Ancient China was a very feudal society, and almost all trade was resolved by one's own domestic solution, and foreign trade rarely happened. However, a strange phenomenon occurred in the Song Dynasty: the overseas trade in the Song Dynasty was unprecedented.

And it became the world's largest foreign trade country at that time.

However, in Li Jing's view, many practices of the Northern Song Dynasty made this largest foreign trade country not enjoy the benefits that the largest foreign trade country had.

Before the Jingkang Incident, in 971 AD, although the Song Dynasty established the Maritime Warehouse Department in Guangzhou, with the development of overseas trade, it successively established the Maritime Warehouse Department in Hangzhou, Mingzhou (now Ningbo, Zhejiang), Quanzhou, and Mizhou (now Jiaozhou, Qingdao). Except for the Guangzhou Maritime Warehouse Department, the rest were once suspended and abolished before the second year of Zhenghe (1112).

However, with some measures by Emperor Huizong of Song, he was not enough money to spend.

Therefore, in the first year of Daguan in the late Northern Song Dynasty (1107), the institutions that manage foreign trade were renamed "Tiju Maritime Service", and the Maritime Service of each port was renamed "Marine Service".

Zhao Gou wants to build an imperial palace in Lin'an, but there is not enough money to spend it.

So I also thought of the Maritime Warehouse Department, and re-established Liangzhe and Fujian Road Trip to the Maritime Warehouse Department.

From then on, the coexistence of three Maritime Warehouses in Liangzhe, Fujian and Guangnan East Road was restored.

Zhao Gou restored the Maritime Trade Bureau, which was not equivalent to prosperity for the Song people's maritime trade.

The Song people participated in the marine trade in the Northern Song Dynasty, which was far less involved than the Persian, the Dashi, and the Arabs. Moreover, since the Tang Dynasty, the marine trade between India and Liaodong seemed to be clearly in the hands of the Arabs along the southern Arab coast. At this time, they set up stacks along important ports on the coast south of the Indus River.

The residence area opened in Guangzhou in the 3rd century is its extreme.

Li Jing also repeatedly asked about these situations by Li Guang and Li Guang, and only the businessmen in Liangzhejiang learned about this.

These foreigners are not ordinary bad.

They would collude with pirates and deliberately inform them at the passes of various routes, so that pirates would attack our Song Dynasty merchant ships.

This has controlled the marine trade in our Song Dynasty.

In Quanzhou and Guangzhou, the number of goods purchased and what to buy is the final decision.

Except for the official porcelain, tea, silk, and other folk products, the prices are very low.

They even suspected that a group of pirates in the Zhendonghai, which was entrenched on the coast of Liangzhe, was also colluding with these people to deliberately block the ocean-going trade of our Song Dynasty ships.

Of course this is just a suspicion.

Because this group of vicious pirates not only robbed ocean merchant ships, but also near-shore merchant ships.

But he often lets out merchant ships.

When Li Jing talked to Empress Dowager Zheng, Empress Dowager Zheng did not feel that the maritime trade in the Song Dynasty was so chaotic.

But during the sailing process, Li Jing handed over the telescope and saw the pirates hanging with the flags of the East China Sea and the quake.

Empress Dowager Zheng couldn't hold her face anymore.

"Zhao Yu, Lin Zhengfeng, why are you just holding a single tube and a double tube looking like this?"

The empress dowager ordered that the two navy commanders Zhao Yu and Lin Zhengfeng smiled.

Even the three princesses Zhao Yupan, Zhao Jiner and Zhao Fujin laughed.

A pirate of such a famous one, don’t you deserve a beating?

The shock to the East China Sea was originally planned. All the fleet contacts were based on Qi Yu.

As the command flagship, the Chengdu ship had already raised the battle flag. The gunners opened the artillery doors one after another, and the six ships on both wings also expanded their formations, surrounding the more than ten pirate ships.

However, Empress Dowager Zheng rarely goes on the warship to train with the ship.

She had never experienced Li Jing's prestige among the navy.

Li Jing winked, Lin Zhengfeng and the others knew what to do.

"Empress Dowager, if you know how to fight, you can watch the fun!"

When Empress Dowager Qiao was talking beside her, Empress Dowager Zheng suddenly felt very stupid.

But in a blink of an eye, something stupider than her happened.

Pirates were used to being rampant in this area. Relying on the wind, sixteen pirate ships gave up the merchant ship they were chasing, and actually rushed towards the Zhending ship, which was detouring on the left wing, and the healthy ship rushed towards the health ship.

What a big ship, even if it is an empty ship, jumping to seize such a windless automatic ship is a huge gain.

These idiots never thought that the starboard artillery of the Zhending ship, the Health ship, and the Yangzhou ship were all aimed at the pirates coming.

"Rise the signal flag, order Han Huaian to take over the front line, coordinate the dispatch of left and right warships. No authorization is required, and fire can be opened at any time!"

As a flagship Chengdu ship, it is not suitable for such close-range battles.

The empress dowager, princess, princesses, and deputy envoys on the ship had everything, all of which were golden branches and jade leaves, and they could not afford to be injured, let alone risking participation in the gang fight.

The imperial guards and naval officers and soldiers were on full alert.

The ships that dragged the barges were also guarding the slowing Chengdu ship.

The pirates have a clear meaning. If they want to seize the ships of the Song Dynasty Navy, the Song Dynasty Navy also wants to capture these pirates and captives of these pirate ships alive, even if they are taken back to be a barge.

But how could the pirates in the boat behave like the great Song Dynasty navy?

As long as they kill their lives or beat them up, they surrender obediently.

Seeing that the pirates who were not only alive and dead, they actually coveted the warships of the Song Dynasty, Guo Huaian also had a bad temper.

The signaler rose less than two minutes ago, and the Zhending ship, the Health ship, and the Yangzhou ship were fully fired for the first time.

Hundreds of large-caliber artillery shot out from three battleships with live ammunition.

The location of the warships on the sea surface is filled with smoke and dust.

The roar of cannons sounded like a bolt from the blue.

The sea surface where the sixteen pirate ships were located was terrible, with bullets like rain, and hundreds of shells hitting the sky like a rain curtain.

In a dense place with bomb rain, shells pierced the sails on the ship, and the wooden pirate ship was covered with holes.

"Damn it, he's really a prodigal son, I don't know how to save some gunpowder!"

When Li Jing went south this time, saltpeter was the most important procurement material.

Although the population of the Song Dynasty was incomparable to the population of more than 10 million in Zhenguan in the early Tang Dynasty.

The industry that can make salty is far less developed than the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Saltpeter cannot be mineralized in any place with a slightly moist climate. After all, it can be used as a fertilizer for plant growth and is absorbed completely by plants.

Li Jing's army used firearms on a large scale, and the bottleneck was saltpeter.

He even had the impulse to take his fleet to travel to South America to dig saltpeter mines in the Chilean desert.

The acquisition of saltpeter is reported as a large sum of money, and the formula and cooking method of saltpeter are also an important part of Li Jing's journey to the south of the Yangtze River.

"Envoy Li Xuanfu, my brothers usually report on real ammunition. Have you ever done this kind of riding and shooting scene? Today's battle has really taught me the power of the Great Song Navy ships!"

"That is, my Song Dynasty navy is invincible in the world. God blocks the gods and Buddhas blocks the Buddhas!"

After Li Jing took over the Dengzhou Navy, the Navy flourished.

Commander and commander, regardless of treatment or military rank, are all rising steadily.

The Battle of Fusang, Liaodong, and Goryeo all received a lot of money and silk rewards.

It turned out that the conflict between the four commanders suddenly disappeared.

When he heard Li Jing scolding Han Huaian for his prodigal son, Zhao Yu and Lin Zhengfeng quickly smiled and asked to help him get rid of him.

This kind of opportunity to fight on the sea surface and crush your opponent is once a lifetime.

If one of these two is replaced, the three ships will be ordered to volley without hesitation.

After all, this kind of fighting style has a strong deterrence.

After the first wave, Han Huaian raised the signal flag, which also indicated that the volley shot just now was just a scare of the pirates.

Several boats on the right wing began to approach, and together with the left wing, they were ready to approach the opponent, and they shouted and jumped to help.

Obviously, this kind of fire strike is unprecedented and unheard of for pirates.

Sixteen pirate ships sank three in the first round of volleys.

Six seriously injured.

The Navy of the Song Dynasty used three warship artillery artillery.

The scarred pirate ship was covered in blood.

The pirates were completely stunned!

Seeing that the warship Wufeng was automatically, after all, the pirate ship, the black hole muzzle was aimed at the pirate ship again.

He was so scared that he shivered.

"Listen to the pirates in front, if they do not surrender immediately, our Song Dynasty navy will sink all your ships and strangle all pirates on the sea. Surrender is your only way out. Those who are willing to surrender, immediately raise the white flag and exercise in the southeast direction, accept the inspection of our warship officers and soldiers. Those who are unwilling to surrender, wait for you to be buried in the sea!"

He looked at the familiar iron trumpet and shouted.

Li Jing smiled.

Zhao Yupan, Zhao Fujin, Zhao Jiner and others also heard about Li Jing's former trumpet provoking Wanyan Zongwang in the army.

Smiling in a slight way.
To be continued...