When the members of the expedition team trapped in the courtyard saw Liu Yu again, they were very calm.

Several people inside exchanged money with each other, probably because they had made a bet before, betting on whether Liu Yu would come to them again.

Since he is a member of the expedition, he has long been mentally prepared for this boring life.

The sea journey is even more boring than being in the yard, no matter how magnificent the vast sea is, you will vomit if you see too much, so naturally you will not be bored with this kind of house arrest life with food and drink.

Cherikov, who was caught by Liu Yu as a traitor, was not inside, and Bering, as the leader of the expedition, still took the initiative to greet Liu Yu.

"Liu, how long are we going to be here?"

"Soon, soon. I have already said about you in my negotiations with the Russians. Your family will be here soon. As for you, you should be able to go to the sea soon. ”

said so, Liu Yu had no bottom in his heart.

He deceived Bering, saying that Dashun had the heart to explore the unknown world and would fund Bering to form an expedition to find the mysterious southern continent.

In fact, Liu Yu didn't want to for the time being.

At least before the South Seas defeated the power of Western countries, finding Australia at this time was obviously a gift to Westerners, a standard wedding dress for others.

His train of thought is to take three steps.

The first step is to explore a route from Shandong to North Korea, to Japan, and to Vladivostok.

The second step is to rely on this route to train a group of sailors and shipbuilders who are proficient in Western soft sailing ships. Poke out a big hole in the small Tanegashima left behind by Japan's lockdown.

The Russians had average seamanship skills, but Bering was not really Russian, but formally studied at the Naval Academy in Amsterdam.

Finally, we can consider the issue of Nanyang.

The main thing is to go to the South Seas now, the military is insufficient, and it is not profitable.

If they only want to trade, Westerners will take the initiative to deliver money to their doorstep. Until there is a navy strong enough to counter the Anglo-Dutch detachment in Southeast Asia, the South Sea problem does not exist, because it is meaningless.

Here's a loop:

Trade was completely open, Western ships flocked to it, and the merchants of Fujian and Canton were no match for the organized East India Company, whether it was ocean-going technology or open-sea warfare.

The complete retreat will lead to a large number of smugglers, and the Westerners will also nurture them to get the goods that the Westerners desperately need, but the official level of communication will also be cut off.

The piracy situation at the end of the Ming Dynasty is actually this reason: the Dutch can't get the goods, because the Portuguese are in Macao, and the two sides are at war, and the Jesuits have influence in China, and they will definitely not say good things about the Dutch, plus the Dutch are addicted to pirates, forcibly occupy Penghu, and it is impossible to trade with the Ming Dynasty.

The Dutch were poor again, and there was no silver from the silver mines of the Americas, and once raw silk could be sold for 240 in Manila, it could only be sold for 150 in Batavia.

Manila is near, Batavia is far away, and Fujian businessmen are not Dutch wild fathers, so naturally they will not go to Batavia to help the poor and send warmth.

This led to the Dutch raising a group of pirates to rob the route to Manila, forcing merchants to trade in Batavia, and also the prosperous era of piracy in Southeast Asia at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

The situation in China is special.

China does not need the goods of Westerners.

Even after a crow, after the opium was removed, the goods in Britain still could not squeeze the men and women who weaved under the small-scale peasant economy.

After the establishment of the United States, there was no goods to be shipped to China except for silver and American ginseng, so they could only dig up the ice in the north as ballast stones and cover them with sawdust to keep them warm. So much so that in Guangdong and other places, throughout the late 18th century and early 19th century, many of the American ice cubes that were eaten in the summer were American ice cubes that came from the ocean - even if American ginseng was dug up and became extinct in North America, it was impossible to transport it here one by one, and selling some ice cubes across the Pacific Ocean was better than loading stones to ballast the warehouse.

Completely open to trade, relying entirely on the power of the people, Fujian merchants could not compete with the organized East India Company.

The East India Company had guns, it had an army, it was organized.

And the key question is, to whom are the goods sold?

Before the retreat, it could be sold to Manila and Batavia for silver.

Now that the customs have been opened, on the cost of freight and the advantages of local domination, Fujian businessmen are not opponents, so why compete?

Western countries can go directly to the customs to pick up the goods and send them back to Europe, why do they need a group of second-hand dealers?

Is it true that the East India Company is gentle and frugal? As soon as the customs were opened, trade could be carried out freely, and as long as a group of pirates were supported and a few privateer licenses were issued, the East India Company could force all the Dashun maritime merchants to go bankrupt.

Even the Southeastern Zhejiang School, which hoped that the imperial court would support industry and commerce, only supported annexation, the cultivation of cash crops, and the development of handicrafts, but did not support the construction of a navy, because it was useless and costly.

This is the biggest difference between the budding bourgeois of Dashun and Western Europe, if you can't figure this out, thinking that it can be solved by just opening up trade, it is the standard carved boat sword.

United Kingdom, Netherlands...... Sailing had to be developed, because no one offered to send money to their doorstep.

If the Bourgeois of Western Europe wanted to make a profit, its doctrine necessarily attached importance to the navy; On the other hand, the sprouts on the Dashun side will inevitably not pay attention to the navy, but to the annexation of enclosed land, the conversion of rice to mulberry, the reduction of commercial taxes, the encouragement of non-governmental mining, the formation of associations to discuss politics, and the suppression of the massive number of displaced people due to labor pains.

Bourgeois's profit-seeking and short-sightedness of daring to sell and hang themselves doomed them to sprout: the commodification of land necessarily brought about displaced people, the problem of displaced people had to rely on Nanyang immigrants, and the official immigrants needed money, and they needed to build unprofitable and money-losing navies to defend them.

But if you want to make money, you just need to wait for someone to buy goods at your doorstep, why do you want to learn from those poor Westerners running around? Tea raw silk porcelain, love to buy or not, you don't buy your own others rush to buy, only this one, no other semicolon. Fighting for 50% mortality to go to Europe, what can be shipped back and sell for money? Transporting a boatload of wool and woolen wool and trying to sell it to the people who are male farmers and women weaving, is there money to spend? Or go to the Americas to transport Fuso cacti, go to Africa to transport unicorn giraffes, and offer auspiciousness to Your Majesty?

Here there is no money for those who have no motivation to sail, and there is no money for those who have the power to sail and emigrate. On the British side, there were those who had the money and the motivation to sail and ship porcelain and silk back to make money, and those who had no money were forced to sail either as sailors or as indentured slaves.

As for collecting my money from the homeless people, allowing them to emigrate to the South Seas and build a navy, of course I will not give money. If they don't give money, and the displaced people refuse to die, they have to turn over and start over. Continue to sprout. Hundreds of thousands of people in Britain who dared to enclose the territory went to workhouses, and seventy percent of the people in Ireland starved to death. You Li Zicheng can get free grain in the field and mix with the emperor, will my Wang Zicheng and Zhang Zicheng be willing to starve to death?

This is determined by different economic bases.

Therefore, the Nanyang issue cannot be led by the people, nor can it be expanded independently, but can only be led by the government.

With a strong, Leviathan will, execute a route that will not see profits or even lose money in a short time.

Liu Yu knows this very well.

There is no official-led navy, and the problem of the South Seas is the moon in the mirror.

And the officially-dominated navy, it needs money, a lot of money.

But on the contrary, Dashun wants money, and he doesn't need a navy at all - he only needs a customs, and Westerners can fight each other for the qualification to send money.

Therefore, if we want to build a navy, we can only use Japan as a breakthrough.

Taking advantage of the relationship between Tanegashima and East Asia since ancient times, the small window of Tanegashima was smashed into a big hole, and at the same time, the problem of lack of copper in the imperial court was solved, and at the same time, enough money was raised and a group of sailors were trained, so that the emperor could see that the navy could bring money.

Without real profits, it is impossible to convince anyone, and it is impossible for the imperial court to spend a lot of money to train the Nanyang Navy.

Thanks to the shogunate for closing the country, and also for the island country for having more copper and silver, giving such a breakthrough gap. Indispensable.

As for the Nanyang issue, we can only wait for changes in Europe to be resolved once and for all.

The Dashun court had a certain understanding of the outside world, but it was still far from being able to use Liu Yu's borrowing of European contradictions on Lake Baikal to make profits. It can only be regarded as listening to the world with open ears, and not yet opening eyes to see the world.

Strength...... The difference is even farther, even if the Seven Years' War starts now, Europe is in a mess, relying on the current water division of Dashun, he is not even qualified to play soy sauce in Nanyang.

We can't rely on the army, the United Kingdom, and the United Kingdom to fight Russia, and make a small contribution to the Tatar Ying "when the Son of Heaven ascends the throne, the Quartet comes to the dynasty for 250 years, the British ceremony and the princes, and the five uniforms are divided into far and near", and occupy a few bitter cold lands.

It must be to take advantage of the chaos of the Seven Years' War, desperately to collapse at home, sell kidneys to aid France, and also join forces with France to crush British power in Southeast Asia and India.

Therefore, in this national focus line, Bering and others, who can be used as naval seeds, are very important.

How to persuade Bering is a bit difficult.

Bering heard Liu Yu say "it's soon, it's fast", so he could only complain to Liu Yu.

"Liu, I'm 47 years old this year. As far as a navigator and explorer is concerned, 47 years old is a very old age. ”

"You know the outside world. The Earth is only so big, and there are not many opportunities left for us explorers. ”

"In addition to the northern routes of Asia and the Americas, there is only the southern continent left. I hope that history will remember my name and leave a piece of land that bears my name. ”

"It's an employment relationship between us. If you can't support me on this expedition, then I can only choose to leave. Even if my life ends in the sea journey, I shouldn't be doing nothing here. ”

"The results of the great geographical discoveries belong to the whole world. But the reputation of the great geographical discoveries belongs to the individual. You don't think I'm gnawing my boots and eating weeds in Siberia for those silver coins, do you? ”

Liu Yu hurriedly said: "Of course, of course." I understand. I think it will be soon. Perhaps, the affairs of the southern continent can not be rushed, we can first explore the route from Asia to the northern part of the Americas. I'm arranging people, recruiting some shipbuilders. You should know that our ships are not the same as yours, and expeditions need boats. You can wait a little longer, 47 years old is not too big. ”

Of course he was lying.

Bering believed it, he had no contact with the rest of the people, and his understanding of Dashun was through Liu Yu's window.

At least the Dashun seen in this window is a vigorous and upward, actively pioneering, and understanding the vastness of the outside world.

Although they still don't know what Liu Yu's identity is, Bering and others speculate that Liu Yu may be a duke or marquis, and what he says with such a status should be credible.

After deceiving Bering, Liu Yu continued to fool.

"Mr. Bering, Dashun's expedition may be a large fleet. Just like the reforms carried out by Peter, maybe Dashun's current navy is not strong, but as long as there is determination, it can definitely be trained. I heard that you fought in the Great Northern War, and also fought with the Turks in the Black Sea. ”

"So, I hope you can write a book about some seafaring skills and experience in naval warfare while you wait."

After speaking, he said to the rest of the expedition: "You are the same." You should know that there will not be a single naval war between China and Russia, this is not the Black Sea, not the Baltic Sea. You don't need any moral condemnation of treason. ”

"If you write it, you can give money. Anyway, you're idle. Whether it is geometry, nautical surveying, hydrology, naval tactics, sailor drills...... Everything, can be exchanged for money. Of course, I think you all know Latin. ”

"Whether you're going to stay here and explore in the future, or if you're going to take a boat from Macau back to Europe, money is always useful."

The members of these expeditions were carefully selected, and many of them had the experience of studying abroad, and they should all understand Latin, as the cultural language of the West at this time.

After these people agreed, Liu Yu promised to send them paper and pen soon. Repeatedly assured Bering that in a maximum of two years, Bering would be able to return to the sea.

Anyway, if you can't do it within two years, then it's useless to keep it.

After fooling these people, Liu Yu finally entered the small courtyard where Hannibal was under house arrest and had a headache.

Where do you start, fool Hannibal into writing down what he has learned?

There should be no shortage of money.

Love, certainly not as good as Peter's adoptive father's affection.

Officer, he just needs to return to Russia and get mixed up with the lieutenant general. As soon as the puppet little tsar died, the group of sand sculptures of the old school, who couldn't even understand the princes who coerced the Son of Heaven, could dissolve the Privy Council and seize power overnight with no foundation, and Hannibal would definitely be reused as long as he returned.

Righteousness, as Peter's adopted son, has just fought a battle between Shun and Russia, not to mention sacrificing his life for righteousness, but he can help Dashun compile a line of military drills......

Color, where to find a black girl who understands Latin or Russian and believes in Orthodox Christianity?

Name, he is not Bering, he can be fooled by leaving a name in the history of geographical discoveries.

scared, not to mention that he is not qualified to deal with prisoners of this level, he is not afraid of death.

This is a guy who doesn't eat oil and salt, soft and hard.

Dashun seems that it is impossible to send people to France in a short time, and don't fantasize about unrealistic things. Even if you send it, when you come back ten years later, the cucumber dishes are cold. The attack on Dzungaria is the only opportunity that can give Dashun the motivation to carry out army reform, and it must be exemplary and cost-effective in order to be accepted by the imperial court.

None of the missionaries who came were graduates of regular military academies, and they were all full of mouths, but they did not understand the commanders of the army.

I had to find a way to pry Hannibal's mouth open.