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    The eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month in the fourth year of Wanli is a day worth remembering forever in the history of the Chinese nation.

    The Ming Dynasty's voyage fleet set sail on the eighth day of September in the first year of Wanli. After a thousand days of adventure, it finally completed its circumnavigation and returned to its port of departure, Shanghai Pudong Wharf!

    This round-the-world voyage covered a total distance of 89,200 kilometers, which was a full 28,760 kilometers longer than Magellan's voyage.  The fleet has traveled across Asia, Africa, Europe, America, Antarctica, the Pacific, Indian Ocean, and Atlantic Ocean, a total of five continents and three oceans. How magnificent is it?  !

    Lin Feng also became the first female navigator in world history to complete a circumnavigation.

    Considering that Magellan was killed by the natives in Cebu, the crew drove back by themselves for the rest of the voyage.  So Zhao Hao unceremoniously put the crown of 'the first navigator to lead a team to complete a circumnavigation' on her head.

    Of course, if you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight, and the crew also paid a heavy price.  One hundred crew members could never return to their homeland due to illness, accidents and war.

    Over the past three years, many crew members¡¯ parents died, their wives fell ill, and their children were born, all of whom were unable to be present.  It can be said that we have gone through a vast sea of ??time and come back to earth. How many irreparable regrets have we left behind in our lives?

    ?????????????? What¡¯s even more difficult is actually their families.  During the thousand days and nights they traveled, their parents and wives endured too much.

    In life, it¡¯s easy to say that even ordinary crew members are cared for by the group at home.

    But there are many things besides daily necessities that you have to face yourself.  Especially in the last year or so, the fleet's return date has passed, but the sails have never been seen.  So rumors spread, and all kinds of unpleasant things came out.

    Especially those who firmly do not believe that the earth is round and are full of fear of the lifting of the sea ban, they even gloat that they sailed to the edge of the earth, fell directly into the endless abyss, and will never be able to transcend.

    At first, everyone just thought it was a joke, because the group said that the fleet was so large that even if something happened, there wouldn't be anyone who came back to report it.  So no news is actually the best news.

    But as time passed and there was still no news from the group about the return of the fleet, the situation began to change.

    ¡°More and more people believe that the fleet is not coming back and that the crew is dead.  So the old parents shed tears all day long; the wife was teased as a widow, and was encouraged to remarry by her brothers; the property and property were also worried about by the brothers of the same clan, saying they were worried that if the woman remarried, it would fall into the hands of outsiders.

    As for the child being bullied and being called a wild child without a father, that is not worth mentioning.

    Over the years, the family members have suffered no less than the crew members, so the group decided to invest in bringing them to Pudong from all directions to welcome their relatives on the voyage and give them a surprise.  Then attend various grand celebrations together.  The most important thing is to have a reunion year together.

    Although it costs a lot, they deserve it.

    ??~~

    Jiangnan is the hometown of the group. Its population is a hundred times that of Luzon, and its citizens are also the most educated.

    In order to make better use of this circumnavigation, we can inspire the people of Ming Dynasty, especially young people, to have a thirst for knowledge and exploration of the world, and lead China into the Age of Discovery.  Since the launch of the fleet, the group has made great efforts to popularize science, hired people to write narrative dramas, and published the newspaper "Global Shibao" that continuously introduced what they saw and heard along the way, raising the public's attention to the great voyage in Jiangnan.  .

    Although there was basically no movement last year, as soon as we received the news from Luzon, the group immediately started publicizing it with great fanfare, hoping to let the entire Ming Dynasty know that nothing happened to our ship and that the earth is really round!

    Under the overwhelming publicity, who doesn¡¯t want to witness the historical moment of the voyage fleet¡¯s return?  Who doesn't want to see whether Captain Lin Feng is a boy or girl?  I heard that even the chief minister's daughter and Mr. Zhao's wife were also on board, so we should take a closer look.

    As a result, in the morning, thousands of ships of various sizes gathered at the mouth of the Yangtze River.  The shores of Pudong and Chongming are also full of people watching the excitement.

    When the fleet passed the 1,500-meter-long guide embankment at Wusongkou and entered the Huangpu River, they saw that Pudong and Puxi were already crowded with people, with no head or sides visible.  The crowds of people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait extended all the way to the Pudong Pier more than ten miles away. There were at least a million people!

    ??Although since Luzon, wherever the fleet passed by when it returned to the capital, the people lined the streets to welcome them warmly, and all the people cheered to send them off, but the crew members were still shocked by the big scene before them.

    No one thought that this voyage of his would touch the hearts of millions of people in the Ming Dynasty.

    Well, actually many people just came to watch the fun.  But when they witnessed this scene of thousands of people greeting each other and stars holding the moon in their arms, they were in this kind of fanaticism.Overwhelming the opponent in terms of strength.

    "You, why are you still acting like a child? You must behave like a princess." Zhang Xiaojing said with a bitter smile.

    "Hey, I can't change it. My mother is now a eldest princess. She is still the same as before" Li Mingyue blushed and changed the subject:

    "Xiao Jing, you have to hurry up, otherwise your child will be delayed."

    "Yes." Zhang Xiaojing nodded shyly.

    "Let's go back to the company for a meeting. I propose to give you the 'shared mount' for your exclusive use for a few months, so you can concentrate on big things first" Li Mingyue suggested generously.

    At this time, the carriage left the concrete road and went onto a gravel road, and the carriage started to bump a little.

    "Ugh" Zhang Xiaojing suddenly covered her mouth and retched.

    "What, are you motion sickness?" Li Mingyue patted her back and asked with concern, and then thought, she has been at sea for more than three years, but she doesn't get motion sickness on a boat, can she get motion sickness?

    So there is only one possibility.

    "Good guy, it seems I don't have to worry about it" The little princess couldn't help but exclaimed: "As soon as you met, you really got down to business."

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