On the tenth day of October 15, the fifth year of the Hezhong period, this was another day that would be remembered by later history.

On this day, the first colonial site that truly resides on the New World was born.

This colonial site is located in the southern part of the west coast of the American continent (actually Australia). Because a few months ago, the American Agreement signed by the Eastern Song and New Zhou stipulated the principle of "shelfing disputes, jointly developing and first-handed". Therefore, in order to occupy more land on the "American continent", the Eastern Song Dynasty carried out the second "American exploration" and brought criminals for colonization and development.

Twelve galleys were also concentrated, carrying a large amount of supplies, seeds, farm tools, horses and other production tools. In order to allow criminals to live in "Australia", they also brought a group of indigenous girls in South China...

In short, this is a colonial pioneering operation that consumes a lot of money and is determined to cost more than it costs.

The purpose of the action was to open up the first permanent colonial stronghold exclusively to the Song Dynasty on the American continent.

The expeditionary fleet composed of twelve sailboats first concentrated on Sandalwood Island, which is later Timor Island. After completing the supply, he set out on the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, 2008. He first sailed south for about 1,000 miles. He found the "North Shore of America", which may be the south coast. If the "Equatorial Windless Zone" is defined as the Antarctic... Anyway, he found it.

Then the twelve sailboats went south (north) along the "Coast of America", and after sailing for more than a month, they finally found a quite wide river, and found endless open plains and dense forests on both sides of the river.

Obviously, this is a place that is quite suitable for agricultural reclamation!

There is also enough wood to use, allowing people who settle here to build their homes and build some fishing boats to continue relying on fishing to persist when agriculture cannot achieve a bumper harvest.

Xie Yong, the admiral of the fleet and the admiral of the Nanyang Navy, sailed into this unknown river on the "Shunfeng" exploration ship.

He stood on the stern of the "Shunfeng", held the telescope and watched, nodded with satisfaction, "It's really good... What a big plain, what a big river... Hey, there are two ducks on the river, and they are still black ducks, which look quite fat!"

Xie Yong saw two black swans, which are unique swan species in Australia.

Chen Jiang, the captain of the "Shunfeng", suddenly mentioned: "Please give this river a name."

"Well," Xie Yong nodded and said casually, "Just call me Shuangyajiang."

"Shuangyajiang..." Chen Jiang frowned. Is this name a little too rustic?

"A good name sounds quite rich..."

"It's better to establish a town here, called Shuangyajiang City."

Xie Yong also said casually, but several officers around him agreed, so he followed the flow and said, "Since everyone thinks it's good, it's called Shuangyajiang... It's just south of Shuangyajiang, which is the peninsula, which is called Shuangyajiang City."

Another time and space, Perth City, Western Australia, will be passed down through the famous "Shuangyajiang City" in this time and space.

In addition, the great plain around Shuangyajiang City was later named "New Henan" by Zhao Kai. From then on, there would be no Western Australia and Perth City, only Shuangyajiang City, New Henan Prefecture.

The name is a bit rustic, but this place is famous in the history of this time and space!

Not only was it the first colony in the New World, it later became the capital of the "New Song Kingdom". Shuangyajiang Academy, named after Shuangyajiang, also became the first university to start on the land of the New World.

Hundreds of years later, Shuangyajiang University in Shuangyajiang City, Henan Prefecture, the new Song Kingdom, is a place to study abroad that many students around the world yearn for, and is one of the top ten prestigious universities in the world!

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"Taishang, this place is Shuangyajiang City in the new Henan Prefecture..."

"Oh, where is Da Song?"

"The Song Dynasty, old ministers look for it... Oh, not here, this is the picture of the Eastern Hemisphere. Our Song Dynasty is in the Western Hemisphere. We have to go to the American continent to cross the Antarctic Sea."

"Antarctic Sea? Where is it?"

"In the south of the South Ocean, it is a hot place in the extreme south. Going south, you will go around the western hemisphere. Now our Song Dynasty and Zhou Kingdom have landed on the American continent from the north and south respectively. The Zhou Kingdom established a Liangshan Town, and we set up the new Henan Prefecture Shuangyajiang City..."

"Who is moving faster?"

"Of course, the Song Dynasty was faster, because it was relatively close to the south coast of America from our Sandalwood Island, with only 1,000 miles of water. Sandalwood Island is a major trade center, with fixed spice ships traveling between Xingzhou, so immigrants can be slightly higher than Sandalwood Island. We only need to set up more than a dozen galleys and sailboats on Sandalwood Island, and travel between Shuangyajiang and Sandalwood Island every year."

Chengdu Prefecture, Shou'an Palace.

Zhao Ji, who was already in Chengdu Prefecture, was hearing that it was certainly wrong to tell the latest geographical knowledge of Cai Jing, who had returned from Jiangning!

The two of them were placed in front of him. Was it not like the Earth? I don’t know what planet it is?

After all, Zhao Ji was not Zhao Gou. No matter how annoying he was, he could not let him go to Fengboting! Therefore, Zhao Huan was still very polite to this father who lived in seclusion in Chengdu. Not only did he spend a huge amount of money to build a mansion in Chengdu as Shou'an Palace. He also let Wu Haode do the affairs of the Chengdu Prefecture and change his responsibility to plunder money and respect the Supreme Emperor.

Zhao Ji was also thick-skinned. Not only did he spend the hard-earned money of the people of Chengdu, he also sent Cai Jing to Jiangning Mansion to ask for pension money.

Zhao Kai and Wu Meiniang were also filial. Not only did they give Zhao Ji a large sum of gold and silver, but they also presented a pair of American kangaroos, a pair of American koalas, a pair of black swans (the black duck seen by Xie Yong), and an outrageously wrong globe.

Although the globe is wrong, it does not affect the Eastern Song Dynasty's colonial activities in "Australia".

Cai Jing, who was in his 80s, said nothing wrong. In the competition for "colonization of America", the Eastern Song Dynasty had great advantages.

Because that America (referring to Australia) is very close to Sandalwood Island, the spice island in the South Ocean. There are other so-called "spicy islands" near Sandalwood Island, which are the origin of spices that were comparable to India in the Middle Ages.

With these spice islands, there are conditions to establish commercial routes from Sandalwood Island to the coast of China, and there are a large number of merchant ships traveling.

Therefore, the Eastern Song Dynasty could send criminals to Sandalwood Island at a lower cost, and then use galleys to transport people to the so-called Americas.

In contrast, the colonization road of Great Zhou was much harder. There was nothing valuable around Liangshan Town on the Kamchatka Peninsula except bears skins. Moreover, the wind and waves in the surrounding waters far exceeded that of the equatorial windless zone.

In addition, the North Pacific Ocean (this time and space is called the Northeast) has strong winds in winter and summer, which is very unfavorable for long-distance navigation.

Therefore, the cost of the Great Zhou Dynasty's exploration of North America was much higher than that of the Eastern Song Dynasty's development of Australia. Of course, with the development of Bohai Island, Liangshan Town and various island bases in the East Ocean of Beida, the cost of the exploration of North America will gradually decrease in the future.

And for the Great Zhou Republic, there is time now!

Because the Europeans east of North America's east coast are busy dealing with the Western Liao Empire and the Golden Horde, and Spain is currently in the hands of the Tianfang Cult, so it is impossible for them to start a great voyage.

The trade routes between the East and the West have also become unimpeded due to the rise of the Christian Egyptian Kingdom.

Therefore, the merchants of Christian civilization are not interested in going to the North Atlantic to explore trade routes. Compared with the North Pacific, the wind and waves in the North Atlantic are even more terrifying!

Moreover, the information transmission in this era is relatively slow. The news of the discovery of the New World of the Eastern Song Dynasty and Great Zhou Dynasty cannot be transmitted to the West for ten or eight years...

Therefore, it is not the Westerners' turn to worry about the "growth space" of the Great Zhou and the Eastern Song Dynasty. However, Zhao Huan, an official of the Western Song Dynasty in Chang'an Prefecture, was worried about the "exploration of America".

"Is this American continent really as big as this globe marked on?"

Looking at the globe sent by Zhao Ji to him, Zhao Huan's face turned ashen as the blue one turned brown.

Compared with the Eastern Song and Great Zhou, the Western Song Dynasty was originally poor. Not to mention the barren land, there was not even a sea port. We could only watch the Eastern Song Dynasty and Great Zhou make a fortune.

It’s even worse now. The Eastern Song Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty have gained a new continent overseas.

This new continent is said to be larger than the Great Zhou and Song dynasties together! And it is a borderless land and a large fertile plain... This is simply God opened the back door for Wu Yijiu and Zhao Kai!

Now, as long as the Eastern Song Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty divide and digest this continent, their national strength will naturally be far superior to that of the Western Song Dynasty. How can the Western Song Dynasty compete with them?

More importantly, the emergence of the New World gave the Eastern Song and Great Zhou a goal of struggle and a direction of expansion.

And where is the direction of the Western Song Dynasty?

Expand eastward?

In the current Henan and Hedong battlefields, the Western Song Dynasty is still in a situation of being beaten. It is just that the solid urban defenses of Luoyang and Nanyang and the rugged terrain of Hedong are struggling to persist.

In the end, even if you keep it, you will lose many peripheral strongholds. In the future, the situation will only be more difficult.

As for the possibility of a decisive battle in Henan and Hedong... there is no such thing as now. First, it is indeed impossible to defeat; second, the logistics supply cannot keep up.

Especially on the battlefield in Henan, the Great Zhou Dynasty had the convenience of a canal, while the Eastern Song Dynasty had to transport grain for thousands of miles!

It's only a matter of time before the loss...

When Zhao Huan thought of the future and destiny of the country, he couldn't help but sigh.

"Your Majesty, are you thinking about getting a piece of land on the American continent, right?"

The person who spoke was Yao Gu, the current member of the Zhishumi Academy. As the older generation of Western Army generals, he reassured Zhao Huan more than those young and strong sects.

Zhao Huan smiled bitterly: "What's there to make? It's so far away... Even if there are mountains of gold and silver, it's not easy to transport it back. Besides, we don't have a sea port."
Chapter completed!