The big man has a living father

Chapter 215 (Long Chapter) The Young Man
The eastern border of the Han Dynasty, with thousands of chariots on the open sea.

The boat is anchored in the sea.

A fishing line hangs into the sea.

In Huo Hai's memory, sea fishing was originally difficult, but at this time there were too many fish in the sea.

Sitting on the chair, there was an umbrella next to me, and under the umbrella were two other lounge chairs.

Princess Wei Chang and Liu Xijun were lying under the umbrella.

Liu Xijun: "Huo Hai, you get tanned easily, are you sure you want to stay in the sun?"

Princess Wei Chang: "If he doesn't get tanned, how will father know that he has been working hard outside in the sun and wind for the Han Dynasty when he returns?"

Liu Xijun had never thought of this before, and was stunned when she heard this.

After thinking about it carefully, I realized that Huo Hai did it on purpose.

Doesn’t Huo Hai know that he gets tanned easily?
Why did I get so tanned both times when I went to the grassland?
It's just for others to see.

The same is true now. Even though I invented the parasol, I still don’t use it because I want to sunbathe.

Although it was only the sun in March, it didn't feel very strong and it wasn't hot.

But this is in the sea, coupled with the sea breeze, the double attack can easily cause the skin to discolor and age.

But Huo Hai doesn't care about that.

You are already married, why do you still care about your appearance?
After Liu Xijun responded for a while, Huo Hai spoke slowly: "You are slandering me again. Am I putting on a show for His Majesty? I am really doing things for the Han people."

Liu Xijun: "Aren't you fishing?"

Huo Hai: "Am I testing the performance of a sea vessel? Have I been at sea these past few days?"

During this period, the ship did not sail south, but was only in the nearby waters.

In fact, Huo Hai was helping Princess Wei Chang adapt to the sea ship. She even got seasick in the canal, and it was no joke.

If they went directly south, seasickness, acclimatization, and some bacterial infection could take the life of a middle-aged man, let alone a princess.

However, it is not just for fun, Huo Hai is also looking for areas for improvement on the boat.

To Erkuan and his friends, this ship seemed flawless and was the culmination of the most advanced technology of the era.

In Huo Hai's view, there are loopholes everywhere and they can be modified anywhere.

But Huo Hai needs to think about what can be changed with the technology of this era.

Looking at the blue sky and white clouds, Huo Hai felt at peace.

Liu Xijun: "Huo Hai, your name is Hai, did you see the sea often before?"

Huo Hai shook his head.

This is the first time in two lifetimes.

The sea is like a river of infinite width, like a lake without shores.

However, in Huo Hai's eyes, the sea is made up of shipping routes.

Huo Hai has no interest in the shape of the ocean caused by the coastal morphology of later generations, or the shape of the ocean caused by the coastal morphology of today.

Huo Hai only vaguely remembered some route information he had written down when playing the game of Uncharted Waters.

Only by occupying the ocean can we capture the whole world.

……

The Western Frontier of the Han Dynasty, the Central Route of the Western Regions.

Li Gan rode a tall horse and passed in front of a group of local residents.

Li Gan pulled the reins of the horse: "Since you are willing to become cotton workers of the Western Region Company, then you must complete the task seriously."

"In the entire Western Region, all the cities along the central route are now planting cotton."

“Only by growing the best cotton can you earn more wages.”

"Remember what you were like last year!?"

"When the gentlemen in the city eat, do they give you a bite? Do they give you a bite? What about you?"

"They harvested the grain you planted and gave it to the Huns in exchange for their own rule."

"They live in a magnificent castle, while you eat the worst food in this oasis."

"Their sheep were drinking freely at the trough, but you were being flogged for taking an extra sip of water from the lake."

Li Gan looked at the silent people in front of him and continued.

"Last year, after the Han people came, some of you helped the Xiongnu to attack our Han army and dared to raise your swords against the general of the cavalry. At that time, the general of the cavalry let you go. Not only did he let you go, he did not sell you as trophies or slaves, but let you live in the castle."

"We fed you, clothed you, and helped you through the harsh winter."

"Now, in the spring of this year, we have to plant cotton. As long as we plant cotton, good days will come. Once you get your salary, you will never go hungry or cold again, and neither will your children."

"But! Someone took the money from the Huns and cooked the cotton seeds! How! ...

Li Gan was so angry that he tightened the reins, causing the horse to raise its front hooves.

The horse neighed and raised its front hooves, then landed on the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.

Everyone at the scene was scared to death.

Li Gan said solemnly: "I will count to ten, and the person who did this will come forward himself, or you will arrest him."

"otherwise."

"Go to hell. Go and repent to the King of Hell."

At this point, Li Gan's voice was neither fierce nor harsh, but calm: "The big man is good to you, you think he is an honest man and you want to bully him, right?"

"one."

"two."

In fact, the Huns' sabotage had been anticipated.

The Xiongnu King Youguli was not a fool. Why did they come to the Western Regions? It was because they thought the Han army would withdraw in the end.

No matter how fierce the Han army was, no matter how many castles they captured, they would eventually have to go back and retreat to the south of the Great Wall.

Because the land north of the Great Wall cannot grow enough grain to support many people.

The Han people look down upon these territories.

However, after the news of cotton cultivation in the Western Regions and the popularity of using cotton cloth to make clothes and quilts to keep warm spread within the Han Dynasty, King Youguli suddenly realized.

"Can not go back."

The Han people valued farming the most. Once the Western Regions were able to farm, the Han army would never return.

I'm stuck here.

You're doomed.

However, we can still struggle with this situation.

If the seeds were destroyed and planting in the Western Regions was temporarily impossible, the Han Dynasty would have to pay to support the army to stay in the Western Regions for another year, which would be too much of a waste.

By then, the Han Dynasty might withdraw its troops, or at least most of them.

As long as the hole is opened, he can lead all the people of the tribe back to the north of Qilian Mountains.

But from now on, I can no longer escape to the Western Regions. If I encounter any problems, I can only run towards Daxia.

King Youguli also received the news that his son, the little prince, had gone crazy and killed people in Daxia.

After conquering one third of Daxia's territory, it seemed that they had no intention of returning.

King Youguli also wants to go!

However, the entrance to the Pamir Mountains was blocked by the Han army, and he could not go in even if he wanted to.

Daxia is also miserable.

To be precise, it was the Great Xia that was resurrected by the Yuezhi that was really miserable. The Yuezhi was about to give birth to two great empires, but as soon as they showed some signs, they were chased and attacked by the Huns who were driven over.

The Great Yuezhi had a natural fear of the Xiongnu. After all, they had been beaten for so many years and were afraid of the sight of them.

Although the younger generation has a kind of courage that is as brave as a newborn calf, they still think, "You were beaten into such a mess by the Han army, and you dare to act so arrogantly here?"

The little prince said: "You bastard, I am afraid of the Han army, but why should I be afraid of you? I can easily deal with you! "

The Great Yuezhi originally wanted to destroy the little prince in one fell swoop, but they were defeated head-on. The little prince traveled north and south, swallowed up one-third of the territory of Daxia, and now he has proclaimed himself Chanyu.

Title, Great Xia Chanyu.

The Han people no longer called him the Little Prince of Youguli. Instead, they omitted the words "King of Youguli" to indicate that the little prince had formed an independent force of his own.

He did run away, but his father was captured and he fought back like a trapped beast.

This is actually the situation that Li Gan wants.

Li Gan and Li Guang both wanted to be granted the title of nobility.

How to be granted a title of nobility without any military merit?

Aren’t you coming now?

All countries along the entire southern line of the Western Regions were held hostage by King Youguli.

They wanted to surrender to the Han Dynasty but couldn't do so, as they were coerced by King Youguli to target the Han Dynasty.

As long as we find a reason to send troops, take over the entire southern line, and swallow up the King of Youguli and the southern line with a total population of 500,000, wouldn't that be a great achievement?
If we can catch up with the spring plowing and increase the cotton planting area, it will be a great achievement.

So, although Li Gan was angry, he was also laughing so hard inside.

"six."

Li Gan counted to six and turned around: "Kill them all."

When these words were spoken, everyone behind was stunned.

Some of them who understood Chinese had already jumped up: "General, didn't we say to count to ten?!"

Li Gan: "You guys are the real deal. You only have ten seconds left to live, and you still want to suppress the gun, right?"

"Do you really think you're worthy of me counting to ten?"

"Your city only has a thousand people. You can't find a thousand people anywhere else."

What Li Gan wanted was to capture the perpetrators alive and use them to declare war on the King of Youguli, or more precisely, on the Jumo, Jingjue and other countries in the southern part of the Western Regions.

This string of countries is different from the median line.

These countries are a bit hard to find.

Because the oasis here is not like the one in the center, they live at the foot of the mountain near the melted water.

Throughout history, this string of countries disappeared inexplicably.

When Tang Xuanzang passed by here, only an empty city was left, and no one was seen.

It may be due to the cooling climate.

But now the temperature is high and the population is large, so we must take it down.

Li Gan's men were not prepared to kill. If they really wanted to kill, they would have pulled the bolt of their guns.

They took out their knives one by one and walked forward.

Someone in the crowd shouted, "I know! It's Damu Road! Damu Road!"

"Don't kill me, don't kill me, it's him!"

All the soldiers turned to look at Li Gan.

Li Gan: "I'm not the one scaring you, you're the ones scaring yourselves."

"Use your brains in the future. Your lives and livelihoods all depend on cotton and the West Region Company. The company is on the same page with you."

"For those who accepted the Huns' benefits and sabotaged us, will they give you money or food?"

In fact, Li Gan had no intention of killing anyone, he just wanted to scare them.

Of course, if they really don't come forward, no one will report it.

It’s hard to say whether to kill or not.

Grabbing the man named Damulu, Li Gan asked: "How much did you take?"

Damulu: “I…I didn’t!”

Li Gan could tell at a glance that he was not telling the truth, and he broke one of his fingers.

"what!!!!!!!"

"How many."

"A piece of gold."

"What do you want me to do?"

“Disrupting spring ploughing.”

"Who helped you do this? You can't enter the seed bank of the Western Region Company by yourself."

"Yes, him, and him, I divided it among them..."

"besides?"

A finger was broken.

"Ah! No more, just the two of them, no one else."

Li Gan turned around and said, "Hang him at the city gate! Hang him until he dies. Kill all three clans!"

Turning back, Li Gan grabbed Damulu and said, "You're lucky. You're still useful. You don't have to die yet."

After Li Gan left, everyone at the scene was in chaos.

The family members of the two traitors were all pulled out, ropes were hung around their necks, the other end was tied to the city wall, and then they were kicked out of the wall.

None of them screamed at all; they died in silence.

People at the scene realized that although the Han people were kind, they should not provoke them. If they were provoked, their methods would not be any kinder than those of the Huns.

The Huns were like demons, but the Han people were sometimes gods and sometimes demons.

Some people in the crowd thought that they didn’t want to live in this place anymore, so they worked to earn money, and once they had enough money, they would set off for Chang’an immediately!
Some people also wonder, how can there still be idiots who think they are Loulan people? Haven’t I registered my household registration? I am Han Chinese now!
"I am a Han Chinese now. Whoever dares to go against a Han Chinese is going against me. I will be the first to kill him. I was almost killed by those three idiots today. Whoever dares to go against me will try it next time!"

"Correct!"

...the southern border of the Han Dynasty, the Panyu City of the Nanyue Kingdom.

Half a year ago, An Guo Shao Ji came here and together with Zhong Jun, bought some stalls and started doing business.

The business is growing.

Cement was brought in and construction of the stall began.

Plant.

the way.

Today, Dahan’s stall is no smaller than Panyu City.

In fact, many people in Panyu City have bought houses from Dahan Stall and moved in instead of living in the original Panyu City.

People who came to Panyu from the border towns of Nanyue were stunned when they saw the big man's stall: "Is this Panyu City? It is worthy of being a royal city!"

Then he turned his head and looked towards Panyu City: "What is that shabby area over there?"

An Guo Shao Ji asked three questions every day.

"Zhao Yingqi is not rebelling yet?"

"Can he still bear it?"

"What is the movement of the South Vietnamese army?"

Sadly, the answer is always the same.

An Guo Shao Ji calculated that one-third of the money in the entire Nanyue Kingdom was in his hands.

The remaining five-ninths of the people who have money only use it to buy Han products and not locally produced items.

This resulted in only one-ninth of the money in Panyu being available to purchase local goods, and the entire situation was experiencing horrific deflation!
Except for food, the prices of everything else in the local area have plummeted.

And grain is the focus of An Guo Shao Ji's purchases.

Shiploads of goods were shipped over the sea.

A boatload of porcelain bowls came over, another boatload of glass bottles came over, another boatload of fish came over, and another boatload of cloth came over.

The people of Nanyue simply couldn't stand it.

In the history of the earth, only China has withstood the dumping of goods.

Experts say that is called self-sufficiency of small peasant economy.

Ask the English, they will be confused, you call yourself a small farmer? I really can't sell your big agricultural economy.

Even the Han population in this era may not be able to withstand dumping, so how could the Nanyue Kingdom withstand it?
Imagine that if you choose A, you have to work hard every day, and then at the end of the year, you can harvest enough food to feed a family of five. If you sell the remaining food, you can only buy a little bit of goods.

If we want more food, we have to open up the land, but it is too tiring and we can’t even cultivate a single bit in the whole year.

Choose B, go to the city and work for the Han envoys, you can get money, two months' wages can buy food to feed a family of five. The remaining ten months' wages can buy everything you want.

Things that the king didn't have before are now available for sale.

There was even an old man who delivered food to the palace who said with certainty that the king used to use earthenware bowls, which were rounder and smoother. Nowadays, dogs don't even use those kinds of bowls; they use porcelain bowls instead.

They don’t know yet that the so-called porcelain bowls they use can only be considered semi-porcelain bowls, which are relatively fine pottery and semi-finished porcelain.

To be precise, it is glazed pottery, which is very different from real porcelain bowls.

The porcelain factory of the Han Dynasty produces a basket of real porcelain with all the energy it takes to make one.

However, this does not prevent them from knowing that the current porcelain bowls are made by hanging up and hitting the old ceramic bowls.

More and more people around cities have become workers instead of continuing to farm.

In the city, when people chat, they must talk about the Han Dynasty and the Han envoys. No one talks about the Kingdom of Nanyue or the king.

This was also caused by the compromises made by the Nanyue Kingdom itself.

What the people said is right. The king himself acknowledged that Nanyue was a vassal state of the Han Dynasty. Then shouldn't everyone consider themselves Han people?
We originally came from the Han area and now we are part of the Han people. What's wrong with calling ourselves Han people?
Nanyue people? I am a Han Chinese first and then a Nanyue people!
A hundred years ago, 500,000 Han people moved south and played a key role today.

The powerful Han people aroused their "national sentiment" although they did not know what a nation was.

They only know that they are of Han blood, Han is their pride, and they can also say that they are Han people.

The Han envoy said so, how dare you, a monster, object?

A large number of the older generation who have witnessed the migration of people from the Han Dynasty to the south also mention their homeland when they speak.

Under such circumstances, the Vietnamese natives of the Nanyue Kingdom felt pressured.

The previous king raised their status, and after they gained that status, they did a lot of things to oppress ordinary people.

Now most people are standing together, and I am isolated.

How can I not be afraid?
Coupled with the destruction of Lu Jia's family, they were scattered and even more afraid.

Only now did Zhao Yingqi realize what a big mistake it was to force Lu Jia to leave.

I am in a difficult situation now.

They can’t say to the Han people: “We have established our own country now, we are no longer Han people.”

It is also impossible to get the full support of the Vietnamese people.

Only the army eats its own food and is under its own control.

But, how long can we eat this meal?
Zhao Yingqi was also thinking of ways, such as mining minerals and minting coins.

However, the speed of mining in Nanyue was so slow that the cost of minting coins was more than 70% of the value of the currency itself.

No matter how hard we work, we just can't cast enough.

Fortunately, the big man's ship brought a lot of sea fish, otherwise I would have collapsed long ago if I had to eat food all the time...

Thinking of this, Zhao Yingqi became even angrier.

What do they want to do?
What's wrong with the Han people? They sent all the products from all over the country here. Why are there so many boatloads of goods? It seems like they can't use them all?
"Even if they can't use all the supplies, won't the people of the Han Dynasty object to transporting them this way?"

Zhao Yingqi did not realize that if he sent one shipload of some of Nanyue's products to the Han Dynasty and sold it, he could exchange it for ten ships of supplies heading south.

After all, things are rare and valuable.

During the current transshipment process, the transport company does not make any profit. Instead, all profits are put back into the capital, continuing to compound interest and expand its scale.

Therefore, the money controlled by An Guo Shao Ji will only increase, with no sign of decreasing at all.

Even after he had mastered the currency value, An Guo Shao Ji had already been acquiring various assets all over the country of Nanyue.

If the war had not happened, and there would not even be a need for war in the future, the entire Kingdom of Nanyue could have been bought directly without any trouble.

Even just by transporting food from north to south, there is profit to be made.

The wheat shipped from the north is processed into pasta, which is very suitable for workers to eat and has a wide market here.

An Guo Shao Ji would purchase as much grain as was transported here and send it north.

The rice was sent to Kuaiji County.

Who ate the food? There was no shortage of food.

Throughout Yangzhou, a large number of royal family members set up various factories here, producing steel, coal, planting lacquer trees, and cutting down trees for transportation northward.

All these people need food.

Instead of transporting the wheat here for them to eat, it would be better to send it to the Kingdom of Nanyue. The money earned can be used to send two ships of grain back to Kuaiji County.

The reason why they didn't do so was because Anguo Shaoji was trying to stabilize food prices and continue stable development.

If An Guo Shao Ji needed it, he could even transport grain down from the north, destroy the entire grain industry of Nanyue, and then let all the farmland in Nanyue grow other things.

Then, in the second year when no grain was produced locally, the grain price would increase by hundreds, thousands, or even millions of times, directly swallowing up the entire Nanyue Kingdom. Not only the country, but also all the people in the country.

But An Guo Shao Ji did not do so.

Today, another ship arrived.

An Guo Shao Ji was a little anxious: "Master Wu Hou still hasn't come?"

Lu Bode shook his head: "No, keep waiting."

In Huo Hai's strategy, the Kingdom of Nanyue could not be conquered, nor could it be obtained through fraud.

The effect that Huo Hai needs to achieve is that all the people in Nanyue are willing to join the Han Dynasty and take the initiative to join the Han Dynasty.

Because this place has been a difficult area in history, people in the Jiaozhi area are particularly prone to rebellion.

If only the ruling class votes, rebellion will come soon.

Therefore, Huo Hai needs all people from all walks of life in this place to vote sincerely.

Because it was my own choice.

In this situation, if someone else rebels, he will become the enemy of others and it will be easy to deal with him.

However, now that all conditions are ripe, Huo Hai still hasn't come.

An Guo Shao Ji: "Go ahead, continue trading."

An Guo Shao Ji did not expect that this trade would last for half a year.

……

The northern border of the Han Dynasty.

After reporting to Emperor Liu Che and being conferred the title of marquis, Ge San, Marquis of Beiji, set out again.

He led the fleet northward from Qiancheng.

Although many places along the coast at sea were frozen, it was impossible to go ashore.

But this did not prevent Ge San from looking for new continents from the sea.

In the coldest winter, Ge San continued to explore the edge of the frozen area and finally came to Alaska directly from the sea.

When Ge San arrived in Alaska, he discovered that this place was much further south than Alaska in the Arctic Circle, almost thousands of miles away!
Only then did Ge San realize that there was a reason why the people of the ice field called this place Alaska (Continent). Although this place was not a continent as defined by the Han people, it was at least a giant peninsula, much larger than North Korea.

And Ge San actually found a place suitable for a base.

Ge San found the best location for the bridgehead.

In the severe winter, there is not much ice, so is there a need to continue choosing?
This place is exactly where Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska, is located in later generations.

This place was temporarily named "Anchor Port" by Ge San.

It means the place where the fleet stops to rest.

In Anchorage, hundreds of people from the fleet set out together and spent a month building a base that was much larger than an ordinary base.

Even if this place is besieged by the indigenous "Feather People", it cannot be captured in a short time. If there are ships coming all the time, this place will not fall.

At this time, Ge Sancai continued to search for the real new continent.

Search carefully and draw the coastline.

After a month, Ge San angrily smashed the glass beef can to pieces.

A month later, when Ge San saw the drawn coastline map, he realized that he had entered a bay very deep into the heart of the peninsula two months ago, a super large bay.

If I had headed directly south a month ago, I would have gotten out of here long ago.

As a result, after exploring this bend back and forth for two months, we actually made no progress.

The only achievement was the establishment of a port a month ago, and the rest of the time was wasted.

It's already March and it doesn't feel that cold anymore.

There is not so much ice on the shore.

Ge San immediately ordered to get closer to the coast, but not to walk along the coast, but to walk in the same direction and move towards the coast when the coast could no longer be seen.

Although this is risky, it greatly speeds up the exploration process.

March, April.

The scene has not changed.

Ge San didn't know that he had actually arrived at the coast of the New World a long time ago, but the colder it was here was much colder than that in the Han Dynasty, because the mountain ranges here caused the cold air to move south more strongly.

In May, Ge San's fleet headed due south and deviated from the fleet.

This was also the first time for Ge San and his crew to come here, and the first time to sail tens of thousands of kilometers. They had no idea what was going on. They didn't know that they were frantically looking left and right to draw a Z-shaped route dozens of kilometers away from the visible shore, but they never saw the shore.

In June, everyone on the boat cried.

Crazy crying.

They saw the coastline.

There are huge trees on the coast.

It was the same terrifying giant tree as the Shenmu area north of the Sanfu area, and it was even bigger than the trees there!

It is even bigger than the super towering trees in Shu County described in the Science newspaper!
This is a tree species that is not found in Dahan, otherwise it would not be possible to grow so big!
This is the new world!

It is an area in the New World with a latitude similar to that of Qi and Lu in the Han Dynasty!
Found a new world!

The deputy pulled Ge San and said, "General!"

Ge San took the telescope and looked towards the coast.

Towards the coast, there was a group of people with bird feathers on their heads.

They are looking in this direction.

Because the ship was so huge, the Feather Man didn't need very good eyesight to see it.

Everyone on the boat was looking towards the coast with binoculars.

Each side thought the other couldn't see them.

But only one party does not know that the other party is looking at him or her.

Ge San: "Stop the boat and dock."

At this point, Ge San reacted: "No, send a ship north, stop at the bridgehead port, and send the news back to the Han Dynasty!"

"It's difficult for us to find a route, but the return trip will take at most a month!"

"That means General Tian's decision will be delivered in two months, and your majesty's decision will be delivered in more than three months."

"Within three months, I will get all the seeds of plants grown by the natives here, otherwise it will be our fault that we are incompetent!"

"Yes, Lord Marquis!"

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Asking for a monthly ticket!
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