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"Your Majesty. www.biquge.info In the past month, more than 3,400 copies of the world map in Nanjing have been sold, and sales have increased tenfold. Liu Wu said to Chen Ming with a smile.

This change is a testament to the power of 'rumors', and public interest in the Americas is skyrocketing. According to statistics from the Press and Publication Administration, in the past month, among all the new book numbers applied for by the publishers of many institutions of higher learning, books related to the geography, history, humanities, and nature of the Americas accounted for 70 percent of them. The number of applications was more than twice as high as the previous month.

This is normal.

If there is something good at the top, there will be an effect at the bottom.

Looking at the history of China, Qin Shi Huang was fooled into believing that there are immortal mountains outside the world, there are immortals in the world, and there are elixirs of immortality, so when it comes to Han Wu, Tang Zong, and even the emperors of the Ming Dynasty before and after, they are also crazy about alchemy one by one.

Even the three immortal islands of Penglai, Abbot, and Yingzhou in Chinese myths and legends can frequently flash in countless myths and legends, and their status is stable and abnormal, which is inseparable from the influence of these emperors.

From the princes to the heads of Qian, how many people in the past dynasties have asked for immortals?

This is the influence of the superiors.

Chen Cong and Chen Jiqing's father and son have met with many people to eat and drink these days, and a secret that is not a secret has spread throughout most of the circle of nobles and nobles. Chen Ming, no matter how excited these people were, couldn't help themselves, anyway, a visible American frenzy suddenly rose up in the city of Nanjing.

After collecting all the information and information of the Americas like crazy in front of some princes and important ministers, the power they brought together could stir up the whole of China.

When Chen Ming, the emperor, also expressed his interest in the Americas and his affirmation of the European voyages, the Manchu civil and military forces, whether stupid or smart, participated in this craze without hesitation.

Although many middle- and upper-level officials who have not yet been in contact with the high-level are quite confused, and they can't understand what is going on in this world, why did a wave of American fever suddenly arise, although Xiangzhou is also considered to be in the American territory, but the gap between the two sides is still thousands of miles?

But they can only shout the tune with their voices, no way, do they have to keep up with the above.

The seed Chen Ming is very successfully planted, it will take root and sprout in the future, and it will slowly grow into a towering tree, until one day, the final mission comes.

Chen Ming looked at the world map hanging on the wall, and he relied on his memory to mark a point on the location of Hawaii, since the establishment of the Second Overseas Exploration Bureau, the latter's biggest task is to discover Hawaii and find Hawaii.

This is not for the sake of direct flights between China and the United States [America, not the United States], in this era, China still relies on the northern route of the Arctic Circle to connect the Americas is safer and more reliable.

The reason why he insisted on discovering Hawaii was because Chen Ming wanted to occupy Hawaii. Before the advent of the steamship era, he hoped that he would be able to turn Hawaii into a "summer". But not so that Chinese ships can now sail directly to the other side of the Pacific.

In this day and age, China's long-term route to the Americas can only be fixed on the northern route.

From the mainland to Sakhalin, then to the tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula, and then along the Aleutian Islands to Xiangzhou, which is the place of Alaska. The ship would then be able to head south on the west coast of the Americas until it encountered a cold California snap, and then it could go straight to Mexico.

When the ocean currents, monsoons, and more detailed climate are all familiar in the future, the Japanese Warm Current, the North Pacific Warm Current, the California Cold Current, and the North Equatorial Warm Current, this is a circular circle of the North Pacific. You will be able to follow the ocean currents and monsoons and speed up little by little.

It's a pity that Chen Ming has already returned a lot of geography knowledge to the junior high school teacher, and he still has a little impression of the iconic Dongdong left in his head.

――In other words, not only the North Pacific, the South Pacific, the North and South Indian Oceans, and the North and South Atlantic Oceans, but also the ocean currents/monsoon cycles in his memory.

Europeans have already figured out the monsoon currents in the Atlantic, Indian and Far East, but in the Pacific, it's just beginning.

Chen Ming began to regret again, why couldn't he remember the names of those warm and cold currents? Now that I think about it, many of the names of ocean currents are related to large geographical terms, and they are obviously easy to remember. But now all that was left in his mind was impressions, impressions of ignorance.

And the monsoon, he is also very ignorant. What I still remember clearly is the winter and summer monsoons in China, and the time of the foreign ship trade......

As he encountered more and more problems in this life, Chen Ming felt more and more regrets. He has encountered many, many problems in this life, and there are some of them that require a very professional depth of knowledge, and they will not and will not. But a lot of the knowledge required for many problems is not so advanced, just like the current ocean currents and monsoons, which are some basic common sense, but he just forgets it. In the last time and space, everyone had a computer and a mobile phone at hand, and these questions were never a problem, and the answers could be found with a casual search. But in today's world, it takes a long, long time and a lot of effort and dedication, including the cost of life, to reveal the secrets of nature little by little.

Navigators were a very respected group of people in this era, and the famous Captain Cook even Franklin gave great praise. At this time, it was the time of the American Revolutionary War, and Benjamin Franklin, the American minister to France in France, still issued a special and solemn instruction to all American warships, asking them to treat Cook ships with kindness, not to regard the other side as enemies, and not to detain them unnecessarily. This is respect from the enemy!

Is there anything more glorious and proud in this world than being able to be affirmed by a sworn enemy?

The night was darker, and Chen Ming stayed in the Qianqing Palace. The bright lights of whale oil illuminated the inner hall as if it were day, and after Liu Wu retreated, Chen Ming looked at the information gathered by various departments. From time to time, I put down the booklet in my hand, looked up at the inner tent on the top, my eyes were blank and I didn't know what I thought, and sometimes the smile on the corner of my mouth was really the mouse that stole the lamp oil.

On the 21st day of the first month of the fourth year of Chengtian, Chen Ming issued a declaration at the court meeting: a two-year countdown to the salary system of Tian instead of Tian. As of the fifth year of Chengtian, whether it is an officer or a non-commissioned officer, all salaries will be re-surveyed, and the salary system of substituting land for land will be abolished.

Chen Ming is ready to use the means. Two years was enough time for him to use this trick -- that is, the national debt.

Pitt Jr., the politician who served as Prime Minister of England at the age of twenty-four, spent the most glorious moments of his life against France and Napoleon, and although the huge debt crisis caused by drunkenness and profligacy, coupled with the defeat of the Fourth Anti-French Coalition, which eventually destroyed his health, he died of illness in London in 1806 in the Western calendar, but his high place in British history is undoubted.

And it is such that they think that the great man describes the Kingdom of Great Britain as an empire built on a long-term national debt. Similarly, long-term government bonds can be used in China.

Chen Ming said seriously, he really doesn't want to owe the national debt, which has something to do with his character. But if his grand wish is to be realized in the future, Chen Han's debts are completely unavoidable. Even if there is no war, it is difficult to say when China will be able to balance its payments, and once the war starts, it will be even more ridiculous.

Therefore, China must also embark on this path of government bonds, long-term low-interest government bonds.

But from Chen Ming's heart, he didn't want his empire to be burdened with incomparably heavy debts.

Even if he engages in a large-scale feud in the Americas in the future, and the domestic economic prosperity brought about by the closure of one country after another, think about it, how huge the support of industrial and agricultural forces is needed for the establishment of a country and various industries, which can naturally trigger a domestic economic frenzy, but it is somewhat extravagant to rely on these to erase the country's foreign debt.

Chen Ming is now eager to make a windfall.

Because the situation of the state being over-indebted is really not a good phenomenon.

The British have succeeded, and if China carries out the 'construction' of national debt, it can learn a lot from the experience of the British. But the same national debt far exceeds the fiscal revenue, and France is at the bottom. What if China's national debt control is unreasonable?

Chen Ming does not reject national debts in his heart, but he is by no means willing to rely on foreign debts without limit. Because this one is risky. So his mind jumped out of this plate and thought about a question from the perspective of an 'outsider', what way to quickly accumulate a fortune that could support the war?

Come to think of it, it's just a 'windfall'.

What is a windfall?

At the national level, the 'windfall', a windfall that can support the consumption of war, except for looting is looting. For example, if you wash the current Japan, of course, you can earn this wealth, but this is obviously impossible. Another is the looting of several states in India, and the gold jewelry is absolutely astronomical.

Chen Ming still remembers the treasures of the Indian temples that broke out on the Internet, as well as the wealth of the Indian princes, and it is rumored that when the British captured the capital of Mysore, they robbed 15 million pounds worth of treasures from the kingdom's treasury, and the value of the prey seized from the court alone exceeded 12 million gold households.

If China had made a move against India, such as the Kingdom of Vadiar, which had been at war with the East India Company before, it would certainly make a fortune. However, China has no roots in India, and the British have been operating in India for a hundred or two hundred years, and the consequences of the same practice will be completely different.

Ten years ago, Colonel V. Smith of the East India Company led the British and Carnatic troops to invade Vadyar, and advanced to the hinterland after defeating the Wadiar army in the border town of Kingama, and once occupied 1/3 of the territory of Wadiar. The British army was far from the rear, poorly supplied, scattered forces, and weakened combat capability. The following year, Hyder Ali led an elite force deep behind enemy lines, raided and isolated the enemy, forced Smith to retreat to Goral, and by the following year he had not regained lost territory, and attacked Carnatic, approaching Madras, the headquarters of the British army, and finally forcing the East India Company to sue for peace. The peace treaty provided for the withdrawal of both sides from the occupied territories and the establishment of a defensive alliance.

Haider took control of the war and organized the first Indian army under Indian control and armed with flintlock weapons to overthrow King Vadiar and establish the Kingdom of Mysore. Maratha took the opportunity to invade Mysore territory, and the British did not support Haider, which naturally offended him, and his rising military king turned around and allied himself with his enemies, Nicham Ali Khan and the Marathas, against the British. Although on the surface, they were still neutral in the war between the British and the Marathas.

"Sell arms!"

Chen Ming, who woke up the next morning, looked at the words written on the paper on the bedside, his face full of bitterness. It's really not a good option to sell arms. But in order to make money, it is necessary to delay the conquest of the British in the South Asian subcontinent, and drag it until China has the strength to officially enter the Indian region, Chen Ming only thought of this trick.

Taking advantage of the fierce conflict between Mysore and Matala and the British, they shipped arms to the Indian mainland in order to make huge profits. Strengthen the indigenous forces of India and block the path of conquest by the British.

As for whether this will cause obstacles to China's 'conquest' of India in the future, Chen Ming knows very well in his heart that there will be obstacles to this absolute obstacle. But if they don't sell arms, what are they selling to India now?

Now is not the last time and space, there are all kinds of clothes, toys, household equipment, electronic equipment, large and small machines and so on for Sino-Indian trade exchanges, and now China's fist products exported to the outside world are raw silk, silk cotton textiles, tea, porcelain and so on. India is far from being an essential trading partner.

Direct trade between China and India has only just begun. The only thing China imports from India is cotton.

China is not yet in a position to intervene in India's political and military spheres, but China wants to hold back the British conquerors. Therefore, the most urgent thing for China now is to take advantage of the opportunity of the beginning of Britain and France to quickly sell some arms to India, so as to make huge profits and strengthen the strength of India's anti-British alliance. Don't forget that there are still French people in India.

Although the defeat of the Seven Years' War caused the French military to withdraw from India, the influence of the French continued. The Matara and Mysoreans, who had some ties to the French, were now at war with the British, and the other, which was neutral, signed a treaty with the Matalas. It is almost foreseeable that in the near future, a war will break out against the British in the Indian region.

Maybe now in Europe, the French are already boiling and want to roll up their sleeves and fight John Bull again. At this time, it will be a good opportunity to intervene in India's arms trade, and it will also be the last chance.

Chen Ming hoped that when he would be able to take Ceylon [Sri Lanka], and then have another foothold on the Indian continent, he did not want to destroy Burma before he had the ability to take care of India, the British had already conquered Mysore.

On the world map hanging on the wall, Chen Ming marked a huge mark in South Africa. He has long been eyeing the gold mines there, but South Africa is too far away from China. China must communicate with the heavenly world and gain a foothold on the east coast of Africa with a considerable base in India in order to communicate with South Africa. And in this regard, the importance of India is crucial!

Besides, it was impossible for Chen Ming to watch the British put the crown of India on his head.

South Africa's gold mines have to be operated little by little; The same is true for meddling in India. Nowadays, China is more about non-governmental commerce.

And what could be more important than arms to win their friendship compared to the native princes?

South Africa's gold mines still need to be dug by China's own hands, but India's gold mines can grow their own gold for people to harvest. As long as China has a foothold in India, it may be able to repay the imperial government's national debt.

But to achieve all this, it was necessary to interrupt the British conquest of India! (To be continued.) )