"The ocean, the new frontier of the Great Song Dynasty. This is the voyage of our Poseidon, and its mission is to explore unknown new worlds, find new life and new civilizations, and bravely sail to unprecedentedly accessible territories. ”

This is a speech delivered by Zhao Weiji when he gave the practice of the new giant ship Poseidon, which is about to set sail to explore the American continent. He had been waiting for this day for a long time, and as long as he could discover the American continent, his plan would be half successful.

In the past few years, Zhao Weiji can be said to have invested most of his financial resources in the construction of new ships, and in order to ensure that he can find the American continent smoothly, he has invested a lot of financial, material and energy in navigation. In order to ensure success, he did not seek re-election as president of the chamber of commerce. Except for Zhao Yuanxi's retaliation, all the other time was devoted to preparing for the voyage.

In order to ensure the supply of food, Zhao Weiji used his glass industry to develop canned food production technology, and a large number of canned food was produced. And in order to prevent the occurrence of scurvy, Zhao Weiji specially ordered people to make a large number of canned oranges.

When all the preparations are in place, the voyage is about to begin. Since Zhao Weiji couldn't pull away from the Central Plains at all, the main leader of this voyage mission was Wang Dayuan.

In order to facilitate Wang Dayuan's navigation, Zhao Weiji specially turned out the approximate Pacific current route from his memory and told Wang Dayuan that as long as he sailed to the Ryukyus after going to sea, and then moved along the direction of the ocean, he should be able to reach the New World. But because Zhao Weiji gave an ambiguous method, this voyage was still a huge challenge for Wang Dayuan, because no one dared to take this route that no one had ever walked before.

In this way, Wang Dayuan left Yangshan Port with a boatload of people, with a yearning and anxiety for mystery, and sailed towards the unknown.

When Wang Dayuan led the Poseidon to set off, Zhao Weiji's work at this stage finally came to an end, as for Zhao Yuanxi's side, it was not that he didn't want to push Zhao Yuanxi into the abyss with his own hands, but at this stage, he couldn't do more things for the time being, waiting for Zhao Yuanxi's self-destruction was the only thing Zhao Weiji could do.

It's just that what Zhao Weiji didn't expect was that this day came so quickly.

Yelu Mo made a move, and the smartest man in Liao saw Zhao Yuanxi's loss of power and decided to use him to help Liao once to add some chaos to the Great Song Dynasty, so he sent Liao's fine work to try to contact Zhao Yuanxi.

On this day, Zhao Yuanxi was bored in the mansion when he suddenly heard a subordinate report that he was a businessman. This made Zhao Yuanxi very angry, no matter how much my rights were elevated, it would not be my turn to communicate with businessmen.

Just as he was about to ask his subordinates to drive the man away, the subordinate handed over a thing, and his face immediately changed when he saw the thing, and then he quickly ordered his subordinates to invite the man into the house.

The thing that arrived in Zhao Yuanxi's hand was nothing else, it was the wolf head waist card that symbolized a certain level of Liao.

If it was the previous Zhao Yuanxi, when he saw this waist card, he would definitely ask his subordinates to quickly drive this Liao State away from him, and even notify the relevant departments to arrest that person directly.

But now it's different, the current Zhao Yuanxi hates Zhao Guangyi, and he is gradually losing his rights, so now he doesn't care about any damage caused by Liao's fine work in the Great Song Dynasty, and even he is very curious about why Liao's fine work came to find him, the so-called prince who has lost power.

After the person brought the man into the living room, Zhao Yuanxi did not serve tea, but just sat on the main seat without saying a word, because he wanted to see what the Liao people came to him for.

But what he didn't expect was that that Liao Guo's fine work was calmer than him. He saw that Zhao Yuanxi didn't say a word, he didn't say a word, sat on the seat and began to play with a copper coin.

The two of them held each other for a long time in this strange silence, and finally Zhao Yuanxi couldn't help it, and spoke first: "What are you doing in this Liao country?" ”

The Liao State fine work was revealed by Zhao Yuanxi, and he didn't care about it, and replied casually: "House? What house? Don't you go to the yamen every day to sit in the palace? ”

"You!" Liao Guo's meticulous words choked Zhao Yuanxu enough. Indeed, after his rights were gradually elevated, there was no need to go to the yamen, so he could only be bored at home every day.

"I came to find the prince because I have a business that I want to do with the prince, I wonder if the prince is interested?" After saying a sarcastic remark, the Khitan man didn't give Zhao Yuanxi any time to breathe, and directly said the purpose of the future.

Hearing the next words of the Khitans, Zhao Yuanxi couldn't care about getting angry, he needed to think about what use value he still had to be worth the Khitans to come to do business with him.

Just when he was still thinking about it, the Khitan man seemed to see through Zhao Yuanxi's thoughts and said: "The prince doesn't need to think about it much, the reason why we came to the prince to do business is just because our Emperor Daliao can't bear to see an excellent prince who has no source of livelihood in the future because of the loss of power." ”

Of course, this is just the rhetoric of the Khitans, and Zhao Yuanxi will not believe it, but since he must have a special reason for coming to him, let's listen to it again.

"No, the Khitan lord is so kind? In the past two years, there has been no shortage of wars between Song and Liao? ”

"Of course it's not for you, you just need to make a little effort out of it."

As soon as Zhao Yuanxi heard that the meat drama was finally coming, he said that there is no such good thing in the world, how can it be possible to eat lunch for nothing.

"Say, what's the deal?"

"We are ready to provide the prince with a batch of good horses from the Liao Kingdom, and we only need to use the prince to transport them into the territory of the Great Song Dynasty by land through your relationship, as long as these horses enter the Great Song Dynasty, they will be the prince's, not a penny."

Zhao Yuanxi is not a fool, as soon as he heard it, he knew what the idea of the Liao people was fighting, and he transported a batch of horses by land to me? How can there be such a good thing, the Liao people are ready to take this opportunity to find out the reality of the northern border defense of the Great Song Dynasty.

Since there was no mounds between the Song and Liao borders, many times the smuggling trade between Song and Liao was through the sea, because these merchants at least had a little bit of patriotism, knowing that it was easy for the Liao to mix the fine work of the Liao State into the caravan from the land trade, and then find out the reality of the northern part of the Great Song Dynasty.

If you go by sea, even if the caravan is mixed with the Liao State Details, at most you can only see the situation inland, not to mention that the Great Song Dynasty has such a saying, and it is impossible to run around in the Great Song Dynasty without a road guide.

Even now, Zhao Yuanxi's eyes are now successful in infiltrating the territory of the Great Song Dynasty as a merchant, and he can only operate in Gyeonggi and the south, and the north is indeed a very strange place for business travelers.

"Oh, yes, how many horses are there?"

"In ten batches, a thousand horses at a time."

To tell the truth, Zhao Yuanxi was really moved when he heard this number, 10,000 good horses, and he only got about 20,000 horses when he cooperated with Li Jisheng, which was still accumulated for several years.

This time it was 10,000 at a time, and the horses made in Liao were much better than those in the northwest, and the price that could be sold in the market was much higher.

But the only mental obstacle is the proposal of the Khitan State, because if he agrees to the proposal of the Khitan State, then it will be a trap for the entire Great Song Dynasty.

"Let me think about it."

Khitan Xizuo also knew that this kind of thing was in a hurry, so he did not urge Zhao Yuanxi, but consciously said goodbye and left the palace.

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On the other side, Wang Dayuan's driver's license Poseidon has been floating in the sea for half a month. Soon after going to sea, they found the ocean current described by Zhao Weiji, and indeed if they sailed along the current, they had good momentum in a light or windless state.

But after a long time at sea, a feeling of unease began to spread on the ship, because it was a route that no one had ever sailed before, and since it had entered the current, it had never encountered any islands, so the fear of the crew grew.

Fortunately, before departure, Zhao Weiji prepared a lot of materials for the ship, which was a bit terrifying, so although the crew had such emotions, it would not affect the voyage.

But Wang Dayuan knew that if he couldn't see the land anymore, it would be difficult to control the expansion of this emotion.

Fortunately, at this time, an island appeared in front of their eyes, and they didn't know one, but an island chain, Wang Dayuan only remembered the situation of this ocean that Zhao Weiji had described to him before he set off.

Zhao Weiji said that if the ship could really enter the ocean current, it would encounter an island chain, which was the island chain near the Bering Strait. When the time comes, you will only have to sail all the way along the island chain to discover new continents.

After passing the positioning of the sextant, Wang Dayuan determined that this was really the island chain that Zhao Weiji said, and when this desperate mood was about to swell, this island chain was undoubtedly a lifesaver.

"Brothers, the small island group in front is undoubtedly the island chain that the prince said, let's go to the island to rest first, and then set off, victory is not far from us."

Encouraged by Wang Dayuan, the sailors on the ship erupted into a thunderous roar.

Soon the ship landed on a slightly larger island, fortunately Wang Dayuan, who led the team to explore the island, found fresh water on the island, although the fresh water on the ship is still sufficient, but no one will dislike too much fresh water when sailing on the sea.

After resupplying on the island, the ships set off again, and as Zhao Weiji said, they quickly found a piece of land along the island chain.

After seeing the new land, the crew was excited, but they didn't expect that when they officially landed on this new land, they had a feeling of being deceived by Zhao Weiji.