Sweep the World

Green mountains and green waters? That doesn't exist at all, what is on the sea is endless water, without any fatigue, waves rolling endlessly.

"How long will it take to land ashore!!!"

Fu Wei took a boat from the Miaodao archipelago. When he arrived at Jingkou, he took a rest for a day. He took a fleet of thirty-two ships out of the Yangtze Estuary and arrived at Yizhou along the route not far from the coastline. In Yizhou, fresh water and some fruits and vegetables were added, and the boat continued to set off without landing at all.

"Should there be another five or six days?" Si Hongzhuang lay on the deck with a very weak body, and whispered, "Let's bear it."

Si Hongzhuang felt that he was not included in the first batch to the Indochina Peninsula until hemorrhoids. They were not going to the colonial land that had been opened up, but to cross the strait into the ocean, and then walk thousands of miles north. Docked at a bay, and after landing, it began to survey the terrain and presided over the construction of facilities for the follow-up troops to encamp.

"Forbearance?" Fu Wei couldn't bear it at all: "You can still land ashore. Brother, I can only stay for two days and slow down. Then I will continue to explore at sea. If I can land ashore for one day in a month, I will burn the fragrance. ."

The Han state began to form a navy in the second year of Yuanshuo. The problem is that before the elimination of the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the navy did not actually have a large scale except for the system troops. It was only expanded after the Tuoba Daiguo and Zhang Liangguo were eliminated.

In the sixth year of Yuanshuo, Liu Yan ordered the formation of two fleets, with the Beiyang Navy as the base of Changguang County (Qing 1 Island) and the Nanyang Navy with Panyu (Guang 1 State) as the base.

The Beiyang Navy was relatively large from the beginning. The main base was in Changguang County. There were also Liaodong Ma Shijin (Lu 1shun), Peninsula Haiming (Haizhou), Urishima Kyushu (Sasebo), and Urishima Nobi ( Ishikawa Kanazawa) These subsidiary military ports. Excluding the system warships, there are more than 100 warships of the Beiyang Fleet, large and small, and more than 300 non-combat warships of various types.

The main Nanyang Navy base is in Panyu, Keelung and Danshui in Yizhou, Zhuyazhou (Hai 1 Nanya County), and Nichinan County (Da Nang, Vietnam) in Cochin is the main military port of the Indochina Peninsula, Funan (Bangkok, Thailand) There is also one place. Excluding system warships, there are more than 150 warships of the Nanyang Fleet and more than 500 non-combat warships of various types.

The forces surrounding the Northern Ocean are either destroyed or vassalized. In fact, there are no enemies here. The biggest task of the navy is to carry out various routine cruises, and then to explore the icy ocean of the Arctic Circle, if not there are escorts. The size of the fleet of transport ships traveling to and from the mainland of the Uygur Islands is bound to be reduced.

By the way, Liu Yan has sent people to the Wa Islands, naturally in order to find those famous gold and silver mines, and he also started to excavate the minerals in the exploration site.

Nanyang is the main business area of ​​Han in the future. There are far more islands than Beiyang, and there are indigenous people on each island. The aboriginal civilization is very backward, but because of the local environment, even if the aboriginals are in the stage of raging and drinking blood, they will go boating out to sea.

It will be a long-term task for the navy to explore the surrounding areas of the South China Sea. It requires enough ships to serve. After finding the island, it must go to the island to explore the environment. The resources must also be explored, and the ships that need to be used will not few.

In fact, exploring and operating the South China Sea alone is a major project that spans decades or even hundreds of years, but Han's appetite is not limited to that. At present, the Pacific Ocean is basically a land with no owner... Or even if the land has a master, no one can stop the Han from grabbing the land. If you don’t take advantage of it now, is it waiting for the indigenous people to develop, or people from other places come and take over? ? Naturally, it is to move as far and faster as possible, even if it is to erect a boundary marker, and to leave it alone, it is also to declare the ownership.

In addition to advancing to the Pacific, blame Liu Yan for mentioning the abundance of Asan's territory. The country of Han is about to enter a difficult time. Not only is the military the first to think of robbing, but everyone who knows that is plundering other countries to make up for themselves. The idea of ​​entering the ocean (Asanyo) that has no name has become inevitable.

"See the land!"

The watchman on the mast roared, but the people on the deck hadn’t actually seen it yet. That’s because they really lived on the sphere. They couldn’t see it when they got close, but they were far enough and there were no obstacles. You can find the extent of the horizon. For example, when two ships meet each other, the first thing you see is each other's mast.

Fu Wei glanced at the direction pointed by the watcher on the mast, staring eagerly.

Si Hongzhuang jumped up when he hit a carp, staring at the direction pointed by his looking hand with longing eyes.

The fleet should be sailing to the next generation of the Nan 1 Sha 1 Islands, relatively close to the Malaysian waters, about to enter the Zeng 1 mother 1 dark 1 sand sea, far away can see the land on the southeast horizon, but in fact it is just one Big island on the sea.

Seeing the big island of Malaysia in later generations, it is actually not that far away from the strait, but there seems to be something wrong with their navigation, which is relatively souther than the planned route, or the first land to see is the continental shelf. Half Arm Bay (on the border of Thailand and Malaysia).

"Do you want to send someone ashore to have a look?"

"No, we are not an exploration fleet."

Their task is to cross the strait as soon as possible, go to the sea area designated by the emperor to conduct coastal exploration, find the two places drawn, and then stationed first, send people from the families of the Indochina Peninsula to join hands to build a military port and a base for troops.

The longing for land after sailing for a long time will really be beyond imagination. The problem is that Fu Wei's fleet also sailed at sea for five days, and the time really didn't last long.

Zhu Xia is not a nation that is good at sailing. What the ancestors have seen for generations is the benefits on the land. The rare exploration of HNA is that the ruler is fooled by a group of warlocks to find the immortal island that does not exist for immortality. If you didn't completely fool you, it would be great if you didn't find the fairy island to explore and conquer HNA.

Staying in the water-filled sea for five days cannot see the land. For people who have no similar experience, the mood will really be depressed. It is not surprising that there is a desire for land. Because of the effects of thinking, it is one aspect of making people sluggish. If the spirit and energy are weak, the body will be weak. If you are not sick, you will feel sick, and then you will really get sick. According to the old saying, there will be unacceptable phenomena caused by ideological burdens, and subsequent illnesses, and even deaths from illnesses, are basically caused by thoughts.

Fu Wei and Si Hongzhuang came to the bridge, walked to the edge of the table where Sinan (original compass) was placed, and stared at the spoon placed on the square matrix (compass).

"Sure enough, it's still unreliable." Fu Wei said that the course deviation is definitely not his pot, but the tools are clearly unreliable: "We should get some more precise tools."

Sinan was a creation of the Spring and Autumn Period. It was not until the Warring States period that the system gradually formed. It was not until the Western Han Dynasty that the Han army entered the grassland and was valued, and it was really not used in navigation.

At present, there are not many ways to determine the route. A reliable pointing tool is one method, and the second is to observe the stars.

On the earth, the astrological signs viewed from different positions are actually not the same. For example, the constellations in the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere have different azimuths. Furthermore, the positions of the astrological signs also move throughout the year (after all, the earth moves around the sun. change). Therefore, you have to first judge where you are, and then make judgments based on the azimuths you know.

Fortunately, because the Chinese civilization has a long history, when there is no object that can clearly distinguish the direction, in addition to the compass and the astrology, there is another method called telemetry. In fact, I draw a blueprint full of grids, according to the time and speed of one's sailing, and then according to the rising and falling of the sun, and the refraction of the sunlight to roughly distinguish which direction one will be in.

In ancient times, it was not Europeans who developed navigational technology to the pinnacle, not even the Celestials, but the Arabs. The Arabs obtained the compass technology from the Celestial Dynasty (Song Dynasty), and from Greece a set of theories (triangulation method), and the astrology given by the heavens, combined into a set of very reliable navigation technology.

In fact, I really can't say how advanced the civilization of the ancient celestial dynasty is. Some etiquette, eating, drinking, and dressing, including some tool creation, are something that can be said, but they are more about philosophy. In addition to the four great inventions, ancient Greece, ancient Egypt, and ancient India have really exploded ancient celestial dynasties in some creations and theories.

Don’t talk about it, ancient Greece has been doing research on astronomy. I have looked up relevant classics. Ancient Greece had a complete set of astronomical theories before other civilizations. Ancient Egypt’s achievements in integrated agriculture are also amazing, including engineering. Almost dominates, agriculture has benefited too many people, engineering was done by the pharaohs to repair tombs (pyramid); ancient India really moistened the world in smelting. When they were engaged in Uzsteel, most of the civilization companies Iron smelting is still unqualified, and more civilizations are still in the Bronze Age. (That is, the Persians and Arabs are cheaper, the Europas are imported from the Arabs for the second time, and the Celestials also benefited)

The ancient Tian Dynasty had an established development direction, researching everything to serve the supreme ruler. For example, astronomical research was made to observe the celestial phenomena to judge bad luck. Such things are everywhere, and what is even more depressing is that some creations that can be used to innovate the military are just used to entertain the masses.

In the current navigation technology, Asan's technology is the highest, which is the legacy left by the Guishuang Empire. Speaking of Rome, they mainly sailed in the Mediterranean Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea is fundamentally different from the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. Among them is the height of the waves. The sky has always been in the direction of the Continental Army, basically ignoring the ocean. As for the Arabs who developed navigation technology to the pinnacle, they are still Persians, Romans, and even Armenians, and they are suffering as second-class people anyway.

As Asan, who possesses the highest nautical technology, what they think is how to conduct trade. Trade that spans tens of thousands of nautical miles is really accumulating wealth. Another point is that, because Asan’s sailing is really good, later generations have shown that there are quite a lot of people in the South Asian archipelago and Oceania are of Asan ancestry.

If Asan is unhappy in indulging in caste and religion, like that group of "pirate culture" European Romans engage in colonization, each country may be able to rely on the superiority of the army to defend the mainland, but the Asan ethnic group will be more open and scattered. Is inevitable.

Fu Wei confirmed that it had deviated from the direction, and the fleet stopped and dispatched a boat to land to check the growth rings of the tree.

Can you tell the direction from the tree rings? There really is such an operation! Generally speaking, moss is prone to grow on the shady side of the tree (the north side), while the tree rings on the south side are more evacuated and not as dense as the tree rings on the north side. The annual rings of tree stumps are sparser in the south-facing half, and denser in the north-facing half. The trunk of the plant faces the sun to the south, and the annual rings are sparsely arranged, while the north is slightly tighter. This is how to judge the direction.

After confirming the direction, the fleet reopened, and they saw the land again after half a day of sailing.

This time Fu Wei finally knew that he had made no mistake. He was sailing relatively close to the coastline. The watchmen worked hard to observe. They must first find the established base, and the base would provide the correct route~www.wuxiax.com~ The latter base was found. The two sides also contacted, and even the stronghold sent ships to lead the navigation. What Fu Wei did not expect was that they formally arrived at the entrance of the strait the next day.

"I don't understand why the king named this sea area the Strait of Malacca. What is the special meaning?"

horse? No one is unfamiliar with this, but what is the meaning of "six", and "A" has several meanings, which can be understood separately from word by word, but they don't understand at all when they are connected together.

The fleet is no longer as many as thirty-two ships. They have a reef on the side of Zeng 1 mother, 1 dark 1 sand, and close to the half-arm, three ships are folded in. The remaining 29 ships line up in an array line. Even if something happened, the ship in front was unlucky, and the ship in the back had to stop and probe.

Entering the Strait of Malacca from the South China Sea, the entrance is not wide, and there are even fragmented small islands and three relatively large islands.

Fu Wei stood on the bridge and looked at both sides of the strait. Apart from a patch of green, he could see a lot of buildings on the left and right sides.

"The big man needs to manage this well." Si Hongzhuang touched his chin and said, "You will build a town, and the necessary lighthouses and seaports will be indispensable. I heard that forts will be built and the new bronze guns will be installed?"

Fu Wei could already see the busy people, and the telescope could clearly see those people with darker skin, and said: "This place should not lack slaves."

"There is a rumor." Si Hongzhuang said uncertainly: "It is said that the king referred to this place as the'gate of the world', although I don't know what the name means, it feels great to hear it."

Liu Yan also really said the "gate of the world", nothing more than this is the gateway to the sea, coming from the west is to enter the eastern world, and vice versa, whoever masters this is the same as mastering the portal.