At night.
Li Chao accompanied Zhang Zhongjian to check Cheng Qian's leg injury, and Zhang Zhongjian also gave Cheng Qian acupuncture.
In his words, from now on, it is necessary to straighten out the meridians for the prince.
Li Chao is not familiar with acupuncture, but he is not against it.
Although countless people in later generations have used the name of acupuncture and moxibustion to spoil this treasure of tradition at will.
But acupuncture is indeed good, the key is that many people are not proficient in learning, do not understand, and mess around.
Just like Chinese medicine, although the theory of Chinese medicine sounds very mysterious, in fact, it is just another systematic pathological explanation.
For those who don't understand, of course, there will be no good results if they explain and use it indiscriminately.
Zhang Zhongjian is undoubtedly a master of medical skills.
The ancients had a saying that if you are not a famous doctor, you will become a famous doctor, which means that many scholars turn to medicine to become a famous doctor after they have no hope of entering the imperial examination, which seems to be magical, but it is actually a fact.
Because in ancient times, it was very important to be able to read and write to become a famous doctor.
If you can't even understand medical skills, how can you pass on them?
Especially at that time, medical books, like many classics, were recorded in a fairly concise text, and it was really difficult to understand without a certain amount of knowledge.
Zhang Zhongjian's real identity is a sea businessman, and Haoxia is just another identity for him, just like he is still a medical master.
This is a magical person, who should be almost sixty years old, but he looks like a middle-aged strong man in his thirties.
The big red tendrils and the mixed-race face are full of mixed blood, but they speak so politely.
It is also very pleasing to watch Zhang Zhongjian pierce the needle.
He is very accurate in the needle, he will not look left and right to find acupuncture points, just twist a few times with a needle, let alone the situation of blood coming straight out.
Another characteristic of his needle pricking is that it doesn't hurt.
After a while, Zhang Zhongjian gave Cheng Qian hundreds of stitches, but Cheng Qian didn't snort, not that he was strong, but that it didn't hurt.
Li Chao had seen hospitals prick people with needles before, and some of them pricked patients with ghosts crying wolves, which could make a man in his thirties and forties shout that I won't pierce them.
"Acupuncture helps the meridians and blood flow smoothly, which can make the legs recover faster."
After the acupuncture, Zhang Zhongjian lit incense for Cheng Qian.
The aroma was lingering, Cheng Qian fell asleep after a while, and asked the chamberlain to take care of Cheng Qian, Li Chao and Zhang Zhongjian went out of the room.
The two walked under the moon.
The night was cold, and the exhaled breath turned white.
"I have only been away from the Central Plains for ten years, and when I came back this time, I found that it had completely changed" Zhang Zhongjian walked slowly with his hands behind his back, and sighed after a long time.
Li Chao put his hands in his sleeves, he was wearing a military coat jacket on his body, using sheepskin and camel hair, which was very warm, and the sleeves were particularly large, and his hands were caged, which was very comfortable.
It's just a Lei Feng hat missing.
"Indeed, the Sui Rebellion has only been more than ten years, and the world has been unified in the hands of the Tang Dynasty."
"When I left, I thought that the world might be chaotic for decades, or even a hundred years. thought that the world would fall into fragmentation again, and even the situation of dividing the north and the south, but unexpectedly, Li Mi, Wang Shichong, Dou Jiande, Du Fuwei, Xiao Mo and other heroes were defeated so quickly, and the Li family, which was not very eye-catching at the beginning, was able to occupy Guanzhong in such a fast time, and then swept the world" Zhang Zhongjian left the Central Plains that year, not only because the rebel army he organized was defeated, but also because he was disappointed in the world and thought that the Central Plains would fall into the great turmoil of the Northern and Southern Dynasties after the Jin Dynasty, so he finally left overseas.
But what he didn't expect was that it had only been ten years, time had changed, and the world had become unified again.
Liang Shidu and Yuan Junzhang, the fall of these two anti-kings also announced that the Tang Dynasty completely ruled the world.
Now the Tang Dynasty has even taken back the Daibei in the north, and Shuofang has also taken it back, so it is just the Hetao.
"Tang inherited the Sui, and the territory of the Sui was only one river loop away," Zhang Zhongjian sighed.
"There's also a Liaoxi," Li Chao said.
After Hebei destroyed Dou Jiande, Liu Heimin, Gao Kaidao and other anti-queens, it recovered the territory within Yanshan, but Liaoxi outside Yanbei and Shanhaiguan was still occupied by Turks and Goguryeo.
"In my opinion, Your Majesty's ambition to break the Turks and destroy Goguryeo is only a matter of time, and the Tang Dynasty will be stronger than the Sui," Zhang Zhongjian said very sincerely.
"Well, Datang will definitely be stronger than Sui.
The Sui unified the north and the south, ended the division of more than 300 years, and poured the sky on the Central Plains, but unfortunately, like Qin, did not resist the rebound. ” Zhang Zhongjian shook his head and sighed, "Maybe I should go back to the Central Plains." ” "You can go back to the Central Plains when you have time, and even arrange for your clansmen to go back to the Central Plains, but Pearl Island, I don't recommend you give up.
It's not easy to run there, and there are certain results, so it's a pity to give up now.
And it's not time to give up, Your Majesty has already written an edict, sent a messenger to go south with your people, and then go to Jiaozhou, Annan, go to Zhenla through Linyi, and give a letter to the Kingdom of Zhenla, I believe they will give me a few thin noodles in Datang.
If they don't give this face, we won't sit idly by. ” "Datang is really willing to travel thousands of miles to protect us" "Since you are now the Marquis of Vietnam of Datang, and the Pearl Islands have also been given the name of Vietnam State, which is the territory of Datang, and the people there are the people of Datang, of course Datang will take care of it, and of course it will protect."
"Those who offend me will be punished even if they are far away" Zhang Zhongjian asked, "I'm a little puzzled, is this Your Majesty rewarding me for treating the prince's leg injury?"
"Yes, but not all."
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Rewarding Zhang Zhongjian for his leg injury is only part of it, and the other part is that after Li Chao had a secret conversation with Li Shimin, the emperor understood the importance of Pearl Island.
In Li Chao's long conversation with Li Shimin, Li Chao explained a maritime trade route along the East China Sea to the South China Sea, and then west to the Indian Sea and the Persian Sea, a very important maritime Silk Road.
If the operation is good, the Maritime Silk Road will be more profitable than the current Silk Road and the Southwest Silk Tea Road.
Especially in the Silk Road, the Western Regions were still intercepted by the Western Turks, and the Southwest Silk Tea Road had just been opened, so the Maritime Silk Road was more important at this time.
The spices, grain, and slaves along the coast of the South China Sea and on the islands, as well as Linyi, Zhenla, Tianzhu, Persia, and other countries, will be a huge trade and sales area, and the export of porcelain, silk, and tea in the Central Plains can make huge profits, and bringing back gold, spices, grain, slaves, cloth, etc., can also make huge profits.
The trade of ocean-going countries can not only make money, but also get many materials needed by the imperial court, such as grain, slaves, ores, etc., in short, if the maritime Silk Road flourishes, it can not only make money, but also allow the imperial court to take the Belt and Road and develop the southeast coast.
The Maritime Silk Road can make the coastal areas prosperous, the opening of seaports and cities can increase tariffs, foreign trade can promote the prosperity of industry and commerce, and the income of the people can increase, and so on, the benefits are obvious.
Li Shimin was very short of money, and after hearing how many benefits it could have, after thinking about it, he agreed with Li Chao's strategy.
To operate this maritime Silk Road, it is no longer only the participation of private merchants, but also the official organization of forces to deeply participate, organize official trade fleets, not only to visit those countries on the southeast, south, southwest coasts and islands, but also to visit the customs there, and of course, more importantly, to trade.
Li Chao even planned that in the future, the imperial court would build a large commercial port in Jiaozhou, Annan, and even attack or concession some ports along the coast of Linyi in the south to build a commercial port, so as to become an important supply and entrepot trade station for merchant ships on the Silk Road.
The Pearl Islands, which are located in Ximan Bay in the South China Sea, will be an important supplementary station, of course, it cannot be easily given up, not only can not give up, but also through Zhang Zhongjian, strengthen the control there, and even expand to the southern coast, increasing the number of coastal trading stations.
These strategies proposed by Li Chao are actually colonial plans.
But it's not the kind of full-scale colonization, just seizing ports along the coastline, building fortresses, and establishing shopping malls, so that the Tang Dynasty's maritime Silk Road has a reliable and stable supply point.
If you have the opportunity to have strength in the future, you can get more port commercial stations to make this line more points.
This is not something that can be completed in a day or two, or even a year or two, but set this route, set this direction, and operate slowly, I believe that sooner or later, a considerable result will be achieved.
It was under this circumstance that Zhang Zhongjian was canonized as the Marquis of Vietnam by Li Shimin, and the 72 islands of the Pearl Island were given the name of Vietnam State.
Tens of thousands of people on the seventy-two islands have become the people of the Tang Dynasty.
Zhang Zhongjian is a very smart person, and after listening to Li Chaoyi, he also understood the layout of the imperial court.
He exclaimed.
"This idea must have come up with Xiangguo, but His Majesty was able to adopt it, which also makes me admire.
To be honest, overseas is indeed a vast world, but for a long time, the Central Plains has not set its sights on where to go, feeling too far away.
In fact, as long as you are willing to pay attention, you don't need to spend much energy, and you can have a situation.
Even as long as the imperial court is willing to encourage, only the private merchants can open up a prosperous trade route for the imperial court. ” Li Chao said with a smile, "Now that the imperial court has canonized you as the founding county marquis, and is also preparing to organize a merchant shipping trade team, it is time for you pioneers to serve the imperial court now."
You are more familiar with the sea, you know more about the Southern Barbarians, the imperial court needs you, the sea routes you open up, the customs you master, the wisdom and courage you need to rest assured, your help to the imperial court, the imperial court will never forget, and even in the future, future generations of Han people will remember your efforts and contributions for our Han people to open up the South China Sea."
"I'm so excited."
Zhang Zhongjian said with a smile.
However, Li Chao could see that he was not enthusiastic because of these few words, this is a powerful character.
"My Li family is also preparing to establish a merchant fleet to join the maritime trade, I think the Li family and the Zhang family can cooperate, you have ships, sailors and routes."
Zhang Zhongjian looked at Li Chao and smiled, yes, he has a ship and someone has a sea supply station, and what does Li Chao have.
"The Li family has goods, tea, sugar, wine, only these three items, no one in the Central Plains has a better supply than the Li family.
If the two of us cooperate, we can even set up our own farmlands, grow grain and sugar cane, and produce wine and sugar on our own islands and coasts in the Nanban, which will greatly save costs and time, and make our trade more profitable."
"It sounds so tempting that it's hard to refuse."
Zhang Zhongjian said with a smile.
"Cooperation and cooperation, there must be a win-win and mutual benefit, I will not take advantage of you in vain, our cooperation will be a strong combination" Zhang Zhongjian nodded, "The Zhang family is very honored to cooperate with Xiangye" "That's a word, happy cooperation" t1706231537: