Zhao Ying was a little helpless, why are these generals all tendons?

"The elephant presented by Li Yue is still at the foot of Phoenix Mountain, Li Yue's matter, Xiao Wang heard about it earlier, Deputy Envoy Yang still told Xiao Wang about Tianzhu and the West."

Yang Congyi saw that the king of the county avoided it again, so he no longer insisted on it.

I only heard him say: "Speaking of Tianzhu, before arriving in Tianzhu, the last general thought that Tianzhu was still as powerful and rich as Master Xuanzang of the Tang Dynasty when he traveled west, and only after he went did he find that the once powerful and brilliant Tianzhu had been divided into more than a dozen countries, fighting with each other, and no one had been able to unify Tianzhu for hundreds of years. The last general accidentally fell into the water while crossing the ocean, and was stranded on a desert island for several months, and when he arrived at Tianzhu to catch up with the fleet, the fleet was divided into two, one stayed in Tianzhu to communicate with various countries, exchange goods, and the other will follow the other along the coast around Tianzhu and continue westward, and finally we reached the Seljuk country in the Persian Gulf, this place had a powerful and prosperous country called Babylon thousands of years ago, although thousands of years have passed, the country called Babylon does not exist, but that land is the confluence of two rivers, the land is fertile, Still rich, today's Seljuk country is strong, has successively annexed several surrounding countries, to the west to the Mediterranean, to the east has immediately bordered the Liao country, this Liao country was once dominated by the Song Dynasty in the north, and was later driven away by the Song and Jin Khitans built, at the beginning Yelu Dashi with 50,000 Khitan remnants were driven all the way to the Western Regions, who knew that Yelu Dashi actually quickly defeated the Western Regions with 50,000 remnants in his hand, gained a firm foothold in the Western Regions, and rebuilt the Liao State. Today's Liao State is in the west of Western Xia, bordering Western Xia, and the Seljuk State is in the west of Liao, bordering Liao State. The last general with the fleet to ride the wind and waves on the sea for two years, although the place is not less, but still less than the world of one-twelve, now the king of the county sees, the west of the Great Song Dynasty is the Western Xia, the west of the Western Xia Kingdom is the Liao State, the west of the Liao Kingdom is the Seljuk Kingdom, and the Great Song Dynasty fleet directly to the Seljuk through the waterway, the Great Song Dynasty seems to be very large, but compared with the whole world is very small, this world seems to be very large, each country is a country, it will be immediately crowded, and the world will become very small. Some people say that this world is boundless, and some people say that this world is surrounded by the vast sea except the Central Plains, the North and the Western Regions that we know, and the end will think that it is not right, this world is not boundless, except for the Central Plains, the Western Regions and the North are not all water, as long as we go out with the fleet, we can find that this world is very large, and at the same time very small, in addition to the continent where we are located, there must be other continents besides the ocean, and there are not even the Wa countries in the vast sea east of the Great Song Dynasty, who can know that there is no bigger country except the Wa country, but blocked by the vast ocean and unable to see each other, if one day our Great Song fleet goes further, maybe we will be able to travel all over the world, and then we will be able to know how big the Great Song is, and how small the Great Song is. ”

After Yang Congyi finished speaking, seeing that the king of the county seemed to be fascinated by what he heard, he couldn't help but be cold, so he continued: "Last time, we went to sea to bring out hundreds of ships of Great Song Dynasty goods, and when we arrived in Tianzhu and Western countries, we were quickly snapped up by local magnates and wealthy businessmen, and obtained countless gold, silver, pearls and jades, and at the same time exchanged for countless rare goods, and the goods brought back to the Great Song Dynasty by the fleet from overseas were quickly snapped up at all. ”

"No, as far as Xiao Wang knows, the fleet has earned more than 50 million yuan, at least 80 million yuan, and there are many treasures to reward the ministers."

Zhao Ying immediately pointed out Yang Congyi's mistake, and as soon as the words came out, he regretted it.

"Sea Huiyi is really a way to make money, and this way to make money, as far as the last general knows, is currently only available to the Great Song Dynasty."

"Why is that?"

Obviously, Zhao Ying was more interested in making money, and immediately asked.

Yang Congyi said: "The sea is vast and boundless, and it will lose its direction when it enters the sea for a hundred miles, if the weather is clear at night, you can also identify the direction according to the stars, once there is a dense fog on the sea, it will quickly get lost, and eventually be swallowed by the ocean." And we are different from the Great Song Dynasty, we now have a needle plate, not only can we identify the direction on land, but also can identify the direction anytime and anywhere when we reach the boundless sea, as long as there is a chart, we will not get lost on the sea. In addition to having the ability to distinguish the direction anytime and anywhere, sailing on the sea also requires reliable sailing vessels, that is, large ships with more than three or four thousand materials that can resist wind and waves. The last general will go through many coastal countries with the fleet, although there are many of their ships, but all of them can not be compared with the Great Song Sea ships, the largest ships are less than half of the Great Song Sea ships, and they can not resist the wind and waves, and the slightest wind and waves will capsize, so their ships can not cross the ocean, they can only sail slowly along the coast, the Great Song Dynasty fleet goes to the Western Ocean and then comes back, it takes less than two years, and the Western countries want to come to the Great Song Dynasty, it will take five years, and it will take ten years, ten years, the Great Song Dynasty fleet is five back and forth, and their ships are small, How much more money can you make? As long as the Great Song Dynasty is willing, the Great Song Dynasty can earn all the gold and silver of the entire world back to the Great Song Dynasty, including the Jin people and Western Xia in the north. ”

"Is my Great Song really so powerful at sea?"

Zhao Ying didn't seem to believe it, after all, I heard Yang Congyi say just now that there are many countries in this world besides the Great Song Dynasty, and the Great Song Dynasty can't even win the Western Xia, Liao, and Jin Kingdoms, so how can he believe that the Great Song Dynasty is so powerful at sea.

Yang Congyi nodded and said, "That's true." Every time our fleet arrives in a country, the subjects of that country all rush to the seaside to watch, because they have never seen a few zhang high, dozens of zhang long big ships, in their eyes, each of the ships of the Great Song Dynasty is a Shenzhou, and even one country wants to exchange 100,000 taels of gold for one of our sea ships, because our sea ships sail on the sea, run fast and steady, and the carrying capacity is dozens of times larger than their ships. I remember that when we returned to the Srivijaya Kingdom in the South Seas from the Seljuk Kingdom in the Western Ocean, the entire fleet crossed the ocean, and it took more than a month to complete the road that their ships would take two or three years to complete. The shipbuilding technology of the Great Song Dynasty will not be learned by Western countries in a short period of time, but if we don't take advantage of this time to make more money, I am afraid that in a few decades, they will come to make the money of the Great Song Dynasty. ”

"The Western country is far away from the Great Song Dynasty, and it will take them five years to come here, so why worry about them. Deputy Envoy Yang just said that the Great Song Dynasty could earn gold and silver from the Jin Kingdom and the Western Xia Kingdom, but he didn't know how to earn it? ”

Yang Congyi replied: "The Huiyi fleet brought back countless spices from the South Seas, Tianzhu, and Western Oceans, and these spices came to the Great Song Dynasty, and we made more delicacies. The people take food as the sky, as long as anyone lives, he can't stop eating, those who haven't eaten want to eat, those who eat want to eat, those who eat want to eat well, and those who want to eat well are almost all either rich or expensive, the Great Song Dynasty, the South Sea, the West, the Jin Kingdom, and the Western Xia. Since spices can be sold at a high price in the Great Song Dynasty, one or two spices can be sold for ten hundred yuan, and if they are sold to the more scarce Xixia and Jin countries, one or two spices will be ten gold and one hundred gold, and it is not impossible. We all know that the Jin and Xixia people eat more beef and mutton, and the beef and mutton are very heavy, usually difficult to swallow, but if you add spices can become a wonderful delicacy, as long as you taste it once, you will never forget, this spice only needs to spread a little among the Jin and Xixia nobles, their subjects will immediately seek after, spices are immediately more expensive than a thousand gold. The year before last, the fleet brought back countless spices, which may have reached the country of gold by now. ”

Speaking of spices, Zhao Ying couldn't help but swallow his saliva, the food in the election camp these days is really not flattering, but the dishes with spices don't seem to be as magical as Yang Congyi said.

"The spices brought back by the fleet the year before last, as far as Xiao Wang knows, have long been snapped up, although precious, but to satisfy the appetite, can not be on the table, the imperial court has not given to the envoys of the Jin State and Western Xia, whether there are merchants to exchange spices with the Jin people in Sizhou I don't know. However, listening to what Vice Envoy Yang said, if spices can indeed change the smell of beef and mutton, spices should be worth thousands of gold in the Jin country. It's just that I'm afraid there aren't many spices brought back by the fleet, and it's not enough for the subjects of the Great Song Dynasty to enjoy themselves, so how can there be any excess to exchange with the Western Xia of the Jin Kingdom. ”

Zhao Ying couldn't help but sigh softly.

"Jin Guo seems to be powerful, but in fact it is already corrupt, and everyone wants to enjoy it, and their money is very profitable. At the beginning of the establishment of the Jin State, it swept away the powerful Liao State with a thunderous force, and soon went south to take away the vast territory north of the Huai River in the Great Song Dynasty, and even crossed the Yangtze River and entered Fujian, but in the following ten years, they waved their troops southward many times, but never went to the Yangtze River again, and most of the monarchs and ministers of the Jin Kingdom began to enjoy themselves, especially in the past ten years, the pleasure of the monarchs and ministers of the Jin Kingdom was better than before, and it was easy to make their money. As long as they earn all their money, it will be difficult for the Jin State to start a war again, there is no money and no food, what do they use to fight, and when the time comes, the Great Song Dynasty treasury is abundant, the people have accumulated countless money, and the court can do whatever it wants, expand the post road, control the floods, reclaim the fertile land, build water conservancy, and reorganize the army, and the land that has been robbed will come back little by little, and even without much war, the world can be returned to the Great Song Dynasty. ”

Yang Congyi finally couldn't help but bring the conversation back to the Song and Jin, no matter how it developed, the Great Song Dynasty could not leave the Jin State in the north, unless the Jin State died, otherwise as long as the Jin State existed, the Great Song Dynasty would always be threatened, at least at present, the subjects of the Great Song Dynasty almost all thought so.

No matter what you say, you can't avoid the topic of Song Jin in the end, unless you live in seclusion in the mountains and don't ask about the world.

"Vice Envoy Yang's words are reasonable."

Zhao Ying nodded, deeply agreeing.