Spring in the South Seas is not much different from other seasons, and it is turquoise all year round.
The temperature here is hot all year round, only in the summer when it gets hotter, and the other three seasons are not cold.
However, there is one thing that Nanyang is very bad, or very uncomfortable for the Han people, that is, it is a rainy season except for summer, especially in spring and autumn, when it rains almost most of the time.
During the rainy season, the air becomes humid, making it seem as if you are inhaling a lot of water molecules every time you breathe, and if you have lung problems, you are really not suitable for staying in this environment.
"It's been raining for twenty-seven days in a row."
Liu Ming stood under the eaves and looked at the haze outside: "The rain is not strong, but it has not stopped."
No wonder the jungle here is so dense and the streams are even denser. ” It had been almost two months since they arrived in Malacca, and when they first arrived, they encountered a rainy season that lasted for more than ten days, stopped for about ten days, the sun showed its head for five or six days, and then it rained endlessly.
In the rainy weather, most of the fleet went to land.
There are well-established barracks facilities in Malacca, which can accommodate 300,000 troops, and the expeditionary fleet has 30,000 marines and more than 70,000 ship-borne personnel.
After several years of construction, Malacca not only has a complete permanent military camp, but also a large number of shore artillery positions have been built on both sides of the entire strait.
The number of batteries on both sides of the entrance and exit of the strait is the largest, and the caliber is generally more than 150 mm, the largest is 320 mm, and the smallest is 120 mm.
The large-caliber shore guns are basically placed in the fortress of permanent fortifications, and usually the design ports are closed mode, and if you do some camouflage, you can see a very ordinary mountain from a distance.
The turrets placed on the open side are generally placed with some small-caliber shore guns, which are not directly fixed by the gun body, but a style that can adjust the direction and elevation angle of the shot.
More than 1,000 years later, there were a group of ignorant people, they built shore artillery facilities, engaged in fixed batteries, after the gun body was fixed, not only could not adjust the elevation angle of the shot, but also the gun body could not be adjusted at all, the result was that the shore artillery positions built with a lot of money were invaded by the enemy's navy, and many shore guns could not aim at all, and the cannon roared and the sky sounded, and if you wanted to hit the enemy's warship, you could only rely on luck.
From the location of the barracks, you can see the surrounding shore artillery positions, but it is not so clear under the drizzle.
This place is densely forested, with mountains but not high altitudes.
After the Han people came, they wasted the boss's strength to cut down the jungle, and then artificially raised some sections, and most of the shore artillery forts in those hidden modes were artificially piled up of mountains.
"I heard that before the sixteenth year of Yuan Shuo, there was an endless stream of ships coming and going in the strait" Liu Ming imagined that picture in his mind: "What a lively scene it should be" At present, there are basically no merchant ships carrying goods, some of which are naval formations, and others are fleets of ships that are heading to or returning from Africa.
The rainy season doesn't just happen on land, with the offshore rains being lighter and the open seas being much heavier.
Some ships entering the port reported to the Nanyang Prefecture that they had found a dragon absorbing water in the southwest sea, and that a storm had formed in the northwest and southeast seas.
Every spring, storms form around Malacca, and they turn into hurricanes or typhoons as they get close to land.
Almost five or six days after the expeditionary fleet arrived at the military port of Malacca, a typhoon made landfall on the Luzon side, and after wreaking havoc on most of the islands, the typhoon headed for Zhuyazhou.
At the same time, the Nanyang Prefecture also learned that a hurricane had also made landfall in the southeast, and the winds raged on the long and narrow island, and large trees were uprooted under the strong winds.
Liu Ming heard that so far this year, Malacca has been lucky, at least there are no hurricanes or typhoons that make landfall, otherwise people would have to hide in strong fortifications.
When the Han people first arrived in Malacca, they were not familiar with the climate and did not know that there would be storms every year.
Without sufficient preparation, there was even a case where all the personnel of the Han people in one of the strongholds disappeared after the typhoon.
The people behind went to the rescue, and what they saw was a piece of rampant so that they couldn't see the traces of people living there, and they couldn't find a single corpse when they wanted to find it, and the hundreds of people disappeared completely.
After having enough lessons, the Han people understood that if they wanted to live a stable life in this place, they must have a strong enough house, and they should not build a house of wood and bamboo, nor can they build a house with rammed earth.
The Han people have a very long history of rammed earth houses, and they still know the basic common sense, knowing that rammed earth walls can never withstand the washing and soaking of rainwater.
In the north of the land of Zhuxia, the climate is relatively dry, and there are many rammed earth houses.
But if you go to the south, there are really not many pure rammed earth houses, either they are built with gravel, and some are made of long strips of stone, and even wooden houses are rare.
It's not easy to find stone in Malacca, and you can find that you might blow up a gem mine, or the rock is not suitable for building a house.
When the Han people came, they found that when they cleaned up the aborigines, the aborigines built houses looked very messy and nonsense, but the stones used by the aborigines were gem mines, and the wood belonged to the precious ones.
The natives did not know the value of the gemstones, but they could tell which wood was insect repellent.
The Han people's sense of gemstones is actually like that, for thousands of years they have attached importance to jade, and jadeite has only become popular in recent years, but they are very obsessed with fragrant wood.
There is no shortage of wood in Nanyang, which is considered to be of high value by the Han people, and when it is developed, it is not possible to arbitrarily set fire to destroy the woods, or even to carefully cut down the past one by one.
It is precisely because there is a lot of precious wood that there is a lot of material from this place, in exchange for a large amount of cement transported from the local area, and a piece of cement houses in Malacca is made, and cement is used to build permanent fortifications.
Liu Yan's emphasis on Malacca is unparalleled.
It became the first place ever to use a large number of metal to build fortifications, with more than 1,000 tons of iron reinforcement used so far, and more metal resources will be used to continue to build permanent fortifications.
This is the gateway, and the Han Empire does not pay attention to it, as long as it can control it, it is basically equivalent to controlling half of the world.
In such an important place, not to mention the use of 1,000 tons of pig iron, it is 10,000 tons and hundreds of thousands of tons of steel, which is not a wasteful thing.
"Great joy, what is the chief" Wu Lin's face was ecstatic: "I found that big island" Liu Ming's face was very confused.
"It's that big island" Wu Lin wanted to make it clear in the shortest language, but he was too excited but seemed a little uncontrollable, and said a lot before he concluded: "The super big island that the Han has been looking for since the eighth year of Yuan Shuo is a place full of iron. ” "The big island that my father called Australia" Liu Ming understood, his face was sluggish for a while, and then he was also ecstatic: "I really found it" Wu Lin nodded violently: "The Nanyang Metropolitan Protectorate has been confirmed."
Bursts of cheers came from all directions, completely muffling the sound of ticking water.
The Han people have reached the point of blind obedience to Liu Yan Liu Yan said that the Japanese islands were full of gold and silver, and the Han people used to be like that.
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Liu Yan also said that the southern border of the Han Dynasty was full of rare treasures, and the Han people came to explore and found spices, fragrant wood, precious stones, gold, copper ore, etc., which can definitely be defined as heavy treasure resources.
People don't want to explore how Liu Yan knows so much, they only know that Liu Yan not only leads them from this victory to another victory, but also constantly uses facts to prove that where Liu Yan says that where there are good things, there are good things there.
Then Liu Yan said that there is a super island in the south of Malacca, and there are amazing iron ore reserves on the island, and they have no reason not to believe it.
In fact, not to mention that the super island is full of iron, even if Liu Yan says that there is a big island in the world that is piled up with gems and gold, there will be a lot of people who believe it.
After nearly ten years of searching, the super island can be regarded as being found "Have you verified it again and again" Huan Wen was invited to the mansion by Fu Wei, and when he saw Fu Wei, he didn't have too much politeness: "Du Hu should know the importance of finding that island." ” Fu Wei knew the importance of this matter very well, and he would not dare to disclose it if he did not verify it.
"The luck of the Han" Huan Wen's eyes almost lit up: "The Han is becoming more and more short of iron ore, far less than copper, gold, and silver, if there is enough iron ore" This is an inevitable thing, with the development of industry, the demand for iron will definitely become a bottomless pit, no matter how much iron resources are not enough.
The metal resources that are easy to dig in the Han Empire, unless they are the kind that have not been discovered, or no matter what the metal resources are, the ones that are easy to dig have basically been hollowed out.
The country has entered the age of firearms, and the copper ore resources used in the initial stage will be massive, but firearms will inevitably evolve into the need for iron, especially steel, as firearms continue to develop, and the consumption of copper will not be less.
The army has always been a large consumer of resources, and the consumption under the age of cold weapons is huge, and after entering the age of firearms, especially the navy has a plan to build ironclad ships, it is conceivable how the demand for iron resources should be increasing.
Fu Wei is now full of red light.
He felt that he was really lucky, he didn't find it sooner or later, and when he became the protector of Nanyang, he found out that there was a super island.
This is a political achievement, and because it took so long to find it, it will inevitably be a great political achievement.
With his political achievements, he will not only increase his prestige, but also be a great boost to his future official career.
"Found is found."
Fu Wei tried his best to suppress his excitement, and said reservedly: "We still need to send people to continue to explore, and there will be no results in at least two years." ” The reason why I found that super island was purely accidental.
One fleet was forced to panic because it was not timely to escape the storm, and five of the twelve ships of the fleet sank, but it can be regarded as finding a relatively calm bay, waiting for the storm to pass only to find themselves in a completely unfamiliar environment.
According to the discipline, they found a strange place and sent ships to cruise around, and also sent people ashore to reconnoitre, only to find that the harbor was not near some small island.
The reconnaissance at sea quickly yielded results, and the answer was that the land seen was by no means a long or narrow island, or even an island, and it should be a land similar to the mainland of the Han Dynasty.
The group of people who went ashore to investigate ended badly.
They were challenged when they first landed, the beach was full of crabs, and a little bit deeper they encountered a wide variety of spiders, snakes and other poisonous insects that they had never seen before.
Strange things are not uncommon when the Han people are exploring outward, even if they are completely unseen, there are more or less precautionary measures, that is, because too unfamiliar relationships will inevitably lead to the loss of manpower.
They lost nearly 20 miles before they went deeper than 60 miles inland, but once again encountered more animals that they had never seen before.
One of them has a large body, which relies on both legs to jump, a large tail to balance the upright body, and two strong arms, and a very strange large bag in the abdomen.
In addition, it is a kind of bear-like, but the body is much smaller than a normal bear, with very long and thick nails, and then it looks like it has no ears, its eyes are relatively large and its limbs are very thick, and it always likes to hold on to a tree for a long time without moving, and when it moves slightly, it moves very slowly and slowly.
Then there is another animal similar to the bear, which is also much smaller, with larger and more fluffy ears, fat and a thick black nose, and the same as the previous one, which likes to stay in trees.
Huan Wen was taken by Fu Wei to a room with many animals and insects brought back from that super island.
"What is this thing, what is that bag for?"
"It looks like it's for food."
In fact, it is pretending to be cubs, but the Han people have not yet figured it out.
"These two bears are really too small."
"The difference in appearance is also huge, why don't you cut off your palm and try the taste?"
The koala is not delicious, and then the koala is so cute Huan Wen didn't pay attention to any exotic beasts, he went to look at all kinds of spiders and insects, and then his face was heavy.
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