In Li Buqi's study in the inner courtyard, Zhang Yingniang held her son in one hand and handed over the information sent by Taolin to Li Buqi with the other. Li Buqi opened it and looked at it a few times, and nodded repeatedly: "Well, that's good." What a victory. It seems that the Liao State is completely defenseless. ”

He glanced at it a few more times, but frowned: "It seems that the situation in Liao is not very good." Tao Lin said that there were not as many light and strong men in the salt fields of Liao as imagined. The Liao people who were interrogated and captive, but the poor people of the Liao country lived in poverty, and they all went to the nobles and powerful families to become slaves. The Liao State had no less problems in this regard than the Great Song Dynasty. If this continues, coupled with the fact that your family officials and I don't often rub the fire, it won't take forty years, and your family officials will definitely take Yan Yun back and make a Hou Ye as a pawn. ”

Since Zhang Yingniang gave birth to a child, she has a very soft heart, and sometimes her IQ is not online, which is probably the saying "one pregnancy is stupid for three years". Now she couldn't help but pity the exiled Liao people: "Officials, so many people in the Great Song Dynasty who have no livelihood, how good is it for overseas people to send them out?" also let them find a way to live, why do they have to go to Liao to kidnap people and break up people's wives? ”

Li Buqi took his son and kissed him, let him grab a brush to dance, and said, "No way." Although the emperor and the officials don't take the people to heart, if they know that your officials are quietly going overseas, they won't allow it for the sake of face, and maybe they will wonder if your officials are preparing to rebel. Therefore, it is not possible to send people out blatantly, and the Great Song Dynasty will also need a large number of people to develop Huguang in the future, so it is necessary to make some supplements by taking people from the Liao State. Anyway, now the Liao people are our enemies. You pity them now, but they won't pity us Song people when they ride horses and kill people with knives in the Great Song Dynasty. If we don't want to die, then we have to let them die. Your officials have come to this world, and this is their fate. ”

Zhang Yingniang sighed and stopped talking.

Li Buqi played with his son for a while, handed his son to Zhang Yingniang, took out a scroll from Wenhai and opened it. It was one of several rare ancient charts sent by a Hangzhou maritime merchant who wanted to get a piece of the Liaodong maritime trade. Li Buqi put the map on the special long case and opened it, and looked directly at the easternmost position. In the east of Japan, a continent is drawn.

This is the Americas!

It is no longer known when this map was drawn before the Song Dynasty, but it clearly depicts the Americas - no, since Li Buqi came to this era, there will no longer be the name of America in the world, and this place should be called Haizhou - the Sea of Japan in later generations is now marked as Beihai on the chart of the Great Song Dynasty.

Li Bu gave up, he could only say that God helped me! With this map, Li Buqi had an excuse to send people to find this continent at any time.

Originally, he was also going to use the hunt of seals and whales as a pulling force to lure people to slowly explore the Kuril Islands and the Aleutian Islands and finally "discover" that continent, but now that he doesn't need to, the time for "discovery" of that continent can be decades earlier.

After the explorers of the Great Song Dynasty set foot on the New World, the excitement of the great geographical discoveries will surely motivate them to continue their exploration. Continuing east from northern Canada, is Greenland and then Iceland. Then, the explorers of the Great Song Dynasty could set foot on the European continent.

At this time, Northern Europe was still barbaric, right? The greedy Vikings would foolishly attack the Great Song fleet laden with goods, and then see if the pirates could resist the critical attacks of the Great Song warriors armed to the teeth......

Li Buqi woke up suddenly, reached out and fished out, caught the saliva that almost dripped onto the map in his obscenity, and returned to reality.

If you want to implement that huge plan in your heart, you still have to do two things in a down-to-earth manner. One was to try to increase the population of the Great Song Dynasty, and the other was to run Japan as a qualified base for advancement.

In two years, the plan for Japan will be implemented! All because the fleet and the number of immigrants are still insufficient! Before this plan can be implemented, more people will need to reach the North Sea Island. Only if there are enough Song people on Beihai Island to fish in troubled waters when there is civil strife in Japan, otherwise they can only sell some weapons for a small island or something.

Li Buqi is a civilized person, how can he be as clever as the white-skinned pigs of later generations, and the key to eating elegantly is to have enough population to be able to arrange it in the right place when needed. On the contrary, the monopoly of Japanese trade is as easy as a finger, who made him Li Buqi have huge capital in his hands? This is not something that a few maritime merchants can compete with.

Alas! I need people everywhere!

The next day, when Li Buqi came back from the construction site of the Chengbei Martial Arts Academy, there was a long queue outside the door, all of whom came to see Li Buqi. The Hangzhou maritime merchant who had sent a chart of the Americas was the first to be invited into the living room. Li Buqi had to meet a lot of people every day, and he didn't have much time to greet him, so he first thanked him for presenting the charts, and then went straight to the point.

Li Buqi saw that there was a title of loose official on his name post, which was probably obtained by Nasu to buy an official, but he still gently called him an official. "The Song officials sent me such a precious gift because they wanted to trade in Liaodong, right?"

The businessman Song Bida's eyes flashed: "Don't dare." I heard that as long as you can get a word from Li Daguan, you can benefit immensely, so I came to listen to the teachings of the officials. If you can be allowed to trade with Liaodong, it is not a thought. ”

Li Buqi smiled and said, "I don't like to twist and turn. If you have any ideas, just say them, but don't listen to the rumors of outsiders. ”

Only then did Song Bida admit the idea of hoping to get a piece of the Liaodong trade. Li Buqi said: "The ship of the Song officials should have gone to the Wa Kingdom, why don't they continue to trade in the Wa Kingdom?" ”

Song Bida said: "The land of the Japanese country is barren and the people are poor, and the production is limited. The officials suggested that the imperial court develop maritime trade, and more and more merchants went to the Wa Kingdom, but the Wa State could not absorb so many commodities, and there were not enough products to bring back, and now the price of goods shipped to the Wa State was getting cheaper, but the price of the Wa State specialties such as Japanese knives and lacquerware had risen, and many people who went there had lost their capital. ”

Li Buqi said: "That's the truth. But it's the same with Liaodong. Liaodong is vast and sparsely populated, although there are good things everywhere, but there are too few people to get it and can't transport it. The volume of trade is just right now, and if you add more ships, the profits will fall. To tell you the truth, the annual growth of Liaodong's trade is now limited, and the annual profits mainly come from the hunting of seals and whales. ”

Seeing Song Bida's expression as usual, Li Buqi felt that this person was a character, so he asked: "Let me take the liberty of asking, how much money do you have at home?" If you have any money to spare, I can show you a way to make a fortune. ”

Song Bida said: "There are a lot of family assets in the next family, and there is also some spare money. ”

Li Buqi said: "That's good. I advise you to invest in the North Sea Islands. It's a lucrative deal. ”

Song Bi hurriedly said: "Dare to ask the big officials how to make a profit? ”

Li Buqi said: "Beihai Island is fertile for thousands of miles, and there are barren pastures and slopes everywhere. Not to mention anything else, if you raise cattle there, just the cowhide, horn and tendon will be a good profit to be transported back to the Great Song Dynasty. It will also be an important maritime hub in the future. How profitable is it to have a piece of land here that produces food and meat for passing ships? And this Beihai Island is big enough that not a few can eat it, so Fu'an Qianzhuang is leading the organization of an overseas development company, which is now offering shares, and the shareholders who initially invest in the shares can get a piece of land on Beihai Island. ”

Song Bi asked suspiciously: "Some of the ships passing by Beihai Island are going to Liaodong, I don't know why the officials said that it will become a maritime hub?" ”

Li Buqi asked: "Haven't you seen the chart you gave me?" Don't you see a big island in the East? That island is so big, I don't know how many times it is the Japanese country, as long as the route can be opened, the business opportunities are unlimited, are you afraid that there will be no merchant ships to go? If you go there from the Great Song Dynasty, you must stop at Beihai Island for supplies, and Beihai Island will definitely become a hub? ”

Song Bi was shocked and asked, "Could it be that the big island painted on the picture is real?" ”

Li Buqi said with certainty: "Judging from the legends of the ancients, ninety percent of them are true. Of course, there are certain risks in this matter, and if you want to be less risky, you can also develop in the West. There is one thing I only tell you, don't tell anyone else, if you can run a port in Leizhou, I will guarantee you a lot of money in a few years. ”

Li did not give up some fooling, although this Song Bida was extremely shrewd, he was also fooled, and repeatedly said that he would subscribe to a batch of "far-away" bonds issued by Fu'an Qianzhuang, and would consider developing in Leizhou.