I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 763, The Age of Great Navigation
Cao Cao's appearance suddenly surprised Xu Wei. He didn't expect that Cao Cao, who was demoted to a deserted island, would be able to make a career. He deserves to be the famous Emperor Wu of Wei in history.

It's just that this incident also reminded Xu Wei that the treasures of Daqian must be guarded, and they should not be spread out so easily. In history, tea, silk and porcelain were the most important three treasures of the Celestial Dynasty. They helped the Celestial Dynasty earn Thousands of years of gold and silver, the value of which is incalculable, but the unfilial descendants of later generations not only ruined the wealth accumulated by the Celestial Dynasty for thousands of years, but also let the three treasures be stolen by people from other countries.

Thinking of this, Xu Wei asked Li Gang of the Admiralty to issue an order to Xihai City, asking them to strictly prohibit the passage of silkworms, tea trees and other materials through the South China Sea.

Although he knew that with the deepening of exchanges between major civilizations, such strict defenses would be broken sooner or later, but it would be good if it could be delayed by a year.

However, for the countries in the South China Sea, it is difficult for Xu Wei to restrict them. In fact, they are also regarded as affiliated countries of Dagan. Everyone is in the same system. He should not be too partial, just like Cao Cao in Izumo The country developed the silk industry, and Xu Wei couldn't let Cao Cao shovel the mulberry tree.

Of course, those who should blame themselves still have to be reprimanded. Xu Wei asked Niu Gui to bring someone to question Cao Cao, and asked him to ban the fake silk from Dagan.

The next day, Liu He came to Guo Jia's mansion.

He saw Guo Jia said solemnly: "I was appointed by the court, and I came to severely warn Cao Cao, the leader of the Izumo Kingdom, that you use inferior silk to imitate my high-quality silk and ruin my reputation. If you don't stop this For your behavior, I will punish you in Izumo Country."

Guo Jia had already expected Liu He's arrival, and Xu Lun's smashing of the silk shop caused quite a stir in Jidu, not to mention that these silk shops were all related to Guo Jia.So Guo Jia has been thinking of a solution to this problem for a long time.

"Your envoy, rest assured, it is not my lord's doing to pretend to be Dagan silk, but profiteers wanting to make a profit, so they pretend to be Dagan's silk. The next official will definitely inform my lord and ask him to reprimand these profiteers! Such a thing will not happen again. !"

After the official business was over, Liu He also relaxed his expression and said: "That kid Cao Cao in Luoyang City was not a good guy back then. I didn't expect that he has not changed after all this time. If you say you sell silk, you will sell silk. Why? Why do you want to pretend to be goods from other places, and this silk, can't you make it with care, the quality is so poor, even if I go to weave silk, it is impossible to weave it like this."

Guo Jia smiled wryly and said, "The island is full of savages. They don't know how to weave. If it wasn't for more than a year of experience, they wouldn't be able to produce this kind of inferior silk."

"In the future, this kind of inferior silk will be branded as your sister's Izumo country. The imperial court has paid attention to this issue. If you counterfeit silk from other places, your goods will not only be confiscated, but you will also have to pay several times the fine. You said this is not a joke, you must make Mengde take it seriously."

Guo Jia said: "Understood! In the future, such inferior goods will not appear in the Dagan market!"

Liu He exchanged pleasantries with him for a while and then left.

Seeing the figure of Liu He leaving, Guo Jia sighed helplessly: "It seems that these silks can only be sold to Liu Bei from Tianzhu. He wants to use silk to make inner armor. The quality should not be too concerned, and if it is delivered to the door , maybe you can earn a transportation fee!"

It's just that Guo Jia still thinks it's a pity, he can make money easily, who wants to go to Tianzhu thousands of miles away to make money!
In the 12th year of Daqian (211 AD), at the beginning of March.

Spring began to bloom in the Northland, and everything recovered. Xu Wei came to the Quanzhou County Wharf as a powerful ruler, which caused a sensation in the entire wharf. At this time, there were a lot of giant sea ships staying on the wharf. Just want to seize the high bounty set by Xu Wei.

Daqian is open and adventurous. The rapid economic development in recent years has also made the heroes of Daqian a little bit of money worship. Facing Xu Wei's high bounty, there are hundreds of sea ships, and they plan to go to the unknown continent to find rubber tree.

Moreover, quite a few heroes even took the risk of severe cold to set off ahead of schedule, otherwise there would be more ships on the pier.

Xu Wei summoned these first-generation adventurers and said: "As long as you find what I want, ten thousand taels of gold, a land of one country, the ruler will not hesitate to reward you!"

Then he pointed to the sea in the east and said: "If you want to get this wealth, if you want to become the lord of a country, if you want to make your name go down in history, go to the sea to find them all!"

After hearing Xu Wei's words, these adventurers were excited. They boarded their own ships one after another, and then marched forward thinking about the unknown sea in the east!
Seeing the sea boats driving out of the port, Xu Wei muttered to himself, "Go, all my treasures are there!"

At this time, Zhen Xing's sea-going ships also began to leave the port. Zhen An attached great importance to the safety of his eldest son's life. Not only did he spend a lot of money to order an extremely strong sea-going ship from the Dagan State Shipyard, the displacement alone was 3 shi. , This is equivalent to a 1000-ton sea-going ship, which can be said to be an incomparably huge behemoth in this era.

And there are hundreds of sailors on board, all of them have more than ten years of sailing experience, so it can be said that they are all the core talents of the Zhen family, so people who come to this ship will affect the income of the Zhen family's maritime trade.In terms of safety, Zhen Xing's ship is the highest.

Not long after Zhen Xing and the others drove the ship away from the Quanzhou County Wharf, a sailless ship rushed past them, the speed was like a ship flying on the sea, Zhen Xing was extremely surprised to see it. "The steam engine has actually been moved onto the sea ship?"

Steamships are not a new thing. As early as more than ten years ago, Xu Wei had steamship propellers. A large number of flat-bottomed boats in Daqian were equipped with propellers to run in various rivers in Daqian, which saved a lot of manpower.

So after the steam engine came out, many people thought about getting the steam engine on board, so that it didn't even need manpower to drive the propeller.

It's just that most of the steam ships at the beginning were flat-bottomed boats, and the boats were also very small. This was the first time Zhen Xing had seen a steam ship sailing to the sea like this!
Captain Zhen Quan said with a smile: "In the past two years, many ships have been equipped with steam engines, but many fast ships have been produced. These ships mainly transport some people and precious goods. These goods are the most scarce. It is time, and what is needed is such a fast steamer."

Zhen Xing saw it enviously and said: "I really want a sea boat like this, it can save a lot of speed."

According to their plan, it will take at least three years of sea voyage after finding the rubber tree mentioned by the Grand Governor. If there is such a fast ship, the time can be saved by more than double.

(End of this chapter)