Bi Dengfu shrank his neck and muttered: "Master Li, it's no wonder that you are a lower official, in the past ten years, when has our Ming Empire not been at war, tell me?" The emperor's will has never changed for several years, and the various arsenals have always worked in three shifts, and they don't want to work overtime to produce, what can the lower officials do? If there is less production, I will be scolded, not only the emperor will scold me, but even the grandfathers and princes here will not spare me......"

Zhu Jie said with a smile: "Well, yes, the preparation is quite sufficient, these stockpiles of ammunition are enough to support us to fight the war in the West, after this war, our Ming Dynasty will not have any large-scale wars in the next ten years, or even twenty years, and the war that determines the fate of the empire will be worth it no matter how much food it costs!" ”

"Your Majesty, you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are when you arrive......"

Li Yan smiled bitterly: "Since the beginning of the expedition to Dongying, until now, the military expenditure of the imperial court every year has not been less than fifteen million taels, if you add all kinds of pensions and silver rewards, it will exceed 20 million taels, and now the foreign debts of the imperial court are still tens of millions of taels, and now Nanyang has ushered in the battle of the country, so if you continue to fight, when will it be the end?" ”

Qin Mufeng grinned and said, "Brother Yan, where has this been?" The emperor has just said that not only the South Seas, but also the Americas, go to the Americas to give the Western devils a knife, the naval fleet and the army, at least 30,000 or 40,000 people......"

Ahem......

Li Yan had just taken a sip of water, and when he heard Qin Mufeng's words, he almost choked to death......

"Your Majesty, the affairs of the South Seas have not yet begun, and you have even begun to plan an expedition to the Americas! Y-How can you do this? The finances of the imperial court will not be able to bear it! ”

Li Yan was anxious when he arrived, not because he didn't support the emperor's decision, but because of the current situation of the Ming Empire, it was difficult to support a two-sided battle, and the alliance of the five Western countries alone was enough for the Ming Empire.

Zhu Jie said indifferently: "What are you afraid of?" It's a big deal to let the court out of this silver! ”

"You take it from a private woman?"

Li Yan said dissatisfiedly: "Your Majesty, you have a lot of silver for your private life, but that silver is all useful, you can use it to reward your courtiers, or disaster relief, and use it for expeditions to the Americas?" As soon as the cannon sounded, there were 10,000 taels of gold, and this expedition would not be able to end without three hundred thousand taels of silver! Three hundred thousand taels of silver, your in-law took it out? ”

Zhu Jie shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "I can't take it out, but someone can take it out, you draw up a will, tell the world's wealthy businessmen, I am thousands of miles away, there are millions of hectares of fertile land, I want to sell them all, one hectare of fertile land, one hundred taels of sale, first come, first served, now pay silver taels, two years later, with the receipt of the imperial court, you can go to the Americas to receive the corresponding fertile land, and the development income is all privately owned!" Now that the people of Daming are rich, the wealthy businessmen who want to buy land are afraid that there are some, and they can easily sell 100,000 hectares of land, with my reputation in Daming and the prestige of the imperial court, and they are still worried about raising silver? ”

Zhu Jie's abacus is too fine, one hectare of land sells for one hundred taels of silver, you must know that now there are few people in Daming, the price of one mu of land has been speculated to fifteen silver dollars, which is equivalent to eight taels of silver, one hectare of land is one hundred acres, that is eight hundred taels of silver, one hectare of fertile land in the Americas, it is only sold for one hundred taels of silver, those wealthy businessmen and giants are not crazy? Over the years, the businessmen have opened mines and set up factories under the encouragement of the imperial court, workshops everywhere, and the imperial court has tax incentives, that businessman is not making a lot of money, and he dare not say that he has more than 2,000 taels of family wealth in Jiangnan alone, and there are no less than 2,000 families in the south of the Yangtze River, and there are also wealthy businessmen in the Gyeonggi and Huguang areas, and there are also wealthy businessmen gathered, and more dare not say that in a short period of time, millions of hectares of fertile land will definitely be snatched up, where to find such a good thing in the world? You must know that the population of Daming is increasing, and the land will inevitably become more and more expensive, and it is possible to rise to more than a dozen taels of silver in the future!

Li Yan was almost suffocated to death by Zhu Jie's plan, the current emperor is getting more and more outrageous, the emperor dares to sell the land directly before the eight characters are skimmed, what if the Americas can't take it, but what to do?

"If there is something wrong in the Americas, you didn't think about it when the time comes, but at least millions of taels of silver or even tens of millions of taels of silver, when the time comes, I will directly submit my resignation to Zhishi, this mess of the household, you better go to Huang Zongxi......"

Li Yan said angrily.

"Alright,"

Zhu Jie hurriedly reassured: "Don't you look at who is leading the troops?" Mu Feng, when it comes to conquering cities and conquering the land, is there anyone in the world who is more powerful than him? The Tianwei Army and the Beijing Battalion are even more armed to the teeth, only 30,000 elites are needed, and they can sweep most of the Americas, as long as they grab the territory, the people of the Ming Dynasty who go to develop the Americas have, what are you worried about? ”

"That's it!"

Qin Mufeng said proudly: "Brother Yan, I'm still waiting to accumulate military merits and let the emperor give me a county king, hehe......"

"Dreaming!"

Li Yan said angrily: "Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there has been a king with a different surname, unless you die, you are stronger than a cow, and it will not be fifty years before you die, but more than forty years!" ”

Zhu Jie waved his hand and replied: "Forget it, don't talk about this, after all, the expedition to the Americas will take half a year later, and it will not go out in a short time, and the fleet of Xuanyuan Company still needs to be reorganized and reorganized. From now on, we will transfer weapons and equipment to Nanyang and set up military bases in Qiongzhou, Manila, and Malacca to store weapons and ammunition, and each base must be protected by at least two infantry battalions and one cavalry battalion. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, the ministers will be deployed immediately!"

"Did you find the chart?"

Zhu Jie then asked.

Cha Xuan hurriedly replied: "I found it, at the Naval Academy, a Roman merchant provided us with a navigation chart of the South Seas, Magellan's fleet did arrive in Luzon from the Americas, did not take the Strait of Malacca, but continued to travel south from Cebu Island, and died in the local tribal fighting, his fleet did not stop sailing, and finally passed through the waters of the Banda Sea in the Java Islands, bypassed Java and Sumatra, entered the Indian Ocean, and then bypassed Black Africa and returned to the Western Ocean, this time Magellan's trip lasted three and a half yearsThe journey of more than 100,000 miles is truly a remarkable achievement......"

(End of chapter)