Chapter 981: In the extra chapter, you should know the destiny of heaven

Because Zhou Yu discovered the new signs of Sado Island Sand Gold, it was the slack season in early summer 209.

In order to better calculate the situation and report to Liu Bei in detail, Li Su had to continue to stay and watch this summer. He asked Zhou Yu to work overtime to accelerate the survey and gold hunting, try to evaluate the scale of Kingsoft and confirm the mining value.

Finally, I set off and returned to the Central Plains. It was already dragged before the autumn harvest, and the wind direction was gradually suitable for returning to the Central Plains.

Anyway, the term of office of "Shizhao" that Liu Bei originally set for Li Su was two years, but this term does not include the time spent on the road. When Li Su came to Fusang for the first year, it was already summer, and this time he stayed until late summer and early autumn, which was very reasonable.

In history, when Sima Yi and Cao Rui asked for instructions to pacify Gongsun Yuan in Liaodong, they promised to "fight for a hundred days" to deal with Gongsun Yuan, but in fact it took one year. After all, the army had to "go for a hundred days, return for a hundred days, and stay for two months."

Guda had underdeveloped transportation and took the army to take office, he would always leave a large amount of time on the way, not counting his term. Li Su went to Fusang, which was much further away than Sima Yi's pacification of Liaodong, and it was reasonable to travel back and forth on the road for a year.

Of course, in the end this summer in Fusang, Li Su was nominally "loss on the way", but in fact, he was neither doing official duties nor busy rushing on the road, and he was just enjoying traveling by himself.

Li Su knew very well that the transportation conditions at the end of the Han Dynasty were too bad. As the prime minister, he would never come to Fusang for the second time in his life. Although Fusang is now primitive and there are no cultural monuments to see, Mount Fuji can still be seen! These magical natural landscapes are not to be seen without any conditions.

I have become the prime minister, and I was really worried about state affairs in the past two days. I can’t spend three months to enjoy my life before leaving!

And it’s just right to climb snow mountains to escape the summer heat.

At the end of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, Li Su began to take the escort of Gan Ning and escort the Pacific side on the grounds that "before leaving, he finally patrol the barbarian land that had not yet conquered in Kanto and inspect the local development potential."

Along the way, Li Su was also in the Oo Plain of Ise Bay, Sagami Bay in Kanto, and Tokyo Bay. He opened Xinjiang with a casual map and drew circles on the bay swamp plains to guide the Han people in the future to focus on developing the direction of colonization.

Of course, Gan Ning asked Shu Zuo to write down all the prime minister's instructions and teachings, and expressed that he would let the local officials who came to Fusang to manage civil affairs in the future study the prime minister's instructions.

After skipping the boat in Sagami Bay in Tokyo Bay, Li Su personally landed near Sagami Bay, and most of the fleets under Gan Ning could return or work on their own. Gan Ning personally landed with two thousand elite soldiers and escorted Li Su across the Fusang Island.

This is also the first time that the Han army has penetrated into the inland area on a large scale.

This route is similar to the route of Odawara Castle in the original history, more than a thousand years later during the Warring States Period, when Kenshin Uesugi attacked the Hojo Isaka, it was just the opposite, or the same route of Kenshin Uesugi withdrew after the battle.

First climb Mount Fuji in Sagami Bay, and after seeing the scenic spots of the Snow Volcano, we plan to go along the edge of Musashino to Ekistan, and finally to Ekiyama Prefecture (Karukhiyama Castle/Nigata).

Li Su was a successful person in his previous life and had many travels abroad. He had traveled to neighboring countries except Beibang Bhutan Laos and Myanmar. So he must have seen Mount Fuji, but there was no privilege at that time, and the season was also off-season, so he took a bus to Wuhemu to stroll back.

This time, as the prime minister, even if the road is difficult, Gan Ning's people will help him temporarily and camp and rest on the way.

The trees on the original hillside were very dense, so the soldiers brought a lot of big axes and saws, cut down trees along the way, and temporarily built a plank road suitable for walking with the cut wood. The steep steps were fixed with wooden bundles.

Li Su was already very restrained and did not choose to ride a sedan chair for someone to lift it. At most, he rode a horse where he could ride a horse, and he personally supported a cane in places where he could not ride a horse, so he saved some effort. He slowly set up three times and reached the top in four days.

Of course, before going up, Li Su first asked someone to explore the passage to ensure that there was absolutely no black smoke at the crater and no other abnormal signs.

Four days later, Li Su, who was a human being in two lives, enjoyed the benefits that modern society could not enjoy for the first time. He could stand on the crater where there was still a small amount of snow in the fifth month of the lunar calendar, and look into the distance with a telescope, at an altitude of 3,800 meters.

On the day of the summit, the weather was very clear, but there were many layers of clouds on the top of the mountain. It was spectacular from a distance, but it did not affect the view from the road from the top of the mountain to the distance.

Standing on the top of a crater 3800 meters, holding a high-power telescope, you can easily see the beaches of Sagami Bay and the vast Pacific Ocean fifty miles away. When Gan Ning escorted him, several ships that were docked in Sagami Bay were vaguely visible.

The line of sight can extend two or three hundred miles deep in the Pacific Ocean, and finally merge into the water and sky line.

Gan Ning was shocked after seeing this scene. He had climbed over the mountains, but the mountains in the Central Plains were all inland, so it was impossible for the sea and mountains to have the same scenery.

Most of the coasts are small hills, and it is impossible to see the East China Sea on Mount Tai. After all, the coast closest to Mount Tai is four or five hundred miles away. Even if you can see it, Mount Tai is only 30% above sea level.

"We have been fighting on the water for a lifetime, but now we know that there are places in this world that can climb mountains and see the sea hundreds of miles away. There are also scenic spots among barbarians. I really want to go further and see what else is there in the world." Gan Ning sighed and seemed very pioneering.

After all, a guy who is a pirate is more motivated to seek excitement. If you succeed and become famous today, you will be awarded the title of Right General. You have everything you have to do with luxury and food, and only this new stimulation can be pursued.

Li Su put down the telescope, took a deep breath, and shook the folding fan: "If you want to go thousands of miles to see you go up to a mountain, this is a natural principle, so why bother making a fuss?

After returning to the Central Plains, Xingba and Gongjin had to work hard on their own. If there is any new exploration, they can send a boat to deliver a watch and report it in time.

I am tired from climbing today. Let’s set up a fire here for a night. I will watch the sunrise in the sea tomorrow morning. It will not be too late to go down the mountain, and it will not be easy to get up."

Li Su gave him a late gift for his 40th birthday. He traveled through time in 187 and lied to be 18 years old. Now it is 209, a full 22 years.

So in the first month of the year, he celebrated his 40th birthday in a foreign land like Fusang, and his physical age was still 37 years old. It has been a full tenth anniversary since he became prime minister.

Time really flies. It seems that when people get older, there are no new challenges. They live a repetitive life every day, and see what they have seen, and life doesn’t feel much.

Even Aliang is 29 this year, and he was only 27 when he came to Fusang, which is the same age as his history. Aliang has one more term than him, and he should be at the age of thirty when he returns to the Central Plains and can be ranked as the third minister.

Li Su was looking at the Pacific Ocean there, feeling inside that the person below almost ran away because of the Prime Minister's casual command.

Along the way, I cut down trees and paved the plank roads to climb the mountain, and there was a lot of extra wood. However, the top snow peaks could not grow trees. Li Su had to camp safely on the top of the mountain, so the workload was very huge.

According to the total mileage of ten goals, when the Bahemu goes up, it is already covered with snow. Therefore, most of the guards went down the mountain at dusk when the sky turned slightly dark and returned to the previous camp to spend the night.

Many soldiers were carrying a large bundle of wood and branches of firewood when they followed Li Su up the mountain in the morning. Basically, the amount of ten soldiers carried was enough for two people to build a barracks on the top of the mountain to use wood to roast fire.

Li Su brought two thousand people, about one thousand people stayed halfway up the mountain, six hundred people stayed at Wuhemu, and three hundred people stayed at Bahemu. There were only less than one hundred personal guards in the end, so the generals could live with him on the top of the mountain.

Anyway, the savages of the Hokkien cannot climb to the top of Mount Fuji. Even if they have this ability, they will not be too busy and have to come up without being idle. There are no trees cut down and no hunting here. The savages do not have the leisure to cultivate their sentiments, so there is no need to worry about security.

Besides, even if security is needed, Dian Wei Ganning lives in the tent next to Li Su, what's there to be afraid of?

Buy the fire overnight in the snow on the top of Mount Fuji. This treatment is probably unprecedented. The cold wind in the snowy mountain at an altitude of 3,800 meters has no image of Li Su, but instead makes his instrument even cooler when patrolling.

It was clearly summer, but I had to wear a silver fox fur, a marten hood, and a swaying wind.

Unfortunately, there was no oil painter around him, otherwise Li Su would have had to make a few pictures, and strive to become a world-famous painting more famous than the original history of "Napoleon's Crossing the Pass of St. Bernard".

There was nothing to say all night. The next morning, Li Su asked Gan Ning and others to calculate the time in advance, woke him up in advance, and watched the Pacific Sunrise.

The clouds at dawn are thicker than daytime, but they cannot clearly capture the wonderful moment when the sun jumps out of the Pacific Ocean. They just see the red and orange glow on the eastern seafront, dyeing a small part of the sky red in a very short time.

Gan Ning is now like Zhou Yu, who believes in Li Su, Zhuge Liang's theory of "the earth is a ball, with a circumference of 80,000 miles."

After watching the magnificent sunrise in the Pacific Ocean on Mount Fuji, he felt inexplicably thrilled: climbing a height of 1,000 feet, looking at three hundred miles, and repeating it over and over again. I wonder if this endless ocean can really return to the extreme western part of the Western Regions after voyages for 40,000 to 50,000 miles?

After all, today's Han people have a broad vision, which is not comparable to that of the same period in history.

Ten years ago, Li Su, with Guan Yu, Ma Chao, Zhuge Liang, Xu Shu, and several others, managed the Western Regions, opened up trade routes, and carried out translation movements. Since then, the Ariesans and Roman craftsmen, scholars, and books have been exchanged in an endless stream.

The new sea ships that Ganning took all had some useful experience in absorbing some of the Mediterranean sea ships by Roman craftsmen. For the navy generals, the existence of Rome was tangible.

Everyone knows that the Western Regions are thousands of miles away, and thousands of miles westward are the resting people, and thousands of miles westward are the resting people, Rome is the resting people.

From the east of the Han Dynasty to the west of Rome, there should be 30,000 miles. In this way, Zhuge Envoy counted 80,000 miles around the world. Wouldn't the endless sea in front of him be exactly 50,000 miles wide?

Gan Ning and Zhou Yu, the navy generals who were transformed by Earth theory in the Eastern world, had the same ideas as those of Columbus in later generations, but they did the opposite. They didn't know that America existed in the world, but they thought that "you can come back from the west if you keep going east."

Unfortunately, the Roman Empire of this era did not have any precious trade materials worth exploring for the Han people "to the west and east".

The resting men in the middle did not have the ability to block trade routes by force and could not play the geopolitical role of the Ottomans in history.

Therefore, even if Gan Ning and Zhou Yu had this idea in their minds, they were not motivated to sail 50,000 miles eastward for the time being. They were only interested in discovering new properties and land.

From the perspective of the Central Plains dynasty, natural geography exploration is definitely promising to the north than to the south, because China is located on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, and the Asian continent is originally wide in the north and narrow in the south.

Going northeast, at least you know that there is land, it is nothing more than Siberia to Kamchatka, Chukochi's land is covered with icy and snowy forests, and has no development value.

Going south, the more you go to the south, the more you shrink, the more you go to the west, the Han people in the southeast only know that there are many islands in the endless sea, but they don’t know that there are continents. If you want to cross the Pacific Ocean and discover America, going to the North Pacific Ocean is obviously a more likely route.

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After the trip to Mount Fuji, Li Su successfully arrived in Yokoyama Prefecture along the old path of Kenshin Uesugi.

At the beginning of the year, the Niigata Plain in later generations was still swamped and there was almost no farmland reclamation. But when I came back in June this time, the situation was completely different.

Zhou Yu went crazy and urged the local Fusang people to organize farming, and also crazily captured the local Soyuz barbarians as slaves.

Even if I have missed spring plowing and cannot plant grains such as rice and ordinary wheat, I can at least urge some radishes, taro, leeks, green onions, and rye that Gan Ning brought back last year and can only be planted in autumn.

The reason is no different. After the gold mine was discovered on Sado Island, a large number of laborers were required to start mining. However, Sado Island itself was too deserted and had no irrigation benefits, and it was impossible to produce large-scale agricultural products. Zhou Yu could not transport grain from Kanze and Xinluo to the miners here all year round in the future. He must strive to produce grain as much as possible.

The Niigata Marsh Plain on the other side of Sado Island has become the first choice. As long as the swamp areas are dredged and filled, fertile farmland is easily created.

The great man also had great experience in doing this kind of thing. Nearly twenty years ago, Guoyuan, under Liu Bei, had done this near Shangyong. Later, he repeated the practice many times in Nanzhong, Jingzhou, and Yangzhou, and accumulated a lot of experience.

Although Zhou Yu himself doesn’t understand, he can learn it. There are always people who have experienced it after all.

When Li Su arrived in Yueshan County for inspection, Zhou Yu had already collected more than a dozen small bags of sand gold and two rare bags of dog-head gold, which means that each piece had a few taels or even one or two pounds of natural gold nuggets.

This is all Zhou Yu’s emergency mining harvest this summer. Of course, this is not given to Li Su privately, but asked Li Su to bring back to Zhongyuan District to show his merits.

When Japan developed Sado Jinshan in history, the annual output was only a few hundred kilograms of gold and a dozen tons of silver.

Zhou Yu has only mined for the first year, and he has only been working hard for almost three months, so he has only been able to harvest more than 100 kilograms of sand gold, which is 30 to 40 kilograms of gold, and only 20 kilograms of dog head gold. In total, Li Su can handle it alone.

Of course, all the gold sand and natural gold nuggets were not smelted and remelted, in order to ensure their natural condition, so as to prove that this was indeed just mined, and it was not Li Su who used the gold already existing in other places to "create auspiciousness".

Of course, the broken sand gold is too easy to lose, so Zhou Yu paid great attention to using some light beeswax to glue the gold sand oil seal together.

When we returned to the Central Plains and the goldsmith who was serving as the supervisor was about to re-fusion, the beeswax evaporates and flows away, and the rest is pure gold.

In addition, after all, various productions in Fusang are lagging behind. The beeswax produced by Zhou Yu is not as pure as the wax used in candles made in Zhongyuan. Many of them are mixed with a small amount of honey, so that the gold smells very sweet.

But it doesn't matter. Even if the honey mixture floats on the sea for a few months and grows bugs, it will still kill and evaporate when the gold nuggets are melted.

Li Su was very satisfied with the result. He took the gold weighing about 40 kilograms and said something to encourage Zhou Yu, and then returned under Zhou Yu's personal escort.

At the end of July, Li Su arrived in Yindao County, Xiguo, and returned to Zhuzi on Kyushu Island in early August. Then he took some time to inspect Sanhan, check for the missing and began to cross the East China Sea.

In early October, Li Su successfully returned to Yangzhou, took a short rest, and checked the growth of his children who remained in Yangzhou.

After all, the son that Zhen Mi gave birth to him was pregnant when he first arrived in Yangzhou in 204. Later, Cai Yong died of illness and Li Su returned to Luoyang. Chenliu took a year off. At that time, his son was only one and a half years old.

So when I went to Fusang, Li Su could only take care of her concubine, but she could not take care of her child. If the child was too young, it would be easy for her to get into trouble during the storm.

When he came back this time, his youngest son was over four years old. He usually lived in Juzhang County. There were only a few "sisters" who were younger than Zhen Mi to take care of their children. His mother and biological mother were not around.

Now that Li Su is back, he always needs to give some advice and have a court training inspection.

After lingering in the fiefdom of Kuaiji for a while and alleviating the fatigue of sailing patrols, Li Sucai set off again and returned to Luoyang before the end of the year to report to the emperor.

This time I come back, I probably will never go out to sea again.

Li Su personally presented Liu Bei with the giant vegetables from Sakhalin Island (it has been dried into dried vegetables, otherwise it would have rotted long ago), as well as dozens of kilograms of Sado Sand Gold, natural gold, and rye seeds that can be sown in extremely cold areas.

Liu Bei was overjoyed when he received these three gifts. He arranged to send him to the Taimiao for sacrifice and sacrifice during the New Year, which was also a proof of the pioneering development of the great Han Dynasty.

The entire Luoyang City was shrouded in an atmosphere of celebrating the New Year.

Time has quietly moved into the construction of Luoyang New City in 210 AD. It has been ten years since then. The permanent population of Henan Yin area has also been restored to nearly two million (the entire Henan Yin is not Luoyang city)

Today, Luoyang's new and old urban areas are already very prosperous and fully built. There is only one elevated water diversion channel that leads to Yishui from Yique Longmen has not been repaired yet. It is said that the thing needs a budget of 5 billion yuan. The population density was not large enough before, and there was no urgency.

This time Li Su came back, and the court's war bonds were almost over. Liu Bei wanted to do something more and was about to negotiate with Li Su.
Chapter completed!