"Sooner or later, we'll go south. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Li Chao couldn't let go of the land in the far south. Since Qin Shi Huang sent 500,000 troops to Lingnan, Vietnam, to open up Lingnan. That distant land has an inseparable history with the Central Plains.

Annan was originally called Jiaozhou.

After Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries, he sent 500,000 troops to conquer Lingnan, and after pacifying Lingnan, he established three counties: Nanhai, Guilin, and Xiangjun. At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Zhao Tuo, the commander of Nanhai County, divided himself into Nanyue and established the Nanyue Kingdom, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent troops to exterminate it, divided it into seven counties, and set up the history of Jiao Wrestling to supervise the seven counties, which was also the origin of Jiaozhou.

The seven counties of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty included the vast area of Guangxi, Guangdong, in the north, Jiangyong, Hunan, in the north, and Hue, Vietnam, in the south. From the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Southern Dynasties, the Turen rebelled repeatedly, but they were also suppressed.

During the Sui period, Li Fozi, a native who occupied Jiaozhou, did not go to the Great Sui, but was defeated and captured by the Great Sui with hundreds of troops, and was escorted back to the Dynasty, and Jiaozhou was ruled by the Sui.

The Sui of the Tang Dynasty, the Liyue aborigines of Lingnan, as well as the local Han people and the officials and soldiers of the Sui Dynasty, all joined one after another.

Jiaozhou also entered the Tang Dynasty.

The imperial court divided Lingnan into five governors, Guangzhou, Gui, Rong, Yong, and Jiao, and later changed it to the Governor's Office, referred to as the Lingnan Five Governors.

Among them, the Jiaozhou Governor's Mansion is under the jurisdiction of present-day Vietnam and other places.

After Li Shimin succeeded to the throne at the beginning of the year, Jiaozhou was renamed Annan Metropolitan Protectorate, becoming the third Metropolitan Protectorate established by the Tang Dynasty after Dingxi and Zhenbei.

The Annam Metropolitan Protectorate belongs to Lingnan Province and is one of the five pipes of Lingnan.

The seat of governance was in Song Binh, later in Hanoi, Vietnam. The territory of the jurisdiction is north to the Nanpan River in Yunnan, to the south of the border of Ha Tinh and Quang Binh Province in Vietnam, to the east of Napo and Jingxi in Guangxi, and to the southwest between the Red River and Heishui in Vietnam.

The protector of Annan is concurrently served by the Jiaozhou Assassin Shi, which is also the unification of power under the unique situation of the border area.

The Protectorate of Annam has jurisdiction over thirteen prefectures and thirty-nine counties, and the jurisdiction is very large, but the sky is high and the earth is far away, and the actual control of the imperial court over that area is actually not very strong. In the Lingnan region, the strongest is still the local powerful Feng An, who is the grandson of the Lingnan Lady of Lady Xian.

The Xian family is the leader of the indigenous people of Lingnan Liyue, and the Feng family is the strong and powerful of the Han people in Lingnan. During the Sui Dynasty, Mrs. Xian returned to the Sui, and in the Tang Dynasty, Feng Ang returned to the Tang Dynasty, but until now, the actual control of the imperial court in that part of Lingnan is also very average.

Not to mention the more distant Annam Protectorate.

The establishment of the Annan Protectorate by the imperial court originally wanted to set up a point in Jiaozhou to strengthen the southernmost control of the imperial court, and even to increase some checks and balances on the Feng Xian family in Lingnan in the future.

According to the plan, the imperial court will develop there in the future.

At least Li Chaodu had already discussed with Qin Qiongcheng and the Golden Bull Jinda and other nobles, and discussed the construction of a port in Jiaozhou, preparing to vigorously develop sugarcane cultivation there, turn Jiaozhou Port into a sugar port, and build a sugarcane plantation there to raise slaves.

It's just that it's changing too fast these days.

Originally, the imperial court was going to grow grain there.

However, if you want to develop in Lingnan, it is not just a day or two. Harbors, plantations, and possibly even slave harbors, and investment in shipyards, training sailors, surveying charts, and so on.

This requires a huge investment of manpower and money, and it will take a lot of time.

Not to mention that Annan has not yet been developed, even if it is really developed, it will be extremely difficult to transport grain out, unless there is a very mature sea route, otherwise, everything is empty talk.

Yang Guang conquered Liao that year. The fleet from Shandong to Korea was only a short sea route, and the entire fleet was overwhelmed by the storm due to the wind and waves.

Feng Deyi was in that fleet back then, but it turned out to be fateful, holding a plank, and he was actually blown to the beach by the waves, and he didn't die. But there are few fleets as good as him.

Even the army's fleet was overwhelmed by the storm, not to mention the ordinary grain fleet. The sea, in the eyes of most people today, is mysterious and unpredictable.

"I want to conquer the sea!"

The prince said to Li Chao with a look of longing.

"Build a huge building ship, as big as a mountain, so that you are not afraid of wind and waves when you sail on the sea, and a boat can load tens of thousands of stones of grain!"

Li Chao couldn't listen to it anymore.

"Prince, I usually take classes with you, have you listened carefully? On the sea, the bigger the ship, the better? Who told you? The higher the boat, the more it will not withstand the wind and waves. Even on the Yangtze River, the bigger the boat, the better. The building boat, which is actually suitable for sailing in the big lake, because the wind and waves in the big lake are small, and the horizontal waves are calm. There are many places in the rivers where the water is fast and the waves are strong, and the bigger the boat, the less resistant it is to the wind. When you get to the sea, the wind and waves are even bigger, and every wave is as high as a house, and you build a building ship as big as a mountain? Isn't this asking for trouble? ”

The so-called art industry has a specialization, and what I am most afraid of is the layman's blind patting on the head.

Maritime shipping, which is quite a technical thing. It involves many professional fields, such as the field of sea vessels, the field of sea navigation, etc., laymen, such as the prince, have never even seen the sea, so they think about building huge ships, to build ships that can hold hundreds of thousands of stones, what are you kidding?

In the Tang and Song dynasties, the largest river boat in the inland river was no more than 10,000 stones. You still have hundreds of thousands of stones, unless you have an engine. Age of sails, impossible things.

"Don't be blind there, it's better to do something down-to-earth. What do you think no one else has thought of? Why don't others mention it? Because they not only thought about it, but also thought about it carefully, and knew that it was something that could not be done, so they did not mention it blindly. Don't you want to go hunting, then get your tools ready. Sharpen your knives and chop firewood, and equip your equipment to check it! ”

The prince was counted down by Li Chao, but he was not discouraged.

"Teacher, you haven't seen the sea before, how do you know everything?"

"Who told you I haven't seen the sea? I've been surfing the waves, do you know what surfing is? It is to take a board, rush on the waves, and ride on the waves. The waves that are several feet high are rushing on the crest of the wave, and the waves are chasing you behind, and you have been stepping on the crest of the wave! ”

The prince was fascinated by what he heard.

"Riding the waves, teacher, it's so exciting, isn't that the same as the sword jumping you talked about before, wow, I will definitely go surfing in the future!"

"Huh."

"The sea is a treasure trove of surfing, diving, white sand, beautiful shells, white sea salt, and abundant fishery. You know that the bathing ditch is also called the whale gully, but do you know how big the real whale is? There is a kind of blue whale, one is more than ten zhang long, can weigh four or five hundred thousand catties, and one whale is equivalent to a thousand cows. ”

"Wow, isn't that the same as Kun?"

"Well, there is a fish in the North Underworld, its name is Kun, and the Kun is so big that it can't be stewed in a pot. Turning into a bird, it is a Peng, and the Peng is so big that it needs two barbecue grills. A slightly spicy, a cumin, and a bottle of ice, let us brave the world! ”

The prince looked confused.

"Teacher, why is the Zhuangzi I read different from yours, is the original text like this?"

"It's you, don't think about it. When I have the opportunity in the future, I will take you to see the real sea, go surfing and diving and eat seafood. In addition to whales, there are also seahorses, manatees, sea lions, seals, fur seals, dolphins, nudibranchs, sea snakes, ....."

The more the prince listened, the more his eyes lit up, "There are also cows, horses, lions, leopards, dogs and rabbits in the sea?" How do they live in the sea? ”

"Teacher, can you run on the sea by riding a sea horse?"

"If you have the ability to ride a Shanghai horse, you can really run in the sea. Do you know how big a seahorse is, though? ”

"Is it big?"

"No, it's small, the seahorse is about the size of a shrimp!"

The prince was stunned, the seahorse turned out to be a shrimp in the sea. Is that manatee a crab in the sea?

"It's you, go pack your gear!"

Because of listening to Li Chao's words, the prince suddenly yearned for the sea, and he even told what Li Chao told him excitedly to a group of brothers-in-law and senior brothers such as Changsun Chong, so on this day, all the students in Li Chao's house were talking about the sea, whales and seahorses.

Even for lunch, under their strong request, they ate seafood.

In fact, there is nothing to eat, although Cheng Qian is the prince and Li Chao is the prime minister, both of them are still foodies, but the conditions are limited. Shannan is too far away from the sea to eat any fresh seafood at all, and it will not be so luxurious.

On Li Chao's house, there are only some dry goods.

Dried squid, dried scallops, dried shrimp, dried clams, dried cuttlefish, dried octopus, dried oysters, mussels, whitebait, dried sandworms, dried abalone, shark fin, shrimp skin, kelp, etc.

This is because Li Chao is a foodie, and he specially asked the caravan steward of the Li family in the south to purchase it specially, and some of the seafood he bought in the sea, and then processed it with the method given by Li Chao, and then brought it back.

Although it is not fresh seafood, the dry food also has the taste of dry food, and if it is cooked well, it becomes a seafood feast.

Because of the story, today's seafood dinner is extraordinary, when a group of guys eat, they still ask Li Chao about the same ingredients, ask what these foods look like, their living habits in the sea, and so on.

"I must go to the sea in the future and eat the freshest seafood!"

Li Chao smiled, fortunately you didn't say that you must be one piece in the future.

Sandwiched a piece of pan-fried mackerel smoked fish, Li Chao took a bite and was very satisfied. Mackerel has less bones and more meat, and the fat is thick, so it tastes very delicious, and it goes well with roasted cabbage. Although the fish is processed and smoked, it is delicious when fried.

In particular, the tail has the best taste, it is extremely crispy, and the tail fin is extremely crispy to chew.

Listening to the group of little guys talking excitedly about the sea and seafood, Li Chao had the idea of wanting to take a boat down the east of the river into the sea and go to the sea to fish and harvest seafood.

A whale is tens of thousands of catties, hundreds of thousands of catties, and a big fish is hundreds of catties, and I am excited to think about it! (To be continued.) )