"So, my brother will be able to take Guanbazhou soon?"

Wu Haogu was wearing a sheepskin robe and was walking by the water of Yunlong Villa in Xuzhou City with his hands behind his back. While walking, he talked to his son Wu Yijiu.

Yunlong Villa is located on the edge of Yunlong Lake and Yunlong Mountain in the south of Xuzhou City. It has mountains and water, and is a rare and good place in Xuzhou. It is surrounded by luxury houses, and it was originally a prominent merchant in the Xuhai area. When Xuzhou City was flooded by the Yellow River, it was soaked in water and was almost abandoned. Most of the original owners also fled to Jiangnan. So after the Zhou army entered Xuzhou, they confiscated the manor "ownerless" (if it is not found, it is the bossless) in it. After the Great Zhou decided to use Xuzhou as the capital of the Winter City, they took it out for auction and sold it to the Great Zhou Republic.

Wu Haogu spent 80,000 silver coins to buy the largest and most luxurious Yunlong Villa. Later, he spent 20,000 silver coins to renovate it, turning it into his residence during his stay in Xuzhou.

"It should be very soon!" Wu Yihisa said with a smile, "Now in the harsh winter of Japan, their Hokkido and Nakayama Road were blocked by heavy snow, and only Tokaido can be left. After Tamakawa, all the samurai in Japan's Sagami Kingdom had been killed or injured. It should be easy to block the Tokaido.

In this way, the Eight Suburbs of Kanto will become a big urn, and you can catch turtles in the urn! With my elder brother's ability, you should be able to pacify Eight Suburbs before the end of next spring's snow melting season."

"Okay!" Wu Haogu smiled, "As soon as Yasuo was obtained, Japan was half destroyed. With the fertile land of Yasuo, we can place at least 50,000 military households... With so many military households, the whole of Japan will belong to us sooner or later!

Now...it can start preparing to explore the East Ocean!"

The so-called Eastern Ocean is the Pacific Ocean!

For most Zhou people, the East Ocean is an unknown mysterious sea.

However, not many people are interested in exploring the East Ocean, at least Wu Yijiu has no interest. In his opinion, it is better to strengthen the investment in the South Ocean and the West to explore the East Ocean and find some places where the Yin people cross the east.

Now the Eastern Song Dynasty is spending a lot of money to the South and the West!

Just when Wu Yi was bravely liberating the Japanese people, Zhao Kai and Wu Meiniang, the invaders, were planning a battle in the Chao Phraya River and preparing to invade the sacred territory of the Zhenla Empire. They took all the rich Chao Phraya River plain (50,000 square kilometers) for themselves!

In addition, Ceylon's Guangmingding Holy See also expressed its surrender to the Eastern Song Dynasty!

This means that most of Ceylon land has become a territory of the Eastern Song Dynasty.

After obtaining Ceylon, the Eastern Song Dynasty was able to continue traveling westward and reach the legendary vast and wild black continent...

Compared with the unknown Great East Ocean, isn’t the known Black Continent a more ideal prey?

Wu Yijiu's thoughts, of course Wu Haogu knew a little.

This kid is unwilling to invest too much public funds in unknown fields!

But it doesn't matter. Wu Haogu can still get the funds for equipting several expedition ships.

"Sanlang, explore the East Ocean matters, and arrange it for my father." Wu Haogu looked at the bleak Yunlong Lake, "The Discovery exploration ship started construction the year before yesterday, and will be able to test sail next summer, and should be able to start exploring the next spring."

Discovery is an exploration ship, which is used to search for sailboats in unknown seas. It uses a "Truth"-class hull and has three-masted soft sails. It only has the artillery deck and is equipped with 8 12-jin short cannons.

In order to allow the crew to persevere in the vast sea for longer, Dujiao Dajiang from Tianjin Shipyard designed a more comfortable cabin and a larger cargo cabin.

The number of sailors was controlled within 90 people to reduce the consumption of fresh water, food and other supplies.

According to the design, only one replenishment is required, and the Discovery can last for four months on the vast ocean without having to stop at the port to add fresh water and food.

In addition, the "Discover" will carry enough pickled vegetables and tea for 12 months to avoid crew members from contracting scurvy when traveling to and from the New World.

A large amount of salt and high-purity distilled liquor were also prepared on the "Discovery". The former is used to cure meat or trade with the natives. If you have the opportunity to find some small islands that can be hunted, the crew members on the "Discovery" will naturally not let it go. At that time, salt will be needed to cure the meat. As for high-purity liquor, it is used to mix water, and a certain alcohol concentration can prevent fresh water from deteriorating.

In other words, if you can obtain a certain amount of supplies, the Discovery can persist in sailing at sea for a full 12 months!

When you arrive in the Americas from Japan, you will have a voyage of 7,0008,000 kilometers. Even if you sail at a speed of 8 kilometers per hour, 1,000 hours is enough, which is 42 days.

Wu Haogu prepared enough redundancy for the Discovery to ensure that it reaches the other side of the ocean.

In order to ensure the success of exploration, Wu Haogu will add several times the insurance coefficient. That is, sending 4 "discovery"-level ships to form a team at a time.

In this way, even if one or two sailboats are lost during the voyage, the remaining ships can still complete the exploration mission.

Now the four "Discovery" class ships are being built at shipyards in Tianjin and Lushun. By the spring of the fifteenth year of the Republic, they can set sail.

The New World will be discovered soon!

...

Wu Haogu, who was preparing for the exploration of the New World in Xuzhou City, probably never dreamed that in Jiangning Mansion, there was also a big man who was obsessed with the story of "The Yin people traveled to the east".

And he also owns a sailboat similar to the Discovery.

This person is Wu Haogu’s good son-in-law Zhao Kai.

It’s still too dangerous to be on the side of the Dazhou couch!

Therefore, we must try our best to find a way out... The place where the "Yin people crossed the east" may exist?

If you look for it, you won’t lose anything, right?

It was with this idea that after the soft sailboats called "Shen Ship" appeared, Zhao Kai did not think of them as a fleet. Since the Zhou Kingdom began to attack Japan, Zhao Kai believed that peace could be maintained for at least ten years between the Great Zhou and the Eastern Song Dynasty.

Therefore, the Eastern Song Dynasty did not need to upgrade its fleet immediately. It could wait until a larger and stronger sailboat appeared before changing the gear.

Before this, it was a good choice to use the "Shen Ship" type sailboat for long-distance adventures.

...

"Your Majesty, where do you want to explore?"

In the Chongzheng Hall of the newly completed Jiangning Imperial City, the one who asked Zhao Kai about the military commander of the Eastern Song Dynasty.

He was originally the chief manager of the Ji family warship, but later he was "recruited" and became the naval general of the official army. Later, Ji Yi arranged for the Navy of the Donghai Kingdom to serve as the admiral, and now he is the top leader of the Dongsong Navy.

"How about the ocean in the east of Japan?" Zhao Kai asked. "It is said that there is an extremely huge land there, which is a country where the Yin people crossed the east."

"This..." Cheng Gui was really speechless.

Why is this emperor so unpredictable?

What is the "Yin people crossing the east", just a legend... and I don't know where it came from?

Anyway, the old navy, who has been running all his life, has never heard such a ridiculous story.

Even when King Wu attacked King Zhou, he had a tribe of Yin who had traveled eastward, so he had gone to Japan. How could he go east?

Why is sailing so easy? It’s not enough to go up the island as big as Japan, so why go east?

Sailing will kill people!

"Your Majesty," Cheng Gui said, "It is nonsense for the people of Yin to cross the east... It is really undesirable to explore the East Ocean based on nonsense. Moreover, it is best to start from Japan to explore the East Ocean, and Japan is being attacked by Zhou, so we are just misunderstandings when we go.

If Your Majesty wants to explore the distant seas, it is better to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the Nanyang islands. Maybe you can find some plump islands suitable for the Han people to move to."

Although the Great Zhou Republic and the Eastern Song Dynasty have both arrived in the Nanyang, their scope of activities is limited to the Sanfoqi Strait and Java Island.

There has been no in-depth investigation into the eastern part of the Nanyang Islands.

However, both Zhou and Song dynasties knew that there were some islands in the eastern part of the Nanyang Islands, which were not bad, because merchants from Zhou and Song dynasties would purchase spices from some islands in the eastern part of the Nanyang Islands.

The success of the spice island's wealth is to organize a large-scale voyage to the Southeast Ocean at the right time. See what indigenous people on the island can be educated...

"That's it..." Zhao Kai thought for a while, "It's okay.

By the way, Cheng Gui, have you heard Di Yuan say?"

"Di Yuan said?" Cheng Gui was stunned.

"That is to say, the land we live in is not flat, but an extremely huge ball." Zhao Kai explained, "It sounds a bit ridiculous, but after my research, I came to the conclusion that it was correct.

So theoretically, our ships can reach the Beiyang waters as long as they sail to the south."

How is that possible? Cheng Gui thought: The government's brain will not be a problem, right? He actually found out that the earth is round, and he also thought that ships could finally reach the Beiyang waters all the way south... Isn't this stupidity in learning?

Fortunately, the two saints were in the dynasty of the Great Song Dynasty (Eastern Song Dynasty). Only with the Queen as the Lord can the country flourish!

Zhao Kai didn't think he had something wrong at all, in fact, he came up with the theory of earth-circle through astronomy calculations. Before the Central Plains War, Yuntai Academy (Yuzhou Island) and Qingcheng Academy once worked together to conduct an astronomical observation on earth-circle. Several observatories were set up in Jingzhao Prefecture, Xijing, Kaifeng Prefecture, Yingtian Prefecture and Haizhou. Through observation and calculation, the conclusion of earth-circle was drawn, and it was also calculated that the circumference of the earth was about 30,000 miles.

In addition, simple optical observation can also prove that the earth-circularity is because after using the most sophisticated telescope, the human visual distance will change with the height it is located. As long as you perform calculations, you can draw the conclusion of earth-circularity.
Chapter completed!