"Your Majesty, at this time, you still have to think about attacking the Americas?"

Xu Yifan was shocked and asked in amazement.

Zhu Jie nodded and replied, "Why not?" Shi Lang has opened up the route to the Americas, we can launch an expedition at any time, and now the main forces of the West have all come to the Eastern world, if you want to return to the West and then go to the Americas, there is no more than a year of time, it is impossible to complete, if the South Sea War drags on for a year and a half, it will take more than two years, their main fleet can return to the Americas, this is our opportunity, take advantage of this time, we can do whatever we want in the Americas, we don't need too many troops, as long as 20,000 or 30,000 people, You can sweep the Americas. ”

"Hahaha, the emperor is right!"

Qin Mufeng said excitedly, "As long as twenty or thirty thousand people can sweep the Americas!" This time, I will fight from the north to the south and drive all the Westerners out of the American continent! ”

Zhu Jie said indifferently: "Don't be happy too early, the American continent is far away from the Ming Dynasty, whether it is food and grass, or weapons and ammunition, the supply is extremely difficult, you have arrived on the American continent, some are difficult and dangerous, far from being as easy as you imagined?" Not to mention anything else, Mexico alone has at least 20,000 Mexican troops stationed right now, and as for the more vast North and South America, how many troops are stationed, I don't know, even if you land in the Americas, you can't wantonly conquer cities, you have to fight steadily, and now America has established a solid rear, understand? ”

Qin Mufeng nodded and said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, this minister naturally knows it in his heart, but the minister has the Tianwei Army in hand, and the world can get it, and this America is not monolithic, several Western countries have their own territory, and the minister will hold down one of them and teach them how to be human ......."

"Okay, you don't have to make any noise, it's good to prepare for the Americas, now the main fleet of the Western Ocean is already on the way to the Ming Dynasty, and the other fleets must also stay in the nest of the Western Ocean, in the Americas, there will be no huge fleet, although Shi Lang's offshore fleet is the weakest, but the main warships allocated and the captured Dutch and Spanish warships are enough to constitute a powerful force, at least in the Americas will not encounter too strong opponents, at this time, it is the best time for us to enter the Americas, If they want to fight the idea of the South Seas, then we will fight the idea of the Americas, and see who has the more clever means, whether they can take down the South Seas, it is still unknown, but I know that the western part of North America and Central America must fall into our hands, and I want to make them empty! ”

Zhu Jie sneered, "Mu Feng, when you go to the Americas, the first thing you need to control is that the bay in the south of North America is the east side of Mexico where Wu Xing and Shi Lang once arrived, where the bay stores a huge amount of oil, which we must control in our own hands, and then the central Great Plains in the north of the Gulf of Mexico, which is the most suitable area for agricultural development, a veritable granary, understand?" When I arrived in the Americas, I didn't care who he was, just snatched it and became a slave to open up a farm, the accumulation of capital has always been bloody, as long as it is not our Ming people, I don't care if they live or die! ”

Xu Yifan's face darkened, but after all, he endured it, the emperor is good anywhere, but he never treats people of different races as people, this is against Confucian morality, Xu Yifan is both civil and military, deeply influenced by Confucianism, and advocates the rule of virtue in the world, so convincing people by force is not a long-term solution after all.

"Yifan, since I have come to your mansion, let's borrow your mansion and summon all the important ministers in the capital to the Guogong Mansion, and we will discuss ...... here."

At noon, the bigwigs in the capital rushed to Xu Yifan's house.

"Yifan, look at your Guogong Mansion, tsk, the thatch has grown taller, it's too unreasonable, it's not as decent as the Guogong Mansion of Mufeng, it seems that our emperor should also give you a marriage......"

Entering the Guogong Mansion, Sun Chuanting rarely took Xu Yifan and joked.

"Yes, that's it!"

Li Yan said with a smile, "Your Majesty, you are just eccentric, for the sake of Mu Feng, you have pulled down your face and alarmed all the bigwigs in the country, look at Yifan, you are still alone, are you not in a hurry?" ”

Xu Yifan's face turned red, and he said dissatisfiedly: "You two are also scholars, the elders of the court, you are here to discuss state affairs today, and you actually saw the joke on me and the emperor......"

"Hehe, Yifan, what they said makes sense......"

Zhu Jie smiled faintly: "Up and down, almost all the brothers have already started a family, but you are the only one left, even Mu Feng already has a family, don't you envy it?" If you don't have a crush on it, then I will marry you directly, with your prestige and position in the court, you are only afraid that others will rush to send your daughter to you! ”

Xu Yifan said helplessly: "Your Majesty, now that the state affairs are heavy, the ministers have the heart and energy to think about these, at least they have to wait until the affairs of Nanyang come to an end, right?" ”

"Okay, let's talk about it later, let's get to the point!"

Zhu Jie said: "Bi Dengfu, what is the situation of the three major arsenals under the jurisdiction of the Firearms Bureau of the Ministry of Industry now, the production and reserve of firearms and ammunition? ”

Bi Dengfu hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty, in the past two years, our firing rifles have been produced 100,000 units, the Jingying and Tianxiong armies have been replaced, and the Tianwei army is also in the process of being replaced. The Ordnance Division also has more than 20,000 boxes of paper-shelled bullets, totaling 10 million rounds; More than 3,000 flowering cannons are produced, of which 2,000 are all used for the equipment of the three fleets, and 1,000 flowering cannons are used to equip the Beijing camp, Tianxiong Army, Tianwei Army and various military towns, and now the main force of the thirteen towns of Daming is equipped with more than 600 flowering cannons of various calibers, and the replacement of equipment has been basically completed, and other solid cannons have been deployed to other local military towns, and the Ordnance Division has more than 300,000 flowering shells in stock, in addition, the Ordnance Division also stores 1,000 sets of rocket launchers, 200,000 rockets, and 3,000 boxes of grenades. It's enough for this Nanyang War......"

When everyone heard this, they were all amazed, the three major arsenals of the Firearms Bureau are too capable, and in just two or three years, so many weapons and ammunition have been produced!

Li Yan said angrily: "Bi Dengfu, you are happy to produce, do you know how much money was spent on the imperial court?" In the last year alone, the household department took out more than 3 million taels of silver for these arms, which is 3 million taels of silver! The year before last, the silver was more, 3.5 million taels, if you add the military salary of the imperial court, the military expenses paid by the imperial court every year have exceeded 15 million taels, 15 million taels, converted into silver dollars, that is 30 million silver dollars! ”

(End of chapter)