Chapter 232 Promised Land

Author: Mu Yunfeng

In the farewell ceremony led by His Majesty the Emperor and his ministers, the Jiahe Fleet officially set sail.

Of course, they have to go to Fusang first.

Moreover, we have to stay in Fuso for at least two months to complete various supplies, which means that the voyage across the Pacific will not officially begin until July. What is left waiting for these twenty-four new warships is a completely unknown world...

The unknown ocean.

Unknown continent.

unknown person.

…

Everything is unknown.

The information Yang Feng could provide them was actually not very helpful. After all, the first record of the West Coast of North America by European colonists was one hundred and fifty years later, and the actual situation there was only recorded almost four hundred years later. The situation recorded at that time

It cannot be applied to four hundred years ago. Yang Feng does not know what the current America is like. Even the research of later generations cannot help much. The only thing that can be known is probably at the end of the Mayan civilization.

The Aztec Empire had probably begun.

But only roughly.

As for North America, it is completely blank. Anyway, they are all Indians from the tribal era.

Fortunately, no matter what the situation, it should be impossible to resist Ma He's fleet...

This fleet was much more powerful than Columbus or even later Cortes, who only had a few hundred men, while Ma He's fleet had a total of more than 4,000 people, and the equipment level was about the same, all with matchlocks.

According to the plan, they will cross the Pacific, then go south along the American coastline, and finally reach Mexico and Central America. They will use the various goods they bring to trade with the natives to obtain the various things Yang Feng gave them on the list, and these

The painters drew images and made models for them based on the pictures of Yang Feng's watches...

This is more intuitive.

Including their plants.

There should be no problem with this kind of business. After all, giving the natives glass beads, swords, and sugar is enough.

Especially ironware.

It is estimated that an ax can be regarded as a magic weapon by them.

This is much stronger than their obsidian weapons.

After Ma He completes this, he will use the sextant and other instruments designed for them by Yang Feng to finally return north of the equator using the northeast trade winds and the north equatorial warm current. After arriving in Luzon, he will then go from Luzon to Guangzhou and then from Guangzhou

Go north.

Of course, this is the plan.

What actually happens when the time comes depends entirely on their own abilities.

Even if something unexpected happens and you can't come back, it's not impossible.

A voyage of tens of thousands of miles...

Everything is possible.

Once out of the sea, life or death is a matter of fate.

However, Yang Feng would definitely not follow him to Fusang. He would just take a boat to the Kingdom of Japan, and then take a boat from the Kingdom of Japan to Longquan Mansion.

At this time, due to the surrender of Japan and the development of Longquanfu and other Whale Sea coasts, the route from the Ming Dynasty to the north was already very stable. Although merchants from the Ming Dynasty were still not allowed to go to sea privately, the exchanges between official transport ships and merchant ships from Japan, Korea and other countries had become stable.

.However, it also gave rise to another situation, that is, a large number of Ming merchants went to the vassal country, falsely claimed to be merchants of the vassal country, and then went to the Ming Dynasty to trade.

Including smuggling.

This is what happened in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, when tens of thousands of maritime merchants gathered in Hirado.

At present, this is not harmful.

The main reason is that the official is not a sea ban. The official allows legal trade, which means that treasure banknotes must be used. The advantage of smuggling is that you can collect gold and silver. But the problem is that Zhu Yuanzhang strictly prohibited domestic gold and silver transactions. Reports can be directly traded in gold and silver as rewards.

This resulted in merchants not daring to trade gold and silver even if they obtained it, so they could only hide it privately.

But they have to spend money after all.

They can't just bury all their smuggling proceeds in the cellar, because it won't be long before their capital is exhausted.

In short, smuggling does exist, but it is restricted due to various reasons.

As for the pirates…

This is also inevitable.

However, because the Ming army is currently developing towards the sea, there are many warships on the route. Large-scale pirates will definitely not be able to accommodate them, that is, small groups of plunderers. The main victims are merchant ships belonging to the country. They were robbed by pirates. After all,

They still had to go to the Ming Dynasty to purchase it, so the Ming court also took care of it, but it didn't do its best to take care of it.

After all, as soon as the Ocean Age begins, all these things will appear.

Smuggling, piracy.

All are problems that cannot be eradicated even in modern times.

Of course, Ming Dynasty will not do better.

But none of these could affect the gradual prosperity of maritime trade in the Ming Dynasty.

Interest will make people ignore everything.

Longquan Mansion.

"Your livelihood is great!"

Yang Feng patted Zhang Fu on the shoulder and looked at the already somewhat prosperous city.

This is already the most prosperous city on the territory of Huining City.

It's more prosperous than Huining Mansion.

The place in Huining Prefecture is really not popular, but this place is different. It has good agriculture. Although Hunchun does fall into the minus 30 degree range, it is affected by the marine climate after all, and is stronger than the inland. The entire modern Jilin,

Hunchun should be considered the warmest, with warm winters and cool summers. Although the temperature does not exceed minus 30 degrees, this advantage has allowed it to provide stable agriculture. After all, it was also the core area of ​​the Bohai Kingdom. Longquan, the capital of the Bohai Kingdom

The mansion is in Ning'an, and Longyuan Mansion in Tokyo is Hunchun, but now it is regarded as Longquan Mansion.

And this is also the place where North Korea, Huli Gai, Wu Diha, Wu Zhe and other tribes trade.

After all, all the materials transported by sea are here.

As for Chongjin Port, it is very inconvenient for the tribes in the north.

Everything is acceptable here.

Every year, one ship after another heading north arrives at Maokouwei, and then transports supplies here. Not only the supplies brought privately by the Ming Navy, but also the trading ships of the Japanese chieftains and Fusang.

The former is inevitable.

It would be a miracle if warships were not smuggled in the age of sail.

Sailors go back and forth with their heads in their belts. Every year due to various reasons, shipwrecks continue and it is common for no remains to be found. So we must give them some motivation to continue. Sailors who go north to transport supplies carry with them something valuable in Huining, such as

Rock sugar, tea, silk and satin, these cannot be said to be smuggled. I brought the drinks and clothes with me. But when I arrived in Huining, some natives wanted them. They took a package of ginseng and some deer antlers and tiger bones in exchange for them with me.

Does that count as smuggling?

We are just making friendly exchanges, just like the American King who likes to send souvenirs to his home.

The key is that the sky is high here and the emperor is far away.

No one cares.

None of the industrial and commercial restrictions of the Ming Dynasty existed here, and private salt was openly traded here. The sea salt fields of the Bohai and Liao Kingdoms were in the Maokouwei area, which was Yanzhou of the Liao Kingdom, so the military households of Longquanwei

Salt was made there and sold to the tribes.

Of course, these do not pay taxes and are not government-run.

Has the Ministry of Household Affairs sent someone to take care of it?

Are those Confucian scholars who took the imperial examination coming here?

Trump's audit plane was shot down, so why do you think they won't fall into the water?

"A man should roam the desert, how can he live here in depression for a long time!"

Zhang Fu said melancholy.

"This sounds familiar!

Even if you make so much money every year, it won't stop your ambition?"

Yang Feng said.

"What's the use of making money here? Even if you have a fortune, you still have to face these savages every day?"

Zhang Fu pointed forward.
To be continued...