In the morning, as soon as Li Yu said goodbye to the guests and returned to the mansion, Zhang Chao stepped into the gate of the Yanwang Mansion with His Majesty's dictation, announcing that Li Yu had entered the palace to face the saint. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

I knew that the fireworks feast in Luoyang City, which I led last night, must have disturbed the two saints, and this was my father's edict to reprimand him for entering the palace.

Li Yu said goodbye to Zhongmei with relatives and entered the palace with Zhang Chao. But he didn't expect to be reprimanded by his father, and was asked by his father for a large number of fireworks, which would be used in the palace to celebrate during the festival.

Li Yu, who had returned from the palace, was in a very happy mood, holding in his hand a newspaper that the Royal Weekly had bought at his newsstand on the way back had been published early this morning.

The front page of the newspaper is the eye-catching five big characters of 'Luoyang Fireworks Festival'.

Royal Weekly wasted two pages on the fireworks display that took place in Luoyang last night, and the editors used a variety of wonderful words to describe this magnificent night scene, sketching in the reader's mind a dazzling fireworks feast in the night sky of Luoyang last night.

At the end of the article, it was added that fireworks could be purchased in the North and South Cities of Luoyang and the Xinxiang Hall in the East and West Cities of Chang'an.

This is naturally Li Yu's intention, otherwise why spend so much effort and waste money and food to make the gunpowder workshop develop and produce so many fireworks?

With last night's fireworks in front of the residents of Luoyang City, and this morning's long report by the Royal Weekly, the residents of Luoyang City finally knew what the colorful fireworks in the sky last night were.

I saw the moment the fireworks were set off in the sky, showing a bright, colorful, colorful and charming scene flying all over the sky, and staining the night sky.

The residents of Luoyang City flocked to the Xinxiang Hall that had just opened, and the small shops selling fireworks were sold out in an instant, and many merchants who came late looked at the empty fireworks shops and sighed.

As soon as the night began, the sky over Luoyang City was blaming and fluttering, and all kinds of colorful and colorful fireworks were set off, accompanied by the cheers of a group of people who set off fireworks looking at the bright fireworks blooming in the night sky.

The left and right Jinwu guards who carried out the night ban rode horses and walked slowly on the main roads in Luoyang City, looking up at the clusters of fireworks in the sky. No one cares about the fireworks that are set off by anyone, because the Luoyang Palace and the homes of the senior officials of various ministries are also being released, and even a group of generals in their own Jinwuwei military camp have bought fireworks and are happily setting off in the school field.

The fireworks didn't explode in the world until last night, and even Xin'er and the four daughters didn't tell them before, just to surprise them.

Last night, because of the banquet of Xun Jun, Xin'er and they didn't dare to be presumptuous, tonight in the house, how can they miss the pleasure of putting a handful with their own hands?

The four daughters of Xin'er took many maids and chamberlains in the mansion to move out all the fireworks stored in Li Yu's mansion, and set off them in the night sky in the back garden, making the sky above Yanwang's Mansion the most dense place for fireworks over the entire Luoyang City, attracting countless people in the city who did not buy fireworks to climb their own high platform, just to watch from afar.

Fireworks are made, but after all, they are start-up products, and they are far less dazzling than the fireworks made by later generations.

Li Yu watched it for most of the night last night, and after watching Xin'er tonight, they felt a little aesthetically tired and went back to the study after a while.

Looking at the sand table map of the Tang Dynasty territory with a length and width of 15 feet in the middle of the study and the surrounding areas to know each domain, Li Yu unconsciously fell into deep thought.

After all, it is still too slow, whether it is overseas exploration or development, it seems too slow, and the understanding is extremely limited.

Two years on, the exploration of the South China Sea is only a vague account of the non-Paraben Islands brought back by the Southeast China Sea expedition that returned last year. That is, I went around the non-Babin Islands and briefly explored the coasts of the islands encountered along the way, and barely went inland.

In terms of development, it only occupied the Ryukyu Islands and the northern part of Taiwan, and there was no progress in the South Seas.

The Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra, and Java, the four most important peninsulas and islands in the South Seas, are still extremely incomplete information collected from the Southeast Maritime Merchants. These four places are precisely the places where the Chinese literacy of the Nanyang indigenous people is relatively high and the country is established, and it is a major obstacle to their strategy to go to the Nanyang in the future, but they still do not know much about the local indigenous countries.

I hope Zhang Qin can bring back more good news this time.

Li Yu moved his gaze from Nanyang to the area of Meituo Lake in Andong, marking the Heishui, Yuexi, and Tieli three Heishui tribes living in the area of Heishui and Ussuri River, which were close to the Meituohu Governor's Mansion.

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Cui Xuan, who is the commercial manager of Yanwangfu, is almost busy every day because of the growing business network of Yanwangfu. After dealing with the affairs in Guanzhong, he hurried from Chang'an to Luoyang to prepare to return to Anton with Li Yu.

After Cui Xuan arrived, Li Yu met him in the palace garden and asked him about the slow progress he had been troubled about overseas development.

"Your Highness is dissatisfied with the slow progress of the development of the South Seas, which is actually due to the fact that the strength in the hands of His Highness is still insufficient."

"I wonder what solution Mr. has?"

Cui Xuan thought for a while and replied: "There is a way, but this method will not be led by His Highness, but to lure people who are greedy for money and profit in the world to open up overseas for His Highness." ”

"Oh?" Li Yu was stunned and asked: "How to lure people in the world when you go overseas to explore wild islands?" ”

"Just like His Highness lured many powerful people, rich businessmen, and poor people to Taiwan and other places to cultivate."

"Taiwan and other islands are not the same as the Nanyang Islands, not only are they too far away, and the sea routes are difficult and dangerous, but the key is that the Nanyang Islands do not have attractive interests to attract people from all over the world, and they are easily seen through by maritime merchants who often travel to the South Seas."

Li Yu shook his head, feeling that Cui Xuan had given himself a bad idea, not to mention that this strategy had been used in the past, and it didn't come again in March, so it was estimated that someone should be suspicious.

Among the Nanyang islands, except for Java Island, which is fertile due to a thick layer of volcanic ash in the soil, the rest of the islands have very low grain yields. The climate is only divided into dry and wet seasons, and the tropical rainforest climate is very hot throughout the year, and there are many poisonous insects, ants, and beasts, and various tropical diseases are frequent, which is not as attractive as Taiwan and other places.

"Hahaha, Your Highness misunderstood the meaning of the temptation that the minister said, if Your Highness wants to open up overseas, he must first explore the overseas situation before doing pioneering things. Explorable is inherently time-consuming. This just relies on His Royal Highness to send personnel from his subordinate Jiaolong HNA to organize an expedition to explore overseas, not to mention the long time, and the return income is still limited, and sending more manpower will affect Jiaolong HNA's support for other matters. ”

"Therefore, His Royal Highness does not like to promise huge profits to those who have aspirations in the world, but anyone who goes to sea to explore the unknown area discovered by the Qing Dynasty, draws a sea map and a local map to the place, and establishes a stronghold in the local area, can apply to the Yanwang Mansion for a land within a radius of ten miles, and be rewarded and awarded an official position."