"This is my Yangzhou newly-made sea ship, which was jointly built by the officialdom and the fourth uncle Wang, and each ship cost a total of 4,000 yuan in labor, one to go to Silla with monks, and one to Japan with merchants. Ships to Silla were carrying tea, while those to Japan were carrying silk and porcelain. After the nautical chart is completed, we can exchange merchant ships with Silla and Japan one or twenty times a year, and the trade will be handed over to the shipbuilders and maritime merchants. If there is a shortage of commercial goods, the government can set up a special store in the Hai Yu Academy, and the benefits will be more! Speaking of this, Gao Yue's eyes were blazing, and he said to Han Yu: "In the trade with the sea, Du You's Guangzhou Mansion has accounted for eighty-nine tenths of the share; trade with the Bohai Sea, that Li Shigu's Ziqing also accounted for seven-eight-tenths of the share; Therefore, our goal in Yangzhou is to open up Haidong, that is, trade with Silla and Japan, as long as our caravan is firmly established in Japan, the next step is to bring Dansha (mercury), refine their platinum and bring it back to the country to mint coins, anyway, the other party does not know the means of silver refining at all, and my Taoist priest of Tang understands. ”

"What if Japan doesn't allow it?"

"The way has the means to make them submit." Gao Yue was full of confidence, "As long as I Huaiyang, unite eastern and western Zhejiang, and monopolize Haidong trade, I should be able to make a profit of 500,000 guan per year in the first ten years, and over time, there will be no problem in expanding to 800,000 or even one million guan per year in 20 years...... Not to mention the extra profits brought by the inflow of a large amount of platinum into my Yangzhou. ”

When Gao Yue reported such a large amount, Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan were all speechless, the tea and wine in the world of salt and iron were only 500,000 yuan a year, and the trade of Haidong alone was ......

If Haidong trade is really successful, it will be difficult to do it if you want to give it up in the future.

No wonder, no wonder, Gao Yue said that after the arrival of the new era, in order to get platinum, the merchants, the people and the army will support him, and they will be willing to use it for him, or to levy, or invade, or colonize.

Even this expedition to the south, that is, to conquer the cave barbarians, Gao Yue no longer shied away from the true purpose: "Huang Shaoqing is a barbarian from Lingnan and Western Dao, but he is just a snake and rat ear, I will capture it and dedicate it to His Majesty." My deep meaning is to use this time to go to Guangzhou Mansion to integrate the town navy along the way, as well as the 'Baishuilang' and 'yachts' in eastern Zhejiang and Fujian for my use. ”

I see!

The title of Bai Shuilang and Yacht Zi has existed since the uprising of Sun En and Lu Xun in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and refers to those aquatic tribes in eastern Zhejiang, Fujian and Lingnan who have taken boats as their home and the sea for their livelihood for generations, and are also armed maritime merchants, of course, in the eyes of the old government, they are all pirates.

Now Gao Yue wants to take advantage of this to control and entangle this group of aquatic tribe children in the gray area, which will be the cornerstone of his future ocean power!

Han Yu only felt a little suffocated in his thoughts now, he worked hard, but it was still difficult to keep up with Gao Yue's pace.

Platinum was originally something that Han Yu disdained, and he thought that a gentleman could not be enslaved by this thing.

However, if Gao Yue controls the platinum, I am afraid that he will go further and manipulate the entire world.

What's even more terrifying is that Gao Yue said that I was doing this for the people of China.

At this moment, Gao Yue looked at Han Yu with a complicated expression, smiled, and suddenly chanted a poem:

Millions of families in Chang'an, there is nothing to go out.

How dare you still be alone, and the world is uneven.

Although the ancients are dead, there are words in the books.

Open the book and read and think, if you are in phase for a thousand years.

There is a way to go out, and I have not lost it.

And in this middle of rest, the destiny of heaven is not deceiving.

Han Yu immediately blushed, this song "Going Out" was written when he was just a Jinshi, when Han Yu had the ambition of being a young man to ascend to the top, but also had anxiety about his future career, and he was even more afraid that he would not be able to realize the greatest value of being a man - self-cultivation, family harmony, and peace in the world.

Now that Han Yu is also the commander of Jiangdu County and the governor of Yangzhou, he works two jobs, and finally feeds more than 30 members of his family, and he also marries his talented wife Xue Tao, he feels that the goal of the first stage of his life has been achieved.

But it's not enough, he also hopes that he will be able to purple robe goldfish in the future, be able to have a grand Jiadi in Chang'an City, be able to have a beautiful villa in Luoyang, and then live a leisurely and rich study life with his wife, and he is a cardinal, young and talented people come to visit him, recognize him as a teacher, and surround him, although he is elegant and easy-going, but he has the supreme right to speak in the entire government and the opposition, and every word and word will guide the national trend of thought.

Although Han Yu wanted the people to live a closed and virtuous life in the countryside, he wanted to be prosperous and prosperous and live in the center of the empire.

So Gao Yue used his own poetry to debunk him at once, which was also the reason why Han Yu blushed.

In fact, Han Yu's ideals do not violate Confucian morality, he does not have the idea of poverty and luxury, but a kind of restrained wealth, more hope to be famous in academics, and can help more people, for the country to be righteous, for the country to eliminate heresies.

But even so, it is still inseparable from the support of financial resources, and there is still a considerable distance between Han Yu's current situation and ideals.

Gao Yue was very accurate with him.

In front of the flying yellow warbler, Liu Zongyuan boarded the ship to Ezhou and said goodbye to Han Yuzuo, who came to see him off.

Gao Yue didn't come to the Pier District, he went down to Guangling and went directly to the Military Government Office.

On the riverside, Han Yue wanted to stop talking, but he finally confided in Liu Zongyuan: "Zihou, frankly speaking, if Wei Guogong's trade in Haidong works, I am willing to invest the money saved in my family, and Wei Guogong promised to give me a share of the profits, so that I can sit for 200 yuan in a year, and I can buy a house in Luoyang in less than three years." ”

And Liu Zongyuan expressed his understanding of Han Yu, he sighed leisurely and looked up at the sky, "Retreat, after talking to Wei Guogong, is the most perfect picture in your original heart as if it was burned by fire?" ”

Han Yu admitted: "Yes, I am full of money now, no, my heart is full of money...... Zihou, I decided not to write a book for the time being, this era may change faster than I imagined. I really have to wait ten or twenty years before that. ”

Liu Zongyuan also agreed: "The Buddha said that the world is a thousand worlds, but the world picture described by Gao Weigong is really unheard of. Zigong also said that the master's articles can be heard; The master said that heaven and life were also heard. If there is really an innovation in the way of heaven, I can only experience it with my eyes and feet. During the mourning, although I can't be an official, but I can travel to study, when Wei Gong conquered the south, I will also go to Hunan, Jiangxi, Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, close to the view, hoping to understand the new truth. ”

After speaking, the two friends cherished goodbye.

After Liu Zongyuan returned, he waited three months later, and then sent his father's coffin to his hometown in Hedong for burial, and I heard that at that time, Gaoyue's Jiminggang Xincao Canal will be completed, and then he can go directly to the waterway, across the Yangtze River, Huaishui and the Yellow River, from the east to the north straight into the east of the river, shortening the journey by half than the original road, "what I saw along the road, I am afraid that it is a different scenery!" Liu Zongyuan thought so.

But at the same time, Gao Yue had made every effort to build sea ships in Yangzhou, Mingzhou, and Hangzhou, and sent messengers to Fujian to contact Bai Shuilang and the yacht.

The expedition to the south is imminent.