Three Kingdoms: I Am Not an Ant Thief Chapter 704: Borrowing the Fleet
At the same time, thousands of miles away from Cao Ang and the others, there was another group on their way to Jidu. They were riding horses and galloping on the roads of Jizhou!
"The changes have been so great. If I hadn't known the Yellow River, I couldn't believe that this is Jizhou!" Zhao Yun, riding a horse, looked at the scene in front of him in disbelief. It was his hometown.
Now the entire Jizhou has become a big construction site. Roads, tracks, canals, and canals are being built everywhere, especially the Grand Canal that runs through the entire Jizhou. Although it has not yet been completed, the hundreds of miles in length that have appeared are enough to show
The huge body of this canal.
Although the people of Jizhou work hard, everyone is full of smiles and their faces are extremely rosy. They are completely different from the Jizhou that was full of hunger and death in the past. To describe it in one sentence, there are a lot of people in Jizhou at this time.
The people felt contented and contented with the paradise.
This scene made Zhao Yun extremely sigh. It was not just what he wanted to see when he followed Liu Bei, but it was a pity that the scene in his dream was actually created by his enemies!
Zhang Fei, on the other hand, was very calm about this and said: "Thunder Lord's governance skills are known all over the world. Jizhou was already a wealthy place. Now there are fewer noble families in Jizhou, and corrupt officials are exploiting them. It is very common for such a scene to happen."
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When he was a neighbor of Daqian in Shanggu County, he saw with his own eyes that Lei Gong led hundreds of thousands of people to build a shabby Mayi into Shangjiangnan. At that time, he knew what Lei Gong was capable of, so
Zhang Fei is not surprised that Jizhou has its current scene now. Compared with Mayi, where a group was formed in one year, a city was formed in two years, and Chengdu was formed in three years, this change in Jizhou is nothing!
But Zhang Fei looked at Jidu and said worriedly: "I just don't know if we can complete my brother's TOEFL this time!"
Zhao Yun said firmly: "Even if we can't complete it, we still have to buy enough sea-going ships!"
They followed Liu Bei in the Nanzhong campaign for more than a year. They had already annihilated three small countries and ruled most of the areas in Nanzhong. However, they were still far away from their destination of Tianzhu, especially since they found that the roads along the way were very difficult.
It is difficult to move, and the primitive rainforest alone is enough to swallow up Liu Bei's army.
And there are cross-cutting mountains everywhere. It can be said that such a road is almost impossible for the army to pass, unless they spend more than ten years cutting down the rainforest and building roads, and this is almost impossible. If they really want to stay
In more than ten years, I am afraid that the ambition of following Liu Bei's noble family will fade away, and he will become a guardian dog like Lu Bu.
But at this time, the Daqian merchants who were following Liu Bei and the others gave them a better way of fighting, which was to learn the Daqian way of fighting and use sea ships to transport soldiers to Tianzhu. This would require at most thousands of miles of sea transportation.
Then you can attack Tianzhu.
After Liu Bei and his advisers discussed for a while, they felt that this was the only way for them to reach Tianzhu. And the only thing they lacked was a sea ship! The Dagan caravan following them, although they had sea ships, they had to wait until they arrived.
The number of their ships was sparse, and it was enough to help Liu Bei and the others transport loot, but they were still unable to transport tens of thousands of soldiers and maintain supplies, because their ships were not powerful enough.
In the entire world, only the Daqian court had a fleet that could transport tens of thousands of soldiers and use naval guns to intimidate coastal cities.
So these merchants proposed to Liu Bei: "General, everyone in the world knows that as long as the ruler has the capacity to accommodate people and the ambition to expand, as long as it is conducive to the expansion of our Daqian civilization, he will definitely agree. Cao Cao was defeated by the ruler , but Cao Cao said that he wanted to lead his men to explore overseas, so the ruler did not kill him, and actually let his fleet take Cao Cao's men to Crab Island.
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The general and the ruler are naturally enemies of life and death when they compete for the world, but now the general is opening up territory and expanding the living space for the people of the world. With such righteousness, the ruler will definitely lend you the fleet, and even if he doesn't, he will sell it to you. I have given you a small fleet, and with this fleet, you will be invincible in Tianzhu."
Although Liu Bei doubted that Lei Gong could be so generous, he could only give it a try with hope. At the same time, he gave all the gold, silver, jewelry and their respective treasures he had obtained in Nanzhong during this period to Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun, and gave them instructions. Even if they couldn't borrow a fleet, they still had to find a way to buy some transport ships in Daqian. That's why Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun came to the hinterland of Daqian.
But Zhao Yun felt strange and said: "Are the Daqian merchants who are following us too enthusiastic, especially when Yun finds that they seem to be more interested in capturing Tianzhu than us?"
Zhang Fei said: "It is said that these merchants in Tianzhu seem to have suffered a loss at the hands of the local kings. They are unwilling to accept it, so they want to take over our hands to retaliate against the kings of Tianzhu!"
Although this is a good reason, Zhao Yun always feels that this matter is not that simple!
I have to say that Zhao Yun's intuition was right! Although Daqian's maritime merchants did not suffer any losses in Tianzhu, they all gnashed their teeth when mentioning Tianzhu! Because Tianzhu caused many of them to lose their money and cut off people and money, such as killing people. Parents, and this is why the merchants of Daqian are gnashing their teeth at the Tuwang of Tianzhu!
After the discovery of Spice Island, the entire Daqian, both official and private, became enthusiastic about the ocean. Not only did they complete the exploration of the entire Southeast Islands within 2 years, but they also unexpectedly visited Tianzhu, the legendary birthplace of Buddhism.
When Daqian merchants first discovered Tianzhu, they were extremely ecstatic, because although Tianzhu was still in a state of fragmentation, its population density was not inferior to that of Daqian, and its politics, economy, and culture were not much worse than those of Daqian. It can be said that It's a completely different kind of prosperous civilization.
Of course, businessmen are not interested in these. What they are interested in is that Tianzhu has tens of millions of people. This is a market comparable to Daqian, so their cotton, woolen cloth and even silk are not as large as Daqian. The same big market! With this market, they don’t have to limit production capacity.
So these merchants excitedly transported a large amount of woolen cloth, cotton cloth and silk from Daqian to Tianzhu.
But what made them extremely disappointed was that Tianzhu was extremely hot, and woolen cloth was not loved by the locals. Cotton cloth was available locally. After the cotton cloth was transported thousands of miles, the price became extremely high. Silk was loved by the locals. , but unfortunately only a few local kings, nobles, and big businessmen can afford these silks, and others have no purchasing power at all.