in Kyoto to cook a kaiseki dish for Lord Shen. ”

Shen Mo nodded and smiled, "Understood." "The first one to come up is the "pay first" appetizer. It is a small, delicate cube-shaped dish of yam soup, placed on a cyan disk and topped with a special mile-shaped sauce, which looks so delicate that people can't bear to eat it. There was also a small pile of mustard on the side, and Wang Zhi thought he didn't know what it was, so he introduced, "This thing." Gotta dip this and eat it. As he spoke, he covered up his silence for a while, and said with an exaggerated look of appreciation on his face: "It's really delicious." In fact, he was spicy with mustard, and scolded in his heart: "Those cooks, let you make mustard spicy, and you can't be spicy to death, right?" But for the silence, I am full of expectations.

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Shen Mo nodded, and after looking at it a little, Wang Zhi encouraged again: "Dip more, dip more to taste."

Silence dipped the squares in green as he said. Only then did it slowly enter the mouth.

Have pity on the monk who is going to take wedding photos this week. Da Gama opened up a new route to Western Europe and India, Columbus discovered that the global voyage of Chewing Ruler and Magellan had been completed, and all these great names have been lost, in exchange for the Franc people in Africa, western India, and the Spaniards in South America to colonize and plunder.

So the current Ocean II is still the world of Spain and Franco, as for the future powers. Queen Elizabeth I of England has just ascended the throne. He still doesn't know where the future lies, and he even hates those dirty and evil pirates; The Dutch Revolution was brewing, and the Netherlands had not yet been born; And the French Emperor Henry IX had just ascended the throne, and his powerful and ambitious mother Catherine. will plunge the country into twenty years of civil strife. Overall, the top three in the UK, the Netherlands and France. is still in the state of soy sauce, not much higher than Daming.

Compare. ten thousand

Figuring out this, Shen Mo's heart became eager, he wanted to urge Daming to catch up, and he must not miss the second wave of the market.

On the second day of the sea voyage, Shen Mo was having dinner with Xavier, and Sanchi handed him a color at the door, Shen Mo nodded understandingly, and said, "Today, the bird fades out of my mouth, bring my bottle of treasured good wine." ”

Sanchi brought up a delicate wine bottle, and when he opened the lid, the rich aroma of wine wafted out, making Xavier twitch his nose slightly, and silently took the wine bottle. As if he suddenly remembered something, he asked, "I forgot to ask." Is it permissible to drink alcohol on a mission? ”

Xavier smiled and said, "As long as you don't do anything that affects the image of the clergy, and you don't get drunk and drunk," he said, explaining: "Actually, I didn't drink alcohol before, but I traveled by sea all year round, so I didn't drink a little."

"Drinking a little wine is good for the joints," Shen smiled understandingly, and then poured a glass for Xavier and said, "This was given to me by the Governor of the Southeast back then." There's only this one bottle left, let's drink it. ”

Xavier said happily: "Then you're welcome." So the two drank glass after glass, and after a while, Xavier was drunk and hazy, and said, "How did my alcohol become smaller?" ”

Shen Mo smiled and said, "It's because this wine is so good." ”

"Oh," Xavier nodded, and fell asleep on the table.

Shen Mo called him twice, but there was no response. He nodded to Sanchi, and three feet ago, he helped Xavier up and carried him to the bottom of the bilge with another guard.

After a while. Sanchi came back and asked silently, "No problem, right?" ”

"Don't worry, my lord, this is the thousand-day drunk left by Mr. Li" Sanqi patted his chest and said: "Although it drops less, it's no problem to sleep for two or three days." ”

"I'm asking if he's okay?" Said silently.

"It's okay" Sanchi smiled: "Have you forgotten?" You also drank it back then, and that time Imperial Doctor Li gave a lot more than this time. ”

"That's fine." Shen Mo nodded, and said with a straight face: "Are they coming?" ”

"I've already connected with their outpost," Sanchi said, "That guy is out of nowhere, and I don't know when he will appear." ”

"Hehe, what should come will always come."

"But they asked to talk to their ship, saying that our ship was too small and not as spacious as theirs."

"It's the same everywhere." Shen Mohun didn't care: "This vast sea is his heaven and earth." If you want to deal with me, it's the same everywhere. He whispered, "Help me change my clothes." ”

"Yes." Sanchi hurriedly helped Shen Mo comb his hair and put on his shoes, put on a well-cut cloth robe, and when his hair was covered by black yarn, Shen Mo sighed softly and said, "I feel that all the pressure is back on my body." ”

Sanchi laughed softly: "My lord, he should be the one who is under pressure, even if we can't negotiate, we have no loss." ”

Shen Mo shook his head and said lightly: "You don't understand." ”

When approaching the silent double-decker ship, it was like a mountain pressing over, and you had to hold your head high to see the lower deck of the house, as for the upper floors, you can't see it at all, I'm afraid it's smaller than Zheng He's treasure ship, and it's full of oppression. Looking at the ship again, every floor was full of strong men with weapons in their hands, bright armor, and neat queues, and this ship had at least 2,000 men.

Silence couldn't help but shake his head on his own boat. There are less than 30 boatmen and guards, and I don't know what the other party is doing with so many people.

While he was pondering, he heard three cannon shots on the ship, then a whining horn, and then a shout from all the men on the boat, which shook his ears and said what is this? Give me a horse?

After this burst of gongs and drums, I heard someone on the boat shouting: "Please come aboard!" Then the ladder was lowered.

But seeing the three-zhang tall soft body, three feet is in trouble, this thing is dangling in the sea, how can adults climb? What if you accidentally step on the air, or climb on it and make it bad?

At this moment of hesitation, another shout was shouted: "Please board the ship!" ”

"Come on." Shen Mo said lightly: "Why don't you just climb a ladder, I'm too old to be afraid to go up." ”

"But what should they do if they are good or bad?" Three feet is a problem.

"They dare." Shen Mo snorted and said, "I'm afraid."