sweeping the world

Chapter 1052
Nanyang in spring is actually not much different from other seasons. It is in a green environment all year round.

The temperature here throughout the year, only becomes hotter in summer, and the temperature in the other three seasons will not make people feel cold.

However, there is one thing that is not good about Nanyang, or it is very uncomfortable for Han people, that is, except for summer, there is a lot of rain, especially in spring and autumn, it rains almost most of the time.

The long rainy season will make the air humid, making people seem to inhale a lot of water molecules every time they breathe. If you have lung problems, it is really not suitable to stay in this environment.

"It has been raining for 27 consecutive days." Liu Ming was standing under the eaves looking at the hazy outside: "The rain is not heavy, but it has never stopped. No wonder the jungle here is so dense, and the streams are even denser." .”

It has been nearly two months since they arrived in Malacca. When they first arrived, they encountered a rainy season that lasted for more than ten days. It stopped for about ten days. The sun showed its head for five or six days, and then it was endless rain.

In the rainy weather, most of the fleet went to land.

There are complete barracks facilities in Malacca, which can accommodate 30 troops. The expeditionary fleet comes with [-] marine troops and more than [-] ship crews. Even if all of them go ashore, the camp is more than enough.

After several years of construction, Malacca not only has a complete permanent military camp, but also has built a large number of shore artillery positions on both sides of the entire strait.

The number of forts on both sides of the entrance and exit of the strait is the largest, and the caliber is generally more than 150 mm. The largest caliber is 320 mm, and the smallest is 120 mm.

The large-caliber coastal guns are basically placed in the fortress of the Yonggu fortifications. Usually, the firing ports are closed. If some camouflage is made, it will look like a very ordinary mountain from a distance.

The turrets placed on the front are usually some small-caliber shore guns. They are not directly fixed to the gun body. They are a style that can adjust the direction and shooting elevation angle.

More than 1000 years later, there was a group of ignorant people who built shore artillery facilities and built fixed forts. After the gun body was fixed, not only could it not adjust the shooting elevation angle, but even the gun body could not be adjusted at all. The result was that it cost a lot of money to build When the shore artillery position encountered the invasion of the enemy navy, the numerous shore artillery could not be aimed at all, and the sound of the artillery was loud and loud, but it could only rely on luck to hit the enemy warship.

From the position of the barracks, you can see the surrounding shore artillery positions, but it is not so clear under the drizzle.

This place is densely covered with jungle, with mountains but not high altitude.

After the Han people came over, they had to use up all their strength to cut down the jungle. Later, some areas were artificially heightened. Most of the hidden shore artillery fortresses were artificially piled up mountains.

"I heard that before the 16th year of Yuanshuo, there was an endless stream of ships coming and going in the strait?" Liu Ming imagined that scene in his mind: "What a lively scene it must be!"

There are basically no merchant ships carrying goods in the current strait, some are naval formations, and the other are fleets heading to or returning from Africa.

The continuous rainy season doesn't just happen on land. The rain near the sea will be smaller, but it will be much heavier outside the sea.

Some ships entering the port reported to the Nanyang Protectorate that Longbishui was discovered in the southwest waters, and storms that had formed were found in the northwest and southeast waters.

Every spring, there are always storms forming around Malacca, and they will turn into hurricanes or typhoons after they approach the land.

Almost on the fifth or sixth day after the expedition fleet arrived at the Malacca military port, a typhoon landed on the Luzon side. After ravaging most of the islands, the typhoon headed for Zhuyazhou.

During the same period of time, Nanyang Protectorate also learned that a hurricane landed in the southeast, and the strong wind ravaged the long and narrow island. The big trees were uprooted under the strong wind, and some low-lying areas not only had terrible rain, but also It was the influx of sea water that turned a large area into a country of floods.

Liu Ming heard that Malacca has been lucky so far this year, at least no hurricanes or typhoons landed, otherwise people would have to hide in solid fortifications.

When the Han people first arrived in Malacca, they were not familiar with the climate here, and they didn’t know that there would be storms every year. At the beginning, they built some wooden houses or bamboo houses. As a result, under the raging wind, those houses could not stand the blow at all.

Without sufficient preparation, the Han Chinese even lost all the personnel in a stronghold after the typhoon.The people behind went to the rescue, and what they saw was a piece of ravages that could not be seen that people had inhabited it. They tried to search for the body but failed to find a single one. Hundreds of people disappeared so completely.

After learning enough lessons, the Han people understand that if they want to live in this place safely, they must have a strong enough house. Don’t just build a house made of wood or bamboo. Building with stones is either cement, or it is really not safe.

The Han people have a very long history of building houses with rammed earth, and they still understand basic common sense, knowing that rammed earth walls can never withstand the erosion and immersion of rainwater.

In the north of Zhuxia land, the climate is relatively drier, and there are many rammed earth houses.But if you go to the south, you can see that there are not many pure rammed earth houses. They are either piled with crushed stones, or some are made of long stone strips, and even wooden houses are rare.

It is not easy to find stone materials in Malacca. It takes a lot of effort to explode stone mines. Once you blow them up, you will find that a gemstone mine may be exploded, or the rocks are not suitable for building houses at all.

When the Han people came over, they found out when they cleaned up the aborigines. The aborigines built their houses in a messy and messy way, but the stones used by the aborigines were gem mines, and the wood was precious.

Aborigines don't know the value of gems, but they can tell which wood can repel insects.

Han people's sense of gems is actually the same. For thousands of years, jade has been valued. Jade has only become popular in recent years, but they are obsessed with fragrant wood.

In Nanyang, there is no lack of wood that is considered to be of high value by the Han people. When developing, it is not allowed to set fire to destroy the forest, or even need to be carefully felled one by one.

It is precisely because there are a lot of precious wood that there are materials from this place in exchange for a large amount of cement shipped from the local area, and a large number of cement houses in Malacca have been built, and cement has been used extensively to build permanent fortifications.

Liu Yan's attention to Malacca is unparalleled.This has become the first place in history where a large amount of metal has been used to build fortifications. So far, more than one thousand tons of iron bars have been used, and more metal resources will be used to continue to build permanent fortifications.

This is the gateway, so the Han Empire can't help but pay attention to it. As long as it can control this place, it basically means controlling half of the world.

For such an important place, not to mention the use of a thousand tons of pig iron, it is not a waste of [-] tons... hundreds of thousands of tons of steel.

"Overjoyed, how long!" Wu Lin said with ecstasy, "I found that big island!"

Liu Ming's face was very confused.

"It's that big island!" Wu Lin wanted to make it clear in the shortest possible language, but he was too excited but seemed a little out of control. I heard that it is a place full of iron."

"The big island that the emperor called Australia?" Liu Ming understood, his face was dull for a while, and then he was ecstatic: "I really found it?"

Wu Lin nodded fiercely: "The Nanyang Protectorate has been confirmed!"

Waves of cheers came from all directions, completely covering up the sound of ticking water.

The Han people have reached the point of blind obedience to Liu Yan!

Liu Yan said that the Japanese Islands are full of gold and silver, and the Han people used to be like that.

Liu Yan also said that the southern coast of the Han Dynasty is full of rare treasures. After the Han people came to explore, they found spices, fragrant woods, gems, gold, copper mines, etc., which can definitely be defined as precious resources.

People don't ask how Liu Yan knows so much, they only know that Liu Yan is not only leading them from one victory to another, but also constantly using facts to prove Liu Yan's saying that where there is good things, there are good things. thing.

Then Liu Yan said that there is a super large island south of Malacca, and there are amazing iron ore reserves on the island. They have no reason not to believe it.

In fact, not to mention that the super big island is all made of iron, even if Liu Yan said that there is a big island made of gems and gold in the world, there will be a lot of people who believe it.

After searching for nearly ten years, which super big island has been found?

"Have you checked again and again?" Huan Wen was invited to the mansion by Fu Wei, and when he saw that Fu Wei was not too polite: "The guardian should know the importance of finding that island."

Fu Wei knew the importance of this matter very well, and he dared not disclose it without verification.

"The big man... is lucky!" Huan Wen's eyes were almost shining: "The big man is getting more and more short of iron ore, far more scarce than copper, gold, and silver. If there is enough iron ore..."

This is an inevitable thing. With the development of industry, the demand for iron will definitely become a bottomless pit, which is the kind that no matter how many iron resources there are.

The metal resources that are easy to dig in the Han Empire, unless they are undiscovered, otherwise, no matter what kind of metal resources are easy to dig, they have basically been emptied.

The country has entered the age of firearms, and the copper resources used in the initial stage will be massive, but as firearms continue to develop, they will inevitably evolve to require iron, especially steel, and the consumption of copper will not be less.

The military has always been a big consumer of resources. In the age of cold weapons, the consumption is huge. After entering the age of firearms, especially the navy has already planned the construction of iron-clad ships. It is conceivable how the demand for iron resources will increase.

Fu Wei's face is now red.He felt that he was really lucky, he didn't find it sooner or later, and he didn't find a super big island until he became the Nanyang Governor.This is a political achievement, and because it took so long to find it, it must be a great political achievement.With political achievements, not only will his prestige be increased, but it will also be of great help to his future official career.

"I found it, I found it." Fu Wei tried his best to suppress his excitement, and said reservedly: "We still need to send people to continue to explore, and there will be no results for at least two years."

The reason why the super large island was found was purely an accident.

Some fleets were forced to panic in the bad sea conditions because they did not escape the storm in time. Five of the twelve ships in the fleet sank. They finally found a relatively calm bay. After the storm passed, they found themselves in a comprehensive place. unfamiliar environment.

According to the code of practice, they found a strange place and sent ships to cruise around, and also sent people ashore to investigate, only to find that the harbor was not near any small island.

The investigation at sea quickly yielded results, and the answer was that the land seen was by no means a narrow or small island, and it could not even be considered an island.

The fate of the group of people who went ashore to investigate was very bad.They encountered challenges at the beginning of landing. The beach was full of crabs, and when they entered a little bit, they encountered a wide variety of spiders, and some snakes and other poisonous insects that had never been seen before.

Weird gadgets were not uncommon when the Han people were expanding outwards. Even if it was a type that had never been seen before, there were more or less precautionary measures, because the relationship that was too unfamiliar would inevitably lead to loss of manpower. .

They lost nearly 20 people and went deep into the inland for more than [-] miles, but they encountered more animals that they had never seen before.

One of them has a very large body, walks by jumping and jumping on its legs, has a big tail to balance the upright body, and then has two strong arms, and a very strange big bag on the abdomen.

The other is a kind that looks like a bear, but its body is much smaller than normal bears. It has long and thick nails, and it looks like it has no ears. It has big eyes and thick limbs. It always likes to hug a tree. The tree does not move for a long time, and when it moves a little, it moves very slowly.

Then there is another animal similar to bears, which is also much smaller in size, with relatively large and fluffy ears. It is fat and has a thick black nose at the same time. Like the previous one, it likes to stay in trees.

Huan Wen was brought to a room by Fu Wei, which contained many animals and insects brought back from that super big island.

"This thing, what is that bag for?"

"It seems to be for food, right?"

In fact, it is pretending to be a cub, but the Han people have not yet figured it out.

"These two bears are really too small!"

"The difference in appearance is huge, why don't you cut off your palm and try the taste?"

The tree is not delicious, and the koala is so cute...

Huan Wen didn't pay attention to rare and exotic animals. He looked at all kinds of spiders and bugs in particular, and then his face became heavy.

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