"Zheng He's strict selection must be a fine product", Zheng He's impact on the lives of Chinese is too great!
During the Ming Dynasty, Zheng He received the order to go to the Western Ocean in just 14 months, and built 64 large ships, carrying 28,000 people, and spent 28 years to go to the Western Ocean seven times in succession, promoting the national prestige of the Ming Dynasty and exchanging material culture!
Lead the fleet to sail the farthest distance directly to the East African continent! Throughout history, such a feat has never been done!
Therefore, Zheng He's voyage to the West is definitely a great feat in the history of human navigation, and Zheng He has become the earliest, greatest and most accomplished navigator in the history of the world.
However, as we all know, the quality and power requirements of the ship are very high for sea navigation, and from the current level of science and technology, if you want to cross the Indian Ocean and not be torn apart by the wind and waves, there must be at least one "engine" on the ship, and the circumference structure is a steel skeleton to carry out the operation of long-distance travel, otherwise you can only be a "trapped beast" in the scenic spot.
But the engine in the face of the science and technology of the Ming Dynasty is a "foreign object", is the product of the nineteenth century four hundred years later, so the question is - how did Zheng He drift across the ocean without an engine, seven times to the West never "rest", and successfully completed the task? Don't be fooled by the TV series! Look at the wisdom of the "old ancestor"!
Zheng He is the second son of the Kunyang family in Yunnan Province, because his grandfather and father went to Mecca for Hajj, so he was regarded as the "pilgrim", and the whole family has a bright face, and it is properly famous and respected in ten miles and eight towns.
Zheng He's father Ma Ha is a person who supports the Yuan Liang Wang's territory to throw his head and spill his blood, because of the galloping battlefield, there are unforeseen circumstances, after Maha died in battle, the family was killed and injured by the people who came to pacify Yunnan in the fifteenth year of Hongwu, and Zheng He survived by luck at that time.
But Da Ming does not raise idlers, Zheng He, a young man who looks quite strong and interesting, was taken back to the barracks as a "trophy" to do eunuch miscellaneous service, because he has eyes and general knowledge, so Zheng He got the opportunity to fight with the army, and directly became a "fighter in miscellaneous service".
In the twenty-third year of Hongwu, Zhu Di was powerful, Zheng He's army was assigned to Zhu Di, and the young Zhu Di was also selected by Zhu Di because of his outstanding performance, and was arranged to go to Yanwangfu to take care of his own life.
Later, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, and his attendant Zheng He started a life of southern conquest and northern war, and Zheng He did not have the "shrill voice" of ordinary eunuchs, but was tall and mighty, with deep facial features, and brave and strategic, and could not find any fault at all.
Therefore, Zhu Di was very satisfied with Zheng He, and gradually Zheng He became Zhu Di's confidant eunuch, since then Zhu Di's every "progress" has been accompanied by Zheng He's echo before and after, and later Ming Chengzu Zhu Di's "Battle of Jingjing" successfully ascended the throne, and it is inseparable from Zheng He's repeated military exploits to reverse the overall situation.
looks handsome and eye-catching, and never drops the chain when doing things, who doesn't like such a "friend"? Therefore, Zheng He directly had an irreplaceable position in Zhu Di's heart, and Zheng He's position directly became "internal official eunuch", and Zheng He was also given the surname "Zheng" by Zhu Di at that time, and changed "Ma" to "Zheng".
Then Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, single-handedly created a "Yongle prosperous era", and the Ming Dynasty was unprecedentedly strong, but the "eldest nephew Huidi Zhu Yunwen" who could not be found has always been the "thorn" in Zhu Di's heart, so Zhu Di decided to start going to the West to find Zhu Yunwen, and at the same time began to explore the surrounding countries, so that they could submit to China and promote the strength of the Ming Dynasty.
Zheng He, a handsome, tall, brave and resourceful henchman, naturally became Zhu Di's first choice, and then Zheng He started his legendary voyage!
But back then, the ship had no steel structure, no engine, how did Zheng He successfully go back and forth to the West seven times, which is why foreigners will think that China, the Ming Dynasty is an extremely terrifying dynasty.
Zheng He accepted Zhu Di's appointment as the envoy to open the "Age of Discovery" of the Ming Dynasty, and the first thing to do if you want to go to the West is to make a ship that can sail far away, and bring enough expensive items that can represent the Ming Dynasty.
Zheng He first put a lot of effort into the structure of the ship to carry out a lot of improvement and optimization, the Ming Dynasty has the precipitation of shipbuilding technology in the Song and Yuan dynasties, it can be said that this aspect of shipbuilding has been perfected, the whole country began to actively build ships under the call of Zheng He, some large ships can reach 147 meters long, and the width is 51 meters!
Such a ship was definitely a "super monster" in the world at that time, you must know that the current 100,000-ton aircraft carrier is more than 300 meters, you can imagine how shocked it was in the eyes of "foreigners" at that time if such a big ship docked, and how high-spirited the Ming Dynasty was!
Solving the problem of long-distance ships, Zheng He began to think about the "navigation" of navigation, based on the "transoceanic star pulling technique", and moved a complete set of "astronomical navigation technology", which has a lot of attainments in astronomical navigation, object navigation and other fields.
After figuring out the direction, Zheng He also has a mysterious "technology", that is, what is the "power" of the ship, could it be that there was already some advanced "engine" technology in the ancient Ming Dynasty?
In fact, no, when Zheng He began to sail in the Ming Dynasty, because of the technical limitations of the background of the times, it has been established that their navigation method is "sail sailing", that is to say, Zheng He went to the Western Ocean that was "riding the wind", "wind" as the main kinetic energy of the big ship, through the observation of various records and paintings about the ship in the Ming Dynasty, it is not difficult to find that the ship "sail" at that time was really big.
According to the different nodes of Zheng He's seven voyages to the Western Ocean, it can be seen that what Zheng He went to the Western Ocean was to make an "unprecedented" voyage based on the seasonal variation of the sea monsoon and ocean currents.
At the same time, with a general direction of "wind" as the power, the boat can officially set sail, and there are many boatmen and sailors on the ship who are responsible for paddling to change the speed of the boat or avoid some danger when the wind is calm or when it needs to move quickly.
The sea monsoon requires a high degree of experience, so Zheng He spent 28 years to go to the West seven times, which is already quite great, Zheng He went to the West to directly make China's Age of Discovery more than 100 years older than the West, it is really a sigh for the wisdom of the ancients, but we have built a "Maritime Silk Road", not colonized and invaded like some hooligans! **Ten Thousand Fans Incentive Plan Chen Xiaoshan. Zheng He's voyage to the West and ancient Chinese navigation technology[J].Knowledge of literature and history.
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