Zhu Yijun looked at Li Dan in disbelief: "There are so many?" ”

At this time, someone next to him said: "Your Majesty doesn't know, the caravan of Steward Li's family alone has placed an order for 200 ships, and the caravan of Uncle Yongnian's family has also placed an order for 100 ships, and the rest of the chambers of commerce have also placed large orders, and the minister is ready to ask the emperor to build a shipyard." ”

Zhu Yijun glanced at the person who spoke, it was Li Bin, the steward of Songjiang Shipyard, and Zhu Yijun nodded at him.

In fact, the maritime merchants of the Ming Dynasty know that sea trade makes money, but they didn't have this opportunity before! Now that this opportunity has been given, it can be said that the maritime merchants have burst out with great enthusiasm. How rich are the merchants of the Ming Dynasty? Merchants used to have money, but it was completely different from what it is now.

Since Zhu Yijun encouraged commerce and started wool weaving from the grassland, the commerce of the Ming Dynasty has developed vigorously.

Now it is common for a business to transfer millions of silver, and the big businesses are all big transfers of tens of millions of taels at every turn.

Not to mention anything else, a few years ago, Zhu Yijun also restricted the production of silver coins and withdrew the silver on the market, but now the Mint is open to manufacturing, even if this is the only way to meet the demand in the market. The capital of the Royal Bank has snowballed, and the denomination of the silver bills is constantly expanding, if not to mention anything else.

In the past, 1,000 taels was already considered a large denomination, but now 10,000 taels is just an ordinary, and 100,000 taels is a large denomination.

The great development of commerce led to the great prosperity of the economy, the continuous increase of the imperial court's taxes, and the continuous improvement of the national strength of the Ming Dynasty. At present, there is basically no need to raise the materials for mobilizing 100,000 men and horses, and the Military Aircraft Department has made a decision, the household department has approved the silver, and the military department is responsible for procurement, and the list will be in the hands of the businessmen in a few days.

The materials are transported by merchants, which is definitely very fast, and the cost control on the road is very low.

Of course Zhu Yijun knew about these, but Zhu Yijun didn't expect Li Dan to be so rich that he placed an order for 200 ships at one time, what is this going to do?

Seeing Zhu Yijun looking at him, Li Dan was very calm, and said directly: "The minister is ready to go to Nanyang!" ”

Go to the South Seas!

Zhu Yijun listened to Li Dan's words, just nodded lightly, and then said with a smile: "It's good." ”

In fact, Zhu Yijun doesn't care about Li Dan's ability to go down to Nanyang, but Li Dan's vision is good, because the imperial court will use troops against Annan, then it will definitely not stop, and the next target must be the old port Xuanfu envoy, once the old port is taken, the trade gate in the south will be completely opened to the Ming Dynasty.

From this point of view, Li Dan is preparing for the south, and this vision is really superb.

Seeing Zhu Yijun's noncommittal, Li Dan breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, buying so many armed merchant ships, Li Dan was really worried that he would be suspected by the emperor. Now that Zhu Yijun didn't say anything, this means that there is still room for turnaround, and Li Dan is naturally relieved.

The reason why Zhu Yijun didn't care was very simple, because these merchant ships were backward merchant ships and merchant ships that were about to be eliminated.

The steam engine was successfully manufactured, and the next step was to be a steam-powered ironclad ship, which was no longer equipped with this kind of artillery, but a breech-loading rifled gun, compared to this kind of warship, now the warships of the Ming Dynasty are backward existences, Zhu Yijun was ready to go back and ordered to reduce the manufacture of warships and make every effort to manufacture armed merchant ships.

Of course, even armed merchant ships are powerful in this era, especially after a certain size.

Zhu Yijun didn't dare to imagine what these merchants would do if he really scattered 1,600 armed merchant ships. But Zhu Yijun doesn't matter, isn't this the case in this era? If you don't beat me, I'll beat you too, Zhu Yijun doesn't care what they want to do, just do whatever they want!

Soon Zhu Yijun finished visiting the shipyard and knew what was going on here, and then returned to the temporary line.

"Emperor, Annan war report!"

Wei Chao came to Zhu Yijun's side and directly handed Zhu Yijun a copy of the report, with a serious expression on his face.

Zhu Yijun took the fold and looked at it, there was no expression on his face, the content of the fold was very simple, that is, Daming had taken Langshan and was now preparing for the next move. Zhu Yijun thought for a while, and then said: "Send an order to the Military Aircraft Department, let Zhang Weixian go south, and at the same time transfer troops from the six provinces south of the Yangtze River. ”

"I will form an army of 200,000 and go south, so that the fleet of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will be ready to transport supplies."

You must know that what Zhu Yijun wants is not just Annan, since it is moved, it must be moved, and the land has been opened, so the army can be dispatched.

This time, Zhu Yijun dispatched the troops of the six southern provinces, to a certain extent, for the purpose of training, although they are unusable, but they can't even defeat the south, right? If you can't beat it, then you will go directly to the post and dismiss the official and cut off your head. At the same time, Zhu Yijun also wanted to use this war to mobilize the enthusiasm of businessmen to go south.

Once a large number of supplies go south, merchants will naturally see the trade route, which is Zhu Yijun using the army to pave the way for trade.

Zhu Yijun's holy decree was soon passed down, and Jiangnan was in an uproar, is it so difficult to fight in the south? Need to pull so many people? The news soon came back, the Ming Dynasty had taken Lang Son, the royal sailors occupied Hai Duong, and the two sides were attacked, and they could take Thang Long Mansion at any time.

At this time, the emperor sent a large army south, and the purpose was very simple, that is, to rebuild the Jiaozhi Political Envoy Division.

Of course, there are also guesses that Zhu Yijun has another purpose, that is, the emperor is going to use troops against Mang Yingli.

After defeating Yang Yinglong on the Chongqing side, they can integrate the forces of Yunnan, Sichuan and Guizhou to take Mang Yingli directly. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there were two routes into Burma, one inland from Yunnan Chengxuan political envoys, there were three roads, one by Tianbu Ma, one by Pundian, one by the Aguo boundary, and the Jiangtou City of Burma.

A mainland since Jiaozhi Cheng announced the political envoy division, from Jiaozhi to Jingmai (800 Dadian Xuanwei Division), from Jingmai through Dongwu (Diwu Xuanwei Division) to Ava, Xuande abandoned Jiaozhi Chengxuan political envoy Division, this road has been impassable for many years, the emperor obviously wants to open up this road.

At that time, the two sides of the army will attack and directly destroy Mangyingli, and after taking Mangyingli, the entire southeast peninsula will be the Ming Dynasty.

After taking the Southeast Peninsula, the Malay Peninsula and the Philippines are naturally in the bag of the Ming Dynasty, and the next step is naturally to enter Malacca. Of course, many people don't care about these things, they care more about the big orders in front of them. A big order for an army of 200,000 people, this is a big order that can make many people full.

Zhu Yijun didn't care, now that the court has money, he doesn't have the habit of putting money in the warehouse and building dust, nor does he have the habit of repairing the garden.