Chapter 314 Dust to dust, dust to dust!
The next day, Kingsoft.
To be precise, this is Kingsoft Field.
This area is full of salt fields. Starting from the tip of the Yangtze River Delta at this time, it is lined up along the coast, and it stretches for two hundred miles to reach sea salt.
"From here to the north is Guangchen. There are two roads in Guangchen, one to Xiuzhou and the other to Weitang. In the eyes of our subordinates, we should not go to Xiuzhou. The large population in Xiuzhou is not easy to hide. When we land here, someone must have gone to Xiuzhou to warn him. However, Xiuzhou officials will not believe it immediately. They have to send someone to investigate to confirm. In this way, it will be almost dark after a while.
Even if it is faster, they will have to dark before they can deliver letters to the north.
Let's go directly to Weitang and then go straight to the canal from Weitang. As long as we can reach the canal before dark, we should be able to intercept the messenger north of Xiuzhou.
Zhao Ji was in Suzhou at this moment. He might not go south immediately in Suzhou. He had to stay. If he received a message from Xiuzhou during this period and turned directly into Taihu Lake in Suzhou, it would be difficult for us to capture him. We have to snatch the messenger in Xiuzhou."
Fang Qi Buddha said.
"You are familiar with this area."
Wang Yue said.
"Returning to the king, his subordinates led his army to attack Xiuzhou and besieged for many days, but they were only arrived by Wang Bing, Xin Xingzong, Yang Weizhong, Song Jiang and others. After a big battle, his subordinates were defeated."
Fang Qi Buddha said.
"It's not unfair that you lose."
Wang Yue said.
He really lost without any worries, and these are not good at all.
Being able to defeat the main field forces of the Western Army led by these guys has proved the strength of Fang Qifo.
"The key to the subordinates at that time was that they lacked armor and weapons. The Zhao family court restricted many weapons in the southeast. After all, they were originally killed, so they were not at ease. This area was different from the bow and archery clubs everywhere in Hebei. In addition, after a long period of peace, the people also lacked weapons, so they were limited to seized from the official army. Although the subordinates besieged Xiuzhou with 60,000 people, in fact, only a few thousand armored weapons were thousands of farmers who followed him with hoes and so on. They could not stop them when they met the Western cavalry.
In addition, the brave men of Liangshan are so brave that their subordinates can't stand it no matter how hard they can fight.
It's just a pity that the good situation is going on!
It was said that the Western Army came too fast, and we didn’t expect them to be so fast. Before, there were no cavalry in Jiangnan and they were caught off guard for a moment.”
Fang Qi Buddha said.
It can be seen that he is quite regretful.
"I know you are still unwilling to accept it, but you also understand my rules very well. I don't like what you believe, but I won't let you believe it. But if you believe in it, it's not OK to make trouble under my hands. In fact, I have always had an idea about you. Since you believe in the Ming Cult, why don't you see the origin? After the battle is over, I will organize a fleet to trade in Nanyang. You are doing this again, and just organize this fleet with you as the main one.
I will give you the best ocean warships, and you will take your goods to the South Ocean, trade in the Western Ocean, and even trade in Persia, the origin of the Ming Cult.
Isn't this better?"
Wang Yue said.
He had to kick these guys out.
"In fact, there are many businessmen from the people who go to the South China Ocean and even the West. It is said that the farthest part of the world is Dashi, but most of them are Dashi merchants who come to us. After all, the long voyages on the sea are difficult and we wait for them to come to our door in ports such as Guangzhou and Quanzhou, and we don't have to take risks. It takes a year to travel to the West, and it's not uncommon for 30% of sailors to die halfway through the journey. On the contrary, we wait for the door to make money locally."
Fang Qi Buddha said.
"So do you know how much those big food merchants earn?"
Wang Yue said with a smile.
"This, those big food merchants are indeed rich enough to rival the country. I heard that they are full of gold and silver, so they are all very rich."
Fang Qi Buddha said.
"wrong."
Wang Yue said with a smile.
Fang Qifo looked at him in confusion.
"They have sand everywhere, and there is no gold or silver.
They are deserts, drought and water shortage, and there are only a few rivers that can farm near them, and most of them are deserts.
Their gold and silver were obtained through trade with those countries further west.
The goods they purchased here can be sold to those countries dozens of times the price when they get there, and when they come back, they can buy spices, ivory, etc. in Nanyang to sell them to us. They can make huge profits when they come back and forth. You think we are making profits, but in fact they just give us a drop in the bucket."
Wang Yue said.
"The price is dozens of times, but even if our maritime merchants reach Dashi, they will not have such huge profits?"
Fang Qifo said in surprise.
"Who are our maritime merchants trading with? Are our maritime merchants still? Are our maritime merchants taken by those merchants in the Song Dynasty? Can our maritime merchants trade directly with their merchants in the west?
You should know that there are countless countries in the west of the Taixi land, and they also go by sea. However, a land that is hundreds of miles wide blocks the oceans on both sides, and the Great Cannibal controls this land. Although the merchant ships that we arrived at the Great Cannibal and the merchant ships that arrived at the West of the Great Cannibal may be only three hundred miles closest, this land is blocked by the Great Cannibal above, and we don’t know them, nor do they know us.
Our goods were given to the Great Cannibal, and he left with the gold and silver we thought we had. The Great Cannibal turned the goods and transported them three hundred miles away, and sold them dozens of times.
All the money was earned by them.
But those people already know.
They are fighting against the cannibals and want to seize the land.
And we know now, so why don’t we wait for them and then trade them directly?
If you sell the big cannibals to them at a price of fifty times, then we can sell them at a price of ten or twenty or thirty times. They get cheaper goods, we get higher profits, let alone the big cannibals.
So why not go?"
Wang Yue said.
The crusaders had already begun. At this time, the ruler of Jerusalem was Baldwin II, the great-grandfather of the masked man in the Heavenly Kingdom. And this was the time when the crusaders were most arrogant. The split Arab world was defeated step by step, but the uneven internal strife within the crusaders became even more serious. The Fatima dynasty in Egypt could only protect themselves, and the real resistance was Zanji. The ruler in Syria, Saladin, was the nephew of a general of the Zanji dynasty. Later, the uncle and nephew were sent by the Zanji dynasty to support the Fatima dynasty.
Then they defended Egypt, but also robbed the throne of the Fatima dynasty.
Of course, this has nothing to do with Wang Yue. What Wang Yue needs is to send a fleet and take the goods directly to Aqaba to trade with the Crusaders.
"That's worth a trip."
Fang Qi Buddha said.
After all, this is really exaggerated to make a profit of dozens of times!
"After this battle is over, I have started to build new warships in the north. After the battle, we will go there."
Wang Yue said.
His first thirty new warships are under construction, and they are still hard sails and their displacement should be less than 500 tons. As for weapons, of course, firearms are indispensable. Although it is impossible to install cannons, bowl guns, rockets, and three-eyed guns are all essential, including mooring bottles. These are enough to deal with countries along the way, even if they are fighting naval with the Arabs, they are not enough. Besides, merchant ships are not going to fight, and they can even sell weapons to both sides.
As for the issue of gunpowder, it is not worth mentioning.
First, they won't know how to make it in a short time, and the war between them means gunpowder will become the most popular commodity.
Second, even if they know how to make gunpowder, it is difficult for them to create qualified ones in a short time.
Third, the development of firearms also takes time.
In short, the transmission of firearms to the battlefield of the Crusaders will only make their wars more intense, but when they master the secret of gunpowder and truly develop firearms, the King of Kings could probably have driven a Victory-level battleship to crush everything.
Before that, they were desperately selling arms at both ends, and at the same time, they tried their best to expand the war between the two sides and let the blood flow there. Anyway, both of them were life-and-death, with fanatical crusaders and unretreated Arabs. Originally, they could fight for two hundred years in history. But the pace of the war for two hundred years was too slow and not bloody enough. Then at this time, an arms dealer who could provide both sides with new weapons should be enough to make the war fierce or bloody.
The results are not important.
What matters is the population they lose in this process.
And they can also throw these Ming Cult believers to West Asia.
They can establish commercial colonies along the way, where they can be completely free, and Wang Yue is not the one who has the headache in the end.
The Crusaders, Arabs, and Ming people, or modify them to let them merge with Zoroastrianism. Anyway, the difference in doctrine is not big, and they were originally from the same place. Besides, the things that the Ming people in the Song Dynasty believed in were probably no longer recognized by the demons. They could completely disguise themselves as Zoroastrianism and win over Zoroastrians who had not been wiped out. In short, let them go there to pursue the light. Anyway, it is easy to play with him as a backing.
This is also considered that dust has returned to dust.
Wang Yue quickly stopped his beautiful imagination.
"Send the order and everyone runs forward, and you must reach the canal before midnight today."
He continued.
However, this task is a bit arduous. They have to force their troops to at least seventy kilometers within ten hours. This is at the level of the 38th Army. Fortunately, it is a plain here, which is an advantage over the 38th Army. His brigade is equivalent to the Marine Corps, and they often conduct this kind of training. After all, the Marine Corps means that it is difficult for them to obtain cavalry support, so they must rely on two legs to maneuver quickly.
Chapter completed!