When the news of Mysore's victory came, Zhu Cijiong was extremely excited, he had already had a series of colonial plans in his heart, and now he could finally start to implement them. He is not in a hurry to plunder the colony, now that the Ming Navy Division has not succeeded, even if the colony is plundered, there is no security, and his colonial plan is economic colonization and cultural colonization.

There is an advantage to cooperating with Portugal, they are now occupied by Spain, and the economy cannot develop, so they can only plunder gold and silver directly from the colonies, or forcibly plant all kinds of spices and grains to be shipped to Europe to make money, but there are no cheap goods dumped in the colonies, which is equivalent to a huge overseas market, and now this market is blank, waiting for the Ming to occupy it.

Mysore is only the first step in opening up this market, and with Mysore as an example here, other Portuguese overseas aristocrats will surely follow suit, knowing that now they are completely unbacked and can only rely on themselves.

During the period when the mainland was occupied, Portugal did not talk about opening up colonies, and whether it could hold on to the original colonies was a problem, and many of the natives of the colonies were resisting, and the Spanish, Dutch, British and other powers were also grabbing their colonies, and their colonies were shrinking rapidly.

At this time, with the powerful ally of the Ming Dynasty to protect them, and even help them to open up colonies, would they not be impressed? Will they not compete to lean on Daming?

Some people are going to say that instead of occupying the colony, they help others to defend the colony, idiot, what good is there in doing so. Let's not talk about the fact that the navy of the Ming Dynasty is not able to compete with the great powers on the ocean, and it is unable to open up colonies on its own, just talk about this benefit.

The benefits are great, first of all, this arms business will definitely be booming, now is the time to replace arquebuses with flintlock pistols, Portugal can't produce flintlock pistols by itself, what should I do? Then they can only buy it with others, they used to buy it with the United Kingdom, and used a lot of wealth to buy the inferior obsolete goods of the United Kingdom, so that the United Kingdom slowly rose, and then came to the top, and now they will buy Daming as long as they are not idiots, because Daming's military products have advanced performance and excellent quality.

Then, economic colonization can be carried out, anyway, Portugal has no ability to develop the economy now, as long as any governor asks for help from the Ming Dynasty, or buys arms, then their colony is equivalent to the overseas market of the Ming Dynasty.

How many colonies there are in Portugal, there may not be many in the late colonization, but in the early colonial period, it is called a horror, you must know that in the Age of Discovery, they claim to share the whole earth equally with Spain, you half, I half, the western hemisphere belongs to Spain, the eastern hemisphere belongs to Portugal, and the number of their colonies can be imagined. Of course, most of these colonies were robbed by the Netherlands and Britain, and Portugal could not keep much, but now that there is a Ming Dynasty, it will be difficult for them to rob it.

Finally, cultural colonization can also be carried out, you must know that the generally backward aborigines do not have their own writing system, and some even have a sound language system, so the three major languages in later generations are Chinese, English and Spanish, Chinese is the first large, that is because we have many people but the region is concentrated together, to say that the most popular in the world is English and Spanish, and even Portuguese has a wider spread area than Chinese, which is caused by the colonization of foreign powers.

Do you have a background in English, Spanish, or Portuguese? There is a little, but compared with the Chinese thousands of years of heritage it is far worse, the comprehensiveness of Chinese characters, the diversity of Chinese characters, the artistry of Chinese characters are not comparable to other languages, to put it bluntly, only Chinese calligraphy works in the world can be called works of art, can be sold for a large price, other words, even if you write a basket, can you sell for money, does anyone want it?

Zhu Cijiong has a dream, that is, to make Chinese the world's lingua franca, so cultural colonization is a must.

At this stage, there is no need to rush the arms business, as long as the world's leading performance and quality are maintained, more and more people will naturally come to the door; Cultural colonization cannot be rushed, this needs a foundation, at least there must be a demand for exchange to promote, and this demand is not there for the time being; Come to think of it, all we can do now is to promote economic colonization.

There are many things that are so coincidental, Zhu Cijiong is now trying his best to develop the economy of the Ming Dynasty, in order to develop the economy, he even resorted to the trick of building the railway. What is the most effective way to promote economic development, what to speed up infrastructure construction, vigorously develop industry, sell land, build commercial housing, etc., etc., these are all formal means, in fact, the development is not fast, the real fastest means is economic colonization!

You must know that before the middle of the Ming Dynasty, all the countries in the world combined with their wealth was not as much as the Ming Dynasty, but from the middle and late Ming Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty, it only took a few hundred years for the great powers to surpass our thousands of years of accumulation.

Of course, there is a faster way, that is, to rob, but that has nothing to do with economic development, it is equivalent to building a pavilion in the air, and in the end it is necessary to rely on the economic foundation to maintain, otherwise it is a nouveau riche, and the rich are not more than a few generations.

To carry out economic colonization, first of all, you have to have a large number of cheap goods, such as a piece of cloth, if the natives weave it about the same quality as yours, and the price is cheaper than yours, then why should people buy yours? Only the quality is better than others, and the price is cheaper than others in order to occupy the market, which is equivalent to having a market, but the cost must be controlled, the quality must be guaranteed, and the production capacity must be improved, so as to rely on the rapid development of economic colonization.

In other words, if the people of the Ming Dynasty still use old-fashioned looms to weave cloth, then this economic colonization actually does not make much sense, just mix food and clothing, why bother selling it abroad.

Now the dominant products of the Ming Dynasty are military products and high-end luxury goods, but these are sold to the great powers, not to the colonial aborigines, and it is very profitable to make money, but this money is mainly made by Zhu Cijiong, which is also equivalent to the country is earning, the profit is high, but the scale is too small, and the promotion of economic development is not very large. To put it bluntly, he Zhu Cijiong is now making a lot of money, and he can earn almost hundreds of millions of taels of silver in the cost and expenses of going out in a year, which seems to be terrifying, but on average, it is less than one or two silver for each Ming people, and one or two is equivalent to more than 100 yuan in later generations, which is of great significance to the development of a country.

Therefore, Zhu Cijiong is ready to set off an industrial revolution in the Ming Dynasty, promote the steam engine to all walks of life, vigorously improve productivity, produce a large number of cheap goods, quickly occupy overseas markets through economic colonization, and let the Ming regain the throne of the world's largest economic aggregate, promote military development with economy, and then escort economic development with strong military strength, so that the Ming Dynasty can really rise.

This was a very important subject, and it was not something he could think about alone, so he had to gather a group of cronies again to discuss it.

Of course, this time it was a communication, and those generals were dismissed, and the main people he summoned were:

Xu Guangqi, the head of the Cabinet and the Ministry of Rites;

Bi Maokang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry;

Wang Zheng, the left waiter of the Ministry of Works;

Song Yingxing in the Ministry of Works;

Coupled with a brocade guard, the commander of the Jinyi guard makes Luo Yang's temperament almost the same.

Why do you want to call the commander of the Jinyi Guard to make Luo Yangxing? He is just a spy leader, does it have anything to do with economic development? Don't forget, he is still the big boss behind the scenes of the Rixinglong firm, this thing is not the command of Jinyiwei, but it is quite hard to make money, and now he is a small economist. Zhu Cijiong called him mainly to hear his experience in making money, the development of the economy not only depends on technology, the market, but also on people, someone has to take the lead, take everyone to make money, this kind of person is the so-called boss, now the biggest boss in the Ming Dynasty is of course he Zhu Cijiong, but he is only part-time, his main business is still the emperor. This product is the other way around, the main business is to be the boss, and the side business is to be the commander of Jinyiwei, so now the biggest private boss in Daming should be him, and the commander of Jinyiwei makes Luo Yangxing!

When Zhu Cijiong waited for everyone to arrive, he immediately threw out the big topic of economic development and let them speak freely and offer suggestions.

The first to speak, of course, was Xu Guangqi, the first assistant to the cabinet, who mainly focused on agricultural development, and when it came to making money, the development of agriculture was not impossible to make money. For example, to increase grain production, this grain can make money, now the grain yield per mu of Daming can be said to be low and pitiful, only about three stones, as long as it can be increased to four stones, one mu is to earn an extra one or two silver, you must know that Daming now has a billion acres of arable land, this profit is terrifying.

Of course, the development of agriculture is not only to increase grain production, but also to vigorously develop cash crops, there is a lot of land is not suitable for growing grain, but there is no problem in planting cash crops, for example, in arid places you can grow cotton and cinnamon, star anise and other spices, these are relatively high profit cash crops, there are a lot of this kind of land in the Ming Dynasty, just because of drought and inconvenient irrigation and not included in the scope of cultivated land is counted as wasteland, there are nearly 200 million mu, if all are planted with cash crops, this profit is also terrifying.

There are also planting mulberry and silkworms, raising cattle and horses, making bonsai, etc., etc., are all economic growth points, in short, agriculture is promising.

Zhu Cijiong was stunned when he heard this, he didn't expect that Xu Guangqi was not only a master of Western learning, but also knew so much about agriculture, these are indeed ways to make money, as long as the gross domestic product of the Ming Dynasty can be at least doubled. However, where did Xu Guangqi learn so much about it? There is no degree at this time, so many things, where did he find out, Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but ask the question in his heart.

It turned out that Xu Guangqi was compiling the "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration", which was divided into 12 items and a total of 60 volumes. The 12 items include: 3 volumes of agriculture, 2 volumes of field system, 6 volumes of agriculture, 9 volumes of water conservancy, 4 volumes of agricultural tools, 6 volumes of arboriculture, 4 volumes of sericulture, 2 volumes of sericulture, 4 volumes of planting, 1 volume of shepherding, 1 volume of manufacturing, and 18 volumes of waste administration.

Good stuff! Zhu Cijiong immediately asked Xu Guangqi to intensify the compilation and transfer a large number of personnel from the Hanlin Academy to compile the "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration" as soon as possible.

Then the Ministry of Industry Shangshu Bi Maokang, the Ministry of Industry Zuo Shilang Wang Zheng, the Ministry of Industry Camp Qing Servant Shilang Song Yingxing also put forward their own views on the promotion of steam engines, there are many things that can be promoted, such as shuttle looms, which are already ready-made, and can also develop steam printing machines, steam mills, steam grinders, steam sawmills, ......, these ministries can organize personnel to develop, but there is a problem, these can not be given away in vain, must pay to buy, ordinary civilians come with so much money!

Now it's Luo Yangxing's turn to appear, there is no money to do, borrow from the Rixinglong firm, is he still afraid that who will not repay the money? This interest alone is considerable, and it is also possible to buy their products and sell them to overseas colonies, so that the prosperity will be even more rapid.

Well, the previous loan is good, and it is of the same nature as the bank loan in later generations. However, regarding the purchase of products and selling them to overseas colonial areas, this is a blatant plagiarism of Zhu Cijiong's economic colonial views, but it is just another way of saying it, and Zhu Cijiong expresses strong contempt for him.