Half a year has passed, and Pyongyang has not changed much, but the city seems to be a little depressed due to the arrival of winter.

Of course, Chunxiang Lou is an exception!

Outside the building, the snow is covered with a gloomy, but inside the building is the fragrance is permeated and warm like spring, and the coquettish smiles of all kinds of women and the men in the vertical and horizontal flowers linger in it and do not know how to return.

Tens of thousands of Tang troops from the southern expedition returned to Pyongyang, and the ordinary Tang soldiers who captured young and beautiful Silla women were not willing to spend extra financial resources to support these Silla maids, and the only option was to sell them for some money and live a richer life.

Most of these Silla maidservants were sold to Chunhyanglou by the soldiers who owned them, and a small number were bought by Tang merchants who stayed in Pyongyang for the time being, intending to bring them back to the Central Plains after the beginning of spring, where they could be sold for a better price in Liangjing, a place where the Tang magnates and wealthy gathered.

As soon as Li Yu returned to the palace of Yanwang, which had been rebuilt from the Goguryeo royal palace, he enjoyed the careful service of Xin'er and other women, and swept away the physical and mental exhaustion of the half-year battle under the watering of beauty and abundant materials, and turned over from the warm bed in high spirits, leaving Xin'er, who was quite resentful, lying on her side and staring at Li Yu's majestic back.

When Li Yu came to the study, Zhang Qin and Yu Hong, who were the chief and deputy managers of the Nanyang expedition, as well as Wang Haichong, the little Taoist priest who was the leader of the expedition's surveying and mapping team, and the two captains had been waiting for a long time.

The South Seas expedition headed south to the South Seas last autumn and returned to the town of Duli early this autumn before the end of the southeast monsoon.

According to the plan, they sailed south along the coasts of Taiwan and Luzon, and then turned southwest to the north coast of Borneo to the two sides of the Strait of Malacca. If possible, you can arrange your own sailing along the north coast of Sumatra, to Java Island in the southeast, and then back north to explore the east coast of Sulawesi and the Philippine archipelago.

Li Yu had roughly read their expedition report in the past few days after returning to Pyongyang, and was deeply shocked by the expedition experience and sailing distance of the Nanyang expedition.

Li Yu originally only hoped that they would be satisfied with the route between Luzon and Mindanao in the non-Paraben Islands, as well as the route to Borneo and the two sides of the Strait of Malacca. Unexpectedly, they still resolutely sailed eastward to Jawa Island, and even went deep into the unknown sea.

Although a ship was lost in the fog at sea, the expedition turned north to Sulawesi, where Chinese merchants had never previously set foot foot, and then opened a sea route along the island's west and north coasts and the island chain with Mindanao directly south from the non-Babin Islands to Java.

In this way, Li Yu will open up to the South Seas in the future, and he can use the Non-Babin Islands as a base and go south to the East Indies in the later generations by two routes, which will undoubtedly be closer to the Australian mainland.

What made Li Yu laugh and cry was that Wang Haichong, a little Taoist priest, was really a big man, and he came up with the idea to let the expedition team pretend to be an envoy of the imperial court to cheat and eat and drink in the Nanyang countries, and received valuable gifts from countless countries.

Zhang Qin, Yu Hong, and Wang Haichong took advantage of this to wrap their waists, and ordinary soldiers also had a harvest. Back to the Nanyang expedition team in Liaodong, all of them are smiling and open-minded, as long as they don't violate the system, they almost wear gold and silver.

Look, Zhang Qin, Yu Hong, and Wang Haichong have tiger skin cloaks, fox fur hats, bear skin boots, and Inner Shu brocade round-necked robes. The two captains don't earn as much as the three of them, but they are also brown bear fur hats and boots in the water, and they are not bad at first glance.

Of course, the surprise brought by the expedition to Li Yu did not stop there, the future Singapore Island that made Li Yu haunted his dreams actually made Wang Haichong fool from the hands of King Luo Yue with a big mouth, and also asked King Luo Yue to voluntarily contribute money to build a city and build a port on Singapore Island, which is still full of tropical rainforests and swamps, to wait for the arrival of the Tang army.

Li Yu was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth, and praised: "Wang Dao Chang is worth three thousand soldiers with one mouth!" ”

"Your Royal Highness, as soon as the mouth of the poor road is opened, let Luo Yueguo willingly surrender to the king and open up a corner of the country's territory. In addition, there is also a king of Bori who is also willing to help His Highness under the persuasion of Poor Dao......"

Wang Haichong stretched out his fingers and pinched his fingers and said with a smile: "Poor Dao's mouth should be able to withstand six thousand soldiers." ”

"The country of Bori is not counted, because the country of Bori was leveled by me, then it should now be called the Bo Ni Governor's Mansion, and the original Boli country was renamed Binkai City as the residence of the Governor's Mansion."

"Ah......h

Zhang Qin, Wang Haichong and others were deeply shocked by the fact that Li Yu had only been away for a year, and His Royal Highness actually sent troops south to pacify the country of Boli not long after they left.

"Your Highness, when did this happen?"

Recalling the enthusiasm and generosity of King Bori at the beginning, Zhang Qin asked with a heavy heart, with the heart of His Royal Highness and the style of the army under his command, presumably the splendid palace of King Bori was destroyed.

"More than three months ago, the good news was transmitted back to Anton." Li Yu thought for a while and said, at that time, he was still commanding the whole army to fight against Silla for days, and he was only slightly shocked by the large amount of gold and silver seized and put it aside for the good news that the lieutenant Chi Xunyu had brought back to pacify the state of Bori.

Zhang Qin, Wang Haichong, and others did not know about this, but the South China Sea Fleet, which was responsible for escorting the seized property back, was unable to return to Liaodong before the southeast monsoon due to the large number of materials and personnel transportation of the Luzon, Yanshui, and Boni governorships established on Luzon Island and Borneo, so they had to stay at the Tamsui port in Taipei to wait for the southeast monsoon.

When the Nanyang expedition returned north to Taipei, the South China Sea Fleet was still on its way to Taipei. And the pacification of the Boli Kingdom is only known to the high-level officials of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, and it has not yet spread to the outside.

The expedition team was not subordinate to the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, but belonged to Li Yu's private fleet, and if no one told them, it would be impossible for Zhang Qin and them to know about these military affairs.

"King Bori was captured by Yu Chi Xunyusheng, but this should be imprisoned in Taipei, and I will have to wait until next year to meet this King Bori." Li Yu said with some unhappiness, in fact, he wanted to see the pure gold and silver pedal throne of the captured King Bori.

The underdevelopment of the means of transportation makes it extremely inconvenient to travel between the two places, because it is a sea route, which is too affected by the monsoon, and it takes almost a year to go back and forth.

It would be nice if the steam engine could be used, and the sea ships powered by the steam engine would no longer be affected by the monsoon, and the speed would undoubtedly be faster.

It's a pity that Li Yu was not a science student in his previous life, although he understood the principle of the steam engine, but he didn't know the internal structure of the steam engine. It is also in the tropical rainforest of the South American continent because it is the rubber that solves the airtightness of the steam engine.

Zhang Qin and Wang Haichong's faces were stunned, they couldn't imagine that the generous and wealthy King Bori would become a prisoner of his Royal Highness for more than half a year, it was really unpredictable!

"It's a pity!" Wang Haichong muttered in a voice that he could hear: "Without King Bori, the next time I go to Borneo, I won't be able to get a gift of a little golden Buddha like last time!" Your Highness will not slow down, so I will wait for me to come back and then send troops to attack Boli! Wouldn't it be better to have me, a genius of geography, to show the way to attack Boli? ”

"In this way, you can wantonly grab a handful in the palace of the Boli king, kill the arrogance of the Nanyang Hu Sect, and spread the holy scriptures of my Middle-earth Taoism to educate the barbarians......"

Recalling the pure gold and silver pedal throne where King Bori sat and the big golden Buddha in the harem, Wang Haichong was lost for a while.