In 1227 AD, the third year of Xingqing in the Southern Song Dynasty, midsummer, Nanyang.

On the surface of the South China Sea, more than 100 ships sailed southward, judging from the flags flying high on the mast, these ships belonged to the Song Dynasty, but there were warships and cargo ships carrying people and goods.

Nearly 70 warships, 1500 and 2500 materials accounted for half each. Above are the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty and the immigrated people of the Great Song Dynasty. In addition to carrying a large amount of food, the ship is full of daily necessities such as oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, etc.

In fact, there was only enough food for a month, and later merchant ships would bring grain from Champa. After all, compared to the Great Song Dynasty, Champa was much closer to Borneo, and the transportation of grain and grass was much more convenient.

The other 50 ships of 2,500 materials are all manned and cargo merchant ships. The ship was full of more than 20,000 prisoners, all kinds of farm tools, medicinal herbs, seeds, and even ploughing cattle.

These ships first replenished drinking water, vegetables and fruits in Champa, and then landed south of the Bo Ni Kingdom in the South Seas to reclaim land. The warships and merchant ships of the Great Song Dynasty sailors who parted ways with them in Champa went to Australia and Longmen, of which Longmen was a pure military port, and Australia and Boni were used as reclamation places.

On the warship, along with the Great Song sailors, were the first batch of Great Song immigrants who went to the South Seas after the Liuqiu reclamation immigrants, with a number of nearly 30,000. It can also be seen from their relatively shabby clothes that most of them were poor, the lowest level of the Great Song court.

Hundreds of ships on the sides and decks of the ships were full of prisoners and immigrants, looking at the sea, many with blank expressions, but many more with a sparkle in their eyes, full of hope and expectation.

10,000 soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty sailors led more than 20,000 prisoners and 30,000 immigrants across the ocean to start the first official immigration plan in the history of the Great Song Dynasty and the first ocean adventure.

In the past two years, the strength of the Great Song Dynasty Naval Division has expanded rapidly, the number of warships has increased, and with the addition of officers from the Jinling Lecture and Martial Arts Hall and the trainees of the Great Song Naval Academy, the Naval Division is well-trained, and a large number of artillery pieces are equipped on the warships, so that the Great Song Naval Division is like being reborn and reborn.

"The Immigration Department of the Great Song Dynasty is telling the people of the Great Song Dynasty in the world; In order to connect the sea and enrich the people and ease the people's livelihood, the imperial court planned to immigrate to overseas places such as the South and Indian Oceans. All immigrants, regardless of gender, are given 10 acres of land per person, and they are exempt from taxation for three years for one or two to three years. The place of immigration is stationed in the Yamen of the Great Song Dynasty official army, which can ensure that the immigrants should be ......"

On the deck of a warship, Lin Hai, a relict from Fujian, was holding a copy of "China Daily" in his hand, but he was looking at the blue sea and wandering out of the world.

10 acres of land, the more you can cultivate, the better, three years of exemption;

Provide free temporary housing until the individual can afford to build it himself;

Provide free rice and salt until you can eat and clothe yourself and be self-sufficient;

Free ferry tickets to Nanyang, as well as the escort of the Great Song Dynasty sailors;

Nanyang reclamation, there are Great Song garrisons to protect personal safety;

At the expiration of three years, they can permanently reside in the reclamation land;

Immigrated to overseas places such as the South Sea, the Indian Ocean, and ate and drank all the way to the province, exempted from taxation for three years, and cooked two to three times a year......

10 acres of land, not to mention three crops a year, is two crops a year, and the harvest in three years is also a great income.

It is no wonder that those landed villagers sold their fields and immigrated south.

"Second uncle, when will I get to that Bo mud?"

A dark, thin but nimble-eyed teenager walked over and asked Lin Hai.

"Xiao Jiang, I just asked in the morning, I should have to walk for half a day to get to the place."

The Lin family is a big surname in Fujian and Guangdong, with many branches, including rich and noble families, and even poor and poor families, and Lin Hai's family is the latter.

"Second uncle, what kind of place is that Bo Ni mentioned in the newspaper?"

The thin black boy couldn't help but ask again.

Born in a remote mountain village, he couldn't read a single fight, if he hadn't studied compulsory education for two years, and because he was 16 years old, Lin Xiaojiang chose to immigrate with his family and go to Nanyang to make a living.

"Xiao Jiang, the second uncle doesn't know either, but I've heard a little. Anyway, our Lin family is poor, and it's better to go on a rampage than to be half-dead! ”

Lin Hai patted his nephew's shoulder affectionately and said softly.

Young people are always full of curiosity and yearning for the world.

Bo mud is actually a continent thousands of miles long, and the Bo mud mentioned in the newspaper is actually the south-central part of Bo Ni, that is, where they are going.

"Each person is given 10 acres of land, three crops a year, and three years are exempt...... Second uncle, in a few years, our Lin family will definitely turn over! ”

Lin Xiaojiang said categorically, his young eyes were full of energy.

"Hopefully! The emperor is a good man, he will not abuse us poor people! ”

Lin Hai followed his nephew's words, and his heart was unconsciously full of hope.

That new place may really change the fate of him and his family.

Listening to the conversation of the Lin family, Zhao Tai frowned slightly.

From the bottom of his heart, he was also puzzled by the emperor's colonization overseas. Where these birds don't, what good is it to take up.

However, he is a soldier, and a soldier takes obedience as his duty. Since it was the emperor's decree, the military orders of the imperial court, he had to carry them out, and ensure the success of the emigration.

Since last spring, 3,000 soldiers of the Song Dynasty Navy Division were stationed to occupy the city, and for more than a year, the naval warships have been constantly exploring in the South Seas, looking for places that may be colonized, and between the central and southern parts of Borneo, between the Boni Kingdom and the Guawa Kingdom, the area where the forces of both sides have not set foot in, is warm and humid, and there are many rivers, which has become a suitable choice.

Three crops a year, abundant water sources, inland is a large area of primeval forest, you can cut wood to build houses anytime and anywhere, there are gold mines and coal and iron mines around, almost equal to no man's land, easy to get, and it has also become the first foothold of Nanyang immigrants in the Great Song Dynasty.

"General, where are you going after you go to Borneo?"

Li Gui, a trainee of the Sailor School, has a pair of flexible eyes, a delicate face, and dark skin, a typical post-graduate from the eastern coast of Zhejiang.

"When we arrive in Borneo, settle down first, build a house, and arrange Tuntian, we will go to Longmen. As for going to Australia, Camp B is in charge, so it's none of our business. ”

Zhao Tai said faintly, his eyes were also full of longing.

Borneo, Longmen, Guawa, Australia, including Africa, the Red Sea, etc., were all new names coined by the emperor, and are now used in the sailors textbooks of the Sailor School and the Lecture Hall.

"Australia, I don't know what it's like? Emperor, how did he know so many things? ”

There was more surprise in Li Gui's eyes.

On the textbooks of the Sailor School, various places in the South Seas, and the world map are clearly marked, and I don't know if it's true or not.

"The emperor is the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, there is nothing he doesn't understand. For example, firearms and gunpowder, who can make them except the emperor? ”

"That's what the general said!"

Li Gui looked at the vast blue sea and shook his head.

"I really don't know, what does Your Majesty want to do in so many overseas places? These foreign places, compared to my Great Song Dynasty, are simply ......"

"You know!"

Zhao Tai looked around and immediately interrupted Li Gui's words, even though the latter said the doubts in his heart.

"Don't look at these places now desolate, in five or ten years, these places outside the country will be tens of thousands of people and hundreds of thousands of people in large and small sea cities, my Great Song Dynasty ships, the people of the Great Song Dynasty can go to any place overseas, overseas grain, horses, timber, gold, silver, copper, iron, etc., will also be transported back to the Great Song Dynasty by boat. At that time, the whole world will be the territory of my Great Song Dynasty, how spectacular! ”

"That's what the general said! Your Majesty wants to be the Son of Heaven in the whole world, you have to do this! ”

Li Gui smiled all over his face and nodded again and again.

The Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty was young and vigorous, erudite and talented, and he waved his troops north, maybe he was fighting in the northwest frontier, or maybe he was about to triumph.

"General, that Bomud country, the city is so small, if you want me to say, a cannon will be directly shot down, and it will directly become the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, how convenient it is! Now when I go to Borneo, I have to spend a lot of effort to build a house, eat and drink a lot, and I can't work hard for a year or two. What a toss! ”

After Li Gui finished speaking, he found that Zhao Tai had been staring at him, which made Li Gui laugh and feel unnatural.

"General, don't look at me like that, weird."

"You know the! Boni is a small country, not even as good as a town, what do you want it to do? If we want to build it, we will build it, just like Lin'an City, roads and water conservancy, public toilets, large and small workshops, including ports and forts, all of them. Some of us are craftsmen, Borneo has wood and mountains, and we are afraid to build houses and build a castle? ”

Zhao Tai looked at the rookie with childish looks on his face, and spoke seriously.

"You don't have to rely on force for everything, you have to judge the situation. As a last resort, force is necessary. When we gain a firm foothold and eat whale swallowing, the whole Borneo will not be my Great Song Dynasty. ”

Zhao Tai's words made Li Gui suddenly realize.

Borneo is a big place, so why use knives and guns. With the advanced civilization of the Great Song Dynasty, it is believed that the natives here will make a choice.

In addition to being excited, Li Gui changed the topic.

"General, among these immigrants, it seems that the majority of these immigrants are people in eastern Zhejiang, Fujian, and Liangguang, but there are far fewer people in inland rivers."

After more than a month of travel, Li Gui basically knows the origin of these immigrants.

"Borneo has a hot climate and grows three crops a year, so the people on the southeast coast are more adaptable. The eastern part of Australia, where Camp B is going, has a humid climate and four distinct levels, which is suitable for the people of inland rivers. There is also South Africa, where Camp A is going, it is winter now, and I heard that it is still snowing, and the coastal people may not be very suitable. ”

In the northern and southern hemispheres, the climate is reversed in many places. These are mentioned in geography textbooks.

"Really? Is there a place where it's snowing? ”

The world is so big, there are no surprises, Li Gui couldn't help but widen his eyes.

"I don't know how you learned your geography class?"

Zhao Tai glared at Li Gui dissatisfied. I've never eaten pork, but at least I've seen pigs run. South Africa is in the southern hemisphere, and the Cape of Good Hope, which must be passed through to Europe, is in South Africa, and as a student of the Sailor Academy, you should know these basic knowledge.

"I remember! The book says that the storm at the Cape of Good Hope is particularly strong, also known as the Cape of the Storm, and the wind and waves are very strong. To get to Europe, it's best to go from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, all the way to the heart of Europe. ”

Li Gui suddenly realized and said a series of things.

He has finished his studies and is now in the internship period of the ship department, and a lot of knowledge in the textbooks has been returned to the teacher.

"The Red Sea runs through the Mediterranean. I hope they can do it! ”

Zhao Tai nodded and sighed.

Zhao Tai looked at the sea and was distracted, and Li Gui asked stupidly.

"General, Battalion B will go to Australia, or let's go to Borneo, what if the natives above don't let you?"

"The Yamen of the Department of Containment has already given an account that force can be used if necessary. Do you know what is necessary and what is force? ”

Zhao Tai gave the rookie a headache for a while, turned around and left.

"You go and see the immigrants to see if anyone is sick and vomiting. I'm going to see the prisoners! ”