It took place in the first year of Guangming in the Great Liao Dynasty (1133), and the exploration of the Black Continent was actually not successful. Because the fleet of the Guangming Tianli Cult had an armed conflict with Arab colonists who believed in Tianfang Cult on Zanzibar Island.

At this time, Zanzibar was a spice island and a slave island. The lilacs produced were sold all over the world, claiming to be the most fragrant place in the world. Of course, it is also an island of wealth with a lot of money!

In the era of sailing trade, silk, porcelain, spices, cotton, slaves, etc. were once the most important trade items. Among them, China has two exclusive items!

And India accounts for one and a half, namely cotton cloth and some spices.

Southeast Asia's Spice Islands and Zanzibar basically occupy the remaining share of the spice trade.

In addition to producing spices, Samba Jier was also an early slave island!

The Middle Ages Arabs were the largest slave traders in the world, and their achievements in the slave trade were far greater than those of the later European colonists.

Because no matter how European colonists sold slaves, they were just buying and selling coolies, they were rough business, and they did not develop various slave markets, all colors, races, and occupations like the Arabs, slaves of all kinds are important parts of Arab history. No one can deny it! Even the Arab military force, the Gulam Guard, was also the purchased slaves.

It can be said that without slaves, there would be no Arab civilization in the middle and late stages. Without the protection of the Gulam Guards and Mamruk Guards, the Arab feudal lords would not even have their lives. What civilization would there be?

The same is true for the Ottoman Empire, the heir of Arab civilization. Without slaves, their sultans would not be born, because most of the sultans' mothers were white female slaves bought. And the Ghanishari soldiers who defended the sultan were also slaves...

Zanzibar, ruled by Arab nobles from Oman, is an important part of the Arab slave trade. It is a transit station for the East African routes among the four major slave trade routes. The slaves and ivory collected from all over East Africa will be concentrated in Zanzibar and then transported to the Arabian Peninsula or India.

As the Arabs' marine territory was shrinking, the importance of Zanzibar exceeded that of the same period in history.

So before the fleet of Guangming's Pope and Dashi Empire left the Port of Avas, the Arab merchant ship that reported the message to Zanzibar left the port of Oman.

After receiving the news, the Emir of Zanzibar immediately ordered preparations and recalled a large number of warships and Gulam warriors from ports in various East Africa. He was preparing to wait for his life in Zanzibar and caught the navy of the Dashi Empire off guard.

However, beyond the Arabs' expectations, the Dashi Empire and the Guangming Politicism explored fleet gathered four sailing gunboats from the Eastern Song Concession in Suez Port on the Phira Island (Socotra Island, also a stronghold of the Guangming Politicism). They headed south together.

These four sail warships were originally going to return to Xingzhou for rest, but the formation admiral temporarily received a request from the Governor of Ceylon Island to "escort the Saint", so he waited for Mo Niang on Jile Island.

Afterwards, the four Eastern Song gunboats followed the Dashi Empire and Mo Niangzi's fleet and "stop the way" to Zanzibar.

As a result, the fleet of Zanzibar and the Arabs started fighting!

Four warships equipped with 18 kilograms of long cannons showed their power in this battle known as the "Samba Juer Sea Battle", which caused heavy losses to the armed merchant ships of the Arabs.

Then, the "Dashi Guards" carried by the Dashi Empire fleet landed in Zanzibar, and started a massacre, completely conquering the entire island!

Therefore, this battle of Samba Juer became the first battle of the "Daishi Guards".

The so-called Dashi Guards are actually the Gulam Guards of Yelu Dashi. All the soldiers come from the tribes of the Gelulu and Qincha people in Central Asia, and some are from the Caucasus Mountains.

The soldiers were all young men in the army. Grassland boys, who were twelve or even younger, were brought to the court of Tabriz by the merchants of the empire and became Dashi's students and slave warriors. After six years of rigorous training and brainwashing of Guangming's Poetic Sect, they became the sharpest sword in Yelu Dashi's hands.

Their equipment is also very distinctive. It is the infantry that uses a mixture of hot and cold weapons. They are not equipped with heavy smoothbore guns placed on the bracket to fire, but light smoothbore guns that can hold flat ends with both hands. Because the weight is reduced, these Guard soldiers can carry swords and participate in hand-to-hand combat.

Yelu Dashi also designed a standard tactic for them to "bombardment and line-up muskets approach close to shooting swords and hand-to-hand combat".

The battle of Zanzibar was the first appearance of Oishi Guards and Guards tactics.

The result of his appearance was surprisingly good! The Arab Gulam warrior was gently smashed like an egg in front of the Dashiguards.

The Battle of Zanzibar Island turned out to be a one-sided massacre!

After massacring and occupying the rich Samba Juer Island, the "explorers" of the Dashi Empire and the Guangming Tianshi Politicism gave up their plan to continue to go south and instead established a colony on Samba Juer Island.

This is also the first overseas colony of the Western Liao Empire!

The first overseas colony of Western Liao, the first appearance of the Western Liao Guards, and the first overseas exploration of the Guangming Tianli and the first overseas exploration of the world of Politicism and Buddhism. The three major events combined together have naturally extraordinary significance.

Therefore, this failed exploration became the beginning of the Western world entering the Age of Discovery!

But this West was not Western Europe, but the Western Liao Empire, which built its capital Tabriz.

Later, the Egyptian Kingdom, which had close ties with the Western Liao and Eastern Song dynasties, also joined the sequence of great voyages.

Just two years after the Battle of Sambajier, the Indian Ocean fleet of the Kingdom of Egypt left the port of Suez and conducted an exploration of the coastal areas of East Africa.

The Egyptian fleet walked further than the fleet of the Dashi Empire and arrived at Madagascar. It also established the city of Malagascar on the island of Madagascar, as an overseas colony of the Egyptian Kingdom.

This long voyage and the opening of the Malgas colony can also be seen as the era of Western Christian civilization also embarking on a great voyage.

But this time they were a little late.

In the two eras of navigation, the Dashi Empire and the Egyptian Kingdom, non-mainstream players began to explore East Africa. The Black Continental exploration fleets of the Eastern Song Dynasty and the New Zhou Dynasty arrived in East Africa one after another.

Compared with the Egyptian Kingdom and the Dashi Empire, their exploration of East Africa is very professional. Several "Shenyi" and "Discovery"-class exploration ships wandered around the coast of East Africa for several months, and finally arrived at the end of the southern part of the African continent, and also bypassed the headland called "Chenjiajiao" and entered the Atlantic Ocean.

Although the "Black Continent Exploration Team" of the New Zhou Dynasty did not complete its voyage around Africa and ended on the west coast of South Africa in later generations. However, the two colonies established by the two countries' expedition teams in South Africa (located near Chenjiajiao, belonging to the Eastern Song Dynasty) and Nanzhou Town (located in the southeast of the South African coastline, belonging to the New Zhou), both became important strongholds for further exploration of the west coast of Africa and realizing global navigation!

In Africa, the seas south of the New Song Continent are circumnavigation, which is another major event that can change the course of history.

This feat sailing was proposed by Zhao Jue, the second son of Zhao Kai and Wu Meiniang, who was later called the "Prince of the Navigator".

At that time, he was a graduate of the Shanghai Academy of Arts and Sciences. He successfully calculated that the distance between New Japan (New Zealand) and Chenjiajiao, Black Continent was about 30,000 miles. At the same time, he also looked through the navigation logs and found that there was a westerly wind belt that continued to blow eastward south of Africa and the New Song Continent.

In other words, the exploration ship needs to set off from New Tokyo and sail the Eastern Airlines along the way to arrive at Chenjiajiao in a few months.

At Zhao Jue's call, Zhao Kai and Wu Meiniang approved the "Global Navigation Plan" in the 15th year of Hezhong (1141), and implemented the plan in the 17th year of Hezhong.

A fleet of four "Shen C" sailing exploration ships sailed westward from New Dongying Island for 15,000 miles, and arrived at the southernmost tip of South America.

This is also the first time that explorers of this time and space have arrived at the southernmost tip of South America. However, it is not the first time that South America has been discovered, three years before the implementation of the "Global Navigation Plan". 2,000 American cavalry from Zhou Kingdom (subjected by military households who moved to the Americas) led by Xiao Yi (the son of Wu Haogu), captured many Yin countries, and plundered gold. In addition, they also learned about the existence of South America from one of the city-states called "Maya", and saw silver and bronzes produced in South America.

This is an amazing discovery!

Therefore, in the 1140th year of the Western calendar, three "discovery"-class exploration ships arrived in South America under the leadership of Wu Tiexin, and established the first colonial stronghold on the South American continent along the coast of Ecuador in later generations.

Because I had known about the existence of South America for a long time, the ships carrying out the "Global Navigation Plan" did not continue to explore north, but chose to bypass the southern end of South America and then continued to sail east. Finally, more than a month later, they arrived at Chenjia Town in South Africa. This completely proved the theory of Diyuan!

Later, this exploration fleet completed a voyage from Chenjia Town to Xinsong and Xin Henan Prefecture, and finally arrived in Xindong again. It was considered to have completed a truly global voyage.

In the fifteen years after the first round-the-world voyage, the process of great geographical discovery was still in full swing. Unknown coastlines were constantly explored, new routes were constantly opened, and the general appearance of the earth was finally explored and can be presented on maps and globes.
Chapter completed!