Well, Li Yuan was on the tenth day after my son ascended the throne and became emperor, surrounded by a vote of Jinyang, and Duke of Tang was located in the King of Tang. I just laughed at this news. Don’t say that my father-in-law was the king, what could he do if he became emperor? If nothing else, everything will have to be decided by the winner. At least I don’t think I will lose.

While leaning beside the woman, she watched them betting on the go-to chess, while thinking about the development of various situations over the past period of time. At this moment, she heard the sound of quick footsteps outside the door, stood at the door, and then Li Yuanfang's voice was heard.

I sniffled with a bite of Yaoguang's pretty face. "Madam, you guys are just having fun, I've taken care of the official business for my husband, and I'll accompany you again."

"Okay, my husband, go, political affairs are important, but you are not allowed to come back too late." The girl Yaoguang nodded considerately and said.

After strode out of the door, I saw that the stationmaster of the Pigeon Station was standing beside Li Yuanfang. My heart was thrilled. I didn't say anything, and walked quickly towards the study. The two of them followed me closely.

After entering the study, the webmaster of the Xinge Station found a stack of translated information from his arms and handed it to me. "Lord, this is Jiaozhi and Quanzhou, all the news came from him just arrived today."

"This is really a coincidence." I couldn't help but raise my eyebrows and smiled. Quanzhou Jiaozhi is thousands of miles apart, so there is definitely no way to deliver messages to Chang'an at the same time, but it is really rare to be together like this.

After spreading out the information and looking carefully, Jiaozhi's information was not complicated. Just three months ago, the First Fleet had already gone through a lot of hardships and arrived at a port controlled by the elite troops I sent to the south of Jiaozhi.

Then, they stayed here for two months, and left some ships as models for local craftsmen to build new ships. Then, the team went north again. After about three months, they bypassed most of the coastal areas of China, and once again entered the inland through the mouth of the Yellow River, and arrived directly to Hancheng County.

Quanzhou, the earliest harbor city in Chinese history, was sent by my son to Hancheng as early as when he was in Hancheng. Not only did he recruit skilled shipbuilders here, but more importantly, he had to carefully collect intelligence.

Quanzhou is one of the main starting points of the ancient Maritime Silk Road. The Maritime Silk Road is the major artery of ancient sea route transportation. Since the pre-Qin period, the south of China was the birthplace of the South Island race. In the pre-Qin period, it was called the Baiyue people and was one of the most widely distributed nations in the world. They had excellent navigation experience and adventurous spirit, and their footprints were spread across the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The prehistoric era began to move towards the ocean, and was distributed in Madagascar, Hawaii, New Zealand, and Australia.

After Qin destroyed the six kingdoms, he began to pacify the Baiyue land in the Lingnan region. In 219 BC, Qin Shihuang sent Tu Sui as the main general, and Zhao Tuo as the deputy general led an army of 500,000 to pacify Lingnan. Tu Sui was killed because of indiscriminate killing innocent people, which caused the stubborn resistance of the Yue people. Qin Shihuang reappointed Ren Xiao as the main general, and led a large army to fight south with Zhao Tuo. After four years of hard work, he completed the great cause of pacifying Lingnan in 214 BC. Qin set up three counties in Lingnan: Nanhai County, Guilin County and Xiang County, and gradually developed a prosperous Lingnan economic circle with Nanhai County as the center. At the end of the Qin Dynasty, the northern expeditions were endless, and the Lingnan region was ruled by Zhao Tuo, known in history as the South Yue Kingdom, and was one of the few peaceful areas at that time.

In 202 BC, the Han Dynasty was established, and Emperor Gaozu of Han implemented a policy of rest and recuperation, and negotiated peace with the South Guangdong. The two countries were able to develop economic and trade. In 196 BC, Empress Lu regent had a conflict with the South Guangdong. The two sides fought fiercely in Nanling and the war was in a stalemate. At that time, the Lingnan region mainly produced silk textiles, and Zhao Tuo began to seek maritime routes to Western countries to conduct trade in order to find important military supplies and iron resources. The Greek-style silver vessels unearthed from the tomb of the Nanyue King in Guangzhou and the stone Greek-style beams and columns excavated from the remains of the palace of the South Guangdong Kingdom are quite good proofs, confirming that the Maritime Silk Road was born at the end of the Qin and early Han dynasties. The Lingnan region exported silk to the West in exchange for various materials, and Greek craftsmen came to China to participate in the construction of the South Guangdong Palace.

During the Western Han Dynasty, the sea route between the southern Guangdong and the Indian Peninsula had been opened. After Emperor Wu of Han destroyed the southern Guangdong country, he expanded the scale of sea trade. The south was from Rinan, Xuwen, Hepu Tongdu Yuan, Gandulu, Huangzhi, and Pi Zong, and Chengbu (now Sri Lanka).

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, "in the ninth year of Emperor Huan Yanxi, King Andun acur Iuutc Iu, from 161 to 180 AD), sent envoys to offer ivory, rhino horns, and tortoiseshell from outside the southern part of the country, and then they were connected." This was the first time that China and the Roman Empire were exchanged in history.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms were in a critical period of inheriting the past and opening up and final formation of the Maritime Silk Road from land to ocean. During this period, Sun Quan dominated Jiangdong, taking the ancient Dayu as an example, advocating that "the country is based on the people and the people are food as the best", "not improving the cutting of the country, hindering the agriculture and sericulture", and striving to develop the economy, create the ship industry, train navigators, establish the country with naval forces, and dispatching sailing envoys to develop territory, connect with the outside world, making significant contributions.

Let’s talk about shipbuilding, ships, and ships first. These are essential conditions and main tools for navigation. Before the Three Kingdoms, they usually relied on sailing ships and trade winds, and drifted on the sea and almost took risks. In countless people died for this. During the Three Kingdoms period, due to the need for Sun Wu and Cao Wei and Liu Shu to fight on the Yangtze River and maritime transportation, they actively developed naval forces, and made great progress in the design and manufacturing of ships, with advanced technology and large scale.

According to Zhang Dake's "History of the Three Kingdoms", Sun Wu's shipbuilding industry was particularly developed. In the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the main shipbuilding areas in Suzhou, Wuxi, Anqing and other places, were mostly flat-bottomed inland ships. Sun Wu shipbuilding center moved to the Houguan of Jian'an County (now Minhou, Fujian), Yongning County, Linhai County (now Wenzhou, Zhejiang), Hengchuantun (now Pingyang, Zhejiang), Panyu County, Nanhai County (now Guangzhou) and other ports. Sun Quan set up a shipbuilding commander to specialize in managing shipbuilding workshops.

The ships built by Sun Wu were mainly warships, followed by merchant ships, with a large number, large hull and high quality keel structure. The largest warship can carry 3,000 soldiers, five layers above and below, carved and painted, very magnificent, and have strong endurance. The sea ship carrying 80 horses is called a small boat. Merchant ships sailing on the South China Sea, "the largest is more than 20 feet long and two or three feet above the water. It looks like a loft, carrying six or seven hundred people, and produces tens of thousands of hu of things." Sun Wu's armed fleet went out to sea with more than 100 soldiers, and went north to Liaodong, Goguryeo (now North Korea), south to Yizhou (now Taiwan), Southeast Asia and Vietnam, Cambozhai and other countries. When the Wu Kingdom was destroyed, there were more than 5,000 warships and merchant ships.

It has been hundreds of years since the beginning of Jin Dynasty. However, due to years of war and civil strife, the navigation industry has not achieved much development. The coastal maritime merchants are more engaged in business with coastal countries.

However, what surprised me was that there was a Hu-sen merchant in Quanzhou. Since the Han Dynasty, his family has been living by going overseas to do business. By his generation, it has been more than ten generations. According to the information found, the merchant ships of his family had arrived in India from Malacca and via Sumatra.

We also arrived in Japan, Goguryeo, Silla countries to the north, which shows that its predecessors have spent more than ten generations, and they don’t know how much effort and sweat it has been spent, and how much data from the former fleet has been collected, so that they will become the largest and most sailing maritime merchant in Quanzhou.

"Okay, okay, finally, I didn't invest so much manpower and material resources in vain. The value of this news is absolutely no less than ten thousand gold." This young master excitedly bounced the information in his hand and said happily.

"In this way, I will immediately send a message to Quanzhou and reward one person. In addition, tell them to try to get close to the Hu family. If the Hu family is not hostile to our Chinese Revival Army, it would be great. As long as we fight for them, we will get the most precious chart. I don't know how much manpower and material resources can be sacrificed..."

"In addition, since the Far Cruise has only set off for half a month, it should take almost two months to arrive at Hancheng." I came to this conclusion by estimating the time of my trip, and then continued to say: "When they arrive, they will change into a group of new sailors, take the old and take the new ones, and continue to set off and head to Jiaozhi, so that they must familiarize themselves with what the ocean is."

"By the way, how many ships are there in Jiaozhi?"

"By the young master, there are three transport ships left in Jiaozhi and six warships, accounting for one-quarter of the total ocean-going fleet."

"Next time, I will bring some more ships to send all the eleven new ships built at the end of the year and the beginning of this year. We will strive to build a powerful enough fleet in Jiaozhi in June. In this way, even if the prefect of Jiaozhi does not want to surrender to me, I will have to consider carefully what the consequences will be if I attack my people."

That's great. If the route from mainland to Tianzhu can be opened, the profits of silk, porcelain and tea will at least double than they are now. Moreover, they can be purchased directly from Tianzhu, the main source of spices and dyes, without being exploited by those middlemen. Naturally, the money you can earn will increase.

After reading the information and dealing with these matters, I was about to go over and squatted with my wife on a sweet and sweet piece, but I didn't expect that as soon as I stepped out of the threshold of the study, I saw Yuan Tiangang hurried to my courtyard. I couldn't help but be slightly stunned. Why did this guy come to the door?

"Your Majesty, I have something important, so I have come here with a risk. Please forgive me." After seeing me, Yuan Tiangang hurried to me a few steps and bowed.

"Yuan Qing, what's the point?" I waved my hand, signaled the guy to avoid the gift and asked.
Chapter completed!