“…… We waited for the fleet to ride the wind and waves, and went south to the Sinhalese country, where we traveled thousands of miles safely. There was a great monk Hui Shen in the Southern Dynasty Qi, who had reached the country of Fusang, and Fusang was more than 20,000 miles in the east of China. This matter is recorded in the "Southern History" and "Liangshu". Today, the brave are recruited to travel far away and re-follow the journey of their predecessors. Those who are committed to geographical discovery are eligible to apply. All participants will have 20 copper coins with their families. From the date of sailing, within two years, he and his family will be coin three times a month. If you don't return for two years, you will have 20 copper coins with your family. If you can return, you will be given three copper coins a month according to the date of departure......"

In front of the school's bulletin board, the students with large tickets read the latest notices. The content of the notice is simple and clear, and as it is read, some people exclaim from time to time. The remuneration of those who recruit voyagers is really very high.

The young students are fond of flirtatiousness, and some people sigh, "This is the money to buy your life!" ”

Some echo such insightful statements, while others remain silent. Most of those who echoed said that life was more important, and there were many people in the silence who found the money very attractive. Zhao Jiaren cut off the Yangtze River with a naval division in the battle of Ezhou, making it difficult for the Mongolian army in the south and north of the Yangtze River to collude, and when the Mongolian army crossed the river with a pontoon bridge, he broke the pontoon bridge, and killed more than 10,000 Mongolian troops before and after, and the court finally rewarded 300,000 copper coins. The Great Song Dynasty has always had 770 copper coins, and 300,000 copper coins are 400 yuan.

According to the standard of Zhao Jiaren's reward, if a sailor participating in the voyage dies on the road, his family can get 76 times. If the sailor comes back alive, the sailor and the sailor's family can get 92 kan. Anyone can see that Zhao Jiaren has made a bloody investment this time.

Li Hongxia, like other students, saw the news, and it happened that the school was on the rest day of the fifth day of repair, so she went to the camp next to her to find her uncle Liu Meng. When I was waiting outside, I saw Hu Yuelian coming over. Liu Hongxia immediately greeted the female cadre and instructor.

Hu Yuelian was in a good mood, she stepped forward and touched Liu Hongxia's head, and said with a smile: "It turned out that I was looking for your uncle, I just went to see him and went with me." ”

The two entered Liu Meng's office, Liu Meng happened to be talking to others, and when he saw the two coming in, he hurriedly ended the conversation. Waiting for the man to go out, Liu Meng sighed: "Mrs. Hu, don't spoil our family Hongxia so much." Spoiling her has no rules, that's not good for her. ”

"Oh?" Hu Yuelian raised her eyebrows and praised in surprise: "I didn't expect your uncle to care so much about Hongxia." ”

Liu Meng didn't want to discuss housework with his colleagues, so he waved his hand, "Forget it, Hongxia will say anything quickly." ”

As soon as Liu Hongxia told the news of the recruitment of the voyage personnel, Liu Meng and Hu Yuelian said at the same time: "Don't go!" ”

Glancing at each other, Hu Yuelian waved her hand to signal Liu Meng to speak first, and Liu Meng said unhappily: "These things have nothing to do with you, they are all conscription of children over the age of sixteen." After saying the key points to his niece, Liu Meng turned his head angrily and said to Hu Yuelian: "These people are just fooling and scribbling!" ”

After hearing this, Hu Yuelian was not as excited as Liu Meng, she smiled and said: "When it is time to show loyalty, you should also show it." But it's a bit too much to involve girls. ”

After speaking, Hu Yuelian said to Liu Hongxia: "Hongxia, this kind of thing has nothing to do with us girls. We girls can fight, but we girls can never live on a ship. ”

The two elders who convinced Liu Hongxia said this, Liu Hongxia immediately dispelled all ideas, and then obediently left.

Waiting for Liu Hongxia to go out, Hu Yuelian looked at Liu Meng, who was holding back a smile, and asked questioningly: "Sports Commissioner, what are you laughing at?" ”

Liu Meng didn't dare to say it directly, Hu Yuelian called herself 'us girls' to the fourteen-year-old Liu Hongxia, it was too embarrassing. Back then, Hu Yuelian jumped on the pirate ship of Zhancheng, wielding a short knife to kill, kill, kill, and kill, so that Liu Meng really couldn't connect Hu Yuelian with the girl.

Among the personnel, in terms of the number of enemies killed by a single person, no one dared to compare with Hu Yuelian. For the female heroes who have killed more than 100 people, Liu Meng did not dare to cause her unhappiness. So Liu Meng patted his face with his hand, put away his smile, and said, "I heard that you are going to get married?" ”

After experiencing so many tests of life and death, Hu Yuelian has long seen many things. Even so, when she heard others mention that she was going to get married, Hu Yuelian's face still showed a kind of shyness that only a girl has. However, Hu Yuelian is a heroine after all, and this shyness dissipated in an instant. "Yes, it does."

Liu Meng has always been very skeptical that Hu Yuelian can marry in this life, this is not because Liu Meng has any negative emotions, but after having so many lives on his hands, Liu Meng found that there is an indescribable gap between himself and normal life. With his own life, Liu Meng doubted whether Hu Yuelian could enter the world of ordinary people. What's more, Hu Yuelian's image of a powerful female hero is too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and Liu Meng can't imagine that such a female hero will become someone else's wife. Hearing Hu Yuelian admit this, Liu Meng smiled and said, "That's congratulations!" I have prepared my share of money, and I would like to ask, should I give it to you now, or will I give it to my husband then? ”

This question was beyond Hu Yuelian's imagination, and she was stunned for a while. In the Great Song Dynasty, women are no longer the head of the family. Therefore, the congratulatory gifts given to married women are aimed at the man, or the woman's father and brother. Now Hu Yuelian has a group of colleagues who are worth a lot of money, and these people don't know Hu Yuelian's fiancé at all now, and they probably won't have any chance to deal with Hu Yuelian's fiancé in the future. Therefore, the purpose of the gift is completely aimed at everyone's friendship with Hu Yuelian. How to send this money is also a question.

Thinking of this question, Hu Yuelian remembered the blind date two days ago. At the blind date, the person who can exist in Hu Yuelian's eyes is naturally the beautiful young Xiao Feng. However, the discussion between Xiao Feng's parents and Hu Yuelian's father made the situation of this blind date full of naked interests.

The parents of both sides went straight to the point, and after the two got married, the Hu family would help arrange a formal job for Xiao Feng in the nautical guild. Moreover, the Hu family also agreed to contribute a sum of money as the Xiao family's annual investment in navigation.

Zhao Jiaren's nautical guild is now operating more and more standardized, and a very formal concept of investors has emerged. As one of the old employees, Hu Yuelian has passed all kinds of tests, so she has the privilege of sharing dividends from the fleet as a whole. Xiao Feng's parents do not have the privilege of dividends, they are ordinary teachers in the Zhao Jiaren Group, and with the help of the Hu family, they get the privilege of investing in goods.

The two parties negotiated, made a marriage contract, ended the blind date, and the man's parents left with the depressed Xiao Feng. Hu Yuelian's father sighed: "To be good-looking is to take advantage!" ”

Hu Yuelian knew the reason for her father's sigh. Don't underestimate the privilege of investing in goods, there are many rich people begging Zhao Jiaren to take their money, but the nautical guild at this time is not the era when everything was lacking a few years ago. A large amount of timber stored on Jeju Island has been dried after several years of processing, and the shipyard is able to launch more than a dozen ships per month. If you can't get a cut of the pie in the South China Sea shipping, if you can't take the exchange conditions that make the navigation guild look good, you just want to simply invest money to make money, probably only when Zhao Jiaren falls into bad luck and suffers heavy losses.

Hu Yuelian still remembers that she agreed with her father's words very much, and there was something wrong with being good-looking. Xiao Feng has this look, that is, he can get Hu Yuelian's favor. However, now, Hu Yuelian, who is preparing to get married, is beginning to feel some kind of pressure. Her fiancé Xiao Feng can probably only show his hand. In terms of money and status, Xiao Feng and Hu Yuelian's colleagues are completely incomparable. They are probably already people of two worlds.

However, this kind of cognition made Hu Yuelian have a desire to protect Xiao Feng in her heart, and she diverted the topic from Hu Yuelian, "I'll talk about this later." I'm here to ask you if Zhao Zhizhou is serious this time. ”

The current major event naturally refers to the matter of going to Fusang Country 20,000 miles away, Liu Meng immediately replied: "Of course Zhao Zhizhou is serious, and he also asked me to recommend a few reliable people to be the captain. ”

After getting a definite answer, Hu Yuelian nodded, "No wonder Director Yuan is so unhappy." ”

Liu Meng snorted. Director Yuan Hongjie's face has been ugly these days, and he also told everyone the reason. There are basically 20 sailors on one ship, and about 4 ships are used for sailing. The cost of a ship is 1,000 yuan, plus the salary of sailors, and the ship with people is 3,000 yuan. The fleet of 4 ships is 12,000 pieces. If the voyage fails, not only will 12,000 sailors be lost, but 80 capable sailors will be lost in the vast sea. Yuan Hongjie couldn't understand why Zhao Jiaren was so firm.

Seeing that Liu Meng was sure of this, Hu Yuelian said: "Zhao Zhizhou has already said that since everyone is so worried about this voyage, he will take out all the money himself." Since Zhao Zhizhou is so determined, I have an idea, that is, each ship is equipped with a few people from the Shiban team. ”

This suggestion made Liu Meng's eyes shine, and he returned from the Wa Kingdom this time and brought back gold and silver worth tens of thousands of copper coins. Zhao Jiaren was not short of money at all at this time, and Liu Meng was worried about the loss of the capable sailors on the ship. The members of the Juban team are all Japanese people, and they are quite capable Japanese people, if they can get these people on board. While saving money costs, it also saves the capable sailors in the nautical guild. He nodded heavily, "That's great!" I think it's okay. ”

Hu Yuelian and Liu Meng discussed the details and made a plan. Hu Yuelian took the plan and went to Zhao Jiaren. Zhao Jiaren just read half of the plan after getting it, and couldn't help but slap the table and praise it loudly. Among so many cadres, they are basically against this plan. In the end, Zhao Jiaren was forced to announce that he would pay the money himself, and at this time, a cadre finally came up with a reliable solution.

Each ship was staffed with 30 personnel, 15 regular sailors, 5 cadets, 5 employees on the periphery with ordinary salaries, and 5 members of the juban team. With such a ratio, the number of people on board has changed from 20 to 30, and 5 regular sailors have been saved. It not only increased the combat effectiveness of the fleet, but also saved the possibility of losing capable personnel. What Zhao Jiaren hoped to get in this voyage was that his subordinates would give substantial help, rather than blindly expressing opposition.

Of course, Zhao Jiaren did not blame his subordinates. His plan was to start from Fuzhou to Hakodate in Hokkaido, and the closest way from Asia to North America would be from Hakodate to Vancouver in North America, or further north to Prince Rupert. Of course, the white colonists had not yet reached the area, and the area was still a wasteland, infested with Indians at most.

Once in North America, pumpkins were an important crop. You can also take advantage of the Pacific Gyre to travel south along the west coast of North America to reach your destination Mexico. Finally, following the trajectory of Magellan's circumnavigation of the world, he ran smoothly from South America all the way to the South China Sea. Why is the Pacific Ocean called the Pacific Ocean? It is because when Magellan sailed, there was no wind or waves when he crossed the Pacific Ocean, and the road was peaceful. In honor of this voyage, the name Pacific Ocean was born.

However, Zhao Jiaren can't say that he knows, and all he can use is the few hundred words in the "Southern History" and the "Book of Wei". With only a few hundred words that even the scholars of the Great Song Dynasty had never paid attention to, the subordinates who cared about the development of the Navigation Guild were certainly not convinced. Now that he finally has a lot of support, Zhao Jiaren has a good impression of Hu Yuelian. It is not thanks to Zhao Jiaren that he made such a big concession to help Hu Yuelian succeed in proposing marriage.

Since Hu Yuelian is so powerful, Zhao Jiaren can't be embarrassed by Hu Yuelian, he asked: "Captain Hu, aren't you going to get married?" Let you be responsible for this matter, is it a major event that delays you. ”

Hu Yuelian knew that Zhao Jiaren would not arrange it indiscriminately, and when Zhao Jiaren waited for Zhao Jiaren's words, Hu Yuelian hurriedly replied according to what she had discussed with Liu Meng: "I discussed this matter with Liu Meng first, and he also helped me improve a lot of plans." The suggestion of the five peripheral members was put forward by Liu Meng. I think this matter can be handled by Liu Meng. ”

Zhao Jiaren nodded, the plan was to train this group of people. For these people who are accustomed to the warm climate of Fujian Road to adapt to the cold climate of the north, Sado Island is indeed a good location.

"I'll think about it." Although he was sure in his heart, Zhao Jiaren did not immediately agree. After all, he is the leader of the Nautical Guild, and this matter is still up to him.

The recruitment of personnel in the academy, the juban team, and the periphery went very smoothly. However, in the elite sailors, the recruitment of personnel is not particularly smooth. At this time, the South China Sea trading fleet had returned, and the notice was not only for the trainees, but also for the sailors and cadres in the South China Sea fleet. For the people of the South China Sea trading fleet, the money was far less attractive than it was for the cadets. The southbound fleet relied on strong ships and artillery, and did not have to pay any fees for crossing the strait to Sriwijaya, which controlled the eastern entrance of the Strait of Malacca.

Although a tenth of the ships were lost on this voyage, only 5% of the sailors were lost due to the proper formation of the fleet and the good medical treatment. The sailor who came back alive invested 20% of the purchase price of the goods, and got 20% of the sales revenue, and the sailor's income was about 70%.

In the end, it took half a month, and finally enough regular sailors were assembled. After reading the list, Zhao Jiaren felt distressed. The four captains and four chief mates in this are all the same dividends as Hu Yuelian. Dividend personnel mean that they are all old brothers and cadres.

Zhao Jiaren's subordinates are divided into two categories, one is to eat the dividends of the nautical guild, and the other is to eat the investment of goods. The former is that as long as the nautical guilds make money, they have dividends, and the latter must be invested for every trip.

There are two types of investments for each trip, one is to bet on a particular ship, or to invest in a whole shipment. If the ship sinks, it will lose all of it, and if it is invested in the whole type of cargo, it will deduct the risk fee, and the profit ratio will be greatly reduced. Hu Yuelian's fiancé Xiao Feng's family gave Xiao Feng's parents the privilege of investing in goods through marriage.

Of course, the sailors have the privilege of investing in goods, but they belong to the lowest level under the entire pyramid, and the old brothers who eat the dividends are only lower than Zhao Jiaren. The benefits of their voyages were much lower than those of their trips to the South China Sea. The voyage was probably close to 100,000 miles, and the reason these people took such a big risk was because they really believed that the earth was round, and that, as the notice put it, they were 'unrelenting in their geographical discoveries'. It is not the benefits of money that make them give up huge gains, but the fact that these people really have a strong desire to explore the unknown.

has subordinates like this, and Zhao Jiaren is also rarely excited from the bottom of his heart. Originally, the training teacher he arranged temporarily replaced the lecturer of the geography class with Zhao Jiaren before training the whole group of personnel. When Zhao Zhizhou, dressed in a scarlet robe and equipped with a silverfish bag, appeared in front of a total of 220 people with replacements, those low-level personnel who had no chance to see Zhao Jiaren at all were stunned. The sailing cadres also had their eyes shining.

Zhao Jiaren did not greet each other, he spoke first: "I assure you that I believe that this voyage will be successful. When you return victoriously, I will set up a stone monument to record this kind of Chinese thousand-year-old event, and engrave your names on it, so that my Chinese descendants will never forget your contributions. And your bravery will surely become a model for future generations. I, Zhao Jiaren, have talked about this matter again, and I will definitely do it! Please trust me. ”

Since this trip is so dangerous, it is even more important to inform everyone beforehand. Knowing the difficulties of this trip, even those who devoted themselves to this trip for the sake of money felt that they were respected, and many people were moved to tears. The cadres took the lead in applauding excitedly, and after a while, the classroom burst into warm applause.

When everyone's mood calmed down, Zhao Jiaren immediately took out the theoretical basis for the trip. That is recorded in the "History of the South" and the "Book of Wei",

In the first year of Qi Yongyuan, the country of "Fusang" came to Jingzhou and said: Fusang is more than 20,000 miles east of the Han Dynasty. The land is in the east of China, and its soil is rich in Fusang, so it is named. Fusang leaves are like paulownias, and newborn are like bamboo shoots. When the Chinese people eat it, it is as red as a pear. The skin is cloth, and it is thought that it is clothing, and it is also thought that it is cotton. It is a board house, without a castle, with writing, and is made of fusang skin......

The king is in a row, and there are drums and horns to guide him. The color of his clothes changed over the years.

…… There is an ox, and its horns are long, and they carry things with horns, up to twenty hundreds. There are horse-drawn carts, ox carts, and deer carts. Chinese people raise deer, such as Chinese cattle, and use milk as cheese. There are mulberry pears, which are not bad for many years. Peach. There is no iron in the land, but there is brass. Not expensive gold or silver. There is no rent estimate in the city. When he got married, his son-in-law went to the door of his daughter's house to make a house. Sprinkle the morning and evening. After years, and the woman is displeased, that is, driven; To be happy is to get married.

Based on Zhao Jiaren's understanding of Central and South America, this description does not refer to the Wa Kingdom, and the shape of the whole of America is more like a hibiscus tree. And the distances and directions described are extremely reliable. In the entire text, the names of Fusang and Wa appear in both the country, and there are records of Fuso in the northeast of the country for more than 7,000 li. From the Wa Kingdom to Port-au-Prince Rupert, it is indeed more than 7,000 miles. This route is the closest route from Asia to the Americas.

As for the measurement ability possessed by the people of that era, Zhao Jiaren also felt that he did not dare to speak falsely. When he went to Xuzhou to visit his friend Kong Dianba in the power system, when he was eating and drinking at public expense, his friend Kong Dianba from Xuzhou's Electric Power Bureau took him to visit the tomb of King Chu of the Western Han Dynasty in Xuzhou. When visiting the tomb of King Chu of the Western Han Dynasty with a double tomb in the local area, Kong Dianba of the Electric Power Bureau pointed to the laser that proved that the tomb road was straight, and told the story of the tomb road.

The technicians who excavated this ancient tomb found that the tomb road was extremely straight, so they measured it with a laser, and the results proved that the two tomb roads built in the Han Dynasty were extremely straight, and the two tomb roads were horizontal. There is no shortage of good people in the world, and some people made accurate measurements and found that there was still a slight angle between the two directions of the tomb. So the people of good deeds said happily that the measurement technology of the Han Dynasty could not achieve high-precision and accurate measurement.

But those who do good things have better ones. Since the two tombs have an angle, where do these two lines intersect on the same plane? The better people did the more accurate measurements and accurate calculations, and when the final results came out, everyone was in disbelief. These two tombs placed the coffins of the King of Chu and the princess of Chu of the Western Han Dynasty, and if the King of Chu and the Princess of Chu followed the tomb in an absolute straight line, they would eventually meet in Chang'an, the capital of the Western Han Dynasty.

Whether this is a wonderful coincidence, or an accurate measurement, the modern Chinese technicians cannot explain. Could it be that the technology of the Han Dynasty could achieve the measurements that can only be completed by satellite positioning in modern times? This doesn't make sense no matter how you look at it. But if it is by chance, then why is the intersection of the tomb road of the Chu King of the Western Han Dynasty Chang'an, the capital of the Western Han Dynasty? This wonderful result can be fully explained, and the souls of the husband and wife can return to Chang'an all the way along the tomb road without hindrance. Return to the royal family tree in Chang'an.

Zhao Jiaren suspected that the Northern and Southern Dynasties were not too far away from the Han Dynasty, and perhaps it was not clear what technology was still retained in long-distance measurement at that time. However, he can only think about such things for himself, and the training for the trainees now is about something else.

There are historical records as a basis, and Zhao Jiaren used 'it is said that there were some other contents in Bianliang back then' to put his private goods in. Those are Zhao Jiaren's intentions. Mexico has countless goodies at this time, peppers, corn, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, potatoes, tomatoes, oil palms, sisal, fine lint cotton. Either of these crops is a big killer that can completely change the structure of China's crops. Zhao Jiaren will definitely not let go of these.

The Chinese have strong characteristics of an agrarian nation in their genes, and everyone listens to the story of getting back the crops with a reasonable expression. No one thinks it's too much. In addition to these things, they were very curious about Zhao Jiaren's description of the polar day and night, as well as the description of the aurora. The description of the wild people of Fuso is also very vigilant.

After five days of training, the 220 vaccinated people sailed north. When seeing him off in person, Zhao Jiaren thought with emotion, and he finally understood why in the historical records of the early Age of Discovery, it was either the kings of European countries or the big nobles and merchants who could spend huge sums of money to support navigation.

Historically, those in high positions had insufficient financial resources, and they had to borrow money to buy ships and hire sailors. The productivity of the Great Song Dynasty was far greater than that of Europe in the Age of Discovery, and even so, 12,000 copper coins was not a small amount for Zhao Jiaren.

"Have a safe journey! Come back soon! Zhao Jiaren shouted at the ship that set sail.

"Have a safe journey! Come back soon! The crowd of people who saw them off felt the same way, and everyone shouted loudly together.

The people on the boat huddled on the side of the boat, waving their arms to say goodbye to the crowd seeing them off. For a while, many people moistened their eyes, and many people cried loudly.