The Black Death brought about the shrinkage of maritime trade, causing a lot of turmoil, coinciding with the defeat of Zhai Jun's first confrontation with the Tuva Ministry, and the first thing to be used was military affairs. Some people summarized the large-scale military activities of Shenzong since his succession, and compared them with the number and territory of the Han, Tang, and Ding dynasties, they accused him of expanding his army and investing too many troops in the south and at sea. One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and many people folded or submitted articles one after another, pointing fingers at such a radical four-army major defense.

When the controversy gradually escalated, and even the court meeting had old ministers who relied on the old and sold the old to make suggestions, Shenzong ordered Li Fang to publish the details of the expenditure of the past ten years in the newspaper—Dayu's military expenditure only accounted for 20% of the total expenditure of the household department, and even if the expenses of the entire Privy Council were added, it only accounted for 30% and a half, which was far less than the cost of the Ministry of Industry to build water conservancy and hard roads. Of course, these people can't see the accounts of the inner treasury, otherwise they will be even more vigorous. Sixty percent of the internal treasury is used for military spending, and when calculated as a whole, military expenditures over the years account for about half of the total expenditures. For an emperor who has the courage to expand his territory, this ratio should be normal, and once the war ceases and a large number of active soldiers are demobilized, it is no problem to compress the proportion of total expenditure to less than 30%. These silver coins are like water and oil, spent on the army, and then with the expansion of the territory, the land, wealth and materials from the surrounding countries and dependent territories are absorbed, forming a virtuous circle.

In fact, these conservative concerns are not unreasonable, as a large eastern country based on the mainland, it is naturally different from the island countries or peninsular countries such as Britain, Iberia, and Pochioge in the west. The closed geographical conditions of the East have drawn a chessboard for Chinese civilization, and the so-called 'warlike achievements' that civil officials love to criticize is often a concept of 'recovering the country'. Therefore, in the history that Gu Ci is familiar with, only dynasties like the Tang, Yuan, and Qing dynasties with nomadic attributes have really expanded their territorial boundaries. In the current history, no matter how bad the local dynasty is, it is just 'restoring the Tang Domain'. The current Shenzong has done far more than the previous monarchs, of course, some people want to shout at him, the plate is so big, why do you want to cross the line? However, in the eyes of Western civilization, countries based on the sea have no so-called national borders, and ships can reach them, merchants can reach them, and soldiers can reach them. If it is said that the nomads often have to accumulate strength for a long time to form a joint force in order to break through the defense line and go south, or even by chance, they can cross the Great Wall and the Qinhuai line and fully occupy the entire Central Plains, which shows that it is difficult to enter the East This land, then, in the broad sense of the West, Eurasia and Africa, a place where there is almost no natural danger to rely on, has been geographically divided into a number of easily balanced regions, once the player enters the game, it is not easy to exit, it is simply abusive!

After seeing the economic, cultural, and political system formed in this other environment, as an emperor who was not short-sighted, how could Yuan Yi let go of his own strength when the other party was weak? It is bound to take it as its own responsibility to build its own strategic advantages first! What's more, he also has a queen who is good at blowing pillow wind and knows the West better than the Chinese.

Gu Ci doesn't understand advanced economics, but at least he knows one thing that once money has a sufficient amount of flow to form a financial system, it is no longer a closed circle, and it will not be easily disintegrated by the self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy, and the income from land and the fruits derived from finance are not at all a level, even if there is really a stupid monarch in the future who dares to mention the rejection of the country and business (she firmly does not think that this kind of fool will be her own offspring!). and will only fall to the point of being overthrown.

The grapes and cotton of the north and south roads of the Tianshan Mountains, the rice and fruits of Southeast Asia, the beef and sheep venison of Kulun City, the ornaments of Dongying Goryeo, and the spices and timber of the South Seas can be bought everywhere in Shangjing.

From popularizing the concepts of 'state' and 'world' to 'basic rights of the people' and 'commercial politics', it is like opening a door for the people who are locked up in the country, so that they can step out with the royal industry to acquire wealth and new ideas, and when these people have completed the inheritance of two or three generations, can they safely assert that the 'germ of capitalism' has been born in Dayu?

In order not to lose money, the queen suggested that the newspaper be divided into three parts, and that the newspaper should be divided into three parts, which should be written for different groups of people: the government edition of 'News Times', the civil and commercial edition of 'Global Information', and the entertainment edition of 'Quyuan Miscellaneous'. The other two editors-in-chief will mainly focus on the government affairs edition, Xie Qiwei is in charge of the civil and commercial edition, and Song Yu is in charge of the entertainment edition, and the tone of the government decree and the collection of public opinion are attributed to Mingxiu. Post offices in non-Chinese-speaking areas have Honglu Temple equipped with interpreters, and its sales are included in the examination as one of the government's 'transmission of literature and persuasion' assessment items, along with schools, medical centers, and teahouses and restaurants that can stage plays.

After everything is ready, the first issue of the revised "Royal News" will be officially launched on the Qianqiu Festival, and we must use our greatest efforts to publicize the righteous deeds of Pang Xian and others, and thank the envoys to the West and Princess Xi Chuan and others for their feat of bringing back the Great Food Classics!

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At this time, according to the itinerary, the American route has left the wandering ghosts, and the news that they are slipping along a small island with only natives or no people all the way to the east, and there is a great possibility of discovering the mainland! Chin Tianjian happily added the islands to the newly drawn map and asked the emperor to name the islands.

This trick really hit the dragon's fart right, and Shenzong Longyan was happy, and he showed his love to the world with his pen - the Yajia Islands. Each is made of one of the characters 'Jiayan' and 'Xiya' in the small characters of the emperor and queen, and the queen is in front.

Gu Ci in the dormitory heard that the Aleutian Islands in his previous life had become this name, and he didn't care about his youngest son in the walker, so he smiled sweetly and picked up the needle and thread, preparing to make a set of fluffy 'special pajamas' to reward the workaholic husband at night.

As soon as he entered the door of the dormitory at night, Yuan Yi felt that the light was a little abnormally dim, and Yiqing led someone to finish the hot compress for him quickly, gave him a look, and then brushed out and closed the door.

Yuan Yi muttered happily in her heart, 'What new tricks does the little girl have tonight', while pushing open the bedroom door to look for her figure, only to see a set of milky white lamb blankets on the bed, the white gauze bed curtain hanging down, and a figure was vaguely seen. He lifted the curtain with a smile, "What are you doing hiding here, baby?" ”

A pair of furry claws tugged at his belt, and directly dragged the stunned emperor into the bed.

Lying on her side on the soft and smooth blanket, Yuan Yi looked at Gu Ci who was kneeling beside her in surprise, she was wearing fluffy gloves and socks on her hands and feet, her hair was loose and coiled, and her head turned out to be a fluffy rabbit ear, but the most itchy thing was that the two small triangular furs on her body were worn with strings, tied around her neck and back, and below were fluffy little skirts, and fluffy little tails on her buttocks.

The emperor, who felt that his clothes were a little thick, slid directly up along his hairy paws, gently scraped the fur on her chest, and flicked it. "This is the little rabbit on the Guanghan Palace who has moved his spring heart and has come down to earth?"

Gu Ci replied shyly, "Wait for Brother Wu Gang to make the medicine!" ”

The spring night is short, and it is greedy for joy. Gu Ci felt that he had been shaking all night, his voice was hoarse, his eyes were tearful, his whole body was numb and weak, and he didn't see this person stop, as if the sky was dark before he hugged her tightly and fell asleep.

Not surprisingly, on the second day, Shenzong, who was known for his diligence and love for the people, resigned the early dynasty for the first time.

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The route to Australia to the south is not so smooth. The whole Nanyang region is mainly divided into nine large island groups, from west to east, the Malay Peninsula in the west is in the upper Jinzhou, the central Bo Ni is in North Java in the south, the top in the east is Luzon, Sulu (Mindanao), the middle is Wutanma, and the lower string of pearl necklace-like islands 'Tamiao' (Lesser Sunda Islands) and Guri Timor (East Timor), further east, the upper part of the small archipelago is Merokhu (Maluku Islands), and below is the island of Mana (New Guinea) just discovered by the expedition. To the south of Mana Island is the destination of this trip, Australia.

The Ming Court and his party did not encounter a war, and few people who lacked heart and eyes dared to provoke a steel ship several stories high, but they lost the red hair of Penghu and ran to Luzon. When the Dayu fleet landed at Baguio City in Luzon, the Hongmaoyi people had just killed the local king Luo Jiaman, which aroused the anger of the people and fought each other fiercely. As a subject state that has paid tribute since the beginning of the Ding Dynasty, the 'Three Courts' naturally could not sit idly by and ignore Luzon's suffering, and just raised their guns to wound two red-haired and black-eyed Yi people, more than 400 Hongmao Yi people surrendered obediently.

The military doctor stepped forward in full armor and examined the Hongmaoyi people one by one to see if there was anything wrong with them. With the help of a half-baked interpreter, Zhou Ting and Luo Lai, the son of Luo Yanman, tried to communicate whether there were any cases of plagues such as the Black Death. When it is determined that there is no major problem, the quarantine area is cleared, the Hongmaoyi people are imprisoned, and the others are disembarked.

After the interrogation, it was learned that in addition to Luzon, there were Hongmaoyi and Iberian people in Pu Ni, Sulu, Jinzhou, Java and other places in Johor who were cruising the seas to escape the Black Death, robbing supplies like pirates for a living. Naturally, they did not dare to approach the vicinity of Longmen, but they found that the Dayu Navy did not patrol and deploy in this peripheral sea area and did not leave Longmen easily, so they dared to attack these scattered island countries in the southeast.

This situation has been noticed by the Privy Council before, from Xia Bufan's point of view, firstly, his thoughts and habits have not departed from the concept of protecting the sea by land, and if he does not attack, he will not fight, and secondly, the conventional route before coming is to travel along the coastline, and after passing the Longmen, he can go to Saigon, Chongming Island, and Penghu to reach the coastal cities of Dayu smoothly, all of which are under control, and the task of dividing the troops to patrol is more to go out of Longmen and enter the Tianzhu Sea to sweep pirates, as well as to guard the ships in the Gulf of Siam, and the number of sentinel ships is temporarily insufficient to send to so many small islands to investigate the real situation.

While the Ming Court sent the news to Xia Bufana and asked the Privy Council how to deal with it, he set off with a ship of troops, preparing to sweep the surrounding Xiyi people, and the captives were pulled to Longmen in small boats in batches to be imprisoned, believing that after the Black Death, the queen would use these precious manpower to ask for ransom from the two countries. Zhou Ting and Lu Quhai stayed in Luzon honestly, lest as soon as they left, the other Hongmaoyi concentrated their forces to take revenge, but harmed the Luzon people. When the situation in Nanyang reached the Privy Council, many people thought that it could be concocted in the same way as the Three Buddhas, so that Han Chinese or Han merchants could be in charge of local government affairs, and the military power would be under the jurisdiction of the Anton Army, but unfortunately this suggestion was blown by the queen's pillow wind.

Gu Ci always felt that Nanyang was so far away from Dayu mainland that he could not replicate the success of Srivijaya, because after all, Sriwijaya was connected to the Phuo country on land, and without land depth, it was difficult for the land power country to control the island country, even if it was all Chinese, it was only the second Singapore. The reason why Nanyang held the Dragon Gate and could not keep Xiyi out of the door was entirely the result of the local businessmen's disobedience to Dayu Yang. After years of training by the Great Cannibals, they are much more flexible than Dongying, which is why the Three Buddhas were beaten into that virtue at the beginning, and the royal family refused to ask Dayu for help. Even if Da Yu helped them drive away Xiyi and Da Shi, they still wouldn't want Da Yu to be the next Da Shi, and they were even more wary of this close neighbor.

Countries like Siam and Khmer, which do not directly border Dayu, are even more unlikely to easily bow down, and Britain and France fought for many years in Indochina, relying on the depth of the Shan Plateau and a long enough coastline, Thailand is like a tumbler, and has never fallen into the hands of a colonial empire, which is not something that can be done by political wisdom alone.

For the abundant products, more self-sufficient than Dayu in Southeast Asia, can not be like Dongying to a certain commodity as a hard currency to change the economic structure of the whole country, on the contrary, Dayu to some extent still has to rely on Southeast Asian rice, after all, the Northeast is currently just four or five years old, a small part of the area has been able to use steam tractors to plough the soil, can break the permafrost, dig deep underground fertile soil, but without plastic, the greenhouse can not be realized in batches, always can not always use tempered glass this luxury, Even ordinary glass that does not resist pressure is not low. That black land is still far from becoming a 'North Okura'.

Gu Ci is waiting for the rubber and cinchona trees of the American route to come, as long as the first rubber tree is planted in Nanyang, she can guarantee that the entire Nanyang region will depend on Dayu's commerce and trade, just like Dongying. But Chenla, Khmer and Siam are different, and even the Tusi of the Shan Highlands are not easy to handle, so they can't all be killed.

With her head, it is completely useless to solve this kind of international relations problem, so it is still the old way, tell her husband, and let him think about it. The emperor who was there listened to her chatter and ate tofu absentmindedly, not thinking that these small countries would cause any problems. A country that doesn't even have a national history needs to think about so much? They were all captured and exiled to the poor places of China, and the Chinese spoken and the Han history they learned two generations later were properly naturalized.

The reply of the Privy Council was quickly given to Ming Ting and others, and the expedition continued to set out south, making sure to find Australia and Guri Timor before the Xiyi people, and the latter would be used as a supply point for the future to Australia. The military order given to Xia Bufan was the first time that Dayu showed an aggressive 'sea protection order': all ships entering the Nanyang waters must apply for a "navigation permit" at Longmen or Dayu's embassy, and those without a license are regarded as smuggling, and those who resist arrest by force are regarded as rebellion; If the countries of the South Seas did not cooperate with the military operations of the Great Yu, they would be punished as "collaborating with the enemy" in the "Law of the Great Yu"; the Andong army began to clean up the islands, and they must be included as "territories", and those who resist will go to their royal families and nobles, and those who obey will follow the example of the Three Buddhas.

The best result of the crime of collaborating with the enemy is also exile, which is generally punished. It is conceivable that many ancient countries were annihilated because of this sentence.