Shengjun returned to the court, that is naturally a big deal, Jinling City has long begun to prepare for the driving matters, but after the Shengjun left Shanghai to return to the court, so that the new return to Shanghai Guedes is quite disappointed, he stayed in Huzhou, Zhejiang some time ago, in order to establish a branch in the local area, mainly to purchase local silkworm cocoons, and local silkworm farmers to cooperate, for him to open a raw silk factory in Shanghai Industrial Zone to provide long-term and stable production raw materials.

On the way back to Shanghai, he still wondered if there would be a chance to take a look at the Ancient Sage from afar.

However, his actions were still a little late, and when he returned to Shanghai, the Ancient Sage Monarch had already been gone for several days.

Although he was a little disappointed, he didn't say that he couldn't eat, after all, the Ancient Sage Monarch was not gold and silver, and if he didn't see it, he wouldn't think about it, and in recent times, Geddes's business is getting bigger and bigger, and his courage is getting bigger and bigger, in the past, he basically didn't dare to go to other inland cities, but now, with guards, he dared to take people directly to Huzhou.

Nowadays, the scale of Guedes's business is also getting bigger and bigger, there is a trading company engaged in resale trade, there is also a shipping company specializing in Nanyang sea trade, and now there is a raw silk company, ready to build a raw silk factory.

However, although there is a trading company and is also ready to engage in raw silk, his main business is still sea trade, and the profits of sea trade in these years are too great, even if it is now that Guedes's net worth is not less, but he will still personally lead the fleet to run the South Seas once a year.

And this year, he is even ready to take his merchant fleet to run farther, not only in the South Seas, not even in India, he is ready to go to Europe!

Nowadays, although the sea trade is lucrative, but with the support of the Tang Dynasty for the sea trade, a large number of merchants devote themselves to overseas trade.

Now there are too many people doing maritime trade, and the scale is getting bigger and bigger, especially the Datang Western Company with royal assets, which has already opened a fixed route to the South Seas in a frenzy, and as soon as they go, they have organized several or even a dozen merchant fleets, and their ships are all five or six hundred ton galleons, or that kind of armed merchant ships.

And sometimes they are enough to get the escort of the Datang Navy!

It can be seen from Datang Western Company that there are too many people running the Nanyang route, and there are too many people running this route, and the profits will inevitably be diluted.

Nowadays, many maritime merchants have set their sights on North Korea and Fuso, but Guedes is not familiar with these places, and he can't even understand the routes.

Seeing that the profits of Nanyang Trade are gradually decreasing, Guedes will definitely give full play to his advantages and return to the European route!

He has been a pirate for decades, and he has traveled all over the world, and he is also very familiar with the routes from East Asia to Europe, and he is sure to lead the fleet to run European routes to make huge profits.

Nowadays, the route from East Asia to Europe is very profitable, and the prices of silk, porcelain, and other oriental specialties have risen dozens of times to Europe.

The huge profits also lead to the fact that although many merchant ships go to sea every year, they are gone and never look back, and no one knows in what sea area they have sunk, or they have simply been plundered by pirates, but they still can't stop people from stepping on the road of no return to maritime trade.

However, although the East Asia to Europe route is very profitable, in fact, most of the profits are earned by European merchants, or more precisely, by the merchants who run the long route from Malacca to Europe, and the profits of the South Sea route, although it is said to be a lot, but compared with the European route, it is really insignificant, and it cannot be compared at all.

Today, this part of the profits is mainly earned by the Portuguese, and even the Spaniards in the empire where the sun never sets are difficult to get involved in the trade in the Indian Ocean!

There is a concept that not everyone can run the sea trade in a sea area, for example, in the Indian Ocean, which is basically the world of the Portuguese, because only the Portuguese have established a relatively complete port supply station on the coast of the Indian Ocean.

At the same time, the Portuguese warships will also blockade this sea area, strangle any non-Portuguese merchant ships that dare to pass through this sea area, and now the Portuguese have almost completely monopolized the trade in the Indian Ocean, well, even the Spaniards, who are now very strong, have to obediently admit their cowardice in the Indian Ocean!

Relying on the numerous supply depots in Malacca and the Indian Ocean, the Portuguese launched large-scale trade, especially after the opening of the Tang Dynasty, the Portuguese's Asian trade almost opened a new climax!

Its huge profits are enough to stimulate anyone!

In the past two years, the Spaniards have fought like chickens and blood, trying to gain a foothold in the South Seas, isn't it just to better develop trade with China, and for this reason, they have already fought several naval battles with the Portuguese in the South Seas.

Last winter, the Spaniards organized a colonial fleet of six armed merchant ships to try to land on Meonlao Island and establish a stronghold, but the result was not only resisted by the local natives, but also attacked by the Portuguese, it is rumored that the colonial fleet was almost wiped out, leaving only one ship to flee all the way north, escaping to the port of Guangzhou to seek refuge, and then narrowly escaped with a life!

At that time, several warships of the Portuguese chased all the way to the coast of Guangzhou, and the frightened Datang Navy thought that the Portuguese were going to fight without declaring war, so the Second Fleet urgently dispatched and pulled out the capital ships in an old way to prevent accidents, and issued a very stern protest to the Portuguese:

Your armed fleet has broken into our Datang waters, please explain your intention immediately, and lower your sails to close the cannon door, otherwise we will open fire for an act of war!

And this protest also made the pursuing Portuguese vomit blood, Nima, we know that there is Guangzhou ahead, but now they are still more than 30 nautical miles away from the coastline, which is a violation of your territorial waters?

Could it be that you Datang really regard the entire South China Sea as an inland sea, in this case, why don't you just go to the sea off Malacca and say that we have intruded into your territorial waters.

And your official territory is all blind and drawn, who knows where your territorial waters are.

The map almost includes Europe, not to mention the surrounding countries, for example, in the south of Guangxi Province, which is Vietnam, but at the junction of the two places, people do not say that this is a national border, but a provincial border, saying that Vietnam is a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty and an inalienable territory of the Tang Dynasty.

That's it, in the north, you directly zoned the territory to the Arctic Ocean, Hebei Province to the north, that is called Mongolia, Mongolia to the north, called Buli, and then north to the North Pole, just take the name of Beiyuan is to be zoned in, you Datang do this, have you asked the opinion of the polar bear?

To the west, too, if you count the area of Vaspur, you also turn the Aral Sea west of Bukhara and Kiwa into an internal lake, have you asked the opinions of several Central Asian countries?

And what's even more nonsense is that Nima's entire territory map does not have a clear national boundary demarcation line at all!

Yes, the official territory announced by the Tang Dynasty is very vague, there are almost no clear national borders, only provincial and regional borders, and the edges of the borders are often left blank......

The official saying is: the whole world is not the king's land!

To put it bluntly, people regard the whole world and even the whole universe as the territory of Datang, and now those blank places are just not actually controlled, let the local natives take care of it first, and when we are free in the future, we will take over!

And what's interesting is that this is not Li Xuan's map to open up the territory, but something made by those ministers, Li Xuan asked them to just make a national map or something at first, but they directly showed Li Xuan the globe made by the Royal Institute of Technology, and they also looked like they were invited: Your Majesty, this is your empire!

There's no way, in fact, you can't blame those civil servants for this matter, because this kind of thing is more sensitive, and if you don't do it well, it's disrespectful, for example, if you list all the regions outside the land of China, and say that these places are not the Son of Heaven, Nima, this is looking for death!

The whole world is not the king knows it, does it understand!

In this world, whether it is the land or the sea, whether it is there, even if it is in another universe, it is the Son of Heaven, and you write other regions as the territory of other countries, what is this to do, doubting the sanctity of the Son of Heaven? Cut off your head on the spot and believe it or not!

So at the beginning, the Ministry of Rites directly showed Li Xuan the globe, and Li Xuan was a little speechless in the face of this kind of thing, and then asked them to make a map realistically, and don't use the globe to fool people.

So the officials of the Ministry of Rites carefully considered it, held dozens of meetings in a row, and after some fierce debates, finally found a compromise solution for them: that is, Datang has no borders!

Some are only provincial borders, regional borders, and nearby areas are all left blank, ignoring many surrounding countries......

Therefore, theoretically speaking, not to mention dozens of nautical miles off the coast of Guangzhou, even if it is the entire South China Sea and the entire Pacific Ocean, it is the Datang Inland Sea!

Of course, this kind of thing is just a politically correct argument, saying that it is okay, but it still needs to be considered, at least before controlling the entire South Seas, the Tang Dynasty has no way to prevent ships from other countries from freely traveling to and from the South Seas.

It's just that although they are dissatisfied with the requirements of the Datang Navy to say that it is territorial waters, they still left obediently, anyway, the Spaniards were only left with one ship after they were killed, and after the armed forces of other countries entered the Datang port in order to seek asylum, according to the relevant regulations of the Tang Dynasty, they would detain the ships and repatriate the personnel.

Those Spain can survive, but they basically have no ability to colonize the South Seas anymore, and for the Portuguese, the threat is gone, so they can't fall out with the Tang Dynasty for the Spanish ship.

Although the Tang Dynasty was arrogant and unreasonable in many ways, this trade was really profitable, and for the sake of money, they endured the Tang Dynasty to say that Nanyang was an inland sea.

And the huge profits of maritime trade made them endure the arrogance and unreasonableness of the Tang Dynasty, and they also wanted to further block the route from Asia to Europe.

In recent years, the Portuguese have spared no effort to prevent other European countries from interfering in East Asian trade, especially with China, and their fleets are directly used as maritime trade, plundering all non-Portuguese European merchant ships that travel to and from the Indian Ocean!

And this move of the Portuguese also made Datang deeply dissatisfied!

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