The southbound survey team led by Li Bao did encounter an accident and had to return early.

Time is pushed forward by half a month...

After more than a month at sea, the two clippers docked again, but unlike the previous ones, they stopped not on the mainland, but on an island, and their route had deviated from the coastline.

But they didn't get lost, they did it on purpose.

"Professor Zou, I don't know whether to say that I am bold, or reckless?" Li Bao raised one foot in disgust and rubbed it on a tree trunk, until he wiped off all the feces of unknown animals stuck to the soles of his shoes, and then said to Zou Boqi on the side with a soothing brow.

He regretted it now, he shouldn't have listened to Zou Boqi's flickering and left the coastline and sailed into the deep sea.

When Zou Boqi heard this, he still calmly put on a warm smile and said, "Isn't this that you haven't lost your way yet? As long as you remember the way home, it's not the same everywhere!"

"Yes, yes, you're always right about everything!" Li Bao rolled his eyes and said angrily.

[Isn't this just the fear of forgetting the way home? When the time comes, all the people on these two boats will have to finish playing! Shouldn't they be tempted by Zou Boqi's nonsense about his immortal achievements and his name in history, and he should patrol along the coastline step by step, and still be able to make meritorious contributions, and the risk is still small!

"What the old man said is naturally right!" Regarding Li Bao's praise, Zou Boqi did not accept it modestly at all.

"You..." Li Bao was speechless, not afraid that the hooligans are educated, but afraid that the cultural people will play hooligans!

"Admiral, why don't we rest on this island for a few days, and then return to the established route?" At this time, Zhou Tai took the opportunity to suggest, "With this island, we have additional credit, and we can't take any more risks to find greater credit, and we can't chew it out if we are greedy!"

Li Bao glanced at Zhou Tai appreciatively, thinking that Youping still understood my heart, glanced at Zou Boqi, and made a helpless expression: Look, I'm not alone in this idea!

Zou Boqi pursed his lips dissatisfiedly, but he didn't say anything, there was a big island that found that it was enough for him to study for a while, and if he had to force Li Bao to continue to take risks, if something really happened, his conscience would be disturbed.

The matter was settled, and after a week's rest on the island, it was immediately returned to the sea, and then continued along the coastline to the west.

At the beginning, Zou Boqi proposed to deviate from the coastline precisely because they found that they had reached a place similar to the end of the earth after going all the way south, and the coast turned a corner here, no longer extending to the south, but to the west, if there was no accident, this is the southernmost part of the mainland.

Therefore, Li Bao gave an order, and the survey team was put into operation in an all-round way, and the first thing they did was naturally landing, and the second thing was to establish sovereignty and carve stones and erect monuments!

Because Zou Boqi had to visit the island from time to time, and the time for the fleet to dock and recuperate, it was said that they set off for more than a month, but in fact, only half of the time they actually spent on sailing, more than half a month.

"Let's talk about it, what should this big island be called?" Li Bao asked people to find a suitable stone for erecting a monument - if there was no suitable stone to replace it with a wooden plank - and, as is customary, to consult the top of the fleet.

"This big island is not like the small island found before, it must be according to the naming rules of the king!" Li Bao added.

In addition to the only two small islands that were named Siqi Island (Yan Siqi, the king of the opening stage), Weiwen Island (General Dongwu, the first person in China to land on Wanwan and leave his name), the other islands because the area is not large, there is basically no possibility of setting up a town in the future, so the names are taken by them randomly, most of them are according to the shape of the island, the number of archipelagos, and the specialties on it, and more and more islands were discovered later, and the brain cells were squeezed dry, so they simply replaced them with numbers- Because Li Kang came up with a convention of using dead people's names as place names, the Huaxia Navy did not have a habit of naming newly discovered places after their own names.

When everyone heard this, they all subconsciously looked at Zou Boqi, there was no way, only Zou Boqi was a real reader, like Gan Ning and Zhou Tai, although they were literate, they were not erudite, and Li Bao's generation, hehe...

Zou Boqi began to think about it, this name is not easy to think, Huaxia has not paid much attention to the ocean since ancient times - now refers to the era in which Zou Boqi lived - and celebrities related to the sea are even rarer, not to mention that there are some that maybe Li Kang is going to summon, although the name can be changed - for example, Yiwu Town has been changed to Qihuan Town - but it is not good after all.

At that time, people were summoned by Li Kang and found that they actually enjoyed the treatment that only "dead people" can enjoy...... Broad-minded may feel that this is the embodiment of their own value, if they are not very good-minded or particularly superstitious, then they don't hate Zou Boqi to death.

"It's called Bearded Island, taken from the bearded guest Zhang Zhongjian. Zou Boqi thought about it and decided to use this name.

When everyone heard this, they all nodded their heads to know Zhang Zhongjian, after Li Kang's long-term edification, the current high-level Huaxia will no longer feel that it is a chaotic minister and thief who has the courage to open up foreign lands like Zhang Zhongjian.

Since then, this large island nearly 400 miles from the coast has finally had its own name after countless years of existence-Qiu Beard Island.

As for whether someone will name this big island first? Hehe, this is a matter of Huaxia! Anyway, in the future, Huaxia's map will only be marked with "Bearded Island."

Over the next few days, the survey team had a rare period of recuperation and enjoyed life to the fullest, and the wildlife in the island's coastal areas suffered.

On the other side, after the name was confirmed, Zou Boqi only rested for an hour, and then, under the escort of a team of officers and soldiers, with the only two accompanying students, plunged into the dense forest and began a week-long island expedition.

The fourth day after the survey team landed on the island.

Early in the morning, Zou Boqi quickly finished his breakfast, and was about to continue to be boring and boring as usual—according to one of the accompanying guards—when he was inspecting the work, suddenly, the guards on the two warships sounded the alarm at the same time, and waved the flag "Two unknown ships have been found".

"How is that possible? Where is the enemy here?" Li Bao straightened his military uniform, and after letting out a sigh full of doubts, he immediately ordered all the fighters to return to the ship and prepare for battle.

The officers and men of the Navy began to board the ship in an orderly manner and quickly entered their posts.

"Professor Zou, do you want to stay with us, or do you want to stay on the island and wait for the matter to end?" [.]