It is true that the fleet of the Admiralty of the Liuqiu Guard is not the farthest from the island of Liuqiu. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The fleet led by Wang Zheng and Xiao Er was the farthest, and they reached the island of Madagascar, which was marked on the map given to him by the owner of Zhang.

At that time, they were marching south along the so-called East African coast without hesitation!

They believe that their Zhang Island Master will never go wrong!

Along the way, when they really saw the noon sun appear in the north, they encountered a lot of islands, but they were all abandoned because they were too small, and when they arrived at the so-called island of Madagascar, they were really frozen------ if it wasn't for the chart given to them by the owner of the island, they would have thought that it was a continent, such a big island.

They had found gold and Madagascar oxen on the island, as well as elephant eggs, seeds of monkey bread trees------ and other plants and animals that they thought were interesting.

There are more hardwood resources there than Liuqiu!

They couldn't take much with them, so they chopped down some of the best things to take with them, and they gave the natives metal knives and axes to chop hardwood when they had nothing to do, and then stacked them up, and when they came back, they gave them as many knives and axes as the fingers of two hands!

They can be said to have returned with a full load------ and further south, there is no sign in the map of the island owner, and they must not want them to go.

Wang Zheng followed the arrangement of Zhang Island Master at this time, and had already handed over the authority of the captain to Xiao Er.

Wang Zheng said meaningfully at that time: "The owner of Zhang Island has come thousands of miles to let us come to that Madagascar Island, is it just for gold, camels, hardwood, big birds, and the like?" ”

The second captain said happily: "We have also found out the supply points on the East African coast!" It will be easy for him to come back in the future!! ”

Wang Zheng said: "You haven't thought about what the meaning is? ”

Xiao Er said: "I haven't thought about it, even if I have a deep meaning, our master will definitely tell us when the time comes------"

Well, Wang Zheng is not going to communicate with him.

As mentioned above, the overseas trade of the Great Song Dynasty has always been very developed.

In the history of this people, there were two kinds of overseas trade: the tributary system and the mutual market system.

Tribute is the mechanism of the Central Plains Celestial Empire to arrange the order of the world, which also includes the function of international trade.

In essence, tributary trade is a commercial relationship with "double inequality": the states pay tribute to the Celestial Empire, and our Celestial Empire obtains the political glory of the four Yi guests and the coming of all nations.

This is political inequality: the Celestial Empire is superior to the states.

Economic inequality was reversed: the rewards given by the Central Plains Celestial Empire to the states were far greater than the tributes received by the imperial court, and the states were politically symbolically subservient but economically reaped enormous benefits.

The so-called tributary trade of all nations can certainly satisfy the political vanity of the Central Plains Celestial Empire, but the economic benefits outweigh the losses.

The intellectuals of the Great Song Dynasty in this period still had a conscience, they could distinguish right from wrong, and they dared to express their own opinions------ they did not care about the project of the country's face.

The pattern of tributary trade quietly changed during the Great Song Dynasty.

The Great Song government adopted a pragmatic approach to overseas trade, curbing tributary trade.

For example, in the ninth year of Song Zhenzong's Dazhong Xiangfu, the imperial court listened to the advice of Guangzhou officials, legislated to limit the scale of tributary missions from various countries, and even ordered that merchant ships should not carry foreign tribute without authorization, otherwise they would be punished with two years in prison and no official property!

In short, don't want to use any face-saving projects to earn my Da Song's money, don't be a fool of us!

At the same time, the Great Song Dynasty showed unprecedented interest in the mutual market of the people.

The monarchs of the Great Song Dynasty were relatively normal, they believed that the benefits of the market were the richest, and if the measures were taken properly, the income would be millions, wouldn't it be better than the people? Therefore, pay attention to this, and you can reduce the people's strength.

In fact, this is just a common sense, a developed market can allow the government to obtain rich commercial tax revenues and reduce the burden on the people, so why not?

The monarch of the Great Song Dynasty did not have any concept of serving the common people, but only considered it to maintain the stability of the rule, which may be more beneficial to the common people.

------Obviously, if overseas countries can trade in the Great Song Dynasty in the name of tribute, it will inevitably impact the total amount of private foreign trade, and then affect the tax collection of the imperial court, which the Great Song Dynasty does not want to see.

The Great Song Dynasty government also encouraged maritime merchants to recruit Tibetan merchants to trade in China, and those who were willing to come to the Song Kingdom with their ships obeyed.

For maritime merchants who have made great contributions to overseas investment, the Great Song Dynasty government will also grant official positions.

In Zhang Guoan's view, the coastline of the entire Great Song Empire, from Jiaozhou Bay in the north, to the Golden Triangle of Hangzhou, Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, to Guangzhou Bay in the south, and then to the Qiongzhou Strait, was open to the outside world to develop commerce and trade with the Western and Nanyang countries.

In fact, these are policies that are in line with common sense, which are better than the Ming Dynasty or something, fooling the people internally and completely blocking the outside, right?!

Those people turned back the wheel of history, were keen on the tributary system, and threw a lot of money outward, preferring to let outsiders get benefits, and eating the common people internally, and directly or indirectly collecting high taxes, right?!

Those people will never be able to figure out a truth, fooling the people for a long time will kill themselves------ sometimes the foolish people and the mob are just two sides of the same coin, they will be transformed overnight, worship Dase!

Well, run away------

The overseas trade of the Great Song Dynasty reached as far as the Zhongli region and the Tiepan countries in eastern Africa.

The Central Region is Mogadis.

The country of Zanzibar is Zanzibar.

Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, knew that during this period, Zhao Rushi served as the envoy of Fujian Road City and the envoy of Quanzhou City, and wrote a "Zhufan Chronicles".

In the Zhufan Chronicles, he recorded the customs, products, economy and politics of the countries from Japan in the east, North Africa in the west, and as far as the eastern coast of the Mediterranean, covering Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, the South China Sea Islands, the Indian Peninsula, the Arabian Peninsula, the Italian Peninsula, Northeast Africa and other regions, and recorded the mileage and schedule of the voyages from the Great Song Kingdom to overseas countries.

Inexplicably, in front of Zhao Rushi's "Zhufan Chronicles", Wei Yuan, who compiled the "Atlas of the Sea Kingdom" 600 years later, dared to be called "the first person to open his eyes to see the world"!

Many of the advantages of the Great Song Dynasty were selectively ignored by those who grew up drinking wolf milk.

After Wang Zheng and Xiao Er's fleet arrived at the country of Layer, they immediately felt cordial, and they actually saw the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty on that island!

The inhabitants of the country are mainly Hui and blacks, and the island is rich in cloves and coconuts, and in their opinion, it is simply a lilac island.

When they arrived there, several merchants from the Great Song Dynasty came to greet them, and when they heard a similar Great Song accent, they were overjoyed.

Several Great Song merchants teamed up to entertain Wang Zheng and Xiao Er.

Before they could start drinking, the tears of several Great Song merchants fell. (To be continued.) )