Chapter 37 Low-key Datang Shipbuilding Industry
Li Zhi completely understood what Li Shimin meant.
Benefits often coexist with risks.
Facing interests, bold choices take risks, and timid choices retreat.
This is human nature, but humans are the most contradictory and are living things.
Taking risks may lead to success, but it is more likely to put yourself in danger. Although retreating is calm, what you can get may be to sit and watch the other person's success.
Being courageous is not entirely a good thing, and being conservative may not be a mistake.
The key is how to treat it.
If you take the wrong path, making up for it and getting out of trouble is the key, rather than regretting your impulse.
If the other party succeeds, what you need to do is not to be jealous, but to reflect and let go, and go on other ways. Don’t be able to get a villain’s mentality when you see others gaining benefits, go to trouble or take over the nest.
This is the demeanor that a king of a country should have.
This time, Li Shimin not only gave him the decision-making power, but also let him know that as a king, he must bear the consequences of any decision-making, and must also be prepared to face the consequences, regardless of whether the result is good or bad.
"My son decided to take it! Just from the strategic intention, this Malay Peninsula is located at the southern end of the coast of Datang, with small surrounding countries. If a stronghold is established with the next level, it will not only be an economy, but also a great advantage in controlling the south, and it is worth taking risks..."
Li Zhi said he was the king of the Continent because he needed to wipe his father's butt and endure the financial burden caused by the long-term war.
But he still had the determination to expand his territory in his bones, otherwise he would not have used troops from all directions to destroy Goguryeo and Baekje in the east, and to the Black Sea in the west, and conquer the largest territory of the Han dynasty.
Li Shimin smiled faintly and said, "Then don't be afraid of triggering wars. I, the Tang Dynasty, was established for 30 years, and I don't know how many countries were destroyed. There were both east and west, but there were only Wunan. There was someone who really made trouble, so it happened to be together."
Jiangnan, Quanzhou.
Li Yuanai was relieved when he learned that the court had decided to occupy the Malay Peninsula.
He had no confidence in making this proposal.
After all, the Malay Peninsula is isolated overseas and far away from the Tang Dynasty. Although it has good interests, it also poses certain risks.
In this era, people cannot understand the importance of navigation for the time being, and they are even less clear about what the Strait of Malacca means.
In the short term, Li Yuanai will not be able to prove the core value of navigation. After all, this is a major event that can affect a thousand years. The foundation that needs to be consolidated is relied on, and it cannot be reflected in the results day and night.
You can make great strides, but you must never pull out the seedlings to encourage growth.
Although Li Yuanai had the intention to give proof, he still stood firm on this bottom line.
Li Yuanai won’t ask about the next thing.
If you are not in your position, you will not do your own affairs.
Although he proposed this proposal to seek the Malay Peninsula, how to implement it was the court's business.
As a prince, he held the economic power of more than a dozen states, and it was not a good idea to mix with overseas bases.
So he wisely chose to wait and watch, focusing on the construction of Quanzhou and the construction of sea boats.
Li Yuanai was mainly responsible for the construction of Quanzhou, and he handed over the construction of sea ships to Amur to supervise.
Amur did not know how to build ships, but he was born in a sea merchant family and grew up on a sea boat since childhood.
Be knowledgeable and able to give appropriate suggestions on key points.
Amur is full of confidence in this task.
Before Arab invasion of the Sassanid Dynasty, their backer was his brother-in-law, a rank-in official, and had a certain understanding of the family business, including the shipyard. It was easy to guide the shipmakers of the Tang Dynasty to make sea ships.
Then he became autistic.
Amur said bitterly: "Your Highness, you should find someone else to take care of your subordinates. You have no shame to stay in the shipyard..."
Li Yuanai was not surprised, but instead said with a joking look on her face: "What's wrong? Is this?"
"Subor..." Amur hesitated and embarrassed to say it.
He swelled his face for the ship craftsman of the Tang Dynasty.
I originally thought that the marine industry in the Tang Dynasty was so low that the shipbuilding industry was not developed, and the things in my mind were enough to deal with it.
But I didn't want the Tang Dynasty's shipbuilding industry to be one street in the west.
In this way, he was in a state of mind and threw his face to his grandma's house.
Li Yuanai is not surprised at all.
Compared with the invincible Tang Army, the Tang Navy is a forgotten existence.
Not being famous does not mean not being strong.
On the contrary, the Chinese navy has always been at the forefront of the world.
As early as the Qin and Han dynasties, the Chinese ship manufacturing technology had reached its maturity stage. It created giant ships like city towers, which could resist wind and waves at sea, commonly known as tower ships. Emperor Wu of Han used large-scale naval forces in the war between Pingnanyue and Wei Korean.
During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the navy had new developments. Emperor Yang Guang of Sui used the navy many times when he conquered Goguryeo. Li Shimin also used 500 warships to conquer Goguryeo, spreading the sea from Laizhou to Pyongyang, and attacking Goguryeo from the sea.
Of course these are all small fuss.
The real thing is that in the fifth year of Xianqing, Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi used Su Dingfang as the commander to conquer Baekje.
In this battle, the Tang army's 100,000 troops fought directly across the sea, as if a divine weapon descended from the sky, arrived at the mouth of Xiongjin River, and then launched a blitzkrieg to defeat Baekje in one fell swoop.
This transported 100,000 troops from Chengshanjiao Crossing on the Shandong Peninsula to Baekje. This also required sailors, food and grass and other logistics supplies, so how huge the number of ships was required.
But Li Zhi dared to arrange the dispatch like this, which shows that he had enough confidence in the Tang Dynasty Navy.
The fifth year of Xianqing, and the next count is only eleven years.
As for the current attitude of the court towards the navy, there will be no cross-era progress in just eleven years.
Therefore, although the Tang Dynasty had not yet carried out its great cause of navigation, they did not leave any research on this aspect, but their development directions were different.
Western sea ships focus on doing business and supplemented by defense.
And all the warships in the east, such as tower ships, ships, ships, boats, yachts, and falcons.
Moreover, the use of wind power by Eastern sea ships was as pure as fire. During the Han Dynasty, four sails had adopted the technique of facing the wind in a horizontal direction. Even when facing the wind, they could still move forward at high speed without falling sails like Western sailboats.
The Western shipbuilding industry truly surpassed the East nine hundred years later. Shipbuilders in Spain and Portugal merged wine ships and fast sailing ships to build three-masted sailing ships, which changed the history of the West lagging behind the East in shipbuilding technology and gradually made the West occupy a major position in world trade.
Before the emergence of three-masted sailboats, the Western shipbuilding industry was simply not enough to see the East.
Persia and Arabia dominated the navigation industry in this era only because the Tang Dynasty in the East was not played.
Now that the Tang Dynasty wants to participate, what is their business?
Let Amur be responsible, but he made some suggestions when the Tang Dynasty shipwrecks entered the warships and changed them to merchant ships, so that their shipwrecks could refer to them. After all, there is a difference between warships and merchant ships...
Chapter completed!