Before the American silver and Japanese silver flowed into China in large quantities, gold and silver were really scarce for China, otherwise why the previous dynasties before the Ming Dynasty used copper coins as the main circulating currency, in the final analysis, it was because the Ming Dynasty did not have a large amount of silver storage.

Of course, even if it is copper ore and iron ore, the land of China can be regarded as a barren land.

On the contrary, on that side of the continent, all kinds of mineral resources are abundant, which is simply covetous.

Zhu Houzhao opened his mouth wide, his eyes were full of horror, since Zheng He went to the West, although there is no complete world map for the Ming Dynasty, but if you put it together, most of the world's maps can still be made up.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao was not surprised by the other overseas continents mentioned by Chu Yi, because after Zheng He returned from the West, there were introductions about some overseas countries of all sizes, huge islands, and so on.

When Zhu Houzhao was studying, under the influence of Chu Yi, he was more or less involved in these miscellaneous books, so compared to some emperors, Zhu Houzhao could at least understand what Chu Yi was referring to.

It's just that in the past, he only vaguely had a little concept of the world outside the Ming Dynasty, but now I heard Chu Yi mention the Iwami Silver Mountain in the Dongying Island Country, and I heard Chu Yi mention the rich resources on the American continent.

Even Zhu Houzhao's eyes couldn't help but turn red, and his breathing became a little short.

Chu Yi did not disturb Zhu Houzhao, but let Zhu Houzhao slowly calm down and calm down.

Taking a deep breath, Zhu Houzhao nodded at Chu Yi for a while and said, "But it made the eldest companion smile." ”

Chu Yi shook his head and said, "Your Majesty's reaction is normal, anyone who hears this will be like Your Majesty." ”

Zhu Houzhao sighed and said, "I never thought that there would be such a rich place overseas, if it wasn't for the mention of Otobu, I would never have thought of this." ”

Chu Yi bowed his head slightly and said: "Yes, don't say it's us, since ancient times, the ancestors have boasted that the Central Plains Heavenly Empire is the upper state, and the treasures of the Heavenly Empire, outside the Central Plains, are all barbarian lands, but they don't know that barbarian lands contain rare treasures." ”

After a deep groan, Zhu Hou looked at Chu Yi and said, "Daban wants to open the sea and prosper the sea trade?" The coastal ......"

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, it is nothing more than in the Jiajing period because of the growth of maritime power, many maritime merchants under the banner of the Japanese invaded the coastal areas, the real Japanese are not too many.

Chu Yi sneered and said: "Just a barbarian, you dare to mess with my Celestial Empire Sea, just send a large army to suppress it!" ”

Seeing that Zhu Houzhao was still hesitant, Chu Yi said solemnly: "Your Majesty should know that my Daming has reached the point where it is necessary to change, if I don't make changes, in the long run, I am afraid that Daming will be in danger!" ”

Later generations said that Zhang Juzheng changed the law to continue the life of the Ming Dynasty for a hundred years, which may be an exaggeration, but it also shows that the Ming Dynasty is already terminally ill during this period, and if he does not make changes, he will really enter the end of the dynasty.

Especially the Xiaoice River period is coming, if Daming does not accumulate enough vitality, I am afraid that it will be difficult to survive the Xiaoice River period, and everything will repeat itself.

The figure shook slightly, Zhu Houzhao slowly looked up at Chu Yi and said, "Big Companion, what are you going to do?" ”

Obviously, Zhu Houzhao said this, which shows that Zhu Houzhao is already inclined to Chu Yi in his heart, of course, Zhu Houzhao does not distrust Chu Yi, but is just forced by Zu Xun and forced by the influence of the ministers of civil and military affairs who have always resolutely opposed the opening of the sea.

Chu Yi didn't think about going to the sky and opening the sea directly in one step, that was not very realistic, if the step was too big, sometimes it would really hurt himself.

Chu Yi's eyes flashed with essence, and he said confidently: "Your Majesty, the minister is going to choose a place in the coastal area to set up a foreign trade port, and allow Ming merchants to go to sea through this port for sea trade. At the same time, the minister will also choose a place to build a huge sea fleet for my Ming Dynasty. ”

Now is the rise of the Age of Discovery, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands these maritime powers are now just emerging, at this time as long as the Ming is willing, you can participate in the Age of Discovery, a piece of the pie.

Not to mention the others, just the corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes and other crops in the Americas, once successfully brought back to Daming, and then slowly promoted, even if the Xiaoice period comes, what is there to fear.

As long as the people have a glimmer of hope for survival, they will not be encouraged to rebel, so even for these, Chu Yi must send people to the sea.

Of course, the Americas are rich in amazing mineral resources, I don't know, compared with Portugal, the Netherlands, these small countries, the Ming Dynasty, the Oriental Empire, occupies enough time and place, as long as you want, you can easily crush these small Western countries.

Small countries such as the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal, small countries with few million people, have only a few million people, but what about the Ming Dynasty, with a population of hundreds of millions, what a terrible number.

Don't look at the thousands of warships and tens of thousands of merchant ships of these Western maritime powers, but this is the result of decades of accumulation in these countries.

The Ming Dynasty does not say anything else, the population advantage is too great, as long as the central dynasty makes up its mind, it is easy to build a sea fleet of thousands of warships in a few years, as for the merchant ships, the number of civilian merchant ships is not a lot, if the imperial court sets up a legal maritime trade port, it will definitely be able to set off a sea trade boom, and keep a large number of powerful people and wealthy businessmen crazy shipbuilding.

Looking at Chu Yi's determined appearance, Zhu Houzhao knew that Chu Yi had made up his mind, and even he might not be able to change Chu Yi's mind.

Knowing in his heart that Chu Yi was thinking about all this, for the sake of the stability of the Ming Dynasty, taking a deep breath, Zhu Houzhao nodded heavily at Chu Yi and said, "Although you can let it go, I will support it." ”

Chu Yi chuckled and said, "Your Majesty, he will definitely not regret today's decision!" ”

Zhu Houzhao laughed and said, "I believe that the companion will not let me down." ”

Chu Yi smiled and said: "Your Majesty may wish to take a look at the models of the ships that the minister prepared for Your Majesty, you must know that these are all made by skilled craftsmen according to the shrunken real ships, almost no different from real ships, even if they are in the middle of a large lake, they can also float on the water." ”

"Oh, then I must see it!"

Previously, Zhu Houzhao only thought that those ship models were very exquisite, but he never thought that these exquisite models could float on the water like real ships.

There is an artificially excavated lake in the leopard house, which is much larger than the small lake that Chu Yi dug up in the East Factory.

When the treasure ship models were lowered into the lake, hundreds of ship models were floating on the lake, and the ship models were arranged neatly and floated on the lake.

In the afterglow of the setting sun, the golden light covered the surface of the lake, and these ships looked like real big ships at first glance, Zhu Hou looked at it, and vaguely felt an inexplicable momentum emerging from this fleet.

In a trance, when he came back to his senses, it seemed to be just an illusion, but looking at these ship models again, Zhu Houzhao's eyes were full of expectation.

After returning from the leopard room, Chu Yi directly invited Jiao Fang from the house.

It was already a little late at this time, but Jiao Fang still rushed to see Chu Yi in a sedan chair after receiving the news.

In the living room, Jiao Fang saluted Chu Yi and said, "The Overseer summoned me here, but is there anything wrong?" ”

Chu Yi motioned for Jiao Fang to sit down and speak, but Jiao Fang was not polite to Chu Yi, and looked at Chu Yi after sitting down.

Chu Yi put down the teacup in his hand, looked up at Jiao Fang and said: "Jiao Fang, this governor came out of the leopard room not long ago, but he asked His Majesty to choose a place in the coastal area to be used as a foreign sea trade port and set up a city shipping department......

Jiao Fang, who was drinking tea, couldn't help but squirt out a sip of tea when she heard this, and looked at Chu Yi with a look of surprise on her face and said, "Overseer, are you going to open the sea ban?" ”

Just looking at Jiao Fang's reaction, you can know that Jiao Fang was stunned by Chu Yi's words.

I can't help but be shocked by Jiao Fang, the Chinese military officials of the DPRK, who doesn't know what great interests are involved behind the sea ban.

For a long time, it seems that there is an invisible force playing between the ban of the Ming Sea and the opening of the sea, but it is obvious that the power of the forbidden sea is very strong, and it is difficult to disobey this force even as the Son of Heaven.

As the Ming civil and military officers who can sit in high positions, few of them are fools at all, and it is impossible for fools to get to this point under the big waves.

So everyone knows what kind of benefits the sea has for the Ming Dynasty, but once the sea is opened, it will hurt the interests of those behind them too much.

Those maritime merchants, magnates, and gentry relied on their own strength to carry out overseas trade, and by virtue of the sea ban, countless people were restricted from the sea trade, and the overseas trade was confined to a circle, and this circle was the beneficiary of the sea ban.

Over time, these beneficiaries of the sea ban have become the roadblocks to the opening of the sea, the staunch supporters of the sea ban, and anyone who vainly tries to open the sea is their mortal enemy.

Once the sea is opened, it will inevitably touch the interests of these people, and the interests are very huge, which is the biggest reason why so many people in the court have always been resolutely opposed to the opening of the sea.

Jiao Fang is precisely because he knows too well all the aspects involved, it is simply a force like a giant, compared to it, Lu Wenyang's little power is simply a small fight.

Thinking that Chu Yi was going to collide with such a force, even Jiao Fang couldn't help but pinch a cold sweat for Chu Yi.

Seeing Jiao Fang's reaction in his eyes, Chu Yi sighed lightly in his heart, just like the information he had through Dongchang and Jinyiwei, the maritime merchants, the magnates, and the gentry had already woven a big net, completely monopolizing the terrible interests of the sea trade, and anyone who wanted to touch this taboo would be a provocation to these huge vested interests.

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