The flotilla slowly approached the shore.

The civil and military officials present, as well as Zhu Yunxi and Lao Zhu, saw more and more clearly, most of the crew members on the deck were unkempt and looked listless.

Apparently.

During this extremely long voyage, the crew of this fleet suffered unimaginable difficulties!

That's the price of the first circumnavigation of the world.

There are too many uncertainties, and the country, the natives, the storms, and even the violent emotions that breed because of loneliness along the way lead to civil strife.

It's too dangerous!

Fortunately, after all, Zheng He still lived up to Zhu Yunxi's expectations and successfully led the fleet back!

Even if Zheng He did not complete the round-the-world voyage.

Two years is at least enough for Zheng He to arrive in a very distant place, which can be regarded as a success, as long as Zheng He successfully returns, it is only a matter of time before the Ming Dynasty realizes the circumnavigation of the world.

Soon, the ship dropped anchor and a rope ladder was thrown from the ship.

One by one, the crew climbed down the rope ladder, and one of the figures, with extraordinary dexterity, landed smoothly in only three or two strokes.

It looks neat and tidy.

After the other party landed, he went straight to Zhu Yunxi.

Step forward in three steps and two steps.

Then he bowed violently and said excitedly: "Your Highness! Minister, Zheng He, live up to expectations! ”

"Round-the-world return from a voyage around the world!"

At this time, everyone saw this person who was full of fishy odor and had messy hair scattered at the same time, but there was no beard on his face.

It was the supreme commander of the navy of the Ming Dynasty - Zheng He!

"Hurry up!"

Zhu Yunxi's face was filled with unprecedented joy, and he hurriedly helped Zheng He up.

Even ignoring the stench emanating from the other party.

and the dirt on Zheng He's clothes.

Circumnavigating the world! This is the work of greed! This means that Daming is the first country to achieve round-the-world voyages! At the same time, it has taken the lead in the struggle for sea power in the next few hundred years!

In the future, no Ming person will forget.

It was Zheng He who opened the age of sailing! It was Zheng He who completed his first circumnavigation around the world!

Lao Zhu's face was also full of joy.

For Zheng He, the more he looks at it, the more pleasing it is, although the completion of the round-the-world voyage has no practical significance in his opinion, but it is also a supreme achievement recorded in the annals of history.

Meantime.

Lao Zhu also had a calculation in his heart, since ancient times, the merits of all emperors could not surpass Qin Shi Huang.

Why?

It's nothing more than the other party sweeping the eight wildernesses and unifying the six together!

It was the foundation of the unification of the Central Plains Dynasty that was laid!

In the eyes of later generations, if it were not for Qin Shi Huang, it would not be possible to have so many emperors in later generations, after all, the word emperor is the credit of Qin Shi Huang!

But today's Ming Dynasty is facing unprecedented changes in thousands of years.

Over the past millennium.

For the Central Plains Dynasty, the world is only so big, and the establishment of a great unified dynasty is already the limit of expansion.

It is almost impossible to open up the territory again.

But in the next hundreds of years, or even thousands of years, people will gradually discover that the world is not only so big, but also infinite worlds in the vast overseas!

And the dynasty that opened up this infinite overseas world was the Ming Dynasty!

It's him Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Yunxi!

This is truly worthy of fame through the ages, even comparable to the exploits of Qin Shi Huang!

Of course, the real role played by Zhu Yunxi, his old Zhu was just a ride, and the Ming Dynasty was in the hands of Zhu Yunxi, and the Ming Dynasty would continue to broaden the horizons of the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Let the people of Daming know that the world is vast!

On the side, Zheng He was already in tears, full of emotion, and felt more and more in his heart that there was a master like Zhu Yunxi who recognized him.

The bitterness of the past few years has not been in vain!

The grace of knowing the encounter should be repaid by the spring!

"Hurry back to the palace! Lone wants to put on a feast for Zheng He's return! Celebrate three days and three nights! ”

"Spread the people of Beijing."

"In the past few days, the whole world is celebrating!"

Zhu Yunxi felt happy and excited like never before.

He took the people of Beijing with him for a three-day vacation.

He wants the news of Zheng He's return, with this celebration, to all corners of the Ming Dynasty!

Let everyone know.

The overseas world is not a flood beast! It's an infinite world that can be explored!

Zheng He was able to return from a round-the-world voyage.

It's proof!

At the same time, Zheng He's return will bring an unprecedented ideological impact to Daming! After the earth was confirmed to be round, many of the originally superstitious statements became fundamentally untenable!

Daming will burst out with a new round of thought!

And this time, it's going to be a trend of thought from science!

The people of insight of the Ming Dynasty will have a correct understanding of this world and thus move towards the road of science!

The true meaning of circumnavigating the world.

Here you are!

……

Palace.

Fengtian Temple.

The place that was originally used in the early dynasty is now full of banquets, and palace people and maids take turns to deliver the most delicious food and wine, and there are palace maids performing for everyone.

And on top.

Zhu Yunxi and Lao Zhu sat side by side, and Shuanglong was in the same dynasty, for civil and military officials, this was an unprecedented scene!

At the same time, it has brought an unprecedented sense of oppression to countless civil and military officials!

Although it seems that this is a combination of an old man and a young man, but in the hands of these two people, they don't know how much blood of officials is stained!

Decisive killing!

This is the best portrayal of Lao Zhu and Zhu Yunxi!

And below.

Zhu Di, the king of Yan, sat opposite Zheng He.

Zheng He, who washed up as soon as he returned to the palace, also changed into a decent crown dress, regained his dignity, and looked heroic!

It's just that his face is too white and he doesn't have a beard.

But this did not prevent Zheng He from being able to command so many navies and convince them!

In the midst of the feast.

Zheng He talked about his experience in the past two years.

To be on the safe side, when it was decided to embark on a circumnavigation voyage, Zheng He prepared a ship full of grain and oranges.

And swords, soldiers, guns and cannons are prepared.

At the same time, under the instructions of Zhu Yunxi, he set off from the west, planning to repeat Magellan's route, first to the west, then across the Atlantic, to the lost continent, and finally across the world's widest sea area and return to Daming!

But it was not long after departure.

Zheng He's fleet encountered many difficulties, on the route to the West.

There are many pirates.

Among them, there are even some Chinese people, most of whom are defeated generals who escaped after the failure of the battle for the world with Lao Zhu.

These people can't compete for the world.

So he became a pirate among the countries of the South Seas, and these people were extremely hateful to the Ming Dynasty in their hearts, and they had been hovering around the Ming fleet.

But fortunately, these pirates did not cause much trouble for Zheng He's fleet.

Crushed by the fire of guns.

These pirates posed no threat to Zheng He's fleet at all!

However, these pirates were extremely difficult, and among the countries of the South Seas, they all had their own forces, which caused great trouble for the supply of Zheng He's fleet.

From time to time, there are clashes with local forces.

It didn't take long for the gun's ammunition to be consumed.

Zheng He was deeply disturbed.

So he made the decision to bury his head all the way forward, ignoring the harassing ships around him, and crossed the border.

After a long time.

Only then did he get rid of the entanglement of these pirates, and the voyage after that suddenly became much easier and smoother, and the porcelain and tea of the Ming Dynasty were widely popular all over the world.

Enough supplies were exchanged.

But after Zheng He's fleet officially began to cross the Atlantic, the situation took a turn for the worse!

Since leaving the West.

There's nowhere else to trade supplies with, because after crossing the Atlantic, you're on that lost continent!

Within a few months, the crew began to starve and shrink their clothes and diet.

At this time.

There were even crew members who couldn't stand this torture, so they prepared to mutiny, but fortunately, Zheng He found out in time and directly suppressed this rebellion!

That's it.

Manpower has been drastically reduced.

Only a part of the ships could be left in the lost continent, and only the remaining ships that were still intact were ready to return to the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that the difficulties are just gradually appearing now!

The next voyage is really the biggest difficulty, because the Pacific Ocean is the widest sea in the world, and there are no countries or regions to replenish along the way.

There are only a few indigenous people who live on the islands.

But these people, even if they are short of food and clothing, how can they help Zheng He?

Meantime.

Because of the long life on the ship, and the mildew and decay caused by the excessive humidity, a terrible epidemic broke out in the fleet!

Took the lives of several boatloads of people at once!

The number of dead and wounded is at least more than five hundred! And what's even worse is still to come, more than 100 days of sailing, there is no food supply, only luck every day to catch some marine fish in the sea.

In Zheng He's fleet.

There were even cases of gnawing on wood at that time!

Fortunately.

After a strenuous voyage, Zheng He and the others arrived at an island with sun, sand, and abundant food.

Then we started again.

Finally returned to Daming after dozens of days!

"It's not easy......"

After listening to Zheng He's description, Lao Zhu couldn't help but sigh, such hardships and dangers, along the way, you have to face all kinds of natural and man-made disasters at the same time, the storm on the sea can swallow the fleet at any time, and the hostility of pirates and many countries and the rebellion that may arise within at any time.

I was able to persist in such an environment for two years.

This Zheng He is really a talent!

Zhu Yunxi didn't look away! Only such people can accomplish such an almost impossible task as circumnavigating the world!

Meantime.

Zheng He also told many interesting anecdotes, on that lost continent, the local people had a skin color similar to that of the people of the Ming Dynasty, but they wore animal skin clothes, and their faces were smeared with all kinds of strange lines, no different from barbarians.

He also hunted with the simplest spears.

However, this land is very fertile, and the crops grown on the ground are extremely yielding!

"By the way, Your Highness."

"This time, on that continent, Chen not only found sweet potato seeds, but also found two other high-yielding crops."

Zheng He took out a bag from behind him as if he were a treasure.

Inside are the two heavy treasures he brought back from overseas this time!

"Oh?"

Zhu Yunxi was suddenly interested.

You must know that in addition to sweet potatoes, on that lost continent, there are two other crops besides sweet potatoes for the three high-yielding brothers.

Corn and potatoes!

In addition, this kind of thing is also from overseas!

It can be said that God is looking after this land!

But alas...... God did not favor the indigenous people living in this land, their only role was to be slaughtered!

Be someone else's food!

"Take it out and have a look?"

Zhu Yunxi was already impatient and wanted to know what Zheng He had brought back from overseas.

But an unprecedented banquet is being held in the palace.

Among the Kyoshi.

A shocking news completely stunned the pupils of the people of Beijing!

Zheng He, who has disappeared for two years, returns!

And completed the mission of circumnavigating the world! It has been confirmed with practical actions that the land they live in is not a round place.

Rather, a round sphere!

Keep moving in one direction and be able to go back to where you started!

At the beginning, Zheng He went straight to the west, but after crossing thousands of mountains and rivers, he miraculously returned to the Ming Dynasty!

Isn't that proof of that?

The world turned out to be round?!

"No...... No way! How can the world be round? ”

"It doesn't make sense!"

"How can such a magical thing happen? Won't people fall? ”

The people of Jingshi were all shocked!

Rotundity!

The land they live in is actually round!

Although many years ago, people of insight put forward such a view.

For example, Zhang Heng of the Han Dynasty put forward the "Hun Tian Theory".

The sky is like a chicken.

The celestial bodies are round like projectiles, and the earth is yellow like a chicken.

Then, this doctrine was not taken seriously.

Confucian students don't care about this.

The common people are even more unimpressed by this.

"Fake! It must be fake! It's Zheng He's fraud! ”

"The world can't be round!"

"How can things that have been handed down since ancient times be fake?"

"In that case, if the world is round, how can there be any heavenly palace? The statement that the sky is outside the sky is even more ridiculous! ”

Time.

The news of Zheng He's return from his round-the-world voyage was like a bombshell, which completely aroused a heated discussion among the people of Beijing.

Like a stone stirring up a thousand waves!

The people of Beijing talked about it for a while, and Zheng He's return from a round-the-world voyage was a happy event, but now, among the Beijing division, there are people who argue about it from time to time and fight hard.

Many people's worldview is shattered at this moment!

And countless people of insight of the Ming Dynasty have really begun to awaken at this moment! It was only at this time that they realized that their way of understanding the world was still too simple!

Relying too much on your own intuition and speculation!

And not real practice and observation! It's like the world is round, and if you really verify it, there will be countless ways.

But people prefer to rely on their instincts.

To feel that the land in front of you is flat, that is, to live on a flat land, but you have never thought of verifying it.

Such an idea is really a mistake!

Miss by a mile!

It's just that...... If the world is round, then why can we stand on this earth and not be fallen?

It stands to reason.

If you turn upside down, won't you fall?

Endless confusion enveloped these people of insight in the Ming Dynasty, leaving them incomprehensible.

And right now.

In the palace.

Zheng He slowly opened his pocket.

Two crops were exposed......

(End of chapter)