The storm ended quickly, and Zhao Si pointed at Zeng Baohua.
"Maoming, please continue the topic."
Zeng Baohua raised his hands and replied: "Yes, Your Majesty!"
"My lords, we just talked about the Western Expedition to open up the land trade route to the west. In fact, we found that the benefits are far better than imagined. Persia, Tianzhu, Lianghe, Egypt, Byzantium and the Liuzhou countries are all familiar lands.
There are many nobles and wealthy people there, with strong purchasing power. We are engaged in business and trade, and our productivity has been greatly improved. Now we are in urgent need of more raw material production areas and sales markets..."
The Xie Ke family was still a little unwilling. He took advantage of Zeng Baohua's break to interject: "Exploring to the west is rewarding and can lead to sustainable development. But to the east, the exploration of North and South Yingzhou costs a lot, but the benefits are meager. I don't think it's worth it.
, it should be stopped.”
Seeing that he could no longer refute the Western Expedition, he immediately changed the subject.
In these years, the Song Dynasty expanded in all directions. In addition to the west, it also expanded to the south, north and east.
Southward was the earliest expansion direction of the Song Dynasty, and now it has turned the South China Sea into the pond of the Song Dynasty.
Not only did it seize the biggest profits, but it also blocked the Johor Strait and the Lion City, Dashi, Persian and Tianzhu merchants. Anyone who wanted to do business had to look at the eyes of the Song Dynasty and pay tolls honestly.
There was also a steady supply of food, gold, copper, coal, spices, wood, pearls, corals and other goods, which brought huge benefits to the Song Dynasty. They truly achieved "gathering goods from all over the world to enrich the Song Dynasty". The Xie Ke family was embarrassed to criticize
Southward expansion strategy.
To the north, it has already occupied the North Sea, Blackwater, and other places, all the way to the ice-covered Northern Ocean. Moreover, expanding northward does not cost much and has little impact, so it is meaningless to make unreasonable accusations.
All that's left is to go east.
Every year, the Song Dynasty government and trading companies spent huge sums of money to organize huge fleets to explore Yingzhou. The Xie Ke family regarded it as a target.
"Xie Zuozheng, what you said is wrong! The exploration of Yingzhou is very worthwhile." Zeng Baohua refuted it unceremoniously.
"In the past twenty years, many expedition teams of the Song Dynasty traveled between northern and southern Yingzhou, not only exploring direct sea routes and many resting islands such as Penglai (Hawaiian) Islands, but also exploring a direct route from Blackwater to Northern Yingzhou.
Over the years, we have transported 67,000 people to Northern and Southern Yingzhou, and established 27 fortresses, six ports, and 112 temporary strongholds..."
"It is true that with the current shipping capacity, it is unrealistic to immigrate to Yingzhou in large numbers and carry out large-scale reclamation. It will take at least ten to twenty years of development to have enough technology, manpower and material resources to
Support. At present, there are three main types of colonization work in Yingzhou."
Zeng Baohua is indeed a civil affairs genius, especially sensitive to economics and numbers. It seems that these messages have always been in his mind, and he only needs to turn them over and read them.
"The first is to conduct trade with the local Xia and Shang survivors, mainly fur goods. Trading companies in various Yingzhou strongholds used sugar, salt, tea, mirrors, knives and other materials to purchase large quantities of cowhide and horns from the local survivors.
, fox fur, mink fur, sea otter fur... According to statistics from the General Administration of Customs and the Ministry of Commerce, the fur goods imported by Yingzhou accounted for one-fifth of the fur products in the Song Dynasty, while sea otter skin and mink fur were two items
Each accounts for two-thirds, and there is an increasing trend year by year."
"After these furs are processed, in addition to domestic sales, a large part of them are sold overland to Persia, Byzantium and other places - especially due to climate reasons, the sales volume of these furs in Persia and Byzantium is much greater than that in Tianzhu, Dashi
Hot areas.”
Zeng Baohua said confidently, and Zongze, Xie Kejia and others looked at him with complicated expressions.
Perhaps the biggest difference between these New Deal officials brought out by the government and the reform officials brought out by Wang Jinggong is that they can tell these facts and data clearly and logically, leaving you unable to refute - if you want to use the same tactics again
, avoid facts and data, insist on entangled on the moral level, the officials will not hesitate to expel you from the cabinet and send you to the ends of the earth to drink coconut water and eat coconut chicken.
Times have changed, and the concepts and methods of governing national affairs have also changed.
"The second is to organize an exploration team to conduct exploration and development near the stronghold. In addition to farming and grazing in the stronghold to be self-sufficient, the people of the Yingzhou Colonization Group also conduct mineral exploration in the surrounding areas that they can cover. Currently, six
One gold mine, two copper mines, and two saltpeter mines.”
"Six of these ten mineral deposits have been officially mined. The joint-stock mining company hires engineers and technicians from the country, hires local survivors as miners, and then conducts preliminary refining, and then operates them back. According to the navy's exploration practice in the past ten years
, basically finding a sea route.”
Xu Huiyan immediately directed several scribes to hang a huge map in front of everyone.
Zhao Si looked at Xu Huiyan, who had retreated to the corner, and sighed inwardly. Ji Zhonggong was really different. He was chosen to work in the government, and he actually came from the police department.
When Jiangdong put down the Fangla Rebellion, Xu Huiyan served in the Zhejiang County Police Department and was ordered to lead the security police team to rescue. He made great contributions and was recommended by Liu Ji to study at the Shengke (Police) College. During this period, he worked at the Kaifeng Prefecture Police Department.
As an intern observing politics, I was accidentally spotted by Zhang Shuye.
Later, when Zhang Shuye came to power, he actually appointed Xu Huiyan, who was then the director of the Bureau of Judicial Investigation, to serve as the Minister of Provincial Government and serve as chief of staff.
interesting.
A voice pulled Zhao Si out of his thoughts. It turned out that Zeng Baohua was standing on the hung map and continued to speak.
"The sea ship is at Jiazhou Port in the middle of Beiyingzhou - this is the first town and seaport built in Beiyingzhou during the Song Dynasty, so it is named Jiazhou."
Zeng Baohua pointed to a certain place on the map and said.
This map mainly covers the Eastern Ocean region, and many places are model lakes - they have not yet been fully explored, or the exploration is still classified and it is not convenient to draw it publicly.
"The fleet loaded the furs and other goods that had been preliminarily processed here and set off. They went south along the coastline and took advantage of a strong ocean current (California Cold Current) to reach Qiaozhou in Central Yingzhou. Yes,
This is it!”
Zeng Baohua pointed to a long and curved gorge on the map and said.
"The terrain here is narrow, like a bridge between North and South Yingzhou, so the town and seaport built here was named Qiaozhou. Load gold, silver, gems, tobacco, cocoa and other goods mined nearby in Qiaozhou, and turn around to the west.
Taking advantage of the trade winds from east to west (low-latitude trade wind belt) and an ocean current also from east to west (North Equatorial Warm Current), we crossed the Eastern Ocean and reached Luzhou Port on Luzon Island."
"The Luzon fleet that met at Luzhou Port to transport copper and gold took advantage of the wind and headed north, either to Guangzhou, or to Shanghai, or to Jinzhou. However, all the Yingzhou fleets would unload and reload goods everywhere.
Rendezvous in Shanghai, reorganize the team, choose a day to set off eastward, replenish some supplies and fresh water at East Wakagoshima, and continue eastward."
"Westerly winds (mid-latitude westerly belts) and ocean currents (North Pacific Warm Current) will quickly send the fleet to the Panglai Islands. After taking a short rest there, continue eastward and reach Koshu Port in Northern Japan."
Zeng Baohua put down his hand from the map, took a few steps forward, and said confidently: "If everything goes well, we will go back and forth from Jiazhou to Qiaozhou, then to Luzhou, and finally from Jiazhou (Shanghai) via Penglai."
In Koshu, it takes exactly one year to walk a circle."
