"King, I am willing to work hard for the navy and open up territory for the Chu State......"

"Nope." Bai Tu glanced at Gan Ning directly, and then added: "I didn't use 'hard work and high achievement' to describe myself." ”

"Why not? Or...... Change me to Bashire? I'm familiar over there! Gan Ning said with some impatience.

Recently, he has also suffocated Gan Ning - this should be the first time in five or six years that Gan Ning has stayed in Chu for so long, and the whole person is in a state of boredom.

Once people are bored, they are prone to do unexpected things, such as ...... After Gan Ning heard that Old Man Lu was going to resign, he actually came to Bai Tumao and recommended himself to join the cabinet until the next time he went to sea.

Of course, Bai Tu ignored this!

"Why don't you think about making cool skin? It is said that it can effectively relieve the boredom of being idle at home. Bai Tu said seriously.

"No, I'm not that bored yet......" was replaced by Gan Ning's white eyes.

And the cold skin is such a "simple" food, Ganning has always been unsightly, even if you really want to eat, will let the chef slice into a finger-sized piece, and then cover the Xiaoice sculpture, when eating it is cipped down and dipped in sauce to eat.

"It won't be idle for long, and when the iron-clad coated ships are built in the middle of the year, the new fleet will set off, and the time will be ...... It's good to be back in two years. Bai Tu said with some concern.

Because at this time, except for the secretary Zhang Chunhua, only Gan Ning was present, and Bai Tu was not worried about affecting morale.

Directly by steamship, from the Chu State to the Golden State, that is, the Americas in later generations, if the route is clear, it stands to reason that it will only take less than a month.

The white picture was chosen by the navy, which naturally set off eastward, passed through Bozhou, first settled in the Hawaiian Islands, and then continued eastward to Central and South America, that is, the route across the Pacific Ocean.

After all, if you go west, because of the ocean currents and monsoons, you don't simply bypass Africa, but you have to go around Africa, in contrast, to the east, at least with the "assistance" of the North Pacific Ocean Current, and because of the discovery of Bozhou, the Chu Navy has more experience in sailing eastward.

As for the Americas on foot from the Bering Strait......

White Chart does not expect.

Theoretically, with the historically low temperature in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, it is true that between Asia and the Americas, in the northern white-collar strait, there is a chance to walk through.

In the Bering Strait, the shortest distance between Asia and the Americas, is only a few tens of kilometers, because the ground is connected to the Arctic Ocean, and the sea water also freezes.

There was a walking traveler in modern Britain who once walked from the Americas to Russia on foot, and then ...... Was sent back because there was no visa.

If the state of Chu forcibly landed from Liaodong, and then went all the way north to the Bering Strait, which is close to the Arctic Ocean, or when it set off from Bozhou, it would go all the way north to the Arctic Ocean, it would not be impossible, and it would indeed look closer, but the danger would definitely be higher than that of the ocean.

Its "coldness" is by no means just sensory discomfort, but the physiological danger of necrosis of finger muscles as long as it is exposed for dozens of seconds!

Even the operation of the true gas engine at such low temperatures is prone to failure.

What's more, it doesn't make much sense to arrive in the northern part of the Americas......

Columbus's discovery of the New World was a great discovery because he discovered Central and South America, which was rich and rich in gold, so it was valued and respected.

If what he discovers is that, even in modern times, it is impossible to spread out the northern frozen soil of industrial civilization, it is estimated that he will turn around and leave and go to the new world that he "beeps......

Therefore, from Bozhou to Hawaii, and then to the south-central part of the Americas, it is a more "practical" route, and it is also the first time that the navy has sailed so far.

For reasons of exploring new routes, and before returning to the Golden State, there will definitely be some preliminary environmental exploration, especially for the seeds of the crops that have been named......

Bai Tu estimates that Gan Ning will be able to come back in two years, even if it is relatively smooth.

The new fleet was still a hybrid of real gas and sails, just like the modern steamships, which did not immediately abandon their sails when they were born.

In contrast, modern merchant ships relied more on steam power, while military ships relied more on sails.

From modern times to modern times, the speed of passenger liners has not increased much, in other words...... That is to say, at the beginning of the stable civilian use of steamships, the speed was already close to the level of later generations!

It is not yet known how the True Air ship will develop in the future, but its speed can reach the speed of a steamship in the late 19th century, which is not much slower than that of a modern passenger ship.

However, the modern one-month voyage refers to the case of "clear routes", and the difference is known by looking at the current routes to and from Bozhou and Yizhou!

With the continuous optimization and determination of the route, the time is constantly shortening, and the first exploration ...... Even if there is the approximate direction provided by the white map, it takes ten times as long to explore, which is already considered fast.

Because it is a real ocean voyage, sails are still very important, after all, the real gas engine should be saved.

Even the fleet had to ensure that after the reserves of the True Qi Engine were exhausted, they could abandon the ship and return with a galleon.

"It's more than enough for a round trip, but how to explore the Golden State you're talking about is probably a big problem...... If his area really is that big! Gan Ning had long since stopped asking, or questioning, why Baitu knew about the existence of the Golden State.

"So if you're in the mood to come to me, why don't you go to the Ministry of Rites to choose someone." Bai Tu suggested.

Unlike Bozhou and Yizhou, the Golden State civilization is completely isolated from the Chinese civilization, and there is no "intermediary", and if you want to find some connection, you can only find it from the perspective of ancient human archaeology, which means that the communication between the two sides can only start from scratch!

I hope everyone's body language is not much different......

Wish...... There are also Yiji in the Golden State, so that at least after "civilization", as a city concubine, she can quickly master the official language of Huaxia, and then serve as a translator.

The Ministry of Rites has special training in "foreign-related exchanges" and "primitive exchanges", and Gan Ning obviously needs this part of the scribes.

Bai Tu has long checked the information on the hard drive, and now in this period, among the three ancient civilizations in the Golden State, the other two have not yet been formed, and the Mayan civilization has just passed the enlightenment stage and is moving towards its peak......

Of course, the so-called heyday is still only a slave Neolithic civilization!

There are no large domesticable livestock, and the only ones that come close to this standard are alpacas, and ...... Although gold production is abundant, copper and iron reserves are very small.

No amount of gold is enough to be used to promote agricultural tools.

As a result, the Mayan civilization was "locked" in the early stage of the development of "fishing and hunting" to "farming" - there was no livestock farming, no copper and iron farming tools, the farming efficiency was very limited, and there were no livestock suitable for grazing, and the productivity could not even survive slavery.

At its peak, only the major central city-states reached the level of predominantly agrarian.

If they arrived in the Golden State at this time, it is difficult to say whether the Maya had a predominantly agricultural city-state.

In its heyday, the Maya far outpaced their productivity in celestial observation, numerical calendars, and philosophical reflections, not only in the Neolithic civilization, but also in some respects in the steam age.

Of course, the so-called heyday is still only the slave Neolithic civilization......

In the absence of the White Rabbit Effect, archaeologists estimate that the Maya were at their peak two or three hundred years later, with an estimated population of five million to fifteen million.

To be able to reach this population under the productivity of the Neolithic Age, it is already very "inflated".

You must know that the total population of Asia, Africa and Europe will not exceed five million.

Of course, from another point of view, it is also because the Golden State was locked in the Neolithic period due to environmental reasons, and after the population expanded, it never popularized metal tools and further strengthened productivity.

When the Asian, African and European civilizations successfully reached a population of several million, they began to create metal civilizations, while the Golden State civilizations, when they had tens of millions of people, were still using wooden pickaxes, stone axes, slash-and-burn farming, and could only look at the stars......

When people are bored, they just make cool skins, and when civilization reaches its limits, it is terrible to be bored.

For example, the Amato civilization in Bozhou, if there is no strong entry of the Chu State to send it to civilization, it will not be long before the "teacher" Chinese civilization is addicted to internal friction, and it will fall into a development bottleneck, and "boring" into the era of ancient tombs, and build a large number of tombs......

In addition, the Mayan civilization was also composed of hundreds of culturally close city-states, some of which were central and large, to the extent that they fed their populations with agriculture, and there was no unified empire or even a real "co-master".

At its most "unified", it was also a multitude of city-states, each subservient to two large city-states, fighting each other until ...... The Mayan civilization declined.

That is, in terms of the human situation, it is equivalent to the "Yanhuang vs Dongyi" period of Chinese civilization, but the productivity is higher than the same level - in the depth of the "Neolithic civilization", Maya has gone far, far away, after all, it has been stuck here.

"But are you sure that the situation is similar to that of Bozhou, but the population is larger? If there is really a state's population, even if it is only the level of miscellaneous soldiers, it will be difficult for the navy to make achievements...... No matter how strong the ship is, it can't control the land. Gan Ning heard Bai Tu mention the exchange, and had to mention it more.

"Rest assured, the skills of the people of the Golden State are only delicate at most, lack of copper and iron, or mainly stone pottery, even if the technology is stronger than that of the early Shang Dynasty, it is also limited, as long as you are careful of the 'generals' among them......

Moreover, when contacting the indigenous people of the Golden State, it is also advisable to be friendly and mutually helpful, and they only occupy a small part of the Golden State, and if they open it up, the benefits are far more than those they occupy.

Now the natives of the Golden State should be similar to the various divisions of Bozhou, follow the practice of Bozhou, suppress the arrogant thorns, and then preach Chuxue to them, and gradually assimilate. ”