The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 369 Extra: The Second Age of Navigation

In the second year of Zhenguang year, on the second day of the second month of the lunar month, I took a rest.

"Ninety thousand!" Zhao An quickly played 90,000 and said, "Where are you going to entrust!"

"Eat! 80,000!" Zhou Fan ate it without hesitation, played a three-tube card, and said:
"Aren't we waiting for that boy Su Jun to quickly visit Fuso, Ryukyu, Yizhou, and Hainan?

Then the imperial court will build ports in these places and ensure that there are water sources on the islands. We are not in a hurry. "

Liu Ming looked at the three barrels and shook his head. He touched a card, with a bit of joy on his face, and played 90,000:

"You are not in a hurry, but His Majesty is. He has given you the title of king a long time ago. I wish you could go and become princes right away. But in the end, all of you are so shameless that you all stayed in Chang'an."

"We have followed the king in the north and south, and have been fighting all the way until now. Why should we open up when we can finally rest!

If the fiefdom is not there, we need to go there and take care of it ourselves. All we need to do is send one of our sons to take care of it.

After all, Ryukyu and Fuso are easy to say, but I heard that Yizhou and Hainan are very hot, and Chang'an is nowhere as comfortable. "Zhao An couldn't help but say.

"Don't talk about us!" Wang Sang said rudely, "The king intends to give Yizhou to you. I can see it, but you still refuse."

"We still need Fusang!" Liu Ming said, "There is some kind of Japanese slave country there, and being an island owner is not as comfortable as fighting.

I haven't fought in many years, and I feel that my body bones are a little stiff. It's better to choose a place where I can fight. If I have time and no time, I can have a fight, so that I can prolong my life! "

"Bah, that's the place I wanted. When did I give it to you!" Zhou Ping showed no sign of weakness when facing Liu Ming.

"Go away, you will definitely be useful in the future expedition against the Qiang people. If you, a commander of a large army, want to retire now, you are probably not dreaming, little bird!" Liu Ming retorted without hesitation.

"Haha, you are the only one missing, Qing Yi Se!" Zhao An said with a smile.

"Old Zhao, you didn't sign the lottery, did you? Why did I win you today? I'll pay you back this time!" Liu Ming couldn't help but get angry.

"Good luck, good luck, maybe you will win tomorrow!" Zhao An said with a smile.

Because Zhao An kept winning, everyone quickly lost interest, and the group of guys quickly dispersed.

But not long after, Su Jun, who was sailing towards the South China Sea to determine the channel and establishing a port there, returned smoothly with his Donghai Navy.

The most important material he brought back along the way was the guano found on the South China Sea Island.

Tian Zhen's North Sea Fleet had been ordered by Liu Tai early to search for islands with accumulated guano to see if guano could replace human excrement and increase crop yields.

Under Liu Tai's promotion, this experiment was carried out early, and the Academy of Agricultural Sciences soon produced guano fertilizer.

For the first time, the yield of five stones per mu appeared in the experimental field of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and as long as the guano was continued to be supplemented in the second year, the geographical advantage would not be compromised.

Therefore, whether it is the Bohai Sea Navy led by Tian Zhen in the north or the East China Sea Navy led by Su Jun, a very important task is to find islands with guano.

Liu Tai even ordered that if any common people who go out to sea to fish find an island where guano is stored and report it to the official, they will go directly to Tianting. After following the sea and making the island verified to be true, their merits will be established with military merit, and they can be awarded the highest title. Hou. Under such stimulation, people along the coast who are qualified to buy large ships and go fishing will also try to expand overseas. After all, this is a tangible military achievement.

You know, as the world stabilizes, the court's mainstream idea is to recuperate and recuperate, which makes it more difficult for officers to obtain military honors.

As for non-conventional channels, except when there is a major disaster, ordering the army to quickly go to the rescue is considered a great achievement. In addition, islands with bird droppings are discovered.

And for this, everyone from the common people to the aristocratic families support it.

Because for China, a civilization dominated by farming, nothing is more important than efficient farming.

The so-called gold can only make the upper class excited, but for the lower class people, it is not as important as taking good care of their own land.

But the emergence of bird droppings fertilizer made the people know for the first time that there was such a treasure outside the ocean. The more the country opened up fields, the greater the demand for bird droppings fertilizer.

Naturally, Liu Tai encouraged the use of bird droppings as fertilizer. After all, this could inspire people to explore.

Liu Tai said, “Every voyager who discovers a new bird poop island is our Chinese hero.

Because you have enabled the land that originally could only produce three stones of grain to produce five stones of grain, you have saved one-third of the people in the future.

Your names are worthy of being remembered in history, and even more worthy of the gratitude of every Yanhan people, and I am willing to name you as pioneers! "

And listening to Liu Tai's affirmation of their glory, not to mention recording the history of the country, but at least being able to record the treatment of the county magistrate, and the reward stimulation of discovering the bird droppings island as a military merit, the most important thing is that even the farmers think that these people who go to sea to find bird mines Get down to business.

After all, even if farmers are used to it, with the help of bird droppings and chemical fertilizers, their yields can successfully exceed five kilograms.

They simply dare not think about what life will be like if one day there is no more bird droppings as fertilizer and they have to return to a situation where they have to thank God for growing three stones of food.

Therefore, anyone who finds a bird poop island and reports it to the country will soon gain support from the local people.

Because one-tenth of the bird droppings fertilizer where the island was discovered will be given priority to the place where the discoverer is from for farming.

This made everyone from Liu Tai to the common people support the existence of pioneers looking for guano even though it was a farming issue.

This craze for searching for guano lasted for at least 150 years. With the help of this craze, Yan Han launched the Age of Discovery.

During this period, countless islands with freshwater islands were discovered, and if there were special products on these islands, the imperial court would soon build ports here.

If there is only fresh water but no supplies that the country wants, it will be marked and used as a backup island for future enfeoffments.

And with the discovery of some islands and the continuous advancement of navigation technology, when Yanhan explored the location of Indonesia, the family originally thought that the southern region was not suitable for people to live, but soon discovered that some islands here actually had a The effect of being ripe every year, or like rubber, spices... Countless wealth has appeared on the islands south of the South China Sea.

At this time, Yanhan also further relaxed the conditions for becoming a king, which allowed many aristocratic families to find fiefdoms suitable for their families on these islands.

At this time, the great navigation era belonging to Yanhan really started.

(End of this chapter)