Tang Dynasty good brother-in-law

Chapter 985 The Military Port of Malacca
Qin Qiong instructed the guards: "Tell General Su what happened today, and then keep a file for future reference. Generals Su and Niu are in charge of the tactics and strategies of each army, and they will be discussed behind closed doors."

"Yes!"

After all the staff generals left, Qin Qiong let out a long breath.

Tang Jian comforted him and said, "I think seven years ago, if a saint hadn't been enthroned, would our Tang Dynasty have such a prosperous age?"

"Forget it, this is the destiny." Qin Qiong no longer struggled, sighed again and said: "It seems that I am teaching the matter of cherishing the Tao. I need to think more about it."

Tang Jian said: "Why don't you ask Liu Mu for advice? You know, although Liu Mu's son has not been with him for many years, he is well educated. He can dress himself at the age of two, doesn't need to be fed by anyone at the age of three, and at the age of five, he is already well educated. Can distinguish barley seedlings from leeks."

Qin Qiong's eyes lit up: "This is amazing. The third child in Lao Cheng's family even got sugar and salt wrong when he was a teenager. Once, he grabbed a handful of caustic soda for steaming buns and threw it into the soup pot."

Tang Jian was taken aback for a moment, and laughed heartily a few times.

On both sides of the story, Liu Mu left the front line and went to Temasek.

As the east exit of the Malacca Strait, the strategic value here is limitless. Temasek is not a piece of land, but an island, which is separated from the land by a curved and slender waterway.

Later generations of Great Karimon Island, the current name here is Datang Malacca Dongrong Town.

The exit of Xirong Town on the other side of the Malacca Strait is divided into Xirong South Town and Xirong North Town. Controlling the strait is tantamount to controlling one of the important channels for communication between the East and the West.

The other two passages are Magic Island and an unnamed seaport at the southernmost tip of Africa.

Is Temasek Barren?

There are tens of millions of mu of sugarcane fields used as military farms, and the huge income guarantees the affluent life of the officers and soldiers stationed in the South China Sea at this time.

Sitting by the sea, Liu Mu, wearing a long linen robe, gnawed on sugar cane while watching the recruits of the navy run wildly on the beach with heavy loads on their backs.

Feng Zhidai sat beside Liu Mu with two coconuts: "Little uncle, if you eat too much of that thing, your throat will hurt."

"En." Liu Mu took a coconut.

Feng Zhidai stretched out his hand and pointed to the other side of the strait: "Last year, when the Supreme Emperor was traveling in Westport, Borneo, he mentioned in a joking way that the other side of the strait seemed to be hostile to us."

"It's not malicious, but I like our Tang people very much." Liu Mu smiled and threw the half of sugar cane aside, grabbed the coconut and took a sip.

Feng Zhidai immediately said: "Since it is friendly, should we dissuade the Supreme Emperor?"

"Like does not mean friendship. According to the records in the Sui Dynasty, the Gandhara Kingdom once went to pay tribute and offered many treasures. Among them, have you heard of rose water?"

"I have heard of it, and I have seen it. It was an extremely precious treasure back then, but now it is a very common object."

What Liu Mu said was that if he hadn't come to Datang, the rose water would have been extremely precious. The perfume distilled from rose flowers was used and packed in colored glass bottles.

This kind of stained glass is an ancient method from ancient Egypt. The success rate is not 100%, and the ingredients are all based on luck, so there will be various kinds of colored glass.

Liu Mu continued: "The tribute of the Gandhari Kingdom is just to show a small country's admiration for a big country, and has never offered to ask for any rewards. Since the Ghandali Kingdom changed its name a few years ago, it should have changed its king. Now it is called Buddha's death, or Sri Buddha's death, I can't remember clearly, it is a new country transformed into Tianzhu."

Feng Zhidai added: "It is called Sri Buddha's death, and it is claimed that he was enlightened by the Buddha."

"Yes, let's just talk about the new tribute to this country. You may not know their list and the rewards they ask for. Among them, the price of pepper is about [-] yuan per catty. The saint knows very well that pepper is in our occupied area. , I also know the value, but I still read it in the first tribute and gave it."

"Given it?" Feng Zhi Daixin said, the price is already a scam.

Many of the spices that Datang sold to the Mediterranean did not dare to ask for such a price difference. How many dangerous waters are there in the Mediterranean.

Liu Mu smiled: "Then they came again the next year, and the people from the Ministry of Rites hinted that the price of their pepper and other items was a bit high, so they lowered the price from 29 guan to [-] guan for [-] yuan, and then they still used Chang'an City The market price, request to buy silk at the reward price, that is, half price."

"The result?" Feng Zhidai asked anxiously.

"The result is that after the Ministry of Rites refused, they expressed that they would declare war with Datang, thinking that Datang did not respect them. I only found out about this after the accident. It was the critical moment of the Western Expedition, and the sage once again chose to be tolerant."

After listening to Liu Mu's words, Feng Zhidai seemed to be crying, but only smiled, with an extremely weird expression.

Liu Mu smiled: "So, they like Datang, because the people of Datang are stupid and rich but dare not fight."

"They didn't pay tribute for the third time?"

"Come on, Empress Changsun gave a small hint that this fellow Dugu Shura sank all Sri Buddha's boats in the East China Sea, and he sank one and the other, declaring to the outside world that he was caught in a storm."

Speaking of this, Liu Mu stretched out his hand and pointed to the opposite bank: "I don't understand, just across this strait, they also have fishing boats, don't they understand that Datang is already outside their door, why should they put on a face I am an uncle, what do you think of the attitude of the people of Tang Dynasty who are stupid and dare not fight because of their money?"

Feng Zhidai shook his head, he also couldn't figure it out.

Liu Mu also shook his head: "I've been thinking about this question for a long time, but I still haven't figured it out."

"If you don't understand it, don't worry about it. How will my little uncle arrange things after the Battle of Six Edicts?"

Liu Mu held his chin and thought for a while: "According to what we know about the death of Sri Lanka, they don't have any real cities, and the kings live scattered in the boundless tropical rainforest. To be honest, I can't find a way to beat them." , The materials we consume may be one-tenth of the profit from attacking them, or even lower."

Feng Zhidai asked: "Are they small in population?"

"Many, you can even say that there is a large population, but there is no real city. Even the king uses boats instead of horses to travel. It is because the waterways are too dense, the specialties are extremely rich but they don't know how to manage them, and the folk customs are fierce and good at water warfare and jungles. Combat, but more of a melee rather than a group battle."

"Then, once they invade their territory, the army will be continuously attacked from all directions day and night. Perhaps the lethality is not high, and their casualties are more, but it will have a huge blow to the morale of our soldiers. "

Liu Mu nodded: "Yes, my elder brother-in-law also said the same thing. They play like gangsters in the dense forest. They will never participate in frontal combat. In the constant harassment and attacks, once they find an opportunity, They are besieging from all directions like wild beasts."

(End of this chapter)