In fact, the main reason why Alexander disbanded the fleet was that his finances were simply not enough to support the fleet.
Although the fleet in the trireme era did not have much technical content - which saved a lot of costs - the equipment cost of the navy was much higher than that of the army. This is an indisputable fact. This rule has been observed throughout the history of human development. It has always existed. Even in a backward era like ancient Greece, shipbuilders could not escape the clutches of this law, but the gap was not so obvious.
What made Alexander even more depressed was that the cost of this fleet was similar to that of the entire army. However, their role was much smaller than that of the Army, so it was impossible not to disband them.
After all, the benefit of disbandment is not to save money. Since there were no professional sailors at the time, most of the crew in the fleet were typical amphibians. When they put down their oars, they can take up arms and become a Marine.
Although they may not be able to immediately transfer to join the phalanx infantry, the auxiliary arms still need manpower.
As for the Phoenicians, let them find some caravans to make ends meet.
What's more, the letter sent from Li Ning showed that he had found a good home for the Phoenicians to prevent this group of people from joining the Persian fleet.
In this way, those in the fleet who do not want to land for combat need not worry about their future livelihoods.
Such a hit-and-miss suggestion naturally won Alexander's support.
Therefore, before Puane reached the Hellespont, his sailors were already rushing towards him in great force.
There were also merchants from various Greek city-states who came in droves.
In the past two months, the products brought by Li Ning have made a name for themselves here.
Naturally, attention from across the Aegean Sea gradually gathered.
Therefore, the banks of the Granicas River quickly became a gathering place for merchants.
Some diligent businessmen even sold these precious items to Greece in advance.
After all, this area was originally an old colony of Greece, and even the northern shores of the Black Sea and later Ukraine were also dotted with Greek city-states.
But the Peloponnese peninsula itself was the essence of the entire Greek civilization, and most of the wealth was gathered there, so the businessmen there were very generous.
However, when all Song Dynasty merchants passed by the light curtain, they would see a huge notice from the Light Curtain Department.
The first article in it is that although Greece was founded on commerce, their commercial prosperity was based on military plunder, which meant that anyone's goods could be forcibly robbed.
This is something that scares all businessmen.
Li Ning is actually also thinking of ways to turn this prosperity into the trade prosperity after the 18th century. However, it is still unknown whether the Greek city-states are willing to accept such changes.
But Li Ning has already prepared for the worst. Huaxia Guizhou actually has innate experience in this regard.
However, there is no need to show off the little secret at this time.
Little secrets are not worth showing off, and Zhao Zhen knows this very well.
After returning from Song Minqiu, he locked himself in Funing Palace and refused to meet anyone.
The people in the palace who were close to him had actually guessed what Zhao Zhen was doing - he was reading the letter sent by Li Ning.
In this letter, Li Ning made a very important request to the customs.
After the proposal of the Municipal Shipping Department was rejected, an agency must stand up to assume the responsibilities of the customs. At least the quarantine and inspection aspect must be taken care of. Those ancient germs cannot be allowed to get close to the people of the Emperor and Song Dynasty. After all, there was a kind of Western culture later. The theory is that the reason why the Indians in the Americas are close to extinction is because Europeans brought too many viruses to them.
Not to mention this theory, is it because Westerners are covering up their cruel massacres? After all, the yellow race is considered to have obvious advantages in resisting bacteria such as plague, and the Indian population is likely to be different from the yellow race in East Asia. Belonging to the same source, their immunity may be almost the same as that of East Asians, which makes the theory of the virus somewhat untenable - Li Ning believes pragmatically that it is better to believe that it exists than to believe that it does not exist.
Zhao Zhen believed that such measures were very necessary. Not to mention going to the barbaric land 1,300 years ago, even Jinghu and Guangxi in the Emperor Song Palace were considered places full of miasma.
But when he read some of Li Ning's ideas, he couldn't help but laugh.
"Customs cat...this Mr. Li..."
The so-called customs cats are a large number of cats kept near the light curtain. Now Li Ning has begun to offer rewards for cats of various ages. He even suggested that the emperor also start raising cats to avoid epidemics spread by rats in the palace.
Emperor Zhao Zhen knew that the villager in the remote wilderness must not know that there was never a shortage of cats in the palace's warehouse.
But he also wanted to see the difference between the cats from a place called Asia Minor 1,300 years ago and the cats from the Song Empire.
Therefore, he directly issued an internal surrender command to Li Ning, which did not require the approval of Zhongshu's subordinates. Of course, such an imperial edict has no legal effect. If it involves national affairs, ministers will usually choose not to implement it, but he It's just a request for a few cats. Li Ning, a mountain villager, shouldn't refuse.
And when the Neijiang commander set out on the road, many of the talents required by the concept also embarked on the road to Fujian.
Even a certain gentleman said goodbye to Li Zi and set off south, preparing to find out what Li Ning was.
"Brother Boya, it's been so many years since we passed away, and I don't know when we will see each other again."
"Oh, I was just sighing. Look, I even brought the coffin with me."
Li Zi looked aside and saw a fine nanmu coffin.
"It seems that sir has made a lot of money by gathering students and giving lectures."
"Privy Council is joking. When the servants at home rebelled, I used this thing to embolden myself, so I got it..."
At this point, his words suddenly stopped.
Li Zi asked curiously: "What's there?"
"Alas..." Mr. Boya sighed, "That's all, it's all in the past. The so-called romance is always blown away by the rain and the wind, and heroes are hard to find with Sun Zhongmou. Privy Council, don't forget the love between you and me. Agreement."
"We have many agreements, which one are you referring to?"
"Of course it's a matter of Bu Cai's family. If one day the court needs to take action, I hope the privy minister can take action."
"Of course, it's just a few servants. Even if I'm not very capable, I can still handle it for you, sir."
"Thank you, Privy Council!" Mr. Boya bowed and said with emotion, "Then, let me go and see who Li Ning is."
"Congratulations sir!"
Li Zi is from Jiangxi, so his words have a Jiangxi flavor.
At the same time, the sound of "Bearing Off Sir" full of Sichuan flavor also sounded in Lingzhou on Chengdu Fulu Road.
In the Longchang period of ancient times, I actually didn't expect that I would return to Quanzhou.
Hu Su, who was the magistrate of the state there, invited him to give lectures there. Now, I don't know how many years have passed, and he left Quanzhou early and returned to his hometown.
But what he didn't expect was that the imperial court ordered him to go to Quanzhou again.
Moreover, he still participated in the preparation of the Light Curtain Division.
"What is the Light Curtain Division?"
He once asked the officials who came to deliver official documents.
However, the visitor told him: "This matter is very confidential. How can ordinary people know about it? Sir, you are so destined, why not tell us the story of Quanzhou when you return to your hometown."
Long Changqi didn't know the deeper meaning, so he smiled and agreed casually.
However, if he was lucky enough to stand in Zhao Zhen's perspective, he might guess more interesting things.
Next to the couch in Funing Hall, Zhao Zhen was writing the word "customs" on the screen.
There are a lot of suggestions from Li Ning on the screen, and of course some of them come from other people and other places.
For example, people from Quanzhou, Yazhou, which also has a Sichuan-Sichuan flavor, and Yizhou, one of the poorest state capitals on Jingdong Road.
"Three." Zhao Zhen whispered, slowly falling asleep.
The names of these three places are also written on the screen.
Below them, the measures that have been implemented or are to be implemented are written.
Now, the latest addition is customs epidemic prevention!
