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Chapter 1719 Sunda Customs

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    After leaving Dudu Island, the South African Express continued sailing for two days, and an island appeared again in the southeast.  That was Rodrigues Island in later generations, and of course it is now called ¡®Safe Island¡¯.

    Nearly a thousand islanders on the island are engaged in agriculture and fishing.  Salted fish, livestock and vegetables can be provided.  And the most valuable thing is that its Huangyu Bay is nestled among the peaks and surrounded by mountains, making it a natural haven when a hurricane strikes.

    However, the hurricane season in the southern hemisphere has passed at this time, and there is no need for the two clipper ships to dock on the sheltered island, so they continue to sail 15 degrees east-north.

    Next is the most difficult section of this route, which requires crossing 4,500 kilometers of sea to reach the next stop.

    Therefore, other ocean-going sailing ships in Western Shipping will not go like this. After leaving Mauritius, they will sail to Diego Garcia, 2,000 kilometers northeast of the island - to replenish fresh water on this central island in the Indian Ocean. After taking a short rest, or  Sail to Ceylon, 1,800 kilometers to the north, or directly to the Aceh Sultanate, 2,800 kilometers away.  Of course, you can also use the equatorial countercurrent to navigate the Sunda Strait, which is 3,600 kilometers away.

    The location of the only military base in the Indian Ocean for future generations of American imperialism is so advantageous.  However, no matter which one is used, it will be affected by the equatorial windless zone, making it difficult to increase the speed.  So Diego Garcia will really shine, at least until the advent of motorized sailboats.

    Clipper ships naturally disdain to take this slow route. Taking advantage of the prevailing southwesterly winds in the Indian Ocean this season, the South African Express crossed the Indian Ocean in only nine days and arrived at the Cocos Islands, 8,000 miles away  Of course it is now called the 'Yuebu Islands'.

    The Yuebu Islands were originally more than 20 uninhabited coral islands, with a total area of ??a little more than 14 square kilometers.  With blue sea and sky, silvery sand and coconut groves, and a wide variety of flowers that remain blooming all year round, it is as bright as a paradise on the sea.

    At the beginning of the ninth year of Wanli, the Jiangnan Group "zoned Nanyang" and made this archipelago, a thousand kilometers west of Java Island, the boundary of the Java Administrative District and under the jurisdiction of the Java Administrative Committee.  More than 500 people now work and live on the island.

    In addition to providing supplies and making simple repairs to the clipper boats that come and go, these more than 500 people¡¯s main job on weekdays is to cultivate coconut seedlings, and then row boats to various coral islands to plant coconut trees and collect coconuts.

    Today, thousands of the earliest artificially cultivated coconut trees on the island have begun to bear fruit. Together with the wild coconut trees all over the island, nearly 5,000 old coconuts can be picked every day.

    Workers collect reddish-yellow old coconuts, dig out the pulp, dry it in the sun, load it into a boat and transport it back to the oil pressing factory in Coconut City, Java.  After the oil mill crushes the dried coconut, the coconut oil is squeezed out, and the remaining coconut residue can also be used as animal feed.

    For thousands of years, the indigenous people of Southeast Asia have been eating coconut oil, and coconut oil can also be used as fuel for oil lamps.  With the large-scale influx of immigrants into Nanyang, the demand for oil is increasing day by day, so relying on this alone, the Yuebu Commune on the island has achieved profitability.

    In addition, a confidential document that was declassified many years later showed that the reason why the great and wise Zhao Zi sent people to the island early was not at all for the ridiculous purpose of collecting coconuts - are there no coconut trees on Java Island?  Jakarta is also known as Coconut City!  What kind of trouble is Mr. Zhao making when he chooses the far side at the expense of the near?

    According to the confidential document, the initial purpose of sending people to the island was to set up an observation station of the Java Meteorological Bureau of the Nanyang Meteorological Administration.

    Although except for Luzon, the Nanyang islands are rarely visited by typhoons because they are close to the equator, but this does not mean that God will let them go.  Frequent tsunamis in the Indian Ocean cause serious damage on average every six or seven years.  Although the frequency is much lower than that of typhoons, the damage caused by typhoons is beyond the reach of typhoons.

    Zhao Hao knows very well that in order for Chinese people to take root in Nanyang, they must do their best to protect the lives and property of immigrants.  Moreover, he also knew that tsunamis had almost no power in the deep sea. The accumulated power would only be released when the seafloor suddenly rose before landing.

    So as long as you give early warning and let the ship sail to the deep sea, you can survive the tsunami safely.

    So as soon as Nanyang got it, he ordered the establishment of a long-term tsunami early warning system.

    Zhao Hao had a beautiful thought at the time, thinking that although the observatory might be idle for several years, as long as a successful early warning could save thousands of lives and save hundreds or thousands of ships, this investment would  I have to insist on it.

    As a result, the year after the observatory was built, huge fluctuations in the surrounding water were observed, and the observatory immediately released specially selected long-distance flying homing pigeons.

    Then, there is no more

    Because this tsunami comes so damn fast, it can cross the ocean in a few hours, and its wave speed is faster than a plane, let alone a pigeon.

    After the early warning failed, Zhao Hao summed up his lessons and found that there is currently no solution to this problem.  The key is, thisPeople come to evade customs clearance according to law.

    However, what shocked them was that there were cats in the world who did not steal fish.  All the maritime merchants who attempted to bribe, instead of succeeding, were found out and had their masts hoisted

    Customs staff are not made of special materials. In fact, they are not immune to temptation.  But once caught, the consequences would be terrible.

    ¡°At least at this stage of history, if you reach out, you will almost certainly be caught.

    ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????In addition to the group¡¯s Inspection and Supervision Committee responsible for preventing corruption, what¡¯s even more frightening is that there is also a department independent from Jiangnan Group ¨C the Anti-Corruption Investigation Foundation!¡±

    This is Zhao Hao¡¯s biggest weapon against the thieves

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