Putting aside some messy factors, the meaning of Li Chengqian's words can be understood almost without much thought.

That is, the newly discovered place is just a springboard, a springboard that can continue to expand outward, and any king and education are all special nonsense.

"Father, uncle, the world is very big, a small archipelago is not worth our painstaking efforts to study, send some troops to rotate, two for a group of people, as long as the supply can be guaranteed, there is no problem of rebellion at all."

"If the natives are obedient, they hire them as workers, and let them take care of gathering spices, digging coal mines, iron mines, and so on; If you don't obey, you can kill it. Educate this kind of thing, teach people to do it, monkeys are not necessary. ”

"What we need to do now is to renovate the boats, mobilize the craftsmen along the coast, and try to build larger, more stable and more seaworthy ships."

"This world is not only land, the area of the sea is not small compared to the land, we should not only focus on the land, the resources in the sea are far more abundant than the land, maybe our generation does not have the ability to develop, but maybe future generations can."

"Governing a big country is like cooking a small meal, and the people work hard to make a better life, but it is more to create better conditions for future generations"

"The same is true for the country, if we want to leave more and better resources for the younger generations, and leave enough money for them to squander, even if they don't fight within three or two generations in the future, they will not lose all their family funds at one time."

As soon as this was blown, Li Chengqian quickly forgot who he was, and the long-term outlook and the recent development were mixed together, and everyone who listened to it was stunned, and even Li Er's eyes were a little straight.

Datang is already very big, but there is even a bigger land in the extreme west! There is also a giant island in the south of the archipelago of Su What Su, which is even more vast than the existing land of Datang!

Looking at the world map sketched by Li Chengqian with tea, Li Er found that the Tang Dynasty, which he was proud of, only occupied such a small point.

In the end, Li Er interrupted Li Chengqian with some impatience: "Say something useful, don't make it so big, but have something to say." ”

Regarding the question raised by the old man, Li Chengqian already had a complete idea when he was just bragging, and now that the old man asked, he simply made it clear and clear at one time.

"Father, in fact, all we need to do is to develop the ocean, as I just said, we need to have faster and bigger ships, and we also need to encourage the private forces to enter the ocean, to explore new shipping routes, and to reward the discoverers of new shipping lanes with heavy money."

"As for that island, it's too early to say it's too early, not to mention the risks that need to be faced once and again, the time it takes alone is too long, and with the existing strength of Datang, it is completely worth the loss, so Erchen feels that it is okay to maintain the status quo there for the time being."

The spices of 15 ships, more than 3,000 lives, and seven warships were completely a loss-making deal in Li Chengqian's view. If it continues like this, it is estimated that it will not take much time, and there will be a few boats left in Datang even running in the river.

"But Your Highness, it's not a long-term solution to let it go!" Wang Jue didn't know what the purpose was, and he raised doubts on the side.

"A back and forth loss of nearly thirty percent, even if those ships are lost by my Datang, but what about those soldiers? Their deaths are completely meaningless. We can wait a while, and then we can develop the islands when the seafaring technology is mature. Before Li Chengqian could speak, the eldest grandson Wuji interjected.

At this time, this old man stood on Li Chengqian's side, and never mentioned the so-called king just now, which made Li Chengqian a little confused, and he didn't know what medicine he was selling in his gourd.

Li Er was a little troubled by the quarrel of several people, stretched out his hand and knocked on the tea tray, frowned and said, "Okay, let's stop here today, this matter will be discussed later." ”

Judging from Lao Li's desire for land, he is now eager to send troops into the newly discovered archipelago immediately, but the loss of thirty percent back and forth does make him feel distressed.

So after everyone left, he left Li Chengqian behind and grabbed him to ask questions about the east and west.

"Father, in fact, according to my original intention, I wanted Dugu Qingyun to set off from Liuqiu, so that they could reach Luzon without going far, and it wouldn't even take a month. But now they set out from Yazhou, and on the way they deviated from the course, and made a big circle, running directly south of Luzon. ”

Li Chengqian also let go, what to say, relying on the only little geographical knowledge brought from later generations, he roughly drew the location of the Nanhai Zhudao. Then he pointed to Jiantu and said: "So what we can do now is to develop the ocean, and second, to land in Luzon, and then cross the whole island from north to south." ”

"Otherwise, some of the others are costly and half-effective."

Li Er sighed and didn't speak, his eyes stared at Jian Tu and watched, there is a lot of land, if you plant that kind of three-crop rice can fully meet the requirements of three crops a year, as long as you occupy it and move people over, Datang will no longer have to worry about hunger.

However, Li Chengqian said that it is also very reasonable, without more powerful navigation ability, Datang can only look at the ocean and sigh at most, even if the island is full of grain, it is useless if it cannot be transported back.

After struggling for a long time, Lao Li finally seemed to have made some kind of decision, and asked in a deep voice: "How long does it take to build the ocean-going ship you are talking about?" ”

"One to two years, Erchen is looking for some information during this time, and he will have eyebrows soon." Li Chengqian said with an oath.

In fact, this is completely bluffing, Datang's shipbuilding technology is already very advanced, and what is needed now is to change the flat bottom to a pointed bottom, and then remove the several storeys above and change it into a thick mast, and finally, it is to hang large and small sails and all kinds of pulleys and ropes for lifting sails.

In these aspects, except for how many sails need to be hung and the way to hang the sails needs to be studied and tested, there is basically no special technology to be carried out, as long as there is a pattern of the ship, it can basically be made.

However, the final result was completely beyond Li Chengqian's expectations, when he took a simple drawing to the general as a supervisor and asked Liu Min to find someone to make a model, the master with many years of shipbuilding experience just glanced at it and said four words: "Whimsical!" ”

The old shipwright, who has many years of experience in shipbuilding, firmly believes that the ship must be flat-bottomed, and the pointed bottom ship will inevitably capsize, and the truth is as simple as standing a nail.

No one can put the tip of the nail down and stand on a flat surface!

(End of chapter)