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"Go to Liu to seek sugarcane?"

Cheng Yaojin was quite curious, "I remember that in the sixth year of Daye, Wu Ben Lang General Chen Ling and the Chaozhou asked the doctor Zhang Zhen to send more than 10,000 troops to the east of the east, and went to the sea from Yi'an, and took the initiative to attack Liu Qiu's country. After more than a month, he defeated Liu Qiu's natives and returned."

"Is it that Liu Qiu?"

"It's that Liu Qiu." Li Chao raised his wine glass to signal.

In ancient classics, there are many records about treasure islands, such as "Yingzhou" in the Qin Dynasty, "Dongkun" in the Han Dynasty, and "Yizhou" in the Three Kingdoms. These are actually treasure islands. There are also the great injustice countries in the Han Dynasty, Liuqiu in the Sui Dynasty, Kunshana in the Song Dynasty, Dongfan and Taijuan in the Ming Dynasty, etc., all refer to treasure islands.

Although the Central Plains was not considered to be the real control of the treasure island until the Qing Dynasty. However, there were not many records of exchanges. As early as the Three Kingdoms era, the Wu Lord Sun Quan sent general Wei Wen and Zhuge to lead 10,000 naval troops across the sea to the treasure island, and cultivated land and planted there.

The Linhai Prefect of the Eastern Wu also wrote a book called Linhai's Water and Earth Foreign Objects, which specifically and vividly describes the situation of Yizhou and Shanyi.

Shanyi is the indigenous people on the island.

"Is this Liuqiu Island big?" Luo Shixin asked. In his heart, since it is an island, it is definitely not big.

"Liuqiu is bigger than Hainan Island." Li Chao replied.

Luo Shixin asked again, "Is Hainan Island big?"

Li Chao was speechless. For Luo Shixin, he had a clear understanding of Hainan, Baodao. In fact, many people in this era did not have enough geography. Unlike later generations, even in kindergartens, they knew that the earth was round, and elementary school students had seen the earth.

Children in their teens can basically know how old China is and how old the world is.

But most people of this era may not have left the county or even the township in their lifetime. Anyway, they just stay in a place for the rest of their lifetime. How big is the outside world?

have no idea.

The distance they have to travel for many days. The area is not a square meter square kilometers, but a day to travel from north to south.

"So that's it, you know how old Xiangzhou is, right?"

Luo Shixin nodded, "Of course I know, there are 246 miles east and west, and 367 miles north and south."

After all, Xiangyang has been the temporary capital for several years, so he still knows these things. This is what he listened to in the martial arts lecture hall. The martial arts lecture hall has special geography courses, and the Military Geography Association talks about these things.

It is 246 miles from east to west and 367 miles from north to south. This is actually about the same size as Li Chao's territory north of Langshan.

"Well, Xiangzhou is indeed so big, but Liuqiu Island is almost three big."

Luo Shixin opened his mouth wide and was about to eat roasted garlic, but he couldn't bite it anymore.

"Is Liuqiu Island so big? Three Xiangzhous are so big, wouldn't it be as big as three of your fiefs?"

"It's almost the same."

Luo Shixin became interested. He thought it was an overseas island, but he didn't expect it to be so big.

"Far from the coast of Jiangdong?"

Cheng Yaojin said on the side, "It should be quite far away. After six years of Daye, Chen Ling and the others crossed the sea, and it took more than a month."

Li Chao laughed.

It’s just a strait, but it takes one month. The strait is only about 300 miles wide, and a month for a boat to travel for 300 miles?

"Actually, it's very close, you can arrive in two or three days."

"It's impossible. If it's so close to the coast of Jiangdong, it's such a big island. There's no reason why the Central Plains hasn't controlled the development there?" Li Ji asked in surprise.

Hainan Island is smaller than this Liuqiu Island and is not far from the Central Plains. Therefore, the Central Plains dynasty had been controlling Hainan Island for a long time ago. However, this Liuqiu Island only had three days of water, and there was no reason but it had not occupied the development.

"Are those islands all poor mountains and bad waters, and they are not suitable for living?"

"No, it's a treasure island with a pleasant climate and suitable for farming. If it's really developed, there's no problem with living in a million people on the island, and it can also provide food outside."

"It's impossible. If it was so good, why didn't the Central Plains control it for thousands of years?" Li Ji felt that things were strange. There was no powerful country on the island. Chen Ling brought tens of people to the island, but he defeated the indigenous people.

At that time, the native king Yunsi sent troops to resist the battle, and Zhang Zhenzhou defeated him directly and fought all the way to their capital. The old king of Xiao Wang Yunsi led his troops to fight, but was defeated by Chen Ling. When he reached the other capital, the big and big kings gathered only a few thousand people. Chen Ling defeated his big and big kings, destroyed his capital, and captured the son of Lao Wang, and returned.

Ten thousand soldiers cross the sea to attack, and they can directly defeat the capital and capture the prince. In Li Ji's opinion, the strength of the barbarians on this island is extremely weak, not as good as the barbarians in the southwest mountains. Those barbarian tribes and slightly larger villages are probably stronger than the barbarians.

"Maogong also makes sense. In fact, Liuqiu is only more than 300 miles away from the Jiangdong Sea. However, although this strait is narrow, the wind and waves are very strong. Especially in winter, the northerly monsoon is strong, with strong winds blowing at the end almost every few days, and the strong wind blows huge waves, which can reach two or three meters high."

"In summer, the wind is relatively small and the strait is stable. However, in June and July, typhoons are in the prevailing period. Once the typhoon passes, it will bring heavy rainstorms and storm surges. Moreover, there will often be heavy tides."

It is precisely because of these three hundred miles of straits that have always hindered the exchanges between the continent and the treasure island in ancient times. Because ordinary people could not master these rules, the navigation technology at that time was not enough.

Although a large army went to the island to reclaim wasteland during the Three Kingdoms period, the traffic between them was still very inconvenient.

Because of various restrictions, Baodao has not been developed and controlled early like Hainan. Until now, some Shanyi natives are fighting each other and hunting for heads.

However, those difficulties are not difficult for Li Chao.

First of all, Nanyang Company has a new style of sailing ships. Although the wind and waves are strong, they are not afraid. Another thing is that Li Chao had already asked Nanyang Company crew members to observe the hydrological conditions of the strait and find suitable routes.

Now, Li Chao's ship has successfully landed on the treasure island many times.

Li Chao's ship can now easily avoid winds, typhoons, tides, safe routes, and suitable landing ports. In a word, Li Chao has been planning to take the treasure island for a long time, and he has made sufficient preparations for colonizing the treasure island.

Li Chao once mentioned to Li Shimin that he would develop a treasure island.

But Li Shimin obviously was not interested in that small island in the far East Sea.

Now Li Chao is preparing to colonize himself.

Nanyang Company is invested and jointly invested by multiple large families, and many businessmen also hold the company's shares. The company has strong financial resources and has ships.

If you go to the treasure island, there will be no problem.

The Shanyi natives on the island still live in primitive society and are no match for their pioneers at all.

"We really go to plant sugarcane?" Li Ji always felt that things were not that simple.

Li Chao smiled and said that it is necessary to plant sugarcane, but this is not the main purpose. Li Chao's purpose is the people and land there.

Compared to the fiefdoms given to him by the imperial court, the treasure island is better.

That is a place that is truly suitable for family development.

"We colonized and developed Liuqiu and captured Shanqiu as slaves for sale. Everyone also knows that the Tang Dynasty now has a great demand for slaves. As long as there are strong slaves, it is extremely profitable. Liuqiu is only three hundred miles away from Jiangdong. If we can capture Shanqiu as slaves, it can greatly reduce the cost of transportation and increase the profit a lot."

"One more, after the Shanyi is cleared, this rich island is ours. There are rich land, rich wood and mineral resources, copper, iron, gold and silver. Think about it, then we will build sugarcane plantations, rice plantations, and sugar plants on it. You can also start mining, log wood, etc."

"A hundred miles long from north to south, and three hundred miles from east to west. Such a large and rich island will belong to us after taking it down."

Li Chao tempted them.

The most important thing is that this Liuqiu has no relationship with the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty has no interest in paying attention to this Liuqiu. If they fight quietly, they can make a fortune in silence.

"It's only three hundred miles away from the Jiangdong area. Even if it's not far from Hangzhou Bay or the Yangtze River Estuary."

Li Ji asked a question.

"Although this mountain and wild man is weak, it has troops at least. The Sihai Company we have in partnership is just a maritime trading business. We have no soldiers and no weapons. Have we ever fought them? Besides, Sihai Company is not the only one of us partners!"

Li Chao smiled.

Li Ji seemed to have raised difficulties, but in fact he was already moved. He didn't want more people to share the benefits.

"Or what if the eight here are here to form a new company called Baodao Trading Company?"

Li Chao means that eight families will join forces, and then buy sailboats from the shipyard and recruit crew sailors.

"Even if there are ships and crew members, how can we deal with Shanyi?" Li Ji continued to ask.

"We can form a slave hunting team and a business guard. Let's build a stronghold fortress along the coast of Baodao, recruit people from here, and then train there. As for weapons, we can also build a batch there."

This is a bit bold.

It is one thing to start a business in partnership, but it is a bit risky to establish guards or even build armed forces privately.

"Liuqiu is not in the Central Plains, so what our business does in Liuqiu is not bound by the laws of the Tang Dynasty. As long as we do not bring these armed guards back to the Central Plains, we do not violate the laws of the Tang Dynasty."

This is a game of the edge.

Li Ji and others were all surprised by Li Chao's boldness. Since Li's current family business is not short of money, why did he take the risk to Liuqiu Island?

"I have long been in love with Liuqiu Island. It doesn't matter if you don't want to join forces together, then I will do it alone in Bashang Li family. But this huge profit, you can only watch the Li family enjoy it alone at that time."

Cheng Yaojin laughed, "I am the old Cheng! Nothing is big, what's there to worry about?"

Qin Qiong coughed, "I'll join the same gang, too."

Niu Jinda and Luo Shixin no longer hesitated and asked to join the group.

In the end, Li Ji and Shan Xiongxin also expressed their willingness to join the group.

"Where are you?" Li Chao asked Ma Zhou.

Ma Zhou spread his hands.

"I can't compare to your family's great business. I want to join the company, but I don't have the capital."

"You can just join the gang. What are you afraid of if you don't have the capital? I'll lend you it. Okay, you can join the gang."

The eight partners have agreed to this matter.

However, Li Chao originally said that it was eight Pingfen shares, but they agreed that Li Chao should occupy more, and even asked to give Li Chao half of the shares directly.
Chapter completed!