After hearing the news brought by Liu Neng over there, Liu Mang's face turned bad again, he thought it would be good news, but who knows, the final news turned out to be that he could not land, and this also lost hundreds of soldiers, which made Liu Mang a little annoyed.

"Yes!" Liu Neng lowered his head, he obviously saw the unhappy look on Liu Mang's face.

Liu Mang was about to wave his hand to let Liu Neng over there leave, but Liu Neng over there didn't move.

"What's the matter?" Liu Mang asked with a frown.

"My lord, the southbound fleet has also sent back news!" Liu Neng said to Liu Mang, he Liu Neng divided the fleet into two, one unit went to the east, according to the general location given by Liu Mang to the treasure island, and some of them followed the direction of Jiaozhou, towards the southeast over there, he Liu Neng also knew a treasure island, he didn't even land, and the main guild would be dissatisfied when he went back, because sailing on the sea, not to mention the long time, this same consumption is still large, and the value of those few monarch level is hundreds of thousands of gold.

Combined with the consumption on board and the like, it can be said that every voyage is a waste of money.

"To the south?" Liu Mang looked at Liu Neng over there suspiciously.

"Yes, my lord, go south!" Liu Neng nodded, Liu Mang gave Liu Neng two directions at that time, one of which was to go south to search for the New World, that is, to go to Southeast Asia, but in ¢⊥ Liu Mang's opinion, this Liu Neng didn't even do a good job in the treasure island, how could he go south.

"After Weichen circled the treasure island, he didn't know where to start, so he took his entourage and headed south in the direction of Jiaozhou!" Liu Neng lowered his head at Liu Mang and said.

"Found the Kushan Empire?" Liu Mang's eyes also lit up. If he remembers correctly. There is also this huge empire in Southeast Asia. This empire is one of the four great powers of Eurasia along with the Han Dynasty, Rome, and Rest.

"Nope!" Liu Neng shook his head.

"No?" Liu Mang laughed angrily, there was no news about this treasure island, and there was no south, he was suspicious of his acquaintance, how could this Liu Neng become such a waste.

"My lord, we haven't been able to find the Kushan Empire. However, it was found that there were two small countries in Funan and Linhu. Liu Neng said with a fist to Liu Mang over there.

"Funan, Lin Hu?" Liu Mang doesn't know the existence of these two countries at all, he can only know an approximate one for five thousand years, let alone the history of these individual countries, what kind of countries are these two countries?

Liu Neng over there continued to explain to Liu Mang.

Liu Mang generally clarified his thoughts, that is, this so-called Funan country is not small at all, and even compared to Liu Mang's current territory, it is only big and not small.

As for that Lin Hu, it is a little smaller, probably the size of a Yangzhou.

If you really have to fight carefully, then this Lin Hu is about the size of half of Vietnam, and Funan over there is more like the size of Cambodia and Thailand and the remaining half of Vietnam!

However, at this time, it went through the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. So for Liu Neng, they are the Heavenly Dynasty. This Funan is naturally a small country.

"What about those two small countries?" Liu Mang didn't want to correct Liu Neng's thoughts of the Heavenly Empire, and asked.

"It's not as good as my Han state, and the state!" Liu Neng said to Liu Mang, in other words, it is not very good, Jiaozhou and Zhou were originally the border of the Han Dynasty, it can be said that they are two places with poor mountains and bad waters, and they are not as good as these two places, so you can see how poor and remote they are.

"Poor place?" Liu Mang frowned, what he originally wanted was to find a continent to dump some of the handicrafts he produced in Yangzhou, and Yangzhou's production capacity can be said to have been greatly improved under the maturity of the Ministry of Industry.

The trade routes of the East and West have naturally been widened, but the land of Yangzhou is a little smaller after all, and other places in the Han Dynasty, in addition to Jingzhou being infiltrated, like Yanzhou, and even the north are still far away, and Liu Mang doesn't want to mess up the market of the Han Dynasty too much.

However, the developed business can not be stopped, to put it simply, just like a pottery industry, Liu Mang because all the land belongs to the government, so those scholars must teach their fields whether they want to or not.

Although Liu Mang gave them money, there must be complaints, because in this era, everyone follows the same, that is, having money to buy land, collecting rent, saving money, and buying land, the new style of small-scale peasant economy is also the general idea of landlords.

And now Liu Mang has taken their land, in order not to let these scholars be idle, but also to open up a source of wealth for these scholars, otherwise these scholars will go crazy if they don't have money to earn.

In order to allow these scholars to find other sources of income, Liu Mang is vigorously encouraging developers to be the standard.

Even the commercial tax of the scholar clan has been low to a certain extent, and a large number of technologies have been released, such as cement, which has been released, of course, these cements are used for civilian use, and they are different from Liu Mang's fortresses, but this cement does make many people laugh.

Nowadays, as long as people have money, they will buy cement and build a house at home, because this cement is not only strong, but also easy to form, unlike the original ones that were made of boulders, and a stone is a big problem from mining to transportation.

Cement, as well as bricks and tiles, are all sold by manufacturers.

However, Yangzhou's market will eventually be saturated.

Those cement factories and brick factories can't make money, and those scholars are naturally not satisfied, although they don't know how to drink Liu Mang, but at least they are secretly restless.

There is no way for Liu Mang to open up new markets for them, and this southbound fleet is one of them.

Originally, Liu Mang thought that this Kushan Empire was one of the four empires that was called the same as the Han Dynasty and Rome, and it was also a rich family, this Han Dynasty's porcelain and silk could be sold as a treasure in the Western Regions, and there was no reason to go by water to Guishan and sell it at a price.

But now Liu Neng's words have completely extinguished Liu Mang's good wish, that is, these two countries are two poor ratios, how good is this. This group of businessmen in Yangzhou really watched Liu Mang open up a business route for them.

If this thing doesn't work out. Those old men of the clan are not obedient.

"The lord and the two small countries do not have much money. But they have food! Liu Neng over there continued to speak.

"Grain?" What is it called just wanting to sleep, and there is a pillow over there.

That's it! Why does Yangzhou want Zhuge Liang to send an envoy to Xiliang over there now, isn't it time? There is enough time for the autumn harvest, and the autumn harvest is all about wanting food.

And now Liu Neng said that Funan and Lin Hu have food.

Liu Mang's eyes lit up, why didn't he expect it, where is Vietnam and Thailand in Southeast Asia, Southeast Asia is located in the subtropics, and the subtropical monsoon climate zone is characterized by warm winters. The average temperature of the coldest month is above 0C; The summer is hot, the average temperature of the hottest month is greater than 22C, the annual precipitation is generally 1,000~1,500 mm, there are more summers, but there is no obvious dry season, so the crop growth period in the subtropical monsoon climate zone is longer than that in the tropical rainforest climate zone, so the crops in the subtropical monsoon climate zone are two or three crops a year. Most of the rice crops in Southeast Asia are three crops a year.

Don't doubt it, Southeast Asians also eat rice. Although rice originated in China, it has long been brought to Southeast Asia during thousands of years of evolution. Rice may be difficult to grow in the north, but there is a lot of rain in the south, coupled with light and heat adaptation, rice and rice, with water, he can flourish.

So there is no shortage of food and drink for the people here, as for why the population is growing slowly, one of the reasons is lazy, and there are those local rulers, the chaos in Southeast Asia is no worse than the big Han, and it can even be said that it is much more chaotic, there are hundreds of tribes, each tribe has contradictions, and if there are contradictions, then fight, Southeast Asia is not better than the big Han.

The Han tribe was defeated, so far away, I have no way to survive in this state, I will go to another state.

But the people here are rushing to kill everything, and they have nowhere to flee if they want to.

These monkeys in Southeast Asia are more poisonous than anyone else when they deal with their own people, and how many people can be left in such a fight to have ghosts.

There are few people, there is a lot of grain, and they can't be sold, they are all rotten in the granary, and in the long run, those rulers are too lazy to manage the food things, anyway, everyone can't starve to death, think about it, then just farm, if you can't think of it, forget it, three crops a year, as long as it matures once, it is enough to eat for a year.

That's it, there is still a lot of food in Funan.

"Yes, yes!" Liu Mang's face finally smiled.

"Liu Neng, you have made a great contribution this time, and this king will definitely reward you heavily!" Liu Mang was happy, he now wants a substantial increase in the population, but an important condition that restricts the population is food, and the current Funan and Lin Hu are completely huge in Liu Mang's opinion.

"This is all the good fortune of the lord!" Liu Neng owes himself.

"Then you will immediately go south with the fleet, and exchange national letters with that Funan country and that Lin Hu country! Take my Yangzhou specialties to visit our good neighbors! Liu Mang became excited and said to Liu Neng over there.

"Lord, what about the treasure island?" Liu Neng asked Liu Mang suspiciously, just now Liu Mang gave him 8,000 soldiers and horses for him to go to the treasure island to develop.

"The affairs of the treasure island can be put aside first, and going south is the most important! If this version is successful, your Liu Neng's great achievements will inevitably be indispensable! ”

"Yes!" Liu Neng said goodbye and retired.

The news of Liu Neng's return spread to the household department in Yangzhou, and then the household department passed it to those merchants and those scholars.

"Funanguo? Lin Huguo? What kind of small country is this? "Some businessmen don't understand, it's not that they are lonely and unheard, but in general, few people go to the sea, and most of them want to communicate with the outside world on land, and the Silk Road can be said to be an important channel for the Han to watch the outside world.

Later, because of the war in the Western Regions, and the Central Plains itself was in chaos, the Silk Road was abandoned.

And this Lin Hu and Funan are in Southeast Asia, and it is normal for no one to know. Now from Yangzhou came the news that they were going to trade with these two small countries.

"I've heard of this Lin Hu country!" A businessman spoke.

"Brother Sun, do you actually know this Lin Hu Kingdom? Tell us about it! Someone over there hurriedly set his eyes on a businessman surnamed Sun.

This businessman surnamed Sun is simply flattered, he is from Jiaozhou, how much capital can a businessman in Jiaozhou have, since ancient times, Jiaozhou has been a place of exile, because of the war in the Central Plains, there are many people who have gone to Jiaozhou, which brings vitality to Jiaozhou, but in this way he is not as good as Yangzhou Jiangdong, these big states and counties.

Therefore, in Yangzhou, this businessman surnamed Sun is not in the stream, and he finally squeezed into this commercial bureau, and this time it is rare to be in the spotlight.

This Sun Xing businessman is fortunate not to have stage fright, how can a businessman who can go south and north have already cultivated a pair of cheeky skin.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this Lin Hu country is on the edge of my Jiaozhou, and it is a country made by those local natives to imitate my Han system!" The merchant surnamed Sun over there explained.

"On the edge of Jiaozhou?" When everyone heard this explanation, they were not interested, Jiaozhou is already a poor place, this is still in the south of Jiaozhou, what kind of thing, do you let us buy goods to those natives?

"The grain in that place is the same as my Jiaozhou, and it is cooked several times a year!" The merchant surnamed Sun explained.

"Hmph, even if it is ten crops a year, it is all wasteland, how can it be planted?" The land in Jiaozhou is also barren, not because the fertilizer of the land is not enough, but because there are more forests and mounds, which make up for the miasma and make it difficult for ordinary people to survive, how to mine it.

"This!" The businessman surnamed Sun didn't know what to say. Jiaozhou is indeed like this over there, not to mention that the land is not interested in these businessmen at all, because Yangzhou stipulates that the land is subordinate to the government.

"We bring the goods over, what do the natives give us? Do you use food? Someone over there scoffed.

"It's really food!" A person walked into the merchant bureau, and everyone lowered their heads when they saw this middle-aged man, and shouted respectfully, "Mi Shangshu!" ”

This person is the book of the household department, Mi Zhu, the current Mi Zhu is not the humble businessman at the beginning, now he is the household book of Yangzhou, it can be said that he is above 10,000 people under one person, who does not respect him, Mi Zhu is very satisfied with this feeling, and this qiē is given by Liu Mang, Mi Zhu is even more grateful to Liu Mang.

"The lord has an order, as long as you sell the commercial goods to this Lin Hu and Funan, exchange them for grain and grass, and recycle them at the market price! As for how much food you can exchange, it's up to you~! (To be continued......)