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As the Princess Anna gradually sailed away from the shore, the sailors were still cheering at the two boulders that left Zhu Youzhen's "Mobao". Zhang Huangyan, the www.biquge.info of pen & fun & pavilion, smiled a little embarrassedly, with the eyes of a literati like him who has been studying since childhood, the emperor's two strokes are really not complimentary, and I am afraid that they are not much better than children who have just started to learn characters. However, since the soldiers thought it was good, he naturally inconvenienced everyone.

However, the four big characters at this moment made Zhang Huangyan fall into deep thought. It is not the words "Tianya" and "Haijiao", but "starting point" and ""!

This is really a little prank of Zhu Youzhen on history. He traveled to Sanya in his previous life, and naturally went to the end of the world scenic spot, knowing that the history of these words is not too long, the word "Tianya" was engraved during the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, and "Haijiao" was engraved later, during the Republic of China. During the Chongzhen period, there were no words on those two boulders.

However, the saying "the end of the world" has long existed, such as the last sentence of the Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi's "Song of Long Hatred": "The end of the earth is sometimes exhausted, and this hatred is endless." The ancients used "the end of the earth" to describe the far away places, which is quite a bit of "the end of the world". For China at that time, Qiongzhou, that is, Hainan Island, was the land of this "end of the earth".

But even for the current era, it is no longer appropriate to call this place "the end of the earth". The great geographical discoveries are nearing completion, and the distant continents that used to be separated by the seas are becoming more and more closely linked by the merchant ships and warships of various countries.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen deliberately replaced the words "Tianya" and "Haijiao" with the words "starting point" and "Haijiao", and engraved them on these two boulders. The starting point is the name of two well-known websites in the 21st century, of course, moving here is a bit of a spoof, Zhu Youzhen's intentions are twofold:

First, since you plan to change history, of course, you should let history deviate as far as possible from its original trajectory, so that it is possible to succeed. So even in such an inconspicuous small place, Zhu Youzhen deliberately made it different from history, maybe it could produce a butterfly effect and make the development of history completely different.

The second is that the starting point and the meaning of the two names themselves are also very good. The ancients took the end of the earth as the end point, but Zhu Youjian regarded this place as the starting point, that is, to tell everyone that the Chinese cannot stop here, but must go to a broader world; Naturally, it is to tell all sailors to fight the sea with courage and optimism, only in this way can they conquer the raging sea and be victorious wherever they go.

The enemy is not the earth, the moon learns, so the skills are revealed

After leaving Qiongzhou, the Princess Anna immediately headed for the first destination it planned, which was the Paracel Islands. This was specially explained by Zhu Youzhen before the departure, and Anna agreed, but the Paracel Islands were not on the route often taken by the Portuguese, which may be one of the reasons why the Portuguese fleet was reluctant to follow the agreed route.

The reason why Zhu Youzhen insisted on going to the Xisha Islands first was because the Xisha Islands were originally China's inherent territory. thought that he and Li Zhenyan were alone and left on the island, and they did not forget to erect a monument to declare their sovereignty; Now that the North Sea Fleet is finally available, the work of declaring sovereignty naturally cannot be saved. Once the sovereignty monument is erected, I don't know how much trouble it will save future generations, so even if the Princess Anna sails for this purpose, it is completely worth it.

The second reason is more realistic, and it is directly related to Zhu Youzhen's plan for ocean-going trade with Southeast Asian countries and even other countries in the world. From the history he knew, and from what he learned from Princess Anna, whether it was Portugal, Spain, England, or the Netherlands, the pace of their expansion from home to overseas was "checkers".

To put it simply, due to the influence of objective factors such as climate and the endurance of the ship, in this era, it is impossible for a ship to sail directly from Europe to East Asia without stopping along the way, and there must be a foothold in the middle to avoid the storm to replenish fresh water and food. The European powers, on the other hand, opened up colonies, conquered each chosen foothold by force, then emigrated to the area, and forced the natives to serve them.

Take Portugal as an example, from Europe to Africa, there are colonial cities such as Madeira, Cape Verde-Bissau, Accra, Sao Tome and Principe, Luanda, Mozambique, Mombasa, and Asia, including Goa in India, Malacca in Southeast Asia, and Macau, which has just been regained sovereignty by the Ming Dynasty. With these colonial cities, the Portuguese established a stable shipping route, and in addition to trade, whenever two colonial cities were located on the same land, they could quickly transmit news through flying pigeons.

And Zhu Youzhen believes that China must not follow the path of colonial expansion of the West, otherwise how will it be different from those robbers? Throughout history, even though the colonial countries of Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom were in a state of glory, and Britain was known as the "empire on which the sun never sets", colonial rule was unpopular after all, and in the end it was just a bamboo basket for nothing. What Zhu Youzhen wants is the long-term prosperity of the Chinese nation, so naturally he can't follow the Portuguese ass Handan.

The knot is not far away, and the feathers of Chayang have been in trouble for a long time

But this raises some practical problems. For example, if we plan to carry out trade with Siam and other countries, it is very dangerous for both warships and merchant ships to travel thousands of miles by waterway from Hainan Island to Siam and other places, and there is no foothold in between.

The country sandwiched between the Ming Dynasty and Siam is Annam, which was originally very advantageous in geographical location and is most suitable for ocean-going ships to dock, but the relationship between the Ming Dynasty and Annam has always been not harmonious, and there have been many wars. Although the successive kings of Annam verbally recognized the Ming Dynasty as the suzerain, because of several battles, the Ming army lost troops and suffered a lot of losses, so Annam actually did not take the Ming Dynasty seriously.

Moreover, Annam is expansionist and is now eyeing Siam Chenla and other countries. Under these circumstances, it was impossible to set up a transit point on the coast of Annam, so Zhu Youzhen could only settle for the next best thing and choose the islands in the South China Sea.

The closest island to Qiongzhou is, of course, the Xisha Islands. Although the Princess Anna has never been to this area, many of the new Egg Owners who have joined the Navy have been here, are familiar with this area, and have discussed and drawn a chart together. It took less than a day to reach the southernmost island in the Paracel Islands: Luo Island.