Datang: My apprentice is Li Chengqian

Chapter 260 Why Bring So Many Guards?
Difficult to travel, difficult everywhere.

There are no highways, no high-speed rail, and no planes.

Traveling at this time, being able to walk by water is actually a very happy thing.

Otherwise, sitting in a carriage and walking on the bumpy yellow mud road can make you doubt your life.

No leaf spring damping system whatsoever.

Why did Yang Guang spend so much effort to build the Grand Canal during the Sui Dynasty, and even tossed the Great Sui River and Mountain?

This is because he realized the importance of waterways.

To rule such a large area, if there is no fast transportation system, it will be difficult to last for a long time.

"Mr. Lang, we have come all the way. Although all places are not rich, but there are some smiles on the faces of the people. Our Tang Dynasty is now on the right track."

Ma Zhou is a man who is good at observing.

Through many details, we can infer the changes of a place or a country.

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and the common people lived a life of displacement. Few people liked this kind of life.

Now that the Tang Dynasty has been established for ten years, the previous few years were basically in combat, and the real development began, in fact, in the last few years.

However, the people of Huaxia have always been the most industrious.

As long as the weather is good, and as long as the court doesn't make trouble, they can immediately turn the barren land into fertile land.

As long as food is planted in the ground and the people have food, the country will actually be considered stable.

Otherwise, how could it be said that food is the paramount necessity of the people?

This is not a joke.

Even in later generations, everyone attaches great importance to agricultural development.

"Your Majesty, work hard, our Tang Dynasty will become better day by day.

This time we went to Wa country to make the development of Datang faster.

Many items that everyone in Guanzhong thinks are very ordinary, after being transported overseas, the value can increase dramatically.

As long as everyone is fully aware of this, they will be full of interest in maritime trade.

In this way, there will naturally be more people going to sea, and the business of shipbuilding workshops in various places will definitely become booming.

The sea trade needs to sell all kinds of things, which will further stimulate the development of workshops in various places and provide a good job for more people.

Through the development of maritime trade, in addition to obtaining gold and silver, we can also exchange various materials.

What I said before to go to Nanyang to buy rice is actually not joking, but serious.

As long as a ship of ceramics or mirrors is transported to Nanyang, countless grains, gold and silver can be exchanged.

The expensive spices sold in West Market are also very cheap in Nanyang. "

Ma Zhou was his confidant, and Qin Xiedao was still willing to discuss with him the importance of developing maritime trade.

People in this era generally believe that businessmen are only left-handed and right-handed, and do not create value, so they look down on businessmen and do not value business.

But Qin Xiedao, who has the soul of future generations, obviously doesn't think so.

If there is no business and no difference between the rich and the poor, then where will the motivation for progress in this society come from?

If Datang wants to enter the fast lane of development, it is inevitable to develop industry and commerce.

Otherwise, no matter how much food you have, at most you can solve the problem of eating.

Although solving the problem of eating can be regarded as a meaningful and important thing.

But this is not enough to make Datang the number one power in the world.

"There are so many benefits to engaging in maritime trade, why is it that almost no one in the entire Tang Dynasty proposed this proposal?
I heard that in Guangzhou, Mingzhou and other places, there are actually some merchants doing maritime trade business. "

"Ma Zhou, if you were a businessman engaged in sea trade, you would yell everywhere, telling others that sea trade is very profitable, would you all come to do sea trade?"

After Qin Xiedao wrote such an article, Ma Zhou immediately had nothing to say.

As long as you think about it a little bit, people will not be so great.

Wealth should not be exposed, in this day and age, everyone has a very strong awareness of this.

The status of a businessman is not high. If people know that you have earned so much money so easily, they must find a way to get you.

Therefore, although there are some people in coastal states and counties such as Guangzhou, Quanzhou, and Mingzhou who are engaged in maritime trade business, these businessmen generally claim that it is difficult and risky to do maritime trade, and the ship will be destroyed if they are not careful.

Anyway, if something is not good, he will talk about it in that direction.

As for how much money I earned in the middle, I will never say it.

This led to the entire Datang, basically few people realized the benefits and huge profits of sea trade.

"This time we organized more than a dozen sea ships to go to the Wa country in one breath, and brought a large number of guards. Is it because there are great risks at sea?"

Seeing that there was no need to further discuss the importance of sea trade, Ma Zhou began to care about the safety of sea trade.

Although those who have done sea trade business kept saying bad things about sea trade, objectively speaking, they did not speak nonsense.

Going to sea in this era is indeed very risky.

Especially in the South Seas, the situation there is much more complicated than that along the coast of Datang.

Although it is much easier to earn money, it is very common to go and not come back.

The natives there are actually not that kind.

"In addition to storms and hidden reefs, the main risk at sea is pirates. However, there should be no room for pirates to survive in the sea off Dengzhou. We guards are mainly used to deal with the Japanese.

Although we were the most business in the past, the local Japanese people should be very welcome.

But money touches people's hearts. Once they realize that we have a lot of wealth in our hands, it is inevitable that they will have undue thoughts.

When the time comes, we will let them see that we are not so easy to mess with.

With a big stick in one hand and dates in the other, I want the Japanese people to be obedient and stay out of trouble. "

Qin Xiedao knew that the law and order in this era was far from being as good as in later generations.

Especially when you and a group of Tang people went overseas, they didn’t even know how they died.

The so-called silence was really too common in ancient times.

"It's true, if according to what you said before, sir, then the goods of our dozens of ships can be directly exchanged for the gold and silver of more than a dozen ships. This is a bit exaggerated. Even people who have no ideas will became more thoughtful.”

Ma Zhou thought about the scene where his group would own gold and silver in the country of Wa in the future, and felt that the number of guards could actually be increased.

Anyway, the wool comes from the sheep, and now it costs a lot of money to hire guards, and it will be able to earn back thousands of times from the Wa people.

Maybe there are additional gains.

"Take your time, the Japanese people are not so united. When the time comes, we will recruit a group and fight a group, and we can also recruit some Japanese people to work for us."

(End of this chapter)