Aspiring to the Ten Kingdoms

Chapter 614
Luo Youdu discussed with Fu Zhaoxin the matter of Quanzhou Port, and asked: "How are the Hu merchants in Quanzhou now?"

Fu Zhaoxin said: "Since the peace of the South China Sea, the number of Hu merchants who came to the West has increased day by day. They brought a large amount of Western goods, mainly spices, pepper, medicinal materials, gold and silver pearls. They also applied for the imperial court to grant them a Land, let them build warehouses and stack goods.”

Luo Youdu immediately smiled and said: "It's a good idea, think that I, Dayu, belong to the Tang Dynasty?"

Luo Youdu didn't catch the Song Dynasty's slander, Tang Dynasty didn't have much experience in dealing with maritime merchants, so things didn't work well.

The place where Westerners live is surrounded by the sea, and the birthplace of their economy and culture is located in the Mediterranean Sea. Maritime trade is the most common thing for them.

Before the Tang Dynasty, the focus of expeditions was in the Western Regions, and the understanding of the ocean was insufficient. The core external interests were the Silk Road.

As for Guangzhou’s access to the sea and the barbarians, most of the Westerners came to Guangzhou to do business, and there are few records of Chinese people going to sea to do business.

Therefore, no matter what the poems are, what is recorded is the trade scene similar to the towering ships of Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Wanbo.

During the Tang Dynasty alone, more than 4000 Arabian merchant ships arrived in Guangzhou every year, and a large number of foreign businessmen from West Asia and even Africa entered and exited Guangzhou.

In order to accommodate these foreigners, the imperial court gave a piece of land to Hu merchants, and finally developed into [-] Hu merchants, and even controlled the economic lifelines of Guangzhou and Quanzhou.In order to safeguard their own interests, they also raised a group of mercenaries called Kunlun slaves composed of indigenous people in Southeast Asia.

In the end, the [-] Hu merchants were slaughtered by Huang Chao.

There is one thing to say, these [-] Hu merchants obviously have the meaning of doves occupying magpies' nests in history.

If it hadn't been for Huang Chao to slaughter them all and continue to develop, there would probably be troubles in all likelihood.

Fu Zhaoxin nodded and said, "I also rejected their request, but they don't seem very happy."

Luo Youdu grinned and said, "This is weird, does he still have a temper?"

Fu Zhaoxin said with a little worry: "The minister is also curious about the other party's attitude, and secretly sent someone to inquire about their identities. The other party seems to be a businessman in black and rich food. He has considerable power in the west and may affect the ocean-going ships of our dynasty. team."

Fu Zhaoxin didn't know much about the West, he only knew that Tang Dynasty and Heiyi Dashi were defeated in the battle of Tanluosi.

Although there are various reasons, but if you lose, you lose, there is nothing to say.

In Fu Zhaoxin's memory, Dashi in black belongs to a very powerful Western power.

In the past few years in Quanzhou, Fu Zhaoxin has realized the huge profits of the Maritime Silk Road, and he is a little worried that it will affect the business of the imperial court.

When Luo Youdu heard that it was Dashi in black, he said dismissively: "It doesn't matter, when is it the turn of Dashi in black to speak in the West now?"

Since getting in touch with Manichaeism, Luo Youdu has a certain understanding of the situation in the West through Manichaeism.

The Arab Empire, which is now called the Great Food in Black in the Central Plains, is called the Abbasid Dynasty in the West. As an eternal law, after development and prosperity, it will inevitably fall into a stage of decline.

The so-called empire spanning the continents of Asia, Europe and Africa has long been torn apart and has lost its former glory. It is experiencing three major problems: uprisings, foreign invasions, and national division.

Especially 20 years ago, Ahmad of the Baiyi dynasty entered Baghdad, forcing the caliph Mustakfi to grant him the title of supreme commander, depriving him of political power, and only retaining the status of religious leader.

The caliph, the king in black and rich food, has become a puppet of the Baiyi Dynasty, somewhat similar to Han Xiandi in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

The only area they can really rule directly is Baghdad and a small area around it.

Based on the current development trend of the imperial court, Luo Youdu is not afraid of even the peak Arab empire, let alone a fragmented Arab empire?
Fu Zhaoxin didn't know the details, so he didn't answer the call.

Luo Youdu said: "How to deal with it, how to deal with it. They are willing to do business with us, and we welcome them. They want privileges. This is a dream. If they really want to make trouble, they will take it directly with people and goods. From the South China Sea to the Strait of Malacca, It is not the turn of any country to speak loudly in front of us. Dissatisfied, hold back, and hit whenever you want."

After a little thought, he added: "Western merchants have far more experience in sailing at sea than we do. When you go back this time, find some astute people from them to learn from their sailing experience, and then find some merchants who can take advantage of profit-seeking. They buy charts in their hands. It doesn’t matter if you spend a little more money, we are really slow in this regard, and we should spend more money to catch up. In the future, when our navy moves westward according to the charts, we will earn everything back.”

Luo Youdu doesn't mind whether he can trade with the West at the moment, what he cares about is that he is not capable of sailing and cannot go to Alaska to bring corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes and peppers from the Americas.

Fu Zhaoxin wrote down one by one, and respectfully agreed.

Luo Youdu thought for a while, and there was nothing more to say, and said with a smile: "Okay, that's all, let's go on, the queen is probably going to be angry, let's go, go eat first."

Before reaching Renming Hall, Luo Youdu heard the laughter of Chou Chou and Fu Yanqing.

Fu Yanqing, the majestic and majestic king of Wei who ruled for five generations, was running back and forth in front of the hall with his ugly head on his shoulders.

Fu Qing'er watched from the side, unable to laugh or cry, she was worried about flashing her father's waist, and also afraid that Chou Chou would make a mistake, when she saw Luo Youdu and her elder brother came back, she immediately said as if she had seen a savior, "Aye, don't play, let's play first." Eat."

The family had a happy reunion dinner.

After the meal, Luo Youdu chatted with Fu Yanqing, Fu Zhaoxin and his son.

Fu Yanqing is now in a semi-retired state, and all the affairs of the Daming Mansion have been handed over to the assistant officer arranged by Luo Youdu, and the affairs of the Tianxiong Army have also been left to He Jiyun.

He Jiyun is the son of He Fujin, the envoy of Zhou Tianping after Fu Yanqing's old friend. When the Xingjiaomen changed, the two fought side by side and defended Tang Zhuangzong desperately together. They have a deep friendship.

After Fu Yanqing kicked Fu Zhaoxin out of the Tianxiong Army, he trained He Jiyun.

He Jiyun has a calm personality, superior intelligence, and can share joys and sorrows with soldiers. He has a bit of Fu Yanqing's demeanor, and he is a good general.

Luo Youdu met He Jiyun, knew his talent, and acquiesced in this behavior.

When Fu Yanqing saw Luo Youdu, who was at the top, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart. When Guo Rong passed away suddenly, she had no choice but to choose Luo Youdu. Who would have thought that the other party had such achievements, swept away the fatigue of five generations, and reunited the fragmented world in a short period of time. The prestige of the Han and Tang Dynasties in the past.

"Yuezhang!"

Luo Youdu suddenly said: "You have dealt with the Khitan for many years, and I have benefited a lot from that manuscript in the past. The Khitan wolf is ambitious, and the barbarians in the north pretend to be orthodox in the Central Plains. If you don't destroy it, what face will I have? I am planning the Northern Expedition It's been a long time, but there has never been a suitable opportunity. I don't know what Yue Zhang thinks about it?"

Fu Yanqing pondered for a while, and said: "Your Majesty, I think that if you want to really fight against Khitan, you should choose when he is at his peak, not when he is weak and weak. You should leak your flaws in order to fight."

Luo Youdu was surprised and said: "In ancient times, the use of soldiers has never been too much to avoid the strong to attack the weak, and to avoid the strong to attack the weak. It is novel that Yue Zhang is at his peak, and he still wants to leak his own flaws."

Fu Yanqing said: "One moment, another moment. Your Majesty is wise and powerful, the court is prosperous, and no one dares to face it head-on. If the Khitans choose to attack when they are weak, the Khitans will not dare to fight. They will shrink the battle line and stick to the northeastern mountains. Land. Our army is faced with the nails that go deep into the wooden piles, and they need to be pulled out one by one. Time-consuming, laborious, and risky. Just like Tang Taizong's conquest of Goguryeo, although it has the potential to destroy the dead, it is also difficult to defeat the environment and weather. retreat."

"On the contrary, let them fight when they are satisfied, and let them see the hope of fighting us, so that they can be lured to attack instead of passive defense. As long as they are able to attack them head-on, the next battle will be much smoother .”

"When fighting against the grassland nation, the reason for many failures is not that the opponent goes to fight, but that the opponent avoids fighting. Using the vast grasslands and complicated mountains and forests, we continue to consume our army's energy, and at the last critical moment, attack and win."

Luo Youdu couldn't help nodding his head, it was true, he was not afraid of Khitan fighting, he was afraid that Khitan would not fight.

Even if their food and grass are not a problem now, they can't afford the consumption of people's power.

Luo Youdu already had a plan in mind.

But the first thing is to capture the Ryukyu Islands.

In order to avoid alarming the enemy, Luo Youdu did not mobilize Lin Renzhao's East China Sea Division, but instead mobilized a force from the South China Sea Division to attack the Ryukyu Islands.

There is nothing to say about this battle.

Although the Ryukyu Islands live above the sea, they do not have ocean-going warships, only fishing boats in the surrounding offshore.

Seeing the South China Sea Admiral approaching, looking at the ship a hundred times larger than their fishing boats, they didn't even have the courage to board the ship and fight, so they could only gather on the shore and shoot randomly at the Nanhai Admiral in the distance.

Chen Decheng, the deputy commander of the navy, scratched his head and had fought all his life, but he had never seen such a scene.

The soldiers of the Ryukyu Islands in the distance are called soldiers.

They are all dressed in rags and fur clothes. Their bows and arrows are small bows with weak strength. Most of the arrows with arrow feathers are made of bones, and most of them are fish bones. The hard cowhide on the outside for fire protection cannot be shot through.

"The catapult, the thunder, get ready, shoot!"

The soldiers ignited the fuse, and the catapult threw Zhen Tianlei out immediately.

The shocking thunder filled with broken porcelain was shot at the Ryukyu soldiers on the shore.

The Ryukyu soldiers have never seen the world, but they also know that the flying things are not easy to mess with, so they all avoid it.

Who knows that the flying thing exploded before it landed.

Thirty pieces of porcelain were scattered, and the pieces were as big as copper coins. With the power brought by the explosion, they pierced into the bodies of the surrounding soldiers, leaving a terrible wound.

But what is really powerful about Zhentianlei is the word "Zhentianlei", a huge sound, like a thunderbolt exploding on the flat ground.

The sound is like thunder, and the smoke is burning.

The Ryukyu soldiers were originally in the uncivilized era. When they encountered such an attack, they would all be frightened, yelling and running away from each other.

Chen Decheng blinked his eyes and said, "Go ashore!"

Without any suspense, Chen Decheng invaded the capital of the Tiansun Clan in just one day, killed more than [-] enemies, and only five people from the South China Sea Navy were injured...

The Ryukyu Tiansun Clan couldn't organize a decent counterattack at all. Facing the South China Sea Navy that could set fire to lay mines, the Ryukyu natives even regarded them as the messengers of God, surrendering and kneeling in awe...

Chen Decheng took the Ryukyu Islands without any effort, and their momentum of sweeping the fallen leaves by the autumn wind did not alarm their neighbors in the north.

Wa country doesn't know at all, they have changed neighbors...

At this time, the Wa country was still in the Heian period, and the emperor was Emperor Murakami, an emperor who had no real power.

After Emperor Murakami ascended the throne, the real power was in the hands of the Shoseki family. The so-called Shoseki means the Regent Guanbai.

There is a saying among the people: The regent is the emperor, and Guan Bai is the head of all officials, and he is still in the position of minister.

To put it intelligibly, foreign relatives intervene in politics.

Emperor Murakami is a display, and the real power is in the hands of his relatives Fujiwara Miyori and Fujiwara Shisuke.

However, the country is not stable inside the country. The main reason is the destruction of the Bantian system in the country, which is a system that imitates the land equalization system.

Even if the land equalization system cannot support it, let alone the field land system?

There is no imperial examination system in Japan, and the selection of officials depends on family status, which undoubtedly breeds aristocratic families.With the collapse of the Bantian system, the inevitable rise of the aristocratic families.

However, the aristocratic family in the Japanese country is not called the aristocratic family, but the Wu family.

20 years ago, Hei Shomon and Fujiwara Juntomo triggered the "Taiping Tianqing Rebellion". The counter-insurgency army of the central government of the Wa country had not yet arrived, and the two rebels had already been suppressed by the local samurai.

So far, the Sheguan family and the Wu family have fought each other.

Until the Tsushima tragedy happened...

Goryeo's arrogance aroused the Japanese nation's hatred of the enemy, and the Khitan's win over made the Sheguan family and the Wu family align their spearheads with the outside world.

After all, the reason why they fight among themselves is because of the collapse of the economic system and the uneven distribution of spoils. Now that there is a piece of fat in front of them, why bother to fight for the bones next to them?
So led by the two brothers Fujiwara Minorai and Fujiwara Shisuke of the Shiseki family, the Qinghe Genji clan responded and joined forces with samurai families from all over the country to send troops to Goryeo.

With the foreign war, the internal conflicts were all resolved. Fujiwara Miyori, as the de facto ruler of the present-day Wa country, was rarely at leisure, holding his beautiful wife and concubine at home, listening to the singer singing Bai Juyi's "Wild Willow Branches".

Japan also has its own songs, but Miyori Fujiwara only loves to listen to Tang opera, and thinks Tang opera is the most beautiful music in the world.

Only the greatest country can have such beautiful songs.

The Tang Dynasty has perished, and the only country with such songs is the Wa Kingdom.

In the eyes of Mirai Fujiwara, the Wa country is the most powerful country in the East.

When the Tang Dynasty was in its heyday, the Wa State spared no effort to send Tang envoys, but with the decline of the Tang Dynasty, the Wa State had disdained to send Tang envoys since the first year of its founding, which was the period of Emperor Wenzong of Tang Dynasty.

They disdain to associate with the declining Tang Dynasty, and consider themselves the suzerain in the east, and send out a message to the Quartet to make them submit to themselves.

At the same time, Fujiwara also implemented a closed-door policy, blindly arrogant, and lost his understanding of the outside world.

As a result, during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Wu Yue wanted to pretend to be aggressive, pretending to be orthodox in China, and sent envoys to communicate with Baekje and Wa.

But the Wa Kingdom also treated the envoys of Wu and Yue with the attitude of the Kingdom of the Rising Sun.

Both parties wanted to pretend, but in the end they got bored and cut off contact.

Although Miyori Fujiwara had also heard about Luo Yuxinchao, Miyori Fujiwara completely dismissed him, and had no intention of sending an envoy to contact him at all.

How can there be a reason to write a letter to the land of the sunset in the land of the rising sun?
(End of this chapter)