“… Stinky boy can't see it, you're so sinister. ”

After listening to Liu Jin's plan, Zhang Mao couldn't help but say to Liu Jin.

“…… Zhang Gong~"

Liu Jin was speechless, you are talking about your own people like this.

"Lao Liu, this trick is good, kill those salt merchants."

Zhu Houzhao also applauded, he had long seen that those salt merchants and Hui merchants were not pleasing to the eye, but now he is just a prince, he has no power, and there is no way to take those people at all.

Well, now that Liu Jin has this trick, it is enough to trap these people to death.

"Let's not talk about the Changlu Salt Farm for now, and then let's talk about the second thing."

"That's the opening of the South Seas route."

Liu Jin smiled, the matter of Changlu Salt Farm, others agreed, it doesn't matter if you don't make any money for the time being, as long as you bring down those salt merchants and the market is occupied by yourself, you can make money in the future, not to mention that Liu Jin has never thought of making a lot of money with salt.

There are many profitable transactions, why should you become the second salt merchant, you still have to have a conscience to do business, you can't only have money in your eyes, once you fall into the money eye, then there is only money.

"Open up the South Sea route?"

As soon as everyone heard this, they immediately came to their senses, and these people present were all profiteers of the ocean-going trade, and now they could bring back a boatload of silver every month just by going to Korea and the Japanese country.

If the Nanyang route can be opened, according to what Liu Jin said at the beginning, this will make more money, because after the Nanyang can reach Tianzhu and the Middle East, the Ming things are transported to these places, the price will soar, if you can do business with Europeans in the future.

The silk and porcelain are worth more than gold.

If you want to go farther to make a fortune in the future, this South Sea route must be opened up.

"It's hard to open up a route to the South Seas~"

Then Liu Jin said in a deep voice.

His words also made Zhang Mao, Zhu Fu, and Xu Guangzuo nod their heads, they originally wanted to open up the South China Sea route, so they had already found someone to understand a lot of things in advance.

"Hard?"

"Is it more difficult than going to the Golden Continent?"

"I've seen the world map you gave Lao Liu, it shouldn't be difficult to go to Nanyang, and even Annan is connected to our Guangxi, so we can go south directly along the coastline."

Of course, Zhu Houzhao didn't know why it was difficult, so he said with doubts.

"The difficulty of opening up the South Sea route lies not in the navigation technology, but in the people~"

Zhang Mao thought for a moment and replied.

"These big families and big businessmen in the Jiangnan region control the ocean-going trade in the Nanyang region, and on the surface they support the imperial court's ban on the sea, but secretly they enjoy the huge profits of the Nanyang trade."

"At the same time, they also supported and colluded with pirates and pirates, forming a large number of pirates and pirates in the southeast coastal area, and any merchant ship that was not their would be looted by these pirates and pirates and lost their money."

Zhang Mao told what he knew.

"Collusion with pirates and pirates?"

Zhu Houzhao's eyes widened suddenly, he never thought that it would be such a reason.

"Yes, last month, several of my ships went to the Japanese side to do business and were attacked by pirates, but fortunately, our ships are all ships made by Tianjin Shipyard, which are fast and large, so we escaped."

Zhu Fu also nodded and said.

"Because we went to Korea to do business with the Japanese and robbed some of their business, it is now also the beginning of pirates and pirates to loot our merchant ships."

"I'm worried that these pirates and pirates will grow more and more bold, so we still have to find a way to get rid of them."

Then Zhu Fu also told about the recent sea route to the Wa Kingdom was not very smooth, and the pirates and pirates had already targeted them.

"How can this be reasonable, it's just bold~"

Zhu Houzhao was immediately angry.

"Of course they're bold, there's nothing they don't dare to do."

Liu Jin nodded and said, colluding with pirates and pirates, in a few decades, these pirates and pirates even dared to go ashore directly to loot the cities of the Ming Dynasty, and it was often difficult to exterminate these pirates and pirates when the imperial army was exterminated.

Hearing Liu Jin's words, Zhu Houzhao was silent, that's right, there is really nothing they dare not do, even the imperial power dares to touch, what else do they dare not do?

"Whether we want to open up the South Sea route or maintain our current route, we must deal a heavy blow to these pirates and pirates."

Liu Jin thought for a moment and continued.

His words were also supported by everyone, and everyone nodded their heads.

Just kidding, the route between North Korea and the Japanese is the root of everyone's life, and it is the most profitable business now, if the Japanese and pirates are ruined, then the good situation formed at the moment will be completely finished, and the capital sprouts that Liu Jin has worked so hard to get may die out.

This is something that Liu Jin absolutely cannot allow to happen.

"Lao Liu, don't sell it, what should I do, say a charter."

Zhu Houzhao was very impatient and asked directly.

"We should approach this in a multi-faceted way."

"First of all, we have to figure out the source of these pirates and Japanese pirates, the Japanese are basically from the side of the Japanese country, because the current Japanese country is in the Warring States period, and the Japanese daimyo are constantly attacking, resulting in many samurai can't get along on the side of the Japanese country, so they become Japanese invaders."

"As for piracy, its sources are basically cultivated by those big merchants and big families in the Jiangnan region, so we can start to solve it from these two aspects."

"In the name of the Ming Dynasty, we can ask the Wa Kingdom to restrain our samurai, otherwise we will punish the Wa Kingdom."

Liu Jin thought about it carefully and slowly began to speak.

This thing is not too serious now, and in a few decades, the Japanese will become a scourge, and they will not be able to be suppressed, and they will harass the southeast coastal area of the Ming Dynasty for decades.

Later, after the end of the Warring States period of the Wa Kingdom and the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate, after the establishment of the rule and control of the Wa Kingdom, the source of the Wako was greatly reduced, coupled with the extermination of the Ming Dynasty, so it was slowly cleaned up.

One of the most important points is the control of the samurai on the side of the Ming Dynasty, the current Ming Dynasty has enough deterrent power against the Japanese State, and it is nominally the suzerainty of the Japanese State, and the words of the Ming Dynasty are still very useful.

On the one hand, it is necessary to resolutely exterminate those who make trouble, and on the other hand, it is necessary to exert tremendous pressure on the side of the Japanese state, so that it will not be difficult to deal with the Japanese invaders.

"As for pirates, the most important thing is to clean up these big families and big businessmen who support pirates, only if these big families and big businessmen are cleaned up, it will be difficult for pirates to become a climate, and then the sailors of the imperial court will be enough to clean up these pirates."

Hearing Liu Jin's analysis, everyone nodded, and at once they recognized the source of the pirates and pirates, and knew the roots of these pirates and pirates, and it was not difficult to deal with them.

"It's nothing to deal with the pirates and pirates in front of us, if we want to go to the world outside the Ming Dynasty to make money in the future, then we don't just have to deal with the pirates and pirates in front of us."

"There are also pirates in the South Seas, in Tianzhu, the Middle East, and Europe, there are even more pirates everywhere, as many as cow hair, in addition, once the profits involved are too great, not only pirates, other countries will also have a conflict of interest with our Ming Dynasty, and then it is not pirates who have to deal with them, but sailors from other countries."

"So from the root, we need a strong sailor, a strong sailor who can sweep the world, to escort us and protect our interests."

"When the time comes, whether it is encountering pirates, pirates or the like, or competing with other countries for interests and territory on a global scale, we can be tough enough and have enough strength."

After listening to Liu Jin's words, the people present nodded one after another, and Zhu Houzhao was even more excited, and his little eyes flashed at that time.

The most admired of this thing is generals like Huo Quzhi and Wei Qing, and he was excited when he heard the battle, and Zhu Houzhao in history personally led the army to fight with the grassland army that went south to plunder, and even let him win.

Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning, rebelled, and Zhu Houzhao, who learned the news, was even more excited, and personally led the troops south to quell the rebellion, but who knew that before he arrived in Jiangxi, King Ning was cleaned up by Wang Shouren, and this Zhu Houzhao actually let Zhu Chenhao go, and then he wanted to come and kill it again.

It can be seen from this that this Zhu Houzhao is definitely a war fanatic.

Now when I heard Liu Jin say that he wanted to fight pirates, exterminate the pirates, and build a powerful sailor to sweep the world, the whole person felt his blood boiling.

"Yes~ Yes, we must build a sailor who can sweep the four seas, and we must knock the whole world down, so that no one dares to provoke our Daming."

Zhu Houzhao clenched his fists and nodded again and again.

Zhang Mao, Zhu Fu, and Xu Guangzuo saw it, and immediately smiled, seeing Zhu Houzhao, they saw that the nobles had a promising future, and they had been suppressed by the ministers all along.

Zhang Mao, he is a dignified grandfather, and the most he does is to worship the Taimiao, and the entire Xungui group does not have any power in his hands, and all the power is controlled by the ministers.

It's not that they haven't thought about getting it back, but it's too difficult, and even the emperor who wants to transfer troops and send generals must get the consent of the military department, not to mention their military generals.

"However, this matter needs to be considered in the long run, and it is not up to us to have the final say, and it still needs the joint efforts of the court to achieve it."

"What we can do now is to develop this place first~"

Liu Jin smiled, and then pointed to the location of the treasure island on the huge map in the study.