Sweep the World

In fact, Nanyang in spring is not much different from other seasons. It is in a turquoise color throughout the year.

The temperature here throughout the year only becomes hotter in summer, and the temperature in the other three seasons does not make people feel cold.

However, there is one thing about Nanyang that is very bad, or very uncomfortable for the Han people, that is, it is rainy season except summer, especially in spring and autumn, it rains almost half of the time.

In the rainy season, the long air will become humid, making it seem that people have inhaled a lot of water molecules every time they breathe. If there is a problem with the lungs, it is really not suitable to stay in this environment.

"This rain has been raining continuously for twenty-seven days." Liu Ming was standing under the eaves looking at the dimness outside: "The rain is not strong, it just hasn't stopped. No wonder the jungle here is so dense and the stream is even more dense. It's dense."

It has been almost two months since they arrived in Malacca. When they first arrived, they encountered a rainy season that lasted for more than ten days. It stopped for about ten days. The sun showed up for five or six days, and then it was endless. rain.

In the constantly raining weather, most of the people in the fleet were on land.

Malacca has complete barracks facilities that can accommodate 300,000 troops. The expeditionary fleet has 30,000 marine troops and more than 70,000 ships and crews. Even if all of them are ashore, the camp is more than enough.

After several years of construction, Malacca not only has a complete permanent military camp, but also a large number of shore artillery positions have been built on both sides of the strait.

The entrance and exit sides of the strait have the largest number of forts. The caliber is generally more than 150 millimeters, the largest caliber is 320 millimeters, and the smallest one is 120 millimeters.

The large-caliber shore artillery is basically placed in the fortress of the permanent fortifications. Usually, the design ports are closed. If you put on some camouflage, you can see that there is a very ordinary mountain when you are far away.

The turrets placed on the bright surface are generally equipped with some small-caliber shore guns. They are not directly fixed to the body of the gun. They are a style that can adjust the direction and shooting elevation angle.

More than a thousand years later, there was a bunch of ignorant people who built the shore artillery facility and engaged in a fixed fort. After the gun body was fixed, not only could the firing angle be adjusted, but the gun body could not be debugged at all. As a result, they spent a lot of money. When the created shore artillery position encountered an enemy naval invasion, many shore artillery could not be aimed at all. The artillery rang and shook the sky. It was only luck to hit the enemy ship.

From the position of the barracks, you can see the surrounding shore artillery positions, but it is not so clear under the drizzle.

This place is densely forested, with mountains but not high in elevation.

After the Han came over, the boss's energy was abandoned before the jungle was cut down. Later, some areas were artificially increased. Most of the hidden shore artillery fortresses were artificially piled mountains.

"I heard that before the 16th year of Yuanshuo, there was an endless stream of ships passing through the strait?" Liu Ming imagined the scene in his mind: "What a lively scene!"

In the current straits, there are basically no merchant ships carrying cargo. Some are naval formations, and the other is fleets heading to or returning from Africa.

The continuous rainy season does not only occur on land, the rain will be lower in the coastal waters, and the rain will be much larger in the offshore seas.

Ships arriving in the port reported to the Nanyang Protectorate that they had discovered dragon water absorption in the southwestern waters, and already formed storms had been discovered in the northwestern and southeastern waters.

In the spring every year, there are always storms around Malacca, and they will evolve into hurricanes or typhoons when they get close to the land.

Almost on the fifth or sixth day after the expeditionary fleet arrived at the Malacca naval port, a typhoon landed on Luzon. After it ravaged most of the islands, the typhoon headed for Zhuya Chau.

At the same time, the Nanyang Prefecture also learned that a hurricane had landed in the southeast. The wind raged on the long and narrow island. The big tree was uprooted under the squally wind. In some low-lying areas, not only the rain was terrible, but also more severe. It was seawater intrusion that turned a large area into Zeguo.

Liu Ming heard that Malacca has been lucky so far this year, at least because there have been no hurricanes or typhoons, otherwise people can only hide in strong fortifications.

When the Han people first arrived in Malacca, they were unfamiliar with the climate here and did not know that there would be storms every year. At the beginning, some wooden or bamboo houses were built. As a result, under the raging wind, those houses simply couldn't stand the blow.

Without adequate preparation, the Han people even happened to have all the personnel in one stronghold disappeared after the typhoon. People in the back went to rescue, and they saw a trace of being raged to the point that no one had inhabited it. They tried to find a dead body but failed to find one. A hundred people disappeared completely.

After learning enough lessons, the Han people understood that if you want to live a stable life in this place, you must have a strong enough house. Don’t build a house made of wood and bamboo. You can’t build a house made of rammed earth, or use it. Either there is masonry or cement, or it really doesn't mean there is any stability.

The Han people have a long history of building rammed-earth houses, and they still know basic common sense, knowing that rammed-earth walls can never withstand rain washing and soaking.

In the north of Zhuxia, the climate is relatively drier, and there are many rammed earth houses. But when I went to the south, there weren’t many pure rammed earth houses. They were either piled up with gravel, some were made of long stones, and even wooden houses were rare.

It is not easy to find stone in this place in Malacca. It takes a lot of effort to blast the quarry. Once the explosion is down, you will find that a gem ore may be exploded, or the rock is not suitable for building houses at all.

When the Han people came, they found out when they cleaned up the natives. The natives looked very messy and random when building houses, but the stones used by the natives were gemstone mines, and the wood belonged to precious ones.

The natives do not know the value of gems, but they can tell which pieces of wood can repel insects.

The Han people’s sense of gems is actually the same. For thousands of years, jade has been valued. Jade has only become popular in recent years, but they are obsessed with fragrant wood.

There is no shortage of wood in Nanyang that is considered by the Han people to be of high value. When it is developed, it cannot be arbitrarily set on fire to destroy the forest, and it needs to be carefully cut down one piece after another.

It is precisely because there are a lot of precious woods that we have obtained the materials from this place, in exchange for the large quantities of cement shipped from the local area, and created a large number of cement houses in Malacca, and even more use of cement to build permanent fortifications.

Liu Yan's emphasis on Malacca is unparalleled. It has also become the first place ever to use a large amount of metal to build fortifications. The iron bars used so far exceed one thousand tons, and more metal resources will be used to continue to build permanent fortifications.

This is a gateway, but the Han Empire does not pay attention to it. As long as it can be controlled here, it is basically equivalent to controlling half of the world.

In such an important place, let alone the use of 1,000 tons of pig iron, it is 10,000 tons... hundreds of thousands of tons of steel, that is not a waste.

"I'm overjoyed, what a long time!" Wu Lin looked ecstatic: "I found that big island!"

Liu Ming's face was dazed.

"That's the big island!" Wu Lin wanted to make it clear in the shortest possible language. He was too excited but seemed a little uncontrollable. He said a long list of words to conclude: "The big man has been looking for it since the eighth year of Yuanshuo. I heard that the super big island is a place full of iron."

"The big island that my father called Australia?" Liu Ming understood, his face was dull, followed by ecstasy: "I really found it?"

Wu Lin nodded fiercely: "The Nanyang Protectorate has confirmed it!"

Cheers came from all directions, completely concealing the sound of ticking water.

The Han people have already blindly followed Liu Yan!

Liu Yan said that there are gold and silver everywhere on the Wa Islands, which is true for the Han people in the past.

Liu Yan also said that the southern sea frontiers of the Han people are full of rare and exotic treasures. The Han people came to explore and discovered spices, fragrant wood, gems, gold, copper ore... etc., which can definitely be defined as valuable resources.

People will not explore how Liu Yan knows so much. They only know that Liu Yan is not only taking them from this victory to another victory, but also constantly using facts to prove that Liu Yan said that where there are good things, there are good things. thing.

Then Liu Yan said that there is a super large island in the south of Malacca, and there is an amazing iron ore reserve on the island. They have no reason to believe it.

In fact, let alone the super big island is all iron, even if Liu Yan said that there is a big island piled up with precious stones and gold in the world, there will be a lot of people who believe in it.

After searching for nearly ten years, which super large island has been found?

"Have you verified it again?" Huan Wen was invited to the mansion by Fu Wei, and when he saw that Fu Wei didn't have too many polites: "The Protector should know the importance of finding that island."

Fu Wei knew the importance of this matter very well, and would not dare to disclose it unless it was verified.

"Great man... Fortunately!" Huan Wen almost beamed his eyes: "The man is getting more and more deficient in iron ore, far worse than copper, gold, and silver. If there is enough iron ore..."

This is an inevitable thing. With the development of industry, the demand for iron will definitely become a bottomless pit. No matter how much iron resources there are, it will not be enough.

The metal resources that are easy to dig in the Han Empire, unless they are undiscovered, otherwise no matter what the metal resources are, the ones that are easy to dig are basically hollowed out.

The country has entered the age of firearms, and the copper resources used in the initial stage will be massive, but the continued development of firearms will inevitably evolve into the need for iron, especially steel, and the consumption of copper will not be less.

The army has always been a major resource consuming user. The consumption under the cold weapon era is huge. After entering the firearm era, especially the navy already has a plan for the construction of iron armored ships, it is conceivable that the demand for iron resources should increase.

Fu Wei is now full of red light. He felt that he was really lucky. He didn't find it long ago and didn't find it late. He didn't find a super big island until he became the guardian of Nanyang. This is a political achievement, and it was only found after searching for so long, and it will inevitably be a great political achievement. With his political achievements, he will not only increase his prestige, but also greatly assist his future official career.

"I found it." Fu Wei tried his best to suppress his excitement, and said reservedly: "We still need to send people to explore continuously. There will be no results in at least two years."

The reason why I found that super large island was purely an accident.

A fleet of ships was forced to panic in bad sea conditions because they were not in time to avoid the storm. The twelve ships of the fleet sank five. It can be regarded as finding a relatively calm bay and waiting for the storm to pass before discovering that they have come to a comprehensive unfamiliar environment.

In accordance with the code of practice, they found a strange place and sent ships to cruise around and sent people ashore to investigate, only to find that the harbor was not near any small island.

Investigations on the sea quickly yielded results, and the answer was that the land we saw was by no means a long, narrow or small island, and it could not even be regarded as an island. It should be analogous to the mainland of the Han.

The group of people who went ashore for investigations ended up very badly. They encountered challenges when they landed. The beach was full of crabs, some of them encountered a wide range of spiders, and some snakes and other poisonous insects that they had never seen before.

Strange and weird things are not uncommon when the Han people are exploring outwards. Even if they are not seen, there are more or less preventive measures. It is because the relationship that is too unfamiliar will inevitably lead to loss of manpower. .

They lost nearly 20 talents and went deep into the inland more than 60 miles, but once again encountered more unseen animals.

One of them is a very large body. It relies on both legs to jump and jump when walking. There is a big tail to balance the upright body, and the two arms are very strong, and there is a very strange big bag in the abdomen.

The other is a bear that looks like a bear, but the body is much smaller than a normal bear. It has very long and thick nails. It also has no ears. The eyes are big and the limbs are very strong. He always loves to hug a tree. The tree didn't move for a long time, and when it moved a little, it moved very slowly.

Then there is another animal similar to a bear. It is also much smaller in size, with larger ears and more fluffy ears. It has a thick black nose while being stout. The same as the previous one is that it likes to stay on trees.

Huan Wen was taken by Fu Wei to a room ~www.wuxiamtl.com~ where there are many animals and insects brought back from that super large island.

"This thing, what is the bag for?"

"It seems to be for food, right?"

Actually pretending to be a cub, but the Han people haven't figured it out yet.

"These two bears are really too small!"

"The difference in appearance is also huge, should I chop off my palm and try the taste?"

The tree is not delicious, and the koala is so cute...

Huan Wen wasn't paying attention to rare and exotic animals. He went to see all kinds of spiders and insects in particular, and his expression was heavy.

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