The remaining stars have not faded, and the stone roads on Dingdingmen Street are covered with frost.

Today is just the tenth day of the leap month of October, and it is already so cold.

The coachman sat in front of him with sleepy eyes, whipping the slightest bit.

The soldiers who were escorted were full of energy, but they all returned home with their hearts in mind. They all wanted to get the rewards as soon as possible. The previous one-year run is about to end, and it will take three years to come to Luoyang or Bianliang next time.

Several carriages soon arrived outside the Tixiang Gate of Bianliang Palace.

The night watch torches floated in the corner tower, and the smoke from cooking was entangled in the air, and finally dissipated in the cold wind.

The soldiers of the left Changzhiwei guards who were guarding the gate carefully checked and released them inside. At this time, the Tianyixiwei convoy finally stopped outside the Dragon Scale Hall.

In the morning light, a group of warriors were practicing their steps.

The leader of the Emperor Shao Xun, Shao Xun, shook his arms and wrists, rushed out like a dragon and pierced into the elmwood stake. The tassels exploded into a scarlet red in the morning breeze at dawn.

Dozens of teenagers followed him.

The muscles on the cheeks rolled endlessly, the sweat in the palms had already soaked the rod, and the shoulders and backs trembled slightly because they were held for a long time.

After a while, with a loud shout, the boys in the front row rushed forward and shouted "kill" together, and thorned out.

Then there was a second loud shout, and the boy in the back row swept across, with his tassels flying together.

The third row of boys provoked straw men.

The fourth row of boys shook their wrists quickly, simulating the sturdy or spear that fell from the enemy's hands·—"·

"Stop!" Shao Xun stopped shouting.

The four rows of boys were all closing their momentum, breathing.

"You are all heroes, I have high hopes. I will practice well, don't be lazy." Shao Xun handed Bu to Tong Qianjin, waved his hand and said, "Let's go and scrub it back, and use breakfast to review his homework."

"As for the order." The dozens of teenagers responded in unison, then divided into four rows and walked away.

"Cao Qing." After seeing the white hair flying in the morning breeze, Shao Xun smiled and said, "It's coming so early? Could it be that I can't sleep?"

"When people get old, they sleep shorter." Cao Sui, the young minister of the Shaofu, said with a wry smile: "I don't know how much I envy the Houshenglang, I slept for four or five hours."

Shao Xun laughed and asked, "Is it done?"

"But I don't know if it's up to Your Majesty's wishes." Cao Su waved, called a little Shi and handed something on it.

Shao Xun took it and asked, "Is this the sea ship model made by Wenma Chuantun?"

"That's right." Cao Su said, "It's better than the ships I've seen in Qingzhou."

"The ships made by the South are definitely much stronger than those of the North, but one by one"

Shao Xun looked over and over for a long time,

He said, "Why is the bottom of the ship so flat (shallow draft)? The hull (center of gravity) is so high?"

Cao Su replied, "It's always been like this."

Shao Xun said nothing.

The three major shipbuilding bases in the Eastern Wu are Hengyu Chuantun (Linhai County), Wenma Chuantun (Pu'an County), and Fanyu Chuantun (Nanhai County). The former builds inland river boats, mainly supplying the Yangtze River Navy, and the latter two builds sea boats.

But whether it is inland boats or sea boats, there is actually not much difference. To put it bluntly, the sea boats of Dongwu carry a strong atmosphere of inland boats.

He sighed, perhaps because the requirements were too high, and the technical level of this era was just like this.

Irresponsibly, Malays can cross the Indian Ocean by bringing some coconuts and rice, and canoeing.

In colonizing Madagascar, the Vikings took a small boat of more than ten tons to the Svalbard to hunt whales. The more they capsize, the more they capsize. What can I do? Isn’t it more shipwrecks? It’s okay—

If you want to improve your shipbuilding technology, remove all the legacy of inland boats from the sea boats, try to avoid shipwrecks and die less. Your requirements may be too high. Navigation is a life-threatening behavior that will be used to keep your head off your belt. A thousand years later, it will be the last way for those who are desperate to make money.

"That's it." Shao Xun said: "I haven't built a ship, so I won't judge it randomly. There is only one. After it is built, try to walk along the coast and not go to the deep sea."

"Yes." Cao Su responded.

"Let's go, go for food." Shao Xun said.

Cao Sui said thanking and came to the side hall of Longlin Hall with Shao Xun.

Shangshi quickly brought breakfast, which was very simple: cakes, all kinds of cakes.

"Shu Guangwei once said that in winter, "there is enough to resolve the battle, and soup cakes are the best. I practice martial arts in the morning, so I like to have a bowl of soup cakes." Shao Xun greeted.

In addition to soup cakes, many other cakes were placed on the table.

Compared to the era when Shu Xi was, there are more pig crust cakes, chicken and duck cakes, cut-up cakes, paste rings, etc. There are almost twenty or thirty kinds of cakes. Shao Xun likes to eat chicken cakes (egg cakes), so he has a big set.

"Yesterday, someone in the Taiguan Office said that the wheat in An Ding was ground into Luoyang, supplemented with onions from Hedong, rare sheep, cattle from Longxi, pepper from Qiuchi, salt from Jibei, chicken from Xinfeng, and meat patties and fry them in gold and bismuth. It will be full of color, fragrance and taste." After eating the soup cake, Shao Xun picked up another pancake and said, "You can taste this thing."

When Cao Yi saw this, he also picked up a pancake and felt delicious as he ate it. After eating, he wiped his mouth and sighed, "I will only realize the beauty of the Tianjia family today."

Shao Xun laughed and said, "It's not that you want to be envious of you. The world is not worried about no wealth, and no one can share it. If you can export the properties of the states to various places and let the people of the states communicate with each other, how can the heavenly families benefit? In the past, the ancestors only ate Thai rice and mixed them with salt and plums, which tastes light. Now there are many cakes, sesame oil, pepper, drums, sauce, and grapes and wine. Isn't it a world of difference?"

"For example, the sugarcane from Funan can be squeezed for a lot of sugar. If it can be widely exported to the north, the people can also eat it. Wouldn't it be a great praise? Thirty years ago, the scholars from the north wanted to eat sweet things, but they were just sweet and honey. If they could get sugar, they would definitely be in short supply."

Cao Sui heard this and bowed his hand and said, "Your Majesty has a deep thought, and I admire you very much."

Shao Xun waved his hand and said, "If you don't accumulate steps, you can't reach a thousand miles. Now the first step has not been taken yet, so it's too early."

In fact, Shao Xun didn’t know how much sugar can be squeezed out in Funan sugarcane, and the sugar production rate was probably very low.

The sugar cane produced a very high sugar rate in later generations, but it was bred. The Europeans sailed to Tahiti and found that the sugar cane produced a very high sugar rate, which beat all the sugar cane varieties found at that time and was improved to less than a little bit. Therefore, it was introduced to various places. The sugar cane in the 21st century basically had the blood of Tahitian sugar cane.

But just make do with it one by one.

It is beet grown in cold places (formerly sea beet, in the Mediterranean, which has spread to West Asia at this time). This will be more like vegetables than a cash crop that can squeeze sugar, and the sugar yield is pitifully low.

No breeding, hybridization, purified bloodline, nothing is easy to use.

"I have many ideas. I want to benefit the people of the world, but I have a lot of elbows." Shao Xun said: "After thinking about it, I only have one move to make it profit. I heard that Cao Qing and his sons were not interested in official career, but were just a business, is it true?"

Cao was suspicious, what does this mean?

He has many sons, but only his eldest son is an official, and others either study at home or manage the industry.

Did the emperor accuse him of being resentful and unwilling to let his sons enter the new dynasty?

"Cao Qing doesn't need to think too much. Now I've seen someone and advised them to run more industries." Shao Xun said:

Have you ever visited Jiangnan?"

"I have asked someone to go and build a mail." Cao Su said embarrassedly: "There was a Donglai Liu family. The children of the clan followed Su Jun to cross the south. Now they are willing to sell the farm. Now they should be negotiating the price."

"You are kind." Shao Xun smiled.

"It's all the villagers, so you can't do it too ugly." Cao Su said.

"Where is the manor?" Shao Xun asked.

"Linhai County."

"If there is output, how can it be transported to the North?"

Cao Su hesitated a little and finally said, "May pass through Hangou and Sishui to Henan."

"Isn't sea transportation more convenient?"

"As Your Majesty said, there is worry about overturning the boat."

It is natural for humans to worry about risks. This problem was not solved until the Ming and Qing dynasties. At that time, navigation technology had improved a lot, but because the risk of sea shipwrecks was far higher than that of inland river transportation, and it was difficult to turn around after forming interest groups, the canal still traveled through the Grand Canal.

Only the Yuan Dynasty had the most courage and had carried out sea food transportation, but they transferred the losses of the shipwreck to the people of Jiangnan. I don’t care how many ships you sank on the sea, I just care about how much grain you want. If you sink a ship, you can add another one for me. After all, it’s my big yuan tax system.

Shao Xun felt a little stuck in a vicious cycle.

Maritime transportation is risky, so you can walk in the inland river. It is always good to walk in the inland river, and the navigation technology is progressing slowly·—·

Perhaps, only places where inland transport cannot be transported can develop sea transportation, such as Jiaozhou. And there must be commodities with amazing profits enough to offset the losses of sea shipwrecks, or you might as well have maritime insurance, but the insurance industry is impossible in this era.

But Jiaozhou has another problem. Even if Jiaozhou produces sugar, how do you carry out trade? Do they need your goods? Or they need some, but they don’t need much, that is, Jiaozhou exports enough sugar, but you don’t have the corresponding commodity to balance the trade volume. The long-term deficit can only export precious metals. The precious metals are seriously left behind. Over time, the business cannot continue. One cannot add 145% tariffs, right?

There are also ways to break the deadlock, that is, simply colonial plunder, without considering the issue of trade balance, but this will in turn cause centrifugal force to break away from the rule of the Daliang Dynasty.

There is no simple thing in the world, there are too many things to consider.

Let’s start with the transportation of tributes.

There is a reason why Jiaozhou looks half-dead and ruthless until the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms are independent.

After seeing Cao Su off, Shao Xun first recalled the types and numbers of responsible products and numbers that Jiaozhou offered to Putin in previous years, and then drafted an edict with his own hands.

"Imperially the governor of Jiaozhou."

"Subordinate: I have received the decree of heaven, and I have been to the world, and I have led guests to work hard. Jiaozhou is controlled by the Nanming, and the things are in heaven, and the things are in heaven, and the pearls are always called rare. Now I specially ordered the Erzhou to follow the old system and export the things to the court to show the integrity of the ministers."

"The tribute is as left: fifty pairs of Cuiyu, please choose fresh and beautiful, and do not be overfilled;"

"The ivory is twenty straight, and must be more than three feet long, and it is flawless;"

"Tortoiseshell armor is thirty pounds, choose the thick ones;"

"Ten Chu of Long Nao Xiang, don't mix with other fragrances;"

"The vine mushrooms are weaving well, and do not make them crude;"

"Three hundred pieces of banana cloth must be woven in fine and free of defects;"

"Fifty pieces of shark leather, choose those who are tough and thick, and do not use thin and crispy to fill the numbers;"

"Rhino horn, jade, gold and silver, peacock tail, snake gallbladder, are offered as appropriate."

"The tributes will be lost to Donghai County ten months next year. The escorts along the way into Beijing will not be delayed. If you neglect your duties and lose the amount, you will be investigated according to the law. The master will do it."

After writing, I blew it gently and placed it on the table, and someone came to pick it up later.

He then stood up, breathed a sigh of relief, and put down another thought.

In fact, he knew that most of the tributes sent to Luoyang in Jiaozhou during the Pu Dynasty were taken by land. After all, the number of tributes was only a small amount, and they were piled on the ship and only placed in one corner, so it was completely possible to transport by land.

Now force them to walk on the sea to see how the effect is.
Chapter completed!