"Dingdong, now is the last question. If the challenger answers correctly, he will win the special prize: a three-day tour of Jiuzhaigou, a single person... Now, please listen to the question..."

"Everyone knows that the natural raw material of chocolate is the fruit of cocoa beans, so how can I ask the challenger, the origin of cocoa is...A North America B Central America C South America D Africa... Now countdown, five, four..."

“Beebeep…”

"Okay, we saw that the challenger chose B, Central America, so, now let's look at the correct answer...Oh, the correct answer is C South America... Very sorry, the challenger missed the final prize..."

Yuwen Wen opened his eyes and found that he was indeed dreaming again. He couldn't help but rub his temples, turned over, and continued to sleep.

But I can't sleep no matter how hard it is.

There was once a special prize in front of me, but I chose the wrong answer. If I could do it again, I would definitely choose "South America"...

Yuwen Wen felt very depressed. A prize-winning Q&A "many years ago" missed the "Three-day Tour of Jiuzhaigou" because of a thought. Now when I think about it, I still feel resentful.

Looking at Yang Lihua who was sleeping beside her, Yu Wenwen stood up gently, put on her clothes and stayed at the bed, lit a candle, turned to the desk, rubbed the "Pacific Rim Map", and gradually became enchanted.

The fleet led by Zhang Yu had set off on schedule, while the second and third expedition fleets had also set off on schedule. The three teams had a total of twenty-four five-masted sailboats heading east along the Black Tide, and had to complete a voyage of thousands of miles and reach the distant America.

Now, the Zhang Yu fleet that set out first is probably still sailing in the vast sea. Yu Wenwen, who was thinking about the fleet, couldn't sleep well during this period, because once he closed his eyes, he would dream of the fleet struggling in the storm.

America and Asia are across the sea. In the northern hemisphere, the distance between the sea should be nearly 20,000 miles. It should take at least two months to sail one-way sailing. Such voyages are all carried out on the ocean. There are no islands or supplies along the way. Once you encounter a storm, you will be finished if you can't survive it.

But now it is early summer, and the storm season is still coming, so...

I hope every ship can arrive in the Americas safely.

If you all die, I'll wait for next year...

Yuwen Wen thought so, looking at the map he drew with his memory, motionless.

There is no doubt that the existence of America is, but for most people in this era, this is impossible. Because the conclusion that the sky is round and the place is deeply rooted in people's hearts, people around the world believe that with their area as the center, the edges of the southeast, southwest and northwest are the end of the world, and there is no return.

Except for the local civilizations in the Americas, civilizations from other continents did not realize the existence of this continent. For Yu Wenwen, "abnormal human" this is common sense in geography.

The great geographical discovery triggered the era of great navigation. It relied on the gold, silver, and various outputs of the Americas to feed back to the country, and then sent the domestic excess population to the Americas to colonize and open up land. As a result, the national strength developed rapidly, and the first industrial revolution began to brew...

A beautiful imagination is difficult to realize, because discovering America is one thing, colonizing and developing America is another.

The discovery of America was achieved by Yu Wenwen. It would take several generations and hundreds of years of hard work to achieve it.

So, is it meaningful to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to achieve the achievement of "discovering the Americas"?

For Yuwen Wen, it makes sense.

Just as Zhang Qian went on a mission to the Western Regions during the Western Han Dynasty and brought plants such as grapes, walnuts, cocoa, and even cinchona trees to the Central Plains. It would be amazing if Zhang Yu could "discover" America and then bring back plants such as peppers, rubber trees, corn, cocoa, tobacco and even cinchona trees.

Needless to say, the importance of rubber is larger than Eucommia ulmoides, and it is easy to increase the scale. It only takes ten or twenty years to plant it into ingredient. Cocoa and tobacco are very important cash crops, and once planted in large quantities, it can bring huge income.

As for the cinchona tree, the cinchona cream extracted from its bark is a good medicine for treating malaria. Even boiling juice with cinchona tree bark can cure malaria.

As for Artemisia annua treatment of malaria, medical books have actually pointed out that it is indeed feasible, but technicians have been exploring for many years but have not been able to extract the active ingredients. This is obviously because the technology is not good, so the practical use of Artemisia annua antimalarial drugs is nowhere to be achieved.

Yuwen Wen felt that if Jinchona was really found and brought back the tree species, planted widely, made into medicine in large quantities, and mosquito coils made from pyrethra, it would be no problem to develop Nanyang on a large scale.

As for the gold and silver in America, it is good, but it takes time to explore, and it may take a long time.

So for Yuwen Wen, instead of spending more than ten or twenty years of exploration and mining gold and silver in the Americas, it is better to focus on his energy, because the "closely close" Japanese silver and Luzhou silver can already alleviate the urgent need.

As for large-scale colonization of America and turning America into part of the Central Plains court, this is a century-old plan, not a problem that Yuwen Wen needs to worry about.

The court mobilized the people of Hebei to go to Liaodong, and took a boat and took a sea route for only three or four days. Liaodong was the homeland of the Han Dynasty, not a place of smokyness. In this way, many people were hesitant. If the people were forced to settle in the Americas thousands of miles away, they would inevitably "officials forced the people to rebel" and wars were everywhere.

Even under the suppression of guns and cannons, the people accept their fate, but they can sail uninterrupted for two months without supplies. How many people can arrive in America alive?

Even if you arrive in America, if the local area is deserted, the food you planted from the land is not enough to eat, famine breaks out, and a group of people starve to death, isn’t this a sin?

Not to mention that in Lingnan, Nanzhong, and Liaodong were not yet developed well, where did the imperial court get the financial resources to develop the Americas thousands of miles away on a large scale?

Yuwen Wen felt that with limited national strength, this approach of seeking far and wide will inevitably not last.

Instead of colonizing America, it is better to colonize the South China Sea. If you successfully "seek seeds" in the Americas, you should plant rubber, cocoa, and cinchona on a large scale in the Southeast Asia, and then immigrate on a large scale, turning the South China Sea into a back garden in the Central Plains and supplying raw materials. This is more realistic.

Therefore, Yuwen Wen only wanted specialty crops in America, that is, "seeding", and then established several strongholds in the Pacific coastal areas of North America, Central America and South America, so that the long-distance ships can only have a place to settle down, repair the boats, and then establish contacts with local indigenous peoples, carry out trade, and prepare for the future.

In the future, it is the affairs of future generations. He cannot do the work of several generations alone. If he really wants to force it, he will end up with Yang Guang, the Emperor Yang of Sui in history.

If you compress what can last several generations of people to finish, the consequence is that people will live in poverty and wars are everywhere. Even if the ruling people do things that benefit the future, the disaster will be in the present. Ordinary people can't survive anymore. How can they understand your thousand-year plan?

As he thought about it, Yuwen Wen thought of his cheap brother-in-law Yang Guang, who was named "Zhiyuan" after becoming a monk. He has been studying abroad in India for ten years, and he doesn't know if he has died.

Yang Lihua begged hard that Yang Guang, who was trapped in me, left blood on the two women, which was considered a success in "seeking seeds" for the Yang family.

Now Yang Guang's two descendants have already started a family and have the next generation. They only know that their father's surname is Yang and died young, but they don't know their exact background and live a dull and prosperous life.

Yuwen Wen thought this was not bad, so he would have died because his brother-in-law was cheap, so he would save a lot of trouble.

It’s best to die, and it will save your sister from burning incense and worshiping Buddha all day long.
Chapter completed!