Volume 14 Chapter 16 Preparing for War

After lunch, the uncle and nephew were busy, Zhu Youzhen hurried back to the imperial study, without saying a word, picked up the fold, brushed and brushed is a meal, today this fold is really enough, even if he is as neat as the printer can not be approved in an afternoon, I don't know how busy I will be at night.

Zhu Cijiong also returned to the study, but it was not the imperial study, but his own private study, and Wang Zhengnan and Shi Weila had been waiting in the study for a long time.

After the two hurriedly greeted each other, Zhu Cijiong flipped out a map of South Asia, put it on the conference table, and then beckoned them to sit down, and the discussion began.

He first asked Wang Zhengnan: "Come to Xian, how many spies have been planted in the Mughal Empire?" “

Wang Zhengnan replied with some shame: "Your Majesty, Weichen is incompetent, in the past few years, there have been less than 100 Jinyi Wei spies who have entered the Mughal Empire, and their language is too difficult to learn. “

Zhu Cijiong nodded approvingly: "It's already very good to have a hundred people, and they can learn a language in a few years, then they are all geniuses, by the way, the people over there seem to be quite different from us, how did you solve this problem?" “

Wang Zhengnan replied in a professional tone: "There are many descendants of Turkic and Han people in the Mughal Empire, this part of the people except for a slightly darker skin color than us, there is not much difference, Jinyiwei has a special potion, as long as you soak in the potion, you can become a slightly dark complexion, and then put on the clothes over there, and then you can't see it if you disguise it a little." “

Zhu Cijiong seemed to be very interested in this, and he asked, "How long does this potion last?" “

Wang Zhengnan replied without thinking: "If you don't wash it with a special potion, you won't be able to return to your original complexion." “

Zhu Cijiong was overjoyed when he heard this, and he continued to ask: "Is this potion difficult to make?" “

Wang Zhengnan thought for a while and replied: "It's not that it's difficult to make, it's just that the formula is more complicated, does the emperor need it?" “

Zhu Cijiong slapped his face and asked excitedly: "How long does it take to prepare the amount of 200,000 people?" “

Wang Zhengnan roughly estimated it, and replied cautiously: "It will take about a month." “

Zhu Cijiong immediately clapped his hands and said, "Okay, start preparing immediately." “

After that, he turned his head, tempted Little Red Riding Hood with the big bad wolf, and asked with a smile: "Svera, there is an opportunity to make money, do you want to participate?" “

Isn't this nonsense, Schvila is a fan of money, how could he miss the opportunity to make money, he immediately asked with a shy face when he heard this: "Your Majesty, really, how much money can you make?" “

This goods, before asking what the opportunity is, directly asked how much money can be made, the eagerness of the mood can be imagined, Zhu Cijiong continued to tempt: "Of course it's true, as for how much money you can make, it depends on how much money you can invest, at least double." “

When Svera heard this, he trembled and said: "Flip, flip, double, and at least, how many times can it be multiplied at most?" “

Zhu Cijiong rolled his eyes and said angrily: "Then it depends on your ability." “

Shi Weila was already immersed in the dream of doubling his assets, and he didn't notice Zhu Cijiong's appearance at all, he said eagerly: "Your Majesty, what you say you should do, I will listen to you." “

Only then did Zhu Cijiong point to the map on the table and ask, "Do you say that the Mughal Empire is rich?" “

He said greedily: "Yes, they have a lot of gold, they like to wear gold jewelry, and many rich people use gold to make bowls, pots, and even make clothes and palaces with gold!" “

Zhu Cijiong knew that Shi Weila was not talking nonsense, these were all true, and there was a lot of news about this in later generations, but Zhu Cijiong really couldn't remember how much gold they had, so he couldn't help asking: "Then do you know how much gold they have?" “

Shi Vera stretched out a hand without hesitation and said excitedly: "They have at least 50 million taels of gold!" “

Fifty million taels! Gold! Now that the price of gold and silver is about 1 to 40, doesn't that mean that the total value of their gold is almost equivalent to 2 billion taels of silver, is it possible? Zhu Cijiong roughly estimated that one ton is equivalent to 20,000 taels, and 50 million taels is equivalent to 2,500 tons, he has seen the ranking of gold reserves of various countries in later generations, and the gold of the first country is about more than 8,000 tons, and according to statistics, the total amount of private gold in the Mughal Empire is more than twice the gold reserves of this country, that is to say, there are at least more than 20,000 tons, and 2,500 tons is only equivalent to one-tenth of the later generations, which is entirely possible!

Thinking of this, Zhu Cijiong was a little uneasy, he estimated in his mind that the gold worth two billion taels of silver should be earned back, how much money would be invested in the purchase of goods, if their prices only doubled, they would have to invest one billion taels of silver, if their prices had increased fivefold, they would have to invest four hundred million taels of silver, and if their prices had increased tenfold, they would only need to invest two hundred million taels of silver.

Doubling that is for sure, a five-fold increase is very likely, and a tenfold increase is also possible, but it depends on luck, that is to say, for the sake of insurance, at least three or four hundred million taels of silver will be invested, does he have so much money? It seems to be almost! Did he take out so much money? If you count the principal of the Daming Royal Nikko Bank bank, he can take it out completely, but is it too risky to do that?

Just as he was frowning and thinking about it, Shi Weila couldn't help but ask: "Your Majesty, how do you make this money?" “

When Zhu Cijiong heard this, he gritted his teeth, supported the bold, starved the cowardly, and did it, he said directly: "First invest a lot of money to buy all the goods in circulation in their country, especially the daily necessities of grain, oil and salt, which consume very quickly, so that their prices will rise, and then, together with Spain, suddenly cut off all supplies at the right time, and then cut off all the merchant ships traded between the Netherlands and Britain and France and the Mughal Empire, so that their prices will soar and the country will be in turmoil, and then find an excuse to start a war with them, and this war will be over. What do you think prices will look like? When the time comes, pull the goods back and sell them slowly, how much money do you say you can make? “

At first, the more he listened, the more excited he became, but in the end, he was discouraged, and when Zhu Cijiong finished speaking, he said disheartenedly: "Your Majesty, just fight it down and grab it directly, why do you have to work so hard?" “

Listening to his tone, it seems that this matter has nothing to do with him, if he fights down and robs directly, it really has nothing to do with him, but why would Da Ming do this?

When Zhu Cijiong heard this, he said angrily: "Rob, rob, rob, just know how to rob, don't be so barbaric, besides, when someone else hits your house, what will you do, take out all the gold to show off?" With their brains, they will definitely hide all the gold, and how much will they be able to grab when the time comes? “

When Shi Vera heard this, he was still a little puzzled, and he couldn't help blurting out: "Then you can arrest them all, if you don't hand over the gold, it's click!" “

When Zhu Cijiong heard this, he patted his forehead and said helplessly: "I want them to slowly surrender, instead of resisting desperately, do you think they are indigenous?" With such a big country and so many people, how terrible it is to resist desperately, do you know it? “

When Shi Vera heard this, his old face turned red, and he was ashamed and didn't know what to say.

Zhu Cijiong said angrily: "I'm going to start acting next month, but you can't do it." “

If you don't make money, how can it be, Shi Vera hurriedly nodded and said: ",, the emperor must take me!" “