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Chapter 90 Going Home

The 18th day of the twelfth lunar month of the fourth year of Wanli is a day worth remembering in the history of the Chinese nation.

The Ming Dynasty Fleet set sail on the eighth day of the September 1st year of the first year of Wanli. After a full thousand days of adventure, it finally completed its global voyage and returned to its departure port, Shanghai Pudong Pier!

This round-the-world voyage was 89,200 kilometers, a total of 28,760 kilometers more than Magellan's one. The fleet traveled through Asia, Africa, Europe, America, Antarctica, Pacific, Indian Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, and a total of five continents and three oceans. How magnificent?!

Lin Feng has also become the first female navigator in world history to complete a global voyage.

Considering that Magellan was killed by the indigenous people in Cebu, the remaining voyage was driven back by the crew themselves. So Zhao Hao unceremoniously put the crown of "the first navigator who led the team to complete the global voyage" on her head.

Of course, if you want to wear a crown, the crew members have paid a huge price. Due to diseases, accidents and wars, a hundred crew members can no longer return to their motherland.

In more than three years, many crew members' parents died, wives were sick, and children were born, and they were all unable to be present. It is really a matter of returning from the sea when they went there. How many irreparable regrets have left in life?

In fact, what is even more difficult is their family. During these thousand days and nights they traveled, their parents and wives suffered too much.

It’s okay to be aware of life, even if you are an ordinary crew member, you have a group to take care of your family.

But there are many things beyond the food, rice, oil and salt that you have to face by yourself. Especially in the last year, the fleet's return date had passed, but there was no sign of sail. So rumors spread everywhere, and all the bad things came.

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

At first, everyone just thought it was a joke, because the group said that the fleet was large and even if something happened, there would not be even a person who came back to report the news. So no news is actually the best news.

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

More and more people believe that the fleet will not come back, and the crew members are dead. So the old parents cry all day long; their wives are teased as widows, and their wives are also urged to remarry by their parents' brothers; their land, property, family wealth is also thought of by brothers of the same clan, saying that they are worried that the woman will remarry and fall into the hands of outsiders.

As for the wild dolls whose children are bullied or scolded for having no father, it is not worth mentioning.

Over the years, the family has not suffered less than the crew members, so the group decided to invest in bringing them from all directions to Pudong to welcome the relatives on the long journey, and give the crew a surprise. Then attend various grand celebrations together. The most important thing is to have a reunion year together.

Although it is a lot of expenses, they deserve it.

Jiangnan is the group's nest, with a population of a hundred times that of Luzon, and the citizens have the highest level of education.

In order to better use this global voyage, to stimulate the people of Ming Dynasty, especially young people, their desire for knowledge and exploration in this world, and lead China into the era of great navigation. Since the launch of the fleet, the group has spent a lot of effort to popularize science and write a storytelling drama and also published a newspaper called Global Shibao, which continues to introduce what they saw and heard along the way, which has made the attention of Jiangnan citizens to the great navigation.

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

Under the overwhelming publicity, who doesn’t want to witness the historical moment of the long-distance fleet’s return? Who doesn’t expect to see if Captain Lin Feng is a man or a woman? I heard that even the wife of the Prime Minister’s daughter, Mr. Zhao, was on the boat, so I have to take a closer look.

As a result, on the morning of that day, thousands of ships of all sizes gathered in the Yangtze River Estuary. The shores of Pudong and Chongming were also filled with people watching the fun.

After the fleet passed through the 1,500-meter-long dike at Wusongkou and entered the Huangpu River, it was seen that Pudong and Puxi were already crowded, with no head or border. The crowds on both sides of the straits extended to the Pudong Wharf more than ten miles away, with less than a million people!

Although the people warmly welcomed each other from Luzon and cheered, the crew members were still shocked by the big scene in front of them.

No one expected that his sailing trip would touch the hearts of millions of people in the Ming Dynasty.

Well, in fact, many people are just watching the excitement. But when they witnessed the scene of the stars and the moon, they were in this fanatical environment, and they all had strong impulses.

Men should do this! Go to sea and go to sea!

When the fleet docked at the Pudong Wharf on the riverside, firecrackers were roaring on the pier, gongs and drums shook the sky, dragons and lions danced, and the people shouted, as if crazy and drunk, and the atmosphere was even more enthusiastic.

Before the ship was tied, a sharp-eyed crew member saw his parents, wife and children. He was so excited that he burst into tears. He waved to them desperately, hoping to jump off the boat and hugged his relatives who had been disobedient for a long time.

The family members on the shore also recognized their son and husband one after another, and waved their hands and shouted hard, and the celebration scene instantly became a large-scale recognizing scene.

I don’t know who sang the song “Mom, We’re Back from a Long Voyage” again, which soon triggered a chorus, which was more thoughtful than when I sang it last time in the Dongmen Strait.

The crew members who were crying all cried into tears. It was not until this moment that they suddenly realized that fame and fortune were not as good as returning safely, and reunion with their families was more important.

On the pier, there are colorful squares one by one, with yellow earth mats and red carpets on the floor, and countless flowers and silks are decorated with the celebration ceremony platform.

In addition to the group's senior management led by Jiang Xueying, all the leaders of the group were present, Yingtian Governor Wu Shilai also led Su Song's troops to prepare for Niu Mowang. Suzhou Prefect He Wenwei Songjiang Prefect Jin Xuezeng and other important personnel from Jiangnan came to support him.

However, Zhao Hao has never liked to join in the fun of this kind, and now the officials and masters on the ground in Jiangnan are all their own people, so there is nothing to do with socializing.

So he left the scenery to Lin Feng and the crew members on the long voyage. He and Zhang Xiaojing quietly got off the Liu Daxia first and took a small boat to the pier that was far away from everyone's sight.

On the pier, there were Li Mingyue, Ma Xianglan, Qiaoqiao, and his seven children were greeting them.

As soon as the women met, they hugged each other excitedly, cried so hard that they scolded Xiao Zhuzi for being cruel, and they couldn't care about Zhao Hao for a while.

Mr. Zhao stared at his seven children.

Come on, let dad have a good look.

I saw the older San'er and a daughter, naturally Shixiang Shiqi Shifu and Xiaotang, who should be five years old.

The most impressive thing is Shili, who is almost four years old.

The youngest pair of twins and Xiaobei are less than one year old.

The little dolls made Zhao Hao look confused.

Although they are all very cute, but damn, I can't tell which one is which one...

When he was a child, he looked at the gourd kids with four, five, and seven, and he couldn't tell the difference. Later, when he became a teacher, he also turned the seven children into gourd kids to satisfy his bad taste.

Unexpectedly, after all the time, he became the father of the Cauldron. Mr. Zhao called him a good guy. As expected, he was obsessed with it and there would be a response.

Fortunately, I am not a fan of Saint Seiya...

The children were much simpler, and they kept calling around their fathers and fathers. There was no one who recognized their children. I don’t know if it was because the mothers were educated well, or because there were too few fathers, and the villains were afraid that they would not be able to divide them...

Of course, the smallest two are excluded.

"Hey, what a good boy." Zhao Hao kissed one by one, and then picked up his eldest daughter and fourth son in a simple way.

As for the big and second widows and third widows, he really couldn't tell the difference, so he could only let them watch.

Mr. Zhao smiled and asked the children in his arms, "Xiao Tang Shili, do you miss your father?"

"I thought about it." The two children said ungratefully.

“How much do you think about it?”

"Think about it..."

The family multiplied several luxury carriages, took advantage of the empty streets and the sports car was good on the road, and returned to Jinmao Garden in Lujiazui... It was the Zhao family's residence in Shanghai.

The "Mercedes-Benz" luxury four-wheeled carriage produced by the Shanghai Carriage Factory drives on flat cement roads with almost no bumps.

Li Mingyue and Zhang Xiaojing are in a car, and two good daughters who even use one man. They have been separated for so long, so they naturally have endless things to say.

"Mingyue, you are so amazing. You have another pair of twins." Zhang Xiaojing said incredibly enviously.

"That's nature, this is our family's tradition! Rebirth may still be like this!" Li Mingyue was so proud. "That would make Xue Ying's nose crooked."

Although she is already a mother of four children, she just doesn't care about giving birth or raising her breasts, so not only does she have a figure like a girl, but her temper when she is a girl has not changed much.

She has always been resentful that the eldest son of the Zhao family was Jiang Xueying, and can only overwhelm the other party in terms of quantity.

"You, why are you still like a child? You have to have the style of a princess." Zhang Xiaojing said with a wry smile.

"Hi, I can't change it anymore. My mother is the eldest princess, isn't it still the same as back then..." Li Mingyue blushed and quickly changed the topic:

"I said Xiaojing, you have to hurry up, otherwise it will delay the child's soy sauce."

"Yes." Zhang Xiaojing nodded shyly.

"Let's do this, when the company meets, I suggest you give you a special 'shared mount' for several months, and concentrate your firepower to do major tasks first..." Li Mingyue suggested righteously.

At this time, the carriage left the cement road and walked on a rock-stone road, and the carriage became a little bumpy.

"Vomit..." Zhang Xiaojing suddenly covered her mouth and started to retching.

"Why, are you sick?" Li Mingyue asked with concern while patting her back, and then she thought that she had been on the sea for more than three years, and she could have been sick even if the boat was not sick?

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 say shocked: "As soon as you meet, you really started to do it."
Chapter completed!
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