Around Wujia Bay, there is already a thick green that cannot be worn out. In the bay, two discovery-class exploration ships with white sails are slowly sailing south.

On the east bank of a river running from north to south into the sea, a dock made of logs. More than a hundred strong and sturdy men were gathering in one place, staring at the sailboats that were leaving.

They are now the only civilized people on this vast continent that has no boundaries!

According to the order of Lieutenant General Wu Tiexin, these people must persist alone around Wujiazhuang for at least two years and be prepared to persist for longer.

Because the discovery number returned from Wujiazhuang has a certain chance of sinking in a shipwreck along the way!

In this way, the Navy Arctic Admiral Division, located in Liangshan Town, Yinzhou, would not know the existence of Wujiawan and Wujiazhuang, and would not have new immigrants and supply ships arrived.

If this happens, the Wujiazhuang colony may slowly be destroyed in the long river of history many years later.

After all, this colony now has only men and women, and has no ability to reproduce itself.

Even if there are women, it is not guaranteed that these colonial pioneers can spread their descendants all over the New World. In the original history, in the process of colonizing the American continent, the ancestors from Europe suffered many failures!

There are so many colonies that have been destroyed due to droughts, floods, epidemics, and indigenous attacks.

Moreover, in addition to the above reasons, there is another factor that can also cause colonial failure, that is, economic bankruptcy.

Colonization does not necessarily make a profit without losing money, it is also an extremely risky investment.

The Kingdom of Scotland in history suffered a tragic failure due to the "Dalian Plan" that opened a colony in Panama, losing 400,000 pounds (about 100,000 kilograms of silver). In the end, it had to "sell" the country to England and rely on the funding of the wealthy England to overcome the difficulties.

This time Wu Tiexin's adventure and colonial activities on the American continent were funded by Wu Haogu's private money. With his current financial resources, the expenditure of millions of taels of silver can still be borne.

So, including Li Kui, the "colonial pioneers" stranded in Wujiazhuang need to worry about, besides the storms in the Arctic Ocean, the Yin people who appear around Wujiazhuang from time to time.

Yes, there are indigenous tribes in the Wujiawan area. They are a group of extremely backward primitive people who make a living by fishing and hunting, but they do not have bows, arrows, iron or copper weapons, and they live entirely on stone tools and javelins. They seem to have no large livestock or vehicles. They are even behind the savage Jurchens in Yinzhou!

During the winter in Wujiawan, the expedition team led by Li Kui had dealt with them. Because of language improperness, there was a little friction with other misunderstandings. Li Kui used an axe (a weapon he got when he was in Liangshan Town, Yinzhou) to kill several Yin people and catch a few back.

I originally planned to ask something from them, but these Yin people didn't understand Henan dialect at all, and seemed to know King Zhou of Shang, Su Daji, Wen Taishi, etc.

After imprisoning them for a few months, Li Kui found that several of them were infected with cold or heat, and were very ill. The medical officers who came with the ship were helpless. They were obviously a minor problem, but they were all dying.

Seeing that they were pitiful, Wu Tiexin asked Li Kui to release them and gave them some salt and a few calves (for the convenience of production, some cattle and sheep were carried on the ship) as compensation (compensate for Li Kui's killing), and asked them to take them back to their tribe...

After this unpleasant contact, Li Kui's expedition team never saw a native of the Yin people again.

However, being able to find natives on the American continent is still an encouraging good thing for the crew of the Enterprise.

Because it was discovered that indigenous people could prove that there were humans on this continent, and there could be a more advanced civilization as there existed humans.

Perhaps on the southern coast, the "Entertainment" can discover the cities and countries of the Yin people.

In this way, the Great Zhou Republic could establish an equal and reciprocal trade relationship with the Yin people.

With trade, the action to explore America can become a profitable cause and accelerate! Otherwise, how long can a purely loss-making business last?

Among all the risks faced by developing the colonial cause, the risk of losing money is actually the greatest.

Only by bringing a lot of money to the colonists can we continuously attract people who want money but live. With these colonists joining one after another, a new world can appear in front of the countries of the Xia Dynasty.

...

Just when Wu Tiexin was commanding the "Entertainment" to head south along the west coast of North America to find the imagined Yin cities and countries. On the other side of the earth, Chen Jiang, who was later called the great pioneer of navigation, finally discovered an incredible fact that the new continent has been discovered is not one piece, but two pieces!

Because he had commanded a formation of four "Shenjia" exploration ships two months ago and left Shuangyajiang City and headed south to try to find a waterway to Liangshan Town, Yinzhou.

But when the fleet he commanded sailed southward for more than 500 miles along the coastline, he suddenly found that the mainland had reached its end and could only turn around and go east.

After sailing along the south coast of the American continent (Australia), Chen Jiang's formation passed through a sea area with many small islands, and was surprised to find that they had once again found the end of the continent.

After taking a supply at the dock, Chen Jiang led the formation south again to try to find the "Arctic Ocean". However, after sailing 3,000 miles south, they still found nothing.

Although they did not find a route to Yinzhou, their adventure still achieved unimaginable achievements.

First of all, they knew that the so-called American continent was not the same as the continent discovered by the Zhou Kingdom in the Arctic Ocean.

Secondly, the geographers at the Hontai Academy and Gezhi Academy's estimate of the circumference of the earth is obviously completely wrong! The earth is much larger than they imagined... If it is still confirmed that it is spherical now!

Third, my previous understanding of the "Antarctic Ocean" is probably also wrong.

If the American continent is not connected to Yinzhou or Shenzhou (Asia), it means that the Antarctic Ocean cannot be a pole of the earth, and the Chen Jiang formation is not in the eastern hemisphere (the western hemisphere in later generations). Because in the so-called Western hemisphere (the eastern hemisphere in later generations), the rough distance from the Arctic Ocean to the Antarctic Ocean is not that far... If the Antarctic Ocean is at the level of the earth, then Chen Jiang's formation will have long arrived at the coast of Japan or Europe.

But in fact, they only arrived at an unknown boundless ocean, and the temperature became colder and colder the south.

However, whether these discoveries will change humans' perception of the planet they live in is still unclear.

Because Chen Jiang's formation encountered a storm on its way back, the formation was blown away by the strong wind. Chen Jiang's ship Shenjia 4 was blown by the strong west wind for three days, and I don't know where it was blown. Although the west wind is no longer dead, it has changed to the south wind and blows Shenjia 4 northward. There are vast and unfamiliar oceans in all directions. I don't know where the "America" ​​is? I don't know where Chen Jiang and the others will blow?

...

When the Chen Jiang formation was indecisive, the "Entertainment" where Wu Tiexin was located was smooth sailing. At a very high speed, sailing south along the boundless coastline of North America. They are now under the push of the California cold current, walking with the wind and naturally walking very fast.

However, the downwind did not bring much good mood to the crew on the "Entertainment".

Because they only saw the primitive and deserted coastline along the way, and occasionally they would meet a few indigenous tribes who ate raw meat and drank blood. They were all as backward as the indigenous people they met in Wujiazhuang and could not communicate.

By the first day of March 18, the "Entertainment" was already in a very warm bay. This was actually the Port of San Diego in later generations, an important base of the US Pacific Fleet.

In this time and space, this place has become Xiaojinshan City, the capital of Xinxiang Province, the United States of North America.

The reason why Enterprise arrived here was because the wind direction that sent it south changed a few days ago and turned into an easterly wind.

Wu Tiexin did not dare to walk with the wind, so he had to order the ship to moor in an unknown bay. He also sent an expedition team led by Hua Rong to hunt around to collect supplies for the "Entertainment".

It has been almost a year since the Enterprise has left Liangshan Town. The food carried on the boat is still sufficient, but it is always good to add more.

In addition, Wu Tiexin did not give up on finding the remnants of the Shang Dynasty, and wanted Hua Rong to search for it while hunting.

On a hot afternoon, Wu Tiexin, who was inspecting a construction site near a peninsula beach, met Liu Yan, the leader who was excited.

"Admiral, look at me!"

A piece of dirty rag was sent to Wu Tiexin.

"What is this?" Wu Tiexin took the rag. It was a piece of cotton cloth that was woven very roughly, with strange patterns on it. It was obvious that it was not Chinese.

"It was Hua Rong who exchanged a bag of salt from a Yin tribe." Liu Yan said, "Admiral, this cannot be something from the Eastern Song Dynasty, nor should it be from the Indian... This was made by the Yin people!"

"Yin Ren?" Wu Tiexin breathed, "That's great!"

"And!" Liu Yan handed over another golden thing, "Look at this!"

"Is this...gold? Where did it come from?" Wu Tiexin's breathing became rapid.

"It was also brought by Hua Rong, who exchanged it for a small knife for cutting meat!"

"The iron knife is exchanged for gold!"
Chapter completed!