On June 14 of the twentieth year of Zhenguan, Lu Yun's fleet finally returned, from the day they set sail, Li Hao would give them a day every day, this voyage lasted seven months and twenty-eight days, nearly eight months, a total of twenty-three large and small countries, but they did not travel too far, the farthest west was to the Sassanid Dynasty, which bordered the Western Turks and the West.

Back at the palace, Lu Yun reported the results of the trade to Li Hao in detail, and brought back 100,000 taels of gold, 500,000 taels of silver, gold and silver jewelry and some rare treasures, the value of which could not be estimated for the time being.

For the results of this trade, Li Hao was very satisfied, asked Lu Yun in detail about the national conditions of Western countries, and then checked and filled in the gaps against the information he recorded, and improved his hand-drawn world map, which was a huge world map three meters long and three meters high, with brocade silk as the canvas, on it, the map of the Tang Dynasty and Qiong Nanliu were very complete, specific to each state and county, the mountains and rivers are readily available, dense, and it looks dazzling, and some countries around the Tang Dynasty, only the mountains and rivers have been important state and county names, Further west, only the mountains and rivers have been mapped by continental plates, and the rest is blank, waiting for him to explore, and when he completes his exploration, it will be the world's first and most complete, specific and standard world map.

Looking at the world map in front of him, Li Hao yearns for the world more and more, he really wants to go to sea with the ship, go to see the American continent, and erect a monument there, he will replace Columbus as the first person to discover the American continent, he wants to go to Europe to see, and the African savannah......

It's a pity that he can't leave Qiongzhou for the time being, because he knows that an ocean voyage takes too long, and Qiongzhou and Liuqiu are currently in a stage of rapid development, and without him, many jobs will not be able to run normally.

In the eight months that Lu Yun left, Qiongzhou Shipyard and Liuqiu Shipyard built 32 large ships, 20 Galen ships, and 12 clippers, among which there was one largest clippers, which can be called a giant, 94 meters long, and the maximum draft reached 3,500 tons.

At present, the king of the seven seas is parked in Li Hao's private harbor, Li Hao gave Lu Yun a task, let him drive the king of the seven seas, take the fleet to the Wa country, and continue to send supplies and swords to those warlords and rebel forces of the Wa country, according to the news that the god stick Liu passed back, the current Wa country, the Miyamoto family and the Hattori family have been unveiled and rebelled, they rose up with their strong reputation, coupled with rich materials, quickly gathered nearly 40,000 soldiers and horses, so that the emperor was caught off guard, and the two sides are currently fighting, With the Miyamoto family and the Hattori family taking the lead, some other forces in the Wa Kingdom also participated, some supported the Emperor Gogoku, some supported the Miyamoto family and the Hattori family, and some forces went it alone and wanted to fish in troubled waters.

This time, Li Hao prepared 100,000 big knives, and he also asked Lu Yun to bring 300,000 stone grain from Qiongnan and Liuqiu, so that this group of Japanese people had food to eat, and fed them, so that they had the strength to fight, as for other materials, what tea, ceramics, cloth and the like, all brought, what the Japanese country lacked, they would sell it, anyway, now there is a shortage of war and chaos within the Japanese country, coupled with their indiscriminate mining of silver in the country, resulting in the current silver disaster in the Japanese country, there is silver but can not buy things, because war is the most delaying the development of a country, The people have gone to war, naturally no one produces, no one produces, how can there be anything to buy, Li Hao will take advantage of this time to pit all the silver of the Japanese country, in his eyes, the silver mines of the Japanese country are his own, and the group of Japanese people are just his cheap labor.

Lu Yun followed Li Hao's will and took the fleet to Quanzhou Port to purchase materials, these materials, Li Hao had already sent a flying pigeon to Long Sihai, so that Long Sihai was ready, as the head snake of Quanzhou, Long Sihai still has this ability to do things, Lu Yun went there and loaded the materials directly and left, and went to Liuqiu to load food.

In the past six months, the grain of Qiongnan and Liuqiu has been harvested for two seasons, and now the population of Qiongnan and Liuqiu has increased dramatically, and the fields are naturally growing rapidly, Qiongnan now has nearly 300,000 acres of farmland, and Liuqiu is less, only more than 200,000 mu, adding up to a total of more than 500,000 mu of fields, harvesting every season, there will be more than one million stone rice, two seasons are three million stone rice, no way, who made the yield of Zhenguan rice so high, such a yield is definitely eight to ten times that of the previous rice, The people of Liuqiu and Qiongnan together are only more than 300,000 people, and now the rice in the field is about to be harvested again.

After Lu Yun's fleet transported 300,000 stone of rice, he sailed directly to the Wa Kingdom, and now he is looking forward to how much silver he can get back when he goes to the Wa Kingdom this time.

After Lu Yun's fleet left, Li Hao sent another fleet loaded with 300,000 stone rice and transported it to Quanzhou, selling the surplus rice from Liuqiu and Qiongnan to Lingnan and Jiangnan, He also really realized how powerful King Qiongnan was, he just helped King Qiongnan to do chores, and he had already made a lot of money, which shows how much money King Qiongnan made.

Speaking of money, Li Hao really hasn't carefully calculated how much money he has now, but he can now say with confidence that he is the richest man in the Tang Dynasty, even those gate lord clans, they can't compare with him, that group of people is short-sighted, and what he has is a business empire that continuously generates money, and the two are not comparable.

This year, the group of gate lords and scholars have deposited in Li Hao's bank again, and more than last year, all the deposits of the gate lords add up to 15 million guan, the behavior of the gate lord clan has played a good leading role, many wealthy businessmen in Datang have also followed suit, deposited money in Li Hao's bank, this year has not yet reached the end of the year, the total deposits of the bank have reached 38 million, this is a very terrible number, it can also be seen from here that although Datang is strong, although there is money, but the money has never been in the hands of the people, Instead, the economic lifeline is controlled by wealthy merchants and gatekeepers, which is very dangerous.

The gate lord clans and wealthy businessmen all have ten-year fixed deposits, because only the ten-year fixed interest rate is the highest, so Li Hao has to pay them nearly one and a half million yuan in interest every year, and they still want to use this stupid method to drag Li Hao down.

Li Hao's evaluation of them is only two words - stupid, they don't know that they have developed maritime trade, and the land business is slow to make money, Shi Najie's current business has an income of about 1.5 million yuan last year, that is to say, it is just the same as the bank's annual loss.

For the capital bombardment of the gate valve and the rich businessmen, Shi Najie has been working hard, never asked Li Hao for a penny, he has been developing new business, and at the same time sent a large number of caravans to trade in the Western Regions, it is expected that the output value will reach two million this year, and the bank's losses will definitely be filled.

Although the gate valve and the wealthy businessmen were able to take away a large amount of Li Hao from the bank every year, they also trapped a large amount of money because of this, which was very hurtful to them, it was simply a thousand injuries to the enemy and a thousand losses to themselves.

Li Hao has sent a flying pigeon to Shi Najie, opening a twenty-year fixed deposit, the interest rate is 1.5% higher than the ten-year fixed deposit, this decision makes Shi Najie almost crazy, he feels that Li Hao is too crazy, Li Hao thinks that it is not crazy at all, he wants to encourage the group of fools to continue to save money, and trap all their money in themselves, if they are good, the money will be returned to them at that time, if they are not good, then it will be wrong.

Even if this group of gate lords and wealthy businessmen are obedient, Li Hao also knows that they will eventually lose money, because he knows that in ten years, or even twenty years later, there will definitely be a large amount of inflation in the Tang Dynasty, and the reason for inflation is very simple - the Age of Discovery.

The Age of Discovery will lead to the inflow of a large amount of foreign funds, which will naturally activate the economy of the Tang Dynasty, and inflation is an inevitable trend.

On the eighth day of the 11th month of the twentieth year of Zhenguan, Lu Yun's fleet came back from the Wa Kingdom, this time, he brought back a full 55 million taels of silver, after hearing this number, Li Hao was not surprised at all, and he was not too surprised, because he had already calculated that the silver brought back from this trade was definitely in tens of millions of taels.

This time, the brothers Liu and Wang Shi Wang Lei came back with the ship, they have completed their mission with honor, and naturally they have retired, Lu Yun also explained in detail the details of this trade, he not only traded with the Miyamoto family and the Hattori family, but also with some other forces, including Emperor Huangji, he also traded with whom, as long as anyone has silver mines, he will trade with whom, sell materials, sell Taidao, and the next Wa Kingdom will be even more chaotic than the Three Kingdoms era and the Warring States Period.

Li Hao took Lu Yun and Liu to climb a high mountain by the Liuqiu Sea, looking at the endless sea, although it was winter, it was still very warm here, and a gust of sea breeze blew, blowing Li Hao's white clothes and black hair.

Li Hao stood there silent for a long time, then suddenly raised his hand and said lightly: "Soon after, all the oceans will be mine." ”

Everyone was shocked when they heard this, they knew that the ocean was so vast, even if the territory of the Tang Dynasty was far less than it, Li Hao's indifferent words actually revealed a domineering aura of reaching the top.

Li Hao stood proudly with his hands in his hands, and said leisurely: "I'm also ready to start really taking the helm of Datang, but right now, I need an opportunity, I don't know who will provide this opportunity to me......"