Chapter 39: Each Chooses His Own Way (2)
It is said that Sun Bin was framed by his classmate Pang Juan, and finally found an envoy to the State of Qi, and the envoy of the State of Qi smuggled Sun Bin to the State of Qi.
Hao Ren Wanhu knew this story, he didn't expect that he would make a cameo appearance as an envoy of the Qi State. As for whether this Empress Dowager Yang's nephew has Sun Bin or not, Hao Ren Wanhu himself has no confidence. What Hao Ren can be sure of is that this Yang Dacheng is a person on the shipping of the Great Song Dynasty, and he has some understanding of the maritime transportation of the Song Kingdom. As a vote, Yang Dacheng brought a few drawings of the Great Song Dynasty Shipping, as well as a globe.
Mongolia played a great role in the great geographical discoveries, and the Mongolian iron horsemen traveled almost all the islands of the world. He also attacked Egypt in Africa. At this time, the Suez Canal had not yet been excavated, and Africa was still connected to the island of the world. Therefore, the Mongols far surpassed the other countries in terms of geographical practice, until the rise of science in the Song state.
Listening to Yang Dacheng's narration, Hao Ren Wanhu listened to it as if he was drunk. As a Mongolian, Hao Ren Wanhu could not have imagined that he could start with theory and then gradually fill in the content with practice.
Zhao Guanjia proposed that the earth is round, which is not unusual. What is strange is that if it is an ordinary theoretical dispute, as long as it is proved that the earth is round, it is over. Zhao Guanjia did not stop there, but on the basis of this theory, he developed the concept of longitude and latitude, and developed equipment such as a sextant. A large amount of data was obtained through the measurement of the sextant, and finally a very detailed map of the world was drawn.
Flipping the globe, the sphere of the globe slowly rotated, and the edges of the land above it were very clear. Hao Ren suddenly had a wonderful feeling, as if the whole world was projected in front of him, and he could let Hao Ren conquer and understand at will.
"Wanhu, this is the basis for Zhao Jiaren to be able to crisscross the sea. No one else has such a map. mentioned Zhao Jiaren's name, and Yang Dacheng's voice was full of resentment.
"Hmm." Hao Ren Wanhu responded, if it weren't for this globe, he wouldn't have taken the risk of taking Yang Dacheng with him. Even if he brought this Song traitor, Hao Ren Wanhu still had worries in his heart. Could this Yang Dacheng be a fake?
"Ten thousand households. Now Dayuan's sea is worried. The Song State had set up a stronghold on Jeju Island several years ago, and they could gather forces on Jeju Island at any time to attack Goryeo. Please look here, this is the Jiaodong Peninsula, if Zhao Jiaren wants to be unfavorable to Dayuan, he can first cross the sea to the Liaodong Peninsula and make a fortune on the Liaodong Peninsula step by step......," Yang Dacheng said, pointing to the globe.
There is a saying that men are only different from toys, and it is a common game to point at the river on the globe. For example, Chang Kaishen, who was reincarnated by Du Chong a thousand years later, likes to play the trick of opening up the territory on the map very much.
Even if Hao Ren wasn't addicted to the game, the globe and the map made him feel very uneasy. Originally, Hao Ren felt that Da Yuan had much more land than Da Song, but now it seems that the situation is not what Hao Ren thinks. The Great Song Dynasty had the vast South China Sea, Luzon, Cochin, Champong, and Siam, and these areas gave the Great Song Dynasty a passage to the Tianzhu Ocean. Hao Ren has been to the grassland, it is really a grassland, there is nothing but grass.
The South China Sea, owned by the Song Kingdom, produced endless good things, and Yang Dacheng took out a list of hundreds of South China Sea goods, including spices, spices, pearls, gemstones, and tea.
Finally retracting his gaze from the globe, Hao Ren asked Yang Dacheng, "I heard that the Song State banknotes were once depreciated to almost worthless, how did they recover it." ”
"Humph!" Yang Dacheng snorted hatefully, "Then Zhao Jiaren is desperately plundering in the South China Sea, and the looted things are sold on the market, and they can be purchased with money." At that time, many people had money in their hands, and they were afraid that the money would depreciate again, so they used it to buy useless things. The banknotes that can be handed over are already limited, and the things plundered by Zhao Jiaren kept being sold on the market, and it didn't take long for the people to find out that Zhao Jiaren was buying banknotes at a low price. Everyone refuses to be fooled, and the money will naturally be worth it. ”
Listening to Yang Dacheng's plundering on the left and plundering on the right, Hao Ren's guard's face changed. Plundering is a very glorious thing in Mongolia, and Zhao Jiaren was able to plunder so many valuable items in the South China Sea, and the Mongols still thought that this person was a big hero. Attacking Zhao Jiaren on plundering made the Mongols feel greatly unhappy.
"Just relying on the things from the South China Sea, can you make more than a billion yuan of money so valuable?" Hao Ren asked with interest.
As a noble person in the Dayuan court who did not discriminate against Ahma, Hao Ren once heard Ahma talk about the matter of handing over banknotes, which used silver and silk as collateral, and always paid banknotes worth one or two silvers. Converted into the currency of the Great Song Dynasty, it is a three-run copper coin. The rules of the Great Song Dynasty are 770 Wen per consistent copper coin, and the number of copper coins is 2310 Wen according to the number of copper coins.
That is to say, the two banknotes of the Great Song Dynasty are equivalent to the consistent payment of banknotes of the Great Yuan. It is said that now the Great Song Dynasty has issued more than one billion banknotes, which is converted into a large yuan banknote, even if it is 500 million yuan. Ahma told Hao Ren that there were now 10 million banknotes issued by Dayuan. And every year there are 10 million new bills issued. At this rate, it will take 50 years to catch up with the total amount of banknotes handed over by the Great Song Dynasty.
Such a huge gap made Hao Ren feel very, very puzzled. It is said that now Dayuan has the problem of soaring prices, and there are too many banknotes.
Regarding Hao Ren's question, Yang Dacheng racked his brains to consider the answer. The Yang family once got errands from the imperial court because Empress Dowager Yang first became a beauty of Duzong. After the Empress Dowager Yang returned to Hangzhou, the Yang family could meddle in the progress without saying any benefits, at least everyone was polite to them and took care of them.
Now that the Empress Dowager Yang has fallen, the status of the Yang family has naturally plummeted. In addition, Empress Dowager Yang's own brother Yang Liangjie was arrested, sentenced, and exiled to Jiangxi. The Yang family was even more panicked. Yang Da was originally a very fat maritime unit, and now he has also been "seconded" to the local cold bench, and his income has plummeted. In the past, there were opportunities to invest in the maritime industry every year, and if you could suppress the commodity, the benefits would be huge. Yang Dacheng's most satisfying investments are Siamese paper and Lion Country tea. These two goods were the first overseas products to be sold in the Great Song Dynasty.
Losing all this, Yang Dacheng was discouraged. In the end, he felt that his identity should be able to find a way out in Mongolia, so didn't the historian go to Mongolia? What he didn't expect was that the Mongolian households on the opposite side liked Zhao Jiaren very much.
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