Chapter 325 The Age of Sea Power

Zhao Guangyi could feel that as he thought of the jade ax in his mind, his whole body stiffened.

The stone bench that is set with the stone table is not high enough, so you have to stretch your neck when sitting to look at the light curtain on the stone table.

Zhao Guangyi didn't dare to think how smooth it would be if the jade ax was swung down directly at this moment.

Of course, he also understood that his brother would not be so decisive.

It's only secondary that the two have the same mother. The most important thing is that the elder brother has always regarded himself as a benevolent king and a wise king.

Didn't he see those imperial officials who had no power to restrain a chicken and could make him speechless?

But after all, Zhao Guangyi's spine still feels a little chilly just thinking about this possibility.

So he slowly but firmly retracted his neck, then raised his head to look at the other side to strike first:

"Brother, do you have doubts about me?"

Zhao Kuangyin touched the jade ax out of habit, and then his eyes looked a little strange:

"Third brother, why are you holding your neck and talking?"

There were five brothers. The eldest brother Zhao Kuangji died early, Zhao Kuangyin was the second, and Zhao Guangyi was the third.

Zhao Guangyi coughed and realized that he had lost his composure. After seeing that his brother's reaction was not very big, he realized that there was something wrong in his heart, so he hurriedly sat upright.

Faced with his brother's change in attitude, Zhao Kuangyin laughed loudly:

"Third brother, you and I are brothers of the same flesh and blood, and we know our integrity and our integrity, how can we do this unbearable thing?"

Zhao Guangyi's heart, which was about to jump into his throat, fell back into his stomach.

"But." Zhao Kuangyin's face was dark, and Zhao Guangyi had to work hard to read his brother's expression every time.

At this time, I didn’t dare to look carefully, and I couldn’t hear any emotion or anger from my words:

"But third child...how do you understand Buddhism?"

Zhao Guangyi's heart, which had already fallen back, jumped hard, and his throat became a little dry again.

But before Zhao Guangyi could come up with a best-of-both-worlds answer, Zhao Kuangyin had already laughed again and patted him on the shoulder:

"If the third child has read Buddhist scriptures, he should go to the temple to offer incense to the empress in his spare time to express his longing for her."

The Song royal family called their mother empress, and here Zhao Kuangyin was referring to his biological mother, Queen Mother Zhaoxian, who had been deceased for ten years.

Zhao Guangyi naturally agreed to this, but his heart was full of doubts: What is his brother's attitude?

Zhao Kuangyin thought about it in his mind. If he wanted to do something big, he should not act rashly and he would need the help of a capable assistant.

It's time for Zhao Zeping to be transferred back from Heyang.

…

In the Chengdu government office, Zhang Fei stopped eating fruit to pass the time.

After hearing what happened, I couldn't help but slap my thigh:

"This Tang Dynasty style is really overbearing... I really like it!"

"But why does this Japanese country still marry its own niece? Zhenno..."

These words made Liu Bei cough loudly as if he was choking on water, directly interrupting Zhang Fei's words.

Zhang Fei was very surprised, seeing his elder brother coughing while still having time to wink at him.

So Zhang Fei quickly understood, nodded to his eldest brother, then stepped over and slapped his eldest brother on the back with a wave of his hand.

So the guards standing guard outside heard the lord's roar:

"Yide!"

At the top of the list, there was a lot of excitement, and the brothers were in harmony. Kong Ming and others were asked to do what they should do, and lightly skipped this topic.

After all, Emperor Xiaohui and Queen Xiaohui are uncles and nephews, so this matter is really not a secret.

However, this period of Han history was indeed a bit messy... Kong Ming made a mental note that he would have to persuade Yide to read more carefully later.

Pang Tong thought carefully:

"Regardless of the merits and demerits of Guo Wuteng's behavior, there are a few things he can learn from this behavior."

Kong Ming also has his own suggestions:

"Even in a foreign land, everything is done based on the people's support."

"Be strict with the barbarian king and be lenient to the barbarian people."

After saying these words, Kong Ming also fell silent. It is not easy to achieve these eight words.

King Yanleyi needed to completely and utterly defeat the enemy on the battlefield.

Treating barbarians leniently is more complicated. Taking this as a reference between Tang and Japanese, it is necessary to provide craftsmen skills to make them admire China, but also to prevent key craftsman skills from leaking out and harming China.

The difference needs to be adjusted specifically according to the other party's national conditions.

And...turning his head suddenly, Kong Ming's thoughts jumped further:

It is hard to say whether the Three Provinces and Six Ministries of the Tang Dynasty are suitable, but the general supervisor seems to be able to refer to it and make reforms to the Shaofu.

Nowadays, the engineering studies in Jingyi and Jingzhou are developing steadily, but the departments of Shaofu are already mixed.

The management of craftsmanship is related to the destiny of the country, and considering dealing with other countries in the future, it is time to ask the lord to implement a new system to take charge of craftsmanship.

Pang Tong also fell into silence, tapping his knuckles on the table, and thoughts passed through his mind, some of which were included as alternatives, and some of which were rejected outright.

If the target was another country, Pang Tong found that he seemed to be more at home on this journey.

The foreign barbarians are not as vast as the Central Plains, they are small countries and their people are ignorant.

One can prosper with one plan, but one can overthrow it with one.

Just thinking about it made Pang Tong feel particularly interesting.

How do you say this feeling in Yizhou dialect?

So fun!

…

In the Manna Hall, Du Ruhui looked at the light curtain's teasing and felt from the bottom of his heart that Wei Zheng should really thank his junior.

Compared with this, Wei Zheng's harsh advice in the past can only be regarded as like a breeze blowing on his face.

However, ignoring the messy affairs of the Japanese state, Du Ruhui still paid more attention to the credentials from the Tang Dynasty, and because of this, he frowned:

"Japanese King?"

Then he suddenly realized that this country of Japan was arrogant and compared with Guangshen... Emperor Yang's letter claimed to be the emperor, which made Emperor Yang unhappy.

But Emperor Yang didn't care, but Emperor Gaozong cared a lot, after all, the younger generation had ridiculed Emperor Gaozong's "Emperor" more than once.

From this point of view, Emperor Gaozong may still have the intention of taking away the title of Japan, but...

"This country of Japan does not need an emperor."

Li Shimin also noticed the head of the letter, and at the same time thought it was very appropriate to do so from the bottom of his heart, and his attitude was appreciative.

The only pity is that from the later generations' habit of speaking, the title of the emperor of Japan was eventually passed down.

Li Shimin has the sensitivity of an emperor, just like the Khan of Heaven is not just a nice and vain title, behind it is the establishment of the vassal relationship between the Hexi tribes, and the justice of the war against the Turks is in his hands.

Behind the title of Emperor, Li Shimin could also read:

I just don't want to recognize China as my father.

But because of this, Li Shimin's interest in Japan became stronger.

This is like a knight training a horse. Li Shimin always likes to choose a wild horse.

Because the process of taming a wild horse can make his blood boil, and often the wild horse will be the best war horse after being tamed.

The same is true for conquering a country.

Especially when you think that the current power in Japan is a female emperor, this interest increases sharply.

If the Haidong strategy can be achieved, can Li Shimin's achievements be added:

The first Han emperor to capture the female emperor.

[The Haidong situation in the early Tang Dynasty also came to an end with the official loss of the Korean Peninsula.

But we can still talk about shipbuilding.

After all, our modern era is also called the era of sea power.

What is the era of sea power?

Nearly three-quarters of the planet Earth is covered by water. Today, 90% of global commercial transportation is completed through the ocean. Today, the settlements of the vast majority of the world's population are only a few hundred kilometers away from the ocean.

Only with a navy can there be sea power. With sea power, a country's politics, military, economy and other fields are qualified to be complete.

The humiliation of China in modern times largely comes from the ocean. The Eight-Nation Alliance, Britain, and Japan all opened the country's door from the sea. The fundamental reason is also the loss of sea power.

Sea power needs to be guaranteed by the navy, and the navy needs a country to have excellent shipbuilding technology.

Then our China is an agricultural civilization and is not close to the ocean. Is there a natural deficiency in shipbuilding technology?

The answer is of course no.

Today's history is divided into three peak periods of shipbuilding in the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Tang and Song Dynasties, and the Yuan and Ming Dynasties.

Needless to say, the great talent and strategy of the First Emperor of Qin. In addition to a series of brilliant achievements, there are also achievements in repairing the Lingqu Canal and rectifying the waterway. The Qin Navy was present in the conquest of the Xiongnu and the unification of Lingnan.

Not to mention the record of Xu Fu going to sea, it is impossible that the shipbuilding industry was not developed.

In addition, the legend that Xu Fu is the ancestor of the Japanese people did not start in modern times.

During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Yi Chu, a monk at Kaiyuan Temple in Jeju, wrote "Yi Chu Six Posts", which mentioned the story of Xu Fu going to Japan.

When someone asked how he knew it, the monk Yi Chu said that it was told to him by the Japanese monk Kuanfu.

Japan's own "A Brief History of Japan" also mentioned the record of Xu Fu's landing, but it is still classified as a legend, because there are more than 20 Xu Fu landing memorials in Japan, and more than 50 related Xu Fu Temples, Xu Fu Temples, and Xu Fu Monuments, which are difficult to distinguish between true and false.

But according to Zhang Yu UP's own speculation, this matter is more like a fabrication of Japanese monks. After all, the Buddhist monks of Tubo could make up the rumor that Su Dingfang burned the Potala Palace in order to preach.

Buddhism quickly became inseparable from the local Shintoism after entering Japan. In this case, it is normal to arrange Xu Fu as the ancestor of the Japanese people to preach.

However, most of us modern Chinese people don't want to recognize this grandson.

The Tang and Song dynasties were the second peak period of ancient Chinese shipbuilding. The Tang Dynasty invented watertight compartment technology, the Song Dynasty's astronomical calendar was very developed, and in the later period, there was triangular sail technology learned from Arabia.

Theoretically, this period should be the best starting point for China's ocean voyages, but two reasons made this starting point stillborn.

First of all, of course, it is related to national policy. Since the Tang Dynasty, the feudal dynasties have generally suppressed domestic farmers engaged in business or overseas colonization and immigration.

But this ban does not work for foreign immigrants. As a result, in the field of cross-border trade, the Kuts, Khitans, Huihes, Persians, Arabs, Shatuo people, etc. have all achieved great success in China. They have achieved a monopoly in business through the Western Regions or by sea. These are collectively called Semu people.

For example, Chai Rong, the Emperor Shizong of Zhou, who was forcibly inherited by Zhao Kuangyin, once sold tea in Jiangling with the Jie Di clan when he was young. This Jie Di clan was a typical Semu.

During the Tang and Song dynasties, the Semu people multiplied into an immigrant community of hundreds of thousands of people in Guangzhou and Quanzhou, controlling the sea routes and monopolizing cross-sea trade.

Later, the West counted the eight major ports in the Middle Ages, and Guangzhou and Quanzhou were on the list. During the Yuan Dynasty, a great Semu traveler, Ibn Battuta, came to Quanzhou from Morocco, recorded his experiences along the way and praised the prosperity of Quanzhou.

But according to his records, there were Moors, Arabs, Persians, Tocharians, etc. active on this Maritime Silk Road, but no Chinese.

How can we study navigation technology and develop ocean-going ships without sailing? 】

There will be another chapter later.

This part will probably be finished tomorrow at the latest, so plan the next part carefully.

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