The wind was southeast, and the hurricane that had been raging for half the night was gone. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Info Mir's mainmast, which had been ravaged by a raging storm in the middle of the night, broke its mainmast and its secondary mast as well, and all the sails fell, leaving the whole sailboat bald. But fortunately, they finally survived the dangers of last night, withstood the test of nature, and managed to see the sun leaping out of the sea in the east this morning.

It's so beautiful.

Xie Qinggao has never seen such a beautiful round of the rising sun, and he has really experienced the vigorous vitality from the rising sun for the first time.

The sailing ship moved slowly with the water, and the general orientation was towards Ceylon.

The captain beckoned the crew to tinker as much as they could, and hoisted the sails to increase the power.

Then two hours later, they saw a patch of green land, but it could also be a large island.

Last night's violent hurricane blew them so far off course that they deflected dozens of kilometers to the south. But in any case, east to south, the green earth beckoned to them. Everyone cheered. Once ashore, the ship could be repaired, though the damage was so severe that the captains changed their aim to Colombo in the west of Ceylon, the territory of the Dutch.

The Mir was to be repaired in a regular shipyard, and the main and secondary masts were no longer something that the carpenters and blacksmiths on board could do. They even thought of contacting the Dutch through the natives on this land, and asked the Dutch for help with money.

- This can be much faster.

There is also a small island in the foreground, but some people think it is a sandbar. In the Paulk Strait, you can often see these sand dunes with very shallow water or directly out of the sea, which stands out against the deep blue ocean background.

The ship dodged the dunes far away, approaching the larger landmass.

Then, at eleven o'clock in the morning, the crew noticed that the water was getting different shades.

Some were thirty feet, others were only fifteen or sixteen. Everyone was praying that the boat would be able to get to shore smoothly and not run aground in the shallow waters.

But the Mir's good fortune seemed to run out, and just as they were about to sail to shore, the Mir ran aground. It was a white rock, presumably a coral reef, and it happened to be stuck with the Mir.

The crew measured the depth of the bow with a plumb weight, and it was less than four meters. The deepest part of the boat is the stern part, which is seven meters.

It's just four miles from the coastline.

"Drop the boat."

The crew of the ship began to get busy, and Xie Qinggao watched as they either lowered their sails, or lowered their boats and small boats, rowing the boat to measure the depth of the surrounding water. It was found that the water depth on the right side of the stern of the ship had risen sharply to more than ten meters from the position of the hull.

The captain had the ropes tied to the iron anchor and anchor chain go down there, but to no avail, the ship was still stuck and did not move.

The ship began to discard a large amount of debris, clearing out the ballast stones and some dead and wounded horses, as well as fodder, iron tools, and some unused food, all of which were discarded, in order to reduce the weight of the ship as much as possible.

There is no water at the bottom of the boat during this time, but it is important to know that when the tide comes, the boat will hit the reef further, and there is a high risk that the bottom of the boat will leak.

When the throne came, the captain tried to pull the boat up again, but it was unsuccessful, and the ship remained unmoved. But soon the boat was flooded, and the ship's pumps began to move.

When night came, the waves were calm, and the sea breeze seemed to be much lighter.

The small boats sent out by the captain came back one after another, and no boats or natives were found.

Both bow anchors were lowered to the stern and fastened to the anchor chains with pulley sets and the reels fastened at the stern.

The next morning, the tide rose again and the amount of water entering began to increase. The other two pumping machines on board also began to work.

The ship was reset, but the speed of the water intake became faster. The situation is serious, and the pumping speed is not as fast as the water entering the water, which is a very dangerous signal.

The people on board were afraid of this, because it meant that the hull of the ship was floating, and it was likely that complete destruction awaited them.

But the Mir had no choice but to pull the ship up at all costs. Otherwise, they don't know how long they will be here, and for two days, they haven't seen a single ghost, and Xie Qinggao's mission cannot be delayed.

The Mir had to get to the Dutchman's dock as soon as possible, so that Xie Qinggao could carry other ships to Jinghai as quickly as possible. So the captain moved as many people as possible from the pump to the windlass side. At noon that day the ship floated, and the captain immediately pulled the boat into the deep water. By this time, the water in the cabin had exceeded three feet deep.

The captain pulled up another anchor and sent everyone out to pump the water, and it was not until the evening when the pumping speed caught up with the speed of the water that it was entering the water, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Xie Qinggao saw the repair work of Western-style sailing ships for the first time, and their repair procedures were completely copied from the foreigners' methods, that is, they were finely chopped with hemp wool and wool, and then stirred together, and they were evenly glued to the whole canvas one by one, and then sprinkled with horse manure on top, so that the finished canvas was dragged to the bottom of the boat with a rope.

If you can determine the location of the water leakage, it is very effective; And if you can't determine the location of the leak, then you have to try and find it little by little, and once you find it, it will soon be effective.

When the canvas is attached to the bottom of the boat, the wool and linen will be washed up by the water, and some of it will be swept into the hole, which will naturally reduce the leakage. By the time the water at the bottom of the cabin has been drained more or less, things like planks and nails will come in handy.

In this way, the Mir was dragged all the way to Colombo, a city founded by the Portuguese and later occupied by the Dutch.

It is known as the "Crossroads of the East" and is an important city on the communication route between the East and the West. The Dutch have built a medium-sized shipyard here, which can provide everything needed to repair the Mir.

Xie Qinggao can also get on the clipper boat to Jinghai from here.

Two holes in the bottom of the ship were closed by two ugly patches, but they couldn't withstand too much wind and waves. It is likely that the Mir's ribs were traumatized, and the reef was not just punctured through the outer slabs. Some of the bow cladding was missing, and some of the protective keel had become fragmented.

Overall, the accidental grounding caused no less trauma to Mir than the previous hurricanes.

So although it is very regrettable, Mir really can no longer fulfill its mission.

In Colombo, in this Dutchman's port, Xie Qinggao heard the news of the Surabaya incident as soon as possible. Of course, he also got the help of Chinese businessmen as soon as possible.

A sailing ship that came to transport spring tea immediately decided to go to sea and send Xie Qinggao to Jinghai.

How great did the news of the outbreak of the Anglo-French war affect the situation in the Far East? Xie Qinggao considered his own profession, and he felt that this news would have a huge effect on China.

Britain and France officially went to war, and Spain followed France in the war, which meant that Westerners could no longer pose a threat to China on the South Sea issue. Their strength is not combined.

Britain, France, and the Netherlands, as long as they don't hug each other in groups, China doesn't need to consider any external reasons.

If it is said that the Dutch in Batavia, China also needs to be wary of the feelings of the British, because Britain is China's largest trading partner. Then for the Spaniards in Manila, if the Chinese Nanyang naval division launched an offensive, the British were afraid that they would rejoice.

Anyway, the Spanish galleon trade has long been made into chicken ribs, and it is a pity to abandon it. It is not uncommon for China to lose it.

Looking at it this way, compared with the offensive of the entire South Seas, the impact of the Surabaya incident that has just ended is really average.

If China were to attack the Spaniards soon, wouldn't it be more shocking than a tiny Yogyakarta?

Xie Qinggao, who was lying in the cabin, even thought of the Spanish Viceroyalty in the Americas, and if you don't really understand the history of the Spaniards, you don't know how rich this decaying and declining capital is.

In North America, it is divided into three worlds with Britain and France; In South America, it shares the world with Portugal.

Spain and Portugal, the two pioneer nations that ushered in the Age of European Discovery, are still enjoying the legacy of their ancestors' wealth.

Xie Qinggao didn't know why Britain and France didn't fight the rich South Americans, and with the current national strength of Spain and Portugal, they would not be the opponents of Britain and France at all. Although Brazil was not very important in the Portuguese colonial map at first, it was now the center of the Portuguese colonial empire, especially because of its vast deposits of gold, precious stones, sugar cane, coffee, and cereals. Portugal also carried out the trade of black slaves here, which led to the rapid growth of Brazil's population.

As a Chinese with only strength in his eyes, Xie Qinggao does not care whether his position is high or not, and the distance he sees is not far away, but he is salivating for the Spanish colonies in Luzon and North America.

How much grain can be produced in these fertile places if they are handed over to the Chinese?

Of course, Xie Qinggao was also quite frustrated, and it was too late for him to come back. By the time the news of the war between Britain and France reached China, the negotiations between China and Britain and China and Russia would have long been over, and even the recent Surabaya incident should have come to an end.

How many days can the little Yogyakarta natives be hard in front of China?

If the Sultan had been hard-boned these days, the Dutch would not have lived such a nourishing life in Batavia.

A deep sense of loss welled up in his heart.

Xie Qinggao felt that he was a person who had worked hard to get to the theater, and he had really paid off after so much hard work - he had entered the theater, but there was no one on the stage. It's over!

It's so sad!

Xie Qinggao once again hated the backward means of information transmission. Even he asked again, is there now a second 'Xie Qinggao' who is trekking hard in the great desert, because something important has happened in Europe.

For example, the naval battle between Britain, France and Spain, for example, in the face of armed protests from the Russians, London's attitude towards the alliance of armed neutrality......

Xie Qinggao didn't know that just as he was rapidly advancing towards Jinghai, the Surabaya incident was really over. A large number of regular Chinese troops, the Marine Corps, had already retreated from Yogyakarta laden with booty.

In the end, Hamengu Buwono II did not have a hero, and obediently signed his name on the agreement. Although he already knew the identity of the Chinese merchant he let go at that time.

Not only was Hamengu Buwono II dumbfounded, but Glitter was also stupid as a chicken.

Compensation and apology, it can be said that the Sultan of Yogyakarta threw his face and dignity on the ground and was rubbed and rubbed by China. But the roots of the Sultan of Yogyakarta remain.

Watson also eventually refused to sign an agreement on the South Seas, and he could not give up the Netherlands. Naturally, the agreement on the protection of Bangladesh's interests, which London so longed for, was not reached. But in other aspects, the two sides still submitted the agreement, but it is a bit of a rootless duckweed, very, very unsafe.

Watson sent men to London again.

After a series of eight talks and three months, China and Russia finally finalized a peace agreement between China and Russia - the "Sino-Russian Nanjing Peace Agreement".

The Russians lost all the land that they have now lost, the Primorsky area on the northern shore of the Heilongjiang River, the Baikal region, the border along the Tangnu-Uliang Sea......

There were also large military spending, and soldiers captured by China.

Typical stealing chickens does not make rice, Russia has experienced the biggest defeat and the most painful lesson since Catherine II ascended the throne. But Russia can only suffer in silence.

All the agreements that should be signed have been settled, and even the second bureau of overseas exploration, which is under great pressure, has suddenly reached Nanjing.

Its exploration vessel, in the heart of the vast North Pacific Ocean, discovered the Honolulu Islands.

The islands there are endless stretches of sandalwood, and there are no boundaries. That's a huge treasure in its entirety.

When Zhu Li's ships sailed north from Zhujia Island and discovered the Hawaiian Islands from the previous time and space, their initial attention was more focused on the local natives.

These natives have black, straight or corrugated hair, and are very tall, much larger than the monkeys of the South Seas. The complexion is also not as dark as that of the monkeys of the South Seas. The ruling class tends to intermarry, practicing polygamy and polyanry, especially among chiefs. Status is inherited mainly through the maternal line. The unit of land is Ahupua, which often extends from the coast to the top of the hill, and the authority includes the nearby sea, so that the landowner has all the means necessary to provide for it, such as fish in the sea, coconuts in the coastal areas, taro in the valleys, sweet potatoes, yams and bananas on the low slopes, and timber in the mountains.

The civilization here was quite low, there was no written language, and all knowledge was preserved and passed on to future generations by sacrifices. Belief in the four main gods and countless minor gods and guardian gods, the population is not large. There was no metal and pottery, the civilization was really low-developed, and there was no animal power to use, using stone, wood, shells, teeth, and bones to craft tools, weapons, and utensils. The houses are made of wood, with grass roofs, stone floors, and mats. Food is cooked in burrows with hot stones; But many foods, including fish, are eaten raw.

This is a wild man inferior to the black monkeys of the South Seas, a group of uncivilized wild people. Then they discovered a forest of sandalwood trees that they couldn't count.

Zhu has not yet realized how important the geographical location of the archipelago is, but he is well aware of the value of the sandalwood that grows there.

If this discovery is reported to China and confirmed, all the crew members will become rich overnight just by sharing the profits generated.

But what was more frustrating was that they met two British expedition ships here, and the one led by them turned out to be the famous Cook. And it was better to arrive in Honolulu than to be coincidental, as the British ships arrived in Honolulu just in time for the local aborigines celebrating the "Makahiki Festival". The festival is a festival for the local indigenous people to worship the Polynesian god Longno and to celebrate the harvest. Coincidentally, the mast, sail and rigging of the Determination are similar in shape to some of the handicrafts used for festival sacrifices; In addition, before Cook and his party landed, they once circled the island of Hawaii clockwise, and it happened that the team that sacrificed Longno also cruised clockwise around the island on the island. A series of coincidences caused Cook, who was the captain of the USS Resolve, to be mistaken by some of the islanders for Long Nuo, and for a time he and even some of the attachés worshipped him and even some of the attachés as gods. Local tribal elders presented Cook with helmets and cloaks to highlight his high status in the eyes of the islanders.

made Zhu Li's eyes red with hatred, but the British let out a big sigh of depression. The depression caused by the Christmas Island incident completely disappeared at this moment, and the providence in the dark made their mood really happy at this moment.

So Zhu chose to leave immediately, fearing that Cook would use his huge influence among the island's natives to find them in trouble. And in terms of numbers, ships, cannons, etc., Zhu Li is at a disadvantage.

Zhu left Honolulu and headed northeast, driving north of the Spanish settlement in Upper California, on the west coast of North America. In early February, they arrived off the coast of Oregon. He ordered the ship to dock for a few days to survive the bad weather, and then when the weather returned to normal, he sailed north along the coast, all the way to the Nutka Strait, where it had been located on the western side of Vancouver Island, and finally stopped near a village belonging to the Nutka tribe in Yugu.

The expedition ship docked at a small bay in the Nutka Strait, which was an iconic site for 200 years after the original plane, called Happiness Bay.

After the expedition ship docked, Zhu Li began to communicate with the local aborigines, who traded the metalwork that the locals were interested in for sea otter fur. Although the two sides have had some unpleasant experiences, the relationship between the two sides is still harmonious. Then, on the seventh day of the docking of the expedition ship, Zhu Ting saw another ship flying the red red flag...... (To be continued.) )