In the vast sea, the waves are rough.

A huge Shenzhou is riding the wind and waves, galloping northward, and thousands of ships are closely following behind it, and the momentum is extremely magnificent.

At the bow of the Shenzhou boat, Tong Guan stood against the wind, and his heart was extremely proud.

This time to the South Seas, Tong Guan can be said to be proud of the spring breeze, such a huge fleet, everywhere in the South Seas all the countries were shocked, all respectfully greeted the Great Song Dynasty Wangshi, which made Tong Guan receive great courtesy.

Tong Guan didn't expect that the land of the South Seas was so rich, there were countless treasures, and the people were not civilized, so they could exchange a large number of treasures for a small price, and every ship in the caravan on this trip was richly rewarded.

And Tong Guan also got the chart from the countries of the South China Sea, knowing that there are many countries in the Western Ocean, more prosperous and more prosperous, but unfortunately most of the goods accompanying the merchant ships have been sold out, and everyone is homesick after nearly a year, Tong Guan regretfully ordered to return, want to go to the Western Ocean, I am afraid that it will have to wait until the next time to go to sea.

"Come on, where is the fleet now?" Tong Guan asked.

"Father-in-law Tong, the Shenzhou fleet has crossed the Yangtze River, and it will arrive in Dengzhou in a few days!" An accompanying eunuch looked at the chart and reported.

"Order all ships, go full speed and reach Dengzhou as soon as possible!"

After crossing the Yangtze River, it was not far from Dengzhou, Tong Guan returned to his heart like an arrow, and immediately ordered.

Immediately, the Shenzhou flag was raised, and all the fleets immediately received the order, and they raised their full sails one after another, and under the urging of the strong sea breeze, they quickly headed towards Dengzhou.

After several days of sailing, soon the port of Dengzhou was in sight.

"Shenzhou has returned from the South Seas!"

The whole Dengzhou port suddenly a sensation, now Dengzhou port has changed greatly, Quanzhou as the northern starting point of the maritime Silk Road, ushered in a short period of prosperity, plus everyone knows that the Nanyang fleet is coming, businessmen from all over the world are gathered here, ready to enjoy this super wealth feast.

"The official decree ordered Gonggong Tong to lead a thousand ships to the Bohai Sea and threaten Nanjing, Liao State!"

However, just as the fleet was about to dock, a ship carrying a messenger from the imperial court boarded the Shenzhou, completely disrupting the plan.

"What, let me wait to continue to go north to threaten Nanjing, Liao State?" Tong Guan couldn't help but be shocked, looking at the will in his hand in disbelief.

The messenger said solemnly: "Now that the two countries of Liaoxia have jointly sent troops to the Great Song Dynasty, the Great Song Dynasty is in danger, and among the armies, only the naval army has the potential to win. to deter the Liao State. ”

Tong Guan's face suddenly turned solemn and said: "Please also go back to the official's house, the Liao State dares to send troops to the Great Song Dynasty, and the three capitals of the Liao State will never have peace in the future!" ”

After the messenger retreated, Tong Guan said with a solemn face: "Order the ships to stop docking at Dengzhou Port, turn around the ships, and threaten Nanjing, Liao State." ”

Soon, the ships got the order, not only sluggish, immediately obeyed the order to advance, now Tong Guan went to sea, the ships are making a lot of money, if you offend Tong Guan, I am afraid that the financial route will be completely cut off, not to mention that now it is to contribute to the country, if you escape, I am afraid that even the domestic business will be greatly affected.

At that moment, the ships turned their bows one after another and headed towards Nanjing, Liaoguo, leaving the merchants on the shore of Quanzhou to sigh with joy.

From Dengzhou to Nanjing, not far from Liao, after a day and a night of sailing, the mighty ships stopped densely at the mouth of the Haihe River, and immediately shook the entire Nanjing Road.

"What, the Song Army's sailors appeared off the coast of Nanjing?"

When Liao Emperor Yelu Hongji got the news of Tong Guan's fleet, he couldn't help but suddenly rise.

The Liao State is known for its cavalry shooting, and the Liao army on land thinks that it is invincible in the world, although he knows that the time to destroy the Song Dynasty has not yet come, but if the Great Song Dynasty does not pay the price, he will never retreat.

Of course, if there was a chance, he didn't mind Song Guo, but he didn't expect that Song Guo not only had a tough attitude and rejected Liao's conditions, but instead sent sailors to threaten Liao.

"The little sailor also dares to threaten the Liao State?" Yelu Yanxi snorted angrily.

Yelu Yanxi had already studied the strength of the Great Song Dynasty, the strongest in the Great Song Dynasty was the infantry, followed by the cavalry, as for the naval army, there was no need to worry at all, he did not believe that the little-known naval army could threaten the Liao State.

"Emperor Qi's grandson, the Song army has stopped thousands of ships outside the Haihe River, and the number of troops is probably more than tens of thousands." The official who came to report said with a bitter face, when he saw the fleet of the Great Song Dynasty stopped in the sea outside the Great Song Dynasty, he was also shocked in his heart.

"Thousands of ships!"

"Tens of thousands of troops!"

The grandfather and grandson couldn't help but be shocked and exclaimed.

In the Liao State, there are not so many sailors in the Great Song Dynasty, could it be that the Great Song Dynasty is a secret weapon to deal with the Liao State?

"Your Majesty, the ministers dare not deceive, and now thousands of ships are outside the mouth of the Haihe River, and Your Majesty can witness it with your own eyes." The official said with a shocked face.

At that moment, Yelu Hongji could no longer sit still, and despite his old age, he immediately rode to the sea.

Nanjing, Liao, was not far from the sea, and when Yelu Hongji quickly stepped up and soon arrived at the shore of the Bohai Sea, he couldn't help but widen his eyes when he saw the dense fleet on the sea stopped outside the Haihe River.

"When did the Great Song form such a large fleet?" Yeluhonki was incredulous.

Yelu Yanxi, who followed closely, was also shocked in his heart, so many warships, only tens of thousands of horses are already few, even if each ship has a hundred people, it is enough for 100,000 soldiers, this is a force that is enough to turn the tide of the war.

"If it is not expected by my granddaughter, these fleets should be the fleets of the Great Song Maritime Silk Road." Suddenly, Yelu Nanyin's voice sounded behind him.

She had just returned from the Western Regions, and when she heard that the Liao and Song Dynasty were about to fight, she immediately rushed back, and happened to meet Yelu Hongji heading to the Bohai Sea, so she followed.

When she saw the merchant ships of the Maritime Silk Road, she couldn't help but be shocked, and she controlled the Silk Road on the road to make millions of dollars every year.

However, the overland Silk Road requires camel caravan transportation, and the carrying capacity is very small, and a ship on the Maritime Silk Road is almost equivalent to several large caravans, and there are thousands of such ships, what kind of caravan is this?

"The fleet of the Maritime Silk Road?" Yelu Hongji breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's just a group of merchant ships, and the Great Song Dynasty dares to scare my Liao Kingdom." Yelu Yanxi's face couldn't hold back.

Just now, he was almost shocked by the thousands of ships, and now he was not only a little displeased.

Yelu Nanyin shook his head and said: "Brother Huang should not despise the caravan, sometimes the caravan is not worse than the soldiers, my sister runs the Silk Road, but she knows a lot about the Silk Road caravan in the Western Regions, if the Silk Road caravan does not have strong force, it will not be able to protect its own property at all, and sometimes, when the powerful caravan encounters a small caravan, it will become a robber and plunder it." ”

The land Silk Road is like this, and the maritime Silk Road is probably no exception, if the huge fleet does not have a strong force, so much huge wealth, I am afraid it will only become someone else's wedding dress.

Yelu Yanxi's face sank, and in this way, these merchant ships all had good combat effectiveness.

"And today, these fleets can be shipbuilders, and I am afraid that they will be full of soldiers another day, and these fleets are haunted at sea, and there is no water division in Liao to restrain them, and today the Great Song Dynasty can threaten Nanjing, and if you go north, you can threaten Zhongjing and Tokyo!" Yelu Nanyin frowned.

Yelu Hongji's face suddenly changed greatly, Nanjing Road, Zhongjing Road, and Tokyo Road are the essence of the Liao State surrounding the Bohai Sea, and it has always been located in the hinterland of the Liao State, and it is safe.

Now that the Great Song Dynasty Navy is out, the strength it shows is enough to threaten the three capitals of the Liao State.

"Da Song!"

Yelu Hongji was suddenly in a dilemma.

If the two countries are at war at this moment, it is still unknown whether the Liao State can be defeated, but now the Great Song Dynasty Navy can easily attack the hinterland of the Liao State, which can't help but make him restless.

Yelu Yanxi gritted his teeth and said: "Grandfather Huang, don't be deceived by the Great Song Dynasty, even if these ships can be fully loaded with soldiers and no cavalry, they are destined to only attack the seaside of the Liao Kingdom, and the three capitals of the Liao Kingdom are all guarded by strong cities, and they are not afraid of the Great Song Dynasty sailors at all." ”

Yelu Nanyin shook his head and said: "It is naturally the cavalry and infantry that really decide the battle situation, but when the two armies are holding each other, the naval army can play an unexpected role, and there are only a thousand days to be a thief, how can there be a thief the day before yesterday, the Bohai sponge stretches for hundreds of miles, how can the Liao State guard against the sneak attack of the Great Song Dynasty Naval Division." ”

Yelu Yanxi suddenly fell silent, and the reason why he sent troops to the Great Song Dynasty was that the Great Song Dynasty opened up the Maritime Silk Road and violated the covenant.

Just yesterday, he was still in high spirits, imagining that he wanted to find an opportunity to destroy the Great Song Dynasty in a battle, or at least the Great Song Dynasty would bleed hemorrhage.

Now the Great Song Dynasty directly sailed the sea fleet to the sea off Nanjing in the Liao State, but he was helpless against it.

The Great Liao is indeed stronger than the Great Song Dynasty, and now the Great Song Dynasty has the earth-shattering thunder and occupies the advantage of the city, and the Liao State does not have many chances of winning.

If you add the threat of the sailors of the Great Song Dynasty, the balance of victory in this battle may have tilted in favor of the Great Song Dynasty, but let the Liao State stop the army, I am afraid that both the grandfather and grandson will have a dull face.

"Come on, send a boat to the Great Song Dynasty Shenzhou and ask Tong Guan why he is innocent of Liao!" Yelu Hongji said in a loud voice.

At that moment, a small boat was dispatched and rowed towards the Great Song fleet.

Seeing the small ships of the Liao Kingdom petite in front of the huge Shenzhou, Yelu Hongji couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.

The fleet was far away, and Yelu Hongji couldn't feel the gap, and now compared with the ships of the Liao State, Yelu Hongji suddenly realized the strength of the Great Song Dynasty sailors.

Soon, the small boat of the Liao Kingdom returned, and to his surprise, there was a eunuch on board.

"Our family Tong Guan has seen His Majesty the Liao Kingdom." Tong Guan got off the boat, came to Yelu Hongji and bowed.

"Tong Guan!" Yelu Yanxi couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly, he naturally knew that Tong Guan was a close attendant of the Great Song Dynasty officials, and he was also the chief envoy to overseas countries, shouldering the heavy responsibility of opening up the Maritime Silk Road.

"I didn't expect that Gonggong Tong, who was crisscrossing the South Seas, would dare to come to see me, you don't want to follow Zhang Qian's example and Su Wu to stay in Liao." Yelu Hongji looked at Tong Guan who came alone, and couldn't help sneering.

When Zhang Qian sent an envoy to the Western Regions and opened up the land Silk Road, and Tong Guan was ordered to open up the maritime Silk Road, he didn't mind leaving Tong Guan in Liao.

"It's just a pity that Gonggong Tong is a eunuch, otherwise I would definitely give you a beautiful woman and let you re-follow the path of Zhang Qian and Su Wu."

Tong Guan said unhurriedly when he heard this: "Emperor Liao said that he laughed, our family is a eunuch, how can we be with Zhang Qian and Su Wu, and how can we insult Your Majesty's hands, our family came today, but for the peace of Song and Liao." ”

"Peace?" Yelu Yanxi snorted angrily, "How can the soldiers of the Liao State Navy suppress the border, how can they be peaceful. ”

For a long time, the Liao State has been high up, threatening to force other countries to submit, and this time Tong Guan led the Great Song Dynasty sailors across the sea off Nanjing in the Liao State, making the Liao State feel like a man's back and a fish in the throat.

Tong Guan was surprised and said: "Didn't the two of Liao ask for money, our family is here today to send money to Liao, these ships are all returning from the South Seas, and the wealth is no less than tens of millions." ”

"Ten thousand!"

Suddenly, the pair looked at the ships in the open sea, and their eyes were full of greed.

"Could it be that the Great Song official family agreed to Liao's proposal?" Yelu Yanxi was pleasantly surprised.

He didn't expect that the seemingly tough Great Song official family would be so weak, and in order to take care of his tough reputation, he secretly sent the money of Haimao.

Tong Guan shook his head and said: "Of course not, the official family once swore that the Great Song Dynasty never spoke arrogantly, but the official family provided millions of guan for the Liao State to buy and sell the goods of the Liao State." ”

After Tong Guan finished speaking, he handed Yelu Hongji a long order! This is when the Chang'an messenger gave the order, it was handed over to Tong Guan.

Yelu Hongji looked at the long order, and couldn't help but feel stunned, if it was usually an order worth millions of yuan, it would definitely make the Liao country ecstatic.

However, in the face of the tens of millions of huge fortunes floating on the sea, it was obviously in front of him, but the Liao State was out of sight, which made Yelu Hongji how could he be willing.

Yelu Yanxi frowned, what he wanted was the annual coin of two million guan per year in the Great Song Dynasty, not the order of one million guan, if the Liao State should come down, not only would the income of this trip be greatly reduced, but also the purpose of weakening the Great Song Dynasty would not be achieved.

The grandfather and grandson glanced at each other, looked at Tong Guan, and then looked at the floating fleet not far away, and a fierceness couldn't help but swell up in their hearts.

Tong Guan naturally knew his situation, and said with a smile at the moment: "Emperor Liao knows that there is an unwritten rule on the sea, that is, once it is the agreed time to sail the ship, if someone does not board the ship, the fleet will not wait for him, even our family, let alone take the initiative to rescue, even our family." ”

"Besides, our family is just a eunuch, the money and goods of these thousands of ships are not our family, they naturally will not use their own money to rescue our family, but if there is no restraint from our family, I am afraid that they will be completely out of control and loot everywhere, Your Majesty may not know, as long as these maritime merchants have enough interests, even if they take a big risk, they are not afraid."

To Yelu Hongji's surprise, Tong Guan was not only not afraid, but also threatened the Liao State in turn.

"Maritime merchants can become pirates!" Yelu Nanyin sighed.

"What Princess Yelu said is very true!" Tong Guan suddenly felt that he met a bosom friend.

One of them was in charge of the land Silk Road, and the other opened up the maritime Silk Road, although the routes were different, but the essence of the Silk Road has not changed.

(End of chapter)