After returning to the palace, Liu Che heard the good news.
"Your Majesty, this is a memorial from the Governor of the Anton Protectorate..." A eunuch held a memorial and presented it to Liu Che.
Liu Che took it and looked at it.
"It's really pitiful..."
A few years ago, the Wusun Kingdom was the Huns' die-hard brother and important ally.
It dominates the Western Regions and controls tens of thousands of people. It is the giant on the grassland second only to the Xiongnu.
If Liu Che remembers correctly, hundreds of years later, a nation with blood ties to the Wusun will defeat Rouran and rise on the grassland.
Its name is Turk.
Unfortunately, all of this will basically never happen again.
Today, Wusun only has less than 2,000 tribesmen left.
The most important thing is that among such a large tribe, the number of women is pitifully small.
This means that as a nation, it is almost impossible for the Wusun to continue to exist.
However, this is good news for Liu Che.
The Wusun people's horse-raising and horse-selection techniques were as black technology to the Han Dynasty.
With these Wusun people, there was hope of cultivating excellent horse breeds unique to the Han Dynasty.
"Your Majesty, the King of Chaos and the crown prince of Tangyi also have memorials..." The eunuch handed the two memorials to Liu Che at the side.
"We all want to go to sea..."
The kings of Korea, Liu Ming and Chen Xu, only said one thing in their memorials.
That is, they also hope to go to sea and make a fortune in neon just like Chen Jiao.
You can't blame these two people for having such thoughts.
After Chen Jiao returned from a long voyage, she escorted thousands of Japanese slaves and paraded through the market. This made everyone famous.
Japanese slaves or whatever, it doesn't matter.
The key is the whales in the Korean Strait and the Sea of Japan, which make people salivate.
Encourage whaling. This is Liu Che's established national policy.
There is also enough wood in North Korea and the Northeast region to build whaling ships on site.
It's just that the profits from whaling are so huge.
Especially now, there are countless types and numbers of whales living in the world's oceans.
Just near the coasts of China and North Korea, Liu Che feels that a conservative estimate of 1.8 million whales is not an exaggeration at all!
Nowadays, the profit you can get from killing a whale is, at least, hundreds of thousands!
In other words, Liu Che only needs to open this hole.
Then, in the future, the wealth of the princes, kings and maritime merchants along the coast will probably accumulate to a terrifying level.
Especially North Korea and South Korea. They rely on Yuanhai and guard the strait.
If they are allowed to hunt whales as they please.
It is very likely that the wealth of these two kingdoms will surpass Qilu's before long.
A wealthy local government is obviously not conducive to unified dynastic rule.
"The access system should still be implemented..." Liu Che thought about it in his mind and made a decision.
Whaling, of course, should be encouraged.
At this stage, only the whaling industry can promote the development of China's navigation technology and shipbuilding technology.
After all, today's Han family building ship can be said to be looking around with swords drawn and at a loss. Searching the whole world, they can't find an enemy that can match it or even cause a little trouble.
The huge fleet of large-scale ships has dominated the entire offshore China today.
The fleet of South Vietnam, once the greatest enemy, has also become quasi-owning.
There are no enemies, no threats, and even less motivation.
Obviously, if things continue like this, China's shipbuilding technology and navigation technology are likely to come to a standstill.
After all, just like species, technology and industry also need enemies or sufficient interests to drive them forward.
For example, the aerospace technology of later generations.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the United States implemented the Apollo program and sent astronauts to the moon.
But in the new century.
Let alone sending people to the moon or even Mars.
The United States doesn't even have the space shuttle anymore.
Why?
The biggest enemy, the Soviet Union has already defeated Smecta.
The remaining scum, taken together, cannot match the strength of any of Uncle Sam's armed forces.
The invincible Midi air and sea forces dominated the entire earth.
Under such circumstances, a space program with huge investment and almost no short-term benefits will of course be passed on.
Every ten years, just engage in deep space exploration, launch a few detection satellites, and maintain technological advantages.
The same is true today.
The huge Han Dynasty ship fleet was obviously invincible in this world.
What's even more tragic is that it can't even find an enemy.
A building ship can easily cost millions.
The new type of Fu Chuan is even more expensive than the old type of Fu Chuan.
Now, with the support of the emperor Liu Che, the Louchuan Yamen can continue to maintain even if it has been reduced to a fishery administration Yamen.
However, there is a desire to expand or even develop a larger and more advanced fleet.
That was basically a dream.
The courtiers and nobles simply would not agree to invest tens of millions of dollars in resources every year to maintain a large fleet that can only deliver express delivery, catch fish, and patrol inland rivers and offshore waters. Now, the number of building ships is 70 to 80 million per year.
Some people are already criticizing the cost of maintaining money.
I feel like this is a complete waste.
This boat is just for catching fish and delivering express.
Where do you need so much funding?
If Liu Che hadn't suppressed these voices, there would have been a quarrel in the court!
Liu Che believed that if the Louchuan Yamen could not prove the necessity of its existence.
I'm afraid that if he, a supporter, takes a step back, the next generation who will inherit may be instigated by others to burn down all the ships and shipyards, as well as ship design drawings and nautical charts.
Just like after Zhu Di's death, the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty burned all traces of Zheng He's fleet with a fire.
China has always been very realistic.
Similar to Zheng He's fleet, it costs a lot of money. Investing in countless ocean-going fleets will bring neither wealth nor benefits.
If you keep it, it will naturally bring disaster to the country and the people.
Therefore, it is not wrong for the civil servants to burn it.
On the contrary, if Zheng He had lost his integrity, forgotten etiquette and morality, imitated the Western colonizers, carried out genocide, and plundered wealth and people, he would have been loaded with gold and silver every time he returned home.
Look, which civil servant would dare to burn it?
Believe it or not, even if a mast of the fleet is moved, the emperor's labor and management can skin him!
Today's large ship fleet, like Zheng He's fleet, is facing a crisis of existential value.
Liu Che must prove to the world that the resources he invests in building ships every year are worthwhile.
Only in this way can the future large-scale fleet avoid the tragedy of Zheng He's fleet.
Obviously, the current fleet of large ships does not yet have the ability to sail across oceans.
Even the most advanced Fuchuan actually has many shortcomings. It is just a ship that can sail in coastal waters.
Therefore, sending a fleet to expedition to India or even America is impossible for the time being.
The only thing that can reflect its value is actually fishing.
For example, last year, the shipbuilding company dispatched three ships with trawl nets to catch tens of thousands of dried stone fish in the Heishui River in Xinhua, worth nearly 10 million yuan.
It is precisely because of this confidence that Lou Chuan dared to continue to expand the size of its fleet this year. It also began to design new ships based on the concept of Fu Chuan.
But, just this is not enough.
After all, fishing in inland rivers is possible without building boats.
What's more, the cost of trawling is high and manufacturing is difficult. The Shaofu Yamen is now struggling to produce only ten large trawling nets every year.
Fishing for salmon alone is not enough to sustain the existence of large boats.
There was no other way, so Liu Che had no choice but to use bigger tricks.
"Shang Shuling, prepare an edict!"
Ji An quickly sat down and picked up his pen and ink.
"General Louchuan asked the captains of Louchuan to say: Whales, Taiyi has given blessings to my people. I have always been very grateful to the scholar-bureaucrats and princes to lead the people to hunt whales, and the best thing is to go deep and catch more! However, whales, God has given them a blessing.
This is a blessing to the world, not a ban on three or five people. When the scholars and people hunted whales, only three or five people benefited, and it could not benefit the world. I am very sorry. I ordered the people to go up and down the boat to supervise the world's whaling.
, All civil servants, officials and gentry who want to hunt whales must have a reporting boat and obtain the accuracy of the boat before they can hunt whales.
The boat should be the size of a whaling boat, and the tax should be collected. The boat is one foot long, and the tax is 10,000 yuan per year.
It is better for those who hunt whales without permission to have their ships confiscated and ten times the tax due be paid!"
After Liu Che finished speaking, he said to Ji An: "Go and hand this edict to General Lou Chuan!"
"In addition, I would like to tell you that all the old sealed buildings can be transformed into whaling ships. They can hunt whales and refine oil between Qilu, Liaodong and North Korea, and send them to Shaofu!"
Private whaling must be developed, and official whaling must be vigorously promoted.
Currently, there are at least a hundred old-fashioned turrets moored in various ports, doing nothing.
Rather than letting these ships sit in the harbor basking in the weather, it would be better to transform them into whaling ships and play a greater role.
The most important thing is that the tall ships built by the Han Dynasty in the past were not conducive to long voyages, but they were the best carriers for whaling ships.
Because first of all it is big enough, and secondly it is heavy enough.
Ordinary sperm whales and gray whales can be towed away directly, and even blue whales weighing tens of tons and more than a hundred tons can be hunted by these building ships.
"No!" Ji An accepted the order and left.
"Now, the animal protection organizations of later generations will probably kill me..." Liu Che thought in his heart.
No matter what species on this earth, the Chinese are eyeing them.
If only it could still be put on the table.
So, Liu Che just wants to say that you will be blessed!
The people of the foodie empire are natural destroyers of species.
Whales are obviously creatures that can be put on the dinner table and have huge economic benefits.
In the foreseeable future, the whales in China's offshore waters and Yuanhai Sea may be in danger of extinction!
However, after thinking about it, Liu Che felt that such a future seemed impossible to happen.
That's right, once the big foodie empire sets its sights on a certain species, that species will suffer tragedy.
However, nowadays, traditional values and simple humanistic ideas still deeply influence the people of the Han family.
Nowadays, even illiterate hunters will not hunt in spring, let alone hunt pregnant females with cubs. Many hunters even deliberately let go of pregnant females and injured cubs that have fallen into traps.
The Chinese people have never done such stupid things as fixing the lake while fishing.
Therefore, generally speaking, whales as a species should not be in danger of extinction.
However, no matter how much they want to be as carefree and without natural enemies as they are now, they can only dream! (To be continued.)
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