After hearing the news brought by Liu Neng over there, Liu Mang's face became unfavorable again. He thought it would be good news, but who knew that the final news could not be logged in, and he also lost hundreds of soldiers, which made Liu Mang feel a little angry.

"Yes!" Liu Neng lowered his head. He obviously saw the unhappy expression on Liu Mang's face.

Liu Mang was about to wave his hand and let Liu Neng leave, but Liu Neng over there was no movement.

"Why is there something else?" Liu Mang asked with a frown.

"Lord, the fleet heading south has also sent back the news!" Liu Neng said to Liu Mang. Liu Neng divided the fleet into two, and one unit headed east. According to the general position given to him by Liu Mang, he headed towards the treasure island. Some of them followed the direction of Jiaozhou and headed to the southeast there. Liu Neng also knew that a treasure island was not even able to land. When he returned, the lord would inevitably be dissatisfied, because if he sailed on the sea for a long time, the same consumption was still great. Just a few ships of the monarchy were worth hundreds of thousands of gold.

In addition to the consumption on the ship, it can be said that every voyage is wasted with money.

"Going south?" Liu Mang looked at Liu Neng over there in confusion.

"Yes, lord, go south!" Liu Neng nodded. Liu Mang gave Liu Neng two directions at that time, to go south to search for the new continent, that is, to head towards Southeast Asia. However, in Liu Mang's opinion, Liu Neng did not even do the work on Baodao, so how could he go south?

"After I circled around the treasure island, I had no idea how to start, so I took my entourage to the direction of Jiaozhou and headed south!" Liu Neng said with his head down to Liu Mang.

"Have you found the Kushan Empire?" Liu Mang's eyes lit up. If he remembered correctly, there was a huge empire in Southeast Asia. This empire is one of the four powerful countries in Eurasia, along with the Han, Rome and Anxu.

"No!" Liu Neng shook his head.

"No?" Liu Mang laughed furiously. There was no news about this treasure island, nor did he go south. He had doubts about his knowledge of people. How could Liu Neng become so useless?

"Lord, we were unable to find the Kushan Empire. But we discovered the two small countries of Funan Linhu." Liu Neng clasped his fists to Liu Mang over there.

"Funnan, Lin Hu?" Liu Mang didn't know the existence of these two countries at all. He could only know one rough idea for five thousand years, let alone the history of these individual countries. What kind of countries are these two?

Liu Neng over there continued to explain to Liu Mang.

Liu Mang sorted out his thoughts roughly, that is, the so-called Funan Kingdom is not small at all, and even compared to Liu Mang's current territory, it is only a big or small one.

As for Lin Hu, he is a little smaller, probably the size of Yangzhou.

If you really have to work hard, then Lin Hu is like half Vietnam, and Funan over there is more like Cambodia, Thailand and the remaining half Vietnam!

However, at this time, all countries came to pay tribute to Emperor Wu of Han. So for Liu Neng, they were the kingdom of heaven. This Funan was naturally a small country.

"What about those two small countries?" Liu Mang asked, no longer wanted to correct Liu Neng's thoughts on the heavenly kingdom.

"It's not as good as Jiaozhou, Bingzhou in the Han Dynasty!" Liu Neng said to Liu Mang, in other words, it's not very good. Jiaozhou Bingzhou was originally the border area of ​​the Han Dynasty. It can be said that it is two poor mountains and rivers. Even these two places are not as good as those of these two places. It can be seen how poor the countryside is.

"A poor place?" Liu Mang frowned. What he originally wanted was to find a mainland to dump some of the handicrafts produced in Yangzhou. Yangzhou's production capacity has been greatly improved under the maturity of the Ministry of Industry's technology.

The east and west have a commercial road, and it will naturally be widened, but Yangzhou is a little smaller after all. In addition to Jingzhou being infiltrated, other places of the Han Dynasty, like Yanzhou, and even the north are still long and arduous. Moreover, Liu Mang did not want to mess up the Han Dynasty's market too much.

However, developed businesses cannot stop. To be simple, it is like a pottery industry. Because Liu Mang implemented all the land belonging to the government, the aristocratic people must teach their own fields whether they want or not.

Although Liu Mang gave them money, there must be complaints, because in this era everyone followed one thing, that is, having money to buy land, collect rent, save money, and buy land. The new style of small peasant economy is also the general idea of ​​landlords.

But now Liu Mang has taken over their land. In order not to let these gentry be idle, he also wants to open up a source of wealth for these gentry, otherwise he would go crazy if he had no money to make money.

In order to let these gentry find another source of wealth, Liu Mang vigorously encouraged the development of business-oriented position.

Even the commercial taxes of the gentry have been lowered to a certain extent, and a large amount of technology has been released, such as cement, which has been released. Of course, these cements are used for civilian purposes, and are different from those of Liu Mang’s fortresses. But this cement really makes many people laugh.

Nowadays, people who have money will buy cement and go home to build a house, because the cement is not only solid, but also easy to form. Unlike before, it was made of huge stones, a stone is a big problem from mining to transportation.

Cement, bricks and tiles are sold by manufacturers.

But the market in Yangzhou will eventually be saturated.

Those cement factories and brick factories cannot make money, so the gentry naturally is not satisfied. Although they don’t know how to deal with Liu Mang, at least they are restless in secret.

There was no way Liu Mang could only open up new markets for them, and this fleet heading south was one of them.

Originally, Liu Mang thought that the Kushan Empire was one of the four empires known as the Roman Rest together with the great Han Dynasty. At least it was a rich family. The porcelain and silk of this great Han Dynasty could be sold as treasures in the Western Regions. It was unreasonable that he could not sell it when he went to Kushan.

But now Liu Neng's words completely wiped out Liu Mang's beautiful wish, that is, these two countries are poor, what should we do? The group of merchants in Yangzhou really looked at Liu Mang opening up a business path for them.

If this matter is not done well, those gentry men will be disobedient.

"Although these two small countries have little money, they have food!" Liu Neng on the other side continued to speak.

"Food?" What does it mean that just when you want to sleep, there is a pillow coming over there.

That's it! Why did Yangzhou let Zhuge Liang go to Xiliang there now? Isn't it just time? There is enough time to harvest autumn, and harvest autumn is to want food.

But now Liu Neng said that Funan and Lin Hu had food.

Liu Mang's eyes lit up. Why didn't he expect that Vietnam and Thailand are Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia is located in the subtropical zone. The characteristics of the subtropical monsoon climate zone are warm in winter. The average temperature in the coldest month is above 0c; the summer is hot, the average temperature in the hottest month is greater than 22c, and the annual precipitation is generally 1,000-1,500 mm. There are more summers, but there is no obvious dry season. Therefore, the crop growth period in the subtropical monsoon climate zone is longer than that in the tropical rainforest climate zone, so the crops in the subtropical monsoon climate zone are two or three ripe a year. Most rice in Southeast Asia is three ripe a year.

Don’t doubt that Southeast Asians also eat rice. Although the rice originated from China, it has been brought to Southeast Asia for thousands of years of evolution. Rice may be difficult to plant in the north, but there is a lot of rain here in the south, and with light and heat adaptation, rice can grow vigorously with water.

Therefore, the people here do not lack food and drink. As for why the population has grown slowly, one of the reasons is laziness. The local rulers have no difference in Southeast Asia than the great man. It can even be said that there are more chaos. There are hundreds of tribes, and every tribe has conflicts. If there are conflicts, then fight them. Southeast Asia is not as good as the great man.

The Han tribe was defeated, so far away, I had no way to survive in this state, so I went to another state.

But the people here are killing them all, and they have no place to escape even if they want to.

These monkeys from Southeast Asia are more poisonous than anyone else when they deal with their own people. In such a fight, how many people can be left to have ghosts?

There are few people, a lot of food, and they can't be sold, and they are all rotten in the granary. In the long run, those rulers are too lazy to manage food. Anyway, everyone can't starve to death. If you think about it, then just farm. If you can't remember it, then forget it. Three ripens a year, as long as you mature once, it will be enough to eat for a year.

That's it, Funan still has a lot of food.

"Okay, okay!" Liu Mang's face finally burst into laughter.

"Liu Neng, you have made great contributions this time, and I will definitely reward you with a lot!" Liu Mang was happy. He wanted a significant increase in the population now, but an important condition that restricts the population was food. In Liu Mang's eyes, Funan and Lin Hu were completely huge and wanted to touch it.

"This is all the blessing of the lord!" Liu Neng said withdrew.

"With you leading the fleet to go south immediately, and exchange letters with the Funan Kingdom and the Lin Hu Kingdom! Take my Yangzhou specialties to visit our good neighbors!" Liu Mang excitedly said to Liu Neng over there.

"Lord, what's going on with the treasure island?" Liu Neng asked Liu Mang in confusion. Liu Mang just now gave him eight thousand soldiers and horses to go to the treasure island to develop.

"You can put things on Baodao first, going south is the most important thing! If this version is successful, your Liu Neng's great achievements will inevitably be indispensable!"

"Yes!" Liu Neng said goodbye and left.

The news of Liu Neng's return reached the Ministry of Revenue in Yangzhou, and then passed it to the merchants and the gentry.

"Funan Kingdom? Linhu Kingdom? What kind of small country is this?" Some merchants didn't understand. It was not that they were ignorant, but that in general, few people went to sea. Most of them wanted to communicate with the outside world, and that was on land. The Silk Road can be said to be an important channel for the great man to watch the outside world.

Later, due to the war in the Western Regions, the Central Plains itself became in chaos, and the Silk Road was abandoned.

And Lin Hu and Funan are in Southeast Asia, so it is normal that no one knows. Now there is news from Yangzhou that they want to trade with these two small countries.

"I have heard of this Lin Huguo!" A businessman spoke up.

"Brother Sun, do you actually know about Lin Huguo? Let's talk to us!" Someone there hurriedly turned his attention to a businessman surnamed Sun.

This businessman surnamed Sun was so flattered. He came from Jiaozhou. How much capital can a businessman in Jiaozhou have? Since ancient times, Jiaozhou has been a place of exile. Because of the war in the Central Plains, many people have gone to this to bring anger to Jiaozhou. But even so, he is not as good as the big prefectures and counties such as Yangzhou and Jiangdong.

So in Yangzhou, this businessman surnamed Sun is not a good deal. He finally squeezed into this business bureau and this time he rarely attracted the attention of everyone.

Fortunately, this Sun Xing's businessman is not nervous. A businessman who can travel around the world has already developed a pair of shamelessness.

"Everyone, this Linhu Kingdom is right next to my Jiaozhou, and I will imitate the Han Dynasty for the local indigenous people!" The merchant surnamed Sun explained there.

"At the edge of Jiaozhou?" Everyone was no longer interested when they heard this explanation. Jiaozhou is already a poor place, and it is still in the south of Jiaozhou. What's the point? Do you ask us to buy goods for those natives?

"The grain in that place is the same as that of my Jiaozhou, and it is familiar to me in a year!" explained the businessman surnamed Sun.

"Hmph, even if you have ten ripens in a year, it's all wasteland. How can you plant it?" Jiaozhou's land is also barren. It's not that the land is not fertilizer enough, but that it is mostly forests and mounds. The miasma inside makes up for it, and it's difficult for ordinary people to survive. How to mine it.

"This!" The merchant surnamed Sun didn't know what to say. Jiaozhou was indeed like this, not to mention that the land is not interested in these merchants at all, because Yangzhou stipulates that the land is subject to the government.

"We bring the goods over, what do those natives use for us? Do they use food?" Someone over there mocked him.

"It's really just food!" One person walked into the merchant bureau. When everyone saw the middle-aged man, they all lowered their heads and shouted respectfully, "Sir Mi!"

This person is the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, Mi Zhu. Mi Zhu is no longer the humble businessman he used to be. Now he is the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue in Yangzhou. He is more than one person than ten thousand people. Who doesn’t respect him? Mi Zhu is very satisfied with this feeling, and all this is given by Liu Mang, and Mi Zhu is even more grateful to Liu Mang.

"Lord has an order. As long as you sell the merchant goods to Lin Hu and Funan, exchange them for food and grass and recycle them according to the market price! As for how much food you can exchange, it depends on your own~!" (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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