Princess Yongmu stuck out her tongue and said: "Li Lang, children are still growing. It's good for them to eat braised pork. There are also two pigs. If we don't kill them, are we going back to raise them? "
"That makes sense." Li Yi estimated the time and distance and realized that they had stayed here for too long.
When they brought the pigs and chickens out, they did not intend to let them go back alive.
They did not need to have the experience of sailing. Their greatest value was reflected in the food they ate during the voyage.
When the sea was rough and they could only eat fish and shellfish, their status was much higher than their counterparts on land.
Their contribution was not only reflected in the taste, but also the belief of the sailors. The taste of their hometown would never change.
"Red! Burn! Meat! "The little girl spoke in the traditional Tang dynasty language this time.
Li Yi could not help but go over and kiss Princess Yongmu. You are too cute. Do you think this child's accent is similar to yours?
Princess Yongmu blushed and lowered her head. She turned around and busied herself with something unknown.
"Dongzhu, there are three boats. They are medium sized boats. They don't seem to be more than 300 stones." The Winged Knights ran over.
Li Yi noticed that there were three boats on the screen in front of him.
The flags on the boats were yellow with red words. The word "Tang" was written in red. The camera adjusted, but it was still yellow with no dragon patterns.
"Our people's flags do not have dragon patterns on them, but they know the colors of our national flag overseas."
Princess Yongmu ran over. She looked at the flag on the screen and gave an analysis.
"The other party is using flag signals. They know our flag signals." Xiao Lan frowned.
She stared at the flags and said: "Request to approach. How do you spell it? Oh, Zhang! Rui! Bo! Who is that? Ah, I remember now. It's the people we saw on the island of the Japanese Empire. "
"The situation on Yakushima? After they left, they came back with more boats? No, they want to open up a stable shipping route. "
Li Yi remembered. Yes, there was such a thing. He met them on the way here and helped them.
This Zhang Ruibo was not an ordinary person. After going to trade, he returned to his hometown and bought two more boats.
In theory, the speed of building a ship was not fast enough, unless he bought someone else's ship.
"Disciple, go and tell them to come closer." Li Yi instructed his eldest disciple.
"Okay, Master." The little girl happily released the drone.
"Come closer, don't cast the net. We're fishing for corals inside. Speak. Yes, it's you, Zhang Ruibo. Do you know who I am?"
The drone flew over, and the little girl began to shout, controlling the drone to land on the deck.
Zhang Ruibo took two steps forward and squatted down. "It sounds familiar."
"How dare you, unruly commoner! I am the Empress's Palace Advisor, an external female official of the Imperial Physician Bureau, the one who is of the third rank. Do you remember? "
"So it's Miss Feng. How can this commoner greet you? I'm too short."
Zhang Ruibo knew who it was. It was Li Yi's disciple. He wanted to kneel down, but in front of the drone, he couldn't.
"Don't, don't, don't. Master will be angry if he knows! Why are you here again? Don't scoop up the corals. You'll crush them if you scoop them up. Let's swim down and scoop them up. Master has already gone down. "
"We don't scoop up corals. We don't dare. We're afraid of getting caught in the net. We're here to buy and sell things. We'll go over now. Is Li Dongzhu all right? "
"He's fine. We brought back a lot of seeds this time. In two years, we'll plant them all over the Tang dynasty. The yield will be high. It's fine as long as we don't get caught in the net. We have people down there."
"No. We know that Li Dongzhu has served the country and the people. We've prepared the taxes properly. We also want to donate some money. My child wants to get a place in the imperial examination next year."
"Come over and pay attention to the wind and ocean currents."
The two sides finished communicating and confirmed their identities. There was no problem.
Three medium-sized boats floated over. They turned their sails several times before stopping next to the cruise ship.
One of the boats went down a small boat. Five people stood on the small boat.
More than 20 minutes later, Zhang Ruibo and the others were pulled up.
"Li Dongzhu, Princess Yongmu!" Zhang Ruibo directly knelt down. He could have just bowed. In the Tang dynasty, there was no need for such formalities.
"Are you here to trade? Did you return home before? "Princess Yongmu sat upright with a calm face. When she spoke, her eyelids drooped.
"Yes, Princess. I went back and made a lot of money. I sold other people's boats. It's only a short trip. I still remember the taxes.
I paid the previous taxes. I went through the courier station. I was worried about the local officials and contacted the people who printed the newspapers. "
Zhang Ruibo explained the situation. He didn't know some things when he went out to sea.
When he returned, he understood that he was willing to pay the taxes. He was very proactive.
He hoped to use his taxes to support the Tang dynasty's fleet. Wherever he went, he would be protected by the Tang dynasty's military ships.
"That's good. Tell the Tang dynasty's overseas appeasement envoy in detail."
Princess Yongmu didn't care anymore. She couldn't think of anything to say.
Li Yi thought for a moment. "In the future, the Tang dynasty will have more official ships. You can't catch slaves and sell them. The Tang dynasty doesn't lack hard work, but it lacks the productivity to transform production technology."
Li Yi didn't want slaves. Slaves were a burden in the end.
Although there were slaves in the Tang dynasty now, the source of slaves was not plunder.
The Tang dynasty was a feudal society, not a slave society.
The division of civilization was shown by each society.
Li Yi sometimes found it funny. Some fair-skinned people in the Ming dynasty caught other people of the same kind as slaves. What stage of society were they in?
He looked up the information and history again and understood.
Those people were incest and crossbreeds …
Monkey, you know? That's it.
"Wen Tian, we're humans. We don't need to exploit the dignity and freedom of others to satisfy our desires.
When we go back, we'll just recruit workers. We'll help redeem those who sell themselves.
A person's social status isn't reflected by the number of slaves. My Zhuangzi … I'll think of a way. "
Li Yi suddenly became worried as he spoke. The Li Family Zhuangzi had slaves. They were slaves, but their lives had nothing to do with slaves!
Li Yi wanted them not to be slaves, but the slaves looked like they would die if he didn't let them be slaves.
"Li Lang, you lied to them. You said we need to change the contracts of slaves into hired masters. Otherwise, it won't work."
Princess Yongmu helped to come up with ideas. She actually understood some slaves.
Just like her. If she didn't marry Li Yi now, who else could marry her?
When it came to money, Wen Tian Lan Xiang Pavilion's money would crush you to death.
When it came to poetry and prose, who was worse than who? Wasn't that the foundation?
When it came to future ambitions and the philosophy of governing, do you want me to teach you political economy? Learn from Li Lang.
You said you'll marry me. Do you have the courage to sleep on the same bed with me?
What? You dare? Do you believe that I'll kill you in the next second? I'll let you know what physics, chemistry, and biology are.
"Instead of tangling with the contracts of our Zhuangzi, it's better to restrict the rights of the nobles. I'll start to prepare when I go back. It's quite simple.
Anyone who has slaves in their family, regardless of whether they're merchants or scholars, will not allow their children to participate in the imperial examinations, even if the merchants pay taxes. "
Li Yi didn't care about this, because people like this were more afraid of death.
50,000 Winged Knights were stronger than 500,000 soldiers. When the nobles and local clans couldn't threaten the imperial power, their resistance was to increase the revenue of the Tang dynasty. Confiscation!
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