Zhang Liao was very surprised.

He didn't know that the emperor would even give such a command to continue during the time of daily life.

Is this unheard of thing really necessary?

"Your Majesty, isn't it a illusory thing to be separated by thousands of miles of sea? Why does Your Majesty want to do this?"

Guo Peng faced the sea and sighed.

"Onland trade was interfered by countries such as the Kushan Kingdom, the Anxu Kingdom, and the Kangju Kingdom. They were among us and the Great Qin Kingdom, so that we could not have direct contact, and they became intermediaries in it to make profits.

According to what we know so far, most of the goods we sell to the Kushan and the Sakura Kingdoms, except for the needs of their own powerful countries, were sold to the Great Qin Kingdom. The Great Qin Kingdom has a large territory and a large population, and the powerful people like our goods very much.

But because the Kushan Kingdom and the Anxu Kingdom profited from it, our goods were sold several times the price. After they were sold to the Great Qin Kingdom, an iron pot could be sold at the price of gold, and a batch of silk could be sold at the price of gold."

Guo Peng sneered: "You can imagine how much money the Kushan Kingdom and the Abnormal Kingdom have earned from our trade with the Great Qin Kingdom. The Great Qin Kingdom is very dissatisfied with this and sent troops to the Abnormal Kingdom several times. This is because the Abnormal people are too greedy."

"There is such a thing."

Zhang Liao found it incredible.

"Yes, this kind of thing happened, so I found it incredible, but you can see from the side how greedy the Anxi people are, and they actually forced the Qin Kingdom to send troops to conquer them."

Guo Peng shook his head: "But it seems that such a conquest has not achieved much results. Perhaps the capital of the Great Qin Kingdom is too far from the Anxi Kingdom, and even if it is conquered, it cannot be occupied for a long time.

As for the sea routes in the south, because the Later Han Dynasty was not keen on maritime trade, maritime trade was not developed. However, the history books of the Later Han Dynasty recorded that merchants from the Qin Dynasty arrived in Rinan County.

This also shows that this trade route is feasible. It is a good thing for us and the Great Qin State. The Great Qin State can buy cheaper goods and thus buy more.

If the Great Qin State buys more, we can sell more, make more money, and suffer losses are the Anxi Kingdom and the Kushan Kingdom, not us and the Great Qin State. The Great Qin State is willing to buy, so of course we are willing to sell. The more we sell, the more we produce.

The more these things are produced, the more people will be recruited to work in the workshop. Isn’t this a good thing if ordinary people have surplus labor or have strong women who can work in their homes?”

Zhang Liao thought about it and felt that what the emperor said was very reasonable.

"What Your Majesty says is indeed reasonable, I agree with it."

"Very good, Wen Yuan, I decided to hand over this task to you. Ziyi stabilizes the situation in Jiaozhou, and he will give the credit to him, and he will give the credit to you.

You have led troops in Yangzhou for a long time, and the credit for occupying the Yizhou Island was also yours. Now you are familiar with the nature of the water and the navy warships. Who else can you do this mission?"

Zhang Liao immediately understood everything the emperor said before.

The emperor really did not come to dismiss him, but wanted to continue to appoint him and give him more opportunities to display his talents.

He took the initiative to travel to the Great Qin Kingdom and opened up his own maritime trade route.

It is also possible to communicate from sea to sea, reach mutual cooperation, direct trade, direct exchanges, and even send envoys to each other for further exchanges.

As long as this trip is successful, Zhang Liao can obtain this credit.

This made great sense to him.

"Your Majesty, I will never let down Your Majesty's hope."

Guo Peng nodded.

"The sea voyage takes a long time. It may take several months to go and go. There will be a very terrible storm on the sea. If you encounter it, it will be a little bit of danger. This is very dangerous for you. Do you decide to go?"

"I am trusted by Your Majesty and do not act as a despicable person as a surrendered general. I am grateful and cannot repay you. Now that I have such a thing that benefits the country and the people, I will never refuse."

Guo Peng patted Zhang Liao on the shoulder.

"Okay, I'm very happy that you can have such an awareness. This task will be handed over to you. I will hand it over to you a huge fleet, with people, things, food, and water. You are traveling far away on the sea, and there are many crises, but I believe that you can overcome the crisis and return successfully."

Zhang Liao knelt on the ground and sweared.

"If you don't succeed, you will never return."

If you fail, you will be buried at the bottom of the sea, and of course you will not be able to come back.

But this is not what Guo Peng longs for.

With today's navigation technology, Rome can of course go, but if he doesn't go, Rome can come by himself.

The Romans have arrived in China several times, either by water or by land, which shows that the navigation technology of this era can already achieve exchanges between the two empires.

There was even an official team from Rome that went to Luoyang to meet Emperor He of Han.

Although they are far apart, they are not impossible to transport.

It is a pity that the Chinese have not traveled to the Rome region in person.

Of course, the thought of the Supreme Kingdom of the Celestial Empire, the Roman Empire and the small Western Regions, are also one of the reasons.

But the Roman Empire was not unable to be on par with the Han Empire.

Through the stories of the Western Regions, Ban Chao became interested in Rome and decided to send Gan Ying to Rome to learn about what country the Great Qin Kingdom was, which was respected by the Western Regions.

However, Gan Ying's mission was stopped by the second-dea dealers in Central Asia - they did not want the Han Empire to communicate directly with the Roman Empire to end their privileges as second-dea dealers.

So Gan Ying's journey west ended on the banks of the Red Sea, and he could enter the border of the Roman Empire by one step, and he might change the records in history books by one step.

Later, a maritime merchant in Rome arrived in the Eastern Wu and was received by Sun Quan. Sun Quan also gave some slaves he obtained from conquering the mountain to the Romans.

However, there were not many official exchanges between the two sides and there were not many results. The Roman Empire's efforts to establish direct exchanges with China have never been successful.

Later, the small ice river came, Rome entered the era of separatism, and China also entered the long-term division of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and there was no direct exchange between the two sides.

But now it is different. The Wei Empire under the leadership of Mr. Guo has sufficient strength and technology to actively communicate and communicate with Rome, and open up the trade routes between the two sides.

Mr. Guo did not treat Rome with the mentality of the Celestial Kingdom, as long as Rome was willing to do business with him.

He wanted to turn Rome into a place for his goods to dump, and the Roman Empire, which covers a large area of ​​large population, would definitely have the strength to become his most perfect market.

He needs Rome, and probably Rome needs him too.

According to what he has discovered so far, he only needs to let the fleet arrive in the Red Sea area and enter Egypt, even if it enters the territory of the Roman Empire.

He did not have to cross the Suez Canal, which did not exist, nor did he need to bypass the Cape of Good Hope in Africa to reach Europe. He only needed to do business with the Romans in Egypt.

If you want to reach the city of Rome, you can reach the city of Rome through Egypt by Roman ships, and he does not need to consider the rest.

Even as long as you can reach the Indian Ocean region, you will almost meet Roman merchants and merchant ships.

Therefore, in the fourth year of Yande, Guo Peng ordered the Qingzhou Navy under Taishici to choose five large sea boats and more than a thousand experienced sailors and sailors to set sail, set sail from northern Yangzhou, start sailing, and explore routes.

According to Guo Peng's requirements, he basically moved along the direction of the coastline, stopped on the coast once every ten days, established living strongholds along the coast, logged wood to build camps, and then left people to garrison, store grain, eat water, and try to open up arable land and grow grain.

This group of people opened up the earliest colonies belonging to the Wei Empire.

And when the garrison was opened along the way, because they were interested in some land that had been opened by local indigenous people, the Wei army had encountered resistance from local indigenous people.

There is no doubt that the well-equipped and powerful Wei army defeated them, drove them away, captured some people as slaves, and then occupied these places.

The original colonization began.

The same bloody, inhumane, cruel, greedy, but meaningless, no one in this era pays attention to these things with you.

The Wei army took a fancy to the fertile soil in some coastal areas and decided to set up military bases there. No one in the local area is better. If someone tries to resist, he will naturally be forced to treat him by the Wei army.

At first, the Wei army was cautious and thought that these people might be very powerful, but after fighting, they found that they were just a group of weak chickens, and they became brave. They rushed forward with their spears and wielded their steel knives, and could defeat the local indigenous people in one fell swoop.

By the way, some people can be plundered as slaves, build barracks for them, cultivate land, and cruelly exploit them.

It seems that this kind of thing is the instinct of a strong person. As long as you are a weak person and as long as you are defeated in force, you will be enslaved and exploited.

After learning about these things, Mr. Guo understood that no matter who initiated the voyage, the final result would not change. It was just that the master of exploitation was replaced.

Strong force is the essence of this world.

From the fourth year of Yande to the eighth year of Yande, in a full four years, the fleet finally opened a safe and reliable route from the southeast coastal area to Egypt.

He also gained experience through a large amount of navigation, explored the existence of ocean currents and monsoons, and determined the best time period for departure and the best time period for return.

It takes more than two months or less than three months to get to the Egyptian region.

The Navy also set up more than a dozen survival strongholds along the way, with more than a thousand soldiers garrisoned, and implemented a rotation system according to the navigation time.

These strongholds exist in the Malay Peninsula region of Southeast Asia, southern Bangladesh, southern India, and southern coastal areas of the Arabian Peninsula, and eventually arrived in Egypt.

When implementing this plan, Guo Peng recruited language talents from the Kushan Kingdom and the Abnormal Kingdom to communicate with the Han and Romans through Zhenxi Protectorate. He also recruited several people over the years.

Several of these people were sent by Guo Peng to Luoyang Imperial College to offer foreign language classes.

In the future, there will definitely be great opportunities for exchanges with countries like the Roman Empire. We cannot rely solely on recruiting language talents from outside, and we must also cultivate some language talents.

Now the Wei Empire has a unique educational environment and educational resources. After the Great Punctuation Revolution, Guo held almost all educational resources in the world and was fully qualified to offer foreign language classes.

On the condition that language talents can directly enter the Ministry of Foreign Affairs without taking the imperial examination, a group of taiwan students who are willing to learn the Gentile language were quickly attracted.

In the eighth year of Yande, the foreign language course was held in Luoyang Imperial College for the first time, with the first batch of 46 students.

By the tenth year of Yande, this group of students had graduated from their studies and had basically mastered the ability to communicate with the Roman officials, and all entered the Communication Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to take up their posts.

The remaining group of recruited foreign language talents were sent by Guo Peng to the Navy to carry out missions with the Navy.

Guo Peng had heard these people's lectures by himself and noticed that they said that the Romans often used two languages. If they wanted to communicate smoothly with all the Romans, they had to master both languages.

Mr. Guo didn't understand this at all, so he could only let it go and let these professionals come.

Fortunately, the first batch of forty-six students who learned the Roman language worked very hard, and it was not in vain that they worked hard to master these two languages ​​that the Romans often spoken.

Guo Peng also asked these people who had been to the Roman Empire to do business, and asked them who were the Romans, what they looked like, what kind of civilization they had, etc.

The descriptions of these people surprised Mr. Guo.

They said that the Romans had many different ethnic groups, some had white skin, some had the same skin color as the Chinese, and some had dark skin color, tall, short, fat, thin, poor or rich, but they could all be said to be Romans.

The Romans did not distinguish between ethnic groups, but Roman citizenship.
Chapter completed!