Feng Ang sat on the side and watched, with wine and food in front of him.

Liu Mu was tired, Feng Ang poured a glass of wine for Liu Mu: "According to my opinion, old brother, all the merchants in Lingnan will be arrested, and there must be a main messenger among them." ”

"I can't catch them all, in the future I will have to rely on them to lead the way, take our caravan around Malacca, and then ......go tens of thousands of miles to the west," Liu Mu stopped here, if he hadn't bypassed the African continent for tens of thousands of miles, he would still have reached the Mediterranean, and he would still have to pass through the territory of Persian merchants.

Seeing that Liu Mu was silent, Feng Ang didn't ask any more questions, just sat aside and poured himself a drink.

Liu Mu didn't like these Persian merchants very much, in the historical records, there were 200,000 merchants from various ethnic groups in Guangzhou City during the Anshi Rebellion, and these people took advantage of the chaos to rob the treasury of Guangzhou City.

Sinbad in Persian stories is a pirate who does all kinds of evil.

Thinking of this, Liu Mu slammed the cup on the ground.

Feng Ang smiled: "I thought of something, look at what makes you angry." Say, who makes you unhappy, the old brother helps you get angry. ”

"I'll tell you two stories, brother."

"Yes!"

"The first story is about a child who fell into the water and was washed away by the sea to the land of giants. He learned knowledge and martial arts in the Giant Country, and then killed all the giants and stole the treasures of the Giant Country, and returned to his hometown as a hero. ”

Yanagigi tells a true story that was used by Wajima to teach children about a thousand years later.

After listening to Liu Mu's detailed story, Feng Ang didn't say a word, and held the wine glass tightly in his hand.

"Let's talk about the second story, it's called Sinbad."

"Two good friends, growing up together. A young frivolous man with no one in his eyes became a pirate. The other will inherit the throne and have a treasure that will be of help to all the peoples. Sinbad ......"

(Don't waste words here, those who are interested can go to see the original version, don't watch the later film and television adaptations and beautify them)

Feng An's face was gloomy and terrifying, in his opinion, these two known as heroes should be scraped by a thousand cuts.

"Of these two stories, one comes from Wajima. It's for them to educate their children. The old brother of the Giant Nation thought it was there. ”

"Hahaha!" Feng Ang laughed loudly.

Don't look at Feng Ang in Lingnan, but Feng Ang doesn't care about it.

"The other is probably the prototype of the Persian merchant. They are pirates. I was just thinking that I really can't find a country in the world that educates and is kind to people except us. ”

Feng Ang asked in surprise, "Can't you find it?" ”

"I really can't find it. I just thought about what I knew, and I can say that this world is ...... It seems that only a few are still wild people at the moment, and they are only guarding their territory. The rest of the city-states are really impossible to find. ”

Feng Ang laughed even louder: "That's good, let's teach them to be reasonable, to understand benevolence, righteousness, reason, and faith." ”

"Very good."

Feng Ang instructed the guards behind him: "Go, be polite and invite all the merchants over there in Guangzhou City." Feng Ang said the word invitation very seriously. Then he continued: "Let them collect the corpse by themselves, and also take a look, peep into the fate of my Datang secret, continue the trial, and the instigators and participants behind the scenes are all slaves." ”

"Order."

Liu Mu's fingers tapped lightly on the table, and Liu Mu didn't think that it could be done immediately, and without years of preparation, this open sea trade was basically sending him to death.

The Persians wanted to infiltrate the workshops because they were curious about the craftsmanship of these workshops.

Thinking of this, Liu Mu said to Feng Ang again: "Those affiliated workshops, let them also be careful." ”

"Yes." After listening to Liu Mu's suggestion, Feng Ang instructed his subordinates to find the big shopkeepers of the cooperative workshops and let them see the fate of these thieves who were hanged on the beach.

Seeing Liu Mu in a daze again, Feng Ang turned his head and asked, "What are you still thinking?" ”

"The Cham people, I heard that their civil strife has stopped. After changing to a royal family, it is still called Linyi Kingdom. Liu Mu asked Feng An.

Feng Ang shook his head: "I don't care about this, and I don't like the Cham either." When my grandmother was back, they invaded our land. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, if it weren't for the Sui general Liu Fang, who had broken through their capital, they would definitely have gone north. So I don't like them. ”

"If you don't like it, then destroy them. I was thinking about having heard that their civil strife had stopped, and that I would do some business with them. ”

Feng Ang asked rhetorically: "Then what goods are you going to sell to them?" ”

"Porcelain, silk, cloth, of course." Liu Mu knew that these three things, together with the tea industry, were definitely the fist products of ancient Huaxia's foreign trade.

Feng Ang asked again: "So, how much porcelain and silk can our ship carry from the north?" ”

"There are more than 100 ships a year, adding up to tens of thousands of stones of silk and porcelain." Yanagi is confident in this number.

Feng Ang laughed: "When my Lingnan people have enough silk to wear, every family can use porcelain cups and bowls." ”

Yanagi smiled awkwardly.

Feng Ang is not wrong, at the moment, he can't even take care of domestic demand, and the Datang National Association has an almost crazy procurement of various materials, which will take at least ten or even twenty years before Datang can rebuild the prosperous era from the ruins of the rebellion at the end of the Sui Dynasty.

And in this process, Datang's domestic demand is amazing.

Liu Mu changed the subject: "In two years, I will support you in building a real steel mill." ”

"Thank you, but don't worry, I need to go to Chang'an once next year, and then send my two sons to Chang'an to study government affairs. After that, it is not too late to build a steel mill. Feng Ang thought very clearly, steel is the first strategic material.

He didn't dare to build this thing, so the current situation is already clear, and the Tang Dynasty is going to change the emperor.

Therefore, Feng Ang was ready to send his two sons to Chang'an as hostages after meeting the new emperor in Chang'an and getting permission, and then dared to build a steel mill.

"It's fine." Liu Mu approved of Feng An's choice.

Suddenly, Feng Ang patted his thigh lightly: "By the way, in ancient times, someone paid tribute to an elephant in the Han Dynasty, how about I send someone to get a few and send them to Chang'an?" ”

"It's good, I want to come to His Royal Highness King Qin, I will like it." Liu Mu added: "Don't send it to Chang'an in your name, in the name of the Xigang firm. What do you think? ”

"That's good, that's it." Feng Anle smiled.

Over the next few days, Lingnan cracked down on anyone who might be able to peep into the workshop's technology, and I don't know how many were imprisoned, dozens of Persian merchants alone died, and hundreds became slaves.

This time Yanagi did not have a soft heart, and the technique was absolutely not allowed to flow out, which was a taboo for Yanagi.

From Guangzhou to Hangzhou, Hangzhou to Laizhou, Hangzhou to Chang'an. The trade of these three lines is slowly taking shape, and it is estimated that more than 120 ships of goods will come and go with the third line in a year.