To attack Sanfoqi (the largest island in western Indonesia), you must first take down Lingyamen (Singapore).

Lingyamen and Sanfoqi are almost across the sea.

In fact, Zhao Huan had long wanted to attack the Three Buddhas. In addition to the reasons for trade, the Three Buddhas also had a lot of gold.

In ancient Chinese literature, Sanfoqi is also called "Jinzhou", which means the place where gold is produced.

Gold is a hard currency that can withstand the financial crisis caused by the depreciation of paper currency within a certain range and stabilize the economic situation.

In the Song Dynasty, the amount of gold and silver was mined in China very little.

The Royal Bank of Song Dynasty has been in operation for the seventh year, and even Jiaozhou has begun to use the Jiaozi of Song Dynasty.

With the double growth of the economic scale of the Song Dynasty, the most important thing Zhao Ding has done in recent years is to print Jiaozi, and through infrastructure in various places, he has continuously brought Jiaozi down to the public.

This has led to a large increase in private product growth, while the currency has also soared.

There is actually a great danger hidden in it.

For example, in economic growth, the production value of consumer goods may not keep up with the value of infrastructure due to the shackles of productivity, resulting in excess of currency issuance and triggering terrible inflation.

At this time, Jiaozi's purchasing power will decline, not only will the money of the people become less valuable, but the money of the court will be the same.

In order to stabilize the purchasing power of the court, the court must also want to print more paper money.

But this is undoubtedly killing the chicken to get eggs and drinking poison to quench thirst.

The best way is to strictly control the issuance of paper money and use reserved gold transactions to stabilize economic fluctuations. When the value of the consumer goods produced accumulates to a certain extent, it will naturally hedge the bubble of excess paper money and stabilize the economy.

Therefore, from the perspective of the entire Song Dynasty's economy and finance, the Song Dynasty lacked gold.

In the Chinese civilization circle, Japan is a country with great gold resources.

So, Zhao Huan took Japan down.

The Three Buddhas are also a country with great golden resources.

Zhao Huan was still worried that there was no excuse to send troops. Now, the Three Buddhas began to commit suicide by themselves.

Now, Li Bao received an order to lead the three thousand elite navy of the Song Dynasty, from Japan to Guangzhou, and stopped in Guangzhou and headed straight to Jiujiang Port.

Li Bao dispatched 7,000 navy troops at Jiujiang Port, formed an army of 10,000, led six warships, set out from Jiujiang Port, and went to Lingyamen to storm.

Taking down Lingya Gate first is the strategy set by the emperor and Master Zhong.

Lingyamen was the strategic focus of the Song Dynasty against the wars of the South China Sea countries.

It is also a world for pirates.

The one who is now the king of Lingyamen is a Han man named Zhao Yan.

He is not a relative of the royal family of Zhao Song. In fact, he has no relationship with the current royal family.

However, he has a relationship with Zhao Tuo, the King of Nanyue more than a thousand years ago, who was a descendant of Zhao Tuo.

Later, the King of Nanyue surrendered to the Han Dynasty and became a county there.

One of Zhao Tuo's descendants stayed in China, and another one went from Guangzhou to Hainan to travel south.

The Zhao family is also a well-known figure in the South China Sea area. The geographical focus of Lingyamen is to be controlled by this family.

Zhao Huan did not intend to change his surname there, but just thought about changing from Zhao Tuo's Zhao to Zhao Huan's Zhao.

Zhao Huan did not intend to deal with this matter in the form of reunion.

Because we want to destroy the Three Buddhas, from today on the South China Sea, there will only be one voice, that is, the voice of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty.

The merchant ships on the South China Sea must be recognized by the Song Dynasty, otherwise they will be pirates and the pirates will be encircled and suppressed by the Song Dynasty Navy.

This is the most basic principle.

On this day, the sea was calm and the sun shone like silky sea water.

Six ocean-level Song Dynasty warships have broken through the waves and headed towards Lingya Gate.

Four very brisk pirate ships appeared ahead.

They came to the Great Song Dynasty warships.

After seeing the four pirate ships through a thousand miles, Li Bao gave an order: "Prepare for the long sword, accelerate, and sink the four enemy ships with all their strength."

The boss of the four enemy ships is a Han man named Li Guiyi. This man is a tough guy. He is a tiger general of Zhao Yan and has killed many people in this sea area.

All merchant ships passing through this sea area must pay a huge toll.

Their warships are mainly light and flexible, and the main tactic is to quickly board the target ship. All pirates use them in a swarm and rely on barbarity to seize merchant ships.

It can be said that every pirate of his is a good player in the water.

However, this time it is a bit special.

Li Guiyi swore that he had never seen such a huge ship in the first half of his life.

An ocean-class warship in the Song Dynasty can carry nearly 1,500 stones of grain and more than 1,500 people.

This is simply beyond Li Guiyi's appointment with the warships.

Li Guiyi could not imagine how much it would cost to build such a warship.

The brisk boat sent out came back soon and told Li Guiyi that it was a warship of the Song Dynasty, with the flag of the Song Dynasty flying on the warship.

Li Guiyi was shocked. Although he was active in the South China Sea, he still knew about the destruction of Jiaozhi and Chameng in the Song Dynasty.

It is no secret that both Chameng and Jiaozhi have aristocrats fled to the South China Sea.

"Damn it, why did the Song Dynasty warships come to the South China Sea? We have never been able to break the rivers!"

Li Guiyi thought for a while and asked someone to go to Lingyamen to report the news immediately. At the same time, he sent an envoy to the Great Song Dynasty warship, intending to negotiate, and it would be better not to raise an army to conflict.

Li Guiyi didn't want to fight with the Song Dynasty. If he had nothing to do, don't mess with the central China, as he would be destroyed.

But as soon as Li Guiyi's envoy boarded the ship, he was chopped with a knife.

Six ocean-going warships of the Song Dynasty rushed towards this side. When they approached, a long, sharp knife actually stretched out from both sides of the ship.

It is more than ten meters in length in later generations.

A cold luster flashes in the sun.

The warships of the Song Dynasty accelerated, and were very fast.

When Li Gui saw it one by one, he suddenly felt something was wrong and quickly ordered a turn around.

But there is no time. The ocean-level warships of the Song Dynasty were not only large in size, but also fast. They had 300 people rowing, so they didn't have any worry about not having power.

In less than a stick of incense, the Song Dynasty warship caught up with Li Guiyi's pirates.

The sharp, long knife that cuts iron like mud and cuts the pirate's ship, and then cuts it over like to cut tofu.

He immediately tore the pirate's ship open and cut off everyone inside.

At the same time, each Dasong warship was equipped with iron cannons on the side.

"Fire the cannon and kill these pirates!"

"General, should we please grant them the first order and let them work hard for us?"

Li Bao directly refused: "The Song Dynasty Navy does not rely on pirates. We only have one goal to complete the orders of His Majesty the Emperor. If we can't even take the Little Lingya Gate, we will be tragic and we will commit suicide in front of the formation!"

He added: "Kill all the pirates!"

"yes!"

The sound of artillery sounded in the sea all day long.

In fact, there are countless pirates.

In Zhao Huan's own words: "There are indeed countless pirates, but kill more than half first, so that the other half knows that even if they are pirates, they should know who makes them continue to be qualified to live in this world! Who is the real owner of the sea!"
Chapter completed!