"Dongmen, do you really want to go down to the West?"

Jiehe Wangbeiting's conversation had become a little serious.

To be honest, Bai Siwen was just patting Wu Haogu's sycophants before. Although the flowers are full of good things to say a few baskets, they never really want to do anything big for Wu Haogu.

The few "Gulam warriors" he found for Wu Haogu before were also discovered by Zhao Zhongge except for knowing a little knowledge of water warfare, they had no real skills, and they were all sent to Haizhou to train sailors with Hua Manshan. The so-called big horse-eating horse is still about to be in Tianzhu now. Only two "Ross Cats" have been put into practice. But Wu Haogu didn't ask him for it!

And now Wu Haogu suddenly put forward such a suggestion to let him go to the West...... Bai Siwen was a little overwhelmed.

"Of course it's true!" Wu Haogu looked at Bai Siwen, he actually knew that this white profiteer from Quanzhou was not a reliable guy.

But the Aladdin Chamber of Commerce must have a way to send people to Baghdad and bring them back! This is not necessarily possible even for the Ji family maritime merchants - Wu Haogu knew that the Ji family maritime merchants could go to the West and the South Seas, but he had never heard of them going to Baghdad.

In this case, the Aladdin Chamber of Commerce is likely to take advantage of it.

"Outside the white staff," Wu Haogu's tone also carried a bit of divine aura, "In fact, the official family has long had the idea of connecting to the Western Regions, but the land route in the west is blocked by the western thieves and cannot be made. If the sea route is open, the official family will send an embassy after the government. This is the mission, not the only one you are leading the way...... There will be many people, there will be envoys and deputy envoys, there will be merchants, there will be monks, Taoist priests, and Confucian scholars. Not only to ask the caliph of the Great Food Country for the teachings of the heavens, but also to spread the teachings of our Confucianism to Baghdad and Rome! ”

Yes? And to spread Confucianism to the caliph and the Pope? Bai Siwen was also shocked by Wu Haogu's grand ideals, the West is now just the Cross Sect and the Tianfang Sect have become a pot of porridge, if you add a Confucian Avenue that spreads to the west, what kind of chaos will it be?

"Outside the white staff, you will be a dignified official of the Song Dynasty at that time!"

Looking at Bai Siwen's surprised face, Wu Haogu smiled and said, "At least I can protect you as an ambassador, if you return from the west, it is certain that you will be crowned a rampant official." That's a serious horizontal class, not a donation!

Among you Heavenly Sect merchants in Quanzhou, who can achieve such an official position? When the time comes, you will be the head of Quanzhou's merchants! ”

Rampant official, or the head of Quanzhou merchants?

Bai Siwen was suddenly moved. It is true that he believes in the Heavenly Sect, but he is also a Confucian student, and he has also passed the imperial examination in Quanzhou, so he naturally wants to be an official...... Don't look at the rampant officials in Kaifeng Mansion is nothing, there are a lot of them in the Western Army, but in Quanzhou, it is rare, if you become a person, the Bai family will be considered superior in Quanzhou in the future.

"Great official," Bai Siwen said solemnly, "I can't be the master of this matter, I have to go and ask the head of my Bai family for instructions." Would you like to get back to you next year? ”

"Okay." Wu Haogu said with a smile, "This opportunity is rare, and don't miss it." If you let other people take the lead, then other people will be the head of Quanzhou Fanshang. ”

"Definitely, definitely." Bai Siwen hurriedly responded. In my heart, I was thinking for a while, the Great Song Dynasty court liked to be famous for showing off in front of the fans, and it was obviously a weak chicken, but it was going to go to the sky. And Wu Haogu is a fortunate villain, villain, naturally he wants to flatter, get an ambassador group to go around Baghdad and Rome, and then bring back a few caliphs and Christian envoys, isn't it all the nations coming to court?

Uh, that's what you mean, right?

For the Aladdin Chamber of Commerce and the Quanzhou Bai family, it is nothing more than putting a few sea boats...... Oh, you don't need to release the ship, just let the Great Song Dynasty build its own ship, and the Aladdin Chamber of Commerce will send some sailors to the bow of the ship, and you can pull people to the west. Maybe you can even stop by with a little silk and porcelain!

Moreover, after the merchant group, oh, after the mission arrived in the west, the caliphate of Baghdad would inevitably have a reward - although the current caliphate was hollowed out by the Turkic sultan, the way seems to be similar to that of the Great Song Dynasty officials, they all like all countries to come to the court, and they have a unique face!

If the Aladdin Chamber of Commerce brought in the envoys of the Great Song Dynasty, it would simply make this generation of caliphs blow for a lifetime! The Bai family has made such a great contribution, isn't it a piece of cake to reward a few boatloads of gold and silver treasures?

This business can be made at both ends, but it is really a million profits!

Looking at the smile on Bai Siwen's face that couldn't be hidden, Wu Haogu knew that his impromptu proposal could succeed.

However, it is different from what Bai Siwen imagined, Wu Haogu did not do this to shoot Song Huizong's sycophants - he is now the king of sycophants, and there are so many sycophants that he can't shoot them, so he still needs to toss this? Moreover, this sycophant is expensive, takes a long time, and has slow results, so it is not economical at all.

But from the perspective of the Great Voyage, it is necessary to send a mission to the West, because the mission is the forerunner of opening up the Western shipping route and colonizing the frontier!

Although the current Great Song Dynasty is not conservative and closed, it does not know much about the West. The routes between the South and Western seas were largely controlled by the Arabs. It was difficult for the maritime merchants of the Song dynasty to travel alone to the seas west of Malacca, let alone to the Arabian Peninsula and Africa.

And this east-west shipping route is the most profitable sea route in this era, and it is also the main channel for exchanges between Eastern and Western civilizations.

If the Great Song Dynasty was to truly open the era of great navigation, it would have to start with this shipping lane, not the one that sailed to the New World of America...... Wu Haogu was a painter in his previous life, and he knew where the Americas were, but he didn't know how to drive the ship over.

Therefore, we can only start with the pre-existing Maritime Silk Road. In order to win the Maritime Silk Road, it was necessary to have the cooperation of the official and private sectors, and the cooperation of merchants and doctors (Confucian missionaries) to expand outward.

Relying solely on the official, it will be like the six voyages to the West in the Ming Dynasty, turning around and leaving nothing behind. And if the official does not come out, it will be difficult for the Song Dynasty maritime merchants to break the Arab monopoly west of Malacca.

In the same way, if only businessmen go out, Confucian doctors do not follow up. Then the merchants who settled overseas and their descendants were likely to be greened. Moreover, Han merchants do not have the support of Confucian beliefs and armed doctors, and they can easily become a plate of loose sand and become the target of bullying by natives and Arabs!

Ideally, wherever a businessman goes, a Confucian academy should be opened! Wherever the academy is opened, the official embassy should be located. The maritime merchant who is also a merchant and a thief, a doctor with a sword in one hand, and an envoy who deceives people on behalf of the official family of the Great Song Dynasty, can cooperate with each other to achieve the best expansion effect.

Now, the Arab development in the South and the West is the model of merchants and imams. In contrast, Song Shang would inevitably fall behind without the support of Confucianism...... Now if you want to get it back, you can only add the embassy of the Great Song.

Missions heading west to Baghdad were allowed to stop halfway and visit the monarchs of the countries along the way, as well as obtain official permission to set up Confucian academies in the port cities along the way.

With the academy, the Han maritime merchants had an organization and ideas, and they could demand that the indigenous people and Tianfang merchants respect the beliefs and living habits of Confucianism, and respect the right of Confucianism to spread freely!

What Wu Haogu wants to establish is not an independent academy, but a group of academies under the jurisdiction and leadership of the big doctor group and the small doctor group, which can support one side in trouble. And it is not only the "Doctor of the Five Classics" who spreads the Avenue of Saints, but also the armed doctor who is responsible for subduing people with virtue.

The means of spreading the truth and opening up the sea are already there. Well, there are a lot of ways to make money now. So there is only one question left, how to set up a doctoral group?

After sending Bai Siwen away, Wu Haogu returned to his municipal office, sat behind his desk, twisted his eyebrows, and began to think about this difficult problem.

If you want to start a Confucian doctoral group, you must first have a well-known Confucian academy, right? Teaching children at the Six Arts Academy is definitely not good - the Six Arts Academy can train armed doctors, but it is not qualified enough to start a doctoral group.

Moreover, Wu Haogu himself is not a great Confucian, even if he has a big academy, he is not qualified to be the head of the academy and the head of the great doctor group!

It seems that we still have to pull a big Confucian tiger skin as soon as possible! Otherwise, there are not many Confucian scholars to take refuge, and there will be no manpower to join the Western Exercise Regiment at that time.

"Official," Bai Feifei's soft voice rang in Wu Haogu's ears at this time, "The letter from Kaifeng has arrived. ”

"Oh." Wu Haogu responded, "Whose are they?" ”

"There are three letters from home." Bai Feifei's face is thick enough, she and Wu Haogu have no name at all, but she has always called Wu Haogu an "official", and she also called the Kaifeng martial arts "family".

"One is for my sister, one is for the old lady, and one is for the second brother."

My sister is Pan Qiaolian, Ximen Qing is now in Haizhou, and Pan Qiaolian's family in Kaifeng Mansion (referring to Wu Haogu's small family) is in charge. God is Wu Chengzhi, and the second brother is naturally Wu Haowen.

"Give me the letter from my second brother first." Wu Haogu commanded.

Bai Feifei handed an envelope to Wu Haogu, and then said to him: "In addition to the three letters from the family, Mi Yuanhui, Gao Shiyan, Su Dalang, Mo Niangzi, and Mi Crazy all sent letters. ”

"Mi Lu, Mi Xiangyang?"

Wu Haogu had probably finished reading Wu Haowen's letter at this time, and the content of the letter was very simple, just two things, one was to tell Wu Haogu that he had become an orthography; The second is to tell Wu Haogu that the Empress Dowager has withdrawn the curtain and returned to power on the tenth day of July.

When Wu Haogu opened the letter sent by Pan Qiaolian, he asked again: "What did Mi Xiangyang's letter say?" ”

"Take a look." Bai Feifei opened the envelope sent by Mi Fu as he spoke, looked at it for a while, and said in a surprised tone, "Official, good news, Mr. Dongpo has arrived in Jiangnan, and he will be able to return to Kaifeng Mansion soon." ”