At that time, compared with the relationship between the Srivijaya and Liuqiu, the relationship between Java and Liuqiu was much shallower. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The reason here is simple...... They rose relatively late, there has been war in the area, and they were originally composed of dozens of tribes and alliances, so it is by no means a safe place to do business, and it is only appropriate to count it as a barbarian domain.

The Liuqiu Merchants and the Great Song Merchants with their retinues moved around the capital of the Srivijaya Kingdom, second only to the Boni Kingdom in terms of scale, but the total number of merchants in the Java Kingdom was less than ten...... These men were engaged in extremely risky trades, and perhaps it was the large enough profits that attracted them.

Captain Guo Beyu did not laugh at the military strength of the Srivijaya Kingdom, they could not even defeat the army of a barbaric and backward region...... This is not unusual, the Great Song Dynasty itself is an example, his Zhang Island Master said, the development level of civilization in this time and space is not enough, and it is normal for them to be unable to defeat the barbarian forces when the weapons are similar.

The quality of the bows and arrows, spears and so-called steel knives on both sides of them was quite poor, even the level of the Great Song Dynasty's previous soldiers was completely superior to them!

Even Sriwijaya is far more economically powerful than Java and has a large population...... At that time, they also had no way to buy weapons and change their equipment, and because they had been in business for a long time, their momentum was far less fierce than that of the other party!

Now, they have a way, they can ask for a purchase from the stream, and in front of the king of Sriwijaya is a strong team, which can help them win a big battle and reclaim the place that was split in the past!!

Well, they can be exchanged for spices......

Captain Guo Beyu understands where his authority lies...... A regional-level battle, he can manipulate, if it is a war to destroy the country, I'm afraid he doesn't have this power...... Who knows how his lords arranged it, and it would not be beautiful if he accidentally ruined the follow-up plans of the lords.

He and Squadron Leader Zhang Depei attended the dinner of the king of the Srivijaya Kingdom together, and the two whispered to each other from time to time, discussing with each other and replying.

Squadron Leader Zhang Depei whispered: "I don't care what they want for now...... Think about what I'm going to get by the Navy and the entire island. ”

Captain Guo Beyu nodded in approval.

He said to the king of Sriwijaya, "At this time, the first priority is to destroy the Tatar bandits, so it is unlikely that our navy will be distracted from other things, so it will be useless for you to give me more spices for the navy."

The ships and other weapons you need...... I thought you could go to Liuqiu Island and ask for it, and maybe you would be granted your request. ”

Squadron Leader Zhang Depei also echoed the voice, this answer was very decent, he did not agree with anything, nor did he refuse anything.

The Srivijaya kings coveted their warships...... In this time and space, all the so-called "countries" in this archipelago cannot build real warships.

The country of Srivijaya originally had 10,000 warships...... That sounds like a lot more than both Ruqiu Island and Dasonga combined, but they're all canoes, wooden rafts, and the like.

The largest warship could only hold a few dozen people, sailed with a straw curtain and long oars.

Even King Srivijaya's own "True Dragon Boat" is nothing more than a two-deck paddle boat rowed by dozens of sailors...... It is far inferior to ordinary maritime merchant ships.

Therefore, his second clear request was to exchange the warships of the Navy!

King Sriwijaya was very confident at the time...... The production of spices in Srivijaya is increasing day by day, and the workshops belonging to the king's private sector are changing almost every day, far from what they used to be.

Sriwijaya imported a lot of "advanced" technology and equipment from Liuqiu Island, so that the output of spices was far greater than before.

Take, for example, the main spice, borneol.

In the countries of Boni, Srivijaya or Java, dipterocarp is produced on hundred-year-old cedar trees in isolated islands and poor valleys.

The local natives believe that only those who do not lose their branches can produce dragon brain, and if they are damaged a little, they will be discouraged.

The natives used sharp axes to split the trunk into planks, and when cracks appeared in the boards, the dragon incense brain would come out of the cracks and then split them...... The shape is larger or into catties, which is called plum brain.

The second is called the speed brain, and there is a golden foot level in the brain, and those who are completely broken are called rice brains.

They also mixed the cedar clippings when sawing with rice brain, and called it cangencea.

When the natives think that the brain has been cleaned, they mash the remaining cedar board with the sawdust, and put it together in a magnetic basin, cover it with a hat, seal its cracks with yellow mud, and put it on fire, and wait until the steam in the magnetic basin rises, it will condense into a lump on the hat, which is also called familiar brain.

There are also cedar trees that produce a resin like oil, which is also called oil brain......

The leaves of those cedar trees are as small as locust, and the skin is similar to that of sand willow, but they are all extremely tall, and some can reach tens of meters!

It is also abundant, and can often be found throughout the island or in the valley......

Zhang Islander, who used to be a biology teacher, and his wife Jing Jing both knew that this dipterocarp tree could only be found in the Austronesian Islands at present, and due to the geographical environment, there were no large trees of this variety in the Great Song Dynasty or on Liuqiu Island, and at the same time, it was impossible to introduce them.

The people of the Great Song Dynasty like to mix dipterocarp and other spices into tea cakes to make fragrant tea such as "dipterocarp tea", and named this group tea "Ruiyun Xianglong" with a nice name.

Of course, such a high-end group tea is only used to drink it for the official family of the Great Song Dynasty or the aristocratic family, and because the price is extremely expensive, ordinary people can't afford to drink it at all.

However, Zhang and Jing believed that dipterocarp would destroy the aroma of the tea itself, and never mixed it into the tea...... Therefore, in the big merchants on Liuqiu Island, it is not popular to use it for tea, but just like the big merchants of the Great Song Dynasty, it is used to burn or as an ingredient in incense-style spices.

Therefore, Longxiang Brain can be sold as much as there is in the Great Song Dynasty, and the price is not a problem at all.

Some of the best of them were directly bought at a high price by the Great Song Dynasty government!

Zhang Daozhu thought of several ways to improve the quantity and quality of spices, and after discussing it with his friend Wang Defa's family, he decided on a solution:

They first sold distillation equipment and felling equipment to Sriwijaya as the most convenient way to increase production and quality.

His wife, Quiet, was very much in favor of this approach.

She said:

"Don't look at the cast iron distillation kettle and condenser structure, but they can produce several times more spices! It's better than sending troops to occupy it with swords and guns...... A waste of our troops and labour. ”

At that time, Wang Defa's family also denied Zhang's intention to occupy, whether it was to grab or buy, he thought that it was better to export distillation equipment and let them increase their own production.

Another benefit is that it also increases your processing capacity.

Zhang himself denied the method of occupation...... Since Srivijaya is still a business-minded country, then let's treat it with a commercial spirit, and improve their production and processing capacity, rather than watching them waste precious raw materials with backward production methods.

This spice is different from oil, and the people there still know a little bit about the distillation method, and they don't need to rely entirely on Liuqiu for technical support.

The Great Song Dynasty in this time and space has not been fooled, weakened, and dirty by foreign races, and their pursuit of spices is endless, so using spices to develop the economy of Liuqiu Island is the best, most reasonable and easiest way!

The king of Sriwijaya agreed to the request of the island of Liuqiu to exchange equipment for spices...... He saw the operation of the equipment with his own eyes, and was immediately shocked by the "huge" containers and long pipes, thinking that this was an artifact!

Their entire country, including the entire South Island archipelago, could not make a small iron pot, and the distillation kettle with a capacity of less than two cubic meters was of course a miracle in their eyes.

Sure enough, after using a few sets of such equipment, the output of Longxiang Brain increased rapidly, and in addition to asking for the share of equipment, they still received several times more output.

The things on the island are really good, and the king of Srivijaya feels that his waist is harder.

But he didn't expect that his request was politely rejected by Captain Guo Buyu......

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