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Volume 1 Chapter 553 Good News about the Great Navigation Project

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    Well, on the tenth day after my son ascended the throne as emperor, Li Yuan was promoted to the throne of Tang Dynasty by Tang Guogong, surrounded by a group of subordinates in Jinyang.  Regarding this news, I just laughed it off, let alone my father-in-law becoming king, so what if he became emperor. Apart from anything else, everything has to be divided into equal parts. At least I don't think I will lose.  While I stood next to my mother-in-law and watched them playing backgammon, my mind was developing and I was thinking about the development of various situations during this period.  At this moment, I heard quick footsteps coming from outside the door. I stood still at the door, and then came Li Yuanfang's voice.  I took a sip of Yaoguang girl¡¯s pretty face.  "Madam, please play by yourself. After your husband has finished his official duties, I will come back to accompany you." "Okay, husband, go ahead. Political matters are important, but you are not allowed to come back too late." Yaoguang girl nodded thoughtfully and said.  .  I strode out of the room and saw the stationmaster of the carrier pigeon station standing next to Li Yuanfang. My heart skipped a beat. Without saying anything, I walked quickly towards the study. These two people followed me closely.  behind.  After entering the study, the stationmaster of the carrier pigeon station took out a stack of information that had been translated from his arms and handed it to me.  "Lord, this is Jiaozhi and the news from Quanzhou just arrived today." "What a coincidence." I couldn't help but raise my eyebrows and said with a smile. Quanzhou and Jiaozhi are thousands of miles apart. There must be nothing we can do about it.  They all delivered news to Chang'an by chance, but it was really rare to be together like this.  I spread out the information and looked at it carefully. I found that the information about Jiaozhi was not complicated. Just three months ago, the First Voyage Fleet had already gone through a lot of hardships and arrived at the ships I sent south of Jiaozhi.  A port controlled by elite troops.  After that, they stayed here for a full two months, and left part of the ship as a prototype for local craftsmen to build new ships. Then, the team headed north again, probably around  Three months later, they bypassed most of the Chinese coast and once again entered the interior via the Yellow River estuary, reaching Hancheng County.  Quanzhou is the earliest seaport city in Chinese history. As early as when I was in Hancheng, I sent a large number of spies there. Not only to recruit skilled shipbuilding craftsmen here, but more importantly, to carefully collect intelligence.  .  Quanzhou is one of the most important starting points of the ancient Maritime Silk Road.  The Maritime Silk Road was an ancient seaway transportation artery.  Since the pre-Qin period, southern China has been the birthplace of the Austronesian race.  In the pre-Qin era, they were called the Baiyue nation. They were one of the most widely distributed ethnic groups in the world. They had excellent sailing experience and adventurous spirit. They traveled all over the Pacific and Indian Oceans. On the eve of the prehistoric era, they began to travel to the oceans, including Madagascar, Hawaii, New Zealand,  Distributed throughout Australia.  After the Qin Dynasty destroyed the Six Kingdoms, it began to pacify the Baiyue Land in the Lingnan region.  In 219 BC, Qin Shihuang sent Tu Sui as the chief general and Zhao Tuo as the deputy general to lead an army of 500,000 to pacify Lingnan. Tu Sui was killed because he killed innocent people indiscriminately and aroused the stubborn resistance of the Yue people.  Qin Shihuang re-appointed Ren Xiao as general, and together with Zhao Tuo, they led the army to the south. After four years of hard work, they completed the great cause of pacifying Lingnan in 214 BC.  Qin established three counties in Lingnan: Nanhai County, Guilin County, and Xiangjun, and gradually developed a prosperous Lingnan economic circle with Nanhai County as the center.  At the end of the Qin Dynasty, there were endless wars in the north. The Lingnan area was ruled by Zhao Tuo and was known as the Southern Guangdong Kingdom in history. It was a rare peaceful area at that time.  In 202 BC, the Han Dynasty was established. Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty implemented the policy of recuperation and peace, and negotiated peace with the Southern Guangdong State, so that the two countries were able to develop economy and trade.  When Emperor Gaozu died in 196 BC, the regent of Queen Lu came into conflict with the Southern Guangdong Kingdom. A fierce battle broke out between the two sides in Nanling, and the war ended in a stalemate.  At that time, the Lingnan region mainly produced silk textiles. In order to find important iron resources for military supplies, Zhao Tuo began to seek sea routes to Western countries for trade.  The Greek-style silverware unearthed from the tomb of the Nanyue King in Guangzhou and the stone Greek-style beams and columns unearthed from the palace ruins of the South Guangdong Kingdom are quite good evidence, confirming that the Maritime Silk Road was born in the late Qin and early Han dynasties, and the Lingnan region exported silk to the west.  In exchange for various supplies, Greek craftsmen came to China to participate in the construction of the palace of King Nanyue. During the Western Han Dynasty, the sea route between Nanyue Kingdom in the south and the Indian Peninsula had been opened.  After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty destroyed the Southern Guangdong Kingdom, he expanded the scale of maritime trade by relying on sea routes.  From the south, it started from Rinan, Xuwen, Hepu Tongdu Yuan Kingdom, Fugandulu Kingdom, Huangzhi Kingdom, Pi Zong Kingdom, and Jicheng Bu Kingdom (today's Sri Lanka).  During the Eastern Han Dynasty, "In the ninth year of Emperor Huan's Yanxi reign, King Andun of the Qin Dynasty (AD 161-180) sent envoys from Rinan to offer ivory, rhinoceros horns, and tortoise shells, and the beginning was Tong Yan." This is  The first exchange between China and the Roman Empire recorded in history.  At the end of the Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms were in a critical period of connecting the past and the future and finally forming the Maritime Silk Road from land to sea.  During this period, Sun Quan dominated the east of the Yangtze River. Taking the ancient Dayu as an example, he advocated that "the country is based on the people, and the people take food as the first priority."  industry, train navy, build a country with navy, and send sailing envoys to develop territory and communicate with foreign countries.Tonghao made a significant contribution.  Let¡¯s talk about the shipbuilding industry first. Ships and aircraft carriers are the necessary conditions and main tools for navigation.  Before the Three Kingdoms, people generally relied on sailing ships and trade winds to drift on the sea, which was almost risky. Countless people lost their lives for this.  During the Three Kingdoms period, due to the needs of Sun Wu, Cao Wei, and Liu Shu in fighting on the Yangtze River and maritime transportation, they actively developed the navy. The design and manufacturing of ships have made great progress, with advanced technology and large scale. According to Zhang Dake  The author of "History of the Three Kingdoms", Sun Wu's shipbuilding industry was particularly developed.  The main shipbuilding areas in the Han Dynasty were in Suzhou, Wuxi, Anqing and other places on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and most of them were flat-bottomed river boats.  Sun Wu's shipbuilding center was moved to ports such as Jian'an County Houguan (in today's Minhou, Fujian), Linhai County Yongning County (now Zhejiang Wenzhou), Hengchuantun (now Zhejiang Pingyang), Nanhai County Panyu County (now Guangzhou) and other ports.  Sun Quan set up the ship captain to manage the shipbuilding workshop. The ships built by Sun Wu were mainly warships, followed by merchant ships. They were large in number, with large hulls and high-quality keel structures.  The largest warship can carry 3,000 soldiers, has five upper and lower floors, is carved with colorful paintings, is very magnificent, and has strong endurance.  A sea-going ship carrying eighty horses is called a boat.  Merchant ships sailing in the South China Sea, "the largest ones are more than twenty feet long, two or three feet above the water, look like an attic, carry six to seven hundred people, and have tens of thousands of things."  Sun Wu's armed fleet went to sea with more than a hundred ships, accompanied by more than 10,000 soldiers, and went north to Liaodong and Goguryeo (today's North Korea), to the south to Yizhou (today's Taiwan) and Southeast Asia to countries such as Vietnam and Cambodia. When Wu fell, there were wars  More than 5,000 ships and merchant ships.  There have been hundreds of years since the beginning of Jin Dynasty. However, due to long years of wars and civil strife, the navigation industry has not achieved much development. Those coastal maritime merchants mostly do business with coastal countries.  However, what surprised me was that there was a large merchant named Hu in Quanzhou. Since the Han Dynasty, his family had been doing business at sea for more than ten generations. According to the information I found, his family  The merchant ships have traveled as far as Malacca and arrived in Tianzhu via Sumatra.  Going north, we also reached the countries of Japan, Goguryeo, and Silla. This shows that it took more than ten generations for our predecessors. I don¡¯t know how much hard work and sweat they spent, let alone how much data they collected on the past fleets, to become Quanzhou.  The largest and the farthest sailing merchant.  "Okay, okay, finally we didn't invest so much manpower and material resources in vain. The value of this piece of news is definitely not less than ten thousand gold." I excitedly flicked the piece of information in my hand and said happily.  "In this way, immediately summon Quanzhou and reward everyone. In addition, tell them to try to get close to the Hu family. If the Hu family is not hostile to our Chinese Renaissance Army, that would be the best. As long as they are won over, then  , we are equivalent to getting the most precious chart, and we don¡¯t know how much manpower and material resources can be sacrificed" "In addition, since the expedition fleet has only set off for half a month, then it should be almost the same.  It will take two months to arrive in Hancheng." I estimated the time to go and came to this conclusion, and then continued: "After they arrive, replace them with a new group of sailors, bring the old with the new, and then continue to set off.  "Jiaozhi, we must make them familiar with what the ocean is." "By the way, how many ships are left in Jiaozhi?" "Back to the young master, there are three transport ships and six warships in Jiaozhi, accounting for the entire ocean fleet.  "Next time I go, I will bring more ships and send all the eleven ships built at the end of the year and the beginning of this year to build one in Jiaozhi."  A powerful enough fleet. In this case, even if the Jiaozhi governor does not want to submit to me, he must carefully consider the consequences of attacking my people. " "Great, if we can open up the mainland coast to Tianzhu.  route, then the profits of silk, porcelain and tea will at least quadruple than today, and they can be purchased directly from Tianzhu, the main producing area of ??spices and dyes, without being exploited by middlemen.  , naturally the money you can earn will become higher and higher.  After reading the information and dealing with these matters, I was about to go over and squat down together with my mother-in-law, but just as I stepped out of the study room, I saw Yuan Tiangang hurriedly walking towards my small courtyard. I couldn't help but  Wei Wei was startled, why did this guy come to the door?  "Your Majesty, I have something important to do, so I took the liberty of coming here. Please forgive me." After Yuan Tiangang saw me, he hurriedly took a few steps to me and bowed.  "Yuan Qingping, what's the important matter?" I waved my hand to signal this guy to excuse himself and then asked.  "Your Majesty, I have found traces of Sun Simiao." Yuan Tiangang said quickly and quickly towards me with a hint of excitement.
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