Zhu Zhanzhen and others stayed at Ba Ria-Vung Tau Port for five days. The Cochin rebels also tried to counterattack, but their combat effectiveness was indeed insufficient in the face of the new artillery.
Because of their counterattack, Zheng He led a fleet to bombard Saigon again. Because the city wall was broken, the artillery had a wider range of damage.
I don’t want this city, but this city is also an abandoned city. If you want to rely on this city to gather troops and fight back, you are thinking too much.
He left behind enough supplies of ammunition, as well as 2,000 people and five warships, and then waited until Zhang Zhong and his men arrived.
Now that the southern port was captured, Zhang Zhong arrived with his rear soldiers, and the steam warship that had returned to the Guangdong vassal had already sent word to the vassal to prepare long-term material support.
Jiaozhi's own warships are incomparable to those of the Ming Dynasty. As long as they dare to sail out, they will be broken into pieces, so there is no need to worry about food and grass being robbed when transporting by sea.
This is going to be a long-term battle and will consume all Jiaozhi's troops.
Both Zhu Zhanzhen and Zheng He knew that they could not seek too soon, so they planned to continue sailing and leave the affairs of Jiaozhi to the British father-in-law and his son.
The British public began to understand Zhu Zhanzhen's tactics. This long-term penetrating tactic was to create chaos within Cochin itself.
In a long-term hopeless war, internal problems will inevitably arise, and hawks and doves will conflict with each other. Zhu Zhanzhen needs this big granary, and he needs someone to help him stabilize this big granary in the long term, and this person will definitely
He is a Cochin man.
A Jiaozhi man who is close to the Ming Dynasty and is willing to serve the Ming Dynasty.
"Your Highness, the name of this port is too difficult to pronounce. Please change it." Xiaosheng said next to Zhu Zhanchang.
It is passed down from generation to generation that the Zhu family likes to change people's names, and the same applies to places. Zhu Zhanchen thought for a while and said: "Let's call him Baofenggang from now on."
"Your Highness's name is really grand."
Zheng He said to Zhu Zhanyi at the port: "Your Highness, you have to go to Ganwu and Siam first. During this trip, I have to send back the envoys and royal family who visited the Ming Dynasty first, so I say goodbye first."
According to Zhu Zhanxang's itinerary, Zheng He would definitely be slowed down, because Zhu Zhanxang had to visit every place he went, and then announced the Ming Dynasty's sea ban, and had to let the merchants who followed him look for business opportunities.
Seeing Zheng He who was busy at the port, Zhu Zhanyi seemed to have thought of something. This most outstanding navigator in Chinese history was limited by the technology and policies of the Ming Dynasty and lost touch with the truth of the world.
If he continues walking, he can reach Europe and the Americas, which can break everyone's cognition. However, historically, the Ming Dynasty blocked the route to the Western Ocean. Later, he became a garrison eunuch of Yingtian Mansion and was trapped on land.
When Zhu Zhanji was in power, he restarted his voyages to the West, allowing him to set foot on the sea again to pursue his holy land, but that time he died on the sea.
He must be very unwilling.
He probably wants to go further.
Zhu Zhanchen strode towards Zheng He.
"Your Highness, what can I do for you?"
"Master Zheng, give me your maritime map."
Zheng He was confused, but he ordered someone to bring over the maritime map. Zhu Zhanzhen spread the map. The farthest recorded on the map was Zheng He, who had reached the Persian Gulf. If nothing else happened, he would go around this time.
He walked along the coast of Africa. It was a huge continent and it would take a lot of time to explore around it. He had no choice but to return.
As long as he keeps walking, he will go further, around the Cape of Good Hope, and directly to the Atlantic Ocean.
Zhu Zhanchen closed his eyes and concentrated, took out his pen and began to draw on Zheng He's maritime map.
"Your Highness!" Zheng He wanted to stop him. It was his most precious map, but Zhu Zhanzhen started drawing at the end of his map.
Zhu Zhanzhen could not memorize the detailed map, but he still knew the general appearance. With his pen, he painted the vast African continent.
Bypassing the stormy Cape of Good Hope, with the Atlantic Ocean on the other side, and heading westward, Zhu Zhanzhen spent two continents on the top and bottom, calling the two continents Beautiful Continent.
You can go north and bypass the entire African continent. At the northern end of the Mediterranean, there is a chaotic and complicated place called Europe.
Seeing Zhu Zhanzhen's continuous painting, Zheng He was dumbfounded.
If you don't go north, go southwest, bypass the strait, go to the wider Pacific Ocean, and then sail all the way from the Pacific Ocean.
When Zhu Zhanzhen drew this point, he did an astonishing move. He asked people to pick up the two ends of the map, and then connected them end to end to turn the map into a cylinder, and then continued to draw the direction of navigation.
The route returned to Hong Kong Port.
Zheng He seemed to feel something, his whole scalp was numb, and he was indescribably shocked. It was the first time he saw him stuttering: "Your Highness...this...this."
Zhu Zhanchen found himself an unbelievable but reasonable reason to explain this matter.
"It was rare to go to bed early yesterday, and I felt drowsy as soon as night fell. I always felt that a goddess was whispering in my ear. She seemed to want to tell me something, so I fell into a deep sleep."
Zhu Zhanzhen began to describe the appearance of the goddess: "The goddess seems to have dragon horns on her forehead, her body is shining with golden light, she wears more grandiose clothes than the emperor's grandfather, embroidered with phoenixes and birds, and she calls me her child."
"Mazu!"
"Tianfei!"
The soldiers who made a living at sea immediately thought of their belief in the goddess of the sea, and thought that there should be many Hu Jianren in Zheng He's team.
And now their goddess has given Zhu Zhancheng a dream. What Zhu Zhancheng painted just now can only be explained by the god's dream. After all, the idea of modern people traveling through time seems to be more nonsense than Mazu's dream.
He gave the pot to the Concubine Tian, and looked at Concubine Tian Concubine Haihan.
"Your Highness, was this map told to you by the Imperial Concubine?"
Zhu Zhanzhen nodded: "Yes, the goddess in the dream told me that I could follow this route to pursue her and the Kingdom of God."
As soon as he opened his mouth, he sounded like an old missionary.
"This is the bay you have been to. This is Horumus. Go further south along this continent. It is very big and takes a long time. When you get here, this place is called the Cape of Good Hope. There are strong winds all year round.
Lang, the goddess said to burn incense and pray there, and when she hears our sincerity, she will choose a calm day to let us bypass this place."
"She goes north to us to the north of the Mediterranean Sea, where there is a group of people who are completely different from us. Then to the beautiful continent in the northwest, it is vast and quiet."
"Of course, when you go around South America, you must wait until summer, when it is the hottest time, and go south, where there is a long and narrow strait. If the summer is not too cold, you can only sail in midsummer. The goddess said she will be able to sail when the ice and snow melt.
Send blessings when the time comes to take our fleet into the Pacific Ocean."
"The Pacific Ocean is the vastest ocean in our world. To the east of our East China Sea is the Pacific Ocean, and to the west of Melela Island is the Pacific Ocean. It is vast and tranquil, it is quiet and deep, the Empress Tianfei said, pass through it, and I will wait at the end of the world.
you."
Zheng He murmured to himself: "The end of the world, the end of the world."
He couldn't help but yearn for it, what would it be like at the end of the world?
Legend has it that the sky is round and if you sail to the deepest part of the sea, you will fall out of this world from a large waterfall. There are countless demons and monsters there. They will devour all living creatures, including their bones and souls, and even send them to hell.
There is no chance of reincarnation.
Countries around the world seem to have similar visions of the unknown end.
People have fear and yearning for the unknown, but most people are more fearful than yearning. Only a few explorers with a very adventurous spirit will use their yearning to overcome fear and move forward indomitably.
In his mother's mouth, such a person is usually a bold and treacherous child, but the world needs such people to open up the unknown.
Zhu Zhanyi admired Zheng He from the bottom of his heart, so even if he was a eunuch, he still called him Lord Zheng. Whether he was the chief minister of the cabinet or a powerful minister, Zhu Zhanyi would always call him by his official title.
Zheng He walked around the map drawn by Zhu Zhanxun and asked, "Your Highness, is this true? Is it really the Concubine who gave it to you in a dream?"
"It's absolutely true. I don't know why the Queen would entrust me with a dream. Maybe I also want to go to the West. If I weren't busy with official duties now, I would definitely go there. Even if it's the end of the world, as long as
If it exists, I will go and see it.”
As long as it exists I will go and see it.
This sentence deeply touched Zheng He's excited heart. Yes, if the end of the world really exists, then why can't we go and see it? Maybe Tianfei is waiting for me there, my holy city, my god.
Right there.
"Your Highness, what your map means is that this world is a circle connected end to end. As long as you cross the Pacific Ocean, you can return to our Ming Dynasty?"
"No, what I mean is that Tianfei told me in a dream that this is the case."
Zheng He looked at the map. Although it was incredible, it was probably not Zhu Zhanzhen's dream.
Because this map is already very detailed, although Zhu Zhanyi's painting skills are not satisfactory and the map drawing is not accurate, he does not believe that Zhu Zhanyi can draw the Cape of Good Hope, the Mediterranean, Europe, and the beautiful continent at will.
This must be an oracle sent down by the Concubine Tian, who is guiding us.
"Mr. Zheng, after you finish seeing off everyone this time, I have arranged things. Take me on a voyage to the West with you. I want to go with you to see the places in this world that have never been visited by anyone, to see what no one has ever seen.
scenery.”
"If the world has an end, I would like to see it, even if I am buried in it, I would be happy. If the world has no end, I would like to prove it to the whole world."
"There is no road in this world, but when I walk through it, there is a road. I want to travel thousands of miles, hundreds of thousands of miles, millions of miles, so that future generations will have a road to follow."
Zheng He looked at the young man in front of him. He was standing in the morning sun, facing the vast and vigorous sea. The young man's heart was broader than the sea in front of him.
A red sun is halfway out of the sea, puffing out red clouds and vast mist.
The young man was standing in the sun, and the steam warships in the port were like wild beasts trying to pounce on the sea and the rising sun.
He turned around and saw thousands of miles of clear waves behind him, with clear waves lapping at the shore.
"Master Zheng, the world is a ball."
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