I am the prince of the Ming Dynasty, I don't give up

Chapter 479 Return
"I only got the title of 'Tian Khan' a few years in advance. This title will only motivate me to recover the Western Regions." Zhu Houzhao said domineeringly.

"I knew my brother would think so." Zhu Houxuan said with a smile.

The reception for Zhu Houzhao's return to Beijing this time was much grander than in the past. The Northern Yuan Dynasty, the enemy that had been entangled with the Ming Dynasty for more than 150 years, was finally buried, which was also a shocking event in the Ming Dynasty.

All the provincial governments sent people to congratulate.

The capital city became more lively in July. More envoys came to the capital. The four barbarian tribes and the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty gathered in Beijing and knocked on the palace gate to request Zhu Houzhao to become their Heavenly Khan.

At this time, after more than four years of urbanization, the overall appearance of Beijing has undergone earth-shaking changes under unified planning.
More gates were opened in the inner city walls, and the capital had more wide boulevards.

The city is basically fully equipped with running water, and the roads have been hardened. Vehicles on the roads are running in an orderly manner under the command of traffic police. There are many tall Chinese-style steel-concrete buildings in the city, and the dirty and messy situation has been greatly improved.

The area of ​​the entire urban area has expanded by half. The newly expanded urban area is all outside the city wall, and no new city wall was built, which reflects the confidence of the city planners that there will be no foreign invasion.

Although the changes in the capital city over the past four years have made many people extremely impressed, in Zhu Houxuan's eyes, the current urban construction of the capital city can only be described as average.

However, such a capital city shocked the envoys from the four barbarians and various vassal states.

In their opinion, such a city has exceeded their imagination. They simply cannot imagine how such a huge city operates. The convenience brought by the order in the city makes them extremely comfortable, the various tall buildings in the city make them extremely obsessed, and the wealth displayed in the city makes them secretly shocked.

Everyone who saw the capital for the first time was stunned by the city. It brought them great shock. Even if they had too much dissatisfaction or dissatisfaction with the Ming Dynasty before, those emotions were thrown out of the window when they saw such a city. This was the most prosperous, beautiful and rich city they had ever seen. They believed that this was a city of miracles and light.
Faced with this knock on the palace, Zhu Houxuan's attitude remained reserved and he did not make a clear statement.

When Zhu Houzhao made such a gesture, the ministers below understood what he was thinking.

Then the cabinet ministers and the six ministries and nine officials jointly submitted a petition, requesting Zhu Houzhao to be given the title of "Heavenly Khan".

Now Zhu Houzhao consciously went through all the procedures of resignation, because this was already his second resignation and there was no need to make it a third time.

Zhu Houzhao said to his ministers, "Barbarians are also human beings, and their sentiments are no different from those of the Chinese. As a ruler, you should worry about not being able to extend your virtue and grace, so there is no need to be suspicious of different species. If virtue and grace are widespread, the four barbarians can be made like one family; if suspicion is too much, even close relatives will inevitably become enemies. Since ancient times, everyone has valued China and despised the barbarians. I alone love them all equally, so all the tribes rely on me like parents." Zhu Houzhao then accepted the requests of the four barbarians and the rulers of the vassal states and agreed to become their Heavenly Khan.

However, a corresponding ceremony needs to be held, and the time for this ceremony is set in July, so that everyone in the world will know the news.
At this time, Jinshanwei welcomed a fleet, which was the expedition fleet led by Chen Lang and Wu Liangchen. They finally arrived at the departure port after four months of journey from South America.

They received a warm welcome from the people, but what surprised people was that there were only 6 ships when they set out, but there were four more ships when they returned. Although these four ships were much smaller, their style was still European, which made everyone very curious.

Chen Lang finally solved the mystery. It turned out that these four ships were the ones they encountered when they were about to cross the South Pacific. These four ships were Spanish exploration ships, and the leader was Ferdinand Magellan.

History took a turn here. Magellan set out from Spain in the 1519th year of Zhengde () with five ships.

As soon as they arrived in America, three captains rebelled and were all assassinated by Magellan. One ship was silenced as a result, but it was not as smooth as in history, which caused them to waste two months. They also lured the natives and captured two natives and locked them in the cabin, preparing to take them back to present them to the King of Spain - only because these natives were tall and their clothes were rather strange, and they were completely out of the mentality of catching monkeys.

They traveled around South America and did not find the Inca Empire, so they decided to cross the Pacific Ocean.
As a result, we didn't bring enough food, so we survived by eating leather, sawdust, snakes, insects, rats and ants. Many people would wonder why we didn't go fishing when we had nothing to eat. The main reason is that it is really difficult to fish in the deep ocean, because the fish here are all active in the deep sea, and they are all deep-sea fish. Without some technical equipment, you really can't catch them.
Just when they were so hungry that their eyes turned green, fate made them encounter the Ming Dynasty's expedition fleet. At this point, they could no longer care about anything else and immediately asked for help from the Ming Dynasty's expedition fleet.

Many people in the expedition fleet could speak Portuguese, because the Royal Group recruited a lot of Portuguese and Spanish when it was making guns, cannons and ships. Therefore, people in the relevant departments of these industries could speak some Portuguese and Spanish, so there was no big problem in communication between the two.

The expedition fleet had a lot of food, so Chen Lang and Wu Liangchen discussed it and decided to rescue Magellan's fleet.

Up to this point, it was still a normal rescue operation, but as the communication deepened, when Chen Lang learned about the mission of the Magellan fleet, he had a bold idea in his mind.
As he read Magellan's logbook, each of the magical stories made the idea in his mind stronger and stronger.
Although he admired Magellan's courage, he was very determined to keep the secret of the South Pacific route from the Europeans. Although he could not keep it secret for long, he tried his best to keep it secret for as long as possible.
So Chen Lang made a decision - to seize Magellan's fleet.

Magellan's expedition fleet consisted of five ocean-going ships with a total of 5 crew members, including the flagship Trinidad, which had a displacement of 270 tons, and the other four ships were less than 110 tons.

In comparison, the Ming Dynasty's ocean-going ships were much larger than this.

After two years of sailing, there were only more than a hundred people left in Magellan's fleet, and their bodies had not yet recovered, so they could not resist the attack of the expedition fleet at all.

So the expedition fleet took control of all the people in Magellan's fleet without much effort.
Finally, they decided to take Magellan's fleet north.
(End of this chapter)