"The ocean is the new frontier of the Song Dynasty. This is the voyage of our Poseidon. Its mission is to explore the unknown new world, find new life and new civilization, and bravely sail into areas where no one has gone before.

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This was the speech Zhao Weiji gave when giving practice to the new giant ship Poseidon, which was about to set sail to explore the American continent. He had been waiting for this day for a long time. As long as he could discover the American continent, his plan would have been half successful.

In the past few years, Zhao Weiji can be said to have invested most of his financial resources in the construction of new ships. In order to ensure that he can successfully find the American continent, he has invested a lot of financial resources, material resources and energy in navigation.

In order to ensure success, he did not seek re-election as president of the Chamber of Commerce. Except for the revenge against Zhao Yuanxi, all other time was devoted to preparations for the voyage.

In order to ensure the supply of food, Zhao Weiji used his glass industry to develop canning production technology, and a large number of canned foods were produced. And in order to prevent the occurrence of scurvy, Zhao Weiji specially ordered people to make a large number of canned oranges.

When all preparations were complete, the navigation mission was about to begin. Since Zhao Weiji could not get away from the Central Plains, the main leader of this navigation mission was Wang Dayuan.

In order to facilitate Wang Dayuan's navigation, Zhao Weiji specially dug out the approximate Pacific Ocean current route from his memory and told Wang Dayuan that as long as he sailed to Ryukyu after going to sea, and then moved along the ocean current, he should be able to reach the New World. However, because Zhao Weiji gave

is also an ambiguous method, so this voyage is still a huge challenge for Wang Dayuan, because no one has dared to take this route that no one has ever traveled before.

In this way, Wang Dayuan left Yangshan Port with a boatload of people, filled with yearning for mystery and uneasiness, and sailed toward the unknown.

When Wang Dayuan led the Poseidon to set off, Zhao Weiji's work at this stage finally came to an end. As for Zhao Yuanxi, it wasn't that he didn't want to push Zhao Yuanxi into the abyss with his own hands, but that he couldn't do anything more at this stage.

Waiting for Zhao Yuanxi's self-destruction is the only thing Zhao Weiji can do.

What Zhao Weiji didn't expect was that this day would come so quickly.

Yelu Mo took action. After seeing Zhao Yuanxi's loss of power, the smartest man in the Liao Kingdom decided to use him to help the Liao Kingdom and cause some chaos to the Song Dynasty. So he sent the Liao Kingdom's spies to try to contact Zhao Yuanxi.

On this day, Zhao Yuanxi was bored in the house when he suddenly heard a servant coming to report, saying that he was a businessman. This made Zhao Yuanxi very angry. No matter how my rights were evaded, it was not my turn to socialize with the businessman.

Just when he was about to ask his servants to drive the man away, the servant handed him something. When he saw the thing, his expression immediately changed, and he quickly ordered the servants to invite the man into the house.

The thing that arrived in Zhao Yuanxi's hands was none other than the Liao Kingdom's wolf head waist card, which symbolized a certain level.

If Zhao Yuanxi in the past saw this waist card, he would definitely ask his servants to drive away this Liao country's master, and he would even notify the relevant departments to arrest the person directly.

But things are different now. Now Zhao Yuanxi hates Zhao Guangyi. In addition, he is gradually losing his rights, so now he doesn't care about the Liao Kingdom's detailed work causing any damage in the Song Dynasty. He is even curious about the Liao Kingdom now.

Why did he come to find him, the so-called prince who had lost power?

After the people brought the man into the living room and started cooking, Zhao Yuanxi did not serve tea, but just sat in the main seat without saying a word, because he wanted to see what the Liao people were after when they came to him.

But what he didn't expect was that the craftsman from Liao was more calm than him. Seeing that Zhao Yuanxi didn't say a word, he didn't say a word either. He sat on his seat and started to play with a copper coin.

The two of them held each other in this strange silence for a while. Finally, Zhao Yuanxi couldn't bear it any longer and spoke first: "What on earth do you, a craftsman from the Liao Kingdom, do to come to my house?"

The Liao country's craftsman was revealed by Zhao Yuan's identity without caring, and casually replied: "Mansion? What mansion? Don't you go to the Yamen to sit in the palace every day?"

"You!" Liao Guo's words made Zhao Yuan choke so much. Indeed, after his rights were gradually removed, there was no need to go to the Yamen, so he could only stay bored at home every day.

"I came to see the prince because I have a business I want to do with him. I wonder if the prince is interested?" After saying the sarcastic words, the Khitan man did not give Zhao Yuanxi any time to breathe, and directly stated his future purpose.

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After hearing what the Khitan people said next, Zhao Yuanxi couldn't bear to be angry anymore. He needed to think about what value he had left for the Khitan people to come and do business with him.

Just when he was still thinking, the Khitan man seemed to have seen through Zhao Yuanxi's thoughts and said: "Your Majesty, you don't need to think too much. The reason why we came to your business is just because our Emperor of Liao couldn't bear to see a

The outstanding prince will have no source of income in the future because of the loss of power."

Of course, this is just the rhetoric of the Khitans, and Zhao Yuanxi would not believe it, but since there must be a special reason for coming to him, let's listen to it.

"No way, the Khitan leader has such good intentions? There have been a lot of wars between Song and Liao in the past two years?"

"Of course it's not for nothing, Prince. I just need you to put in a little effort."

When Zhao Yuanxi heard that the meat show had finally come, he said that there were no such good things in the world, so how could he have a free lunch?

"Tell me, what are you busy with?"

"We are going to provide the prince with a batch of fine horses from the Liao Kingdom. All he needs to do is transport them overland into the Song Dynasty through your relationship. As long as these horses enter the Song Dynasty, they will be the prince's. They don't cost a penny."

Zhao Yuanxi is not a fool. He knew immediately what the Liao people were planning to do. Transporting a group of horses overland to give me a gift? How could it be such a good thing? The Liao people were planning to take this opportunity to find out the reality of the northern border defense of the Song Dynasty.

Since there is no border between Song and Liao, the smuggling trade between Song and Liao was often carried out by sea, because these merchants at least had a little patriotism and knew that land trade could easily confuse the Liao's elaborate craftsmen.

Go to the caravan and find out the reality of the northern part of the Song Dynasty.

If you go by sea, even if the caravan sneaks into the Liao Kingdom, you will only be able to see the inland situation at most. What's more, the Song Dynasty has such a saying that there is a road guide, and there is no road guide to cause chaos in the Song Dynasty.

It is impossible to escape.

Even if Zhao Yuanxi is now a successful businessman who sneaked into the Song Dynasty, he can only operate in the capital and the south. The north is indeed a very strange place for business travelers.

"Oh, that's right. How many horses are there?"

"Divided into ten batches of a thousand horses each time."

To be honest, Zhao Yuanxi was really tempted when he heard this number. Ten thousand good horses. When he cooperated with Li Jipeng, they only managed to get about 20,000 horses, which was accumulated over several years.

This time it was 10,000 horses at a time, and the horses produced in Liao were much better than those in the northwest, and the prices they could sell on the market were much higher.

But the only obstacle in his heart was the Khitan's proposal, because if he agreed to the Khitan's proposal, it would harm the entire Song Dynasty.

"Let me think about it."

Khitan Xizuo also knew that this kind of matter could not be rushed, so he did not rush Zhao Yuanxi, but consciously said goodbye and left the palace.

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On the other side, Wang Dayuan's driver's license Poseidon has been drifting in the sea for half a month. Soon after going out to sea, they found the ocean current described by Zhao Weiji. Indeed, if you sail along the ocean current, you can also have it under light or calm wind conditions.

Not a bad motivation.

But after drifting on the sea for a long time, a feeling of uneasiness began to spread on the ship, because this was a route that no one had sailed before, and after entering the ocean current, I never encountered anything else.

Island, so fear arose among the crew.

Fortunately, the supplies Zhao Weiji prepared for the ship before departure were actually quite terrifying, so even if the crew members had such emotions, it would not affect the voyage.

But Wang Dayuan knew that if he could no longer see land, it would be difficult to control the expansion of his emotions.

Fortunately, an island appeared in front of them at this time, and it was not one but an island chain. Only then did Wang Dayuan remember the conditions of the ocean that Zhao Weiji had described to him before setting off.

Zhao Weiji said that if the ship can really enter the ocean current, it will encounter an island chain, which is the island chain near the Bering Strait. By then, it will only have to sail along the island chain to discover new continents.

After positioning through the sextant, Wang Dayuan confirmed that this was really the island chain that Zhao Weiji mentioned. When the despair was about to expand, this island chain was undoubtedly a life-saving straw.

"Brothers, the small island group in front is undoubtedly the island chain that the prince mentioned. Let's go to the island to rest first and then set off. Victory is not far away from us."

Encouraged by Wang Dayuan, the sailors on the ship roared like thunder.

Soon the ship landed on a slightly larger island. Fortunately, Wang Dayuan, who led the team to explore the island, found fresh water on the island. Although there was enough fresh water on the ship, no one would dislike too much fresh water when sailing on the sea.

too much.

After replenishing supplies on the island, the ship set off again. Just as Zhao Weiji said, they quickly found a piece of land by sailing along the island chain.

The crew members were very excited after seeing the new land, but they didn't expect that when they officially landed on this new continent, they felt like they had been deceived by Zhao Weiji.
Chapter completed!