Chapter 815

In fact, Yizhou has a lot of importance to the mainland. It doesn't mean that according to international regulations, the waters around an island are the waters of all countries on the island.

In terms of climate, Yizhou has always been windward for the mainland. Hurricanes or typhoons have been formed near the mainland in the Pacific Ocean, which are often stopped by Yizhou without causing too much trouble to the mainland.

If the territory is not too tight, there is really no need to vigorously develop Yizhou. At most, it is to use some natural deep-water ports on the island to build the island into a transit place for overseas trade materials. Otherwise, more than three typhoons or hurricanes pass through almost every year, leaving a mess every time. That is the embarrassing situation of being blown down when the wind is raging.

Liu Yan was not interested in drilling the mountains in the center of Yizhou. He walked along the Strait and inspected some ports.

In the current form, Yizhou is not important to the Han state at all. The more peripheral Guam has been found. Even if you want to build a preventive military base and take value and strategic position, you should choose Guam instead of Yizhou.

Then, the state of Han is now using troops on the Indochina Peninsula and the A3 mainland. Although Yizhou is an overseas Island, Yizhou does not have an advantage in distance compared with Hainan Island. Hainan Island is not the first-class storage place of war materials. It is not Yizhou's turn.

"Your Majesty, it's near LV song." Yu Yu did not know little about Yizhou when he worked for the small court in Eastern Jin Dynasty. Luzon did some research in recent years: "there are still some small islands in the two islands (the Dongsha Islands), and Yi Zhou is a transit station for transporting goods to the mainland of the south."

Liu Yan really didn't pay much attention before. He forced Ge Gao to say that he manages everything every day. How can he pay attention to everything in detail. He also didn't check it carefully. Otherwise, he would find that there are many frightening materials in the warehouse, such as spices, fragrant wood, precious stones, gold, copper ingots, etc.

If the Japanese islands are rich in gold and silver, the Nanyang islands may not have as much gold and silver reserves as the Japanese islands, but the Nanyang islands are richer in resources.

For example, in the later Philippine Islands, the gold reserves are actually very considerable, but more are copper reserves. It is no exaggeration to say that some islands are made of copper at all.

Do you know what resources Spain, the Netherlands and the United States plundered most when they colonized the Philippine Islands? Anyway, it's not bananas. It's an exaggerated number of spices and rich copper resources. I didn't take less gold. I also found platinum.

At that time, platinum was not before, and platinum was often used as silver. The Philippine Islands is not a place rich in platinum. Compared with the Philippine Islands, America is much more than the Philippine Islands. However, South Africa has the largest reserves. South Africa is also one of the regions with the highest reserves of gold and diamonds in the world.

By the way, Han actually found a route to South Africa, but it is really far away. Han is also doing some inevitable exploration and investigation on the A3 continent. For the time being, it has no intention to march into the past.

Liu Yan didn't mean to go to Luzon at all. His next destination is Malacca.

For Liu Yan, it's meaningful to go over the South China Sea again. He has served here for four years. Although he often stays in one place and doesn't move, he has also done some landing exercises on warships with limited experience.

The sea is still the sea, and the island is still in that place. The time is 1665 years earlier, which makes Liu Yan feel a little complicated when he stands on the deck.

At present, the South China Sea is the most prosperous sea area in the Han Dynasty. Previously, it was the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea.

The current situation is that the Nanyang islands have been providing various resources. The resources plundered by the Indochina Peninsula are also by sea, let alone a large-scale war is going on across the other side of the Strait of Malacca. Naturally, ships come and go on the route of the sea area.

The season is approaching winter. Naturally, there will be no snow in the South China Sea, but it is possible to form sea storms, which may evolve into hurricanes and typhoons sweeping islands or land.

To say, Luzon is also devastated by hurricanes or typhoons several times a year. In the ninth year of Yuanshuo, it was the most exaggerated that it was devastated by seven hurricanes.

In terms of current technology, it is impossible to detect the formation of storms with instruments at all. People have to be close enough to find them with their eyes. It is often too late to prepare for prevention after discovery. It is often found that ships formed by storms are buried in the sea, and the land that has not received timely information feedback is not prepared.

"The annual loss rate is between 8% and 12%." Fu Wei was sent as a pilot to introduce some important central officials such as Liu Yan: "fortunately, most of them are sailing in formation, and most of the personnel can get timely assistance."

Those who run alone and sink ships, unless they have nothing to float, or with the prosperity of all routes, they will be found and rescued by other ships soon.

"The most losses are on more peripheral routes, especially the southeast route (including the south of Sulu Sea)." When Fu Wei said this, he pulled his cheek. For a period of time, the loss rate there reached 90%, which shows the degree of danger: "we have been exploring to the southeast and found several islands. For the time being, we have not found the Kangaroo Island mentioned by his majesty."

Er, it's Australia, but Liu Yan named Kangaroo Island directly. It must be said that the name is very appropriate.

At present, the benefits for the whole country are basically outside the mainland. For example, the Indochina Peninsula provides food and incense wood and rubber, the Japanese islands mainly provide gold and silver, and the Nanyang islands provide spices, gold, gemstones, incense wood, etc. the mainland has not gone out of the wounds caused by the war.

"And fruit." Liu Yangen didn't forget this: "the first Han conquered the western regions, added recipes, and we did more."

It's true that the Western Han Dynasty opened up the western regions and added countless species to the Central Plains. Even when you go to the modern dining table, you still enjoy the labor achievements of the Western Han Dynasty. The more representative ones are cucumber (cucumbers), garlic (garlic), carrots, grapes, walnuts, alfalfa, pomegranates, etc.

The Han state got Nanyang, and the biggest harvest was not precious stones and gold, but various kinds of spices, which directly led to the evolution of Han cuisine in countless grades.

When you can eat more delicious food, no one will be willing to eat some rotten food with water, looking for food that can stimulate your taste. That's why the earth will enter the era of spice trade in a certain period of time.

The war of the Europeans for the spice trade is far longer than the silver war. India and the Nanyang islands can attract the attention of the Europeans because both places are rich in spices. They have maintained the monopoly war for hundreds of years.

It is the Central Plains Dynasty that is close at hand. Even if it knows the existence of spices and the huge profits that spices can bring, the Central Plains Dynasty always feels that we are rich in land and resources, so we don't want that stuff. We don't know why Europeans and Arabs want to make a dog's brain for that stuff.

"Hiss..." Liu Yan inhaled not for anything else, but the food was too sour: "this kind of pineapple is rich in various vitamins. Few people eat this... Don't anyone try it first?"

That's right. One of the origins of pineapple is in Nanyang. Before that, no one knew it could be eaten... Or the people who knew it could be eaten didn't report it. As a result, Liu Yan ate an sour one when he wanted to eat it.

Cui Zong was stunned and forced on his face. He responded in fear: "minister... Thought the food was sour."

Liu Yan didn't get angry either. He was relatively unhappy to let one try after another. In short, he wanted to get sweet.

Of course, there is sweet in the back. Liu Yan is happy to share it with others. In fact, they don't think it's delicious. They must give Liu Yan face and pretend to eat ginseng fruit.

"Your Majesty." Sang Yu seemed to think of it, put down his mango and said, "some indigenous people here are very similar to the Han people."

Liu Yan thinks there's nothing wrong with this. Ah San is emigrating to Nanyang islands, but ah San race is not rampant in Nanyang at present. Even if there are some dark skinned aborigines in Nanyang islands, the number of dark skinned aborigines is not much, but more are yellow skinned people, whose skin and facial features are the same as those of Han people, but their stature will be shorter, Then the physique is basically thin.

What kind of physique is linked to eating habits and whether you can eat enough. For example, you live in the Japanese islands, but there is something called maisheng culture. They prohibit eating meat. As a result, you are getting shorter and thinner.

Nanyang islands are rich in ethnic groups. You can see black charcoal head, you can find white skin department, and you can also find ethnic groups who wear Han clothes. You can't tell whether they are Han people from their appearance.

That's very interesting. For example, the Han parliament gives preferential treatment to those who look similar to themselves, and then uses them to exploit the rest of the race. At the same time, for the sake of similar appearance, the Han country will integrate their ideas more. For example, those black charcoal heads have no idea of integration at all.

"Ha ha ha..." Liu Yan didn't know what he thought. He smiled for a while and said, "I'm enriching the table of Han people!"

After leveling the grassland, due to the increase in the acquisition of livestock, grazing farms have been built, which has continuously reduced the prices of cattle, horses and sheep. At least at present, meat can be seen at every meal on the dining table of the Han people in Northern Xinjiang. It also extends in addition to cheese products!

After conquering the northeast and other places, there has been an increase in traditional Chinese medicine. The dignitaries have to cook a ginseng old hen in three or two days.

Occupied the Nanyang islands. Because the amount of spices obtained was too large, the official did not make it a luxury. It was necessary to add spices when cooking.

In addition, the conquest of the sea has developed primitive fresh-keeping measures. Regardless of the coast or the mainland, a variety of seafood has also been added to the table.

In addition, there are many kinds of vegetables and fruits.

"I can predict a little." Liu Yan said proudly, "if all kinds of nutrition are sufficient, how can the average height of Han people be one meter eight?"

There is no problem at all. As long as there is sufficient nutrition, people will not only be tall, but also have a very strong physique. Even there are many fewer problems.

Others know what to be proud of. If you look at history, the average height of the ancestors of Zhuxia reached an exaggerated 1.9 meters at a certain time node in the ancient pre-Qin period. Please note that it is the average height, not an exception.

"Even if nothing is achieved, I will at least make the price of all kinds of food not so high." What Liu Yan once wanted most was pork. He thought about it carefully and added: "the cost of slaves is very low, isn't it?"

As a ruler, Liu Yan can have that idea, but if he really deliberately suppresses the price of a product, especially when it is cheaper than cheap, he really can't do it.

Any kind of commodity is not produced! If the price is low enough to lose money, who is willing to produce that commodity does not have to have profit to have the power of production. If the price is forced down, believe it or not, the businesses that produce that kind of goods go bankrupt one after another, and then no one will produce it, resulting in the disappearance of that commodity from the market?

Therefore, Liu Yan said his own words. The accompanying ministers didn't hear it anyway. Instead, the sergeants paid tribute to Liu Yan with respect and expectation under the allowed conditions.

When the weather is fine, sailing in Nanyang is not a pleasant thing, mainly because there is too much sunshine. Even sitting without doing anything, you can sweat all over and even run out of oil.

In fact, no matter in which sea area, as long as it is sailing at sea, unless the ships built are high-grade enough, there is really no saying that navigation is comfortable. Just being exposed to the sun is a torture.

After soaking in sea water and being exposed to the sun all the time, you will get sunburn every minute. This red piece of skin belongs to light, and peeling all over the body is terrible and uncomfortable.

Of course, Liu Yan will certainly not suffer those crimes. He will stay in the sun for a long time only when he is ill. When he has to, he will at least have a sun umbrella.

At present, the Han people running HNA actually don't suffer so much. At least they don't need to go through the torture of lack of vitamins in the initial stage of navigation of every civilization. At least from the beginning, they knew that they should bring bean sprouts and some easily preserved fruits. Exaggeration, they simply put an ice cellar in the cabin of the ship.

After four or five days of sailing, Liu Yan saw the land again. Relying on his vague memory, he saw that it should be future Malaysia... Eh? Should it be Brunei or East Timor? It's not a peninsula on the mainland anyway.

When they arrived at this sea area, it was quite close to Malacca. They also met a special fleet here.

It was a boundless ship at first sight. They were divided into two squares. When they saw the king's flag, they shouted the slogan "ten thousand years of the son of heaven, boundless Han".

Liu Yan still knows a little. Huan Wen has led his army to land in gitanado. It really doesn't need too many warships to cause excessive waste. It should use an appropriate number to block the coastline of the Gupta Dynasty.