Chapter 152: Map of the South Seas "But this palace has no intention of letting them go to the open sea."
Li Zhen said with a smile.
"Not out of the open sea?"
When Liu Renliang heard this, he immediately frowned, and said, "But if what His Highness said is true, it's a bit of a pity that such a good ship is only roaming in the offshore sea, right?"
Such a ship is naturally supposed to go out to the open sea, and it would be a waste to only put it in the near sea. ” "This palace hasn't said that, but if it's not far sea, it doesn't necessarily mean it's near sea."
Li Zhen smiled even brighter, he felt that it was really interesting to tease Liu Renliang.
Li Zhen's words were too tongue-twisting, Liu Renliang was stunned and didn't understand, how could it be near sea and far sea?
simply told him directly: "Your Highness, don't tease your subordinates......
What the hell are you going to do?
” "Just look at this."
Li Zhen didn't explain much, but took out a map.
"This is a map of the South Seas?
This is Luzon, right?
"Liu Renliang has seen a lot of maps in Li Zhen's hand, but many of them are local maps, for example, Li Zhen asked him to go to Luzon, so he drew a chapter of the map from the Tang Dynasty to Luzon, but the rest of the places were not shown to Liu Renliang.
The reason why Li Zhen did this was not because he was stingy, he was afraid that others would be unfavorable to him after seeing the map, but mainly for the sake of secrecy, after all, the map itself was a strategic material in ancient times, and the map in Li Zhen's hand was a strategic material among the strategic materials, even if it was slightly exposed, it would cause endless waves in the outside world.
As for the full picture, it is even more impossible for people to know, otherwise it is not impossible to cause a small war.
After all, this is a specific topographic map of the entire South Seas, and now everyone knows that the South Seas represent endless wealth - if the map falls into their own hands, it will be fine, at most, it will give them a little benefit or privilege, so that they can make a lot of money, and the island is still Datang's.
But if this falls into the hands of the enemy country, I am afraid that this endless sea will rise an opponent who will compete with Datang, which is not what Datang wants to see.
You must know that in today's Datang, everyone knows that Nanyang is a place to make a fortune - this sea is so big, it is impossible to have only one Luzon Islands, what is lacking is just exploration.
As long as you are bold enough, as long as you are lucky enough, even if you can only find one island, even if it is just a small island, as long as it is not the kind of pure stone island, you will not lose money at least this trip, at least the timber in those islands is a specialty of the South Seas, and it is a lot of wealth to transport it back to Datang.
It's just that the current merchants, although crazy, prefer to eat ready-made, and they will not explore new seas until the potential of Luzon is completely explored - after all, although it is dangerous to go to Luzon, there is a goal at all, and those unknown seas are purely lucky, no one knows what will be encountered, in case of great danger, then the entire fleet will be doomed.
But Li Zhen believes that sooner or later someone will go to sea in search of new islands, and that day will soon come - once the interests of the Luzon Islands are divided, then those who are unwilling to fail will have to embark on this road sooner or later in order to return to their roots or for other reasons.
And once the losers pioneer this precedent, those who have been on the mainland for a long time or have the ability but not the strength will eventually follow their old path - and then the Age of Discovery will truly begin.
And the map in Li Zhen's hand was drawn by him according to his memory, which marked most of the islands in the South Seas, although there were some deviations, but those important islands had already been drawn, and the directions were not too different.
If this map is made visible to others, or even if it is known to others, what will happen if it exists, Li Zhen is not clear.
But Li Zhen has reason to believe that those crazy businessmen will definitely do whatever it takes to get this map—even if the person they have to deal with is the Tang Prince.
Therefore, this map, the people who know the entire Tang Dynasty will definitely not exceed the number of people, even those brothers of Li Zhen do not see the whole map, but the map of the known regions divided by Li Zhen, as for these unknown regions, he rarely shows them to others - even his henchmen, only a few people such as Xue Rengui know.
"Yes, this is the map of the South Seas, this is the Luzon you explored, and this is the Indochina Peninsula, that is, the part of the South Ocean Peninsula that we conquered before, this is Linyi, this is Zhenla, and the Queen Kingdom and the Baitou Kingdom are here."
Li Zhen pointed to some known locations and explained them one by one for Liu Renliang.
"And where is this?"
Liu Renliang pointed to the largest piece on the edge of the entire South Sea map and asked excitedly: "What a big island, it's not much worse than the South Sea, if this is opened up, this will be another South Sea." ” "Here it is......
Forehead......
This is......
It is the island of Elysium, because there is a very beautiful bird called Elysium on it, hence the name.
Looking at the island of New Guinea, Li Zhen thought for a while, and casually made up a name, anyway, except for himself, no one knows the specific name of this island, not to mention that the Western colonists have not yet discovered this place, and the naming right is of course in Li Zhen's hands.
"Why haven't you heard from Your Highness about this island?"
Liu Renliang asked with some suspicion, this island should be the first island in the South Sea, right?
Although only part of it is painted, the exposed part alone is much larger than Borneo.
"Of course, I didn't tell you this, because this is not part of the South Seas, this is the territory of Australia, so I didn't introduce it to you."
At the beginning, in order to gain the support of his confidants in the development of the navy, Li Zhen introduced Australia to them.
As Li Zhen expected, when they knew that outside of Datang, there was a continent no less than Datang in area, everyone went crazy - if they could occupy this place, it would be a great merit.
What is the twelve cities in one day?
What destroyed the country in World War I?
Can it be compared to opening up a second continent?
I don't even need to think about it, this is definitely a great credit to the history books.
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From that time on, everyone no longer had any objections to Li Zhen's development of the navy.
Nonsense, if you want to conquer the New World, you have to cross the sea, right?
How do you cross the sea without a boat?
And according to Li Zhen, Australia is still a wilderness, with only some indigenous people on it, and there is no basic civilization.
That is to say, after conquering Australia, you still have to build, at least immigrate.
But this is a continent, not a peninsula like the South Seas—this work is not destined to be done by one person, not even the imperial court, and it must be fully participated by the people.
So there is no doubt about opening up the Age of Discovery.