Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Li Shimin also agreed with Li Jing's judgment.

Therefore, I became more cautious about Haice.

It is to follow the old path to create a century-old prosperous era that shines brightly in China.

Or should we reverse the national policy and implement it for thousands of years in advance?

This is not his achievement alone, but is related to the well-being of tens of millions of people, so he has to be cautious.

[Therefore, it can be said that it is the huge archipelago group and rich products in the South China Sea that make it difficult for Chinese ships to sail on oceans.

Because they are basically sailing within the archipelago, and the coastal trade within the archipelago is basically complicated and changeable nearshore winds.

Inshore winds are complex and changeable, so Chinese ships are racing ahead on the technical points of fore-and-aft sails.

Coastal trade often needs to consider reef issues, so the technology of watertight compartments has been improving.

The result is that not many technological points have been invested in a horizontal sail suitable for monsoon ocean sailing. After all, how can we research it if there is no need?

The problem of sea-going ships had become very complicated by the Ming Dynasty, and the most prominent issue was the maritime ban.

The policy of maritime ban was not invented by the Ming Dynasty, but was learned from the Yuan Dynasty, and the Yuan Dynasty learned from the Song Dynasty.

The reason why the Song Dynasty instituted a sea ban is also very simple: it’s all my money! Labor and capital should keep it all to themselves!

In this regard, a certain Song Dynasty emperor Wanyan, who did not want to leave his name, summed it up very clearly:

The profit from trading ships is the greatest, and the income can be worth millions. Wouldn't it be better to take it from the people? The reason why I pay attention to this is that I can be a little more lenient to the people.

Let’s not talk about it for the moment. This sentence puts a few pounds of gold dust on one’s face, but it does have a very good understanding of the profits of maritime trade.

The sea ban in the Song Dynasty was not abolished until the Shenzong period. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Gaozong re-introduced the sea ban and lasted until the fall of the country. The sea ban lasted for a total of 252 years.

The Yuan Dynasty itself was short-lived. Although it tried the government-owned ship system of government-owned ships rented by the people, it failed quickly. There were four maritime bans, which lasted for a total of 19 years.

The Ming Dynasty learned lessons from the Song and Yuan Dynasties - because when the Southern Song Dynasty collapsed, the Semu people in Quanzhou, led by their leader Pu Shougeng, defected to the Yuan Dynasty and killed Southern Song Dynasty clan members and officials.

This kind of backhand knife really opened the eyes of the later emperors.

Because of the lessons of the previous dynasty, the rebellion caused by Zhang Shicheng's remnants in the early Ming Dynasty, and the intrusion of Japanese pirates in the later period, the severity of the maritime ban was gradually strengthened, and it finally lasted for 197 years.

To put it bluntly, the entire history of the Ming Dynasty in the south for hundreds of years shows that the Ming Dynasty officials and maritime business groups did not piss into the same pot when it came to their interests.

As a result, Emperor Yongle directly abandoned the maritime merchants and went it alone. From the upstream production source weaving bureau, ceramic town, and tea garden, to the downstream Zheng He's voyages to the West, door-to-door delivery and customization, everything was in the hands of the emperor.

This attitude completely intensified the conflict between the maritime merchants and the government, which later led to the Ming Dynasty civil servant group directly imposing a sea ban. However, the maritime merchants used the name of Japanese pirates to smuggle what they were actually doing, which completely embarrassed the Ming court.

As for maritime issues, developing warships, seizing sea power, and building naval divisions are all things that maritime merchants cannot accomplish.

Moreover, the Ming Dynasty also lacked the most important leg when it came to maritime issues: Mathematics was removed from the imperial examinations, causing its development to almost stagnate.

This leg could have been replenished through cultural exchanges on the maritime trade routes, but it was already two hundred years after the opening of the sea. Xu Guangqi started from scratch. Even if he vomited blood and replenished Ming Dynasty's leg, it would be too late. .

In fact, the navigators of the Ming Dynasty also saw Galen ships coming across the sea. From our current perspective, Galen ships can be regarded as the pinnacle of ship design in the sixteenth century.

This kind of advanced sea-going ship also shocked the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty also imitated the Galen ship and absorbed its advantages to improve the Chinese ship.

But its core idea is still used for trade among the South China Sea Islands, and there is no idea of ​​going to the ocean.

The iconic keel-ribbed hull, soft sails, sprit top sails, etc. of the Galen ship can all be seen in the shipbuilding records of the Ming Dynasty.

After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty went a step further on the basis of the maritime ban and directly began to close the country.

In the end, during the Opium War, the British relied on 28 Galenic ships and less than 20,000 troops to defeat the Qing government, which dispatched 800,000 people.

Completely opened a chapter in modern history. 】

Seeing the structural diagram of the giant ship, Yan Lide dragged his younger brother and violently knocked away the Duke in front of him, then raised his head and grabbed a table.

A large piece of white paper was spread on the table. Yan Lide just exchanged a look with his brother, and the two of them copied on the white paper at the same time.

The structure of this Galen ship was huge and complicated. Yan Lide knew that he could not complete the plan by himself, but fortunately he still had his younger brother.

This was not the first time that they had written and painted a picture together. The two brothers knew very well what each other was good at, so after sketching an outline, the two quickly looked up and down to add things to the picture.

The more he copied, the more Yan Lide felt that the Tang navy still had a long way to go.

It is different from the previous horseshoes where the effect can be seen at a glance, and it is also different from the gunpowder which only needs three to five months of concentrated research to achieve a breakthrough.

The composition of Galen's ship is really a copy. Why is it such a narrow structure at the top and wide at the bottom? How to schedule so many sails? How to control the oar-like thing at the stern of the boat?

Especially what does the inside of the hull look like? At this time, Yan Lide was a little crazy. He wanted to get into the light screen, grab the junior's collar and roar:

There are already two diagrams, what if you add an inner structure diagram?

But Yan Lide quickly calmed down during the copying process. If you calculate the time, this is a ship that will be built a thousand years later. It is a blessing to have a glimpse of it. How can you ask for more?

And even if you only look at the appearance, there is at least the possibility of imitation. Unlike the Dongfeng Express, from takeoff to shuttle patrol to explosion, there is no way to see the doorway.

Besides, this Galen ship does not necessarily need to be completely copied. As long as we can figure out why the ship is designed in this way, it will be of great benefit to Datang shipbuilding.

Li Shimin was very pleased to see the busy Yan brothers. I am a talented person in Tang Dynasty. Craftsmen can reach the gods, and paintings can convey the Tao. These are not trivial things.

The Yan brothers moved in a hurry, so some drawing papers were taken away from the original drawing table and scattered on the ground.

Li Shimin leaned over to pick it up and was about to put it away neatly when he saw the content on the drawing paper. An emperor was laughing on the couch.

The faces are lifelike, and the emotions of the characters can be seen through the back of the paper. If you ignore that the face on the paper is very similar to his own, Li Shimin would probably appreciate it very much.

but……

After looking at the Yan brothers who wished they had one more hand, Li Shimin quietly put the drawing paper into his sleeve and turned back to the couch.

In front, Fang Xuanling was still discussing with Du Ruhui in a low voice:

If we follow the interpretation of later generations...isn't this chaos of lust and eyes a hidden thunder left by our Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty?

Du Ruhui stroked his beard and whispered;

As for the management of foreign tribes, our Tang Dynasty did not have the practices of previous dynasties to follow, so there must be omissions in the process.

It seems that if you encounter problems that did not occur in the previous dynasty, you need to be cautious.

Fang Xuanling also added: Political orders also need to leave room for correction.

However, after Fang Xuanling finished his supplement, he was also quite moved by Song Zhi's comments:

There was a lot of turmoil in the Song indemnity, but it was able to sustain the country for hundreds of years. Is it because of the huge profits from sea trade?

He wanted to say very profitable, but considering that this trade is enough to support a country, the only way to describe this wealth is huge profits.

Subsequently, the maritime bans in the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties were repeated and became increasingly strict, which was not too surprising to Fang and Du.

Ever since they learned about the Champa rice that matures in fifty days, the two of them recalled the chaos of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and became sensitively aware that the wealth gap between the north and the south would only get wider.

After all, the north not only had to face the barbarians outside, but also faced military chaos within the Chinese dynasty. The Central Plains was almost destroyed every time.

In the south, there is rice that ripens once every two months to enrich the granary, and there are maritime trade routes to fill the wealth. It is invincible externally and without chaos internally.

The population is uneven, the rich and the poor are different, and the people's customs are different. How can we not create discord?

The two looked at each other and sighed together.

Nowadays, the wider our horizons, the more sorrow we have.

Regarding the conflict between the Ming Dynasty's central government and the maritime merchants, Li Shimin grinned:

If the Ming Dynasty can have an invincible army on the sea, how dare this merchant to say anything?

The situation inside may be very complicated, but Li Shimin stood aside and looked at it, feeling that this issue was essentially the same as cracking down on powerful people.

If you have strong soldiers and strong horses, then your people will be good people who pay taxes obediently.

If you have few soldiers and weak horses, you will be governed by powerful and unruly men.

Wei Zheng looked at the achievements of the later Qing Dynasty and was slightly confused:

How sharp is the edge of this ship? Twenty thousand against eight hundred thousand?

The generals present were not surprised. Li Shi𪟝 explained:

This 800,000-strong army just sounds bluffing. Even if there are really 800,000-strong troops, they will not be able to be united in one place.

On the contrary, this British ship will attack Guangzhou today, enter Hedong tomorrow, and visit Quanzhou again the day after.

It's unpredictable. Use the advantage of the sail to attack Lao with ease. If you are strong, you will escape. If you are weak, you will attack. If you attack the Qing, you will defend it. If you attack it again and it is unprepared, how can you not win?

Wei Zheng was silent.

…

Chengdu government office, Zhang Fei is a little hard to imagine:

Can this maritime trade road really be so prosperous?

Kong Ming smiled and said:

Why did Yide forget how the Parthian Empire prospered?

Then Zhang Fei remembered:

Control the Silk Road...

Kong Ming nodded:

“The Silk Road could support a vast empire, so what’s the difficulty in supporting a country through the maritime trade route?”

And in his heart, Kong Ming could also list several advantages of sea trade.

For example, ships can carry more weight than horses and camels.

For example, traveling by sea does not have to be exploited at all levels like the Silk Road in the Western Regions.

For example, if there is a tailwind, its speed is much faster than traveling on land.

The only problem is that after the prosperity of sea trade, there will inevitably be the problem of piracy, but if we count the net profit, it is still far higher than that of land.

For a moment, Kong Ming sighed a little: How great would it be if all the roads in Jiaozhou were smooth?

In that case, after Hanzhong is conquered, we can capture Jiaozhou and then build sea ships to promote maritime trade. Isn't the little Cao Cao thief able to defeat him with just one hand?

Unlike now, seaports are hard to find.

My heart was full of sighs, but my hands never stopped.

While using charcoal and a ruler to draw the picture of Galen's ship on the light screen, he also had time to ask Pang Tong and Liu Ba, who were not good at drawing, to make rubbings of the pictures in their minds, and later check for omissions and fill in the gaps in the drawing.

There is even time to respond to Liu Bei's questions:

Kong Ming, should this sea ban be implemented?

The charcoal pen in his hand drew an arc in a circle, and Kong Ming replied:

What is the sea ban? My lord is confused at this time.

Maritime merchants do not have the sharp weapon of sextant. If they do not sail along the coast, they are in danger of getting lost. There are many key points at sea where checkpoints can be set up.

“There are border customs on land and customs on sea.”