Liu Ke and Fu Xuance glanced at each other.

People should have the right to pursue free trade.

If you are not free in Luzon, then help you to be free.

"It's been four months, it's too hot in Luzon."

"Before June, I will return to Qiongzhou."

"Look at the first imperial examination in the Zhaowu period, what talents can be brought to the imperial court."

"It just so happens that after the palace tried, it was almost the autumn harvest."

"Kankan can also be regarded as a cultivator for two years, and it's time to continue beating the Donghu people."

Liu Ke thought about it a little.

In the first year of Zhaowu, he recovered Qiongzhou and regained the sovereignty of Yizhou, and at the end of the first year and the beginning of the second year, he recovered Jiaozhou.

In the first half of the second year of Zhaowu, the 200,000-strong army of the Brushing Hammer and the Qiyan Department recovered Gaozhou at the speed of light.

After that, he began to cultivate life and recuperate, and conducted ecological investigations.

It is now the early spring of the third year of Zhaowu.

In fact, the speed is already very fast, that is, turning north and south, cruising out to sea, it really takes a lot of time on the road.

It can be said that since he ascended the throne, the entire Han court has not slacked off for a day in order to have such efficiency.

is also thanks to the rear, Xiao Yuanchang, who is not famous.

If it goes well, Zhaowu will get Luzon in the middle of the third year, get a large amount of money and grain, and then loot the gold mines in Luzon.

Coupled with last year's grain production and this year's grain production, counting the stocks, it is almost enough for the Northern Expedition for a while.

As for where it can hit, it's still a little uncertain.

You have to be optimistic about whether the eldest child will give it or not.

Whether it is to use Jiangdong's money and grain to secretly supply the Han army, or to let it be one of the eight tribes of Donghu and secretly do things, it can be of great help.

"It's still slow."

Money and food are available, but it takes time to raise food and grass, dispatch troops and horses, and transmit information.

"The official road is still not fast enough, it would be nice to have a railway or something."

Liu Ke thought for a while.

He knew the thoughts of the family, and he couldn't wait to treat him, the emperor, as a mascot.

Take a rope every day and tie it to the boat.

If the rope was long enough, they would have to lead it from the capital to the sea.

Although this idea is a bit whimsical.

But it gave Liu Ke some inspiration.

"It's hard to operate at sea, and when the rope falls into the sea, it's easy to loosen and break."

"What if it's on land?"

Liu Ke feels that there is a certain room for operation.

Set up a post station or something like that, connect ropes to various important places, and bury them in the ground.

Then bolt the donkey cart.

This rope is equivalent to becoming a track, and the donkey cart has become a high-speed rail.

All in all, the speed is definitely going to increase dramatically.

And it is well known that the endurance of donkeys is better than that of horses.

It is not clear whether it will be possible to transport bulk cargo.

At least in terms of intelligence transfer, it will definitely be faster.

He was in Gaozhou, dealing with Qiyan Silie, Qiyan Daxian and others, in fact, it was an intelligence war and occupied an intelligence advantage.

"It's just that it's quite abstract to tie a rope all day long."

"You can consider it, but we have to see if we can find any alternatives."

Liu Ke let go of his thoughts that he didn't know where to fly, and turned to look at the lively boat.

Get Luzon done first, and then think about the rest of the matter.

"Set up a banquet, I want to entertain Prigo, and the Luzon soldiers under him."

Although he went all the way to Nanyang and did not find the body of the first emperor, it is now the third year of Zhaowu, and it can be determined that the first emperor is dead.

But the emperor was not there, and no one dared to hold a banquet.

Therefore, it was not until Liu Ke returned to the port that everyone began to prepare.

"You don't have to be restrained, just let go."

Liu Ke sat at the top, and he had changed from his regular clothes to a dragon robe, looking solemn and mighty.

The family is listed at the bottom.

Although they heard Prigo's words, King Rosher was very unhappy about the restrictions on commerce.

But he still looked solemn and respectful, nodding slightly from time to time to show respect to the emperor.

Your limit is a limit, but we can force it to break it!

Many people have some understanding in their hearts about why the Han sailors were hired by them and came here from afar.

Besides, if the emperor used troops against Luzon for no reason, he would owe the reputation of the Han Dynasty and lose the face of the court.

What does it have to do with them?

If only they had money to earn!

Your emperor wants an ecological survey, asks them to pay more taxes, and wants to use the economic benefits brought by the opening of the sea to make up for it, so there will always be bleeding, right?

Prigo took the soldiers and invited them to the banquet.

It can be seen that these two thousand Luzon soldiers are all elite.

All of them have a steady pace and a straight posture.

At the same time, he was neither humble nor arrogant, and when he walked in front of Liu Ke, he would bend down and perform the Luzon salute.

The two sides conducted in-depth exchanges on actively promoting cultural exchanges and trade and maintaining friendly cooperation with neighboring countries.

Those children of the family are really geniuses in communication.

There is a hand in receiving people and things.

Especially in places like Luzon, where the etiquette system is not very serious.

The movements of the Han people, the careful toasting and chopsticks, all made this group of Luzon turtles quite surprised.

It's a little cumbersome.

But it's forced!

And the other party does this, which can really make them feel what it means to "treat each other with courtesy"!

Fu Xuance accompanies Prigo.

First, in order to show the Han Dynasty's respect for Luzon, you are a Luzon minister, and on our side, we will also arrange a Han minister to accompany you.

The second is to practice the local dialect of Luzon.

After all, he still has some work to do.

Luzon closed the door, how could the big man get in?

Of course, it was their own family members who made a fuss and accidentally set fire to the house.

The big man can justify his name and kick the door open to put out the fire.

It doesn't matter who the owner of the house will become.

Prigo was a little curious about the culture of the Han Dynasty, especially when he saw that there were chickens on the ships, and he was even more puzzled, so he asked:

"Master Fu, why do you still raise chickens on your ship?"

"Chickens?"

Fu Xuance raised his glass and took a sip and said:

"Today, Your Majesty's name is a pheasant, and we raise chickens to keep Your Majesty in our hearts."

"And this chicken is quite fun."

"On the boat I was on, there was an old hen with a litter of chicks."

"For a month, I was playing with it in my hand, and the old hen chased me and pecked my hand."

"When I think about it now, I feel a little stinging in my hand."

"But the old hen didn't know how to die."

He Hong on the side heard it and glanced at Fu Xuance:

"It's all in your belly, and you don't know how you died?"

This is embezzling public property, harming the public and fattening the private, Fu Xuance really deserves to die!

"Huh."

Fu Xuance smiled, not as knowledgeable as He Hong, but took a roast chicken and said to Prigo:

"Would you like one?"

Prigo was stunned, he only understood a little bit of Chinese, and when he finished speaking, he only listened to the general situation.

It seems to invite him to eat chicken?

Prigo was about to reach out and take it, but he didn't want Fu Xuance to take it back again, and took a bite with lightning speed:

"It seems that you Luzon people don't like to eat chicken very much."

"Then I'll do it for you."

Fu Xuance proved his loyalty to the emperor by his deeds.

Directly put the chicken in the stomach and protected it.

"No, it's not."

Prigo was an honest man, and hurriedly spoke in that unfamiliar Chinese dialect and explained:

"Actually, we Luzon people also eat chicken."

"There should be vendors selling live chickens in the port."

As a chef, from a professional point of view, Fu Xuance's roast chicken should taste good.

Except for the lack of spices, it should be delicious, and he really wants to taste it.

Seeing that Prigo wanted to eat chicken, He Hong hurriedly stopped him and handed him a string in his hand:

"Eat this, this is delicious!"

"Roasted corn, this crop, we found it in Yizhou."

"From a far away place in the east, I came across the ocean, and now I have planted some in Jiaozhou, which is very rare!"

Prigo watched He Hong dance for a while, probably understood the meaning, looked at the string of yellow, orange and orange things, and said:

"I've seen people bring this crop on Bomud Island, and it's really delicious."

It's just abstract.

The fruit of this thing is like a thick rod.

Grilled to eat, also directly put on, the whole roast.

Who stepped on the horse and skewered them one by one and then roasted them??

A piece of corn can roast forty or fifty skewers for him!

Hiss.

Even Liu Ke, who came over and was ready to make some fuss on Prigo, was frightened by He Hong's slamming of the door.

Grandet was ashamed of himself.

If you don't want to fight Sichuan and Shu, the Chengdu county guard will not dare to open the door and surrender.

If you put it on Corn Shaw, even if there is only corn left in his family's estate, you won't lose it at all!

Liu Ke asked Fu Xuance to get some normal skewers for Prigo, and then said like a homely meal:

"I heard that you are a cook?"

Prigo learned from the appearance of those big families, and arched his hand:

"Yes, my background is not good, which makes Your Majesty laugh."

His appearance is a little uncomfortable, and I don't know if it's because he is not used to etiquette, or because he has low self-esteem because of his background.

"Isn't it bad to be a chef?"

Liu Ke snatched He Hong's corn kernel skewers and said while eating:

"Yi Yin is a cook, but he helped Shang Tang unify the country, and helped Taijia Zhongxing Dashang, and the world respects him as a sage."

"The most famous sentence of his people is that governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh."

"This"

The emperor used the local Luzon dialect, and Prigo had no communication barrier and could hear it clearly.

Cook, can you unify the country, and can you still prosper a country?

"Governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh?"

Prigo muttered repeatedly.

Most of the Han people who came to Luzon under his command were not from good backgrounds.

How do you know these allusions?

Unexpectedly, Han culture is so broad and profound.

Prigo is a motivated man, listening to this allusion, he is willing to be hungry and thirsty for knowledge:

"The sage of the Han Dynasty is still a chef?"

Fu Xuance on the side used the stumbling Luzon dialect and said:

"In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a cook named Yi Ya."

"Duke Qi Huan was the head of the overlord in the Spring and Autumn Period, and he was "the princes of Jiuhe, one Kuang world", with a prominent reputation, and Yi Ya won the trust of Duke Qi Huan. ”

"But in his later years, he was mediocre, eating, drinking, and doing everything."

"Qi Huan Gong is tired of eating the delicacies of the mountains and the sea, and he actually wants to taste the flesh of babies whimsically."

"Yi Ya doesn't want to do it, but if he doesn't do it, he is disloyal, and he will be killed at any time."

"But if you do it, it will be unreasonable to go to find someone else's baby."

"In desperation, Yi Ya had no choice but to settle down and kill his son."

Prigo was stunned, sighed slightly, and admired a little:

"This Yi Ya can also be regarded as a sage, that is, he is unwilling to do things that hurt heaven and reason, and he is loyal to the monarch."

He Hong couldn't understand Fu Xuance's half-baked Luzon dialect, but he listened to the word Yiya.

Names can only be transliterated.

He looked at Prigo's slightly admiring expression again, and only felt strange.

He Hong is not unlearned, his background is here, some history books, or read some.

Yi Ya is a traitor, he voted for the monarch's favor, not to mention cooking his son, and starved the monarch to death.

Fu Xuance smiled and continued:

"At the same time, in the Spring and Autumn Period, there is also a famous chef of Wu State, Taihe Gong."

"Taihe Gong is proficient in making aquatic dishes, especially famous for roasted fish, and is especially loved by Wu Wangji."

"There is a chivalrous man, so he worshiped Taihe Gong as a teacher on the shore of Taihu Lake, learned to be a chef, studied art for more than three months, and finally learned the craft of burning fish."

Prigo nodded repeatedly:

"This is also a virtuous man."

"With a unique skill, you don't hide your selfishness."

He admires Taihe Gong very much, and if the chef has a famous dish, he will hide it.

is worthy of being a big man, in history, there are such big-minded people.

He Hong was inexplicable again.

It seems that Zhuzhu used the skill of Taihe Gong to directly assassinate Wu Wang Ji, right?

These allusions are quite dangerous.

Liu Ke understood what Fu Xuance meant.

It is intended to imperceptibly influence Prigo.

Should I say it or not, there are really many rebellious cooks in history.

For example, the chef Lan Jing chopped Gao Cheng into meat sauce, so that he could no longer have a private meeting with Yuan Shanjian.

There is also a cool king Zhang Zuo, who accepts the mother, wife, and daughter of his half-brother as ordered.

got Meng De's illness and didn't have Meng De's life, and when he ran away, he was killed by the cook Xu Hei.

Emperor Yelujing of Liao, one day was hungry and asked the cook to cook.

The cook Xingu couldn't make it without ingredients, and for fear of reprisals, he stabbed Yelu Jing to death.

There is also Jiaqing, who was assassinated by Xu De, a cook who had no hope of life, and the history books record it in detail.

It's a pity that this time the cook was not as fierce as the ancestors, and the assassination failed.

These few people have the destiny of the Far Cook, and they may not be able to make a special chef who can assassinate the king with one vote.

After some talking, Fu Xuance's Luzon dialect became much more proficient.

Even Liu Ke was quite surprised.

This kid does have a hand in diplomacy.

With this language talent, others can't learn it.

When the wine was half-drunk, Liu Ke suddenly asked someone to send a box of silk.

The atmosphere of the banquet suddenly changed a little.

The children of the family all looked at it as if they were nothing.

The atmosphere has become more subtle.

The emperor personally bribed!

In other words, this is also a way.

After all, the king of Roshe was far away in Batangas, and the whip was beyond his reach.

How to buy and sell, how much the Han people can sell, and what the Luzon people can buy, Prigo is in charge of it.

If Prigo had turned a blind eye and fooled King Rosher with them, the matter would have passed.

Even He Hong's gaze fell on Prigo.

He's greedy, why did he give that box of silk to a Luzon turtle? ?

Prigo immediately sobered up a little.

Sweat began to break out on the door of the head.

Unexpectedly, the Han people did not hide it, and the means of bribing and buying people's hearts would be so open.

A box of silk, which in the minds of the Luzon people was equivalent to gold, was stuffed like this.

This is outrageous, isn't it?

But it's all here, and a realistic choice is in front of him.

Should I want this silk?

Prigo instinctively sensed that something was wrong.

Whether he accepts it or not, this behavior of the Han people has been seen by everyone.

Especially during the banquet, there were also the Luzon soldiers he carried.

The news will inevitably reach back to Batangas.

He naturally trusted King Roshe.

King Rosher would not doubt him because of this.

But what about the other courtiers?

Originally, because King Roshe overrode public opinion, let a cook lead the army and shoulder the heavy responsibility, and those who were disgruntled may not do something about it.

Prigo groaned.

He still took the heavy box away.

He even opened the box and carefully pondered the quality of the silk.

See that he took a bribe.

In an instant.

The atmosphere became a harmonious one.

The children of the Han family smiled.

It turns out that the Luzon people can't withstand the money offensive!

They're good at it!

In the Han Dynasty, there was the imperial court, and there were retro embroidered clothes to supervise them, and they all had some restraint.

But in this Luzon

I must let you have a good look, what is the yang and the yin, running and dripping, and fishing in troubled waters!

Today you collect one box of silk, tomorrow you will have to spit out ten boxes of gold!

The smile on Fu Xuance's face was also much more sincere, and he hurriedly said:

"Come, eat chicken...... Eat chicken! ”

And He Hong forcibly turned his head and pouted.

But he squinted at it again, staring directly at the silk in the box.

Although he also knows the mystery, don't say that a box of silk makes ten boxes of gold, and he is reluctant to ask him to make a box.

At this time, Prigo had already closed the box.

"Do you have pen and paper?"

Luzon has its own culture and its own writing.

It was improved from the ancient script called Baibain characters, and now because Luzon came from Bo Ni Island, it is called Bo Ni characters.

Immediately, someone brought pen and paper.

Prigo took the pen and paper, and suddenly paused in his hand.

Dahan, it is indeed developed.

This pen and paper is much better than the pen and paper in Luzon.

Even if the caravans of the Han people just sold paper and pencils, they could earn a lot of gold.

He didn't have a big picture, and he didn't think as far as King Rosher thought.

But I also know that if the Han caravan makes money, Luzon's own merchants will make less money.

But now is not the time to think about that.

Prigo pushed the chopsticks in front of him.

Arrange the paper.

After a little hesitation, he wrote a line of incomprehensible handwriting.

While writing, he explained in that unfamiliar Chinese dialect:

"Prigo, the voter, borrowed a box of silk from Dahan, and paid back the ...... at a monthly interest rate until December."

It turned out to be an IOU.

And it is clearly written in black and white.

Prigo did not accept bribes, but borrowed a box of silk from Dahan.

for one year.

After a year, it will be paid off in one lump sum with interest.

According to the situation of Chinese-style notes, he signed and drew a charge.

Prigo placed the IOU on the box.

One board and one eye, honestly:

"Since it is a loan, it is natural to leave a voucher, please Your Majesty take it."

He Hong was already dumbfounded, this kid doesn't eat oil and salt, and he doesn't take bribes?

Fu Xuance also frowned.

Liu Ke was not surprised, since King Luo She dared to send Prigo, it would definitely not be so easy to solve.

"The people of Luzon also know etiquette."

Prigo smiled again and continued to eat.

He Hong, this dog thing, handed him corn kernels from time to time, don't take it, it's rude, take it, delay time, and can't eat enough.

Many children of the family also looked at each other.

It's a bit difficult to do business in Luzon.

Long.

Prigo ate and drank well, took the Luzon soldiers with him, and left.

Fu Xuance looked at the IOU and said:

"Your Majesty, it looks like it's going to take some time."

Liu Ke smiled slightly and waved his hand:

"Let those sons of the family first do some business according to the terms of King Narosher, and have more contact with the Luzonians."

"It's good to learn Luzon."

"In a few months, some of them will be busy."

He Hong hurriedly sniffed Fu Xuance secretly:

"Your Majesty already has a plan to open the gates of Luzon?"

Fu Xuance said with a smile:

"Treat, dinner."

The seeds have been planted, and the rest, one step at a time, can be done.

"Huh?"

Please?

I didn't earn a lot of money, and I spent it out, did you specifically come to promote the economic development of Luzon?

(End of chapter)