"Guide from the Lord God! Zuwaro, Grandma Island is northwest of here. The Unanga people's small boat can row for seven days at the fastest, which is a distance of more than 700 miles!..."
"God bless you! Seven hundred miles...if the longship rows at full speed, it may only take four days!..."
"But... distance is not the biggest problem! The biggest problem is that there are no islands on the route to Grandmother Island, and there are no reference navigation marks... It is easy for a long ship to get lost and lose its bearings!..."
"Mickey, no matter what, I want to give it a try! We have heard clear rumors of the New World, and we also have His Majesty's divinely inspired sea map! Before the freeze comes, in this last half-month window, I must
Give it a try and sail west!…”
"...Okay! Zuvalo, I will give you the food and flint on the two ships as evenly as possible... God bless you! May you reach the new continent in the west, and may you return safely!..."
"Blessed by the Lord God! I will definitely be able to arrive! But what if, what if I can't come back... Mickey, the rest of the sailing exploration will be left to you!... This Divine Snow Mother Island is located at 53rd North Latitude.
degrees, which is almost the same as the Kamigaoshan Island at 52 degrees north latitude. The distance between the two large islands is more than a thousand miles, which is very suitable for building another port. In fact, each island in this chain has a
A supply point should be established on every large island of the tribe to be more secure!"
October is coming to an end, and the cold wind blowing from the northeast already smells of ice, snow and storm. Mikey, the knowledgeable man, stood on the white mountain covered with snow and stared at the exploration captain Zuvalo with a determined look on his face for a long time.
Neither spoke.
"Mickey! After I leave, don't be impatient. Slowly manage this island chain, wait for the third batch of support fleets, and then go to Grandma Island to establish a stronghold. And the logbook you recorded will be
Let the priests make more copies and send special longships back to report back!... You have to be more flexible and decisive, and rely on the kingdom's military and material advantages to continuously marry and intermarry with these northern tribes and annex them and convert them!...
Shenxishan Port is a good shipbuilding port, and it is best to build a bronze workshop. The north is so vast, send more people to search, and ask about the tribe's rumors, there will definitely be copper mines, tin mines and iron ores... As for Shenxishan Port
The large gold mine on Jinxi Island should be able to gain attention from the kingdom and attract a group of migrating Dingkou!..."
The setting sun shone in the evening, and the snow-capped mountains were flashing with red light. The exploration captain Zuvarro talked a lot, carefully giving many details that would be beneficial to navigation, and many suggestions for building shipping routes, as if he wanted to explain everything he thought clearly. Until the red clouds set.
As darkness rose from the east across the sea, he looked at Mickey, the learned man with a sad and heavy look on his face, patted him hard on the shoulder, and grinned boldly.
"Haha! Mickey, be happy and don't look at dead people like this! I want to explore the western continent, to complete His Majesty's divine revelation, not to die!...Haha! I want to be the first one
The divine priests who arrived in the New World will forever be recorded in the epic of the kingdom!…”
"Well! Zuvalo, you can go in peace! I will remember you...the kingdom and your majesty will also remember you..."
After hearing Zuvallo's words, Mickey the Knowledgeable lowered his eyes and gave him a hug. He was filled with reluctance, gritted his teeth, looked up at the shining stars in the sky, and made a promise in a low voice.
"The Lord God witnesses! Whether you come back or not... among the twinkling stars in the sky, in the epic of this kingdom... there will definitely be a bright one corresponding to you!"
"Haha! Okay! As long as I complete His Majesty's divine revelation, I will also be recorded in the scriptures of the Lord God, gain lofty divinity, and become a shining star!..."
Exploration captain Zuvallo laughed and nodded, and also looked at the stars. The stars in the far north are so bright, like ribbons covering the night sky, and like islands and seas reflected in the sky!
"God bless you! Mickey, with your logbook and hymns... you will also gain divinity and become a star in the sky!"
The night on the island was full of silence, like the quietest end of the world. The two exploring priests raised their heads and looked at the endless starry sky, just like the endless sea. Zuvalo looked at it for a long time and laughed.
He smiled and left his last words of advice.
"Lord God, the stars are so beautiful tonight!... Mickey, you must make my image taller, more pious, and more perfect in your logbook! Do you understand?..."
"Yes! I will...definitely!..."
The two longships of the exploration fleet only stayed on Shenxuenu Island for two days. The exploration captain Zuvaros thought about it and left ten people on Shenxuenu Island to intermarry with the local tribes, which also provided for
Preparations were made for the subsequent establishment of a port. He kept another half of the five hundred kilograms of gold and buried it next to Old White Crow's tribal cave to free up some load and make additional preparations.
Mikey the Knowledgeable did his best to prepare enough food for ninety people for Zuvalo's Snow Wolf for two months, as well as sufficient fuel. However, his own supply ship only had sixty people and more than twenty people left.
To provide enough food for the day, we must return to Shengaoshan Port as soon as possible to spend the winter.
Early on the third day, the two longships separated, one to the east and the other to the west. The knowledgeable Mickey stood on the bow, with the white bear Gaowa and the guide Old White Crow, watching the huge Snow Wolf sailing towards the northwest sea and sky.
In the cold wind from the northeast, he watched silently until the longship heading west gradually became smaller and disappeared, then he took a deep breath and gave the order melancholy.
"Blessed by the Lord God! Paddle with all your strength! Sail towards the Jiandao in the east!..."
"Blessed by the Lord God! Paddling with all your strength! Looking for Grandmother Island in the northwest!..."
Zuvalo, the exploration captain, raised his arms and took the lead in paddling. There was both firm composure and secretly hidden excitement on his face. The reason why he ventured westward was, on the one hand, to fulfill His Majesty's divine revelation, and on the other hand
, and indeed want to be the first divine priest to arrive in the New World!
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After all, unlike Mikey the Knowledgeable, he does not have such good writing skills to compose an epic that will be passed down to future generations, nor does he have the connections in the royal capital's priesthood.
As a true civilian priest, he can only rely on his own rowing hands to create a new and broad future!
"Strong power! Steady! Hold down!... Hold down the wind, waves and tide, and stabilize the bow of the ship to the northwest!..."
The waves surged several meters high, one wave after another, shaking the entire long boat. But such large waves several meters high are already the most suitable season for sailing in this extreme northern sea.
The calmest performance during the storm period!
"God bless you! Row to the northwest! Steady, you must steady your direction!..."
The Snow Wolf rode the violent wind and waves and rowed northwestward at full speed for four or five days. Zuvalo estimated that it had rowed at least 700 miles. However, the expected Grandmother Island never appeared.
Revealed in the sea. And the storm season is getting closer and closer, and the waves on the sea are getting bigger and bigger!
"The waves are getting bigger! Everyone listens and puts on rubber raincoats to avoid water and puts on raincaps! In this weather, if you get wet by the tide, you will get sick and die!..."
Zuvalo, the exploration captain, was a little anxious, but his face did not show it at all. He patiently gave instructions to everyone, and also comforted the sailors and warriors. For this voyage, the supplies prepared by the kingdom were not insufficient. Everyone wore clothes
The rubber raincoat is made of the densest thick cloth in the kingdom. The outer layer is completely coated with waterproof rubber, which can withstand wind and waves to the greatest extent!
Soon, huge waves came from the sky, breaking through the entire long boat and sinking it! The sailors who were paddling were swaying in the big waves, and their heads and faces were covered with water. And the wait continued.
After tens of seconds of large waves passed, the sailors could spit out the salty seawater in their mouths and wipe their wet faces. They prayed devoutly and continued paddling.
"God bless you! Look again! Look around again! It should be in this area!"
The Snow Wolf circled and searched for three more days on the northwest sea. But when the sailors climbed up to the ten-meter-high bow mast, all they could see was the vast sea, the vast sea, and the vast white sea.
The sea!
"O God! Captain, the sea has turned white! It has turned white!... In the north, there are ice floes in the north!..."
Hearing such news, exploration captain Zuvallo was shocked. He ran to the side of the ship and looked at the sea to the north, and indeed he vaguely saw distant traces of white reflection.
"O Lord God! White reflections... traces of freezing!..."
There is no doubt that the freezing season in the far north has begun in the cold wind. Those flashing whites are large ice floes formed in the cold seas further north, and they will continue to float along the tide and wind waves!
Once it hits such an ice floe, even a hard hull made of Mexican spruce is in danger of being damaged or breached! What's even more frightening is that once a severe cold wave goes south and freezes the entire ocean, the entire longship
There is a possibility that they will be frozen alive on the white sea of ice, waiting to die!
"Damn it! We can't find Grandma Island, and we don't have time to look for it anymore!…"
Zuvalo gritted his teeth fiercely, with a look of cruelty on his face. He put his finger in his mouth, reached into the wind, felt the strong northeast wind, and made a decisive decision!
"Witness the Lord God! Raise the double sails at the bow and stern of the ship! Angle it slightly and sail to the southwest with the help of the wind!..."
"Blessed by the Lord God! Let's go directly to the west! To the tomb of the ancestor giants, to the new continent revealed by His Majesty!..."
"Yes! Raise the sails! Go to the southwest! The Lord God bless us!..."
After a while, the Snow Wolf raised its double sails, adjusted its angle, and took advantage of the turbulent wind. The long ship was like a slow turtle, and suddenly turned into a running giant rabbit, and the ship's speed suddenly accelerated!
"Whoa! Whoa!"
The raging wind drove the huge sails, making a roaring sound. Compared with the strong wooden keel and the tough spruce hull, the kingdom's sail-making technology is much more primitive and crude. The Big Snow Wolf uses primitive
The hard sail is made of thick cotton cloth, treated hard paper, and strong bamboo. With the kingdom's current hard sail technology, the wind angle that can be borrowed cannot deviate from 45 degrees, and the efficiency of using wind power is also very low...
But no matter what, the wind direction is right and the wind is strong. Just relying on the wind force, the speed of the long ship quickly increased to fifteen miles per hour! Such a speed of the ship is already 4 knots. For the heavy long ship of the Kingdom,
Really amazing!
"God bless you! The sailors rest where they are and adjust the sails at all times! Keep the bow of the ship as far west as possible and control the speed to the south!..."
A steady stream of cold wind blows from the cold high-pressure belt in the north to the warm sea in the south. The vast sea ice drifts, and the frozen sea begins in the north, drifting towards the warm ocean in the south. The Snow Wolf sails to the southwest
, raising sails and rowing during the day, and stopping the boat to rest at night. It is like a pioneer clearing the way for ice floes, traveling two to three hundred miles in one day!
"Lord God! With such a fast speed and unable to accurately locate the direction...will we miss the western continent?..."
The wind was strong, the waves were strong, and the tide was surging. The exploration captain Zuvalo tightened his grip, wiped the water from his face, and stared at the rough sea. The fleet quickly headed west and south, and traveled for four days, at least
A thousand miles away!
"O God! We have reached 51 degrees north latitude in four days! It's strange that as the fleet moves south, why is the temperature still getting lower and getting colder? The north wind has become smaller, but the speed of the ship is still increasing... When the ship stopped at night,
The ship is still drifting south...is this?...another southward current appears under the sea, an icy current?!"
The cold wind in November became more and more biting, making people's faces hurt from the cold. Zuvalo rubbed his face vigorously and exhaled a breath of mist-like white air. He frowned in confusion, clearly feeling the difference between the temperature and the direction of the ship.
sudden changes.
He didn't know that the counterclockwise Oyashio cold current was constantly flowing, carrying the coldness of the far north, driving the longships on the sea from the icy Bering Sea to the northwest Pacific Ocean. In fact, there is another name for this cold current.
, also called the "Thousand Islands Cold Current"! And the appearance of this cold current means...
"The Lord God bless! The Lord God bless! Ah! Captain! There is an eagle! There is an eagle flying over the western sea!..."
"Ah? There's an eagle?!"
Zuvarro rushed to the bow of the ship and looked at the mountain eagle that was not afraid of the cold and soaring in the western sky. He stared blankly for a while and suddenly shed tears! The appearance of the mountain eagle was a clear signal.
Tell them that land is very close to the west!
"Lord God bless! Lord God bless!... Completely furl the sails and paddle towards the west at full speed!..."
After a while, the Snow Wolf adjusted its bow and headed west at full speed, toward the place where the mountain eagle appeared! The long ship rowed westward for half a day, and a mountain with a height of two thousand meters suddenly appeared in the western sky, faintly
In everyone's excited eyes, after a few more minutes of rowing, a vast, endless white coastline stretching from north to south suddenly spread out in the west!
"O Lord God! Such a vast coastline!...This, is this?...No, this must be!...A new continent! The Western Continent revealed by His Majesty's God!..."
"Praise the Lord God! Praise Your Majesty!...Ah! Ah!...We are finally here! We are finally here!...After two years of hard sailing, we finally arrived at the prophesied land of divine revelation, the cold and boundless new continent!
…”
At this moment, Zuvalo fell down on the longboat with tears streaming down his face. Behind him, ninety crew members also knelt on the ground, with pious and passionate faces. Everyone turned towards the sun in the sky, shouting fanatically.
Pray and howl loudly like a catharsis!
"Praise the supreme Lord God, He always protects us! Praise His Majesty the Divine Enlightenment, His prophecies always come true!...Ah!! My divine Zuvalo is the first person to discover the New World!!!..."
