Ni Shangzhong, who stayed in Wangxia Prefecture, failed to find any trace of Ma Jin and Ma Gui.

For two whole months, he exchanged the goods with the local natives for everything he could find, deer, sled dogs, rushed out hundreds of sleds, and sent people to search the ice and snow with baggage, they found traces of Ma Jin Magui and others on the northeast island, but then on the ice to the east, they found nothing.

The expedition carrying thirteen generals, 230 officers, and thousands of banners of the Ming Dynasty disappeared into the endless glacier.

They missed the return time and disappeared without a trace.

People say they died this winter.

The imperial court was also concerned about the situation that had occurred in the Far East, because the Spanish envoys had already been sent from Gaogong to Canton, and from Guangdong to Nanjing, where the treaty that had been negotiated between the two countries was signed.

For this reason, the Nanjing Ministry of Rites added two additional staff members to transfer Xu Wei and Zhao Shizhen of the Nanyang Military Government to lead the signing of the treaty.

The Daming fleet has been able to go straight to America from the more convenient westerner route, and Chen Mushang is fighting in the southwest, and no one will want to disturb him on such a 'trivial matter'.

The emperor even personally issued an edict to find them before the Magui Majin fleet was cut off, and to see the dead or the corpses, that is, to limit the time for this matter, three months.

Ni Shangzhong knows very well that it is impossible to find Ma Jin Ma Gui in three months.

Ships were not seaworthy, and it was impossible for them to look for them on foot on the ice for hundreds of miles like a needle in a haystack, and the imperial court gave such an order, and the decision was self-evident - the Ming army would reach Mexico from the Spanish route, and their two-year expedition route was abandoned.

The Ma brothers, too, were abandoned.

Maybe it won't be long before the water and food in the emperor's mouth are cut off, and the imperial court will give them a promotion as a posthumous title.

"I don't believe they're dead, Chen Shuai said that Amerika is across the sea."

They spent two years training troops in Kuwu Island and Wangxia Prefecture, teaching soldiers to read, read, map, be good at fortifications, and understand medical skills, and teach foreign people to serve as soldiers, so that they could understand Han etiquette and customs, and have the ambition to cross the Beihai Sea when their morale was high.

Now several orders from the imperial court have been in vain.

The officials sent by the imperial court were so tired that Ni Shangzhong stayed in the bitter cold place, and for a month or two, the sled team in Wangxia Prefecture went to search the ice sea as usual, and the farthest team even set up camp in the place where the expedition team on the North Island last left traces, only to find that the dock where they finally went to sea had been frozen in ice, and found an abandoned and damaged warship, most of which were frozen in the ice, which was the last news that Ni Shangzhong could get from them.

"The ship was abandoned, and it broke down before they went out to sea, for not only did there be no food or water on board, but even the guns were removed, and if the disaster was urgent, the guns would have remained on board."

Obviously, Ma Gui and Ma Jin were transferred to other warships there, and they were taken away along with the artillery and sailed to the east.

But further east, Ni Shangzhong's people can't get by, because the problems that were in front of Ma Gui and others before are now in front of Ni Shangzhong - they don't know how far they have to go east, they don't know, the Spaniards don't know, and no one knows how far they have to go east from here.

Chen Mu's impression is very close, and the current situation shows that this is not the case; And as far as the route of the Spaniards is concerned, this road is thousands of miles away, and it is not that they cannot transport their baggage to such a distant place, it is useless to dare.

Approaching the March period, Ni Shangzhong was also discouraged, in his opinion, no matter what accident Ma Jin Magui encountered, there should always be someone who could walk back on the ice, they brought March grain and grass and sled dogs, even if something failed, they could always send someone back to report the news.

Not so unheard.

Ni Shangzhong's last effort for Ma Jin Magui and his entourage was to order the Wangxia Prefecture Banner Army to blanch vegetables in hot water and wash the jerky.

In the North Island, in Wangxia Prefecture and several of the earlier camps set up by the Ming army, they dug ice pits, sealed food in them, and wrote letters about recent changes in the imperial court, leaving the marks used by the Nanyang army.

He didn't know if Ma Jin and Ma Gui would have a chance to return here, but if he didn't leave food, even if the Ma brothers came back, they would be starved to death here.

In late October of the second year of Wanli, the letters sent by the imperial court galloped all the way from the outposts along Kuwu Island to Wangxia Prefecture.

He ordered to posthumously give Dr. Magui Ronglu and the governor Tongzhi, and the widow was given a wife of a product, and two hundred taels of silver were given, and a son was given into the brocade clothes and hundreds of households.

He ordered to posthumously present Dr. Ma Jin Ronglu and the governor of Tongzhi, and gave the widow a product of Mrs. Edict, gave two hundred taels of silver, and a son of Yin entered the hundred households of Jinyi Wei.

The remaining eleven generals each have posthumous awards, silver, and shadow merits, and the accompanying generals all have pensions.

Ni Shangzhong clutched his life, as if the Ma brothers were really dead.

These edicts determined that the imperial court had determined that the entire expedition fleet was loyal to the country.

Immediately afterwards, it was an order from the Nanyang Military Government, except for the three guards of Kuwu Island, each of which left 1,000 outside, and the rest of the troops were transferred to Ezo and placed under the command of Chen Bazhi, divided into two armies, one into Japan to support the operation, and the other returned to Luzon, and after the signing of the peace treaty, they followed the Xiyi ship to America.

The emperor could not resist sending troops to the other side of the sea, and neither Japan, nor Annam, nor Burma, nor those who knew anything about his interest could be relieved, and the only one who could solve his worries was the land that had not been declared king.

However, the important officials of the imperial court were just the opposite of the emperor in this respect, and they were actually more concerned with the first half of the treaty than the opening of America and the lease of Seville, the resumption of trade between the two countries, the payment of six million taels of silver by Spain, the official caravan to Mexico for trade, and so on.

As for what Chen Mu wanted, he even did not hesitate to fight to achieve the goal, if it weren't for Zhang Juzheng's intimate addition of two additional members in the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, it is estimated that this battle would have been fought in vain.

What was most important to the imperial court?

In Chen Mu's view, there have been many small problems in the Ming Dynasty in the past thirty or fifty years, but there are no major problems at all; But in the eyes of the officials of the Ming Dynasty, there have been big problems everywhere in the past twenty or thirty years, and there is no bigger one, so Chen Mu does not care much about the Burma battlefield, which is indeed the biggest and biggest problem for the Ming Dynasty.

This question directly depends on the letter that Chen Mu sent to the imperial court, which was related to the distribution of interests of the Ming Dynasty in Burma and Annam after the war, and thus saw the hope that the Japanese battlefield was not an unintentional war.

People all over the world are waiting for this answer, waiting for the Ming army to come out of the cage like a tiger in Sanxuan and Six Comforts, farmers are waiting, handicraftsmen are waiting, wealthy businessmen and giants are waiting, local officials are waiting, important ministers of the court are waiting, civil officials are waiting, military attaches are waiting, those who are optimistic or not optimistic are waiting, waiting for the results of this battle, and waiting for the changes to the Ming Dynasty after the war.

In this case, the Ma brothers, who shivered in the cold wind under the peak of the mountain named America and struggled to build the camp, were obviously not important.

They didn't think they were important, but they sent men to and from the frozen fleet again and again, and relied on sled dogs to bring back wounded soldiers, food, artillery, ammunition, and even the last planks to the shore.

Everything about the Ming Dynasty about the America began with the seven hundred remnants of the soldiers who landed under the peak of the America Lake in the winter of the second year of Wanli.