Customs!

Sea border pass!

Liu Bei was woken up by Kong Ming, and he was a little excited.

It's easy to open up the territory, but we Ji Han don't have to be the first person to open the sea frontier?

However, Liu Bei quickly calmed down.

They are no more miraculous than later generations who have studied science.

The reality in front of us is that the rich Guanzhong has been broken, the Haoqiang in Hexi is also more self-reliant, the Central Plains is in the hands of Cao thieves, and the rich Jingzhou is no longer what it used to be.

And today's planning, from the sugar mill and iron mill to the shipbuilding and going to sea, people are needed everywhere.

And at this time...... After being woken up by Kong Ming, Liu Bei looked in the direction of the South China Sea on the map, and only then did he realize that this map was different.

In the direction of the South China Sea, you can see the handwriting of charcoal, which is modeled after the offensive arrows of later generations, starting from the mouth of Yangzhou to the sea, passing through Yizhou, to Zhuya, and then advancing by sea and land, directly into a plain of the Indochina Peninsula, and then downward, marking a strait.

It's simple and clear, and from Liu Bei's own intuition, the feasibility is not low.

Therefore, Liu Bei couldn't help but sigh:

"If you are lucky enough to ...... in this life"

Then he stopped, feeling that this request was too greedy.

In fact, as long as the Cao thief can be defeated, then when he goes to Taishan Mansion Jun, he is worthy of the ancestor of the Liu family, and he asks for others?

He thinks that he is not a Han martial artist, and he does not have the ambition to become the foundation of a hundred generations.

It is good to take it as the goal of Ji Han's latecomers, and he must not work hard and lose money to become his own name.

At this point, Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty really did too many examples.

In the Korean Peninsula, the national strength was wasted, and the war was fought for more than ten years, and the empty consumption was decades old, but the strong enemy was defeated for Na Silla.

Although Silla eventually became a vassal, it is difficult to say that it was a success no matter how you look at the initial ambitions.

So Liu Bei's mentality became more and more peaceful.

[And if you know that from Tang to Ming, sailing in the South China Sea is all about going around, then it is logical to have a question:

Why didn't we find Australia so close?

After all, from the map, you can enter the Java Sea, where both sides of the coast are land, and then go all the way east to Australia.

But it is recorded in the textbooks that it was the British who discovered Australia in 1700 and declared Australia a British territory in the name of their queen.

It's clear that we're close at hand, but in the end, this new land belongs to someone else, and it can't help but feel a pity.

Therefore, some people joked that if Zheng He had not turned into the Strait of Malacca when he went to the West, maybe Australia would have belonged to the Ming Dynasty.

But, I'm going to say buts again.

But in fact, before Zheng He, there was a very powerful traveler in the Yuan Dynasty named Wang Dayuan.

He went to sea twice in his life, a total of eight years at sea, and wrote what he saw and heard in "Shimayi Zhiluo", recording what he saw and heard along the way.

Later, a Ming man named Ma Huan read this book and went to the West with Zheng He, and corresponded what he saw with what was recorded in the book.

According to the "Shimayi Zhiluo" compiled so far, after Wang Dayuan's trip in 1342, his footprints are as follows:

Most of Wang Dayuan's records correspond to the present, such as crossing Arabia, crossing the Red Sea, crossing the Mediterranean, arriving in Morocco and turning back to Africa for a walk, etc., the geographical observations he recorded are almost no different from today, basically the stone hammer is a particularly tossed brother.

The only two controversial points are the one he recorded before his trip to Arabia.

According to records, Wang Dayuan first went to Guli Disul (East Timor) and praised the silver, ironware and cloth here, but the chiefs here liked to sleep naked, and the women were very debauched, Wang Dayuan said that it was difficult to accept it, and hurriedly left here.

He then continued his journey southward, to a place known as Miri, and then turned southeast to Maina.

If you follow the map in this direction now, you will find that this is not Australia.

As a traveler, Wang Dayuan also recorded the appearance of the port, saying that there are thousands of branches of Nan trees, oysters like mountains, thin soil and barren fields, and uneven climate.

And a detailed picture of what he saw and heard on the ground:

"Men and women shall wear braided hair with a belt, and their arms shall be braided. Wear a five-color silk shirt and tie it with a single skirt of ponggarat cloth. ”

These are in line with Australia's Darwin Harbor, because Australia has a particularly strange and barren climate because of its geographical relationship, and the local aborigines are also black and have the habit of braiding their hair.

But then Wang Dayuan's account made scholars scratch their heads: the real estate camel, nine feet high, the natives carried the weight.

There were no camels in Australia at that time, so it is still a mystery whether Wang Dayuan discovered Australia to this day.

But there is another speculation that may be closer to the truth: Wang Dayuan is not the captain of the ship, he always takes merchant ships, and he has a strong desire to record, it is likely that he said it to the ship's people but did not see it, so he wrote it down with false rumors.

Because the place recorded "Mi Lizhi" is verified by Professor Han Zhenhua to be the meaning of "sea cucumber land" in Malay, and according to Wang Dayuan's route, according to the map, the place he went to is now Melville Island, which is rich in sea cucumbers.

But in fact, even if it is confirmed, Wang Dayuan is not the first person to discover Australia, because there are nearly a million aborigines.

It's just that these aborigines have turned into the ghosts of the British.

And before Wang Dayuan went to sea, the Chinese sailors who set off from Quanzhou brought back the title of the island, and this island is undoubtedly Australia in terms of location and climate.

According to the sailors, the island has two meanings, one is that when you reach the island east, it is all the sea, and the land is cut off.

One is that the local climate is strange, unsuitable for cultivation and poisonous, and it is a Jedi in the true sense of the word.

From today's point of view, it is normal for the ancients not to see here, after all, it is said that there are thousands of poisons in the world, and Australia alone accounts for half of them.

Miasma, too climbing snakes, saltwater crocodiles, these are all things that the ancients avoided, and it is no wonder that they have rarely set foot in Australia.

After all, if the ancestors were pedantic, they would not have thought that this land would be one of the most important mineral fields in the world today, with 47.5 billion tons of iron ore reserves accounting for more than a quarter of the entire earth.

Moreover, if the development of navigation in China had not been so tormented, how could the Angsa people slaughter the aborigines in this proper Asian backyard? 】

Kong Ming tried hard to control his expression, but in the end he failed.

He plucked out his ears and exchanged an incredulous look with Pang Tong:

"How much?"

"More than 40 billion ...... Ton? ”

And more intuitively, it is the proportion, Pang Tong muttered:

"The world's iron ore accounts for one stone, and Australia alone occupies nearly three buckets?"

Kong Ming's complexion had already adjusted, and he shook his head:

"What Australia? This is a desperate island, and it is my Chinese back garden. ”

End liao, end tomorrow

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