"...The Supreme Emperor Sheng'an, under the leadership of Lu Demin, led a military expedition to the south. In the first year of Taichu, he led more than 380 soldiers on the southern expedition and arrived at Xiaopenglai, Dameisha, Jiugang and other places on the east coast of Australia to organize manpower They surveyed the terrain and occupied tens of thousands of acres of fertile land. However, the local natives often made sneak attacks. The natives were men and women with different shapes. They did not weave or wear clothes. They covered themselves with bird feathers. They had no food to eat and no fireworks. They could only eat hair and drink blood. They only lived in caves and wore five colors. Short silk shirt, tied with a single skirt of embroidered cloth. The sergeants are not accustomed to the local environment, and are often attacked. There are more than 300 people, and now only 180 are left..."
Emperor Wuding stood up and said angrily:
"I have good intentions to spread the teachings of kingship to the world and save foreign barbarians from fire and water. I didn't expect them to be ungrateful. Not only were they ungrateful, they also attacked my soldiers, causing them to become acclimatized and die of diarrhea and illness! I have a conscience. Where? Where is the providence? Where are the cinchona and quinine?"
In May of the fourth year of Taichu, on the west coast of Sakhalin Island, the Qi army camped. Emperor Wu Ding held a copy of the Tongbao just brought back from the Japanese country of Nagasaki and read it carefully. When he heard that Lu Demin and the others had lost more than half of their losses in Australia, he couldn't help but shed tears. burst into tears.
The high priest said cautiously: "Your Majesty, I don't know about quinine medicine. It seems that cinchona is in Peru. When I was in Macau, I heard a Dutchman say that it is a good medicine for treating malaria."
"Every time they ask me for help or money, Fatty Lu really takes advantage of me. Just ignore him and let him fend for himself in Australia!"
Liu Zhaosun waved his hand impatiently, signaling the high priest to stop talking nonsense. South America was too far away from the empire. Conquering Peru must be at least second to occupying Yinzhou (North America).
The Supreme Emperor's thoughts returned to reality, and Cui Tou said dejectedly:
"Things are much more difficult than I imagined. It seems that the current conditions for colonizing Australia are still very immature."
The attrition of Qi's army in Australia was mainly caused by diarrhea and snake and insect bites. With Qi's current medical methods, it is impossible to solve these two problems. The most important thing is that Southeast Asia is not yet in Da Qi's hands, and it is impossible for the navy to invest on a large scale. Send manpower to Australia.
After all, Australia is too far from the mainland of Daqi. It is 1,500 miles away from Timor, 4,000 miles from Timor to Java, and 7,000 miles from Java to Guangzhou. In other words, it is at least 12,000 miles from Guangzhou to Australia, and we have to cross the windless zone in the middle. Just thinking about it makes people’s heads ache.
The newspaper that Fatty Lu sent back all the way from the east coast of Australia was on waterproof parchment paper and placed in a thick wine bottle, with the mouth of the bottle blocked with a cork.
When the messengers rushed back to Daqi with this letter, they were probably ready to die in the belly of the fish.
After all, this trip is too difficult and dangerous.
The reason why Lu Demin and others were able to reach Australia successfully was of course not because they could row or swim directly from Southeast Asia and cross the windless channel of the equator - although this is theoretically feasible - they followed the Japan Warm Current and the Pacific Warm Current and first drifted to North America. Near the west coast, it then turns south and moves south with the help of the California cold current. Finally, it moves westward along the north equatorial warm current.
In order to prevent the fleet from drifting back to the Philippines, according to Emperor Wu Ding's instructions, they entered the equatorial countercurrent and then drifted eastward, constantly changing directions along the way. Finally, relying on the southward sea breeze, they finally reached the east coast of Australia.
Lu Demin's route is too tortuous and depends entirely on luck. It is said that the success rate is less than 30%.
However, as the saying goes, a fat man who loves to laugh will generally not have bad luck. Although Lu Demin has done many bad things, he is still a fat man weighing two to three hundred kilograms. In addition, he has been stained with the halo of the protagonist of the Supreme Emperor. After experiencing several months of wandering at sea, Finally, we finally successfully arrived on the east coast of Australia.
More than 300 people are in Australia, sharing tasks such as shipbuilding, recruiting troops, and military supplies. One person is used as three people to colonize Australia and establish Daqi's overseas enclave. This is obviously nonsense and an impossible task. Lu Demin does not know the intentions of the Supreme Emperor. , they still built ships and cultivated fields step by step. As a result, they were attacked by local indigenous people as soon as they started farming.
Due to the topography, the moist monsoon winds from the South Pacific cannot blow into the interior of the continent. Most of the rainwater brought by the sea falls in the east of Australia, and most of Australia's cities and population are concentrated in the east.
Australia as a whole lacks rivers, with river systems only existing in the east. Although there are no mountains blocking the west of the Australian continent, the monsoon belt of the southern hemisphere determines that moist sea breezes cannot blow into the Australian interior. The annual rainfall in Australia is often concentrated in one month. In other words, one month is rainy and 11 months are dry. This has resulted in serious soil salinization. As for the northern equatorial monsoon zone, the landform vegetation is basically tropical rainforest.
In short, for the Daqi colonists who lived in the pre-industrial era and came from thousands of miles away, if they were suddenly deceived by Emperor Wu Ding into this ungrateful place, they would end up either dying of thirst or being bitten by mosquitoes. And death, of course, is more likely to occur at the mouth of a venomous snake, or to be punched out by an irritable mother kangaroo.
Liu Zhaosun frowned. The situation was much more serious than he imagined. He originally thought that as long as Europeans - such as Captain Cook - landed on this barbaric continent by ship and put up a random sign, they could declare their occupation of this continent. .
Now it seems that I thought it was too simple.
Large-scale colonization, whether in terms of navigation technology or national support, is currently unavailable. The landing of a small-scale expedition team is basically the gourd boy saving grandpa, and it doesn't make much sense to send each one off.
When Emperor Wuding was frowning, the high priest Francisco comforted him:
"Dear Your Majesty, I remember that Mr. Lu and his companions went to Australia this time, and there were also some clergymen accompanying them. Since the Zhenwu God has witnessed the arrival of the imperial expedition team in this barbaric land, then this land should belong to Daqi, at least We Europeans do this all over the world.”
The Supreme Emperor nodded and said with a smile: "Then follow the path of your Europeans and leave them with nowhere to go!"
"But now, compared to Australia, I think it is more reliable to operate Yinzhou."
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Liu Zhaosun believed that it was probably the Shang Dynasty who first discovered the American continent.
After the Battle of Muye, the whereabouts of more than 100,000 elite troops under King Zhou of Shang who fought in the field were unknown. Later, according to the book "Chinese Ancestors Pioneer in America" published by Heilongjiang Publishing House, these more than 100,000 troops, together with their families and slaves, totaled 25 More than 10,000 people, after nearly dying, crossed the ocean and came to America...
The view that American Indians are descendants of Chinese has long been held in academia, and many traces can be captured from ancient historical documents.
"Zuo Zhuan Xi Gong's Sixteenth Year" contains "Six kites retreated and flew over the Song Dynasty". These "six kites" that retreated are neither a specialty of the Central Plains nor a dream of the ancients. The only possibility is that Columbus discovered America. In 2136, the descendants of the Yin people brought back American hummingbirds that were enough to show off in the Central Plains. "
The amazing agreement between the Classic of Mountains and Seas and the geography of the modern world has been discovered by many scholars.
"I think the New World you talk about is not new at all, because it was discovered by China a long time ago."
"Your Majesty, what you call the Yin and Shang era, the navigation technology is simply impossible to cross the ocean and reach Yinzhou. What you said are just conjectures and not convincing."
Although the high priest is a clergyman, he still retains the truth-seeking and determination unique to the missionary era. As far as he knows, when the Supreme Emperor chatted with him about the legend of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, several powerful countries in Europe had already planned to colonize the New World... ··
The Emperor summoned Hou Xun, a great scholar, to come and quote scriptures.
Hou Xun smiled coldly and said in a measured tone:
"The "Bamboo Book Annals" records: The Xia Dynasty ordered Jiuyi to hunt in the sea and catch big fish."
"It can be seen from this that the navigation skills of the Celestial Dynasty were already superb at that time!"
"The Book of Songs. Odes of Shang" records that "the prime minister is fierce, and there is interception overseas." "Xiangtu" refers to the eleventh generation monarch of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, and the "section" of "there is interception overseas" is Yinzhou to the west!"
""The Classic of Mountains and Seas"········"
"Okay, don't say any more, let the Hanlin Academy compile the evidence proving that Yinzhou is the homeland of our Celestial Empire into a book, publish it in Di Bao, and publish it to the world!"
The Supreme Emperor waved his hand, and Academician Hou retreated triumphantly.
The empire's foreign colonization only needs excuses, never academic persuasion.
If there is any persuasion, the tonnage of the battleships and the caliber of the cannons are Daqi's persuasive power.
However, Emperor Wu Ding was kind-hearted and a pragmatic person, so this time he decided to legally announce to the world that Yinzhou, also known as the New World among Europeans, has been an integral part of China since ancient times.
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