They are all thinking of being a fortune boy, using the act of throwing coins to promote the wealth of the Celestial Empire, and using the satisfaction of all nations to grow their own face, and now they want to engage in overseas colonial expansion, I am afraid that the entire Confucian class will unite against it. ”

Su Yu poured himself a cup of tea, and lightly opened his lips to blow open the tea leaves, "Other dynasties do have this problem, and there is almost no solution, but the early years of the Ming Dynasty were an exception, do you know why?"

Because the current Confucian scholars are completely different from those of any previous dynasty and any subsequent era, at least when it comes to overseas development. The reason for the difference starts from 400 years ago.

A little farther north, Beijing under construction, once that place was called Youyun Sixteen Prefectures, from the Five Dynasties period of the Later Jin Dynasty Shi Jingjiao in order to be the emperor ceded to the Khitan Liao, to the Wei Duke Xu Da recovered, during the period of more than 400 years.

North of the Yellow River, starting from the shame of Jingkang, from Jin to Yuan, it has also fallen for more than 200 years, and Jiangnan, the Yuan Dynasty has also ruled for almost 100 years, these rulers do not attach as much importance to education as the Central Plains Dynasty, do you know what this means?

It means that Cheng Zhu Lixue formed in the Song Dynasty, the kind of Confucianism that is inferior in everything and only high in reading has been smashed, and the scholars have become pragmatic and practical, especially the overseas exchanges in the Yuan Dynasty in the past 100 years, which made the readers find that overseas is not a mess, but also profitable.

As a result, an open and enterprising wind was formed, and in the Ming Dynasty, since the founding of Hongwu to the present, but in the early forties, although Zhu Yuanzhang engaged in eight strands of literature, but the pragmatic concept formed in hundreds of years is not so easy to be eroded.

The current group of Confucian scholars are just the victims of the second generation of Baguwen, their predecessors are all from the Yuan Dynasty, and their resistance to commerce does not reach the level of fierceness of life and death, and they do not have the stupid arrogance of the Celestial Empire, so they can easily accept the fact of overseas trade.

Don't you want to be an official and educate the people? There are so many people overseas who admire the Ming Dynasty waiting for you to educate, don't you want to make meritorious contributions? There are countless territories overseas for you to open up, don't you want to make money? The whole mountain of gold and silver is waiting for you......

Emperor Yongle is a person who is very happy, and the purpose of his trip to the West is the same, to promote the prestige of the Celestial Empire, pretending to be forced to the end, but there is a problem with the method, and he only loses money and does not make money in the original time and space, and then he has to stop when he hollows out his family foundation.

If he finds that colonizing overseas not only allows him to enjoy the pleasure of tributary from all countries, but also makes a lot of money and solves domestic problems, then he has to reconsider the question of whether to stop. ”

Yang Pingfan thought of another thing, "Having said that, but what about the landlords, although I am not a professional in studying history, I also know that the landlord class is the cornerstone of the feudal dynasty, and overseas expansion is bound to draw a lot of manpower, and the landlords have no one to farm, I am afraid that it will make trouble." ”

"Hehe, under normal circumstances, of course the landlords have to make trouble, because there is no one to help them farm, they can't lie down to collect rent, and they can't continue to maintain the life of the local tyrants. But if they also participate in overseas expansion and enjoy dividends, what will happen, imagine that you are guarding 100 acres of land, and the annual land rent is only a few thousand catties of rice or a few hundred taels of silver, but participating in overseas expansion, the annual income is several times and dozens of times this, what choice do you think they will make?"

"Having said that, I think there will still be a large number of landlords who feel that it is too risky to participate, or even engage in sabotage in private. You know, in our plane, there were still a few families in the southern city who used this method to collect rent and secretly do things. ”

Su Yu chuckled: "Don't mention the south, be careful that the book is gone." Or is it about this time and space, if the big landlords think it is risky, then I will push the imperial court to set up a similar kind of East India Company, which only needs to be invested in shares and enjoy dividends, and does not have to deal with Nanyang Shengfan by himself, do you think they will be tempted?

In fact, there is a more important reason why I chose this way of change, and I am confident that I will succeed.

Before the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the rich areas in the south of the Yangtze River, most of them were Zhang Shicheng's territory, Zhang Shicheng was a generous and loving person, and was deeply loved by the people in the area under his jurisdiction, the battle of Suzhou lasted for a full nine months because of the support of the people, the battle of Gaoyou, the whole city army and the people became a city, with a small city, it was forced to block the Yuan army million army attacking the city, which can be seen that the people are wide.

In the early years of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang paid a private visit to Weifu and found that the people of Jiangdong still called Zhang Shicheng as King Zhang, so he sighed with emotion: "Zhang Shicheng stole Jiangdong, and Wu Min still calls him King Zhang." I am the Son of Heaven, and this state is called the old man."

Annoyed and angry, there was the so-called "Jiangnan Heavy Endowment": desperately squeezing the people in the Jiangnan area, especially the people in the Songjiang area of Suzhou, paid three times the tax in the Yuan Dynasty and more than five times that in the Song Dynasty, and the tax collected in Suzhou accounted for 10% of the country.

Therefore, as long as there is a better way out, the landlords in the Jiangnan area will definitely not hesitate to choose, the richest place has set an example, and other places will not be blushing?

In the final analysis, it is to show the majority of the ruling class that Nanyang is a shining mountain of gold, endless wealth, supreme military exploits, and unprecedented achievements, so that most people can have the desire to conquer, and as for the small number of people, let them be run over by the wheel of history. ”

Yang Pingfan was completely convinced, "Dr. Su is worthy of being a doctor, and I will listen to your strategic actions in the future." ”

When the fleet traveled westward and passed through the Strait of Malacca, Zheng He, in the name of Emperor Yongle, proclaimed Missoula as the king of Manraka and established himself from Siam.

On the other hand, Tan reported that there was a group of pirates entrenched on the nearby island of Temasek, who specialized in looting passing ships in the strait, collecting tolls, and requesting an attack to eliminate them.

Zheng He agreed and ordered Chen Zuyi to cooperate with the school official Qi Bin to fight.

Sure enough, only he knows himself best, and Chen Zuyi, who was born as a pirate, led the official army to fight pirates, and unequivocally solved this pirate group entrenched in the Strait of Malacca and once evenly matched with himself at the cost of less than ten casualties.

Su Yu suggested to Zheng He that this place is holding the strait, and the location is extremely dangerous, in order to prevent the subsequent invasion by pirates, and in order to prevent several surrounding states from fighting for this place, it is necessary to send a Ming army to temporarily station here, calm down one side, and wait until the return journey to pick them up.