Luo Cheng was a captain of the South China Sea Fleet. His father gave him this name to make him famous all over the world like Luo Cheng, a young white horse general in the Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

Unfortunately, the Luo family came from an ordinary family and Luo Cheng's father worked in the army all his life, but in the end he was just a small green camp leader.

Luo Cheng joined the army when he followed his father to serve as a military officer in the Fujian Navy. He originally thought that in the peaceful and prosperous era, Emperor Kangxi pacified the Three Feudals, recaptured Taiwan, and expeditioned the desert. There was no more war in the world. The so-called elite Fujian Navy forces were to enter the warehouse to get swords and guns, and do some work of guarding places and collecting taxes at sea.

But the Luo family never expected that after a few years of stable life, the world suddenly became chaotic again. Someone in Jiangnan suddenly raised the banner of anti-Qing and restoring the Ming Dynasty, and the momentum was huge and almost defeated Hangzhou. At the same time, a rioter occupied Ningbo, claiming to be the orthodox of the former Ming Dynasty.

Since there was a rebellion, the Qing court naturally wanted to quell the rebellion. Therefore, under the will of the court, the elite Fujian Navy went north, and the famous general Shi Shizhuo led his troops to attack Ningbo.

When sending troops, everyone felt that this battle was not difficult. After all, with the elite Fujian Navy and Shi Shipiao's leadership, the so-called rioters who occupied Ningbo were not easy to capture? After this battle was fought, the generals and officials above certainly made great contributions, and there were many benefits for the brothers below. Ningbo is a famous city in Jiangnan. If you attack Ningbo City, if you are lucky, you can get some money and return it to your family. Therefore, the Fujian Navy is highly morale.

Who would have thought that the result of this battle was shattering everyone's glasses. In the end, the Fujian navy, the chief general Shi Shijiu soldiers surrounded him and committed suicide. This battle can be said to be completely defeated.

After the defeat, the Luo family father and son who were lucky enough to not die on the battlefield followed Shangguan and surrendered to the "thief". At first, many people in the Fujian Navy were just to save their lives. Most of them did not believe that these so-called rioters could compete with the powerful Qing Dynasty. Everyone had a plan in their minds and just lived a life of silence.

But who would have thought that in the following days, Ningbo's power became stronger and stronger. After several battles, it not only was not eliminated by the Qing army, but instead defeated the Qing army many times and counterattacked in Jiangnan to attack.

Everyone knew about the subsequent development. Zhu Yicheng started from Ningbo and counterattacked Hangzhou again. After taking down the city of Hangzhou, he quickly moved north, directly defeating the main force of the Qing army south of the Yangtze River and occupying Nanjing.

When Nanjing was taken down, Zhu Yicheng officially launched the banner of governing the country, and then led his troops to Fujian and Zhejiang, and was invincible all the way. Soon, Fujian and Zhejiang provinces and half of Jiangnan fell into the hands of the Ming army. Zhu Yicheng officially restored the Ming Dynasty in Nanjing, ascended the throne and became emperor, and then conquered Guangdong and marched into Huguang, taking the natural danger of the Yangtze River as the boundary, and divided the world with the Qing court.

After the Ming Dynasty landed from Tianjin and took Beijing directly, the situation in the world had been completely reversed. As long as everyone was not blind, they could see that the Ming Dynasty had gained the upper hand. The Qing Dynasty, which was once powerful for a while, had lost its ability to control the world. After the Battle of the Central Plains, it was completely defeated and almost lost the entire world.

With the change of the current situation, the Luo family father and son who had been resigned from the thief turned into heroes. Now, Luo Cheng's father has retired from the army because he is old and returned to his hometown, Fujian and became a rich man.

As for Luo Cheng, he has also been promoted from a big-headed soldier because of his accumulated merits. Although he has not yet become a famous general as his father hoped, he is now a middle-level officer in the navy.

Luo Cheng is now a captain of the South China Sea Fleet, with a military rank of lieutenant colonel. If he can make some contributions, it would be no problem to be promoted to colonel. After arriving at the colonel, Luo Cheng can be said to be qualified to command a small squadron, and at the same time stands on the threshold of becoming a general.

These are all things Luo Cheng hoped for. Moreover, among his colleagues in the Fujian Navy, those who had become generals, Luo Cheng was naturally not willing to fall behind. Moreover, he is only thirty years old now, and he has a lot of opportunities when he is young and strong.

"Sir, I found an island ahead!" Just as Luo Cheng was thinking about his thoughts, his subordinates shouted.

Luo Cheng raised his eyes and looked in the direction pointed by his subordinates. After a moment, he said, "Get closer slowly and explore the surroundings of this island."

"Yes!" his subordinate responded, ran onto the deck and ordered loudly. The sailors on the ship were busy. Luo Cheng's warship slowed down and began to draw an arc to the left at a distance of more than ten miles from the island, and then slowly investigated the island's periphery.

Although Luo Cheng's ship is a warship, it is not the main warship of the South China Sea Fleet. In terms of the configuration of the warship, it is just a third-level warship.

Moreover, Luo Cheng and his team had only one ship and did not form a fleet with other ships. Because Luo Cheng's mission was not to fight a war, but to investigate the South China Sea islands under the order of the South China Sea Fleet, and at the same time, he drew detailed charts.

As the Ming Dynasty's maritime border became larger and larger, the Ming Navy also developed extremely rapidly. Especially after occupying Luzon and Johor, the Ming Dynasty could be said to have basically controlled the South China Sea.

Of course, the South China Sea is not just the Ming Dynasty. In addition to Britain, the Netherlands, and Portugal, countries like the South China Sea still have some colonies. Even Spain, which lost Luzon, still has some territory. In addition, there are many small countries in the South China Sea, and the forces of various parties are extremely complex. In addition, there are countless islands in the South China Sea. Although the Ming Dynasty already has a chart of the South China Sea, the chart is not accurate. Therefore, over the years, the South China Sea Fleet has been sending people to depict the charts to ensure more detailed information.

Luo Cheng has done a lot of work. The person responsible for this work is a squadron under the South China Sea Fleet, and Luo Cheng is a member of this squadron.

The entire squadron has a total of five warships. These five warships will be dispatched separately according to requirements and explored from all parties in the South China Sea.

This time, it happened to be Luo Cheng's turn to go to sea again. He came out of Luzon and went south according to the previous navigation chart. He checked the locations and marks of the previous navigation chart along the way, and then conducted in-depth investigations. As long as the islands not recorded on the chart were found, Luo Cheng would order to observe first, then search after landing on the island according to the regulations, and then conduct detailed records.

At first, Luo Cheng thought this was just a newly discovered island. After all, he had performed more than six such tasks in the past two years. The islands in the South China Sea were like stars, embedded in the sea.

Small islands can be judged at a glance, and a slightly larger island can be circled at most in half a day. Of course, there are larger islands, and it takes about one day to circle the island.

Some islands are empty and uninhabited, with many seabirds and animals. Larger islands often live some natives. These natives are low in productivity, many of which do not even have iron tools, and live an extremely primitive life.

For these islands, if necessary, Luo Cheng would also send people to the island to contact these natives, exchange some of the items they carried with each other, and conduct some simple communication at the same time.

This kind of work was fresh at the beginning, but as time went by, this freshness had long disappeared.

This time, Luo Cheng still issued an order as usual. He originally thought that this island was no different from the previous ones, but when time passed by minute by minute, until the sun was about to set west, the horizon on the left side of the ship still couldn't see the end, which surprised Luo Cheng.

"Isn't this an island? It's a continent?" Logically speaking, if it were an island, it would have been a week long before their warship speed, but it has been more than half a day since noon, but it has not been able to complete the island round.

More importantly, according to the compass, the warship advanced to the left along the coast. Although it was deeper in the front after more than two hours, I thought it was at first the critical line of the island, but who would have thought that it would be the coastline to go deeper in the northwest after a period of time, which made people puzzled.

As it was getting darker, Luo Cheng ordered to break down on the spot and wait for the next day to continue exploring.

Luo Cheng, who returned to the cabin, recorded his work today in his sailing diary, and wrote about his exploration and discovery of the island and his own judgment today. Here, Luo Cheng began to suspect that it is very likely that this is not an island, but a continent.

When he thought of this, Luo Cheng couldn't help but feel a little excited. As a middle-level officer of the South China Sea Fleet, although Luo Cheng had not entered the decision-making circle of the South China Sea Fleet, his news was not blocked, especially the work he was in is more familiar with than the officers of the ordinary South China Sea Fleet.

I have always heard that the court requires the South China Sea Fleet to explore the South China Sea, because the court seemed to feel that there is a huge continent further south of the South China Sea islands, and this continent is another chosen place in the Ming Dynasty except for the Xinming.

Although no one knows whether this rumor is true, the South China Sea Fleet's exploration of the South China Sea has been going on, and Luo Cheng is a member of the executor.

If what he discovered today was not an island, but the rumored New World, then what does this mean? Thinking of this, Luo Cheng couldn't help but feel excited. If all this is true, then the credit for discovering the New World is enough to advance him to a higher level, and it is possible that he could even step into the ranks of generals in one step.

When the next day just lighted up, Luo Cheng couldn't wait to give the order to continue sailing and explore. The warship still sailed northwest along the coastline. After a few hours, the coastline began to turn south, and then the warship sailed southeast...

Two days later, Luo Cheng's warship had already turned from southeast to east, and sailed to the east for a long distance before it began to turn northeast. At this time, Luo Cheng could basically determine from the chart he drew that this was a huge island, and the area of ​​this island was almost larger than that of the entire Luzon. Unfortunately, this was not a continent.

Although he felt a little regretful about the determination of the discovery, Luo Cheng did not think that the discovery had no meaning at all. After two days, Luo Cheng's warship returned to the starting point, which was where he initially ordered the exploration of the island. At this moment, he was completely sure that this was indeed an unprecedented island.

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