I really don't want to be a rebel [infrastructure]

Luo Shixing directly confessed in the memorial that he wanted to build a port not just for the purpose of transporting goods, but more for expanding the sea spice road.

The so-called Maritime Spice Road is actually the Maritime Silk Road. The Maritime Silk Road is the name of later generations. At this time, Datang did business with Southeast Asian countries and transported more spices, because this stuff sold the best, and the others followed.

Luo Shixing also admitted frankly that he wanted to send people to Nanyang not to do business, but to find some things, such as native plants of stone honey.

The origin of sugarcane is not in Datang, but it can still grow in Datang. Apart from that, it is cotton, and there are some other important things, such as rubber.

He wants all of these, and he also wants to go further afield.

The farthest places that the Tang Dynasty has been to today are only those countries in Southeast Asia, and they have not gone beyond the scope of Asia.

However, Luo Shixing was sure that there was a mainland on the other side of the sea, and he wanted to go there to see it.

As for why he knew, he confidently pushed it to Vulcan. Who made him the envoy of Vulcan?The god of fire is the god of fire for all people in the world, so fire is used everywhere.

Anyway, after finishing writing this memorandum, Luo Shixing couldn't help feeling, people always need to follow the Romans.

In the past, he tried to avoid these topics of gods and ghosts as much as possible, but now whenever he encounters something that cannot be explained, he himself will take the initiative to bring up his priesthood.

Wu Zhao never thought that there is a mainland on the other side of the sea. Luo Shixing was very cautious and did not raise the theory of the circle of the earth. He was afraid that the queen mother would not accept it, and the theory of the circle of the earth was not important now.

She has no objection to Luo Shixing's thoughts. Young people are always full of whimsical ideas. They have just come into contact with a wider world, so of course they want to fly further.

Generally, those who study abroad are at this age or in their twenties. Those who study abroad only when they are older, sometimes they don’t want to go.

Luo Shixing's memorandum is actually quite rigorous, and all his ideas are based on people's livelihood. It can be seen that he is not the kind of ungrounded assassin.

Even Wu Zhao had to admit that the court lacked such talents. The older ones were more stable than pioneering, while the young ones were full of vigor but lacked experience and were prone to daydreams.

It was Luo Shixing, who really started from the county magistrate bit by bit. When he took over Jiaozhou, it was a mess. He knew exactly what Jiaozhou needed, but he was not stumped by the current predicament and was even full of hope for the future.

Who doesn't like people who are full of vigor and courage as they get frustrated?

Wu Zhao is indeed old. She is 65 years old this year. According to past experience, people in power at this age have gradually entered a state where they are not flexible and only want to maintain stability.

But Wu Zhao is not, her heart is still young, if not for this, she would not be able to seek to become emperor as a woman.

Of course, it was not these business prospects that moved her the most, but the warship Luo Shixing mentioned.

Luo Shixing confessed that he had the idea of ​​building a shipyard. In addition to building cargo ships, the most important thing in the shipyard was to build warships.

Warships can escort merchant ships when they travel across the ocean, and other than that, they can destroy pirates.

After Wu Zhao saw it, she smiled knowingly. She didn't think that Luo Shixing wasted his efforts to build warships just for pirates. In fact, there are not many pirates who will patronize Jiaozhou these days. After all, Jiaozhou is poor, and a trip may not be enough for them to go out. A trip to eat and drink Lazard consumption.

Those pirates' first choice was the Guangzhou area, but Wu Zhao felt that this little bastard should be targeting Luzon Island.

In the letter, Luo Shixing mentioned that there are not many Luzon Islands, saying that the climate is warm and humid, rich in products, and there is not much population, which is very suitable for growing crops.

Given that he seldom writes nonsense in his memorials, the island of Luzon that he can mention must be of great significance.

It’s just that Wu Zhao asked that many people don’t know where Luzon Island is. During the very long period of war among the Ten Kingdoms, Luzon Island has not been discovered by the people of the Central Plains these days.

Expansion of territory is probably the biggest wish of every emperor. Luo Shixing’s memorandum said he wanted to open up trade, and he actually thought so too. The warship actually stemmed from the fear of insufficient firepower. He has not experienced the vicissitudes of the next century. It is difficult for Datang, whose country is so powerful that all nations have come to court, to understand this kind of thinking.

Wu Zhao misunderstood it. She thought that Luo Shixing wanted to take down Luzon Island, so she had to pay attention to it even though she was dispensable to Jiaozhou Port.

Naturally, she was very happy when she nodded, and she even wanted to see what kind of warship Luo Shixing could build.

Wu Zhao is now more powerful than ever, and she agrees that this is not an important matter, at least it is much easier than fighting Tubo, everyone is eager for something to divert the Queen Mother's attention, and stop staring at Tubo every day to want to fight.

It's a pity that no one knows, Wu Zhao just wants to take back the four towns of Anxi that were taken away, and suppress Tubo so that Tubo dare not attack the four towns of Anxi again.

When Luo Shixing received the imperial edict, he happily jumped three feet high, and deeply felt that the popular literature of painting cakes in later generations was quite useful.

To be honest, the things he wrote to Wu Zhao couldn't be realized in a short period of time. According to his thinking, it would be good if they could be done within ten years, and by that time... it is unknown who will be sitting on the emperor's seat.

Anyway, just build it first.

In fact, Luo Shixing had already prepared all the money for the construction of the port. After discussing with Cui Shenji for a long time, he finally decided to build a small port first to berth the existing cargo ships, and expand it later if the throughput needed increases.

At the same time, the logistics park next to it should also be done well, and the surrounding roads should also be gradually repaired.

However, the port built in the early stage does not need much money, and the road is not in a hurry, because the materials can actually be found locally.

As for the lack of manpower mentioned earlier, frankly speaking, there is actually no shortage.

It's really not easy to build in the west of Jiaozhou, because the time of farming has to be staggered, and there are not many times when workers can be recruited for construction throughout the year, but in the east... the water and soil there are not suitable for farming at all, and the farmers have worked hard for a year. Can't get much harvest.

The most important thing is that the Linu No. [-] they bred is not suitable for the saline-alkali land at all. Luo Shixing was drunk when he knew it at the time, but he couldn't find a variety suitable for the saline-alkali land for a while.

It's not cost-effective. It's better for the whole Datang than to study varieties that adapt to the climate of the Central Plains.

Therefore, they can recruit workers regardless of the farming season. For the fishermen in the local fishing village, this is a good income.

Considering that the local transportation is underdeveloped and there may not be a place to spend the money given, Luo Shixing decided to settle all wages with grain.

However, he also emphasized the most important point, those people must be managed well, and there should be no conflicts and petty theft.

Cui Shenji also found out about Luo Shixing and Cheng Jingwei being touched, and his face turned dark on the spot.

These two children were brought up by them. As they are older, they naturally like children. They all treat these two children as their own. How can they be happy to hear that their children are being bullied outside?

Although...Luo Shixing and Cheng Jingwei were not so easy to bully, Cui Shenji was still angry and decided to ask the people below to be stricter when recruiting workers when he went back.

So Luo Shixing was stunned when he saw the temporary laws that Cui Shenji made up - the strictness of this law was not much worse than the Qin law.

You must know that the laws of Daqin are notoriously strict.

He said with some anxiety: "This...is this too strict?"

But Cheng Jingwei agreed: "The people there used to live in a closed life. Have you forgotten what happened in Beidai County? Wasn't the law we made very strict back then? What's more, the people there were suppressed first, and then the It’s also easy for us to open a shipyard.”

Cui Shenji was very surprised after hearing this: "Do you want to open a shipyard?"

Luo Shixing nodded seriously: "Yes, let's go to the shipyard in Guangzhou to buy a ship first, and then build some for our own use, and then build better ones later."

It's not that Luo Shixing didn't want to make better ones. In fact, he even designed the blueprints. However, no matter how advanced the blueprints are, there are no mature craftsmen.

There is no port in Jiaozhou, so Luo Shixing asked people to buy ships. At the same time, he also wanted to see if he could recruit some skilled craftsmen, and then send his own people to learn, otherwise it would be very difficult for his own people to explore a little bit.

After hearing his plan, Cui Shenji asked with bright eyes: "Your envoy has designed a new ship?"

Luo Shixing hesitated for a moment and showed him the drawings. In terms of appearance, he must use the most suitable form as much as possible.

This is most suitable according to the construction technology of this era. After all, those hulls of later generations may not be able to be manufactured now.

The second is the interior, because it is mainly a cargo ship, so the layout is mainly based on cargo transportation, and there are fragile goods areas and fresh food areas.

But what caught Cui Shenji's attention the most was that there were wheel-like things drawn on the exploded view, but each wheel had oars, which were paddles, which looked very strange.

Cui Shenji asked: "Is this a paddle? Why does it look different?"