sweeping the world

Chapter 985 The First Divine Book in History
Fu Wei said that, but his mood was somewhat pessimistic.

The search for the legendary super island not much smaller than the mainland was ordered by Liu Yan since the eighth year of Yuanshuo... that is, after the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was wiped out and the southern coastal territory was taken over.

I have been looking for that super big island for seven years. There are not too few islands explored in the middle. The relatively large islands are Luzon (Philippines) and Johor (Malaysia). Every time I explored it, I thought I found it. It is a super large island, but after reporting it, it was denied without exception.

It took seven years to complete the matter, and Fu Wei didn't think that his luck would be so good. As soon as he took office, he would be able to find that super big island and fulfill the emperor's long-cherished wish.

Bad weather rarely occurs in Zhanghai (South China Sea) in spring, which is why the center has no worries about the three guards taking the same boat, even Fu Wei and Si Hongzhuang, who are familiar with the sea conditions, don't care.

In fact, the fleet sailed all the way south without any thrilling encounters. If it weren't for the beautiful scenery along the way, and the constant encounter with solo merchant ships or large-scale fleets, I don't know how boring it should be the point.

"Sailing at sea is a very boring thing." Fu Wei was lying on a rattan chair with a parasol above his head.He was just wearing a pair of underpants, holding a glass of fruit juice in his hand, sucking it with a straw, swallowing it, turning his head to look at Qian Jiantong who was asleep with his eyes closed: "Ten days and a half months of sailing, and even It's been a long time, and it's normal not to meet anyone else."

Qian Jiantong is very unfamiliar with HNA. He was reminded not to stare at the sunny sea all the time, or he didn't pay much attention to it because of lack of experience, and the result was something wrong with his eyes.

Whether you are in a world of ice and snow, or in an environment with blue sea and blue sky, as long as there is enough sunlight, people really can’t always stare at places where the reflected light is too strong. , it is not impossible to go blind if it is serious.

Qian Jiantong's eyes only had a small problem. Apart from sleeping and staying in the cabin, he would definitely wear sunglasses when he got on the deck.

The so-called sunglasses have long been nothing unusual in the Han Empire. Those who are particular about it will spend a lot of money to buy sunglasses with crystal lenses, and those who are casual will buy glass products.

Navy officers usually buy more than one pair of sunglasses, mainly black lenses, and the rest buy lenses of other colors for fun.

If you look at the people on the deck, whether they are working or hanging out, everyone is wearing a pair of sunglasses.If they didn't still have their hair tied up, or they were wearing sunglasses, and most of them were just wearing underpants, if they happened to see them through time travel, they really couldn't tell if they were ancient people.

There was a noise from other ships, which, on careful identification, shouted that a large school of dolphins was pursuing the fleet.

Above the surface of the sea, from time to time, a figure would jump into the air, they flashed past and then rushed into the sea again, the speed seemed to be very fast.

Qian Jiantong was attracted to the side, leaned on the guardrail and looked to the rear side. Seeing those white figures jumping up from time to time, he asked wonderingly: "It's so white, what kind of fish is it?"

Fu Wei happened to come over, looked at it and said, "It's a white dolphin."

"Ah? Dolphin???" Qian Jiantong was a little stunned: "A dolphin in the sea?"

Dolphin refers to piglets in Zhu Xia's dictionary, and "pig" is a general term for pigs, and "pig" refers to pigs whose hind legs cannot stand upright.

"There's nothing wrong with it. It's a dolphin in the sea. Your Majesty calls it a dolphin." Fu Wei has long since lost any curiosity about dolphins, but he also knows that white dolphins are very rare, but blue, black, and striped dolphins are easy to come across. Above: "The navy has captured some dolphins and presented them to His Majesty. His Majesty called the white dolphins we see now 'Chinese White Dolphins', and specially ordered that they should not be hunted or killed."

At present, there are many names for Zhuxia, such as Huaxia, Zhuxia, Zhongguo, Huaguo, and Central Plains. These names have long been spread, but the concept of "Zhonghua" proposed by Zhong Xin in [-] AD has not yet been popularized.

Liu Yan is the "man of the world", even if it is just a casual remark, it is worth too many people to ponder and study. When he mentioned the word "Zhonghua", people's understanding is the combination of "the central country" and "Huaxia". At the same time, I also thought that this word was first mentioned by Liu Yan.

In fact, it is right to understand that. In history, the word "Zhonghua" is a collective name, but it took until 1 when the Republic of China added it to the country name. Since then, "Zhonghua" has had The connotation of a modern country; in terms of geography, "Zhonghua" no longer refers only to the Central Plains, but to the entire territory of China; in terms of ethnicity, it does not only refer to the Han nationality, but to all ethnic groups living within the territory of China, including Chinese and ethnic Chinese living overseas.

Although the "Chinese white dolphins" do not appear much in the southern coast of the Han Empire, they can be found in many places.

In modern times, the "Chinese white dolphin" has become a very rare species, and it is very difficult to find such a tiny bit. Only the northern part of Australia, the Indian Ocean coast of Africa and the Pacific coast of Southeast Asia are relatively large.

"Look." Fu Wei pointed to another sea area, and put down the binoculars in his hand: "The blue ones and the striped ones are also coming to join in the fun."

Qian Jiantong is not familiar with the ocean, and has enough curiosity about marine life that he has never seen.He also held a telescope in his hand and looked in another direction. He really saw dolphins of different colors.

"Actually, it's understandable..." Qian Jian thought with the same face: "Humans are divided into yellow race, white race, black race and brown race. The dolphins in the sea naturally have different skin groups."

Fu Wei really hadn't thought about it from this direction, he was stunned for a moment, and then kept nodding in agreement.

"What's that?" Qian Jiantong was suddenly a little surprised or confused, pointing to where he saw: "A large, large moving black shadow."

Looking from the sky to the sea, the black shadows are constantly moving in the sea water, sometimes fast, sometimes slow, and there is no fixed pattern.

Fu Wei was taken aback by Qian Jiantong's nervous performance, raised his binoculars to observe hard, and said with a smile: "Migrating fish."

Qian Jiantong originally thought it was some giant beast in the sea, but when he heard that it was a black shadow formed by an exaggerated number of fish gathered in groups, he showed an embarrassed smile.Just as he was about to say something, he heard the bells ringing from the ships outside, and asked casually, "Are you going to cast a net for fishing?"

"Fishing?" Fu Wei had already started to turn around and walked towards the bridge, and said as he walked, "What kind of fish are you catching? You need to avoid the route to avoid accidents."

Qian Jiantong was stunned, wondering if the boat would still be attacked by those fish?
Not to mention, it was really an attack on Qian Jiantong and Meng Zhong, but it was not an attack in the true sense, it was more like a suicide attack.

A large number of fish gather, they can not only swim in the sea water, some fish will perform thumping and shuttling when they rise close to the sea level.

The accident Fu Wei mentioned was not that the school of fish hit the boat, but that when the school of fish migrated, it would inevitably follow some big guys.

Almost when Fu Wei arrived at the bridge, he saw a huge figure leaping out of the water before he could stand still.

"!!!" Qian Jiantong also saw that picture, and unconsciously opened his mouth wide: "Okay, so big..."

That huge figure is definitely more than 20 meters long, its back looks like blue and white spots, and its belly is a patch of beige.

The spots are not its original skin color, its original skin color is blue-gray, and the spots are actually left by some shellfish resident organisms.

Qian Jiantong was stunned and hadn't recovered yet, when another huge figure jumped up in the distance.

The body of this one is bigger than before, and it should be close to 30 meters in length by visual inspection.

"There is a fish in the north, and its name is Kun. Kun is so big, I don't know how many thousands of miles away it is; when it turns into a bird, its name is Peng. The back of the Peng, I don't know how many thousands of miles it is; Clouds hanging from the sky. They are birds, and the sea will migrate to Nanming. The one in Nanming is Tianchi.”

Qian Jiantong turned his head when he heard the voice, and saw Si Hongzhuang smiling.

"Of course this thing is not a Kunpeng, it's a whale." Si Hongzhuang felt that he was a person who had seen the market before, and he said to Qian Jiantong, who still had a shocked expression on his face, with a sense of superiority: "Are you surprised?" , isn’t it amazing?”

The previous paragraph is of course a fragment of "Shan Hai Jing", and there is already a work of "Shan Hai Jing", but the version is different from later generations.To put it bluntly, "Shan Hai Jing" was not written by one person, but was continuously supplemented and completed by some people from different eras.The current "Shan Hai Jing" is an unfinished work, missing the content after the two Jin Dynasties.

"There is Niaoyan, whose shape is like Zhai, and Wucaiwen, named Luanniao, and the world will be peaceful when you see it." Si Hongzhuang asked with a smirk: "Surely you have read it?"

Qian Jiantong nodded with a dull face.

"It's about peacocks." Si Hongzhuang continued to read: "Two hundred miles to the north, there is a mountain called Beiyue, with many thorns and hard trees. There is a beast, which looks like a cow, with four horns, human eyes, and pig ears. , its name is Zhuhuai, its sound is like a singing goose, and it is a man-eating person. The water of Zhuhuai flows out, and the west flows into the Xiaoshui, and there are many fish in it. The body of the fish has the head of a dog, and its sound is like a baby. Eat it Crazy."

"Understood." Qian Jiantong said with a grim expression, "It's about the rhinoceros."

In the past, the Han people just stayed in the old places of Zhuxia. When they read "Shan Hai Jing", they were reading a strange book of magical goblins.

Waiting for the footsteps of the Han people to step outside the land of Zhuxia, we can continue to find some animals from foreign lands that are no different from the beasts described in "Shan Hai Jing".

One or two can be a coincidence, but it is definitely not a coincidence to keep looking for the "divine beast" described in "Shan Hai Jing".

What they should be surprised and shocked is, could it be that for a long time, some ancestors stepped out of the clan land, walked more than a few miles away, and returned safely to the clan land, leaving behind their experiences in words?
The fleet is evading, and it won't foolishly bump into it. That is the experience given by painful lessons.

The Han people did not step out of the land and face the sea until the present age, which means that they were at a stage where they knew nothing and had no long-term accumulation of experience.

Because of the existence of a BUG character like Liu Yan, the exploration of the ocean by the Han people is different from that of any other nation.

Every nation in the world, when it comes to unfamiliar fields, discovers things they have not touched by accident, and gradually explores them bit by bit over a long period of time.

The contemporary Han people are not like that. From the very beginning, they jumped into the new field of exploring the ocean very "recklessly", and surrounded the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea, and the Bohai Sea with almost no experience. Carry out wanton fishing and rampage ignorantly.

As early as the second year of Yuanshuo, there had already been an accident where a ship was capsized by a whale, and similar damage occurred more frequently later on.

People only pay attention to it after they have learned the painful lesson. After they really pay attention, they will definitely study it. They also know that once a large number of fish gather, they will usually be followed by whales.

"What's that thing?" Qian Jiantong raised his finger and pointed not far away: "It's the triangle thing that moves very fast on the sea!"

Si Hongzhuang looked at it, his face remained unchanged, and he gave the answer: "Fin Labai."

"What?" Qian Jiantong is not only unfamiliar with the ocean, but also doesn't understand some characteristics of fish, but Neng Si Hongzhuang's expression knows that there is no danger: "The speed is so fast!"

"Sharks are bloodthirsty creatures." Si Hongzhuang could see that Qian Jiantong had misunderstood, but he didn't want to misunderstand Qian Jiantong because of some of his words today: "A whale with an extremely large body will not take the initiative. Aggressive behavior, sharks are different."

In fact, if Qian Jiantong pays more attention at ordinary times, he will definitely not have a blank understanding of marine life...at least he will not have a blank understanding of whales and sharks.

After all, it was not a short period of time for the Han Empire to develop marine fisheries, especially the fisheries in the eastern seas were very developed, and many whales and sharks were hunted, especially in the whaling area. A complete set of operations has also been extended to many aspects .

Coincidentally, Qian Jiantong saw a shark poking out of the water, and saw a dolphin biting its fangs. Suddenly, the sea area was blood red, and then more fins appeared in that sea area. .

"You see." Si Hongzhuang explained: "There are actually not many sharks in the coastal waters of Dahan, and the coasts of the Indochina Peninsula and Ah San are different."

"This kind of creature called a shark will actively attack ships?" Qian Jiantong must understand this: "Have you ever hunted a shark?"

"Of course there is." Si Hongzhuang did it when he was the captain of the Pingman Captain's Department, and said: "It's easy to kill, as long as there is a smell of blood, they will desperately follow."

In an instant, Qian Jiantong had at least four plans for planned massacres when he was troubled by sharks.He heard very clearly just now that there are sharks coming along Ah San's coast!

(End of this chapter)