Chapter 977 Even if the trash is brought back, the Prime Minister will applaud

The soldiers' wavering became more and more intense, but Zhou Yu felt it was rare to come. The monsoon was still only turning from a tailwind to a cross wind, that is, from a southwest wind to a northwest wind. It would be a pity to leave like this, so he wanted to continue to persevere.

After all, the northeast wind is considered a complete headwind. When the monsoon turns into a northeast wind, it is impossible to continue moving forward and you must return.

Zhou Yu carefully considered and allowed the fleet to find a coastal fishing village where the Escherichia or other barbarians lived, and then robbed and slaughtered and replenished supplies, and then continued to move forward. He also promised that all the women he snatched were owned by the soldiers.

But most of the soldiers were depressed. After they came to Fusang, they were not short of women at all. Each of them occupied at least five local women. The quality of women here was not good, and no matter how many there were, it was not interesting, and it felt similar.

Zhou Yu was also afraid that the army would mutiny. After thinking about it, he asked the soldiers to listen to him and drove north to the shore for five days. If he did not find any valuable gains, he would return. During these five days, he would plunder whatever he could plunder.

After the two sides agreed, the fleet was carried by Zhou Yu and continued northward. Zhou Yu also tried his best to use a telescope to observe whether there were savage fishing villages on the shore to grab it.

Not to mention, after Zhou Yu's careful search, the army really gained several opportunities. And as it went north, Zhou Yu also discovered that these newly encountered barbarians had different races from Fusang people.

What he encountered was actually an existence with some Tatar blood. Of course, the concept of "Tartar" does not exist now at the end of the Han Dynasty.

The "Ainu people" in later generations are actually different from the indigenous peoples of Hokkaido, Chiba Islands, Sakhalin Island and Kamchatka in ancient times, because the Ainu people in later generations were intermarried and mixed with the Japanese.

Today's Eurasian natives are obviously closer to the barbarians of the "Liugui Country" that they only encountered in the Tang Dynasty in later generations.

Historically, Chinese people's understanding of Hokkaido and further north were the first to "New Book of Tang". During the Zhenguan period of Li Shimin, there was a record of "the people from the North Sea's ghost country came to pay tribute."

According to the description of "New Book of Tang", Liugui Kingdom is located further north of Fusang, surrounded by the sea on three sides, and is generally considered to be the Kamchatka Peninsula.

Of course, some scholars believe that the ancients failed to survey the geographical areas and did not have enough cognition of Sakhalin Island. They mistakenly believed that the northernmost end of Sakhalin Island was connected to the mainland, so they were also judged as "surrounding the sea on three sides".

After all, the Tatar Strait at the northernmost end of Sakhalin Island is very narrow, and the water is also shallow, which almost forms a land bridge. People in the 21st century, if they open Baidu Map or Google Map, adjust to the "terrain" map, and look at the northernmost section of Sakhalin Island, it is not difficult to understand.

But no matter whether the "Liugui Kingdom" is in Kamchatka or Sakhalin Island, there is no difference anyway. One of these two is on the extension line of the northwest corner ridge of Hokkaido and the other on the extension line of the northeast corner ridge of Hokkaido. They are all products of the crustal plate extrusion belt.

Zhou Yu's current geographical exploration has reached the farthest limit that the Han people could not recognize when they were in the Tang Dynasty, at least more than 400 years earlier.

As a result, when looting several villages of the Emirates, Zhou Yu found that some of these barbarians had dark brown hair and slightly curly curly hair (biologically speaking, it was for better warmth)

Of course, Zhou Yu is not a weird aesthetic person. What really surprised him was that these people were much taller than the Fusang people, and they were basically no shorter than the Han people. As expected, the more people went to the north, the easier it was for people to grow taller.

But these savages did not even arrive in the Bronze Age and were still using wooden sticks and stone tools. When they encountered the robbery of the Han people, they were of course easily destroyed.

Even if you are tall and powerful, as long as you don’t have advanced weapons, you still have no combat effectiveness.

Zhou Yu slaughtered several villages and snatched all the fresh winter reserves, finally ensuring that the fleet had fresh food every day and morale increased a little.

Then Zhou Yu also got a razor, shaved the overly thick legs and arm hair of the hundreds of Escherichia women she had stolen, and then distributed it to the crew.

Although these women are not beautiful, the aesthetics of the Han Dynasty always emphasize the beauty of tallness. These women are the same height as Han male sailors, at least one to two heads taller than the Fusang Japanese women I met before.

Moreover, after the hair on the hands and feet is shaved, the hair on the body is thicker and the eyebrows. It looks good and is also a plus in aesthetics.

After all, in the eyes of the Han Dynasty, the most handsome standard for a man is Guan Yu's appearance, tall and beautiful beard, which are the two most important points. By extension, the requirements for women are also tall and long and thick.

The sailors were able to change their tastes and their morale was greatly boosted, so they agreed to continue to go north. Whoever asked the entire army he led was lustful, was willing to do this most dangerous pioneering work.

Two years of colonial exploration for the Dongyi have screened out the most enterprising group of naval soldiers, the waves washed away the sand and removed the drought and preserved the essence. All the remaining ones were criticized by the old man, no exception.

Zhou Yu relied on this kind of morale-boosting method and explored north for half a month, until the beginning of the twelfth lunar month. In the last half month, he discovered the approximate size and shape of the entire Hokkaido island.

We also explored the five largest islands in the southern half of the Chiba Islands along the northeast corner of Hokkaido, namely the four northern islands occupied by the Russians in later generations. In addition, the "Defu Island" that belonged to the Russians in law.

The main reason is that the distance between these islands is not far, many of which are only twenty or thirty kilometers. Every time Zhou Yu sails along an island to the northernmost end, he just needs to use a telescope to scan it, and it is difficult not to see the island further north.

Moreover, these islands are relatively large. The five islands have an area of ​​7,800 square kilometers. Among them, Defu Island and Zezha Island are active volcanoes, with an altitude of more than 1,500 meters. Occasionally, black smoke will rush into the sky. It is too conspicuous on the sea.

Even in the northeastern corner of the main island of Hokkaido, you can directly see the Zezha Island volcano two hundred kilometers away from the three small islands in the middle.

Zhou Yu saw an active volcano for the first time in his life. When he first arrived in Fusang, he was on the southernmost part of Zhuzi Island where the people of Xiematai live. The central ridge between Xiematai and Xiongzhi was Mount Asu Volcano.

The second time I saw a volcano was a month ago. When I passed Sagami Bay, I saw Mount Fuji inland from the sea from afar. Now this is the third time.

"The place of Fusang is really evil. As soon as you step on the land of Fusang on the south side, it is a big volcano. According to the "distance and altimeter" given by Kong Ming, it is seven or eight hundred feet high.

There is also the largest volcano in the middle of the main island. It is probably more than 1,500 feet, which is really twice as high as Mount Tai. Now that we are in the extreme north, there are two large volcanoes, both at least 500 feet. From south to north and in the middle, there are large volcanoes."

Zhou Yu felt deeply moved and had to feel awe of nature.

That mentality is quite similar to "Buffett lived to be 88 years old, and he only saw the circuit breaker of the US stock market once. When he lived to be 88 years old and three months old, he saw the second time, 03 months and five days, and 6 days old, he saw the third time, and the fourth time..."

The knowledge that has grown in recent months can be compared with the decades of life.

However, after reaching the northernmost end of Defu Island, the northeast wind had become extremely fierce, even if the sea boats take Z-shaped routes to catch the wind, they could not go northeast. Zhou Yu had to return, and this location became the northernmost end of his expedition this year.

If you have a God's perspective and compare it with the map, this location will be half of the Chiba Islands and half of the route between Hokkaido and Kamchatka.

In terms of latitude, it is about the same latitude as the southern part of Sakhalin Island and Kazakhstan in the northeast.

In the twelfth lunar month, if it is inland, the temperature is already very low. The Japanese warm current can also offset the power of some of the Chiba cold currents so as not to freeze to death. However, some sailors also suffer from skin frostbite and make it difficult to carry out mast operations.

Zhou Yu turned back along the west coast of the South Chiba Islands from the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, and changed from a strong headwind to a strong tailwind. He sailed a thousand miles in three days and three nights. On Laba, he returned to Hokkaido.

Then sail westward around the northern part of Hokkaido, cross the Sogo Strait between Hokkaido and Sakhalin Island, and enter the Whale Sea.

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As we entered the halfway through the complete return, the morale of the fleet finally improved. After all, the road home is getting more and more promising.

Zhou Yu originally thought that there would be no more surprises or discoveries in the second half, but his grasp of morale was very accurate. Once he noticed that "people's hearts are available", he would not help but want to make more achievements and explore some specialties from all over the country.

After all, Li Su described for him that "the achievements of discovering Linyi rice and introducing the Central Plains can be brilliant for thousands of years" can be inspired by the big cake, and he always wants to make some great fame and fortune in history.

This time, the biggest purpose of this time is to discover new species?

Therefore, when he passed through the Sogou Strait, he couldn't help but think: The Hokkaido Island (Hokkaido) had already circled around most of the time, and there was nothing else new on the island except the Hokkaido.

Although our army did not go deep into the inland exploration, there were also villages and settlements that burned the Hokkien people, and the daily diet and farming of the Hokkien people were captured by our army. There was nothing new there, so it was really gone.

But the north of Essay seems to be a place with a huge island or peninsula. If it is really not connected to Middle-earth, there may be something that is not found in the Central Plains. Should I take a few days to see it?

Zhou Yu thought for a while and felt that even if morale rebounded, it would definitely be impossible to explore inland. It was ice and snow in the cold winter.

However, sailing closely to the coast, carefully searching for any other villages on the shore, whether you can trade or plunder them, and see if there is anything different from the Hokkien Island. This is still OK.

He was confident in persuading his subordinates, and the reason was that he was "worrying that there was not enough fresh food on the way back, so he wanted to rob and replenish another wave of supplies." The sailors were sure to be happy.

From the tenth to the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month, for three days, Zhou Yu took more than a dozen boats to search carefully along the north shore of Zonggu Strait, the southern coast of Sakhalin Island, and each bay.

Hard work pays off, and it was finally the first time that Zhou Yu met the Sakhalin Island/Kamchatka indigenous people who were later called "Liu Gui Country" by later generations.

Of course, because Zhou Yu became the first person in the Central Plains to discover and know that Sakhalin Island existed, Sakhalin Island would not be called its original name.

This time, Zhou Yu was careful. He knew that he didn't have time to surround the big island, so the method of dealing with island barbarians could not be as rough as he was on the Emi Island as he came up, and he would just kill and rob.

He killed people and robbed people in the Hokkien because he was sure to fully explore the entire coast, without the need for people to lead the way, nor did he need for people to provide geographical and property information.

Now, he wants to try to induce local people to barter. Even if they are not able to speak, they can rely on gestures to induce local people to take out all kinds of food to see if there are any species that have never been seen in the Central Plains.

As long as he finds a new crop, Zhou Yu can go back and have a more decent relationship with Li Su. He knows that Li Su attaches great importance to this and may be awarded the title of county marquis.

Who would be unable to get along with the Marquis?

Of course, if the locals can't come up with anything, or they can't rely on gestures and trade, and it proves that these people are indeed worthless, Zhou Yu can only start a massacre.

He is still very pragmatic and will not kill for the sake of killing, but he will kill for the sake of good.

Zhou Yu repeatedly emphasized military discipline, and strictly ordered that no killing be allowed without his order. He had to hold back first. As long as he held back, he would give him another reward after he went back, and then finally got to the dock and began to negotiate with the savage.

The two sides were speechless, and relying on gestures and showing off their strength, the savages did not dare to act rashly. Because the small group of soldiers who Zhou Yu initially sent ashore were all wearing bright plate armor and holding horse-killing swords, and there were beds and crossbows on the ship facing the shore in case of unexpected surprises.

Although the savage was unaware, at least he knew that the iron armored steel knife was something worth fearing and did not do anything randomly. After a cross-server conversation, the Han people took out some iron pots and utensils and practical tools to exchange them with the savage. The savage also understood that the Han people wanted food, so they started exchanging.

Zhou Yu spent a lot of effort to let the wild people understand that "he pursued not only the quantity of food, but also the variety." The wild people spent two days trying to collect various varieties of products for trade. Zhou Yu also happened to rest in a bay at the southern end of Sakhalin Island for two days to avoid the wind and clean up the ship.

As a result, on the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, when Zhou Yu felt that he would not get anything, he waited for a discovery that made him dumbfounded.

The savage on Sakhalin Island brought him a batch of vegetables.

When he saw those vegetables, Zhou Yu was shocked - he knew every variety in it, but the size was completely different from that in the Central Plains!

Too huge, the visual impact is very exaggerated.

"Hurry and weigh the scale! Quick!" Zhou Yu was so anxious that he lost his grace and quickly called the sailor to the scale.

"This leek is 70 kilograms! That leafy dish that is almost the same as a syrup but is a little round, has 100 kilograms! This green onion and a dish that looks like wild leeks are seven or eight feet tall!

There is also this bean pod, which should be the beans made in Central China? The bean pod is one foot and a half long, and there are seven or eight beans in one pod, each of which is larger than a grape."

Zhou Yu was in a hot heart, as if he had seen that the glory of a county was already within reach.

These things must be new varieties of the same nature as Linyi rice! The things are all from the Central Plains, but the seeds here are very good! They are particularly easy to grow hugely!

However, Zhou Yu had a very high IQ after all, and he also felt a little unrealistic in his ecstasy. Because he realized that if he was like Lin Yidao, there would be only one species that would grow particularly large.

But the wild vegetables brought by the savages in front of us involved many types, and they were all magnified many times more than those in the Central Plains. Is it possible that it is related to the natural environment on this mysterious island?

No matter how much it is, take all the collected things back and let the Prime Minister decide. Even if the variety is not particularly good, if you have this discovery, you should still need to add a title, just the difference between the size of the title.

Your Majesty and the Prime Minister must first follow Wei Shi, who is a rich man. If you don’t set an example with Zhou Yu, how can people in the future be willing to take risks in geographical discoveries?

Zhou Yu was afraid that these winter vegetables would rot after being stored for a long time, so he quickly ordered some of the vegetables and seeds, and then returned without stopping.

Moreover, judging from the length of time these Sakhalin Island savages sent vegetables, Zhou Yu also keenly estimated that these vegetables should not be like this on the entire island, otherwise they should be the settlement of the seaside tribes, so that they would not have to wait for a few days to raise the supply.

Maybe it is the harvest that is achieved in some farming areas deep inland in the island.

In fact, Zhou Yu's guess is really not far from the truth.
To be continued...