The princess wants to go to war against the Marquis of Qin?

No, no, after all, Qin Hou didn't have too much malice, but this attempt was a little too out of line. This is just a temptation, and it will not make the relationship between the two families bad from now on.

But if Qin Hou continues to be like this, Li Zhe dares to guarantee that his fate will be very miserable after a hundred years, as a superior, the struggle is often not only to the point of using knives and guns on the surface, but the danger is still excessive.

Qin Hou's life is nothing more than a family business of the name and Nuo Da after his death, but after his death, the princess has too many ways to weaken the Qin family from the open and the secret, so that the Qin family will fall into a situation from which to recover, no matter what, the princess's age is young, and boiling can also boil Qin Hou to death, and Tianfang's fat will be left to him Qin family at that time, it is difficult to say.

Therefore, age is also a very important capital in this kind of political struggle. Qin Hou is so old, and when he is exposed at this time, he is really unwise to himself.

This hidden game between the master and the slave vassal runs through the entire feudal history of the Great Song Dynasty for hundreds of years. Although the princess had just sat in this position, she had already begun to change her mind and adapt to the perspective of this throne.

Li Zhe tasted the unhappiness in the princess's heart, but he didn't intend to conform to her, in his opinion, this is not the point now, he looks at the problem from a different angle than those in the Senate.

He replied to what the princess had just said:

"Don't be angry, princess, in my opinion, Qin Hou doesn't say anything else, just talking about the courage of opening the canal, it's really commendable, that, the canal, hehe! The princess may not know much about it, and let me explain it to the princess. ”

Although on the map, the New World only occupies a few corners, and the cartographer is not very proficient in latitude and longitude, and the changes of the map are very distorted compared with later generations, but the concept that the earth is round has been shown from the map.

This is a fact that was revealed in the last century, under the influence of the navigator Magellan in Western Europe, the Great Song Dynasty also supported several exploration fleets, circumnavigating the earth from the west and the east at the same time, and finally returned to the Great Song Dynasty.

Is the earth round?

At the beginning, this discovery once dealt a severe blow to the tradition of the Great Song Dynasty, which shocked the Song Dynasty and the public, and then enabled the establishment of the Royal Navigation Research Institute of the Great Song Dynasty, and drove the Great Leap Forward of the Great Song Dynasty's astronomical navigation technology, so that a hundred years later, the Great Song Dynasty sprung up in the navigation and once again completed the pursuit of the West, and now it has been able to keep pace with Europa.

On Li Zhena's map, Tianfang, Tianzhu, and the Mediterranean Sea are all vividly visible, and Li Zhe drew a virtual picture on it, pointing out the location of the Suez Canal.

"This is the Sinai Peninsula, this is the Nile Delta, and there is such a canal between the two sides that has existed since ancient times. Only now blocked, the canal was once hundreds of miles long, allowing navigation across the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. ”

Looking at it this way, the county lord, you take a look, Li Zhe showed the distance from Gibraltar to Mengzhou through the Mediterranean, the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, and the Western Ocean on the map, and then demonstrated to the princess the distance from Europe to the south along Yanzhou, all the way to South Yanzhou, Falklands, and the Western Ocean.

Such a comparison is obvious, even if the princess is an ordinary person, you can see that the Suez Canal has shortened the distance from the west to the east by tens of thousands of miles, with the navigation technology of this era, what does it mean to shorten the voyage so far?

It means a huge amount of money.

Not only does it shorten the route between the two, but it also allows the merchant ships to navigate between the two with much less risk, and compared with the terrifying expanse of the Western Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea are like small ponds, and conservative estimates can increase the safety of sea voyages several times.

In addition, taking the route from the Mediterranean can also make the sea ships of this era less dependent on the ocean current monsoon, and no longer have only so few months of the year that are suitable for navigation, so that the merchant ships navigating from the east and the west can also increase the frequency.

If the Suez Canal can be opened, I am afraid that it will usher in a huge increase in trade volume, so that the trade between the East and the West will completely replace the current Malaga route and become the busiest route in the world.

Li Zhe continued to explain to the princess:

"Princess, I'm afraid you know, my Great Song Dynasty's dependence on sea trade has reached an unparalleled level, as far as my Tianzhu is concerned, the taxes collected on the sea trade alone have accounted for a large part of my Tianzhu's entire income, I don't know the specifics, but I'm afraid it won't be less than half."

"It's not just half of that. It's already sixty percent. ”

The princess immediately reported it, unlike Li Zhe, as soon as she took office, she was familiar with the basic data of these countries. As the head of the family, how could she not understand the data.

"Sixty percent, sixty percent! What does this mean, princess, do you know? ”

Li Zhe said in a polite tone.

But the princess was not angry,

"What does that mean?"

She asked.

"This means that the maritime merchant class is the mainstay of my Tianzhu, and it doesn't matter if I lose the elders, but if I lose the maritime trade, my Tianzhu will be completely finished."

Li Zhe's statement, the princess is not very willing to listen to this, but I have to say that what Li Zhe said is the truth.

Sitting in this position, you know what the country's economy really means.

Money and grain are the foundation of the country, but how to make more money and grain, but not by the elders and nobles, in the system of the Great Song Dynasty, they just eat Lulu, never contributed to this aspect, the country's money and grain are all from merchants and small people. Specific to Tianzhu, the peasants did not pay much in taxes, and the real bulk was still in the maritime trade.

"That's why you didn't let me attack those people in the Liu family and the Fang family, but only punished them slightly."

"Not bad! Princess, you have to know where our money and food come from, so that we can make this piece bigger. In the current situation, maritime merchants should only be encouraged, not suppressed. You can imagine that if the Suez Canal is completed, then the scale of trade of these maritime merchants who run the sea will increase several times, and you can imagine how much benefit I Tianzhu can get from it. ”