Most of the greatness in this world begins with adventure, and adventure means that most of the time you fail at first.

People who are in the midst of trials often do not know that they are in the midst of trials, and when they raise their eyes, they can only see boundless despair, and each necessary quality determines whether they will fail, but when those necessary qualities are achieved, it is a person's inner tenacity that determines whether they can succeed.

No one is afraid of suffering, and the hardest thing is to be defeated by suffering a few times and then stand up again.

"There is a string of islands in the southern sea, from west to east, and the savage Jurchen Black Water Worm can come and buy and sell with a raft, and you say that you see them living in igloos, and a dozen dogs go out hunting alone. How far, they live five or six hundred miles away? ”

Ma Gui rubbed his face, asked the rider who was lost and lost six hundred miles away to rest, and then ordered his cronies to dig out the map of Wangxia Prefecture, the map of the western coast of North Asia and the map of South Asia to piece together a map of the western coast of North Asia, and a map of South Asia to stare at the map for a long time without speaking.

Co-author...... Are we going far north? ”

This is not the first time that Ma Gui has wanted to slap himself after being appointed as the chief military officer of Kuwu Island, and he himself can't remember how many times this is the first time.

Because when the three incomplete maps were put together, and the Jurchen riders returned the letters, he gradually had a rough guess about the production activities here.

The Jurchens said that the Black Water Turtle sat on a raft to the east of the small island, Ma Gui thought that he was very likely to have led the fleet to dock there, at that time they had just walked four thousand miles of wrongful road, but there was still a lot of baggage on the ship, and they stopped on a small island for a few days.

Regardless of whether it was the landowner of Wangxia Prefecture who was later called the Chukochi people, or the native people who went 600 miles south of Xihanmen and were later called the Aleutian people, there was no difference in the eyes of the Ming people, and there was no other title.

This is the same whether it is the Central Plains or the Jurchens.

They also have only one title, according to the animal they live on, called the deer department or the dog department that is classified as the savage Jurchen black water deer.

Ma Gui also got acquainted with a family there, and asked them for directions, asking how to drive a boat to a place further north, and used four of them for the translation alone, Jianzhou Jurchen, Beishan Jurchen, Savage Jurchen and the soldiers of the Deer Department, and they went calmly when they got the answer they wanted, leaving some spices brought by Nanyang and two sets of winter clothes for the Ming army in return.

That is to say, if he had asked the way to the east at that time, perhaps this voyage would have been a different result, that cape would have been named Wangxia Prefecture, and it was very likely that the three guards of Kuwu Island had successfully landed in North Asia and begun to reclaim the land.

Ma Jin didn't understand what the three pictures meant at first, but when he looked at it, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration, patted his thighs and shouted, "I'll just say why there's no personal shadow here, let's go away!" ”

But they didn't go far, they sailed to a place where only polar bears and walruses could live.

It's too far.

Ma Gui clenched his fists and stood up, pursed his lips and gritted his teeth to look left and right, back and forth three times, and then calmed down in a deep breath, and said: "Since the departure of the bitter Wu Sanwei, our department has sailed more than 12,000 miles before arriving at Xiazhou; Since Wangxia Prefecture sent a fleet to explore the road more than ten times, sailing more than 2,000 miles, Fang decided to set off, and then sailed more than hundreds of miles, encountered the sea and ice, and walked more than 300 miles. ”

When he said this, the general soldier who led the army to strangle Mongolia in northern Xinjiang for more than ten years was crying: "More than 15,000 miles, more than 400 lives." ”

Just because I didn't ask more, is there a way to the east.

He was wronged, so wronged!

Ma Gui looked at the easternmost part of the Ming Dynasty map in the west, which was named by Ma Jin as 4,000 li of the hundred households, in that place, Ma Jin led the fleet along the big bay of the hometown of Nurgan Dusi around the 4,000 li unjust road, the hundred households were so named in order to remember this unjust road, they thought that the road behind them was right from then on.

Unexpectedly, it was just the beginning of another fork in the road.

However, it is useless to feel sorry for himself, and Ma Gui did not complain too much here, he waved his hand and said: "Go and ask the riders, do you remember the way you came, send a delegation of more than ten people, bring spices, gifts, and put on two walrus tusks to meet them again, and ask them about the surrounding terrain and weather." ”

"If those who make the dog department have no hostility towards the Ming army, we need to borrow people, dogs and deer to pull sleds, and these baggage will be transported south by us alone, and I don't know how many months it will take."

Ma Gui sat down slowly, he also put on his pipe, and said: "The spices of the South Seas, the thick winter clothes, and our knives, let them see, and also look at their goods, if you help me this time, in the future, the Ming ship will dock, and I will make a special trip to trade with this side and exchange ideas." ”

"If there are no other accidents, the mission will send two horsemen, and ask the local canine department to send someone to escort and guide, and be sure to arrive at the 4,000-mile 100-household house before the year, and bring back the information we have found, the weather there is much better than in Wangxia Prefecture, and I estimate that the ice and snow will melt in March."

He did not know that the advance army of the expeditionary expedition stationed in Wangxia Prefecture had been ordered by the imperial court to be transferred back to Kuwu Island led by Ni Shangzhong, and planned to go to Amerika after the year according to the route of the Spaniards.

In today's Wangxia Prefecture, only the three or four hundred flag troops of the escort fleet are left, and even they have to sail back to Kuwu Island after the glacier melts.

I didn't know that my brother and the soldiers he led were already dead people in Daming, and the rewards and orders were sent to the right guard of Datong, and his son went to the Jinyi Guard.

The Ma family will not be able to hang Spring Festival couplets in the upcoming Wanli three years.

He only knew one thing - he had found his way to North Asia and Molica, and he had really seen this land for the court, and his mission had made a good start!

After that, he turned his head to Ma Jin, who was sitting on the side, and said: "I guess that the envoy dog department is not a threat to us, it is cold and snowy, and there are not too many of them, they should be like us and others who do not want to die, and they will not want to come to fight with us, but we also need to take precautions." ”

Ma Jin smiled, on the ice field, they have not seen the deer and dog departments on the other side, they are armed like armor front archers, not even the previous dynasty, they are going to the Song Dynasty, wearing armor helmets, waist rings and armor around the big encirclement, making longbows and spears, they are brave, but against the expeditionary expedition team with almost a flintlock - forget it.

"It's true that we're afraid of cold and hunger, but we're not afraid of war." Ma Jin patted the ice ballast on his cuffs, and said with a piercing gaze: "We came to Amerika, just to fight by order!" ”

At the beginning, it was indeed like this, if you don't want to be a minister and declare the king, who can think that it will become a decree to be frozen.

If they fought alone, no matter how big the battle was, it would be much easier than the environment they were facing now.

Finding people and directions, Magui's heart to the south is more determined, anyway, the road to the north is also blocked by the snow-capped mountain collapse, and it is impossible to stay here forever.

Due to the difficulty of carrying the artillery of General Zhenshuo's weight, he hid in the cave of Shuihufeng on the spot, worried that he would not be able to find it in the future, and also set up a few stone tablets near the left, on which were all poems made by Ma Gui, hiding the dumb riddle of finding the cannon.

The two catties of artillery were not all carried, and they pulled out thirty guns and the armament baggage to go together, rushed to make sleds, packed up the baggage, and used the dog to pull it, and used the deer to pull it if it could not be pulled, and they used people to pull it along the ice sea all the way to the south, surveying and mapping, and opening up the new continent in their hearts!./14_14088/