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Chapter 57 Vaishya

According to the previous plan, if Chenjiazhuang's "rebel" attribute was exposed to the government, he would first fight the court head-on. After winning three or four games, he would let the court know that Chenjiazhuang was not easy to mess with.

Spending a lot of effort to annihilate Chenjiazhuang is not worthwhile, and leaving it here will cause trouble, and then we can talk.

It is similar to the initial development plan of Liangshanbo.

If you want to get an official position, you will kill people and set fires to be rewarded!

The development after the recruitment was different from that of Liang Shanbo. Chen Xun has always adhered to one principle: follow the instructions and not the propaganda.

All actions will first protect the interests of Chenjiazhuang and will not be used as a weapon.

But these are just plans. As for whether subsequent development will proceed as planned, no one can say for sure.

External factors are out of control, and there have been too many experiences of previous plans failing to keep up with changes.

Maybe Song Ting would talk to himself to reduce losses.Maybe you don’t talk to yourself, and you would rather spend a huge price to destroy yourself.

But there is a high probability that he will still talk to himself, because according to the normal historical trajectory, the Northern Song Dynasty is almost over, and Zhao Paopao will not be able to protect himself by then. Regarding internal conflicts, he will naturally choose a compromise policy.

In this plan, one thing that Chen Xun had not considered thoroughly before was the way out if Chenjiazhuang was defeated.I used to think about retreating if I lost the battle, but now that I think about it, it still wasn't a good idea.

The retreat should be at the front, although it will hurt morale a little, but transferring the background in advance can maximize the retention of Chenjiazhuang's flop power.

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"To the east of Penghu lies the Kingdom of Vaisaya."

This is the Song Dynasty’s name for Taiwan Island: Vaishya Kingdom
Taiwan's name started from the Qing Dynasty. The Song Dynasty did very little exploration of the islands east of Quanzhou and basically had no clear concept, so it was vaguely called Vaishya, Liuqiu, etc., with no definite number.

But the Chen family is different. Chen Xun has already sent people to thoroughly explore the waters of Taiwan Island and Liuqiu Islands.At present, Chenjiazhuang calls this island Da Liuqiu and the Liuqiu Islands as Xiao Liuqiu. He has also opened up a road from Guangzhou to Da Liuqiu, then to the Liuqiu Islands, and then along the Liuqiu Island chain north to the Japanese state. Saikaido (Kyushu Island) sea trade route.

"Nanyang Chen Family" is currently famous in Saikaido.The local wealthy families all know that the Chen family collects a large amount of silver and gold from Xikai Road every year.

This land and sea is very profitable and is the main source of precious metals for the Chen family.

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After leaving the east courtyard, Chen Xun went straight to the private port. This is now a huge construction site, and neatly planned residential buildings are being built in full swing.The hungry people were given three meals a day and the houses they built were where they would live in the future, so they were very motivated.

Due to the shortage of bricks and tiles, we had to choose to use adobe in some indoor locations that were protected from rain. The entire private harbor was surrounded by a large number of adobes, which looked very spectacular at first glance.

Walking all the way, dealing with greetings from hungry people, we finally arrived at the dock.

The ships Ke Lei brought this time are now parked here for repairs, waiting for Chen Xun's next instructions.

After asking a few people, he came to a ship and saw Kore directing the shipwright to repair the warship.

"Find a place and let us have a chat."

"Okay!" Ke Lei responded, and then gave a few quick instructions to his men before putting down the tools in his hands and getting off the boat with Chen Xun.

Housing in the private port is very tight now, and even Korey lives in a house with three other captains.Entering the room, there was a captain resting inside, who was an old acquaintance. "Lang Jun, why are you here?" Geng Shou heard the movement, opened his eyes, quickly stood up and greeted.

"I'm here to see everyone, you are now the captain, congratulations." Chen Xun replied.

"It all depends on the husband's love." Geng Shou said modestly.

"You can go sleep in the next house." Ke Lei interrupted.

It is estimated that Geng Shou was on duty last night, so he rested during the day.

"I've had enough sleep."

It's just now, and if you're on duty at night, it's like lying down to rest, and you won't get enough sleep.

"Go and rest, it's okay." Chen Xun persuaded.

"Then I'm leaving." Geng Shou now understood that the two of them wanted to talk and it was inconvenient for him to be here, so he hurriedly left the room.

Ke Lei walked to a square table inside, lifted the teapot, and felt there was water in it, so he poured a bowl of herbal tea for himself and Chen Xun.

In March, Guangnan East Road is already very hot, which is perfect for drinking herbal tea.

"Last time I asked you to send someone to Da Liuqiu to find out what the results were." Chen Xun took a sip of tea and felt that his thirst after walking all the way was immediately relieved.

This task has been assigned to Ke Lei for more than half a year. At that time, Ke Lei was still on Lamma Island and has not reported to Chen Xun until now.

"I've almost got an idea. I was planning to report to you before, but I was sent to Penghu by you, but I forgot about it." Hearing that he was going to talk about this issue, Ke Lei put down the empty bowl in his hand and came to a big wooden stand in the corner of the room. Next to the box, use the key to open the wooden box and look inside to find an oil paper bag.

Take out the oil paper bag and place it on the square table, unfold it, and there is a pile of paper wrapped inside, all of which have signs of folding and rubbing. It must be that the use environment is relatively poor, and it has been read many times.

"Visaya, which is the Great Liuqiu you mentioned, is about [-] miles away from Guangzhou." Looking at the map on the table, Chen Xun understood that this distance is to sail along the coast until Chaozhou and then head east to the Maritime mileage of southwestern Taiwan Island.

"This sea route has been explored clearly. If we stop at Penghu Island for repairs in the middle, although there will be some detours, the fleet will be in good condition when we reach the southeast of Daliuqiu Island." Ke Lei gestured at the position of Penghu Island with his hands. one time.

"Now I can understand why you must occupy Penghu Island. You are really far-sighted." Ke Lei looked at Chen Xun and flattered him.

"Stop talking nonsense and continue." Chen Xun scolded with a smile.

"Okay." Ke Lei opened a map again. There was only Taiwan Island on this map, and there were many densely marked coastal areas on it.

"Actually, I didn't know until I arrived at Da Liuqiu that the maritime merchants from Quanzhou had already started trading with the barbarians on this big island." Ke Lei sighed.

"It's an aborigine!" Chen Xun reminded him to pay attention to his words.

"Yes, aborigines." Ke Lei chuckled. Although he didn't understand why Chen Xun used such elegant words to describe the aborigines who were still in a barbaric state, who made Chen Xun the boss: "Living in some impact plains along the coast. There are already people in the indigenous tribes who can speak Chinese, which saves us a lot of trouble."

Being able to communicate will indeed greatly speed up the exploration of Ryukyu.

(End of this chapter)