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Yue Yun's question made everyone look at Xiao Ming, after the Northern Expedition, will Qingzhou be involved in a new war? And what is the purpose of this war?

"That's right, the navy is going to war, for sea power!"

Xiao Ming's words were resounding, and he understood that the current generals did not have any concept of maritime rights and interests at all, and this was the fundamental reason for China's backwardness in the navy in modern times.

After all, at that time, land power dominated the development of civilization, and the foreign enemy was also from the north, at least hundreds of years later, the Western artillery and giant ships bombed the country before anyone woke up, but it was too late by then.

"Sea power?" Pang Yukun, Niu Ben and the others really showed a confused look when they heard this, and Niu Ben said: "Your Highness, now the enemy of the Great Yu Kingdom back then was the barbarians, and we should continue the Northern Expedition until the barbarians surrender." ”

"What General Niu Ben said is reasonable, I hope His Highness will think twice." Pang Yukun echoed.

Xiao Ming had already anticipated that this plan might attract opposition from everyone, but he was still ready to carry it out, because without maritime trade, Qingzhou would not be able to accumulate wealth quickly.

"The war is about money, no food, no guns and bullets, what do we take to continue the Northern Expedition, don't forget, the barbarian defeat last time the loss of soldiers and horses is just a skin, at this time deep into the land of the barbarians is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg, and in the past two years, we have lost two wars with the barbarians, which has seriously affected the development of Qingzhou, and the battle for sea power is to open the trade route to the south to facilitate the development of Qingzhou." Xiao Ming said loudly.

In that year, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty attacked the Xiongnu in the north, and finally won the victory, but the treasury was exhausted.

Similarly, even if the Great Yu Kingdom uses the wealth of the whole country to start a war with the barbarians, it will still lose both sides in the end, not to mention his current family background.

Now that he had defeated the barbarians again, the army was a little impetuous, and he was about to cool down the atmosphere by taking advantage of this opportunity.

mentioned that Qian Pang Yukun and Niu Ben began to stop talking, they naturally knew that the Qingzhou Army was piled up with silver now, and they couldn't do anything without silver.

Zhan Xingchang thought for a while, and agreed with Xiao Ming's idea, "I think His Royal Highness's words are right, now the emperor has no determination to go on the Northern Expedition, and other vassal kings will not cooperate with the Northern Expedition, it is unwise for us to go deep into the grassland alone, at this stage, we should focus on defense against the barbarians, and it is not too late to go on the Northern Expedition after accumulating enough elite troops and money." ”

Everyone nodded when they heard this, and Pang Yukun and Niu Ben also came back to their senses at this time, it turned out that everything now had to make way for development.

Yue Yun was a little dissatisfied with Zhan Xingchang and Niu Ben's opposition, and he said: "Your current vision is too narrow, do you really think that the Great Chongqing Kingdom is still the center of the world?" It's ridiculous, now our Dayu country is rampant around the ocean is foreign warships, you only care about the land on land, but we have lost the vast ocean territory, and there is no sea trade How can potatoes come, peppers, and corn? ”

The Governor's Mansion became more and more silent, and Yue Yun's words made everyone begin to reflect, before, they did only have the barbarians in the north in their eyes, but now they all knew that there were many countries in this world.

Seeing everyone's thoughtful looks, Xiao Ming nodded secretly, he just wanted these people to change their old thinking, after all, the future belongs to the maritime power, and when he has a lot of capital and upgrades his arms, the barbarians in the north can only wait to be beaten.

Setting the tone for strengthening the navy and development, Xiao Ming asked if there had been any changes in the Bowen College during this time.

According to Lin Wentao, now Bowen College has recruited another batch of students to expand the number of students in various departments, and he and Lu Tong have also developed a set of techniques to be attacked one by one.

"Your Highness, we have listed all these technologies, and then we are going to conduct experimental research according to this list." Lin Wentao handed a piece of paper to Xiao Ming.

Glancing at the list handed over by Lin Wentao, Xiao Ming was very relieved, this list listed the research order of future scientific items, and the two of them prepared well, these things are all from simple to difficult, and they all belong to basic industries.

"Very good, let's make full use of the laboratory and boldly do research, the government will ensure the supply of your research expenses, if someone performs well, you can even apply to the government for personal research fees alone."

Lin Wentao and Lu Tongju both smiled, they wrote down Xiao Ming's words, and prepared to go back to announce the good news to the students.

After the matter of the college, Xiao Ming began to ask about the government affairs of Qingzhou.

Pang Yukun said: "Now Xiaguan has selected some officials to go to Youzhou, and now the government of Youzhou has been formed, and the pasture assigned by His Royal Highness to Cao Zhengyang, Ding Wu, and Dai Zixing last time was also handed over to three people, and now the three are buying foals to prepare for stocking, and the Chamber of Commerce has also sent them to the pasture to operate with them." ”

After a pause, Pang Yukun took out an account book, "In addition, although the grain harvested by the people in the two seasons this year has been reduced, the people's families still have a lot of surplus grain, so the state governments have purchased a total of 2 million stone of wheat in these two seasons, but because of the abundance of grain, there is now a situation of low grain prices in Qingzhou." ”

"Well, this is a good thing, it means that the food in the people's homes is taken out and sold." Xiao Ming said.

Pang Yukun sighed and said: "However, Your Highness hurts the peasants, there are pros and cons to this matter, although many people want to sell grain to the government, but the current number of granaries can't keep up, and the preparation of two million stone grain in the granaries of various states this year has reached the limit." ”

Xiao Ming laughed twice, "Don't worry, for this king, this is indeed a good thing, in the past, there was not enough food to eat, and the wine was not daring to brew, this time since there is so much grain left, I will take the opportunity to purchase wine, and then sell these wines to China, Goryeo, Wa, and even Nanyang." ”

"That's a brilliant idea." Pang Yukun laughed.

Yue Yun rolled his eyes at this time and said, "It's just that pirates are rampant at sea, this business is not easy." ”

"Then it's up to you navies to clean up these troubles at sea." As soon as Pang Yukun finished speaking, he immediately felt that he had been fooled, and his feelings were set by Yue Yun, and he was dissatisfied with his opposition to the navy's foreign conquest just now.

Yue Yun saw Pang Yukun's deflated expression, and immediately laughed.

Xiao Ming smiled helplessly, and continued: "And the barbarians love to drink, when I was in Chang'an, I heard that the Jin merchants bought the wine of the Chamber of Commerce and sold it to the barbarians at a high price, this cheap can not be taken advantage of by the Jin merchants, take advantage of this opportunity, we will exchange the wine for the fur, maybe we can also sew leather boots for every Qingzhou army soldier." ”

(To be continued.) )