"Did you get a head?" Qin Feng lit to Manila on the map and asked Ning Zeyuan, who was standing on the side.

After sending Chen Ci away, Qin Feng summoned Ning Zeyuan again.

"It's funny!" NING Zeyuan.

"It's complicated there." Qin Feng frowned, "It's easy to set yourself on fire and fall into a quagmire. And we're just using it as a place to make money now, and for at least ten years, our main goal will be on the mainland, maybe for a little longer. It's impossible to be distracted to run here."

"Your Majesty, it is precisely because of the complexity of this place that we are able to dial the form here with minimal force, so that we can occupy the initiative here." Ning Zeyuan was obviously more familiar with the form between the numerous island countries in that sea area, and he used to feel that he had nowhere to speak, once he did something to someone, it was very easy to cause public indignation, and he was beaten, but now he had a righteous and bright reason to intervene in it, which made him very excited, and his face looked a little abnormally flushed.

"Manila occupies a choke point, choking the main road of maritime trade between the East and the West, he is the richest country in this sea, and the most powerful country, old Nilan is a hero, he has the ability to twist all the island countries in this sea into a rope, but his sons can't, and neither can the other kings of this island country, this sea area, from the moment the old Nilan died, has entered an era of hegemony, but the old Nilan's residual power is still there, so it's just a turbulent undercurrent, Tsaran's rebellion has completely torn off the last fig leaf, and many forces are now fighting here, including the more distant West." Ning Ze is far away.

"So, it's a mess there." Qin Feng touched his chin and said.

"Quite messy. And his chaos is good for us." Ning Zeyuan said with a smile, "As long as Your Majesty is under the command, the minister can lead the fleet to take the important port of Manila with lightning speed.

"Luo Yishui said that they can become a vassal state of Daming!" Qin Feng smiled at Ning Ze and said afar.

Ning Zeyuan was far away, "They actually want to be self-reliant? Without the help of Da Ming, I am afraid that they will not be able to stand anywhere, although it seems that they have the advantage now, but they do not have the strength to take the ports in the east and west, the lifeblood of Manila is still in the hands of Kanu, and after a long time, they will not be able to support it."

"That's why I came to be enlightened and moved by emotion, and I knew it with reason." Qin Feng laughed cardably, "Coming all the way, Chen Ci must have seen the strength of our Daming Water Master, right?"

Ning Zeyuan was a little ashamed." He is the father of General Chen Zhihua, I regarded him as my own, and I really didn't guard against him, whether it was Huludao or Baoqing's Taiping Shipyard, he had been there, and the strength of our sailors, he was now clear. But he didn't know that our sailors were also marines."

"Since you have a head, let's do it." Qin Feng walked back and forth in the house a few times, looking at Ning Zeyuan: "But this matter is just a political hall, and you have to do it alone. My request is to strike as fast as possible and defeat Kanu before those countries can react, and then fight with Lo and take Manila once and for all."

"But Your Majesty, Luo Yishui, they don't want to submit to my Daming!" Ning Zeyuan was a little unhappy, "In that case, why should we help them?"

"If Luo Yishui was willing to submit to me, many years ago, he would not have left with Chen Ci and them, he would rather die in the sea than succumb to me, so there is no need to mention this. Now that we don't have more energy to run Manila, it's good to have a government in Manila that is friendly to me."

"That's all?" Ning Zeyuan was a little surprised.

"Of course not. Next you bargain with Chen Ci, I need to have a military port in Manila. This is our minimum condition, and we need this military port to ensure that our Ming merchants can trade safely in this sea."

Ning Zeyuan's eyes shrunk: "Your Majesty is ready to open the sea trade?"

Qin Feng smiled: "Not bad. Some of the merchants of the Ming Dynasty are already quite rich now, and we will find another way for them to make money."

"Then the Maritime Administration will lose this monopoly business!" Ning Zeyuan was a little unhappy, "Now the imperial court does not allocate money to the Maritime Administration, and all the expenses of the Maritime Administration rely on monopolizing maritime trade transactions."

"The participation of a large number of merchants will make the goods more diverse, and it will also increase the export volume of goods, and we can collect taxes, and these taxes will be collected by your Maritime Administration, and the income tax will still be at the disposal of your Maritime Administration. If Ming merchants want to go to sea, they must have sea ships, so our two shipyards will have more orders for sea ships, and it is too wasteful to let them build warships, and now our sailors can't keep up with the speed of sailor training?"

Ning Zeyuan nodded slightly.

"Now that we have twelve Taiping-class warships, we are basically invincible in this area, and we only need to add three or four more per year in the future. This will save you a lot of money to train more sailors and marines, and civilian merchant ships can train sailors for us free of charge, and if the time comes, a conscription order can bring them under your jurisdiction. What's more, the merchant's energy is infinite, and the profit-seeking nature will make them move further after setting foot in this sea. They are our best pathfinders."

"The West has a lot of power." Ning Zeyuan's face changed slightly.

"That's why we have to be prepared for it, we don't know anything about it. And you told me before that they once formed hundreds of warships to attack, and they failed to return, and they came back for many years, which also shows how strong they are from another side. But with the first time, there will be a second time, and finding out their reality in advance will make us know ourselves and the other. And the appearance of merchant ships is always a little more modest than the appearance of warships. Manila will have shipping lanes to the West, merchants and a gateway to them."

"Your Majesty, the minister understands." Ning Zeyuan nodded vigorously: "Help Luo Yishui and them take Manila, no matter what their attitude towards Daming is in the future, we need to hold that military port steadily, and then use this military port as the basis to develop our forces in this sea area, these, it is obviously not enough to rely on the army alone, therefore, more Ming merchants will set foot on this land, which will allow us to have more manpower and gather more forces for our use, and the military port can show our military strength, Businessmen will let them see our economic strength and work in tandem. Build this sea area into the first barrier and defense chain of my Daming sea area, and then use this as the basis to advance to the west in an orderly manner. After Your Majesty rules the world, we will have the energy to march westward and plant the banner of our Ming Dynasty wherever the sun can shine."

Qin Feng laughed: "This, I really didn't think about it. This world is very big, even if the Ming Dynasty is strong, it is impossible to conquer them all, and besides, so far away, even if it is conquered, how can it be managed? This continent is different, because thousands of years ago, this continent was originally a unified country, with the same culture and the same species, so it must be united for a long time, and there is a basis for the unification of the world, but overseas, it is different."

"Doesn't Your Majesty have the great wish to be the king of the world?" Ning Zeyuan's eyes widened.

"To be the co-king of the world, you don't necessarily have to conquer it with a sword." Qin Feng patted Ning Zeyuan on the shoulder, "Sometimes, you can also have money, and sometimes, you can use culture. A thousand years ago, the Datang fleet crisscrossed the seas and laid down countless territories, where the Datang banner went, ghosts and gods changed, but after a thousand years, ninety percent of the people on our continent don't even know what is overseas. Therefore, what is struck with a sword does not necessarily last long. You can think about this question. Force can be a deterrent. Sometimes you don't have to come out, but it can play a bigger role."

Ning Zeyuan was silent, this topic was too big, and he estimated that it would be difficult for him to figure out the joints for a while.

Seeing Ning Zeyuan's appearance, Qin Feng laughed again: "Now that the two of us monarchs and ministers are whimsically doing such a thing here, if we let Cao Tiancheng know, we will definitely smile crookedly, it is still a very distant thing for us, if we don't dominate the world, we don't have the energy to manage things farther away, and now going to Manila to intervene is just for us to make more money from, in order to make a little arrangement in the future." If we win, it's a strategy, and if we lose, haha, what's the use?"

"Of course we'll win!" Ning Zeyuan waved his fist vigorously, "The minister will go and have a good fight with Chen Ci, his two sons are in important positions under our Daming, and they should be very close to our Daming."

"Don't confuse the two!" Qin Feng shook his head: "Chen Ci is not only a general, but also a qualified politician, but also an extremely cunning person, otherwise, he could have coaxed the Yue Emperor for so many years in the Yue Kingdom?" Family affection is family affection, politics is politics, will we still be unfavorable to Chen Zhihua and Chen Jinhua brothers because of his tough attitude?"

"Of course not!" Ning Zeyuan is far from the tunnel." Nor can it."

"So when negotiating with someone like Chen Ci, you don't need to talk about any family affection, you just need to talk to him directly about your interests, what we give, and what we need to get. And family affection, friendship, is only suitable for talking about at a banquet to celebrate the success of the negotiation."

"Yes, Your Majesty said so, the minister already has a plan in his heart, and now that we have the initiative, we can naturally open our mouths, and then wait for him to slowly repay the money on the spot. I wonder which place Your Majesty is facing?"

Qin Feng smiled and pointed to a place on the map.