As soon as Li Sheng said this, Chai Shao and Changsun Wuji stopped sighing and became serious.
If what Li Sheng said is true, then this sea trade matter really needs to be reconsidered. I am afraid that there are still many potential crises and it will not go as smoothly as expected.
Chai Shao understood instantly...
Why, Li Shenghui specifically wrote to Li Eryao to ask someone to help him manage the army, even if he was not available... There are no Turks on the sea, why bother to find someone to lead the army in vain? Isn't this causing trouble for himself?
Now think about it...
Chai Shao could only secretly take a breath. Not only was there probably something fishy on the sea, but Li Sheng was afraid that he would have known about it a long time ago!
This man looks like a young man, but he is actually a mature man.
But are there really bandits on the sea? How do bandits on the sea behave?
Both of them looked puzzled. Li Sheng was out for a walk anyway, so he smiled and explained.
"This thing sounds mysterious, but it's actually very simple. Think about it..."
"Since ancient times, bandits have robbed. What do they like to plunder most? Not the villages, but the traveling merchants."
"Why? I thought you were going to rob your village. There are farmers there, and maybe there are quite a few who work part-time as hunters after busy farming."
"Places like this are often full of martial virtues. It's often difficult for you to plunder, and you may even be taken advantage of by some villages with cruel folk customs."
"But the business travelers in the past are different. If you rob these guys, you don't have to worry about overturning. The business travelers may hire people with strong martial arts to escort them, but the bandits will not care about your rules when they come out to rob you, and they will just use hidden arrows to poison you.
, you can succeed no matter what..."
"Furthermore, financial resources in villages are often well hidden, but business travel is different. You have to carry everything with you, so you can just search for it."
"This thing is a ready-made fat sheep!"
Li Sheng said this,
Chai Shao and Changsun Wuji both nodded, it indeed made sense.
But then again...
This doesn't seem to have anything to do with pirates.
The two of them nodded at first, then gradually fell into deep thought.
But as Li Sheng finished speaking, the two of them were stunned.
etc……
The best targets for plundering on land are merchant travelers.
So on the sea, aren’t sea ships just big fat sheep?
Think about the ship full of goods. If you can grab one of these, wouldn't it be like getting rich right there?
Moreover, a place like the ocean is a place where the sky is high and the emperor is far away, where no one cares.
As long as you can grab it, it's all yours...
Thinking about it, thinking about it...
Then this ocean will not shield the pirates, but...
On the contrary, it will breed a large number of bandits, and even encourage ordinary maritime merchants to become pirates??
When they thought of this, both Chai Shao and Sun Wuji felt their scalps go numb for a moment.
The sea is so dangerous... Sure enough, pioneering work is not so easy to mess with!
Of course, that's the big deal. The question now is...
In this case, these twelve big ships now...
It seems majestic, but...
Be it Chai Shao or Changsun Wuji, both of them had studied military science.
Everyone knows that although big ships are good, they may not be as good as small ships in battles on the sea!
At that time, Soochow's fighting boats against Cao Wei were small boats, but their combat effectiveness was extremely powerful.
So follow this rule and look at the sea...
With the idea of being small and broad, and getting rich overnight,
Once sea trade flourishes - as long as Li Sheng successfully lands in the Southeast Bank and opens up a stable shipping route to the world, which is not that far away - then it will not be so strange that such ideas will spread everywhere.
.
Is this so damn good?
Chai Shao and Changsun Wuji immediately panicked, not just a little panicked, but really panicked!
but……
Immediately afterwards, Li Sheng looked deeply and continued,
"For this reason, if maritime trade is to be safe, the royal court's orthodox maritime power must not be weak. Otherwise, over time, not only will a large number of pirates breed, destroy maritime trade, but even maritime Turks who build their country by plundering will be born."
Li Sheng narrowed his eyes with a clear look, "By then, things will be much more troublesome."
In fact, there is no need for Li Sheng to say that Chai Shao and Changsun Wuji also quickly thought of this.
In a place where gangsters breed in large numbers, in the end the gangsters simply banded together to form a Turk. Is there any wonder?
Chai Shao and Changsun Wuji couldn't help but break out in cold sweats when they thought that another Turk would appear on the sea at some point, and it would be a completely different but equally ferocious Turk.
But since Li Sheng said this, naturally...it wasn't to scare people, he naturally had a plan in mind.
Chai Shao and Changsun Wuji looked pale, but Li Sheng laughed.
"But you can rest assured. In the future, although there will be a large number of pirates, the corresponding..."
"Also in the future, the methods and forms of war will gradually change. Sea ships will become more and more powerful and complex. At that time..."
When Li Sheng said this, Chai Shao and Changsun Wuji felt that it was so outrageous...
You say that sea-going ships will become more and more complex and powerful, but aren't pirates becoming more and more invincible?
You are laughing like a hammer...
But then, Li Sheng said.
"And when that time comes, the pirates' ships will become more and more powerful, but correspondingly..."
"The ships of the imperial navy will also gradually become more powerful. The strengthening progress of the two is absolutely different."
Li Sheng said very seriously, "The armaments of ships at sea are different from those on land. A few hundred people can sail a huge ship. This thing relies on excellent industrial capabilities."
"Whether it is the size or the advanced level of weapons on board, it is by no means comparable to the pirates. It will become easier and easier for the court to fight the pirates. As long as the court does not forget its business, there will be nothing wrong at sea."
Li Sheng did not say this casually. It is indeed true that pirates were prevalent during the Great Navigation Period.
But in later periods, there were fewer and fewer pirates, and it was basically impossible to survive.
Even if the activities are at sea, they are limited to smuggling business, or bringing in various prohibited goods, smuggling, etc.
To say that it was such a big thing as plundering a merchant ship, it really didn't happen.
The navies of all countries are too strong. Even if they are not comparable to the top maritime forces of the superpowers, a regular destroyer with some missile boats can easily defeat pirates.
When Chai Shao and Changsun Wuji heard this, they immediately understood.
I couldn't help but sigh in my heart, this is really...
Let Li Sheng calculate everything accurately, and everything in the world is clearly arranged by him...