In a sea area of the Strait of Malacca in the South Sea, a huge fleet of more than 100 large ships is heading towards Malacca.

On the deck of one of the large ships, Liu Jin took a few letters in his hand and looked at them carefully.

The first letter came from the domestic side of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Jin's expedition to Nanyang has been several months, and people from the domestic side of the Ming Dynasty have come to Liu Jin almost every day to send news to convey the affairs inside and outside the court.

A major event has also happened in the Ming Dynasty recently, under the impetus of the whole court and the whole court, the Hongzhi Emperor issued a holy decree on his side, allowing the Ming Ocean Trading House to have a certain degree of private armament.

Although the imperial court later issued a detailed "Code for the Management of Arms of Ocean Firms", the code specified in detail the number of arms that Ocean Firms could have, the types of weapons that had been regularly inspected, and many strict regulations such as not being allowed to bring them into the Ming Dynasty.

However, this still surprised Liu Jin very much.

"Sure enough, profit is the source of power!"

"If the officials of the north and south factions have the same interests, even Emperor Hongzhi will be fooled and lame, and they really let them do it, and the emperor will actually allow the emergence of private armed forces."

Liu Jin couldn't help but shake his head.

To tell the truth, although Liu Jin had such a plan, he wanted to persuade the Hongzhi Emperor to open up private armed forces and allow major trading houses to have a certain amount of armed forces overseas.

But Liu Jin felt that he didn't dare to mention this matter, because he was afraid that the emperor would take it to heart, and maybe he would be imprisoned that day because of this matter.

Private armies, in all dynasties, they all want to rebel against usurpation and kill the nine clans.

Although Liu Jin knew very well that the major commercial houses must have a certain amount of armed force, otherwise it would be difficult to quickly colonize and expand around the world.

But in this matter, Liu Jin is very cautious.

But I didn't expect that just when I mentioned it in Songhu, these people in the south would be able to do it, and in just a few months, they would persuade Emperor Hongzhi to introduce such a law.

As soon as this code came out, all the ocean-going trading firms of the Ming Dynasty couldn't help but cheer.

They need this thing so much.

In the past, it was better to go to Korea and the Japanese Kingdom, where the pirates and thieves were cleaned up and relatively safe, but it was different when I went to Nanyang.

There are many islands in the South Seas, there are hundreds of large and small countries, and all kinds of forces are intricate, and there are many pirates and thieves, and large and small trading houses have been plundered by these pirates and thieves to a greater or lesser extent.

At the same time, on the islands on the Luzon side, the plantations, gold mines, and silver mines that everyone opened up were often attacked by the natives, which made the major trading houses nerves nerves.

Now, the imperial court allows them to have a certain number of private armed forces, and with their own private armed forces, these firms no longer have to be afraid of this.

Many small countries in the South Seas, the country is very small, but the people are very arrogant and arrogant, and they impose heavy taxes on the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty? and even maliciously blackmailed Ming merchant ships.

The major commercial houses have long wanted to teach them a hard lesson.

"As soon as this code comes out? In the long run, it may be very likely that there will be a second Ming overseas. ”

Liu Jin's side, after Wang Shouren read it, he couldn't help but say worriedly.

He is a scholar of heaven and man, and he knows very well that this code is out? How long? Maybe there's nothing going on in Daming's side? But overseas? There will definitely be people who quietly build their own countries.

Since ancient times? There has been no shortage of ambitious people throughout the dynasties.

Overseas? Far away from the Ming Dynasty, the major trading houses have their own merchant ships? Have your own armed forces? And overseas? Many places are deserted, and even if there are people, most of them are very backward.

It doesn't take many people, Wang Shouren feels that a few hundred people can establish their own power overseas.

As far as Nanyang is concerned, there are too many islands of all sizes in Nanyang, not 100,000, but also 70,000 or 80,000, and many countries are so small that there is only one island and a small city.

Establishing his own power here, Wang Shouren felt that it was easy.

"Wang Shouren, do you think that these places overseas are cheaper than outsiders, it is better to cheapen our own people, even if someone establishes their own country overseas, that is also a good thing, and it is also established by my Ming people."

Liu Jin said indifferently, he is still ready to get those princes surnamed Zhu overseas, no matter how you toss overseas, it won't be able to toss the heads of the Ming people.

"Having said that, the strength may not be as good as my Ming Dynasty now, but once the time comes, it may be very likely to surpass our Ming Dynasty in the future, and when the princes will rise up, the beacon fire will be in the sky, and it will be a civil war among my Ming people."

"Zhou Tianzi divided the princes and kings, and finally had the Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons and the Seven Heroes of the Warring States, and under the current trend, it is very likely that this will be the case in the future."

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nbsp; Wang Shouren thought for a while and said.

"Then have you ever thought that if we don't do this, it is very likely that we will always be limited to the current one acre and three points of land, and for us as a whole Ming people, our land has not expanded."

"Allow the emergence of private armed forces, in the future, the major commercial houses can rapidly expand around the world, and bring more land into the hands of my Ming descendants, even if there will be a lot of problems in the future, but at that time, the land occupied by our Ming descendants will also be the most extensive."

"The key now is how to find a way to occupy as much land and resources as possible, and the more resources and land, the more people of my Ming Dynasty will not have to be stuck on the original land."

"The world is very big, if we don't occupy it, someone will naturally occupy it."

Liu Jin smiled and said, all dynasties have been constantly suppressing the signs of this aspect, what they are afraid of is splitting, and what they are afraid of is that someone will rebel.

This is where the emphasis on literature over military force comes from.

There are still advantages, basically a unified dynasty will be formed, and it can often be stable for a hundred or two years, but because of the excessive suppression of military generals, this has led to its own inability to plummet, and it is becoming more and more ineffective in terms of external affairs.

In addition, the power of the civil and official clique has become more and more, the civil and military are unbalanced, and they have gradually lost the heart of external expansion, and they are immersed in the dream of the kingdom.

As everyone knows, the world has ushered in tremendous changes, and if we don't seize the opportunity, in another one or two hundred years, the world will be carved up by the Europeans.

If it's force, are the Ming really not good?

It's obviously nonsense, history has proven time and time again that the Ming people are definitely the best at hitting on the Blue Star.

Liu Jin believes that as soon as this code came out, the major and large commercial houses of the Ming Dynasty quickly transformed into fierce beasts, quickly tearing off pieces of fat all over the world.

"Maybe you're right, the world is very big, and there are too many, too many places for our descendants of Yan and Huang to multiply."

Wang Shouren looked at the sea around him, thought about it and nodded.

I have traveled to the south and the north, and have been to the Japanese and North Korea, and have also been to the prairies in the north, and even to the Beihai, and then to Liaodong, and now I have also come to the South Seas.

He has seen too many places, too many places, and he knows that Daming is not as good as everyone boasts, and there are many, many rich places in the world outside Daming, but the key is that there are no people yet.

Liu Jin didn't lie, the world outside the Ming Dynasty is really big and rich.

"Guo Ye has already arrived in Australia."

Liu Jin smiled, picked up another letter and read it.

This letter was sent back by the fleet heading to Australia and the Southern Golden Continent, and the fleet led by Guo Ye had arrived in Australia very smoothly not long ago.

At this point, Liu Jin was not surprised at all.

Getting to Australia is hardly any difficulty.

Although there is still a certain distance between Australia and the South Seas, there are many islands connected between the two, and large and small islands are all over this sea.

The Nanyang Province has been sending people to explore Australia in advance, establishing colonies on the islands along the way, etc., which makes it too easy to go to Australia.

For Guo Ye's fleet, the real difficulty was getting from Australia to the Southern Golden Continent.

It was a very long voyage, and there were few islands to replenish supplies and fresh water along the way, and the southernmost part of the Southern Golden Continent was notoriously dangerous in the world, so these places were the real test.

"What does the letter say?"

When Wang Shouren heard this, he immediately asked people to get a map, and looked at it carefully, Australia is really big, a huge continent, and the area will not be smaller than the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty.

"The letter said that Australia is vast and sparsely populated, and there are only a very few aborigines, and it also said that there are many very rare animals in Australia, and they have sent people to catch some and prepare to transport them back to the capital to present to Your Majesty."

"In addition, the letter also mentioned that there are a lot of corals and pearls in the waters north of Europe, which may be used to attract people to Australia."

Liu Jin handed the letter to Wang Shouren, Australia is a God-given land, there is nothing, and it is rich in resources, such a place, it must be occupied, whether it is used to herd sheep or mine, it is very good.

Of course, this part of Australia, at first it seems that birds do not poop, most of the places are deserts, only the southeast coastal area is good, it seems that there is nothing attractive.

That's why Guo Ye wrote to Liu Jin that there are corals and pearls in Australia, and he relies on these two things to attract people to Australia and then develop Australia.

Liu Jin from later generations knew that there were a lot of iron ore, gold, and silver in Australia, but it was difficult to find them in the vast desert.

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