Zhou Man replied to Bai Shan: "It's fruit pulp. It can be eaten. I heard it can be stewed with meat. It would be great if there are chickens."
"If there are no chickens, can we fish?" Yin You pointed to the seaside and said, "They caught fish."
Zhou Man turned his head and looked, eager to try, "Try it? Maybe you can just stew the fish with the shell and eat it."
They wanted to eat it themselves, but encouraged Lu Zongzi, "There are many more inside, but they are all in clumps. As long as you can climb a tree, you can get more than a dozen. Zongzi can also take others to try."
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He generously gave him a piece of cake to taste first.
Lu Zongzi thanked him, thought about it, and let him pick it.
The group of people rested on the island. Bai Shan also wanted to go up to the savages on the island and make deals with them. They were treated as honored guests and were taken around the island. Zhou Man dug up a lot of wild vegetables and medicinal materials.
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Of course, in the eyes of Lu Zongzi and others, Zhou Man dug not only wild vegetables and medicinal materials, but also a lot of good things on the island. Keke was very happy, Zhou Man was also very happy...
Lu Zongzi, who was originally going to avoid the savages, saw Bai Shan and his party looking for the savages. He first had a fight with them and almost shot them through with an arrow. Then he gathered them with a few steamed buns and held them directly.
They brought linen and cotton to trade with the people.
Lu Zongzi slowly let go of his worries and couldn't help but said to his left and right: "As expected of a prime minister, do you think my little thoughts can dance in front of his eyes?"
The confidants on the left and right stopped talking.
In the evening, Lu Zongzi went to see Bai Shan and started talking directly.
Bai Shan slightly raised his eyebrows, and after sending Lu Zongzi away, he called in his friends, "I originally thought about squeezing out the money to build two ships after we go back, and we would build a fleet ourselves, but when the ready-made ones came, Lu's Company invited us to take shares.
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Yin Yue said, "The Lu family is neither short of money nor short of people. What do they want?"
"Picture of the crossbow weapons on our ship."
Mingda: "It's okay to have two such ships. If we take a larger one, wouldn't it cause trouble for the court?"
Bai Shan smiled and said: "That's why I didn't agree directly, but what if the royal family also joins the investment?"
Mingda was stunned.
Bai Shandao: "Nowadays, sea trade is prosperous. As long as the ship does not capsize when going to sea, there will be very few losses. Your Majesty can do this business."
Zhou Man: "You are not afraid of the imperial censor's verbal and written criticism of the emperor and the people."
Bai Shan didn't care, "I don't want to seduce you. People in the royal family are also involved in sea trade. Not to mention the princes and princesses of the late emperor, who among the current princes is not involved to a greater or lesser extent?"
That is to say, the emperor and empress themselves did not intervene personally.
Mingda's heart moved. Now several princes have grown up. Although Yingnu's position as the prince is very stable, disputes are inevitable. Sea trade is now one of the most profitable ways. Yingnu should not interfere too much. If
If the emperor brother takes over directly, it can make other princes restrain themselves.
Mingda nodded, "I agree."
Bai Er naturally listened to Ming Da.
Yin Li had already taken up his official position, and Yin You had a thought in his mind, "Perhaps he can serve as your Majesty's private army."
Bai Shan nodded approvingly, "I think so too. There are a lot of good things overseas..."
It is difficult for the court to take action. If it is left to private individuals, it will easily lead to ambitions. Being powerful will be bad for the court. If the emperor's private army... then there are too many things that can be done.
Zhou Man turned around and left, "I will take people to pick some fruits. I promised Alu. They will pick fruits for us, and I will teach them how to deal with medicinal materials and some wounds."
Aru is a wild man they have met in the past two days. They can't understand each other, but they can make gestures.
The body language is very mysterious, anyway, they all feel that they understand each other's meaning.
Zhou Man decided to lay a friendly foundation for them here first, so that they can come and interact with each other frequently in the future.
In the end, they harvested a lot of Xuyu and got on the boat. Not to mention, when they were on the boat, they stewed the fish with the Xuyu pulp and ate it. It had a unique flavor and was much better than eating the fish dry.
The group experienced wind and rain, illness, and even encountered pirates, but in the end they made it safely to Tianfang.
Tianfang is a foreign land completely different from the Jin Dynasty. As soon as Zhou Man and Mingda set foot on this land, they were attracted by the blue of the sea and the sky, as well as the bright colors in the city. Zhou Man couldn't help but exhale, "
It’s so beautiful…”
Mingda nodded with deep understanding.
Bai Shan felt a little embarrassed after staying in Haishan for too long. He leaned slightly on Zhou Man and looked up at this foreign land that was different from Da Jin. He smiled slightly and said, "Let's go into the city and have a look."
The people here welcomed the merchant ships from the east. Their fleet was surrounded by people as soon as it docked. Even though Bai Shan and the others did not carry any goods, they were still surrounded by people. Some people waved gold beads and gems.
I want to exchange with them silk and satin cloth from the East.
It took a lot of effort for Bai Shan and the others to break out, but Lu Zongzi had already been submerged in the sea of people.
Bai Shan and the others took a breath, turned around and glanced sympathetically in the direction of Lu Zongzi, then patted their sleeves and left.
Bai Shan and the others did not like to show their identities when they went out. Except for Lu Zongzi and a few stewards in the fleet, no one knew their origins, but they could guess that they were noble people.
Mingda has no intention of acting in the name of Princess Dajin, otherwise it will be too troublesome.
Da Jin is now well-known. If she reveals her identity, she can get a lot of advantages and benefits, but she also has to give up a lot of things.
Not to mention freedom, as a princess of a superior country, when you go to a country, you are not allowed to give state gifts?
Therefore, it is better to remain anonymous. It is not too late to use the identity of the royal family when absolutely necessary.
But that's it. After a few years, as they visited more and more places and traveled more and more between Dajin and overseas, rumors began to spread that there was a royal princess in that mysterious country in the East overseas.
travel.
If I could catch up with this oriental princess, I might be able to use her to reach that mysterious country. I heard that there was silk and gold everywhere, everyone was very rich, and they lived a life like paradise.
After the emperor understood that they had returned from Tianfang safely and brought him a letter of royal maritime trade advice, he no longer stopped them from running out.
Forget it, even Tianfang has gone, where else can he stop them from going?
The royal family took a stake in maritime trade, and worked with the Lu family to build a fleet, achieving maritime supremacy that even pirates shunned.
From then on, even if the imperial power of the Jin Dynasty rose and fell on the mainland, this private army on the sea would always exist and would directly dominate it for three hundred years.
Three hundred years later, even if the Jin Dynasty is not as good as before, it will still be the first in the world. No country can surpass it in economy, culture and maritime trade.
In later generations, Bai Shan and the other five men were also well-known in the history of navigation, especially the book about sea navigation written by Bai Erlang, which became an important reference book for studying the navigation history of Bactria.
And they, Daxia, have been at the forefront of world navigation for more than a thousand years, and the navigation charts left by Bai Shan and Yin You played an important role.
This is a rich and colorful era, an era where talents emerge in large numbers. It is an era in the history of Great Xia, except for the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, when many outstanding talents have appeared continuously for more than a century.
In this era, Daxia's culture, economy, and science and technology were all developing rapidly, as if there was a push from the gods behind them, and they were suddenly moving forward, and they were not stopping for a long time.
Many historians later studied and found that these fields are more or less related to the classics left by Zhou Manbaishan and others.
Many manuscripts have been lost in the torrent of history and cannot be verified, but from some records left by later generations, we know that the inheritance of some skills originally came from the manuscripts of Bai Shan, Zhou Man and Bai Chengyin.
Therefore, the four people, including Princess Mingda, were called the most outstanding talents of that era. Their knowledge was so vast that many people could not match it.