At night.

Even though the snow forest is dense, the cold wind is pervasive.

Such a night is already familiar to everyone.

The improvised camp wall made of trees and snow on the periphery of the camp could completely block the wind and snow outside, but it was only necessary to wait until the next day's dawn to make a way out of the camp.

The wind kept howling against the tent, and pieces of snowflakes fell from the sky and slowly accumulated on the tent, which played a role in keeping warm.

Most of the officers and soldiers in the tents had already slept.

Even if you don't get used to it at first, but when it's the same every night, the whistling of the wind and snow is nothing, and you can fall asleep when you lie down and close your eyes.

Only a few tents were still lit with candles.

In a sheltered corner of the camp, the tents of Zhu Yunwen and Sun Cheng were always lit with candles.

The two didn't communicate, but they didn't turn off the lights and sleep with their eyes closed, they just silently shrunk in cotton clothes and shrunk in the futon.

After a long time.

Zhu Yunwen let out a long and long voice in his throat.

Under Sun Cheng's puzzled gaze, he tightened his cotton coat tightly, and wrapped the smelly sheepskin coat around his body.

Then Zhu Yunwen walked to the door of the tent and carefully opened a corner.

Seeing that the wind and snow outside were not heavy, half of it was opened.

Outside.

At the top of the cedars rising from the ground, under the night sky.

The snow stopped at some point, and in the clear starry sky, countless bright stars twinkled and projected the light of hundreds of millions of light years away millions of years ago under this starry sky.

And under the starry sky that the Central Plains people call Yinhan.

Countless rays of blue, turquoise, and deep purple light are constantly distorting and swaying, changing countless shapes.

"Like a fairy skirt......"

Zhu Yunwen's eyes looked at the sky above the cedar with some obsession, and under the starry sky of Yinhan, the ever-changing aurora.

Sun Cheng was silent, he wondered if the guy in front of him had the idea of chanting poetry.

But Zhu Yunwen turned his head, looked at Sun Cheng who was frowning, and asked softly: "This kind of light has been appearing for several nights. You say, didn't we find the frozen strait, but first found the legendary Immortal Heavenly Palace? ”

Sun Cheng also observed the light under the stars outside for several nights, and after finding that it did not pose any threat to them.

This Zhenfu, who was previously in charge of the Jinyi Weibei Zhenfu Division, never paid attention to it again.

Since there is no threat, it is harmless.

Just like Sun Cheng looked at those officials in the court, in his eyes there was only a distinction between loyal ministers and traitors.

Seeing that Sun Cheng didn't speak.

Zhu Yunwen had a look at Niu playing the piano, and then said: "If you follow what Brother Xi said, the land under our feet is a circle. If we keep going north, will we walk into Cham Road one day? ”

Sun Cheng still didn't speak.

He never made such assumptions.

His Royal Highness said that this world is a ball, and this world is a ball.

As for how to get to Champa Road?

Sun Cheng felt that as long as he got on the warship of the imperial court's sailors, he would naturally be able to go to Zhancheng Road.

Zhu Yunwen was a little annoyed.

"Count the days, we will enter the wax moon in more than a month, if we can't find the frozen strait before the New Year's Festival, let's wait to be killed by the people below."

Recently, there have been some changes in the team.

Time that seems to freeze like the surroundings has caused everyone to have more or less psychological changes.

Sun Cheng finally moved.

I saw him put the embroidered spring knife pressed on the pillow between the two of them, looked at Zhu Yunwen with a firm gaze, and said in a deep voice as if he was making a promise: "Before I die, no one can touch you." ”

Zhu Yunwen shook his head: "I mean, we have to find that frozen strait. ”

Sun Cheng's momentum weakened and he spoke in a low voice.

"Will find it."

"yes, we'll find it. As long as we find it, we can solve a lot of problems. ”

Zhu Yunwen also whispered.

He has always thought that Sun Chengcheng is an elm head, and the disputes above the court and the people of the world are not within Sun Cheng's consideration.

He naturally didn't understand what kind of changes would be brought to the Ming Dynasty when a new continent appeared in front of the Ming Dynasty.

What did those flies and dogs do in the Central Plains in the past?

It is nothing more than to occupy more land in order to create great wealth.

But what about when a new continent emerges?

Zhu Yunwen felt that people's selfishness would not change, but it could change the future direction of the imperial court.

At the very least, the contradictions and pressures in the country can be transferred to the New World for a longer period of time.

That's not how Jiaozhi Road came about.

The same is true for Champong Road and Yingzhou Road.

Even this year, the Ming Dynasty used the strength of the whole country to conquer the grassland in the north, and then changed the Liaodong Capital Division to Liaodong Province, and set up the Nuergan Capital Division in the Nuergan area, all in order to divert the contradictions in the country and the pressure generated between the groups.

Thinking about complicated things in his heart, Zhu Yunwen changed his hand and silently closed the tent.

Tucking the sheepskin coat into the corner, Zhu Yunwen wrapped his cotton clothes and got into the futon.

"If everything goes well this time, if we don't talk about myself, just you, you will definitely be the only candidate for the next Jinyi Guard's commander."

Sun Cheng, who had just laid down, seemed to be asleep, his closed eyes moved slightly.

"I lend you good words."

Zhu Yunwen, who was lying down, smiled silently: "After you go back, you have to take your life to protect Brother Xi'er, so that you can keep your errand as the commander of the Jinyi Guard." ”

Snore.

Out of the tent.

"Elm Head!"

……

Time flies.

Like a white horse passing through the gap.

When the cold winter wax moon is approaching.

The Siberian Far East in the dead of winter.

A team of 'wild men' rushed out of the dense snowy forest.

It's actually a bit distorted to say that it rushed out, but at the edge of this snow forest that stretches for thousands of miles, it's the same scene all day long, and suddenly a team of savages comes out of the forest, and the visual impact is natural.

The number of people in the team is estimated to be more than 900 people.

Everyone was covered in snow, and for a long time everyone had a beard on their faces and ice crystals hanging from them.

However, even turned into a wild man.

It can't stop this Ming officers and soldiers who came all the way here from the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty.

Everyone's face was filled with a rich smile, as if they had escaped death.

Everyone's eyes revealed a strong sparkle and expectation.

"Huhuhu......"

"Wahaha ......"

"It's out! It's out! ”

Everyone began to howl indulgently, shaking the layers of snow falling in the snow forest behind them.

Zhu Yunwen threw away the wooden staff in his hand.

In his sight, the ground beneath his feet gradually turned into a rocky beach not far ahead.

Beyond the beach, the sea that should have been a churning sea is now quiet without wind or waves.

The snow was blown by the north wind on the ice, and it kept moving towards the south.

"We've found it!"

Zhu Yunwen, who was also full of beard, burst into tears, but was soon frozen by the biting cold wind.

By his side, even the steady Sun Cheng was moved.

In front of their eyes, there were already people in the team rushing up on the frozen sea, walking on the ground, but because they had not noticed, they fell on the ice, and the whole person slipped out a lot, except for the pain in the buttocks, there was nothing at all.

And face to face in the frozen sea.

A meandering coast stretched out in front of everyone.

Sun Cheng's throat suddenly choked up: "We have found this frozen strait!" ”

"No!"

Zhu Yunwen was the most excited, grabbed Sun Cheng's arms tightly with both hands, and pulled the other party to rush to the ice.

"See?"

"There's a coast across the street, what does that mean?"

"This means that there is a new land on the other side! It's a new continent! ”

Zhu Yunwen suddenly used both hands to pull Sun Cheng around on the ice, but just when Sun Cheng was at a loss, Zhu Yunwen let go of his hand.

Sun Cheng stepped on the ice with both feet, and skipped out directly, and then fell unsteadily and heavily on the ice.

If it had been before, Sun Cheng would have gotten up and done the same thing on Zhu Yunwen once.

But this time, he sat on the ice and let his inertia keep him sliding forward.

Zhu Yunwen rushed forward for a while, and then squatted down without a teacher, clasped his legs with both hands, and let himself slide forward on the ice steadily.

The two collided with each other again, but finally stopped and continued to slide forward.

Zhu Yunwen laughed out loud first, he laughed long enough and loud enough.

In the end, he stared at Sun Cheng with a red face: "We found it!" We've found a new world! The Ming Dynasty will be passed down forever and prosperous forever! Da Ming is mighty! ”

Zhu Yunwen had already begun to cry out like crazy.

Then.

All over the ice, everyone shouted.

"Here today, find a sheltered place to set up camp!"

"Tomorrow I don't do anything, if I have nothing to do, I will hunt in the woods and accumulate some wild vegetables and food."

"The day after tomorrow, we'll cut down the cedars and make some snow crawlers."

After being excited, Zhu Yunwen began to give orders.

People are gradually calming down.

The faint hope that had been stored in everyone's hearts for a long time finally appeared in front of them at this moment, and the conjecture that was originally suspicious of whether it was exiled or not finally disappeared with the cold wind on the ice.

Sun Cheng walked to Zhu Yunwen's side and looked at the officers and soldiers who had gathered.

"Choose a team of 100 households to come out, return the same way, send the news back to Tiancheng, and ask His Royal Highness Taisun to send additional people to follow the marks we left along the way, and Liaodong Dao will send troops and horses to build forts along the way."

Now that it is now certain, there is a frozen strait here.

So it is rumored that the new continent where the remnants of Yin Shang migrated must be on the other side of this frozen strait.

Determined all this, Sun Cheng quickly made an absolute.

Regardless of whether the Ming Dynasty will build sea ships in the future and go all the way east to the New World, the road they have traveled now is the only choice at the moment, and the Ming Dynasty naturally needs to be in their hands as soon as possible.

The feud in the Central Plains on the grassland has been extinguished, and Nuergan has also begun to set up a capital division, and the tentacles of the Ming Dynasty have enough power to extend here.

Sun Cheng finally began to believe what Zhu Yunwen said.

With the discovery of the New World, the Ming Dynasty will have a more powerful national power.

This world will eventually belong to Daming!

……

"What the future of this world will be, Lone doesn't know."

"But right now, one thing is certain."

"This ocean will belong to Daming from now on!"

"The Ming Dynasty's Age of Discovery......"

"It's coming!"

On the sea outside Matsue Prefecture.

A large fleet, completely abandoning the posture of vigilance, with the appearance that can best show the power of the fleet, showing off its majesty to the east, marching above the sea.

On one side of the line, there is a sea ship of different sizes.

These were the merchant ships of the coastal maritime merchants of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the merchant ships of the European countries that came to the Ming Dynasty by an edict from the imperial court.

Today is the day of the first steam warship in the Ming Dynasty and the first steam warship in the world to conduct sea trials.

Although the steam ironclad ship was still lying in the dock of the Longjiang Shipyard outside Yingtian City, the entire ship had only finished laying the keel.

However, it does not affect the national policy of the Ming Dynasty to conquer the sea, and it is advancing according to the established plan.

At the very front of the entire fleet.

A new type of ship far surpassing all the large treasure ships of the Ming Dynasty is sailing steadily on the sea.

The mast reaching into the sky, with only the ropes as thick as small arms, swayed in the sea breeze, and all the sails were folded.

But the speed of the ship did not decrease much.

In the middle and rear of the ship, a huge chimney was spewing smoke into the sky.

The surface of the sea has changed color.

Countless seawaters poured up from above the surface.

Two huge ribbons of color are soaked under the surface of the sea.

Zhu Yunxi stood on the lookout outside the command room of the ship under the chimney, holding a telescope in his hand, carefully observing the sea in front of the fleet.

Around him were a group of court officials dressed in red robes.

In front of Zhu Yunwen, it was Zhu Biao, the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty wearing a gown.

"Your grandfather should also come over and see with his own eyes how my Ming steam ship overcame the thorns and thorns on the ocean and broke through the huge waves."

As the prince spoke, the bow of the ship had already split a huge wave that was surging over.

Zhu Yunxi pursed his lips and looked at the back of the prince's father's head.

The old man wants to come.

But when you were in Yingtian City, it was not you, the crown prince, who led the cabinet scholars to oppose the old man going out of Beijing to accompany this first steam warship to sea trials.

Instead, you ran out with a bunch of people, and now you say the old man should come and see it.

What did you say?

Zhu Yunxi silently slandered his prince's father.

Zhu Biao had already quietly turned his head, looked at his son whose expression was constantly changing, and snorted coldly: "What are you slandering again!" ”

Zhu Yunxi was stunned.

Then he opened his mouth and said in a deep voice: "Erchen is thinking, my Daming is about to usher in a new era, an era that only belongs to Daming!" ”

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