Ryukyu Kingdom, Huangfu.

"This Wang Sen, can't he do business with peace of mind?"

It has been more than half a month since Old Man Xing sent back the news that Wang Sen sent someone to assassinate Wang Zhikey, but Huang Lin still complained about this partner who had just started to cooperate.

"Prime Minister, you have already made proper arrangements at this time, so why bother not to forget it?"

He was relieved by Naohi, the younger brother of the Ryukyu king Shoning. During the period when Shanning first inherited the throne, he was the regent of this small kingdom, with power and unlimited scenery.

However, the invasion of the Shimazu clan caused him to lose everything he once had. Now the one who is pointing fingers at the national affairs of the Ryukyu Kingdom is a monk Kikukure sent by the Wa Kingdom.

Although he knew that the power of the Shimazu clan far surpassed his own, Naoha was still haunted by his loss of power. This also became the biggest promoter of Huang Lin's alliance with it.

Now, the Shang brothers didn't dare to make their support for Huang Lin clear, but in fact, Monk Juyin was already aware of their small actions. It's just that the strength of Huanglin is far from this point in the Ryukyu Kingdom.

I heard that his business had been done in the Ming Dynasty, which made Monk Kikuin and Shimazu Tadashi behind him, and even Tokugawa Hidetada not dare to act rashly.

Moreover, Huang Lin only used one fief to build a strong fleet. Its strength is still above Wang Zhi, the owner of Wufeng back then.

Neither in Luzon nor on the southern island of the Ryukyus, which was not part of the Ryukyu Kingdom, no one dared to easily oppose his fleet.

First, his fleet was well-equipped and fierce, and even the most arrogant beast would bite it and burst its teeth. Second, Huang Lin used the sea goods in his hands to establish enough contacts, and anyone who dared to touch his fleet would offend these maritime families who had close contacts with him.

Therefore, Monk Juyin has been holding back and waiting for the best opportunity.

It's just that the brothers Huang Lin and Shang don't know this. They only know. Monk Kikuin's favorite thing to do is to take the gold and silver from the treasury and build temples everywhere.

In this regard, they only regarded it as a monk's practice of Buddhism, and did not pay much attention to it.

So. Huang Lin continued to discuss their important affairs with the visiting Shang Hong as usual.

"I did make arrangements, but such pig teammates caught us off guard. What we need is a stable receipt of our goods. And the gold and silver of the entire Ming Dynasty will be stably delivered to our partners. ”

Regarding Huang Lin's idea, Shang Hong has always been noncommittal. In his eyes, the Ming Dynasty was a powerful behemoth, how could he suck the wealth from him with only those dexterous gadgets?

Of course, he did not understand the future historical trend like Huang Lin, a traverser. In this regard, Huang Lin also had no intention of breaking it, so as not to add a competitor.

However, Shang Hong admired Huang Lin's business methods very much. has known Huang Lin for so many years, and he has also been more or less affected.

For the concept and means of Huanglin. He is not ignorant either.

At that moment, he said: "As long as Wang Sen is killed, Xu Hongru's trade route should not be blocked." But why did you appoint Corning to withstand the trade between you? Aren't you worried that he's also a pig teammate? After all, it's just a fifteen-year-old. ”

"What you said in the first half of the sentence is very right, as long as there is no Wang Sen, Xu Hongru's development will not be restricted. But as I told you before, the disagreement between me and Xu Hongru is far from being about business cooperation. Our perception of the world is fundamentally different. He wanted to fully develop agriculture before returning to industry. But if everybody was fed, who would come out to work for rations? Who makes ships for us? Who weaves clothes for us? There is no industry. There is almost no commerce, and the profits of agricultural products will decline with the increase in output, and the grain will hurt the peasants, which is the inevitable outcome of Xu Hongru in the future. ”

Shang Hong, Huang Lin's words refused for a long time. In the end, he concluded: "After all, the more benefits we get now, the greater the difficulties that we may know in the future." ”

"yes, that's why I need this Corning. Of course, that's not the only reason I'm using Corning, and I'll break it down for you. ”

Shang Hong really didn't know. Why did this fifteen-year-old kid attract Huang Lin's attention?

Huang Lin said unhurriedly: "First of all, he is a son of a businessman, and he also has close ties with the Huishang Group. The same background makes me similar to him in a lot of ideas, which makes it easier for him to be our person. ”

Shang Hong knew that Huang Lin was very important to conceptual issues, even to the point of controversy between Confucianism and Taoism.

How tragic this dispute over unification is, the old Confucius of the year used blood as an interpretation. Shaozheng Mao's punishment positively confirms how Confucianism treats "infidels".

Of course, Zhu Shaozheng's statement may be that Xun Qing was chiseled in the last years of the Warring States Period, but this does not prevent later generations of Confucians from inheriting this as a principle. Whether Confucius did this or not, it was just a precedent and excuse to eliminate dissidents.

Huang Lin didn't care either. History is written by the victors. And he just needs to be the winner.

In order to become a winner, Huang Lin needs a large group of like-minded people with him, but this era is seriously lacking in such people, and Kang Ning is just an extremely rare one.

The second is that Corning was once influenced by his father and was particularly interested in maritime affairs. You and I both know that the land area of the Ryukyu Kingdom is too small, and our future lies in the blue sea. ”

Shang Hong nodded. It was not the first time he had heard Huang Lin's point of view. Although in his heart, he still disagreed, but seeing that Huang Lin's fleet was already the most powerful among the various forces in the coastal seas, with millions of taels of net profits recorded in the accounts every year, he had already begun to prepare to revise his worldview.

Among the information that Huang Lin obtained from Li Duo, Kang was deeply influenced by Xu Hongru and Shi Ziming, and his awareness of sea power was far stronger than that of the Ming Dynasty at that time.

How can such a good seedling not be dug up?

"This is the third. It was this person who was the leader of the Black Lotus Sect, and there were hundreds of thousands of people in Qingzhou Mansion. Moreover, there is a regimental training team under his hands, although the combat effectiveness is average, but on the whole, it is already a force to be reckoned with on the mainland. ”

Naohi knew that the so-called future of the Ryukyu Kingdom was cloudy on the sea, and it was nothing more than a trade country. Person. After all, you can't live on the sea, so if you want to do business, you can't do without the mainland after all. Huang Lin's so-called hope at sea is just an errand.

Since you have to land after all. Then it is inevitable that a bridgehead, one or two ports, is far from enough. Corning, then, is a good choice.

At the same time, Shang Hong also knew that Huang Lin had been worried about the discord between his subordinates. Although she tried to use Han Chinese, the problem of regional discrimination still arose. Not to mention a bunch of foreign devils under his command. Also tried to ship Rausch on his turf to Jesus.

In later generations, Huang Lin often noticed in his hometown that middle-aged and elderly women who had nothing to do were deceived into believing in Jesus Christ. As soon as someone talks about someone, an old man will whisper a reminder, "Shhhhhhhh "It's as if he's already enjoying the treatment of the underworld.

There are many people who persuade people to do good, so why do we need Christ? What's more, is there less of a deception and abduction using religion to run amok and commit lawlessness?

Wang Sen, who just assassinated the deputy envoy of the Shandong Provincial Prosecutor, isn't it a typical negative teaching material? Even if it's Xu Hongru and Kang Ning, don't they have an off-the-board purpose?

Therefore, Huang Lin is very disgusted with the spread of religion. But the popularity of education in the current era is too low, even for educated Confucian disciples. When encountering this kind of thing, there is only one sentence "Respect ghosts and gods and stay away".

The helpless Huang Lin had no choice but to fight poison with poison. Kangning's Black Lotus Sect was obviously deeply influenced by Xu Hongru, and Huang Lin really knew Xu Hongru too well. He had already tampered with the original teachings of the White Lotus Sect with a thick concept.

In this way, Kangning's Black Lotus Sect is also very close to some of the ideas of later generations.

In this way, the lesser of two evils, Corning is naturally the best choice.

In fact, Huang Lin had another reason why he couldn't tell Shang Hong. That was what Li Duo had just told himself last night.

It turned out that this Kangning was the undercover candidate selected by Li Duo in order to spy on Shi Ziming's teaching methods.

In order to solve the dilemma of different ideas among his subordinates, Huang Lin once thought of many ways. One of them is to bring them together for a unified education.

But this method did not work out in the end. There are two reasons for this, one is that some of the habitual bandits have been stereotyped and lack plasticity. Second. Although he Huang Lin has a high degree and likes history, he has no choice but to study astronomy, and the content does not match the urgently needed applied science. Even if he was purely asked to organize, he couldn't organize well after being away from the campus for some years.

Later, a man named Shi Ziming appeared in the Central Plains. At the same time as opening the academy, it also revealed a lot of characteristics of a traveler. So Huang Lin wanted to cooperate with him. Helplessly, the other party was promoted too quickly, and he no longer had enough price, so he had to look for talents to go undercover.

At this time, Li Duo reported a candidate, although he was younger at the time, it didn't take long to be used, and this person was Kangning.

Later, Huang Lin concentrated on the development of the shipbuilding industry, so he forgot about this matter, so that Kang Ning was shocked to make a huge business, and he didn't know it.

Speaking of shipbuilding, this is one of the industries that Corning needs to familiarize itself with as soon as possible. As Betelgeuse's son, Huang Lin did not have much suspicion of Kangning, but instead pinned his hopes on him to become his fleet commander in the future. After all, there are too few credible people like Corning.

Huang Lin's knowledge of the shipbuilding industry should also find a successor of the mantle, perhaps, Kangning, who has Zhang Songzhi's ability, is a good choice.

In short, this child is an indispensable part of the next plan.

After sending Shang Hong away, Huang Lin slowly raised his head and observed the treacherous weather in the sky. During the day, he couldn't see the stars he liked, so he had to use clouds he didn't like to pass the time.

Huang Lin's enthusiasm for sailing is not accidental.

If meteorology is to geography, then one of the earliest practical applications of astronomy is actually navigation.

Relying on the stars to discern direction is a common method used by many Western navigators. In addition to the relative positions of individual stars and the pointing of the lines between them, there are also navigational techniques such as the star-pulling method, which requires looking up at the stars in the sky when determining important position information such as latitude.

Now, each of Huanglin's ships was equipped with sextants and sailors who had learned how to use them.

However, these alone are not enough. He needed a school dedicated to the training of sailors, as well as a school dedicated to the study of shipbuilding techniques. He could never trust the artisans who relied on word of mouth to pass on the skills he brought to the world in a steady manner.

It's about education again, so it's about Corning.

It's just that this problem is more long-term, and even if everything goes well, I'm afraid it will be five or six years away.

As for his dream, I'm afraid it's a more long-term thing.

After looking at the sky for a while, Huang Lin slowly walked back to his study, his eyes looking directly at the sand table map placed in the center. This is what he brought back from the homeland of the traverser, and the error of the mapping is not large, at least, much smaller than the existing map.

The few differences are between ancient and modern times caused by land reclamation near the estuary. But that's okay too, it can be modified according to ancient maps.

In fact, the production of sand table is not a big problem, the problem is the lack of accurate enough data. As long as there is data, you can ask someone to make a good enough sand table in this time and space. It's just that Huang Lin still chose to use the one he brought.

Because only the precision of this one can match his ambition. Ryukyu is only the first step, Luzon, Cochin, Boni, the more distant Manchurian Rakka, and even the southern tip of the Australian continent, the eastern Micronesia, the western Indian Peninsula, and the northern Sea of Okhotsk.

Twenty years later, when Chongzhen let the Ming Dynasty smoke rise, it was the time when he attacked from all directions and chased the Central Plains.

The truth of the golden horn and silver edge grass belly is not only understood by those who play Go.

At this time, Li Duo's voice suddenly came from outside the door.

"Boss, the secret letter from Corning forwarded by Xu Hongru has arrived."

"What did you say?"

"Supplies are needed. Firecrackers, robes, warships, food, and stab-proof suits......"

"Give it all to him, I just want her to end things on the mainland as soon as possible."

"Boss, there are a few of them that are more sensitive goods."

"It's okay, I can't wait. You should also know that where we are now. Everything is ready, only Corning is owed. (To be continued.) )