In the dark night, permeating the quiet sea, the fleet is like a giant drifting quietly.

There was a lot of noise in the boiler room below, and the sound of shovels shoveling coal, which was the hottest place for the fleet, and the steam engines that worked day and night provided ample power for the fleet.

Zhang Quandan sat quietly at a small table, and on the table was a delicate little book with four big characters "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" written on it.

Zhang Quandan felt that this road was simply like a dream, he used to be just a coal shoveler of the No. 2 boiler, but now he can have his own independent small room, although it is very noisy near the boiler room, but this is also a good thing that he never dared to think of before.

When Zhang Quandan was not born, his family was very wealthy, his father was a Taizhou petty official, and later because of his father's corruption and bribery, the family was reduced to slavery, and Zhang Quandan became a prisoner when he was still in his mother's womb.

Later, his mother was sentenced to the Honglu Temple, and the wife of the offender was given to a large family as a slave and maid, and she gave birth to herself in that family.

Zhang Quandan's life can be imagined, he has been bullied everywhere since he was a child, and his mother hanged herself on the night of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve because she really couldn't stand the bullying.

Since then, Zhang Quandan's life has become gray, he doesn't know what he lives for, many times he lives at a loss, he does whatever others ask him to do, even if he is tired and tired, he gritted his teeth and insisted, just because his mother finally died and said to him: live well.

A change happened in that storm, because of the heat of his brain, he went to the boiler room to increase the steam power, and the result was just in time for the captain in charge of the steam engine power department to get drunk, because of this great achievement, he became the captain who everyone needs to look up to.

Since then, I have my own independent room, a special house, and I am very idle every day. It turns out that being a leader is such a wonderful feeling, Zhang Quandan sighed in his heart.

The voyage was boring, and when there was no watch, most of the time the ship was adrift at sea, sailing in the direction indicated by the captain.

When people are bored, they always like to find something to do, and Zhang Quandan is no exception, not to mention that he is now a famous captain, wearing a captain's uniform on his body, and he has many privileges everywhere, and listening to the most famous storytelling "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" on the ship in the front row has become his favorite thing to do in the past month or so.

Zhang Quandan was very studious when he was a child, he once helped the young masters at home write the homework assigned by the private school teacher, and wrote for a total of four years, the young masters didn't learn anything, but he was already literate and wrote more than 1,000 words, and he wrote a good hand.

Later, this matter was discovered, he was also expelled, so many years have not touched the pen, now there is an independent small room, as well as pen and paper, this is the right guard general Xu Yang stipulated, all people above the captain must write a logbook, can not write also drag the person who can write, in his words, back to the Tang Dynasty in the future, these are the most valuable evidence of Datang navigation.

Zhang Quandan has been obsessed with writing logbooks since he became a colonel, he writes everything in his logbook, he is very interested in the hot climate here, all kinds of wind, treasures, seasons, tides, and most importantly, all kinds of animals and plants, are all things he writes.

borrowed "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" some time ago, Zhang Quandan recalled the words in the book again, and many long-sealed memories came back to his mind, and he could continue to write.

Opening the notebook, dipping the brush in ink, Zhang Quandan wrote down on the paper what he saw and heard on the previous one that Xu Yang named the 'Communist Island'.

'The communist island is very large, this is the forty-seventh island we have encountered, this island is very large, but there is not a lot of spices, the north and south pathfinder team walked for three hours without meeting, and finally they had to return the same way, the island is very desolate, there is no trace of man-made, the left guard general Xu Yang called on people to produce together, so the island was nominated for the communist island, and ordered the craftsmen to carve four large stones, write the time and date of the fleet, insert the golden dragon flag, and occupy the island.

We rested here for a day that day, and I was fortunate enough to find two huge turtles in the morning, this kind of turtle I had seen on the 'spice island' in front, about a zhang long, at the time I thought it was some kind of amazing monster, but I didn't expect the left guard general to just say lightly that these are turtles, and ate these big things.

This time I saw them, I was very excited, and I also wanted to catch them so that I could go back to invite credit, but I seemed to find this big turtle mating, it was lying on the back of the female turtle, I saw it very clearly, so I cautiously walked over, ready to kill them with a long sword, when the female turtle saw me, it obviously wanted to escape, but the male turtle did not seem to be shy at all, it used its two front feet to hug the female turtle tightly, and finally guided them both to be caught by me.

When I ordered the sergeant to carry these big creatures to the general, the general seemed to be pleased to catch such a pair, and ordered the craftsman to keep the two turtles on the big boat, change the water every day, and bring them back to Chang'an

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It was another morning, the fresh breeze woke the whole fleet again, and the sergeants on the night shift went back to rest, while the day sergeants took their place in high spirits, and after another two months of sailing, passing through countless islands, the ship was finally reaching the first small terminus: Australia.

"The ship's food reserves are running out, boy, are you sure there's food on the Australian island?" Niu Jinda still asked cautiously.

"Uncle Niu, look at the map, such a big island, if you don't have anything to eat, you can eat me."

If Xu Yang was angry, he suddenly amused Niu Jinda.

"Boy, for the general, prudence is the way to go. Isn't the old man also thinking about the whole fleet, this food is becoming more and more perishable, the weather here in April is already my Tang Dynasty summer, and it is not easy to preserve food here. Niu Jinda explained.

"Hmm" Xu Yang also nodded, the temperature on the equator is too high, obviously it is only April, and there is the temperature in the middle of summer in Chang'an.

Just as Xu Yang and Niu Jinda were chatting, they heard a whistle, and then a spy rushed into the captain's room and shouted: "General, find land!" Suspicious Australia! ”

When Niu Jinda heard this, he immediately stood up excitedly, picked up the telescope on the table and said loudly: "Take Ben to see!" ”

"No!"

Standing on deck, the sea breeze dissipated the stuffiness in the cabin.

Niu Jinda held a telescope in his hand and kept looking at the gray in the distance, which was the color of the land.

The gray in front of you is different from those islands, it is a dark gray, and only islands with deep foundations and wide ground can have such a scene.

Yu Chi Baolin, Cheng Chumo, Li Chongyi, and Li Dejian also heard about it and rushed here.

"Big brother, that continent in the distance is Australia?" Cheng Chu wiped his hands silently and said with some excitement.

Xu Yang once told him that there were many strange animals on the Australian island, but he took himself to hunt kangaroos, which he found very interesting.

"It should be Australia, wait for me to look at it in the mirror of my phone." I saw Xu Yang take out his mobile phone, silently recite a few incantations, and quickly swipe the screen on the mobile phone to unlock it, and then a Baidu map was displayed, and the location of everyone was clearly in Darwin, Australia.

Although several people often see Xu Yang playing with their mobile phones, this time the performative map search location still surprised everyone.

"Pass my orders, be careful of the reef, move slowly, and prepare to land on the island!" Niu Jinda drew his sword and shouted at the distant island.

"No!" Everyone was excited

Australia, located between the South Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, consists of mainland Australia and islands and overseas territories such as Tasmania. It is bordered by the Coral Sea and the Tasman Sea in the Pacific Ocean to the east, and the Indian Ocean and its marginal seas to the west, north and south. It is the only country in the world that occupies a continent exclusively.

From 1788 to 1900, it was a British colony. In 1901, colonial rule ended and became an independent federal state. The word Australia, which means "southern continent"

And now, it is about to become the territory of the Tang Dynasty, because many natives wearing palm leaves can be seen from the sea boats, so Niu Jinda decided to send people to the island on a large scale, instead of sending a small team to the island.

On the island, a group of brown and black natives were surrounded by palm fronds, armed with spears, and their faces were full of fear for these terrible ships from the sea.

The fleet soon approached the coast, and this time even Xu Yang wanted to get to the island up close to see what this pristine Australia was like, so he also took a team of personal guards to prepare for the first batch of landings.

The natives on the island were very curious when they saw many people swimming in small boats, and many of them even ran back to the village and moved many large water tanks out of the village.

The boat docked, and the sergeants all got off the boat and set foot on this virgin land of Australia.

Neither side dared to make direct contact, and Cheng ordered the natives captured from one of the Java islands in front to go up and negotiate with them, but it was clear that neither side could understand the other's language.

In the end, they had to communicate with gestures, these natives seemed to be very interested in the bright armor and weapons worn by the warriors, while Cheng Chumo and they were deeply attracted by the gold carried by these natives.

"Big brother, they have gold on them!" Cheng Chumo looked at the many gold ornaments on these people, and his eyes were about to turn into copper coins, Xu Yang was very happy when he heard it, and shouted: "Let's exchange the glass with them!" ”RS