Chapter 770 Kingdom in the Sea
Captured a Beisha city, and everyone earned hundreds of thousands of guan. If this can break a king's capital and capture a king or something, at least he can't take advantage of his 1.8 million guan?
Cheng Chumo and the others don’t care about the country or the king. In their eyes, the king of the barbarians is money and meat.
"Where?"
When Cheng Chumo said this, his eyes were a little red, and his breathing was a little short. As the second generation of the upstarts, these people actually had a good life, with a bright future, and all of them were already officials at a young age, some were honored, and some even had a title.
He even has a small family business more or less. Ru Chumo closely follows Qin Lang, and has been serving as the governor of Hetao for the past few years. The money he managed turned into Wan Guan.
But who thinks too much money?
After all, they are no match for the Guanlong nobles or the old aristocratic families with five surnames and seven families.
While in power now, hurry up and raise more money.
The country on the sea, the largest island country in the east is of course the Wa country, but Qin Lang said it was not, and Niu Jianhu asked if it was Tamra.
"Tamna is now a vassal state of my Tang Dynasty. We are still building embassies, commercial offices, ports, and wharves on it. It is an important trade transit port for us to the four countries of Haidong. The imperial court has invested a lot of effort in it. of."
Tamna Island in the later generations is a tourist island, and tourism is very good, but now the poor are dying. There are three major tribes on the island, Gaoyina Liangyinafuyina, and now the leader of the Gaoyina tribe is the island's leader. The leader of the tribe, once attached to Silla, was later controlled by the Wa Kingdom, and then seized by Baekje, and then the Tang Dynasty stepped in strongly, and brought Tamna Island into his vassal from Baekje.
The island is not small, and its location is very important, but it is relatively primitive. The people on the island are very backward in terms of production and so on. Like many Dongyi tribes in Liaodong before, they have shaved hair, raise pigs and wear pigskin, live in tents in summer, and live in nests in winter. He doesn't even know how to use cattle to plow the land, but there are many good horses on the island.
In fact, the islanders live a very primitive and simple life just like the tribes in the white mountains and black waters. However, it is an island after all, so the shipbuilding and navigation on Tamna Island are not bad. There are also people who often do some costless business at sea.
In general, although the owner of Tamna Island is now canonized by Datang as the King of Tamra, Zhuguo, and Governor of Jeju, and Datang has also begun to invest in infrastructure such as docks and ports there, in a short time there is still poverty.
In addition, the imperial court attaches great importance to that area now, and this is a project that Qin Lang single-handedly promoted and presided over. In the future, it is planned to gradually transform Tamna from a vassal state into a Jimi state, and to build it into an important trade port with the four countries of Haidong, and even It is an overseas military base.
How could it be possible for Qin Lang to go to Tamra now?
Do you rob yourself?
Wu Shisheng, the soldier on the left wing of the Donghai Division, unfolded a map and looked at it for a long time, "Could it be the south? I heard from Saburo earlier that it seems that the south of Annan is Linyi, and further south there are Funan, Chenla, etc. It seems that there is a Gantuoli country in the south, which seems to be rich in spices, and it is known as the Spice Islands, where a stone of pepper only sells for two taels of gold? Are we going to rob him, rob black gold?"
The military envoy in the right chamber, Yuchi Baolin, was a bit darker than his father, Yuchi Gong. If he closed his mouth, he wouldn't even exist, but when he opened his mouth, his white teeth were extremely conspicuous.
"Gan Tuoli Kingdom is in the Kunlun Sea, it must be tens of thousands of miles away, it's too far away, it must not be there."
Black pepper is very expensive in Datang, and it costs thousands of dollars per catty, so one can be worth a few pennies. How can ordinary people afford it? Eating this thing is like eating gold.
It is said that in Western countries such as Rome and Frank, the price is even more expensive. There are even profiteers who mix white pepper with silver flakes to make money worse. This pepper is already more expensive than silver, otherwise it would be impossible to mix it with white pepper. silver.
The people of the Tang Dynasty called this kind of pepper, which is elusive but not available, as black gold, which is as valuable as black gold. If you find the Qian Tuoli country and grab him a boat and bring it back with a hundred and eighty shi, it will be tens of thousands of dollars.
Qin Lang looked at Wu Shisheng's map, it was too crude.
Many proportions are completely distorted or even wrong. For example, the area of the Central Plains on this map is enlarged, and it is located in the complete center of the map. The Hexi Corridor, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and the Hetao Plain are all drawn relatively small, while the Western Regions are so vast. It has shrunk several times. As for Persia, Tianzhu, Rome, and the Frankish countries further west, they are all just small circles at this time.
On the southeast coast of Datang, there are only some small dots representing some big islands.
Even the important treasure island, on Wu Shisheng's map at this time, is not as big as Tamra Island, and the location is not right, it is obviously higher.
And Luzon Island to the south of Baodao is not marked, and Hainan Island to the south is just a small circle.
Qin Lang wanted a pen to modify directly on the map.
He first re-drawn the outline along the coastline, and then marked the roads of Liaoxi, Hebei, Shandong, Huainan, Jiangdong, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Annan on it, and drew another long line in the south of Annan. , marked Champa, Funan, and Chenla, and finally reached the Strait of Malacca, and marked the country of Qiantuoli on the south coast of the Strait.
Then draw another line at the bottom, going west.
Lion Island, Tianzhu and other countries, and then the Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Persian Sassan, Arabian tribes, Egypt, Eastern Roman Empire, Frankish Kingdom, Visigothic Kingdom, and Khazaria. In the Western Regions, the nine surnames of Zhaowu, even Tuhuo Luoye Huguo, and then the Western Turkic Suiye Khanting, Tianshan, Gaochang, Yiwu, Dunhuang, Jiuquan, Zhangye, Liangzhou, Lanzhou, Chang'an...
It is relatively simple, but dozens of countries are marked on it, from east to west, then from south to north, and then turn around and return to Chang'an.
After Qin Lang painted left and right, the buckskin map that Wu Shisheng regarded as a treasure has completely changed, and the original appearance cannot even be seen.
Even the boundary between the East China Sea and the South China Sea is no longer the estuary of the Yangtze River. Qin Lang drew the boundary between the Southeast China Sea and the Baodao Strait.
Treasure Island is in the middle of the two seas.
"This is the Bohai Bay in the east of Hebei, and this is the Yellow Sea outside Shandong. The Great East Sea includes the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea. It goes eastward across the Sanhan Peninsula and the country of Wa, and all the way to the far east should be within the scope of the East Sea."
"As for the South China Sea, with this big island as the dividing line, all the way south to the big island of Qiantuoli Country is within the scope of the South China Sea."
Cheng Chumo was a little surprised by the new map, "Then our Donghai Navy's territory has to go south, and the three coastal areas of Jiangdong, Zhejiang, and Fujian should also be under the jurisdiction of our Donghai Navy."
Niu Jianhu is not happy anymore. If this is the case, what is left of their South China Sea Fleet? Sanguang?
"The Yangtze River has always been the boundary between the north and the south. Our navy should also use the Yangtze River as the boundary. The north belongs to your East China Sea Fleet, and the east belongs to our South China Sea Fleet. If you don't think it's okay, then you can change your name. It's better to change it to Beiyang Navy. We Changed to the Nanyang Navy. There is no distinction between southeast and south, but north and south."
Several people were arguing over the territory there, seeming to have forgotten what Qin Lang said earlier that he was going to **** the king of an island country in the sea.
"Do you still want to know which island country in the sea I am talking about?"
Several guys sat down immediately and arranged their clothes.
"Saburo, please speak."
"Actually, I think what Jianhu said just now is reasonable. The division of the two fleets of the navy is indeed somewhat unreasonable. If I add another fleet, Chu Mo, you can change to the admiral of the Beiyang Navy's defense envoy. See Tiger, you are still the admiral of the defense envoy of the Nanyang Navy."
Qin Lang knocked on the table, "Let's add another Dongyang navy."
He watched for a long time among the four naval envoys, Wu Shisheng, Chi Baolin, Zhang Daxiang, and Li Junxian's son Li Yixie.
The four of them undoubtedly want to be the admirals of this expanded navy, but they don't have the excellent military achievements like Cheng Chumo and Niu Jianhu, and their original positions were not high.
So I hesitated for a while.
"Why don't you give each of you a piece of paper, and you each write down a name for me. In the end, whoever gets the most votes will be elected."
They were all brothers from his own family, and neither of them had any experience in water warfare, so Qin Lang simply asked them to vote by secret ballot.
After getting four tickets, Qin Lang unfolded them one by one.
After reading the results, I couldn’t laugh or cry. None of these four guys dared to stand up and directly want to be the admiral of the Dongyang Navy. In the end, when they were asked to vote, they all voted for themselves.
Four votes, four names, all of them voted for themselves, they can't be wrong, Qin Lang knows the characters of the four, none of them can write decently, and they are all very strong when it comes to martial arts, but this Writing is really difficult for them, it's like a dog crawling.
"You guys, can't you practice calligraphy when you have time?"
"Why do you practice calligraphy? We are the sons of generals of the martial arts family, and we also want to earn honors and titles in the army. Is the handwriting good enough to be used as a military record office? We want to be a general!" Zhang Daxiang still looked very reasonable.
Qin Lang really wanted to kick him twice, telling him that no matter how good you are as a military general, you are at most a third-rank general of the twelve guards. And you can't even write well, so you transfer to a clerical job and ask a crap.
"Four people get four votes, one person gets one vote, it's a tie. Which one of you quit voluntarily?"
No one quit.
Wu Shisheng looked at the other three, and simply said, "Why don't we just compete, and whoever wins will be the admiral." The other guys agreed unanimously.
So Qin Lang simply took four pieces of paper with their names written on them and drew lots to match them up. Two pairs were divided into two groups for preliminary rounds, and the two losers were directly eliminated.
The two who win will compete again, and the one who wins in the end will be the admiral, and the one who loses will be directly appointed as the left wing defender.
The game is won or lost by riding and shooting. Horseback riding shoots at moving targets, and then wears armor and holds a spear with the spear head removed.
After some competition, Yuchi Baolin was even better in riding and archery, and Wu Shisheng only came second.
"Okay, now Yuchi Baolin is temporarily serving as the admiral's defense envoy of the Donghai Division and the military envoy of the left wing, and Wu Shisheng is the envoy of the right wing of the Donghai Division."
Qin Lang finally thought the word Dongyang was not very pleasant, so the official names of the three major fleets were Beihai Division, Donghai Division and Nanhai Division.
Cheng Chu Mo Niu Jianhu Lieutenant Chi Baolin served as the admiral of the Third Fleet, and temporarily served as the left wing envoy of the fleet, while Zhang Daxiang, Li Yixie and Wu Shisheng served as the right wing envoys of the Third Fleet.
(end of this chapter)