According to Chongzhen and the cabinet, the celebrant and the celebrant of the Gong Gong Zhu Gong (can the celebrant be counted as a public?) As a result of the discussions, the purpose of Wang Dehua's southward march this time was not only to use the impeachment and participation scripts of the local officials and gentry in Fujian and Guangdong provinces as bargaining chips, so that Li Shouhan would pay the money and grain for the 14th and 15th years of Chongzhen in advance, but also hoped that two or three brigades of troops from the Nanyue Army could be transferred from the Nanyue Army to carry at least two months' worth of food and ammunition to the north by sea, and put them into the direction of Ningyuan and Jinzhou as a strategic reserve in the hands of Hong Chengchou.

As the highest goal of Wang Dehua's trip, this plan was finally finalized after many letters and exchanges between the cabinet and Hong Chengchou, who was far away in the direction of Ningyuan. The combat effectiveness of the Nanyue Army has been tested on the battlefield against Jiannu and Liukou.

Wu Biao's model brigade of more than 6,000 people is not a real Nanyue army, among which there are only more than 1,000 people who have stayed in the Nanyue army, but they also killed Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai. If two or three brigades of nearly 20,000 original and genuine Nanyue troops came and came under the command of Hong Chengchou, who had always been known as a "madman," then this decisive battle would be even more certain of victory.

With such a purpose in mind, Wang Dehua naturally wanted to have a long talk with Li Shouhan. Trying to learn from Shen Baoxu to do the cry of the Qin court, he also cried out the soldiers and horses of these three brigades.

For this reason, even the etiquette of receiving the decree stipulated in the Ming Dynasty can be blatantly ignored, and the holy decree can be handed over to Li Shouhan without being officially read, and its purpose is precisely this.

I didn't want to be pretentious but couldn't show it, just when Wang Dehua was about to start speaking to Shouhan. Shouhan got up and left under the pretext of checking the amount of money and grain and deploying ships to prepare to transport grain north. Let the prince brew for a long time, the words and sentences fell short. Just like when a master is facing his opponent, he is ready to fight, but the opponent suddenly shouts, "I want to prepare some wine and meat for today's battle between you and me!" And how does it not make him depressed when he turns away?

"Check how much grain is left in the account? Hum! When we don't know how much copper, gold and silver you ship from Fuso and other places every month? ”

Thinking about the number of reports from the secret piles secretly planted by the factory guards in Nanzhong, Wang Dehua hated it so much that the roots of his teeth were itching, and every month there were at least seven or eight large ships going back and forth to Fusang, Luzon and other places, transporting at least hundreds of thousands of catties of brass, gold and silver, etc., and the gold and silver on a random boat were enough to give the emperor the 500,000 silver dollars a year to worship.

Standing up, the two little eunuchs hurriedly stepped forward to support his body, "What to help!" Our family is not unstable! Wang Dehua glared at the two little eunuchs in front of him who were eager to curry favor. His eyes began to look up and down, left and right in Shouhan's study.

The style of this room in Shouhan is the same as that of the entire Hue and the entire Southern Canton Army. In other words, the owner of this house has left his own stamp on the city and the land with his own style.

Atmospheric, simple, practical, not luxurious, but in the subtleties you can experience the owner's economic abundance.

A huge desk. Made from whole fine red sandalwood. After varnish painted. I don't know how long it has been rubbed by people, but the entire façade has been polished out of the pulp, making this piece of wood look very heavy. Clear wood texture and copper fittings on the desk. All reveal the owner's aesthetic style.

On the bookshelves and multi-treasure grids listed on the walls on both sides, there are no ordinary people who use them to decorate the façade of various classics, twenty-two histories, etc., but there is a Huangming Jingshi compilation, which is considered a book. The rest are the records of the emperors since Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang. At most, there are account books one by one, and I don't know what is recorded in them.

On the Duobao grid, there are no Qin bricks and Han tiles, and there are no Shang Ding Zhou Yi, some are just pieces of stones of different sizes and colors, as well as pieces of smelted steel, copper ingots and other things.

Under the spotless steel ingots and iron blocks that have been wiped down, there is a note marked with fly's head in small letters, indicating that this is the steel from a certain furnace in a certain month and year. There are also some inexplicable terms that Wang Dehua and others can't understand.

On the entire wall facing Shouhan's desk, a huge map hangs.

Unlike the maps Wang Dehua had seen, this map was more detailed, with mountains, rivers, cities, roads, and ports, and the population and garrisons of the cities indicated in small print. In addition, small notes of different colors are used between the cities to mark the road conditions, how far the distance is, how many days it takes for the army to march, and so on.

The map extends from Liangguang to Fujian and extends southward, covering the entire Indochina Peninsula.

With such a huge area, the impact and shock brought to Wang Dehua is strong.

Especially when he saw the grain producing areas marked with green, he and several of his little eunuchs involuntarily emitted bursts of urine from their crotches. Because of the excessive stimulation, several eunuchs urinated.

"This is a good rice-producing area within a radius of thousands of miles?"

A small eunuch trembled and pointed to this large area from the Red River Delta to the Kowloon River and Chao Phraya River.

"I only heard the seniors say that when Emperor Shenzong was alive, Henan, Shandong, Zhili and other places were known as crops that were green for thousands of miles, but they never had the opportunity to see it, and today I opened my eyes here with my uncle."

"Little father-in-law, I don't know how expensive firewood and rice are if you don't belong to your family!"

Shouhan stood outside the door with a few account books in his hands.

"If you don't look at this map, you don't know that Uncle has the equivalent of several provinces in the interior in his hands!" There was something unusual in Wang Dehua's tone, as a loyal minion, he didn't want another opponent who was stronger than Jiannu in front of Chongzhen's eyes.

"You dead eunuch! If Lao Tzu also put up a map of the ten states and the islands in the south, and the islands of Luzon, Sumatra, and Java, you should say that Lao Tzu is going to rebel or not?! Shouhan said a word in his heart, but his face was still full of spring breeze.

"Uncle, sitting on a rich land, the annual grain and rice produced is only one stone of grain per acre of land, which is enough for this southern and middle place to have enough food and clothing." The little eunuch who greedily looked at the grain producing areas on the wall stammered the guards in an envious tone.

"Father-in-law, I only know one but I don't know the other." Huang Xin, the head of the official house who came in with Shouhan. Bow to Wang Dehua: "My Nanyue army occupies Nanzhong as the foundation, but it is also naked and standing in the tiger and wolf pack, fighting day and time. Although there is little money and food, it is also a huge expense. ”

Some of his subordinates came forward to send these eunuchs for themselves, and the guards were happy, and after sitting down on their own handsome case, they ordered someone to take their own cigarette pouches, light a pot of cigarettes, and just smoke them.

The wind-milled copper tobacco pouch pot, the Burmese jade tobacco pouch mouth, and the ebony cigarette stick. Inside the pot is the finest shredded tobacco from Luzon. Shouhan Meimei took a sip, closed her eyes intoxicated, and swallowed the clouds.

Speaking of this smoking, it was originally called "eating smoking". This statement continued until the Republic of China. Historical records. "Eating tobacco began in the Wanli period." With the movement of the army. It was introduced by the Qi family army and other troops in the south to Jizhen and Liaodong Town on the nine sides, and then quickly spread to several important military towns in the remnants. It can treat head lice and kill insects, as well as treat wind, cold and dampness. The special army often fought on the march, ate and slept in the open, and the sergeants were prone to diseases such as rheumatism and malaria, so the behavior of eating tobacco quickly became popular among the army in the late Ming Dynasty.

The cultivation of tobacco in the Ming Dynasty during the Chongzhen period has been widespread, the benefits of planting tobacco, the profit is far more lucrative than growing grain, a pound of tobacco leaves outside the Liaodong Pass can be exchanged for a good horse, so the country grows tobacco everywhere. In particular, Junzhou and Xunyang Mansion in Hubei Province are tobacco bases, because there are a lot of people who grow tobacco, Emperor Chongzhen strictly banned it several times, but it has little effect.

The purpose of Chongzhen's ban on smoking is because the cultivation of tobacco has crowded out the grain fields and reduced the cultivation of grain, and at the same time, how to carry out the tax on tobacco, there is no tax rate statute in the mainland, so the emperor wants to issue a ban on smoking.

And Shouhan is different here.

In Luzon, Java and other areas suitable for tobacco cultivation, he not only did not prohibit the natives from cultivating tobacco on the basis of the Spaniards and Dutch, but encouraged these people to grow more tobacco, a variety of sugar cane, and more spices such as cardamom, cinnamon, star anise, and pepper. The premise is that your products must be sold to me, and in order to be of a single type, you must pay taxes.

The economic means of using guò to control these areas are also one of the purposes of Shouhan to promote the cultivation of tobacco and spices, and the benefits of tobacco are also huge. Growers have to have a licence, and the tax rate on tobacco is ten times higher than on grain.

Nowadays, the popular channels of tobacco are sold to the mainland, Liaodong, Xuanda and other places, and they are also very profitable, and a large part of the profits and taxes in the government treasury are contributed by addicts.

"Father-in-law, you only saw the grain produced in my Nanzhong, but you don't know where the grain goes." Over there, Huang Xin began to pour bitter water on Wang Dehua in the green smoke spit out by Shouhan.

"Big mouths, small bites, two fights in January. This is the lowest per capita food demand, I now have hundreds of thousands of military horses stationed in various places in Nanzhong, these people and horses are huge, have you ever counted it? ”

"My father-in-law came from the mainland, and he should know that now all the towns on the nine sides are equipped with armor, swords, and guns produced in my Nanzhong, and there are many people in every town and city who list the artillery produced in my Nanzhong. However, knives, guns, armor, artillery, guns, gunpowder and other materials must be made by hard work. From mining in mines to smelting in refineries, there are factories everywhere, where is it not necessary for thousands of strong men to work hard? The daily diet of this generation consumes at least 50% more grain, rice, oil, salt, meat and fish than farmers, and the consumption is huge! Father-in-law, please calculate, for every piece of armor and a knife and gun worn by the mainland officers and soldiers, how much food and labor do I need to consume in Nanzhong? ”

Wang Dehua was a little caught off guard by Huang Xin's series of numbers, but he didn't know that Huang Xin was in charge of various workshops and mines in the official office, and this kind of number was naturally like a number of treasures.

"Nowadays, there are hundreds of thousands of displaced people from Fujian, Guangdong and other places who flow into Nanzhong every year, and my uncle has to give them rations, seeds, and farm tools, and arrange for them to go everywhere. How much does it cost per year? ”

"Mr. Huang, since it has been reclaimed, why can't you get in and out for a few years?" A little eunuch was curious and a little puzzled.

"This little father-in-law, you must have been in the palace for a long time, and you don't know how difficult it is to grow crops. How can the thorny and reckless places become fertile fields? It is necessary to cut down and burn the wasteland, and then slowly raise the cultivated land to mature the wasteland, and only after the raw land becomes mature land can food crops be planted. It's going to take years. My family doesn't have the immortal means to turn stones into gold. In winter, the land can be sown, and in autumn it is a good harvest. ”

"Father-in-law, please take a look."

Huang Xin picked up a wooden pole placed next to the map and pointed to a thick dotted line along the road from Guangdong to Guangxi, which branched off in Leizhou Mansion and turned south.

"The two Guangxi riots, the emperor handed over the matter to my uncle. The father-in-law must know that it is easy to go to the mountains and thieves, but it is easy to control chaos and difficult to peace. If you want to calm the two Guangzhous, you must rest and recuperate with the people. But it also wants to give the people in this chaotic area a place to make a living. Uncle thought hard for a long time. In addition to resettlement and reclamation, the only way to do this is to use the method of cash-for-work to build official roads connecting the state capitals of the two provinces, and to dredge various ports and wharves. Let the people along the way have a place to exchange for their own food and clothing. ”

The term cash-for-work is a statement. It is not a new term for Wang Dehua. In the ninth year of Chongzhen, when the Han Dynasty first entered the King of Weiqin. He offered advice in the court, and built the Gyeonggi Water Conservancy with work for relief. Dredging the rivers from Tianjin to Beijing can make the boats connected to the sea directly sail to Chaoyangmen Wharf, reducing the loss along the way.

This matter has been carried out in Chongzhen for ten years, which has benefited Wang Dehua, Wang Chengen, the cabinet bosses, and many officials and officials of the six departments. This time, Wang Dehua went south, starting from Chaoyangmen Wharf, and arrived in Tianjin along the official road built by the river for two days, and then changed to a sea boat.

It is precisely because of this understanding that Wang Dehua knows that the consumption of this kind of project is huge. Looking at the trunk road that almost crossed the hinterland of Guangdong and Guangxi provinces and was built along the Dongjiang and Xijiang rivers, Wang Dehua couldn't help but sigh in his heart, he remembered Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Yang of Sui, who died because of repeated major projects.

"Ning Yuanbo's dedication and loyalty to the country are also obvious to all in the court." praised Shouhan, Wang Dehua felt that he had to bring out the true purpose of his trip.

"That's fine, after all, a certain family will have some benefits from it in the end." Without waiting for Wang Dehua to speak, Shouhan had already finished smoking a bag of cigarettes, and handed the cigarette pouch to a bewitching Tianzhu orchid standing beside him.

"However, there are some money and food expenses, but there is no return. For example, to pacify the chaotic people in various places, to deter the surrounding people who are unscrupulous to the Ming Dynasty, such as Myanmar, Bangladesh and other places that have not paid tribute for a long time and invaded our Ming Dynasty! ”

The impact and shock brought to Wang Dehua by Shouhan's words was no less than the scene when he first saw the map just now.

"Uncle has launched an army against Burma? And, that Bengal? ”

Wang Dehua stuttered a little.

He also used to read the classics of the past dynasties in his leisure time in the palace, and was fascinated by the great achievements established by the Three Treasures. One of the books I read the most in my spare time and the best way to pass the time is "The Victory of Xingcha", which was written in the first year of orthodoxy, and describes the author's journey to overseas countries with Zheng He, the Three Treasures, and more than 20 years of history and people.

Whenever he thinks of the places mentioned in the book, Wang Dehua sometimes thinks that if he follows the emperor Zhongxing Daming and returns to a peaceful and prosperous era in the Central Plains, he might as well ask the emperor for a favor, follow the example of the Three Treasures, and also lead a fleet to go to sea and travel.

Fang just looked at the map on the wall of guarding the Han Dynasty and checked it with many places in his mind, and Wang Dehua couldn't help but feel a little frightened. Champa Kingdom, Bintong Dragon Country, Lingshan Mountain, Kunlun Mountain, Jiaolan Mountain, Siam Country, Java Country, Old Port, Manraka Country, Jiuzhou Mountain, Sumatra Country, Flower Noodles Country, Dragon Tooth Rhino Horn, Longshu Island, Cuilan Island, Ceylon Mountain Country, Zhenla Country, Dongxizhu, Danyang, Longyamen, Longya Shanti, Jili Dibo, Pengkeng, Sandao, Mayi Kingdom, Fake Martin Kingdom, Chongjialuo, Boni Kingdom, Sulu Kingdom, Dalan Kingdom, Adan Kingdom, Taoyang Kingdom and many other countries have become the jurisdiction of Ning Yuanbo.

It's called Bengal, or Punggara, or that's fine. In addition to the twelfth year of Yongle, the state of Banggara sent an envoy to lead the unicorn to the Yongle Emperor, reporting to the imperial court that the legendary unicorn had been found. In addition to presiding over the welcome ceremony at Fengtianmen on the day the envoy of the Banggara Kingdom entered Beijing, Shen Du, a bachelor of Hanlin, wrote an essay "Ode to the Qilin of Ruiying", and ordered the painter to draw a picture of the Qilin to celebrate. In addition, he has nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty.

But Myanmar is different.

Although from the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, the control of the northern part of the Indochina Peninsula was significantly strengthened, and the large and small Tusi in this region accepted the Ming Dynasty's feudal officials, serving as the Xuanfu Division and the Xuanfu Division, etc., no matter what major events in the country asked the imperial court to either canonize or send troops. However, from the beginning of the Jiajing period, the Ming Dynasty gradually weakened its control over the above-mentioned areas.

This allowed Mon Yang and Mu Bang, who were entrenched in the north, to develop their own power while Awa's participation in the Burmese civil war weakened, and a greater change was brewing on the red soil of Burma.

In the tenth year of Jiajing, the Mangrui body that expanded its territory and strength by means of marriage began to conquer the east and west on the land of Burma. From the fourteenth year of Jiajing, his Donghu Dynasty continued to attack the Baigu Dynasty, known as the king of Lower Burma, and fought hard for several years, destroying the Baigu Dynasty and occupying the central and southern parts of Burma. In order to unify Upper and Lower Burma, Mang Shwe Ti built firearms and warships, and at the same time, hired Portuguese to train his army. In foreign trade, Maduba traded with this group of Hongmaoyi from the west. (To be continued......)