"The southern tip of the continent is also the same as what His Majesty mentioned at the beginning, and the Mobei is as bitter and cold, the fleet did not stay long, and then decided to sail back, who knows that for many days only the west wind blows, if the ship is going against the wind, the speed is extremely slow, and the fresh water is not enough, Wei Chen decided, according to the chart drawn by His Majesty before, sail east all the way back to his homeland. Seeing that the west wind and the current were about to take the ships farther and farther away from land, suddenly a huge storm was encountered, and the fleet almost lost its direction in the sea, and the sea was vast on all sides. In the storm, we could do nothing but tie ourselves to the board of the ship and pray for the blessing of the dragon lord. Wechen has never been so scared in his life. Yu Xi said with a pale face, the wind was strong enough to overturn the ship. Several times, the ship Yu Xi was on almost sank. The waves are too big, and the overwhelming waves are ten thousand times more terrifying than the huge strange fish that are occasionally seen.

"Until the storm stopped, the old sailor on the ship used the star-pulling board to observe the starry sky, and found that the positions of the crape myrtle and the Beidou stars were somewhat similar to the road they came. Everyone guessed that it should have been blown back by the storm, and it happened that the wind direction also changed, and the east wind began to blow, so Wei Chen decided to return to the west, and the fresh water on the ship was quickly drunk, and the sailors used wooden barrels to catch the rain to drink, except for some poisonous grass seeds, most of the food collected from the shore was eaten, so everyone began to try to catch fish and eat it raw. Yu Xi recalled that in the end, the fleet was blown by the wind to another huge land, which, judging from the nautical chart given by His Majesty, should be a land in the desert in the center of the ocean. The sailors went ashore to capture some deer that were jumping on their legs, roasted the jerky, collected a lot of giant bird eggs, and set sail again, this time with islands to replenish food and water along the way, which was a pleasant return for the Tang fleet, which had experienced the long and uninhabited voyage.

This time, the sailors of the Tang fleet no longer dared to deal with the raw people on the shore at will, but carefully selected the land supplies of fresh water and food without people. In the Java area, Yu Xi encountered a fleet of ships from the Great Food Kingdom, just as the caliph declared that the Xia King was the protector of the believers, Cai Lang became the beloved son-in-law of the King of Kings, and a series of events about the annexation of the Samanid Dynasty by the Xia Kingdom spread widely in the Great Food Region. The fleet of the Great Eclipse arrived at the mouth of the Tigris River with the Chinese fleet, and the king of kings, Adulyard Dawlai, entertained the remaining 200 or so Tang sailors and immediately sent them to Zhang Zhongyao, the city of Bukhara.

After listening to Yu Xi's narration, Wu Yingying was silent for a long time, and more than 800 Jiangnan children set sail to sea, and in the end only 200 people returned to their homeland, but they almost completed the round-the-world voyage. "It almost proves that the earth is round. Wu Yingying muttered, he looked at the bag of tokens presented by Yu Xi with emotion, the moldy potatoes and corn were completely impossible to plant, and in the corner of the wrapping cloth, dozens of brown seeds were lying.

"Is this so?" Wu Yingying asked, pointing to the black-brown seeds of various sizes.

Yu Xi took a closer look and explained: "Your Majesty forgives the sin, Wei Chen and others found a kind of grass seed in that wild continent, this kind of seed has some oil in it, and you can barely satisfy your hunger when you are hungry, so I collected some and brought it to the boat." Because it doesn't taste good and is slightly toxic, there are still some left. He himself didn't realize the importance of these dozens of seeds, the Central Plains did not grow that kind of crop at this time, and these seeds not only tasted bad, but also poisoned if they were eaten too much.

Wu Yingying picked up a seed, looked at it carefully, and asked, "Is this seed contained in a white flower, and that flower is like a clump of filament?" He paused for a moment and asked again, "How many such seeds are there?"

"The flower is exactly what Your Majesty said. Everyone has collected some of this kind of seed, because it is unpalatable and slightly toxic, so there should be many sailors who still have it around, and everyone is not willing to throw it away, so let's keep a souvenir. Yu Xi has completely admired Wu Yingying, this time he was able to find the continent across the ocean, and he was able to return safely, all thanks to the sea map provided by His Majesty, and many taboos and directions of the voyage before sailing, all of which played a life-saving role at a critical moment. His Majesty has not set foot on that continent, but he knows everything about the products there.

Wu Yingying sighed, because the sacrifice of the voyage was too great, even such a huge gain could not make him happy, and he would not send a fleet to make such a long voyage hastily until the floating sea line developed better sea ships and more accurate and reliable navigation skills.

"This grass is called cotton. The cloth spun from cotton in the Western Regions is called white stacked cloth, which is the strongest and most durable, although cotton has been cultivated in the Western Regions, but the yield is not large, and these seeds you bring back may be one of the best varieties in the world. This kind of thing is used to improve the original cotton varieties in the Western Regions, and then popularize planting, and the people of Dali and China will open up the bitter cold northwest land. He said in a deep voice, "Gather all the cottonseeds that these sailors have brought back and give them to the baggage division." "The biggest harvest of this voyage, in addition to cottonseeds, is that more than 200 may be the best navigators of this era, and the Chinese have stepped into the mysterious and unpredictable open sea with great sacrifices before the great era comes.

Yu Xi was about to bow down to receive the order, and Wu Yingying said again: "There is a fleet of sea vessels in the floating sea line, which is specially used to travel between the Southern Barbarian countries such as Jiaozhi and the Central Plains, and even as far as the Great Eclipse, and then only the Great Eclipse fleet can sail in the sea area to the west, and the huge profits between the Central Plains and the maritime trade countries have been made by the Great Cannibals." "Fuhaixing has huge warehouses and special wharves in Jinling and Guangzhou, because the filial piety to the local government is sufficient, the magistrates of the Song State will not care who the ultimate boss of this Fuhaixing is.

However, the western section of the lucrative sea trade route has been monopolized by the big cannibals, and the officials and merchants of the Song State have no intention of continuing to expand the route to the west, but Wu Yingying wants to compete through the floating sea line, and it is best to build a string of pearl-like port castles for Huaxia first. Fortunately, the truly powerful navy and sea power in this era had not yet risen, and it seemed that the merchant fleet that did not rely on the support of the Song government also had its living space, and through the development of armed merchant fleets and port castles, it tried to operate the pattern of maritime colonization for China.

He looked at Yu Xi with an expectant look on his face, "Would you like to lead the team to sail again and open up a route for me to go west through Dashi Tianzhu?"

Seeing the stiffness on Yu Xi's face, Wu Yingying knew that he had lingering palpitations about the voyage, so he smiled and said: "There is no need to rush back, whether you want to or not, just by virtue of your feat of this voyage, I will not hesitate to reward the marquis." Go back and sort out the logs, sightings, charts, and routes of this trip to the sea and hand them over to the Military Intelligence Division. The director of the Military Intelligence Department will say hello to him, and I will not treat the warriors who have returned from the voyage badly. ”