Sweep the World

The Silk Road is the longest lasting and most wealth-creating business road in the world, and there is no need to add "one". It is divided into the Land Silk Road and the Maritime Silk Road.

The starting point of the Silk Road on the road was naturally the Central Plains Dynasty. Generally, it was through the Hexi Corridor to enter the Western Regions. It could be from Yangguan Pass or Yumenguan Pass. Merchants from the Central Plains generally went to Wusun in the Western Regions even if they were far away. It was sold and sold by the people of the Western Regions to some countries in Central Asia.

The countries in Central Asia have been playing the role of "hands down" for a long time. They have obtained high-quality goods from the Central Plains Dynasty, some of which are digested locally, and more valuable goods, such as silk, which is unique in the East. There are products, which are sold to some countries further west at a price that is several times or even tens to hundreds of times higher.

The former Parthian Empire lived very well just by reselling. They increased the price of silk a lot and continued to sell it to the Romans, waiting for the Romans to know that Parthia was actually unable to produce silk, and the one that could produce silk was from the East. An empire (they called Cyris) required the Parthians to lower the price of silk.

The Parthians made extremely high profits for reselling. What they wanted was to increase prices instead of lowering them. When the Romans were unhappy, they launched wars. The two sides started with silk, which was also called the "War of Silk". , A dozen is more than a hundred years.

The Romans won the final victory in the War against Parthia, but in fact, the Silk Road of the Central Plains Dynasty was cut off due to more than a hundred years of war. In the end, no one actually forgot the origin of the Hundred Years War. It was the Romans. I haven't forgotten to take the cool, thin silk, which I have been obsessed with.

The war for silk was not limited to the one between Parthia and Rome. After Parthia was destroyed, Aldashir, who had been a warlord of the Parthian Empire, was restored to his kingdom not long afterwards until AD 571. In 1991, in order to get rid of the high-priced monopoly of Chinese silk by the Persians between the East and the West, the East Roman emperor Justinian united the Turkic Khan and attacked Persia. The war lasted for 20 years, and there was no victory or defeat. . This is the famous "War of Silk and Silk" in history.

The farthest merchants from the Central Plains took the land Silk Road to the Tang Dynasty, but that was also because the Tang army marched towards Central Asia (in fact, during Wu Zetian’s Wu Zhou period), many merchants went to Constantinople (owned by Eastern Rome). ) And wrote a biography, more of it stayed in the future Iraqi territory (owned by the Arab Empire) and did not move forward.

In history, the terrestrial Silk Road was cut off many times, all because of the war between Western countries and Central Asian countries over the price of silk. It can be defined as a "war", as long as a hundred years, and as short as 20 years. To say that the land Silk Road was cut off for the longest time, it was the Song Dynasty. That is because neither the Northern Song nor the Southern Song had mastered the Hexi Corridor.

According to legend, the Maritime Silk Road existed in the Western Han Dynasty, but there are no relevant documents or relics. There is an official record of the Tang Dynasty, when the official name of the route was "Guangzhou Tonghaiyi Road".

The Maritime Silk Road really prospered in the Song Dynasty. At that time, the Song court set up three main trading ports along the coast. They are the modern Guangzhou 1, Quan 1 and Ningbo. Among them, Quan 1 has the largest throughput. .

Because the throughput of Quanzhou 1 is really too large, the officials dispatched by the court are not low-level. There are a large number of Arabs who settle in Quanzhou as "lords". In order to make their place of residence more Arabic, Not only did the Qing 1 Zhen 1 temple be built on a large scale, but also many plane trees were introduced, giving Quan 1 the title of "the hometown of plane trees."

It must be said that Song Dynasty treated Arabs really well. Not only did it not make any trouble, second-generation Arabs could also participate in imperial examinations, and even the Song Dynasty court had a record of appointing Arabs as officials. However, the Arabs gave back to the Song state that a rebellion broke out when the Meng Yuan invaded, and there were countless people who directly took refuge in the Meng Yuan. The official Kaicheng welcomed the Mong Yuan army to massacre the Song people more.

Zhu Xia is not a nation that bears grudges, and there is almost no liquidation of the enemy afterwards. After the Ming Dynasty expelled the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, the Arabs were not liquidated in Quanzhou. Even the 1st Mosque built by them was preserved. Among them, the Qilin Temple (also known as the 1st Mosque of Ai Suhab) was founded in the Northern Song Dynasty. In the second year of Dazhong Xiangfu (1009)-the 40th year of the *** calendar, it is the oldest extant Islamic Islamic temple built in China by the Arab Muslims and Lins. In 1961, it was listed as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units and "China's Top Ten Famous Temples."

In fact, the Maritime Silk Road has been broken many times because of the war between Central Asian countries and western countries competing for the Silk Trade Road.

The first battle for the maritime silk trade route was actually part of the "Hundred Years War" between Rome and Parthia. At that time, the Roman fleet set out from Egypt and went out of the Gulf of Aden to fight against Parthia's fleet in the Arabian Sea. Because the Roman fleet departed from Egypt, waiting to reach the place of engagement was actually a labor expedition, and the Roman warships were really inferior to the Parthian warships. The Roman fleet was often taught to be human by the Parthian fleet.

There were many subsequent battles for the Maritime Silk Road, the fiercest being during the period of Eastern Rome and the Arab Empire. Even after hundreds of years, the Romans still had no innovation on the warships, but the Arabs used oil for naval warfare.

The investment of the Spitfire enabled the Arabs to suppress the Romans on the sea battlefield. Even if the Eastern Roman and Tulun dynasties were united, they were still not the opponents of the Arabs, but the most affected by the war between them was the Song State in the East. Song Guo also fell into a financial crisis because of the financial severance of the Maritime Silk Road. Otherwise, even if he still lost to Yuanmeng, he could last longer.

Fu Wei looked at the scenery on both sides of the strait. Although he didn't know what would happen before or in the future, it didn't affect his understanding of the importance of this route.

"When I don't know, I don't know, but I have to feel emotional when I know it." Si Hongzhuang was talking about the Maritime Silk Road: "If you want to say that those aristocratic families are really nothing, they must have known the existence of such a route a long time ago. But kept holding it."

In the current era, with the collapse of the Eastern Han regime, the land-based Silk Road was broken long ago, while the maritime Silk Road maintained little silk trade.

Fu Wei knew a little bit, so he said: "Those families that have died out, it is impossible for them to say that they are facing the suppression of the generals of the South. The rest of the families either didn't take it seriously, or they just wanted to continue to control them."

It is estimated that there are more elements that did not take the matter seriously. When Yu Yi was asked afterwards, the answer was that he knew that there was a maritime trade route, but in fact the trade share was so small that it was a tributary trade. The country reported by the merchant from the sea does not exist at all.

"It's very important here, it's extremely important!" Fu Wei's thoughts must keep up with where he sits on his butt: "Whether it is to fight out or to prevent being beaten in, it is very important here."

The Central Plains dynasties of the past dynasties were not three inches away from the understanding of the ocean. Perhaps it is impossible to say that. After all, the greatest threat to the Central Plains dynasties in the past was from the north. Is it normal?

By the time Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty came to power, he fully realized the importance of the ocean, provided that the Ming army had already attacked the north at that time. There was no threat from the north, he became curious about the south, and then his nephew was rumored to have fled to the south, so he used the name of looking for his nephew to create a large fleet.

To say that Zhu Di, in order to find his nephew and kill them all, there is no need to create a large fleet, more for propaganda.

It must be clear that the so-called tributary of the Central Plains Dynasty is actually an official trading system, that is, many times it is trading at a loss.

In addition to the political influence brought by Xuanwei, Zhu Di sent Zheng He to the Western Oceans, and every time he brought back huge profits. By the time when Zhu Gaochi was "limped" by Confucianism, the hundred officials hated that maritime trade was eaten alone by the royal family, but it was still the kind of food that the country paid but entered the emperor's private treasury, and the hundred officials who were favored by Zhu Gaochi in every way I wanted to abolish the fleet that was going to the West.

By the time Zhu Zhanji was enthroned, he was also "crippled" by Confucianism since he was a child, and he did not realize how shameless the hundred officials who had a good impression on him would be. For the last time, he sent Zheng He to lead the fleet to the West in a foolish manner.

Zheng He's voyage to the West this time is to tell the Southeast Asian countries that they will not come again in the future, and our fleet will never go to the West again in the future.

Since then, Daming’s national power never went to Southeast Asia. Ships were destroyed, shipbuilding drawings were destroyed, everything was destroyed, all of which were destroyed, and he had to write a book about what was wrong with Zhu Di’s voyage to the West. On the other hand, hundreds of officials raised His agent (usually a pirate) runs very happily.

Fu Wei currently serves in the Nanyang Fleet and has the right to view information about the Malacca Strait. In the future, the Nanyang Fleet will gradually lean towards this area. The first step is to establish a military port at the strait, and some people will be moved to build towns.

At present, there is no country in Nanyang. They are all uncivilized savages. The source of labor in Han is to catch savages everywhere and use their bones to build related facilities.

The Strait of Malacca looks very narrow from the map, but it does not feel narrow when viewed on the ground. The reason why it has become the busiest waterway on earth is naturally because it communicates east and west from the sea, and the other is that the natural sea conditions here are not bad.

"There are savages on almost every island." Lin Xuan is a navigator. He often gets tanned when he floats at sea. He also dresses casually. He introduces to everyone: "The savages on some islands are very gentle. Many of them are fierce savages. They have the custom of headhunting. Every tribe goes out for headhunting once a year. Quite a lot of savages have the habit of cannibalism."

Headhunting is just an abbreviation. In fact, each tribe will kill and reduce the number of rival tribes in some quarters of the year. The primitive tribe's food source that cannot be cultivated is nature. Each tribe will have its own hunting area. Under normal circumstances, the hunting area is the prohibition of a tribe. In order to fight for the hunting area, there will naturally be wars. If the hostile tribe is not too strong, it must be attacked from time to time.

"We don't have too many people here. The efficiency of catching slaves by ourselves is too low." Lin Xuan said this with a deep smile: "We will find some worthless gadgets later. Can buy a tribe and let them hunt slaves for us."

This Fu Wei is quite clear. Most of the troops from Han to Nanyang are troops, and a small part of them are slave teams from various families in the Indochina Peninsula to join in the fun. There are really not many serious people.

For these uncivilized tribes in Nanyang, the arrival of the Han is like a tiger rushing into the flock. Regardless of the strength of the tribes before, the primitive savages who have not even developed a bronze civilization face the entrance of the Iron Age and Soldiers who are not lacking in killing and combating skills, in addition to being able to use complex environments to evade, face-to-face encounters are taught to behave every minute.

"There will be many people." Fu Wei pointed to the fleet and the area under construction: "The king attaches great importance to this place~www.wuxiax.com~ Lin Xuan nodded in agreement: "It can be seen. You are going to cross the strait to the western coast of the Indo-China Peninsula and build a base there. "

What Huaxia Civilization is talking about is not only to have a stable rear, but also to proceed step by step. It is inevitable to repeatedly stabilize and build the forward route, so Malacca must be developed once it comes.

Seeing that Lin Xuan, the navigator, Fu Wei knew the news, he said in astonishment, "Isn't it a secret?"

Lin Xuan knew it, and said directly: "Don't worry, our local folks don't have a boat to run here, and people outside of China will not be able to go."

This is the advantage of mastering the portal, plus enough ships, unless the opponent notices something wrong before entering, or in places like the Strait of Malacca, as long as they come in and stop the head and tail, they will not be able to escape.

It took two days for Fu Wei’s fleet to enter the Asan Sea. Because he was worried that the trek was sailing on the continental shelf as much as possible, it was amazing to find that the dense forest on the road would be foggy every morning, and the thick fog would sometimes float off the coast. For hundreds of meters, every time at this time, they would come to the dense fog area.

"Did we have a fleet here before?" Si Hongzhuang would ask this because he saw ships hitting rocks while sailing.

"Yes." Fu Wei nodded: "It's not a large-scale fleet, it's just passing by pretending to be a merchant, and going to Asan to investigate first."

In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there were also ships that would go to the Asan site, but the number was very small. The two places are so far apart, Ah San shouldn't know that the little court is finished, and Ah San would never have thought that someone would cross tens of thousands of miles to invade by sea, and would just treat it as an ordinary sea merchant.

Si Hongzhuang said: "I haven't figured it out, even if there are countless grains over there, how can I transport it back?"