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"The poet Qingjing is in the New Year, and the green willows are only yellow and half uneven."

"If you stay in the forest and the flowers are like flowers, you will be a flower watcher when you go out."

Spring is the most suitable for flower viewing and fishing, enjoying green trees and red flowers, and watching small bridges and flowing water.

Spring is coming, the garden is purple and red, the willows by the pond are still clinging, and the apricot blossoms are dancing.

Leisurely fishing among the flowers, the spring breeze blows, the scenery is current, and occasionally the petals fall on the fishing rod.

On weekdays, most of them are Guo Yuan, Yin E, and Tang Yao who take their children to play.

Today, it is rare to have time, and Wei Shuo, the head of the family, also smells the faint fragrance and wanders in the boundless spring.

Occasionally, flower petals fall in the pond or gently brush your cheeks, accompanied by a singer performing dance music.

Wei Shuo lay lazily on the bed, sipping tea comfortably.

Suddenly, there was a ding-dong sound in my ears, which was low at first, and swept over the garden, accompanied by the fragrance of flowers and plants.

The sound of the guzheng is a little low and poignant in the ears at first hearing, but after tasting it carefully, it is slightly happy.

Even Wei Shuo, a person with incomplete five tones, can clearly distinguish that the person who strokes the qin is highly skilled.

Listening to it in the ears, people can't help but calm down, as if the spring breeze is blowing, refreshing people's hearts.

Wei Shuo looked up, but saw a quiet pavilion in front of him, which was located by the lotus pond, and a zither was placed in the center of the pavilion, and there was rosin incense around it.

In the pavilion, Wang Shenai sits with his back, stretches his hand to stroke the kite, and his hair hangs down from the back of his head like a waterfall, with the surrounding landscape gardens, there is a quiet poetry.

Closing his eyes, Wei Shuo quietly listened to the beautiful music, the sound of the guzheng was first compact, then relaxed.

At first, the sound is impassioned and then soothing.

I don't know if it's too tired, Wei Shuo gradually fell asleep.

Seeing this, his wife Guo Yuan hurriedly asked Yin E and Tang Yao to leave with their children, while she stayed to take care of her husband.

I don't know how long later, when Wei Shuo opened his eyes, he saw that his body was covered with a thin veil, and his wife Guo Yuan was accompanying him.

He said apologetically: "I was too tired a few days ago, and I fell asleep unconsciously, did I disturb everyone Yaxing?" ”

"Why did you say that? Recently, my husband has been busy with political affairs, and he often sleeps in the middle of the night. ”

"It's hard to take a day off today, and it's time to rest."

"Well, what Madame said is that I slept so well just now, and I fell asleep with all the fatigue I had been tired for days."

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Just after a day of rest at home, Wei Shuo had to get busy again, because Liu Muzhi's letter arrived.

The idea of building bases overseas proposed in the letter caused an uproar in Hexi.

Even Wei Shuo himself didn't expect that Liu Muzhi's brain hole would be so big, didn't they say that the ancients didn't pay attention to the ocean?

In fact, where did he know that, generally speaking, China's maritime policy in ancient times can be roughly divided into two stages.

The first stage, from the beginning of the Han Dynasty to the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, was a period in which Chinese dynasties largely adopted an open maritime policy and actively developed overseas trade.

On the one hand, the government encourages private merchants to engage in overseas trade, and even restricts government elites from engaging in overseas trade, so that they do not use their political power to "compete with the people".

On the other hand, the government tried to attract foreign merchants to trade in China, and even granted official positions to those foreign merchants who had made important contributions to Sino-foreign trade.

It is in this policy context that the Maritime Silk Road has gradually flourished and become more and more prosperous.

The second stage was the Ming and Qing dynasties, the basic feature of which was that the government's maritime policy became increasingly closed and conservative.

Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, established a strict tributary system, on the one hand, completely forbade the people to trade at sea, and repeatedly reiterated that "those who dare to have private mutual markets must be placed on the law".

On the other hand, it has tried its best to restrict foreign merchants from trading with China, while only allowing foreign governments to have official ties with China, and has set up various obstacles to China's foreign exchanges.

For example, it was stipulated that Japanese official envoys could only go ashore in Ningbo, and only once in ten years, and no more than three ships could come to China at a time, and so on.

After the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, it did not change its erroneous concept of the sea, nor did it change its conservative maritime policy.

"What do you think about this?"

"There are many benefits to building a base overseas after the Heavenly Master's Dao, but there are also many difficulties and questions."

Song Miao pinched his chin and said: "First, there is a long distance between Hexi and the sea, and it is very inconvenient to manage. ”

"At that time, the sea and land will be different, and even if Hexi wants to quell the rebellion, it will be difficult to send troops."

"Second, Hexi also lacks relevant talents, dare to ask all of you here, who of you understands the ocean?"

"And without talent, the ocean plan will not be able to be launched."

"Third, Daohe proposed to build a base and overseas, but he was worried that Jiangdong would be in turmoil in the future, and Sanwu Jiye would not have time to evacuate, so he decided to leave a back road in advance."

"So apart from that, what other benefits are there in opening up overseas that is worth the risk of Hexi?"

As soon as Song Xuan's words fell, everyone at the scene fell silent.

Speaking of Cui Hong, Cui Hao, Zhang Zhan, Wang Zhenwei and others are all top talents of this era, but they don't know anything about maritime affairs.

"Ahem, ahem." Wei Shuo coughed lightly and said, "Traveling thousands of miles to open up new territories, especially on the unpredictable sea, is indeed difficult. ”

"However, Shuo only said two things, and everyone can know which is more important when it comes to maritime development."

"The ministers would like to hear the lord's opinion."

"In the past, due to limited conditions, Hexi's desire to develop a sailor has never been realized."

"When I read the Tao and the letter today, I suddenly found out that the sailor's way out was overseas."

"As for why the development of the Mariner? Everyone is a person of great intelligence, and they must all know the deep meaning. ”

Everyone bowed slightly, most of them had the ambition to dominate the world for not a day or two, and everyone here knew it.

At present, at first glance, it seems that the use of the sailor is not much, but when Hexi unifies the north and is about to go south to Jiangdong, the role of the sailor will be highlighted.

But the sailors are not like the infantry, they can go to the battlefield after training for three or five months.

Even if the cavalry is claimed to have technical content, it can be trained for half a year to a year at most, which is enough to take shape.

Only the water master has not been five or ten years, don't think of any results.

If you don't prepare early, it is very likely that you will repeat the mistakes of Wei Wu Chibi in the future.

From the perspective of never taking precautions, it seems necessary to build a base overseas.

"Second, now that the overland Silk Road is gradually saturated, there will not be much change in the short term."

"If Hexi wants to open up new financial routes, it must find a way from the sea, that is, to explore the Maritime Silk Road."

"Maritime Silk Road?"

Wei Shuo got up and came to the map of the sea frontier, he pointed to the southeast sea frontier of the Great Jin Dynasty and said: "Look, above the southeast sea frontier, there is a big island in the southeast of Jin'an County, Jiangzhou, that is, the Yizhou mentioned by Daohe. ”

"Shuo intends to divide the marine plan into two steps, the first step is to start today, first to fully manage Yizhou, and strive to incorporate Yizhou into Hexi in three to five years."

"The second step is to use Yizhou as a base, and then expand to the South Seas and open up the Maritime Silk Road."

"In addition to the above two reasons, there is also an important cash crop on Yizhou Island - sugarcane."

"The climate of Yizhou is very suitable for growing sugarcane, and if it is properly developed, Hexi will have another special commodity."

"In addition, due to the abundant sunshine in Yizhou, the local rice has three crops a year, which is enough to become another important grain production area in Hexi."

"Of course, there are still many difficulties to face in the development of Yizhou, but we cannot stop because of difficulties."

"It's not that Pontus is talking big, with the current expansion rate of Hexi, at most another year or two, it will definitely expand to the seaside."

"With such a sea and land connection, why worry about troubles at overseas bases?"

"The lord said this, it is feasible to build an overseas base, but there are no boats and no manpower in Hexi, what should I do?"

"Manpower can be entrusted to Michiwa to recruit from Koto, as for the ships...... For the time being, it can only be purchased from the Heavenly Master Dao. ”

"However, in order to avoid being controlled by others, Hexi must also actively develop its own shipbuilding industry."

Speaking of this, Wei Shuo suddenly remembered something, looked at Song Xuan and asked, "Physique, where are all the boat masters I recruited from Jiangdong the year before last?" ”

"Back to the lord, the minister concentrated them all in the Lingzhou shipbuilding workshop, and now they have become the backbone of the workshop."

"It seems that Shuo has to find a chance to go to Lingzhou to have a look."

"The minister is willing to accompany the lord to Lingzhou, saying that the minister has not gone back since leaving Shuozhou, so I just went back by the way."

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