Rebirth: Overthrow Song Dynasty

In the summer of the same year, Wu Gongzheng led 10,000 troops on a long voyage across the Atlantic Ocean!

Last winter, Wu Gong was appointed Vice Minister by the Ministry of Oceans! The Ministry of Ocean and Military jointly issued an order for Wu Gong to lead a 10,000-strong navy to continue exploring the world and searching for new territories.

In the first half of the year, Wu Gong was still in the American continent, and he felt more and more that the American continent was extremely huge, much larger than the current Central Plains of the Great Song Dynasty! With the American continent, Da Song's territory can be doubled! In Wu Gong's view, the biggest problem in Song Dynasty now is also the population problem! The population of the Song Dynasty is already the largest in the world, but it still cannot meet the needs of the country's expanding land.

In July, Wu Gong came out of Hudson Bay, entered the Atlantic Ocean all the way, and planned to go east.

In history, the Portuguese Magellan spent three years sailing around the world, but Magellan spent half of his time on the American continent. In fact, he only sailed for one and a half years! Now the fleet led by Wu Gong is even more advanced than Magellan at that time. He leads a fleet consisting of one treasure ship, three blessing ships, and thirty medium warships, and the speed will never be slower than Magellan. ! There are so many supplies on the treasure ship, enough to supply the entire fleet for half a year!

The fleet has been heading towards the east continuously on the vast sea, and it has been a month since they walked, and they are still on the sea!

At this time, everyone in the fleet felt a sense of terror in their hearts. They didn't know when this voyage would end! Although they are all navy, they have never experienced such a boundless voyage!

Fifty days later, they still haven't seen the end of the ocean.

That night, they encountered a huge storm. Three medium-sized warships were destroyed by the storm. The crew on the remaining ships rushed to rescue, but dozens of people were still missing.

"My lord, if you keep going like this, you don't know when it will end?" On the treasure ship, a school captain came to Wu Gong's side, and said worriedly.

"I am the Vice Minister of the Oceanic Department. My mission is to explore the world. This is an order from His Majesty and the Government Council! The supplies on our ship are enough to supply us with half a year's survival. In another month, if we still cannot find the mainland, Let's start heading back!" Wu Gong said after being silent for a while.

"Okay!" The captain nodded.

The storm gradually stopped, and there was drizzle in the sky. Standing at the bow of the boat, Wu Gong felt a little uneasy. He didn't know when he would be able to see the new continent, even if it was a bigger island. !

At this moment, he suddenly missed life on land, his family, the military camp, Dengzhou Tianjin Wei Gaoli, his eyes were a little moist.

But soon, he burst out laughing.

"Haha, it's ridiculous that a storm frightened me into such a state! When I was on the battlefield, I didn't back down even a single step in the face of the enemy's swords and arrows! I have decided that in another month, I let the rest of the soldiers go back, and I will continue to move forward even if I am rowing a small boat! I must go to the end of the world! My country is powerful in the Song Dynasty, far away from the Han and Tang Dynasties, whether it is agriculture, commerce, The military and education have reached unprecedented peaks in China, but we still haven’t found the end of the world, and I, Wu Gong, will find the end of the world for the Song Dynasty and China!” Wu Gong’s face showed a firm look, and he thought to himself.

Until October, the fleet had already negotiated to return, and Wu Gong ordered to go forward for another three days.

On the third day, when the sun was setting and everyone had disappointed expressions on their faces, Wu Gong suddenly pointed forward and said, "Look, what is that?"

Countless soldiers on the treasure ship looked forward, only to see a faint black line in front of them, if there was any!

"Quick! Keep going!" Wu Gong ordered loudly, and said.

The soldiers on the treasure ship also showed curious expressions at this moment, and the fleet continued to move forward.

After a quarter of an hour, everyone on the fleet cheered!

There is land ahead!

*****

On the ninth day of October in the seventeenth year of Xuanwu, a fleet of 10,000 people led by Wu Gong came to the area around Cape Barres near the sea in the northwest of France.

They have not yet approached the coast, and countless fishing boats by the sea have discovered this fleet.

When they came to the shore, they immediately caused a sensation.

Numerous yellow-haired, blue-eyed Frenchmen scrambled to watch these unprecedented large ships on the shore!

In particular, the huge treasure ship amazed the French.

There are soldiers of the Song Army on all the ships, and these soldiers of the Song Army are holding the most advanced murderous weapon of this era-the Song Crossbow! Their waists are equipped with sharp swords!

Wu Gong had an expression of extreme surprise on his face, he led dozens of people off the treasure ship, and soon people surrounded him.

The people here not only look weird, but also wear strange clothes, Wu Gong has never seen these people before! He had seen Indians and Arabs before, but their dress was different from the people here.

A local who seemed to be an official came over and asked.

"What did he say?" Wu Gong asked.

The surrounding soldiers shook their heads, but no one could understand.

The official opposite was also stunned, not knowing what to do.

"Let the sailors come down!" Wu Gong said.

After a while, dozens of sailors got off the treasure ship! Treasure ships are the most advanced ships in the Song Dynasty. Such ships are only equipped in the army now, and the sailors on board are also carefully selected by the Government Affairs Council. Many sailors have experience in oceangoing sailing.

Many of these sailors can speak Arabic or Indian Indian, but they still cannot understand the local officials facing each other.

Only one sailor asked a question in another strange language after listening for a while, and the French officer on the opposite side showed a joyful expression on his face, and immediately asked.

"My lord, the language they speak is somewhat similar to the language west of the Dashi, and the villain can understand it." The sailor said.

It turned out that the French officer spoke French, the sailor responded in Latin, and the officer also spoke Latin! Dashi is Arabia, which is the ancient Chinese name for Arabia.

"Come and ask, what is this place?" Wu Gong said joyfully.

The sailor started to ask questions, and after a while, the sailor said: "My lord, this is just west of Dashi!"

A surprised expression appeared on Wu Gong's face, and he said, "West of Dashi? Is this in the west of my China? But we came here all the way east! No!"

The rest of the soldiers also had puzzled expressions on their faces, including the sailors.

"My lord, they welcome us!" After a while, the sailor said again.

"Come here, offer us a gift." Wu Gong said with a smile.

Soon someone sent up exquisite porcelain, silk, books, etc. Seeing these gifts, the surrounding French people were amazed again. In this era, Chinese porcelain and embroidery had been introduced to Europe through Indian and Arab merchants, but the price in Europe was extremely expensive. There were hundreds of pieces of porcelain presented by Wu Gong, and each piece was carefully prepared by the Government Council. The porcelain brought here by Indian and Arab merchants is much more exquisite! As for the silk, it was also carefully selected, far better than what they had seen before! Those books exude the fragrance of brush and ink, but they are printed with the latest movable type, but the people here can't understand the words on them.

*****

After that, Wu Gong and others stayed here.

When they came out, they carried enough gold and silver with them. In any place in ancient times, gold and silver were valuable money.

While Wu Gong got in touch with the French here and learned the language here, he sent people to investigate the situation on this continent.

It was not until the first month of the seventeenth year of Xuanwu that he had a general understanding of this place.

The country they are in is called France, and it is a famous big country on this continent.

But there is no emperor in this country, only a king, and the king's name is Henry IV! However, the king of this country cannot manage every part of the country at all. There are also nobles such as dukes and marquises in the country. Many nobles have their own fiefs, and nobles are almost equivalent to emperors in the fiefs! Even some high-level knights have their own fiefs!

There is a huge island in the north, and there are three countries on that island, England, Scotland, and Wales! The country there is the same as France, they have dukes, marquises, knights, etc. besides the king.

However, the most powerful country on this continent is neither England nor France, but a country called the "Holy Roman Empire".

The emperor of this "Holy Roman Empire" has just signed an agreement with the Pope. The emperor recognizes the divine right of kings, and the emperor must be canonized by the Pope to ascend the throne!

On this continent, all the people believe in one religion, and they have to go to church every seven days to worship! The status of the pope is supreme, besides the pope, there are several cardinals, and those cardinals have more rights than the king!

For the collected information, Wu Gong found it incredible! Why is this continent in such chaos? Why does the pope have more power than the emperor and the king?

He didn't know that now is the most chaotic and darkest Middle Ages in European history!

The power of the Holy See has reached its apex in this era. The Pope and the bishop are the real rulers of this continent. Inquisitions are scattered all over Europe. Whether it is nobles, commoners, or even kings, as long as they violate the teachings of the Holy See, the Inquisitions will be punished. Can be convicted! The Holy See opposes all new things and new technologies, and strictly controls the dissemination of scientific ideas! There are also schools in Europe in this era, but all schools are seminaries! The world-famous great library of ancient Rome was burned by the Holy See, and various ancient Greek books were also burned by the Holy See. The Italian astronomer Dascoli was burned alive as a heretic. His crime was that he violated the teachings of the Bible and argued that the earth Spherical, thinking that there are human beings on another hemisphere!

The whole of Europe is strictly hierarchical, and the top of the pyramid is undoubtedly the pope, followed by the German Holy Roman Emperor, then the cardinal, and then the kings of various countries, dukes, marquess, earls, viscounts, knights, etc., almost All nobles have their own territories, and the king actually only rules his own territory, not the entire country. The Holy Roman Empire was actually a loose body composed of countless principalities, noble territories, and city-states. The emperor of the Holy Roman Empire was selected from eight "Grand Dukes", and he was enthroned only after accepting the canonization of the Pope.

"My lord, we have asked carefully. From here to the east, we can indeed reach the Dashi, and then to the east is Tianzhu, and then we are in the Song Dynasty! We came out of the Song Dynasty and walked eastward, why? Are you going back to Song Dynasty again?" said several sailors accompanying the ship.

These sailors are people who specialize in determining sea lanes and sea lines, and their sailing experience is extremely rich.

"Are you sure we didn't go wrong?" Wu Gong frowned and said

"My lord, there is no mistake! We are indeed going all the way east! The direction of the compass is not wrong!" Said the ship master.

"Strange, really weird! Incredible!" Wu Gong said.