The Silk Road is the world's longest-running and wealth-generating trade route, and there is no need to add a "one".
On the way, the Silk Road is naturally in the Central Plains Dynasty, generally take the Hexi Corridor into the Western Regions, it can be out of the Yang Pass or Yumen Pass, the merchants of the Central Plains generally go to Wusun in the Western Regions, even if it is very far, they will sell the goods here, and the people of the Western Regions will sell them to some countries in Central Asia.
For a long time, those countries in Central Asia played the role of "handover", they obtained the high-quality goods of the Central Plains Dynasty, some of which were digested locally, and more valuable goods, such as silk, which was unique to the East, were sold to some countries further west at a price that was several times or even tens or hundreds of times.
In the past, the Parthian Empire lived a very nourishing life just by reselling, and they increased the price of silk a lot and continued to sell it to the Romans, waiting for the Romans to know that Parthia was actually unable to produce silk, and that it was an empire in the East that could produce silk, which they called Seris, so they demanded that the Parthians must reduce the price of silk.
The Parthians made extremely high profits from reselling, and what they wanted was to increase the price rather than reduce it, and the Romans started a war when they were unhappy, and the two sides started out for silk, also known as the "Silk War", and a fight lasted for more than a hundred years.
The Romans won the final victory in the Parthian War, but in fact, because of more than 100 years of war, the Silk Road of the Central Plains Dynasty was also broken, and in the end, no one forgot what the cause of the Hundred Years War was, that is, the Romans did not forget to wear cool, thin silk, and they have always been so obsessed.
After the destruction of Parthia, it was not long before Ardashir, who had been a general of the Parthian Empire, regained his kingdom, until 571 AD, when the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian in order to get rid of the Persians' monopoly on Chinese silk at a high price between the East and the West, united with the Turkic Khans and invaded Persia, and the war lasted for 20 years, without winning or losing.
This is the famous "Battle of Silk" in history.
The Central Plains merchants went the farthest way to the Tang Dynasty on the land Silk Road, but that was also because the Tang army marched to Central Asia, in fact, during the Wu and Zhou periods of Wu Zetian, many merchants went to Constantinople to be owned by the Eastern Romans and wrote biographies, and more stayed in the later Iraqi territory for the Arab Empire and did not go forward.
Historically, the land Silk Road has been broken many times, all because of the war between Western countries and Central Asian countries over the price of silk.
It can be defined as a "big war", the longest time is as long as 100 years, and the short time is no less than 20 years.
If it is said that the land Silk Road has been broken for the longest time, it should be the two Song Dynasty, because neither the Northern Song nor the Southern Song Dynasty mastered the Hexi Corridor.
The Maritime Silk Road is said to have existed in the Western Han Dynasty, but there are no relevant documents and relics, and there is an official record that it was to the Tang Dynasty, when the official route was called "Guangzhou Tonghaiyi Road".
The Maritime Silk Road really flourished in the Song and Song dynasties, when the Song Dynasty set up three main trading ports along the coast, which were the modern Guangzhou 1 Prefecture, Quan 1 Prefecture and Ningbo Prefecture, of which Quan 1 Prefecture had the largest throughput.
Because the throughput of Quanzhou 1 is too large, the level of officials sent by the imperial court is not low, there are a large number of Arabs settled in Quanzhou as "fallen masters", and the Arabs in order to make their place of residence more Arabic, not only built a temple but also introduced a lot of plane trees, so that Quanzhou 1 state has the title of "the hometown of sycamores".
It must be said that the Song State treated the Arabs really well, not only did there be no difficulty, the second generation of Arabs could also participate in the imperial examination, and even the Song court had a record of appointing Arabs as officials.
However, the Arabs rewarded the Song State with the fact that a rebellion broke out during the invasion of the Mongol Yuan, and there were countless people who directly defected to the Mongol Yuan, and the official Kaicheng ushered in more massacres of the Song by the Mongol and Yuan armies.
Zhuxia is not a nation of grudges, and there is almost no after-the-fact reckoning with the enemy.
After the Ming expelled the Mengyuan, the Arabs did not get liquidated in Quanzhou, even the Qing 1 Zhen 1 Temple they built was also retained, among which the Qilin Temple is also known as the Aisuhab Qing 1 Zhen 1 Temple, which was founded in the Northern Song Dynasty Dazhong Xiangfu 2 year calendar 400 years, is the oldest existing Yi 1 Si 1 Lanjiao Temple founded by the Arab Mu 1 Si 1 Lin in China.
In 1961, it was listed as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units and "China's Top Ten Famous Temples".
In fact, the Maritime Silk Road has been interrupted many times, because of the wars that broke out between Central Asian countries and western countries for the silk trade routes.
The first war for the maritime silk trade route was actually part of the "Hundred Years' War" between Rome and Parthia, when the Roman fleet set out from Egypt and went out of the Gulf of Aden to engage the Parthian fleet in the Arabian Sea.
Because the Roman fleet departed from Egypt and waited for the battle site to be a labor expedition, and the Roman warships were really inferior to the Parthian warships, and the Roman fleet was often taught to be a man by the Parthian fleet.
There were many subsequent battles for the Maritime Silk Road, the most fierce of which were fought during the Eastern Roman and Arab Empires.
Even after hundreds of years, the Romans did not innovate on their ships, but the Arabs used oil for naval warfare.
The introduction of fire-breathing ships allowed the Arabs to completely suppress the Romans on the naval battlefield, and even if the Eastern Romans and the Tulum dynasty were united, they were still no match for the Arabs, but the war between them was the Song state in the east that was most affected.
The Song Kingdom also fell into a financial crisis because of the financial cutoff of the Maritime Silk Road, otherwise even if it was still defeated by Yuan and Mongolia in the end, how could it last a little longer.
Fu Wei looked at the scenery on both sides of the strait, although he didn't know what would happen before or in the future, it did not affect his understanding of the importance of this route.
"When you don't know, you don't know, but when you know, you have to sigh."
Si Hongzhuang said about the Maritime Silk Road: "If you want to say that those families are really not things, you must have known about the existence of such a route early on, but you have been holding on to it." ” In the current era, with the collapse of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the land Silk Road was cut off early, but the maritime Silk Road maintained a small silk trade.
Fu Wei knew something about it, so he said: "Those families that have died out, it is impossible to say that they are facing the purging of General Zhengnan, and the rest of the families either don't take it seriously, or they just want to continue to control it." ” It is estimated that there are more elements that are not taken seriously, and when Yu Yi was asked afterwards, he replied that he knew that there was such a maritime trade route, but in fact, the share of trade was pitiful, and it was a tributary trade, and many merchants from the sea reported that the country did not exist at all.
"It's very important here, it's extremely important" Fu Wei is ass is position, and his thoughts must keep up: "Whether it's to go out or prevent being beaten in, it's very important here." ” The Central Plains Dynasty of the past dynasties did not have a cognitive vision of the sea at all, and perhaps it cannot be said that the greatest threat to the Central Plains Dynasty in the past dynasties came from the north, and it is normal for the ruling class of the country to focus more on the threat from the north By the time Zhu Di of the Ming generation came to power, he fully realized the importance of the sea, provided that the Ming army at that time was already beating the north.
There was no threat from the north, and he became curious about the south, and then his nephew was rumored to have fled to the south, so he built a large fleet in the name of looking for his nephew.
To say that Zhu Di rushed to kill his nephew in order to find him, there was no need to build a large fleet, more for Xuanwei.
It must be made clear that the so-called tributary of the Central Plains Dynasty is actually an official trade system, that is, it is often trading at a loss.
Zhu Di let Zheng He go to the West, in addition to the political influence brought by Xuanwei, every time he brought back huge profits, that is, those profits are not the same as the people and officials.
By the time Zhu Gaochi was in power, which was fooled and "lame" by Confucianism, the hundred officials hated the fact that the sea trade was eaten by the royal family, but it was still the kind of food that the state paid but went into the emperor's private treasury.
When Zhu Zhanji ascended the throne, he was fooled and "lame" by Confucianism since he was a child, and he didn't realize at all how shameless the hundred officials who he was very fond of would be, and it was not enough to abolish the fleet to go to the Western Ocean, and he also stupidly sent Zheng He to lead the fleet to the Western Ocean for the last time.
Zheng He went to the West this time to tell the countries of the South Seas that they would not come again in the future, and that our fleet would not go to the West again in the future.
Since then, the national power of the Ming Dynasty has not gone to the South Seas again, the ships have been destroyed, the shipbuilding drawings have been destroyed, and all have to be destroyed, and they have to write a book to say how Zhu Di went to the West is wrong, on the other hand, the agents raised by hundreds of officials usually serve as pirates, but they are very happy.
Fu Wei is currently serving in the Nanyang Fleet, and has the right to watch information about the Strait of Malacca, and in the future, the Nanyang Fleet will gradually lean towards this area, and the first step is to establish a military port at the strait pass, and will relocate some people to establish towns.
At present, there is no country in Nanyang, they are all uncivilized savages, and the source of labor of the Han Kingdom is to capture savages everywhere and use their bones to build related facilities.
The Strait of Malacca looks very narrow from the map, but when you look at it on the ground, it doesn't feel narrow.
The reason why it has become the busiest shipping route on the planet is naturally because it connects the East and the West from the sea, and another is that the natural sea conditions here are not bad.
"There are wild people on almost every island."
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Lin Xuan is a navigator, and it is inevitable that he will be tanned when he often drifts on the sea, and he is dressed at will, introducing to everyone: "The savages on some islands are very gentle, and more are fierce savages.
They have the custom of headhunting, and various tribes go out to hunt for heads once a year, and quite a few savages have the habit of eating people. ” Headhunters are just a short name, in fact, each tribe will kill hostile tribes in some seasons of the year, and the food source of the primitive tribes that cannot be cultivated is nature.
Each tribe will have its own hunting area, under normal circumstances, the hunting area is the forbidden territory of a tribe, in order to compete for the hunting area will naturally start a war, do not want the hostile tribe to be too strong, must strike from time to time.
"We don't have too many people here, and it's too inefficient to catch slaves by relying on our own people."
Lin Xuan showed a very meaningful smile when he said this: "Later, we will find some worthless gadgets that can buy a tribe and let them catch slaves for us." ” This Fu Wei is still relatively clear, most of the Han Kingdom to Nanyang is the army, and a small part is in the slave hunting teams of various families in the Indochina Peninsula to join in the fun, and there are really few people who are serious.
For these uncivilized tribes in Nanyang, the arrival of the Han people is like a tiger pounced on the sheep, regardless of the previous strength of the tribes, even the primitive savages who have not developed the bronze civilization, in the face of soldiers who have entered the Iron Age and do not lack killing skills, in addition to being able to use the complex environment to dodge, the head-to-head confrontation is to be taught to be a man in minutes.
"There will be more people."
Fu Wei pointed to the fleet, and then to the area under construction: "The king attaches great importance to this place. ” Lin Xuan nodded approvingly: "It can be seen."
You have to cross the strait to the western coast of the Indochina Peninsula, and you have to build a base there. ” The Chinese civilization is not only to have a stable rear, but also to do everything step by step, and it has become inevitable to stabilize and build the forward line again and again, so it will definitely develop on the Malacca side.
Fu Wei saw that Lin Xuan, the navigator, knew the news, and said in astonishment: "It's not a secret."
Lin Xuan understood, and said directly: "Don't worry, our local people don't have boats to run here, and people from outside the country can't leave." ” This is the advantage of mastering the portal, plus enough ships, unless the other party notices that something is wrong before entering, if it is not like a place like the Strait of Malacca, as long as you come in and stop the head and tail, you can't escape.
Fu Wei's fleet took two days to enter the Asan Sea, because of the fear that the trek was trying to rely on the continental shelf to sail, it was very amazing to find that the dense forest on the road every morning would be foggy, and the dense fog would sometimes drift out of the coast for hundreds of meters.
"We have been here before," Si Hongzhuang would ask this, because he saw a ship running aground while sailing.
"yes."
Fu Wei bowed his head and said: "It's not a large-scale fleet, it's disguised as a merchant and went to Ah San's side to investigate first." ” There are also ships in the Eastern Jin Dynasty that will go to the Asan territory, but the number is very small.
The two places are so far apart, Ah San should not know that the small court is finished, and Ah San would never have imagined that someone would cross tens of thousands of miles by sea to invade, and he would only regard it as an ordinary maritime businessman.
Si Hongzhuang said: "I haven't figured it out, even if there is really countless grain over there, how to transport it back":