Xue Li climbed up from the swimming pool and shook her long wet hair.

"It's really a pain to be here with long hair."

Zheng Tu smiled and touched his bald head, "Just just learn from me, just shaved his hair, don't mention it's so cool."

Xue Rengui took the towel from the hands of his personal soldiers, dried his hair, changed into four-legged shorts, and was too lazy to put on his outer robe, so he sat in the pavilion.

I picked up the iced bayberry soup and drank it in big mouthfuls.

"Ah, it's so good."

Zhu Tu held a fan in his hand and kept fanning.

"Damn it, this Lion City is so hot. This bird place has no four seasons a year, only one summer. Three hundred and sixty-five days, it is full of high temperatures and hot every day, like ten suns in the sky."

Xue Li also said, "Indeed, this place is a bit evil."

This is a manor in the Lion City Lipo Harbor Castle, with many trees, flowers and plants, and a huge swimming pool.

They have occupied this place for more than half a year. In the past six months, Lijiapo has been completely renewed and has changed drastically. The castle is bigger, taller and more solid. The port has also been expanded and can be docked by many merchant ships.

Outside the city, there are many grain fields.

Many slaves in shackles were working in the fields.

Large areas of grain fields can ensure that the food in Lion City does not need to be transported from outside, and can even replenish grain for merchant ships.

"How long will the teacher arrive?"

"It turned out that it was almost here, but the teacher wrote that he wanted to help Ma Gong first, so he might have to come here one month later."

Li Jiapo is now responsible for the brothers Zhu Zhendong and Xue Li. Although Zhu Zhendong entered the school earlier than Xue Li, and although Xue Li was born into a general, the Xue family had long declined, so the two of them were still relatively harmonious.

"Do we want to support the teacher?"

"Let's talk nonsense, will the teacher need our support? Besides, we are still black households now. If we go to Funan, will we all know?"

"But now we have siege cities and land on the Golden Peninsula. With more than a dozen strongholds, the maritime merchants will come to replenish supplies. We have known outside for a long time."

Zhu Zhendong wiped his bald head again, "It's better to listen to the teacher."

"The weather has been stuffy lately, and I'm still idle in Lion City. Since the teacher won't come here for a while, I think we'll take advantage of the time to go to the north for a few more times and catch some people to come back."

Although Lijiapo Island is not big, it is at least as big as a county. There are few mountains here, which is more suitable for planting. In addition, the port is close to the strait, which is a must-pass place, and merchant ships traveling here are also supplied by many. Now Lijiapo has become an important spice distribution center.

They still need labor. Whether it is loading and unloading on docks, planting in plantations, or even spice processing or ship repair, they all require people.

Even if it is not needed here, the colonial sites in the north also need it. Even the slaves themselves are extremely popular goods. They are transported back to the Central Plains or the noble fiefs everywhere, which are all popular goods.

"You look at the house!"

"You look at the house!"

Both of them spoke almost at the same time.

"Haha, I'll talk about it first."

"No, I clearly said it first."

Both of them were willing to take the boat out, but were unwilling to stay at home.

"Or why we each bring a fleet, and we will be operating nearby anyway."

"Well, we have been taught a lesson by our death recently. They probably won't dare to make trouble again in a short period of time. So let's go out to do things together. I'll go to the West Coast, and you go to the East Coast!"

"good!"

The two brothers and brothers quickly made an agreement.

"Did you hear that the ground under our feet is actually a ball, a big ball."

"It has always been said that the sky is round and the place is like a dome, and the earth is like a chessboard."

Li Chao's earth said that it has spread now. Some people say this is nonsense, and some people think about the evidence Li Chao said. Of course, they are more surprised at the discovery of the new continent.

"To the east of the Tang Dynasty, there is the East Continent America to the east of the ocean. To the south of the Tang Dynasty, in addition to the Indochina Peninsula, there are many archipelagos, and even deeper in the ocean further south, there is a continent. It is said that the continent is called Nanlu Aozhou. Alas, it makes people yearn for it. I really want to go to the South Continent and take a look at the East Continent." Xue Li said.

Zhu Tu touched his bald head, "I still don't believe that this earth can be round? Why won't we fall down?"

"The teacher said, there is gravity. Not only is the ground under our feet a big ball. Even the sun and the moon in the sky are big balls. The moon revolves around the earth, and the earth revolves around the sun. When our hemisphere is at night, the other hemisphere is during the day."

"I really can't figure it out. Why do you think the teacher knows everything? Even the moon and the sun in the sky know so much. The teacher is really a god who descends to earth."

Xue Li just laughed. He didn't really believe that Li Chao was a god who came down to earth, and the teacher never admitted that he was a god who came down to earth.

Although he had doubted these, even the plantations in Lijiapo now have many crops from America, such as potatoes, corn, sorghum, pumpkin, etc.

"The Americans were from the Yin people, but where did these Australians go?"

"Maybe he is also a Yin person!"

This is what the Americans were actually from the Yin people in the past, and now there is a market in the Tang Dynasty. Many people really believe it. They firmly believe in Li Chao's statement, believing that Americans are Yin people.

This statement has become more and more popular. Many people even shouted that they would send people to America to call them back to recognize their ancestors and let them move back. Some people also shouted that the Yin people are our Chinese clan, and now they are scattered outside. America is also our territory. The imperial court should send envoys to enthrone their official positions.

There are also people who are shouting that the court will send officials to manage America.

"I think America is still too far away. There are only a few islands in the South China Sea. Many large islands are the same as a continent. If we can occupy all these large islands in the South China Sea, it will be amazing." Xue Li said.

These descendants of Li Chao have all obtained a world map drawn by Li Chao himself.

If you draw the whole world on it, and after looking at the map, you will be surprised that the Tang Dynasty was so big but so small. To be honest, it is because no country in this world has the territory as big as the Tang Dynasty.

It can be said that it is small because the Tang Dynasty only occupies a small part of the world. Not to mention the west of the Tang Dynasty, there are many countries such as Rome and Persia, and even the north of the Tang Dynasty, there are such a big place.

It turns out that there is a huge territory in the north of the North Sea in the northern desert.

Even in the South Ocean, there were many large islands. Lijiapo was located in a narrow peninsula connecting Zhenla and the Piao Kingdom. To the south of the strait, there was also a Sumatra giant island where Sriver passed away. It was a huge island in the east. There was also a very large island to the north.

It is said that there are four or five such giant islands in the South China Sea, while those small islands are no less than tens of thousands.

The world is so big.

Even the Nanyang Mountains have not yet been explored clearly, let alone the farther southern and eastern continents.

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At Lijiapo Port, two fleets left the port on the same day, one east and one west.

On that day, several small merchant ships also left the port.

Not long after they left the port, they sailed south quickly and quickly.

Sumatra, central region, Palembang City.

The capital of Sarivo passed away.

"Most of the Tang army in Lion City went out and headed north?"

"Are these damn Tang people going to hunt again?"

“This is an opportunity.”

A group of officials who died of Sriver argued before the king.

In the past, Tang people were very good partners in their eyes. They operated the spice re-export trade and made a lot of money and were rich.

But now, the Tang people have begun to get rid of them, directly traded with the natives on the spice island, and even controlled the strait, and ignored them.

What made them even more popular was that the Tang people took away the Lion City directly.

After several battles, Sriva passed away and did not take any advantage, and even lost his troops and generals.

Now it is a loss of both people and money.

Without the spice trade, they lost huge wealth.

Now the Strait is also controlled by the Tang people, and all the territory they had originally expanded to the north were lost. The Lion City, which had been working hard for many years, has also become the territory of the Tang people.

Sarivo was very unwilling to give up, but they could not beat the Tang people, which was a helpless fact.

The Tang people's warships ran fast and were large, especially because they had sharp artillery.

These are all unsolvable, and no matter what tactics they use, they will eventually fail. They have also thought of sending people to secretly buy these sharp warships and artillery.

But ships can be bought, but they are all merchant ships, not those with faster warships. As for artillery, there is nowhere to buy them.

"There are only a dozen warships in Lion City. This time they took away two fleets at once, taking away a total of sixteen ships, and there were only four large ships left in the port. We should take this opportunity to retake Lion City!"

Some people argue.

The king was hesitant.

I suffered too much in Tang Ren's hands, but this time it was indeed an opportunity.

"If we can conquer Lion City, we will not lose even if the Tang people fleet comes back and takes it back. It is enough for us to capture their ships and artillery craftsmen from Lion City and obtain their skills to make warships and artillery."

Tang people warships and artillery.

These two things made the king's eyes widen.

"Fight, the Lion City was passed away by our Saliver, and we must take it back!"

The king finally made a decision. No matter how much the price is, it would be worth it as long as he could capture a group of shipbuilders and gunmakers back.

In order to be foolproof, the king drew elite troops.

A total of more than 30,000 navy personnel and more than a thousand ships of all sizes were drawn, which was a huge hit.

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"Report, there is a city ahead."

Xue Li picked up the Qianli Mile Mile and observed carefully. Not far from the sea, a city appeared at an estuary of a river.
Chapter completed!