In fact, Yizhou is very important to the mainland, not that according to any international regulations, the area around a certain island is the sea area of all countries on the island.
In terms of climate, Yizhou has always been shielding the mainland from the wind, and hurricanes or typhoons have formed near the mainland in the Pacific Ocean, which are often stopped by Yizhou and have not caused much trouble to the mainland.
If it weren't for the fact that the land was too tight, there was really no need to develop Yizhou on a large scale, at most it would be to use some natural deep-water ports on the island to build the island into a transit place for overseas trade materials.
Otherwise, there are almost three or more typhoons or hurricanes passing through each year, and each time they pass through, they will leave a mess, that is, they will build an embarrassing situation of waiting for the wind to blow and then continue to be blown down.
Liu Yan was not interested in drilling into the mountains in the middle of Yizhou, so he just stopped along the strait to inspect some ports.
In its current form, Yizhou is not important to the Han State at all, and the outlying island of Guam has been found, even if you want to build a preventive military base, with its value and strategic position, it is to choose Guam rather than Yizhou.
Although Yizhou is an overseas island, Yizhou does not have an advantage in distance compared with Hainan Island, and Hainan Island is not a first-class war material storage place, so it is Yizhou's turn.
"Your Majesty, this place is close to Luzon."
Yu Yi knew a lot about Yizhou when he was working for the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and Luzon had done some research in recent years: "There are some small islands in the middle of the two islands, Dongsha Islands, and Yizhou is a transit point for goods from the South Seas to the mainland. ” Liu Yan really hadn't paid much attention to it before, and if he was a little higher, he had a lot of opportunities, so how could he pay attention to everything.
He didn't take a serious look at it, or he would have found that there were so many spices, incense wood, precious stones, gold, copper ingots, and so on in the warehouse that it was terrifying.
If the Japanese archipelago is rich in gold and silver, then the gold and silver reserves of the Nanyang Islands may not be as large as that of the Japanese archipelago, but the Nanyang archipelago is rich in resources.
For example, in the Philippine Islands in later generations, the gold reserves were actually very considerable, but more copper ore reserves, and it is no exaggeration to say that some islands were made of copper at all.
Do you know what resources they plundered the most when Spain, the Netherlands, and the United States colonized the Philippine Islands Anyway, it was not bananas, or an exaggerated amount of spices and rich copper resources, and they also took away gold, and they also found platinum.
At that time, platinum was not what it used to be, and it was often used as silver.
The Philippine archipelago is not a place rich in white gold, and there are many more of them in the Americas than in the Philippine Islands, but the largest reserves are in South Africa, which is also one of the world's largest gold and diamond reserves.
By the way, the Han Kingdom actually found a route to South Africa, but it was really far away, and the Han Kingdom was also working on the Asan Continent, only to carry out some inevitable exploration and reconnaissance, and did not have the intention of entering the past for the time being.
Liu Yan had no intention of going to Luzon at all, and his next destination was Malacca.
For Liu Yan, it is very meaningful to go through the South China Sea again, but he has served here for four years, although he often stays in one place and does not move, but he has also taken a warship to do some exercises on the island in a few limited experiences.
The sea is still the same sea, and the island is still in that place, but the time is 1,665 years earlier, which makes Liu Yan, who is standing on the deck and watching, feel a little complicated in his heart.
The South China Sea is currently the most prosperous sea area of the Han Kingdom, and was preceded by the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea, and the Bohai Sea.
The current situation is that the South Sea Islands have been providing all kinds of resources, and the resources plundered by the Indochina Peninsula are also by sea, not to mention that there is a large-scale war going on on the other side of the Strait of Malacca, and the shipping route in this sea area is naturally full of ships.
Winter is approaching, and it doesn't snow in the South China Sea, but there is a possibility that a storm may form at sea, and it may turn into a hurricane or typhoon that sweeps across the islands or land.
Speaking of which, Luzon was also devastated by hurricanes or typhoons several times a year, and the most exaggerated in the ninth year of Yuanshuo was actually devastated by seven hurricanes.
With current technology, it is impossible to detect the formation of a storm with instruments at all, and people have to be close enough to detect it with their eyes, and it is often too late to make preventive preparations after discovery.
"The annual loss rate is between eight and twelve percent."
Fu Wei was sent over as a navigator to introduce the situation to Liu Yan and some other central ministers: "Most of them sailed in formation, and most of the personnel could be rescued in time." ” Those who run alone and sink ships, unless there is nothing that can float with their strength, or with the prosperity of each route, it will not be long before other ships will be found and rescued.
"The biggest losses were on the more peripheral routes, especially the southeast routes, including south of the Sulu Sea."
Fu Wei's cheeks twitched when he said this, and for a while, the loss rate over there reached ninety percent, which showed the degree of danger: "We have been exploring to the southeast and found several islands, but we have not found the kangaroo island mentioned by His Majesty for the time being. ” Well, it's Australia, but Liu Yan directly named Kangaroo Island, and I have to say that the name is very apt.
For example, the Indochina Peninsula provides grain, fragrant wood, and rubber, the Japanese Islands mainly provide gold and silver, and the Nanyang Islands provide spices, gold, precious stones, fragrant wood, and so on.
"And fruit."
Liu Yan didn't forget this at all: "The first Han Dynasty conquered the Western Regions and added recipes, and we did more. ” It is true that the Western Han Dynasty opened up the Western Regions to add countless species to the Central Plains, even on the modern dining table still enjoy the fruits of the labor of the Western Han Dynasty, the more representative ones are cucumber and courgette, garlic, garlic, carrots, grapes, walnuts, alfalfa, pomegranates and so on.
The Han Kingdom got the South Seas, and the biggest harvest was not precious stones and gold, but various kinds of spices, which directly made the cooking of the Han people evolve countless grades.
When it can be eaten more deliciously, no one will want to eat some boiled water, looking for food that can stimulate the taste sense, which is why the earth will enter the era of spice trade at a certain time.
The Europa wars for the spice trade were much longer than the Silver Wars, and India and the South Sea Islands attracted the attention of the Europa because of the abundance of spices in both places, and they maintained a monopoly war for hundreds of years.
However, the Central Plains Dynasty, which is close at hand, even if it knows the existence of spices and the huge profits that spices can bring, but the Central Plains Dynasty always feels that we have a lot of land and resources, so we are not rare to have that little thing, and I don't know why the Europa people and Arabs are playing dog brains for such a little thing.
"Hiss" Liu Yan gasped not for anything else, but because the things he ate were too sour: "This kind of pineapple is rich in various vitamins.
Didn't anyone try this one first?"
That's right, one of the origins of pineapple is in Nanyang, that is, no one knew that it could be eaten before or the people who knew it could eat it did not report it, and the result was that when Liu Yan wanted to eat it, he actually ate a sour one.
Cui Zong's face was confused, and he reacted with fear: "The minister thinks this food is sour." ” Liu Yan didn't make a big fuss, but was relatively unhappy to let him try one after another, in short, to get sweet.
Of course, there is sweetness in the back, Liu Yan is happy to share it with others, and everyone actually doesn't think it's delicious when they eat it, but they have to give Liu Yan face, and they have to pretend to be eating ginseng fruit.
"Your Majesty."
Sang Yu seemed to think of it, put down the mango in his hand, and said: "Some of the natives here are very similar to the Han people. ” Liu Yan thinks there is nothing wrong with this, Ah San is immigrating to the Nanyang Islands, but the Ah San race is not flooding in the Nanyang at present, even if there are some dark-skinned natives in the Nanyang Islands, the number of those dark-skinned natives is actually not much, more are yellow-skinned people, that is, their skin and facial features are the same as those of the Han people, but their stature will be shorter, and then their physique is basically thin.
What kind of physique is related to eating habits and whether you can eat enough, for example, you live in the Wajijima, but there is something called Yayoi culture, they prohibit eating meat, and as a result, they are getting shorter and shorter, and people are not as thin as they can be.
The Nanyang Islands are very rich in races, you can see black charcoal, you can find white-skinned people, and you can also find people who wear Hanfu and can't tell whether they are Han or not from their appearance.
That's very interesting, like the Han Dynasty giving preferential treatment to those who look similar to themselves, and then using them to exploit the rest of the human race.
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At the same time, for the sake of similar appearances, the Han Kingdom will also have more ideas to integrate them, like those black charcoal heads, there is no idea of integration at all.
"Hehehehehe" Liu Yan didn't know what he thought, and laughed for a while before saying: "The widow is enriching the dining table of the Han people."
After stepping on the grasslands, due to the increase in the acquisition of livestock and the construction of grazing farms, the prices of cattle, horses, and sheep have been continuously reduced, at least for the time being, the Han people in northern Xinjiang can see meat on the table at every meal.
It also extends beyond cheese products After conquering the Northeast and other places, there was an increase in Chinese medicinal materials, and the magnates had to boil a ton of ginseng and old hens at both ends for three days.
Occupied the Nanyang Islands, due to the large amount of spices obtained, the official did not make it a luxury, and it was necessary to add spices when cooking.
There is also the conquest of the sea, the study of primitive preservation measures, whether coastal or inland, and the addition of a variety of seafood to the table.
In addition, there are many kinds of vegetables and fruits.
"The widow can predict a little."
Liu Yan said quite proudly: "If all kinds of nutrition are sufficient, the average height of the Han people must be 1.8 meters."
There is nothing wrong with it at all, as long as the nutrition is sufficient, people will not only be tall, but also quite strong, even if there are many fewer problems.
The rest of the people know what to be proud of, if you look at history, at a certain point in time in ancient pre-Qin, the average height of the ancestors of Zhuxia reached an exaggerated 1.9 meters.
Please note that the average height is not an exception.
"Even if nothing is achieved, the widow will at least make the price of all kinds of food less high."
Liu Yan used to want pork for a pound a dollar, he thought about it for a while, and added: "The cost of slaves is very low, isn't it?"
As a ruler, Liu Yan can have that kind of thought, but if he really deliberately suppresses the price of a certain product, especially if he suppresses it to be cheaper than cheap, then he really can't do it.
Isn't any kind of commodity produced, if the price is low to the extent of loss, who is willing to produce that commodity, it is not necessary to make a profit to have the motivation to produce.
If the price is forced to be lowered, believe it or not, the merchants who produce that kind of commodity go bankrupt one after another, and then no one will produce it, and that commodity will disappear from the market Therefore, Liu Yan said his own words, and the accompanying ministers did not hear them anyway, but the sergeants saluted Liu Yan with reverence and expectation under the permitted conditions.
When the weather is good, sailing in the South Seas is actually not a pleasant thing, mainly because the sun is so abundant that even sitting and doing nothing can sweat profusely, and even the oil is about to flow out.
In fact, no matter what sea area it is in, as long as it is a sea voyage, unless the ship is built to be high-end enough, otherwise there is really no such thing as comfortable navigation, and just being exposed to the sun is a torturous thing.
After soaking in the seawater, and then being sunburned all the time, it is sunburn every minute, and the skin is red and red, and the skin is light, and the skin is called terrifying and uncomfortable.
Of course, Liu Yan will definitely not suffer those crimes, he will stay in the sun for a long time if he is sick, and at least have a sun umbrella when he has to do it.
At least they don't need to go through the problem of lack of vitamins in the initial stage of navigation of each civilization, at least they know at least that they should bring bean sprouts and some fruits that are easy to preserve, and exaggerate to simply put an ice cellar in the cabin.
After four or five days of sailing, Liu Yan saw the land again, and he relied on his vague memory to see that it should be Malaysia in the future, it should be Brunei or East Timor, and it is not a peninsula on the mainland anyway.
When they arrived in this sea, they were already quite close to Malacca, and they also met a fleet here that had come to meet them.
It was a boundless ship at a glance, they were divided into two phalanxes, and when they saw the king's flag, they shouted the slogan "Ten thousand years for the Son of Heaven, the Han Dynasty has no borders".
Liu Yan still knows a little bit, Huan Wen has already led the army to land in Jitanado, and he really doesn't need too many warships to cause excessive waste, it should be a moderate number to block the coastline of the Gupta Dynasty
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