Envoys visiting Baghdad?

Ji Yi still remembers this?

The surname Ji wants to go this way?

He also knows that there are great benefits to this?

So...... Let him go?

In just an instant, Wu Haogu had already turned a few thoughts, but his face still had a faint smile. Wu Haogu finally learned to control his facial expressions on the Northwest Battlefield - even if he was scared and wanted to cry, he had to resist pretending to be heroic, otherwise he would mess up the army's heart.

As for the feeling of wanting to vomit when I see an ugly corpse, I have become accustomed to it after secretly vomiting a few times.

However, being able to control facial expressions does not mean that you can guess Ji Yi's ambition. In Wu Haogu's opinion, Ji Yi, a guy who stood on the wrong side at a critical moment, Zhao Ji is already broad-minded if he can make a fortune, can he still be allowed to be among the rulers? If he thought like this, he wouldn't know Zhao Ji too well. It seems that the purpose of his insertion is still for money.

If it's for money, you have to pull him to do it with you - if you don't pull him, he's a difficult competitor to deal with, and if you pull him, you can form a group to enclose the land.

"The envoys who visited Baghdad have not yet begun to look for them." Wu Haogu told Ji Yi the truth, and he said with a smile, "The immediate priority of the Coastal City Shipping and Development Division is to develop relations between Goryeo and Japan.

In addition, last year, a fleet was sent to explore Liuqiu and Luzon. I have found a few large islands, left some people, and will arrange a fleet to go there after the New Year. If you can stand your ground, then you will have to arrange for more people and baggage to go to the island. At that time, I may need a lot of help from your Jingdong City. ”

The so-called "Ryuqiu" refers not only to the island of Taiwan, but also to the later Ryukyu Islands, as well as the Penghu Islands, which are located in the Taiwan Strait. Although these islands are not far from the mainland, they are completely within the reach of the Great Song Dynasty's navigation capabilities. But it is very strange that the Great Song court did not include these islands in its rule.

According to the reports sent by Hu Yanqing and Wu Side from Mingzhou, the Liuqiu Islands (including Taiwan) were not devoid of inhabitants. Some islands have long been inhabited by Han Chinese, others are inhabited by indigenous people, and there are even traces of piracy on some islands.

However, there are no Han Chinese on one of the largest islands (Taiwan Island), but there are many natives, who will sometimes drive their small boats to the coast of Fujian to do some small business, and sometimes steal and grab something.

There are several smaller islands in the Liuqiu Islands, such as the Penghu Islands, which are located between the large islands of Liuqiu and Fujian, where fishermen lived in the past. Moreover, the port on the Penghu Islands is very good, and it is a natural sheltered harbor. Therefore, Hu Yanqing and Wu Side established the first stronghold on the Penghu Islands, leaving more than 200 bad guys and a team of naval officers and soldiers, and also transported a lot of materials from Fujian to prepare to establish a stronghold there.

In addition, about 1,000 miles northeast of Ryuqiu Island, there is another large island about 200 miles long from east to west, called Aernabo Island. There are not only natives on the island, but also many Han Chinese from Fujian in the past, and there is also a small kingdom called Tiansun Kingdom.

Because they already have a country, Hu Yanqing and Wu Side did not dare to rashly send bad people to attack. However, Hu Yanqing still went to A'er Naibo Island in the name of the envoys sent by the Great Song Dynasty, and gave a gift to the king of Tiansun on the island, in exchange for a piece of land for "repairing ships", and left a wooden boat on the island that I don't know where it was broken, and of course a few shipwrights and sailors who grinded foreign workers......

As for the "Liuqiu Island", that is, the island of Taiwan in later generations, it is said to be an island where miasma is rampant. All Han Chinese who live on the island often become infected with the plague within a few years, and then they will die.

However, it is not that the Han people cannot go to the island, but they must go to the island when the north wind rises in winter, land near the plain north of the island's big stream (Turbidity Water Creek), go to the island's natives to buy deer skins, and then leave as soon as possible.

Because during this time, the climate in the coastal plain area north of Daxi was very "cold", similar to the spring and autumn seasons in the Central Plains, so dysentery is not easy to epidemic - the so-called miasma is actually an infectious disease transmitted by mosquitoes and flies, and when the weather is cold, there will be no vectors such as mosquitoes and flies, and people will not get sick.

Although Hu Yanqing and Wu Side don't know the principle, they are still planning to go to the island this winter to see if they can find the Liuqiu natives who can speak Chinese, and then bring them back to their strongholds on Penghu Island - in fact, the low temperature period in the western coastal plain of Taiwan Island under the influence of the northeast monsoon is very beneficial to the development of Taiwan Island. The Han Chinese on the island had at least a "safe period" of two or three months, and they could clear large areas of flat and clean land for the establishment of strongholds and ports.

Of course, the safer land that is cleared will not be too large. There is no problem with establishing a colony for the purchase of deerskins, as for large-scale development, let's talk about it later. Anyway, let's take the land first, and then talk about the development slowly...... This is called land hoarding! If possible, hoard tens of millions of square kilometers of land first, and there will always be a time when the value will appreciate, and no one will collect real estate taxes anyway, and it will cost nothing to hoard for a thousand years.

"Exploring Liuqiu and Luzon?" Ji Yi has been imitating Wu Haogu's business behavior in the past few years, so when he heard that Wu Haogu was exploring Liuqiu and Luzon, he immediately became interested. "Brother Chongdao, why are we exploring this kind of overseas desert island?"

Wu Haogu smiled, "Of course, the search is for occupation, this is to open up territory!" ”

Is this a frontier?

Ji Yi thought for a while, "This kind of island has no hukou, no output, and no taxes, so what's the use?" ”

"It's good that people don't have a lot of people, but if you don't have output, you don't have taxes." Wu Haogu said with a smile, "For example, although there are no Han people on Liuqiu Island, there are many natives, and they are also rich in deer skins, and if you search carefully, there may be other specialties." On Aernabo Island, there were already natives who established a country, and there were farmland and fishing villages where you could supply food and fresh water to the ships that came to you, and your family's merchant ships going to Japan often docked there, right? ”

Ji Yi nodded, he knew about this A'er Naibo Island and the Tiansun Country on the island. But he doesn't think there is any oil and water on this small island?

Wu Haogu said again: "There is not much oil and water on the island of Liuqiu and Aernabo at the moment, but further south, Luzon Island ...... Does Luzon know? ”

"Yes, yes." Ji recalled, "There are several small countries on this island, and we have always had trade contacts. There are also quite a few people from the country of Vaishya on Luzon who settle on the big island of Liuqiu that you mentioned, and from time to time they will harass Quanzhou and Fuzhou. ”

Unlike Wu Haogu's imagination at the beginning, Luzon was not actually a wild place in the Song Dynasty. The civilization on the island can be said to be quite ancient! The earliest dates back to BC.

"But the wind in that part of Luzon is not good," Ji Yi said, "It was not easy for sea ships to use in the past, so there was not much trade with us." ”

"It's not easy to pass, but you have to pass!" Wu Hao Gu Zhengse said, "What's the matter with the people on their island invading the coast of Fujian?" This official is now the envoy of the coastal city, and he will not take it lightly, and sooner or later he will send troops to fight!

Also, that Sriwijaya has a lot of oil and water, right? ”

"That's a lot!" Ji Yi nodded and said, "The Three Buddhas are so rich!" The merchant ships that travel between the Great Food Country and the Central Plains, as well as the Tianzhu Kingdom and the Central Plains, have to pay taxes to them, and a ship has to pay hundreds or even thousands of taels, it's too dark!

Moreover, although the king there was a vassal to our Great Song Dynasty, he was close to the merchants of the Tianfang Sect, and often made it difficult for the Han merchants to pass through the strait. ”

"So, we have to have an island at the entrance to the Srivijaya Strait as a stronghold," Wuhao Ancient Road, "and then develop into a commercial market, so that we are not afraid of the Srivijaya people blackmailing!"

Brother Yizhi, let's work together! I took the opportunity of the mission to visit the Great Food Country. What do you think? ”

This oil and water is very good!

Ji Yi took a breath, "But Sriwijaya is not a small country, but a powerful country, and there are always tens of thousands of troops, if you really want to fight......

"You can't beat us!" Wu Haogu smiled, "It's just a rabble, how can you beat the water army of our Great Song Coastal Control Division?" ”

How many trolls does the Coastal Containment Division have? Ji Yixin said: You Wu Dalang treat things at sea as land, right? Send 1,000 knights over, hula rush, and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Srivijaya people will also collapse.

"The Three Buddhas are not weak," Ji recalled, "and the Three Buddhas are also a place of miasma, although it is better than Liuqiu Island, but it is difficult for the northerners to stay for a long time." ”

The so-called miasma, in fact, is malaria, which is a common infectious disease in the tropics. Because malaria is transmitted through mosquito bites, the epidemic is milder when the development time is relatively long, and the original vegetation forests no longer exist in the tropics, and in the places where it is not developed, the epidemic will be very serious.

Therefore, although the dimension of Taiwan Island is farther north and the climate is relatively cool, malaria on the island was still very serious during the Song Dynasty. However, the capital of Sriwijaya and the main city of Bolim State, because of the long development time, a large number of primeval forests have been cut down, and the environment is not conducive to the spread of malaria, so the epidemic is not so serious.

And Wu Haogu knows the vector of malaria transmission, so he also has some ways to deal with it. That is, it occupies a small area and is easy to clean, and at the same time establishes a base on the relatively cool and clean seaside.

As for the specific location, of course, it is the future Singapore Island!

"Yizhi," Wu Haogu smiled and waved his hand at Ji Yi, "Don't say it's difficult, you and I can't deal with a small Three Buddhas together?" The northerners are not adaptable, so let's use the southerners to develop the Three Buddhas, and it's a big deal to hire Li people on Danzhou Island (Hainan Island). What we have is money, we have the power granted by the officials, our brothers still have generals who can fight and kill, you have old sailors who can run the sea, and there are boat yards in Jiehe Commercial City and Haizhou...... Let's do this together, there is no reason not to succeed! ”