Chapter 614: Conquest, Never Stop Conquest
After trying it out in person, King Zhennan felt that it didn't have any effect.
He didn't need that.
And he also found a bunch of famous doctors, including the one who even understood that the keel was a fossil, and then put it together and studied it, and determined that this was a chaotic and unsubstantiated prescription, and the medical level of the person who prescribed the medicine was no more than one You Fang Langzhong, at most, it was a strong point, and they could prescribe a bunch of such things casually.
In short, it cannot be considered poison.
Of course, it can't be said that there is no poison, it is a medicine that is poisonous, not to mention that there is so much chaos.
However, the apocalypse can't die if he eats it, at most it is a bit of a big fire, but fortunately, some of him are people who lower the fire, so he can completely ignore it.
Of course, Yang Xin could not ignore it.
Zhang Yan is still waiting for him, Her Royal Highness the Queen's real purpose is to let him slander.
So Yang Xin still gave a secret recital to the apocalypse, telling him that this medicine is actually a work of You Fanglang, although it will not eat the dead, but too much is not good after all......
The kidneys are easily overwhelmed.
As for whether the apocalypse listens or not, Yang Xin has no interest in careging.
Young people!
Sitting on so many beauties, it is easy to get to this road in the end, after all, not everyone has a strong body like King Zhennan, so this kind of thing can only be symbolically persuaded, saying too much hurts feelings, even friends can't say too much about this kind of thing, friends have to take care of it.
Anyway, that's how it went.
King Zhennan is also not interested in caring about the harem life of the Apocalypse.
He still had business to do at this time.
Three Hills Street.
King Zhennan, with Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, who were comparable to the second generals, stood on the fourth floor of the newly built bank and looked at the bustling streets outside.
This bank was named the People's Bank of China by the king of Zhennan directly with a big stroke, although it was opened by his family, but it was also for the people, and then in the three provinces of Jiangnan, Jiangbei and Zhejiang to exercise the functions of the central bank, to be precise, the central bank plus the Ministry of Finance, with the right to mint money, the right to issue notes, bear the custody of government taxes, financial expenditures and many other powers, and the princess of Zhennan is personally in charge of this bank.
Of course, this also includes lending to the government and the sale of government bonds.
As for this building......
It's already played with reinforced concrete, and it's not easy to build a four-story building.
In less than a year, the city has added a lot of new things, with small reinforced concrete buildings, more truss bridges, and even streets being straightened again.
This is important.
Streets must be straightened and widened.
Anyway, the city has been completely reshuffled, and after Chang Yinxu and Liu Kongzhao went north, the remaining nobles could only live trembling behind closed doors under Yang Xin's obscenity, and they were originally the main landlords of the city. As for the original official ownership, it belonged to Yang Xin, except for the imperial city, which could not be moved, there was nothing else that could not be moved, including some that actually belonged to the royal family, and even included things like the Han Palace. The dilapidated houses that have fallen into disrepair should be demolished, the gardens that occupy a lot of land but are useless should be shoveled, and the buildings that are obstructive to the eyes should be leveled.
The city is populous, and there are a bunch of houses that don't have decent houses, just making room for them to build new ones.
Then the street was widened and straightened.
The drainage system has been completely rehabilitated, including some stinking ditches and stagnant ponds, and all of them have been dredged and diverted.
In short, the whole city of Nanjing has a new look.
And the most important street is the Sanshan Street outside, which is similar to a full-time commercial street in the Qing Dynasty.
"Lord, what do they care about us?"
Li Zicheng said cautiously.
On the street outside, a wooden platform has been erected, on which a man is tearfully describing their encounter in Manila in Hokkien Mandarin. Although more than 20 years have passed, the merchants who fled back are still fresh in their memories, and Huang Kezhang immediately collected these people after he returned, including even a few old pirates under Li Dan, and then complained to the king of Zhennan about the Spaniards here.
They were all very welcoming.
After all, King Zhennan said that this is to build momentum for the expedition to Manila, and once they go to Manila, they will accompany them as guides.
He is also a sufferer.
When the time comes, it will be necessary to claim compensation from the Spaniards.
As for whether the king of Zhennan can defeat the Spaniards......
This is not a problem at all.
After these guys were driven back, they actually ran this trade route all the time, Luzon was the main destination for local merchant ships in the Ming Dynasty, and hundreds of ships were sent out in Guangzhou alone every year in the past, and they were very aware of the difference in strength between the two sides.
The Spaniards in Manila did not have a single battleship, at most they were armed merchant ships, and their firepower would not be much stronger than that of the cruisers of the North and South Ocean Divisions, and some merchant ships in the transpacific trade might have a large tonnage, but their firepower was weak, and the thickness of the planks could not stop any twenty-four-pound shell. And the North and South Ocean Naval Divisions combined, there were six battleships and more than forty cruisers, and this was not a 10,000-mile expedition, which set sail from Taiwan for six days to Manila, and this was still those fully loaded merchant ships.
The fleet will last four or five days at most.
They have traveled countless routes, and they know exactly when to set sail to avoid the storm, and it can be said that there is no difficulty.
As long as the fleet sails over, it is a victory.
The resistance of the Spaniards was ignored, they were just a Fort San Diego, the fortress was indeed strong, but no matter how strong it was, it could not stop the mortar shells, and it could not stop the bombardment of 24 catties of shells, and more importantly, the Spaniards in Manila could not muster the strength to resist the marines.
As for the sum of the two oceans, it is estimated that all the Spaniards in Manila combined, even the women are not enough.
And the weapons are even more incomparable.
The Spaniards also used arquebuses, the Marines were flintlock muskets, the Spaniards still had spears, the Marines no longer had spears, the Spaniards could line up in a large phalanx at most, and there was already a line of muskets on this side. It can be said that the two oceans sailors drove over with the marines, and then in Mani**, all that remains is when the Spaniards succumbed, and this battle was won steadily, and there was no possibility of losing at all.
In that case, of course, let them eat my spit out.
"Do you know where the silver of the Ming Dynasty came from?"
Yang Xin said.
Humm, the two generals shook their heads together.
"Almost half of the silver currently on the market in the Ming Dynasty comes from the Americas, which the Spaniards conquered by force more than a hundred years ago.
They picked up a big bargain.
Because the natives there don't even know how to smelt iron, they can only use stones as weapons, and the Spaniards wear plate armor like ours, and land with turtledoves, and there are no horses there, never have been, and the Spaniards still ride horses, and they kill all the natives like rabbits. Then he robbed the gold and silver accumulated by the natives for thousands of years, and also found the silver mine of the natives, which can produce tens of millions of taels of silver every year.
Then more than half of this silver flowed to our Daming through trade.
Fat sheep!
It is simply intolerable that such a fat sheep is not slaughtered! ”
Yang Xin said.
"Ten million taels a year?"
Zhang Xianzhong said in a trembling voice.
"Yes, it's just a silver mine, and it doesn't include gold."
Yang Xin said.
"The subordinates understand, it's really intolerable that such fat sheep don't slaughter, let's just find a reason to slaughter them."
Li Zicheng said.
"Remember, the vast majority of good things in this world are out there.
The best land out there.
The island of Java in the South Seas is full of volcanic ash and can easily harvest ten stones of rice a year by sprinkling seeds, but it is now occupied by the Dutch, but there are only a few thousand Dutchmen in total, and the rest are all natives who are still using swords, spears, bows and arrows.
There is a myriad of gold and silver outside.
Half of the silver of the Ming Dynasty came from the Americas, and the other third came from the Wa Kingdom, which was the Japanese who could even suppress the officials and soldiers who used the Three-Eyed Gun and the Fur Machine in Korea before.
And the rest is our own domestic mining.
Look at this gem.
It comes from Myanmar, originally it was actually a toast of our Ming Dynasty, all the gems of our Ming Dynasty came from a mine there, these gems worth thousands of taels of silver, all came from the Mogu Treasure Well of Mengmi Tusi, until the rebellion of Mang Yinglong during the Wanli period, we lost the treasure well.
Now that it is under the control of Burma, we have to get it in exchange for silver, but why not use the silver as military expenses to get it back?
We have to learn to rob!
Since all the people in this world are desperately trying to grab all the land, gold, silver, and precious stones that can be grabbed, why don't we grab them?
Everyone else is doing tigers and wolves, why should we continue to be harmless to humans and animals?
We have the largest population in the world, Spain is not as large as the population of one of our provinces, the population of the Netherlands is not as large as that of Nanjing, and the population of the whole of Europe combined is about the same as the land of our three provinces. We have the most advanced technology, at least for now, and none of their armies have all flintlock pistols, and their ships are about the same as ours.
They were able to plunder most of the world, from Europe to the South Seas.
They traveled thousands of miles or even tens of thousands of miles, looting good places, but we didn't even bother to do it outside of our reach.
We're a dragon.
So why do we have to coil like a cauliflower snake? ”
Yang Xin said, holding up a ruby.
Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's eyes widened as they watched the gem shine in his hand.
Yang Xin's hand moved, and soon the gem was facing the platform where the accusation was being made outside, an old pirate under Li Dan was tearfully describing Li Dan's loss, and by the way, describing the latter's wealth that even the Americans knew was like a mountain of gold, and the audience around him was amazed......
"This is the first step taken by our dragon with its head held high, and then we will not stop until the sun and the moon shine on me, conquer, conquer never!"
Yang Xin said to the brilliance of the ruby.
Behind him, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong looked at each other. I want to talk about "Five Good Youths of the Ming Dynasty" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~