Until the evening, Li Jing didn't seem to have recovered from the excitement of the day. After a brief dinner, Li Jing asked Zhao Jiang to find a map of the southeastern towns and carefully began to study the feasibility of the water division's proposal.

Outside the four seas familiar to the Tang people, many merchants who ran the sea trade have long known that there is a huge island in the South China Sea called Borneo, also known as Bo Ni, which is a huge island many times larger than Hainan Island and Ryukyu Island. Just east of this large island in the South China Sea, that endless ocean is called the Eastern Ocean Sea, which is regarded as a no-man's land where the sun rises. In the north of Borneo is the South China Sea, and to the west, the Tianzhu Sea. And between the Tianzhu Sea and the Great Eclipse, there is also the East Great Eclipse Sea, and to the west of the Great Eclipse, that ocean is called the Western Great Eclipse Sea. On the other side of the Great Western Sea, there are countless other countries, which are called the Tessie, and the further west of the Tessie is regarded as the place where the sun sets.

In fact, the names of these oceans, changed to today's names, the Eastern Ocean Sea is the Pacific Ocean, the South China Sea is the South China Sea, the Tianzhu Sea is the Indian Ocean, the Eastern Ocean is the Arabian Sea, and the Western Ocean is the Atlantic Ocean. From here, it can be seen that these merchant sailors who sailed around most of the world actually have enough knowledge of maritime geography.

In the whole Asian region, although the Tang Dynasty has weakened, but with its unique topography, the closed terrain of the Middle Earth, so that the Central Plains is not invaded by foreign forces, even after the defeat of the Tang Dynasty and the Arabs in the Tocharian Battle in the Western Regions, the Arab Empire has not been able to cross the vast Western Regions and reach the traditional local area of the Central Plains.

The rise of Tibet in the middle of the Tang Dynasty. Although it was once a heavy blow to the Tang Empire. Can be the strength of the plateau tribes. It is also difficult to adapt to the climate of the Central Plains for a while. Although he once controlled the Hexi region and invaded Guanlong, he could not go deeper into the Central Plains. Subsequently, the Tibetans weakened, faster than the Tang Dynasty. The Uighurs of the steppe empire fell even earlier than the Tang Dynasty, and there was no superpower on the grassland. Although a number of tribes in Northeast Asia have risen to replace the weakened Silla and the Balhae. But the emerging Khitan and Tatar people met Li Jing, who would not have appeared in history.

The tribes of the northeast were subjugated, the steppe was still divided, and the northeast, northwest, and southwest tribes were weakened.

Even the Nanzhao Kingdom, which had been fighting with the Tang Dynasty for more than a hundred years in the southwest corner, finally fell silent after the death of the previous king Chiefton. After many years of war, eight national wars in 18 years, in the end, these fierce southern barbarians were dragged to death by the Tang Dynasty.

Look around. At this time, although the Tang Dynasty was extremely weak, it fell into the division of feudal towns. In the chaotic times of mutual attack. However, the surrounding situation of the Central Plains Dynasty was unprecedentedly good, not only the northeast, northwest, and southwest tribes were all extremely weak, but even the once powerful Sassanid Dynasty of the Persian Empire, which fought against the Roman Empire for hundreds of years, was destroyed by the emerging Arab Empire. In the end, although the Arab Empire entered the Western Regions, after the expansion period of the four caliphs, this place spanned the three continents of Asia, Africa and Europe, following the Persian Achaemenid Empire, Alexander's Empire, the Roman Empire, and the Byzantine Empire, and another super empire across Asia, Europe, and Africa, but began to fall into a period of decline.

The Arab Empire, known to the Chinese as the Great Food Dynasty and the Saracen Empire in Spanish, fell into a period of decline at about the same time as the Tang Dynasty.

In the ninth century, the world's great dynasties fell into a period of decline at about the same time.

The Tang Empire had lost even Chang'an several times, and the Tubo people who had beaten the Tang Dynasty were no longer able to rise up, and the imperial Uighurs on the steppe were first in civil strife and then wiped out by a small tribe. The Bohai Sea in the northeast of the sea was extremely weak, the unified Silla on the Samhan Peninsula also began to have civil strife, and the good friend of the Tubo people in the southwest was also the end of the strong crossbow.

During this period, the Eastern Roman Empire was invaded by barbarians, and the fight was retreating.

The Arab Empire, which spanned Asia, Africa and Europe, was not much better, and after a period of 78 years of continuous expansion during the four caliphs, the Arab Empire, which had moved its capital to Baghdad, gradually weakened, and by the ninth century, there were many revolts within the empire. The people's uprisings spread throughout the empire, the most powerful of which were the Barbec uprising, the slave uprising and the Kalmat uprising. At one point, the popular armed "Red Coats" grew to 300,000 men and continued to fight for 20 years. The black slave revolt also lasted for 14 years. Arabia has been completely mired in a wave of popular uprisings and local divisions.

In Tianzhu, the Indian continent was also divided and strife, with a unified dynasty no longer and northern India still in the midst of Arab conquest. In southern India, several dynasties also emerged at the same time, among which the Chola Kingdom and the Vassals were the most powerful. Zhu Luoya, also known as the Zhu Yuan State by the Tang people, was a new dynastic power, they not only frequently conquered the power of the Indian continent, but even sent expeditionary forces into the South China Sea waters, expeditions to the South China Sea island countries, and even had a large-scale naval battle with the Sriwijaya.

It can be said that in this era, the old empires and dynasties have come to an abrupt end, and the emerging forces have taken advantage of the situation.

Especially in the Middle Earth, after the surrounding northeastern, northwestern, and southwestern states were weakened and conquered, only the South Sea Sea, but because of the prosperity of this maritime Silk Road, several emerging forces are accelerating their rise and expansion.

India's Zhuyuan country, Malaysayajayajaya, Indonesia's Java, Cambodia's Chenla country, these forces have begun to flourish and rise.

On the other hand, the places along the coast of the Central Plains and the South Sea, such as Lingnanxi, Lingnandong, Fujian, and Annan, have not fully recovered after several lootings by Huangchao. Like in the Annan area, Li Jing even got intelligence that the local families in the Annan area were greatly strengthened, and the officials stationed by the imperial court were basically hollowed out. According to the development of history, it will not be long before the family in the Annam region will control the Jing Navy, drive out the court officials and divide the local territory, and then completely split and divide the territory in the continuous war in the Central Plains, thus ending the rule of the Central Plains Dynasty over the Annam region for more than 1,000 years.

Even the weakened Nanzhao was able to rely on the war in the Central Plains to escape the fate of being destroyed. Instead, after recuperation. The state of Dali was established. Hundreds of years away from the Central Plains. It can even be said that if it were not for the wars of the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, which greatly weakened the Central Plains' control over the southwest region, the Central Plains Dynasty would inevitably continue to expand southward, just like the conquest of Annam and Nanzhao, and finally stopped the pace of conquest on the shore of the Indian Ocean.

Now there is an opportunity in front of Li Jing, he can directly smash it down before the rise of the South China Sea countries. Kill and maim them. Then, with the strong military strength of the Qin Domain, it only takes a hundred years to incorporate this territory into the territory of the Han family of the Central Plains Dynasty.

Of course, it's not just about expanding territory. First, sea trade is extremely important to the Qin Domain, and even if it wins the world in the future, it is also inseparable from sea trade. And at that time, the sea trade will only be more prosperous, how can such an important sea trade be controlled by the Nanyang countries? Other than that. The South Seas and the southeastern countries are cold compared to the north. But it was extremely hot. However, the hot Nanyang lands are rich in grain. This is an area that can grow three times a year, and is rich in resources such as fruits and fisheries.

There are too many benefits, compared to the uncultivated grassland, which is difficult to actually control, the control of the Nanyang lands is much easier. In many cases, the war with the steppe people can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause, and even if the steppe people are defeated, they will not be able to completely control and occupy the grassland. But the land of Nanyang is different, first, the people of Nanyang are no more fierce and good at fighting than the grassland people, and second, the Qin army can really rule these places for a long time. With time, it is possible to establish a solid rule and even assimilate them.

With so many benefits, how could Li Jing not be impressed. Even if the strategy of the Qin army is now to first go north and then south, first east and then west. According to the strategic order, the strategic direction of the Qin army should be first Hebei, then Hedong, then Henan, followed by Guanzhong, Longyou, Hanzhong Shudibazhong, and then down the Yangtze River, taking Hubei, breaking Hunan, going down Jiangxi, all the way to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the last is Lingnan and other places.

However, if the layout is not made as soon as possible, I am afraid that when the Qin army seizes the world in the future, such as the Zhulin Kingdom, the Three Buddhas, and Java, they will also have full wings.

Early the next morning, Li Jing summoned Li Rang first.

If you want to lay out Nanyang, you first have to look at your own background. If the family foundation is insufficient, Li Jing has to postpone this plan, if the family is rich, then it must be laid out as soon as possible. Even, Li Jing's layout has to be based on the richness of his family's wealth, and different plans have to be formulated.

If you have money, you will fight hard, and if you don't have money, you will make it smaller.

Hearing that Li Jing asked for money as soon as he came, even Li Qilang, the great housekeeper of the Qin Domain, who was called the God of Wealth by Li Jing, couldn't help but glance at Li Jing with some shock. If you don't know the price of firewood and rice, although Li Rang has accumulated financial management methods when he was the richest man in Bianzhou in his early years, and has obtained many true secrets from his master Li Jing, it is still very hard to manage the finances of such a huge feudal town.

What Li Rang is most afraid of is fighting, and if a battle is fought, he will have a lot of white hair. By now, he was young, but he was already half-white.

Qin Fan actually still has a sum of money now, and there is still a lot of it. This is also thanks to Li Jing's previous ruthless disarmament order of one million, and the military budget alone has saved a lot. Moreover, many military enterprises have also begun to change production, and many ordnance factories for their own use have begun to transfer out for sale arms workshops, and some have even directly changed from military industry to civilian use, and some war knife workshops have even been directly changed to the production of plows. In this period of entry and exit, the investment has been reduced, and a lot of income has been increased. In addition, the country's top ten military horse farms have also reduced their scale and sold a large number of inferior war horses, which is another large amount of money. You must know that raising a war horse is much more expensive than raising a warrior.

In addition, a large number of old-style ordnance was sold to the allied feudal towns of the Qin Domain, and a new order issued by Li Jing not long ago, allowing the people of the Qin Domain to register and obtain licenses to purchase and possess weapons, so that a large number of immigrants from the Northeast, as well as the people on the long border, have purchased those old ordnance that has been eliminated from the arsenal, which is another big profit.

In addition, the central bank of the Qin Dynasty had just issued a bond, and all the bonds of 30 million yuan were sold. In addition, the large-scale project presided over by the Ministry of Household of the Qin Dynasty and several secondary ministries below, the Ministry of Construction, the Ministry of Finance, etc., the reconstruction and expansion of Xuzhou City, this project was completely according to the routine of Yanjing at the beginning, and as soon as the project was established, it began to sell land plots, etc., and made a lot of money early. In addition, many land leases on Ryukyu Island and other islands have earned a large amount of rent from various large families who have gone to develop the island

In general, Li Rang actually still has a whole 100 million worth of gold, silver, copper coins and banknotes in the treasury of the Ministry of Finance. Of course, he didn't say it. Because this amount of money may seem like a lot. But in fact, it is on Li Rang's budget table. In fact, all this money has already been spent.

The largest budget expenditure is the military expenditure for the battle of Hebei, which will be fought this year, and there is also a large amount of budget for the salaries of officials and soldiers. In addition, there are several big heads, like a black hole that keeps swallowing money, and this year it is planned to invest 30 million yuan into it, and continue to build this big hole that I don't know how much money it will cost to fill. In addition, education expenditure is also a large amount, the immigration plan is still in progress, and there is still a large gap in follow-up funds. In addition, the military defense plan in the northeast still requires a lot of money, and the peasants and soldiers in the northeast are also waiting for rice to be put into the pot.

100 million, it seems like a lot, but if you can't save a little, it's still a lot worse.

Now, King Qin suddenly asked how much money he still had, and Li Rang was really a little surprised.

"No money!" Li Rang gritted his teeth, but still replied with his neck stalked. All the money has already been budgeted, and it is impossible to draw it out to Li Jing.

Li Jing was stunned. I didn't expect to get such a result.

"Really out of money?"

"It's gone."

"Or, issue some more bonds." Li Jing tried to ask. Li Rang is the God of Wealth, and since he said that there is no money, it means that there is indeed no surplus money.

"I just issued 30 million bonds, and it is not appropriate to issue them again. If there are too many bonds, the interest we have to bear will increase a lot every year, and this burden is very heavy. Li Rang rejected Li Jing's proposal without hesitation.

Li Jing thought for a while, "Why don't we find a little turnover in the southeast towns?" ”

When Li Rang heard this, he immediately said: "When the king said this, I was about to report to you." Dong Chang in eastern Zhejiang, this month's offering was not given. ”

"Maybe it's just a few days of delay."

"It's been half a month, and it won't be slow." Dong Chang is the envoy of the Yisheng Army in eastern Zhejiang, although he is a Tang minister, but in fact, because his territory is basically on the southeast coast, that is, under the threat of the Qin army's naval division anytime and anywhere, so as early as a few years ago, after defeating Liu Hanhong and winning eastern Zhejiang, Dong Chang was very aware of the current affairs and showed his loyalty to Li Jing.

He not only showed his loyalty to Li Jing, but also made offerings to Li Jing every month, and the number of offerings was quite large.

Every ten days, Dong Chang sent people to pay tribute to Yanjing. Each gang had 10,000 taels of gold, 50,000 taels of silver, and 30,000 horses of silk. This is a rich offering, one gold for five silver, eight copper. This batch of tributes was converted into the Flying Tiger copper coins of the Qin Domain, which was exactly worth 200,000 yuan. Three outlines a month, Dong Chang is equivalent to paying Li Jing 600,000 yuan, and in December of a year, Dong Chang will give Li Jing 7.2 million yuan, not counting other gifts such as Li Jing's birthday, Li's mother's birthday, New Year's holidays, etc., in just one year, Dong Chang will almost give Li Jing tens of millions of yuan.

If it weren't for Dong Chang's reliance on sea trade in recent years, he had a lot of light and made a lot of money, and ordinary people would not have been able to afford such a large sum of money.

If it weren't for this, Li Jing would not have made an envoy for Dong Chang's righteous victory army, and let the sailors escort him, and the annual sea trade allowed him to occupy a large share, and even the Qin clan gave Dong Chang a large amount of low-cost and high-quality salt every year.

No wonder Li Rang cares so much about Dong Chang's tribute, 200,000 yuan a gang, 600,000 yuan a month. This is a lot of money, and I don't usually feel it when I send it every month, but when it suddenly breaks, I feel it. If Dong Chang knew that Li Rang had such feelings about his gift, I am afraid that he would have stopped paying tribute a long time ago.

"Dong Chang sent five hundred soldiers to escort the tribute every time, and if he delayed the time, he would inevitably be executed. Therefore, Dong Chang's tribute program is very accurate every time, no more, no less, and each program is ten days apart. But this time, half a month has passed, and I haven't seen his tribute. ”

Dong Chang was originally a wealthy man in Lin'an, Hangzhou, and he didn't have much ability, but he still had some vision. In the past few years, he has worked hard to pay tribute to Li Jing, and he has also lived a nourishing life in eastern Zhejiang. And in order to balance the two Zhejiang, Li Jing didn't care about Qian Di's desire to replace Dong Chang, but he didn't know it, and he always let Dong Chang's seat sit steadily. Dong Chang is also smart, and he pays the most tribute to Li Jing among the feudal domains.

Now that Dong Chang suddenly stopped paying tribute, he couldn't help but let Li Jing have a little more thoughts. Could it be that Dong Chang feels that his wings are stiff, so he doesn't want to spend this money to keep him safe?

Thinking of something in history, Li Jing's face couldn't help but darken a little.

He had Gongsun Lan called.

"You immediately send someone to Yuezhou to find out if there is anything unusual in Zhedong Town recently, and then explore Dong Chang."

Gongsun Lan nodded and wrote down, and the nine birds on his head shook and shook with the golden steps of the phoenix, really like a hundred birds towards the phoenix, competing to fly. "His Royal Highness suspects that Dong Chang has two hearts?"

"It's not impossible, Dong Chang has only been in eastern Zhejiang for a few years, maybe he feels that he is strong, or he is reluctant to give us such a large sum of money, or maybe he thinks the current situation is profitable?" Li Rang said on the side.

Li Jing waved his hand: "Let's find out first, and then talk about it, before the matter is clear, don't startle the snake for the time being." ”

Dong Chang is the envoy of the Yisheng Army, and his subordinates control the territory of Bazhou in Zhedong Town, and Li Jing doesn't want to be too extraneous. I hope that the soldiers escorting Gonggang were delayed on the way, otherwise there is a lot of significance behind this matter.

Gongsun Lan immediately arranged this matter after going back, and three days later, Gongsun Lan received an urgent letter from the southeast. As soon as she opened it, Gongsun Lan's face couldn't help but change, and she immediately hurried into the palace.

"King Qin, the southeast is urgent, Dong Chang is going to be the emperor!" (To be continued......)