C2038 Atlantic Passage (1/2)
As the boat traveled across the Atlantic, Zai Chun saw something even more surprising. The scene here was different from the ones in the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean and even Asia.
When Zai Chun was in the Mediterranean Sea, he had already experienced the prosperity of Europe and the development of navigation. Unfortunately, the structure of the Mediterranean Sea was still too small, and the countries along the Mediterranean Sea were not rich enough.
Where Zai Chun saw many fishing boats, small merchant ships that were less than a hundred tons, as well as a large number of private yachts, the Mediterranean was more like a European's pond.
However, the Atlantic Ocean was different. It had the main waterway of North America Continent, South America Continent and Africa, which was the first Europe to have a back garden.
This was the starting point for European exploration of the oceans, and the earliest directions for outward colonization were Southern North America and Africa. During the Spanish era, countless pieces of gold, silver, ivory, coffee, sugar, wood and various precious goods crossed the Atlantic to be used by Europeans.
Before the Suez Canal was opened, the Europeans would have to take a detour around the southernmost Cape of Good Hope in Africa if they wanted to sail through Asia. At that time, the Cape of Good Hope was not just that.
One could imagine, if they wanted to challenge that dangerous route and take more goods from the colony, then the seagoing capacity would be too small.
After entering the Atlantic Ocean, Zai Chun's horizons had truly broadened. More than half of the vast ocean were huge sail merchant ships that had more than a thousand tons of discharge water, the entire sail of the three-masted sailboat was spread out to a height even higher than the battle mast of the Zhiyuan Warship.
Some of the merchant ships were approaching the battleship's size, and were pressing down on it like mountains.
”My god, such a big merchant ship, there are so many of them?” Zai Chun could not help but exclaim. The boats in front of him had continuously turned into a river.
Xiao Letian smiled and put his arm around his shoulders as he said, ”This place is already the outskirts of Portugal, it's right in front of us to Biscay Bay. Basically, the channels of South America Continent and Africa are all connected here …”
”It's like several streets of traffic suddenly converging on a single street, don't you think it's going to be a lot? But this is good too, let me show you the real Europe, and let you see what he's been doing for over 400 years! ”
”The sea that we Chinese have lost has not been lost. Instead, it has been going on day by day. A year of breakthroughs, it has gone from poor to rich and handsome!”
”Open your eyes! ”The Chinese should open their eyes to the world. Don't shut your doors and think you're the center of the world, it's not like that for a long time!”
Right at this moment, a British merchant ship a hundred meters away discovered the Zhiyuan Warship in the united fleet, and also discovered the Great Clear Gold Dragon flag flag that was hung up temporarily.
”Look …” It was an eastern envoy! The Emperor of China is here... We made it to the party! ”Long live …”
The sound of the whistle rang out across the sea, and the sailors on the deck and on the mast waved as hard as they could. They were paying their respects to the emperor of the far east.
The strange action of a merchant ship immediately affected all the cargo ships on the entire route. This caused quite a commotion, and the entire route immediately turned into a sea of excited cheers.
They did not have television or the internet to instil such nonsense into their minds, so their thoughts were much simpler. They did not understand the killing between the emperor and the emperor, nor could they hear or see anything, all they knew was that the person on the battleship was the mysterious emperor of the east.
He was the ruler of some thousand year ancient country, and he was also the first Emperor of China to visit Europe in the history of mankind … That was enough. That was the reason people respected him. Simple and pure.
More and more sirens were coming from the sea, and the number of flags calling their greetings was so many that the standard-bearers could no longer translate them. The cheers could be heard clearly even from hundreds of meters away, flooding in wave after wave like the waves.
Zai Chun could no longer control his emotions, his face flushed red like he was about to let out two roars. However, Da Sixi was desperately pulling on the little emperor's hand and saying, ”Calm down, Your Majesty, you have to calm down …” Those are just a bunch of scarecrows, you have to hold on! ”