“emmmm……”

When he looked at a group of women with short stature and plump lips and dark skin, huddled together in the cabin, and then showed frightened eyes, Lao Zhang fell into deep thought.

Then he turned his head to look at Zhang Li.

"Look what I do!"

There is a sense of goodness in the dark...... No, providence.

Zhang Sanlang, with a little emotion, kicked a small pebble out with his feet, and with a "snap", the pebble actually hit a water duck that was about to pierce the fierce son. Like most wild ducks, the water ducks in Wuhan are not big, but they are extremely clever, and ordinary hunters, without nets, can shoot even to death.

“……”

“……”

"Sect Chief, I'll take half a day off."

"Okay."

He rolled up his sleeves, trotted to the trestle, and shouted to one of the river ambassadors, "Old flower, pick up that duck." ”

"Okay!"

The flower ambassador came out of Mulan Village, and he was also an old friend of Zhang Li.

"San Lang, the duck is fishy, stew the white fish together, put more pepper and green onions, and it will be delicious."

"Thanks, go back and call the brothers on the river and have a drink together."

"Then I'll be chattering after work."

The flower ambassador arched his hand, smiling beautifully, the duck was well done, it was really delicious, and it was not a problem to eat two catties of rice wine.

Then Zhang Li was silent, with his head down, carrying a duck in his left hand and a fish in his right hand, and walked away silently from Zhang De.

That's okay......

So people's luck is different, and it's hard to talk about the number of lives.

There is a saying that "Xuan does not save the wrong, and Krypton does not change his life", and it is useless to struggle.

"Huh? Observe, why is Director Zhang gone? ”

"Oh, he's got something to take care of."

After that, Zhang De took people to the trestle, and there was a doctor wearing a mask beside him, who was leading someone to do a physical examination for the women in these cabins.

A green-robed junior official on the side bowed down and said, "Observer, these women were all exchanged when they comforted the South China Sea. ”

"I heard that the girls of the South China Sea are covered with clothes, and these women are wearing silk linen, what is going on?"

"The barbarians of the South China Sea do not belong to each other, and often fight, these women belong to a princely state on the north coast. Originally, he was going to be taken captive, but the defeated Tubang handsome liked silk and red silk, so he used these women in exchange. ”

Du Zhenglun brought a lot of things south, among which there was indeed silk, but the quality was not high, most of them were local goods in Wuhan, and there were goods from Guangzhou. If you want to say that it is bad, it is also compared with Su Sishu brocade, which is actually quite good. For the barbarians, how could it be possible to use Shu Jin Susi, the consumption of this thing in Luoyang for a day is worth the amount of these small tribes for a year.

The most important thing is that Luoyang is paying a lot of money at the moment. Even if you don't pay for it, the nobleman's IOU is very useful.

In recent years, many Huaiyang businessmen have relied on IOUs and then burned them to borrow a vest to wash their hands on the shore.

Several uses of Luotuo aristocracy, including owing money and not paying back a lot of money to ask for children......

"Isn't the south of the South China Sea sparsely populated and densely forested?"

"Exactly." The green-robed petty official nodded, "But Duke Du is traveling with a lot of civilian boats." Earlier, I realized that the land south of the South China Sea was just a slightly larger island, and it took a lot of time to sail around the island. Now that the charts have been reset, there are many gentle places in the northeast of the island, and there are several places where the natives were originally inhabited, but they have been exterminated, and they appear to be barren. Now that it has been reopened, it is estimated that there are 70,000 or 80,000 acres of land, and it will certainly not be a problem to raise three or four hundred households. ”

Lao Zhang pondered carefully, then frowned slightly, thinking that it would not be enough, and he was about to open up the south of the South China Sea? At such a distance, a bird, Lao Tzu didn't plan to get the radio out.

Nene complained silently, but Lao Zhang suddenly remembered that the current route in the South China Sea, if a special fast ship is used, the transmission of news may not be slow. At least from the south of Champ, it will take half a day to land on the shore. The exchange is less than a day, and then the message is transmitted on land, and a string of signals is built.

If this is the case, the traditional frontier of the empire will have to expand by at least six or seven million square kilometers.

Greed can't chew more, this is a sentence that countless elites in the Zhenguan Dynasty have mentioned to their bosses. But the boss's reply has always been only one: I have a big mouth and a big appetite, and my teeth are so important to your, have you eaten your rice?

Although "Equatorial Island" is a political project, Lao Zhang is very willing to fan the flames and push it aside, mathematics, astronomy, calendar, navigation, geography, ...... It's a big job, and the immediate reward may only be a plunder dividend. But when the time span is zoomed in to a hundred years, the return is a bit terrifying.

"I heard that this government is preparing to open a mine?"

"The Ministry of Industry sent people over, as well as the Internal Government Bureau."

"That's a little tight."

"There is no shortage of coolies, but there is still a shortage of workshops. Observing that the South China Sea is not as good as the Champa or the Pyu Kingdom, although this territory is also rich, it is also really difficult. During the rainy season, there is almost no harvest, and it is difficult to fill a stomach. If you can store food outside of the rainy season, it's okay. It's just that most of the tribes, few of them go to the sea to fish, most of them hide in the mountains and forests, and there are many people who kill people because of vendettas, and every settlement by the sea is mostly attacked and plundered, and then the tribe is wiped out. Cycle after cycle, Du Gong is rough, I'm afraid it's not one or two hundred years. ”

"How many people live in Nanhaiyi?"

"Thirty and old, forty and dead."

"Hmm......"

Although the average life expectancy of the Zhenguan Dynasty is not very good in the eyes of Lao Zhang, the words "thirty and old, forty and dead" show that not only have to compete for food, but also are in constant war.

Of course, the scale of the war may be that of the village chief, but for the natives who do not have a large range of activities, this is already somewhat fatal.

The arrival of the Tang Dynasty was actually a kind of hope for these tribes.

The hope of stability and peace, because the arrival of the Tang Dynasty, will bring the system, no matter what the system, will bring order, until the order collapses, and the system will die with it.

"These women...... How much does it cost? ”

"It's just a piece of silk."

The junior official smiled slightly, "Right now, there is a big clan in the northwest of the island, there are more than 1,000 soldiers, Du Gong proclaimed comfort in the South China Sea, how can he do things to 'bully the weak'?" Now it's time to persuade you. ”

"Persuade?"

Lao Zhang was stunned, this can't be, is there a local giant like the "Nanbatian" Feng family in that place, how can he be persuaded?

"Observing Rong Yu, these women also came after several persuasions to trade silk for horses."

Got it, got it, got it. This is Du Xiucai's "knowing with reason, moving with affection", the bow and crossbow are reasonable, and the fight is love, which is really emotional.

Seeing that Lao Zhang moved as soon as he heard it, the green-robed petty official spoke easily, and said directly: "Duke Du has instructed that it is the wisdom of Boss Qian to grasp the big and let go of the small, why not do it?" ”

“……”

Well, it's good that you're happy.