"Zhunting the Kingdom of Nian?" Wu Haowen was shocked and almost fell off the horse's back. One of his servants followed him and helped him.

Wu Haowen knew about Zhunian. After receiving the order from the Hailu Maritime Market, he still did some homework and learned about the Three Buddha Qi, Java, Bagan, Zhenla, and of course Zhunian. In the "Zhufan Zhi" compiled by the Song Dynasty court, Zhunian was a great country. It is said that Zhunian capital has seven levels, with a city of seven feet high, first, the second city is a residential house, and is isolated around the city of water and moats. Third, the fourth city is an official palace. Fifth and the sixth city are royal palaces. In addition, Zhunian Zhi also said that Zhunian was warlike and raised 60,000 battle elephants. Each battle elephant was seven or eight feet high, carrying a small house on his back, soldiers fought with bows and arrows, and killed with spears. Everyone was brave and good at fighting, and treated death as if they were home... It sounded very terrible! The Song Dynasty was so weak that it could beat Zhunian, which had 60,000 battle elephants?

Moreover, why did the Song Dynasty fight with Zhunian Kingdom? Who approved it?

"Brother, Zhu Nian Country is so far away, why did you fight with us?" Wu Haowen quickly sat down for a few points, and then asked, "Brother, is there really someone who is provoking border provocations, seeking self-interest, seeking credit and reward, and destroying state affairs?"

Wu Haogu turned around and glared at his fat brother: "Second brother, why do you speak like those censors?"

Wu Haowen shook his head quickly: "Brother, this is not a joke... I have always been conquering people with virtue, so how could I fight with Zhunian Country thousands of miles away?"

Wu Haogu snorted and laughed: "Have you defeated people with virtue and beat the Western thief into his godson? He still thinks about pacifying Liao and restoring Yan all day long?"

"But, the Western thieves and the Khitan both occupied the land of the Han family, and the Zhunian Kingdom is thousands of miles away, so we should be divorced from each other."

"If you have far-reaching money, you will have no money!" Wu Haogu said with a smile, "Maritime trade is a great fortune, and it is related to the rise and fall of the world. How can you not control it?"

"How can sea trade affect the rise and fall of the world?" Wu Haowen shook his head and expressed his disbelief.

In his opinion, commerce and trade are all things that can be icing on the cake, but they must not be relied on as the fundamental. The foundation of the country is still agriculture!

Wu Haogu Yixiao: "Your sea route market control department office office has the sea trade export and entrance account of JD Maritime Market over the years. If you check it carefully, you will know the pros and cons of sea trade."

Check the account?

Wu Haowen frowned. He didn't like to deal with accounts since he was a child. What he liked was literature. Poetry and articles can be written to make people criticize, but they always make mistakes in the settlement of accounts and do not plan to plan. They are not as good as Wu Haowen.

"There is no need to check it one by one," Wu Haogu said with a smile. "There is an annual summary, and it is clear at a glance. You can see that the Jingdong Commercial City, Banqiao Commercial City and Penglai Commercial City under the jurisdiction of JD.com, have exceeded the output and income of JD.com, which are under the jurisdiction of JD.com, have exceeded the output and income of JD.com, over the years."

"What is the super-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-ex

I don’t even know that Guan’er is in charge of the foreign trade of the Song Dynasty…

"The so-called over-export is that the export amount is greater than the import amount. However, the over-export amount is that the export amount is less than the import amount."

“…”

Wu Haowen was confused.

"Do you know the money shortage?"

"I know, I know this," Wu Haowen said, "mainly because everyone in the rich room can't hide it!"

The wealthy families of the Northern Song Dynasty did have the habit of hiding money, or more accurately, hiding copper. The reason for this was that at that time and later generations were more consistent with those of later generations that merchants were very bad and were unkind to be rich and unkind, and they hid all the copper minted by coins and did not allow them to enter circulation, which led to the deflation of the country's economy.

As long as you dig out all the copper hidden in the merchant's cellar to mint the money, the money shortage will be solved!

However, while Wu Haogu was in charge of the Maritime and Coastal Control Department, he discovered the main reason for the shortage of money.

It is unfair international trade rules!

Although the Song Dynasty exported a large number of commodities, such as porcelain, silk, ships, daily necessities, ironware, salt, etc., the input products are limited, mainly horses, fur, medicinal materials, jewelry, glass, spices, cotton cloth, etc.

However, the pricing power of foreign trade, especially marine trade, was missing. In other words, the products exported by the Song Dynasty were all low-priced. Although the export volume was large, the value was not high. However, the imported products were all high-priced. Although the volume was small, the value was not low. This situation also related to the huge cost of maritime trade, and the cost of transportation and customs clearance was far higher than the product itself.

In other words, if China did not master the circulation links of maritime trade in ancient times, it would have been possible to keep the country in a closed way and avoid the continuous loss of currency by strictly controlling imports and trade.

The reason why the Ming Dynasty implemented the policy of closing the country was probably to avoid the continuous loss of currency in trade. At least closing the country did play a role in this regard. Therefore, the later Ming and Qing dynasties could use high-value silver as the main currency. The "money shortage" and "silver shortage" were not as serious as the "copper coins shortage" in the Song Dynasty.

"Second brother," Wu Hao Gu Road, "You can tell if you go and look at the accounts Ji Yi made... But the number of markets under the Jingdong Market Supervision Bureau has an annual income of hundreds of thousands of yuan! The over-tax of imported goods is always much higher than that of exported goods!

And there is never gold, silver and copper in the inlet goods!"

"But the court strictly prohibits the export of copper coins and gold and silver..."

"What's the use of strictly prohibiting the control?" Wu Haogu sneered, "Second brother, where do you think the difference between hundreds of thousands of coins between the entrance and exit is gone?

Just one Jingdong Commercial City has a revenue of hundreds of thousands. If you include the commercial markets in Mingzhou, Quanzhou, Guangzhou and other places, there are more than one million yuan a year. Although the Jiehe Commercial City has a revenue of hundreds of thousands, there will be many foreign merchants spending and buying property on our land, the gold, silver and copper lost through trade every year is worth more than one hundred thousand to hundreds of thousands of yuan. Over time, it is not a small amount."

If we want to find the reasons for the failure of ancient Chinese society to enter the evil capitalist system, the mistakes in maritime trade are obviously one of them.

In the early days, due to the lack of sea control, the pricing power of maritime trade was lost. In the long run, under the unfair trade rules, they could only bear the deficit. Although the problem of deficit was solved by closing the country in the later period, closing the country in the country seriously affected Sino-foreign exchanges, and was also quite negative for the development of capitalism.

The reason why Europe could quickly move towards capitalism after the Age of Discovery was not only that it had a large market (the market itself was much larger than the market controlled by the Ottoman Empire at that time) and the philosophy and science left by our ancestors that could promote technological progress was that it obtained a huge amount of gold and silver from the New World.

A large amount of gold and silver provides cheap capital, and at the same time stimulates the development of the financial industry, giving the capitalist seedlings a very good growth environment.

If the Song Dynasty wants to enter the primary stage of capitalism in the next one or two hundred years, it must change the flow of precious metals in world trade.

To do this, you must have the power of the sea!

"Second brother, let me tell you." Wu Haogu smiled, "We have now taken the trade route between the South and Western Oceans, the country will no longer have a wealth and copper waste in the future. Because overseas gold and silver will flow to us.

Not only will gold, silver and copper coins flow in, but the food in Southeast Asia will also flow in continuously... If the Sanfoqi Maritime Bureau manages the law, in a few years, the six-way shipping envoys will not have to force the people in the southeast to ask for food. Isn’t it just six or seven million stones a year, and it will be solved by occupying one or two million mu in Java."

"Can you collect six or seven million stones per million acre?" Wu Haowen shook his head, "Brother, you really don't know how to farm... You have to ask Uncle Qi for this."

"Uncle Qi is about to arrive at Jiehe Market." Wu Haogu smiled, "But there is no need to ask him about this, because the paddy fields in Haizhou are not good, so they cannot produce so much. The most fertile paddy fields in the world are in Java. There is no problem with producing six or seven stones of rice per mu. As long as you can enclose a piece of land on Java Island, and then migrate tens of thousands of farmers to cultivate it. It is not a problem to obtain six million stones of rice a year."

There are many volcanoes around Java Island that often erupt, sending deep and fertile volcanic ash soil to the island. In addition, the climate characteristics of rainy and humid and sufficient sunshine make the island's agricultural production conditions unique.

At this time, the one occupying Java Island was an Aerlenga Kingdom, a Brahman kingdom. In addition, the "Shan Dawang" dynasty that now ruled the Three Buddha Qi Kingdom (the title of King Sanfuqi translated into Chinese as Shandawang) originated from Java Island. Because of marriage inheritance, we were able to take over the Three Buddha Qi Kingdom. However, the "Shan Dawang" dynasty on Java Island was destroyed by the East Java Kingdom. Therefore, the "Shan Daiwang" of Sanfuqi always wanted to restore its homeland on Java Island, so the Three Buddhas

There has always been a low-intensity conflict between the "Shan King" of Qi and the Hindu feudal state of Aerlenka on Java. The country of Aerlenka was not an opponent of the Sanfoqi. However, because of the invasion of the Sanfoqi that Zhunian, that is, the Juluo Kingdom of India, a hundred years ago, the Sanfoqi had no time to look east, lost all the territory on Java Island, and also lost control of the small states east of the Sanfoqi Strait. This allowed the Brahmanism of Aerlenka to grow.

However, due to the intervention of the Song Dynasty, the balance and balance of the Three Buddhas Straits had been broken. The Kingdom of Gatoha, which was the stronghold of Zhunian Kingdom in Crates, was already broken by the Three Buddhas and Qi coalition forces of the Song Dynasty at the beginning of the first year of Daguan.

But at this time, the Zhunian Kingdom was in its heyday and ruled the southeast of the Indian subcontinent. It not only had a huge army with war elephants as its core, but also had a strong navy. There was also a relatively loose Zhunian, Aerlenga, Zhenla, and Chameng four-nation alliance (four Brahmin countries). So it would not be willing to lose control of the Sanfoqi Strait and Crates!

At the same time, thanks to Ji Yi and Yuanjue, the Buddhist alliance of the four countries of the Song Dynasty, the Three Buddhas, Bagan and Juluo has now taken shape... Therefore, an international war surrounding the maritime power of the South and East Indian Oceans is inevitable, and it can also be regarded as the beginning of the world war in Southeast Asia.
Chapter completed!