sweeping the world

Chapter 815 One of Liu Yan's Great Achievements
There are actually many importances of Yizhou to the mainland. It does not mean that according to some international regulations, all the miles around a certain island are the sea areas of the country that owns the island.

In terms of climate, Yizhou has always been blocking winds from the mainland. When hurricanes or typhoons form in the Pacific Ocean close to the mainland, they are often stopped by Yizhou and do not cause much trouble to the mainland.

If the land is not too tight, there is really no need to develop Yizhou. At most, it is to use some natural deep-water ports on the island to build the island into a transit point for overseas trade materials.Otherwise, almost three or more typhoons or hurricanes pass through the border every year, and every time they cross the border, they will leave a mess.

Liu Yan was not interested in drilling the mountains in the central part of Yizhou. He just walked along the strait and stopped to inspect some ports.

In the current form, Yizhou is not important to the Han State at all, and Guam, which is more peripheral, has been found. Even if you want to build a preventive military base, you should choose Guam instead of Yizhou in terms of value and strategic position. state.

Furthermore, the Han Kingdom is now using troops against the Indochina Peninsula and the Asan Continent. Although Yizhou is an overseas island, compared with Hainan Island, Yizhou does not have an advantage in distance. Hainan Island is not a first-level war material storage. Land, it's Yizhou's turn again.

"Your Majesty, this place is close to Luzon." Yu Yi knew a lot about Yizhou when he worked for the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and Luzon has done some research in recent years: "There are some small islands between the two islands. (Dongsha Islands), Yizhou is used as a transit point for Nanyang goods to be shipped to the mainland."

Liu Yan really didn't pay much attention to it before. To put it more forcefully, he has a lot of things to do every day, so how can he pay attention to every detail.He didn't check it seriously either, otherwise he would have found that there were so many spices, fragrant wood, gems, gold, copper ingots... and so on in the warehouse that it was frightening.

If the Japanese Islands are rich in gold and silver, then the gold and silver reserves of the Nanyang Islands may not be as large as the Japanese Islands, but the resources of the Nanyang Islands are more abundant.

For example, in the Philippine Islands in later generations, gold reserves are actually very considerable, but more are copper reserves. It is no exaggeration to say that some islands are simply made of copper.

Do you know what resources they plundered the most when Spain, the Netherlands, and the United States colonized the Philippine Islands?Anyway, it’s not just bananas, it’s just an exaggerated amount of spices and rich copper resources, and it’s just that the gold was taken away, and platinum was also discovered.

At that time, platinum was not before, and platinum was often used as silver.The Philippine Islands are not a place rich in platinum. Compared with the Americas, there are much more than the Philippine Islands. However, South Africa has the largest reserves. South Africa is also the region with the highest gold and diamond reserves in the world.

By the way, Han Guo actually found a route to South Africa, but because it is really far away, Han Guo is also doing something on the Asan continent, just conducting some inevitable exploration and investigation, and has no intention of entering the past for the time being.

Liu Yan has no intention of going to Luzon at all. His next destination is Malacca.

For Liu Yan, it is very meaningful to revisit the South China Sea. He has served here for four years. Although he often just stays in one place without moving, he has also been on a warship to do some island landings in a few limited experiences. exercise.

The sea is still the same sea, and the island is still in that place, but the time is 660 years earlier, which makes Liu Yan, who is standing on the deck watching, feel somewhat complicated in his heart.

The South China Sea is currently the most prosperous sea area in the Han Dynasty. It used to be the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea, and the Bohai Sea.

The current situation is that the Nanyang Islands have been providing various resources, and the resources plundered from the Indochina Peninsula are also by sea, not to mention that there is a large-scale war going on on the other side of the Strait of Malacca. Naturally, boats come and go.

The season was approaching winter, and naturally there would be no snow in the South China Sea, but there was a possibility of sea storms forming, which might evolve into hurricanes and typhoons sweeping across islands or land.

To put it bluntly, Luzon is also destroyed by hurricanes or typhoons several times a year. In the ninth year of Yuanshuo, it was the most exaggerated, and it was actually destroyed by seven hurricanes.

With the current technology, there is no way to detect the formation of a storm with instruments at all. People have to be close enough to detect it with their eyes. It is often too late to make preventive preparations after discovery. Often it is the ship that discovers the formation of the storm Buried in the sea, the land that did not get the news back in time was not prepared.

"The annual loss rate is between 12.00% and [-]%." ​​Fu Wei was sent over as the navigator. Get immediate help."

Those who run the single gang and the ship sinks, unless there is nothing to float with, otherwise, based on the prosperity of each route, it will basically be discovered and rescued by other ships in a short time.

"The most losses are in the outer routes, especially the southeast route (including the south of the Sulu Sea)." Fu Wei's cheeks twitched when he said this. For a while, the loss rate there reached [-]%, which can be seen The degree of danger: "We have been exploring to the southeast and found several islands, but we have not yet found the Kangaroo Island that His Majesty mentioned."

Uh, it's Australia, but Liu Yan directly named it Kangaroo Island, and it must be said that the name is very appropriate.

At present, the benefits for the entire country are basically outside the mainland. For example, the Indochina Peninsula provides food, fragrant wood, and rubber. The Wa Islands mainly provide gold and silver. Did not get out of the trauma of war.

"There are also fruits." Liu Yan never forgot this: "The pre-Han conquest of the Western Regions increased the recipes, and we made more."

It’s true that the Western Han Dynasty opened up the Western Regions and added countless species to the Central Plains. Even if you enjoy the fruits of the Western Han Dynasty’s labor on the modern table, the more representative ones are cucumber (cucumber), garlic (garlic), and carrots. There are also grapes, walnuts, alfalfa, pomegranates and more.

When the Han Kingdom acquired Nanyang, the biggest harvest was not gems and gold, but various spices, which directly made the cooking of the Han people evolve countless grades.

When the food tastes better, no one is willing to eat some boiled food. What they are looking for is food that can stimulate the taste. That is why the earth will enter the age of spice trade in a certain period of time.

The Europeans fought wars for the spice trade far longer than the silver wars. India and the Nanyang Islands can attract the attention of the Europeans because both places are rich in spices, and they have maintained monopoly wars for hundreds of years.

However, the Central Plains Dynasty is close at hand. Even if they know about the existence of spices and the huge profits that spices can bring, the Central Plains Dynasty always feels that we have a vast land and abundant resources, so we don’t care about such things. They don’t know why the Europa people And why should the Arabs fight their brains over such a thing.

"Hiss..." Liu Yan took a deep breath not because of anything else, but because the food was too sour: "This kind of pineapple is rich in various vitamins. The widow eats this... Has no one tried it first?"

That's right, one of the origins of pineapple is in Nanyang, but no one knew that it could be eaten before...or people who knew that it could be eaten did not report it, and the result was that when Liu Yan wanted to eat it, he ate a sour one. .

Cui Zong was stunned, and when he realized it, he pleaded guilty in fear: "I... think this food is sour."

Liu Yan didn't get angry too much, but let one try one after another in relative annoyance, in short, he wanted to make it sweet.

Of course there is sweetness in the back, and Liu Yan is very happy to share it with others. In fact, everyone didn't think it was very delicious after eating it, but they had to give Liu Yan face and pretended to be eating ginseng fruit.

"Your Majesty." Sang Yu seemed to have thought of it, put down the mango in his hand, and said, "Some indigenous people here are very similar to the Han people."

Liu Yan thinks there is nothing wrong with this. Ah San is immigrating to the Nanyang Islands, but the Ah San race is not flooded in Nanyang. Even if there are some dark-skinned aboriginals in the Nanyang Islands, the number of those dark-skinned aborigines is actually not many , more people with yellow skin, that is, the skin and facial features are the same as the Han people, but their stature will be shorter, and their physique is basically thin.

What kind of physique is related to eating habits and whether you can eat enough. For example, you live in the Urishima Islands, but there is a thing called Yayoi culture. They prohibit eating meat, and the result is that the body is getting shorter and thinner. outrageous.

There are many races in the Nanyang Islands. You can see black charcoal heads, you can find fair-skinned people, and you can also find people who wear Han clothes and can't tell whether they are Han people just from their appearance.

That would be very interesting, like Han will treat those who look similar to himself preferentially, and then use them to exploit other races.At the same time, for the sake of similar appearance, Han Guo will have more ideas of integrating them, while those with black charcoal heads have no idea of ​​integrating them at all.

"Hehehehe..." Liu Yan didn't know what he was thinking of, and laughed for a while before saying: "The widow is enriching the dining table of the Han people!"

The grasslands have been leveled, and due to the increase in livestock acquisition, grazing farms have been built, which has led to a continuous reduction in the prices of cattle, horses, and sheep. At least at present, meat can be seen on every meal on the table of the Han people in northern Xinjiang.Also extends beyond cheese products!

After conquering the Northeast and other places, Chinese herbal medicines have increased, and the rich and powerful have to cook a meal of ginseng old hen every three days.

Occupying the Nanyang Islands, because the amount of spices obtained is too large, the official has not turned it into a luxury item, and it is necessary to add spices when cooking.

There is also the conquest of the sea, and the original fresh-keeping measures have been studied. Regardless of the coast or the inland, a variety of seafood has also been added to the table.

In addition, there are many kinds of vegetables and fruits.

"The widow can predict a little bit." Liu Yan said quite proudly: "If all kinds of nutrition are sufficient, the average height of the Han people must be 1.8 meters, right?"

There is nothing wrong with it at all, as long as the nutrition is sufficient, people will not only be taller, but also physically strong, and all kinds of problems will be much less.

The rest of the people know what to be proud of. If you look up the history, at a certain point in the ancient pre-Qin period, the average height of the ancestors of the Xia Dynasty was an exaggerated 1.9 meters.Please note that the average height is mentioned, not an example.

"Even if nothing is achieved, I will at least make the prices of various foods less high." Liu Yan once wanted pork for one dollar per pound. He thought about it and added: "The cost of slaves Very low, right?”

As a ruler, Liu Yan can have such thoughts, but if he really wants to deliberately suppress the price of a certain product, especially to suppress it so that it is cheaper than cheap, then he really can't do it.

Aren't all kinds of commodities produced?If the price is so low that it loses money, who is willing to produce that commodity? It is not because of the profit that there is the motivation to produce.If the price is forced to be lowered, believe it or not, the merchants that produce that product will go bankrupt one after another, and then no one will produce it, resulting in the disappearance of that product from the market?
So, when Liu Yan said his own words, the accompanying ministers pretended not to hear them anyway, but the sergeants saluted Liu Yan with reverence and anticipation under the condition of permission.

When the weather is good, sailing in Nanyang is actually not a pleasant thing. The main reason is that the sun is so abundant that you can sweat profusely even if you sit and do nothing, and you will even get oily.

In fact, no matter which sea area you are in, as long as you are sailing at sea, unless you build a high-end ship, there is no such thing as comfortable sailing. Just being exposed to the sun is a tormenting thing.

After soaking in sea water and then being exposed to the sun for a long time, you will be sunburned every minute. The skin is red and the other is mild. It is scary and uncomfortable to peel off the skin all over the body.

Of course, Liu Yan will definitely not suffer those crimes. He only stays in the sun for a long time because he is sick. At least he has a sun umbrella when he has to.

At present, the Han Chinese who run Hainan Airlines are not suffering so much. At least they don’t need to go through the torment of lack of vitamins in the initial stage of every civilization’s voyage. At least at the beginning, they know that they should bring bean sprouts and some fruits that are easy to preserve. Just put an ice cellar in the cabin.

After four or five days of sailing, Liu Yan once again saw the land, and he could see from his vague memory that it should be the future Malaysia...Huh?Should it be Brunei or East Timor?It's not a peninsula on the mainland anyway.

When they arrived in this sea area, they were already quite close to Malacca, and they also encountered a special fleet here to meet them.

It was a boundless ship at a glance. They were divided into two square formations. After seeing the Wang Qi, they shouted the slogan "The Son of Heaven is ten thousand years, and the great man has no boundaries".

Liu Yan still knew a little bit. Huan Wen had already led his army to land in Jitana, so there was really no need for too many warships to cause excessive waste. It should be a moderate number to block the coastline of the Gupta Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)