At the court meeting on this day, the officials handed over an interesting report.

In Nan'an County, Jian'an County, a sea master named He Man, every spring and autumn, when the weather is quiet and the wind is light, he looks towards the opposite side of the sea and finds that there is a smoke that stretches for thousands of miles, and he thinks that the other side of the sea should be inhabited.

So he told the county order, and the county order told the county guard, and the county guard reported to the imperial court.

A seamaster is a person who is familiar with the sea lanes and drives a sea ship.

There is no shortage of knowledgeable officials in the DPRK and China, and some people have never been to many places at all, but people have books, and from books, people can know a lot of things.

Su Wei said: "What this fisherman said in his mouth is about Yizhou, and it is recorded in the "Linhai Soil Chronicles" written by Shen Ying of the Eastern Wu clan that Wu Jun Sun Quan once sent Wei Wen and Zhuge Zhi to lead troops to land in Yizhou, and there are indeed Yimin on the island. ”

Jian'an County belongs to Fujian, Nan'an County is Quanzhou, Fujian, who else is separated from Fujian by a sea?

However, there is no sailor in Jian'an County, and the sailor is in Jiangdu, and if you want to cross the sea, Jiangdu needs to allocate large sea ships.

Yang Ming smiled at Su Wei and said, "Where has Fang Guogong seen "Linhai Tuzhi"? ”

The corners of Su Wei's mouth twitched, and he said honestly: "What is hidden in the minister's house is just a transcript." ”

Yang Ming looked at the secretary and supervisor Liu Luan again, and said, "Is there a secretary in the province?" ”

"No," Liu shook her head.

Su Wei hurriedly took the initiative to say: "The next minister will send someone to the secretary to copy it." ”

With eyesight, Yang Ming said with a smile: "Since Sun Quan has been there, I have no reason not to go, so I ordered the Jiangdu Sailor Division, allocated a boat for fifty searches, and handed it over to Zhou Zhongmu, the general of the Xiangyang Hussars, from Nan'an County, with the sea master He Man as a guide, to cross the sea to visit the vulgar. ”

Duan Wenzhen, the secretary of the Ministry of War, said: "Whether there is Yi Island on the other side of the sea is not yet known, and the country of Wu is so old that it seems that it is not enough to determine it based on some ancient books. The minister thought that it would be advisable to send three or five ships to the sea to visit. ”

You're not sure I'm sure, Yang Ming raised his hand and said: "There is a Wa country in Haidong, and of course there will be Yi people living in Hainan, and the ancient land of Yizhou is recorded in the Han Dynasty literature, and it won't be wrong, so it's decided." ”

In ancient times, all knowledge came from books, but books were monopolized by the big families, and almost all families had a large number of unique books, which was of great significance for the study of history.

At the moment of the Great Sui, how much you can know depends entirely on how many books you have at home, because other scholars can't see it, and you can't see it in the secretary's province.

So what people know and think is very limited.

If Su Wei hadn't watched "Chronicles of the Soil of the Sea", he wouldn't know.

And the knowledge that Yang Ming knows is a comprehensive and detailed explanation of all the literature and ancient books after the later generations have compiled and summarized them, so his understanding of this world is far beyond that of everyone here, but in terms of scheming and scheming, he may not be able to fight these people.

The people living in this place have been coming from the mainland one after another for thousands of years, and their genetic alleles are exactly the same as those in South China.

It is impossible for Yang Ming not to take down Liuqiu, no matter how much the price is, of course, there is no need for much price.

Zhou Zhongmu has been in Xiangyang, helping Yang Ming run the Xiangyang Water Division, this task was given to him, Yang Ming was relieved, and Zhou Zhongmu's father Zhou Luohu also died a few years ago and was sent back to his hometown in Jiujiang for burial.

Fifty boats, or about two thousand people, were out of the question, but the initial temptation was sufficient.

Comrade Yang Guang's efforts to attract investment in Zhangye have achieved tremendous results, and at present, countless caravans from the Western Regions have entered Daxing, and some have gone directly to Luoyang.

The goods that the Great Sui had always sold to the West were mainly grain, textiles, and handicrafts.

Among them, silk, hemp, tea, and porcelain are the big heads, and at present, there is a shortage of grain in Dasui, and grain is a strategic resource, so it will not be sold this time.

So what did the Great Sui buy from the West? Cattle, horses, sheep and animal husbandry products such as skin, wool, meat, and milk are basically complementary to each other, because the Great Sui is an agricultural civilization, and what agriculture lacks most is livestock that can replace labor.

Honglu Temple was the busiest during this time, because they had to apply for customs clearance documents for the Hu people who entered the country, so that they could go to various parts of the Great Sui to buy goods.

The main currency of the Hu people was gold and silver, so a large amount of gold and silver flowed into the Great Sui, and the Great Sui used the gold and silver to buy their things.

Because China is vast and rich in resources, the Great Sui is completely in trade surplus and earns iron.

Therefore, Yang Ming did not persuade Yang Ming at all during Yang Guang's western tour, because he knew the meaning of the western tour, which was different from repairing the canal, one was to spend money, and the other was to make money.

The two most powerful porcelains of the Great Sui are white glazed porcelain and green porcelain.

Green porcelain is actually celadon, and the Dasui celadon craftsmanship is not as good as the Tang Dynasty, but the white glazed porcelain has reached its peak.

There are a lot of these things Yang Ming, it is not an exaggeration to say that the fine white glaze burned in later generations is at this level, and it is not high.

Porcelain is a strange thing, many fine works in ancient times, later generations rely on developed technology can not be burned.

After the court meeting, Yang Ming summoned a person in the East Palace.

Taifu Temple Cheng He Chou, this person is the most powerful porcelain expert in the Great Sui.

"Where is the largest white kiln?" After Yang Ming asked the other party to sit down, he asked.

He Chou said: "Back to the prince, between Neiqiu County of Xiangguo County and Fang County of Zhao County, there are more than ten kilns, because there are a large number of clay, bauxite, water jade (quartz) and other minerals in the local area, so it is suitable for firing. ”

That is the piece of Wei Zheng's hometown, Yang Ming nodded and said: "You are a master of firing porcelain pottery, and now the white glaze process has reached the limit, have you ever thought about how to add color?" ”

White glazed porcelain, which belongs to plain porcelain, has no pattern and no color, but the maturity of white glazed porcelain technology is the most basic condition for painted porcelain.

In fact, the porcelain with color, the Wu Kingdom of the Three Kingdoms period, was burned out, and it belonged to the earliest color porcelain, but his porcelain was fired with black-brown pigments, the tone was dim and simple, the pattern was relatively messy, and it was not beautiful.

Therefore, Yang Ming hopes that He Chou can fire this kind of pottery like Tang Sancai, and even blue and white porcelain.

He Chou also wondered, why was the prince so curious about this kind of thing? Haven't you heard you like porcelain?

I only heard He Chou say: "Add color to the glaze, the craftsman probably knows, but the pigment is hard to find." ”

It is not difficult, Tang Sancai is copper, iron, cobalt, and blue and white porcelain, all of which are in Jiangxi.

The raw materials are easy to find, but the firing process needs countless failures before it can succeed once, so Yang Ming probably pointed him in a direction and asked him to find these pigments, and the rest depends on how thick he is, after all, Yang Ming does not know how to fire pottery at all.

If painted pottery and blue and white porcelain can be introduced, these two things will undoubtedly belong to the top luxury goods, which will boost the entire economy.

Because of the economy in the past, the most feared thing is that money is not circulating, and all the families of the Great Sui have a problem, they don't spend much money.

To be precise, there is a serious mismatch between the money spent and the money he has reserved.

You have a million savings, but your monthly expenses are only 2,000 yuan, no, you are hindering the circulation of money.

And Da Sui attaches great importance to funeral utensils, the top luxury jewelry, but also the top funeral goods.

The place where Tang Sancai was unearthed the most in later generations is in the north of Luoyang, why? Because it's all the graves of awesome people.

The largest celadon kiln in the Great Sui is in Huiji County in the south of the Yangtze River.

Xiangguo County in the north originally belonged to Xingzhou, so it was called Xingyao in history, and Huiji County was originally Yuezhou, called Yueyao, so there is the saying that the south is green and the north is white.

When socio-political and economic development reaches a bottleneck, there are only two ways to solve the problem.

One is called war, and the other is called scientific and technological innovation.

If the current Great Sui can successfully fire painted porcelain, it can be regarded as a kind of scientific and technological innovation, which will inject a strong impetus into the market, so as to drive economic development and avoid using war to solve problems.

Therefore, this kind of thing must be in the hands of the state, and the family should not want to mess with it.

So Yang Ming directly canonized He Chou as the inspector of Taifu Siqing, who was responsible for collecting raw materials and firing porcelain.

In this way, it can only delay social contradictions, but not cure them, and if you want to cure them, you have to clean up the family, but it takes a long process to clean up the family, and this process requires scientific and technological innovation to provide enough time.

So Yang Ming focused on engraving printing and papermaking, but these two had to be done slowly.

At present, books are a monopoly for the royal family and the family, if you dare to popularize it, the prince doesn't want to do it.

This thing can only wait until the family is weakened, and an absolutely totalitarian emperor will be the last grass that crushes the camel of the family.

At present, the popularization of schools does not work, let alone the printing of books.

Yang Rui and Yang Jin, for a month, don't want to study, because they have to sit to study, they can't sit.

Li Shimin and the eldest grandson Wuji naturally couldn't read it, and honestly took care of Yang Rui and Yang Jin.

And Yang Yinjiang is pregnant again, Pei Shuying also hopes that she will give birth to another one for Yang Ming, so in the following days, Yang Ming spent most of her time with Pei Shuying.

In November, Yang Guang returned to Beijing from Zhangye.

And several bigwigs who are in charge of reading the big Suo Maung Yue in various places are also returning to Beijing one after another.

This time, the imperial court brought back a huge amount of money from the local government, plus the taxes obtained from the trade of the Hu people in the Western Regions after entering the Great Sui, and the treasury was full in an instant.

Now no one mentions it anymore, and the money collected will be used to pay off Hebei's accounts, because Hebei has no accounts.

As soon as Gao Xi came back, he met Yang Ming.

"Bashu must set up another governor, this place is rich in products and rich in grain, but most of them are in the hands of local wealthy families, my inspection is extremely difficult, it can be said that it is blocked everywhere, and the results are not ideal."

Faced with Gao Xi's helpless sigh, Yang Ming agreed:

"Improving Bashu is not a day's work, in the final analysis, it is still necessary to avoid avoidance, so that local wealthy families can enter the office, in order to solve the problem from the root."

Gao Xi nodded and said: "Avoiding Bashu is a tradition that has existed since ancient times, and it is not easy to abolish it all at once, but I agree with His Highness's point of view, in the short term, you need to rely on the chief manager, and in the long term, you still need to return to Bashu." ”

"We will discuss this matter at the court meeting tomorrow," Yang Ming said.

Gao Xi nodded and said, "Yes!" I'll draw it out. ”

(End of chapter)