When Chen Mu saw Yang Zhaolong, the beard and sideburns of the little governor in the southeast of Xinming Island were connected together, the longest beard on his chin was nearly an inch, the shortest was exposed with green stubble, and his clothes were in tatters.

The Minister of the East was so frightened that he thought that the Australian aborigines had raised an army.

After asking clearly, Chen Mu let out a long sigh, and after making trouble for a long time, this kid was released after seeing him because of the depression that he had been floating at sea for more than four months, so he lost his temper.

Mr. Chen, who took his brother-in-law back to the Yamen, counted for a long time with his fingers, but still didn't figure out why Yang Zhaolong could float at sea for four months.

"The northern route follows the Daming coast and then along the coast of Asia for 30,000 miles, and no previous voyage has lasted more than three months; You came from Xinming, how did you walk at sea for four months, or more than four months? ”

Chen Mu said, raised his hand and pointed at Yang Zhaolong's chin, and said, "And this beard, did you stick out your chin when you slept in the lower cabin?" ”

"It's a long story, brother-in-law, I'll start from the beginning, Li Hualong, that bastard."

Yang Zhaolong was angry when he mentioned this name, and the tea case shook the knife, bullet noodles and other facial cleansing items taken from the person on the small square table, and he didn't forget to raise his hand to apologize to Chen Mu: "Brother-in-law, don't blame me for scolding him, the first person to board the new Ming is me, right?" ”

"I myself stayed in Xinming for two years, and the imperial court sent Li Hualong, indeed, I didn't bother to manage it, and I regarded that power as a place to play, but more than a dozen villages on the northern coast, reclaimed land and pastures, that is all my credit."

"He's an official sent by the imperial court, I really didn't think about seizing power with him or anything, I'll give it to him, and play around the big island by myself, right?"

"I drove Xiao Yang in the southeast again, I wanted to sail back to China at that time and go to Beiyang to find you, but he came over and said that the imperial court asked me to be the little governor of the southeast, so I should be, in the end, the environment in the southeast is not bad, I can farm land, raise horses, and have a good port."

Chen Mu raised his eyebrows: "You took Xinming in a circle?" Then there should be a big island to the north and a big island to the east, have you found it? ”

Yang Zhaolong was interrupted by Chen Mu, and he was stunned for a moment, and then he said: "The big island in the north is Guinea, right?" Surrounded by dozens of small islands, the name given by the Portuguese people, asked the natives what it was, and the natives said Guinea, and they called it Guinea, which in people's words meant to be a girl. ”

"The big girl thinks he's asking if it's a man or a woman."

Chen Mu discovered that Yang Zhaolong had the potential to become a great explorer - curiosity.

Not everyone is interested in knowing what it means for an aboriginal to say something that people don't understand.

But for Yang Zhaolong, can he not be curious? Xinming Island was regarded as a god by the natives because of their ability to train dogs, and these people came back from nomadism to pay tribute, but they just wanted to see if he was dead.

With this experience, who doesn't become curious?

"To the east, the east is not an island, from Guinea to the southeast is a circle of islands, and those islands have everything, and there are two big islands, probably the size of Guinea."

Chen Mu said: "New ......"

He wanted to talk about New Zealand, but the experience of going to sea for several years told him that in the later world, if there was 'new' in the name, it had not yet been discovered in this era - for example, Xinxiang?

Wrong, it's New York.

"What's new, it's not new, the Maori Department went up more than 200 years ago, and they call it the place where the white clouds stretch, and the scenery is particularly beautiful, so I call it North Wangyunzhou and South Wangyunzhou."

While Yang Zhaolong and Chen Mu said these words, they glanced at the knife used to shave on the tea table from time to time, and as they said more and more, they looked at the knife on the table more and more, and became more and more impatient, and finally turned their heads to look at their maid and raised their chins.

The razor finally moved on its own, and when the razor scraped his cheek, Yang Zhaolong said slightly: "I don't want to stay in one place for a long time, just stay for three or five years, after all, the world is so big, and no place is Banzhou; But Li Hualong asked His Majesty to get my brother to Xinming, and the people of Banzhou, who knew that I wouldn't go to sea, who would have thought that going to sea would toss my home away? ”

Chen Mu slowly bowed his head.

On the one hand, he could understand that it was difficult for the Yang family to accept the relocation of Banzhou to Xinming, which had been inherited for hundreds of years, but on the other hand, he also thought that this was probably the greatest dignity that the imperial court had given to the Yang family.

"It is the general trend to change the land and return to the stream, and it is the best time for the Yang family to change in our generation." Chen Mu raised his hand and said, "Xinming, Guinea, Wangyunzhou, how good!" It doesn't matter where it is, as long as it's still as big as the land before Banshu, the harvest in the future will be more than Banshu, but it just needs some hard work. ”

"You see Chang Sheng, three years ago it was a small fishing village, and it only flourished for a short time for three months a year when caravans arrived, but now? Hao Jing can't compare to this. ”

Chen Mu was actually a little absent-minded, for a long time, the problem of setting up a local administration on the east coast had plagued him, and the composition of the people there determined a very different situation from the west coast.

However, when he fixed his eyes on Yang Zhaolong's bearded face again, it was like a lightning bolt hitting his head, and Chen Mu asked, "What do you want to do when you come to Asia?" ”

"I don't know, I'm just afraid that my brother will kill me."

Chen Mu could feel that Yang Zhaolong was not joking, what he said was a declarative sentence.

"By the way, brother-in-law, when I came over, I found eight small islands in the middle of the sea, which are not too big, but there are eighty or ninety thousand households living on each island, and the scenery is extremely beautiful."

As he spoke, Yang Zhaolong, who had shaved his beard, got up and walked to the map hanging on the wall behind Chen Mu, nodded in the middle of the sea, and said, "It should be the middle, I can't tell the east and west, north and south on the sea, but Liu Qianhu said that it was the middle, and Liu Deputy Qianhu said it." ”

"He left a hundred families and three boats there, and there was enough food and water on the island to supply a large fleet, as long as some goods could be sold to the natives."

After that, Yang Zhaolong sighed with worry and looked at Chen Mu: "I don't know what I can do here, my heart is very confused, if it weren't for Wangyunzhou being too close to Xinming, I really want to lie on the grass with the Maori chief and watch the clouds for the rest of my life." ”

Suddenly, he turned his head and smiled to himself: "Maybe I'll get tired of watching it for two years." ”

"I remember you all read a lot?" Chen Mu didn't stare at the location on the map that should be Hawaii, his eyes were fixed on the bay where the Ming merchant Li Yuxi landed on the east coast of the Longhouse Alliance, a place called New York in another world, and asked, "What was Xinxiang called in ancient times?" ”

"Weihui Mansion Xinxiang? It used to be called Xinzhongxiang, a matter of the Han Dynasty. Yang Zhaolong asked, "Why did my brother-in-law suddenly ask about this?" ”

"It's not good, forget it."

Chen Mu shook his head before half of the movement, and listened to Yang Zhaolong again: "Earlier, it was called Muye, King Wu fell, and the eight hundred princes would join the alliance to fight Muye. ”

"Makino, this place is called Makino, you ...... How about going to be a Makino governor? ”