"We followed the Kuroshio to the New World, and we saw a lot of huge whales along the way, and they were very kind, they were not afraid of our boat, and some of them would come close to us to get a boat, and I always felt as if they were paying attention to us. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Won't they eat you?" A child was so nervous that he grabbed his mother's hand and asked in a low voice, "They won't eat people, they will only become Peng birds, this is the Kunpeng that Zhuangzi lobbied freely." "No, it will eat people, won't the white whale in Moby Dick turn the top of the ship over?"

One interjected, and several children had to discuss whether these whales would eat people, whether they would become pengnia, and they could hear that several slaughter statues were full of black lines on their heads and faces, and what was taught in this royal education. Li Chen listened with a smile.

He just wants to cultivate children's imagination, so he told them a lot of novels, including many legends on the sea, some are picture books, and some are stories told by Li Chen, like Moby Dick, the old man and the sea.

Imagination, he thinks it's very important, and whatever you do, you need it. The development of science also needs to be imaginative. Bold assumptions, careful verification, assumptions, is the representation of imagination.

Science needs to be rigorous to verify, but it also needs to be imaginative. It's like in the fog, you're groping your way forward, imagining where the road ahead might be. To be more specific, it's like a blind man touching an elephant, it's ridiculous for a blind man to touch an elephant, but science is like a blind man touching an elephant.

The theory of relativity is represented by the blind man touching the elephant. Although many of them are Einstein's utopian dreams, some things have been proven wrong in 201x, such as nothing faster than the speed of light, and the European particle collision experiment has confirmed that there are particles that are faster than light.

However, Einstein still relied on this fantasy to point out the way forward. Gravitational waves have been confirmed, as well as the photoelectric effect. Without this great imagination, the progress of human science would have come to a standstill.

"Okay, children, let's continue to talk to Brother Cheng, let's discuss, and then discuss it after listening." "Okay." "Got it." , Li Chen smiled to stop them from continuing to imagine, the children had to agree, and Li Chengtai, who smiled bitterly, could continue.

"After drifting along the ocean currents for several months, I finally arrived at the New World, and I first followed the edge of the continent, surveying and exploring various things along the way."

Li Chengtai, to the princes and daughters, Li Chen's concubines, ministers, etc., recounted the encounters along the way, along the Kuroshio, and they successfully arrived in the New World in half a year. Then they began to set up camp and set up camp.

They followed the tide and found a nice camp, which they named New Tang. This place is located on the edge of the Kuroshio Current, and you can quickly ride the ocean current on the way back. It is also possible to get here by following the currents, and building a stronghold here will be of great help to colonize the New World.

"The New Tang Dynasty is simply the best base for colonizing the New World. God is helping us.'" Li Chengtai sighed. In addition to the convenience of colonization in the future, the new stronghold should also consider security, this place, there is a bay, natural breakwater.

Then there are mountains surrounding this harbor nearby, and there is clear water on the mountains, and they only need to build a fence to defend it, and externally, there is only one road, and it is an excellent defense stronghold.

This is what would become Acapoca, where the Spaniards set out on their way to Asia in the 16th century. Not only is the geographical location just at the end of the ocean current, but it is also a natural harbor, and it is also convenient to defend, easy to defend and difficult to attack, suitable for a few people to settle down.

"We first built the camp together, and it became two roads, the two ships were very difficult to go up against the Kuroshio, the same was to explore along the coast, after the initial difficult voyage, caught a current, and went around a large circle along the mainland, along the road was covered with heavy snow and frozen, and there were no traces, and we saw a huge iceberg dozens of times larger than the ship, and the height was higher than the Chang'an city wall."

"Fortunately, there was a warning from the saint that the iceberg was only a small corner, and we didn't go closer, but only sent a small boat to approach slowly, and sure enough, under the surface of the sea, the hidden part was bigger than what could be seen from the sea. It's good that I didn't get close, otherwise no matter how big or strong the ship is, it will sink. And the road followed the current, and made a great turn, and returned to the starting point."

"We caught the Kuroshio Current nearby." , Speaking of this, he felt very strange, these were not discovered by them, it was Li Chen who said it.

As for the Kuroshio, I have long found out that there is a darker area, but no one knows where this area leads, and why there is such a strange place in the ocean. But Li Chen knew.

Li Chen told them that this was the result of the rotation of the earth and the sun's rays on the equator. The water at high temperatures will flow to places with low temperatures, and at low temperatures, it will also flow to places with high temperatures.

Li Chengtai is very strange, when he heard Li Chen say it before, he didn't feel it, he just felt that his uncle was very knowledgeable, but later, more and more teachers taught them, plus his own personal experience, he knew that Li Chen taught a lot of things, which were not in books.

Like this trend, it will divide into two roads, one to the north and one to the south, which is absolutely not in the book. Also, there are many special crops in the New World, and Li Chen has not yet arrived, so he designated them to find them.

That map, Li Chen hypothesized that it came from heaven, but he actually knew what was going on. These do not hinder his respect for his uncle, without Li Chen, they may have died a long time ago.

Even if he can survive, he probably won't be a good person, and he will have no chance to realize his ideals. For Li Chen's abnormal appearance, the kind of knowledge that he saw only added a little awe to him, and the kind of person who was born to know as said in the book was definitely Li Chen.

"Then, our camp will be in danger." , Li Chengtai painted a voice and a picture, describing what happened to them, if they stayed in place, it would be considered a road, they were actually divided into three routes, two ships to the north, two ships to the south, and a boat of people stayed in place.

Staying in place is not nothing, they have to explore the local situation, collect crop seeds, and the most important thing is that Li Chen said that there are a few crops, and others can be abandoned, those high-yield crops must be obtained. Then, when I went out on an expedition, I met the local natives.

"They will eat people, and they will sacrifice people to the gods." , Li Chengtai said viciously, and scared several children into their mother's arms.

"Have you met the Mayans?" , Hearing them say this, combined with Li Chen's memory, there is no doubt that they met the Mayans.

"Yes, the area is divided into several city-states, and when we met them, we first found some abandoned villages and towns. I don't know why they abandoned it.'"

Li Chen nodded, if I remember correctly, it was around this time that the Mayans abandoned the place where they originally lived. They originally lived in the central part of the country, more near the Pacific Ocean, and migrated to the Gulf of Mexico, near the east coast.

According to Li Chengtai's description, it is probably because the local area has been burned many times, the fertility of the land has been exhausted, and there is not much to grow, and the population is increasing, so they have to migrate.

"Why abandon? We don't know, it's a simple communication, and we got from there a few high-yielding crops that the saint pointed out.'"

Speaking of this, everyone was surprised, no one had ever been there, they were the first batch of outsiders, how did Li Chen know. But Mr. Li ignored the crops, saying that the locals grow crops and produce surprisingly high yields.

"Although their farming skills are backward, they also have merit." He kept a detailed record of how they were grown. It is a three-dimensional way to reach the limit of farmland utilization.

Corn was the main crop in the field, and then there were three crops in the same field. Corn, beans and pumpkin. Corn provides space for bean vines to climb, and bean vines attach to corn stalks without hindering corn growth.

Then there is the pumpkin, the pumpkin grows on the ground, not only the field is more productive, but also can prevent only weeds, the local people grow these crops, unlike the Datang farmers, but also carefully remove the grass, pumpkin spread, can have achieved the effect.

Li Chen nodded when he heard it, sure enough, any civilization has its own uniqueness. This practice not only has a high yield on farmland and saves labor, but also has a greater meaning.

The local rainfall is heavy, and if rice is planted, farmers have to pull weeds all day long, so it is much easier to plant pumpkins. And legumes can fertilize the field, and planting beans is used as fertilizer. What's more, beans are nutritious and can supplement the insufficient part of corn, corn and pumpkin are high in calories, and beans just supplement the lack of nutrients.

That night, the Hanyuan Hall was brightly lit, and healthy women kept coming in to add lamp oil, and the New World had all kinds of encounters, making people reluctant to leave.

After the local people met the natives, the natives launched a fierce attack on them, but unfortunately, for a group of natives who don't want to talk about iron tools and don't even know how to use bronze tools, the whole body is wrapped in iron armor and the Tang people, like a god descending into the world.

"They were terrified to death when they saw the horses and wagons we had worked so hard to carry." , Li Chengtai said with a smile, the local natives, they have never even seen horses, seeing them riding out of the horses, they were scared on the spot, they easily defeated the natives with more than ten people, hundreds of people.

"Haha. It's stupid.'" A few children laughed, and a few prime ministers were also amused, and Li Deyu asked, "There are no horses in the local area?"

"Nope." Li Chengtai shook his head with a smile, "Actually, after several years of exploration, they have no horses, no sheep, and no pigs. There are almost no large mammals. There were a lot of bison, and then there was a very cute animal in the Southern Continent, and we brought back a few of them, but unfortunately they didn't survive along the way, and they died."

America is really strange, there are no big mammals, in the past movies you can see Indians galloping on horseback, in fact, it was brought by Europeans, North America doesn't even have horses. The most numerous are bison. Then there is the kind of sheep that the Incas in Central and South America raised, known as mythical beasts.

"The people there don't even know how to use wheels, and the alpacas are too petite and don't have a lot of gravity, but no one even thinks of matching wheels."

According to Li Chengtai's description of the situation, everyone is very tempted, it is very rich, gold and silver, they are not very useful, and they are very backward, very, very, very backward.

According to Li Chen's description, they explored the New World, and the only difference from Li Chen's description was that they did not meet Li Chen's country called the Inca Empire in the Southern Continent, but only lived on the plateau, raising sheep and carrying several tribes.

This is also Li Chen's lack of learning, in fact, at this time, the Inca Empire has not appeared at all, and once Li Chengtai and others thought that they had gone to the wrong place.

The only more advanced thing in the whole of America was the Mayans who lived in the Middle Continent, and they had city-states, but they didn't even have a big kingdom. The same is true of the Northern Continent, where the natives are simply running after the bison.

They live in the plains, divided into many tribes, poorer than the southern continent, the southern continent will also raise sheep and packs, the aborigines of the northern continent, will only follow the bison to migrate, not even domesticated bison, agriculture is even more pitiful, only close to the middle continent, learned a little bit of corn planting technology.

Over there, the Tang people are simply invincible, wearing iron armor, and can use crossbow arrows to win the Tang people, and are feared by everyone, from north to south. There are often a few people, and they chase dozens or hundreds of people. A team of 100 people can easily defeat a tribe of 10,000 people.

Hearing such a description, several of the statues twisted their beards, not knowing what they were thinking. However, even if they didn't say it, Li Chen could guess it. The prime ministers who have experienced the explosion of population and the impact of the Tang Dynasty are all thinking about how to conquer the primitive, undeveloped, and extremely rich land.

"Ah~." , Li Zi yawned greatly, I don't know how late it is this day, in order not to disturb people's dreams, Chang'an City and the newly established bell tower in the country are seven in the morning and seven in the evening.

The first sound is at 7 a.m., and the last sound is at 7 p.m. After all, in this era, many people go to bed early. Although it is common to wake up early, there are also people who sleep late. So, after seven o'clock in the evening, I don't know when I don't look at the clock.

"It's time to sleep, it's time to sleep, if you have anything to say, let's talk about it tomorrow, I want to read it in more detail, read the Suncheon Daily in a few days, and get the New World Plus issue."

Li Chen drove people away, he didn't sleep so late, hindering the child's sleep, the New World issue, not a day or two can be discussed.

On this night, Li Chen slept peacefully, and when the expedition team returned, he was also relieved. Although he lost some people because he underestimated the natives, his purpose was achieved. The affairs of the New World have attracted almost everyone's attention, and looking at the hearts of those prime ministers, we can know that the development of the New World is not a problem.

This night, many people had no sleep. And with the spread of news about the New World, more and more people are tickled by the New World. And Li Chengtai returned to Datang, rested for more than ten days, and took the initiative to find Li Chen to ask for help.

"Sage, I heard that Datang has organized another fleet." , For more than ten days in a row, he was invited over, invited over, and he began to look for trouble, for the sake of Li Chen's fleet, especially this fleet with other tasks.