The first route for Lu Wan and them to reach the Americas was with the help of the equatorial current, but the speed of this current was not very fast, and the wind direction was generally blowing head-on, fortunately Lu Wan and their ship was specially made, using hard sails, which could go against the wind, but it was precisely for this reason that the speed of the ship was extremely slow, and it took them so long to reach the Americas, and they almost starved to death because of lack of food on the way.

In other words, if you want to reach the Americas through the equatorial currents, you have to use the same ships as the Lüvains, and the speed is extremely slow, and if the ships are loaded with goods, they must reduce the amount of food and fresh water, which makes it impossible for ordinary fleets to cross the Pacific Ocean, not to mention that the performance of most sea ships is simply not comparable to that of Lüvain's special ships.

It is for this reason that the first route to the Americas discovered by Lüvin was of great significance and brought back many specialties of the Americas, but it was not of commercial value. Only a few brave merchants would order a ship like the one of the Lyvin fleets and venture out to the Americas via this route, but only half of the fleet would return safely.

It was also in this situation that Lüvan took the initiative to explore a new route, and this route had been suspected by Lüvan long before they first explored the Americas, because it was also an eastward current, but it was located in the North Pacific Ocean and could be reached there through the ports of the Japanese countries, but at the beginning Lüvan they thought that the equatorial current was more reliable, so they did not choose to pass through the North Pacific Ocean current.

For Lu Wan's active request, Li Su was naturally happy to find a commercial route to the Americas. So after several months of preparation, Lu Wan and the others set off from Taiwan by boat again. Enter a strong kinetic current, which travels all the way north. Just enough to reach the slave harbor of the Wa Kingdom, where they found a north-easterly current and set sail for the Americas again.

In fact, the ocean current that Lu Wan and his people reached from Taiwan to the Japanese country is the ocean current that was later called the Kuroshio Current, which can also be called the Japanese warm current, which originated from Luzon, and then met with the cold current of the Kuril Islands in the south after reaching the Japanese country, forming the North Pacific Warm Current all the way to the east and reaching the west coast of North America.

The North Pacific Warm Current flows no faster than the Equatorial Current. But along the way, there were all western trade winds, and the wind was quite strong, which also made the ship move extremely fast, and finally Lu Wan and his team only took more than 80 days to reach North America, and the smooth journey was unbelievable. At the same time, this also made Lu Wan secretly hate in their hearts, why didn't they choose this route in the first place, otherwise they wouldn't have to suffer so much.

On their second arrival in the Americas, Luvan and his wife were much more relaxed, and they headed in the direction of the city of Mansa on the west coast of North America. While communicating with the natives you meet. Occasionally, they will encounter some unfriendly Americans, but Luvan will not be as patient as he is with Mansa City, but for the first time, he will show his fangs to the Americans. This situation is understandable, after all, most of the crew members of the fleet are from slave hunters. It is most appropriate to describe them as murderous, so they are facing some natives who are hostile to them and are still very weak. Naturally, there will be no friendly behavior.

However, most of the Americans were very hospitable, especially when they saw the various exquisite goods that Luvan had brought out. They were also more than willing to trade some of the tribe's native products with the fleet, but Lüvin found that the natives of North America were obviously not as wealthy as the Mayans of Central America. The items they could trade with, except for some animal skins, were at most a few sporadic gems or gold, and the quantity was pitiful.

Of course, Lu Wan and they were not without gains, for example, they found a large open-pit coal mine near the west coast of North America, and not far from this coal mine, there is also a natural harbor with quite good natural conditions, this discovery made Lu Wan and them extremely excited, and immediately marked it on the map.

The main reason why Lu Wan was excited about a coal mine was because he knew that before they set off, Li Su was already planning to use steam ships to reach the Americas, which of course required the establishment of many ports along the way, so that the steam ships could replenish fresh water and coal, and from Luzon to the east, there were countless islands on the way to build ports, and coal could be transported from Taiwan and the mainland.

But from Hawaii to the east, there is a blank lot of the island, if there is enough coal and fresh water in Hawaii, then it can go directly to the Americas, but to the Americas need to be replenished, and this requires a coal mine in the Americas, and now they found this coal in North America, although it is a little far away, but it is undoubtedly a good sign, even if you can't find coal in Central America, you can also mine and transport it from here, it is nothing more than an increase in cost.

However, Luvan and his family obviously underestimated the mineral resources of Central America, and after their fleet arrived in Mansa City and Luvin Port again, they were warmly welcomed by the lord of Mansa City, especially some Mayan women who gave birth to children for the crew, and even held the children in their hands to welcome the return of their lovers. And when Lu Wan showed the coal sample to the lord of Mansa, he was told with certainty that there was this black stone about four days northeast of Mansa City.

The words of the city lord of Mansa made Luwan very excited, the port of Luwan has been preliminarily built, and now there is a coal mine, which has already specified the basis for the steam ship to dock, as long as a few more ports are built on the route, it is natural to use the steam ship to travel between the two continents.

In addition, the people of the fleet also saw a fleet of ships from Taiwan in the port of Luvan, which was coming along the equatorial route they had discovered, and there were originally six ships in the fleet, but two were lost on the way, and now only four remained, and the number was quite large, more than two hundred and fifty men.

This fleet belongs to a large trading house in Taiwan, and they came here to bring back a batch of chili powder, and the peppers they brought back last time were very popular, but because the seeds were limited, the yield was very low, and almost all of them were sold by the gram. In addition, the pepper has a three-year planting right, and other people can't plant it at all, so the price of the pepper is comparable to gold, even if the other party spends such a big price to come to the Americas, but as long as a few boats of peppers are transported back, there is still a huge profit.

This fleet was naturally very happy to meet Lu Wan, a big celebrity, in a foreign country like the Americas, especially when they heard that Lu Wan and they had found a new route to the Americas, and it only took less than two months to go back and forth, which was simply a great news for them, and even many crew members couldn't help wiping a few tears when they thought of the brothers who died on the road when they came.

Luvin did not stay long in Mansa City, after all, this time they mainly explored new routes, and did not need to collect crop seeds and seedlings, so after resting for a while in Luvin Port and confirming the existence of coal mines, they immediately loaded up the ship with supplies, and then sailed back along the last North Equatorial Current, and finally returned to Taiwan two months later.

The discovery of the North Pacific Ocean Current, so that the Central Plains and the Americas finally have a safer and faster channel, so that the Central Plains can sell goods to the Americas in large quantities, and at the same time Li Su also began to establish a stronghold in the coastal zone of the Americas, although most of these strongholds are very simple, and the number is not large, but with the passage of time and the development of the Americas, I believe that more and more people will choose to immigrate here.

In addition, the discovery of this route also directly promoted the development of the Wazhou, and at the same time, more Han people migrated here, which made Li Su's rule over the Wazhou more and more solid, coupled with the implementation of Sinicization, the degree of Sinicization of the Wa people is also getting higher and higher, and even some young Wa people, have made themselves a branch of the Han people, and are proud of this identity, I believe that in a few decades, there will be no more Wa people here.

In addition, Li Su was most pleased with the discovery of coal mines in the Americas, because it also marked that he could promote the application of steamships to the Americas, which would greatly facilitate the transportation between the two continents and lay a solid foundation for the large-scale development of the Americas in the future.

And at the same time that Lu Wan and the others returned from the Americas for the second time, the Persian prince Belus also led an army of 40,000 Tang Dynasty through the Western Regions, and then arrived at the Persian border west of the Green Mountains, and found the last monarch of Persia, Yazdegerd III, there, but the last king of Persia was too miserable.

When Belus, Chere, and Xue Wanche found each other, there was only a palace guard of about 100 people left with Yazdegerd III, occupying a small village with a total population of less than 1,000 people, and the grain production was also very limited, which also made Yazdegerd III unable to even collect food, so he had to starve with his guards.

As a son, Belus saw his emaciated father, and cried bitterly on the spot, and then introduced Qibi He Li and Xue Wanche to Yazdegerd III, which made the other party ecstatic, and immediately took out some of the only property around him and gave it to Qibi He Li, and wept bitterly to accuse the cruelty of the big cannibal, hoping that Datang would uphold justice and so on.

For this Yazdegerd III, who had lost his kingdom, although he Li and Xue Wanche looked down on each other a little in their hearts, they still comforted each other with good words, and promised on the spot that they would drive out the Great Food Army that invaded Persia and return justice to Persia.

It's just that Qibi He Li, Xue Wanche and others didn't know that just when they just found Yazdegerd III, a Persian army of more than 10,000 people also got the hiding place of Yazdegerd III, and now they are rushing to this side, but they don't know the news of the arrival of the Tang army, and the first confrontation between the two armies also happened in this kind of confusion. (To be continued......)