Chapter 2164 The future, the pattern of later generations, the upheaval
Although there were voices of doubt and opposition in the imperial court about sending a large fleet to the oceans to explore unknown waters again, Xiao Tang still resisted all opinions and strongly supported Li Jun to lead the fleet to sail to the oceans again.
Although Hu Jun, Hu Xian, Zheng Guang, Zheng Xian and other close relatives passed away one after another, the elderly Hu Cheng had devoted all his energy to managing mutual trade negotiations with overseas countries, while Wang Dingliu was replaced by Xiao
Tang Qin was granted the title of Governor of Luzon under the Qi Dynasty. He implemented benevolent policies and spread the Confucian culture of the Central Plains and advanced technologies in agriculture, fishery, industry and commerce, and promoted shipbuilding, textiles, tea planting and other industries... However, Tong Wei and Tong Meng still served as Li Jun.
The closest confidants around him, as well as many naval officers trained during previous voyages, followed Xiangshu. The fleet, equipped with the largest tonnage of the sea-going ships in the world at that time, and unparalleled navigation technology set sail again.
A mighty journey to the unknown waters south of the African continent...
On the seventh voyage, the fleet commanded by Li Jun discovered the island of Madagascar, which is across the Mozambique Strait and opposite the African continent. They lived in peace with the local Malagasy indigenous people, and also planned to unite this island, which has not yet formed a state power, with the surrounding Como Island.
The Roman Islands, Seychelles Islands, Mauritius Island, Reunion Island... and other destinations are marked on the chart. They will be reported to the court on their return trip, and they will consider exploring the rich natural resources of the islands in detail in the future.
On the eighth voyage, the fleet finally arrived at Storm Point, a dangerous place where there are almost always strong winds and waves, and the waves are like cliffs. The water conditions and sea conditions are bad, and ships in the sea area, which is one of the most dangerous navigation areas in the world, often get into trouble.
However, the exquisite workmanship of the giant ships of the Qi Dynasty was enough to withstand the dangerous and turbulent winds and waves. Although half of the ship was damaged, Li Jun still commanded and led the remaining ships to land on a prominent promontory on the coast. When Xiao Tang heard about the return journey,
After Li Jun reported the new geographical discovery results of this voyage, he named the cape where Li Jun landed as the Cape of Good Hope, which means "Cape of Good Hope";
It wasn't until the fleet's ninth voyage around the Cape of Good Hope that it reached the land of Angola, which is located in the southwest of the African continent. Li Jun, who returned from the voyage, was finally unable to personally manage the fleet's voyage due to his old age, and had to retire and recuperate.
Later, he died peacefully...
A few years later, Xiao Tang regretted that he could not send a fleet to explore and discover during his time in power, and he regretted that he could not obtain potatoes and other crops native to the Andes of South America. The end was approaching. However, after his lifetime of caring for his descendants,
Following the instructions and instructions, later Emperor Wen of Qi, Xiao Yun, and even Emperor Qi Ren, the grandson of Xiao Tang, still strongly supported the fleet's ocean exploration policy. The descendants of Li Jun, Tong Wei, Tong Meng and others were just like their fathers.
Grandfathers generally have a tight-knit group and deep feelings, and they are still active in large-scale voyage fleets.
So...
Two or three hundred years later, the navigator Gil Aianish, sent by Prince Enrique of Portugal, led his fleet to cross what was considered by European countries to be the end of the world before the Age of Discovery, also known as "
Cape Bohador, on the northwest side of the African continent in the "Devil's Sea", began to establish the first colonial stronghold on the coast of West Africa. Later, it used force to seize control of the Sahara region and began to trade gold and slaves. However, when
When the Portuguese fleet arrived at the Kingdom of Congo in Central Africa, they were surprised to find that the other party had already established good trade and diplomatic relations with the overseas territories to the south that were said to come from the distant Eastern Empire;
Later, when Dias, who was born in a Portuguese royal family, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of the African continent, he was surprised to find that the sea town established there was already extremely prosperous, and there were a few yellow-skinned merchants wearing rich clothes and brocade robes near the Cape, and most of them. After the dark-skinned indigenous people looked at the three broken ships that Dias docked in the port, their faces immediately showed a look of contempt, as if they were looking at beggars from overseas;
Until the navigator Christopher Columbus, who was sponsored by Queen Isabella of Castile, brought an edict to the Emperor of China and the King of India, and after seventy days and nights of sailing, he arrived at the Bahamas Islands in the Caribbean Sea of Central America. I met local residents who wore eagle feather crowns on their heads, but their local clothes were somewhat similar to those in China.
"This is India?", "This is indeed India, right?" Columbus was gesticulating there, trying to make sure that there was no deviation in the direction and route he believed in. However, the local residents saw that the few dressed in the opposite direction looked like rustics. , and said something that he could not understand. The overseas visitor was very impatient, so he asked in correct Chinese: "Barbarians, can you speak Chinese?"
As a result, Columbus combined what he saw and heard on the island, and until his death he believed that the American continent he had arrived was no longer India as he thought in his official history, but he firmly believed that he had arrived in China;
Later, the navigator Ferdinand Magellan, who was funded by King Charles V of Spain, finally completed the feat of sailing around the world. Moreover, the current situation in the Southeast Asian Islands is completely different from the original trajectory, and Magellan did not follow his original destiny. Locus was killed by the local natives for participating in a tribal conflict on Cebu Island in the Visayan Islands of the Philippines. However, when he led the fleet back to Spain to meet the king, the first words he said were: " God, why are there so many Easterners in the world?";
At that time, when corn, cassava, cotton, peanuts, peppers, pineapples, sweet potatoes, tobacco and other crops had been widely cultivated in the Middle Earth, the Western countries showed their robber faces and attacked the Aztec Empire, the Inca Empire and other native countries. The empire launched a war and brought to the American continent smallpox, the most deadly infectious disease to the native indigenous people...
However, in China during the same period, the vaccination method to prevent smallpox had been widely spread. After the help of Han merchants who traveled to the Americas, the Aztec Empire and the Inca Empire were burned, killed and plundered by the Western colonial invaders. The country was almost destroyed, but it was still able to maintain the national political system, and the original national system and cultural civilization were passed down in one line. During the period when large-scale colonial wars broke out in Western countries with colonial territories entrenched by overseas Chinese, they resolutely chose to use China to build With their muskets and artillery, they and their Eastern allies fought against the bandit thugs from Europe.
As a result, although Western countries entering the period of geographical discovery have begun to establish colonial territories in the Americas and Africa, they have suffered from the fact that the locals have accepted the culture and technology of the distant Eastern empire and resisted the more determined Aztec Empire and Inca Empire. The empire and the Indian tribes fought back tenaciously, and the cost of establishing colonial territories and plundering local supplies was too high. Originally, it was a historical stage in which the capital of Western European powers used overseas colonization and violent plunder to carry out crazy primitive accumulation. Over the course of hundreds of years, Over time, it evolved into a period of long-term anti-aggression wars in America and Africa, where civilizations in various parts of Africa received assistance from overseas immigrants from China and Turkey.
Western countries no longer had enough manpower and financial resources to cross the Cape of Good Hope in Africa and go to the East to expand colonial territories. Although the Middle-Turkish Empire also entered a period of turmoil, due to the awakening of sea power consciousness, the imperial court also consciously began to organize a navy
Blocking the maritime routes expanded by Western bandit colonization. It is no longer just the overseas territories that migrated overseas to maintain maritime trade to carry out arduous resistance. For example, during the Spanish occupation of the Philippines in official history, the colonists used various excuses to create genocide against the Chinese in the Philippines.
However, the death toll of more than 100,000 Chinese people, and a series of untold atrocities committed by Western colonial invaders in Asia did not occur...
In later generations, the territories and territories of various countries in the world tended to be stable. The common languages in Latin America were not only Spanish and Portuguese, but also Inca, Nahuatl and other Indian Aztec languages. The regimes that were subsequently established were actually
There are also countries where Chinese is the official language; the territory of the largest hegemonic rogue state in the world can still only maintain its original thirteen colonial territories, and will still face the challenges of a state power established with Indians and Han as the main national subjects.
A total blockade; originally, the Maori and other indigenous tribes in Australia, New Zealand and other countries that had not suffered protracted massacres and discrimination, and a large number of Han immigrants also established their own countries.
When later generations re-evaluate this historical period of geographical discovery, although it will still have a profound impact on the future pattern of the world, for countries and civilizations outside Europe, this period of history will no longer be plagued by invasion and exploitation.
A history of blood and tears, and the people of Columbus, Magellan, and da Gama have to go back a little bit in the textbooks of later generations to record this history. When mentioning the first pioneers of the Age of Discovery, they are basically relatively
The unified narrative is:
Li Jun, nicknamed Hun Jianglong, was a famous Chinese naval strategist and navigator in the late Song Dynasty and early Qi Dynasty. He was born in Luzhou. He was originally a Yangtze River boatman and later made a living by selling private salt...
