"The last general, Li Yanzhi, greets Your Majesty!"

"The last general, Li Dingguo, greets His Majesty!"

"The last general, Zhang Huangyan, greets His Majesty!"

In the study, looking at the three people kneeling in front of him, Zhu Youzhen had a smile on his face.

"Hurry up, hurry up, let me take a good look."

Hearing this, the three of them hurriedly stood up, and they all stood upright and looked at the emperor with excitement.

Zhu Youzhen first walked up to Li Yanzhi, looked up and down, punched him in the shoulder, and then grinned, his fist hurt badly, this damn guy was wearing armor under his clothes.

"It's a lot darker, and it's a lot stronger, and it's no longer the little white face it used to be." Zhu Youzhen said with a smile.

Li Yanzhi smiled embarrassedly. The dignified Fujian general soldier, the chief general of a town, smiled like a child at this time.

came to Li Dingguo, stretched out his hand to compare, and found that Li Dingguo's height surpassed himself, and he reached out and patted Li Dingguo on the shoulder: "Good boy, he has grown taller and stronger." ”

Li Dingguo just giggled.

Finally, he came to Zhang Huangyan, looked up and down, and said with a smile: "Among the three, you have changed the least, or are you as handsome and chic as you were at the beginning." ”

Zhang Huangyan smiled: "Maybe it's because of the southerners, who are very used to being at sea." ”

After the chat, Li Yanzhi began to report to Zhu Youzhen on the current situation of the Fujian Navy Division and the Royal Maritime Trade Company. Although Zhu Youzhen has already understood many things through the song, it is naturally not as clear as the person concerned.

The current situation in Fujian can be said to be very good. During their trip to the Japanese Kingdom last year, Zheng Zhilong and Mao Liangze dealt a heavy blow to Fujian's maritime and pirate fleets, and took advantage of the situation to force Zhejiang and Guangdong maritime merchants to submit. The powerful power of the Fujian Navy Division, and the emperor's background behind it, made all maritime merchants have to submit.

From then on, all Daming maritime merchants who want to go to sea to trade must be approved by the Royal Maritime Trade Firm, must pay protection fees to the Royal Maritime Trade Firm, and collect silver according to the goods traded, at least the maritime merchants who take the Japanese route must be so!

After the elimination of the fleet of the Fuzhou merchant gang and the Funing merchant gang, the maritime power of the three major merchant gangs in Fujian can be said to have disappeared completely, and since then the royal maritime trade firm in the sea of Fujian has become a dominant one, and the merchants who provide goods on land no longer dare to take advantage of the sea trade firm, and honestly provide the source of goods.

"This year, a total of 10 sea vessels have been purchased, of which 1,500 quintals of raw silk will be earned, and if we follow last year's market, we can earn at least 1 million taels of silver, and if we add the protection fees paid by each family at sea, we can earn almost 2 million taels of silver." Li Yanzhi said in the end.

"Only two million?" Zhu Youzhen was a little disappointed and said, this is a lot less than the silver he earned last year.

"Last year, because of the raid on the Fuzhou merchant gang and the pirate fleet, a large amount of cargo silver was seized. Normal trade can't be that much. Li Yanzhi explained with a wry smile.

Although the Japanese are poor and only have silver left, it is not infinitely much, the market is limited after all, and it is already very good to earn two million taels of silver from the Japanese sea trade once a year.

"That's it, the next step is to open the Nanyang route and do the business to the Nanyang." Zhu Youzhen said casually.

Li Yanzhi nodded: "Mao Liangze, they are already ready to do this." Previously, because of the Dutch and pirates Li Kuiqi, Liu Xiang and others blocking the southbound route, the ships of the maritime trade firm could not go south, and they could only take the route of the Japanese Kingdom. Now that the Dutch have been beaten honestly, they have taken the initiative to make peace, and they will never dare to attack the fleet of our Royal Maritime Trading Company in the future.

In March, I led a fleet to attack the Penghu Islands, defeated Li Kuiqi, and completely annihilated his fleet. In June, I led the sailors to fight Liu Xiang in Nanao, relying on the powerful firepower of five Galen ships, sinking dozens of Liu Xiang's sea ships, Liu Xiang was defeated, and only a few sea ships escaped to the ocean. Now, except for a few pirates such as He Bin on the island of Taiwan, the pirates in the southeast ocean have basically been wiped out by our Fujian sailors. Mao Liangze and they were opening up routes such as Luzon, Java, Borneo, and Champang. ”

"Very good, very good." Zhu Youzhen smiled and nodded to express his satisfaction, the Nanyang desert is vast, there are many countries, and if the Nanyang trade is carried out in an all-round way, more silver will be earned.

"Did the Dutch really become honest? You won't attack my fleet, and what about other Xiyi people such as Franc Machine? Zhu Youzhen said with some concern.

"Your Majesty, rest assured, if the Dutch dare to attack our fleet, the last general will immediately lead troops to attack Dayuan City and completely expel the Dutch from Taiwan! At present, our Fujian Navy Division has many ships and artillery, and as long as the Dutch do not make stupid mistakes, they will never dare to embarrass our maritime trade merchant ships. It's that the little Franc machine on Luzon is a little troublesome. Li Yan said straight.

"What's wrong with the little Franco?" Zhu Youzhen hurriedly asked.

"Because there are tens of thousands of immigrants from the Ming Dynasty on Luzon Island, the little Buddha Lang Ji people are very jealous of my Ming people, in the 31st year of Wanli and the 37th year of Wanli, he slaughtered the Ming people in Luzon twice, and tens of thousands of Ming people died tragically in Luzon. More than 20 years have passed, and the number of Ming people on Luzon Island has reached tens of thousands, which makes the little Francophile very jealous, and it is said that in recent years, the little Francophil has repeatedly tried to provoke contradictions between the natives on Luzon Island and the Ming people, trying to drive the natives to deal with the Ming people. Because he was very jealous of the Ming people, the little Franc machine man was quite friendly to ordinary Ming merchants, after all, he needed my Ming goods, but he did not allow the fleet of my Royal Maritime Trade Company to go to Luzon to trade. Li Yanzhi explained.

"Damn the little Franc man, how dare you do this!" Zhu Youzhen said angrily, "One day, I will definitely send a large army to attack Luzon and drive the little Buddha from Luzon!" ”

"Your Majesty Shengming!" Li Dingguo shouted, "Not only the little Franco, but also the Dutch, the English, all the Xiyi must be driven out of the Daming Sea, Luzon, Borneo, Jawa, and Malacca, these are my Ming territory, and the Xiyi people are not allowed to get involved!" ”

After staying in the Fujian Navy Division for more than a year and fighting many battles with pirates, Li Dingguo now has a very good understanding of the situation in the South China Sea, and is very dissatisfied with the domineering and domineering ships of those small countries in the Daming Sea.

"Okay, drive them all away, and turn Luzon, Borneo, Java, and Malacca into the territory of my Ming Dynasty!" Zhu Youzhen said with a smile.

"What kind of new continent do you want to hit, I heard that the territory of the new continent is very vast, the territory is several times wider than that of the Ming Dynasty, the land is fertile and rich, it is a terra nullius, if you can occupy the new continent, you can immigrate my landless people to the Ming Dynasty, so as to reduce the burden on the imperial court." Li Dingguo said with great interest.

"Courage is commendable!" Zhu Youzhen laughed.

After laughing, Zhu You's prosecutor talked about the purpose of transferring them here.