My Daming New Empire

Anyway, it happened.After returning to the base camp, no matter whether it was beating or killing, he had no complaints.

But before that, he had to bring the fleet back.

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Hou Xian is unknown in later generations, but in this era, he is the most wise and capable talent among the huge group of servants.

In the first year of Yongle, because of his status as a Tibetan, he was appointed by Zhu Di as an imperial envoy, and led the Qinghai Tibetans to go to Qianzang as an envoy to propagandize Ming policies to various ministries in Tubo.

In the fourth year of Yongle, he went to Qianzang again, and persuaded a group of religious leaders such as Harima to successfully invite them to Nanjing and accept the official positions and titles of the new dynasty.

Because of this, he was named eunuch by Zhu Di.

Afterwards, he not only participated in Zheng He's second and third voyages to the Western Seas, but also made separate missions to various countries in India several times, turning more than [-] countries in India into vassal states of Ming Dynasty.

In addition, he went deep into Tibetan areas three times, and also arrived at the Mara Dynasty (Nepal) in the Himalayas, looking for the birthplace of Buddhism.

This is an envoy who is second only to Zheng He in history, but has worked harder than Zheng He. In this era, his reputation is even greater than Zheng He's deputy Wang Jinghong.

He doesn't have much military talent, but his diplomatic talent should not be underestimated.Even Chen Cheng, who claimed to be the No. 1 diplomacy of the Ming Dynasty, admired Hou Xian when he mentioned it.

In Chen Cheng's view, Zheng He benefited from the emperor's attention and had outstanding military talents, but his diplomatic skills were slightly inferior.

And Hou Xiancai, like him, relied on his eloquence and vision to make great contributions to the expansion of the Ming Dynasty.

Such a person, when facing the tribes in South America, is naturally good at dancing. In just one year, he gathered all the tribes in the northwest of South America under the command of Daming and accepted the rule of Ming.

Of course, Hou Xian did not rely entirely on force to win the hearts and minds of the tribes, but relied more on his charisma and teaching.

The Inca civilization was a very peculiar closed civilization. Although they had a language, they did not have writing, and they only kept records by knotting ropes.

The arrival of the Ming Dynasty not only brought advanced civilization, exquisite fabrics, but also beautiful characters.

All this makes the Incas... No, there is no Inca civilization yet, they all call themselves Quechuas.

The advanced civilization of Ming Dynasty made them obsessed with it, and the same skin color and appearance made them voluntarily belong to Ming Dynasty and accept its rule.

This is more effective than the Spanish conquest by force.

Relying on force can only make them passively accept.Now, they take the initiative to learn the characters and language of the Ming Dynasty, and are willing to serve the people of the Ming Dynasty.

For example, since last year, they have taken the initiative to accept the Yellow Emperor's calendar. In this year's meeting, there was a scene where they used Chinese characters to record events.

The Ming people not only gave them language and characters, but also taught them how to make wheels and carts, which greatly increased the range of activities of all Indians.

In addition to wheels, the people of Daming also brought the manufacture of various tools, including the technology of ironmaking.

In terms of agriculture, the Ming people also taught them to grow wheat and rice, which enriched the food of the Indians.

All these made them, the Indians who are almost the same as the Ming people, enter a period of rapid development.

At the beginning of the 20th year of Yongle, all the tribes started to move, marching towards the Ming army base camp by the sea, Wangxi City.

Each tribe has sent patriarchs or elders, as well as kings, hoping to go to Daming with the navy of Daming to see the weather of the heavenly kingdom.

Not everyone can go to Daming. In order to compete for the [-] places given by Hou Xian, the major tribes and countries competed fiercely, and they had three alliances before they could distribute the shares.

The [-] quota is also the largest share that Hou Xian can give. The fleet's exploration of Dongzhou is not just about bringing this group of people back to Daming.

Almost every tribe has to send representatives to Daming, except for the Inca area.There is also the Aztec area, including some small tribes in South America and North America.

As for the fleet of 3 people, many soldiers have found wives or concubines locally in recent years, and there are tens of thousands of them.

More importantly, almost every ship was loaded with seeds of various crops, especially rubber saplings, and nearly twenty large ships were loaded.

This trip to Dongzhou can be described as a bumper harvest.

In March, Yang Dao led the fleet to return to Wangxi City after an eight-month voyage.

The fleet successfully completed the task, not only brought back Di Pingxia and his party, but also drew a map of the coastlines of the north and south continents of Dongzhou.

Because the sextant positioning is adopted, the precision of map drawing is not much worse than that of later generations.

However, the topographic map of mountains and rivers in the mainland.This time it is impossible to draw it.These can only be slowly filled in the years to come.

More important than the coastline map is the water regime map along the way. With these maps, the future Ming Fleet will not need to be careful when they want to go to the east of Dongzhou.

As for the loss of four ships and more than 1000 people, Hou Xian didn't take it seriously.

Because it was an accident and not anyone's fault.Moreover, Yang Dao and the others experienced the death of the chief officer and were forced to take over. He did a good enough job and made no operational mistakes.

So Hou Xian just comforted Yang Dao, told them to repair for ten days, replenished all the boats with peat, and prepared to leave Wangxi City and head to the north.

Over the past year, Hou Xian also discovered a peat mine more than 400 miles northeast of Wangxi City.

The men sent by various tribes transported enough peat to Wangxi City, and the fleet will not be afraid of the difficulty of peat replenishment in the future.

According to the chart given by Zhu Zhanji, the return route chose the Pacific Ocean Current at ten degrees north latitude.

Apart from going to Hawaii for a brief repair on the way, this fleet will arrive directly at Luzon along the heart of the Pacific Ocean.

Unlike sailing along the continental shelf when you came, this voyage will be a huge adventure.Although there will be no major storms in this area between May and August, everyone still has no idea.

But it was arranged by Zhu Zhanji, because of the great trust in Zhu Zhanji, no one dared to say that he would go back the same way.

Of course, their worries are unnecessary, because the North Pacific Gyre is the safest route in the age of great exploration, not one of them.

As long as it is not sailing on this channel after August, there will be no problem.

Moreover, starting from May, sailing along the North Pacific Gyre, not only with the water, but also with the wind, the speed of the fleet will never be low.

Therefore, although the generals of the fleet were a little worried, they still followed Zhu Zhanji's instructions and chose Panama as the destination for their return voyage.

At the same time, Yi Xin, who had been the overlord in Aztec for two years, reluctantly left Aztec, which had surrendered, and prepared to go to the meeting place.

He didn't want to go back to Daming. He had been the Supreme Emperor here for two years, and he was already immersed in this kind of glory.

But he has to go back, because even if he wants to come back here to be the Supreme Emperor, he must first go back and persuade Zhu Zhanji to continue sending him here.

As for the Zhonglianbo Mansion, he had already left it behind him at this time.

How could that small island located between North Korea and Dongying be compared to being an overlord on a land larger than Ming Dynasty!

At the end of April, several ships staying on the North Continent of Dongzhou also carried the local tribal leaders to Panama City in later generations. Hou Xian named this city Nine Links, implying that this is the land of Nine Links in Dongzhou.

And this place indeed deserves the name. In Hou Xian's mind, this place is more suitable for stationing troops than Wangxi City. Daming only needs to station a navy here, not only guarding the north and south, but also controlling things.

But Hou Xian didn't have much interest in Yang Dao's proposal of digging a canal to connect the east and west oceans.