Chapter 718: The Storm in South Africa
"Coming, coming." The chief came over with a roll of maps, and the people next to him immediately joined the table.
The map is not large, three feet long and more than two feet wide. It shows the Eurasian and African continents, including part of the sea.
The pictures are of poor practicality. Zhu Wentian first drew one, and then gradually drew larger pictures for navigation.
Navigation charts are no joke. To ensure the safety of the Ming Dynasty fleet at sea, they include monsoons, ocean currents, and underwater reef groups
Like the Ming Dynasty map, they are divided into pieces. Each picture is a large location, allowing ships to know their longitude and latitude at any time.
"Your Majesty, look here." The commander pointed to the location of the Suez Canal, where the Mediterranean Sea connects to the Red Sea.
“This place was naturally connected many, many years ago. Later, the ground rose and separated the two places. After that, some people dug the canal, and some others destroyed the canal.
To Now it is blocked again. As long as it is dug out, the fleet can go directly. Now they have to walk a few hundred miles overland."
Listening to the chief's introduction, Zhu Yuanzhang looked carefully. In fact, he was more curious about the places next to the Ming Dynasty, Korea, Japan, and Luzon.
"Then how far should we send people to dig?" Zhu Yuanzhang thought about how much manpower and material resources it would take to build a canal of hundreds of miles.
"No, Your Majesty, our fleet is good, let's go around here." The captain pointed to the location of the Cape of Good Hope, which is south of Africa.
"Go around" Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the location of the canal again, and then looked at the distance that needed to go around, "Oh, the more you go around, the more you go around, the more precious things will become. They can only walk, right?"
"Yes, Your Majesty, we can tell the people over there that they can easily come over as long as they dig through the river and let them dig. Do you want to send someone to guard us after we dig?
Let us tell them that the digging is finished. Waiting to collect tolls, others dug it, it’s normal for you to pay for the boat.
Like the Rouge River, the merchants who sail the boats have to agree to the tolls, otherwise it will take a long way to get here. ”
"Ours is transported by water from Zhejiang Prefecture and other surrounding prefectures. It doesn't matter who collects the money. Other merchants don't need that little money.
But it's a sinister idea of yours. No, it is. Okay
Since you can collect money, some people want to take advantage of it to collect money from others, and some people don’t want to give money, and then they fight each other.
It’s better for them to fight than to worry about us. , look, according to this position, the land can pass through, it is connected."
Zhu Yuanzhang discovered something interesting, the Suez Canal can be reached on land.
"There was a relationship in the previous dynasties, and some of our crops were sent from there.
Your Majesty, look here, this is to the north of Helin, there is Haizi, It is a large freshwater lake with saltwater marine life in it.
There are boats from here to the sea in the north. If we occupy it, Your Majesty will see if our external transportation line to Ming Dynasty will be bigger. "
The commander mentioned Lake Baikal again, but he didn't say anything.It is difficult to survive there in the winter. Anyway, Beiyuan will move northwest from there and finally find a place to survive in a circle. Otherwise, people will die every winter.
According to the advice of the Hanhan Cult, the village chief decided to occupy it first and let it belong to the Ming Dynasty, and then consider how to use it later.
Potatoes can be grown there. It is not cold in summer, but in winter it can sometimes reach minus 50 degrees Celsius.
"Yi Chang, we are the ones who drew this picture." Zhu Yuanzhang looked at it and asked suddenly.
"I've been painting according to the painting for a long time," Li Chang replied.
"Let's roll it up and take it away. We'll ask someone to take a picture of the picture and then bring it back to you. Let's eat first."
Zhu Yuanzhang began to roll the picture by himself. He was not afraid of getting it dirty. The long painting is not valuable. I think the original manuscript is kept in the sacrificial hall of Xiaqiu Village like the others.
meters, there are many storms, and undercurrents are almost everywhere. It is easy to run aground on key shores, and ships will be pushed against the cliffs by wind and waves.
Another point is that there is heavy fog there, and there is always heavy fog. The visibility is very low, it's pitch black at night, and you don't know where you are during the day."
The captain nodded and told the situation of that place. Anyway, it would be a narrow escape for ordinary ships to go there.
Zhu Yuanzhang swallowed, "How can we get across with a 10,000-stone ship?"
Li Chang shook his head, "No, it won't work. We can build a port around it." , there is a lot of gold and diamonds there.
Let’s build a few more ports for shelter, and rush to the next port when the weather is fine.
We will set up warehouses at the port to load goods and supplies. Supplies, the local population is small, and there is no power. There are no muskets, and they still use spears and bows to hunt.
Give them some food and some medicine, and they will think you are good and they are dangerous. It's much lower than the barbarians who trade with us.
If we repair the port, the barbarians from other places will have to spend a lot of money if they want to rest in the port.
Otherwise they will have to pay a lot of money. We are not afraid of using force to solve problems. There will inevitably be disputes when we come into contact with others, and we are afraid that others will take advantage of us."
The leader introduced the method, and the fool there said that there is a lot of gold, if you farm. If so, the land is fertile.
Zhu Yuanzhang looked around and resisted the idea of opening the map again. "Drink, I hope you can write something later."
There are many questions in the "Question Book".
"No, the format of the question book is not easy to write. You can write whatever you want, write about the situation there, and we will take a look." Zhu Yuanzhang thought that the question book was difficult.
"I've finished writing." The chief reached into his arms, took out a booklet, looked at Zhu Yuanzhang eagerly, and wrote in vain
"You kept it" Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes widened. .
"I took it when I took the map." The chief shook his head. Who would carry such a thick book without it sinking?
"It's been a long time since the hard work has been done. The civil and military officials of the entire dynasty, if they are all as good as the ones that should be long, why should we worry so much?"
Zhu Yuanzhang took the booklet and praised the length from the side. He also wanted to do things safely in Xiaqiu Village.
Empress Ma, who remained silent, smiled, "Chongba always stays in Xiaqiu Village, and becomes more and more displeased with the other courtiers. There are only these people in Xiaqiu Village, and it is useless to distribute them to various parts of the Tang Dynasty. ”
“Why do you need to separate it out? We don’t need it. We will keep it for the elders. There should be female officials in the court. The female officials in Wu Zhao’s time are not as powerful as our current female officials.”
How can the female officials in our palace be compared with real female officials? Ling'er and others can be regarded as magistrates.
Who says women can’t be in charge? When we fight, our girls are in charge of logistics. "
Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly talked about setting up female officials. There are now, but they are only responsible for the harem and are used to restrict the concubines.
The female officials he wants now are in the court. For example, if one of the ministers at the Ministry of Finance is a woman, they are guaranteed to be targeted. If it were a woman from Xiaqiu Village, such as Ling'er, who would dare to target her?
Wait like this. The good eldest son inherits the position, and the men and women in Xiaqiu Village can all help. The fate of the women in Xiaqiu Village is doomed, and they cannot marry out.
Having married out, they can only enjoy the things given by the village and cannot return. The village learns special skills.
The married women do not go back to their natal family, but send people to their natal family to invite everyone and then go back with a lot of gifts.
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