In front of the treasure fleet, an island resembling a giant turtle appeared. In the center of the island was a towering mountain peak with overlapping bare and strange rocks. It did not look like the mountains in the south, but looked like the stone mountains around Yanjing in the north.

Zheng He took out a homemade bamboo glass mirror and tried to see what was going on on the island. This mirror was invented by himself before he went to sea for the first time. Zheng He accidentally discovered that he could see farther by stacking two pieces of transparent glass together.

And if you take a piece of bamboo tube, hollow out the head and tail, and embed the lenses into both ends of the bamboo tube, the longer the bamboo tube, the farther you can see.

He carefully looked at the island with a bamboo mirror, and suddenly found the remains of a ship on the coast. It seemed to be dilapidated and stranded on the shore, but there was no one around. There was no flag on the ship, and it was impossible to tell where it was.

vessel.

They stayed close to the shore, but because the flagship treasure ship was too huge and the draft was too deep, they could not reach the shore. They had no choice but to lower the small sampan and let the soldiers row close to the shore. At this time, General Qin and Liu Wenzhi also took the sampan on their ship and approached the shore.

side.

Zheng He and Liu Wenzhi walked onto the beach through the water and smiled at each other.

Zheng He tried to get into the stranded ship, but was unable to get in. The ship was much smaller than any other ship in the treasure ship fleet. It looked like an ordinary cargo ship or fishing boat, and its hull had many parts.

It was damaged and tattered, and looked quite old.

He looked at it and suddenly struck out with a palm, hitting the belly of the boat. The wood of the boat was rotten, and his palm made a big hole in the hull. The seabirds that were hiding inside flapped their wings and fled. Zheng He

He stooped and walked into the cabin. The things inside were in dilapidated condition. He looked around and found nothing. There were a few broken barrels, but after opening them, they were filled with water and rotten water plants. There was not even a human skeleton.

"There's something here!" General Qin shouted from outside the ship.

Hearing this, Zheng He rushed outside to see what General Qin found.

General Qin was holding a porcelain basin with sand on it. It seemed that General Qin had just picked it up from the gravel. Zheng He took it and looked at it. It was a basin with a white porcelain surface and blue glaze. This type of porcelain

It was very common in the Ming Dynasty, and every household had one. This time the fleet also brought many similar items. It is indeed the folk porcelain of the Ming Dynasty.

Zheng He turned the porcelain over and looked at the bottom, and saw six characters. As soon as he saw it, his forehead was filled with blood. He did not expect to see such a thing on the Nanyang seaside. The hand holding the porcelain basin could not help but tremble.

Seeing that he was cautious, General Qin came over to take a look out of curiosity, and read word for word: "D..Wen..Ming..Nian..Jian..Zhi."

"What do you mean? What kind of porcelain is this?"

Zheng He found it ridiculous. Although General Qin could read, he pronounced it in the wrong order. It should be from top to bottom, and then from right to left. Zheng He corrected him: "This is the Jianwen year of the Ming Dynasty."

"This is official porcelain, this must be official porcelain." Zheng He told himself in his heart.

Zheng He was very excited when he saw this porcelain basin. Only official porcelain can bear the emperor's reign name. For example, the official porcelain used by Taizu of the Ming Dynasty would be written "Made in the Hongwu Year of the Ming Dynasty." The official porcelain of Emperor Yongle would be written: "Made in the Yongle Year of the Ming Dynasty."

"Made." This is the rule of official porcelain in the past dynasties. Official porcelain is only used by the royal family. It is not available to the public and is prohibited from use.

In other words, if this is official porcelain, then there is only one person who can use official porcelain, and that is the people in the palace, or the emperor himself.

Who is this ship carrying? Is it the person Zheng He was thinking of?

But there is no one there. Where has that person gone?

Died in a shipwreck?

This place is fourteen days' voyage away from the Ming Dynasty. What was he doing here? Could it be that he was like Zheng He's treasure fleet, which was blown away by the storm and unfortunately died?
Chapter completed!