The coastal areas of East Asia are more than 20,000 miles apart from the North American continent. In ancient times, without planes and ships, could anyone cross such a long distance to reach North America from the coast of East Asia?

Some people have studied this issue in later generations. According to the analysis of wind direction and ocean currents, only sailing boats and no other power equipment. Every September, if you raise sails from the coast of East Asia, you will be smooth sailing and don’t care about anything. In two months, you can reach the coast of North America!

This is not a purely theoretical analysis. Many people have practiced it. They prepared enough water and food, rode wooden sailboats, followed the monsoon and ocean currents, passed through the Ryukyu Islands, southern Japan, and southern Aleutian Islands, and really arrived in the North American continent.

Of course, Lu Xiangsheng and the others did not need to rely on monsoons and ocean currents. They all used steamers and were much faster than sailing boats. If they went straight and penetrated through the middle of the Pacific Ocean, they could even reach North America in less than a month.

However, no one generally dares to do this because it is unsafe.

At this time, the sea storms are quite scary. Few people dare to cross the ocean directly, usually along with the land or the edge of the island chain. In this way, they can find a place to hide when encountering storms. If they float directly on the ocean, they will almost die when encountering storms.

After leaving Edo Port, the huge colonial fleet did not sail directly east, but followed the Japanese archipelago and headed north through the Kamchatka Peninsula and arrived at the Aleutian Islands.

The so-called Aleutian Islands is a semi-circular island chain that connects the southern Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean. You can reach the north of the North American continent by sailing south along the coastline for a period of time, and then arrive at the bay where Kingsoft Port is located.

At this time, the bay where Jinshan Port was located was not deserted. After the expedition found this place, it did not return to the Ming Dynasty. Most of the Ministry of Works officials and relevant technical personnel stayed, and some of the Jinyiwei and the elite navy were also stayed.

They have built simple wooden and stone marinas on several coasts that are more suitable for ship mooring, and have also built a small bastion near the coast as a base, and slowly searched everywhere.

As soon as the colonial fleet led by Lu Xiangsheng resisted, the left-behind personnel were naturally very excited. They were truly lonely overseas. The last expedition team set out from Dongdaying and moved for nearly two months before they arrived here. The journey was only far, which can be imagined.

People who are far away from their hometown generally can't help but miss their hometown and their relatives. People on these expedition teams especially miss the Ming Dynasty and their hometown. You must know that it is nearly 20,000 miles away from the Ming Dynasty. What if the expedition team gets back and has an accident? What if the next fleet cannot find it?

If the expedition team fails to bring the news back to the Ming Dynasty, or the follow-up personnel cannot find it here, then they will become lonely ghosts!

The soldiers in the colonial fleet were also very excited. You should know that they were all army and they had basically all shipped, but they had never been on the sea for so long as this time. After drifting on the sea for a month, they finally got ashore. It was fake. It was better to be down-to-earth than to float on the sea all day long.

Lu Xiangsheng was even more excited. Since ancient times, all civil and military officials and generals regarded expanding their territory as their highest honor. From the Southeast Peninsula, to South Asia, and then to Siberia, almost all participated in the large-scale expansion of the Ming Dynasty's history, and he was also promoted from a commander of the army to a marshal.

However, in the past few operations, the emperor was basically in charge of the emperor himself, and he just helped him. This time, it was the first time that he truly led his army to expand territory for the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, according to the emperor, this place is even larger than the territory of the Ming Dynasty and larger than the newly occupied Siberia. What a glory it would be to occupy such a large territory for the Ming Dynasty!

Although he was excited, he was not confused. After he got ashore, he first ordered the soldiers of various legions to use several nearby ports to unload food, supplies and other supplies. Then, he summoned relevant personnel to hold the first high-level meeting of the North American continental colonization in the conference room of the simple castle.

Not many people attended this meeting. Apart from Lu Xiangsheng, there were only Yang Zhong, the chief general of the Zhongyong Army, Zu Dashou, the chief general of the First Army of Japan, Zhao Mingfeng, the governor of the Nanfu Fusi of Jinyiwei, and Chen Tailai, the deputy chief general of the Dushuiqing Literature Department of the Ministry of Works.

Yang Zhong and Zu Dashou came with him, while Zhao Mingfeng and Chen Tailai came with the last large expedition team, staying here to build a port and investigate everywhere.

This meeting mainly focused on finding out the surrounding situation and determining the location of the ports and bases. As for colonial expansion, it would take a second batch of people to be taken back before the fleet could be launched. After all, there is no industrial foundation here now, and there is no steel for the railway construction.

Regarding the location selection of ports and bases, it mainly depends on the opinions of Chen Tailai, the deputy director of the Ministry of Works, because he is an expert in this field, and he has led relevant professionals to inspect here for nearly three months.

According to his opinion, it is better to build the port on the coast near the south inside the bay, which is almost the location of Port Angeles in later generations. This is mainly to avoid storms outside and to facilitate material loading and unloading.

Because according to his investigation, the Joint Army and Navy Base was best built in the intersection of the south of the bay, which was the location of Seattle in later generations, because there was a huge freshwater lake there.

The location selection is so clever, which shows that the views on many things in ancient and modern times are consistent in China and abroad, which also proves that Chen Yutai is indeed an expert in this field.

Lu Xiangsheng naturally had no objection to this. A person could not be able to do anything. If you want to say that in the war, Ming Dynasty and even the entire world, there may be few people who can compare with him. However, when it comes to the construction of this port and city, he is just a layman.

Then there was the issue of exploring the surrounding situation. This was mainly in charge of Zhao Mingfeng, the governor of the Jinyiwei Nanfu Division. Before Lu Xiangsheng came, he had already started exploring. For example, the large Tamsui Lake was discovered by his secret spies of the Jinyiwei under him. He also drew a simple picture nearby.

When Lu Xiangsheng saw the simple picture he took out, he frowned. It was not that the map he drew was too careless and could not see clearly. Chen Yutai and his spy under the Jinyiwei were trained, and the map he drew was exactly the same as the standard map of the Ming Dynasty, with even the longitude and latitude lines on it.

The main reason why Lu Xiangsheng frowned was that there were too many Indian tribes here. Around this bay, there were more than a dozen Indian tribes discovered by the Jinyiwei!

The emperor had already had a solution to the Indian tribe. However, there was an Indian tribe where Chen Yutai chose to build the city. This is really a bit troublesome. Will people ask you to build a city on their territory?
Chapter completed!