If you clamp the gun with a stick, it will make the root of Liu Yu's hated teeth itch.

But I also knew in my heart that this kind of deliberately provoked his anger, it was best not to answer the call.

These heart-wrenching words were addressed to the emperor.

It may not be useful for the time being, but it's like a seed that may sprout one day, and it's hard to say.

At this time, it is not an occasion to argue about these heart-wrenching words, Liu Yu's heart is a little heavy, and I have to say that these people are really pinching very accurately.

Is it a rainy day?

Or is it unfounded?

Man's correct thinking does not fall from the sky, but must be judged by experience.

Just as the feudal towns at the end of the Tang Dynasty and the rebellion of the Five Dynasties made the Song Dynasty extremely heavy on literature and light on military force; The incompetent rule of the government and the death of Yashan in the Yuan Dynasty made the Ming Dynasty stuck in the red line of Huayi's debate.

The situation faced by Dashun is somewhat similar.

In all dynasties, there has never been a strong enemy attacking from the southeast to subvert the world.

In the real world, there were no prophets, let alone prophets, who stood in the court with a crow's cane and recited a prophecy about the future.

If there is no prophet, then if history is a mirror, why build a navy that seems meaningless and wastes money?

The only point to break the game is in Japan, but it can't be broken at this time.

The court was leaking everywhere, and once the news reached Japan, intentionally or unintentionally, it would not be too late to say that there was a problem with trade, even if Japan was in a hurry to learn from the Dutch.

Britain needed a strong navy to guarantee the mercantilist interests of the Navigation Regulations and its own security; The Netherlands needed a navy to keep their position as coachmen at sea; Spain needed a navy to guarantee communication with the colonies of the New World; France needs a navy, colonies or something is secondary, Britain must have France if it has it; Russia needed a navy to fight Sweden and the Turks in the Black Sea.

What does Dashun want the navy to do?

At this point, Liu Yu really couldn't give a satisfactory answer to the court.

He thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't think of a reason that would really be useful to convince everyone.

Because...... Westerners are tens of thousands of miles away and come to attack the Celestial Empire, isn't this a fool's dream? How can it be? In this way, it is simply a prophet and a witch.

But if you don't talk about these arguments that seem to be prophets and witches, you can only talk about reality, and you can't say a meridian.

In the trade of Southeast Asia, remove the Westerners, is there a handicraft industry in Southeast Asia that competes with Dashun and requires high tariffs?

Whatever can be sold in Southeast Asia, merchants can buy it.

As for the cultivation of sugarcane on tropical islands, Qiongzhou has not yet been fully planted, and there are not many people in Taiwan.

[Persuade you not to go through Taiwan, Taiwan is just like a ghost gate, thousands of people go to no one turns, it is difficult to know life and death. Even the cellar field also dares to go, Taiwan is located in the Extinction Mountain, Taiwan is Fujian Province, half Zhangzhou and half spring. Half of the Cantonese people live, half of the raw and ripe fan, the raw fan lives in the mountains and forests, and the murder is brought into the mountains...... Don't trust people to go to Taiwan. Every time a child loves to come, he is beaten to death and thrown outside, and a piece of paper is true, and none of them is a lie.

This is the status quo of tropical islands, not the four-season climate of North America.

Malaria, mosquitoes, dengue fever, fever, not to mention one in ten, but one-third of the mortality rate is not a problem.

Sometimes, it sounds like the phrase "the heavens and the earth are rich in everything" is a bit arrogant, but at this moment, it is just a very modest statement of a fact.

If there is no memory of the previous life, at this moment, in fact, the words of the government are the words of the country, and Liu Yu is really worrying.

If history is any way to go, no regime collapsed because of the invasion in the southeast sea.

In terms of realistic reasoning, the words of the British Duke also made it very clear that the conflict between the former dynasty and the Dutch Britain was due to the failure to open up trade.

Now that Dashun has opened up trade, why do Western countries come to Dashun? Figure what?

The so-called colonies, or the same sentence, are not Luzon and Batavia who are rich, but Spain and the Netherlands.

Occupying it, in a sense, is not conducive to trade. Just like Zheng Chenggong's hesitation to conquer Luzon, he must consider the income of one million taels from the Spanish trade.

And whether Southeast Asia is a colony or not really makes no difference to Dashun. No small Southeast Asian country dares to impose a trade embargo on Dashun, or a very important clause in the colonial policy that prohibits the development of local industries, and it does not exist at all.

There is a shortage of food, so I use silk and porcelain to go to Southeast Asia to exchange; In order to make up for the trade deficit, the Dutch shipped shiploads of spices to Guangdong, hoping to make up for the payment.

Dashun does not produce silver, but Dashun is a silver currency.

Dashun's central bank is a European colonial gold and silver mine, and the right to issue banknotes is in the hands of Europeans, and the people who handle it are customs trade.

Have you ever seen the government's army go to war against the central bank?

Dashun did not need mercantilism, because the handicraft industry was so strong that free trade achieved what mercantilism wanted most, precious metals.

The switch is like this, and the smuggling without the switch is still the same.

This natural mercantilism makes the navy really an embarrassing existence.

Forcing Japan to open its doors and seize the Spice Islands are two meaningful directions for the navy, and they are also the only two directions in which short-term interests can be seen, but neither of these directions can be said at this time.

At this time, if it is said that the purpose of building the navy is to wage war against Japan and the Netherlands, it will inevitably meet with great opposition, and it is no exaggeration to say that the army is reckless.

In the face of criticism and questioning by opponents, Liu Yu could only lean in the direction of "taking precautions".

"In Fujian and Guangdong, there are few farms. In the past, Guangdong was still eating rice from Guangxi, but now most of Guangdong's rice comes from Nanyang. The same is true of Fujian, which is rich near the sea, and the grain and rice all come from the South Seas. ”

"You can't go a day without food. What if one day, all of a sudden, those small countries in the South Seas are not allowed to sell grain? ”

"How much do you know about the countries of the South Seas?"

"Then the Dutch country, in order to be able to control spices, forced the local people not to grow a grain of rice, only allowed to grow spices. In this way, the Dutch were able to exchange cheap grain and rice for large quantities of spices. ”

"Westerners are getting deeper and deeper in Nanyang, and Nanyang has already become a rice bag in Fujian and Guangdong. If Nanyang is controlled by Westerners, once the heart of harm is born and grain and rice are not allowed to be transported, how many people in Fujian, Guangdong and other places will starve to death? How many people can't make a living? ”

"What do you say, it's not too late to build a ship when there is a war approaching. Even if the shipbuilding can be warn, when the shipbuilding comes out, I am afraid that Fujian and Guangdong will be abandoned. Who can bear such a responsibility? ”

"If there is a navy, wherever the navy goes, it is the land. The Netherlands is 80,000 miles away from the South Sea, and as long as the navy can reach it, Batavia is Dutch, and the spices are Dutch. The Anglo-Gregorian kingdom is separated by an ocean from the United States, but the navy can reach it, and the cotton, indigo, cane sugar, tobacco, etc. of the United States are all from the British and Gully countries. ”

"If we want Nanyang to always be the rice bag of the country, is it okay not to have a navy?"

After talking about the problem that most of the grain in Fujian and Guangdong comes from the South Seas, Liu Yu said: "There is a story in ancient times, the Chu people had a person who waded into the river, and his sword fell into the water from the boat. The boat stops, and the one to whom it is contracted enters the water to seek it. The boat has been done, but the sword is not, if the sword is like this, isn't it also confusing? ”

"The ship is moving forward, and the world is constantly changing. The Japanese were close to the Dutch, and even though there was a lockdown order, the Dutch were still allowed to trade. ”

"The Wa Kingdom has never accepted the Celestial Empire, and has always called itself the country of the rising sun. The rebellion of Renchen must not be overlooked. If the Japanese army learned from the Netherlands and built a fleet, who can fight against the princes of the court? ”

"Have you ever seen a big ship in the West? If you haven't seen it, how do you know that the sailors of the dynasty can beat the ship? ”

"It's like before leveling, if anyone said that 10,000 infantry would be raised and crisscrossed the Western Regions. I'm afraid that it will be regarded as crazy words. But what about the facts? ”

Having said that, it is clear that there is no prophet in this world, but Liu Yu has to use strong words to be this prophet.

At this time, there was only one way to build a navy, the prophet Wubu.

The words of a prophet always sound at first, but when they happen, they will sigh that they were foreseen.

He has great merit and accurate achievements, and there is always some different kind of power to say this at this time.

Seeing that the momentum in the court was suppressed, Liu Yu asked again: "If the world remains unchanged, my dynasty does not need to change at all." With today's military strength, it will fight the four yi. ”

"However, let me ask you, who can guarantee that if our dynasty does not change, the surrounding Siyi, the small countries of the South Seas, and the East Japan will not change?"

"If they change, who will take the blame then?"

"Broken bones and ashes? Even if it is a bone-break and ashes, it can't bear this responsibility. ”

"Now, who stands up and says: The neighboring countries, the Oriental Japan, and the South Seas will not change? He gambled that after death, his bones would be broken and ashes would be scattered, his children and grandchildren would be slaves, and his daughters would be prostitutes. If I lose, set up an inscription for me, and worry about the sky; If you lose, you will stand side by side with Qin Hui and Wu Sangui, and the book will be left behind for ten thousand years. How is it? ”

said so fiercely, it was in the court again, and someone immediately reprimanded: "Uncle Ying, don't say such things in this court." Besides, who says that without change, there is no chance of victory? ”

"I said it!" Among the ministers, Li Jiusi, the Duke of Eguo, who had really seen the fleet salvo, stepped forward and asked, "Which of you has ever seen what the Western Fleet looks like?" Who knows what this naval battle should look like? Outdated military books, outdated ships, simply vulnerable. I saw with my own eyes in Weihai that if the fleet is completed, it will be the sailors of the whole world tied together, and it will not be an opponent. ”

"There's just no chance of winning."

Hearing Liu Yu's prophetic tone, Li Jiusi finally couldn't help but stand up.

At this time, it seems that it is only shocking, but it still has the courage to say "in order to win"; If you wait for the steamships to run rampant in a few decades, you will only vomit blood and despair.

But even if there is still hope of surpassing now, Li Jiu thought about the terrifying scene of the fleet salvo that he saw in Weihai that day, and he was really afraid that what Liu Yu said would become a reality.

Not to mention the Western countries, who dares to guarantee that the Oriental Japan and the South Asian countries will not "get the moon first near the water" and change in advance?

At that time, Burma's Annam was all Qingzhou troops with flintlock pistols and bayonets; The sea is full of Western battleships, what should Dashun do?

Whether it is Annan or Japan, if they attack, they will always share the world with the scholars, but what about their group of nobles? When surrendering, Xungui wanted to surrender but couldn't, it was a hardcore remnant of the previous dynasty, and he wanted to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots.

Anyway...... It is the money of the treasury that is spent, and it is not for the nobles to donate, so it is natural to stand up and support it at this time.