In the dimly lit room, a dim candle flame burned quietly in the center, but it brought not only a faint light, but also a thick, eerie and eerie atmosphere.

"During the three months of my retreat, how did the plan and execution go?" A young voice came from the darkness, with a little impatience: "I've had enough of someone pressing on my head!" ”

“……”

Another somewhat shrill voice appeared, with unknown emotions, and said slowly: "Everything is going on very secretly, but something has happened. ”

"What's wrong?"

"Your mentor, my father-in-law, unified the whole of Asia and discovered Australia, single-handedly built the Ming Empire, the chairman of the Ming Industrial Development Group, Cao Zhengchun, suddenly fell into a coma yesterday, and the whole person seems to be aging, and by this morning, he is already dying of old age, and he is about to die——"

Rumble!

A terrifying amount of Gang Qi instantly raged out, interrupting the following words, and the entire room suddenly trembled, and gusts of wind frantically destroyed the room, as if to vent the shock of its owner.

The fierce and domineering wind broke through all the doors and windows of the palace, causing a large amount of sunlight to spill in from the outside, illuminating the faces of the two people in the room.

One of the young men puffed up all over his body, and the vast true qi like a sea was raging with him as a starting point, which was even worse than Zhu Ignorance, who had a thousand-year-old skill.

This person is the one who has grown up at this time, Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Hou.

The other person was middle-aged, with a pale face and beardlessness, and a pale yellow Gangqi shield around his body covered his body, with an understated expression, but the surging Gangfeng could not bring a trace of waves in front of him.

He was Cao De, who succeeded him as the factory governor after Cao Zhengchun and supervised the ministers.

After a long time, Zhu Houzhu finally withdrew the uncontrollable and raging true qi back into his body, but his face was still full of disbelief.

Cao De lifted the Gang Qi body, lowered his eyelids, and covered the emotions in his eyes: "Your Majesty ......"

Zhu Houzong slowly stood up at this time, his voice was a little hoarse, he gritted his teeth and said:

"I don't believe that Master Cao will be old, how can he be old?

Come and drive, go to the Taishi's Mansion! ”

……

At this time, it was the fifteenth year of Jiajing, and it had been sixteen years since Cao Zhengchun defeated the iron gall god Hou Zhu and supported the young Zhu Hou to take the throne.

In the past sixteen years, Cao Zhengchun has not slackened at all, for the Ming Kingdom, the changes in the past sixteen years are like vicissitudes, and for the whole world, it has also changed greatly.

At the feet of Cao Zhengchun, an ancient empire in eastern Asia has finally risen, revealing its sharp minions to the world!

……

In the year of Jiajing, the Ming shipyard had fully restored the technology of Zheng He's voyage to the West, and manufactured the highest industrial crystallization of the Ming Dynasty's navigation industry, the three-masted fortune ship.

Cao Zhengchun's design drawings of the Galen ship were also manufactured in the same year, and the Daming fleet finally arrived at the moment of preparing to set sail after two years of construction.

At this time, the size of the Ming fleet reached 500 ships, which was more than twice the size of Zheng He's fleet.

And two hundred of them are treasure ships, with a length of one hundred and fifty-one meters and a width of sixty meters, which is the largest sailing ship in the world at this time, capable of carrying a weight of up to 800 tons and capable of accommodating thousands of people at the same time.

There were also horse ships, grain ships, boat ships, and war ships, each of which played a different role in the fleet.

In addition to these conventional ships, Cao Zhengchun also ordered the construction of a giant sail battleship with a length of 300 meters and a width of 100 meters, which sat in the center of the fleet.

This giant ship was named the Golden Merry by Cao Zhengchun, and no one knows its meaning in the Ming Kingdom, but many literati speculated that perhaps Meili was a beautiful girl who left important memories in Cao Changdu's youth.

Cao Zhengchun laughed at this rumor, but ignored it, because the Golden Merry did occupy an important place in his youth.

The huge and majestic hull of the Golden Merry, the sails that cover the sky and the sun, and the cannon as thick as a water tank, like a behemoth standing proudly on the sea, make people fearful.

This is a great fleet that can beat the whole world, and it represented the world's strongest industrial productivity before the advent of steamships because of the first industrial revolution!

At this time, there are still nearly 200 years before the first industrial revolution.

……

In the second year of Jiajing, after sufficient preparations, according to the nautical chart left by Zheng He, Cao Zhengchun stepped down as the governor of Dongchang and was succeeded by Cao De, and he changed to serve as the CEO of Daming Shipping Group, led the fleet, and began to go to sea for the first time.

In addition to the crew of the ship, there are more heavily armed armoured armies, as well as martial arts masters.

Cao Zhengchun didn't go this time to make friends, but to conquer!

Brunei, Thailand, Cambodia, and India are all his goals, all for the sake of solving the urgent need, solving the food problem within the Ming Dynasty, all for food!

Affected by the times, the grain output and available resources of the Ming Kingdom are only those, and the only way to develop rapidly is to plunder.

What the? Peaceful development?

Isn't peaceful development a change of name for robbery!

Those who should be robbed will still be robbed, and those who should be robbed will still be robbed.

And Cao Zhengchun is different, he is a virtuous eunuch who is recognized by Emperor Zhengde Zhu Houzhao as a good person.

He didn't even bother to pretend to be kind on the surface, and directly robbed it!

……

In the third year of Jiajing, the Baigong base under the command of Daming Industrial Development Group successfully manufactured the first steam engine.

The cylinder, base, piston, crank connecting rod mechanism, spool valve distribution mechanism, speed regulating mechanism and flywheel poured by the mold have been modified by running-in and modification by hand, which is perfectly combined to form the first steam engine in Daming!

Emperor Jiajing, who was obsessed with mathematics, physics and chemistry, heard the news, personally ordered everyone to praise them, and immediately ordered to start trying to develop a steam engine, but Cao Zhengchun did not know this news, because he was still overseas.

In this year, the food supply within the Ming Dynasty finally collapsed, and the cabinet urgently activated the preparatory plan left by Cao Zhengchun and began to try to import grain, cattle and sheep from surrounding countries.

……

In the sixth year of Jiajing, according to the drawings left by Cao Zhengchun, the steam engine was rapidly promoted in mining, smelting, textile, machine manufacturing and other industries.

For example, the output of the textile industry in the Ming Kingdom has tripled in the past three years!

The advent of the steam engine provided a large number of consumer goods to the markets of the Ming Kingdom and surrounding countries, accelerated the accumulation of capital, and put forward urgent requirements for the transportation industry.

The study of the drawings of the steam locomotive is on the agenda.

The grain reserve situation in Daming is still grim, so the price of food in countries near Daming is soaring.

……

In the seventh year of Jiajing, Cao Zhengchun's fleet is back!

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