After seeing off the two prime ministers, Zhao Xu suddenly felt guilty.

"I don't know how many delicacies I will destroy with what I did today..." He murmured to himself.

Modern Dai Ying has declined.

Therefore, the only things left to the world are the legends about its lack of great virtues and its reputation as a food desert.

Dai Ying's signature delicacies are two very simple things.

Fish and chips.

Don't underestimate these two things.

This is a symbol of the unstoppable empire that led Britain to the past.

As an island country with scarce resources, Daiying allowed its people to have enough fried fish and French fries in the 18th and 19th centuries.

At the same time, fish and chips are also a symbol of Daiying's past industrial strength.

These two kinds of food are completely created for industry.

Simple, easy to make, standardized, and filling.

And Zhao Xu knew very well that he was opening Pandora's box.

Once his plan was successfully promoted, it was rolled out across the country.

Cheap dried fish has taken the market by storm.

The soil for countless future delicacies will be cut off.

Because, when protein is readily available, when condiments are no longer scarce.

People will no longer waste their brains thinking about how to make three meals a day more delicious.

Those talents and talents have lost the soil from which they were born.

But there is no way.

Zhao Xu could only make this choice.

If a farming nation wants to go to the ocean, it needs more driving force than island countries.

Returning to Funing Hall, Zhao Xu walked straight into Donghe.

Wen Xunniang was taking Di Qiang and Wang, who had just entered the palace and were still getting used to it, in the banquet of Donghe, teaching them how to make Zhao Xu's favorite drink.

Seeing Zhao Xu coming back, the three girls quickly bowed.

Wen Xunniang took the initiative to come to Zhao Xu and asked in a low voice: "Is the official going to court?"

"Can I give you a massage?" She boldly asked for the first time.

Zhao Xu laughed, looked at Wen Xunniang who was blushing with embarrassment, and said, "I'll read the memorial first..."

"I will ask Xunniang to come into the study later."

"No." Wen Xunniang lowered her head, her earlobes burning hot.

Zhao Xu nodded with a smile and glanced at the other two women from the corner of his eye.

I found that they all had their heads lowered, but they were all watching him from the corners of their eyes.

This is how it is in this palace.

Rolled, rolled to the extreme.

Concubines would do anything to win favor.

Zhao Xu will not interfere, let alone stop it.

Because this is obviously beneficial to him!

Go directly to the imperial study room. Here, Yu Longzhi, selected by Yan Yuan, is guarding in shifts at twelve o'clock. Without Zhao Xu's order, not even a mosquito will be let in.

Lifting the curtain, Zhao Xu walked to the study and picked up the sealed certificates placed on the desk.

This is a series of seals written by Chen Mu after he took office - the one just shown to Han Jiang and Lu Gong in the Zichen Hall was just one of them.

Looking at these secret reports, Zhao Xu narrowed his eyes.

The things reported in these secret reports generally revolve around three things.

1. Support the shipbuilding industry.

Second, we began to vigorously promote sun-salted technology.

And this third thing is the key among the keys, the key among the key points—talent.

To be precise, it is the discovery and recruitment of a large number of marine navigation talents.

And Chen Mu advanced this matter extremely smoothly.

The latest official letter reported that he had recruited more than 2,000 "foreign Vietnamese" according to the imperial decree. He had organized these people into an army, and asked Zhao Xu to grant military names and military ranks, and issued an imperial edict to send Go to the general and command.

Waiyue is a very special group.

The first time they appeared in history books was in "Yue Jueshu" - the strong men outside Loumen were built by Helu to prepare for foreign wars.

This means that the King of Wu and his family built a river defense on the Lou River in order to guard against the invasion of Yue from the sea.

At this time, Waiyue may still refer to the real Yue people.

But after Qin Shihuang unified the world, this situation changed - the so-called Waiyue people were no longer Yue people or Baiyue people.

And became the remnants of the Six Kingdoms who disobeyed the central dynasty and fled to overseas islands.

These people once caused great trouble to the Qin Dynasty.

So in the thirty-seventh year of Qin Shi Huang's reign, Qin Shi Huang had to issue an edict: to banish the officials and people who were guilty of moving to the world, and to relocate them to the old place of Hainan in Dayue to prepare for the overseas crossing in the East.

Piracy was rampant, and the Qin Dynasty could only migrate a large number of people there to guard against pirates.

In the Han Dynasty, foreign Vietnamese still existed.

The famous Qi King Tian Heng was the representative of this force.

not only that.

According to the archaeological discoveries and research that Zhao Xu knew in modern times, after the defeat of the Central Plains, some of the "foreign Vietnamese" at the turn of the Qin and Han Dynasties sailed across the Pacific and brought advanced technologies from the Central Plains to countless Pacific island countries.

Since the Han Dynasty, throughout the dynasties, there have never been any foreigners from Vietnam.

Moreover, the ingredients are becoming more and more complex.

They are basically composed of landless exiled farmers from the Central Plains, bankrupt landlords and merchants, and fleeing soldiers.

They came ashore to live when the dynasty was prosperous and the world was at peace.

When the current situation was chaotic and the imperial court imposed excessive levies and expropriations, he went to the sea to survive.

They dare to do anything.

You can be a pirate or a maritime trader.

According to what Zhao Xu knows in modern times, this group will play a major role in future history!

They were strong for a while in the late Southern Song Dynasty, and then surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty.

And was responsible for the shipping work of the Yuan Dynasty.

Those who are recorded in history books as transporting millions of stones of grain to the north by sea every year are the descendants of these people.

Because the Yuan Dynasty made them an offer they couldn't refuse - help me transport food. I will not only give you an official position, but also let you take care of yourself. In addition, I will also give you according to the number of stones you transport food.

Send money!

No fool would do it!

However, by the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the government had deteriorated.

These people raised the flag of rebellion again, and they were the first to raise the flag of rebellion.

Fang Guozhen is the leader of these people!

The activity range of this group has been along the coast of Zhejiang since ancient times.

Mingzhou, Yuezhou, Taizhou and numerous offshore islands are the centers of activity.

Because it has unique conditions here.

The territory is mountainous and close to the sea, and there are countless islands along the coast where you can hide.

Basically, these people cannot be eradicated.

At the same time, they don't need to be exterminated - life at sea is hard and dangerous.

As long as possible, most people are willing to live this kind of precarious life.

Therefore, as long as the current situation is stable, the country is at peace, and the exploitation by the court is not serious.

Most of them will come back obediently, settle on the shore, and become obedient and law-abiding citizens.

This is the truth behind Mingzhou’s advanced shipbuilding industry and navigation technology.

Because here, the best sailing talents and bravest sailors in the entire world for two thousand years have gathered!
To be continued...