Chapter 1052

In fact, Nanyang in spring is not much different from other seasons. It is green all year round.

The temperature here all year round will become hot only in summer, and the temperature in the other three seasons will not make people feel cold.

However, Nanyang is not good, or very unsuitable for the Han people, that is, it is a rainy season except summer, especially in spring and autumn.

The rainy season lasts for a long time, and the air will become moist, which makes people seem to inhale a lot of water molecules every time they breathe. If there is a problem with the lungs, it is really not suitable to stay in this environment.

"It has been raining for 27 days." Liu Ming stood under the eaves and looked at the hazy outside: "the rain is not heavy, but it hasn't stopped. No wonder the jungle here is so dense and the streams are dense."

It has been nearly two months since they arrived in Malacca. When they first came, they encountered a rainy season lasting more than ten days, which stopped for less than ten days. The sun showed its head for five or six days, and then it rained endlessly.

In the rainy weather, most of the fleet went to land.

There are perfect barracks facilities in Malacca, which can accommodate 300000 troops. The expeditionary fleet comes with 30000 Marines and more than 70000 ships. Even if all of them go ashore, the camp is more than enough.

After several years of construction, Malacca not only has a perfect YONGGU military camp, but also a large number of shore artillery positions have been built on both sides of the whole Strait.

The number of forts on both sides of the entrance and exit of the Strait is the largest. The caliber is generally more than 150 mm, the largest caliber is 320 mm, and the smallest is 120 mm.

Large caliber shore guns are basically placed in the fortress of YONGGU fortification. Usually, each design port is closed. If you do some camouflage, you can see a very ordinary mountain from a distance.

The forts placed on the open side are generally placed with some small-diameter shore guns. They are not fixed directly. They are a style that can adjust the direction and firing elevation.

More than a thousand years later, there was a group of foolish people who built shore artillery facilities and engaged in fixed turrets. After the artillery body was fixed, not only the firing elevation could not be adjusted, but also the artillery body could not be adjusted at all. As a result, when the shore artillery position built at a heavy cost was invaded by the enemy Navy, many shore artillery could not aim at all, and the artillery roared and the earthquake sounded, You can only hit enemy ships by luck.

From the position of the barracks, we can see the surrounding shore artillery positions, which is not so clear under the drizzle.

This place is densely forested, with mountains and seas, but it is not high.

After the Han people came here, they abandoned the boss's strength before they cut down the jungle. Behind them, they artificially increased some sections. Most of the shore gun fortresses in the hidden mode are artificial mountains.

"I heard that before the 16th year of Yuanshuo, there was an endless stream of ships across the Strait?" Liu Ming imagined the picture in his mind: "what a lively scene it should be!"

At present, there are basically no merchant ships carrying goods in the Strait. Some are naval formations, and others are fleets going to or returning from Africa.

The continuous rainy season does not only occur on land, but also on the offshore sea.

Some ships entering the port reported to the Nanyang capital guard that dragons were found in the southwest sea area, and formed storms were found in the northwest sea area and southeast sea area.

Every spring, storms always form around Malacca. When they get close to land, they will evolve into hurricanes or typhoons.

Almost on the fifth or sixth day after the expedition fleet arrived at the Malacca military port, a typhoon landed in Luzon. After ravaging most of the islands, the typhoon went to zhuyazhou.

In the same period of time, the Nanyang capital guard also learned that there were hurricanes landing in the southeast. The strong wind ravaged the long and narrow island, and the big trees were uprooted under the strong wind. In some low-lying areas, not only the rain was terrible, but also the water poured back, turning a large area into a land of Ze.

Liu Ming heard that so far this year, Malacca is lucky. At least there is no hurricane or typhoon landing, otherwise people can only hide in solid fortifications.

When the Han people first came to Malacca, they were not familiar with the climate here, and they didn't know that there would be storms every year. At the beginning, they would build some wooden houses or bamboo houses. As a result, under the ravage of the strong wind, those houses couldn't stand the wind at all.

Without sufficient preparation, the Han people even lost all the people in a stronghold after the typhoon. The people behind went to the rescue and saw that there was no trace of anyone inhabiting. They couldn't find one to look for the body, and more than a hundred people disappeared completely.

After learning enough lessons, Han people understand that if they want to live in a stable place, they must have strong enough houses. Don't build wooden and bamboo houses blindly. Rammed earth can't be used to build houses. Either they use masonry or cement, or they really can't have any stability.

Han people have a long history of building houses with rammed earth. They still know the basic common sense and know that rammed earth walls can never stand the scouring and soaking of rain.

In the north of Zhuxia, the climate is relatively dry, and there are a large number of rammed earth houses. But when you go to the south, there are not many pure rammed earth houses. They are either stacked with gravel. Some are made of long strips of stone, and even wooden houses are rare.

It's not easy to find stones in Malacca. It takes a lot of effort to blast stone mines. Once the blast goes on, you will find that a gem mine may be blown out, or the rocks are not suitable for building houses at all.

When the Han people came to clean up the aborigines, they found that the aborigines built houses, which looked very messy and reckless, but the stones used by the Aborigines were gem mines, and the wood belonged to the precious ones.

The aborigines did not know the value of gemstones, but they could tell which wood could repel insects.

Han people's sense of the gem is just like that. They have paid attention to jade for thousands of the years. Jade is still popular in recent years, but they are very obsessed with the Xiangmu.

Nanyang is not short of some valuable wood considered by the Han people. When developing, it can't set fire to destroy the woods, and even need to cut down one by one carefully.

It is precisely because there are a lot of valuable wood that we can take the materials here in exchange for a large amount of cement transported from the mainland, resulting in a piece of cement houses in Malacca, and wantonly using cement to build YONGGU fortifications.

Liu Yan's attention to Malacca is unparalleled. This has become the first place in history to use a large number of metal to build fortifications. So far, more than 1000 tons of iron bars have been used, and more metal resources will be used to continue to build YONGGU fortifications.

This is the gateway. The Han Empire cannot ignore it. As long as it can control this place, it is basically equivalent to controlling half the world.

In such an important place, let alone 1000 tons of pig iron, that is, 10000 tons... Hundreds of thousands of tons of steel, it is not a waste.

"Great joy, what long!" Wu Lin's face was ecstatic: "I found the big island!"

Liu Ming's face is very confused.

"That's the big island!" Wu Lin wanted to make it clear in the shortest language. He was too excited, but he seemed to be unable to control it. After a long string of words, he summarized: "the super island that the great man has been looking for since the eighth year of Yuanshuo. It is said that it is a place full of iron."

"The big island that my father called Australia?" Liu Ming understood, his face was dull, followed by ecstasy: "really found it?"

Wu linmeng nodded: "the Nanyang capital guard has confirmed!"

Bursts of cheers came from all directions, completely masking the ticking sound of water.

The Han people have blindly followed Liu Yan!

Liu Yan said that the Japanese islands were full of gold and silver, and the Han people used to be like that.

Liu Yan also said that the southern sea of the Han Dynasty is full of rare treasures. The Han people came to explore and found spices, fragrant wood, precious stones, gold, copper... And so on, which can definitely be defined as treasure resources.

People will not explore how Liu Yan knows so much. They only know that Liu Yan is not only taking them from this victory to another victory, but also constantly using facts to prove that where there are good things, there are good things.

Then Liu Yan said that there is a super large island in the south of Malacca, and there are amazing iron ore reserves on the island. They have no reason not to believe it.

In fact, not to mention the super big island, it is all iron. Even if Liu Yan said that there is a big island piled up with gemstones and gold in the world, there will be a large number of people who believe it.

After searching for nearly ten years, which super island has been found?

"Have you verified it again and again?" Huan Wen was invited to the residence by Fu Wei. When he saw that Fu Wei didn't have too much politeness: "Duhu should know the importance of finding that island."

Fu Wei knew the importance of this matter very well and dared not disclose it until it was verified.

"Big man... Lucky!" Huan Wen almost brightened his eyes: "the big man is more and more lack of iron ore, which is far less than copper, gold and silver. If there were enough iron ore..."

This is inevitable. With the development of industry, the demand for iron will definitely become a bottomless pit, no matter how many iron resources are not enough.

The metal resources that are easy to dig in the Han Empire are basically hollowed out, unless they are the kind that has not been found.

The country has entered the era of firearms, and the copper resources used in the initial stage will be massive. However, with the continuous development of firearms, it will inevitably evolve into the need for iron, especially steel, and the consumption of copper will not be less.

The army has always been a large consumer of resources. The consumption under the era of cold weapons is huge. After entering the era of firearms, especially the navy has plans to build armored ships. It can be imagined how the demand for iron resources should increase.

Fu Wei is red now. He thought he was really lucky. He didn't find it early and late. When he became Nanyang Duhu, he found a super big island. This is a political achievement, but also because it took so long to find it, it must be a great political achievement. With political achievements, he will not only increase his reputation, but also greatly help his official career in the future.

"Yes, I did." Fu Wei tried his best to suppress the excitement and said modestly, "we still need to send people to explore continuously. There will be no results in at least two years."

The reason why we found that super island was purely an accident.

Because some fleets were not able to escape the storm in time, they were forced to go around in a panic under bad sea conditions. Five of the twelve ships of the fleet sank, which can be regarded as finding a relatively calm bay. They waited for the storm to pass before they found themselves in a completely strange environment.

According to the code of conduct, they found a strange place and sent ships to cruise around. They also sent people ashore for investigation. Only then did they find that the harbor was not near any small island.

The investigation at sea soon yielded results. The answer was that the land seen was by no means a narrow or small island, or even an island. It should be compared with the land of the Han nationality.

Those who went ashore for investigation ended up very badly. They encountered challenges at the beginning of landing. The beach was full of crabs. Some of them encountered a wide variety of spiders, snakes and other poisonous insects they had never seen before.

Strange things are not uncommon when the Han people explore abroad. Even for the types they have never seen before, there are some preventive measures. It is because they are too unfamiliar that there will inevitably be a loss of manpower.

They lost nearly 20 talents and went more than 60 miles inland, but they encountered more animals they had never seen before.

One of them has a big body. He walks with his legs jumping and jumping. He has a big tail to balance his upright body. Then his arms are very strong, and there is a very strange big bag in his abdomen.

In addition, it is very similar to a bear, but its body is much smaller than a normal bear, with long and thick nails. In addition, it has no ears, big eyes, and strong limbs. It always likes to hold a tree for a long time. When it moves a little, it moves very slowly.

Then there is another animal similar to the bear. It is much smaller, with large and fluffy ears. It is fat and has a thick black nose. The same as the previous one is that it likes to stay in trees.

Huan Wen was taken to a room by Fu Wei. There were many animals and insects brought back from that super big island.

"This thing, what's that bag for?"

"It seems to hold food?"

It's actually pretending to be a cub, but the Han people haven't figured it out yet.

"These two kinds of bears are really too small!"

"The difference in appearance is also huge. Do you want to cut your palm and try the taste?"

The tree wrasse is not delicious, and then the koala is so cute

Huan Wen didn't pay attention to rare animals. He especially went to see all kinds of spiders and insects, and then his face was heavy.

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