Daming heir

In the night.

Even though the snow forest is dense, the cold wind is pervasive.

This kind of night is already very familiar to everyone.

The simple camp wall made of trees and snow outside the camp could completely block the wind and snow outside. It was just that after dawn the next day, people needed to open a way out of the camp.

The wind kept whistling against the tent, and pieces of snowflakes fell from the sky and slowly accumulated on the tent, which actually played a role in keeping warm.

Most of the officers and soldiers in the camp have gone to bed.

Even if you don't get used to it at first, when it happens every night, the roar of the wind and snow is nothing, and you can fall asleep after lying down and closing your eyes.

Only a few tents were still lit with candles.

In a corner of the camp sheltered from the wind, Zhu Yunwen and Sun Cheng's tents were always lit with candles.

The two of them didn't communicate, but they didn't turn off the lights and close their eyes to sleep. They just silently huddled under the quilt in cotton-padded clothes.

After a long time.

Zhu Yunwen made a long and long sound in his throat.

Under Sun Cheng's doubtful gaze, he tightened his cotton-padded clothes and wrapped the smelly sheepskin coat around him.

Then Zhu Yunwen walked to the camp door and carefully opened a corner.

Seeing that there wasn't much wind and snow outside, I opened half of it.

outside.

At the top of the cedars rising from the ground, under the whole night sky.

The snow stopped at some point. In the clear starry sky, countless bright stars twinkled, projecting light from hundreds of millions of light years away and millions of years ago onto this starry sky.

And under the starry sky that the Central Plains people call Yinhan.

Countless rays of blue, green, and deep purple light are constantly twisting and swaying, changing countless shapes.

"It looks like a fairy skirt..."

Zhu Yunwen looked at the ever-changing aurora above the cedars and under the Yinhan starry sky with some obsession.

Sun Cheng remained silent. He wondered if the man in front of him had the idea of ​​reciting poems in praise of others.

But Zhu Yunwen turned around, looked at Sun Cheng who frowned, and asked softly: "This light has appeared for several nights. Do you think we didn't find the frozen strait, but found the one first?" The legendary Celestial Palace of Immortals?”

Sun Cheng also observed the light under the starry sky outside for several nights, and found that it did not pose any threat to them.

The Zhenfu, who had previously been in charge of Jinyiwei North Town Fusi, never paid attention to him again.

Since there is no threat, it is harmless.

Just as Sun Cheng looked at the officials in the imperial court, in his eyes there were only loyal ministers and treacherous sycophants.

Sun Cheng didn't say anything.

Zhu Yunwen looked a little suspicious of Niu Tanqin, and said in turn: "If according to what Brother Xi said, the land under our feet is a circle. Then if we keep walking north, will one day we enter Zhancheng Road?"

Sun Cheng still didn't speak.

He never made that assumption.

His Highness Taisun said that the world is a ball, then the world is a ball.

As for how to get to Champa Road?
Sun Cheng felt that as long as he got on the imperial navy's warship, he would naturally be able to reach the Champa Road.

Zhu Yunwen was a little annoyed.

"Counting the days, it will be the twelfth lunar month in just over a month. If we can't find the frozen strait before the New Year, we will wait to be killed by the people below."

There have been some changes in the team recently.

The time that seems to be as frozen as the surrounding environment has caused more or less psychological changes in everyone.

Sun Cheng finally moved.

He put the embroidered spring knife that was pressed against the pillow upright between the two people's quilts, looked at Zhu Yunwen firmly, and said in a deep voice as if he was making a promise: "Before I die, no one can touch you."

Zhu Yunwen shook his head: "I mean, we must find the frozen strait."

Sun Cheng's momentum weakened and he spoke in a low voice.

"It will be found."

"Yes, we will definitely find it. As long as we find it, our Ming Dynasty will be able to solve many problems."

Zhu Yunwen also muttered in a low voice.

He always thought that Sun Cheng was a fool, and the disputes in the court and the common people in the world were not within the scope of Sun Cheng's consideration.

Naturally, he did not understand what changes it would bring to Ming Dynasty when a new continent appeared in front of it.

Those stupid activities in the past in the Central Plains?

It's just to occupy more land and create huge wealth.

But what happens when a new continent appears?

Zhu Yunwen felt that people's selfishness would not change, but it could change the future direction of the court.

At least, the conflicts and pressures in the country can be transferred to the New World for a longer period of time.

Isn’t that how Cochin Road came to be?

The same is true for Cham City Road and Yingzhou Road.

Even this year, the Ming Dynasty mobilized the whole country to conquer the grassland north, then changed the Liaodong Dusi to Liaodong Road, and established the Nuergan Dusi in the Nurgan area, all in order to divert the conflicts in the country and the pressure generated between individual groups.

With complicated things in his mind, Zhu Yunwen turned his hands and silently closed the tent.

Stuffing the sheepskin coat in the corner, Zhu Yunwen wrapped himself in the cotton coat and got into the quilt.

"If everything goes well for us this time, not to mention myself, but just you, you will definitely be the only candidate to be the next Commander of the Imperial Guard."

Sun Cheng, who had just laid down and seemed to be asleep, moved slightly with his tightly closed eyes.

"Lend your blessings."

Zhu Yunwen, who was lying down, smiled silently: "After you go back, you have to protect Brother Xi with your life, so that you can keep your job as the commander of the Jinyi Guards."

snore.

Sent from the camp.

"Elm head!"

……

Time flies.

Like a white horse over a gap.

When the twelfth lunar month of winter is approaching.

Far East Siberia in the dead of winter.

A team of 'savages' rushed out from the dense snow forest.

To say that he rushed out is actually a bit distorted, but at the edge of the snow forest that stretches for thousands of miles, the scene is the same all day long. Suddenly, a team of savages walked out of the forest, and it was a natural visual impact. .

The number of people in the team is estimated to be more than 900.

Everyone's body is covered with snow, and everyone's face is unshaven and covered with ice crystals for a long time.

However, even if he becomes a savage.

They couldn't stop this group of Ming officers and soldiers who had come all the way from the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty.

Everyone's face was filled with a big smile, as if they had narrowly escaped death.

Everyone's eyes were full of sparkle and expectation.

"Huhuhu..."

"Wahaha..."

"Come out! Come out!"

Everyone began to roar wildly, causing layers of snow to fall in the snow forest behind them.Zhu Yunwen threw away the wooden stick in his hand.

In his sight, the land under his feet gradually turned into a rocky beach not far ahead.

Outside the beach, the sea should have been turbulent, but now it was quiet, windless and waveless.

The snow on the ice is blown by the north wind and keeps moving towards the south.

"We found it!"

Zhu Yunwen, who also had a full beard, had tears in his eyes, but was quickly frozen by the biting cold wind.

Beside him, even the steady Sun Cheng looked moved.

In front of their eyes, people from the team rushed up on the frozen sea. They were walking on flat ground, but because they were not paying attention, they fell on the ice and slid out a lot. Except for the pain in their buttocks, they could not feel anything Nothing happened at all.

And facing the frozen sea.

A winding coast lies in front of everyone.

Sun Cheng's throat suddenly became choked up: "We found this frozen strait!"

"No!"

Zhu Yunwen was the most excited. He grabbed Sun Cheng's arms tightly with both hands and pulled him to the ice.

"Do you see it?"

"There's a coast on the other side. What does that mean?"

"This means that there is a new land on the other side! It is a new continent!"

Zhu Yunwen suddenly used both hands to pull Sun Cheng around in a circle on the ice. Just when Sun Cheng was at a loss, Zhu Yunwen let go of his hand.

Sun Cheng stepped on the ice with both feet and slid out a large distance. Then his feet were unstable and he fell heavily on the ice.

If it had been before, Sun Cheng would definitely have gotten up and done exactly the same thing to Zhu Yunwen.

But this time, he sat on the ice and allowed the inertia to continue gliding forward.

Zhu Yunwen rushed forward for a while, and then squatted down without any guidance, hugged his legs with both hands, and allowed himself to slide forward steadily on the ice.

The two collided hard again, but finally stopped and continued to slide forward.

Zhu Yunwen burst out laughing first. He laughed long enough and loud enough.

At the end, he stared at Sun Cheng with a red face: "We have found it! We have found the New World! The Ming Dynasty will be passed on to all generations and will be prosperous forever! The Ming Dynasty is mighty!"

Zhu Yunwen had already started shouting like crazy.

then.

Everyone on the entire ice shouted.

"We'll stay here today, find a sheltered place to camp!"

"I won't do anything tomorrow. If I have nothing to do, I will hunt in the woods and accumulate some wild vegetables and food."

"Starting the day after tomorrow, we will cut down cedars and build some snow crawlers."

After getting excited, Zhu Yunwen began to give orders.

People gradually calmed down.

The slim hope that had been stagnating in everyone's hearts for a long time finally appeared in front of them at this moment. The suspicion that they were being exiled finally disappeared with the cold wind on the ice.

Sun Cheng walked to Zhu Yunwen's side and looked at the officers and soldiers who had gathered.

"Choose a team of hundreds of households to come out, return the same way, pass the news back to Tiancheng, and ask His Highness Taisun to send more manpower according to the marks we left along the way. Liaodong Road and Nuergan Dusi will send troops and horses to build forts along the way. "

Now that it is certain that there is an ice-covered strait.

According to rumors, the New World where the Yin Shang survivors migrated must be across the frozen strait.

After confirming all this, Sun Cheng quickly made his decision.

Regardless of whether the Ming Dynasty will build sea ships in the future and go all the way east to the New World, the road they are taking now is the only choice at the moment, and the Ming Dynasty naturally needs to take it into their hands as soon as possible.

The feud in the Central Plains on the grasslands has been eliminated, and Nurgan has also begun to establish capitals. The tentacles of the Ming Dynasty have enough power to extend here.

Sun Cheng finally began to believe what Zhu Yunwen said.

With the discovery of the New World, Ming Dynasty will have more powerful national power.

This world will eventually belong to Ming Dynasty!
……

"I don't know what will happen to this world in the future."

"But now I can be sure of one thing."

"This ocean will belong to Ming Dynasty from now on!"

"The Ming Dynasty's Age of Discovery..."

"coming!"

On the sea outside Songjiang Prefecture.

A huge fleet completely gave up its vigilant posture and marched toward the east on the sea in a manner that best demonstrated the power of the fleet.

On one side of the team is a fleet of sea ships of different sizes and shapes.

These are all merchant ships from the coastal merchants of the Ming Dynasty, as well as merchant ships from European countries summoned by an imperial edict to come to the Ming Dynasty.

Today is the day when the Ming Dynasty’s first steam warship, and also the world’s first steam warship, undergoes sea trials.

Although the steam ironclad ship is still lying in the dock of Longjiang Shipyard outside Yingtian City, the entire ship has only laid its keel.

But it does not affect Ming Dynasty's national policy of conquering the ocean, which is advancing according to the established plan.

At the front of the entire fleet.

A new type of ship, far exceeding all the large treasure ships of the Ming Dynasty, was sailing steadily on the sea.

The mast that reaches straight into the sky is only hung by ropes as thick as forearms, swaying in the sea breeze, and all the sails have been furled.

But the speed of the ship did not decrease much.

In the middle and rear part of the ship, a huge chimney was spitting thick smoke into the sky.

The sea surface of the ship has changed color.

Countless waters surged up from the surface of the sea.

Two huge ribbons of color are soaked under the sea.

Zhu Yunxi stood on the observation deck outside the ship's command room under the chimney, holding a telescope in his hand and carefully observing the sea in front of the fleet.

Around him were a group of court officials in red robes.

In front of Zhu Yunwen was Zhu Biao, the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty, wearing a military uniform.

"Your grandpa should also come over and see with your own eyes how the Ming Dynasty's steam ships cut through the thorns and waves on the ocean."

As the prince spoke, the bow of the boat split open a huge wave that was coming over.

Zhu Yunxi curled his lips and looked at the back of the prince's father's head.

The old man wanted to come.

But when we were in Yingtian City, it was not you, the crown prince, who led the cabinet bachelors to oppose the old man's departure from the capital to accompany this first steam warship for sea trials.

Instead, you ran out with a group of people, and now you say that the old man should come and take a look.

Have you said all the nice things?

Zhu Yunxi silently cursed his father.

Zhu Biao had already quietly turned his head, looked at his son whose expression was constantly changing, and snorted coldly: "What are you slandering again!"

Zhu Yunxi was stunned.

Then he opened his mouth and said in a deep voice: "My son is thinking that our Ming Dynasty is about to usher in a new era, an era that only belongs to the Ming Dynasty!"

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