The Ming Empire was still preparing for the war in Jiaozhi, and the imperial court of the empire was still methodically making a series of measures for this strategic purpose.

In the spring of the 31st year of Zhengde, at the suggestion of Liang Shiyi in the matter of the Rite Division, Zhu Hou changed Zhu Di's name to Emperor Taizongwen to Emperor Chengzuwen, in order to once again show the determination of the imperial court to recreate the prosperity of Yongle, and if it wants to reproduce the prosperity of Yongle, Jiaozhi naturally cannot be allowed to be independent.

Because of this, the people began to talk about the territory of the Ming Dynasty during the Yongle period, and mentioned the old thing that the Ming Dynasty gave up Jiaozhi.

In the summer of this year, Gui Cao, the secretary of the Ministry of War, publicly released a remark, saying that Jiaozhi was an inseparable part of the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty made these moves, naturally in order to pave the way for the next conquest of Jiaozhi.

Immediately, Lin Tingxuan, the privy envoy of the Guards, proposed to recover Jiaozhi and protect the Han people, and Zhu Houzhao approved Lin Tingxuan's request, and Mao Bowen took command and led the troops to the battle.

At this point, it is a foregone conclusion that the Ming Dynasty will recover Jiaozhi.

At this time, Jiaozhi was still in a state of civil strife, and there was no vigilance for Daming's actions.

Not only did Jiaozhi himself not have any vigilance, but the Western fans who traded or smuggled in the area of the South Ming Sea at this time did not realize that this was a sign of the southward shift of the strategic center of gravity of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, he didn't pay too much attention to the fact that the Ming Empire was about to recover Jiaozhi, and at this time he was still concerned about how much more Fushou paste he could sell when he came to Daming this time.

Whether it was Spain or Portugal, the two rising Western European powers completely lost their dominant position in the global trade market after the Ming Dynasty joined the Great Voyage.

Ming raw silk and other low-cost products were dumped on the global market, bankrupting the textile industry in Spain and Portugal and the colonies they controlled.

At the same time, because the Ming Dynasty had already started the steam industrial revolution, was a supplier of industrial products, and controlled many major shipping routes, Spain and Portugal had no advantage at all in global trade with the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty has always been in a trade surplus position, and a large amount of silver flows into the territory of the Ming Dynasty like flowing water.

This means that almost most of the gold and silver that Spain and Portugal have worked hard to plunder around the world have been earned by the Ming Dynasty.

Naturally, Spain and Portugal did not want this to happen, and they could not sit idly by and watch their silver drain.

Thereupon.

Spain and Portugal began to ban the sale of textiles from China in order to limit the flow of silver into the Ming Dynasty.

Not only Spain and Portugal, but Japan is also restricting the flow of silver into the Ming Dynasty.

However, because of the Ming Empire's own raw silk production advantages and the highly developed textile industry brought by the steam industry, the bans of Spain, Portugal and Japan were null and void, and countless people still bought Ming products.

In order to break this trade deficit situation, Spain and Portugal thought of selling Fushou cream.

Thereupon.

The Ming Dynasty's open-door policy and huge trade surplus advantage led to the early appearance of this kind of Fushou paste trade that appeared in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Miles was one of the pioneers of this type of trade.

He had to admit that the profit that could be made from this kind of Fushou paste trade was more lucrative than the sale of musk mahogany ore in China, because he only needed to plant it in the slaves he had forcibly captured in his colony, and he could easily obtain low-cost Fushou paste, and selling it to Daming was obviously loved by everyone in this empire, as long as he smoked Fushou paste, he could not stop sucking it.

Moreover, Wanlide also found that because of the addictive nature of Fushou Cream, the profits of the Fushou Paste trade can continue to increase.

After all, now the West has no advantage in competing with the Ming Dynasty in global trade except for relying on the trade of Fushou cream.

However, the trade in goods such as Fushou paste has long been banned in Daming.

Therefore, Wanli Delai Daming basically relied on smuggling to sell Fushou cream.

Moreover, there were many coastal officials and gentry who would relax their vigilance against them because of their corruption and bribery, and even help them, and Wan Lide even had a Ming vassal king, King Hui, to support him, so that his Fushou paste trade was carried out more smoothly in the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Wan Lide was a typical white left, looking at the prosperous market of the Ming Dynasty, the wide cement roads and high-rise buildings, and the silk and satin all over the streets and alleys, and the roar of machines that could be powered by four or five strong men, he thought that all the silver that his empire had obtained from the Americas had fallen into the pockets of these yellow people, so that the empire still lived an incomparably rich life, and even developed more powerful guns, squeezing their route control space smaller and smaller.

"Lang Yuan, you try it, this is a new arrival, one or two five hundred silver dollars!"

Wan Lide said in broken Chinese to a rich gentleman in Huizhou, and this Lang was sucking heavily at this time, and his eyelids didn't blink, so he said: "Let's take ten catties first, take him to the account room to settle the bill." ”

Wan Lide was overjoyed when he heard this, and thought that this Fushou paste was really a huge profit, and the cost was less than a hundred silver dollars, and he could earn nearly 80,000 silver dollars.

Of course, what made him even happier was that looking at the old patron Lang Yuan, who had been taking the goods in his hands and smoking this Fushou paste in his hands in the past few years, and gradually lost weight from a pot-bellied person to a skinny old patron, he very much hoped that this kind of trade in Daming could be expanded in his empire, so that the army and nobles of this empire would be addicted to it, so that this empire would become weak, and his own empire could plunder this huge empire.

Wan Li De thought very far, and even he had already written such a letter to the King of Spain, but what he would not have thought was that just as he left Lang Mansion with the bill of 80,000 silver dollars, two brocade guards appeared in front of him: "Wan Lide, yes, come with us!" ”

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Although the war to recover Cochin is getting closer and closer, the closer it is, the more there is nothing to do with Emperor Zhu Houzhao, and the longevity ointment offered by King Hui still impresses him deeply.

Zhu Houzhao still hasn't been able to alleviate the slightest worry that things like Fushou Paste may flow into the Ming Dynasty in advance because of the opening of the Ming Dynasty and poison the people of the world.

Although Zhu Houzhao has issued an order to ban the trade of Fushou paste in Daming through administrative means, Zhu Houzhao believes that the ban will definitely be difficult to ban, and he can also guess that Westerners will definitely become more and more active in the smuggling trade of Fushou paste.

After all, history has proved that this is indeed a lucrative one, and it is also the only way to open up the Chinese market, and even in the 21st century, it is one of the three most profitable trades along with oil and arms.

Zhu Houzhao felt that if the trade of Fushou paste could not be completely banned, then it could not only let the Ming suffer from this, he must let the Westerners also suffer such damage, and he had to rely on this kind of trade to continue to maintain the dominant trade position of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, if Daming wants to engage in this kind of drug 0 trade, the drug 0 produced naturally cannot be a simple poison 0 product.

After all, Daming is an industrialized country and already has scientific research capabilities, so the Fushou paste to be produced by Daming naturally cannot be a simple natural poisonous 0 product, it naturally has to be an industrial product, and it must be irreplaceable.

Moreover, before Zhu Houzhao got Fushou paste from King Hui, Zhu Houzhao had already asked the chemical talents of the Qiu Ju School to engage in compound purification and synthesis experiments of crops such as poppy and 0 poppy.

Zhu Houzhao's initial purpose was naturally only to make analgesics and Jinyiwei's internal interrogation and intelligence detectives, but now, Zhu Houzhao has an idea of trading such products.

"Your Majesty, this is the analgesic spirit developed by the academicians of the Ministry of Chemical Engineering, which is currently only used for the seriously ill when they are dying", after Qiu Ju said, Zhu Houzhao nodded, and then asked Qiu Ju other information about this kind of analgesic, and finally basically confirmed that this analgesic is the morphomorph of the later generations.

And not long after Zhu Houzhao met Qiu Ju, Jin Yiwei came to report to King Hui that he had already caught the Western Fanwan Miles who sold Fushou Cream.

Zhu Houzhao simply ordered Jinyiwei to take Wan Lide to Qiu Ju's laboratory.

And Zhu Houzhao himself also met this Wanlide here, and asked: "Let's talk about it, why did you sell Fushou Paste to Daming, how much did you sell, how many goods, who did you sell to, and through what channels." ”

Wan Lide didn't expect that one day he would still be caught by the brocade guards of this empire, and he was escorted to His Majesty the emperor of this empire, and he only shook his head for a while: "I don't know, I don't know anything!" ”

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but smile, and he didn't bother to talk nonsense with this Xiyi, so he ordered: "Qiu Ju, give him subcutaneous injections of analgesics!" See if he will recruit at that time, and by the way, let these Fanyi profiteers who sell poison taste the power of my Ming Dynasty's domestic high-quality Fushou ointment! ”

Analgesic is a compound extracted from poppy by Qiu Ju and his chemical team, one of which is soluble in water and can be injected subcutaneously.

The current medical development of Daming is also very fast, for Qiu Ju, he is no stranger to subcutaneous injection, but the syringe is made of glass, not plastic.

Qiu Ju walked out in a white coat, holding a glass syringe in his right hand, like a strange old man who gave a child a vaccination, and walked towards this Wanlide, and ordered someone to show Wanlide's shoulder

He didn't know what the strange old man was doing, so he couldn't help but tremble, and the smell of urine came out from under his skirt.

Yes!

Wan Lide screamed!

At the same time, Qiu Ju had already injected a whole tube of analgesic elixir, that is, morphine 0 coffee, into Wan Lide's body.

At first, Wan Lide just felt a burst of new happiness, and couldn't help laughing, even though he felt extremely uncomfortable, and desperately wanted to get another shot: "Trouble, give me another time, give me another time!" This liquid is amazing, it's the liquid of God, it's cooler than getting a woman! ”

Zhu Hou took care of it, and the kind of drugs produced by Daming obviously had better effects and were more addictive.

Next.

Because Zhu Houzhao didn't let Qiu Ju continue to inject Wan Lide, Wan Lide was already anxious and angry: "Give me another one!" Give me another shot! ”

Wan Lide didn't expect that he would be cocooned and self-bound, and he would also be forced to become addicted to drugs in Daming if he was engaged in the drug trade, and he naturally failed to restrain his drug addiction, and soon confessed all the information he knew.

"Jin Yiwei set up an anti-narcotics department, and those who trade in Fushou paste will be executed! No interrogation! From now on, according to the clues provided by Wanlide, the anti-narcotics agencies in and outside the Ming Dynasty will be immediately arrested, and the police forces and the military must fully cooperate! The people of the Ming Dynasty who have begun to smoke Fushou ointment, no matter who they are, are all escorted to the prison of the Jinyiwei Anti-Narcotics Division, and they can not be released until they are completely quit! ”

Zhu Houzhao didn't expect that even though he issued an administrative order to ban the trade of 0 drugs, he still learned through this Wanlide that many smuggling trades were still frantically dumping Fushou paste in Daming, which made him have to directly let Jinyiwei participate in this matter.

Besides.

Zhu Houzhao also decided to immediately return a tooth for a tooth to the West, so Zhu Houzhao immediately summoned Gao Feng and instructed: "You immediately organize a trading house now, tentatively named Fushou Commercial Bank, which is specifically responsible for selling Fushou paste to the Xiyi countries, and the Fushou paste products sold are mainly analgesic extracted by Qiu Ju and others, so sell this thing as Fushou cream, it is called high-quality Fushou cream!" For specific production, you go to Qiu Ju. ”

"Obey the order!"

Gao Feng is now the palm seal of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, responsible for the management of Zhu Houzhao's property, and Zhu Houzhao now asked him to set up the Fushou Commercial Bank, naturally to let him carry out the opium trade against the Xiyi Zhufan.

Zhu Houzhao knew that once the opium trade was launched, the West would completely lose the opportunity to catch up with and surpass the Ming Dynasty in global trade, and the Ming Dynasty would also take this opportunity to destroy the spirit of Westerners and destroy their bodies, and even change their genes.

Gao Feng began the establishment of Fushou Commercial Bank.

The current trade of the Ming Dynasty is mainly divided into three kinds, one is to directly plunder raw materials from overseas colonies, one is to export all kinds of processed products, which are transported back to China by the West or other Fanyi to sell, and the other is to directly cross the ocean to other sales.

Because the profit margin of the commodities exported by the Ming Dynasty is large and the demand for other commodities other than raw materials is low, the trade activities across the ocean are still very few in the Ming Dynasty.

Today, the Fushou Commercial Bank established by Gao Feng can be regarded as opening up a new growth pole for the business activities of the Ming Dynasty in the field of selling goods abroad.

In the spring of the 32nd year of Zhengde, the merchant ships of Fushou Commercial Bank officially left Haojing and went to the West with 100,000 catties of high-quality Fushou paste produced by Daming Royal Industrial Company.

In this era, the Suez Canal had not yet been opened, and the ships of the Fushou Trading Company had to pass through Cape Verde first, but fortunately, Cape Verde and Ceuta were now Ming colonial strongholds.

Therefore, it was not very difficult for the merchant ships of Fushou Trading House to complete the first foreign opium trade, and the problem was how to successfully obtain the right to trade and sell the opium trade smoothly in the Xiyi countries, including the Ottoman Empire.

Zhu Houzhao hoped that Western countries would get acquainted with each other and take the initiative to allow Fushou Firm to sell Fushou cream.

If he didn't know each other, he was also prepared in advance, and he had specially asked some of the armed forces of the navy to be the backers behind the Fushou Trading Company, after all, this was a royal enterprise, similar to the East India Company of the Western powers in history, and if it didn't work, it could directly force its trade on behalf of the royal will.

Shao Yuanwai was arrested and put into Jinyiwei's anti-drug prison and forcibly detoxified, and at the same time, the first batch of addicts in the Ming Dynasty like Shao Yuanwai were also controlled one after another.

The first batch of Fanyi merchants who began to sell Fushou paste to the Ming Dynasty were escorted to concentrate on Haojing, and all the Fushou paste they brought was confiscated, and all the property they earned was confiscated, and then all their heads were cut off and hung at the main gate of Haojing, so as to deter the traders who came to the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty is different from the late Qing Dynasty in history, although the current Ming Dynasty has also passed more than 100 years, but it has won a great victory in many wars with Western colonists, so although the Ming Dynasty disposed of its Western Fan who sold Fushou paste was more cruel, none of the Western countries dared to launch an opium war with the Ming Dynasty.

Even Portugal and Spain, the so-called big countries in a documentary, did not dare to declare war on the Ming Dynasty again.

And even though the Ming Dynasty built a Jingguan Pagoda in Goa with the head of the Franc Machine, these Franc Merchants still came to the Ming Dynasty to trade.

Because the Ming Dynasty had won several wars against the Xiyi colonizers, the status of a great power itself was recognized by the whole world.

The current Ming Dynasty is the only superpower in the whole world, and there is no so-called strength!

Because Daming has the world's largest market and the only industrial production base, he doesn't have to consider the feelings of any country, but other countries have to consider the feelings of Daming, and other countries have to rely on Daming's gifts if they want to be rich.

As the world's only superpower, Da Ming to other countries feel that they hate and dare not hate, love but can't love, sometimes they don't want Da Ming to interfere in their internal affairs, and sometimes they beg Da Ming to be the world's policeman to preside over justice for him.

Now, it is ironclad for the Ming Dynasty to recover Jiaozhi.

As long as it is a clear Jiaozhi person, he should also realize that the Ming should be regarded as his enemy now, and even the enemy who needs to be guarded against the most at present, but the dramatic thing is that Li Zhuangzong, who was established by Ruan Gan, the minister of Jiaozhi State, suddenly sent envoys to the capital to explain to the Ming Emperor Zhu Houzhao that Mo was Mo Dengyong's usurpation of power, and took the initiative to ask the Ming Dynasty to send troops to Jiaozhi to defeat the Mo family.

To be precise, the current Jiaozhi should be called Annan, which is a vassal state established by Li Li in the Xuande period after forcing Wang Tongyi to make peace, asking the Ming Dynasty to give up Jiaozhi and canonize himself.

And now, Mo Dengyong, a powerful minister of the Li Dynasty, forced Emperor Li Gong to take the throne and established the Mo Dynasty himself, but another powerful minister, Ruan Gan, was unwilling to be subordinate to the Mo family, and set up Li Weining as the emperor, that is, Li Zhuangzong, making the current Annan, that is, the north and south of Jiaozhi divided.

Ruan Gan obviously knew that his soldiers and horses could not destroy the Mo clan, so he asked the Ming for help, hoping that the Ming would send troops to help him unify Annam.

"Your Majesty the Emperor of the Celestial Empire! My emperor's ancestors are the lord of Annan canonized by Xuanzong of the Heavenly Dynasty, and the traitor Mo usurped the throne and stood on his own, which is really a heinous crime, begging the Celestial Dynasty to wave the heavenly army to save the people of Annan from fire and water, and maintain the orthodoxy of Annan! ”

The envoy sent by Ruan Gan was heartbroken, crying and denouncing Mo's crimes.

Many ministers in the court who were deeply educated in Confucianism were also deeply sympathetic to the Li family's plight, and of course, there were also ministers who knew that the Li dynasty was not worthy of pity now, because it was the Li ancestor Li Li who gathered troops to betray the Ming Dynasty that caused the Ming Dynasty to lose Jiaozhi Province, and also made the prestige of the Ming Dynasty in the southwest Tusi plummet, resulting in the difficulty of the Ming Dynasty to control the southwest Tusi after the Xuande Dynasty, and finally caused a major war in the Wanli period.

Although this incident is related to Emperor Xuande's own deep Confucian education and his inability to see that losing Jiaozhi will lose his control over the southwest and even the strategic significance of controlling the West, Li Shi cannot escape his responsibility.

Zhu Houzhao was not an emperor cultivated by Confucianism, and what he saw was not to maintain Confucian orthodox ethics, but how to maximize the national interests of the Ming Dynasty.

Although Daming originally wanted to raise troops to fight against Jiaozhi, but now that Ruan Gan took the initiative to ask Daming to send troops, Zhu Houzhao felt that Daming could benefit from the domestic contradictions and let Ming pay the least price in the purpose of recovering Jiaozhi.

Zhu Houzhao convened the important ministers of the Guards system to hold a temporary court meeting to discuss how to deal with the request of Li Zhuangzong, the king of Annam, to send troops from the Ming Dynasty.

Because the intelligence work of the Ming Jinyiwei has been strengthened a lot, the imperial military leaders at this time already know the real situation of Annan, and know that the so-called Li Zhuangzong is just a puppet controlled by Ruan Gan, so neither Zhu Houzhao nor Wang Shouren, nor Lin Tingxuan, Gui Cao, etc., have much sympathy for the northern and southern forces of Annan.

At this time, Wang Shouren said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the Ming Dynasty can first respond to Li Zhuangzong's request for help and send troops to recruit Mo Dengyong, and the minister thinks that as long as Mo Dengyong is not stupid, in the face of the double-sided attack of the southern Ruan Gan Department and the royal division of our Celestial Dynasty, he will definitely choose to belong to my Daming, take the initiative to surrender, and even offer the land and household registration books." ”

Zhu Houzhao admitted that Wang Shouren's analysis was very accurate, in history, after the Ming Dynasty did send troops to Annam at the invitation of Li Zhuangzong, the king of Annam, Mo Dengyong immediately asked the Ming Dynasty to surrender, because the domestic opposition to the Ming Dynasty's dispatch of troops to Annam was originally loud, and Mo Dengyong's request for annexation was also regarded as completing the Ming Dynasty's nominal recovery of Annam, so the Ming court also agreed to Mo Dengyong's annexation at that time, and did not conduct a de facto war against Annam.

But this kind of nominal Annan attachment in addition to being able to look good on the face, there is no practical significance, the Ming did not obtain the actual rule of the Annam region, although it is more beneficial to the Ming Dynasty to let Annan still be in a state of north-south division in a short period of time, but Annam will be unified sooner or later, once unified, it will still become an independent kingdom.

Moreover, this kind of nominal attachment is not a de facto war lord, and it still did not allow the Ming Dynasty to regain its prestige in the southwest Tusi, and still made Annan and other countries wantonly burn and loot on the border of the Ming Dynasty, and even the Southwest Tusi also wantonly plundered the Han people and enslaved the Han people, and even these southwest Tusi were finally so bold that they rebelled directly later.

Zhu Houzhao still wants to occupy Annam directly, after all, what the imperial court really needs now is not superficial glory, but real benefits, food, ore, and cheap labor......

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