After resting for the night, the caravan led by Liu Kata set out on the road again the next morning, and their team had fifty elite sailors, as well as hundreds of Mayan warriors, this kind of armed force even ordinary small towns would not dare to provoke, so they were not worried about safety.

After another five days of travel, the caravan finally returned to Mansa City, and Lu Wan, who received the news, personally greeted them, and in the evening held a grand dinner with Mansa City to welcome the warriors in the caravan to return victoriously, but after the banquet, some of the young men in the caravan immediately impatiently found their lovers and found a place where no one was to exchange feelings.

However, the return of the caravan also marked the arrival of the return of the American fleet, after all, the route had been explored, the equatorial current could indeed reach the Americas, and with the help of Mansa City, they also collected various crop seeds, and even built a port, which can be said to have exceeded the task.

In addition, there is another most important point, that is, it is now October of the twenty-first year of Zhenguan, which happens to be the calmest period along the Datang coast, and Lu Wan predicts that this return time will definitely not exceed three months, so they can take advantage of this safest time to return to Taiwan.

And it was so, on the fifth day of their return, that the fleet finally set sail again, and they would sail north along the coastline of Central America, then find the direction of the North Equatorial Current, and then return along this westward current. It's just that Lu Wan didn't know that if they took this road. The situation may be even worse than when you came to the Americas.

When the fleet left Mansa City, both the Lord of Mansa and Zito came to see them off. There are also many people in the city, especially the lovers of the crew here. is even more sad, especially among these women, there are many women with big bellies, they are all pregnant with the species of the crew, all of them are tearful, and it is sad to watch.

Lu Wan on the America No. 1 stood at the bow of the ship, and behind him were most of the crew members of the ship, only to see Lu Wan pointing to the group of pregnant women on the shore and saying, "See, those women are all waiting for you to come back in America." Cheer me up one by one, not only will I return to Taiwan alive this time, but you will also come to America alive next time! ”

"Whoa!" The crew members who were still immersed in grief just now also responded violently, they are all begging for a living at sea, and every time they go to sea, it is equivalent to pinning their heads to the waistband of their trousers, so they have long adapted to this kind of life, and soon woke up from their children's affection, and began to get busy one by one.

The North Equatorial Current is located south of the Tropic of Capricorn. If you look closely at the maps of later generations, you will find that there are very few islands along the way of this current, and the closest to the Americas is the Hawaiian Islands. It's just that they don't know about these Lu Wan, and they don't know that on the route they chose, it is more difficult to resupply than when they go to the Americas.

Same as when you came. After Luvan and his wife left the American continent, they did not encounter any islands for nearly a month. This made Lu Wan and the others very discouraged, thinking that this American continent was really evil. It is said that the closer you are to the mainland, the more islands there should be, but the west coast of the Americas is the opposite, and there is not even a single island to be found within thousands of miles.

But fortunately, there is also a Hawaiian Islands, which just block the way of the North Equatorial Current, so Lu Wan and the others don't have to look for it at all, and they can easily see the islands in front of them.

"Haha, it seems that we are lucky this time, we encountered this archipelago in less than a month after going to sea, and I guess we won't encounter a supply crisis like when we came!" Lu Wan said with a smile while holding a telescope and carefully observing the island in front of him.

Behind Lu Wan, the crew of the ship were also cheering, after all, they had been holding back on the ship for almost a month, and having a piece of land for them to pause was also their only enjoyment during the voyage.

They first drove the boat around the islands a few times, and found that this archipelago is not very large, although there are hundreds of islands, but there are less than ten of them that can really live on people, and they also found traces of natives on several large islands, and even when the fleet passed one of the large islands, the natives on the island waved to them and cheered.

"Captain, shall we send someone to the island to make contact with these natives?" Feng Shijie on the America No. 1 asked Lu Wan next to him.

"Of course, but it's really strange, we've seen it just now, obviously the big island at the southern tip of the archipelago is the largest, but there doesn't seem to be any natives living there, but on the small island in front of us, there are a lot of natives living there?" Lu Wan looked at the beach and cheered, and the natives pondered.

The fleet had already turned around several of the archipelago's large islands, and found a large island at the southernmost tip of the archipelago, which was almost larger than the other islands combined, but there were not many natives found on the island, so it was a little strange to Lüvan.

"Haha, maybe there are some fierce beasts living on that big island, so the natives don't dare to live there." Hearing Lu Wan's question, Liu Kata next to him said with a smile.

"It's not impossible, but no matter what, let's send someone to the island to contact it first!" After Lu Wan finished speaking, he immediately ordered the crew to put down the boat, and then arranged for dozens of heavily armed crew members to land.

However, in addition to weapons, these crew members also carried some small gifts, such as glass artifacts and the like. Generally speaking, as long as the natives on the island do not take the lead in using force, then the crew will use these small gifts to gain the favor of the other party, and then move on to the next step of contact, and finally there is a possibility of trading with the other party.

The natives of the island proved to be very hospitable, and like most of them, they were quickly bought by small gifts from the crew, and they also knew how to bring fruit and meat from the tribe and entertain the crew very generously. This situation reassured Lu Wan and the others, and drove the big boat to the side of the island, and then began to land on the island to communicate with each other.

However, Luvin and the others soon discovered that the indigenous language of this archipelago was very different from that of the Mayans, but very similar to the indigenous language family of some islands around Australia. This discovery gave Liu Kata a great boost of confidence, because he had been exposed to this language family before, and he could roughly understand the meaning of the other party's words without even studying it deliberately.

It was this convenience that made communication between the fleet and the natives easier, and after talking to Luvain they learned that the archipelago has a native name, which is transliterated as Hawaii, which means. Primitive House', the largest island in the archipelago is called Volcanic Island, the reason why there are not many natives living on the island, mainly because there is a huge volcano on the island, and it erupts from time to time, there was a big eruption many years ago, and the volcanic ash spewed out almost covered the entire island, so although the area of the island is large, but the natives did not dare to live there, but moved to Oahu in front of Luvin.

In addition, to the surprise of Lu Wan, there is a large amount of sugar cane grown here, and because of the climate, the sugar cane production here is extremely amazing, and among the food they eat on the island is a drink made from sugar cane juice. Of course, sugar processing here in Hawaii is still very primitive, unlike Taiwan, where a large number of industries have formed.

After Lu Wan and the others obtained enough food and fresh water on the island, Feng Shijie also measured the latitude and longitude where the Hawaiian Islands were located, and they were very depressed to find that when they came to the Americas, they had deviated from the course because of the failure of the compass, and the direction of their voyage at that time was towards the Hawaiian Islands, if the fleet insisted on sailing forward for two more days, it was likely that they would have discovered this islands in advance, so they would not have to worry about food later.

Feng Shijie also found that the Hawaiian Islands are almost at the same latitude as Taiwan, but the climate here is cooler than Taiwan's. It is for this reason that their fleet, after leaving the archipelago, has been sailing due west, preparing to reach Taiwan directly.

However, Luvan and his wife soon found that it was not feasible to sail due west, because the direction of the North Equatorial Current was a little south-west, and the monsoon was blowing from the northeast behind them, so their course had been a little southward, and if nothing else, they would eventually reach Luzon.

It is also worth mentioning that on the return voyage, Luvin's fleet not only followed the direction of the current, but also the monsoon behind them also pushed their ships quickly, which was much faster than when they first went to the Americas, so in the end Luvin estimated that they may have arrived in Luzon much earlier than expected.

And just when Lu Wan's fleet was full of sails and sailing in the direction of Luzon at maximum speed, Taiwan's Li Su was extremely troubled by two things.

The first thing is far away in the South Seas of Java Island, which was originally the main slave hunting place of the slave hunting association, but after all these years of slave hunting, finally the local natives were oppressed, and in the autumn of the twenty-first year of Zhenguan, they united and began to attack the strongholds established by the Han people on Java Island, and now there have been six strongholds have been conquered, fortunately, these strongholds are built near the sea, when the Han people in the stronghold can not resist, they immediately fled to the ship and went to sea, so the casualties are not too serious.

The other thing is about Li Shimin, this matter is more of a headache than the uprising on Java Island, and he is even thinking about whether he should go back to Chang'an again, otherwise he really doesn't know how to solve this matter? (To be continued......)