Chapter 195: Cape of Good Hope

The black baby that was nagged by the filial son was indeed floating on the sea, and there was no artificial Grand Canal that attracted the attention of the world, and it could not pass through the middle of North and South America. The Great Xia fleet had to go south and head into the Atlantic.

It will take hundreds of years for North America to be discovered, and Zhong Qinbo said that he is not in a hurry, and the navy of the Great Xia Dynasty still has a lot of room for development.

I remember that before leaving, Cuihua asked about this route, and was very concerned about whether they would go to Europe, and when she saw her daughter-in-law, she didn't have a tacit understanding, and Heiwa asked her:

"Daughter-in-law, let's reminisce about the history textbooks of junior high school, how did the capitalist European countries accumulate their wealth?"

Cuihua thought for a while: "Start a war in the colony, sell ***, sell black slaves, and loot directly!"

"Answer correctly, but unfortunately there is no reward! Then, let me ask you again, where are these colonized and looted places?"

"Uh, it seems to be there, Asia, Africa, Ra!" Just because she doesn't have a high education doesn't mean she doesn't have common sense.

"So, daughter-in-law, why should I go to Europe instead of going directly to these uncolonized places? Let's use silk to open the way, mutual benefit, the state of etiquette, who can not praise us for being a great country!"

There was a light in Heiwa's eyes, a straightforward and warm light, he looked at Cuihua and said with a smile, "The most important thing, of course, is to bring back high-yield grain to Great Xia, this is the highest meaning of my Great Xia voyage!"

Food = Population = National Strength.

The population of the Great Xia Dynasty today is about 70 million, but the land area is only one-third of that of later generations. If we want to have a larger population, diversification of food and increased production are key.

Now that the most important goal of their trip has been exceeded, the next step is to work hard for the accumulation of wealth.

The further south the boat went, the colder it became, and everyone turned out their winter coats.

For more than three months, longer than they had traveled from Bactria to Emerald Island, they had crossed the southernmost tip of South America and entered the Atlantic.

In winter, the temperature in the Atlantic Ocean was as warm as spring, and the rain was unstoppable, and the sailing crew had to stay in the cabin.

Heiwa is worried, and he is afraid of the Cape of Good Hope, which is famous for its "murderous waves". This is said to be the most dangerous waterway in the world, and they are going to wade on it.

"This damn rain, why is it endless!" Qin Ke was almost moldy in the cabin, and it had rained on the last ten and nine days, and the few of them had nothing to do except for class.

"My dad said that the road ahead may be getting harder and harder, so let's put on life jackets at any time."

"Ah, ah, I don't want to be soaked in the sea again, the water here is not warm, it is very cold!"

Qin Ke had words in his mouth, and at the end, he was still lying on his back on the couch, looking like a dead pig.

"Everyone, hurry up and put on life jackets, hurry up, the big wave is coming! Don't panic!" The soldiers outside were shouting loudly.

They have not encountered waves in the past few months, and it is really rare to see such a high and turbulent one, hoping that the captains will become more and more skilled, and they also chant to let the bodhisattvas from all walks of life bless everyone.

I saw that on the calm sea in the distance, a big wave suddenly appeared, although there was still a certain distance from their fleet, but who dared to underestimate it?

The front peak of this wave is steep, and the back peak is gentle, like a wall of water.

The captains quickly reversed course, and if the boat and the wave were going in the opposite direction, they would be hit in the head, and if the boat and the wave remained parallel, the huge wave would also have a good chance of overturning the ship.

It was a dilemma, and the captains relied on willpower and inertia to control the ship.

Heiwa was tossed by this wave of waves, and he staggered, and Qingyi and Qinger dragged him by one arm. The last time they salvaged the master in the sea, it seemed that it was still yesterday, this time they had to leave one person to stay by the master's side, the young man was much stronger than the middle-aged man over thirty years old!

Heiwa: What? Thirty years old is middle-aged? I feel like I'm still a teenager!

After the big waves, the small waves continued, and the ship also kept shaking, and the cabin was in a mess.

The black baby shook and vomited, dizzy and swollen, confused, and finally lay down

Qingyi couldn't get up.

It was a torturous two quarters of an hour, and when the wind and waves had calmed down, the group pushed open the hatch and checked the fleet.

After the renovation and reinforcement, the No. 1 sea ship was transported by shit this time and was not overturned by this wave of waves, but the cargo ships and grain ships of the navy were overturned by more than 20 ships, and the shipbuilders also suffered a lot of losses.

"Let people check first, whether the grain ships we brought back from the Inca Empire are damaged, these grains must be searched carefully, and we can't let this work be in vain." Heiwa didn't care about the golden and precious ships, he was afraid that the corn and potatoes he had worked so hard to toss would sink to the bottom.

"Master, I'll check it out right away, don't worry, we've loaded five boats!" Seiji immediately ran to the stern.

The temperature was fifteen degrees in the afternoon, and hundreds of people who were soaking in the sea water were shivering with cold.

The soldiers skillfully salvaged people, goods, and ships, and the vanguard had found a bay that could be used to anchor.

"Dad, are you feeling better?" Yuan Wenjie looked at his embarrassed father, not only did he vomit all over the place, his clothes were crumpled, and his hair seemed to be sticking to vomit, he couldn't bear to look at it directly.

They are in class today, and they can't take care of their father when the big waves come.

Qing Yi's face did not change in the face of such dirt, and he was already starting to clean up the room.

"I'm fine, I'm fine" Heiwa didn't want to show weakness in front of her son, so she waved her hand and asked Qingyi and her sons to go out with them and go to help the others.

After leaving him alone, he couldn't wait to take a bottle of water from the space, tons and tons, and poured it violently.

His body has been caused by this, Huang Shangshu and Yan Fuzi will only be worse.

Isn't it even worse? Huang Shangshu has not slowed down yet, he estimates that he will have to lie down for three days before he can do it, and he can't do it if he doesn't accept old age.

Their ship eventually rounded the abrupt promontory with great difficulty, and docked in a buffer harbor on the east side of the island.

After disembarking on the island, I found that the shape of the island is like a sharp sword stuck in the sea, and the coastal reef is rugged and has a spectacular view of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

On the wide and endless beach, the sea water swept up the silvery white waves, like mountains and seas, rushing towards the shore one after another, like thousands of troops rushing forward and one after another.

The waves crashed against the rock cliffs, foam splattered, and the sky cracked with a loud sound.

Heiwa stood on the boulder and was silent, others couldn't see his emotions, they didn't know that this would make the child in his heart want to cry out to the sky.

Yes! This is the world-famous Cape of Good Hope, and they want to check in when they haven't been to a place in their previous lives.

"Uncle, there's no one in this place!" Gao Huaiyu plucked the cold in his heart, this looks at the barren and populated broken island, what is so rare.

"Mr. Gao, there is no one here, let's just find a place where there are people, we are here, we must look for it, I will pinch my fingers, there is a treasure here!"

Gao Huaiyu looked at Heiwa suspiciously, half incredulous: "What treasure? Is there gold or precious stones?"

"Maybe it's all there!"

Although Zhongqinbo is rarely unreliable, his tone, listening to it, makes people question it for no reason.

However, they have been drifting at sea for several months, and this wave has caused a lot of losses to the grain ship, and it is indeed necessary to find some supplies.

The first to be resurrected with full blood were Yuan Wenjie and a few of his young men, and they were also a group of people who were scouting around, and they were very active. Heiwa didn't bother to care, and after repairing them, they went north, and he didn't believe that he couldn't find a few natives.

After a quarter of an hour, there was a noise in the distance, which grew louder and louder, and finally converged into a shout in unison:

"Uncle, uncle, come and see, we have found something good!"

This is a cave that is two people high and more than ten meters deep, and the sea water can't pour in, and a few boys found the new world and pointed to the wall of the cave for Heiwa to see.

"Well, this should be a mural made by the locals, a picture of hunting and gathering! This maroon paint is brightly colored, and it should not be long before it was painted, so it seems that we will soon be able to find the locals!"

"This mural is very painted

Not bad!"

"Dad, what kind of people are these?"

"Don't you see? People who love life!"

The news of finding someone making a mural spread, and everyone was relieved, as long as there were people.

The fished boatmen turned purple from the cold, and they were roasting on the shore, and they were thinking about this. I only feel sorry for the goods they brought, and now they have lost half of them, and they are really unlucky.

When Heiwa walked past this group of people, she couldn't help but say, "Don't care about the temporary loss, people are stronger than anything else, besides, scarcity is expensive, and there are few goods, and it is not that they can't afford to sell at a high price."

The truth is such a truth, but it is distressing, especially for tea merchants, the tea bricks are all soaked in water, and the loss is much more than silk.

This time, more than 150 people were swept away by the waves, and after the Shangguan Imperial Doctor checked the pulse of the people who were fished up, he prescribed a decoction, and antipyretics were always indispensable.

Fortunately, the ship containing the medicinal herbs was fine, and the medicinal herbs they collected in the Inca Empire came in handy at this time.

For three days, they lost the cargo of thirty-five cargo ships.

After sorting out the damaged cargo, the fleet headed northeast along the coastline and into the Indian Ocean.

After sailing for 20 days, the fleet found a large inland lake bordering the sea, found a bay closest to the lake as a dock, and docked in a hurry.

"Wow, what kind of turtle is that, so big?" Not long after they set foot on this land, they saw a big guy with a flat body and a weight of one or two hundred pounds, crawling slowly on the shore.

"What kind of turtle is this? Doesn't it bite?"

"Can you eat with teeth?"

"The thousand-year-old king and eighty-thousand-year-old turtle, the ancestors of tens of thousands of years, do you dare to eat it?"

Everyone pointed and pointed and walked on the road by the lake in general, and after walking for more than an hour, they met the eyes of a group of oncoming men.