Sunshine, beach, bikini beauties, beautiful Los Angeles, beautiful Hawaii, beautiful San Francisco. Of course this is just Zhao Weiji's fantasy, that is the world more than a thousand years later.

At this time, Zhao Weiji was vomiting on the boat. Being a sailor also requires talent. A country man like Zhao Weiji who has never been to the sea in his two lives cannot withstand the baptism of big waves at this time, so he can only hug him on the deck.

Holding a bucket and vomiting non-stop.

"Damn it, Magellan deceived me again." Although Zhao Weiji specifically chose to avoid the typhoon season when he set out, the Pacific Ocean was not as calm as Magellan described.

"Your Majesty, you will get used to it if you vomit." Seeing Zhao Weiji vomiting like this, Wang Dayuan had no other choice but to give some verbal support. "Look at Snow, he just set sail back to the Central Plains.

When he was a child, he was vomiting and vomiting every day just like you, but you can see that he is not alive and kicking now."

It was fine that Wang Dayuan didn't say anything, but he got angry when he mentioned Zhao Weiji. At this time, the Inuit was jumping up and down on the boat, saying a few words to anyone he caught, as if he spoke Chinese fluently.

Looking at Snow and then at the bucket in front of him, Zhao Weiji rudely extended his middle finger to Wang Dayuan. Although Wang Dayuan didn't know what this gesture meant, he knew from Zhao Weiji's expression that it was probably not a good thing. So, Wang Dayuan didn't know what the gesture meant.

So he had no choice but to walk away with a low eyebrow.

This time they chose to sail directly across the Pacific Ocean, taking Midway Island, the Hawaiian Islands and then landing in Los Angeles.

It was a good idea, and he had avoided the typhoon season, but after ten days at sea, Zhao Weiji discovered that there were no other large islands on this route except Midway Island. Although there were sufficient supplies, there was no island that could

The docking forced Zhao Weiji to rock on the sea for ten consecutive days, so all he could do was vomit, vomit, and vomit again.

After about five more days of sailing at sea, Zhao Weiji finally got used to the waves and stopped vomiting.

Just when Zhao Weiji was finally excited that he no longer vomited, a strange news came from Wang Dayuan, that is, he found an object that seemed to be a ship on the man's side of the ship.

When Zhao Weiji heard this, he immediately thought it was a ghost. No one should have passed this route. How could other ships appear? Zhao Weiji, who felt that something was wrong, immediately boarded the observation tower and looked through the telescope and found that something was wrong. This

Why did Vikings appear in this place?

That's right, it's a Viking. The shape of the dragon-headed ship is a typical Viking ship. And the Viking ship is rushing towards you at full speed like your own ship.

"Alert, alert. There are pirates, order all crew members to prepare for war." Although he didn't understand why the Vikings appeared in the Pacific Ocean, the reputation of Viking pirates was quite famous in history, so Zhao Weiji did not dare to take it lightly and immediately

Order Wang Dayuan to prepare for war.

Since cannons have not yet been produced, current naval battles can only be boarding battles. At this time, the wind happened to be weakening, so Zhao Weiji's ship could not quickly get rid of the Viking pirate ships. After being overtaken by the Vikings, they had no choice but to

Choose boarding battle.

When this group of pirates jumped onto the Poseidon, Zhao Weiji clearly saw the horn-like helmets on their heads and the giant axes they held in their hands. They were undoubtedly Vikings.

So the Viking pirates and the crew of the Poseidon started fighting on the deck. Although the equipment of the Viking pirates was indeed impressive, the sailors of the Song Dynasty had never been exposed to Viking pirates before, so they were not very frightened.

These white-skinned, blue-eyed villains.

Moreover, the Poseidon actually took quite sufficient measures against pirates. In addition to ordinary weapons, there were also quite sufficient crossbows on the ship, so the Viking pirates were shot down as soon as they boarded the ship.

few.

Now, the Vikings were a little scared. Why were these yellow-faced people with thin arms and legs so rogue? They attacked with crossbows when they came up. This was different from the Romans.

After finally escaping the crossbow attack and successfully landing on the deck of the opponent's ship, this group of Vikings were troubled by new troubles when they were engaged in close combat with the Song sailors, because this group of yellow-faced men held

A spear (actually a spear) stabs you, not shoots you like the Romans did.

This makes the Vikings holding axes a little bit blind. No matter how long the ax is, it is not as long as the spear. These yellow-faced men will keep stabbing you with their guns, making it impossible for you to get close. And then they stand on high places.

The men on the mast are so cool that they shoot you with crossbows. How can the Vikings fight?

In addition, these Vikings seemed to feel tired soon, so they were quickly defeated. Not only were all the people who landed on the Poseidon defeated, but the Song sailors also counterattacked their own.

On the ship.

"This group of Vikings doesn't seem to be as scary as the legend says?" Seeing that the battle ended so quickly, Zhao Weiji was very puzzled. This group of Vikings didn't seem to have the ability to traverse Europe as described in the book.

"My lord, do you know this group of people?" Hearing Zhao Weiji's tone, he seemed to know the origin of this group of pirates, and Wang Dayuan was very curious.

"Well, I have probably heard of some people who seem to live in the land of Daqin in the far west."

As soon as I mentioned King Dayuan of the Qin Dynasty, I probably understood that the Qin Dynasty was the Roman Empire. Although Wang Dayuan had never been to that place, his long-term sailing experience made him hear about such a place during his interactions with Arab merchants. It is said that

It is a country very far to the west.

When the Poseidon sailors occupied the entire Viking ship, Zhao Weiji was ready to ask these Vikings why they appeared in this sea area. But when he wanted to ask, he realized that there was no one on his side.

He knows the language of the Vikings. He himself knows English, but in this era when ancient English has not yet fully formed, he, who only knows twenty-first century English, probably no one can speak to this group of people.

Understand.

Fortunately, they found an Arab on the Viking ship. Although there was no one on the Poseidon who could speak Viking, there were several who could speak Arabic, and Wang Dayuan was one of them.

After communicating with this Arab, Zhao Weiji finally understood why the Vikings living in Northern Europe appeared in the Pacific Ocean.

This group of Vikings originally only reached Baghdad, but they learned from the Arab population in Baghdad that there was a richer empire further to the east. Moreover, this rich empire had been doing business with the Arab Empire on the sea for many years.

trading.

The Vikings, who were originally pirates, became greedy when they heard about this good thing. If a rich empire was doing trade on the sea for many years, there must be many ships carrying large amounts of goods plying the sea. If they robbed him of a few

The ship had not yet made a fortune. So this group of Vikings captured an Arab merchant and set out to the east.

But after they went out to sea, they encountered a storm at sea and were inexplicably blown away from the original channel. In addition, there was no compass, and the Vikings were not very familiar with the starry sky in the Eastern Hemisphere, so they kept wandering aimlessly at sea.

drift.

Moreover, the supplies on the Viking ship were all exhausted the day before they encountered the Poseidon, which explains why this group of Viking pirates couldn't hold on even after fighting for a long time.

After learning all this, Zhao Weiji did not have any sympathy for this group of Vikings, so when Wang Dayuan asked what to do with these pirates, Zhao Weiji decided to tie them all up and throw them back to their ship, leaving them to fend for themselves.

Furthermore, Zhao Weiji viciously ransacked the Viking ships, plundering all the armors, weapons, and treasures they had previously snatched. Then he left behind the Arab businessman who had been kidnapped on the pirate ship.

After dealing with this group of Viking pirates, the Poseidon sailed at sea for another fifteen days.

"Your Majesty, there seems to be a big island ahead." A person in charge of the lookout seemed to have discovered an island, so he came over to report.

After Zhao Weiji took the telescope and took a look, he saw that there was indeed an island. So he immediately asked Wang Dayuan to direct the ship to move closer to the island, because there might be Midway Island there.

After landing on the island, Zhao Weiji was very sure that this was Midway Island, because it was a coral island, not too big in area, and consisted of three parts.

"Your Majesty, there seems to be no fresh water to replenish on this island." The personnel who had previously visited the island to inspect reported back.

"Well, I understand." Zhao Weiji had never expected that fresh water resources would be replenished on Midway Island. The reason why he was excited was because as long as he reached Midway Island, it meant that the entire voyage was already halfway through.

"Huanzhang, order all the crew to rest here for a day, and then we will continue to set sail. This time we will slightly modify the route and go a little southeast. It won't take long to find an island that can replenish fresh water. And tell the crew that our

We are already halfway through the journey, so let’s keep on keeping on.”

…

Just when Zhao Weiji was excited about arriving at Midway Island, the palace battle in the Central Plains was about to come to an end. After fully grasping all the usable value of the account books, Zhao Heng handed over the account books and the method of deciphering them to Zhao Guangyi.

Zhao Heng said nothing when he handed the account book to Zhao Guangyi again, because he believed that as long as Zhao Guangyi carefully read the entire account book, everything that should happen would happen.

On the day of Jihai in the eleventh month of the third year of Chunhua, Zhao Yuanxi was sitting in the main hall when he went to court in the morning. He suddenly felt unwell, so he immediately returned home. Song Taizong went to visit him in person. However, Zhao Yuanxi's condition suddenly worsened, and Zhao Guangyi called his name.

, could still manage to reply, and died soon after, at the age of twenty-seven. Song Taizong wept in grief, and posthumously gave him the posthumous title of "Gongxiao" as the prince.

This was the fate of Zhao Yuanxi recorded in later history books, but only Zhao Guangyi and Zhao Heng knew the truth.
Chapter completed!