After listening to Zhang Jingyi's words, the Emperor of the Apocalypse relaxed a little.

Nowadays, it is a matter of pulling a hair and moving the whole body.

Once the minerals in Liaodong cannot be supplied to the railway company on a large scale, then the railway company will fall into the embarrassing situation of stopping the project.

And once the railway company has a problem, other industries will also have a huge impact.

The current Emperor of the Apocalypse has obviously figured out the way.

He was well aware that the power and capital brought by the new pillar industries of the imperial court today were astonishing.

But at the same time, it is also fragile.

If something goes wrong, it's a recipe for disaster.

The Emperor of the Apocalypse immediately changed his words: "Last time, Zhang Qing mentioned the issue of Francois and the Netherlands, Zhang Qing believes that the Netherlands and the Francois countries should unite together to follow the example of the Japanese and invade our Ming Maritime Frontier...... How likely is Zhang Qing. ”

Zhang Jing pondered for a moment: "This matter is by no means groundless, the Francois and the Dutch, wolf ambitions, they have established strongholds and fortresses in Luzon and other countries, killed the local natives, and encroached on the land of the natives step by step. Therefore, the minister thinks that they will do anything harmful to heaven and reason for the sake of benefit, and it is because of this that I have to take strict precautions, otherwise, once there is something, and then I have to prepare, it will be out of reach. ”

Emperor Tianqi said: "In this way, Zhang Qing thinks that he is at least eighty or ninety percent sure. ”

Zhang Jing nodded and said: "Yes, the minister doesn't dare to say that he is ten percent sure, but seven or eight percent is." In fact, at the end of the day, this is the problem of path dependence. ”

"Path dependency?"

"It's like ......" Zhang Jing thought about it for a long time before finding a suitable analogy: "Just like Your Majesty, at the beginning, there were internal and external troubles, the internal treasury and the treasury were empty, the country was in trouble, there were rogues inside, and there were Jiannu people outside. But since His Majesty raided the first house...... I found out that copying the house can greatly make up for the lack of the treasury, so, does Your Majesty think that this copying family is very good, and if something happens in the future, the first thing that comes to mind is to copy a few more to see if it can solve the problem. ”

The Emperor of the Apocalypse blushed, and only after a long time did he say: "No, I haven't thought about such a thing." ”

Zhang Jing said: "Your Majesty, in fact, there is no good or bad way to raid the house, it is just a means to govern the country." In essence, the court has no silver, but those Liao generals and clans are all rich and rival the country, not to mention, they are corrupt and pervert the law on weekdays, oppress the people, and have reached the point of common anger of people and gods, so Your Majesty is the society at the top, and the people are at the bottom, hanging the people and killing the people, what's wrong? What the minister wants to say is the problem of the path, we do one thing, taste the sweetness, will want to continue to do, so slowly, we are more and more good at copying, many times, when we encounter difficulties, we think of it, and it is also the first to use copying to solve the problem, which is path dependence. ”

In the same way, the Francos and the Dutch, they were just a small barren country, in Central Asia, cut off by the Ottoman Empire by land, barren land, unable to farm, unable to support themselves, and the land trade routes, also cut off, and the same as the Ming Dynasty, to the time when it was difficult to continue, the people were extremely poor, the people were poor, so they had to go to the sea, called business, in fact, what they did was what pirates did, but unexpectedly, it was a great success. In the past few decades, they have plundered again and again, opened up overseas territories in the name of business, and looted the gold and silver of natives everywhere in the world, and have long made a lot of money, so they ...... They also form path dependencies. ”

"Now they are in the same situation as before, that is, they themselves have encountered a crisis, a lot of debt has begun to appear, and the original expansion has come to an end. At this time, Your Majesty thinks about it, how will they choose to solve the problem? ”

"Is it to raid the homes of their wealthy merchants?"

"Or the pirates who can't survive simply copy their princes and nobles?"

Zhang Jingyi threw out one question after another: "Or, take their original path, simply, do a big vote, and carry out the largest loot in the world, as long as it succeeds, you can solve all the current problems overnight." It's just that at the beginning, when they went to sea in a desperate situation, there were only three or five ships, and the personnel on board were only a few hundred, all of them in rags, like beggars. But now, under the nourishment of these decades, they have become strong ships and cannons, and the soldiers wear armor that is armed to the teeth, and are equipped with excellent cannons and guns, so that they ...... They are confident that they can rely on these to solve problems, so ...... Why don't they do it? ”

The Emperor of the Apocalypse understood at once.

"I'm addicted to copying, they're addicted to robbing, aren't they?"

Zhang Jing said: "Your Majesty Shengming, talented. ”

Emperor Apocalypse said: "If they dare to come, I will personally wave my army, lead the elite of my Ming Donglin army, and fight to the death with them, I must teach them to know that they are looking for the wrong person this time, good guys, I didn't look for them, they dare to come to the beard, I really don't know how thick the sky is, but I want to see, in the end, I copied them, or they robbed me!" ”

When Zhang Jing heard this, she didn't know what words to use to describe it.

Is it two tigers fighting?

Or...... Wang Ba stared at the mung bean, did you look at the right eye?

This can be regarded as a moment of brightness, in fact, everyone is working for bandits.

Zhang Jingyi then sighed and said, "The key to the problem is not this. Your Majesty, if the other party is willing to fight with my Daming, the minister is quite sure. But this Francois and the Dutch have their survival tactics, just like the enemy in the desert, the Central Plains Dynasty has always fought with the cavalry of the desert, never because the country in the center of the country is not strong enough to be strong, but most of the time, the desert tribes, do not seek to fight with us at all, but constantly attack, and when we gather countless soldiers and horses, the elite come out, but they scatter and flee into the depths of the desert, until our elite military horses go deep into the desert, people and horses are tired, they gather again, give us a fatal blow. ”

Zhang Jing said: "And this Dutch and Francois is essentially the steppe cavalry in the sea, and it is not enough to rely on the army, just like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty attacked the Huns, can you rely on foot soldiers?" Relying on the cavalry of my Han Dynasty, our cavalry is better than them, a Han cavalry, can resist five Hun cavalry, so there is a wolf Juxu, can plow the court to sweep the cave, so that the Hu people heard that the Han army arrived, then panicked. ”

"In this way, you have to rely on Zhang San?"

Zhang Jingyi sighed and said: "Zhang San is not incompetent, but the vast majority of my ships in the Ming Dynasty are pot-bellied ships that can carry more goods, which are not suitable for naval warfare, and the Netherlands and Francois countries, they are born by the sea, for decades, if the ships are not strong enough, they are in danger of capsizing at any time, therefore, their ships have made new progress in ten years, their skills in manipulating artillery and sails, as well as the scheduling of ship operations, there will be a new innovation in three or five years, and the progress is so fast that it is staggering." Not only that, but in the past few decades, they have often cut down the strongest trees for ship material in order to build ships, and a good piece of ship material needs to be processed countless times to resist the erosion of seawater. Because of this, over the past few decades, after two generations of operation, they have cut down almost all the best trees in the country and made countless ship materials......"

"And I, Daming, really started to build ships, it was only a few years of work, and many ship materials were too late to concoct, and many places ...... I don't dare to say that I am inferior to people everywhere, but I have to face it squarely. This is not my rival to the Phillips and the Netherlands. Rather, the ship is the one who eats for these people, so they build it with all their might. And what about Da Ming? Ignoring coastal defense, but for 250 years, the majestic treasure ship has long been reduced to ashes, and everything needs to be started again, and I alone may be able to deal with the Francos and Dutch people in Ryukyu and Luzon and other places. But if they unite and entangle Europa's main fleet to come here and fight to the death, they will think that ...... This is not optimistic. ”

When the Emperor of the Apocalypse heard this, he couldn't help but be gloomy, and muttered for a long time: "In this way, there is no way at all?" ”

"There's a way." Zhang Jing said: "Wooden ships, Daming is far from their opponent, not to mention others, the Francois has a saying, called a hundred years navy, this is of course not an exaggeration, but because, to build a ship, a finest oak wood to grow, it takes at least a hundred years, other wood, is far inferior, and even if the wood is cut down, it will take several years to carry out various processing, before it can really be used as a ship." I'm sure I'll wait for it. Since this is the case, then one can only count on ironclads. ”

"Iron armor?"

"Ironclad shipbuilding can bypass the problem of wood."

"That's right, I remembered, at the beginning, Zhang Qing deceived me from ...... No, he took a lot of silver, tens of millions of taels of silver, and said that he was making an iron ship? ”

"Exactly." Zhang Jing said: "That is still a few years ago, Your Majesty's generosity, full support, the minister in the past few years, is also sincerely afraid, almost every day is thinking about this matter, over the years, Lushun over the country, a lot of money to recruit the world's best blacksmiths, carpenters and other kinds of skilled craftsmen, but also recruited countless talents who are good at steam engines, around the construction of this ship, several years as a day, is to study this thing. In fact, shipbuilding was ...... It has also brought countless benefits to Daming, has Your Majesty forgotten that this steam locomotive ...... And this railway, in fact, is the result of the ship-building output, and finally transformed? ”