Under Subud's command, the young Jurchens filled the fleet with supplies, including frozen venison, frozen wild boar, live cattle and sheep, horses, live pheasants, etc., eggs and frozen fish.

During the next period of voyage, the fleet was sailing in the cold places, putting the frozen meat and frozen fish into the bottom cabin. The temperature in the bottom cabin was very low and it would not break down during the voyage of more than a month.

The hull with Chinese structure has compartments, so it is not like the Western hull, but the hull can also carry people. The hull of the Chinese hull can only be used to store goods. When sailing in cold places, it is like the storage cabinets of old refrigerators that are soaked in ice salt water. The temperature of the bottom cabin is the lowest and can be used to store meat.

The fleet left Sakhalin Island and continued north along the coastline.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the navigation technology of the East had already lagged far behind the West. Western ships had already had astronomy at this time. By comparing the navigation chart, they used two-leg plaques and protractors to determine their longitude and latitude, and then compared with the charts and adjusted their course according to the compass. So Westerners could sail across the ocean back then. However, the Ming Dynasty could not do this and could only walk along the coastline. Once they left the coastline, the fleet would lose their course.

Li Guodong's immigrant fleet used the hired Western sailors on the first ship of the team leader, equipped with sailing instruments such as astrodiameter purchased from Westerners. When sailing during the day, the ship behind closely followed the front ship; when sailing at night, lights were hung at the stern of the front ship to guide the ship behind.

Therefore, the fleet sails without having to be too close to the coastline. After all, there are reefs and floes in the places that are too close to the coastline. If the ship accidentally hits it, it will be troublesome.

When the fleet set off from Shanghai, it was a cool and refreshing autumn weather, and the soldiers were wearing only a thin single coat. When they arrived at Sakhalin Island, they had already added a wool sweater inside. They sailed for a while and put on a cotton coat outside.

Although the Qing Dynasty fought with the Ming Dynasty, the trade between Dadewang and the Mongols was not interrupted. Wu Sangui was a middleman, and some Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty also joined the smuggling. Tea, coarse grains, and cotton cloth were continuously transported to the Mongolians. The Mongolians only paid very cheap wool for them, and then the wool was woven into wool sweaters and sold to the Qing Dynasty.

In addition to selling clothes, tea and tobacco to the Qing Dynasty, Dadewang now also sells grain and salt to the Qing Dynasty. After all, the Qing Dynasty currently occupied the entire north. If there is no food, the people in the north will face the fate of starving to death. At present, the Qing Dynasty's own grain production can only barely support the Eight Banners, Green Camps and officials, and the vast majority of the people starved to death. The failure to give Daqing food was actually to save a large number of northern people.

What's more, the Qing Dynasty now introduced paper money like the Donglin Jiangnan Silver, which was equivalent to giving Li Guodong a means of financial attack. The Ming Dynasty sold materials to the Qing Dynasty at a high price, and some iron and arms smuggling that Li Guodong could not completely eliminate, causing a large amount of real money and silver from the Qing Dynasty to flow into the Ming Dynasty.

When silver issuing paper money, gold and silver are required to guarantee it. The Qing Dynasty, which lost a large amount of gold and silver, was already in danger in terms of finance.

Li Guodong took the opportunity to discover a large number of counterfeit Qing coins, which flowed into the Qing Dynasty market, prompting the Qing Dynasty banknotes to further collapse.

I believe that as long as the Qing Dynasty's economy collapses to a certain extent, not only will the common people help the Ming Dynasty overthrow the Qing Dynasty, but even the Eight Banners' children will not be able to withstand it. At that time, the Qing Dynasty will be counterattacked.

Li Guodong is currently vigorously developing military industry. With absolute strength, he can crush the Qing Dynasty. With the five-year agreement with the Qing Dynasty, there are less than two years left. He is like a player in the real-time strategy game in later generations. He is desperately exploding soldiers. After having absolute crushing strength, he will just go there directly. There are also a group of outstanding generals such as Li Dingguo, Cao Bianjiao, Wu Liuqi, Li Chengdong, and Wang Fuchen. The opponents cannot resist at all. How can he need Li Guodonghao and other micro-jobs?

"It's getting colder." Sikteng, who was standing on the deck, wrapped his down jacket tightly, but the clothes on his body were like paper, and he couldn't resist the invasion of the cold.

Zhao Juguang, who wrapped his down jacket tightly, said: "Xikteng, you are from a bitter and cold place, why are you afraid of the cold?"

"It's much colder here than we do." Sikteng replied.

There have been a lot of floating ice floating on the sea surface. The freezing temperature of sea water is much lower than fresh water, and the sea water is frozen. You can imagine how cold it is here.

The fleet continued to go north and could see animals moving on nearby islands. A white animal looked very cute, white and furry. She walked on ice and crawled into ice caves from time to time. When it got up again, it held a poor seal in its mouth.

"What is that?" someone asked.

Sikten said: "It looks like a bear, but I have never seen such a bear."

"It's so beautiful, I'll just go back to raise it." Zhao Juguang said.

"Farewell, this thing looks very beautiful. I'm afraid that a few people can't subdue it. It's even bigger than the squid we've seen outside the pass." Sikteng said.

The squid is the Northeast brown bear, but those white bears are larger than the Northeast brown bears he can subdue. He is sure to fight a Northeast brown bear with bare hands, but he is not sure to put down a polar bear with bare hands.

The fleet began to turn, from the original direction to the northeast, to sail eastward. On the left side of the fleet, there was a large group of islands, which were later called the Aleutian Islands. If you continue to go north and pass the Aleutian Islands, you can reach the Bering Strait.

However, Li Guodong did not require the fleet to go through the Bering Strait. The climate in this era was cold. After passing the Aleutian Islands, the sea surface was almost frozen all year round and ships could not sail.

However, Li Guodong, who is not particularly good at geography in the world, does not know that in fact, there is a warm climate in the inner circle of the Aleutian Islands, which is a bay on the Kamchatka Peninsula. It just so happens that the warm current of the Pacific Ocean can enter there, but Li Guodong didn't know that there is such a place. The supply port he chose in the far north was in the south of the Kamchatka Peninsula. There is a bay, which is the later Petropavlovsk of Kamchatka. That bay was originally the last supply station on the Asian continent, but the supply station has not been completed yet. Therefore, after the fleet passed Sakhalin Island, there was no supply and needed to arrive in the American continent.

The fleet sailed fast, and the total area of ​​Chinese hard sails was not as good as that of Western soft sails. In addition, Li Guodong was not familiar with ocean currents, so the routes and the ferry seasons formulated were actually unreasonable, so the fleet's speed was less than five knots.

After leaving Sakhalin Island, the fleet had left for more than three months. The frozen meat and fish carried on the ship had been eaten up, the live chickens, live cattle and sheep were eaten up, and the food was about to be sold out, but the shadow of the large land area had not been seen yet. In addition to the islands, it was also islands.

"Land! Land! Finally, I saw a large area of ​​land!" Someone shouted in surprise.

A large area of ​​continuous land appeared directly in front of the fleet, which did not look like an island, but a land.

"Where is this place? Salgado, check your navigational instruments." Zhao Juguang said to a Spanish sailor with brown hair, brown eyes and white skin.

Salgado picked up the astrodiameter, compared the height of the sun, and then used a two-leg meter, protractor and various tools to calculate it. Fortunately, the waves are calm here, otherwise the error of the astrodiameter would be very large. In fact, this situation will not change until the sextant is invented. However, there is no sextant yet, and when positioning yourself, you need to pray that there will be no wind and waves on the sea.

After a while, Salgado picked up the pencil and marked the location of his fleet on the chart.

"This is almost at the New World!" Zhao Juguang said excitedly.
Chapter completed!