night.

Li Chao accompanied Zhang Zhongjian to check for Chengqian's leg injury, and Zhang Zhongjian also specially gave Chengqian acupuncture. In his words, now we must start to sort out the meridians for the prince. Li Chao is not familiar with acupuncture, but he does not object to it. Although countless people in later generations used the name of acupuncture and randomly ruined this traditional treasure.

But acupuncture is indeed good. The key is that many people are not good at learning skills, do not understand, and do things randomly. Just like traditional Chinese medicine, although traditional Chinese medicine theory sounds very mysterious, it is actually just another systematic pathological explanation. People who don’t understand will certainly not have good results if they explain and use it randomly.

Zhang Zhongjian is undoubtedly a master of medical skills.

The ancients said that if you don’t use famous doctors for your reputation, they mean that many scholars turned to medical skills and became famous doctors after they had no hope of entering the imperial examination. It seems magical, but in fact it is a fact. Because in ancient times, it is very important to be famous doctors and be able to read and read. If you can’t even understand medical skills, how do you inherit medical skills?

Especially the medical books at that time, like many classics, were recorded in quite concisely in writing, and without a certain degree of knowledge, it was really difficult to understand.

Zhang Zhongjian’s true identity is a big businessman, and the hero is just another identity, just like he is still a master of medical skills.

This is a magical person, who is almost sixty years old, but he looks like a middle-aged man in his thirties. His big red tendrils are full of mixed-race faces, but he speaks so gracefully and politely.

It is also pleasing to see Zhang Zhongjian prickly.

He was very accurate in the needle, and he would not look left and right to look for the acupoints. He would just tweak it a few times, let alone the blood would burst out.

Another characteristic of his acupuncture is that it doesn’t hurt.

After a while, Zhang Zhongjian gave Cheng Qian hundreds of injections, but Cheng Qian didn't even snorted. It was not that he was very strong, but that it really didn't hurt. Li Chao had seen acupuncture in the hospital before, and some of them made the patient cry and howl, which could make a man in his thirties or forties shout that I won't be pricked.

"Acupuncture helps the meridians to move qi and blood smoothly, and can help legs recover faster."

After the acupuncture, Zhang Zhongjian lit a dessert incense for Chengqian.

The fragrance swayed, Cheng Qian fell asleep after a while, and told the eunuch to take care of Cheng Qian. Li Chao and Zhang Zhongjian left the room.

The two were walking under the moon.

The night was cold, and the breath that was exhaled turned into white steam.

"It's only been ten years since I left the Central Plains. When I came back this time, I found that it had completely changed!"

Zhang Zhongjian walked slowly with his hands behind his back, and sighed after a long time.

Li Chao had his hands wrapped around his sleeves. He was wearing a military coat and jacket at the back. He was made of sheepskin and camel velvet. It was very warm, with very large sleeves and a cage of hands. It was very comfortable.

It's just a Lei Feng hat.

"Indeed, the Sui Dynasty had only been in the hands of the Tang Dynasty for more than ten years."

"When I left, I thought the world might be in chaos for decades, or even a hundred years. I thought the world would fall into a situation of fragmentation, or even a division of the north and the south. Unexpectedly, the heroes such as Li Mi, Wang Shichong, Dou Jiande, Du Fuwei, and Xiao Xian were defeated so quickly. However, the Li family, which was not very eye-catching at the beginning, could occupy Guanzhong and sweep the world in such a quick time!"

Zhang Zhongjian left the Central Plains not only because the rebel army he organized was defeated, but also because he was disappointed with the world and believed that the Central Plains would fall into such a great turmoil as the Southern and Northern Dynasties after the Jin Dynasty, so he finally went abroad.

But what he didn't expect was that it was only ten years, and time changed, and the world was unified again.

The destruction of the two anti-kings, Liang Shidu and Yuan Junzhang, also declared that the Tang Dynasty had completely unified the world. The Tang Dynasty has even taken back the land of Daibei in the north, and Shuofang has also taken back, just Hetao.

"Tang inherited Sui, and the territory of Sui was only one Hetao!" Zhang Zhongjian sighed.

"There is another western Liaoning!" Li Chao said.

Hebei destroyed Dou Jiande, Liu Heita, Gao Kaidao and other rebelled queens and recovered the territory within Yanshan Mountains. However, Yanbei and western Liaoning outside Shanhaiguan were still occupied by the Turks and Goguryeo.

"From my view of Your Majesty's ambition and great ambition, it will be a matter of time before and for a while. The Tang Dynasty will be stronger than the Sui Dynasty!" Zhang Zhongjian said sincerely.

"Well, the Tang Dynasty will definitely be stronger than Sui. The Sui unified the north and south, ended more than three hundred years of division, and had the effect of throwing the sky on the Central Plains. Unfortunately, like Qin, it could not withstand the rebound."

Zhang Zhongjian shook his head and sighed, "Maybe I should go back to the Central Plains."

"You can go back to the Central Plains when you have time, and even arrange your tribes to return to the Central Plains. However, I don't recommend you give up. It's hard to manage it and there are certain results. It's a pity to give up now. And it's not time to give up. Your Majesty has written an edict and sent an envoy to go south with your people. Then you go to Jiaozhou in Annan and go to Zhenla through Linyi to the Zhenla Kingdom. I believe they will give me some thin face. If they don't give this face at that time, we won't sit idly by."

"The Tang Dynasty is really willing to travel thousands of miles to protect us?"

"Since you are already the Vietnamese marquis of the Tang Dynasty now, the Pearl Islands are also named Vietnam State, which is the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and the people there are the people of the Tang Dynasty. Of course, the Tang Dynasty must be managed and of course it will protect it."

"Those who offend our great Han will be punished even if they are far away!"

Zhang Zhongjian asked, "I am a little puzzled. Is this your Majesty who is treating the prince's leg injury to reward me?"

“Yes, but not all.”

Rewarding Zhang Zhongjian for his leg injury is only part of it, and the other part is that after Li Chao and Li Shimin's secret talks, the emperor understood the importance of Pearl Island.

In Li Chao's long conversation with Li Shimin, Li Chao explained that along the East China Sea to the South China Sea, and then to the West to the Indian Sea, a maritime trade route, and a very important maritime Silk Road.

If you have a good management, the Maritime Silk Road will benefit more than the current Silk Road and the Southwest Silk Tea Road. Especially when the Silk Road and the Western Regions were intercepted by the Western Turks, the Southwest Silk Tea Road has just been opened. At this time, the Maritime Silk Road is more important.

The spices, grains, slaves, Linyi, Zhenla, Tianzhu, Persia and other countries along the South China Sea coast and on the islands will be a huge trade and sales area. The export of porcelain, silk, tea and other products in the Central Plains can make huge profits, and bringing back gold, spices, grains, slaves, cloth, etc. can also make huge profits.

Trade in ocean countries can not only make money, but also get a lot of materials needed by the court, such as food, slaves, ore, etc. In short, if the Maritime Silk Road is booming, it can not only make money, but also allow the court to develop the southeast coast.

The Maritime Silk Road can make coastal areas prosperous, open seaports, increase tariffs, foreign trade can drive the prosperity of industry and commerce, increase people's income, etc., and the benefits are obvious.

Li Shimin is very short of money. I heard that there are so many benefits. After considering it, I agreed with Li Chao's strategy.

To operate this Maritime Silk Road, it is no longer just about private merchants. The court needs official organizations to participate in the deep participation and organize official trade fleets to visit countries along the southeast, southwest coasts and islands, as well as the customs and customs there, and of course, more importantly, trade.

Li Chao even planned that the court would build a large commercial port in Jiaozhou, Annan, and even attack or build commercial ports in the south along the Linyi coast, becoming an important site for supply and re-export trade for merchant ships on the Silk Road.

The Pearl Islands, located in Ximan Bay, South China Sea, will be an important supplementary station. Of course, we cannot give up easily. Not only can we not give up, but we must also strengthen control over there through Zhang Zhongjian, and even expand to the southern coastal coast to increase coastal shopping station ports.

These strategies proposed by Li Chao are actually colonial plans.

But it is not the kind of comprehensive colonization, it just captures ports along the coastline, builds fortresses, and establishes malls, so that the Tang Dynasty's Maritime Silk Road had a reliable and stable supply point.

If you have the opportunity and strength in the future, you can get more port commercial stations to make this line more points.

This is not something that can be accomplished in one day or two, or even one year or two years, but if you set this route, this direction, and slowly operate, I believe that sooner or later, you will achieve a considerable result.

It was under this situation that Zhang Zhongjian was canonized by Li Shimin as the Marquis of Vietnam, and the 72 islands of Pearl Island were named Vietnam. Tens of thousands of people on the 72 islands became the people of the Tang Dynasty.

Zhang Zhongjian was a very smart person. After hearing what Li Chao said, he also understood the layout of the court.

He was amazed.

"This idea must have been made by the Prime Minister, but I admire him for being able to adopt it. To be honest, overseas is indeed a vast world, but for a long time, the Central Plains has not looked at it, and it feels too far away. In fact, as long as you are willing to pay attention, it does not require much energy to spend, and you can still have a situation. Even as long as the court is willing to encourage, the business people of the people alone can open up a prosperous business path for the court."

Li Chao smiled and said, "Now the court has enthroned you as the Marquis of Kaiguo County and is preparing to organize a merchant ship trade team. It is time for you pioneers at sea to serve the court now. You are more familiar with the sea and know better about the southern barbarians. The court needs you, the sea routes you need, the customs and customs you master, the wisdom and courage you need! Don't worry, the court will never forget your help to the court. Even in the future, the Han people in future generations will remember your efforts and contributions to our Han people's development of the South China Sea!"

"I'm so excited that I'm talking about it." Zhang Zhongjian said with a smile.

However, Li Chao could see that he was not excited because of these few words. This was a powerful figure.

"My Li family is also preparing to build a merchant fleet to join the maritime trade. I think the Li family and the Zhang family can cooperate. You have ships, sailors and routes."

Zhang Zhongjian looked at Li Chao and smiled, yes, he has a boat and someone has a sea supply station, and what does Li Chao have?

"The Li family has goods, tea, sugar and wine. Only these three items, no one in the Central Plains has more supply than the Li family. If our two families cooperate, we can even build farmland manors on the islands and coasts of the Nanman people, grow grain and sugar, and produce wine and sugar on-site, which can greatly save costs and time and make our trade profits higher and larger!"

"It sounds very tempting and can't refuse." Zhang Zhongjian said with a smile.

"Cooperation and cooperation must always be win-win and mutually beneficial. I will not take advantage of you in vain. Our cooperation will be a strong alliance!"

Zhang Zhongjian nodded, "The Zhang family is very honored to be able to cooperate with the prime minister!"
Chapter completed!