"Is there such a thing?"

"Well, of course, Guishuang Kingdom, Anxi Kingdom and I have notified our country name, but when will this country name become correct and known to all of them, it is still unknown, I don't know how long.

Qin has been destroyed for a long time, how they know about Qin, they don’t know clearly, but they call us Qin, and call Da Qin Da Qin, because they think Da Qin is stronger than us, so Da Qin is Da Qin . "

Zhang Liao was very upset when he heard about it.

"My territory of Wei far exceeds that of the previous dynasties. Your majesty is mighty and mighty. My Wei army has swept across the world and has never been defeated. How dare these defeated generals in the Western Regions say that we are not as good as the Great Qin?"

Guo Peng smiled and waved his hand.

"This matter is really interesting. There is a saying that people in the Western Regions think that the people of Daqin are tall, and their clothes, vehicles and flags are very lawful. This kind of military organization reminds them of us in the East.

Both the Han Dynasty and the later Han Dynasty fought several wars with the Western Regions. They have seen our army, maybe they have also seen the army of the Great Qin State. After comparing the army of the former Han Dynasty with the army of the Great Qin State, they think that the Great Qin Army is stronger. So we are Qin, and Da Qin is Da Qin. "

"This is interesting. People in the Western Regions have indeed seen the former Han army. Compared with the former Han army and the Great Qin army, they actually think that the Great Qin army is stronger? What about our army?"

Zhang Liao's will to fight as a general was aroused.

Guo Peng quickly comforted him.

"We didn't go to Daqin people to fight with them. Peace is the most important thing. Don't have other inappropriate ideas. As long as the other party is willing to do business with us, then do business. It is inevitable to fight thousands of miles away. Too ridiculous."

Zhang Liao thought so too.

It would be absurd to fight at such a distance.

Guo Peng went on to say: "Out of such considerations, I have sent naval ships to explore and advance along this road since a few years ago, and to establish coastal strongholds while advancing. effectiveness.

The red dots on this map are the strongholds set up by the Qingzhou Navy along the coast. Based on some historical materials from previous dynasties and our own exploration findings, I think it is necessary to set up these strongholds along the coast as a supplement in the middle. "

Zhang Liao was speechless for a moment.

"Your Majesty arranged for General Taishi to do all these?"

"Yes, Ziyi has not only been here to help you deal with Shanyue, expand your territory, and transport supplies over the years, but also, under my order, send people to open up a sea route from Linhai County to Daqin.

Over the past few years, the pioneering fleet has encountered many dangers, such as sea storms and the like, sinking 500 ships and drowning [-] people. Now this route is basically confirmed to be correct and can be used back and forth.

But this is not enough, it is far from enough, what we need to do now is to open up a sea trade route, and actually open up this trade route and connect it to the Great Qin Kingdom.

Wang Wei, Ziyi's subordinate, had already set off with five sea ships and more than 1000 people. They followed this commercial route. If they were lucky, they might reach the Great Qin Kingdom. "

Guo Peng looked at the sea and said slowly: "Now, we have to wait for the news."

Chapter 1373. One thousand 280 three primitive colonization begins

Zhang Liao was very surprised.

He didn't know that the emperor would order this kind of thing to go on when he was in the midst of all kinds of affairs.

Is this unheard of thing really necessary?

"Your Majesty, isn't it an illusory thing to be separated by thousands of miles of sea? Why does Your Majesty want to do this?"

Guo Peng faced the sea and sighed.

"Land commerce is interfered by countries such as Guishuang, Anxi, and Kangju. They lie between us and Daqin, preventing us from direct contact, and they become middlemen in it to take advantage of it.

According to what we have learned so far, most of the goods we sold to Guishuang and Anxi, except for the needs of their own dignitaries, were resold to the Great Qin. The Great Qin has a vast territory, a large population, and rich and powerful Like our goods very much.

But because Guishuang Kingdom and Anxi Kingdom profited from it, our goods were resold by them at several times the price. After being sold to the Great Qin Kingdom, an iron pot can be sold for the price of gold, and a batch of silk can also be sold. The price at which gold can be sold. "

Guo Peng sneered and said: "It is conceivable that the Guishuang Kingdom and the Anxi Kingdom have earned a lot of money from our trade with the Great Qin Kingdom. The Great Qin Kingdom was very dissatisfied with this, and sent troops to the Anxi Kingdom several times. , this is because the Parthians are too greedy."

"There is still such a thing."

Zhang Liao felt incredible.

"Yes, this kind of thing happened, so I also find it incredible, but I can also see from the side how greedy the Anxi people are, and they actually forced the Great Qin Kingdom to send troops to conquer them."

Guo Peng shook his head: "However, it seems that this kind of conquest has not achieved much. Perhaps the capital of the Great Qin Kingdom is too far away from the Anxi Kingdom. Even if it is conquered, it cannot be occupied for a long time.

As for the sea route in the south, because the Later Han Dynasty was not keen on maritime trade, maritime trade was not developed. However, there are records in the history books of the Later Han Dynasty that merchants from Daqin arrived in Rinan County.

This also shows that this trade route is feasible. This is a good thing for us and the Great Qin Kingdom. The Great Qin Kingdom can buy cheaper goods and thus buy more.

If the Great Qin Kingdom buys more, we can sell more and earn more. The ones who suffer losses are the Anxi Kingdom and the Guishuang Kingdom, not us and the Great Qin Kingdom. The Great Qin Kingdom is willing to buy, so of course we are willing to sell , the more sold, the more produced.

The more these things are produced, the more people can be recruited to work in the factory. If ordinary people have surplus labor in their families, or strong women who can work, they can also come out to work and earn more wages to subsidize their families. Isn't that true? Is it a good thing? "

Zhang Liao thought about it, and felt that what the emperor said made sense.

"What His Majesty said is indeed reasonable, and I deeply believe it."

"Very good, Wen Yuan, I decided to entrust this task to you. Ziyi stabilized the situation in Jiaozhou. The credit is given to him, and this credit is given to you.

You have been leading troops in Yangzhou for a long time, and the credit for occupying the big island of Yizhou is also yours. Now you are also familiar with water and naval battleships. Who else is better than you for this mission? "

Zhang Liao immediately understood everything the emperor had said before.

The emperor really didn't come to dismiss him, but to continue to appoint him and give him more opportunities to display his talents.

Take the initiative to travel far to the Great Qin State, and open up a sea trade route belonging to the Wei Empire.

It is also possible to achieve mutual cooperation, direct trade, direct exchanges, and even send envoys to each other for further exchanges through sea trade.

As long as this trip is successful, Zhang Liao can get the credit.

This is very meaningful to him.

"Your Majesty, I will never disappoint Your Majesty's hope."

Guo Peng nodded.

"It takes a long time to sail at sea. It may take several months to go back and forth. There will be very terrible storms on the sea. If you encounter it, it will be very dangerous. For you, it is very dangerous. Have you decided to go?"

"Your Majesty trusts me, and I don't think I'm despicable as a general. I'm grateful, and I can't repay you. Now that there are such things that benefit the country and the people, I have no reason to refuse."

Guo Peng patted Zhang Liao on the shoulder.

"Okay, I am very happy that you have such an awareness. I will entrust you with this task. I will entrust you with a huge fleet. There are people, things, food, and water. You can travel far away. There are many crises at sea, but I believe that you will be able to overcome the crisis and come back successfully."

Zhang Liao knelt on the ground and swore.

"If you don't succeed, you will never return."

If you are unsuccessful, you will be buried at the bottom of the sea, and of course you will not be able to return.

But this is not what Guo Peng desires.

With today's navigation technology, of course Rome can go, if he doesn't go, Rome can come by himself.

The Romans had already arrived in China several times, whether by water or by land, it was all feasible, which shows that the navigation technology of this era has already enabled the communication between the two empires.

An official team from Rome even went to Luoyang to meet Emperor Hanhe.

Although far apart, it is not impossible to communicate.

It's just a pity that the Chinese didn't go to the Roman area in person.

Of course, one of the reasons is that the Roman Empire and the small countries in the Western Regions feel that the Roman Empire and the small countries in the Western Regions are of the same size and size.

But the Roman Empire is not unable to sit on an equal footing with the Han Empire.

Ban Chao became interested in Rome through the narration of the people in the Western Regions, and decided to send Gan Ying to Rome to find out what kind of country this Great Qin State, which is revered by the people in the Western Regions, is.

However, Gan Ying's mission was blocked by Erdao dealers in Central Asia—they didn't want the Han Empire to communicate directly with the Roman Empire in order to end their privileges as Erdao dealers.

So Gan Ying's westward journey ended at the bank of the Red Sea, one step short of entering the Roman Empire, and one step short of changing the records in history books.

Later, a sea merchant from Rome arrived in Soochow and was received by Sun Quan. Sun Quan also presented some slaves he had obtained from conquering Shanyue to the Romans.

However, there were not many official exchanges between the two sides, and there were not many results. The efforts of the Roman Empire to establish direct exchanges with China were always unsuccessful.

Later, the Little Ice River struck, Rome entered the era of division, and China also entered the long-term division of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the two sides no longer had any direct exchanges.

But it is different now. The Wei Empire under the leadership of Guo has sufficient strength and technology to actively communicate with Rome, and open up trade routes between the two sides.

A certain Guo will not treat Rome with the mentality of a kingdom above heaven, as long as Rome is willing to do business with him.

He wants to turn Rome into a place for dumping his goods. The Roman Empire, which covers a vast area and a large population, definitely has the strength to become his most perfect market.

He needs Rome, and presumably Rome needs him.

According to what he has found out so far, he only needs to let the fleet reach the Red Sea area and enter Egypt, which is considered to be entering the territory of the Roman Empire.

He didn't need to cross the non-existent Suez Canal, nor did he need to go around the Cape of Good Hope in Africa to reach Europe. He only needed to do business with the Romans in Egypt.

If he wanted to reach the city of Rome, he could pass through Egypt and take a Roman ship to reach the city of Rome, and he didn't need to consider other things.

Even as long as you can reach the Indian Ocean region, you can almost meet Roman merchants and merchant ships.

Therefore, Guo Peng ordered the Qingzhou Navy under Tai Shici to choose five large ships and more than 1000 experienced sailors and sailors to set sail from the north of Yangzhou to explore the route.

According to Guo Peng's request, basically proceed along the coastline, stop at the coast every ten days, establish a living base along the coast, cut wood to build a camp, and then keep people stationed to store food and water, and try to open up arable land to grow food .

This group of people opened up the colonies that first belonged to the Wei Empire.

And when opening up stations along the way, Wei Jun once encountered resistance from the local aborigines because he took a fancy to some lands that had been opened up by the local aborigines.

There is no doubt that the well-armed and powerful Wei army defeated them, drove them away, and captured some people as slaves, and then occupied these places.

Primitive colonization begins.

The same bloody, inhumane, cruel, greedy, but meaningless, no one in this era pays attention to these things with you.

Wei Jun took a fancy to the fertile soil in some coastal areas and decided to set up military garrisons there. There is no one better in the local area. If someone tries to resist, they will naturally be punished by Wei Jun.

At the beginning, Wei Jun was cautious, thinking that these people might be very powerful, but after the battle and found that they were just a group of weak chickens, he became more courageous.

By the way, some people can be captured as slaves, barracks are built for them, the land is cultivated, and they are cruelly squeezed.

It seems that this kind of thing is a natural instinct of the strong. As long as you are weak, as long as you are defeated by force, you must accept slavery and oppression.

After learning about these things, Mr. Guo understood that no matter who initiates the great voyage, the final result will not change, it's just that the owner of the squeeze has changed.

Powerful force is the essence of this world.

From the fourth year of Yande to the eighth year of Yande, the fleet finally opened up a safe and reliable route from the southeastern coastal area to the Egyptian region in a full four years.

And also gained experience through a lot of sailing, explored the existence of ocean currents and monsoons, and determined the best time period for departure and the best time period for return.

More than two months and less than three months is almost the time from departure to arrival in Egypt.

The navy also set up more than a dozen survival strongholds along the route according to Guo Peng's instructions, with more than a thousand soldiers stationed, and a rotation system was implemented according to the sailing time.

These strongholds exist in the Malay Peninsula region of Southeast Asia, southern Bangladesh, southern India, and the southern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and finally reached Egypt.

When implementing this plan, Guo Peng recruited language talents from Guishuang Kingdom and Anxi Kingdom through the Zhenxi Protectorate, who can communicate with Han people and Romans at the same time. He has also recruited several people in recent years.

Several of these people were sent by Guo Peng to Luoyang Taixue to open foreign language classes.

In the future, there will definitely be great opportunities for exchanges with countries such as the Roman Empire. We cannot rely entirely on recruiting language talents from outside, but must also cultivate some language talents ourselves.

Now the Wei Empire has an educational environment and educational resources that are unique in the world. After the punctuation revolution, Guo has almost all the educational resources in the world, and he is fully qualified to offer foreign language classes.

On the condition that language talents can directly enter the Ministry of Foreign Affairs without taking the imperial examination, it quickly attracted a group of Tai students who were willing to learn foreign languages.

In the eighth year of Yande, the foreign language course was held in Luoyang Taixue for the first time, with 46 students in the first batch.

In the tenth year of Yande, these students have completed their studies and have basically mastered the ability to communicate with the Roman government. All of them have entered the Department of Interpretation and Interpretation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The remaining batch of recruited foreign language talents were sent by Guo Peng to the navy to perform tasks with the navy.

Guo Peng himself went to listen to these people's lectures, and noticed that they said that the Romans themselves often used two languages. If they want to communicate with all Romans smoothly, they must master both languages.

Mr. Guo didn't understand this point at all, so he could only let it go and let these professional people come.

Fortunately, the first batch of 46 students who learned the Roman language worked very hard and worked hard to master these two languages ​​​​often spoken by the Romans, and his investment was not in vain.

Guo Peng also asked these people who had been to the Roman Empire to do business, who they were, what they looked like, what kind of civilization they had, and so on.

Some people in Guo felt a little surprised by the descriptions of these people.

They said that the Romans had many different ethnic groups, some had white skin, some had the same skin color as the Chinese, and some had dark skin, tall or short or fat or thin or poor or rich, but they could all say It's the Romans.

The Romans were not distinguished by race, but by Roman citizenship.

This awkward word was explained many times by the merchant translator from the Parthian Empire before Guo Peng realized that it meant "citizenship".

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