My Daming New Empire

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The main reason for choosing this place as the first destination is because there is a world-class natural harbor here, and there are also sufficient fresh water resources here.

Of course, the more important thing is that there are many mineral resources here. There are many mining areas within the urban area of ​​Brisbane in later generations. The Alman copper mine in the northwest of the city is one of the top ten gold and copper mines in Australia. one.

With its superior geographical environment and climate, this place has become one of the most suitable bases for developing South Continent. Compared with the harsh environment in the north, it is more suitable for large-scale development.

The fleet finally sailed to the Tropic of Capricornus, which also means that the fleet has completed the complex terrain of the Great Barrier Reef and can sail towards the coastline.

The fleet only sailed west for a day before they could see the coastline of South Africa.Being able to see the mainland, everyone on the fleet became more energetic.

No matter who you are, no matter how much you like the sea, there is always a sense of expectation for the mainland.

Humans are, after all, terrestrial animals.

A pilot boat kept testing the water depth, and Zhu Zhanji's flagship also sailed to the waters only a few kilometers away from the coast, where he could clearly see the trees on land.

"Your Highness, you could see the white sandy beach on the shore yesterday, why is it still like this today?"

Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "This is the most famous beach in Nanzhou. It is said that it is nearly a thousand miles long from north to south."

From the northernmost Fraser Island on the Sunshine Coast to the Gold Coast in the south, there are beaches with beautiful sandy beaches.

In fact, in the eastern part of Nanzhou, most of the beaches are also sandy beaches, which is indeed a miracle of nature.

In the evening, the messenger ship sent a message and found the strait.

The reason why Brisbane is known as a world-class bay is that she has three connected islands, forming a natural breakwater.

And these three islands only opened a strait less than ten kilometers wide in the north direction.The entire direction facing the eastern sea was surrounded.

Cargo ships with a capacity of 20 tons can berthed here in later generations, which is not a problem at all for the largest wooden ships with a class of less than [-] tons.

Take Zhu Zhanji's flagship as an example. This ship is more than 100 meters long, 50 meters wide, and has a draft of just over [-] meters. After that, there are [-]-ton cargo ships in the world, and the draft generally exceeds [-] meters.

In other ports, you may need to be careful to dock, but it is not difficult to dock here.

However, it was getting late, and it was not the typhoon season in Nanzhou. When other ships entered the bay area, they began to send people ashore to check the terrain. These large ships were still parked on the sea surface of the bay area.

On the second day, the advance ship entered the main river here, which is later known as the Brisbane River and explored upstream.

The soldiers who stayed at the base camp began to go ashore and set up camp on the shore.

When they came back at night, they not only caught a kangaroo and several koalas, also known as koalas.

Asking Li Liang to send some koalas to the back cabin to be teased by some women, he couldn't wait to ask: "What's the situation on the shore?"

The leader of the team, Zhang Fengshan, saluted respectfully and replied: "The last general led 200 people and marched up the river for about 27 miles. The river is winding, and we turned [-] bends in [-] miles.

The trees on both sides of the river are lush and densely covered with jungle.The land here is a mixture of loess and red soil, which is not fertile, and because it is close to the sea, it is relatively alkaline.

The general and his subordinates are currently drawing a map here, but because this is a hilly area, it may take at least five days to draw a detailed map. "

"Have you found any natives?"

"I was about to report to His Highness that as soon as I went ashore today, the general found traces of human activities, and found this..."

What Zhang Fengshan presented was a roughly processed wooden hard crossbow arm, which was discarded by the natives because it was broken.

Zhu Zhanji lost interest after looking at it. This kind of processing technology is so rough that Zhu Zhanji suspected that they were scraped out with stones.

Zhang Fengshan continued: "But the general searched for a day with everyone, but he didn't see any natives, let alone the smoke from cooking. We'll go out and search again tomorrow."

Zhu Zhanji knew that the aborigines in Australia mainly lived on hunting and gathering. They didn't know how to fish, so they seldom went to the seaside for activities.

Brisbane is surrounded by hills and low mountains on three sides, and faces the sea on one side. It is not an area where natives like to move.

He nodded and said: "Go out to search tomorrow, and bring more glazed objects and salt. Those natives like these things. You can bring enough luggage and dry food. The range of activities can be larger, and there is no need to rush back."

"Yes!"

After finishing the official duties, I went back to the back cabin, only to see a few women busy making nests for the koalas.Their lives are monotonous, and now they can't help but be overjoyed to have such a cute little animal.

Even those women of different races, who usually live cautiously, stayed in the hall to watch the koalas at this time.

Ma Xin hugged a baby koala who was still a cub, and couldn't bear to let go.It's a pity that these koalas didn't give her any face, they nestled lazily in her arms, and didn't want to talk to her no matter how teased they were.

Seeing Zhu Zhanji, her lovely big eyes are full of expectation. "Your Highness, shall we raise it?"

(Australia is not going to write too much detail, because there are not many struggles here, and speed up to West Asia and Western Europe.)

Thank you for being afraid of rubbing mud, bamboo sticks, clouds and stars, and lights to see people, I spit you for the reward, thank you for your support

Chapter 34 Explore

Queensland, which is radiated by Brisbane, is one of the regions with the richest resources in Australia, but for Daming, this is a tasteless place.

It is rich in resources and has various minerals, but in the coastal area, there are only a few large coal mines and bauxite mines.

There is a world-class gold mine north of here, but inland.What's more, the gold mines here also contain uranium, and this kind of precious mineral resources cannot be utilized at all in this era.

Equally concerned is the Olympic Dam gold mine in southern Australia, which is rich in gold and copper but also rich in uranium.

In terms of reserves, the Olympic Dam gold mine is one of the largest gold mines in the world.In later generations, this gold mine was developed by Australia for 20 years, and the main deposit has not yet been dug. The output of the peripheral deposit alone has already become one of the largest gold mines in the world.

In terms of resources, the current development is a great waste. The reserves of precious uranium ore are very small in the world. The more waste is now, the less will be in the future.

But from the perspective of the expansion of the entire Ming Dynasty, these gold mines can only play a greater role than economic benefits at this time.

But other people did not have Zhu Zhanji's ambivalence. A continent not much smaller than that was presented in front of everyone, and everyone felt extremely excited.

That night, most of the cooks did not sleep, they baked pancakes at the base of the fleet overnight.

In order to boost morale, under the arrangement of Zhu Zhanji, the logistics department slaughtered [-] pigs at once, and used pork to bake meatloaf and broth for all the soldiers.

In the early morning of the next day, whether it was a navy officer or a young army officer, they all started to form teams and carry out large-scale exploration operations.

Each exploration team broke the original army organization, in addition to the musketeers, there were also swordsmen, and the transport team.In addition to these personnel, each exploration team is also equipped with members for surveying terrain, surveying geology, and surveying creatures.

I caught a kangaroo yesterday. Although the kangaroo meat is thicker and more fishy, ​​after using spices to suppress the smell, it has a special taste.

Anyway, it's all meat!

Moreover, His Royal Highness Taisun believes that this kind of meat is not much worse than beef when made into jerky after being marinated, so today he also ordered that all the expedition teams see this animal, catch it, slaughter it and make it into jerky.

But he also knows the food-eating nature of the Chinese nation, and he is afraid of eating this kind of creature to extinction, so he also asks that the cubs and lactating kangaroos are not allowed to be killed.

As a general, Sunan's subordinates are in charge of five warships, with a total of 1000 and 50 people.

Coupled with the 2000 young troops and dozens of messengers and medical soldiers on board their ship, the total number of their fleet reached [-].