The Eastern Winds. A Xu Fu TL

Prologue.

Qin Shi Huang had united China and thus became her first emperor of the Jin dynasty, but the emperor was not content with his achievement, for he knew death would make him forfeit his throne to another, throughout his reign he was obsessed with unlocking the knowledge of eternal life. It was then on the second year of his reign as emperor, he had sent out his court sorcerer Xu Fu on a journey east to the Penglai mountain to fetch the immortal Anqi Sheng who’d make for the emperor the elixir of immortality, many years later Xu Fu returned but without the elixir he claimed that a giant sea serpent had blocked his path, the emperor unshaken by this failure decided to send out a Xu Fu with a larger fleet this time consisting of 60 barques and around 5,000 crew members and soldiers, 3,000 boys and girls and craftsmen of different fields. The emperor had died the same year as this new expedition was sent out, but it did not return, and many claimed the Xu Fu had found a land of Flat lands and swamps and declared himself king.
 
Chapter One.
After 2 months of sailing this ocean they had landed at the mouth of this river, but their troubles had just started, Xu the leader of this expedition had ordered that they should first build a camp, this land had plenty of wood, the area around the river mouth provided a lot of fish which made life that much easier. After camp was made Xu ordered groups of men to forage into the wood and along the river some of the men had discovered they weren’t alone in this place but there were some villages dotted up the river and with this knowledge spreading Xu died, and with that the entire expedition was in jeopardy and all leadership of it was passed down to admiral Wang. Many of Wangs men tried to convince him to travel back home, this was a unknown land and with Xu died they had no reason left to stay and with the generous supplies the emperor had gave them they’d be able to return to China with little challenge, it was at this moment one of Xu’s assistant monk step forward and decided explained to Wang and the other officers what happened in their previous expedition.

“We were shipwrecked for many years on and unknown island” said the monk “ after many years we were able to repair a ship and return, but the emperor was furious at our failure and nearly executed us, until Xu told him a story about a sea serpent in our way” he went on “Admiral if you return to China the emperor would not be able to control his anger, for it was his trust in Xu that spared our life and now Xu’s dead we will all be executed if we return”

Wang and the other captains could not believe it their lives wasted because an old man could not accept death; it was at that moment Wang’s most trusted convinced that they must wait before making a decision “if they return early then the emperor may think we killed Xu or we were too cowardly to continue” he argued. Wang had to make his decision fast it’d been nearly half a year since they left China and 4 months since they landed here, it was autumn and winter was coming, he was in charge of this expedition but he did not know what to do.
 
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Xu Fu is supposed to have ended up in Japan isn't he? I mean that's the mythology anyway. Can we assume this TL is about chinese colonisation of Japan?
 
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