The Great Eastern soon sailed out of the dock where the water was filled, raised all the sails in Hangzhou Bay, while the heavy oil in the twelve boilers was burning, and soon the three horizontal steam engines all reached their maximum power, and under the joint drive of the propellers, paddle wheels and sails, they rode the wind and waves to the mouth of the Yangtze River amid the exclamations of countless onlookers at sea, and then it will sail along the Yangtze River to the berth in Nanjing, where it will undergo a two-year interior renovation. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In two years, it will be official.

His Majesty the Emperor, of course.

Emperor Yang will set out in two years to inspect the Ming Dynasty.

This place does not refer to any province, but to the entire Ming Empire, which will follow the Ryukyus and Goryeo from Yingtian to the northernmost city of Okseong, which is currently only a military observatory, and some fur merchants live during the thaw season, which is actually the original historical Russian Anadyr. However, this is only the northernmost province of the Ming Dynasty, but it is not the northernmost settlement, the northernmost settlement of the Ming Dynasty is on the west bank of the Bering Strait or the current name of the Xuanwu Strait, which is the original historical Russian Provizinia, where the Dali Temple has a felony prison.

An unguarded prison.

All the prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment are thrown there directly, and then issued a smoothbore gun, an axe, a knife, a hook and fishing line, and the rest is solved by yourself, the houses are all wooden houses made of big wood, and the food is there, but it will definitely not last for a few months, if you don't want to starve to death, you can go hunting by yourself! The garrison of Jade City usually goes to inspect once a year, but will not give any supplies, of course, if you have animal skins and other things, you can exchange them with accompanying merchants, such as exchanging food, weapons, ammunition, fishing gear, etc., but there is no official free supply. Anyway, if you want to run casually at other times, it is cold at minus 50 degrees in winter, and there are more brown bears than mosquitoes in summer, if you are not afraid of death, you can run well, except for the thousands of miles near Yucheng, you can't find a living person, but if you dare to go to Yucheng, then the fugitive can be killed directly. In winter, if you are not afraid of dying after the ice freezes, you can walk across the strait to find the Eskimos, but only if you don't freeze into popsicles in a snowstorm or starve to death on the way.

Now the Ming Dynasty does the same thing when dealing with prisoners.

There are no more prisons in the country.

What do you want to do in prison?

You have to provide food and clothing for the prisoners, and you have to feed a lot of jailers and guards, all of which are money, and the imprisonment itself is very contrary to the way of benevolence and righteousness, especially life imprisonment is even more inconsistent with the teachings of the Holy Religion, the Holy Religion regards all believers as equal, how can a person be imprisoned in a cage for a lifetime to reflect equality? But throwing it into the wilderness is much more equal.

So now the vast majority of criminals are sentenced to exile.

And choose the place of exile according to the severity of the crime, throw those thieves and the like to the West Golden State, give bags of seeds, hoes and hoes, cultivate their own land to feed themselves, throw them into the North Sea like those robberies, and give them an axe to a smoothbore gun, and go to be with brown bears, Siberian tigers, money leopards or something, if the sentence is up, they are not starved to death, they are eaten by wild beasts, and they are dragged to barbecue by cannibals.

Then, go home!

As for the death penalty......

If the victim's consent is obtained, that one will also be thrown, after all, the Holy Pilgrimage is compassionate, and if he can, he should try not to kill it, just throw it at Alaska, and after throwing it, he will never care about it again.

Now Alaska is also marked on the map of the Ming Dynasty, including the Yukon Territory of Canada, which is now part of the Ming Dynasty, and not long ago an expedition team sailed up the Yukon River, and it is said that gold sands were found upstream, and there are already gold diggers eager to try it. In fact, if it weren't for the Ming Dynasty's world map had spread, Europeans wouldn't know what these places were, and Alaska hadn't been explored by Danish explorers for the first time in history until 1741.

Of course, Yang Feng's planned journey was as far north as Jade City.

Then he would sail to the Golden Mountains, and from there, to the Golden States, and then to Egypt, in short, to complete a voyage that was almost like a circumnavigation of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and to complete the tour of his incomparably vast empire.

Indeed, the Ming Dynasty at this time can be described as extremely huge, even if the Mongolian Empire at that time, it cannot be compared with the Ming Dynasty at this time, after all, the Mongols did not conquer Southeast Asia, nor did they conquer Bangladesh and other places, as for Jinzhou, not to mention, although the territory of the Mongols also includes Central Asia and West Asia and Eastern Europe, but the area is still not as large as the Ming at this time.

In other words, just one Golden State, that is more than 7 million square kilometers!

If you count Jinshan and Alaska, which is directly included in Yukon, plus Egypt, at this time, the Ming Dynasty has already spanned three continents, Asia, the United States and Africa, plus the Golden State, it spans four continents, from the west coast of the Indian Ocean in the west to the east coast of the Pacific Ocean in the east, north to the North Pole and south to the South Pole......

"Your Majesty, Chen Yan's task force reports that they have arrived at their destination, please give your Majesty a name there!"

An attendant said to Yang Feng.

At this time, His Majesty the Emperor was standing in the command tower of the Great Eastern with his hands behind his back, looking out the window at Chongming Island, which was gradually approaching, several merchant ships full of goods were retreating from both sides, at this time the Yangtze River had become the busiest shipping channel in the Ming Dynasty and even the world, and all kinds of merchant ships shuttled every day, and even the merchant ships of South America could be seen in Shanghai Port.

"What is Chen Yan's knighthood?"

Yang Feng said.

"Yongxing man."

The squire said.

"Then it's called Woody Island, bring the map!"

Yang Feng said.

The attendant hurriedly took a world map, and then unfolded it in front of him, and another attendant handed a red pen to His Majesty the Emperor very well, and then saw His Majesty the Emperor draw a circle on the map with a big stroke, and then threw the pen, and at the same time that the attendant caught the pen very quickly, he said with a heroic face: "Decree that all maps in the country will be replaced free of charge, and the Ming Dynasty has expanded its territory again!" ”

The squire didn't speak, but quickly circled the map, and then went to deliver the message.

It is said that the update speed of the map of the Ming Dynasty is getting faster and faster, almost several times a year, so every map sold has a special record, for the domestic ones are replaced free of charge by the royal family, in fact, the map is only the royal family has the right to print and sell, this thing is not just anyone can sell it, and ordinary people don't even have the right to see it in the past.

A few hours later, on a coast tens of thousands of miles away from the Ming Dynasty, several Ming soldiers wearing bearskin robes carried a freshly carved stone tablet and put it into a soil pit that had also just been dug up, and then began to fill in the soil, and under the sun and moon emblem on this stone tablet were five big characters......

Yongxing Island, Daming.

An officer, also dressed in a polar bear skin robe, carried a small seal that was constantly screaming and struggling, and looked into the distance with emotion, behind him the blue sea was endless and turbulent, thousands of seals on the shore were leisurely basking in the sun, and under his feet, the verdant green was spread like a carpet, and from time to time various seabirds could be seen flying up and down in this green, and in the direction he looked far away, the white snow-capped mountains towered into the sky.

"Ma's, if it weren't too cold, I would have believed it when it was said that this was a fairyland."

He said with emotion.

Then he threw the little seal in his hand to the orderly beside him and said, "Take it and roast it!" ”

Well, this place should have been called South Georgia Island in the original history, as for the circle drawn by Emperor Yang, what was encircled was actually the entire Antarctic continent, and from this day on, Antarctica officially became the inherent territory of the Ming Empire. This sounds quite frustrating in modern times, but in this era, whoever discovers it first is whoever, the Ming Dynasty was the first to reach the South Pole, and the Ming fleet was the first to complete the survey of the Antarctic ice sheet, so it is fully qualified to say that this frozen continent belongs to the Ming Dynasty, who has an opinion......

If anyone has an opinion, first see if their fists are as big as Emperor Yang.

In other words, there is no one in this world whose fist is bigger than him, although the map is indeed a little speechless, but as the most powerful emperor in the world, the line he drew on the map has legal significance, he divided the entire Antarctica into the territory of the Ming Dynasty, then the entire Antarctica belongs to the Ming Dynasty, and any attempt to dye the Arctica without permission is an invasion of the Ming Empire.

Next, he will build a permanent research base here, although this place is actually quite far from Antarctica, but Emperor Yang's goal is not Antarctica.

"My lord, where are we going next?"

An officer walked up to Chen Yan and asked.

"Next, continue west."

Chen Yan said.

"To the west is a Spanish colony."

The officer reminded him that if he went west, it was the South American continent, which was already a Spanish colony, and there was no more ownerless land to use to put up signs, and they only did this kind of work along the way, and even several small islands at the tail of Antarctica were planted with Ming signs, but unfortunately the place was full of ice floes, and a cruiser was almost sunk by an iceberg in order to insert a brand.

"No, there's another place."

Chen Yan grabbed a penguin by the neck with great interest, and said in the latter's frightened and desperate struggle.

The officer didn't say anything more, saluted and left, and Commander Chen took the penguin and looked at it for a while, not knowing whether it was softened by the cuteness that softened Xie's evil heart, or whether he remembered that it didn't taste good when he ate it before, and then threw it aside, and the poor penguin got up as fast as he could, stumbling into the distance.

The next day, the Ming fleet left Woody Island after leaving a small detachment, and a few days later they planted the sign of Taiping Island on another large island in the west, which originally had a very loud name in history......

Falkland Islands, or Malvinas. (To be continued.) )