Chapter 924 A blind man rides a blind horse, entering a deep pool in the middle of the night
"If we want to plot against Japan, we need a lot of ships." Liang Jianfang watched Li Ji take another sip of wine and licked his lips.
"Yunchu is there."
"Hey, where did he get the boat?"
"There is a city in Liaodong called Dahang City. It is the largest and most prosperous seaport in Liaodong. It is said to be a city in the Tang Dynasty. What Yun Chu said there may be more effective.
Over the years, more than 90% of the candles used by wealthy families in Chang'an and Luoyang have been provided by Dahangcheng. I heard that there are no less than a thousand whaling ships that dock every year.
As long as they catch a giant whale, it will be enough for the people there to eat for a long time. During the Chinese New Year the year before last, Yun Chu sent me several barrels of marinated whale meat. I fried it in oil and it tasted good."
Liang Jianfang touched the beard on his chin and said, "Why don't I know? If I knew, I should have taken a share."
Li Ji raised his head and glanced at Liang Jianfang and said: "How do you get the qualifications to participate in the shares? If your grandson Liang Ying participates in the shares, Yun Chu might agree. Daxing City was given to the soldiers of Chang'an Prefecture by Yun Chu when he followed me on the Eastern Expedition.
To find a way to make money, only soldiers from the Chang'an Prefecture are qualified to participate in Dahang City's business.
Do you think Yun Chu could crush the Chang'an soldiers to death by himself?
They relied on the money they earned in Dahang City and their belongings to make proper arrangements for the life, death, and burial of the Chang'an soldiers.
His Majesty asked us people to follow him around the world since August last year. The reason is to get us away so that he can send people to carefully investigate Chang'an City. During this year, Di Bao
You have also seen that officials in Chang'an are transferred frequently. I bet that when Yun Chu, Wen Wen and others return, they will find that at least 40% of the officials under their command are people they have never seen or heard of.
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Liang Jianfang was taken aback and said: "So, Yun Chu, they are going to be doomed and will be ignored by others."
Li Ji peeled off a sea melon seed and ate the bit of meat inside, then said slowly, "Have you seen Yunchu and the others in a hurry?"
Liang Jianfang said: "No."
Li Ji sighed and said, "I even suggested to your majesty in the court that the subordinate officials in Chang'an are knowledgeable and capable. I hope that your majesty can break the gap between officials and reuse the subordinate officials in Chang'an and give these people from humble backgrounds a bright future.
The talents of these officials will not be hindered by their background and lost to everyone.
He also said that for the officials of the Tang Dynasty, Chang'an was a big melting pot and a fertile field for sowing. As long as your Majesty sows the people with lofty ideals in Chang'an, you will be able to harvest a large number of capable and useful talents in the future.
Look, this is the magnanimity and confidence of this person. Your Majesty, as well as the civil and military officials of the entire court, all gave thumbs up after hearing this. Presumably, the subordinate officials who stayed in Chang'an would also feel the same when they heard that their county magistrate praised them in this way.
Be grateful."
As Li Ji spoke, he also slapped away Liang Jianfang's hand that reached for his wine glass, wiped the oil stains on his hand on the piece of cloth, and continued: "I really don't believe that Yun Chu is a selfless person.
, However, they did something selfless, and they did it very thoroughly.
Those under his command can leave Chang'an, but those who need to continue to hone their skills, those who need to be beaten, and those who need to be brought in. People have made it clear how the new talents can integrate into Chang'an's officialdom as soon as possible.
No matter how doubtful I am, I can only hold it in. As long as I open my mouth and say that he is a fake, I will immediately be labeled as jealous of talents and be despised by the world.
But even so, I still don’t believe that Yunchu is such a generous person, because this is no longer something that one person can do."
Liang Jianfang finally got a sea melon seed and put it in his mouth: "You said so much, what do you want to say?"
Li Ji was stunned for a moment and said to Liang Jianfang: "You and Yunchu have always been close. Go and ask him. I want to build a seaport on Xiongjin Road to trade with Japan. Can his Dahang City support some of our ships?"
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Liang Jianfang nodded and said: "Oh, oh, he has many ships, manpower, and money and goods. You should ask him."
Li Ji looked at Liang Jianfang and said sadly: "You old man was obsessed with sex and ruined so many women, but you didn't give birth to a better daughter..."
Liang Jianfang grabbed Li Ji's wine glass and drank it. Then he quickly rocked his wheelchair and walked out. As he walked, he muttered: "You do have a daughter, but you always like to kill your son-in-law..."
After hearing Liang Jianfang's request, Yun Chu did not agree or refuse immediately.
When the wind direction is uncertain, standing in line randomly is a very fatal thing.
The large number of Baiqisi people in Chang'an City means that there are no Baiqisi people in Daxing City.
In the Tang Dynasty, every important military, economic and transportation area must have a Baiqisi.
Today's Dahang City is already the most important city of the Tang Dynasty in Liaodong, it is also the most prosperous city, and it is also an important center for the transportation of materials in the Tang Dynasty and Liaodong.
Back then, when Li Ji led Yunchu and others on the eastern expedition, they went with the purpose of exterminating their descendants and destroying their ancestral temples. Naturally, such a large army would not be polite to them, plus there were 500,000 soldiers to capture them.
, I want profit, I want to take money home.
Therefore, everything of value in the three countries of Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla was taken away by the Eastern Expedition army. As far as Yunchu knew, in the fourth year after he returned home from the Eastern Expedition, he was still getting a steady stream of
The spoils of war given by the emperor.
Among them is Cui Yao’s favorite set of bronze chimes.
This thing was from the Silla Ancestral Temple. It was an instrument that could only be used by princes. Li Zhi didn't like it, so he casually gave it to Yun Chu. According to Cui Yao, the Yun family finally had something that could be passed down from generation to generation.
All the good things from Goguryeo, Silla, and Baekje were shipped back to the Tang Dynasty, including various craftsmen with a little skill and women with a little beauty. It is said that only a few families there can have one.
Kitchen knife, so poor that I can barely see it.
Under this situation, even if the fishermen at sea wanted to trade with them, they would not be able to bring anything good. If they wanted to exchange what the fishermen needed, they had to go to Dahang City.
Because Dahang City is different. It belongs to the Tang Dynasty and is naturally not within the scope of plunder by the army. This difference makes Dahang City the richest and safest city in Liaodong.
As long as they are from Liaodong, there is no one who does not want to live in Dahang City.
Fishermen on whaling ships have no distinction between country and ethnicity. Their home is their ship. They live on the ship all year round. They live on the ship and finally die in the sea.
Copper coins, gold, silver, silk and other things that can be used as money are worthless in their eyes. They need good anchors, iron nails, iron knives, good harpoons, good iron pots, needles, and rice and vegetables.
, pickles and other daily necessities, even the linen cloth advocated by Yun Chu, their demand is very small. Compared with linen cloth and cotton cloth, they feel that sea animal skin is more warm.
Through these people who have been floating on the sea all year round, he has learned that in the far north, across the vast ice fields, there are still some people living there. They live in ice houses and make a living by catching sea beasts.
Yunchu knew that Li Ji had taken a fancy to these sea-crossing Ezo people with beards and hair like shrimp whiskers who fished at sea all year round.
Li Ji knew that there were some Eni people living opposite Baekje. He might hope to use these Eni people who crossed the sea as a pioneer, and then go to the territory of the Eni people opposite Baekje to continue to expand their influence, and eventually go south and capture the entire Japanese country.
This is a good idea.
On the sea between Baekje and Ezo, there are strong winds and waves that come and go all year round. If there are no sailors who are familiar with that sea, if there is a strong wind, let alone the land of Japan, it will be blown all the way by the typhoon.
It is possible to go to Lingnan.
According to what Yun Chu knew, Monk Jianzhen encountered such a strong wind a hundred years later. He clearly set out from Dengzhou, but after getting off the boat, he found that he had arrived in Lingnan.
The Ezo people who cross the sea don't even speak the same language as other Ezo people. They float on the sea all year round. Unless they encounter a giant whale, several ships will cooperate. Otherwise, one ship is a country. Li Ji considered
It's just a delusion.
However, the news that Xue Changfeng came back from Youzhou made Yunchu a little confused, because Xue Changfeng said that he saw many noble sons in Youzhou who could only be seen in Chang'an and Luoyang, and they were just in Youzhou.
After replenishing some supplies, they left Youzhou City. The most important thing was that after they left the city, a group of barbarian knights appeared and followed them all the way north.
In other words, the nobles from Chang'an and Luoyang have already started taking action, and they planned this matter at least half a year ago.
It was true that Yun Chu didn't like these nobles, but he also didn't want to watch these people blindfolded go into a world they were very unfamiliar with, at least he didn't like to see them die on the land of Japan.
After the emperor stayed in Penglai for another three days and saw that no new mirage appeared, he was ready to leave. However, he still sent Liu Renshi, the commander of the Dengzhou Navy, to be responsible for building a new Penglai city here.
The emperor was as angry as a tiger when he came to Penglai, and he was somewhat dejected when he left Penglai.
After leaving the Shandong Peninsula, the front army led by Pei Xingjian and the rear army led by Xue Rengui rushed directly to Hebei. Youzhou deposed the ambassador Hao Chujun, and the governor of Yingzhou Guo Daifeng returned to the court.
Yunchu thought that the emperor would visit Hebei Road, or at least set foot on Hebei territory. However, whether it was because the blow from Penglai was too great for Li Zhi or for some other reason, the emperor did not order to go to Hebei Road. This time
Head straight to Mount Tai.
Zhang Guo's resurrection from the dead was a huge blow to the emperor, mainly because it affected the emperor's state of mind, causing the originally ambitious Li Zhi to seem to have lost his enterprising spirit.