"This is a new sea ship made in Yangzhou. It was jointly built by the officialdom and Wang Sijiu. Each material costs a total of 4,000 guan. One is to go to Silla with the monks, and the other is to take merchants to Japan. The ship to Silla carries tea, while the one goes to Japan carries silk and porcelain. This time, it is a way of exploration. After the chart is completed, you can trade merchants and Japanese merchants a year. The trade is handed over to ship merchants and maritime merchants. We will set up a Maritime Bureau to collect past taxes and make profits. Even the merchants will pay half of the shipbuilding money. If there are shortage of merchants, the government can

Set up the Haiqian Academy to make more profits!" Speaking of this, Gao Yue had a bright look, and he said to Han Yu: "Du You's Guangzhou Prefecture has accounted for 80% of the share in trade with the ocean; Li Shigu's Ziqing also accounted for 70% of the share in trade with the Bohai Sea; therefore, our Yangzhou goal is to explore Haidong, that is, trade with Silla and Japan. As long as our caravans stand firm in Japan, the next step is to bring cinnabar (mercury), refine their platinum and bring back to our country to mint coins. Anyway, the other party still doesn't know the means of refining silver, and the Taoist priests of Tang understand."

"What if Japan doesn't realize it?"

"There are some means to make them surrender." Gao Yue is full of confidence. "As long as I am Huaiyang, and I can monopolize the trade in eastern and western Zhejiang, I should be able to make a profit of 500,000 yuan per year in the first ten years. In time, it will be fine to expand to 800,000 or even one million yuan per year in twenty years... Not to mention the additional profits brought by a large amount of platinum flowing into our Yangzhou."

When Gao Yue reported such a large amount, Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan were all shocked. The salt and iron company's tea and wine in the world were only 500,000 yuan a year. The trade in Haidong alone was just...

If the Haidong trade is really successful, it will be difficult to get rid of it in the future.

No wonder, no wonder, Gao Yue said that after the arrival of the new era, in order to obtain platinum, merchants, the people and the army would support him and would be willing to use it for him, either to conquer, invade, or to breed and rebel.

Even this time, when he was expeditioning the south, he was to conquer the Dongman, Gao Yue no longer avoided his real purpose: "A barbarian like Huang Shaoqing, who is just a snake and a rat, I will capture it and offer it to the palace. My deep meaning is to use this time to go to Guangzhou Prefecture, integrate the Zhenhai Army along the way, as well as the "Baishuilang" in eastern Zhejiang and Fujian, and the "yachts" for me."

I see!

The titles Baishuilang and Yachtzi have existed since the Sun En and Lu Xun's uprising in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. They refer to the aquatic groups in eastern Zhejiang, Fujian and Lingnan who have used ships as their families and live in the sea for generations. They are also armed maritime merchants. Of course, in the eyes of conservative governments, they are all pirates.

Now Gao Yue wants to use this to control the aquatic children in the gray area. This will be the cornerstone of his future maritime power!

Han Yu felt that his thoughts were a little suffocated now. He worked very hard, but it was still difficult to keep up with Gao Yue's pace.

Platinum was originally something that Han Yu disdained, and he believed that a gentleman could not be entrusted by this thing.

However, if Gao Yue controls Platinum, he may have further and manipulates the whole world.

What's even more terrifying is that Gao Yue said that I did this for the sake of the Chinese people.

At this moment, Gao Yue looked at Han Yu with a complicated expression, smiled, and suddenly recited a poem:

There are millions of families in Chang'an, and there is nothing to do when you go out.

How dare you be alone and unevenly?

Although the ancients were dead, there were words in the books.

Read the book and think about it, it will take thousands of years to go on.

Everyone has their own way when going out, but my way is not as good as it is.

And if you calm down here, I will not deceive you.

Han Yu blushed suddenly. This song "Going Out" was written by him just as soon as he passed the imperial examination. At that time, Han Yu had the ambition of a young man as a senior, but also had uneasiness about his future career. He was even more afraid that he would not be able to realize his greatest value as a man - self-cultivation, family management, and peace of the world.

Now Han Yu is the magistrate of Jiangdu County and the Promoter of the Yangzhou Governor's Office. He worked two jobs. Finally, he fed the whole family more than 30 people and married his talented wife Xue Tao. He felt that the goal of the first stage of his life had been achieved.

But it was not enough. He also hoped that he would be able to have a purple-robed goldfish in the future, have a grand first place in Chang'an City, have a beautiful villa in Luoyang, and live a leisurely and prosperous study with his wife. He was all cardinal officials, and young talents came to visit him, recognize him as his teacher, and surround him. Although he was elegant and easy-going, he had supreme voice in the entire court and the country, and every word would guide the thoughts of the whole country.

Although Han Yu hopes that the people will live a virtuous life in a closed and lustful countryside, he wants to be prosperous and prosperous and live in the center of the empire.

So Gao Yue used his poems to expose him in an instant, which was also the reason why Han Yu blushed.

In fact, Han Yu's ideals did not violate Confucian morality. He did not have the idea of ​​being extravagant and extremely desire, but a kind of restrained wealth. He hoped to be famous throughout the ages in academics and to help more people, to be the right way of the country and to eliminate heresy ideas for the country.

But even so, it still cannot be separated from the support of financial resources, and there is still a distance between Han Yu's current situation and his ideals.

Gao Yue was very accurate in his grasp.

In front of the flying yellow oriole, Liu Zongyuan boarded the ship to Ezhou and bowed to Han Yu who was coming to say goodbye.

Before Gao Yue came to the Ichi District, he went down to Guangling and went directly to the military office.

Han Yu wanted to say something, but he finally expressed his thoughts to Liu Zongyuan: "Zihou, frankly, if Duke Wei's trade with Haidong works, I am willing to invest the money saved in my family. Duke Wei promised to share the money for me. In this way, I can get 200 trump cards in a year, and I can buy a house in Luoyang within three years."

Liu Zongyuan expressed his understanding of Han Yu. He sighed slowly and looked up at the sky. "Get back and talk to Duke Wei, is the most perfect picture in your heart like it was burned by fire?"

Han Yu admitted: "Yes, I am full of money now, no, full of money... Zihou, I am determined not to write about books for the time being. This era may change faster than I imagined. I really have to wait ten or twenty years before talking about it."

Liu Zongyuan also agreed: "The Buddha said, "The world is vast, but the world picture depicted by Gao Wei is really unheard of. Zigong once said that the Master's articles can be heard; the Master said that the way of heaven and life can not be heard of. If the way of heaven is truly innovative, I can only experience it with my eyes and feet. Although I cannot be an official during the mourning period, I can study. When Duke Wei marched south, I would also go to Hunan, Jiangxi, and a variety of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. I will observe it as soon as I approach, hoping to understand new principles."

After saying that, the two friends took good care of each other.

After Liu Zongyuan returned, he waited three months before sending his father's coffin to his hometown in Hedong for burial. He heard that Gao Yue's Jiminggang Xincao Canal would be completed at that time. At that time, he could directly walk the water route, across the Yangtze River, Huai River and Yellow River, and go straight to Hedong from the north of the eastern capital, which was half shorter than the original road. "What you see along the road is afraid it will be a different scenery!" Liu Zongyuan thought so.

But at the same time, Gao Yue had made every effort to build large-scale sea ships in Yangzhou, Mingzhou and Hangzhou, and sent messengers to Fujian to contact Baishuilang and the yacht.
Chapter completed!