"What? Master Li, are you crazy? ”

It was the master of Tongxiang who spoke, and this person's eyes were wide open now, and he felt very surprised. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In fact, it's not just the main book, but now Wu Dayong and Jiang Jiang are also taken aback, and they can't believe their ears!

Now that the matter of military training has been put on the agenda, the next thing to be solved is the problem of money and food for soldiers.

The Chinese say that the soldiers and horses go first before the grain and grass are moved, and later generations also say that when the machine gun is fired, the gold is ten thousand taels, and the war is burning money to put it bluntly! Now Li Weiguo is determined to form a strong Tongxiang soldiers and horses, pointing to the little money that the imperial court has withheld and stripped off, what can he do?

Since Li Weiguo said that he wanted to organize a modern army of soldiers and horses, to put it bluntly, the first thing to use is firearms!

In Li Weiguo's army, firearms will account for a large proportion, which is also the basis for Li Weiguo to dare to form an army in a place like Tongxiang.

Cold weapon warfare places a lot of emphasis on individual martial arts and the courage of the soldiers, but in hot weapon warfare, these dependencies are reduced.

It doesn't take any blood to pull the trigger, even if it's a child!

Therefore, if you really want to build this weak Tongxiang soldiers and horses into a strong army, in addition to strong military training, you also need to apply this firearm on a large scale on the battlefield!

What Li Weiguo wanted to bring to the Ming army was not personal bravery, but a revolution!

Of course, it is difficult to do this, and the first thing you need is money!

The value of making guns and cannons is quite expensive, and these things have to be opened up layer by layer.

To tell the truth, at the moment the armament is lax, and most of the things made by the imperial court as supervisors are defective, which is why many Ming troops are reluctant to use firearms at this time.

Just imagine, it is a very dangerous thing to call firearms, and the technology of this era is limited, and things such as bore bombings and duds occur from time to time, because of shoddy manufacturing, many firearms have more accidents than when they shoot and shoot lead, who is willing to use firearms?

Therefore, Li Weiguo plans to make his own firearms in Tongxiang!

These things are risky, they need to open up a lot of joints, they need the consent of Governor Hu, and they even need to consult the Holy ......

Of course, Li Weiguo didn't have time to wait for these classic cars to sign and approve layer by layer, he planned to cut it first and then play, and the main dilemma at the moment was actually no money!

If you want to build a modern army, you need to spend a lot of money, and it is difficult to expect the imperial court to allocate funds.

Therefore, Li Weiguo planned to earn money by himself.

A few people were so surprised because of Li Weiguo's way of making money.

Trade.

In the feudal era, China developed the small peasant economy to its peak, and at this time, you can expect how much silver to come out of the field, and the taxes in Tongxiang have to be paid, and the operation of the state machinery is indispensable to silver, and naturally no one will play sloppy with you about these things.

If you want to make money, you naturally have to think of something else, what way? Naturally, it is to do trade.

Jiaxing is close to the sea, and shipping is a huge profit.

Why was Wang Zhi able to become the emperor of Shangtu in Japan? To put it bluntly, it is precisely because of the huge profits of this trade.

What Wang Zhi has been asking for from the imperial court is actually this policy of opening up the sea ban.

The Ming Dynasty opened the sea ban since the Hongwu period, and for more than 100 years, almost all of them have become customized.

The emperors seem to think that as long as the common people are honest in the fields, the world will be safe and secure, and the country will always be the country of the old Zhu family.

As a result, the Ming Dynasty from the emperor to the ministers were very unpopular with this maritime trade.

At this point, this group of conservative officials is too far behind Wang Zhi and others!

In later generations, Zheng Zhilong, that is, Zheng Chenggong's father, this person was a pirate, and the sea trade made this person rich and rivaled the country, and he earned nearly 10 million taels of silver a year!

Ten million taels, what is the concept? The annual treasury income of the Ming Dynasty was only four or five million taels of silver!

In other words, your court has worked hard to squeeze the common people for a year, and it is not as good as Zheng Zhilong to engage in trade for half a year!

Otherwise, why do you think Zheng Zhilong had so much capital to fight against the Manchus and occupy Taiwan?

In fact, to be honest, the rebellion of the Japanese in this era was so rampant, and there were also reasons why the imperial court imposed a sea ban.

Japan is a small country and has a small population and needs Chinese goods, but China has imposed a sea ban and does not trade with you.

Therefore, whether it is for the sake of increasing fiscal revenue or for the sake of enriching the country and strengthening the army, China must open the sea ban at this time!

However, the current Ming Dynasty, from the emperor to all the officials, are quite repulsed by this matter, if you do it with great fanfare, even a hundred heads are not enough to cut off!

So in order to earn money, Li Weiguo can only sneak around.

"Exchange our silk, satin, and cloth for brimstone and silver!"

This is Li Weiguo's business idea.

But who is Wang Zhi? The head of the Japanese Bandits, at this time, the imperial court is doing everything possible to think about how to exterminate this Wang Zhi, and you are running to do business with Wang Zhi at this time, isn't this a betrayal of the enemy?

Li Weiguo is taking a risk!

The anti-Japanese sparseness that I made in the examination room at the beginning was actually just scratching the surface.

If you want to solve the current rebellion, the most fundamental way is actually to open the sea ban and form a powerful sailor!

Otherwise, just relying on land to check and fill in the gaps, isn't it exhausting?

"Master Li, this is a capital crime!"

Wang Keshan was so frightened that he trembled, this is a collaborator!

Li Weiguo knows that it is not easy to do this, and the main reason why he is willing to talk to these people is that these people have a fatal handle in their own hands.

But now I want the Ming Dynasty to be rich and strong, which is the most fundamental!

Perhaps this is the most important mission of Li Weiguo in this era.

In fact, China already had the germ of capitalism at the time of Jiajing and Wanli, and if the Chinese at this time could allow it to develop, open up the sea ban, and strengthen exchanges with the world, China would certainly not be what it was in the future.

Even if the Manchus still dominated the Central Plains as later generations did, China would still be a capitalist country, at least not so far down by the barbarians in Europe.

Perhaps this is the fate of history.

Once the reborn Ming Dynasty has gone, what Li Weiguo wants to change is this fate!

And the current opportunity is to open the sea ban!

"You just have to do it, I'll take care of it if something happens, I'll set off to see Governor Hu!"

Li Weiguo insisted.

In addition to being the land of fish and rice, Jiangnan is also an important silk producing area in China, and Li Weiguo ordered these people to get some silk from Tongxiang and sell it to Wang Zhi to test the water.

Silk can go to the seaside through Tongxiang through Nanhu, Haiyan or Pinghu, and be sold out through the port to complete the transaction process. (To be continued.) )