Lee Seung-yan had already seen through everything - or rather, when Suleiman pouted his ass, Lee Seung-yan already knew what shit he was going to shit.

The time required to re-dig and open the Suez Canal, as well as labor and materials, is not a matter of half a star at all.

Taking artificial as an example, how many barbarians have died from the beginning of the construction of the domestic railways in the Ming Dynasty to the present?

The unit of calculation is definitely not a calculation method such as household, d, or mouth, but a very simple and crude unit - 100,000!

Because whether it is Hong Chengchou or the local government, they already know some of Emperor Chongzhen's bottom line.

Among them, the most insurmountable bottom line is to harm the people, whoever dares to harm the people, Emperor Chongzhen will definitely redouble his revenge to kill whom, there is absolutely no emotion to talk about.

Since you can't use the heads of the Ming people to pave the railway, then the only choice left is the barbarians.

Before the mad dog in Xia did not return to Emperor Chongzhen, the herdsmen of the Chahar Department were actually treated exactly the same as those of Jiannu.

As soon as they are caught, they will be sent to build a railroad until they die.

But when Xia Ezhe took the herdsmen of the entire Chahar Department to submit to the Ming Dynasty, except for the little mad dogs who followed Xia Mad Dog to spread the teachings of the saints, the remaining herdsmen had been properly settled, and they were basically treated the same as the people of Daming.

Even those who were caught and forced to do hard labor were basically demarcated for the period of release, such as five or ten years, depending on the individual's performance.

To say that the biggest difference between them and ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty is that Jinyiwei and Dongchang tend to pay more attention to them, and there is no difference at all in others.

Without the herdsmen of the Chahar Department to be harmed, Hong Chengchou of the Ministry of Railways and the killers of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies set their sights on those Francos and those of Duogansi and Wu Sizang.

But how many of these people can be combined? It's not enough to die!

This is also why Li Qizi and others made a fortune - those pirates led by Li Qizi took off overseas to catch the barbarian waves, and Zheng Zhilong's South China Sea fleet captured Kunlun slaves in the land of West Kunlun.

As for Admiral Nanjuyi's East China Sea Fleet, they were generally embarrassed because of Nanjuyi's influence - so they bought labor from Cohen's East India Company, and did not do it themselves.

It wasn't until the fools of the British East India Company dragged the Mughals into the water that this desperate shortage of people changed somewhat.

However, there is no big use for birds, and even if all the Mughals are captured and built on the railway, Hong Chengchou will still feel that the barbarians are not enough.

Because of the construction of railways, especially in Duogansi, Wusizang, Yunnan, Sichuan, and Guizhou, because of the large number of mountains, the probability of death of the barbarians increased exponentially compared with those previously built.

In this case, how many barbarians can be separated to the Suez Canal?

And that's just a matter of manpower, but when it comes to logistics and supplies, it's even more problematic, even cumbersome enough for the cabinet bigwigs to hang themselves en masse.

Now that Suleiman has suddenly proposed to talk about a big business, what can be called big business except for things related to manpower and materials?

At the very least, Fushou paste is not a big business, because the shortage of that thing is deliberately caused by Emperor Chongzhen, not the real lack of production.

Sure enough, after Li Chengyan nodded his interest and expressed his interest, Suleiman spoke: "I think that if you want to dig the Suez Canal, you will definitely need a lot of manpower and materials - and whether it is manpower or materials, I can provide you with them."

Of course, none of this is free, because I also need to pay for these supplies and manpower, and I hope you can understand. ”

Li Chengyan said with a smile: "The matter of silver coins, it is easy to say, as long as you can provide enough manpower and materials, believe me, silver coins are definitely not a problem." ”

Suleiman was even more happy in his heart: "So, how many people do you need?" How many supplies are needed? ”

Li Chengyan smiled: "No matter how many people you have - I can tell you very responsibly that in addition to the manpower needed by the Suez Canal, I also need a lot of manpower in Daming."

Therefore, as long as you can provide it, no matter how many laborers you can get, I will take it all, five taels of silver for each young and middle-aged people, and three taels of silver for women and children, this price is very fair, right? ”

Suleiman was a little incredulous: "Li, I believe that if it is 120,000 manpower, you can definitely afford it, but what about after changing it to 100,200,000 manpower?" Can you afford it? ”

Li Chengyan said proudly: "Even if you get one million two million laborers, I can still afford it!" ”

Regarding Suleiman's worries, Li Chengyan was very unimpressed - barbarians are barbarians, and barbarians who stay in the poor countryside have no knowledge at all!

Million? Million?

How much silver is that?

Even if you get a million young people, it's only a mere five million taels of silver, what can it be counted?

Even if it's 10 million?

Anyway, the treasury of the Ming Dynasty and His Majesty the Emperor have silver in it, and how many silver coins can't be made if you want to? It's a big deal, you can mix some tin or something!

In order to reassure Suleiman, and at the same time to pit the Ottoman country again, Li Chengyan simply said: "In order to show my sincerity, I can pay you a deposit of 100,000 laborers first."

At the same time, in order to make the transaction more convenient, I will arrange for someone to mint the silver in the style of your silver coin, so that you can use it to pay directly. ”

Suleiman was even more excited, and repeatedly said that Li, a Chinese friend, was so caring that he had even done a good job of converting silver into silver coins - silver dissolved into silver coins, and there would be losses in the middle.

After smiling and waving his hand, Li Chengyan continued: "But, Suleiman, where are you going to get 100,000 laborers?" ”

Li Chengyan deliberately accentuated the pronunciation of the word labor, and then continued: "There are also materials." IMHO, if it's 10,000 or 20,000 supplies, I'm sure you can get them, but what about 100,000 or 1 million people? ”

Suleiman couldn't help but be stunned.

It's easy to get 10,000 workers, but it's not so easy to get 100,000 workers.

Especially materials, supplies for 10,000 people and supplies for 100,000 people, those are completely two concepts, okay?

However, I just wanted to talk about 10,000 or 20,000 "laborers" from the beginning, but how did it suddenly become 100,000?

Suleiman was a little confused.

However, no matter how confused it is, it is useless, and now we are talking about 100,000 instead of 10,000 - especially after the unit becomes 100,000, the profit I can get has increased more than tenfold.

After composing his mind, Suleiman spoke: "If it were just me, it would indeed be difficult to supply 100,000 people, but Lee, you must know that I am not alone, there are many people behind me, and they can also participate in providing you with supplies and manpower." ”

Li Chengyan said happily: "I don't care about those, I only know you in Ottoman, and I don't know anyone else."

So, I'm going to talk to you about everything, and then you're going to talk to them on my behalf, including manpower and supplies. ”

Suleiman patted his chest and promised: "Don't worry! I'll figure out all these things for you! ”

Suleiman couldn't help but sigh in his heart, Li is actually too good!

Talking to yourself basically means that all the silver coins will be moved by your own people.

Completely keep the price lower!

A "laborer", Li gave himself a price of five taels of silver, so he could buy it from others at the price of four taels of silver.

In this way, it is not as simple as getting more than ten times the amount of Derun, but you can get a large profit out of thin air without paying any cost at all!

As for whether the Ming people would mint a large number of silver coins to disrupt the market because of this, Suleiman was not too worried.

Because if the Ming people wanted to mint silver coins, they had to use silver to mint them - but silver itself was a kind of currency, and the silver minted into silver coins was not silver?

A fool would care about such a thing!

This kind of good thing about pies falling from the world is best happening every day!

Li Chengyan bragged casually, but Song Yunxian, the waiter of the Ministry of Works, wanted to scold his mother.

Casting silver into silver coins is such a thing, so much so that Li Chengyan, that bastard, dares to pat his chest with someone and pack a ticket!

To cast silver, you first have to have a mold - of course, the mold is not a big deal.

Emperor Chongzhen's expedition to the Mughals brought a large number of horses, and some of the horses in the Ministry of Industry could solve the mold problem, as long as they got a silver coin that the Ottomans were using.

But what about the problem of casting? It's not just about having a mold!

As for using the original Mint in Myanmar?

Don't be funny, Myanmar has a mint, but the difference is not very big - the main currency used in Myanmar is the copper plate and silver of the Ming Dynasty, and now it is gradually being exchanged for treasure money.

In this case, what if you have a mold? If you can't do it here in Myanmar, you can only go back to Daming to do it.

And then let the fleet transfer this thing back and forth?

Do you have to put some mess in it, like tin or lead or whatever? Still undetectable?

You're embarrassing my fat tiger!

However, no matter how much Song Yunxian scolded in his heart, it was useless, so he could only honestly order someone to send the silver coins brought by Li Chengyan back to Daming, so that the Daming Mint Bureau would have a headache.

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In the discussion of how Emperor Chongzhen returned to the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen and the ministers of civil and military affairs finally chose to take a step back.

Emperor Chongzhen could take the sea route, but only along the coastline, starting from Burma, along Siam to Annam, and finally along Qiongzhou to Quanzhou, and then all the way north to Tianjin.

In short, the meaning of the Chao Lie people is that it is okay to take the sea route, but it must sail along the coastline, and it must be guaranteed that it can enter the port at any time in the event of a hurricane to ensure the safety of Emperor Chongzhen, otherwise, your old man should go back by land.

Emperor Chongzhen had to dispel the idea of going to Xinming Island to take a turn.

However, if you can't go to Xinming Island, Emperor Chongzhen's heart will not be happy.

Emperor Chongzhen was not happy, so he planned to do something to make more people unhappy.

For example, along the way, there is a good goal.

Annan.

Annam, known as Jiaozhi in ancient times, has been the territory of China since the Han and Tang dynasties, and after five dynasties, Fang became an independent country. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Annan took the opportunity to break off the Chinese territory, and once sent troops to attack Yongping Village on Siming Road, surpassing the Yuan Dynasty to demarcate the copper pillar for more than 200 miles, and occupying five counties such as Qiuwen and Qingyuan.

During the Hongwu period, Emperor Taizu Gao Zhu Yuanzhang once issued an edict to Chen Rikun, the king of Annan, and ordered Annan to return the land he occupied.

But at that time, Annan's spokesman was Chen Rikun, the nominal leader, but Li Jichen, who was in power with a white paper fan, and under the threat of Li Jichen, Chen Rikun simply ignored Zhu Yuanzhang's edict, and even planned to raise troops to confront the Ming Dynasty.

Probably Zhu Yuanzhang, who had just figured out the Central Plains, felt that those wild places were not worth a few dollars, and he was unwilling to fight again because of this, so he simply ignored them and planned to make Annan a member of the tributary system.

However, Hu Jichen's behavior of arbitrarily apolishing the monarch finally aroused the dissatisfaction of Emperor Taizu Gao, Zhu Yuanzhang, who repeatedly refused Annan's tribute, and almost pointed his nose and said Lao Tzu can't look down on you little streets, you yourself should die!

Because Zhu Yuanzhang excluded Annan from the tribute system, Hu Jichen simply didn't play any tricks to abolish the monarch - simply, usurped the throne and did it himself!

Hu Jichen, who consciously suffered from the white eyes of Daming's father, was afraid that Daming's father would send troops to clean himself up, and chose to hide the truth for a long time - in order to enjoy himself, Hu Jichen returned the Zen position to his second son Hu Hancang, claiming to be the emperor.

After Zhu Yuanzhang hung up, and Zhu Yunwen, who had dropped the chain, was killed by Zhu Laosi, Hu Hancang presented the title of the right to manage the state affairs of Annan to the Ming Chengzu who had just usurped the throne, falsely claiming that the descendants of the Chen Dynasty were extinct, claiming to be the nephew of the emperor of the Chen Dynasty, and was pushed by the ministers to ask to be named the king of Annan.

Zhu Laosi doubted its authenticity and sent an envoy to Thanh Hoa to investigate, but Hu Hancang summoned the ministers of Annam to jointly write to Ming Chengzu, and finally Ming Chengzu named Hu Hancang the king of Annam.

For this reason, Zhu Laosi also deliberately warned Hu Hancang in the edict: "Do good and be auspicious, show the way, be compassionate and compassionate, and go to Xin Naicheng." ”

However, in the second year of Yongle, Pei Boqi, a relict of the Chen Dynasty, went to the Ming court and accused Hu Jichen and his son of "killing the lord and usurping the throne and slaughtering loyal ministers", and asked the Ming Dynasty to send troops to "capture the thief, eliminate the traitor, and restore the descendants of the Chen family." ”

In the same year, an Annan man named Chen Tianping entered the Ming Dynasty from Ailao, claiming to be the son of Chen Yizong, and informed Zhu Laosi of Hu Jichen's usurpation.

But the fun came.

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