On the same day that Zhu Di set off, a whaling ship was sailing in the distant eastern Pacific Ocean.

"Old Wu, it's been three months."

Han Zhong, the unkempt captain on the deck, looked at the guide who was nibbling on cans.

They are the military households of Mito who guard the Sennohesho.

Of course, the coastal guard posts under the command of the Fuso Command Department all have their own whaling fleets.

In fact, at this time, the military households of Fusang did not farm their own fields, although they all had their own fiefdoms, and a military household could range from 50 to 100 mu according to the different land conditions, but the farmers were all tenants of the He clan or simply serfs, and then every year during the harvest season, the prescribed amount of grain was sent to the city and handed over to them. As for these military households, those who are on duty are willing to guard that little bit of food and eat all day long, so they live a peaceful life, but in fact, they are all engaged in industry and commerce, such as fishing and aquatic product processing in coastal guards, and the whaling industry is of course also a popular choice.

This is the most profitable.

It's hard and dangerous.

But with the current atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty, seeking wealth and danger is the mainstream.

And Han Zhong carried out the pursuit of wealth and danger to the extreme, because they were ready to go to the Americas to make a fortune privately under the bewitchment of Lao Wu, who had participated in the trip to the Americas, and the latter found that the natives had a lot of gems in their hands, especially emeralds, and because they couldn't smelt iron, they could exchange a lot of gems with an ordinary knife.

If you can go back to the Americas, you can exchange a large number of precious stones with cheap iron tools, silk, and cane sugar in the Ming Dynasty.

Then sell it to the mainland to make a fortune.

Isn't this better than whaling?

Anyway, after their whaling ships go to sea, they usually have to sail for several months, and there are often whaling ships that have to go back for half a year or even almost a year for various reasons, this kind of work is to chase whales, especially sperm whales, and process them directly on the ship after fishing, and then return to the ship after they are full.

Time is uncertain.

In that case, why not the Americas?

So they relied on an official chart, rich sailing experience, and Lao Wu as a guide, and sailed for three months.

And it was three months when they couldn't see a bit of land, and there was not even a small island along the way, so they could only gnaw on cans, drink the accumulated stinking rainwater, and even die several, but until now they are still surrounded by a never-ending blue.

"It's coming!"

Lao Wu could only answer like this.

In fact, he was also a little panicked, because he followed Zheng He to sail for two months before arriving on land.

Of course, what he didn't know was that Zheng He had more accurate charts in his hands, as well as a full set of ocean currents, monsoons and other information, so he first arrived in North America, and then went all the way south along the coastline, and he had a chart that every ship in the Ming army had, and there was no information such as ocean currents, so they didn't go to North America at all, and were pushed south by ocean currents hundreds of kilometers away from modern San Francisco.

Fortunately, he finally arrived.

"Port side, land!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than the equally unkempt observer above his head let out a mad howl.

Everyone on the deck bounced up, and then pounced on the port side to widen their eyes, while Han Zhong and Lao Wu rushed to the mast as if they were full of blood, and then quickly climbed to the top at an unprecedented speed, holding the binoculars to look at a little faintly visible green in the distance......

"Quick, turn the rudder!"

Han Zhong shouted in a trembling voice.

Their 3,000-gauge sailing clipper quickly completed the turn.

Half an hour later, they approached the coast, not caring about Han Zhong, who measured the depth of the water a little, immediately ordered to put down the dinghy and then boarded the dinghy with Lao Wu, in order to prevent accidents, they also deliberately put on armor, one of them carried a flintlock short gun, but carried a long knife, after all, the local people's stone-based weapons did not break the defense of the plate armor at all, and there was also no protection worthy of a musket, in this case, the configuration of the plate armor extended war knife was sufficient. The whaling ship dropped anchor half a mile from the shore, and then prepared the only eight small cannons on deck, and they rowed to the shore under the protection of the artillery behind them, and soon the dinghy came to shore, and the two men with four sailors watched the shore very carefully. There was a village in front of them, but for some reason there was silence, and there were even a few fishing canoes floating on the shore, and in this eerie silence, they continued on.

"No, it smells of corpses!"

Han Zhong said suddenly.

He and Lao Wu looked at each other, and the two of them clenched their long knives in both hands.

The two sailors in the back were armed with spears to protect the left and right.

The last two sailors held short guns.

The six men cautiously moved forward, and soon a carrion appeared in front of them.

Han Zhong picked it with a long knife.

"There are no wounds."

He said.

Then they move on.

As we approached the village, the strong stench of corpses had already smoked people.

They sped up, and then a carrion appeared in front of them, and Han Zhong quickly picked up the carrion on the ground, but the body had no wounds......

"Evacuate, it's a plague!"

Lao Wu suddenly shouted in horror.

Everyone woke up instantly, including Han Zhong, they were frightened to turn around as quickly as possible, and then rushed towards the dinghy, Han Zhong suddenly remembered halfway, even his long knife was thrown away, and the six people jumped into the dinghy like being chased by monsters, and immediately rowed away with panic, and soon they climbed back into the boat under the stunned gaze of the sailors on the boat......

"Let's go, get out of here!"

Han Zhong shouted.

In the chaotic busyness of the sailors, the ship lifted anchor and sailed away from the coast.

Fortunately, after sailing out for half an hour, they found an uninhabited estuary, so they re-anchored, and then rowed down the dinghy to replenish the fresh water, and found on the shore several wild fruits that Lao Wu had eaten when he had last visited, and the sailors on board also caught some fish, and a group of people spent their first night in America on the boat. The next day they continued their voyage, and found a second village not far away, this time carefully chosen by lot to select a sailor, who rowed ashore alone, but soon ran back in terror, and the village was all but bones. They had no choice but to continue south, and after two more days, they arrived at the first port where there were still living people, but they didn't dare to go over, they just watched with binoculars, but at this time, Han Zhong suddenly noticed a problem.

They don't seem to be sick.

They have doctors on board, and in fact all the warships and merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty have doctors.

The doctor taught by Edo Health Medicine himself told them as if he was very experienced, if it was an airborne plague, they would definitely be doomed to the whole ship, after all, Han Zhong and the others had entered the village, and since it was okay now, it could only prove that it was not airborne.

Since you're so scared of a bird!

Of course, the key is that if you don't dare to get off the ship, then what will you make this time?

Do you go back empty-handed?

After sailing for more than three months, they have already arrived in the Americas, just to make a fortune, and now they have arrived but dare not get off the ship, so how can they get rich?

Besides, even if you go back, you have to replenish food, otherwise you won't have anything to eat halfway.

In the end, under the stimulation of the gem, Han Zhong gritted his teeth and let go.

Landing.

Then he took his men and approached the dock like this.

"Burn, ignite and burn!"

As soon as he landed, he shouted.

The sailors carried torches, and under the numb gaze of the natives who were still alive, poured whale oil on all the dead bodies they came across, and set them on fire, as did the houses of the unalive, in short, burning. And those natives who are still alive have not even stopped them, one by one, like walking corpses, watching them light fires everywhere. But then Lao Wu drove them aside with the sailors, and the doctor took his imperial medical codex, according to the standard epidemic prevention practices of the Ming Dynasty, the first step was to isolate first, and drive the people who seemed to be healthy to the side, and those who were obviously infected to the side. Then he brought out the cauldron of boiling whale oil from the boat, boiled the water, added concentrated salt, let it cool and drove the healthy ones in to kill and kill them first, and burned all the clothes on their bodies, and there was definitely no medicine, and besides, they didn't know what the plague was, and the doctor was a barefoot doctor, and he couldn't be expected to know too much to diagnose what the plague was.

But good thing there are willow trees nearby.

Then boil the water and irrigate.

Anyway, it's useless and useless, it's a dead horse as a live horse doctor.

In short, they were led by the doctor here, according to the Emperor's medical codex, as if they were careless of human life, and tested all the means that could be used against those living natives, who were already numb at this time, and did not resist at all, and were at their mercy, but it was like a miracle to save most of them......

It was not smallpox that the natives were infected.

In fact, Zheng He's fleet could not have carried smallpox patients, but the problem was that most of the germs on their bodies had not been exposed to by the Indians, and any of them could form a plague of this level. And the means of their treatment themselves are also effective, so even if they are blind, they can be blinded, not to mention that those who are still alive at this time are themselves relatively resistant. After a toss that lasted for half a month, they actually brought the port back to life, and the natives also regarded them as gods, although the two sides still did not understand the language, but they could more or less understand each other's meaning, and those natives understood what they wanted, and immediately took them to the inland city. And until this time, Han Zhong and none of his men were still infected, and they were completely relieved, it was obvious that the plague had not harmed them, so of course they continued to go inland.

A few days later, they arrived at a city that was also plagued, and after leading their natives to tell the lord that they were gods who could cure the plague, they were immediately worshipped by the surviving people of the city.

All that's left is to continue healing.

It's still the same as before, and even the doctor already has a little experience and is more efficient.

And in gratitude to them, the lord ordered the collection of all the gems he could collect and offer them to the gods who saved them.

Finally, when a month later, when they solved the plague in the city and left, they actually brought hundreds of catties of various gems with them......