Chapter 1205 Adventurer's Paradise (First update, please subscribe)

"The old scholar saw something strange on the court and nearly lost his life..."

Wang Kaiyun became famous!

During the Tang Dynasty, he was known as the contemporary "Yao Guangxiao", but in the Ming Dynasty, he became famous again.

But it is conservative.

"An old man who refuses to die is a demon!"

Looking at the news in the newspaper, Ke Kun said directly.

"Haha, people are so frightened that they have epilepsy while watching a game. You should be more careful with your words."

As soon as Zhang Yangtian finished speaking, Wang Siwei laughed.

"Virtue? The virtue of the Three Obediences and Four Virtues? Does it mean that women should bind their feet and not go out of the house, that is virtue?"

After putting away the newspaper, Ke Kun changed the subject.

"Let's not talk about those old scholars. What do you think?"

“You mean Amazon?”

Zhang Yangtian's words were met with Ke Kun's rolling eyes. What else could he have said?

"It's okay to go exploring during the holidays, but it's very risky. There are not only poisonous snakes and ferocious beasts, but also primitive natives. If you go, you may not be in danger of death, but the risk is definitely very high."

"I know all this,"

Kokun replied,

"But, no matter what, I have to go and take a look. Although many people have explored that land, no Chinese has ever crossed the Amazon. I want to cross it. After all, it is our land now. We can't think of European explorers when we mention the Amazon!"

Young people always have their own ideas. As early as two years ago, Ke Kun had the idea of ​​exploring the Amazon. After all, that is the largest river in the empire. In that tropical rainforest, who knows how many mysterious things are hidden that make people yearn for.

"Exploration always comes at a price..." Wu Fu said in a low voice, then he picked up the ice cream cup and looked at his friend.

"Exploration, exploration, it's an adventure!"

There are bound to be various risks when exploring. The notes written by explorers who explored the Amazon recorded many deaths.

In response to his friend's reminder, Ke Kun said:

"We can't leave our land, our rivers, our rainforests to foreigners to explore!"

"Indeed,"

Wang Siwei said,

"I have the same opinion as Ke Kun. We can't leave our land, our rivers, our rainforests to foreigners to explore!"

"Yes, since they are ours, then the best thing for us to do is to explore them!"

"The risks are certainly much smaller now than in the past. Now is the era of steamships. Sailing on a steamship is always safer than sailing on a sailing ship!"

"So what about the funding? Where will the funding come from?"

"All we need to do is to get sponsorship. Those companies will definitely be happy to fund our expedition. After all, there are countless treasures waiting for us to discover in the Amazon rainforest."

Ke Kun continued.

"In fact, even if companies don't look at the issue from a profit perspective, if they fund expeditions, it will definitely bring reputation."

Zhang Yangtian interrupted.

"As with the Congo River expedition, the colonial authorities and businesses are very willing to provide funding. We can seek funding from the Geographical Society and other businesses."

"We can also write to His Majesty and ask His Majesty to fund our expedition!"

They did it right away. In this cold drink shop, several students wrote letters to the emperor. The letters were not respectful at all - they were just written on the cold drink shop's sticky notes.

The core is just one sentence - we are going to explore the Amazon and get money!

When Emperor Zhu received the letter from the students, he was stunned for a long time. He actually ignored such a significant thing. Fortunately, the passionate young people of the empire did not ignore it! Then he said to himself.

"I have money."

Emperor Zhu of course supported such a meaningful thing. Not only did he support it, he even sent an attendant to Yingtian University to ask if they needed any other help.

Emperor Zhu not only donated 10,000 yuan, but also funded a steamboat, which was actually a small steamboat of the Amazon River Patrol.

However, even so, with the emperor's participation, this Amazon expedition immediately attracted national attention and even became the most attractive news report in May of that year.

In the end, people were no longer concerned with the expedition itself, but with the inevitable connection between empire and exploration, and with the wild land of the Amazon.

On June 13, at the mouth of the Amazon River, the "Attacker" - yes, the small steamship named after the Yingtian University team "Attackers" - was loaded with dozens of young students as well as geologists and botanists. With the long sound of the whistle, they went upstream from the Amazon River and headed for an unknown continent.

When Emperor Zhu Da learned the news of the expedition's departure, he just smiled slightly. In his mind, he recalled how he had crossed the tropical rainforest full of death and danger as a guerrilla fighter in the simulator.

“I hope they can return safely!”

In fact, Emperor Zhu didn’t care at all about what kind of gains they would bring back from their expedition. What was important was that their actions opened a new chapter. As for what kind of rewards this chapter would bring to the empire, it was beyond Emperor Zhu’s expectations.

Great things begin with small things. In May of the 16th year of Shengde, when several college students planned an adventure trip to the Amazon River in the school's cold drink shop, they had no idea what they were getting into. Even until they set out, they didn't know what they would gain from their trip.

But one thing is certain: from then on, every year universities would organize expeditions into the Amazon rainforest. They explored every river along the Amazon River, they discovered a large number of animals and plants, they discovered many primitive people who had lived in the depths of the rainforest for millions of years, they also discovered a large number of mineral deposits, and they also discovered the world's largest iron mine in the Amazon region - the Calayas Iron Mine.

This exploration craze lasted for hundreds of years. Generation after generation of imperial explorers traveled along the more than 6,000-kilometer-long Amazon River and its thousands of tributaries, which together form the Amazon river system with a total length of more than 60,000 kilometers. Generations of explorers shed their sweat and lives on this land with a basin area of ​​about 8 million square kilometers.

It is through such expeditions that the spirit of adventurers has been passed down in various universities and even reshaped the character of the young people of the empire. Conquering the Amazon is never about conquering the land, but about human beings overcoming themselves, courage, sacrifice, perseverance, and the challenge of human beings to nature.

(End of this chapter)