The sea is blue, like a gem.

But after staying on the sea for a long time, there are actually such beautiful, monotonous and terrifying things. Even seagulls are not seen far from the coastline.

And there are too many unknown factors in this industry.

"Have you measured it?" A dark-faced man asked a scholar beside him.

"It should be almost on the shore." The scholar said, wiping his sweat.

This tmd is even more tiring than the imperial examination, the scholar thought to himself.

The surname of the Han Dynasty was Ding, and he was a seaguard from Hangzhou. The main ones were from Wat Wa, while Quanzhou and Guangzhou went to Southeast Asia, and the distance was from Tianzhu and Dashi, and East Africa.

Maybe the Song Dynasty was relatively unfamiliar with Japan, either a few monks came to seek scriptures and then pretended to be envoys for convenience. In fact, there were few envoys from Japan in the Song Dynasty to come to see each other. The specific reason was very simple, that is, although the Song Dynasty was rich, it was not strong. Although there were Japanese women who came to borrow seeds, the reason for this borrowing seeds was also complicated. Not only was the Song Dynasty developed civilization, but there was another problem, that is, height.

Compared with other ancient dynasties, the Song Dynasty was relatively wealthy in economy. It did not raise enough pigs and sheep, and the cattle and sheep traded by the Western Xia and Tubo were not enough. It also bought hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep from the Khitan every year.

This created another problem, that is, the Liao traitor.

Because of the annual tribute and transactions, it brought a lot of wealth to many Khitan nobles.

Why did the nomadic people invade? Anyway, the Liao Kingdom had no ambition and did not want to enter the Central Plains. The remaining purpose was nothing more than wealth. You can grab a lot of wealth in war, but you would risk losing. So why not do this?

Therefore, except for the southern regions, the Song Dynasty was generally one year taller than that of Japan. Some Japanese girls came to the Song Dynasty to borrow seeds, and once they had the Song seeds, they were immediately adopted by the nobles. When those seamen arrived in Japan, they mostly had wives and concubines.

But there are few political contacts.

The reason is weakness.

It is precisely because of this situation that when the great man heard about the battle in Dashun City, he immediately regarded Wang Ju as his idol.

Wang Ju asked Zhao Du to target the sugar in Japan and advised him a lot, including exchanging wood for commodities and sextant.

The Han was the first to carry out the execution. He brought some goods and bought hundreds of big red pine trees. According to what Zhao Du said, he placed sails on the wooden rafts. This is also a must. When he went there, it was the more familiar waterway from Hangzhou to Ryukyu, and then to Japan. When he came back, he was not Hangzhou, but Mizhou.

There was also a waterway during the Tang Dynasty, first from Japan to Goryeo, and then from Goryeo to Dengzhou. However, this waterway was temporarily abolished in the Song Dynasty, even if it was not abandoned. It was impossible to detour through such a long row of wooden rafts. Therefore, it was impossible to force a span.

But on the crossing channel, even an island with a reference landmark is rare. And the wooden rafts are dragged behind, and the speed is slower. At this time, you can only refer to this non-standard sextant and compass, and then adjust the sails.

When I went there, I had already compared this sextant, but it was not very accurate. There are three reasons. The first reason was the sextant itself, the second was the standard timing instrument, and the third was the map.

The principle of sextant is very simple. It is measured at noon. This noon refers to the noon at a certain standard time, and it is also a compass. The compass can be mixed together, but the standard timing instrument comes from. Even if the most accurate water leakage or hourglass is used, it will inevitably cause inaccurate timing. At the same time, there must be a standard map to compare.

Wang Jutou also explained this article when he distributed the compass and sextant.

In addition, computing power is required. Therefore, although some ships going to Japan have been verified, there are huge errors, and it doesn't matter. They can be corrected slowly, such as the correction of the chart and the improvement of hourglass and water leakage, at least it is better than losing direction on the sea and not knowing where to go in the end.

The scholars were hired by the great man, but it was hard to explain. Moreover, they were the first to walk this new channel and the first to tow wooden rafts with sea boats. Everyone was a little nervous.

The boat continued to sail westward.

A sailor shouted, "Boss, look at that."

I saw a curved black shadow from afar, very long.

"Release the boat."

It is not about untiing the cables or letting go of the big boat, but about putting down the boat.

Several sailors put down their boats and headed towards the shore.

As the day gets dusk, the sailor comes back and says, "Rushan is ahead."

"That Rushan?"

“Above Mizhou.”

"Hahaha." The man laughed wildly.

After finding the location, it would be easy to deal with. The sailors continued to adjust the sails. The next day, near noon, this row of monsters sailed into Jiaozhou Bay. Some sea boats began to appear in Jiaozhou Bay, most of which were ships from the south, but they were just established and were far less than the lively atmosphere of Hangzhou Maritime Warehouse.

The ships looked at them just as strangely.

The big ship slowly entered the port with wooden rafts, and the officials of the Maritime Bureau and the soldiers looked strange.

The big man laughed: "Ding Laosan is back."

Not only him, but others also jumped up on the boat. The man patted the scholar's shoulder and said, "So Ming Gong is Wenquxing, and it is not something you, a mortal, can understand."

The scholar was speechless. Prince An Shanchang seemed to be military. What does it have to do with Wenquxing? Well, who made me fail even a single exam?

"Stop for one day and send a small boat back immediately." The big man said again. This is the sailing era. Big ships cannot return to Japan against the wind, but some small ships can use side sails, or oars to return against the wind. The speed will be very slow. But if you can grab the lead, the big man will jump ashore.

Several minor officials were coming to check the goods and were about to remove them. The big man said, "No need to remove them. Ming Gong bless me, Tian Gong bless the Song Dynasty, donate all these to the court to build roads."

This is happy, and if no road is opened, it means that Japan will have a large market, and for these savvy tourists, it will also mean that there will be great profits.

The generous man of the great man made several minor officials a little stunned. Such long wooden rafts, and all of them were thick pine wood. The pine wood was faintly rosy in the sea water, and it was undoubtedly all the best red pine. You should know that because the cultural undertakings of the Song Dynasty were developed, all the pine trees in many areas were cut down, so the price of wood gradually increased. Moreover, these high-quality red pine pine, who would be willing to make ink, can only be used to make tall building beams or high-end furniture. The minor officials don’t need to estimate, at least it is worth thousands of chunks.

Donate, this is a good thing, but the leader asked: "Dear guest, please ask the name of the surname and name, where is the hometown? Who is that Ming Gong?"

"Prince An, Wenquxing, I'm convinced. The God of Ming."

This god is not only because of wood, sextant, compass, and that the earth may be round, without this theory, it cannot support sextant.

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"Zi'an, is the earth really round?" Lu Huiqing asked.

The news came to the capital, although it was a trivial matter. It was also quite sensational.

Although everyone was embarrassed to take it to the court to speak, they couldn't help but talk in private.

"It's probably round. It's just that the sea is vast and I don't know what the edge is. Otherwise, someone will take a risk, either east or west, and drive up a circle, and that will prove it."

"How long will the earth be?"

"God knows," Wang Ju said with a spread of his hand. He knew that he wouldn't say it, it was too weird. He also drew an approximate sketch, including Australia, the equatorial line or the equatorial line. Of course, errors cannot be avoided. However, Kaifeng's latitude line is five, and the turret line is nine, which means nine and five supreme. According to this, it is finely divided into several small degrees. As for the trouble this nucleus will bring to future generations, he doesn't care.

But they did not come for this. The income of the Maritime Trade Department in the Northern Song Dynasty was still limited. And there was one thing that everyone ignored. For example, in the history of the Southern Song Dynasty, one-sixth of the economy was driven by maritime trade, but this one-sixth could not be displayed on the books. The revenue of the Maritime Trade Department was still only a few million chunks.

"Zi'an, how far will the price of kapok fall this year?" Zhang Dun asked.

"I don't know much about it, but the quilt may fall below five silos this year, so you have to be prepared."

"So fast?"

"Well, it's too profitable, but by the time of five jin, there will be more people who can accept it, and the decline will slowly decline in the future. It may be able to maintain more than two jin of money in this decade. Moreover, I asked Zhao Du to open up the sea route, which is also related to it. If there are more sales and sales, the decline will slow down. But the Kapok Shi will not last long. Maybe it will be more than ten years later, or more than twenty years later, it will inevitably be banned, but the nature of the ban was different at that time. Although it was banned, the taxes in the south would be equivalent to disguised in increasing the income of millions of jin to the country every year. And in the future, it will not only be quilts, cotton coats, but also cotton cloth. This will benefit thousands of households."

"That's good," Zhang Dun breathed a sigh of relief.

Last year alone, the Kapok Department brought more than three million guan to the country. Even if the cost of road construction vehicles and labor was abandoned, the income would not be less than three million guan. This became the biggest political achievement of the reform. This year, the cotton fields doubled. But the decline was too harsh. Although the output increased, the income was not as good as last year. This is what Zhang Dun didn't want to see.

"By the way, there was a scholar named Wu Nian in the capital who wrote a book that specifically talked about the dangers of miasma in the south. Later, someone impeached him based on this, saying that immigrants were not suitable for the water and soil in the south, and they died of miasma in the south."

"It's okay. The postal politics and law (postal system) began, and letters were exchanged. The rumors of the gentry on Fujian Road and Jiangnan West Road were self-defeated. But some people died of miasma. This was not a miasma, but a kind of malaria infected by mosquitoes. People from Lingbei first went to Lingnan, had poor exemption and poor adaptation to the land. It may have killed a very small number of people. But Brother Jifu, you can do this, randomly check the annual mortality rate and death situation of the people in three or two states, and then compare it with the migrants. The rumors were self-defeated. Furthermore, the people from the Imperial City Department could follow the Wunian scholar and find an excuse to arrest him."

The Song Dynasty spoke of the people who said that they were innocent and it was difficult to catch them by just one book, but if you want to find a reason for arrest, the spy from Da Nei will be able to find them.

This is not the key, the key is the front.

In this era, lifespan is very short, and there is no way to prevent it. Just like this salt, you know how many people die every year, but who knows?

If a region has too dense population and serious annexation, there will be countless people who die of poverty every year, not necessarily starve to death. Some die of illness, and some cannot raise children. The children will drown when they are born.

These are all abnormal deaths, and as long as they are counted, they are good evidence.

"Good idea." Zhang Dun said.

"Even if there is a proof, those people will still accusate them." Lu Huiqing said.

“Why?”

Lu Huiqing said something.

Wang Shao and Li Shizhong were in a quarrel. There were two leaders of the ancient Weizhou, Longbo and Tuoshuo, who attacked each other. Mu Zheng's younger brother sent troops to help Longbo. But both of them had a good relationship with Wang Shao. Wang Shao wanted to resolve it. Even if Dong Yu sent troops, Wang Shao probably had no problem. They were all ready to deal with Mu Zheng and the entire Xihe area, how could they be afraid of a small Dong Yu? This is the real win over the majority and deal with extremely small numbers, laying the foundation for regaining Xihe at the lowest cost in the future.

Li Shizhong and Wang Shao were incompatible, but Xiang Bao was from Li Shizhong. So Xiang Bao wanted to ruin Wang Shao's affairs and made an appointment with Gao Zunyu and Zhang Shou to lead the army. No matter how Xiang Bao was, he could fight, let alone Zhang Shou made an appointment. So he slammed and defeated Dong Yu, and Dong Yu left hundreds of corpses and ran away in a panic.

Then forget it.

However, the Privy Council got angry and said that Bo surrendered Tushuo and killed each other. Wang Shao and Gao Zunyu did not understand each other seriously in advance. Later, Xiang Bao led his troops to destroy them, and Gao Zunyu also went. He should order Wang Shao to go to Qinzhou to listen to the order. Only after Wang Kechen understood could he make a decision.

No matter what the truth is, the three prime ministers of the Western Prefecture have hidden murderous intentions. Wang Shao specializes in the work of the foreign ministry. If he doesn't understand it in advance, it means he is dereliction of duty. Xiang Gao made mistakes, but he has military achievements and his merits and demerits are offset. Then Wang Shao must be punished.

Wang Anshi didn't know the specific situation, so he had to say that Wang Shao only reported the investigation based on the investigation. There were mountains in the northwest and the foreign tribes fought against each other. Even within twenty miles, it was difficult to obtain information. They either advanced or retreated. How could they know immediately? They could not use this article to convict Wang Shao.

Zhao Xu and Xi Ni told Zeng Gongliang that using Xiang Bao is for the fight and Wang Shao is for the peace. As the head coach of one side, Li Shizhong's responsibility is to control the two. Li Shizhong's memorial was very inappropriate.

Wen Yanbo, Wu Chong and Feng Jing were even more dissatisfied with this.

However, at this time, Wang Shao's memorial came to the capital, and Wang Anshi also said: "Wang Shao reported that there are tens of hectares of fertile land in Weiyuan, and the cultivation of the country can raise 300,000 stones of military rations."

The output of 10,000 hectares of fertile land is definitely more than 300,000 stones, and people have to eat it. However, if you eat it, you will have more than 300,000 stones of military rations a year. Wang Anshi did not exaggerate it. Later, Wang Shao opened the border, and the court did not mobilize troops to transport grain and grass from the rear like Qingli.

He also said: "Weiyuan border trade is prosperous, and the establishment of the Municipal Yisi can raise a lot of funds for recruiting and revenge. Li Shizhong did not deny it. It was only after being ridiculed by the Privy Councilor that he tried his best to destroy Wang Shao, saying that thousands of acres of fertile land was a false report, and the Municipal Yisi was corrupt. In fact, Wang Gao and his two men were rewarded for recruiting and revenge killings, which was caused by the improper handling of the pacification envoy Li Shizhong, and the responsibility was not on Wang Shao."

Wen Yanbo defended Li Shizhong and said: "It is common for the border general to put aside the edict and not implement it."

Wang Anshi said: "If the edict cannot be implemented, you should submit a request to Your Majesty. How can you be innocent if you put aside the edict? Besides, Li Shizhong made a fuss out of nothing and slandering and lying, how can you forgive me?"

Wen Yanbo had no choice but to say: "Shizhong Li should be the Border Commander, so he should be strictly required, but Shizhong Li was disturbed by Wang Shao."

"Although Wang Shao was a special order and appropriate writing, Li Shizhong also strongly reported that Wang Shao had the talent of Wang Zuo, so the court agreed to his request. Wang Shao did everything he did after Li Shizhong agreed. How could he disturb him?"
To be continued...