Cha Xuan's face turned red, raised his head, and said in a loud voice: "Your Majesty, the minister has followed you for so many years, when have you ever been timid?" ”

"Humph!"

Zhu Jie snorted coldly: "That's good, if you coax it, then I will let you switch with Mu Feng, anyway, this kid has sharpened his head and wants to enter the navy!" Let me tell you, what Xianzhi said is not false at all, the naval strength of Western countries is still far above us, but that is in the world, but in the South Sea and the East Ocean, this is our territory, and they will never be allowed to go wild with Westerners, can they bring the entire country's fleet to the South Seas and fight a decisive battle with us? Thirty or forty thousand miles away, a fleet of hundreds of warships, tens of thousands of soldiers, once something happens, it will be a devastating blow to the soldiers of this country, and when it threatens the survival of their country, they will not cross the ocean and have a decisive battle with the Ming Dynasty! What's more, although the tonnage and number of their current warships have the upper hand, their weapons are not as good as ours, although they have also begun to equip flowering cannons, but the number is too small, and we also have a large number of rockets, which can also bring a huge threat to the battleship, unless they cover the battleship with iron sheets, otherwise, they can't stand our three fires! ”

Shi Kefa on the side said: "The emperor is right, the distance between the West and the Ming Dynasty is too far, I rushed all the way to the West, it took a year, if the whole fleet from the West Ocean to the Ming Dynasty, then there are too many uncertain factors, the risk is extremely high, and they don't dare, because the current England and the Dutch are in great contradiction, and a full-scale war may break out at any time, at this time, they are trying their best to shrink their combat power......

What the? A possible all-out war between the English and the Dutch? This、This is a mouse moving a knife in the nest.,Great.,Let them eat the dog!

Hearing Shi Kefa say this, Cha Xuan was overjoyed, as long as the Dutch and the English fought, then at least for a few years, there will be no danger in the Ming Sea Frontier, just the strength of the West in the South Seas, now it can't drink the two fleets of the Ming Dynasty!

"Lord Xianzhi, you only know that the current West is developing rapidly and powerful, but you don't know that our Ming Empire is also changing with each passing day, and under the wise leadership of the emperor, the Ming Dynasty is no longer the Ming Dynasty of a few years ago......."

Huang Daozhou on the opposite side said with a smile.

Shi Kefa smiled faintly and replied: "As expected, with an immortal lord like the emperor, even if the Ming Dynasty wants to develop slowly, it is impossible, now think about it, every decision the emperor has made since he ascended the throne, it is extremely wise......"

Huang Daozhou smiled: "That's true, although the official is also a little confused and dissatisfied with the emperor's decision-making, but I have to say that every decision has played a huge role, the Ming Dynasty has been leveled, and the people live and work in peace and contentment. Among them, more than 30 million taels of goods were imported from the West, and more than 50 million taels of goods were exported to the West! Trade alone brought more than five million taels of silver to the treasury! The West will earn the world's money, but we will earn the money of the West again! ”

Mao Yuanyi echoed: "Lord Huang is right, not only trade, behind the trade, what is hidden is that the goods produced by our Ming Empire are now sold all over the world, not to mention anything else, since according to the emperor's teachings, the craftsmen successfully realized the converter steelmaking method at the beginning of last year, and now the steel output of the Ming Empire has increased by nearly forty percent in a year, if the converter steelmaking method is successfully promoted, it is not difficult to double the output of Daming steel!" The most important thing is that the quality of these steels has improved much compared to the past! This is the backbone of a country......"

Shi Kefa was dumbfounded, the West was unexpectedly powerful, he didn't expect that the Ming Empire had changed the world for three or four years, and at the same time, the trade volume alone had grown to such a point!

Zhu Jie smiled and said: "Ministers, it is enough for us to maintain respect and vigilance for the development of the West, which requires us to always be vigilant, continue to work hard, and strengthen ourselves, so as not to be left behind by others again, but we don't need to be arrogant, or that sentence, ten years later, the Ming Dynasty will comprehensively surpass the West, which is nothing impossible, the West is stronger than us is the basic engineering and technology theory, is the navigation industry, but it does not mean that they have surpassed us in an all-round way, at least, in the present, They have not yet made a steam engine in the West, and they do not have rifled guns or rifled guns that we mass-produce in the West! In the future naval war, we will compete for the hegemony of the world, and we have already taken the initiative! Xianzhi, this time to the West, in addition to what you have seen and heard, what else has you gained? ”

Shi Kefa hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty, these things are secondary, the important thing is that according to the emperor's instructions, the minister brought back more than 1,000 scholars and craftsmen from the West in one go, and did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to bribe the nobles of the West and attract Western talents, more than one million taels of silver, and it was wasted like this......."

Shi Kefa went to the West, but he carried a lot of goods and gold and silver, just to dig up Western talents, he actually invested millions of taels of silver, I have to say that it was a big deal, even Zhu Jie was shocked.

"Lord Xianzhi, you, you loser, this is millions of taels of silver......"

Huang Daozhou said bitterly.

Shi Kefa smiled: "Master Huang, it's worth it!" It's definitely worth it, the emperor taught us that talent is the most important thing, thousands of troops are easy to get, and one will be hard to find! What's more, this time the official brought back not only talents, but also the navigation charts of various sea lanes in the world, some of which were drawn by the official himself, and some of which were bought back from the hands of Westerners. On this officer's ship, there is hardly anything else on the ship except for people and nautical charts, and everything that can be sold is sold! ”

After a feast, Shi Kefa talked from the afternoon to the two watches, what he saw and heard from all over the world came easily, and he talked about it all over the world, this time it really opened the eyes of these local buns of the Ming Dynasty, read thousands of books, travel thousands of miles, and the ancients did not deceive me!

(End of chapter)