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Chapter 31 The Big Lie

Amur is so bold that he bullied Li Yuanai without understanding "common sense".

It’s not that Amur underestimated Li Yuanai, but that he had been in the Tang Dynasty for some time and found that local people had a certain understanding of their country, but they were almost an amateur in maritime trade.

The same is true.

The land of China has abundant resources and abundant resources.

Thousands of Chinese nation are all farming peoples, with land farming as the main and business as the supplement.

It has not been undeveloped to the sea in all dynasties.

During the Han Dynasty, merchants from the Western Han Dynasty had already begun to trade at sea.

Especially after Emperor Wu of Han destroyed the Nanyue Kingdom, he expanded the scale of maritime trade by relying on sea routes.

"Han Shu Geography" records that Han merchant ships are from the south of the south of the river, Xuwen, Hepu can travel in May, there is a Duyuan Kingdom, and there is a Duyuan Kingdom, and there is a Yilu Kingdom, and there is a Yilu Kingdom. There is a Qinlu Kingdom, and there is a Chenli Kingdom. It can walk in more than ten days, and there is a husband Gandulu Kingdom. It can travel in more than two months, and there is a Huangzhi Kingdom, and the folk customs are slightly similar to Zhujia.

This is the earliest written record about the Maritime Silk Road.

During the Three Kingdoms period, the Eastern Wu, Wei and Jin Dynasties all recorded transactions in the East Wu, Wei and Jin Dynasties through the seas of Hainan Island, directly through the sea of ​​the Xisha Islands and reaching the South China Sea.

But these records have been savored and have never developed.

As long as the reasons are better, China has been light on business since ancient times.

There are also disadvantages such as technology failure, excessive risks, etc., which ended up in vain and did not achieve great benefits.

Compared to them, Western Persia and Arabia are different.

They are surrounded by sea, such as the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea, the Arabian Sea, etc., and are rich in marine resources. What is crucial is that their country does not have a policy system to light business, but instead attaches importance to merchants and economic development.

Therefore, their merchants had certain powers and could even recruit mercenaries as caravan guards, and roamed at various seas to carry out trade with different countries.

There is no doubt that the sailing trade leaders in this era were the West, mainly Arab merchants.

As for the sake of them not taking the sea route to go shopping with the Tang Dynasty, it is naturally because it is unprofitable.

The Tang Dynasty attached great importance to trade with the Western Regions and Western countries, and was dominant in the Western Regions. The land Silk Road was safe and convenient. At the same time, there were no heavyweight cities in southern China that could start trade. Unlike on land, the Silk Road directly connects to Chang'an and Luoyang, the two richest cities in the world.

After all, the risks of sea traders are greater. In this comparison, as long as you are not stupid, you will choose to take the land route, and no one will choose to take the sea route.

The reason why the Tang Dynasty truly opened the sea was due to the Wu Zetian period, when Wu Zetian fought outsiders and lost the four towns of Anxi, which led to the blockage of land.

Arab merchants had no choice but to give up this huge profit, so they opened up the maritime trade route to Yangzhou with mercy.

Amur was not an Arab, but a Persian merchant, and was affiliated with the Sassanid dynasty.

The current situation in the West is somewhat chaotic.

As the Second Persian Empire, the Sassanian Dynasty was still very powerful in its early years. It beat up the Romans, invaded Armenia, conquered Byzantium, and captured Yemen. Its territory includes today's Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, the Caucasus region, southwestern Central Asia, parts of Turkey, parts of the coast of the Arabian Peninsula, the Persian Gulf region, and southwestern Pakistan. Its control scope even extends to India. It is not an exaggeration to say that it spans the three continents of Asia, Europe and Africa.

But now it is now dusk, and the momentum of the rise of the Arab Empire is irresistible.

Arabia has captured a large area of ​​land of the Sassanid dynasty and blocked the Sassanid dynasty's business road to the Tang Dynasty. King Yi Si'ai III is now just surviving.

Affected by the national conditions, Amur's family began to lose, not tolerate Arabia outside, but was suppressed by Persian nobles inside, and the situation was extremely critical.

Amur's father Kmit is a courageous person. Their Castle family was able to achieve today's glory because they boldly opened the sea. With the stolen sea chart, they arrived in Hepu City in the Eastern Jin Dynasty for a lifetime. They exchanged glass and spices for a large number of ceramics, became a rich man and built a family business.

But their ancestors never dared to go there again.

Too far and too dangerous, no one knows what happened back then.

But the ancestors still left a chart and will, urging them to be absolutely necessary and not follow his old path.

Kmit resolutely decided to go out to sea, bypass the Arab defense line, and reopen the water route to reach Datang.

Their actions of burning boats failed and encountered storms along the way. They eventually ran aground on the Malay Peninsula and encountered local indigenous peoples, plundering them all, with heavy casualties and injuries. Kmitr died tragically under the indigenous guns.

Amur escaped by luck and rushed to the opposite country of Gandoli.

The country of Gantuli respects Amur, who speaks Chinese language, and regards him as a guest of honor.

Through some understanding, Amur knew that the other side was attacking them by a group of stateless local natives.

Because the Malay Peninsula is hit by typhoons and seawater, the Malay Peninsula is not popular and has become a region that is not in charge.

There is only one group of refugees and local indigenous people living on the Malay Peninsula, with a population of nearly 5,000.

They formed their own country to plunder, fish and hunt for a living, and sometimes they would harass the border residents of the Dori country.

The kings of Gandoli Kingdom were very troubled by them, and even sent envoys to make peace, but because they could not speak, they killed each other and stewed them.

Send troops to encircle and suppress the enemy, and the other party hides in the jungle, without any sign of sight.

The country of Gandoli can only be passively prepared.

Amur was agile and ate and drank in Gantuli Kingdom in the name of tribute to the Tang Dynasty. He even tricked a ship to arrive in Guangzhou.

When he learned that Li Yuanai had the intention to open the sea, the bold Amur directly fooled Li Yuanai as Prince Moro.

Even the king of Gantuli, who was so close to him, could not communicate with the indigenous people opposite him. The Tang Dynasty, which was far away on the other end of the sea, was naturally like this.

The Malay Peninsula is the only way to sailing roads. Amur learned from his grandfather's notes that the straits mixed in between the two places and called them the Golden Strait. As long as you pass the Golden Strait, it is equivalent to a lot of gold entering your arms.

Amur thought that Li Yuanai was having a great fuss in Quanzhou, and he recruited sailors and paid a lot of money to buy sea charts. He must respect himself, the prince of the Malay Peninsula.

He could lead them to the Malay Peninsula to avenge his father. He was lucky and could use the Tang Dynasty's hands to defeat the indigenous people and become their real kings.

As long as you control the Golden Strait and become the local king, why bother to be a businessman and return to the West to be angry?

Even if the matter is exposed, you can still take revenge and make a life with the chart left by your grandfather.

Amur knelt on the ground, his heart kept beating.

Li Yuanai narrowed his eyes and looked at Amur. He said something. If he didn't know the difference between yellow and white people, if he didn't know what Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia were, he might have fooled this guy.
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