After thousands of miles south from the town, it is no longer the land of Fuso, and this hot land of Mesoamerica in the later generations is already an endless dense rainforest, with all kinds of miasma, poisonous gases, poisonous insects and beasts infested in the meantime, which can be regarded as a dangerous place.

In this regard, even if Chen Duan is good at medicine, he will never be arrogant after coming here, but carefully explore this place, and with the help of the slaves provided by the Wufa prince and the help of some accompanying townspeople, they have avoided many incidents that may cause heavy casualties.

In the second month after arriving on the East Coast, the construction of the small castle named Tokai Castle had been completed, and the shipyard here on the East Coast was also well carried out under the auspices of the shipwrights who accompanied the team, and a large number of small fishing boats that could carry about 20 people were built.

Although the wood of these fishing boats is not completely dry, it can be used for two or three months before the boats are deformed and permeable, which is the most important thing for Chen Duan, who is currently the most short of time.

Finally, in the fourth month of coming to the east coast of the isthmus, an expedition team found a tree species very similar to the tear tree in Wang Ze's mouth, which made Chen Duan and Mi Ke very happy, but there was still no news about the cinchona frost, a tree that can cure malaria.

At this time, Chen Duan and they had been away from Zhenhai for almost two years, and several young Taoist priests in Lin Qing had suffered a lot with Chen Duan along the way, and after finding most of the plants requested by Wang Ze, Chen Duan decided to send Lin Qing and Huang Yi back, but he still wanted to continue to stay in this land and continue to explore.

Although there were several apprentices' bitter begging, Chen Duan was not shaken at all, and several apprentices had no choice but to ask Mi Ke to persuade him, but he didn't know what method Chen Duan used to move Mi Ke and stay on this continent with him to explore.

"So, after you leave, your master and Captain Mi are still preparing to continue sailing east?" Wang Ze was suddenly surprised after listening to the stories of several young Taoist priests.

"Yes, Your Majesty," Lin Qing, the eldest of several Taoist priests, said respectfully, "In the past, our master has always admired Zhang Taishiling's Hun Tian Theory, thinking that the earth is a round sphere, but we have never had any evidence, this time the master is likely to continue to the east, to see if we can go back to the East China Sea like this!" ”

Wang Ze didn't know what to say, this was the first person in China to sail around the world, but at this time, the natural conditions along the way were extremely bad, and the conditions were much worse than Magellan's sailing, and I don't know how many people would be able to come back alive this time.

Thinking so, he still comforted a few young Taoist priests: "You can rest assured, from the east coast of the continent where Fusang is located all the way to the east, and then across that ocean is the African of the Great Qin population, and now the Zhiyuan Islands (Socotra Islands) where He Liang is now are on the east coast of Afrika.

In addition, from the continent where Fuso is located to Africa, it is much closer than the distance from our East China Sea to Fuso, and besides, you must believe in the excellent performance of the ships made in the East China Sea, as well as the skills of Captain Mi, and your master will definitely be able to return safely! ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your good words!" Although Lin Qing and the others thanked them respectfully, the sadness on their faces did not diminish much at all, because they had just crossed the ocean and returned to Zhenhai, and after the personal experience of this voyage, they knew how many tribulations were waiting for them on the sea.

Lin Qing also had five ships on the way back before, but they encountered strong winds and waves caused by hurricanes on the way, so they lost a sea boat, but fortunately, because they were afraid of getting lost when they came back, the ships were walking along the mainland coastline, so they were close to the coast, and more than half of the people were rescued.

In addition, when the ocean was going away, each ship also had corresponding life-saving equipment, but there were still hundreds of people killed, and I didn't know if Chen Duan would be able to cross the ocean safely, so Lin Qing, Huang Yi and others still couldn't help but worry about Chen Duan.

Looking at the worried expressions of Lin Qing, Huang Yi and others, Wang Ze wanted to comfort but didn't know what to say, thinking of this, Wang Ze suddenly thought that since Chen Duan was likely to continue sailing eastward after exploring the American continent, but He Liang went to the Socotra Islands at the mouth of the Red Sea, I don't know if he will continue to go west in the future, and the two groups will meet here.

Of course, Wang Ze himself also knows that the probability of this kind of meeting is too low, although the sea is vast and the sight is very good on a sunny day, but there are many foggy days and stormy days, sometimes you can't see each other from a distance of dozens of miles, not to mention that the two are located on two continents thousands of miles apart.

In the following days, Wang Ze was busy again, and he first asked the professors of the College of Agriculture to take these crops brought from Fusang to Yizhou and Luhan to plant and multiply, not only to get more grain as soon as possible, but also to further cultivate excellent varieties.

Especially rubber trees, because natural rubber is a necessary product in many modern industrial industries, it is valued by Wang Ze.

In his previous life, he had personally visited the rubber plantation of Xishuangbanna Farm in Yunnan Province, and he clearly knew that this thing is a species with an extremely long growth cycle, and it takes at least seven or eight years to grow after planting the saplings before the glue can be harvested. E-book house

This is also because the rubber trees of later generations have been cultivated over the centuries, and they must be in good condition before they can be tapped, and if there is a climate change, it will take even longer.

And now the rubber trees brought back by Lin Qing and these Taoist priests from the Americas are still the saplings of the first generation of wild rubber trees, and it can be said that this kind of rubber trees that have not been artificially cultivated will have a longer growth cycle and take more time to grow.

Wang Ze feels fortunate that now he has the most suitable area for rubber tree planting in later generations, whether it is the Philippines or Malaysia, or Thailand, or Indonesia in later generations, it is a big rubber producer, and at present, only Lu Han seems to be the most suitable for rubber tree planting under Wang Ze's rule.

Moreover, after the Great Leap Forward last year, Wang Ze sent 150,000 people to Luhan, Borneo, Temasek and other places in one go, so that there are now more than 200,000 Han people in the entire Nanyang, and planting rubber trees is not a problem in terms of land or manpower.

After seeing off the excited professors of the Agricultural College, Wang Ze immediately sent away nearly 20,000 soldiers of the First Fleet, the Third Fleet, the Nanyang Garrison Division, and the Yizhou Garrison Division that were on an expedition to Nanyang and the Western Ocean.

Before leaving, these soldiers who had made meritorious contributions received their fair share of the bonuses in time, and the large amount even exceeded the expectations of these soldiers, and all the bonuses were distributed with silver coins minted by Xia Guo himself.

Although the Xia Kingdom has issued a total of three currencies of gold, silver and copper, according to the actual purchasing power, a copper coin weighs three coins, that is, fifteen grams, and its purchasing power is about equal to the purchasing power of two soft sister coins in later generations.

A silver coin is minted according to the different proportions of silver, copper, and tin, although it is only eighty-five percent of the silver content, but it is calculated according to the price of full silver, and it takes 1,000 Xia copper coins to be able to exchange for a silver coin of the East China Sea.

Gold coins are because the density of gold is too large, according to one catty, five taels two specifications cast into currency, according to the gold and silver one to ten exchange ratio, a pound of gold coin purchasing power can be compared to the 200,000 soft sister coins in later generations, so in daily life the people of Xia still mainly use copper coins.

Silver coins are already very large currency, and gold coins are mainly concentrated in the transactions between maritime trade, nobles, and large merchants, which also virtually reduces the number of times gold is circulated and reduces the wear and tear of gold in daily life.

Because this time the soldiers in the South and West Seas captured is indeed rich, so they generally get dozens of hundreds of silver coins per person, so it is rare to come to the national capital for a rare time, but they are really generous, less than 20,000 soldiers burst out of the purchasing power to make the merchants in Zhenhai City simply happy.

Although commerce flourished in the East China Sea, Zhenhai was the capital of the country, and many rare items from all over the world were gathered here, which were difficult to see in other counties.

Moreover, because of the development of Wanshui (the middle reaches of the Heilongjiang River), the Mingtong River, and the development of a large area of land along the Ussuri River in later generations, the products here are extremely rich, and it is simply a loss to visit the national capital here without buying some things to take home.

After sending off these soldiers with explosive purchasing power, the whole Zhenhai breathed a sigh of relief, the merchants could take a rest, and Wang Ze took the time to visit Du Sheng, the first time he learned that Du Sheng was carried back with a wound, but he was nervous for a long time.

When his father Wang Yong started his family, the first batch of old people in the cottage at that time have nearly half of them no longer alive, and many of the people who are still alive are retired from the army with a wound and raised at home, and there are only one or two hundred people who are still leading the army.

Du Sheng, as one of the people Wang Ze is most familiar with, has followed him since the beginning of the attack on Tamluo Island, and Wang Ze doesn't want him to make any mistakes.

Due to Du Sheng's injury, of course, it is impossible to go back to Nanyang to lead his Third Fleet in a short time, so after some consideration, Kan Le, who was originally stationed in Yizhou, was transferred to the chief officer of the Third Fleet, after all, Du Sheng's deputy Sun Yu has only been taking refuge for a few years now, and he was a Goguryeo Han before, if Sun Yu is rashly promoted to the chief officer, it will inevitably cause some internal contradictions.

After Kan Le left Yizhou, Zong Li's deputy, who was originally patrolling Hai'an Island, Yu Hao, was finally corrected this time and was transferred to the chief officer of the Yizhou Fleet, and although Sun Yu was still the adjutant of the Third Fleet in Nanyang this time, Wang Ze also explained to him that he would also lead an army alone in the near future, so he had no complaints.

When the circle of things was over, Wang Ze suddenly felt that he seemed to have forgotten something, and at this moment, Shen Sanshui, who was in charge of duty, hurriedly walked into the main hall and said to Wang Ze: "Your Majesty, Foreign Affairs Cao Jinzuo said that those Great Qin people don't seem to be in a hurry at all, and they are going around Zhenhai City all day long!" ”

Wang Ze patted his head, almost forgetting that there was such a group of guests from afar!