The seventeenth century was the era of great fission in the world, because Istanbul was broken by the fierce Ottoman Empire, the enemy country of Eastern Rome was destroyed, and a large number of intellectuals who fled from Istanbul fled to Europe to bring a fresh spring breeze, which ignited the fire of the Renaissance in Europe, which burned to the seventeenth century and then became the mighty industrial revolution and the Age of Discovery. World civilization began to gradually shift from Eastern civilization to Western civilization.

At the same time, the Xiaoice period, which is said to be a once-in-a-million year, also came as scheduled, and the weather became colder and colder, which made the life of the northern nomads more difficult, and they were more afraid of death when they started fighting, while the Ming Dynasty, as an agricultural civilization, fell into a drought for more than ten consecutive years, and had to face huge population pressure, financial deficits, and an unprecedented food crisis.

In order to solve this problem, only by joining this great maritime world to get a piece of the pie, relying on maritime trade to accumulate a large amount of wealth for the imperial court, and then turning this wealth into combat power or alleviating the huge fiscal deficit, can we fundamentally solve this problem.

Fortunately, in the seventeenth century, China was not too far behind Europe, although there was a little gap, but it was not big, so a little technological advantage can be completely offset and surpassed by our huge population and strong organizational system, in other words, the Ming Dynasty is still the most powerful country in the world, and every pirate sent out can compete with the Spanish navy.

And Chongzhen, and always the emperor who has always been ruthless and desperate, from a mature point of view, is always too strong, but this too much force is not entirely a bad thing, such as now.

During the Ming Dynasty, what was most popular in overseas markets, especially in Europe? Silk, of course! Silk will always be the hardest and hardest hard currency of our Central Plains Dynasty.

In order to make up enough silk for Zheng Zhilong, Chongzhen personally ordered that not a single piece of silk produced by the Suzhou-Zhou Weaving Bureau this year will be sent to the palace, and it will all be handed over to Zheng Zhilong for processing, in addition to all the places where silk is hung in the Forbidden City, all the places where silk is hung are picked, washed and rolled up and given to Zheng Zhilong, he himself, in addition to a set of dragon robes must not be taken off, even the eight sets of regular clothes for the four seasons have been donated, and the queen is not allowed to wear silk, not to mention other harem beauties?

In addition, he also forced officials and royal relatives to donate, you are not willing to donate silver on weekdays, you have nothing to shirk from donating silk, even my emperor has taken off the silk, which of you dares to wear this thing on your body? Isn't it fun to find it?

Anyway, Chongzhen scavenged all the silk he could collect in one go, and finally settled the accounts of the household, and the good guy scared the big guy, a big one, a full six million or seven hundred and seventy thousand!

If there were no 6.71 million pieces of silk, no one knew whether Zheng Zhilong would be willing to throw all the families of the whole army ashore, but with these silks, Zheng Zhilong and his more than 30,000 children would have settled in Fujian, and said that if the imperial court was willing, it would be no problem to take the family to the capital.

Chongzhen was excited, and clearly instructed Zheng Zhilong, this batch of silk is all used for artillery, foreign guns, and seeds of high-yield crops (potatoes and corn), of which one million horses are their military expenses, what do you want to exchange, how to use it, and sent his most trusted eunuch Wang Chengen to personally supervise the accounts with the ship, and at the same time clearly pointed out: Peru has been the sacred and inalienable territory of our Ming Dynasty since ancient times, and this big silver mine must be ours.

Well.... It's really not impossible to split it equally with Frankie, anyway, we have to intervene in this hand.

And Qin Hao stayed in Nanjing after the pacification of the southeast, and explained to Zheng Zhilong little by little the matters to be paid attention to in the Great Voyage and the relationship between the forces of various countries, who should these silks be sold to, who the artillery should be aimed at, etc., well... Well, it's actually very simple, win over Portugal, the Netherlands, and England, and go all out to scare Spain, and if you don't bring back a thousand cannons and ten thousand muskets, you'll cut off your head!

At the same time, more time is naturally to accompany Zheng Chenggong to train troops in the Baodao Strait, he wants to seize the time to exchange feelings with this new subordinate, and at the same time be familiar with the specific strength of this fleet.

Because the Dutch plan is to win over Spain, of course, they can't be expelled by force, but Treasure Island is our sacred and inalienable territory since ancient times, so they can only make friends, so they can only make friends on Treasure Island and let them enjoy the same treatment as Portugal in Macau, at the cost of their qualification for free trade in the Ming Dynasty. (During the Ming Dynasty, Portugal was allowed to live in Macao, but it never lost the right to administer Macau, how could these stinky intellectuals with die-hard bones in the Ming Dynasty give up sovereignty and completely abandon Macau It was a matter of the Qing Dynasty)

At this time, the Ming Dynasty was still a behemoth in the eyes of these Dutchmen, and the Ming Dynasty allowed them to trade freely in specific ports. Hearing that the Ming Dynasty was fighting a war with the barbarians and domestic rebels, they reciprocated by donating 100 artillery pieces and 2,000 of the world's most advanced Dutch double-shot pistols on the spot.

The pistol is in place, and it can be equipped with two thousand new white horses, as for the artillery, Qin Hao waved his hand and all of them were placed on Zheng Chenggong's fleet, you must know that this Zheng Chenggong will be his own person in the future.

Piggybacking on them, Qin Hao and Zheng Chenggong also incorporated some other pirates of all sizes while training in the Treasure Island Strait, and the pirates saw that the former big brother had turned into a nobleman of the imperial court, and his little arms and legs didn't hurry up and swear to follow him.

In the past two months, Qin Hao made a rough calculation, and Zheng Chenggong's sailors under his command actually had 100 large ships, 400 small boats, and more than 30,000 combatants.

With such a force in hand, Lao Tzu can walk sideways on the sea in the future! It's worth it!

Such a good situation is really unbearable to drink him three hundred cups, I heard that the battle between Lu Xiangsheng and Zhang Xianzhong is also coming to an end, Zhang Xianzhong has no way but to run, and he doesn't dare to fight at all, but the problem is that Lu Xiangsheng has a lot of power in his hands! In addition to Qin Hao, Chongzhen's most trusted person is Lu Xiangsheng, Lu Xiangsheng also lived up to expectations and commanded the general soldiers to chase and intercept Zhang Xianzhong in various ways, and now he has been beaten to less than 10,000 people, and the message said that as long as there is another month, the head of Zhang Xianzhong, the thief, will be sacrificed.

But it's a pity that Lu Xiangsheng is destined to have no more chance.

"What do you say? Lu Xiangsheng withdrew his troops and went north? What does he Lu Xiangsheng think, doesn't he know the truth of cutting grass and eradicating roots? Zhang Xianzhong's head didn't come, so he was a mother! ”

"National teacher, Lu Xiangsheng may have to retreat, the news just came from Beijing, Hong Chengchou has surrendered to the enemy."

“。。。 Who? Hong Chengchou? Hong Chengchou, the governor of the five provinces? Huang Taiji has entered the customs? ”