my wonderful zoo

Chapter 277 The expedition team and Nanzhanzhou

Fang Yang is an explorer.

Fang Yang has a restless temper. He loves to play around since he was a child. He is very curious and has a very stubborn temper. All these have led Fang Yang to where he is today.

There are many people who love adventure, and there are also many who can take action. However, there are only a handful of people who can be called "explorers".

When Fang Yang was just an adult, in order to raise funds for his own adventures, he usually worked as a laborer for a few months and then went out for a few months to travel.

Later, in order to see the new world for a long time, he entered the sailing industry. Once he became familiar with one route, he would change to the next.

Finally, I tried all the existing routes and found them not enough, so I started looking for new routes on my own.

Finding new routes is very expensive. Not to mention ship supplies, just hiring manpower is a huge burden.

In the beginning, Fang Yang was employed by some maritime merchants, working on small jobs every now and then. After coming into contact with Chenjiazhuang, this career became stable.

Chen Xun's budget for exploring new routes was very high. Fortunately, the budget was not wasted, and the new routes did bring huge benefits to Chenjiazhuang.

As Chenjiazhuang developed into the Chenjiajun, the military government, and finally the Chinese Empire, more and more expedition teams affiliated to Chen Xun became more and more numerous.

Fang Yang's team now consists of three large ships and more than 300 people, all of whom are elites. Many small countries on the southeastern islands are no match for this team.

"Brother Fang, we haven't seen any islands for two days. Do we want to continue heading south?" his subordinate asked.

This time going south, Fang Yang planned to find the Australian island on Chen Xun's globe.

Viewed on a globe, Australia Island is almost connected to the islands surrounding the South China Sea.

For a long time, the exploration team was able to see large and small islands, but they have been sailing south for two months and have not seen the New World.

I saw a huge island before and thought it was the New World, but in the end I found that it was still an island, although it was more than two thousand miles long from north to south.

(The big island is Brunei.)
"Continue, according to the content of Professor Dudu, it will get colder and colder as we go south. It's almost December now, and the fact that we can still wear short-sleeves means that we are still far away from the southernmost point." Fang Yang was in the captain's room. Drawing charts is a meticulous job that consumes almost half of his time on expeditions.

It was precisely because of these charts that he was able to receive a steady stream of bounties from the Chen family to support the expenses of this expedition team.

"Mainland! Mainland!" A loud roar suddenly came from outside the cabin.

Fang Yang immediately threw down his pen and ran out. He saw the lookout standing on the observation deck at the top of the mast and yelling.

"Captain, it's right this time, it must be the mainland." Seeing Fang Yang coming out, the lookout said and gestured excitedly: "The south and east are endless land, you can't be wrong!"

Seeing how excited the lookout was, Fang Yang immediately came to the bottom of the main mast and started climbing.

After so many years of exploration, Fang Yang has mastered many skills, including the skills of a sailing hand and a lookout hand.

Like a nimble monkey, Fang Yang quickly climbed up to the observation deck.

"give me!"

He reached out for the monocular telescope. This telescope is the latest one produced by the empire. It is a thirty-fold telescope. With the height of the mast and the bonus of the telescope, Fang Yang can see objects hundreds of miles away when the weather is clear. contour.

Sure enough, from the telescope, we could clearly see that a black continent emerged from the southern sea level, and the entire southern sea surface was occupied by land.

Turning your eyes to the left and looking east, the southeast of the direction of the fleet's movement was all black land.

"It turns out we took the wrong route. We arrived at the northwest corner of the New World. No wonder we walked for so many days."

Fang Yang woke up immediately.

If we had walked further east along the island chain, we might have been able to see the mainland directly.

(The island of Papua New Guinea is only more than 100 kilometers away from the northernmost tip of the Australian mainland.)
"Turn the rudder! Turn the rudder! Turn the rudder left forty degrees!" Fang Yan yelled down. "yes!"

The fleet began to turn, from south to southeast, and sailed rapidly towards the mainland.

Fang Yang returned the telescope to the lookout and went down to the deck.

"We got rich, and the bonus for discovering the New World was 100 million taels." Fang Yang was so excited that he was already a little incoherent.

"We are rich!!!" Everyone yelled excitedly.

This huge bonus is divided and everyone can have enough to eat.

But Fang Yang was not excited about the bonus. He was excited because he finally had money to support himself in exploring the American continent.

If the American continent can be discovered again, the even bigger prize will be enough to support his voyage around the world.

At that time, I will be able to prove what the governor said, that human beings live on a big ball.

"Okay, now is not the time to be happy. Everyone, get ready. We must be the first to erect a boundary monument in the new continent." Fang Yang quickly calmed down after laughing with everyone for a while.

"Get all the weapons out and start checking the weapons."

"People who log in start wearing armor!!"

The orders were passed one by one, and the people on the other two expedition ships also began to prepare.

So many years of experience have taught Fang Yang a truth. This world has always been dominated by the jungle. He can be a dragon crossing the river, and the aborigines can be a tiger on the ground. Whoever is careless will fall into trouble.

Sure enough, after the fleet approached the mainland, Fang Yang saw canoes and small sampans near the coastline.

Seeing the huge ship approaching, these small boats quickly rushed onto the beach, and then the people on board fled into the inland woodland.

"Has the stele been carved?" Fang Yang looked back and asked.

There were two people on the deck busy around a two-foot-tall stone tablet. Under the hammer blow, the steel drill quickly carved text one after another on the stone tablet.

"Right away!" the craftsman replied.

Every time the expedition team finds an island, they must erect a monument on the island. This was a rule of the previous military government, and the current Chinese Empire has also continued this rule.

Most of the text on the stele had already been engraved, and it was only necessary to add information such as the time and the person who found it on the day the stele was erected.

"Carve a few more and we will build more boundary markers along the coastline." Fang Yang said.

Soon, more than two hours later, the fleet finally approached the coast of the New World. Since the expedition ships were all pointed-bottomed ships and could not beach, all the people who wanted to land were transferred to small boats.

Fang Yang was sitting on the boat, with sailors paddling behind him, and next to him was a newly engraved stone tablet.

"Nanzhanzhou-the territory of the Chinese Empire"

This is the text on the front, and the time on the back. November 21, [-], Kaiyuan, Fang Yang expedition.

Nanzhanzhou is the name that Fang Yang and others have wanted for a long time.

Zhan means to look far away or high, and also means to admire.

Nan, naturally means south.

The meaning of Nanzhanzhou is the mainland located in the far south and looking at China in the distance.

(End of this chapter)