Spoiler History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 328 The Chinese Back Garden

customs!

Maritime border!

Liu Bei was awakened by Kong Ming and suddenly became a little excited.

It is easy to open a border, but does Ji Han have to be the No. 1 in opening a sea border?
But Liu Bei quickly calmed down.

They are no better than later generations in studying science, which is almost magical.

The reality before us is that the prosperous Guanzhong is in ruins, the Hexi powerful are no longer self-reliant, the Central Plains is in the hands of Cao Cao, and the prosperous Jingzhou is no longer what it used to be.

But today's planning, from sugar mills and iron mills to shipbuilding and going to sea, requires people everywhere.

But at this time... After being awakened by Kong Ming, Liu Bei looked towards the South China Sea on the map, and then realized that this map was different.

Charcoal handwriting can be seen in the direction of the South China Sea. This trace imitates the offensive arrows of later generations. It starts from the Yangzhou outlet, passes through Yizhou, and ends at Zhuya. It then advances by sea and land, straight into a plain in Indochina, and then downwards. A strait was heavily marked.

It's simple and clear, and according to Liu Bei's own intuition, the feasibility is not low.

Therefore, Liu Bei couldn't help but sigh:
"If you are lucky in this life..."

Then he stopped talking, feeling that this request was too greedy.

In fact, as long as we can defeat the Cao thieves, we will be worthy of being the ancestors of the Liu family when we get to the Lord of Taishan Prefecture. What else can we ask for?
He considers himself not a Han warrior, and does not have the ambition to become the foundation of a hundred generations in one life.

It is good to make it the goal of those who come after Ji Han, but we must not waste people and money to gain a false reputation.

On this point, Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty really set too many examples.

The national power was wasted on the Korean Peninsula, and the war lasted for more than ten years, but it was wasted for dozens of years, but Silla defeated all its powerful enemies.

Although Silla became a vassal in the end, no matter how you look at the grand plan at the beginning, it is difficult to say that it was a success.

As a result, Liu Bei's mentality became more and more peaceful.

[And if you know that from the Tang Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, all sea voyages were in the South China Sea, then it is logical to have a question:

Why haven't we discovered Australia, which is so close at hand?

After all, judging from the map, if you follow the southeastern peninsula to the south, you can enter the Java Sea with land on both sides, and then go all the way east to Australia.

But it is recorded in textbooks that it was the British who discovered Australia in 1700 and declared Australia a territory of Great Britain in the name of their queen.

We are obviously very close, but in the end this new land belongs to someone else, which makes people feel very sad.

Therefore, some people even joked that if Zheng He had not turned into the Strait of Malacca when he sailed to the West, Australia might have belonged to the Ming Dynasty.

But, I have to say but again.

But in fact, before Zheng He, there was a very powerful traveler named Wang Dayuan in the Yuan Dynasty.

He went on two long-distance trips to sea in his life, lasting a total of eight years. He wrote his experiences in "Dao Yi Zhi Lue", recording his experiences along the way.

Later, a Ming man named Ma Huan read this book and went to the West with Zheng He, and matched what he saw with what was recorded in the book.

According to the currently compiled "Dao Yi Zhi Lue", after Wang Dayuan ended his trip in 1342, his footprints looked like this:
Most of Wang Dayuan's records can be compared with the present, such as crossing Arabia, crossing the Red Sea, crossing the Mediterranean, arriving in Morocco and then turning back to Africa for a tour, etc. There is almost no difference between the geographical experiences he recorded and now. Basically, it can be Shi Chui is a very tough guy.The only two more controversial places are his records of a trip before going to Arabia.

According to records, Wang Dayuan first went to Guli Dimen (East Timor) and praised the silver, ironware and fabrics here. However, the chief here liked to sleep naked, and the women were very loose and immodest. Wang Dayuan said it was unacceptable and hurriedly left here.

Then he continued towards the south, arrived at a place called Mili, and then turned southeast to reach Manali.

If you follow the map in this direction now, you will find that isn't this Australia?
As a traveler, Wang Dayuan also recorded the appearance of the port, saying that there were thousands of nan trees, oysters standing like mountains, thin soil, barren fields, and uneven climate.

And described the local experience in detail:
"Men and women have their braided hair tied with ribbons and their arms with gold diamonds. They wear five-color silk short shirts and tie them with a single-width skirt made of Pengala cloth."

These are consistent with the Darwin Port in Australia, because Australia has a particularly weird and barren climate due to its geography. The local indigenous people are also black and have the habit of braiding their hair.

But then Wang Dayuan's records left scholars scratching their heads: The land camel was nine feet high, and the natives used it to carry heavy loads.

There were no camels in Australia at that time, so to this day it is still a mystery whether Wang Dayuan discovered Australia.

But there is another guess that may be closer to the truth: Wang Dayuan was not the captain, he always took merchant ships, and he had a strong desire to record. It is possible that the people on the same ship said it but did not see it, so they passed it down and wrote it down.

Because the recorded place "Mi Li Zhi" according to research by Professor Han Zhenhua means "Sea Cucumber Land" in Malay, and according to Wang Dayuan's route according to the map, the place he went to is today's Melville Island, which is rich in sea cucumbers.

But in fact, even if it is confirmed, Wang Dayuan is not the first person to discover Australia, because there are nearly one million aborigines.

It's just that these aborigines have all turned into the dead souls of the British.

And before Wang Dayuan went to sea, Chinese sailors from Quanzhou brought back the name Juedao, and this Juedao Island was undoubtedly Australia in terms of location and climate.

According to the sailors, the island has two meanings. One is that after reaching the island to the east, it is all ocean, and the land is extinct.

One is that the local climate is weird, unsuitable for farming, and full of poisons. It is a desert in the true sense.

From today's point of view, it is normal for the ancients not to like this place. After all, modern people say that there are thousands of poisons in the world, and Australia alone accounts for half of them.

Miasma, taiwan snakes, saltwater crocodiles are all things that the ancients avoided, so it’s no wonder they rarely set foot in Australia.

After all, no matter how educated our ancestors were, they would never have thought that this land would be one of the most important mineral deposits in the world today, with 475 billion tons of iron ore reserves occupying more than a quarter of the entire earth.

Moreover, if the development of China's navigation was not so painful, how could this land, which is the back garden of Asia, have the Angsa people to massacre the indigenous people? 】

Kong Ming tried very hard to control his expression, but failed in the end.

He picked his ears and exchanged an incredulous look with Pang Tong:

"How many?"

"More than 400 billion...tons?"

And what is more intuitive is the proportion. Pang Tong murmured:

"The world's iron ore accounts for one stone, but Australia alone has nearly three tons of iron ore?"

Kong Ming's expression had adjusted and he shook his head:
"What Australia? This is an island, and it is my Chinese backyard."

　End of liao, wrap up tomorrow

　　
　
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