"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 forward on the frozen sea. They were walking on flat ground, but because they didn't pay attention, they fell on the ice and slid out a lot. Except for the pain in their buttocks, they could no longer 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 have 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 is a coast on the opposite side. What does this 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 his feet and slid out a large distance. Then his feet became 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 and find a sheltered place to set up 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 from the day after tomorrow, we will cut down cedars and build some snow climbing vehicles."

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 had been 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 here.

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

After confirming all this, Sun Cheng quickly made an absolute 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 feuds in the Central Plains on the grasslands have 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 alert 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 that far exceeds all the large treasure ships of the Ming Dynasty is 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.

Surrounding 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 his own eyes how the Ming Dynasty's steam ships cut through the thorns and break through the huge 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 along with the cabinet bachelors, opposed 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 slandered his father.

Zhu Biao had already quietly turned his head, looking 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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Chapter completed!