So not long after, the Spanish royal family, having tasted the sweetness, needed more slaves and more local treasures, so they decided to let Columbus sail again. In this way, things would be easier to handle.

At present, the Spanish royal family wants Columbus to go, so he will definitely give ships and sailors, but what the Spanish royal family wants most at the moment is gold!

At this point, when all conditions allowed, Columbus embarked on his second voyage. At this time, Columbus arrived in Haiti and Dominica. Although he brought back many rare treasures and even slaves, he still had no

Bring back the gold that the Spanish royal family wanted. But the Spanish royal family believed that there must be gold all over the East, so Columbus made two more voyages to the Americas, but in the end he failed to bring back gold to the Spanish royal family. Finally, Columbus was

After being ignored by the Spanish royal family, they simply refused to allow him to continue his voyage. After all, voyages require funds. Is this a joke? So far, on May 20, 1506, Columbus arrived in Spain.

The city of Variador ended in gloom.

Although Columbus himself discovered the New World of America, he thought he had arrived in India until his death. The name of our East Indies today comes from this. The discovery of America opened up the horizons of Europeans, which also led to

The entire world on our planet is gradually integrating into one, and it is of very positive significance for European countries to expand exchanges around the world, and even to promote the progress of our human civilization. Of course, this will definitely also trigger our

What I have always been worried about is the expansion of large-scale European colonization, which will bring unprecedented suffocation disasters to the local people! But these are things for another time, and now we continue to return to the matter of voyages.

Now let’s look at another person who sailed for the so-called dream. This person is amazing. This person is different from Columbus. This person sailed around the world. This person’s name is Magellan! The so-called circumnavigation means walking around our planet.

, this is definitely not a joke.

Let’s first have a general understanding: Fernando Magellan, a famous navigator in our world, was born into a noble family in Portugal. So he had more time to study. If he was born into a peasant family in Portugal, then

He may have been doing farm work all his life, or he may even starve to death due to war or other high-level exploitation. In short, he definitely does not have much opportunity to come into contact with navigation knowledge. We can also understand this matter as, as we said before

The concept in evolution is that when our human children are born, they are all semi-finished products, and they can only be shaped in the day after tomorrow. Therefore, the impact of the environment on the child will definitely affect all the behaviors of the child in this life, and even

His thoughts and ideas, etc.

In short, we now understand that Magellan was born into a noble family in Portugal, so the environment he is currently in definitely allows him to study, so he can also have access to higher education, and even access to things that ordinary people cannot access.

Therefore, when Magellan was ten years old, he was sent to serve in the palace by his own father. The palace itself is a special place, so we will not understand this in detail. Then in 1492

, Magellan became the queen's attendant. When Magellan was sixteen years old, he entered the Portuguese National Navigation Affairs Office, so he became familiar with various tasks of navigation affairs.

In 1505, Magellan participated in an expedition to India. This was an expedition, but it was more about seeing if there was anything to grab in India, and then bringing some back, or maybe

It is said that we went to India to find gold, but we cannot say that. We want to say that we want to make a fortune, which is wrong! We cannot say that, we want to say that this is the dream of us humans! So in this dream expedition, Magellan

Because his psychological quality is very good. After all, he has served in the palace since he was ten years old. Is it okay to have such a poor psychological quality? Therefore, Magellan's organizational skills are also very good, so he was elected as the captain. Anyway, this time I went

India must have taken advantage of the locals’ rare treasures.

After that, Magellan led this group of crew members to explore and travel to Southeast Asia many times, which in disguise accumulated a wealth of navigation knowledge and even navigation experience for Magellan. Based on the Greeks' statement that the earth is round, we have also seen it before.

Haven't we talked about it before, that is, the theory of atoms, so we won't talk about it. Now Magellan believed that Southeast Asia could be reached by crossing the ocean east of America, so he decided to make a circumnavigation of the world.

Magellan first turned to the Portuguese royal family for help, but the Portuguese royal family wanted slaves or preferably gold, because gold and silver were really scarce at this time and they really needed these things. But Magellan just wanted to

Sailing around the world, something that seems to be impossible to prove at all, will not bring any benefits to the Portuguese royal family. Moreover, it will cost an unknown amount of money, so the Portuguese royal family rejected Magellan's request for help.

So Magellan turned to the King of Spain to request funding, because Magellan believed that the Spanish royal family had funded Columbus before, and it seemed that they would also fund his voyage around the world. But the most important things the Spanish royal family wanted were gold and

Silver is not used to prove whether the earth is round or to do some bullshit around the world voyage. This really means nothing to the Spanish royal family. All they want is gold and silver! So at this time, the Spanish royal family only wants silver.

They verbally agreed to Magellan's request and expressed their firm support for Magellan's expedition plan! However, in actual actions, they were not generous and only gave Magellan a small amount of funds. Because the Spanish royal family did not want Magellan to sail around the world at all.

Instead, they are looking for gold and silver for them. So the Spanish royal family believes that these funds are not enough to sail around the world, but only half of it, right?

In the end, due to very tight funds, Magellan could only purchase five dilapidated ships. The largest load capacity was only 120 tons, and the smallest was only 75 tons. It was difficult for these ships to withstand strong winds and waves.

test, so before Magellan now used these ships to sail around the world, people knew about Magellan's plan and thought that the ships Magellan bought were simply floating coffins! Although people really still call the phrase "floating coffins"

He told Magellan, but this did not ruin Magellan's plan. It seemed that he was really very determined.

At this point, in the end, Magellan drove these five sailing ships and an expedition fleet composed of more than 270 sailors from nine countries. On September 20, 1519, Magellan sailed from Spain to Seychelles.

Departing from Porto Maria and sailing westward into the Atlantic Ocean, we arrived at Tenerife six days later. We took some rest and continued our voyage to Brazil on October 3, stopping at the coast of Guinea along the way. Finally, we arrived in November

On the 29th, it sailed to twenty-seven leagues southwest of Cape San Agustin. A league is a unit of length. After that, the fleet continued southward and arrived at the port of San Julian in southern Argentina in March of the following year. This

The natural conditions at that time were extremely unfavorable for navigation. The extremely cold weather caused the crew who lacked food and clothing to begin to doubt the value of their trip. People's hearts were extremely unstable. In the end, three captains rebelled. Magellan relied on

With his outstanding leadership skills, he decisively put down the rebellion by executing all three captains! The fleet stayed in St. Julian's Port until August of this year, just to wait.

Improvement in climate.

According to Magellan's own logbook, the fleet left the port of St. Julian's on August 24, 1520 and headed south. On October 21, it rounded Virgin Point and entered

It entered a strait at the southern tip of Chile. In today's era, we call this strait the Strait of Magellan. The current in the Strait of Magellan was turbulent at this time, so Magellan and his fleet could only explore forward cautiously, not at all.

Dare you be careless? After all, they were driving five floating coffins. Is this a joke? So in the end, in the Strait of Magellan, Magellan himself was cautious, and it took more than twenty days before they completely sailed out of the Strait.

, and what’s even more outrageous is that in the end, only three ships were left out of the strait, and two of them sank.

On October 28, Magellan and others left the west entrance of the strait and entered the southern sea. What is interesting is that during more than 110 days of sailing in this sea area, they did not encounter huge waves, so

Magellan and his crew called this area of ​​​​the Pacific Ocean. However, due to Magellan and his crew's long exposure to the Pacific Ocean, the tar on the ship melted, the drinking water also evaporated, and even the food stored on the ship perished.

It went bad and became infested with maggots. The crew had no choice but to eat the cowhide rope or the rats in the cabin to satisfy their hunger. From this, it is not difficult to see that the current difficulties are

The hardship and suffering are evident, but it seems that the most dangerous moment has not yet come.

Because the conditions we discussed above occurred on the ship, this was a very serious attrition. In fact, these crew members died. To put it nicely, it was attrition. It could even be said that people who were of little use were killed and despised.

Eat cowhide ropes and rats. Isn’t it good to give these rats and cowhide ropes to useful people? So in the end, after a large-scale attrition, the fleet arrived in Guam. Here the crew got the fresh food they dreamed of.
Chapter completed!