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Chapter 1514 A Virtue

At the end of March.

Twenty-eight huge sea boats set sail amid the warm cheers of tens of thousands of people at the Nanhai Harbour Pier, sailing through the wind and waves to the farther west.

This is the second wave of huge fleets of Daqin left Daqin for the Western world in the past few months.

All officials and civilians involved in the development and construction of the South China Sea Port, as well as the local Yue people, believe that in the future, more Daqin ships will come and go between the Central Plains and the West. As the southernmost seaport at Daqin, this place will surely become the only way for exchanges between the East and the West to dock. A large amount of wealth brought back by the West and a large amount of goods transported by the Daqin will gather here, and thousands of merchants and seafarers will rest, eat, drink and even buy local specialties here.

Therefore, this Yue territory far from the Central Plains rule would soon pour in a large number of Central Plains merchants to build stations, hotels, shops, food houses, etc. The local Yue people also brought the harvested various mountain goods and seafood to the harbor and sold them to local merchants and freighters. An emerging and lively harbor city is about to grow.

The Daqin Sea Division fleet sailed very long distances for the first time, and it was a strange sea area, so it was more cautious and careful, and sailed along the continuous coastline almost the same route as Beiyan Trading.

Therefore, during the voyage, you can find the temporary resident and dock traces left by the Beiyan Trading Company along the way. In these places, you can also encounter some local indigenous people who had contacted the Beiyan Trading Company.

Half a month after leaving Nanhai Port, the fleet arrived at the southernmost end of the Indochina Peninsula. At a temporary camp left by the Beiyan Trading Company, they encountered more than a dozen civilians wearing Central Plains clothes, dressed like beggars. These people would speak fluent Central Plains speeches. After Han Xin and others asked in detail, they realized that this was a group of entourages of the Beiyan Trading Company who were sick at the time, including the Daqin people such as the alchemy Motu, as well as several Yingzhou natives.

Regarding the sudden arrival of this huge Daqin fleet, a group of people were excited and burst into tears, and they all expressed their desire to follow him on a boat, but Han Xin refused on the grounds of military affairs.

In order to appease these people, Han Xin named this place as the supreme commander of the Daqin Haishi Fleet, divided this place into the Vietnamese county of the Daqin, temporarily under the jurisdiction of Guangxi County, and appointed one of the priests as the county magistrate. In addition, he appointed the positions of county magistrate and county magistrate respectively. Before leaving, he left some food, clothing, tools and weapons, so that these people could stay here to build camps, providing a place for docking and resting for the future fleet. He also promised to take them back to the Qin Dynasty when the fleet came back. If he was willing to stay here, he would submit a letter of official position in the future and send a letter of appointment to the official position.

So this group of abandoned teams with only more than a dozen people turned into the official class of the Qin Dynasty. They all patted their chests with gratitude and said that they would be loyal to the court and govern Vietnam's county in an orderly manner for the Qin Dynasty.

So, a team of temporary Vietnam County officials waved reluctantly to see him off, and the huge fleet set sail again. On the exploration map of Daqin overseas, this wild land hanging overseas officially had its own name. The three words "Vietnamese County" were written in red handwriting, and the names of the three county magistrates and county magistrates were added next to it.

"So this is how your Qin Dynasty expanded its territory?"

Looking at Han Xin, who was a little proud after writing on the map, Asia, who was wearing a combo dress with a slight osmanthus fragrance, asked with a strange look.

"It's just that things are urgent. It's also a territory of the Yue people. If it's occupied, it will take a long time. Besides, this is not our mission. Keep these people here to build a camp. In the future, the fleets and merchant ships that come and go to the east will be docked and rested. Over time, it will inevitably become prosperous. Whether they can be defended depends entirely on themselves. Just explore the way with us to go to the West. Whether they are promoted or made a fortune, they always have to take risks to get a chance. The alchemist who doesn't want to be a county magistrate is not a good sailor. I just give them a chance to get promoted and make money, hehe!"

"Hmph, I have the same virtue as your brother!"

Asia turned her head out of the cabin with contempt. After a moment, she grabbed Han Xin's arm and said anxiously, "General Han, have we gone wrong? Shouldn't we sail along the coastline? Why do you feel that we are getting farther and farther away from the coast?"

Han Xin looked up and shrugged his head, "You're not wrong. According to the world map given to us by my brother, you can sail straight to the southwest when you arrive at this place. Crossing this sea area will save at least half a month!"

"Where is the opposite? Have you arrived at Susa?" Asia asked excitedly.

Han Xin spread the map and pointed to the location of the Malay Peninsula and Singapore and said: "Look, you can reach a narrow strait through this sea area. You can reach the western strait only by passing through the strait. It is still far from Susa. The specific distance cannot be judged, but it takes at least two months to see the map. If you encounter harsh situations such as storms, it is possible in three or four months!"

As soon as it was still so long, Asia's energy disappeared, and she watched the coast that was almost impossible to see behind slowly sat down, "I don't know where the Gongsun Beiyan you often talk about has arrived? Have you found Australia?"

"Gongsun Beiyan set out five months earlier than us. Judging from the camps and traces they left along the way, the trip was quite smooth. No casualties such as shipwrecks were found. However, the future of the navigation was unpredictable, and no one dared to say it was safe. I hope they found it!" Han Xin said without raising his head at the map.

"I have heard the legend of Gongsun Beiyan in Xianyang and Langya. I admire her courage and determination very much. A weak woman in the mouth of you Daqin men can actually get the support of so many people and actually want to build a country..."

"If her Majesty had a lasting ending today, if it weren't for His Majesty's tolerance and advice with my brother, let alone the founding of the country, I'm afraid there would be no place to sleep. All the world is the king's land. They would just satisfy the temporary jade hope!" Han Xin curled his lips and sneered.

"Is the king's land under the world... Do you Daqin want to take the whole world for yourself?" Asia's tone was quite cold and dissatisfied.

"Haha, that's nature. The entire four continents of the world will inevitably surrender to the Qin Dynasty in the future. Look at the ships behind us..."

Han Xin dropped the map and stood up, pointing at the huge geese-shaped array fleet that spanned seven or eight miles with a look of contempt.

"I don't know which country and race in the world can resist such a mighty fleet. You have seen all the ports along the coast of Daqin. In the next ten or twenty years, Daqin will have hundreds of ships built. Even without muskets and cannons, with my Daqin's strong bow, hard crossbow and steel weapons, you are vulnerable to the West. How about you rest? This time I will let you see the power of the Sea Division fleet. Those ferocious rest robbers in your mouth will be crushed into powder in an instant..."

"The world is the wish of Your Majesty, and conquering the world is the best opportunity for us soldiers to make meritorious service. For us, I am afraid that the world will be too small and there will not be enough opportunities to make meritorious service!"

Han Xin turned around and looked at Asia, and suddenly changed the topic with a strange expression: "How are the other princesses of Antioch? Are they beautiful? How compared to you? Are they much gentler?"

"You..." Asia turned around in anger, and walked out of the captain's room with blushing cheeks.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

"I'll walk slowly but not send you off, be careful to fall into the sea!"

Behind, there was a reminder of the captain's crew laughing and Han Xin's beating.

Since she arrived in Daqin, Asia discovered that her identity as the princess of Susa was not noble at all. She never complained about her many times in Xianyang, but she was even more disrespectful when she was on the sea boat with these vulgar generals and sailors.

The biggest blow to her was the humiliation of treason in Xianyang's Taishi Mansion, but she had to accept it angrily.

Perhaps, all of this was arranged on purpose.

Standing on the deck of the ship's side, Asia gritted her teeth and looked at the old glass mirror with broken handles in her hand, and raised her hand and wanted to throw it into the sea.

"The bride is married and the groom is not me..."

Suddenly, I remembered the strange and unrestrained body poisoning song that Chen Xu sang on the river beach outside the east gate of Xianyang not long ago.

"Are he hinting at me?"

After hesitating for a while, Asia's cheeks showed a slight blush, and she carefully put the mirror close to her body.

...

In mid-April, the South China Sea, which is entering midsummer, becomes hotter and hotter, and the sea is also in the southeast wind and waves are getting higher.

The two newly built counties of Dawei, thousands of miles away from the Qin Dynasty, are full of grass and fruits. Large areas of rice around Liangcheng, Xindu have begun to turn golden. After several months of operation, the rice sown in spring ushered in the harvest season for the first time.

Because the climate in the South China Sea is hot and humid all year round, and there are dense river nets and swamp ponds everywhere, it is very suitable for planting rice. The rice here is somewhat different from the southern part of Daqin. The local natives say that they can harvest three times a year. Although they cannot be cultivated, they are all the same as before Daqin. They are slashing and burning, and they are surrounded by lakes and beaches to sow seeds and wait for the sky to harvest. However, the climate and conditions here determine that this farming method is effective. As long as you sow, you will get rice harvests, just look at how much.

At present, Gongsun Beiyan not only brought the advanced industrial civilization of the Qin Dynasty, but also brought a large number of books and various farming and animal husbandry experiences.

Under the guidance of the Great Wei court, local indigenous people were forced to weed and sow and transplant rice. In just three months, tens of thousands of acres of rice fields reclaimed were harvested. According to the judgment of agricultural officials of the Ministry of Revenue, the yield per mu is at least three stones, and it can be harvested twice in the future. Although the yield of recycled rice will decrease, the yield per mu is at least six stones in the end.

This output is comparable to the agricultural method of Daqin, which consumes a lot of manpower and material resources to cultivate carefully.

You should know that the large number of followers and alchemists and motues who followed Gongsun Beiyan were not good at farming, but were only guiding farming through the large number of newspapers and agricultural books collected. These wild jungle tribes, which were still semi-wild a few months ago, did not even speak, and had no words. The communication was all about fists, feet, sticks, and screaming hands and feet. You can imagine how you farm.
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