After hearing the news brought by Liu Neng over there, Liu Mang's face turned ugly again. He thought it would be good news, but who knows, the last news turned out to be that he couldn't log in, and he lost hundreds of soldiers. , which made Liu Mang a little annoyed.
"Yes!" Liu Neng lowered his head, he obviously also saw the unhappy expression on Liu Mang's face.
Liu Mang was about to wave his hand to make Liu Neng over there leave, but Liu Neng over there didn't move.
"Why is there something else?" Liu Mang frowned and asked.
"My lord, the fleet going south has also sent back news!" Liu Neng said to Liu Mang. Liu Neng divided the fleet into two, and one troop headed east. Going to Treasure Island, and part of it went in the direction of Jiaozhou, towards the southeast there. He, Liu Neng, also knew a Treasure Island, and he didn’t even land on it. His lord would definitely be dissatisfied when he went back. , Because sailing on the sea, not to mention the long time, the same consumption is still high, and the value of those few Sovereign-class ships is hundreds of thousands of gold.
In addition to the consumption on the ship and the like, it can be said that every voyage is a waste of money.
"Go south?" Liu Mang looked at Liu Neng over there suspiciously.
"Yes, my lord, go south!" Liu Neng nodded. At that time, Liu Mang gave Liu Neng two directions. One of them was to go south to search for the New World, that is, to go to Southeast Asia. Things are not done well in Baodao, how could it be possible to go south.
"After circling Treasure Island, Weichen had no way to start, so he led his followers and headed south in the direction of Jiaozhou!" Liu Neng said to Liu Mang with his head bowed.
"Have you found the Guishuang Empire?" Liu Mang's eyes lit up. If he remembered correctly. There is still this huge empire in Southeast Asia. This empire is one of the four great powers in Eurasia, along with Han, Rome, and Anxi.
"No!" Liu Neng shook his head.
"No?" Liu Mang laughed back angrily. There was no news about Treasure Island, and there was no news about going south. He even doubted his knowledge of people. How could this Liu Neng become such a waste.
"My lord, we failed to find the Guishuang Empire. But we found the two small kingdoms of Funan Linhu." Liu Neng clasped his fists at Liu Mang over there.
"Funan, Lin Hu?" Liu Mang didn't know the existence of these two countries at all. He could only know a rough idea for five thousand years in China, let alone the history of these individual countries. What the hell are these two countries?
Liu Neng over there continued to explain to Liu Mang.
Liu Mang roughly sorted out his thoughts, that is, the so-called Funan Kingdom is not small at all, even compared to Liu Mang's current territory, it is not small.
As for Lin Hu, he was a little smaller, about the size of Yangzhou.
If you really want to work hard, then this Lin Hu is about half the size of Vietnam, and Funan over there is more like Cambodia, Thailand and the remaining half of Vietnam!
However, at this time, all nations came to court during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. So for Liu Neng, they are the kingdom of heaven. Funan is naturally a small country.
"How about those two small countries?" Liu Mang asked, not wanting to correct Liu Neng's thinking about the Kingdom of Heaven.
"It's not as good as Jiaozhou and Bingzhou, my big man!" Liu Neng said to Liu Mang. In other words, it's not very good. The place is not as good, so you can see how poor it is.
"Poor place?" Liu Mang frowned. What he originally wanted was to find a continent to sell some handicrafts produced in Yangzhou. Yangzhou's production capacity can be said to have been established under the mature technology of the Ministry of Industry. Great improvement.
With the commercial roads from east to west, it is naturally widened, but the land of Yangzhou is a bit small after all. Other places in the Han Dynasty, except for Jingzhou, are infiltrated, like Yanzhou, and even the north is still a long way to go, and Liu Mang I don't want to mess up Dahan's market too much.
However, the developed business cannot be stopped. To put it simply, it is like a pottery industry. Because Liu Mang implemented that all the land belongs to the government, those gentry have to give up their fields whether they want to or not. Teach it.
Although Liu Wei gave them money, there must be complaints, because in this era, everyone follows one thing, that is, to have money to buy land, collect rent, save money, and then buy land. The new style of small-scale peasant economy is also like landlords. thought of.
But now Liu Mang has taken over their land, in order not to let these gentry be idle, but also to open up a source of income for these gentry, otherwise these gentry will go crazy if there is no money to make.
In order for these gentry to find another source of income, Liu Mang is vigorously encouraging the development of the business standard.
Even the commercial tax of the gentry has been low to a certain extent, and a large amount of technology has also been released, such as cement, which has already been released. Of course, these cements are used for civilian use, and they are also used by those fortresses like Liu Mang. It's different, but it's this cement that really makes a lot of people laugh.
Nowadays, as long as people have money, they will buy cement and go home to build a house, because the cement is not only strong, but also easy to form, unlike the original ones that are made of huge stones. Both are big questions.
Cement, as well as bricks and tiles, are all sold by manufacturers.
But Yangzhou's market will eventually be saturated.
Those cement factories and brick and tile factories can't make money, and those gentry are naturally dissatisfied. Although they don't know how to fight against Liu Mang, at least they are secretly restless.
Liu Mang has no choice but to open up new markets for them, and this fleet going south is one of them.
Originally, Liu Mang thought that the Guishuang Empire was one of the four great empires known as the rest of the great Han Rome. At any rate, he was also a wealthy family. The porcelain and silk of this big man can be sold as treasures in the Western Regions, so there is no reason to go by water. When it comes to Guishuang, it can't be sold at a price.
But now Liu Neng's words have completely extinguished Liu Mang's good wishes, that is, these two countries are two poorer than one, what should be done. This group of businessmen in Yangzhou really watched Liu Mang open up business routes for them.
If this matter is not done well. Those gentlemen of the gentry are not obedient.
"My lord, these two small countries don't have much money. But they do have food!" Liu Neng over there continued to speak.
"Food?" What do you mean when you just want to sleep, there is a pillow over there.
This is! Why does Yangzhou want Zhuge Liang to go to Xiliang over there now? Isn't it just for time? There is enough time for autumn harvest, and autumn harvest is to want food.
But now Liu Neng said that Funan and Lin Hu had food.
Liu Mang's eyes lit up. Why didn't he expect that Vietnam and Thailand are Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia is located in the subtropical zone, and the subtropical monsoon climate zone is characterized by warm winters. The average temperature of the coldest month is above 0°C; the summer is hot, the average temperature of the hottest month is greater than 22°C, and the annual precipitation is generally 1,000-1,500 mm. There are more summers, but there is no obvious dry season. Therefore, crops in the subtropical monsoon climate zone The growing period is longer than that of crops in the tropical rain forest climate zone, so the crops in the subtropical monsoon climate zone are cropped twice or triple a year. Most of the rice in Southeast Asia is cropped three times a year.
Don't doubt that people in Southeast Asia also eat rice. Although the origin of rice is China, it has been brought to Southeast Asia during thousands of years of evolution. It may be difficult to grow rice in the north, but there is a lot of rain in the south, coupled with light and heat adaptation, rice paddy, only with water can it grow vigorously.
So the people here are not short of food and drink. As for why the population growth of those people is slow, one of the reasons is laziness, and those local rulers, the chaos in Southeast Asia is not bad at all, and it can even be said It will be much more chaotic. There are hundreds of tribes, and every tribe has conflicts. If there are conflicts, fight them. Southeast Asia is no better than a big man.
The Dahan tribe was defeated, so Yuandun is, I have no way out in this state, and I will go to another state.
But the people here are trying to kill them all, and they have nowhere to escape if they want to.
These monkeys in Southeast Asia are more poisonous than anyone else in dealing with their own people. In such a fight, there are ghosts about how many people can be left.
There are few people, there is a lot of food, and they cannot be sold, and they are all rotten in the granary. If things go on like this, those rulers are too lazy to manage the food. Anyway, everyone will not starve to death. If you think about it, then plant the land. If you can’t remember it, forget it, three times a year, as long as it is ripe once, it is enough to eat for a year.
That's it, Funan still has a lot of food.
"Okay, okay!" Liu Mang finally smiled.
"Liu Neng, you have made great achievements this time, and this king will definitely reward you heavily!" Liu Mang became happy. Now he wants to increase the population by a large margin, but an important condition to restrict the population is food. In Liu Mang's eyes, the current Funan and Lin Hu are all huge things they want to touch.
"This is the Lord's good fortune!" Liu Neng said with a bow.
"Let's go south immediately with the fleet, and exchange credentials with that Funan country and that Lin Hu country! Take my Yangzhou specialties to visit our good neighbors!" Liu Mang became excited and said to the people over there. Liu Neng said in words.
"Master, what about Treasure Island?" Liu Neng asked Liu Mang suspiciously, just now Liu Mang gave him 8,000 soldiers and horses to go to Treasure Island to develop.
"The matter of Treasure Island can be put aside first, and going south is the most important thing! If this version is successful, your great contribution to Liu Neng will definitely be indispensable!"
"Yes!" Liu Neng said goodbye and withdrew.
The news of Liu Neng's return spread to the household department in Yangzhou, and then the household department passed it on to the merchants and the gentry.
"Funan Country? Lin Hu Country? What kind of small country is this?" Some businessmen don't understand. It's not that they are ignorant, but generally speaking, few people go to sea, and most of them want to communicate with the outside world on land. The Silk Road can be said to be an important channel for the great man to see the outside world.
Later, because of the war in the Western Regions and the chaos in the Central Plains itself, the Silk Road was abandoned.
And this Lin Hu and Funan are in Southeast Asia, it is normal that no one knows. Now there is news from Yangzhou that it is going to do business with these two small countries.
"I've heard of this Lin Hu country!" a businessman said.
"Brother Sun, you actually know this Lin Huguo? Come and tell us about it!" Someone over there hastily turned their attention to a businessman surnamed Sun.
This businessman surnamed Sun is simply flattered. He is from Jiaozhou. How much capital can a businessman in Jiaozhou have? Since ancient times, Jiaozhou has been a place of exile. The anger brought by Jiaozhou, but even so, he is not as good as the big states and counties in Yangzhou and Jiangdong.
Therefore, in Yangzhou, this businessman surnamed Sun was not well-known, and finally squeezed into this business bureau, and this time he was rarely noticed by everyone.
Fortunately, this grandson businessman is not stage-frightened. A businessman who can go all over the world has already developed a pair of thick skins.
"Everyone, this Lin Hu Kingdom is on the border of our Jiaozhou, and it was built for those local aborigines to imitate our Han system!" The businessman surnamed Sun explained over there.
"On the edge of Jiaozhou?" After hearing this explanation, everyone lost interest. Jiaozhou is already a poor place, and this is still on the south side of Jiaozhou. What the hell, you want us to buy products to those indigenous people
"The food in that place is the same as that in Jiaozhou, and it is cooked several times a year!" The businessman surnamed Sun explained.
"Hmph, so what if there are ten crops a year, it's all wasteland, how can we plant it?" The land in Jiaozhou is also barren, not because there is not enough fertilizer in the land, but because it is mostly forests and mounds, and the miasma in it is difficult for ordinary people to make up for. Survive, how to mine it.
"This!" The businessman surnamed Sun didn't know what to say. Jiaozhou over there is indeed like this, not to mention that the land is not of interest to these businessmen at all, because Yangzhou stipulates that the land belongs to the government.
"We brought the goods there, what will those natives use for us? Food?" Someone over there sneered.
"It's really food!" A person walked into the merchant bureau, everyone lowered their heads when they saw this middle-aged man, and respectfully called out "Mi Shangshu!"
This person is the Minister of the Household Department, Mi Zhu. The current Mi Zhu is no longer the humble businessman he used to be. Now he is the Minister of the Household Department of Yangzhou. It can be said that one person is below one person and above ten thousand. Mi Zhu was very satisfied with this feeling, and all of this was given by Liu Mang, so Mi Zhu was even more grateful to Liu Mang.
"The lord has an order, as long as you sell the goods to Linhu and Funan, exchange them for grain and grass, and recycle according to the market price! As for how much grain you can exchange, it depends on you~!" continued..)