Several generals looked at each other.

"What does the governor mean?"

Guerrilla Chen Jiude said cautiously.

This is also after the famous family, his father is the commander of the naval division when aiding the DPRK, Chen Luan, the supreme commander of the Ming Dynasty coalition army in the Battle of Luliang, Chen Jiude should have led the Guangdong aid Liao army to the north at this time in history, and by the way, he also participated in the battle against Xu Hongru.

Their Hongyi cannons impressed the court officials.

But now Liaodong doesn't need them, so he has to be a guerrilla in Guangdong honestly.

"What I mean is very simple, first of all, the generals above the garrison in Guangdong, you will make a separate list for me, and secondly, the officers above the guards will be appeased, and you will also make a list for me, and then I will set up a Nanyang company in the capital, which will be authorized by His Majesty to have the right to crusade against the ministers in Nanyang, and to open up the territory for the Ming Dynasty, and to follow the practice of the red-haired people, and publicly raise shares in the Ming Dynasty.

That is, to make some stocks similar to bills, how much silver is a stock, and whoever buys this kind of stock can use it to distribute dividends according to the company's earnings at the end of each year after buying this kind of stock.

If you lose money, you won't be divided.

But if you make money, you can pay dividends, and the more you earn, the more you will get points.

However, the public offering is just a meaning, and it is difficult to say how many people will buy it, so the first batch of shares is actually just talking, in fact, I will give away some of the shares to all of you on the list, and the number varies according to the official position, and the other part will be used as an investment for His Majesty. However, it is not a free gift, your shares are considered to be purchased by me as a loan of silver to you, and they will be deducted from the income of Nanyang Company in the future, of course, if there is no income, there is no need to deduct it.

And then you provide people.

Those who are familiar with the trade of the South Seas, those who know the routes of the South Seas, those who can fight in the South Seas, in short, give these people to me, and I am responsible for providing this new type of sailing ship.

They then train for a year.

When the training is almost complete, you can go south, first trade, see which places are suitable to start, for example, to see which state has money, and then you can beat them, force them to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time ask them to pay compensation to us, after all, it costs money for us to beat them, and this money must be paid by them. At the same time as they pay compensation, they force them to sign an agreement with us, no matter what they sell or buy in the future, they must find us, especially spices and the like, and dare to sell to others Be careful that we will beat him again.

Don't feel bad about that.

That's what the Dutch have always done, and if the natives in Java dare to sell spices to others, the Dutch will directly attack them. ”

Yang Xin said.

The generals quickly came to their senses.

What kind of trading company is this, it's just a pirate group!

But......

"It's promising."

Yu Zhigao said with great interest.

"If you want to say that there is no shortage of people, who doesn't have a few house slaves who know this, just by doing so, it will inevitably clash with those Taixi barbarians, and now the red-haired people and the Franco-machine people are fighting for this, and we will inevitably fight with them if we want to go over."

Chen Jiude said.

"Then let's fight, Ling Zunwei is shocked, is Brother Chen still afraid of this?

What's more, we are a trading company approved by the Ming Emperor, and if they dare to fight us, it will be a war with the Ming Emperor.

Franc machine man dare to fight?

Then expel from Macau, and don't live here in the future.

The red-haired people dare to fight us, and the Ming Naval Division will block the Taiwan Strait, and they will not go to the Japanese country in the future.

This east is our territory, they have to do what we want them to do, we are not robbing the territory they occupy, there are places in the South Seas that have not been occupied by them, let's go to these places, what qualifications do they have? Nanyang is indeed their final say now, but if we want to get a piece of the pie, they have to endure it, and if they don't bear it, they won't be able to do any business in the future. ”

Yang Xin said.

"Our sailor?"

Yu Zhigao said cautiously.

What he means is, you don't know what our sailors are like at the moment, do you?

"What do you think of my ships?"

Yang Xin said.

"The Governor ship is strong!"

Yu Zhigao said.

He has been involved in coastal defense all his life, and at a glance, he knows that Yang Xin's battleships are not easy to fight.

These ships were in no way inferior to the battleships of the Franc and the Red-Haired Man.

"In the future, all the sailors will change this, my shipyard in Tianjin can build dozens of ships this year, and the cannon foundry can also cast enough iron cannons, Your Majesty will soon issue an order, in the future, Fujian, Guangdong, Zhejiang and Denglai, all the old warships of the navy division will be phased out, and coastal defense will be dominated by this kind of cruisers, and the Taixi-style capital ships will be built separately, and they will have to bring more than 50 guns, and the smallest ones will have to be the same as my largest."

Yang Xin said.

That's true.

After all, the value of a cruiser like him has already been demonstrated.

And the apocalypse himself has always been full of desire for large battleships, if it weren't for Yang Xin to stop him, His Majesty the Emperor would have wanted to build the Victory directly, but building the Victory is indeed a great achievement, but it is still necessary to build a batch of third-class ships, as long as there are ten battleships with double-layer guns, basically these European colonists in Asia are all honest. At this time, Europe was not too big, the Sea King was still early, and even the Vasa had just begun to be built at this time, whether it was the British or the Dutch, the largest was forty or fifty guns, and the strongest British had built the Crown Prince, which also did not exceed sixty guns, and the ninety that were later modified were added but were captured by the Dutch.

Moreover, it is impossible for these treasures to come from Europe to the East for this reason.

A battleship of fifty guns was enough to suppress the East.

A group of generals looked at each other excitedly, as generals they knew very well what this meant, the expansion of the sailor represented the emperor's emphasis on the sea, and the emperor's emphasis on the sea represented the improvement of the status of these generals who had been away from the core of power for a long time......

Of course, the main thing is more silver.

The formation of a powerful fleet, the construction of warships, and the maintenance in the future are all the money bags of these generals.

"Uncle!"

At this time, Yang Huan suddenly walked in.

"What?"

Yang Xin said.

"The people in Guangzhou are in turmoil, and tens of thousands of people are protesting against the rise in rice prices!"

Yang Huan said.

"Well, they protest against the rise in the price of rice, then the local officials should ease the price of rice, what are the Guangzhou Mansion, what are the political envoys doing, is the court giving them a vegetarian meal?"

Yang Xinyi said rhetorically.

"Back to my uncle, they said that it was because we bought a large amount of rice here that the price of rice in Guangzhou skyrocketed."

Yang Huan said.

"It's inexplicable!"

Yang Xin reprimanded angrily.

"Yes, the governor is only a few thousand people stationed in Macao, how can the price of rice in Guangzhou rise, not to mention that the governor is fishing for self-sufficiency, so how much rice can he eat? These people are just messing around, it is obvious that the profiteers are hoarding and making the price of rice rise, and the Guangzhou government does not crack down on the profiteers, but frames the governor, which is simply unreasonable. ”

Yu Zhigao said indignantly.

Anyway, he also has a share in transporting rice here.

"Is it serious for profiteers in Guangzhou to hoard Juqi?"

Yang Xin said.

"These profiteers can't do anything, even if they don't have a governor, the price of food in this city of Guangzhou often skyrockets. Not to mention the common people, even the officers and soldiers under the brothers have suffered greatly, after all, the military salary is unchanged, and as soon as the price of grain rises, they will have to starve, and there are even those who are so hungry that they have to grab civilian food. The governor came back from Liaodong, and he knew this, in fact, not only the Liaodong brothers were starving, but also the officers and soldiers of Guangdong were often starving, and the culprits were these profiteers who hoarded and lived in strange places. ”

Yan Yikui said.

As a matter of fact, such a thing as grain grabbing often occurs among officers and soldiers in Guangdong, and they are all ordinary soldiers, and the amount of food they grab is usually not too much; to put it bluntly, they can't have enough to eat, and with the connivance of the officers, they simply do it themselves to have enough food and clothing.

In the late Ming Dynasty, the depreciation of military salaries into silver was a big drawback.

This did simplify the transportation burden of the imperial court, but it left the food and clothing of the soldiers in the hands of the profiteers, and it was pure nonsense to expect the latter to take care of the overall situation, they would only try to squeeze their last copper coin out of the hands of the soldiers, and hoarding and manipulating the price of grain was the most basic operation for them. In their opinion, their military salaries were too low rather than too expensive food, and in the end, it was difficult to rise to one tael of rice in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, even in a bad harvest year, and it would start at five taels in Liaodong.

Is it because grain transportation is difficult?

That's a pure joke, a shipload of 1,000 stone rice is transported from Zhejiang to Liaodong, and it only takes half a month to take the Taiwan warm current route of the Black Water Ocean, and the shipping loss rate is only a few percent, so it can rise more than five times, and in the end it is all fished out by the intermediate links.

The same goes for Guangzhou.

What the profiteers in Liaodong can do, of course, here will not be more disciplined.

Of course, this profiteer is not just a businessman, which grain merchant is not a real local wealthy family?

"And this kind of thing?"

Yang Dudu took the case.

"Order the second battalion to assemble, and the six warships on the dock are ready to set sail, and the governor of Pontus wants to see whether the price of rice in Guangzhou has risen because of the arrival of the governor of Pontus or whether the profiteers have hoarded and piled up."

He then shouted.

Yu Zhigao and the others looked at each other and smiled meaningfully.

Obviously, this result is what they want, although Chen Bangzhan has not done anything these days, Wu Zhongwei and others have threatened them many times, trying to force them to cooperate with the civil officials' attack on Yang Xin, and even used the very deterrent guillotine knife of the Imperial Historian Wang Zunde. If Yang Xin doesn't make a fuss and give these guys a little color, they may not be able to hold on, not to mention anything else, Wang Zunde's impeachment alone can make them dismiss and go to prison.

But Yang Dudu is crazy and easy to do.

Immediately after that, an infantry battalion gathered outside, and even an additional artillery team was equipped, and the six warships that came back from the dock to rest were also ready to set sail......