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Wang Guichen led twenty warships and sailed eastward from Borneo around the Java Sea. Along the way, he saw islands of all sizes almost every day, with all kinds of shapes and sizes.
Some islands are covered with seabirds, blocking out the sun and the sky. The bird droppings on the islands are one or two feet thick, making it difficult to set foot on them.
Some islands are full of emerald green snakes, thousands of them in the grass and on the branches, which is so scary to look at.
Some islands are sunny and sandy, with clear sea and sky, and all kinds of birds and animals that have been seen and not seen are leisurely enjoying their paradise.
The rock caves near some islands, when washed by the tide, would emit roars like those of devils and monsters, and the sound could be heard ten miles away. On some large islands, you could often see some natives wearing animal skins or straw, living a primitive fishing and hunting life.
Wang Guichen didn't care about all this. Whenever he arrived at a large island, he would send people to the island and carve the words "Daqin XX Island" on a conspicuous cliff.
There were too many islands, and Wang Guichen, who was in charge of naming them, had a headache thinking hard. So he simply named the islands after the 1,500 soldiers who went on the Eastern Expedition, such as Daqin Moliang Island and Daqin Tiedan Island. This tinkering made his soldiers very excited.
Everyone would be excited to name an island after themselves, and the originally boring voyage becomes lively and vivid.
That day, Wang Guichen and Wu Yue, the deputy chief, were drinking tea on the deck. Mo Liang suddenly thought of a question and came up to him and said, "Boss, there are so many islands here. What if the names of our 1,500 people are not enough?"
Boss Wang, who had been calm and composed, suddenly became confused.
Yes, what if everyone’s names are not enough
Seeing that Wang Da was speechless, Mo Liang immediately took the opportunity to make a good suggestion: "Boss, I've thought about it for you. If we really don't have enough names, we can wait until everyone's name is used up. We can take turns again. For example, the newly discovered island can be called Mo Liang'er Island or Tiedan'er Island to distinguish it from the original island. If one more turn is still not enough, we can call it Mo Liangsun Island or Tiedansun Island."
The head of the Wang family was furious: "Mo Liang, wait until you give birth to a son!"
"No... Head, I'm just worried that you'll have a headache again. This is a good idea. You deserve it..."
Wang Guichen was just about to deal with Mo Liang when suddenly the soldier on the mast who was in charge of lookout shouted, and the soldiers on the deck also ran to the side of the ship:
"Look what that is, the Sea Dragon King?"
"There's one here, too. It's so big. It's a whale. It's a whale..."
"Oh my god, so many..."
Wang Guichen ran to the side of the ship and saw that on the southern sea, there were jets of water and groups of huge whales, probably dozens in total, with their huge bodies turning upside down and their huge tails hitting down, causing waves to surge and rapids to surge.
"Turn the rudder and leave quickly. They are coming. Don't hit them. Quick..." Wang Guichen shouted urgently. If it was just one whale, it wouldn't be that scary, but with such a large group of whales, if they hit them, no one knew what would happen.
The lookout on the mast was almost stunned. They had seen whales in the South China Sea, but nothing could compare to such a huge school of whales. The entire sea was surging with huge waves due to the school of whales. It was hard to imagine what the situation would be like if they were hit by these big guys.
Just the gushing water columns, under the sunlight, sprayed out like mist, colorful and very spectacular.
Under Wang Guichen's order, twenty warships hurriedly turned away. This huge group of whales seemed to be migrating along a predetermined route and did not chase them.
Mo Liang, who had escaped danger, could not help but have evil intentions again: "Boss, how about we fire our cannons and shoot a few whales up?"
"Get lost, you're looking for trouble. Haven't you heard that these big guys are not easy to mess with? Once we anger them, I'm afraid we won't be able to escape with even a single ship."
"Boss, this is a bit exaggerated..."
At this moment, another scream suddenly came from the lever, "Ah!" Mo Liang was so frightened that he swallowed the rest of his words, thinking that a group of whales were chasing him.
"Look, look, it's land, endless land, look, we have reached South China Continent, it must be..."
The so-called must be is too arbitrary. In fact, what Wang Guichen and his team found this time was the New Guinea Island of later generations.
After Wang Guichen and his companions arrived on the island, they were extremely excited and learned from the natives that there was a larger land to the south. Only then did they realize that what they had found was not the South China Island marked on the nautical chart.
But New Guinea is big enough, as big as Borneo. Wang Guichen didn't think much about it and directly named it Xiaohuazhou. The natives on the island are very capable and can cross the ocean with a canoe made from a log.
It is hard to imagine how they did it, but they did it. They used these canoes to travel between the islands and discovered the huge continent to the south.
Wang Guichen and his men did not start a massacre immediately. Instead, they took out exquisite silk. They didn't need a lot, just a few pieces of exquisite silk, which made the local natives almost crazy with joy.
After receiving several pieces of fine silk, the indigenous chieftains of Xiaohuazhou ignored the size of the words "Daqin Xiaohuazhou" carved by Wu Guichen and his team, as they could not understand it anyway. Instead, they sent people to guide Wang Guichen and his team and take them south to find the huge land they mentioned.
After only two days of sailing, Wang Guichen and his companions saw land, endless land.
In 1606, the Spanish navigator Luis Vaeztorres sailed through the strait between Australia and New Guinea (Irian Island).
In the same year, the Dutchman Willem Jans's ship Duyfken set foot in Australia and was the first recorded foreigner to actually land in Australia. He named the place "New Holland".
However, neither the Spanish nor the Dutch had officially colonized here. Now that the Qin army had arrived, they had come here specifically and officially named this continent Nanhuazhou and included it in the territory of the Qin Dynasty.
Wang Guichen and his companions traveled south along the river bank. There were mountains, rivers, forests, grasslands, big rats with bags on their bodies, huge crocodiles, giant emus that could no longer fly, and the strange platypus.
There were also some people, all of them were short natives, living a life like savages. They could almost be directly classified as wild beasts. In any case, Wang Guichen had automatically ignored the fact that they were the indigenous people of South China Continent.
Going south from the north, you can see that the western part of South China is a plateau. The central part is a plain or desert. The coastal areas are full of wide beaches and lush vegetation. The terrain is varied: further south, there are the cliffs of the Blue Mountains and the beautiful and eroded volcanic necks.
When you reach the south coast, you will see a flat plain with fertile land, crisscrossing rivers, and herds of wild cattle and sheep, so numerous that they cover the plain like white clouds.
As Wang Guichen and his team headed south, the staff recorded the local terrain, products, climate, and drew maps and nautical charts. Finally, they landed at a large river in the south.
Here, the number of local natives increased, and they were full of fear of these "aliens". They only had simple bows and arrows and wooden guns, and the arrowheads and gun heads were made of stone or animal bones.
After Wang Guichen and his men arrived, all the natives hid in the woods and did not dare to come out.
The Qin soldiers who came ashore howled wildly and screamed like ghosts and wolves. They looked so excited that the natives in the woods were scared to death.
Mo Liang polished his military boots, shouldered his gun, and stepped down the gangplank. The moment he was about to step onto the land of South China, he could not help but let out a long roar to the sky with full of pride:
"I came, I saw, I occupied!"
"What the hell!"
Wang Guichen kicked him down. Mo Liang, who was full of ambition, originally wanted to step onto the land of Nanhua Island with an extremely heroic attitude, but he finally stepped onto the land of Nanhua Island in the manner of a dog eating shit. While he occupied Nanhua Island, the mud and sand of Nanhua Island also instantly occupied his mouth.
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