The value of silver coins is greater than that of copper coins, and the mining of silver mines and the production of silver coins are all in the hands of the Ming court.

Under the same value system, the Ming court is equivalent to having the right to define money.

All countries that trade with the Ming Dynasty will be subject to the restrictions of the Ming currency from now on.

Of course, the introduction of the silver coin system does not mean that other currencies have been abolished.

The most widely circulated copper coins are still in use, but they will be changed to a new style in the future.

More valuable gold coins will also be issued on a large scale and will be used to pay for large trades.

The currency reform of the Ming Dynasty completely pushed the commerce of Jiangnan to another height.

A large number of currency banks have sprung up in Yingtianfu and Suzhou.

The circulation of money became more rapid and convenient, and many wealthy people began to look for new growth points for their wealth.

And at this time.

Daming's action of going to the West twice in a year, through rich returns, made these Jiangnan businessmen keenly smell the breath of profit.

Zhu Han and Tang He went to the West twice and brought back a large number of slaves, horses, medicinal herbs, spices, etc.

Although the cost of two trips to the West is very high, the goods brought back are enough to quadruple the cost.

In particular, Zhu Wenzheng, the king of Jingnan of the Ming Dynasty, sent people to report to the imperial court that he had taken all the Nanyang Spice Islands under his control.

This news made the businessmen even more crazy.

You must know that in today's Ming Dynasty, the price of a pound of pepper is a tael of silver!

If you can send a fleet from the Ming Dynasty and bring back a shipload of spices from a trip to the South Seas, you will be able to make several times the profit immediately.

Stimulated by such huge profits, various silver banks have participated in large and small sea trade.

In just a few months, at least one million taels of silver went into the accounts of major shipbuilders.

Zhu Han is naturally very clear about all this.

It can be said that this is one of the purposes of his personal trip to the West.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has three important footholds in the South Seas, the East Indies and Persia, the Ming fleet will no longer be as black-eyed merchants as before.

The military strength of the Ming Dynasty in these three places will become the best security guarantee for the merchants.

As long as safety and profits can be guaranteed, then in the future, no one in this ocean, except for Daming, will no longer be able to touch the interests of it.

However, there were many fleets of Arab and Persian merchants on this sea.

In order to suppress and control these Persians and Arabs, under the impetus of Zhu Han, the Ming court passed a new decree.

Any vessel that wants to anchor in these three places must be subject to the review of the Ming Dynasty.

In this way, the Ming Dynasty will gradually establish its dominance on the sea.

Kunming, Yunnan.

A light rain was falling.

The whole city was silent.

Tens of thousands of soldiers wearing armor and waiting solemnly, each of them had a very solemn look on their faces.

In a palace in the city of Kunming.

This was originally the palace of King Liang of the Yuan Dynasty.

It is now the palace of the Han Emperor Chen Youliang in Yunnan.

Two days ago, Chen Youliang was still feasting in this palace, singing and dancing.

But.

In today's palace, there is only a mess all over the ground.

Countless rare treasures were smashed to the ground.

A large group of eunuchs and palace maids knelt on the ground and trembled, and they didn't dare to come out.

Chen Youliang held the sword in his hand and sat on the dragon chair dejectedly.

In front of him were kneeling civil and military officials.

In front of the civil and military officials, this is a thin young man kneeling.

"Father's anger, the child should die!"

This young man is Chen Li, the son of Chen Youliang.

When Chen Youliang led the army to the expedition, he left his crown prince in Chengdu to supervise the country.

Chen Youliang originally felt that Sichuan's defense line was impregnable, and Chengdu was a city in the rear, and it was enough to let his prince stay there to calm the people's hearts.

But Chen Youliang never expected it.

Xu Da of the Ming army actually led an elite soldier to sneak into Sichuan from the northern mountains.

After entering Sichuan, this Ming army first captured Guanghan, and then attacked all the way to Chengdu.

As the crown prince, where is Chen Li's opponent?

With just one face, the army in the hands of the crown prince of the Han Dynasty was crushed.

After losing the protection of the army, Chengdu naturally could not be saved.

In desperation.

Chen Li, the crown prince of the Han Dynasty, could only lead a part of his people to flee in a hurry.

Chen Youliang, who had just vented his anger, now heard his son's voice, and he broke out again.

Chen Youyou moved forward reluctantly, kicking his son several steps away.

"Why don't you die!"

"Even if you hold it for three days, you can wait for reinforcements!"

"I, Chen Youliang Hero I, why did I give birth to such a pig and dog-like son of you!"

The more Chen Youliang spoke, the more puzzled he became, and he actually lifted the sword in his hand and was about to slash at Chen Li's head.

Seeing this, Zou Pusheng, Chen Youren and others next to him hurriedly got up and grabbed Chen Youliang's arm.

"Your Majesty is angry!"

"Your Majesty, take care!"

"The crown prince is young, Your Majesty is angry!"

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Finally, under the persuasion of these people, Chen Youliang finally calmed down.

"What about Wang Bao in Badong, Liu Quanan in northern Sichuan, where are their soldiers and horses now!?"

Chen Youliang let out a sigh of relief and sat on a chair in the palace and asked.

The two men he was talking about were both generals of the Chen Han regime, one stationed in the east and the other in the north.

Logically speaking.

Chengdu was attacked by the enemy, and the soldiers and horses in these two directions should quickly go to the rescue of Chengdu.

Zou Pusheng and Chen Youren glanced at each other.

"Your Majesty, neither of them has moved."

"But there is a grapevine that they seem to have surrendered to the Ming army."

Regarding the surrender of these two generals to the Ming army, Chen Youliang did not believe it at first.

But only two days later.

There was very reliable news from Sichuan.

The Ming army, under the leadership of Xu Da, successively took over the territory of Badong and northern Sichuan.

And there was no fighting.

This means that these two generals of the Chen Han regime must have really surrendered to the Ming army.

Chen Youliang, who learned of this situation, was furious again.

Originally, he also planned to use the soldiers and horses of Yunnan as the main force, and then let the soldiers and horses of Wang Bao and Liu Quanan respond to the rear, so that there was a possibility of recapturing Chengdu.

But now both generals have surrendered to the Ming army.

The formed army of the Chen Han regime in Sichuan no longer exists.

If Chen Youliang dared to lead his army from Yunnan to Sichuan at this time, he would plunge headlong into the encirclement of the Ming army.

Even, as long as Chen Youliang's army stepped into Sichuan, there was no need for Xu Da to lead the Ming army to attack, and most of the soldiers would surrender or flee.

Because.

In Chen Youliang's army, almost most of the soldiers left their home rolls in Sichuan.

Now that Sichuan has become the territory of the Ming army, there is no possibility for these soldiers and their families to get together.

There are big rivers between Yunnan and Sichuan, and these soldiers do not dare to easily escape back to Sichuan.

But if they were allowed to set foot on the land of Sichuan, the Ming army would only need to wave a finger lightly, and the vast majority of Chen Youliang's soldiers would completely collapse.

After learning of this situation, Chen Youliang was so anxious that he fell ill.

Chen Han's 100,000 troops who stayed in Kunming suddenly became even more panicked.

Kunming is almost three times a day.

The soldiers began to spread gossip among themselves that frightened everyone.

Some people explained that the army killed all the families of the Han soldiers who remained in Sichuan.

Others said that the Ming army was not so brutal, and that they kept the families of the soldiers in centralized custody, and heard that if anyone went back to surrender, they could slow down his family.

In addition to these, there are many rumors that the Ming army has already stationed troops in the north of the Jinsha River and will attack Yunnan at any time.

For these true and false news, the soldiers of Chen Han's army have no ability to distinguish between true and false news at all.

Many of the brave have even begun to quietly prepare to escape.

In order to curb this very unfavorable situation.

Chen Youliang issued several orders one after another, and any soldier who dared to discuss these news would be punished for disturbing the morale of the army.

But.

The more severely Chen Youliang was punished in the army, the more serious the panic of the soldiers became.

In less than 10 days, more than 2,000 people fled.

Even if most of them were captured and beheaded, it would still not stop those who wanted to escape.

In order to deal with this situation, Chen Youliang almost racked his brains.

But there is still no effective way to get around.

As Chen Youliang's think tank, Zou Pusheng immediately offered Chen Youliang a strategy.

"Kunming is too close to Sichuan, and the soldiers can flee, even if they don't know the way, they can return to Sichuan with a little inquiry."

"If this continues, there is no need for the Ming army to attack, our army will completely collapse, and for today's plan, the only way to cut off the soldiers' idea of fleeing back to Sichuan!"

Zou Pusheng's words made Chen Youliang suddenly see a life-saving straw.

"Mr. Zou, tell me quickly, what can you do?" Chen Youliang grabbed Zou Pusheng's arm and asked.

For more than a year, Chen Youliang called Zou Pusheng Mr.

But now that the situation is critical, Zou Pusheng is no longer in the mood to care about this.

"Your Majesty, as I just said, it is precisely because Kunming is too close to Sichuan, if we lead the soldiers to the south and keep them away from Sichuan, they will no longer think about escaping!" Zou Pusheng said with a sinister face.

Hearing this, Chen Youliang was immediately shocked.

"What, going south?"

Chen Youliang feels that Yunnan is already very remote, and Kunming is already a big city in the south.

If you leave Kunming and continue south, there are only a few small cities that can be stationed.

Except for those small towns, the rest of the place is full of dense forests and high mountains.

At that time, it will be difficult to feed an army of 100,000, even if it is to feed 100,000 farmers.

Chen Youliang even felt that Zou Pusheng had been bought by the Ming army, and that he was planning to kill himself with a poisonous scheme.

However, Zou Pusheng's subsequent words dispelled Chen Youliang's thoughts.

"Your Majesty's soldiers are here, and no one is dead!" Zou Pusheng said in a hurry.

Chen Youliang suddenly realized.

Yes, the only confidence he has now is these soldiers.

Now Chengdu has been lost.

If you lose all the soldiers in your hands, then the land of Yunnan will not be able to be saved.

In this case, the only way to do this is to keep the soldiers in your hands first.

"Where does the gentleman think we should go?" Chen Youliang hurriedly asked.

You must know that the place to the south of Kunming is too big, and if you don't say a specific location, Chen Youliang doesn't know where to go.

"The further south Kunming goes, the more mountains and forests are dense, and there are a lot of snakes, insects, rats and ants, and we can't survive at all. Zou Pusheng said.

As soon as he heard this, Chen Youliang suddenly felt unhappy again.

How embarrassed Duan Gong was when he fled, he couldn't laugh at Duan Gong at that time.

It's only been a few years.

He was about to repeat the mistake of Duan Gong.

This is a slap in the face for Chen Youliang.

"Does it have to be so?" Chen Youliang asked with difficulty.

"The farther they go, the more the soldiers have no support, they will inevitably unite, and when they go far, they will also put down the children of Sichuan, let them remarry and have children, and they can gather the hearts of the people again."

I have to say that Zou Pusheng is really a very suitable single character for rebellion.

His own wives and concubines and children were also captured by the Ming army in Sichuan.

However, when this guy was thinking about it, he never thought about these wives and concubines.

As the saying goes, wives are like clothes, and brothers are like siblings.

Chen Youliang is actually such a character.

"Okay, then do as the gentleman says!"

Chen Youliang immediately made up his mind.

Since Duan Power led more than 10,000 remnants of the defeated army, he was able to escape.

Then he Chen Youliang these 100,000 soldiers and horses, if he also arrived in the Tianzhu Continent, wouldn't he be able to do more?

What's more, the Delhi Sultanate on the Tianzhu Continent had just turned its back on itself not long ago.

Chen Youliang has already made up his mind that when he arrives in Tianzhu, he must first find out the bad luck of the Delhi Sultanate.

But.

The marching route planned by Zou Pusheng was destined to be full of all kinds of hardships.

Whether it is the continuous savage mountain, or the snakes, insects, rats and ants all over the surrounding area, Chen Youliang's soldiers and horses will be severely tested.

As a loser in the Central Plains, this is the suffering that Chen Youliang must endure.

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Western regions.

Huozhou City at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains.

After the Mengyuan army led by Wang Baobao captured Huozhou City, they immediately moved the capital of Dayuan here.

As the most prosperous city in the Western Regions.

Huozhou City not only has tall city walls, but also has merchants from all walks of life.

Wang Baobao only needed to send a few officials to collect commercial taxes at the city gates, and he was able to feed tens of thousands of soldiers and officials.

Among these merchants, many of them were merchants from the Daminglan area.

For these people, Wang Baobao treats them all equally.

Whether it is the collection of commercial taxes or the safety of pedestrians and goods, Wang Baobao did not treat these Han merchants differently.

And so it goes.

The commerce and trade of Huozhou City are not inferior to before.

Seeing that Wang Baobao loved the people like a son in Huozhou, the generals under him were unhappy one by one.

As the Warat people of Moxi Mongolia, their barbarism is much more serious than that of Wang Baobao, a Sinicized Mongol.

Almost everyone in the Warat is proud of plundering on the battlefield.

Originally, they all saw the territory of the Chagatai Khanate as their own paradise for robbery.

Now that the territory of the Chagatai Khanate has become the domain of Wang Baobao, the Warats can no longer rob unscrupulously.

The Warat generals led by Haohai were naturally dissatisfied.

But.

As for the inner thoughts of the Warat people, Wang Baobao actually knows everything clearly.

Wang Baobao understands that these Warat people are wild and difficult to train, so that they can understand the truth of governing the local tax collection, which is simply playing the harp to the cow.

So in order to satisfy the robbery desires of these Warats.

Wang Baobao finally formulated a very suitable strategy for them.