Chen Hua's words are foolish.

Sea route and land route are two completely different concepts, and who here does not know the difference in risk?

However, although Chen Hua's statement is only comforting on the surface, they also know the wealth in the sea. That's really a shipload of gold and silver. It's true.

For more than 10 years, Zheng Zhilong has been carrying a large number of raw silk, various textiles, high-end porcelain, black and white sugar, musk, soil and other medicines to Japan, which are very popular with Japanese businessmen and aristocrats. The Tokugawa shogunate, on the other hand, relied on its own gold and silver mines, and on a shipload of copper that was scarce in the plains. I don't know how much I want to contribute to the Zheng Group every year!

Zheng Zhilong also established close trade relations with the Portuguese, Spaniards, and Dutch. Every year, he sold large quantities of silk fabrics, porcelain, rhubarb, and other medicines to Portugal and the Netherlands, as well as goods from China, including Korea and Japan, to Luzon and resell them to Spain.

The entire Zheng group was vigorously developing maritime trade, often sailing large ships loaded with silk, porcelain, ironware and other goods, sailing to Cambodia, Siam, Champa, Annam, Sumatra, Jawa, Luzon, Nyluba (now Jakarta), Malacca and other countries for trade, in exchange for sumac, pepper, ivory, rhino horn, coral, sea pearl and other goods.

You can earn a huge amount of profits every year.

For the Zheng Group, going to the sea to do business is more profitable than farming. The difference is that the risk is too great, one trip is full of money, and the other trip is ruined. The wind and waves in the sea are as easy to change as a child's face. They have seen and heard too much about this kind of thing.

Therefore, the land of 'drought and flood protection', and the land that will never be lost, is the real foundation of the family's continuous wealth and undefeated.

At the same time, these individuals were born poor in the early years, and their families had no land, but now they are rich. In my heart, for the 10,000 acres of fertile land on the shore, how can we have no obsession?

"Smack!"

Chen Hua clapped his hands, and saw Shi Lang, who was just twenty years old, walking in with a long box, his father was Shi Daxuan, the old man in the eighteen Zhi. At the same time, Shi Lang's uncle Shi Fu is also a major general under Zheng Zhilong, so it can be said that the connection is very deep.

Whether it is personal ability or background, it can be said that Shi Lang is a red seedling, and in Zheng Zhilong's eyes, it can be said that he is a good seedling, a good seedling worth cultivating. Although history says that this man is a bit rebellious!

As for why Shi Lang in history voted for the Qing Dynasty, is this, although Chen Hua is a hundred unhappy with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he must also say that Zheng Chenggong is too much.

But none of that is happening now.

Shi Lang, who has a big face and a wide forehead and a noble portrait, has not yet made a name for himself in the army. Because Zheng Zhilong's group has not fought in the past few years, and no matter how talented Shi Lang is, he will not be able to show his head if he does not fight. This person is a super confident brother, unwilling to rely on his father's identity to enjoy a high position, and joined the army alone, when Chen Hua thought of it, his identity was just an ordinary petty officer in Zheng Zhilong's personal guard army.

Inside the long box is a painting, a complete map of the world. This is not a gift from Matteo Ricci to the Wanli Emperor back then, and the world map is not precious to Europeans, although it is not a big commodity. There is more than one pair in Zheng Zhilong's warehouse!

"How small is the Central Plains, how big is the world?"

Shi Fu is very literate in a group of people here, and he also has a complete map of Kunyu Wanguo in his hand, but when he saw it again, Wu felt shocked and couldn't believe it.

"The fertile soil of Nanyang is fertile or not, and everyone knows it. The natives there are lazy and ignorant, and they are not diligent, but they have never suffered from hunger and cold. How kind is Heaven treating? ”

"Think about the tens of millions of defenseless people in the Central Plains? If we can go to Nanyang, how can our generation not be able to establish a country on its own, call it a lonely widow, and be a marquis? When the foundation is solidified, then go north to compete for the Central Plains. This advance can be taken and retreated, isn't it wonderful? ”

Chen Hua really doesn't have half hope for the world of the Ming Dynasty, it is undeniable that there are still some loyal and good ministers in the Ming Dynasty at this time, such as Sun Chuanting, Lu Zhenfei, etc., but the overall climate really makes people feel a kind of despair from the bottom of their hearts.

Starting from the roots, the entire Ming Dynasty is already rotten, and Emperor Chongzhen, who is an earnest, mean, suspicious, and self-righteous emperor, is a perfect match. Chen Hua was scared when he thought about it.

He doesn't want to do things with half the effort, so starting from scratch to accumulate family funds is the best choice for him.

Under the 'rules' formulated by those brazen rotten Confucians in this era, the intrigues and tricks with them are all IQ, it's not that Chen Hua looks down on himself, he really has no confidence.

In order to prevent brain and liver damage and sadness, his final choice was to follow Zheng Zhilong's usual style - brute force [silver] to break the game.

From taking refuge in Zhu Ming in the early days to being promoted to chief military officer last year, Zheng Zhilong never relied on his own force and military exploits, but on real money and silver. There is a God of Wealth to open the way, therefore, Zheng Zhilong is invincible!

Of course, Chen Hua didn't want to learn from Zheng Zhilong to be the God of Wealth, but to grasp the core idea of Zheng Zhilong's trick - to overcome the enemy's shortcomings with his own strengths!

Zheng Zhilong is rich, and those bigwigs who are officials love money, one is willing to give and the other is willing to receive, which is a matter of mutual benefit.

But isn't it the destruction and crushing of some unspoken rules?

And Zheng Zhilong's approach, in a sense, also made his personal image a little small, and made the high-ranking officials and bigwigs of the Ming Dynasty look down on themselves.

Chen Hua must grasp that core idea and resolutely not play with experienced enemies under the rules of 'enemy'. He hopes that he can accumulate strength in the 'Externalized Land', and when the accumulation reaches the point of flattening everything, he can sweep the whole of China.

Sweep everything that doesn't go with his heart, and everything that doesn't go his way, into the trash!

This is the pleasure of doing this, which is in line with Chen Hua's character, and it also allows him to face those garbage in the Central Plains, so that he can breathe a bad breath!

Of course, in the eyes of many people, his method is very embarrassing. Too conservative to have wood? But Chen Hua, who has a certain understanding of the history of the Ming Dynasty, really doesn't have the confidence to go deep into it, and he can still mix it up.

What's more, looking at the current Zheng Zhilong, although the power is leaning towards the southeast, how many people want to buy his face, but his foundation in officialdom is really weak. Although many people recognized his financial strength and potential military strength, in the eyes of many, Zheng Zhilong did not receive the respect he deserved.

Speaking of which, Chen Hua felt incredible.

With heavy troops in his hands and rich armor in the sea, he seems to have really become a dispensable Fujian chief military officer in the overall situation of the world.

Looking at the Hongguang regime, you can know that although Zheng Zhilong won the title of Nan'an, he was also excluded from the core power layer of the Nanming Dynasty, right?

At that time, the Hongguang regime, a small and tattered court that was in turmoil, could still treat Zheng Zhilong like this, and now the Ming officialdom at that time, a dynasty that still largely retains its posture, how to look at Zheng Zhilong needless to say.

Of course, this is a great thing for Chen Hua, saving him a lot of trouble.

"Brother's plan is naturally not bad, but ...... With such a plan, it may be difficult to achieve success in three or twenty years! ”

Chen Hua kept talking about Nanyang, and Zheng Hongkui took it for granted that he intended to do the entire Nanyang. Then you can't ignore Spain, the Netherlands, and Portugal.

Zheng Hongkui, who knows the strength of Spain, the Dutch, and Portugal, feels that this goal is too big. There are two strong men among the three, and even the weakest Portugal is also an unusual person.

Even if the Zheng family can take advantage of the geographical advantage to overwhelm the three in the southeast sea, it does not mean that they can easily overwhelm the three in the South Seas. Even if the Zheng family prepares for war in the next few days and does their best to build a large plywood ship, it will take a while to realize it, right?

To put it mildly, Zheng Zhilong's fleet, except for a few Western-style plywood ships, other Chinese-style warships are not the opponents of Xiyi warships at all.

Spain and the Dutch ceded hegemony in the East Asian seas, but not in the South Seas.

In terms of Zheng Zhilong's strength, if Chen Hua wants to completely defeat the Spaniards and Dutch militarily, plus the Portuguese, it will not be possible to do it in three or five years.

Then there is immigration and statehood, and it takes a lot of time. Thirty or twenty years have been talked about less.

"The chaos in the Central Plains has been chaotic for more than ten years, and with my brother's previous opinion, how can it be chaotic for another few decades?" Zheng Hongkui said.

Chen Hua sneered a few times, without him as a traverser, let alone a few decades, in a few years, Shenzhou will change color. "Today's Ming court has rotted into the bone marrow, how can rotten wood give birth to spring? Relying only on his own strength, Hugh said that it will be difficult to survive for thirty or twenty years, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to survive for ten years. However, when the emperor is exhausted, shall we go to pull him again? ”