Chapter 2217 The wealth of gold and silver is spreading in the breath
After a period of time, Qi Jiguang arrived in a daze at the Ganqing Palace, which was built in the 18th year of Yongle. This was Zhu Yijun's daily bedroom.
When he arrived with the eunuch Zhang Jing, he saw an exaggerated and shocking map placed in the hall.
The map is centered on the Ming Dynasty. What shocked Qi Jiguang was that the glorious Ming Dynasty only occupied a corner of the map. Outside the Ming Dynasty, Annan and even the northern Mo area occupied was also very small.
He even saw the logo of the Big and Big Folangji Kingdom in a very western part.
There, the Great Fo Langji Kingdom was only about one-tenth of the Ming Dynasty, and the Small Fo Langji Kingdom was even smaller. In that area that was about the same as the Ming Dynasty, dozens of countries were standing in large and small.
At this moment, whether it was Zhu Yijun, Zhang Juzheng, Shen Shixing, etc., they were all watching a big map seriously.
Zhang Jing walked to the side of the young emperor and whispered. Zhu Yijun suddenly woke up and laughed, "Young Bao is here, hurry up, this is the picture of the world drawn by several immortals. It was the first time I saw it, and I, Yuanfu, Mr. Zhang and others. I didn't expect that I have always regarded myself as the center of the world in the Ming Dynasty. In fact, compared with the whole world, it is really too small."
"Look, just southeast of the South Ocean, a land as huge as my Ming Dynasty has no country or ethnicity, and it is all wasteland."
"Twenty million miles east of this place is a place where dozens or hundreds of people in the Kingdom of Folangji can destroy their country and tribes. The Aztec Kingdom was destroyed like that, and was enslaved by the Great Buddha of Folangji to dig gold and silver mines. It has been continuously contributing gold and silver for 78 years since its mining."
"I know that the naval war is not familiar with the Shaobao, but it doesn't matter. As long as the Ming Dynasty has enough ships to transport the Qi family army of the Shaobao to these countries, I believe that the Shaobao will definitely be able to win the power of my Ming army."
With Zhu Yijun's kind and enthusiastic words, Qi Jiguang was still dizzy, but he had really seen Tong Jian's ability.
I took them back more than 300 years ago and arrived from Luzhou to Lin'an in less than a stick of incense.
Since these are sent by those immortals, they should be true.
The young emperor had already coveted those countries? No problem. Along the way, after hearing the feat of Tong Jian's robbery and the various envious arguments, Qi Jiguang himself couldn't help but feel the desire to run to Nanyang to grab it.
Those guys are so fat, they are so fat that they are so angry that they are resentful!
If you grab a few million taels at home, even if you don’t hoard your family to make your family rich, it is used to train new troops, how many new troops can you train millions of taels in one go?
Qi Jiguang looked at Zhang Juzheng dizzy as Zhu Yijun said. Zhang Juzheng couldn't help laughing and said, "Yuan Jing, didn't you write a letter a few days ago, so I'll take a little longer? It seems that I can really take a good rest and relax for a while and take care of my health."
"With this real picture of the world, why should I spend so much effort to improve the recent situation of the Emperor Ming? There are so many borderless lands in the South Ocean. It is also a trivial matter to easily rely on hundreds of millions of people."
"Once all the people in the world have land, state affairs will immediately undergo fundamental changes."
Qi Jiguang opened his mouth and wanted to say something. Zhang Juzheng said again, "I know what you are worried about. Too many people have moved out, and the distance is far away. I worry that there will change over time?"
"As long as my Huangming has an invincible fleet in hand, he can control the continents and oceans like the big and small Folangji with his weak national strength and population."
"It's a pity that the invincible fleet in the Chengzu era. The national policy we have maintained over the years is also wrong!"
Speaking of this, Zhang Juzheng's famous prime ministers of the generation, even the powerful prime ministers couldn't help but laugh at themselves.
Think about the Big Buddha Langji. With one-tenth of Huangming's territory and less than one-tenth of Huangming's manpower, you can build a fleet to travel around the world, easily control the world, and transport overseas gold, silver and wealth back to the local area year by year.
Thinking about the many brain power he has spent over the years to improve the national strength of the Emperor Ming, it is simply ironic.
As a standard feudal literati, Zhang Juzheng certainly would not be pedantic after seeing the truth of the world clearly.
This is not a question of whether a king is wary and his country will perish, but interests!!
Once you have sufficient benefits, all the principles of the sages can be interpreted as another principle. Isn’t the word "official" used to explain the truth of the meaning of the scriptures?
When Zhang Juzheng first understood this world map, he realized that it would be a world of sea power in the future. The navy should be reformed and upgraded to the navy, and become another super army in parallel with the army.
As long as you have a strong enough navy, the Ming Dynasty will become stronger and prosperous. No need to worry about any natural disasters or man-made disasters.
Even if natural disasters continue, the territory you control is large enough that the people in the place where natural disasters occur can be transported to another good-for-tour land to settle down.
You can also transport food and goods that cannot be eaten in other places to the disaster area.
Man-made disasters are not difficult to deal with. If you think that staying in the Ming Dynasty may be a disaster, just send them to a distant island. The outside world is a horse-drawn land and you can enjoy it casually.
Unfortunately, Zhang Juzheng and others had never seen the outside world before, and they were only stimulated by several immortal kings to wake up.
With sufficient confidence and determination to improve the state affairs of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Juzheng became relaxed and it didn't matter if he delegated power. Now he not only acknowledged that Zhu Yijun was in charge of the East Factory and the Jinyiwei.
The power of the cabinet was also begun to be released to Zhang Siwei and Shen Shixing, and they planned to add several cabinet ministers, such as the Minister of Rites Pan Sheng and the Left Minister of Personnel Yu Youding. These two cabinet ministers he is more optimistic about are also reformists.
Various reforms such as the expansion of maritime power and the implementation of the One-whip law in the Ming Dynasty must be carried out in parallel. He privately talked with Zhang Siwei for a night of contempt and convinced Zhang Siwei, the anti-reformist.
It’s nothing wrong. Zhang Siwei used to think that reforms weakened too many interests of the aristocratic families. However, after opening his eyes to the world, the local interests and power of the aristocratic families is really not in the same way as maritime affairs.
If you sacrifice some of the family's local interests and get maritime priority, it would be a good thing to make money by exchanging millet with watermelon. Even Zhang Siwei didn't have time to communicate with all the people in the family, but Zhang Siwei knew that this was a business that anyone with a brain would be willing to exchange.
The Zhang family’s Shanxi tyrants were not in line with maritime affairs before. Even if the court expanded its maritime power, it was the easiest way of profit in the coastal areas. If they did not seize the opportunity, the Zhang family would miss this path of wealth that was spreading with gold and silver in their breath.
Chapter completed!