My Daming New Empire

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Looking at the corpses being carried out, Zhu Zhanji's face was extremely gloomy.

The strong wind continued, and most people were busy fastening the cabin and salvaging the wet cargo.

Those porcelains don't matter, but silk, tea, and spices are all goods that cannot be wetted.

In the face of this strong wind, most of these cargo ships were intact. This is because the cargo ships are full of cargo, so they are relatively heavy and can withstand strong winds.

But there were only soldiers on the battleship, and they were much lighter than the heavy cargo, so most of the ships that capsized were warships.

Those members of the clan who spent their days drinking and drinking all the way and regarded this trip as a way of entertainment, after experiencing this storm, they still have lingering fears.

Several younger ones kept wiping away their tears, and his own brother Zhu Zhanyong was among them.

Morale was already low, but when they cried, it even lowered the morale of the soldiers.

Zhu Zhanji walked over and saw Zhu Zhanyong standing barefoot on the beach with a haggard look. He felt a little distressed, but more annoyed.

"A man bleeds but not tears, why cry?"

"Brother, I miss my concubine..."

"As a descendant of the Zhu family, enjoying the glory and wealth, you should put the country's affairs first. Seeing that you are thin and weak, it seems that you have neglected exercise. If you can't be on the same boat with me, you can't neglect exercise. Li Liang, arrange Take them all back by boat, don't let them get in the way here."

If something goes wrong, it needs to be resolved. In such a critical time, it is useless for those who cannot contribute to stay here, and it will affect morale instead.

This is because it is Zhu Zhanyong, after all, his own younger brother, and he is only twelve or thirteen years old. If it were someone else, Zhu Zhanji would have lost his temper a long time ago.

After dismissing the clan, Zhu Zhanji sent the remaining [-] doctors in the fleet to rescue the wounded.

The seriously wounded were treated by more than a dozen imperial doctors assigned by their clan, and the lightly wounded were treated by ordinary doctors.

Most of the wounded were traumatic, either serious enough to die, or not life-threatening due to limb injuries. For doctors, such injuries are relatively easy to treat.

Although Zhonghezi is over 70 years old, he is still healthy and strong. He was the busiest on the beach where the wounded were cleared out.

The personnel are easy to treat, but the loss of the fleet this time is relatively large.

Although all the ships have lowered their sails, almost every ship has a broken mast, and many ships have their hulls damaged.

Like Zhu Zhanji's flagship, three masts were broken and several city walls collapsed.And because the upper part was connected to other ships, almost all the wooden railings above were damaged, and the deck was cracked in several places.

Hundreds of ships need simple repairs, and there are more than a dozen ships that do not need repairs at all. These have to be dealt with one by one.

Zhu Zhanji first arranged for two relatively lightly damaged ships to report to the former army, and then discussed with Zheng He and the others. It is unrealistic to bring so many corpses back, and it is easy to cause plague, so he simply cremated and brought the ashes back .

All the corpses were identified, cremated by the same robes of the same ship, and then stored in an altar.

The most troublesome thing is to repair the ship. In order to repair the ship, the army can only stay in place and send water ships to transport fresh water.

Fortunately, when the army set off, it had already anticipated that there would be ship damage. Several ships were dedicated to transporting wood, masts, and sails for repairing ships.

Even if the ship is damaged on a large scale now, some materials can be patched together to meet the needs.

It's just that if there is another storm like this, many ships will have to lie down.

It was not until the end of May that all the ships were repaired.The expedition team sent by the former army has already sorted out some areas in southern South Africa.So this time, the fleet will not stop in Cape Town, but will go directly north to Europe.

Because it is winter now, there are not many indigenous people in South Africa, and the exploration team came into contact with some indigenous people.They are not pure blacks, they are equivalent to the centrists between the yellow race and the black race, but are closer to the yellow race.

I saw Daming people who also belonged to the yellow race. They were very friendly. Although they didn't understand the language, they exchanged a lot of gold with some cloth and ironware at a rather deceitful price.

When the fleet traveled again, Zhu Zhanji's mood had already calmed down.After the army was assembled, his energy was mainly focused on learning Italian and Spanish from a group of generalists, and understanding the current political environment in Europe.

Through these businessmen, Zhu Zhanji really understood that although Europe today is no longer threatened by the Black Death, it is still indescribably chaotic.

Britain and France are still engaged in the Hundred Years' War, and the Holy Roman Empire currently has no emperor because of the struggle between the Pope and the imperial power.The Byzantine Empire was crumbling under the attack of the Ottoman Empire, and thanks to Timur's defeat of the Ottoman Empire, it gave them a chance to breathe.

The Holy Roman Empire of this era included central Europe, the Netherlands, eastern France, northern Italy, and the huge territory of the Balkan Peninsula.

However, there are more than a dozen big princes, more than 200 small princes, thousands of independent empire knight territories, and many autonomous cities on this territory.

As a result, a loose confederation was formed. The emperor was the nominal leader of the confederation, but the actual power he held was no more than that of a big prince.

Today, the center of Europe is still southern Europe, the Italian peninsula is the economic center, and remote Greece is more important than Britain and France.

Of course, there is no such country as Italy now. Italy has always been a loose fiefdom in history. It has not been a country since the earliest Roman Empire.

It was not until the nineteenth century that a country was formed because of the rise of nationalism.

(I won’t write much about some historical materials. For the sake of transition, many plots have not been written in these chapters, just to speed up the progress. The European plot needs to control the rhythm and strive to write more exciting. The next chapter will enter Europe)

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Chapter 44 The First Contact between Eastern and Western Civilizations

"Your Highness, the ancient six calendars of the previous dynasty, namely the Huangdi calendar, Zhuanxu calendar, Xia calendar, Yin calendar, Zhou calendar, and Lu calendar. Except for the Huangdi calendar, the other five calendars have been gradually abandoned due to their own shortcomings. According to the emperor's Tiangandizhi According to the year, this year is the 4115th year of the Yellow Emperor's calendar."

Tang Yu, a subordinate officer of Qintian Supervisor, had a rare opportunity to show his face in front of Zhu Zhanji. Today, the officials from all over the fleet gathered together, which made him excited and broke down the Yellow Emperor's Chronicle in detail.

Zhu Zhanji nodded to him, looked away, looked at the people in front of him and said: "My next year's calendar, because it has been changing with the throne, it seems a bit confusing. Even my great-grandson often can't figure out the year. Let alone ordinary people, barbarians and frontier people. Therefore, for the prestige of my great unification of the Ming Dynasty, and to determine my status as the supreme kingdom of the Great Tomorrow Dynasty, I wish to use the Yellow Emperor's chronology of the heavenly stems and earthly branches together with the chronology of the emperor's throne from now on, so that the barbarian country can also To be able to bathe in the glory of my Great Ming."

Those generals didn't care about the year, and they didn't understand why Zhu Zhanji called the crowd, but he brought up such an issue first.

But Jin Chun and Xie Jin are very clear about the significance of doing this. Nowadays, no matter whether it is Ming Dynasty, Dongying, or a small country in Nanyang, there is no unified chronological standard, and they are often calculated according to the reign name of the reigning monarch.

This calculation method is easy for them to calculate, because every Confucian student starts from Confucianism, the first thing to learn is to remember the emperors starting from the Three Emperors and Five Emperors.

But the common people don’t know how to count, not to mention this barbarian land, even in the villages of Daming, most people don’t understand the origin of the celestial stems and earthly branches and the 24 solar terms.

Jin Chun bowed with some concern and said: "Your Highness, the determination of the chronology of the heavenly stems and earthly branches needs to be hand-picked by Your Majesty. My Ming Dynasty now implements the Datong Calendar, which was determined by the Taizu himself. It is really inappropriate to change it hastily."

Of course Zhu Zhanji knows that the calendar is the most important thing in the country. The enthronement and removal of every emperor is the most important thing for the country.

Determining the calendar year requires many discussions between the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty and the emperor before it can be determined.

As a grandson of myself, he suddenly proposed to notify the barbarian countries according to the Yellow Emperor's calendar, which is a serious crime of beheading.

But Zhu Zhanji really neglected this matter at the beginning. He didn't suddenly think of this question until recently when he asked businessmen from the Western Regions about major events in Europe.

In ancient China before the Ming Dynasty, the calendar was recalculated almost every few emperors. According to Tang Yu’s rough statistics, before the unification of the Qin Dynasty, the Three Emperors and Five Emperors mostly implemented the ancient six calendars. The calendar has been changed nearly fifty times.Especially during the Tang and Song Dynasties, almost every emperor had to change the calendar when he ascended the throne.

Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, Hongwu set up an observatory in Jiming Mountain, Nanjing in the 17th year, and ordered Dr. Yuantong to revise the calendar, which is still named "Datong", and the points are all based on the method of "Shoushi" in the Yuan Dynasty. .Later, due to the inaccurate calculation of solar eclipses, those who ruled the calendar entered the new calendar and demanded reform, but the Ming Dynasty continued to use the "Da Tong Li".

Zhu Zhanji now proposes to use the Yellow Emperor's calendar to publicize externally, which is really treasonous.

But Zhu Zhanji didn't want to revise the calendar, but just used the Yellow Emperor's calendar to tell the world what year it is when he publicized it to the outside world.

He didn't want to regard the year of Jesus' birth as the year of the Christian era, and although the length of each year in the Western calendar is not much different, in fact, it is useless except for the simple calculation.