[These recently updated chapters,The place names around Poyang Lake and Changshan Island are all contemporary,The author's ability is limited and he didn't find the literature in the Tianbao period.,I had to make this decision.,I hope you book friends Haihan!]

In the early morning, the first rays of sunlight pierced through the mist over Poyang Lake, and Menchizhou, which had been silent all night, gradually became noisy.

Although the lake has not been peaceful in recent years, the fishermen who depend on the lake for their livelihood always have to make a living. If you don't dare to go to a place that is too deep, you can cast a few nets in the surrounding waters and catch some fish and shrimp to survive.

It is said that the trade routes are cut off, but in fact, it is only relative.

The reason why the officers and soldiers have been defeated again and again is that in addition to underestimating the enemy and ignorance of water conditions, the most important thing is that there is a great lack of ships for water warfare. At the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the world was immediately obtained, and in the original unification war, most of the hinterland of the Central Plains north of the Yangtze River was defeated by Li Shimin, the king of Qin, who led a cadre of military generals from Tiance Mansion.

As for the vast water towns south of the great river, they were unified in the hands of the military god Li Jing. It's a pity that the god of war is good at plotting enemies and short at plotting himself, and he ended up in a bleak old age. The few sailors who were once able to fight well were also dismantled one by one, and all that remained was a few fleets used to transport supplies.

With the rise of maritime trade, the price of the ships skyrocketed, and originally, the government army of Yuzhang County would directly receive several advanced warships from the Hongzhou shipyard every year. It's just that how could those coastal maritime merchants let go of these well-made and war-functioning ships?

Every year, a few warships only went around the military's ledger and fell into the hands of maritime merchants, and as for the ships moored in the military port, it is long unknown which year they are.

Every few years, the government army of Yuzhang County would go to the edge of Changshan Island to go around twice, and when they returned, they would destroy many ships. After all, the ferocity of the water bandits on Changshan Island is well known to the world, and the military is not afraid of sacrifice, hardships and dangers, and often does not forget to regain lost territory for the country. Of course, how can these patriotic generals live in poverty? Such words will chill the soldiers' hearts.

Therefore, the water bandits on Changshan Island can break through today's prestige, and these generals are indeed indispensable!

The good intentions of the generals are naturally accepted by the bandits, but those powerful maritime merchants, the water bandits on Changshan Island do not have such good teeth. Those huge ships are not something that a few small fishing boats of their own can compete with.

Therefore, what is extinct on Poyang Lake is only those small business travelers, like those sea giants, who are still cruising in their own way.

A place called Wuyue Town is only a few hundred miles northwest of Menchizhou, and it is also the place where the tributary to the west of Ganshui flows into Poyang Lake. At this time, the sound of people is boiling, on the shore of the water, hundreds of huge docks are busy, one by one giant trees are constantly transporting over, workers are working like ants, and one giant ship is gradually taking shape.

This is the largest and most technologically advanced shipyard in the Tang Dynasty and even in the whole world, Hongzhou Shipyard.

In fact, the original Hongzhou shipyard did not have such a large scale, but in recent decades, a large number of orders have prompted the shipyard to continue to expand its scale, and gradually formed the current appearance.

Of course, in the archives of the Ministry of Industry, the Hongzhou Shipyard has always retained the scale of a hundred years ago, which is the tacit result of all the southeastern officials.

It's not that no one has ever thought of taking the shipyard for themselves, but they don't dare to have it! But anyone who doesn't know the depth or has ulterior motives and wants to get involved in the shipyard will quietly disappear from the world.

All the officials are silently keeping this secret for the shipyard, and the successive Yuzhang Taishou are all like this, even Wang Xian, who was born in the Taiyuan royal family, does not dare to touch this taboo.

Wang Xian's inaction is not without reason, as the son of the Changfang of the Taiyuan Wang family, he also came with an ambition when he went south to Yuzhang. It's just that when he really came to Yuzhang City, several overt or covert shots were lightly disintegrated by the local clan forces.

When he was full of depression, a former friend pointed out to him, so he came to Wuyue Town for a while.

When he saw the countless huge ships in the dockyard and the dense merchants in the market town, the merchants who spent a lot of money brought in boatloads of jewels and spices, and took away boatloads of porcelain and tea. Wang Xian was pretty sure that the transaction volume was enough to cover the sales volume of all of their Wang family's stores in a year.

He couldn't believe the qiē in front of him, because in his cognition, the entire Datang could not consume these goods. When he learned from the merchants who came and went to know the words Nanyang, Tianzhu, and Dashi, which used to only appear in the classics, he began to believe that there really were such a wealth of kingdoms.

After he returned, he immediately reported what he saw to the clan, but in exchange for a sternly worded letter, the old people in the family did not want to believe and could not believe that the Southern Barbarians in their eyes would have such an achievement. They unanimously agreed that this qiē was just Wang Xian's prevarication, the dignified Taiyuan Wang's eldest son-in-law, lost to others, which is not a shame, but in order to cover up his incompetence, he actually made up such an unbelievable qiē, which is really embarrassing!

Yes, the dignified Taiyuan Wang family, thousands of years of pride have long become a shackle on the head of the Wang family, restricting her pace. The old people in the family stared at the barren and barren land in Guanzhong every day, but they didn't know that the harvest of a boatload of people could be worth the harvest of thousands of acres of land for a year.

Among the seven sects and five surnames who want to come to the hall, only he and the two little hairy children of the Lu family are the ones who understand.

The rise of the Maritime Silk Road, in addition to creating the glory of Yangzhou's rich world, but also the achievement of the strong strength of the maritime group, these emerging families have huge wealth, but very low-key, not people who have in-depth contact with them, can not feel their energy. Even those officials who were ruined in their hands would never be able to detect their existence. They are like a giant beast hidden in the shadows, waiting for the day when they will surface.

As the source of control of maritime trade, the Hongzhou shipyard provided nearly ninety percent of the supply of sea ships for the entire Tang Dynasty. Who would dare to provoke such a big piece of meat? Who has such a good appetite to swallow such a large piece of meat?

Therefore, the government-run shipyard has become a result acceptable to everyone.

The shipyard is still in the hands of the local family in Yuzhang, but in exchange, the Hongzhou shipyard must supply a certain number of sea ships to the coastal maritime families every year with quality and quantity. The response of the maritime families was to eliminate a factor that might affect the monopoly of the Hongzhou shipyard.

It's not that no one wants to change this status quo, and with the power of the maritime group, some families in the maritime business do not want to be controlled by others. The best and most radical way to do this is to build a new shipyard somewhere else.

However, if you open the territory map of the Tang Dynasty, you will find that the place suitable for building a good shipyard must be close to the sea, and it must be a good port city. During the Tianbao period, except for the city of Guangzhou, the rest of the place is still in a state of barbarism and uncivilized, as for the excellent harbor with a long history in later generations, Quanzhou Port, it is still a small county town.

This is because in addition to the unique coastal conditions of a good seaport, the most important thing is that the land transportation must be developed, so that the bulk of goods can be transshipped, and the geographical advantages can be transformed into economic benefits. This is also the reason why by far the most important maritime trade base of Datang is still in the Yangtze River basin. Yangzhou, an important town in the south of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, backed by the Yangtze River and bordered by the sea in the east, has a concentration of business and travel, and frequent trade, so it is natural that it will become the maritime trade center of Datang.

Quanzhou is good, Fujian is also mountainous, and there are many towering giant trees on the mountain, which is a good material for shipbuilding. However, Xianxialing, the main road leading from Fujian to the north, is a military stronghold that cannot be opened. Such a place, it is estimated that no one else will like it, except for the army of the defending side.

No matter how good the harbor is, without supporting land facilities and good transportation conditions, it can only be used as a supply place for maritime merchants to stop and rest, and will never be the end of the sea route.

Although Yangzhou has good conditions as a harbor city, its surroundings are almost a flat area, and even if there are some mountains, they are mostly hilly and low, so where do the towering giant trees come from? Even if there are some giant trees on the mountainous areas of northern Jiangsu and the Tianmu Mountains in Zhejiang, they are not very suitable for the hull of sea vessels.

As for the Jinling Longjiang Shipyard, which was famous in later generations and supported Zheng He's seven voyages to the West, it was also the result of the gathering of merchants after Jinling was the capital for many years, and the wood used was also transported from other places.

In fact, in this era, there is also a seaport city on the rise. Dengzhou, located at the mouth of the Yellow River, is close to Goryeo and Japan, two countries that have been in exchange with the Tang Dynasty for a long time, and the trade in the north is actually not inferior to that in the south.

It's just that the families in the Central Plains have not yet taken their eyes off the land, and they are more fascinated by the black oily land in the Northeast than the blue sea. It's just that that place has always been the territory of ethnic minorities, and these thousand-year-old clans are also racking their brains to plan there.

As for the vast primeval forest, the towering giant trees that have grown for tens of thousands of years, in their eyes, it is estimated that they are just wood burned in the stove and a hu bed when they sleep. They could not yet associate these things with great wealth, and certainly the new maritime families of the South could not sue them.

Although Dengzhou also has geographical conditions that are not weaker than or even stronger than Yangzhou, it is still just a larger town. After all, compared to the Nanyang routes, which cost a lot of money to open, the eastern and northern routes between Japan and Goryeo are really thoroughfares!

Therefore, under this natural and man-made dual conditions, Hongzhou Shipyard, which already has a strong foundation, has successfully completed the great cause of unifying the rivers and lakes, and will continue to shock the world until the later accident......

The workers in the dock are still busy, in the surrounding area of the shipyard, gradually formed a town, Jingdezhen porcelain, Lushan tea, Huizhou and Yizhou wood, all gathered here, Yangzhou maritime merchants also brought spices, jewelry, grain from overseas, while waiting for the sea ship to be launched, they traded with merchants from all over the world, and they always wanted bulk goods, waiting for the shipyard's sea ships to get their hands, immediately loaded with tea and porcelain on the spot, full of boats to pull away, across Poyang Lake to the Yangtze River, directly east to the sea, sail to distant countries, even do not have to go home。

The prosperity here originally belonged to Changshan Island. Just now......

Xu Chen retracted his gaze to the northwest, the lights there were indeed very charming, but they didn't belong to him yet, the official ship had already left the port, and the three modified fishing boats led by Zheng Tai were already waiting in front, his own road was still in front of him, and he still needed to go down step by step......