On July 28, the second year of Xianchun in the Song Dynasty, the North Pacific.

Wenda, who was supposed to "cross the zero-ding ocean", is now drifting in the Pacific Ocean! Unfortunately, he encountered a storm!

On the blue-black ocean surface, strong winds were blowing. Four 200-ton (load-load) wooden boats were like four leaves, shaking through the huge waves. The wooden hull kept making squeaking sounds, as if it was soon impossible to resist the tearing of the waves and turning into pieces!

Wen Tianxiang, who was later praised as the "great geographical discoverer", had no interest in writing poetry at this time. There was no "Crossing the Zero Dingyang". If Wen Tianxiang was still in the mood to write poetry, maybe a song "Crossing the Pacific Ocean" would be published. Helplessly, Wen Dazhao was already seasick at this time and was almost too scared to hear the ominous sound from the hull. He was just tied to the bed in the cabin (I was afraid that he would fall off the bed when the hull shaking). He was so seasick that he didn't even have the strength to vomit, but he was humming and cursing King Chen Daming.

"Chen Dexing, you bastard!"

"Chen Dexing, you are going to kill Wen!"

"My surname is Chen, I, Wen Tianxiang, will not let you go if I am a ghost..."

When they heard Wen Tianxiang's repeated cursing, the two monks in the cabin looked at each other and smiled bitterly. They actually wanted to curse people, but they were monks and they had to keep the precepts not to lie.

Speaking of which, Chen Dexing is really a bit tricky. After making a ball, he said that the ground is round, and there is also a Mingzhou continent dozens of times larger than the Song Dynasty. Then he got four broken ships and tricked his brothers into the sea.

When I arrived in Japan, I had a few days of comfortable life. I discussed Buddhism with a group of wine and meat monks, and walked around the temples around Kamakura. Sometimes I would meet several Japanese masters who were quite obsessed with Buddhism and invited them to stay in Japan to spread Buddhism. The Japanese were far more obsessed with Buddhism than China, and there were many temples in China. If it weren’t for the monks here who didn’t accept the precepts, drank wine, ate meat and played with women all day long. Monk Jiudeng almost regarded Japan as the ideal Buddha country. However, the great monk Yongxin liked Japan very much and was planning to open the Shaolin Temple lower courtyard to Japan.

However, the two did not forget the great mission they shouldered to spread Buddhism to the legendary new continent! At the same time, they also tried to revive Buddhism in India!

It’s just a beautiful and grand ideal, as if it has been shattered by the cruel reality! Four Mingzhou-class expedition ships are just sailing on the boundless sea day after day. It seems that there is no end forever. Yesterday morning, the fleet encountered another sudden storm, and I don’t know if it can survive...

...

In the Mingzhou bow room, Zhou Xiaoqi also tied himself with a belt to a chair fixed to the floor. An oil lamp was hung in the cabin. The oil lamp kept shaking with the hull, and even the light emitted made people feel dizzy. However, this did not affect Zhou Xiaoqi lying on a table carefully to view the sea charts and star charts. From time to time, he used a small abacus to scrutinize and write and draw on a spread out notebook.

There was no expression of suspicion on his unshaven face. Because he was the real "navigilator" and "explorer". Long before he joined the Northern Expedition Navy, he was the best bow in the coastal areas of China. He knew some astronomical knowledge inherited by the people and would use the original star-drawing plate to navigate with the compass. Therefore, the fleet he led rarely treks at sea and always finds a way home. I don't know how much better than those of the Song Dynasty navy!

The coastal naval army of the Song Dynasty really can only operate on the coast because they are not the Imperial Heaven Supervisor and have no right to learn and use astronomical knowledge to navigate and locate. Of course, they can only go to the shoreline.

However, Zhou Xiaoqi, who thought he had mastered the art of navigation, entered the Navy of the Northern Expedition Army, found that the gap between him and Chen Dexing in navigation was so big that it was incredible. Using the sextant meter "invented" by the latter and the water clock, Si Nan and the precise star map obtained from some unknown where they were. Looking for directions at the sea no longer depends on three points to people and seven points to luck.

After mastering many of the later navigation techniques provided by Chen Dexing, the Beiming Navy had theoretically mastered the secret of latitude and longitude to determine east and west. The latitude was divided into north and south. If the precise latitude and longitude coordinates could be measured, then you could know the direction of the ship on the sea. However, due to the lack of accurate navigation clocks, the Beiming Navy can only measure latitude accurately, and the error in longitude measurement is still a bit large. However, it is much better than navigating alone by latitude.

Anyone who is a sailor who graduated from the Navy Academy on the ship does not need to travel along the coastline anymore. Even if he goes deep into the sea for thousands of miles, he can return safely. The Navy's South Ocean Fleet has conducted several long-distance voyage drills. As a sailor, Zhou Xiaoqi participated without exception. It was precisely because he showed good talent in several long-distance drills that he was selected as the fleet commander of the Mingzhou exploration this time.

The so-called "Wen Tianxiang's discovery of the New World" is actually because Wen Tianxiang later wrote several "Wen Zhuangyuan's Travels", which describes what he saw and heard in the New World, Africa, Europe, Tianzhu and the Southern Fan Islands. These travels had a great influence. In the following 100 decades, it led generations of Chinese people to the sea to pursue wealth and spread the truth. Their role and influence were much greater than the Travels of Marco Polo in another time and space.

After a while, the degree of bumps in the ship seemed to have decreased a little, and heavy footsteps came from outside the cabin door. The captain of the Army Expedition Team, who was eighteen or nineteen years old, walked in from outside, with a pale face. He was obviously dizzy, but the red battle jacket was still neatly dressed. Seeing Zhou Xiaoqi at his desk, he sat down quietly on the cabin floor.

Zhou Xiaoqi suddenly said, "It's coming soon, it's coming soon!"

He slowly raised his head, looked at Zhou Xiaoqi who was still calculating, and said slowly: "Where is it? Where is it almost?"

"Of course it's the Mingzhou Continent!"

"Really?" Meng Qi showed an excited expression, "It's really coming?"

"That's right! According to the sea chart given by the king, the Mingzhou continent should be from 80 degrees to 90 degrees west longitude, and we should travel east along the sea area between 35 degrees north latitude and 42 degrees north latitude. According to a family's repeated calculations, before the wind broke out the day before yesterday, we had already passed 80 degrees west longitude. The direction of this storm was the northwest wind, which should blow us further southeast... Although we have already closed the sails, we are still drifting southeast. If nothing unexpected happens, we should see the coastline tomorrow!"

...

"It seems that the ship is not shaking!"

"Amitabha, Bodhisattva bless you, it's really not going to shake!"

"Wen Zhuangyuan, are you getting better?"

"It's okay, it's okay..." Wen Tianxiang lay weakly on the bed, his eyes straightened, looking at the ceiling, but it was so dark that he couldn't see anything clearly. At this time, the sky had just begun to brighten, and the cabin was still dark.

"It's been more than 50 days, right?" The voice of Monk Yongxin came, "Justice Zhou said that we have a smooth journey, and the speed is not slow, so we are almost here... What he said two days ago."

"What if there is no such Mingzhou Continent?" Wen Tianxiang said dejectedly.

Monk Jiudeng smiled and comforted: "There will be... Then Chen Dexing is not a fool, how could he speak nonsense? He probably has already secretly sent someone to explore!"

"Yes, yes, I must have secretly visited!" Monk Yongxin agreed repeatedly. "Jiu Deng, how are you planning to spread the Dharma in Mingzhou?"

"It depends on the situation. If Mingzhou is really a prehistoric land, you should use tricks to spread the Dharma!"

"Make trick?" Wen Tianxiang was a little disdainful, "Isn't that the same as Chen Dexing's Tiandaoism?"

Monk Yongxin said: "Who said, how should you spread the Dharma? You are a great scholar, have you ever thought about educating the wilderness?"

"this……"

Wen Tianxiang was stunned. He seemed to have never considered this matter... He always thought of spreading the Dharma differently. Chinese Confucian scholars were not very interested in spreading the truth abroad.

If it were not included in Annan and Goryeo, which were once part of Chinese territory, the only place to succeed in Confucianism was Japan! However, Japanese Confucianism still cannot compare with their Buddhism.

In Kamakura's era, Buddhism was the ruling sect in Japan, and only a few ministers and senior samurai knew about Confucianism. Moreover, the successful spread of Confucianism in Japan was, at least in Kamakura's era, not caused by a great scholar who crossed the sea to preach, but was sent by the Japanese to learn from the Tang envoy himself.

Wen Tianxiang thought for a while before saying, "We Confucians emphasize that there is no distinction between education! Even the wild people can be educated!"

"Wen Zhuangyuan, do you want to open a private school in Mingzhou to teach the Four Books and Five Classics of the natives?" asked Master Yongxin curiously.

"Uh... let's start with elementary school," Wen Tianxiang said, "A journey of thousands of miles will eventually begin. Even barbarians are not uneducated. They can advance step by step from shallow to deep. They will first open up the dynasty and then read the scriptures. One day, the indigenous people in Mingzhou can change customs, everyone knows shame, and every household is polite. If possible, the imperial examinations should be implemented in Mingzhou."

"Secret...Secretary?" The two monks were stunned. If Chen Dexing heard this, he would probably feel like a big hole was opened and the Indians and Mayans in the American world went to learn the teachings of Confucius and Mencius and take the imperial examinations to become Jinshi. This idea was really a bit big.

Wen Tianxiang nodded, changed into an expression of extreme yearning, and said, "That's right! The way of saints must be taught by the imperial examinations and education. People who study scholars must have a path to promotion before everyone can read Confucius and Mencius, and every family respects etiquette. Only in this way can the teachings of Confucius and Mencius flourish in the wilderness of Mingzhou!"

The two monks looked at each other and were wondering if Wen Tianxiang's idea was possible, a loud cheer suddenly came.
Chapter completed!