Drive the RV back to Datang

Chapter 435 Chapter 446: The Mountain View
On June 20th of the 28th year of Zhenguan, Lu Yun's fleet finally returned. From the day they set sail, Li Hao would record the date for them every day. This sea voyage lasted seven months and 23 days, nearly eight months. Over time, they went to [-] countries, big and small, but they didn’t travel too far. The farthest westward was the Sasanian Dynasty, which borders the West Turkic Empire.

Back at the palace, Lu Yun reported the results of the trade to Li Hao in detail. He brought back 10 taels of gold, 50 taels of silver, some gold and silver jewelry, and some rare treasures. Fortunately, the wind and waves were not big, there was no danger, and there was no loss of personnel or ships.

Li Hao was very satisfied with the results of this trade. He asked Lu Yun about the national conditions of the western countries in detail, and then compared the information he recorded to check for omissions and fill in the gaps, and perfected his hand-painted world map. It was a three-meter-long and three-meter-high map. A huge map of the world, with brocade silk as the canvas, on it, the map of the Tang Dynasty and the Qiongnan River are very complete. As for each state and county, mountains, rivers and rivers are all available, densely packed, which makes people dazzled. In some countries around the Tang Dynasty, only the mountains, rivers and rivers have important state names, and further west, only the mountains, rivers and rivers have been included in the continental plate map, and the rest is blank, and he has yet to explore. When he completes the exploration, this will be the world's The first most complete, most specific and standard world map.

Looking at the world map in front of him, Li Hao yearned for the current world more and more. He really wanted to go out to sea with the boat to see the American continent, erect a monument there, and he would replace Columbus as the first person to discover the American continent. I really want to go to Europe and see the African savannah...

It's a pity that he can't leave Qiongzhou for the time being, because he knows that an ocean voyage will take too long. Qiongzhou and Liuqiu are currently in a stage of rapid development. Without him in charge, many jobs cannot run normally.

During the eight months since Lu Yun left, Qiongzhou Shipyard and Liuqiu Shipyard built another 32 large ships, 94 Galen ships, and 3500 flying shear ships, including the largest flying shear ship, which can be called The giant is 43 meters long and has a maximum draft of [-] tons. Li Hao named it "The King of the Seven Seas". Equipped with a total of [-] artillery pieces, it is a well-deserved king of the sea.

At present, the King of the Seven Seas is parked in Li Hao's private harbor. Li Hao gave Lu Yun a mission to drive the King of the Seven Seas and take the fleet to the country of Wa, and continue to deliver the warlords and rebel forces of the country of Japan. Supplies and swords, according to the news from the magic stick Liu Chuan, the current Japanese country, the Miyamoto family and the Hattori family have rebelled. They rebelled with their strong reputation, and with the abundant supplies, they quickly gathered nearly [-] soldiers. Ma, the Emperor Huangji was caught off guard. The two sides are currently fighting. With the Miyamoto family and the Hattori family taking the lead, other forces in the Wa Kingdom have also joined in. Some support the Emperor Huangji, and some support the Miyamoto family and Hattori The family, and some forces are working alone, trying to fish in troubled waters. The current Wa country is really in chaos.

This time, Li Hao prepared 30 large swords, and he also asked Lu Yun to bring [-] shi of grain from Qiongnan and Liuqiu, so that these Japanese people would have food to eat, and they would have the strength to fight among themselves. , As for other materials, such as tea, pottery, cloth, etc., bring them with you. If there is any shortage in the country, you can sell it. Anyway, there is a turmoil in the country, and they are indiscriminately mining silver mines in the country, which has led to the silver disaster in the country. , I have money but I can't buy anything, because war is the most delayed development of a country, the people are all going to war, and naturally no one produces, no one produces, there is nothing to buy, Li Hao will take advantage of this At that time, he pitted all the silver from the Wa country. In his eyes, the silver mines from the Wa country belonged to him, and the people from the Wa country were nothing more than his cheap labor.

Lu Yun followed Li Hao's will and took the fleet to Quanzhou Port to purchase supplies. Li Hao had already sent flying pigeons to Long Sihai to prepare these supplies. As Quanzhou's local snake, Long Sihai There is still some ability to handle affairs. Lu Yun went there to load the supplies and left, and went to Liuqiu to load the grain.

In the past six months, Qiongnan and Liuqiu's grain has been harvested for two seasons. Now the population of Qiongnan and Liuqiu is increasing rapidly, and the fields are naturally growing rapidly. Qiongnan now has nearly 30 mu of farmland, while Liuqiu has less. There are more than 20 mu, adding up to a total of more than 50 mu of fields. There will be more than 100 million shi of rice harvested in each season, and 300 million shi of rice in two seasons. There is no way, who makes the output of Zhenguan rice so high? The output is definitely eight to ten times that of the previous rice, and the combined population of Liuqiu and Qiongnan is only more than 30 people. Now the rice in the field is about to be harvested. It is no exaggeration to say that Liuqiu and Qiongnan's grain is already full, and if it is not exported, it will be moldy.

After Lu Yun's fleet transported 30 shi of rice, he sailed directly to the country of Wa. Now he is looking forward to how much silver he can get back from this trip to the country of Wa.

After Lu Yun's fleet left, Li Hao sent another fleet to carry 30 shi of rice to Quanzhou, and sold the surplus rice from Liuqiu and Qiongnan to Lingnan and Jiangnan. Before he recovered, the food was very easy to sell there. He had already sold 50 shi of rice to Lingnan Road one after another, but it seemed that it was not enough, and the sale of rice was left to Long Sihai. Now Long Sihai, The power has already begun to expand beyond Quanzhou, to the north, and is about to enter the border of Jiangnan Road. He has made money and earned a lot of money. He also really realized how powerful King Qiongnan is. He made a lot of money, which shows how much King Qiongnan made.

When it comes to money, Li Hao really hasn't carefully calculated how much money he has now, but he can now confidently say that he is the richest man in the Tang Dynasty, and even those powerful and noble families can't compare with him. A group of people are short-sighted, and what I own is a business empire that keeps generating money. There is no comparison between the two.

This year, the group of elites deposited in Li Hao's bank again, and it was more than last year. The deposits of all the elites added up to 500 million. The behavior of the elites played a very good role in leading the way. Many wealthy businessmen in Datang also followed suit and deposited money in Li Hao's bank. Before the end of this year, the total deposits in the bank had reached 800 million. Although the Tang Dynasty was powerful and rich, the money was never in the hands of the common people, but was controlled by the wealthy businessmen and powerful families, which was very dangerous.

The aristocrats and wealthy businessmen all deposit their deposits at a ten-year term, because only the ten-year term has the highest interest rate. In this way, Li Hao will have to pay them nearly 150 million yuan in interest every year. They still want to use this stupid method to save money. Bring down Li Hao.

Li Hao's evaluation of them is only two words-stupid, they don't know that they have developed sea trade, and the land business is slow to get money. Shi Najie's current business, last year's income was about 150 million yuan, that is, Said that it is exactly the same as the bank's annual loss.

Shi Najie has been working hard to deal with the financial bombardment of the powerful and wealthy businessmen, and has never asked Li Hao for a penny. He is already expanding new business, and at the same time dispatching a large number of caravans to trade in the Western Regions. It is expected that the output value will reach 200 this year. Wan Guan will definitely fill in the bank's losses.

Although the powerful and wealthy businessmen can steal a large amount of money from Li Hao from the bank every year, they have also locked up a large amount of funds because of this. This is very hurtful to them. .

Li Hao has already sent Feige to Shi Najie to open a 20-year fixed deposit, and the interest rate is 1.5% higher than the ten-year fixed deposit. This decision made Shi Najie almost crazy. He felt that Li Hao was too crazy. Li Hao thought that It's not crazy, he wants to encourage those idiots to keep saving money and trap all their money in himself. If they are good, the money will be returned to them at that time. If they are not good, then I'm sorry .

Even if this group of elites and rich businessmen are obedient, Li Hao also knows that they will eventually die at a loss, because he knows that there will definitely be a large amount of inflation in the Tang Dynasty ten or even twenty years later, and the reasons for the inflation are very Simple - the Age of Discovery.

The era of great voyages will lead to the inflow of a large amount of foreign capital, which will naturally activate Datang's economy. Inflation is an inevitable trend. At that time, this group of short-sighted elites and wealthy businessmen will suffer a lot.

On the eighth day of November in the 20th year of Zhenguan, Lu Yun's fleet returned from the country of Wo. This time, he brought back a total of 500 million taels of silver. After hearing this figure, Li Hao was not surprised at all, nor was it too big. What a pleasant surprise, because he had figured it out a long time ago, the silver brought back in this trade is definitely in units of tens of millions of taels.

This time, brothers Liu and Wang Shi and Wang Lei came back with the boat. They had fulfilled their mission gloriously and naturally retired. Lu Yun also explained in detail the details of the trade. The Hattori family traded with some other forces, including Emperor Huangji, and he also traded with them. As long as anyone has a silver mine, he will trade with anyone, sell supplies, and sell swords. The Three Kingdoms Period and the Warring States Period were even more chaotic.

Li Hao took Lu Yun and the magic stick Liu to climb a high mountain by the seaside of Liuqiu and looked at the endless sea. Although it was winter, it was still very warm here. A gust of sea breeze blew up Li Hao's white clothes and black hair. .

Li Hao stood there in silence for a long time, then suddenly raised his hand and said lightly: "Soon, all the oceans will be mine."

Everyone was shocked when they heard the words. They knew how vast the ocean was, and even the territory of the Tang Dynasty was far behind. Li Hao's indifferent words revealed a domineering aura of reaching the top.

Li Hao stood proudly with his hands behind his back, and said leisurely: "I am also preparing to start the real helm of the Tang Dynasty, but right now, I need an opportunity. I don't know who will provide me with this opportunity..."

(End of this chapter)