Seafaring: I Grow Potatoes in the Americas

Name: Seafaring: I Grow Potatoes in the Americas
Author: Chen Fuxi

航海：我在美洲种土豆

by Chen Fuxi (沉浮兮)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 451k Words
Genre: Historical
Subgenre: Alternate History
Updated: 3d ago
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Synopsis

In the fifth year of the Xuande reign (1430), the emperor dispatched a fleet on its seventh voyage to the Western Ocean.

While sailing past the Cape of Good Hope in Africa, the fleet was suddenly struck by a tornado. To escape the storm, it headed north along Africa's west coast. After three months, it reached a new continent no one had ever visited.

Inspired by the prayers of the monks aboard, they believed this was where the Buddha and the Arhats had arrived, so they named it Florida.

Zhou Chengfei was among the crew. A young kitchen assistant, he had boarded at the Guangzhou trading port, hoping to earn twenty taels of silver and go home to build a house. He never imagined that boarding the ship would mean saying farewell forever.

There, they encountered Native Americans living in tents and hollow trees, as well as savage Viking pirates.

The land was fertile and the rains plentiful. The waters teemed with fish, herds of bison ran across the grasslands, and the fields yielded a golden crop growing on stalks.

It was perfect farmland.

Take up arms to civilize the barbarians, lay them down to harvest the crops. Wherever the heart finds peace, that is home.

But Zhou Chengfei wanted to go home. He had to get home, alive, to his homeland!

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