Zhu Cilang is not unfamiliar with the place name Acapulco. It was a coastal port in Mexico in later generations and was also the route opened by the Spaniards from Asia to the Americas at this time. The Manila-Acapulco trade line, also known as the sailing trade.

Eighty years ago, Spain invaded Luzon and established the Governor's Office in Manila to start colonization. In the same year, this route from Asia to the Pacific Ocean, traveling between the Philippines (Luzon) and Mexico.

Every June, the Spaniards will sail from Manila to the north by taking the southwest monsoon, reaching the waters of 45° to 42° north latitude, travel eastward along the "black tide" in the North Pacific, and finally arrive at Acapulco. The journey takes more than 10,000 nautical miles, lasting about 6 months (the return journey is direct flight along the ocean current, lasting about 3 months).

When the Spanish went on their way, the main items carried by the sailboat were silk, lacquerware, porcelain, cotton, ivory, carpets and other goods from China, India, Persia, Japan and other countries, with a load capacity of 400 tons.

After arriving in Acapulco, most of these goods were sold to mainland Mexico and some were sold to South America and Spain.

The Spanish sailboats mainly carry silver coins, copper and other substances from the Americas.

Crops such as corn (corn), tobacco, peanuts, tomatoes, etc. in the Americas were introduced to Asia and China through this route, and Chinese culture also had a certain impact on American culture.

This trade line from Manila to Acapulco is operated exclusively by the Spanish royal family.

Historically, the Spanish traveled on this Pacific route for more than 200 years and traveled back and forth every year. It was not until the declining economy of Spain in the 19th century that this trade line declined and gradually abolished.

However, Zhu Ciyang was a little confused. What did the Qing Dynasty want this route to do?

After the Ming Dynasty recovered the Eastern Federation, the trade line between Spain, the Netherlands and the Tartars and Qing Dynasties was naturally cut off unless it was a detour.

Zhu Ciyang asked the Jinyiwei to transfer all information about the Qing Dynasty, Japan, Spain, and the Netherlands.

He also summoned a number of think tanks from the Hanlin Academy and the Painting Department to enter the palace to discuss staff.

In the Qianqing Palace, the ground was filled with maps and intelligence manuscripts. Dozens of elites sat on the ground, gathered together in groups of three or three to summarize the information, and analyzed the strategies and intentions of the Qing Dynasty's breakthrough.

Half an hour later, the old Hanlin, who was in his fifties, suddenly said, "Your Majesty, I have discovered something!"

The speaker was named Shi Zhidong, and his pen name was "Shi Hanlin". He was the first editor-in-chief of the Huangming Times. He was promoted by Zhu Cilang and entered the Hanlin Academy as he wished.

Zhu Cixuan came to him, sat on the ground, and said, "Mr. Shi, what did you find?"

The emperor was so polite, Shi Zhidong felt in his heart that he nodded slightly and pointed to the entire map of Kunyu Wanguo on the ground and said: "I read an article when I was in the newspaper office, which recorded that Japan had built a ship in the 41st year of Wanli to Melica in North Asia."

"What, the Japanese crossed the East Asia and visited Melica, North Asia thirty years ago?"

Zhu Ciyang was a little shocked. The Great East Ocean is the Pacific Ocean, the North Asia Melica is North America, and the South Asia Melica is South America. The Japanese actually traveled directly to the Americas from Japan across the Pacific Ocean?

Shi Zhidong nodded affirmatively and paddled on the map: "I remember that a group of Japanese people also took Spanish ships to Europa to meet the Pope. They called the Qingchang European envoys."

"It is said that the Europa people plundered everywhere in North and South Asia Melica, where countless gold and silver and slaves were very suitable for living."

He said: "I guess Hong Ni and Jiannu want to go to Yamelica through this route..."

"The Yin people crossed the east!"

Zhu Cilang took a deep breath and thought to himself that if this is true, then Hong Chengchou is so awesome that he actually wants to realize the Yin people's crossing east!

The so-called Yin people crossed the east, when King Wu defeated Zhou and captured Chaoge, the Shang capital. After King Zhou set himself on Lutai, 250,000 Shang soldiers and civilians disappeared. Many people speculated that they were escaping across the sea and encountered a storm on the way and were blown to America.

The person who proposed this conjecture was a British scholar in the 19th century. When he was translating the classical Chinese document "Shangshu", he also caused a considerable reaction at the beginning.

In 1910, the late Qing government sent special envoys to handle the special case of escorting escorts that killed 311 overseas Chinese during the Mexican Revolution. Regent Zaifeng approved the investigation of "whether there are any traces of the Yin people moving east among the overseas Chinese."

More than a hundred families of Yin Di'an who lived in Mexico at that time surrounded the special embassy and petitioned that the dead "Yin Di'an people" were of Chinese descent and descendants of the Yin people, named Yin Fubu tribe. They came here from the Floating Bridge Island (Bering Strait) of the Heavenly Kingdom three thousand years ago, and requested the Qing government to protect and claim compensation."

However, under the name of "rumor that it is difficult to make history three thousand years ago", Regent Zaifeng lost the request conveyed by Ouyang's special envoy, and the Qing Dynasty was destroyed the following year!

Zhu Cixuan, regardless of whether the Yin people traveled to the east, first found out whether the Japanese had been to America and Europe.

This kind of information search is the best thing for the Hanlin Academy. It was not far from now on thirty years ago. If you really can't find it, you can summon Japanese envoys to ask.

Zhu Cilang looked at the entire map of Kunyu Wanguo from Japan to America, and the ocean current distribution map learned in high school (a geography compulsory test) gradually emerged in his mind.

From a geographical analysis, Japan's warm currents and North Pacific warm currents are part of the North Pacific circulation and are very large.

The Alaska warm current is just a small tributary. The North Pacific warm current will be combined with the Thousand Islands cold current. The return of the Alaska warm current slowly cools down and becomes the California cold current.

Going south and to the tropical zone, it turns into a westerly drift. After being heated in the tropical zone, it turns into a warm current. When the Philippines turns north, it forms a Japanese warm current, that is, a powerful black tide (a small part forms an equatorial countercurrent to the south). This is the huge North Pacific circulation.

If the Qing Dynasties went to America, they could start from Aleutian, Kamchatka, which coincided with the warm currents of the North Pacific, and it was still the closest journey.

If the Ming Dynasty went there, you could also go to North America along the ocean current from Ryukyu.

When Zheng He went to the West to the West, he went to sea in winter, followed the northeast monsoon to Malacca, and then flowed counterclockwise along the North Indian Ocean to Arab East Africa.

In May, the North Indian Ocean began to blow southwest monsoon, forming a clockwise circulation, and Zheng He's fleet could return.

I returned to Malacca before September, and then dressed until the spring of the following year. I returned to China along the southwest monsoon, and returned to Liujiagang in June and July, which took about two years.

It is OK in scientific theory, but Zhu Cixuan also knows that without a transfer station or fresh fruit supply, it cannot support large-scale navigation. The risks are very high and the survival rate is very low.

Half an hour later, the Hanlin Academy compiled and found records about the Japanese National Day mission to send European embassies. At that time, Japan and Spain had a good relationship, suppressed the Netherlands and allowed the Catholicism to spread in Japan.

The two countries were in a honeymoon period, with various trade cooperation, and the Spaniards also built sea ships in Japan. Finally, the Japanese mission went to Europa to make an mission to Europe, and they went to the Great East (Pacific Ocean) and arrived in Mexico in North America first.

Later, due to religious issues, turmoil broke out in Japan. The Tokugawa shogunate drove away the Spaniards, instead collaborating with the Netherlands, and gradually began to close the country.

After hearing the entire incident, Zhu Cilang let out a long sigh. No wonder Hong Chengchou wanted to trade with Spain and form an alliance with Japan. This guy is so awesome! He has such great courage to survive!

Gradually, a smile appeared on Zhu Cilang's face.

The Qing Dynasty did not know the direction of the ocean currents corresponding to the time, the wind direction of the corresponding season, the supply points on the road could be replenished to what extent, and whether medicine could be found if the water and soil were not adapted to.

There are many difficulties. If the Qing Dynasty wants to cross the Pacific Ocean to go to America, many people will probably die!

Even after arriving in North America, the west coast of the United States was still an unknown area at this time, and I don’t know how many people would be killed in the harsh environment.

The Tartars cleared out of the way, either to go to Mexico to compete with the Spaniards, or to compete for territory with France and Britain eastward.

"The Eight Banners Army is a good choice to expand the territory for our Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Cilang's eyes were bright and he was looking forward to it!

The first task of the Ming Dynasty was to conquer the Eastern Front and then to attack the Southeast Asian Sea. America was too far away, so if you want to go to America, you should first grab the Spanish colony.

Spain's Asia base camp is right at home. In the future, when the Ming Dynasty accepted Luzon, you can directly follow the route from Manila to Acapulco to go to America.
Chapter completed!