I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 703, Borrowing the Fleet

At the same time, thousands of miles away from Cao Ang and the others, there was another group on their way to Jidu. They rode fine horses and galloped along the road of Jizhou!
"It has changed so much. If I didn't know Huanghe, I couldn't believe that this is Jizhou!" Zhao Yun, who was riding a horse, looked at the scene in front of him in disbelief, which would be his hometown.

Now the whole of Jizhou has become a big construction site. Roads, tracks, canals, and canals are being built everywhere, especially the Grand Canal that runs through the entire Jizhou. Although it has not yet been completed, the length of hundreds of miles that has appeared is enough to show The huge body of this canal is gone.

Although the people in Jizhou are working hard, everyone is full of smiles, and their faces are extremely rosy. It is completely different from the hungry Jizhou at the beginning. To describe it in one sentence, how many people there are in Jizhou now? At this point, the common people feel like a paradise of peace and contentment.

This scene made Zhao Yun extremely sigh. Didn't he want to see this scene when he followed Liu Bei, but it's a pity that the scene in his dream was managed by his enemy!

On the contrary, Zhang Fei said very plainly: "Lei Gong's governance skills are well known in the world. Jizhou was originally a rich place. Now that the whole Jizhou has less powerful families and oppressed by corrupt officials, it is very common to have such a scene! "

When he was a neighbor with Dagan in Shanggu County, he saw with his own eyes that Lei Gong brought tens of 10 people to build a dilapidated Mayi into the south of the Yangtze River. At that time, he knew what Lei Gong was capable of, so Now that Jizhou has the current scene, Zhang Fei is not surprised at all. Compared with Mayi, where a gathering takes place in one year, a city in two years, and Chengdu in three years, this change in Jizhou is nothing at all!
But Zhang Fei looked at the direction of Jidu and said worriedly: "I just don't know, whether we can complete the TOEFL for big brother this time!"

Zhao Yun said firmly: "Even if we can't finish it, we still have to buy enough ships!"

They have followed Liu Bei to fight in Nanzhong for more than a year. They have wiped out three small countries and ruled most of Nanzhong. It is difficult to move, and the primitive rainforest alone is enough to swallow Liu Bei's army.

Moreover, there are horizontal mountains everywhere. It can be said that such a road is almost impossible for the army to pass, unless they spend more than ten years cutting down the rainforest and building roads, which is almost impossible. In more than ten years, I am afraid that the ambitions of the nobles who followed Liu Bei will fade away and become the same guardian dogs as Lu Bu.

But at this time, the Dagan maritime merchants who followed Liu Bei and the others gave them a better way of fighting, that is, learning how to fight Dagan, and using sea ships to transport soldiers to Tianzhu. You can attack Tianzhu.

After discussing with his advisers for a while, Liu Bei felt that this was the only way for them to reach Tianzhu.And the only thing they lack is a sea boat!The Dagan caravan behind them, although they have sea ships, their number of sea ships is scarce. It is enough to help Liu Bei and the others transport the spoils, but they are still unable to transport tens of thousands of soldiers and maintain supplies. , but they and their ships are not powerful enough.

And the whole world can transport tens of thousands of soldiers' transport fleet, and can use naval guns to threaten the fleet of coastal cities, only the Daqian court has it.

So these maritime merchants suggested to Liu Bei: "General, everyone in the world knows that the ruler's ability to accommodate people and his desire to expand, as long as it is conducive to the expansion of our civilization, he will definitely agree. At the beginning, Cao Cao was defeated by the ruler. , but Cao Cao said that he wanted to lead his subordinates to explore overseas, so he did not kill him when he was in power, and he really let his fleet take Cao Cao's subordinates to Crab Island.

The general and the ruling party are naturally life and death enemies, but now the general is expanding the territory and expanding the living space for the people of the world. With such a righteousness, the ruling party will definitely lend you the fleet, even if you don’t give it to you, you will sell it I have given you a small fleet, and with this fleet you will be invincible in Tianzhu. "

Although Liu Bei suspected that Lei Gong could not be so generous, he could only give it a try with hope. At the same time, he handed over all the gold, silver, jewels and their own treasures he had obtained in Nanzhong during this period to Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun, and ordered Even if they can't borrow the fleet, they still have to find a way to buy some transport ships in Dagan.That's why Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun came to the hinterland of Daqian.

But Zhao Yun felt strange and said, "Aren't the big businessmen who followed us too enthusiastic, especially when Yun found out that they seem to be more concerned about capturing Tianzhu than we are?"

Zhang Fei said: "It is said that these businessmen in Tianzhu seem to have suffered a loss at the hands of the local earth king. They are not reconciled, so they want to take our hand and take revenge on the earth king of Tianzhu!"

Although this is a good reason, Zhao Yun always feels that this matter is not so simple!
I have to say that Zhao Yun's intuition was right!Although the large-scale maritime merchants did not suffer any losses in Tianzhu, they all gritted their teeth when they mentioned Tianzhu!Because Tianzhu made many of them lose their money and cut off their wealth, such as killing their parents, and this is the reason why the big businessmen are gnashing their teeth at the king of Tianzhu!
After the discovery of Spice Island, the entire Dagan, both the government and the people, were full of enthusiasm for the ocean. Not only did they complete the exploration of the entire southeast archipelago within 2 years, but they also unexpectedly came to Tianzhu, the birthplace of Buddhism in this legend.

When the businessmen of Dagan first discovered Tianzhu, they were ecstatic, because although Tianzhu is still in a state of fragmentation, the population density here is not inferior to that of Dagan, and the politics, economy, and culture are not far behind Dagan. It's another flourishing civilization entirely.

Of course, businessmen are not interested in these. What they are interested in is that there are tens of millions of people in Tianzhu. This is a market that is relatively large in size, so their cotton cloth, woolen cloth and even silk are not as big as they are. Do the same big market!With this market, they don't have to limit production capacity.

So these merchants excitedly transported a large amount of woolen cloth, cotton cloth and silk from Dagan to Tianzhu.

But what disappointed them was that Tianzhu was extremely hot. Wool cloth was not loved by the local people. Cotton cloth was available locally. After the cotton cloth was transported thousands of miles, the price became extremely high. Silk was loved by the local people. , but it is a pity that only a few earth kings, nobles, and big merchants can afford these silks, and others have no purchasing power at all.

(End of this chapter)