The current world situation, of course, is not in favor of the Saracens and the Seljuk Turks!

Otherwise, Ji Yi would not have chosen to join forces with Christians to seize the right of the Saracens and the Seljuk Turks to block the road.

Although the Saracens have been based on maritime trade for hundreds of years, their superiority at sea is not based on the treasure of feng shui left by their ancestors, the Middle East, which is known as the crossroads of the world, and the seafaring experience accumulated over hundreds of years.

Therefore, although the Saracens have grabbed huge wealth from the seas and have many maritime merchants, they have not built a decent navy.

In the Mediterranean direction, the Saracen fleet, controlled by the Fatimid dynasty (with Alexandria as its home port), was no match for the Venetian navy at all and did not dare to dangle near the coastline of the Kingdom of Jerusalem for ten years.

And in the Indian Ocean direction, the situation is even worse. The Saracens and Seljuk Turks, who snatched tens of millions of dinars from East-West trade every year, had no idea of creating an Indian Ocean fleet. Although there were many Celestial Sect maritime merchants that sailed between China, India, and the Arabian Peninsula, they also had a large number of ships that could fight. But they did not belong to the caliphs of Baghdad and the sultans of Isfahan, nor were they subject to the Fatimid dynasty in Cairo, and the caliphs could only incite them in the name of religion.

What's more, what is even more ironic is that almost all of the ships used by the many Heavenly Sect maritime merchants were produced in the Song Dynasty!

That is, in the Indian Ocean direction, the caliphate and the sultan have neither a navy nor a shipyard for the construction of the navy.

The reason for this is actually very understandable. There is no navy because there is no enemy, and the Indian countries have always been weak chickens, and they have been defeated by the Celestial Cultists who have come in from the Afghan plateau, and it is impossible to compete with the Saracen maritime merchants for control of the sea.

Only the Chola Kingdom and the Sriwijaya Kingdom competed for control of the Strait, but it did not threaten the interests of the Celestial Sect maritime merchants, until the Great Song Dynasty, who was not very concerned about the sea, inexplicably rose up and effortlessly seized control of the Sriwijaya Strait, and the Caliphate of Baghdad and the Sultan of Isfahan sensed the danger.

While the caliphs and sultans had long ignored naval build-ups in the direction of the Indian Ocean, Saracen and Persian maritime merchants were accustomed to purchasing merchant ships from the Song dynasty. This is because the coast of the Persian Gulf, the western starting point for maritime trade in the Indian Ocean, is desert and cannot provide the timber needed for shipbuilding—a problem that seems more of a headache than not having a navy, without which you can recruit maritime thugs, and what if you don't have trees? If you want to fight a long-term war at sea, you will definitely not be able to do it without the support of a strong shipbuilding industry.

Therefore, the caliph, the sultan, and the emir Jaber, who held the actual power, had no idea for a while in the face of the sudden world war.

The war is definitely going to be fought! But it is not realistic to declare jihad immediately...... If that were to be done, it would be tantamount to giving the pagan court of Shangtaohuashi an excuse to confiscate all the property of the Celestial Cultists east of the Srivijaya Strait.

It would be a fatal blow to the Tianfang Sect maritime merchants who were active on the Great Song Dynasty-India-Arabia route.

If they are finished, the navy of the caliph and the sultan will not be able to be established, and the shipyard will not know where to get it, and it will be a fart!

"Amir," Caliph al-Mustazir swallowed, carefully asking if it was Jaber who was invincible, "do we need to declare war on the Peach Blossoms?" ”

"Not at the moment." Jaber thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "What is needed now is victory and not a declaration of war, we don't have to go to war with the infidels at sea, where we don't have an advantage for the time being, but we should fight them on land...... First defeat the expeditionary force on Taohuashi in Kashgar, and then go south to India, as long as we take the west coast of India, we will have no shortage of places to ship. ”

What if you can't defeat the pagan army on Peach Blossom? Is there still a war at sea? If we don't fight, once the Sinai Peninsula is lost, then the world of the Heavenly Sect will face an unprecedented crisis!

The caliph had a lot of questions to ask Jabir, but when the words came to his lips, he swallowed them back raw......

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"Big brother, is this the dock?"

"Yes, it's also called Chuanao, Zuotang. Usually a large pit is dug and a boat is built in the pit, and after the ship is completed, a waterway leading to the river is dug to divert water into the pit and let the boat float. However, the docks of our Jiehe Shipyard are made of bricks and stones, and the water gate blocks the river. Moreover, the dock is built on the edge of the boundary river, so you only need to open the gate at high tide to release water to let the boat float, which is very convenient. ”

"It's all made of bricks and stones? There are twenty or thirty docks here, right? ”

"Thirty-five in all, this is already built, and there are sixty-five docks under construction! If all are built, there will be a hundred docks. You can build or repair a hundred large ships of about 8,000 materials at the same time! ”

"One Hundred Articles...... That's too much, right? Anyone wants it? ”

Just when the Saracens and Turks were having a headache for shipbuilding, Wu Haogu was taking Wu Haowen, who had just arrived in Jiehe Shang City, to visit the Jiehe Shipyard.

This large shipyard is a "municipal-run" factory in Jiehe Shang City, which started construction in the first year of Yaskuni under construction, and until now, the construction project has not been completed. And the scale of investment and construction is getting bigger and bigger!

In the beginning, the scale of the Jiehe Shipyard was not large, but it existed as a "training workshop" for the Jiehe Shipbuilding School, and the output was also very small. However, as the shipbuilding industry in Jiehe Commercial City flourished due to the stimulation of timber and grain trade, the Jiehe Shipyard also began to "blindly expand".

The three parties, Gonghexing, Jiehe Commercial City, and Jiehe City, have all invested heavily in large shipyards and continue to expand their shipyards. He also used the red bricks and marl abundant in the Jiehe River to build a sturdy and durable masonry dock, and also established a huge timber drying yard outside the Jiehe Shang City, and hoarded a large number of timber imported from the Liao and Goryeo kingdoms.

Cheap and high-quality timber was also an important factor in stimulating the city to become the center of the shipbuilding industry. Another factor that stimulates the development of the shipbuilding industry in Jiehe Commercial City is the Jiehe Shipbuilding School!

This was the first school affiliated to the Yuntai School Palace, which is currently presided over by Chao Shuozhi, one of the four Chaos of Juye, the brother of Wu Haogu's senior brother Chao Buzhi.

Chao said that he was a Jinshi of Yuanfeng for five years, and he was also recommended by Su Dongpo at first, but at first he was not a person from Sumen, but learned from all the people, learned Sima Guang's Taixuan Zhixue, Shao Yong's easy learning, and studied under Sun Fumen to study "Hong Fan", and later studied Zhang Zaizhi in Guanzhong. It's quite complicated to the extreme.

However, in the end, he still fell in love with the Tao of Wu Haogu and became the boss of the positivist school - seeing that he was so studious, and he spent so much effort on the "Taixuan Jing" and "I Ching", I knew that he also wanted to "seek the Dao".

Positivism and rationalism gave him the tools to seek enlightenment!

Therefore, Chao Shuozhi became Murong Wang's assistant very early, and became the Xue Gong Cheng of the Jiehe Yuntai Academy, and later became interested in shipbuilding, so he went to preside over the Shipbuilding School, and the Jiehe Shipyard was also under his jurisdiction.

Today, he also accompanied Wu Haogu and Wu Haowen to visit the shipyard. Hearing Wu Haowen's question, he immediately said, "Why doesn't anyone want it?" The Hailu City Shipping and Purchasing Division alone ordered 200 grain ships with 7,500 materials and 100 galleys with 6,000 materials at the Jiehe Shipyard. ”

"What?" Wu Haowen was stunned for a moment, and a fat face that was about to tremble was full of question marks, and he said Hailu Shuaisi! Why don't you know about such a big deal? Could it be that Mi Youren's father placed an order before he passed away?

Wu Haogu smiled, "Second brother, these ships are urgently needed...... First, the imperial court wanted to buy grain from Nanyang, which was related to the change of rice to mulberry in Jiangnan, Liangzhejiang, Lianghuai and other places; Second, the imperial court still needs the cooperation of the navy in the Northern Expedition to Japan, so oars and sail warships are also indispensable. ”

"Changing rice to mulberry" was still relatively easy to handle in the Song Dynasty, and the key was whether there was rice to fill the gap. Because the Great Song Dynasty had a large number of official fields in Jiangnan, Liangzhejiang, Lianghuai and other places. Therefore, it is possible to use administrative means to promote the conversion of rice into mulberry -- it is only necessary to ask the peasant households who rent official land to implement it, and give a certain amount of subsidies.

And there is no need to change everything, only to change the relatively low yield of the dry land to mulberry trees.

However, the Great Song Dynasty commanders are also careful people, and they will not blindly go on the horse to "change rice to mulberry", and they must see the grain first. And to get so much food, of course, you need to build more warships...... One or two million stone rice is nothing to the grain-rich kingdoms of Chenla, Champong, Sriwijaya and Java, and can be received in the name of a Sriwijaya Strait protection fee.

But 10 million or 20 million stone is another matter, although Chenla, Champong, Sriwijaya and Java have few people and a lot of land, abundant precipitation, and a warm climate, among which Java has to add a fertile land, but people will not be okay to grow so much food!

Generally speaking, places with too good natural conditions are easy to raise lazy people, so it is necessary to have some external force to supervise it.

If possible, Wu Haogu also wants to unite with the Srivijaya Kingdom to wage a war against the Java State, a small but fertile island. Of the 20 million stone rice, only about 4 million acres of paddy fields can be grown. Therefore, it can be developed into the granary of the Great Song Empire!

However, the matter of instigating a war in the Nanyang region can't be said to the imperial court openly, so Wu Haogu has to find a reasonable-sounding excuse to expand his, oh, it should be the fleet commanded by Wu Haowen.

"Big brother," Wu Haowen frowned deeply, as if he was a little worried about the war with the Northern Dynasty, "Is my dynasty really going to war with the Khitan?" ”

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