Chapter 67: A New Route
The sun, the sand, the bikini beauties, the beautiful Los Angeles, the beautiful Hawaii, the beautiful San Francisco. Of course, this is just Zhao Weiji's fantasy, it is the world more than a thousand years later.
At this time, Zhao Weiji was vomiting on the ship, this is also a talent, like Zhao Weiji, a turtle who has never been to sea in two lifetimes, at this time, he can't withstand the baptism of big waves, so he can only hold a bucket on the deck and keep vomiting.
"Your sister, Magellan fooled Lao Tzu again." Although Zhao Weiji chose to avoid the typhoon season when he set off, the Pacific Ocean was not as calm as Magellan described.
"Lord Wang, you will get used to it when you spit and spit it." Seeing Zhao Weiji spit out like this, Wang Dayuan had no good way but to give a little support verbally. "Look at Snow, when he first set sail back to the Central Plains, he vomited and vomited every day, but you see that he is not alive now."
Wang Dayuan didn't say it's okay, as soon as he said Zhao Weiji, he got angry, at this time, this Inuit jumped up and down on the boat, and he had to say two sentences to catch anyone, as if he spoke Chinese quite slippery.
Looking at Snow, and then at the bucket in front of him, Zhao Weiji unceremoniously stretched out his middle finger to Wang Dayuan. Although Wang Dayuan didn't know what this gesture meant, he knew that it was probably not a good thing when he looked at Zhao Weiji's demeanor. So he had no choice but to lower his eyebrows and walk away.
This time, they chose to sail directly across the Pacific Ocean, that is, to take Midway, the Hawaiian Islands, and then land from Los Angeles.
It was a good idea, and he avoided the typhoon season, but after ten days at sea, Zhao Weiji found that there were no other big islands on this route except for Midway. Although the supplies were sufficient, there was no island to dock, so Zhao Weiji had to shake the sea for ten consecutive days, so all he could do was vomit and vomit again.
After sailing at sea for about five days, Zhao Weiji finally adapted to the fluctuations of the waves, and he finally stopped throwing up.
Just when Zhao Weiji was finally excited that he was no longer vomiting, a strange news came from Wang Dayuan, that is, he found an object that seemed to be a ship on the man's side of the ship.
When Zhao Weiji heard this, he immediately felt that he was dying, no one should have walked this route, how could there be other ships. Zhao Weiji, who felt that something was wrong, immediately boarded the lookout and looked at it with a telescope and found that it was bad. How did the Vikings appear in this place.
That's right, it's the Vikings, and the shape of the dragon head ship is a typical Viking ship. And the Viking ship was rushing at full speed like its own.
"Vigilance, vigilance. There were pirates, and the entire crew was ordered to prepare for battle. Although I don't understand why the Vikings appeared in the Pacific Ocean, the reputation of the Vikings is quite famous in history, so Zhao Weiji did not dare to take it lightly, and immediately ordered Wang Dayuan to prepare for war.
Since no artillery has yet been produced, the current naval battle can only be a broadside battle. At this time, the wind just became lighter, so Zhao Weiji's ship could not quickly get rid of the Viking ships, and after being caught up by the Vikings, he had no choice but to take on the side battle.
When this group of pirates jumped off the Sea Gods, Zhao Weiji clearly saw the helmets like bull horns on their heads and the giant axes they held in their hands, which were undoubtedly Viking pirates.
So the Viking and the crew of the Poseidon fought on the deck, although the equipment of the Viking was indeed terrifying, but because the Great Song sailors had not been in contact with the Vikings before, they were not very afraid of this group of white-skinned and blue-eyed villains.
Moreover, the Poseidon actually did quite enough to release pirates, in addition to the general weapons on the ship, there were also quite enough crossbow arrows, so when the Viking pirates boarded the ship, they were shot down a lot.
Now the Vikings were a little scared. How can this group of yellow-faced people with thin arms and legs be so rogues, and they attack with crossbow arrows when they come up, which is not the same as that group of Romans.
After successfully escaping the crossbow attack and landing on the deck of the opposing ship, the Vikings were plagued by a new hazard when they were engaged in melee combat with the Great Song sailors, because the yellow-faced men stabbed you with spears (actually guns) instead of projecting you like the Romans.
This made the Vikings with axes a little blind, no matter how long the axe is, there is no longer a spear, and these yellow-faced people keep stabbing you with guns again, so that you can't get close. And then there are the people standing on the high masts, pumping cold shots at you with crossbows. This made the Vikings still how to fight.
In addition, it didn't seem to take long for the Vikings to get tired, so they were quickly defeated. Not only were all the people who landed on the Poseidon defeated, but they were also counterattacked by the Great Song sailors on their own ships.
"These Vikings don't seem to be as terrifying as the legend says?" Seeing that the battle ended so quickly, Zhao Weiji was very puzzled, this group of Vikings did not seem to have the ability to cross Europe as described in the book.
"Lord Wang, do you know this group of people?" Listening to Zhao Weiji's tone, as if he knew the origin of this group of pirates, Wang Dayuan was very curious.
"Well, I've probably heard of some, it seems that they are people who live in the land of Great Qin in the extreme west."
As soon as he said that the Great Qin King Dayuan probably understood, the Great Qin was the Roman Empire, although Wang Dayuan had not been to that place, but his long-term sailing experience made him also hear of such a place in the course of interacting with Arab merchants, which was said to be in the extreme west.
When the sailors of the Poseidon occupied the entire Viking ship, Zhao Weiji was ready to ask this group of Vikings why they appeared in this sea area. But when he tried to ask, he realized that no one on his side knew the language of the Vikings. He himself knows English, but in this era when Old English has not yet been fully formed, he, a guy who can only speak English in the 21st century, probably no one can understand this group of people.
Luckily, they found an Arab on a Viking ship. Although there were no Viking speakers on the Poseidon, there were several who could speak Arabic, and Wang Dayuan was one of them.
After communicating with this Arab, Zhao Weiji finally understood why the Vikings living in Northern Europe appeared in the Pacific Ocean.
The Vikings had only reached Baghdad, but they learned from the Arabs in Baghdad that there was a much richer empire further to the east. Moreover, this wealthy empire has been trading with the Arab Empire at sea for many years.
The Vikings, who were already pirates, became greedy when they heard about this good thing, and if a rich empire had been trading at sea for many years, there must have been many ships carrying large quantities of goods to and from the sea. If you rob him of a few ships, you won't make a fortune. So the Vikings captured an Arab merchant and sailed to the East.
But after they went to sea, they encountered a storm at sea, and they were inexplicably swept away from the original course, plus there was no compass, and the Vikings were not very familiar with the starry sky in the eastern hemisphere, so they kept drifting on the sea aimlessly.
And the day before the encounter with the Poseidon, the supplies on the Vikings ship were all exhausted, which explains why this group of Viking pirates couldn't hold on for a long time.
Knowing all this, Zhao Weiji did not have any sympathy for this group of Vikings, so when Wang Dayuan asked how to deal with this group of pirates, Zhao Weiji decided to tie them all up and throw them back on their ship, leaving them to fend for themselves.
Moreover, Zhao Weiji and his vicious ransacking of the Vikings' ships, looting all the armor, weapons, and treasures they had looted before. Then the Arab merchant who was tied to the thief ship was left behind.
After dealing with the Vikings, the Poseidon spent another fifteen days at sea.
"Lord Wang, there seems to be a big island ahead." A lookout man seemed to have spotted an island and came to report it.
Zhao Weiji took the telescope and looked at it, there was really an island. So he immediately asked Wang Dayuan to command the ships to move closer to that island, because it might be Midway.
After landing on the island, Zhao Weiji was very sure that this was Midway Island, because this was a coral island, the area was not too large, and it was composed of three parts.
"Lord Wang, there doesn't seem to be fresh water to replenish on this island." Personnel who had already landed on the island to inspect came back to report.
"yes, I see." Zhao Weiji never expected Midway to replenish fresh water resources, and he was excited because as long as he arrived at Midway, it would mean that the whole voyage was already halfway through.
"Huanzhang, order the whole crew to repair here for a day, and then we will continue to set sail, this time slightly modifying the course, and going a little southeast, and it will not be long before we can find an island that can replenish fresh water. And tell the crew that we are halfway through our journey, so let's keep going. ”
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Just when Zhao Weiji was excited to arrive at Midway, the Central Plains Palace Dou would also come to an end, and after fully grasping all the usable value of the account book, Zhao Heng handed over the account book and the deciphering method to Zhao Guangyi.
Zhao Heng didn't say anything when he handed over the account books to Zhao Guangyi again, because he believed that as long as Zhao Guangyi carefully read the entire account books, everything that should happen would happen.
On the day of November in the third year of Chunhua, Zhao Yuanxi sat in the main hall when he went to the early dynasty, and suddenly felt unwell, so he immediately returned to the house, Song Taizong went to visit in person, and Zhao Yuanxi's condition had suddenly worsened, Zhao Guangyi called his name, and he could barely reply, and died soon after, at the age of twenty-seven. Song Taizong wept in grief and posthumously presented the crown prince, nicknamed "Gong Xiao".
This is the fate of Zhao Yuanxi recorded in the later history books, but only Zhao Guangyi and Zhao Heng know the truth.