"You must not!" Zhaoshu first reacted, "In this way, India will have a feud with me."

"The hundreds of people in India have rebelled, and the south of Jielingka is not owned by the Indian royal court. Why did he get into evil with me?" Xiong Jing asked back. "The Indian envoy urgently needed the military armor of our Chu State, and even more needed me to buy Indian rice to get gold and silver. How to quell the rebellion? The Seleucid commercial tax was extremely heavy, so I bought my silk and silk to sell it to various countries in the Mediterranean at a high price. The sea boats entered the Mediterranean, and it was inevitable that they would get into evil with me.

Nowadays, all countries are sailing along the coast, and a gunboat can block the sea route. If you do not block the sea route today, you will gain huge profits. In the future, you will need to send troops to India to seize rice. How easy and difficult is the naval battle or land battle?"

No matter how much silk is, it is a luxury. With the number of armies in various countries, the potential sales of military armor are less than 300,000 sets. Chu paper is even worse. Books, like silk, are things that only nobles can consume, and they must also be nobles in the civilized world. Tribal elders can wear silk, but they will not buy paper, so the things that can really make profits for a long time are spices.

Pepper, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg were spices from the Middle Ages. The biggest spices in this era were frankincense, followed by myrrh, then pepper, then closed-sheathed ginger, dried rosin, cinnamon, and cinnamon.

Frankincense is produced in southern Arabia, which is later generations of Yemen; there are myrrh in southern Arabia, but there are more on the Somalia Peninsula. As later Roman historian Pliny Lao said, the quality of wild myrrh in Somalia is the best. Pepper, like later generations, is only produced in Alaba on the west coast of India (now the coast of Kerala). Cinnamon and cinnamon were transported across the Indian Ocean from the South Ocean to various ports of Somalia. In this era, Sri Lanka had not yet introduced cinnamon and cinnamon.

The Alaba coast is located in the southwest of the Deccan Plateau by hundreds of people, and control of this area has nothing to do with India; Yemen and the Somalia Peninsula are all small city-states. Not to mention the Chu army, as long as there are enough ships, thousands of soldiers in South Vietnam and Minyue can conquer and control it. Once the Cape of Good Hope channel is opened, these spices can be transported around the African continent to the Mediterranean.

An Indian Pana is worth 33 cents and a drakma is worth 41 cents. Suppose India sells a drakma for one stone of rice, and it will cost 54 million drakma for all Chu states, that is, the annual trade profit is 230,000 gold. It is difficult to build so many merchant ships based on the big seal of the East Asian continent and the tense manpower during the war. But if the manpower and material resources of the Indian Peninsula are taken into account, it is not a difficult task.

Indian teak was exported to Persia hundreds of years ago. Archaeological evidence shows that teak produced from India was found in Chaldean, Much's Moon Temple, and the palace of Nebuchadnesha in Nineveh (the newly established Neo-Babylonian Kingdom after the demise of the Assyrian Empire, sixth and seventh centuries BC). It prompted the fragmentation of the Indian continent, and then used the gold and silver obtained from trade to dominate the human and material resources of the Indian continent. It was not difficult to build any cargo ship.

After obtaining the latest information on overseas trade, Xiong Jing quickly came up with this idea. He was not worried about Seleucau at all. He was worried about whether monopolizing the spice trade could obtain huge profits of 54 million Drakhma. Part of these profits became merchant ships in India, part of which turned into rice, and then continuously transported into the Chu State thousands of miles away.

Zhaoshu didn't know what Xiong Jing was outlined. He was just worried that Chu would fall into a war on two fronts. As an overseas intelligence provider, Wu Goucheng responded differently from his reaction, saying: "I think this matter is feasible. There are small countries south of the Red Sea Peninsula, and the same is true for the east coast of the South. Only the origin of pepper is Zheluo, and tens of thousands of soldiers..."

"It's not difficult to do things in Zheluo." Xiong Jing said, "The pepper produced by Zheluo can be sold to our country, but Pandya..."

There were not many ships in Zhero. They were just land merchants on the land. However, there were many maritime merchants in Pandya. When they moved the pepper, they would touch everyone's wallets. They would definitely fight a battle. The premise of monopoly trade was the battle for trade routes. Da Gama, a navigator who opened the Portuguese-Indian route, took his fleet to sweep the Indian Ocean the second year after returning to Portugal, expelled the merchants of Ah La Bo on the Indian Peninsula, and then set up a port in Goa.

The location of Goa is very clever, because all peppers grow in the south of Goa, and the establishment of a port here is naturally to prevent peppers from being sold to the north. After the Battle of the Diwu Sea, the Portuguese completely controlled the Indian Ocean.

The scale of the Battle of the Wuwu is really a small matter to the future generations, but this naval battle reversed the direction of the world's business roads and completely got rid of West Asia's unique geographical advantages since ancient times. The spices from the East began to be transported from the sea to Europe via the Cape of Good Hope.

"The affairs of India are all handled by Ou Qing." Thinking of the battle of Diwu Sea, Xiong Jing no longer cared about India. India's warships that didn't even hit the corners were really vulnerable. "I don't think that Egypt will send troops to attack me."

On one side of the Battle of Ukraine was Portugal, while on the other side were Venice, Egypt and Calicat and other Indian states. Ptolemy, Egypt now controls the eastern coast of the Mediterranean, and the price of silk in the Eastern Mediterranean was estimated to have been taxed. After exercising spices, it was necessary to send troops.

Xiong Jing's analysis was not a good idea, but he was not as sure as Xiong Jing. He said: "I only heard that Egypt once caught elephants in the South continent. Myrrh crossed the Red Sea Strait from the Horn of the South continent, and entered the Nabatai Peninsula (Arabian Peninsula) and went north to Nabatai..."

The trade route of spices is depicted by land. Xiong Jing asked: "How is the sea route?"

"There are boats in the Red Sea, but less than land." "There are long roads along the Red Sea by land. Although there are deserts, there are oasis."

"The Nabatai people also have to pass through Egypt's borders before they can reach the Mediterranean Sea." Xiong Jing said, "The business road is the way of gold and silver circulation. Control the west of India and east of South Africa, and control the entire Red Ocean. Seleucid, Egypt is my enemy, not my friend. Once frankincense, myrrh, and cinnamon are transported into the Mediterranean Sea without the Nabatai Peninsula, once Indian pepper, closed sheath ginger, and dried rosin are transported into Seleucid without the Persian Gulf, the two countries will send troops to attack us.

Seleucid either sent troops to the west coast of India or instigated others to send troops to the west coast of India. Even if Egypt did not send troops to the Red Sea, it should plunder our sea boats in the Eastern Mediterranean. Therefore, it is not a pleading with three fleets to protect the maritime trade routes, one in India and the Persian Gulf, two in the Horn of the South and the Red Sea, and three in the east of the Mediterranean…”

The organization of gunboats is different from that of warships. According to the artillery tactics, when fighting against the enemy's gunboats on the side, they need to be arranged in a battle line to bombard the enemy ships. The waves at sea are undulating, and the speed of the galleys collide with more than ten knots, which results in a very low shooting rate, and each naval gun has only one chance to fire, so five gunboats must be bombarded with 60 18-pound naval guns on each side.

Whether the five gunboats have enough firepower is not practical and there is no practical support; whether the 10-knot speed of the galleon will crash into the bottom of the gunboat is also no practical and there is no practical support; in the end, whether the sixty eighteen-pound cannons can knock down the galleon's attack, there is still no support. All this is just speculation.

"Master," Chang Jiang hurriedly walked, and he whispered in Xiong Jing's ear. "Princess Qin is here."

"Oh. Qin Mai..." The Qin army had already entered Nanyang County and was so fast that countries could not react. At the same time as the Qin army entered South Korea, Xiong Jing received the news that Mi Qin had returned to Chu. This was of course the back of South Korea.

"The first thing to do about trade is to explore the Mediterranean channel." Xiong Jing knew that Mi Qin should be in Ruoying's palace at this time. It is a big deal for monopolizing the spice trade, and it is not something he can tell in just a few words now.

"I respectfully accept the order." Chief Wu Gou replied solemnly, "I would like to sail to the south of Nanzhou at the end of this month."

"At the end of this month?" Xiong Jing pondered for a moment. The flying scissors were not suitable for gunboats, but they also had to install a few guns. Thinking that the six-pound cannon for the building of the mansion had been built, he nodded and said, "Okay."

"I ask the king to think twice about the attack on Seleugu." Zhaoshu continued to advise, "Sulphur..."

The sulfur stock is more than four tons, and the gunpowder is about forty-five tons. Of course, this amount is still too small. This is only enough for an 18-pound cannon to fire more than 4,000 times, and only enough for a six-pound cannon to fire more than 1,200 times. If this number is used for combat, it is enough for a sixty cannon of five gunboats to fire sixty-eight times, which is just the consumption of a battle.

"Sulphur will inevitably come." Xiong Jing did not think that the evil with Seleucus would affect the supply of gunpowder. Even if Yingzhou did not find sulfur, the fleet would ship enough sulfur to return to the ship before the evil. "Let's retreat."

"I'm going to leave." The king obviously had something to do, and Zhaoshu and others took the leave tactfully. As soon as they left, Xiong Jing left his bedroom and went to Ruoying Palace. It was impossible for there to be no palace maids in the palace, but Xiong Jing cannot get close to women now. The beauties of the "royal family" sent by the King of Wei were temporarily fostered in Ruoying Palace. Therefore, every time he went out, two temple people ran in front to let the palace maids retreat. At the same time, the temple people would report to Concubine Zhao, and Concubine Zhao asked all the women in the palace to retreat.

All the way, I saw the temple people not seeing the palace maids. When Xiong Jing arrived at Ruoying Palace, Mi Qin had already cried with Concubine Zhao. When he saw him coming, he wiped away his tears and got up and was defeated. Han Yi, who was beside her, paused.

"Does Jing'er want to save Zhao or attack Qin?" At night, after shutting down everyone, Concubine Zhao asked her son.

Concubine Zhao obviously heard some rumors, and Xiong Jing looked embarrassed and said, "Mother, whether to save Zhao or not depends on Zhengchao, the child..."

"Don't you miss your Xuan'er?" Concubine Zhao smiled and mentioned Mi Xuan. If Chu chooses to advance westward to attack Qin, then Mi Xuan will not be able to take it back.

"What's the use of thinking?" Xiong Jing did not blame his mother for interfering in politics. Zhao State was the mother's mother country. The mother married to Chu State to save Zhao, and she remained unchanged throughout her life. "If the court decides to attack Qin..."

"Yesterday, Xiang Bo said I was too." Concubine Zhao said who told her these things, "He said that he could not save Zhao from attacking Qin Ding, so he wanted me..."
Chapter completed!