The ancients revisited the heavens, the North Star disappeared, the position of the moon and the sea changed, many stars that could once be seen disappeared, and some unseen stars appeared in Ji Mengchen's field of vision.It made people feel as if they had entered another world, which made people panic.For this vision, Ji Mengchen and Cheng Bi were afraid, but in order to avoid panic in the fleet and cause panic among the crew, Cheng Bi and Ji Mengchen did not make a noise, and the fear only spread in a small area.Cheng Bi's face was gloomy, "Why is this so?"
The Beidou disappeared, the stars shifted, and the eternals were unheard of, how could such a thing happen?
”After Ji Mengchen was flustered for a while, he gradually calmed down, locked his eyebrows and thought for a while, and then guessed: "Sir, before sailing, the farther north you go, the higher the height of Beichen, and the farther south you go, the lower the height of Beichen."
Yu guessed that the disappearance of Beichen may be related to our voyage to the south, but Yu can't figure it out, sailing south, Beichen should just be getting lower and lower, why did it disappear?
”Ji Mengchen said, suddenly something sounded, and an unbelievable look suddenly appeared in his eyes.Seeing this, Cheng Bi hurriedly asked, "Huiming, what did you find?"
”Ji Mengchen's face was weird, and he said half-loudly: "Yu remembered a book I had read in the business bookstore before. ”After speaking, Ji Mengchen suddenly said: "Sir, can you make the fleet turn and sail north!"
”Cheng Bi frowned when he heard this: "I'm afraid not at this time, the Dutch are behind you, and you will meet the Dutch!"
”Cheng Bi looked at Ji Mengchen and asked in a deep voice, "What did you think of?"
”Ji Mengchen shook his head, the expression on his face was still a little weird, with horror and disbelief, "Yu is still not sure, maybe what the book says is right, only in this way can it be explained, but how is this possible?"
”The fleet continued to sail, the sun and moon alternated, black and white transformed, and after entering the day, Ji Mengchen soon found that the position of the sun had also changed.In the process of sailing, the compass can only simply point out one direction, to know the exact position of oneself, you must calculate your position through the position and altitude of the sun, moon, and stars, in order to know how to continue sailing.A few days later, soon, as Ji Mengchen said, the fleet lost course on the sea.It's not that the fleet doesn't know how to go north and south, but it doesn't know where it is, whether it has bypassed Sumatra and reached the south of the strait between Sumatra and Java, and it's time to turn north.Because of the unfamiliarity with the water lines, the ships were worried about running aground, and the Dutch were in pursuit, so the fleet had to sail away from the mainland.After losing the means to judge their position, turning north in advance may hit Sumatra, and turning too late, they may drive to Java, and because they can't judge the position, the coastline that can be seen by the naked eye is almost the same, and the fleet does not know whether it has reached Sumatra or Java.Having lost course, the fleet feared that it would meet the Dutch when it turned, so it continued to drift southeasterly for a few days.The fleet set out from the Sri Lankan stronghold of Lion City, crossed the Indian Ocean, and then met the Dutch in the east of Sumatra, where they were forced to sail southeast.Originally, the fleet was expected to arrive in Palembang for replenishment in a month and a half at most, but now it has been adrift at sea for nearly two months.Soon, the fleet was running out of fresh water and food, and the vast sea around it made the fleet feel a sense of despair.Since discovering that Beichen had disappeared, Ji Mengchen's spirit seemed a little abnormal to outsiders.He barely spoke to anyone all day, fiddling with the star-holding board almost all the time, writing down the information he observed.At noon that day, the flotilla continued its voyage, and in the shadows under the sails on deck, the sailors and crew lay sitting or lying down, with chapped lips, listlessness, and despair, and the ship was silent.At this time, in the south of the fleet, a piece of land suddenly appeared."
Look, there's a continent!"
On the lookout, the lookout sailor shouted.On the deck, the crew, who were lying in the shade under the sails, could not help but rise one after another, walked to the side of the ship, looked in the direction of the water finger, and sure enough, saw a coastline appear in the south.For a moment, the sailors on the ship immediately cheered.After sailing for nearly two months, there was land, water and food, and everyone was excited.The cheers alarmed Cheng Bi, Ji Mengchen and others, and everyone ran to the bow of the boat to check, but they were all surprised when they saw the continent in the distance.Ji Mengchen hurriedly picked up a pair of nautical charts to check, then looked up at the land in front of him, and said in astonishment: "How can there be such a huge piece of land here?"
”Cheng Bi was also full of surprise, because on the nautical chart, the south of Sumatra and Java was a blank sea, and there was no land at all.Ji Mengchen's face was full of disbelief, "How is this possible?"
”Since the fleet crossed the equator, the world that Ji Mengchen was familiar with gradually collapsed.At this time, Cheng Bi on the side was surprised, but suddenly exclaimed, "It's Xinmingzhou!"
”"New Mingzhou?"
Ji Mengchen's face was puzzled.Cheng Bi suddenly remembered that two years ago, on the night before he left Shanghai, Zhao Ming had talked with him and said some things.At that time, he felt that he had rich sailing experience, and Zhao Ming was just a layman, so he didn't take Zhao Dashuai's words too seriously.Now he suddenly recalled the words that Zhao Ming said to him that night, and he was suddenly a little shocked and couldn't close his mouth."
Dashuai is really a god!"
Cheng Bi exclaimed and had to be convinced, then looked at Ji Mengchen and explained: "Before I set off from Shanghai, Dashuai told me that in the south of Java Island, there is a vast borderless land called Xinmingzhou!"
It's a new continent!
”Zhao Ming said that the new Ming state is Australia, and Australia at this time, between 1642 and 1644, was led by the Dutch Tasman to carry out preliminary exploration, and named New Netherland.Many Dutch people do not know about this land, let alone others, and because this land has just been discovered, it has not been marked in previous nautical charts, and the south of Java Island is mostly a vast ocean.Cheng Bi didn't expect that Zhao Ming, a person who had never sailed in the ocean, would actually know that there was such a land tens of thousands of miles away.Ji Mengchen muttered, "New Mingzhou, New World!"
Zhao Ming's prophecy appeared, which made Cheng Bi suddenly feel refreshed, swept away the panic after the loss, and the strangeness of entering a new environment, feeling that everything was actually still under Zhao Dashuai's control.Cheng Bi waved excitedly, "Order the fleet!"
Full sail and look for a suitable port to dock and replenish!
”Eighteen sea ships suddenly faced the sun, their sails fluttered, and their sterns flashed white wake, sailing southward.()