Conquer the borderlands across the vast oceans and build your ideal kingdom.

Although Chen Yue's words were impassioned, Qian Fenglin's face showed a disapproving look.

Establishing a fleet to conquer overseas, abandoning the land of the Central Plains, and going to the overseas barbarian places, isn't this going to China to enter the barbarians, what a self-willed depravity?

Not only Qian Fenglin, but also Shan Minglei also showed a look of doubt on his face. The vast ocean is a very dangerous place for most Ming people, only those who can't survive on the mainland will abandon their families and careers, leave their hometowns, abandon their ancestral lands and go overseas, who wants to go to that kind of place for normal people?

Overseas has always been a barbaric place in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming people have always thought that they are the upper kingdom of the Heavenly Empire, who wants to go to that kind of place?

Looking at the looks on the faces of the two, Chen Yue knew that it was difficult to change people's inherent thinking, so he didn't say much, and turned out a huge map in the study and spread it on the table.

This is a map of the Ming Dynasty and the surrounding countries, including the islands of the South Seas, which was drawn by Chen Yue with his own memory before, although it was not carefully detailed and accurate, but the location of the islands in each country is roughly the same. Outside of Asia, the Ming Dynasty roughly outlines the continents of Europe, Africa, and the Americas, Oceania.

"During the Wanli period, the Western missionary John Tang once presented a complete map of the Kunyu Wanguo to the Ming court, which depicted all the countries of the whole world. When I was in Beijing, I once visited John Tang's mansion, and I was fortunate to see a picture of the same Kunyu Wanguo hanging in his mansion, and I observed for a long time and drew the situation of the Ming Dynasty and nearby countries from memory. ”

Chen Yue casually made up a reason and told the origin of the map. Shan Minglei nodded, knowing that Chen Yue had been to Tang Ruowang's Mansion when he was a soldier, and abducted Tang Ruowang's apprentice Pan Xuezhong, and now Pan Xuezhong is serving in the Ordnance Department.

When Chen Yue was in Beijing, Qian Fenglin was still serving as a county magistrate in Wuyi County, but he was familiar with Pan Xuezhong, and knew that the apprentice of the monk Tang Ruowang was rich in knowledge and good at making firearms.

"Is this Da Ming? Only such a big place? Looking at the map, Qian Fenglin couldn't help asking.

"The Ming Dynasty is called Asia on this continent, and the land area of the Ming Dynasty is less than a quarter of Asia, the north of the Ming Dynasty is the Mongolian steppe, and the north of the grassland is the Siberian Plateau, a barren and cold place, but the Russians in Western Europe have crossed the Siberian Plateau in the vast desert to the East and reached the north of the Heilongjiang River. To the northeast of the Ming Dynasty is the nest of the Manchu Tartars, and further east is the Korean Wa Kingdom. ”

Chen Yue pointed to the map and talked about it, introducing the situation in which Daming was located.

"To the west of the Ming Dynasty is the Great Desert of the Western Regions, Hami Turpan and other places, and then to the west of the Kunlun Mountains is the world of the Tatars, which should be the Timurid Khanate. To the south of the Ming Dynasty are Annam, Chenla, Siam, Champa and other countries, all of which are subject countries of my Ming Dynasty.

What I want to say is here, hundreds of miles south of Quanzhou, Fujian, is Dongfan Island, the area here is a place with a circle of hundreds of miles, it is a borderless land, the original life of some barbaric state of the island, and then gradually I Ming people moved to the island, the imperial court has a patrol department on the Penghu Islands in the east and west.

During the Wanli period, the Xiyi Dutch, that is, the red-haired ghosts we call them, crossed the ocean to the East, occupied Dongfan Island, built a fortress on the island, and used it as a foundation to engage in maritime trade and plunder passing ships. Do you know where the red-haired ghost comes from?

Chen Yue said a little more heavily to the location of the Netherlands on the map, which made Qian Fenglin and Shan Minglei suspicious.

"This is here, tens of thousands of miles away from my Ming Dynasty, its land area is only my Ming Dynasty, with a population of less than one million, but such a small country, but it crossed thousands of miles of ocean to Daming, and committed murder at the gate of Daming. Don't you two want to think about why? ”

Saying that, Chen Yue pointed to Luzon again, "This is Luzon, which was originally a vassal country of my Ming Dynasty, but in the fifth year of Longqing, the Spaniards from Europe came to the East, killed the king of Luzon and occupied the entire Luzon country.

And the Spaniards, which we call the Francos, come from the same place as the red-haired ghosts, and they are also tens of thousands of miles away from the Ming Dynasty. Its land area is also the land of the Ming Dynasty, but it currently occupies a large area of land on the earth. and destroyed the subjects of my Ming Dynasty.

Luzon and I are a strip of water, and tens of thousands of Ming people live on Luzon Island, but during the Wanli period, the Francois carried out a brutal massacre of our Ming people, more than 20,000 Ming people died tragically, and all the wealth accumulated by the Francois was plundered by the Francos.

In the twelfth year of Chongzhen, the Francois massacre the Ming people again, and more than 50,000 people were killed. ”

"How dare you do this!" Qian Fenglin was furious when he heard this.

So what? I only look at the square inch of the Ming people, and I am complacent and regard all the surrounding places as barbarian places. His own people in the Central Plains have been turned upside down, but they don't know that the overseas world has undergone earth-shaking changes. If this goes on for a long time, one day the Westerners will beat my Daming, and my Chinese people will become slaves of the foreigners! ”

Chen Yue sighed.

Although they didn't believe that Huaxia would become a slave of foreigners, Qian Fenglin and Shan Minglei still showed a dignified look on their faces. The people of the Ming Dynasty were slaughtered continuously, and the small Western country hit the door of the Ming people, as a Ming person, it was very embarrassing to hear this. What is the Heavenly Empire, even such a small country cannot be governed.

"Why did the red-haired ghost and the Franco-man come to my Daming from all the way far?" Shan Minglei couldn't help asking.

"Good question!" Chen Yue glanced at Shan Minglei appreciatively, "There is no war for no reason, and no Westerners will not come here for no reason." What they do for nature is wealth.

The Franco-Rangians and the Netherlands were so small and narrow that their territory could not support their growing population. Just like my current Ming Dynasty, the population is increasing, but the land is concentrated mostly in the hands of the gentry.

But unlike my Daming, the Francos, the Dutch, and the English chose to expand their living space overseas, and they took advantage of the sailing ships to sail around the world, discovered a large amount of overseas land, and occupied it.

This is the Americas, two continents are connected, the area is four times the size of my Ming Dynasty, the land is vast and the desert is rich in products, and there are uncivilized Indian savages living on it, and now the whole of America has been owned by Westerners.

From the vast expanse of the land they occupied, they seized a great deal of wealth to feed their own people. ”

Chen Yue knew that the reason why the Spaniards and the Portuguese sailed around the world and discovered the New World was because the trade to the East was controlled by the Turks, and the reasons were very complicated. I couldn't understand it for a while, after all, for the Ming people of this era, they didn't know much about the situation overseas.

"A small Western country can occupy such a huge amount of land overseas. It's a pity that since the eunuchs of the Three Treasures went to the West, the imperial court forbade the sea and ignored overseas places, but Yelang was arrogant and self-proclaimed as the upper kingdom of the Heavenly Empire.

Dongfan Island has the land of my Ming Dynasty, the climate is very similar to Fujian, and it may be warmer and wetter, if it is developed, it is enough to reclaim hundreds of thousands of hectares of fertile land, which can support tens of millions of people.

Luzon Island is thousands of miles in circumference, about the size of Fujian Province, and its cultivable plains are larger than Fujian's, and the island has a large amount of copper and gold mines, which could support tens of millions of people if it could be relied upon.

To the south of Luzon, there are islands such as Borneo and Sumatra, which are vast and sparsely populated and rich in materials, and their land can be harvested twice and three times a year. But now these rich lands are occupied by Westerners, and the original subject country of our Ming Dynasty has been destroyed by Westerners.

The reason why the people have rioted in recent years is because the barren land cannot feed more and more people, and the people have no way out and have to take risks.

If we can look overseas, seize these places from the Westerners, and immigrate the people who have lost their land here, then we can solve the problem of land annexation and bring grain from overseas back to China, then the country will not be afraid of food shortage, and if the land area expands, the state will increase taxes and revenues.

All of my problems can be solved by this expansion. ”

Looking at Chen Yue, who was talking eloquently, Qian Fenglin and Shan Minglei were full of emotion in their hearts. They didn't expect Chen Yue's vision to be so broad, and his vision was no longer limited to Da Ming but to the whole world.

Speaking to Chen Yue, Qian Fenglin seems to understand whether he understands or not, but he also knows that if what Chen Yue said can really be realized, if the Ming Dynasty can completely occupy the islands in the South China Sea and develop them, it will definitely be able to transfer the countless contradictions in the Ming Dynasty, the new land can move the landless population, the overseas grain can feed back to the Ming Dynasty, and the sea trade can increase the treasury tax, in short, there are many benefits.

However, all this is said to be easy, how difficult it is to really do, Dongfan Island is entrenched in red-haired ghosts, even the powerful Zheng family can't take them, Luzon is even farther away from the Ming Dynasty, how difficult it is to attack it.

"Brother Shi Jian, I know that you have great ambitions, if we can occupy the eastern Luzon and claim to be a country, there will be places for you to govern.

Brother Fenglin, you have lofty ambitions, and it is your lifelong ambition to rule the country and level the world with the Qi family, but there is no place for us to display it in the Ming Dynasty. Instead of risking the danger of causing trouble in the world, instead of fighting for power and profit all day long, it is better for us to create a situation by ourselves and rely on our own hands to win a world.

Of course, the future is unpredictable, and there are countless difficulties and obstacles to overcome. But if we work together, I believe that in 20 years at most, we will establish a country that is no less extensive than the Ming Dynasty and richer than the Ming Dynasty. ”

Chen Yue looked at the two of them without blinking after speaking, not knowing if these words could impress the two.

He didn't come to this idea out of the blue, but for a long time. When he was in Beijing, he once thought that if one day the Manchu Qing Dynasty won the world, he would sail to sea and never shave his hair to the Manchu as a slave.

When he was in Yangzhou, he also thought about building a fleet to carry out sea trade to make money and then expel foreigners to occupy overseas land, but because the Manchu Tartars were about to go south, he could only think about it.

Now, the Manchu Tartars have been repulsed and have lost tens of thousands of troops, the Ming Dynasty is safe and sound, there is no danger of destroying the country, and there is no problem at all in supporting it for a few more years.

And with the victory one by one, Chen Yue's own merits are getting bigger and bigger, and he has more and more troops under his control, and he is becoming more and more jealous of Chongzhen. Maybe it's also good to hand over the army and be a rich noble, and wait until the court needs it before leading the troops to fight, with the relationship with Chongzhen, there is no problem.

But the problem is that that's not what Chen Yue wants, as his experience becomes richer and richer, and his status becomes more and more passing, Chen Yue is no longer the person who was at ease with what he encountered, and he is no longer satisfied with living a dull life.

Since you can't show your fists in the Ming Dynasty, why not jump out of the Ming Dynasty and look overseas?

Now it is the Age of Discovery, and the overseas land has almost been carved up by Spain, Portugal, England and other countries, and China has lagged behind the world a lot. In a hundred or two hundred years, maybe it will fall into the situation of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Chen Yue, who has the soul of the future in his body, never wants to see Huaxia sink like another time and space!

After pondering for a while, Qian Fenglin smiled, he was afraid that Chen Yue would sink and lose his fighting spirit. Since Chen Yue has such a huge idea and such a huge ambition, what does it matter if he goes on with him?

"I am willing to follow Master Hou until death!" Qian Fenglin clenched his fists and slammed them to the ground.

Shan Minglei's eyes flickered, Chen Yue's reluctance to rebel made him very disappointed, but now listening to Chen Yue's words, it would be good if he could build a country overseas, so he would still have the opportunity to worship the prime minister. Of course, Shan Minglei has been tied to Chen Yue, and if he leaves Chen Yue, he will not have much future.

"I am willing to follow Master Hou until death!" Following Qian Fenglin, Shan Minglei also said respectfully.

"Hahaha......." The core three of the Pingnan Army reached an agreement, which made Chen Yue's mood very happy.

"Dare to ask Master Hou, what are we going to do next?" The matter of overseas self-reliance is too complicated and requires a lot of preparation, and Qian Fenglin wants to know what Chen Yue thinks.

"I will go to the imperial court to bury my father on the seashore in Zhejiang, and then I will keep filial piety for my father for three years. In this way, we can transfer our manpower to Zhejiang.

Brother Fenglin, you have the merit of planning and operation after defeating the Manchu army in a row, I will play the imperial court to ask for credit for you, strive to get you the position of the prefect of Hangzhou, and then seek a position for Wu Ping as the chief soldier of the Zhejiang Navy, which the imperial court will still give.

After arriving in Zhejiang, we can buy and build sea ships, the shogunate still has a large amount of silver, the battle of Yangzhou captured a large number of firearms and artillery, I have issued a secret order, ordered to intercept the captured red cannons, etc., with our money and materials to build a fleet of hundreds of sea ships will not take much time.

As for manpower, it can be drawn from the Pingnan military water camp, and there is no shortage of fishermen who are familiar with the sea along the coast of Zhejiang.

In a year at most, we can build a fleet, and then we can start the war between the Dutch and the Dutch. ”

Chen Yue talked eloquently, everything was under control.

ps: For the sake of completeness, it's no longer cut, and the two chapters are sent in one.