Carrying AK into Ming Dynasty

Chapter 761 will be recorded in the annals of history
PS: I forgot to explain in the last chapter, South Meriga, that is, South America.

It took a lot of twists and turns to finalize the plan at the beginning, and several shareholders including the British Duke and Qian Guogong disagreed. The problem was simple. They had never heard of the place South Meriga.

Moreover, according to Liu Hongjian, this place is at least tens of thousands of miles away from Daming, and the seas it passes through are very stormy, so going to South Merika with the current merchant ships of Ming Dynasty is almost looking for death.

It wasn't until Liu Hongjian said that there were gold, silver, and rubber there that were no less than that of Daming, and the few people were moved, but it was still too difficult to implement this matter.

First of all, there is the problem of manpower. Even if there are mountains of gold and silver over there, it is not worthwhile to die halfway and cannot move out. As soon as Zhang Wei first released the news to the employees below, no one signed up at all.

I couldn't believe it when I went to recruit outsiders. In the end, there must be a brave man under the heavy reward, and I managed to gather four hundred people.

Liu Hongjian turned the globe and thought for a long time before finalizing the fleet's sailing plan.

The eight large ships departed from Sakhalin Island, traveled eastward through the Thousand Islands, and then went northeast to the Bering Sea. After crossing the strait, they traveled south along the coastline of North Merika, and finally landed at the junction of North and South Merika.

The whole journey is about [-] miles, and the round trip is expected to take eleven months.

It has been a year since the fleet of Xishan Shanghe rushed to South Merika. The last news came more than half a year ago, and there has been no news for half a year. Zhang Weixian thought that the fleet of more than 400 people was swallowed by the waves.

However, at noon today, there was news from Tianjin that the long-voyage fleet had returned, and they had brought the seeds of the rubber tree that King Anguo had been thinking about.

"Fuck! Is it true?" Liu Hongjian slapped the table excitedly when he heard the news.

After that, Liu Hongjian didn't care about other things, he greeted his wives and took Lao Zhang and a team of personal guards to Tianjin.

Although the ocean-going Merriga fleet also carries missions such as investigating the colonization of Europa, its primary purpose is still to find and collect rubber tree seeds, which is too important to Liu Hongjian.

Natural rubber has excellent resilience, insulation, water resistance and plasticity. After treatment, it also has valuable properties such as oil resistance, acid resistance, alkali resistance, heat resistance, cold resistance, pressure resistance, and wear resistance.

For civilian use, it can be used to make rain boots, water bags, raincoats, insulating gloves and even swimming rings, drainage and irrigation hoses, hovercraft...

The simplest thing is the tires. With this thing, the wheels no longer need to be made of wood, but with rubber buffers, they no longer have to endure bumps.

Liu Hung-chien had plans to develop bicycles when he first came to Daming, but he never implemented it. Apart from being too busy and lacking time, the biggest reason was the lack of rubber.

Not to mention the role in national defense and military affairs, ranging from sealed shockproof equipment, artillery, and battleships used in scientific experiments to small storage boxes for shells and gunpowder...

If soap, glass and cement are the three sharp weapons of the traverser, then rubber is the magic weapon.

Because this thing can monopolize, only the Amazon jungle in South America has it.

After more than two years of development, Dagu Port in Tianjin has gradually formed a commercial and diversified port. Merchant ships from various countries gathered here, so Zodiac Zhou had to go to the imperial court to add Tianjin as a new gateway.

It was almost dusk when the group arrived at Dagu Port, but the port area was still very lively. The porters who had the largest number of people were the porters who had only recently emerged in Daming.

Liu Hongjian didn't have time to observe the prosperous scene of the port, so under the leadership of Zhang Weixian, he went straight to the location of the Xishan Merchant Cooperative Fleet.

Xishan Merchant Co., Ltd. set up a special office in Dagukou, and all the merchant ships gathered at the southeast corner of the port. However, unlike Liu Hongjian's expected noisy scene, the Xishan Merchant Cooperative fleet was very quiet.

A group of dark and skinny people squatted on the bank weakly, each with a large bowl in front of them, and there were many leftovers in the bowl.

"What's the matter? Who's in charge?" Zhang Weixian shouted at the person in front of him.

"Grandpa, wait a moment. Manager Zhuge has a stomachache and is shitting in the back!" Everyone tried to stand up when they heard the sound, one of them seemed to know Zhang Weixian, and whispered.

"Are these the heroes of this king? Why are all of them listless? Didn't they go to more than 400 people? Why is there only this?"

Liu Hongjian rushed forward and asked several questions with a smile.

"Go back to the lord, they are full, and we are the only ones who came back from South Merika." Just as he was speaking, Steward Zhuge slipped over from the back of the boat.

"Supported? How could this be? Didn't you bring enough food?" Liu Hongjian frowned.

"Where can it be, my lord, when we set off, we brought two whole ships with only food." The steward didn't dare to be negligent, and told Liu Hongjian what happened to the fleet.

It turned out that the one-month journey of the fleet from Sakhalin Island to the Bering Sea was very calm, and the crew members were also immersed in the hope of the first ocean voyage.

But when they arrived in the Bering Strait, they encountered a storm. Although they finally escaped, one of the supply ships sank, and the other supply ship also flooded a lot.

From the Bering Sea to the coast of North Merika was the most difficult time for this fleet. It was summer, and the rice noodles that entered the water could not be kept for a long time at all, and all of them became moldy and deteriorated within a few days.

Fortunately, there is no shortage of food at sea, and many sailors acted as fishermen.

Fishing and drying nets along the way, I walked for more than half a month, and finally reached the coast of North America. A group of people excitedly landed to find fruits and food, but they were attacked by the indigenous Indian tribes of North America. .

These people seemed to hate them very much. According to Manager Zhuge, they originally wanted to exchange the tea and silk they brought for some food, but they were shot down by their arrow feathers as soon as they met.

Fortunately, they also brought their guns and repelled the group of natives in time. It's just that more natives gathered after such a toss, and they had no choice but to live a fishing life again.

After going through untold hardships and landing in South Merika, I thought that the hard days were finally over. Who would have thought that just a few days after entering the jungle, they would contract malaria, and only one third of the crew would collapse within a month...

The heartache is unknown. During the long voyage, no one knows what will be experienced ahead, and there is no turning back. They have to suffer in boundless loneliness. Two crew members even jumped into the sea and committed suicide...

"You have worked hard.

You are the first ocean-going fleet of Ming Dynasty to Merriga. You have brought rubber and wealth to Daming, and your experience will eventually be recorded in the annals of history. "After listening to Guanshi Zhuge's narration, Liu Hongjian frowned and couldn't calm down for a long time, then sighed.

"Old Zhang, give 1000 taels of compensation to each of the brothers who died on the ocean journey, and 500 taels of silver to each of the brothers who came back. Let it come out of the account of Xishan Shanghe."

"Yes, my lord!" Zhang Weixian also felt very uncomfortable when he heard it, and hurriedly agreed.

"What's your name?" Liu Hongjian asked Manager Zhuge.

The surname Zhuge was also rare in Ming Dynasty. Liu Hongjian only had a vague impression of Zhuge villager in his mind, so that he just knew that the steward had his surname Zhuge again, and thought that this person had some connection with Zhuge Kongming.

Liu Hongjian almost choked on Zhuge Guanshi's words.

"My lord, my name is Zhuge Tieniu!"

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(End of this chapter)