Tian Yunlai is full of pride, he will definitely leave his name in history!
He will definitely live up to the great trust of the Marquis!
He clearly knew where Fang Jun's ambition lay. The Marquis had already sketched out the route from the Tang Dynasty to the east many times in front of him. There was a vast ocean there!
But the Marquis also said that there are countless dangers there, and if you set foot there, you will have a narrow escape from death. But behind the danger, there is a whole new world, a land that has never been seen before.
There, there is the national destiny of the Han people for a thousand years...
National destiny? !
Even when Tian Yunlai was dreaming, he never dreamed that one day he would be related to the word "national destiny". Will the fate of the country for a thousand years be in your own hands?
That means dying in that vast ocean, so what's the harm?
I, Tian Yun, came here because I put my life and death at risk for the national destiny of the Han people the year before last. In the words of the Marquis, no matter success or failure, I will be the hero of this nation...
Tian Yunlai resolutely boarded the ship and began his voyage in preparation for crossing the ocean in the future.
Fang Jun stood on the shore, staring at the white sails in the distance gradually disappearing between the sky and the sea, feeling extremely proud in his heart!
As long as we can reach the Americas in the future, as long as we can have high-yielding grains such as corn and sweet potatoes, as long as we can obtain Champa rice, then the Han population will usher in a super explosion, and the Han people's country will become a super super power that will stun the whole world. Big country!
Not to mention the Wuhu chaos in China, not to mention the Mongolians going south, not to mention the Eight Banners entering the country, every disaster that nearly annihilated the Han nation has a unique historical background, and it is definitely not just a few strokes in the history books...
Corrupt officials exist in any era, and natural disasters will never end. This is not the ultimate reason for the collapse of dynasties.
The Chinese nation has been bound to that piece of land by Confucianism for so long that it has long forgotten to forge ahead and expand its territory. It only knows how to live a small life of making progress while guarding the one-third of an acre of land under its feet. , the ruling class uses all its ingenuity and wisdom to deal with its own people, but does not think about how to deal with threats from alien races...
"Preferring friendship to friends, not domestic slaves" is actually not just the ignorance of the Qing Dynasty. The rulers of any dynasty have this stubborn idea, "to fight against foreign countries, we must first settle the domestic affairs", and crazily exploit the people internally. Externally, it only defends but does not attack, and is content with the status quo.
As for the innate disadvantages of farming peoples and nomadic peoples, it is just self-deception. It is true that such a disadvantage does exist in fact, but every ruler rejoices in the decline of the nomads, and then sings and dances in the country to live in luxury and lust. Isn't this a fact?
This kind of thinking must be reversed, so that the elite of the Tang Dynasty can raise their heads, open their eyes, and see that there are too many things in this prosperous world worth fighting for and grabbing. One-third of an acre is actually too insignificant. The world outside is vast, people are stupid, and there is a lot of money...
We must release this greedy desire and desire, stare at this vast world with blood-red eyes, and don't talk about benevolence, justice, morality and harmony when facing foreign countries, secretly wishing to destroy the marrow of our compatriots. Squeeze them all dry!
If you are capable, you go out to fight and rob, and the entire Tang Dynasty will support you instead of just fighting in a nest!
Don't talk about a state of etiquette, and don't talk about peaceful coexistence. Only the weak will use such moral reasons to flaunt themselves and accuse their enemies. When the country is strong enough, there is no need for peace!
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The behavior of Linyi residents was very interesting regarding this huge fleet that suddenly appeared in the harbor.
At the beginning, I was panicking. I could see the few fishing boats in the harbor swaying their oars like crazy and escaping to the shore. Then they rushed to the shore to greet their friends and fled.
We can't run away. This fleet is too huge. Look at the sails and masts that cover the sky. It's so scary!
But when someone recognized that this was a Han fleet, the panic disappeared.
The fishing boats that had fled in embarrassment before went into the sea here one after another, swaying their oars and swaggering into the sea to fish. When they passed the naval warships, they would say hello, and they would say hello in Chinese!
What's more, they ran home and brought bamboo baskets, large and small, and sold them to the soldiers in small boats...
Where does this mean entering other countries?
It’s almost the same as going home!
Fang Jun asked Liu Rengui next to him: "Didn't you say that since the founding of Linyi, you have been fighting and killing the Han people for hundreds of years? Why don't you look like them?"
Liu Rengui scratched his head, he was also confused.
He picked out one of the captured guides who looked smart and asked him.
The Linyi people were not too scared and said with a smile: "What's so strange about this? War is the king's business, what does it have to do with us ordinary people. During the Sui Dynasty, the Han army marched directly to Sanghalpura. King Fan Fanzhi frightened He had to escape overnight. Later, he sent an envoy to pay tribute and apologize to the Sui emperor, and the army retreated to Jiaozhou in the north. The current king Fan Touli is the son of Fan Fanzhi. The first thing he did when he took office was to send an envoy to the Sui emperor. Paying tribute, the Sui Dynasty fell and became the Tang Dynasty... We Linyi people learn Chinese characters and speak Chinese, and are actually no different from the Han people. Even if the two countries are at war, the fighting will rarely harm the common people. And we Linyi only knows how to farm but not do business. All the people who come here to do business are Han people. Sanghabula, fifty miles to the north, is called Dazhanhaikou by you Han people, and it is also called Linyipu. Go and take a look. , most of the merchant ships in the bay are Han Chinese. Han people are the most reasonable in doing business. High prices and low prices are negotiated face to face and never repeated. Everyone agrees to take advantage of losses and never bully others. However, Those bad businessmen are no good. They want to take advantage after they have taken advantage of them, and even more shamelessly refuse to admit their losses after they have suffered losses. They are the most annoying!"
Yo ho! Fang Jun long saw that Lin Yi at this time had such a relationship with the Han Dynasty in the Central Plains, which was completely different from the white-eyed wolf raised by rice and white flour in later generations.
This person spoke clearly and articulately, which was very unusual.
After asking, I found out that this person's surname was Ruan, and his name was Ruan Xianghan, a name that sounded like a dependent country...
The Ruan family has been doing business for generations. The family is large and well-known in Linyi. It's just that this Ruan Xianghan is just a concubine in the family. He is not well-liked and cannot control the family's core industry. He can only read and write to help with some unimportant matters.
"very good."
Fang Jun was very satisfied with this man, patted him on the shoulder and said: "Go back and help me contact the local merchants, and tell me that I came to Linyi to buy grain on the order of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. You can get as much as you want." , all will be paid in cash according to the market price!”
Ruan Xianghan was excited when he heard that Lin Yi had nothing but a lot of food! The rice in the rice fields is ripe three times a year, and it becomes moldy when it is piled in the warehouse and cannot be eaten. The bottom of the warehouse must be cleaned every year to prevent it from rotting.
"If you pay with Tang money, I guarantee that the price of grain will be 10% lower than the market price!"
Kaiyuan Tongbao is the most popular due to its good color and good workmanship. It is more popular among merchants and people than the local coins issued in Linyi. Even if it is 10% lower than the market price, if compared with the value of Tang coins and local coins, it is still much higher!
Fang Jun was overjoyed.
He thought of Tang Qian's influence on surrounding countries at this time, but he didn't expect it to be so popular! Economic aggression is no worse than territorial aggression! As long as you can control a country's economy, you are controlling the country in disguise. Why does the US imperialism require the US dollar as the settlement currency all over the world?
It is to control the economies of various countries through the US dollar.
As long as the U.S. dollar can become the world's settlement currency, it can easily extract the world's wealth through various financial means. In other words, it is equivalent to the whole world working for American imperialism. The wealth they create will be grabbed as easily as "shearing sheep".
The "Plaza Accord" in the 1980s is the best example. In one fell swoop, the devils with the rapid economic development were pushed into the abyss, and the wealth accumulated over ten or twenty years was forcibly taken away, causing the devils to be unable to recover for decades... …
Therefore, the American emperor does not need to develop any economy. He only needs to develop weapons to ensure the combat effectiveness of the army.
If you have no money, you can go out and rob, rob the Japanese, rob the Middle East, rob oil...
This is an excellent situation for Fang Jun's "financial war" concept. Of course, he is definitely a layman in real finance, and he still needs to work hard to figure it out.
The navy was leaning on the shore, and the food utensils needed were bought and traded by local people, which was very convenient.
In the evening of the next day, Ruan Xianghan did not come back, but someone came who was definitely beyond Fang Jun's expectation...
