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Once the captain is negotiated, he will help recruit the crew. Of course, Li Chen still has to take a look. Then Li Chen left the shipyard and did not go to Mingzhou, but directly went back to Yangzhou.

Didn't you say that you were going to take Lao Su's class? Why bother? What if the other party refuses? In case Lao Su already has a successor, or which old friend wants to take over his career, wouldn't it be a no-brainer? So Li Chen planned that if Suleiman had this plan, he would take over his route and that group of employees.

If Suleiman has already negotiated with someone, or if someone is already going to take over, then take advantage of the current friendship, hire someone yourself, and run with him when the time comes. Even if it can be taken over by then, it will be just a lot of boats.

It's almost summer, and the sun is already a little hot on people, but Li Chen doesn't feel anything, and along the way, Li Chen is still thinking about Chinese and Western-style sails. Li Chen is very eager to hope that his navigation can bring some changes, so that the Chinese will pay attention to navigation technology, and the sea is wealth, and it will be a source of disaster after a thousand years.

It's not inevitable that we've had great results, and at the moment, it's unique in the world. Why, why just give up.

Why, why hasn't there been progress, and even when the head of the family has advanced, we have regressed? Chinese land and resources, do not seek anything else?

Don't talk about those potatoes that all the pre-Ming Dynasty travelers dreamed of. Let's just say that spices are good, and there are no spices in China. The origin of these things is in the South Seas, and then the island countries in the east, there are large quantities of silver and gold, waiting for us to discover.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spaniards and the Portuguese were able to make a lot of profits from the triangular trade in East Asia alone. Spices are shipped to China much closer than to Europe, and spices are also very valuable in China. Porcelain, silk and tea were exchanged from China and shipped back to Europe to make a fortune. Don't even go far, ship to Japan, and make a lot of money by shipping silver from Japan to China.

Suddenly, Li Chen's hand tightened, and then he almost rolled off the horse, because his hand tightened, and the reins were tightened, and the horse-frightened man stood up and almost lifted Li Chen off the horse. The guards were shocked and leaned over one after another, thinking that something was wrong with Li Chen.

'Nothing, nothing, something suddenly comes to mind. Li Chen stabilized the startled horse, then comforted the guards and continued to move forward, but the smile on the corner of Li Chen's mouth couldn't be extinguished.

Oh, Japan, how did I forget about Japan? Li Chen almost burst out laughing. The profit of traveling from the Central Plains to Japan is very large, and the profit is not small regardless of the proximity of the place.

But now in the Tang Dynasty, there are probably not many people who run Japan, that is, the Japanese country. Why? Li Chen thought that the goods of the Central Plains were very popular in Japan, whether it was porcelain or silk, Japan did not have the ability to produce it, and it did not have the heart to study it. So until the end of the Qing Dynasty, Japan was a dumping ground for goods from the Central Plains.

It's just that in the Tang Dynasty, it seems that it has not yet been developed. It's not that Japan doesn't like porcelain and silk now, it's not that Datang can't produce it, it's that the Japanese can't afford it.

It can't be said that they can't afford it at all, and the envoys sent by the Japanese State to the Tang Dynasty will bring some goods back, which are all very popular. The problem is that there is nothing to produce in the Wa Kingdom, and it can be exchanged for money in Datang. Therefore, there are not many people running the Japanese route. Only the Japanese people got a little bit of it themselves.

When did the Japanese trade come into the eyes of Chinese merchants? It seems to be in the Song Dynasty. At that time, there were frequent exchanges between the Song and Japan, and there were even Japanese women who came to the Great Song Dynasty to borrow seeds. It proves that the trade of the Japanese kingdom flourished at that time.

Why does it thrive? Li Chen remembers very well that during the Song Dynasty, because of the use of gunpowder, sulfur had to be imported from the Wa Kingdom, and in addition to sulfur, there were also copper ore and timber, which caused close trade between Song and Japan.

At present, there is not much trade to and from Japan. Because it is still a rare thing to go to the Japanese country now. Japan sent envoys to the Tang Dynasty several times, but they were unable to make the trip because of shipwrecks.

Even the great monk Jianzhen wanted to go to Japan to preach the Fa, but he couldn't go. In order to cross to the east, Jianzhen succeeded a total of six times. Although several of them did not go to sea, there were still a few times when they went to sea, but they encountered marine accidents and could not go. Therefore, now that Li Chen is trading with Japan, he is almost certain that it is still a virgin land, waiting for him to develop it.

Li Chen felt that the warm sunlight seemed to have penetrated into his body, and Li Chen felt a burst of pleasure from his heart.

Sino-Japanese trade, he is going to decide, he even thinks further, Japan's several major gold mountains, silver mountains, he remembers that it seems to be developed very late, what Sado's gold mountain, Iwami's silver mountain, he is not sure when it was discovered, the only thing that is certain is that it is definitely not in the Tang Dynasty. If he could....

If he can hold it in his hands, can China enter the era of the gold and silver standard early? It seems that it was not until the middle of the Ming Dynasty that China gradually entered the era of the silver standard.

Li Chen slowed down his horse, slowed down the group, and he began to think about when the Chinese began to use silver two. Not only in the Ming Dynasty, but also in the Song Dynasty, because of the large inflow of silver, it began to be used as a trading unit. The people still used copper coins, but they began to use silver ingots for large-scale transactions.

There were even silver tickets, which allowed people to exchange silver taels from the bank. The alliance also stipulated that the Song Dynasty should pay tribute with silver taels. Before that, it was not that China did not produce silver mines, but it did not produce enough to be used as currency.

I haven't heard that there are any huge silver mines discovered in the Song Dynasty, so there can be so much silver, probably imported from Japan. The side proves that the current underdevelopment of Tang-Japanese trade. Because he remembered the alliance of the Yuanyuan, it was a matter that the Song Dynasty did not have a long time to found.

At that time, it was possible to set a price of 100,000 taels of silver per year, most of which were imported from the Wa Kingdom. It can be seen that the trade between Song and Japan flourished. However, in the Tang Dynasty, at least for now, he rarely heard about the abundance of silver in the Wa Kingdom. In other words, Sino-Japanese trade flourished between the Five Dynasties and the early Song Dynasty.

Although it was a bit arbitrary, Li Chen was sure that his speculation was not far from ten. He is going to step up, eight or nine is not far from ten, in case of a little deviation, maybe the end of the Tang Dynasty will start, how long is he still from the end of the Tang Dynasty? Not sure. That is, he must step up now.

When I get back, I'll have someone check it out. ''What?'' The proprietor wants to find out something. Li Chen muttered to himself, and Wang Tian on the side thought that Li Chen was talking to him, so he hurriedly asked.

'Nothing, let's go.' Finding that his horse had slowed down, Li Chen stepped up his urging. 'Fortunately, it's a horse', before he was reborn, he sometimes wandered away from riding a bicycle, and he had a little accident because of this. Fortunately, now it is horseback riding, not like riding a motorcycle, as long as the locomotive pushes the accelerator, it runs, no matter what is in front of it.

Horses are creatures, they know how to avoid evil, and they won't break through if they can't go, unless you cover their eyes. Even, the old horse will know the way.

As a result, after Li Chen clarified his thoughts and made up his mind to carry out Tang-Japanese trade, he began to wander again. (To be continued.) )