"Funan country, in the south of the Japanese sea Ximan Bay, vast more than 3,000 miles, there are big rivers flowing into the sea in the west."
"Funanxi goes to Linyi for more than 3,000 miles, and there are palaces and palaces.
Everyone is ugly with black fists, and they are slumped.
Straight in nature, not for robbers, to cultivate for business, one year old, three years old.
It is also good to carve and carve, and the food utensils are mostly made of silver, and the tribute is endowed with gold and silver beads.
There is also a secretary's treasury, the text is similar to Hu, and the funeral marriage is slightly the same as that of Linyi. ” The weather was good, and Li Chao's wheelchair was ready. helped the prince to sit in a wheelchair and pushed him outside the tent to bask in the sun, Zhang Zhongjian came over to check the prince, and praised Li Chao's white medicine and other medicines for being very effective.
The prince had infinite curiosity about the sea and the Nanban, so he was left by Li Chao and sat there to talk about the Nanban sea for the prince.
Li Chao has also talked a lot with Zhang Zhongjian in the past few days, and he also has some understanding of Zhang Zhongjian's 72 islands.
Referring to his map, he had a general understanding of the Seventy-Two Islands.
There are several important coordinates, Rinan, Linyi, Funan, and Ximanhai.
Ninan was in Jiaozhou, which was later northern Vietnam.
Linyi is the central part of Vietnam in later generations.
Chenla, in the later generations of southern Vietnam and southern Cambodia, so this Funan, in fact, the location is very certain.
Funan was a kingdom in the later parts of Thailand and Cambodia.
And knowing this, then the location of Zhang Zhongjian's seventy-two islands is also very clear.
It was in the Gulf of Thailand in later generations, and according to what Zhang Zhongjian said, Li Chao judged that it was on the eastern sea of the Gulf of Thailand, close to the southern coast of the Indochina Peninsula.
He speculated that it was most likely near Phu Quoc Island in later Vietnam or Siha Balbow Port in Cambodia.
Cheng Qian listened very interested, and asked about the customs of those places from time to time.
"It turns out that Kunlun Nu is a native of Funan."
Cheng Qian was surprised.
"Your Highness, in fact, on the Nanban Continent south of Linyi, there are also Nanban Sea Islands, and most of the natives there are dark-skinned.
Of course, if the coast sails farther west, there will be more darker people over there.
Li Chao smiled and said to Cheng Qian.
When the bearded man heard Li Chao's words, he was secretly surprised.
There are very few people in the Central Plains who know about Nanban, let alone a prime minister like Li Chao.
The reason why Zhang Zhongjian became the owner of the Nanban Sea, which is thousands of miles away from the Central Plains, is quite a coincidence.
He was born in Yangzhou, and his father was the richest man in Yangzhou.
His father, Zhang Jiling, is actually a maritime merchant and a big ship owner.
What he did was trade, transporting the goods from the Central Plains from the sea to the Nanban Sea, and even to the Persian Gulf.
Because of this, the Zhang family has a lot of Kunlun slaves.
Zhang Zhongjian's mother is actually a Persian orchid.
When Zhang Zhongjian was born, he had the blood of Persian orchids, and he was different from the Han people everywhere, his father disliked him and wanted to drown, but later a Kunlun slave was ordered to throw him into the sea, but he did not obey, but raised him.
Later, when Zhang Jiling found out about this, although he was furious, he couldn't bear it when he saw that the child was growing up healthy, and finally stayed.
When Zhang Zhongjian grew up, he also went to Nanban with his family's fleet, traveled in the Central Plains, and learned martial arts with the Kunlun slave.
It was only later that the army was defeated, and after the defeat, he left Yangzhou with his family and the merchant fleet and went all the way south.
In the southern coastal area, there are many commercial stations operated by the Zhang family.
Later, he went to the hometown of Kunlunnu teacher, which was on an island in Ximan Bay.
There, it was a supply place for many Central Plains merchant ships passing through, and there were many merchant stations established by Han merchants, and even became a small shopping mall that prospered with the locals.
He settled there and continued to run the Zhang family's merchant fleet.
Later, a local local chieftain was too greedy and oppressed the local Han merchants.
Unwilling to swallow his anger, Zhang Zhongjian organized his crew and persuaded the Han merchants to unite and take the initiative to attack the chief's castle, killing the chieftain and occupying the fort.
Under everyone's recommendation, Zhang Zhongjian established himself as king.
He and the Han merchants simply established a new kingdom there, and later many Han Chinese and natives from nearby islands also joined his kingdom, and today, his kingdom has 72 islands and more than 70,000 people.
Among them, there are more than 9,000 Han people.
The royal city was built on the largest island, a hundred miles from north to south and about fifty miles from east to west, and it was rich in pearls.
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It is only twenty miles away from the south bank of Funan.
It is only more than 100 miles away from the south bank of Zhenla.
In the final analysis, Zhang Zhongjian's island country is actually a group of Han businessmen who stand on their own feet there.
The Han merchants were the upper echelons of the island nation, but they also united many indigenous peoples, mainly those of low status.
They were mainly trade-oriented, occupying seventy-two islands off the coast.
Of course, the Funan people were not satisfied with the behavior of these maritime merchants.
However, at this time, the Funan Kingdom was weakening day by day, but the subject countries of Funan were becoming stronger.
Chenla was originally a vassal country of Funan, and decades ago, Prince Chenla married the princess of Funan, and later King Chenla died, and the prince succeeded to the throne.
After the death of the king of Funan, the king of Zhila wanted to serve as the king of Funan, and had a dispute with the crown prince of the king of Funan.
Later, Prince Funan went into exile in Java and established the Mountain Emperor Dynasty.
By this time, Zhenla had almost annexed the Funan Kingdom, and only a small part of the country had not yet been occupied.
Zhang Zhongjian's small island country has also begun to be taken seriously by the Zhenla people.
Today's Zhenla, covering an extremely wide area, thousands of miles of land, has almost the later generations of Thailand, Cambodia is still larger, strong strength.
If it weren't for the fact that Zhenyu and Funan had been fighting before, they were at sea and would have been wiped out a long time ago.
But even if it is at sea, Zhenla Country is also a country that relies on the sea, and if they really want to attack, they will definitely not be able to hold it.
In desperation, Zhang Zhongjian personally returned to the Central Plains, wanting to come to the righteous brother Li Jing to see if he could help talk to the imperial court, and let the imperial court send an edict to King Zhenla, or borrow him to order soldiers and horses, even if it was to give him some strength and let him borrow some momentum.
After all, although it was only an archipelago far away in the Nanban Sea, it was always their heart's work.
"Can you really grow three times a year there?"
asked Cheng Qian.
"Back to Your Highness, it is mild and humid all year round, the four seasons are like spring, and the rice can be harvested four times a year.
There are also many crops that are also abundant, such as woods, coconut bamboo, agarwood, yellow wax, cardamom, etc., in addition to pomegranates, sugar cane, mangoes, in addition, rhinoceros, elephants and other exotic beasts are also very numerous.
Our island is also rich in pearls, so it is also called Pearl Island. ” "It's such a good place, and it makes people yearn for it."
Li Chengqian sighed.
Li Chao was actually not interested in Zhang Zhongjian's small island country, it was too far away from the Central Plains, and it was impossible for the Tang Dynasty to occupy it.
He was more interested in the maritime trade routes of these merchants.
From the southeast coast to the Persian Gulf in the west, this is a distant sea route.
From the East China Sea to the South China Sea, and then through the coast of Vietnam in later generations, to the Gulf of Thailand, and then south to the Malaysian Peninsula, through the Singapore Strait, out of the Strait of Malacca, into the Indian Ocean, all the way to the Persian Gulf, it can be said that it is tens of thousands of miles away, I don't know how difficult it is to run.
However, this sea route has always been maintained, and there are many brave Han maritime merchants who have been maintaining and developing this maritime Silk Road one after another.
Historically, since the middle of the Tang Dynasty, this trade route has been extremely prosperous, and even a large number of Arab merchants have come to trade in Guangzhou, Quanzhou and other places, and even on the islands of Southeast Asia, establishing a prosperous entrepot trade.
"How many soldiers does Mr.
Zhang plan to borrow?"
asked Li Chao.
Zhang Zhongjian didn't know how to answer.
Pearl Island is too far away from the Central Plains, not to mention Guangzhou, even if it is to reach the south of Jiaozhou, it is enough to reach 7,000 miles.
At such a long distance, it is really difficult to borrow troops from the imperial court.
If you borrow less, it won't work, and if you borrow more, the court will definitely not borrow.
But in the face of the powerful Zhenla, he has no other way.
"Mr.
Zhang, I actually have a suggestion for you."
"Li Xiang, please say."
"To tell the truth, borrowing troops from the Central Plains to go to the West Barbarian Sea is too unrealistic.
It is better to heal the crown prince's leg, and your majesty will reward you, and give you a knighthood, and confer on you the lord of the seventy-two islands.
As for that island, it has become a territory of the Tang Dynasty since then, and you have become a feudal marquis. ” Zhang Zhongjian listened quietly.
Of course, Li Chao's intention was not to map Zhang Zhongjian's territory, and it was not worth much to the imperial court.
It's just that in this way, this place is the Tang Dynasty, and Zhang Zhongjian has become a prince of the imperial court, guarding the territory.
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The imperial court can submit credentials to Zhenla and prevent them from going to Pearl Island.
At the same time, Li Chao asked the imperial court to give Zhang Zhongjian a decree, allowing him to recruit ship owners, sailors, and mercenaries to the Central Plains coast to go to Pearl Island, and the imperial court could also sell him some weapons.
In doing so, of course, the imperial court must also have benefits, and it is impossible to thank Zhang Zhongjian for curing the prince's leg and making such a big investment.
That territory was nominally owned by the Tang Dynasty, so Zhang Zhongjian, a prince, had to pay a certain tax to the imperial court every year.
And how much you pay is not very important, Li Chao values this maritime trade route the most.
He had already planned to invest in the development of maritime trade on the southeast coast, and was even preparing to build a port in Annam.
Keeping this trading post in the Gulf of Thailand now will certainly be of great help to the development of the Maritime Silk Road.
The imperial court only needed to build a few trading posts and ports along the Linyi coast between Annam and the Pearl Island in the Gulf of Thailand, and a complete and solid maritime trade route was formed.
In the future, whether it is trade, slave capture, robbery, colonization, etc., they will have a foothold.
This is a long-term layout, which cannot be completed overnight, but Zhang Zhongjian is a good chess piece and should be kept. t1706231537: