The 432nd was hollowed out

The port is nostalgic for the place of fireworks, which is the play of grassroots seafarers.

The officers' play is a notch higher, and they have cooperated with local chambers of commerce and daimyo to smuggle people, buying dozens of local young women at one time. After the supplies were replenished, the satisfied seafarers returned to the narrow boat, dozens of young women from the Japanese Kingdom were also escorted to the temporary rest cabin, and the three warships sailed to Penglai.

That said, contemporary seafaring conditions are very difficult. More than 200 people are crowded into a small physical space, not only is it difficult to sleep in a relaxed place, but the smell is also extremely bad after a long time. To tell the truth, such poor material conditions are even harder than going to prison. No wonder Yue Guo had to arrest bankrupt peasants and forcibly turn them into sailors, bankrupt peasants wandering in the port and begging are much more comfortable than squatting in sea prisons, how can they be willing to come to the sea to suffer?

In addition to the difficult material conditions, mental torture is also a big problem. Just imagine, in the era when there is no network and no mobile phone, how torturous it would be to lock you up in a space of two or three square meters for dozens of days?

Reading is also not a distraction, because the vast majority of seamen and infantry are pure illiterate. In this era, the popularity of education was extremely low, and those who were literate and hyphenated stayed in their home country to live a relatively leisurely life, how could they come to the sea to be cattle and horses. The vast majority of seafarers cannot read books, let alone appreciate the meaning.

Music and dance, on the contrary, became a good medicine for the seafarers to soothe their emotions.

Perhaps because of demand-driven change, many traditional Chinese musical instruments have compromised the marine environment and have been continuously improved. And because of the mobility of seafarers, the musical characteristics of all over the world have been silently integrated into this musical instrument revolution, and some new musical instruments with Chinese characteristics but different from the real world have gradually been derived. Wei Dongsheng crossed the barriers of time and space to appreciate these brand-new musical instruments, and Dao also had a different mood.

However, music does not help to solve the complex marine environment. Soon after the fleet went to sea, it unfortunately encountered a small storm. Although the experienced captain was lucky enough to overcome the difficulties, the voyage time exceeded the limit of the stock reserve. Before approaching the coast of Penglai, the seafarers collectively fell into a starvation predicament, and everyone was hungry to cook leather to eat. Look at the image of Shiyan, at this moment he is unkempt and exudes an inexplicable unpleasant smell.

The water is green water, the rice is moldy rice, and the cowhide dismantled from the boots is boiled in the clear soup and water, which is a nightmare.

If he hadn't been sure that Penglai was ahead, if he hadn't known that he was coming to the end, Shiyan would have committed suicide in despair.

The three battleships survived in the end. Looking at the mountains on the land, whether they were seafarers or officers, they forgot their status and happily knelt down to thank the gods for their blessings. Wei Dongsheng was also slow to understand the venting consumption of seafarers after docking at the port: the death rate of navigation was so high, it was not justified to have fun in time.

Penglai was discovered in 1474.

Yue Guo has been operating in this strange continent for 14 years.

By the time Wei Dongsheng arrived in Penglai, Viet had already built five small ports in Central and North America, namely Shanhe Port (near San Francisco, California, USA), Mazu Port (near San Diego, California, USA), Tianfei Port (near San Jose del Cabo, Baja California, Mexico), Yuelai Port (near Puerto Vallar, Jalisco, Mexico), and Tonggang (near Panama City).

Tonggang is a military fortress embedded in the hinterland of Penglai; Viet Lai Port was a trading base for gold and silver trading between the Vietnamese and Mesoamerican natives; Tianfei Port is a deliberately built sea retreat, if the situation in the indigenous Fanbang deteriorates, the soldiers of Yuelai Port can calmly retreat to Tianfei Port; Mazu Port is a large logistics base for the operation of Penglai in Vietnam; Shanhe Port is the supply port of the most recent expansion of the Yue Kingdom to the north.

Each of the five small ports has its own usefulness, and they are woven into the advance base of the Yue Kingdom into Penglai with sea ships.

At first glance, the geographical location of these five small ports seems to have established a vast colony in Vietnam, and it has eaten the west coast of Central America and North America in its mouth. In fact, it is impossible to be so optimistic in reality, and the five small ports are veritable small ports. Taking Shanhe Port as an example, with a total population of only over 300 people, its control over the surrounding area can be imagined.

After all, the sea route is too difficult to walk. Taking Wei Dongsheng's three warships as an example, he was lucky to survive the death crisis and barely sent more than 200 soldiers to Penglai. In 1488, when the Yue Kingdom actually took control of the huge Penglai, the Yue Kingdom had neither such ideas nor such capabilities. The Yue Kingdom was not even willing to expend energy to conquer the indigenous states of central and southern Penglai, not because it was too difficult, but because the distance was too long, and the current trade profits were already very considerable.

Of course, the times are always self-conscious.

As we all know, during the Age of Discovery in the real world, the Spanish colonizer Hernando Cortes quickly conquered the Aztec Empire with less than a thousand soldiers.

However, in 1474, when Penglai was discovered by the Yue Kingdom, the expansion of the Aztec Empire was not yet complete, and its tentacles had not even reached the west coast. It was also due to the constant pressure of expansion of the Aztec Empire that the maritime merchants of the Yue Kingdom successfully established alliances with the West Coast states.

In 1486, Auitzotl became the new leader of the Aztec Empire. In contrast to his pacifist predecessors, Oizot succeeded to the throne and not only quickly quelled rebellions everywhere, but also directed his troops to the west coast. Without the unexpected arrival of the Vietnamese maritime merchants, Oizot would have conquered countless states on the west coast, and then his nephew Montezuma II would continue the glory of the Aztec Empire, eventually confronting the Spanish colonizer Cortés.

And now, the Vietnamese maritime merchants are the first to face the Aztec Empire under the rule of Oizot.

The maritime merchants of the Yue Kingdom underestimated the weapons and equipment of the Aztec Empire, but they were afraid of their geographical and demographic advantages, and unfortunately did not produce colonists like Cortez. On the contrary, knowing that the Aztec Empire was preparing to expand to the west coast, the maritime merchants of the Yue Kingdom were worried about the safety of the port of Yuelai, so they quickly dispatched fast merchant ships to return to China for help.

Wei Dongsheng's three warships were one of the reinforcements sent by the Yue Kingdom to Penglai.

It's a pity, it's still an old saying, the sea route is too difficult to walk. Qujiang and other three warships worked hard to send more than 200 soldiers to Penglai, and even if other reinforcement fleets arrived in Penglai, it was difficult for the Vietnamese maritime merchants to establish an absolute numerical advantage. Fortunately, there was a huge difference in the generation of military equipment between the two, and the maritime merchants of the Yue Kingdom were only worried about whether the port of Yuelai could be kept, but they were not afraid that the Aztec Empire would be able to cross the ocean to attack the port of Tianfei.

All these are the background of the times.

Knowing that Yuelai Port was in urgent need of human resources, Shi Yan immediately went through the back door and transferred to the Yuelai Naval Division: "The sea is too hard, I would rather stay in the barren Yuelai Port." ”

Shiyan even invited Wei Dongsheng to stay: "Thousands of miles to find a marquis is the joy of life, why waste time on the journey?" ”

Wei Dongsheng smiled and declined Shiyan's invitation.

With Wei Dongsheng's first experience in integrating the natives of Java, he was fully capable of conquering the Aztec Empire like the colonizer Cortés. However, leading the soldiers of the Yue Kingdom to conquer the Aztecs and other indigenous states was completely a typical crushing of the technology tree, considering the original intention of the inferior Tomorrow Ring to prohibit students from spreading social science and natural science, does it really make sense to Wei Dongsheng?

After a certain period of repair, the Qujiang and other warships crossed the vast Pacific Ocean and returned to Guangzhou through the five feudal states of the South Seas.

It is said that the Bahmanni Sultanate of India has recently been mired in a crisis of rising power, and the Vietnamese want to take the opportunity to expand its sphere of influence in Tianzhu and actively send its navy and army to interfere in its internal affairs. As a result, Wei Dongsheng accompanied the Qujiang to reinforce India, and served in India for five years.

A lot has happened in five years.

Take Penglai as an example.

In 1491, the expedition ship was ordered to explore the outline of the Great Desert Island, and the expedition ship to the south bypassed South America, and the expedition ship to the north accidentally discovered the influence of the Yue Kingdom on the indigenous tribes of Central America. Almost at the same time, Yue Guo and Wei Guo realized that the Great Wilderness was originally part of Penglai, and that the voyages to the east and west would return to the original point, and the ground under their feet was shocked to be a round ball.

The influence of the Big Bang had just dissipated, and Columbus, who had discovered the Americas in the real world, also represented Spain or the confederation of the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon arriving in the Caribbean islands as scheduled.

Judging from the perspective of future generations, the Yue Kingdom should do its best to exterminate the Spanish colonists represented by Columbus, so that Spain would misunderstand that Columbus died unreliable in the ocean, so as to monopolize the huge American continent. However, the Vietnamese maritime merchants did not have such a discerning insight, and they were shocked and warmly welcomed the arrival of Spain, because the new route from Spain to the Caribbean would help the Vietnamese maritime merchants break through the blockade of the Vietnamese country in Africa and share the profits of trade from the European market.

In 1492, there was a strange confrontation pattern in Penglai, with Vietnam wanting to break the monopoly of the country on European trade, and Spain wanting to break Portugal's monopoly on European trade. The Patriotic Nation desperately headed north, trying to destroy the Spanish colonies in the Caribbean.

The competition between Yue and Wei in Penglai is becoming more and more fierce.

In 1495, Wei Dongsheng sent reinforcements to Penglai as a captain to curb the expansion of the country.

Unexpectedly, this voyage was not smooth, and Wei Dongsheng suddenly contracted lung disease for some reason, and since then he has been coughing all day long. Docking at Penglai to check his body, Wei Dongsheng was slow to find that the poor navigation conditions had quietly hollowed out his body.

As soon as he turned thirty years old, the body of the fourth Wei Dongsheng collapsed.

Considering that the total time of the tenth reincarnation depended on the sum of the lifespans of the various lifetimes, Wei Dongsheng stopped the loss in time, wisely stopped the great voyage adventure, and immigrated to Penglai Mazu Port on the spot to recuperate.

At the same time, Shi Yan, a classmate of the year, finally showed his fangs. The fly camp dog climbed to a certain position, and Shiyan was shocked to breed ambitions similar to those of the Spanish colonizer Cortez, trying to find a feudal marquis in the land of Penglai. Around the same time that Wei Dongsheng received the order to reinforce Penglai, Shi Yan led the Yuelai Port garrison and the Tonggang garrison deep into the interior, and joined forces to win over the small indigenous states and attack the rising Aztec Empire.