"There is also a flow ball in the northeast direction of Liuqiu, and the merchants call Liuqiu a small Liuqiu, and the Tiansun Kingdom is the real Liuqiu. A lot of the timber we use for shipbuilding here is purchased from there. He Dongjia hurriedly replied.

Zhao Ji searched for a while on the world map in his mind, only to realize that the Tiansun Kingdom was the Ryukyu Kingdom that was annexed by Japan in the later generations. On the world map drawn by Zhao Ji, there is also a Ryukyu Kingdom there, but Zhao Ji takes it for granted that the Ryukyu Kingdom he thinks is Xiao Yiyuan's Liuqiu Kingdom. Thinking of this, Zhao Ji asked: "Why is Taizhou called Xiaoliuqiu?" The Kingdom of Heavenly Sun doesn't seem to be that big? ”

"Holy Lord, this is a misunderstanding. Before Xiao Yiyuan established the Liuqiu Kingdom, because it was blocked by the Black Water Ditch, and the population here was sparse and wild, few merchants came here. And to go to the Tiansun Kingdom, there is no need to go to the black water ditch, but there are many merchants who go. On the sea not far from Tiansun, you can see the Tiansun Kingdom and Taizhou from a distance, and the islands of the Tiansun Kingdom are much larger. Merchants who have not been to Taizhou think that Liuqiu Island is very small, so it is called Xiaoliuqiu. "He Dongjia is a maritime merchant and often goes to the Tiansun Kingdom to buy wood, so this question is easy to answer.

"I'm going to go to them and buy wood, don't you have it here? There is wood on the island of Liuqiu, so why go to them to buy wood? What kind of wood do you need to build a ship? Zhao Ji was puzzled again.

"To say that there are more timber for shipbuilding, since the commonly used fir wood, pine, cypress, teak, elm, red wood, camphor wood, nanmu, catalpa, catalpa, oak wood, cypress, etc., different places and different places, try to use locally produced wood-based, we use the most widely used here is pine, fir, oil tung wood, camphor wood, nanmu, etc., fir straight can be made of mast, millennium sea pine, it is said that pine, pine is rotten, can be used as the main material of the ship, camphor wood is not afraid of insects, can be made of furniture, doors and windows, etc., Some important places can also use Nanmu, but the price of this Nanmu is more expensive, are determined according to the merchant's order, and there is to prepare enough hemp rope to make sail rope, tung oil, lime twist seams, stone to make ballast bin, and then there is to make some iron nails and other things, with these you can build a ship! Now there are more workshops, and sail ropes, ship nails and other things are purchased from other workshops, which is much cheaper than making them yourself. He Dongjia wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and explained in detail.

Fortunately, the questions asked by the official family are known, and He Dongjia is not worried about anything. In case he doesn't know, the official family is good to say, Zheng Zhixian probably won't let him run a shipyard anymore.

"Hmm. Call the merchants of the Tiansun Kingdom over. Zhao Ji commanded.

Two merchants of Tiansun Kingdom, who were dressed almost exactly like the Song people, walked up to Zhao Ji, determined that this was the official family of the Great Song Dynasty, and also knelt on the ground and shouted long live like He Dong's family.

"Businessmen really know how to be flexible. Or will the businessman do the business. Zhao Ji thought of the open and secret struggle between the Great Song Shi Doctor and the businessman, and said secretly in his heart.

"Tiansun Kingdom, what is the population? What about the troops? Zhao Ji asked casually.

"The population is 200,000, and the king's army is more than 3,000 people." The Tiansun merchant didn't know what the Great Song official family meant, so he had to answer truthfully.

"How's the livelihood?" Zhao Ji continued to ask indifferently.

"The divisions are hunting for a living. Most of the people of Wangcheng cultivated wheat and rice. Now it is mainly logging and fishing. We have come at the command of our king to buy ships of the sea, so that we may go to the seas to fish. "The Tiansun merchants still don't know what the Great Song official family is asking them to do so much.

"You speak Chinese very well, are you Han?" Zhao Ji continued to ask. At this moment, several merchants from Japan ran over, knelt on the ground as well, and after shouting long live, they said: "We are the envoys of His Majesty the Emperor of the East of Japan, and we did not expect to be able to see His Majesty the Emperor of the West here." This is my imperial letter. ”

After opening the national book, the national book uses Chinese characters, Zhao Ji browsed it, and after reading it, Zhao Ji smiled and asked, "It seems that I am going to Japan." ”

"Don't dare. Our Emperor implores His Majesty the Western Emperor to order the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty to trade only weapons and armor with our Emperor. The Japanese merchant kowtowed.

Originally, the Great Song Dynasty maritime merchants went to Japan to trade, most of them started from Mishu and then arrived at Shimonoseki Castle on the Saikaido in Japan, rather than directly going to Heiankyo in Japan to trade.

Since the opening of all monopolies, the main goods sold to Japan by the maritime merchants were divided into five categories: salt, tea, copper coins, weapons, and books. Originally, silk and porcelain, which were mainly exported, were still bulk goods, but in comparison, they were much less.

Salt is ranked in the first major quantity, the salt of the Great Song Dynasty is of high quality and low price, not only in Japan, but also in Western Xia, Northern Liao, and Goryeo, the demand for salt in the Great Song Dynasty is also very high. There were originally a large number of salt mines in Western Xia, and salt was always smuggled to the people of the Great Song Dynasty. As soon as the salt ban was opened, the Great Song Dynasty sold a large amount of salt to them. In addition, the people of the Great Song Dynasty also stockpiled more salt, and the demand for salt increased greatly.

Wang Zhen, the head of the Shanxi Salt Commercial Bank, spent a huge amount of money to purchase new salt-drying technology from Tiangong Academy, and built salt ponds in coastal cities such as Shangjing to produce salt in large quantities, and there was also a salt factory on the east coast of Taizhou. The mass production and sale of salt suddenly caused the price of salt to plummet, so he reserved a large amount of salt and sold it to the outside world, and no longer sold it in the Great Song Dynasty. As a result, he was labeled as a hoarder.

The government took back the salt works and resold them to merchants from landlord and bureaucratic families, and obtained the salt drying method from the Tiangong Academy. Tiangong Academy was reluctant to give it to the government because it received a dividend of 20% from Wang Zhen, but under the pressure of the government, it still gave it.

The four universities, the Civilization School and the Jishi School, are the base camps of scholars, while the Weiguo School and the Tiangong School are the base camps of merchants. Because according to Zhao Ji's edict, many craftsmen with special skills were absorbed, and the Weiguo School and Tiangong School had a large number of improvements and inventions in various craft technologies, and after being sold to merchants, a large amount of dividends were obtained. Therefore, the hearts of these two universities are towards businessmen.

Tea is the second largest item, needless to say the benefits of tea, for people who are born outside, drinking tea often can prevent the water and soil adaptation. He bought a lot of tea for the people who migrated to Liuqiu. The development of Huguang and the southwest is mainly to develop and plant tea trees, and many tea fields have been developed. Seeing that tea was lucrative, and the developers did not give the local barbarians any benefits, the result of the development was to occupy a large number of their land and forests for tea planting, and the Southwest Yi, who lived by hunting, had to be angry, thus triggering a large-scale rebellion.

Copper coins are the third largest volume, because of the abolition order, so copper coins can no longer be used in the Great Song Dynasty, and Japan has a high demand for Great Song copper coins. The copper coins of the Great Song Dynasty were very exquisitely minted, and the Japanese people were willing to accept the Song coins, so the maritime merchants bought a large number of copper coins and sold them to Japan in exchange for a large amount of gold, silver and copper ore. Gold and silver were sold by the state, so the maritime merchants traded the gold and silver with the government and sold the copper coins that were to be destroyed after they were recovered.

Not to mention the benefits of weapons and books, after the ban on weapons and books was opened, both the Great Song Dynasty itself and other countries were in very high demand. The book ban was originally intended by the Great Song Dynasty to deal with the Western Xia and Northern Liao, preventing them from learning the advanced culture of the Great Song Dynasty and becoming civilized, posing a threat to the Great Song Dynasty. Zhao Ji thought of the cultural promotion of Europe and the United States in later generations, so he ordered: except for all kinds of technical books that need to be kept secret, Zhao Ji allowed all books to be open to the public. Except for military weapons and some prescribed civilian equipment, others can be sold to the outside world.

Japan's problems lie in weapons and books. After the Great Song maritime merchants arrived in Shimonoseki, Japan, all the weapons, books, farm tools, tents, etc., were bought by the Fujiwara family, the feudal lord of the Saikaido domain. Zhao Ji developed Huguang and Liuqiu, and the demand for agricultural tools was very large. The need for weapons in the reorganization of the army is also very large. The ban on arms has been opened, and the demand for weapons among the common people is also very large. The three were large, which led to the emergence of a large number of production workshops, and even overproduction. The way to deal with overproduction is to increase exports.

In addition, the technology of the Great Song Dynasty is advanced, and the goods are not only better than the local ones of various countries, but also much cheaper, and all kinds of goods of the Great Song Dynasty are very popular.

The Fujiwara family, who had obtained these goods from the Great Song Dynasty, began to grow strong and posed a threat to the king of Japan. The Japanese king had to send emissaries to establish trade with the Great Song Dynasty alone. At least in terms of arms sales, the Great Song was able to trade with him alone.

Thinking that Japan's balance of power was interrupted by trade, Japan was likely to have civil strife, and the more chaos there was, the greater the dependence on various goods of the Great Song Dynasty, so Zhao Ji said with a straight face: "Commerce and trade should be free, and your king should not interfere more." I don't want to see a monopoly on trade, and if your king interferes, I don't mind taking the 100,000 Great Song Guards to Japan. ”

"But, Your Majesty the Eastern Emperor." The Japanese businessman also wanted to explain. Unexpectedly, he was interrupted by Zhao Ji, who threw the national letter on the ground and said: "Don't say it, you guys go to Bianjing!" I'm very busy, you can go to Bianjing to find my prime minister to talk about such a trivial matter! Perhaps the government is willing to listen to your explanations. ”

After speaking, Zhao Ji was not in the mood to continue the inspection, thinking that the United States would use Japan to form an island chain to blockade China in the future, Zhao Ji thought about annexing Tiansun Guocai.

Leaving the He family's shipyard, Zhao Ji urgently summoned Bai Bolang, the commander of the naval division of the Eighth Zhenhaiwei Army, to discuss the conquest of the Tiansun Kingdom.

When Bai Bolang heard that there was another battle, it was still that kind of battle to destroy the country, and he immediately became excited. The white waves were resolute and resolute, and they were ready to go out in just one day. Zhao Ji did not hesitate, and the next night, he also got on the dragon boat and set out with the 30,000 sea guards.

Later generations often called it the rich Song Dynasty, saying that the gross national product of the Song Dynasty reached 70 or 80 percent of the world at that time. However, economic strength has not been transformed into military strength, and the Great Song Dynasty in history has no record of destroying the country except for passive defense. Unlike the Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, and the Yuan Dynasty, the country was destroyed at every turn. Don't talk about destroying the country, the Song Dynasty fought with foreign races for three hundred years, and finally it was destroyed. What a sorrow!

Zhao Ji stood at the bow of the boat, looking at the endless sea, he was in a very happy mood, and said secretly in his heart: "The record of the destruction of the Great Song Dynasty starts from the Tiansun Kingdom!" In the future, the Great Song Dynasty will transform all its economic strength into military strength and destroy the country by strengthening the army! ”

"Why didn't Xiao Yiyuan destroy that Tiansun Kingdom? Tiansun Country is weak, and it is adjacent to Liuqiu, so it stands to reason that Xiao Yiyuan will not allow his existence? Zhao Ji remembered that Xiao Yiyuan's Liuqiu Country was so extensive, why he still allowed Tiansun Kingdom to lie in the territory, and couldn't help but wonder, turned around and asked.

"Tiansun Country, with a population of 200,000, at that time, Brother Xiao's Liuqiu Kingdom was not much stronger than Tiansun Kingdom. In addition, each village is only subservient to the Liuqiu country, and the combat power cannot be gathered together. And Tiansun Kingdom does not have a water master, and convection does not pose a threat, so Xiao Di has not moved him. Bai Wave recalled.

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