The current world situation is of course unfavorable to the Saracens and the Seljuk Turks!

Otherwise, Ji Yi would not have chosen to join forces with Christianity to seize the Salaxen and Seljuk Turks' right tolls.

Although the Sarasen people have been based on marine trade for hundreds of years, their advantages at sea were not achieved, but were obtained by relying on the Feng Shui treasure land left by their ancestors, which is called the Middle East at the intersection of the world and the accumulated navigation experience over hundreds of years.

Therefore, although the Sarasen people have seized huge wealth from the ocean and owned many maritime merchants, they have not established a decent navy.

In the Mediterranean direction, the Sarasen fleet controlled by Fatima (with Alexandria as its home port) was no match for the Venetian Navy at all. It had been a decade since it had been afraid to wander around the coastline of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

In the Indian Ocean, the situation is even worse. The Sarasen and Seljuk Turks who seized tens of millions of dinars from East-West trade every year did not think about building an Indian Ocean fleet. Although there were many Tianfang Cult naval merchants sailing between China, India and the Arabian Peninsula, and they also had a large number of battleships. However, they did not belong to the Caliphs of Baghdad and the Sultan of Isfahan, nor were they controlled by the Fatima Dynasty in Cairo. The Caliphs could only call and incite them in the name of religion.

Moreover, what is even more ridiculous is that almost all the ships used by the numerous Tianfang Cult maritime merchants were produced in the Song Dynasty!

That is to say, in the direction of the Indian Ocean, the Caliph and the Sudan had neither a navy nor a shipyard to build a naval force.

The reason for this is actually easy to understand. There is no navy because there is no enemy. The Indian countries have always been weak and were beaten to pieces by the Tianfang Cultists who came into the Afghan Plateau. It is impossible to compete with the Sarasen Maritime Merchants for control of the ocean.

Only one Julu Kingdom and the Three Foqi Kingdom competed for control of the Strait, but it did not threaten the interests of the Tianfang Sect's maritime merchants. It was not until the Song Dynasty, which was not very concerned about the ocean, inexplicably rose up and seized control of the Three Foqi Strait without any trouble. The Caliph of Baghdad and the Sultan of Isfahan realized the danger.

While the Caliph and Sudan have long ignored the naval construction in the direction of the Indian Ocean, Sarason and Persian maritime merchants were also accustomed to purchasing merchant ships from the Song Dynasty. This is because the Persian Gulf, which is the western starting point of Indian Ocean maritime trade, is surrounded by deserts, and the timber required for shipbuilding is not available. This trouble seems to be more troublesome than not having a navy. Without a navy, you can recruit thugs of maritime merchants. What should you do without trees? If you want to fight a long-term maritime war, it will definitely not work without a strong shipbuilding industry.

So the Caliph, the Sultan, and Emir Jabir, who holds actual power, have no idea when facing the sudden world war.

The war must be fought! But it is not realistic to announce the holy war immediately... If you really do that, it is equivalent to giving the pagans on the Peach Blossom Stone an excuse to confiscate all the property of the Tianfang scholars east of the Sanfoqi Strait.

It will be a fatal blow to the Tianfang Cult maritime merchants who are active on the Indian Arab route of the Song Dynasty.

If they are harmed, neither the Caliph nor the Sudanese navy will be able to establish it, and the shipyard will not know where to go, and they will even fart!

"Emir," Caliph Mustazil swallowed his saliva and asked carefully that it was Jabir, "Do we need to declare war on the upward peach blossom stone?"

"No need for the time being." Jabir thought for a while and shook his head, "What is needed now is victory rather than declaring war. We do not have to start a war with the pagans at sea that are not predominated for the time being, but should fight them on land... First defeat the expeditionary force on the peach blossom stone in Kashgar, and then go south to India. As long as we take down the west coast of India, we will not lack space for shipbuilding."

What if you can't defeat the pagan army that has been on the Peach Blossom Stone? Do you still have to fight the war at sea? If you don't fight, once the Sinai Peninsula is lost, the world of Tianfang Sect will face an unprecedented crisis!

The Caliph had many questions to ask Jabir, but when he was talking, he swallowed it back...

...

"Brother, is this the dock?"

"Yes, it is also called Chuan'ao, which is used to make a pond. Usually, it is to dig a large pit and build a ship in the pit. After the ship is completed, it will dig a waterway leading to the river channel to divert water into the pit to make the ship float. However, the docks in our Jiehe Shipyard are made of bricks and stones, and water gates are used to block the river water. Moreover, the docks are built on the edge of the Jiehe River. You only need to open the gate and release water at high tide to make the ship float, which is very convenient."

"All of them are made of bricks and stones? There are twenty or thirty docks here, right?"

"There are thirty-five of them in total, which have been built. There are also 65 docks under construction! If all of them are built, there will be one hundred docks. One hundred large ships of about 8,000 materials can be built or repaired at the same time!"

"One hundred...this is too many, right? Does anyone want it?"

Just when the Saracens and Turks were having a headache about shipbuilding, Wu Haogu was visiting Jiehe Shipyard with Wu Haowen, who had just arrived in Jiehe Market.

This large shipyard is a "city-owned" factory in Jiehe Shang City. It started construction in the first year of Yasukuni. Until now, the construction project has not been completed. Moreover, the scale of investment and construction is still growing and growing!

At the beginning, the Jiehe Shipyard was not large in scale, but it existed as the "internship workshop" of Jiehe Shipyard and its output was also very small. However, as the shipbuilding industry in Jiehe Commercial City flourished due to the stimulation of timber and grain trade, Jiehe Shipyard also began to "blind expansion".

The Republican Tour, Jiehe Commercial City, and Jiehe Marketing Department all invested huge sums of money in the large shipyards and continuously expanded the shipyards. They also used the red bricks and mud produced in Jiehe to build a durable brick and stone dock, and also established a huge timber drying yard outside Jiehe Commercial City, stocking up a large number of wood imported from Liao and Goryeo.

Cheap and high-quality wood is also an important factor that stimulates Jiehe Commercial City to become the center of the shipbuilding industry. Another factor that stimulates the development of Jiehe Commercial City's shipbuilding industry is Jiehe Shipbuilding School!

This earliest affiliated school of Yuntai Academy was currently hosted by Chao Shuozhi, the brother of Wu Haogu's senior brother Chao Buzhi and Chao Shuozhi, one of the four Chaos in Juye.

Chao Shuozhi was a Jinshi in the fifth year of Yuanfeng. He was recommended by Su Dongpo at first, but he was not from Su's school at the beginning, but learned a lot of knowledge, learned Sima Guang's Taixuan's study and Shao Yong's Yixue. He also studied "Hong Fan" under Sun Fu, and later studied Zhang Zai's study in Guanzhong. It was very mixed.

However, after learning in the end, he still studied the Tao of Wu Haogu, and became a tycoon of the empirical school. Seeing that he was so eager to learn, and he also spent so much effort on the "Taixuan Sutra" and "The Book of Changes", he knew that he also wanted to "seek the Tao".

Positivism and rationalism just gave him the tools to seek the truth!

So Chao Shuozhi became Murong Wangyou's assistant very early and became the Academy of Sciences of the Jehovah Yuntai Academy. Later, he became interested in shipbuilding and went to preside over the Naval Affairs Academy. Jiehe Da Shipyard was also under his jurisdiction.

Today he also accompanied Wu Haogu and Wu Haowen to visit the shipyard. When he heard Wu Haowen's question, he immediately said, "Why no one wants it? The Hailu Maritime Manufacturing Department alone ordered 200 7,500 grain ships and 100 6,000 galloping warships at Jiehe Shipyard."

"What?" Wu Haowen was stunned. His face was so fat that he was almost shaking, and he said, "Hailu Shuaisi! Why don't you know such a big deal? Could it be that it was the order placed before Mi Youren's father passed away?

Wu Haogu smiled, "Second brother, these ships are urgently needed... First, the court wants to buy food from South China Sea, which is related to the conversion of rice into mulberry places in Jiangnan, Liangzhe, Lianghuai and other places; second, the court needs the cooperation of the navy in the North Expedition in Japan, so sailing and warships are indispensable."

"Change rice into mulberry" was relatively easy to handle in the Song Dynasty. The key is whether there is rice to fill the gap. Because the Song Dynasty court had a large number of official fields in Jiangnan, Liangzhe, Lianghuai and other places. Therefore, it is enough to use administrative means to promote the implementation of the conversion of rice into mulberry farmers who only need to rent official fields and give certain subsidies.

And it doesn’t need to be changed, just convert the dry fields with relatively low yields to mulberry trees.

However, the priests of the Song Dynasty were all careful people and would not blindly "change rice into mulberry", so they must see the food first. To obtain so much food, of course, they have to build more warships... One or two million stones of rice were not big for Zhenla, Cham, Sanfoqi and Java, which were rich in grain. They could be received in the name of the protection fee of Sanfoqi Strait.

But ten or 20 million stones are another matter. Although Zhenla, Champa, Sanfoqi and Java have few people and many lands, abundant precipitation and warm climate, Java also needs to add a fertile land, but they will not be fine and have so much food!

Generally speaking, places with too good natural conditions tend to raise lazy people, so you must have some external force to supervise them.

If possible, Wu Haogu also wanted to join forces with the Three Buddhas and Qi Kingdom to launch a war against Java. Although Java Island is small, its land is very fertile. 20 million stones of rice only require about four million mu of paddy fields to plant. Therefore, it can be fully developed into the granary of the Song Empire!

However, it is impossible to tell the court that it is provoking war in the Nanyang area, so Wu Haogu has to find a reasonable excuse to expand him. Oh, it should be the fleet commanded by Wu Haowen.

"Brother," Wu Haowen frowned deeply, as if he was a little worried about the war with the Northern Dynasties, "Is our dynasty really going to go to war with the Khitan?"
Chapter completed!