In the year of Renchen, the day of the month of Xinhai, the zodiac is auspicious, it is suitable to travel, open the market, collect wealth, and benefit the West.

Yun Ye, Li Tai, with forty-five merchant ships of all sizes set off from Guangzhou, plunged into the vast South China Sea, ready to seek profit, but also in order to completely open up the sea trade route, the land trade route has been opened, the Western Regions, Persia, Hu merchants gathered in Chang'an, since then, the camel bell ringing on this ancient road for a full five hundred years.

The Maritime Silk Road was similarly long, but unfortunately it did not play to its strengths, let alone rival the overland trade routes. Why would a shrewd merchant turn a blind eye to a fact that a ship could carry far more cargo than a caravan, requiring fewer men and less time?

Hu Shang, who walked 10,000 miles to Datang to trade, needed ten times the weight of the goods, and he was not allowed to be so troublesome at sea, Yun Ye's trip was to expand the advantages of sea trade to the maximum.

There is a strong fleet to escort it, which is a once-in-a-lifetime good thing for those merchants, not to mention that it is the famous Yunhou who goes to sea, and his Lingnan fleet itself is an invincible being.

When the three giant ships sailed into Guangzhou Bay, the whole bay was suddenly silent, it is not that those who are familiar with the ships have never seen big ships, and it is common to have a larger Mulan boat than these three ships, but no one has ever seen a giant ship that is completely in the service of war, the whole ship presents a beautiful streamlined shape, and the cold light of the bow of the ship is shining, and all the ships in front of her can be torn lightly. There are no poles on both sides of the giant boat, some only dense eight-bull crossbows, and a trebuchet stands on the front and rear decks.

The merchant ships in the harbor are flowing out, and a whole forty-five merchant ships will follow closely behind the giant ship and do business all the way until the Sanlan Kingdom, knowing that this time it is actually exploring the way, but business cannot be left undone.

There are not only wind and waves on the sea, but also very vicious pirates. Goryeo pirates, pirates of the Wa Kingdom, big food pirates, and the most terrifying are the pirates of the Sanlan Kingdom, who not only plundered goods, but also killed people without calculation. Countless merchants overcame the waves and hurricanes, but they were swallowed up by these pirates in an instant.

It doesn't matter now, looking left and right at the giant ship following behind him, he is full of confidence in his voyage, Datang should be like this, and it should be the Xiong Zheng people of Datang to avenge those businessmen who have been buried in the sea.

Yun Ye sat on a chair, holding a telescope and looking into the distance, in front of him was Hainan Island, and there were only natives and some prisoners on it. The golden dragon flag on the giant ship was fluttering, and Yun Ye saw that there were many people on the beach waving, jumping, trying hard to let the people on the giant ship see him, holding the most faint illusion that the giant ship could take him out of this hell on earth.

Yun Ye put away the binoculars, returned it to Liu Renyuan, and said, "Go full throttle, we don't have much time, but we have a lot of things to do." When encountering obstacles, annihilate them. Getting the road open is the first element. “

Liu Ren was willing to make a promise, and after a while, the horn sounded, and the sailors on the ship kept shaking all kinds of flags, and now the wind blowing on the sea was very suitable, neither big nor small. The most important thing is that there are no swells.

The Princess was only half sailed, and the sails of the merchant ships behind her were already full, and the speed of the whole fleet suddenly became much faster, and the bow of the battleship plunged into the sea and raised its head sharply, and the crushed waves rushed to the bow. He returned to the sea along the drain.

The sun gradually rose, and the deck became hot, Yun Ye returned to the cabin, and saw Tongueless and Liu Fang holding a teapot, playing chess on a fixed chessboard, this is a chessboard specially made of magnets, as long as the pieces fall, the chess pieces made of iron will be firmly glued to it, and Tongueless regards this chess piece as a treasure, and no one else is allowed to touch it.

Shan Ying stood aside and watched the battle, he grew up in Zhoushan with Ding Yanping since he was a child, and he was no stranger to the sea, so this period of training was almost nothing to him.

Han Zhe looks well-proportioned and has extraordinary martial arts, but this guy throws a scale into the water, there is no meaning of floating at all, he sinks directly to the bottom, and after being rescued, he also injured two people who taught him to swim in the water, and later he can teach him to swim is Shan Ying, Han Zhe looked for a single eagle to compare, but unfortunately he was beaten again, and was thrown into the sea by Shan Ying over and over again, and then pulled it up after he drank enough seawater, and after a long time, Han Zhe found that he could already swim.

Xi Tong since the first time he was kicked into the water by Mr. Tongueless, he likes to swim, plus he is a martial arts practitioner with a long vein, his favorite is diving, now where there are sharks, he dares to go down, the big knife was replaced by two iron thorns, according to him, now on the water kung fu, the old man is not lost to others.

Yun Ye sent the winter fish and the man and bear to Li Tai's Qingque, and Lao Tie personally drove his favorite ship Chengqian, and the three ships surrounded a large number of merchant ships in a zigzag shape, and the whole fleet was sailing at a rapid speed on the pale yellow offshore water.

After Hainan Island, a long series of small islands appeared in front of him, Yun Ye deliberately circled the ship around Crab Island, very good, the corpse inserted in the wooden stick had long since turned into dry bones, and the whole island looked gloomy, even in the blue sky and white day, it made people's hairs stand on end.

"Dashuai, since you set up your corpse, no Hu people's ship dares to enter the sea area of this generation, not even pirates, when your subordinates are in charge of the sailors here, the pirates caught every year will be inserted into this island."

"You say these corpses are no longer the ones I set up?"

"Dashuai, the sea breeze is strong, the corpse will be hung up, and it will be pecked clean by the seabirds in a few days, and if there is another wind, there will be nothing left, and a new corpse must be hung up every year."

Yun Ye nodded, this is all the sea area that belongs to the Tang Dynasty, and the warships of the Lingnan Navy Division often appear, and it is estimated that no pirate who is not long-sighted will dare to come. Liwei is sometimes a very effective tool.

"After the Wangxiang Terrace, there will be the waters of the Tang Dynasty, Master Hou, the local natives will flock to it, I don't know where the spice island you are talking about will be? Only the three of us have no cargo on board, so we can't let the brothers run for nothing. Liu Renyuan was very worried that the marshal was deceiving people, and if there was no goods, just relying on deception would cause a fatal blow to morale.

"Don't worry, this time I specially prepared five empty ships, which are ready to load spices, it is not an island, it is a series of archipelagos, I am just worried that I will not find enough people to pick spices, not that there will be no spices."

The so-called spices refer to condiments such as cardamom, pepper, and cloves. Spices, is one of the most important commodities of international trade, the Qin Dynasty, spice trade has appeared, to the end of the Han Dynasty this scale to expand, but unfortunately later appeared Wuhu chaos, those horseback people do not understand what is called maritime trade, so for a long time, this trade in the Central Plains there is a fault.

It wasn't until the appearance of Persian merchants that the spice trade began to rise, and the Persians got spices from India and sent them to Chang'an, the price can be imagined, if it weren't for the continuous travel of maritime merchants in Southeast Asia and Guangzhou in the past two years, the price of spices would still be higher than gold, Yun Ye's trip was to go to find the spice island first.

Yun Ye only knew that Spice Island was on the equator, not far from Indonesia, and he didn't know anything else, but in Datang, it was enough to know this.

Long-distance sailing is a very boring thing, Li Tai has already been on Yun Ye's ship, it is very boring to stay alone on the Qingque, Datang's fleet does not allow women to get on board, this is a very unlucky thing, even in the most enlightened Lingnan fleet, women will not be allowed to get on their own ships, the last time because they met a ship of Silla maids, as a result, everyone encountered a dragon absorbing water, no matter how Yun Ye explained that there is nothing between the two, but the most obedient sailor did not think so, women are the disaster stars on the ship, It is still a forbidden rule for all sailors.

Li Tai couldn't take the beauty on the boat to relieve his boredom, so he had to watch Yun Ye send bean sprouts on the boat, he didn't eat vegetables for a long time, he couldn't supplement vitamins, and it was a matter of time before he got scurvy, although the oranges were very good, they were not resistant to storage, fortunately, the Yun family had simple canned fruits, especially tangerines in sugar water, which were the most popular among everyone.

There is a little orange to eat every day, it is a supreme enjoyment on the sea, Li Tai holds a jar and eats it with a spoon, he also likes this thing, especially when he hears Yun Ye say that if you don't eat this thing at sea, the blood will become bad, and it will be even more inseparable, but fortunately, there are enough of them, and Li Tai can't finish eating it alone.

Yun Ye found a big sieve, carefully selected the soybeans, threw away the flat ones, and rinsed them twice if he took water on the shore, but at sea, no one wanted to waste water, so Yun Ye picked them up one by one.

"Yezi, the battle you said has never been, there is not a single bearded boat on the sea, and there is no way to rob it, by the way, you said that people who don't eat bean sprouts and oranges will really have bad blood?"

"This is natural, don't complain, how many people can't look forward to it when it can sail peacefully on the sea, I didn't expect it to be able to sail so well, but if you look at these three big ships, even if they plan to rob, they will run away, Lai Chuanfeng and Yang Yueli are on your ship, are you obedient these days?"

"It's not bad, your people are very good, and the dogs are not bad, let me talk to you, let the dogs follow me in the future, my captain of the guard, loyalty is loyalty, and martial arts are also good, but my brain is not good."

Yun Ye wrapped the beans in gauze, wrapped them and soaked them in water, until they were completely submerged, and then said: "The dog is not mine in the first place, people have their own homes, they have their own heels, if you want to use him, go talk to him, and then go and tell the tongueless old gentleman, it is estimated that the problem is not big, his father-in-law Hong Cheng has long forced him to take an official and a half-position, and go to your house to be a guard, which is not bad, at least one official body." (To be continued......)

PS: In the first session, I held a parent-teacher conference for my son, so it was a little late. Excuse me