Lord Moyu was forced to open

Just when the whole Bianjing was in an uproar because of Paul and others, families on the southeast coast who had received the news began to secretly organize people to go to sea.

This time, they no longer went to sea along the previous route, but went further along the coastline.

It is true that their behavior will cause a large number of people who go to sea to perish in the sea, but isn't that what adventure is?
Amidst a lot of sacrifices, there will always be a small group of people who find the right direction and start an era of all-out sailing.

Just when there was a vigorous wave of going out to sea on the southeast coast in search of the legendary Peach Blossom Spring, something went wrong on Shendu's side.

Prince Shendu, who had escaped with the fake iron-making technology specially given by the Song Dynasty, suddenly made a judgment after several years of dormancy, and organized hundreds of thousands of people with iron weapons in several provinces along the southern coast of Shendu. The army launched an attack on the six counties of Shendu.

However, the central court had not yet launched an organized counterattack.

The six counties of Shendu immediately organized a militia and immediately reported the news to the Yunzhou County Governor's Office.

Now the Wanli Railway from Yunzhou County to the Six Counties of Shendu has been completed, and it only took seven days!
Yunzhou County directly transported more than 200,000 troops from the mainland.

Five days!

In just five days and after several years of preparation by Prince Shendu, the 400,000-strong army organized by Yunzhou County was defeated by the 200,000 regular troops of Yunzhou County.

In the past five days, the biggest trouble they caused to the army was that they ran too fast and scattered. In order to chase them, the 200,000-strong army was exhausted to death.

During the battle between the armies, the total casualties of the 200,000-strong army did not exceed a thousand. As a result, in the remaining days, in order to capture them, some were accidentally injured, fell into the water, broke their bones, lost their waists, etc. and appeared under all kinds of strange circumstances. There were nearly three thousand injured.

It is true that these guys are so good at running and hiding that many of them even hid in the cesspit. Many soldiers of the Song Dynasty were fainted by the cesspit in order to catch them.

When the battle report was sent back to Bianjing, Zhao Jun couldn't help but start twitching at the corners of his mouth when he saw so many non-combat casualties.

Originally, he wanted to see if he could do something with the body poison. Firstly, he could give the Song Dynasty's army some training, and secondly, he could have a legitimate excuse to appropriate the remaining places of the body poison, but he didn't. Thinking about how useless the other party is.

It's useless to fight them. The casualties of the Song army are not as many as those caused by chasing them and escaping.

This is simply... too difficult to comment on...

Not to mention Zhao Jun, when the news spread through the newspapers, the entire Bianjing capital suddenly lost its voice.

Many people in Bianjing were filled with questions when looking at this outrageous battle report.

"No? At the very least, humans shouldn't be like this, right?"

The weakness of poisonous people once again refreshed the people of the Song Dynasty's understanding of them.

But now that Prince Shendu has started a rebellion and started a war, there is no need for Zhao Jun to save face for the other party.

The army took advantage of the situation and took down the entire territory of Shendu.

Fortunately, it was the graduation season for the new school, otherwise Zhao Jun, who had been infected all over the country at once, would not have known where to find so many officials to take office.

The newly acquired land will inevitably need to be adjusted, which will take a long time. The Song Dynasty did not rush for success. Regarding the annexation process of acquiring new land, Yunzhou County has already had a mature annexation process. System, everything just follows the process.

Zhao Jun's eyes soon stopped focusing on this, and instead focused on Paul and his party. Because just yesterday Yunyi sent back the news that he finally obtained the origin of the rubber cup from Paul and the others.

It turned out that on their way to the Song Dynasty, they accidentally encountered a storm at sea and lost their way. After the storm stopped, they appeared on a strange island. The people on this island were actually similar to the Song Dynasty. The same skin, similar faces, but they look very civilized, and most of them are still naked.

At first, Paul and the others thought they were on an isolated island in the Song Dynasty, but as they learned more about it, they discovered that this place had nothing to do with the Song Dynasty.

They replenished fresh water on the island and lived for a period of time. Finally, they discovered a sea map leading to the Song Dynasty in the ancient records on the island.

According to their research, the natives of these offshore islands are most likely people who came from the Song Dynasty a long time ago. Of course, they may not necessarily be called the Song Dynasty at that time.

Based on the pronunciation of the natives as they called themselves, Paul also found that their language was very similar to Song dialect, but not the same.

They called themselves Indians, or something else, but Paul and the others couldn't quite understand.

And this rubber cup was a gift given to them by the tribal chief when they left.

Through the nautical chart passed down by this tribe, Paul and the others successfully left the island and successfully arrived in the Song Dynasty after three months of sailing.

After learning the news, Yun Yi immediately became acutely aware of the importance of the chart, and immediately obtained the chart from Paul and the others and printed it.

When Zhao Jun saw the location on the chart, he couldn't help laughing.

Because his guess came true!
Through this chart, he was surprised to find that the location of this island was not much different from the location of the New World in his previous life.

And through the few words of Paul and the others, Zhao Jun could figure out that there was probably a larger territory near one of the islands. It might be the New World that he guessed, because those Indians said that they had a lot of people in ancient times. , but many people continue to migrate south.

That is ten times more people than they are now!
And a place that can accommodate ten times as many people must be a place larger than an island!
After letting Yun confirm the location of the island from Paul and the others, Zhao Jun, an action group, did not waste any time and immediately began to organize manpower.

In just two months, the latest ironclad ship developed by the Tiangong Institute and the Southeast Warfare Bureau was released.

Originally, this new ironclad ship was going to serve in the East China Sea Fleet, but it was directly intercepted by Zhao Jun and became the main ship of the exploration fleet. Then Zhao Jun mobilized ten more warships worth 8,000 pieces and twenty worth of 5,000 pieces. The warships used the materials and sent a total of 30,000 men to follow the chart provided by Paul and go south to find the Indian island that Paul and the others mentioned.

Zhao Jun had a hunch that they would definitely bring him a big surprise this time.

Naturally, the fact that Zhao Jun organized such a large fleet to go to sea could not be hidden from so many eyes in the country. Soon, the news that the royal family took the lead in organizing a fleet to search for the Peach Blossom Spring spread all over the sky.

This made many people who were still hesitating make up their minds, and more ships set off towards unknown waters.

At this point, the entire Song Dynasty's external exploration reached its peak!

The price of shipbuilding wood across the country has begun to skyrocket!
Various shipyards are overwhelmed with orders and the monthly salary of experienced sailors has increased more than ten times, but it is still difficult to find people.

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(End of this chapter)