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Chapter 58 The Situation of the Dongying Dynasty

Shanhai County Pier.

The dock just built looks very simple, and the surrounding area is also a desolate saline-alkali land. Except for a few isolated temporary houses, there is nothing else.

On the vast sea, two large ships came slowly, and the high masts attracted the exclamations of the workers on the dock.

"I'm back, I'm back!" Bai Song shouted in surprise.

Half a month ago, four large ships set out from here, and only two returned until today.

For the past half month, Bai Song has been in a state of fear, for fear that these merchant ships will not be able to return.

Now he is in charge of the wharf, not only managing the construction of the wharf, but also cooperating with merchant ships going to sea.

"My lord, it's two ships going to the Dongying Dynasty," said an attendant.

Bai Song looked at the slowly approaching ship, and heaved a sigh of relief.

The two boats slowly docked on the dock, and a middle-aged man jumped directly from the boat, it was Li Chuan.

"Sir!" Bai Song quickly stepped forward and said.

He used to be Li Chuan's entourage, but now he has the best relationship with Li Chuan in Shanhai County.That's one of the reasons he worries about merchant ships.

Li Chuan laughed and said, "Wait!"

"No, this subordinate is just worried about adults." Bai Song said.

Li Chuan patted him on the shoulder and said, "I'll leave it to you here. I'll go back to the city to see His Highness first."

Bai Song nodded, "Sir, walk slowly."

Li Chuan didn't say much, and ran towards Shanhai County on a horse.

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When Li Chuan arrived at the palace, Zheng Ming was giving a lecture.

Mathematical classes are given to the officials of the county government and the teachings of the literary academy, which are still elementary school mathematics.

Teaching mathematics to such a group of old antiques almost didn't make Zheng Ming angry, each of them seemed to be elm knots, but they were not enlightened.

As one of the six arts of Confucianism, it is not that there are no scholars who are proficient in mathematics, but there are no such talents in Shanhai County.

The entire Shanhai County can't pick out a single mathematician with elementary school level, let alone equations, many people can't understand even the slightly more complicated addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

"Lu Cheng, what are you doing? You dare to doze off when this king lectures!"

Zheng Ming pointed at a middle-aged man and cursed angrily.

Lu Cheng is the son of Lu Shou, who is more than 40 years old this year, and works as a civil servant in the household of the county government.

This guy is a second-generation official, but he has an elm head.

"His Royal Highness, you know your fault." Lu Cheng stood up and said aggrievedly.

Zheng Ming took a deep breath and suppressed the irritability in his heart.

"Okay, let's go here today, go back and review it yourself."

He feels that teaching these people is not as good as teaching seven or eight-year-old children, at least the children's thinking is not solidified.

But he can't really go to the academy as a substitute.

"His Royal Highness, do you think I did the right thing?" Song Baobao came to Zheng Ming with his pamphlet.

Zheng Ming looked at the delicate notes above, and his mood suddenly improved a lot.

It's not that there is something wrong with his teaching, it's that these students are too stupid.

"Yes, yes, yes, the baby is indeed the smartest."

In order to prove that his teaching was okay, he praised him unabashedly.

Immediately, all the old masters next to him blush, and there is no face left here.

"Meet Your Highness!" Li Chuan came to Zheng Ming.

Zheng Ming's eyes brightened, and he said, "I'm back! Let's go and tell me what the Dongying Dynasty was like."

Saying that, he brought Li Chuan to the study.

"What's the gain this time?" Zheng Ming asked.

Li Chuan sorted out his thoughts and said, "Return to Your Highness, this time the two merchant ships made a total profit of 3000 taels apart from refined salt. Besides, according to Your Highness, the villain divided the refined salt into dozens of shares and gave it to Wealthy families and big merchants on Shiro Island."

"Before the villain returned, he had already received an order for [-] dans, each priced at [-] taels of silver."

The Dongying Dynasty consists of four major islands and many small islands, namely Beiguo Island, Siyu Island, Yinshen Island, and Jiuling Island. This time, Lichuan only went to Siyu Island.

The first time he went to the Eastern Empire Dynasty, Zheng Ming didn't care about how much money he made, what he cared about was whether he could open the market of the Eastern Empire Dynasty.

Refined salt is a stepping stone, and now it seems that this stepping stone is very good.

Even if the price is ten times higher than that of ordinary salt, it still receives a lot of orders.

"How is the situation in the Dongying Dynasty?" Zheng Ming asked again.

"It's chaotic!" Li Chuan frowned and said, "Although the Dongying Dynasty respected the emperor, it was dominated by big names everywhere, but there were more than ten big names in Siyu Island, and they attacked each other. long-term scuffle."

"The way of cultivation is mainly based on Martial Dao and Yin-Yang Dao. They have no sect power, but exist in the form of cultivation families. Behind each big name is the support of cultivation families."

"The villain also specifically inquired about the situation of the Inoue family. It is said that 20 years ago, the Inoue family was a supporter of the Matsudaira daimyo. At that time, the Matsudaira daimyo was the strongest daimyo in Shimijima, but later they were besieged by several daimyos. In the end, Matsudaira The daimyo was killed, and the Inoue family left Shimijima and came to the Fallen Feather Islands."

"There are still branches of the Inoue family on Siyu Island. They took refuge in Uesugi Daimyo."

After Zheng Ming heard this, he laughed.

"interesting."

"I'm not afraid of him being chaotic, but I'm afraid that he will not be chaotic."

"Is this the opportunity before us?"

The chaos of the Eastern Ying Dynasty was only good for Zheng Ming and not bad.

In the current situation of Shanhai County, it is almost difficult to expand outward.

Needless to say, on the Dali Dynasty side, Zheng Ming is not qualified to leave Shanhai County.

As for the Great Jin Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty, Zheng Ming was not able to intervene.

Only the chaotic Dongying Dynasty is an opportunity for Shanhai County.

Of course, Zheng Ming didn't want to conquer the Dongying Dynasty. He didn't have the strength now. What he really wanted to do was to fish in troubled waters.

"You go to the Siyu Island a few more times to find out the situation and make an assessment of each daimyo's strength, character, potential, etc." Zheng Ming ordered.

"Little man obeys." Li Chuan replied.

Next, Zheng Ming recruited Yuhuatian again and asked the Auditor to prepare to expand to Siyu Island.

Intelligence is the most important part at any time. Knowing yourself and the enemy is the only way to be victorious in every battle.

Only when all the information is in hand can all kinds of tricks be exerted.

Zheng Ming wanted to reach out to the Eastern Ying Dynasty, and the Inspection Yuan was his vanguard.

After everything was arranged, Zheng Ming recruited Wan Luoshan to Shanhai County.

Now that the situation in Luoyu Archipelago has stabilized, Yihetang has all the islands in its hands, and the remaining small pirate forces are either captured or destroyed.

At the same time, Yihetang is expanding with the support of Zheng Ming, and the strength of his subordinates is getting stronger and stronger.

But these are not enough, what Zheng Ming needs is a fleet that can travel far and wide.

Plan before it rains.

With the opening of the sea route, Shanhai County will not only conduct business with the three surrounding dynasties, but also go further.

The Qiandao Alliance in the southeast, the wild tribes in the north, the shaman tribes in the south, the legendary Shangyu land, etc., as long as they can pass through the seas where the boats go to the end, he doesn't want to let them go.

Compared with the surrounding area of ​​Dali, the vast sea area is more attractive. Zheng Ming hopes that one day he can go around the world to see if the world is round like the earth.

(End of this chapter)