"I tell you, when the Persian monarch and minister saw the dynasty's envoys showing the power of the explosives, his face turned blue. Several generals gritted their teeth and pressed the handle of the knife, but they did not dare to draw their swords."

"Why do you think they are so angry? Of course, they have suffered losses from taking explosives! It is said that more than 100,000 elite soldiers died, and now they see that they are the power of the dynasty, how can they not be so angry that they smoke from the seven orifices?"

"But this energy is over, the envoy of the dynasty made it clear and immediately negotiated with the Roman Kingdom and truce the war, otherwise...huhhh..."

In a restaurant in Luzon, a sailor was telling the audience what he saw and heard about his trip to the West, especially the scene of the imperial envoy meeting with the Persian monarch. This is a very important "news".

Although he only heard of it.

The sailor followed the fleet to Persia and failed to enter the capital of Taixifeng, and had no chance to personally experience the process of the dynasty envoys showing the power of explosives to Persian ministers. However, the "scene situation" he heard from his uncle, brother-in-law, uncle, and colleagues of his fellow townsmen, still made everyone listen with relish.

Now it is the late spring of the 18th year of Mingde. The envoys who were on missions to the West at the end of last year have already started "diplomacy" in Persia and Roman countries. According to the news that maritime merchants have successively spread to the South China Sea, it is said that under the mediation of the dynasty envoys, the two countries are preparing to shake hands and make peace.

Or do your own thing and continue to fight?

The news of the opposite is spread to Nanyang, and no one can tell whether it is true or false. Perhaps the answer will be revealed only when the envoy returns.

There are many related news, such as the court wants to do business with Western countries, so the maritime merchants organize new fleets to prepare a large amount of stocking, and prepare to make a fortune.

The Atlantic Ocean is very large, from the west of the Strait of Malacca to the "Aksum Kingdom" in the extreme west, spanning thousands of miles east and west, which is extremely large.

Many people have heard that Nanyang Trading Company uses the Tianzhu as the dividing line and divides the West into two parts, each with corresponding "branches" responsible for trade matters. Then the branches cooperate with each other and use "relay" to transport goods from various countries along the route of the Wanli route.

If the court really did get things done and the Nanyang Company really started to operate the West, this area would be an amazing treasure pot.

But what if the court mediation is ineffective and the transaction cannot be done?

For the people in Luzon, this is a joke after dinner. Whether the peace talks are successful or not is something that the court has to worry about, and what they care more about is the opening of the "direct route".

From Guangzhou Fanyu to Luzon, although the distance between the intercepting and straightening of the bend is about 2,500 miles, it is actually not that easy to walk. If you follow the initial way of walking, you have to take a big bend.

At that time, Luzhou had no establishment. The sea boats departing from the coast of Guangzhou (near Fanyu) first passed Xuwen in the southwest, went to Longbing in Jiaozhou, took the coastal route to Linyi, then turned to the southeast, sailed along a series of small islands until they arrived in Borneo (Pari Kingdom), and then turned north to the area where Luzhou is now located.

The whole journey takes about three months, of which it takes about one month from the coast of Guangzhou to Linyi, one month from Linyi to Poli, and one month from Poli to Luzon.

This is still the time it takes to sail down the wind.

The whole route was a big circle on the shore of the rising sea. Although there were supplies along the way, there were coasts and islands as reference objects, so they could shelter from the wind at any time, so it was safe to walk, but it took too long.

Later, when three-masted, four-masted or even five-masted sea ships appeared, a new route was also available, that is, "bending and straightening", starting from Fanyu, crossing the ocean directly to the southeast.

In the ocean outside Fanyu, there is an ocean current flowing from north to south. This ocean current flows south through the strait between Fuzhou and Taizhou. The flow rate is very fast. The sea ships must fight with it in order to sail smoothly towards the southeast Luzhou.

If the wind is weak, the ship will be pushed south by the currents and can only be docked in Qiongzhou, waiting for Hyacin to fly directly to Luzhou in the southeast.

This route is much faster than the original route, but it has high requirements for navigation technology: there are not many references to cross the ocean directly. If you encounter a storm on the way, even if you berth a few islands and reefs, you can basically not escape.

Therefore, this route has seasonal restrictions. In summer and autumn, because of the southeast wind and frequent storms, it is necessary to take the old route from Guangzhou Fanyu to Luzhou Luzon.

But now it’s different. Since the new steamer ship was found two years ago, after more than half a year, the new steamer ship with dual-use organic sails took only three days to fly directly from Fanyu to Luzon at the end of last year.

At the beginning of this year, the two-purpose organic sail steamer set off from Luzon and headed north through Taizhou to Guangling at the mouth of the Yangtze River. It was said that the entire journey took only ten days, which was incredible before.

The opening of new routes means that it is very convenient for people and materials from all over the Central Plains to go to Luzhou, and sea boats do not need to look at the direction of the wind to decide whether to sail, except for avoiding the storm.

It is conceivable that from next year at the latest, more people will float on steamers to Luzon to clear wasteland and settle down.

Rice from Jiaozhou will also be transported in large quantities to Luzon to ensure the supply of food in Luzon and feed more immigrants.

Luzhou was "born" for only a few years, but because of its gold, silver, copper and coal mines, it was designated as an important trading port and a transit port for routes. Therefore, it has developed rapidly in recent years. Many people came to Luzon, Luzhou to settle down, do business, and open up land and farm.

Although Luzhou will be plagued by storms in summer and autumn, and crops are easily ravaged by storms, for many people, it is worth it to have a piece of their own land, no matter how hard or tired it is.

For maritime merchants and ship operators, Luzon is already an increasingly important transit port on the north-south route. Ships set off from Luzon and can reach Taizhou, Ryukyu and even Japan with the help of the dark tide.

Ships entering the sea from Laizhou or Yangzhou are loaded with various specialties and even ice cubes. They take offshore routes to the south, pass Taizhou and go directly to Luzhou, and then go to Borneo and other Southeast Asian countries and even Australia.

The imperial court also needed gold, silver and copper produced in Luzhou. Therefore, the permanent population of Luzon grew rapidly. Now the number of registered households in the government exceeds 5,000, most of them are the people of the Central Plains (including Lingnan).

In addition, there are many slave laborers in various mines and plantations, with an unknown total number, but there must be a large number.

Speaking of the future, people in the restaurants are full of confidence in the future of Luzon. The "innovation" of transportation has greatly shortened the distance between Luzhou, which is lonely overseas and the Central Plains. Luzhou is no longer a desolate place that is lonely overseas, but a new world.

Even in summer and autumn, there are many storms, and when the storm comes, the houses collapse and the trees are uprooted. Thanks to the fact that there are brick houses now, otherwise life would be difficult to get rid of the roof by the strong wind every now and then.
Chapter completed!