"If you don't have any qualifications, let him serve as a deputy."

Wu Haogu thought about it and said, "Let's let Wu Sihai go!" ”

Wu Sihai is a member of the Wu family in Haizhou, strictly speaking, he is not a descendant of Wu Haogu, while Shi Bailang is a descendant. He was born in Cangzhou, and his mother was born in the Wudi Chai family, so he became a student of the first phase of the doctoral department of Jiehe Yuntai Academy. After graduating from the doctoral department, he entered the Knight Academy, and after graduating from the Knight College, he entered the Ship Master School. At present, he is a professor at the Haizhou Naval Academy, a serious naval class.

However, because the foundation of the Naval Academy is too thin, his level in this class is not high. His ability is mainly in land warfare.

"In addition," Wu Haogu turned his gaze to Su Shi again, "Brother Zhongnan, please take a trip to Japan." ”

"Xuan Shuai wants to hire more Japanese thugs?"

"Yes!" Wu Hao Gu said, "Double the money, how much you want!" But you must take it seriously, and your ability to cut people can't be bad. ”

Since there is going to be a war, the more cannon fodder, the better. Compared with the cannon fodder of the Great Song Dynasty, the Japanese samurai were much cheaper, and it was much more convenient to hire Japanese people to avoid the monitoring of the Great Song Dynasty......

"Okay, Xiaguan will leave as soon as possible."

Wu Haogu nodded: "Just tell Fan Zhiwen of Hakata Academy to do the matter of hiring thugs, and you can find a chance to go to Heianjing again." Let's talk about the joint mining on Sado Island with Emperor Shirakawain...... The samurai gathered in Kitakyushu now must be a headache for him, right? If you want to fight, you have to be rich! ”

Of course, the Emperor of Baekhein is going to fight the Goryeo Kingdom!

The king of Goryeo was changed two years ago - I don't know if it made the Song people and the Jurchens popular? Anyway, when Yin Qian sent troops to occupy Tsushima Island and Oki Island in Japan, he died of illness. Later, the successor of Goryeo Ruizong didn't know what to think about, and turned his attention from Japan in the south to the birth of a girl in the north!

So at the beginning of last year, Yin Qian was recalled to continue training in the martial arts class, and the practice should be almost the same now, and recently there was news that Goryeo Middle School was going to attack the birth of the girl.

Of course, Wu Haogu didn't want the little elite soldiers that Goryeo had trained with great difficulty to use them to brush up experience points for the Jurchens, so he wanted to incite the Emperor of Baihein to recover Tsushima Island and Hidden Island.

At the same time, Wu Haogu also wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of the Emperor Shirakawain to raise money to fight the war to obtain the right to develop the gold mountain of Sado Island.

Oh, not to plunder Japan's gold, but to use the gold mining technology of the Great Song Dynasty to help Japan develop the gold of Sado Island.

The Japanese are a little more difficult to do than the people in Chenla, Sriwijaya and Java. Moreover, gold seems to be more precious than rice, and it is not possible to force a rope.

But this is not difficult to defeat Wu Haogu. As long as the Japanese can dig up the gold, then the gold will flow to the Great Song Dynasty on its own - this is determined by the maritime supremacy of the Great Song Dynasty, and it is not something that a certain emperor can change.

After being in charge of the Jiehe Commercial Market for many years, Wu Haogu already knew the rules of maritime trade in this era very well.

Because the pricing power of maritime trade belongs to the maritime merchants who control the maritime trade and the countries that have the right to block the road, such as the Arab maritime merchants, the Srivijaya and the Great Food Country. Therefore, for the three big markets and factories in the world, the Great Song Dynasty, India and Europe, overseas trade is unfair, so there is no way to obtain a surplus from maritime trade.

For a long time in the past, the Great Song Dynasty, India and Europe were all deficit sides of maritime trade. The only ones who were able to achieve a surplus were the Srivijaya, the Great Food Country, and the Arab maritime community.

Because the benefits of maritime trade are often tenfold, and there are still many taxes along the way. As a result, most of the gains are earned by intermediaries, and the land-based counterparties of maritime trade will inevitably suffer a deficit.

Therefore, gold and silver did not flow to the Great Song Dynasty, Europe, and India in the maritime trade of the Middle Ages.

Historically, it was only when silver itself became a commodity that it flowed into China in large quantities – because of the discovery of mega silver mines in the Americas, which allowed the Spanish colonists to squander their money. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the country was closed to the outside world, so that the domestic market was not very open to the outside world, which made it possible to accumulate silver through trade.

However, in the Song Dynasty, both silver and gold were relatively scarce. The Song Dynasty's foreign trade was relatively open, so it was not surprising that there was a long-term deficit, and it was even necessary to alleviate the money shortage by banning the export of copper coins.

And this situation completely changed after Ji Yi seized the Sriwijaya Strait. Now the trade between the East and the West has been jointly mastered by the Great Song Dynasty and the Great Food.

In other words, the Great Song Dynasty had the right to block the road in the Sriwijaya Strait and the pricing power to the east of the Sriwijaya Strait. The Great Eaters, on the other hand, have the right to toll barricades in the Arabian Peninsula and the Sinai Peninsula, as well as the pricing power west of the Srivijaya Strait.

In this case, the Maritime Route City Shipping Division (including all the maritime merchants involved in the Nanxin Island Commercial Market and the Sriwijaya City Shipping Division) will be able to accumulate a surplus for the Great Song Dynasty through the Sriwijaya tax collection and trade adjustment policies.

Therefore, as long as Japan was founded, as long as they participated in this trade system controlled by the Hailu City Shipping Division, their gold would sooner or later flow to the Great Song Dynasty.

These were the rules of the game for maritime trade in the Middle Ages!

And in order to seize the right to block the sea and the right to set prices for sea trade, the Great Song Dynasty, Europe, and the Tianfang Sect world, as well as some Indian Ahsan, will inevitably be involved in a big war.

This will be the first world war in the history of mankind!

……

"Mo Niang, how should this 'Repabreca' be translated?"

"A country of the public, or a country of the people...... The meaning of the whole sentence should be the most noble country of the Venetian people. ”

"Sounds a bit like the republican ...... of the Kaihe Merchant City"

"No, no, not republican. Recall that Nu and Princess Anna discussed it, and she said that the 'Repabreca' is derived from the Latin 'Res-Pabreca', which means that the world is the public. ”

"The world is a country of public ......"

On a galley belonging to the Komnenos dynasty on his way to the most honorable Republic of Venice, Ji Yi was discussing the name of Venice with a Mo lady who had learned a little Latin and Greek.

Although Mo Niangzi proposed "the people's country" and "the world is a public country", Ji Yi thought of the republic!

Because in his opinion, the political system of Venice is really similar to that of Jiehe Shang City and Jingdong Shang City. Venice is more like the fully developed Jiehe and Jingdong markets – in the past, Venice also seemed to be a vassal of the Roman Empire, only to break away from the ...... when the empire was weakened What a rebellion!

Although the Republic of Venice is a country of great rebellion, Ji Yi still decided to talk to Anna. Comunina took a trip to Venice with the Viceroy of the Republic of Venice. Fillello meets. In order to persuade the Venetian ruler to agree to support Anna's plan for the United States of Sinai.

During his stay in Constantinople for nearly a month, Ji Yi spent a lot of time learning about the situation in the Mediterranean region, in addition to frequent meetings with the Roman Emperor Alexios I, Patriarch Nicholas, Princess Anna, and Caesar Brinnius.

It was found that on a peninsula in the Mediterranean called Italy, there were several forms of government that were very similar to the Jie He Shang City and the Jingdong Shang City—Venice, Almafi, Pisa, and Genoa—four small states that developed from autonomous merchant cities. Although the country is small and outnumbered, they all have a strong navy and amazing financial resources. It is the little overlord of the sea in the Mediterranean!

If Anna. If Komnina wants to get the United States of Sinai, she must win the support of these four small countries. As long as they are willing to borrow money and boats, Komenina will have the means to reclaim Sinai from the Celestials.

In addition, Ji Yi also learned that there was once a canal on the Sinai Peninsula that connected the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.

If the canal is repaired, the navies of the four small Mediterranean powers will be able to enter the Red Sea...... This has to be guarded against!

"Remember, do you think we Manichaeans can also make a people's country?"

Mo Li suddenly made a suggestion that scared Ji Yi enough.

"People, the country of the people? Where is it? Ji Yi asked hurriedly.

"I don't know." Mo Li said, "When I came to the West, the slave knew how big the world was!" With such a big world, is there no place for us Manichaeans? Couldn't we find a blessed place like Nanxin Island where all Manichaeans could live in peace? ”

"Of course there are......" Ji Yi breathed a sigh of relief, "There will definitely be!" You'll have to go back and gather some maps to see where you can take them, and oh, you can help! ”

What does he mean is where to invade...... This place must be on the East-West trade route, it must be able to become a trade transit station, and it is best to have some special products, which is relatively wealthy.

Mo Li nodded, "I heard that there are still our believers in Europe, can you tell the Pope in Rome to stop persecuting them?" ”

Of course, the city of Rome is also going to be visited, and after Ji Yi has completed his visit to Venice and Almafi (near Naples), he will visit the city of Rome. While he was in the city of Constantinople, he met with the ambassadors of Pope Pastia II, and received an invitation from the Pope at the meeting.

The Pope wanted to send missionaries to the Great Song Dynasty and wanted to know about the spread of Christianity in the East.

Ji Yi, on the other hand, hopes to ask the Pope for more books on ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. In addition, he wanted to gain an equal position for Confucianism, which should also be given a corresponding power in Europe if Christianity wanted to spread in China...... Otherwise, the religions (schools) of both sides should not spread in each other's territory.

"Mo Niangzi," Ji Yi also knew that the issue of Manichaeism was more sensitive than Confucianism, "Now that there is no public Manichaeism on the side of Europa, let's not mention this stubble." This time, let's find a place in the Indian Ocean to be a Manichaean territory! ”

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