During breakfast, Li Zhang habitually asked someone to bring newspapers. After all, in this era when information exchange is very limited, newspapers are almost the most powerful information publishing platform, which is equivalent to the Internet in later generations. Therefore, if you are interested in external news in this period, reading newspapers every day is almost a must-have activity.

However, the newspaper was just delivered, but An Ran snatched away because she wanted to read "The Adventures of Captain Li" with her younger brothers and sisters, which made Li Zhang feel helpless: "Didn't you read it when the comic was first drawn? Why did you still snatch my newspaper?"

"It's different to read in the newspaper!" An Ran said with confidence. The little guys around her also shouted to support her elder sister, which made Li Zhang shook his head helplessly. If he had known this, he would not have serialized comics in the newspaper.

"The Adventures of Captain Li" just started to be serialized, causing a big sensation in the capital. In fact, this way of telling stories with pictures is not too novel. Not to mention anything else, there will be some stories displayed by murals in temples or graves, but those murals are relatively dull and not strong in consistency, unlike the comics where there are dialogues and narrations of characters.

Of course, the form of the comic is second, and the most important thing is that the content of this comic happens to be related to the most popular topic of sea trade. Li Zhang made up a knowledgeable and humorous Captain Li as the protagonist, and there were also several capable assistants. Then he drove from Quanzhou, passed through Nanyang, Tianzhu, Dashi and other places, and also showed the overseas world to the people of the Song Dynasty through the eyes of the protagonist.

After a group of children finished reading the comics, Li Zhang could only get his own newspaper, but he had just ordered the company to order two newspapers from tomorrow, otherwise he would not have thought about reading the newspaper at breakfast.

"Huh?" But just as Li Zhang finished reading the front of the newspaper and then turned to the back, he saw a news in the corner that surprised him, "The Li Dynasty of the South Vietnam captured the Xindu of Champa in southern Vietnam, and killed the head of the King of Champa, and captured more than 5,000 people."

The Li Dynasty in the South Vietnam was established shortly after thirty or forty years ago, Li Gongyun, the commander in front of the Left Guard Hall of the former Li Dynasty, seized the throne and established the capital Shenglong as Li Taizu. The country also imitated the system of the former Tang and Song dynasties. However, Li Gongyun died before Zhao Zhen took power. Now the emperor of the Li Dynasty is his son Li Foma.

The Li Dynasty established by Li Gongyun was a recognized powerful period in Nanyue. However, after Li Gongyun's death, the Li Dynasty was not at peace in various parts of the Li Dynasty, and rebellions occurred from time to time. Li Foma was also a promising king. In the past few years, he suppressed rebellions in various parts of the country, making the Li Dynasty's power more concentrated and the army was even more powerful. He even provoked the frontiers of the Song Dynasty from time to time.

Li Zhang had long wanted to give the other party a little color. Although everyone's surname was Li, Li Gongyun was an illegitimate child and didn't even know who his father was. Later, his mother sent him to a monk named Li for foster care, so Li Gongyun's surname had nothing to do with his background.

However, the Li Dynasty was too far away, and the garrison in the south was not strong, so he could only let the Li Dynasty cause rebellion on the border. What's even more annoying is that the Li Dynasty also praised the Song Dynasty on the surface, but in private, he sent troops to the Song territory to plunder population, property, and even Li Gongyun directly called himself Li Taizu, but in fact he was the emperor. You must know that even Dali dared to be emperor. Even Li Yuanhao in history fought countless wars with Song and Liao in order to become emperor. In the end, the Song and Liao countries had no choice but to abide by his claim to be emperor.

"What a Li Dynasty. There is no tiger in the mountains. Monkeys call him the king. Now he has defeated Champa. With the wealth of Champa, if they are given several years, it will probably not take long for the Li Dynasty to expand its strength again!" Li Zhang said silently at this time.

Chameng has always been known for its wealth and is rich in grain. Especially the Chameng rice that spread from Chameng to the Song Dynasty has greatly increased the rice yield in the south. The most important thing is that Chameng is more friendly to outsiders and is on the main transportation route between the South Ocean and the Song Dynasty. Therefore, Chameng is also an extremely important port. The tax revenue of the port alone is an astronomical figure. Now that Chameng has been captured by the Li Dynasty, the wealth he has gained is also amazing.

In fact, this is not the first time that Champa City has been captured by the South Vietnamese. As early as more than 60 years ago, the Li Dynasty sent troops to capture Champa City, and razed the capital of Champa City to the ground. He also presented the prisoners of Champa City to the Song Dynasty. However, the Song Dynasty released these prisoners back, and Champa City had to move its capital to Vijay because of this battle.

Thinking of this, Li Zhang immediately got up and went to the palace. The newspapers had too few reports, so it was not a newspaper. After all, Chameng was too far away from the Song Dynasty, and no one paid attention to it at all. It was already quite good to introduce articles that were the size of tofu. It is estimated that this is related to the recent boom in the sea trade, otherwise the newspapers would not have reported the survival of such a small country.

When Li Zhang came to the Chuigong Hall to see Zhao Zhen, he asked about the Li Chao's attack on Cham City, which made Zhao Zhen look strange and said, "Cousin, why did you ask about such a small matter? Are you worried that the attack on Cham City will affect future maritime trade?"

"It's not just about sea trade. The Li Dynasty has great ambitions. On the surface, it is a vassal to our Song Dynasty, but in private he has sent troops to loot the population on the border countless times. Now that he has captured Chameng, his strength has increased greatly, it may make their ambitions soar, and thus send more troops to loot the border!" Li Zhang immediately expressed his concerns about the Li Dynasty.

After hearing this, Zhao Zhen also showed a meditative look, and then he said, "Cousin, you don't have to worry about the Hai Trade incident. The hatred between Li Dynasty and Cham City is very deep. Although they broke through Cham City this time, they did not intend to occupy it. Instead, they killed their king and massacred the people of Cham City. Although Li Foma of the Li Dynasty later made people stop the massacre, the hatred between the two countries became increasingly difficult to resolve, so the army of Li Dynasty should retreat soon."

When Zhao Zhen said this, he asked someone to find out a detailed piece of information and hand it over to Li Zhang. Li Zhang also opened it and looked carefully, but the more he looked, the more he frowned. As Zhao Zhen said, after the Li Dynasty's army entered Champa, they almost killed everyone as soon as they saw it, resulting in the corpses of Champa City and blood flowing into a river.

The information also mentioned that after Li Foma captured the wives and concubines of the King of Cham City, he forced a concubine to sleep with him. However, the concubine would rather jump into the river and die, which was considered to have won the last glory for Cham City.
Chapter completed!