When he returned, Xu Songbai did not take the ship of the development company, but took the flagship Longbow.

As soon as he landed on the deck, Tian Wu took him to the captain's room, and the two of them sat down tacitly, and both took out a map.

After Tian Wu looked at it for a while, he said in surprise: "It seems that this Jingtai River can really reach the hinterland of Annan!"

Xu Songbai is not as good as a veteran like Tian Wu in drawing and looking at pictures, so he only said: "There is also a lot of fertile land here, and the climate is similar to that of Eastern Qin, so there must be a lot of grain production!"

Tian Wu smiled, took a scale through the compass, and found that the location of this deep-water port was comparable to that of the Pearl River in Guangdong.

"This is a deep-water port with the hinterland of Annam, and there is also an island called Cat Ba Island in the port! This island is the throat, but it's a pity that the people of Annam haven't even built a lighthouse! ”

Xu Songbai glanced at it, a military idiot like him could see that building a fort on this island would ensure that not a single ship could enter the port!

"It seems that Captain Tian is interested in this island?" He asked with a smile.

Tian Wu nodded and said: "This is nature, the king has always asked me to collect the hydrological conditions of various places, and we are particularly attentive to this kind of small island with a superior location!"

"Just like Kume Island is to the Ryukyus?" Xu Songbai said with a smile: "After we garrisoned on Kume Island, we can earn a lot of money from sugar every year, could it be that we can garrison troops on this Ji Po Island, and we can also make Annam's output available to us?"

Tian Wu said with a smile: "In fact, through trade, we can make Annan's output available to us!" Although I haven't read so many of your books, I have been running down the ship over the years, and I have found that the Eastern Qin Dynasty has brought back all kinds of things from the Ming Kingdom, but the ones that have been shipped out are iron tools and summer cloth, and you can earn a lot of profits just by processing one or two. ”

"This is called advanced productivity!" Xu Songbai couldn't help but smile and said: "For backward places, you can only rely on raw materials and minerals, you should also find that the Xia cloth of the Eastern Qin Dynasty has destroyed the Xia cloth industry along the coast of the Ming Dynasty, and today's Fujian and Zhejiang, there are still any self-produced cloths, all of which are East Qin cloth!"

Tian Wu thought back and realized that this was the case! The more and more Dongqin cloth was bought, and every time it was shipped to Fujian, it could be eaten by merchants, which meant that the local cloth was reduced.

Moreover, since the purchase of a large number of hemp yarn in Dongqin, presumably those cloth mills cannot compete with Dongqin, and they can only close their doors without hemp yarn.

I don't know why, he suddenly felt a shock, if he continued, wouldn't it be that all the industries of the Ming Dynasty would be destroyed by this so-called "advanced productive forces"?

"How many people should have lost their livelihoods?" Tian Wu sighed to himself.

Xu Songbai smiled when he heard this: "Don't want that kind of livelihood, the king said that if you don't break it, you can't stand it, and the productive forces will always develop!"

Tian Wu nodded, the king really didn't care about the livelihood of the ordinary people of the Ming Kingdom.

Xu Songbai said: "Only advanced productive forces also need to be guaranteed by force, otherwise the benefits of trade cannot be guaranteed, in order to fight the deficit, backward countries are very likely to block trade!" If we don't have a strong fleet, I'm afraid we can only let others handle it! ”

"That's right!" Tian Wu recognized it very much, these captains had all gone to listen to the lecture on sea power, and although they had listened to a general idea, they still understood that their most important duty was to ensure the safety of the shipping route.

"Did you find the coal that the gentleman was looking for?" Xu Songbai suddenly remembered.

Tian Wu shook his head, pointed to the map and said, "I looked around along the coastline of this harbor, and in Anbang Town, opposite Anxing Port, I did hear that there was coal, but I couldn't go deep and easily explore!"

"Ampang Town?" Xu Songbai glanced at it and said: "Then it should be this, the map drawn by the Ming merchants given by the king, this coal mine called Hongji, should be in the north of Anxing Port!"

Tian Wu compared it and found that the location was similar, but the map given by the king was obviously larger, so calculated that a point could be a difference of tens of miles.

"It's probably this area, and when you have a chance in the future, let's explore it again!"

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On the other hand, after the end of the New Year's vacation, Yan Zheng ordered to focus his work on preparing for war.

After discovering that the government's anti-bandit actions were becoming more and more ruthless, he stopped the work of collecting the Tanhu in Guangzhou and asked the task force to withdraw quickly.

At the same time, he also cut off the arms trade with the Ming Dynasty, and the last few batches of arms were delivered.

Liu Shiyang did not write to inquire about this, as if it had been discussed, and both sides treated it as if the incident had never happened.

It's just that in Guangdong, Fujian, and Zhejiang, in addition to strictly controlling grain, the government seems to have begun to target displaced people.

Five days after Yan Zheng's move, the imperial court's decree was issued, which showed that the imperial court had decided to cut off this arms deal before him.

The content of the decree is that the magistrates of these three provinces must be able to resettle the displaced and disaster victims.

Although it was not directly stated, many magistrates still understood that this will was aimed at the Eastern Qin to collect the people of the Ming Dynasty.

But it's one thing to understand, it's another thing to get things done, and most magistrates choose to pretend to be clear.

For them, the best way to deal with the displaced people was to send the merchants to Eastern Qin, so that they would not have to spend the imperial court's rice money, and they could also prevent them from gathering into trouble.

After Yan Zheng learned of this will, he also felt that it was a trivial matter.

He looked at the results of Guangdong's collection and felt that the effort was still worth it.

At present, the manpower of Dongqin is no longer tight, and many new farms have been developed in Dongning, and many Ming immigrants have been hired to farm.

In less than five years, there will be no need for large-scale immigration in Eastern Qin, and the focus of immigration will also be on Luzon and other places.

After the relevant resolutions were passed by the House of Representatives, he issued a number of special orders in accordance with the resolutions.

First of all, it was announced that the expansion of the Eastern Qin Dynasty had officially begun, and it was required that conscription begin immediately to ensure the completion of the expansion plan of ten battalions.

The military training of militia and students has also become normal, with at least one week of training guaranteed every month.

At the same time, the ordnance factories also began to move to wartime, and workers began to work in three shifts to produce guns and ammunition.

The army also announced that it would stop taking rotational leave, and that all personnel would be in place as soon as possible to carry out military training.

Even the repertory troupe requires them to conduct military training.

Although he didn't know that Emperor Hongzhi died in the eighteenth year of Hongzhi, Yan Zheng knew that the tug-of-war with Daming would not end in a few months.

So the best way is to pick a time period to start a war, as long as Hongzhi dies, then you can seize this opportunity to force the Ming Dynasty to make a peace treaty.

He took out a copy of the proposal he had written last year, and at the same time asked Lan Ya and Yumo to summarize the pirate information sent by Shang Jia for him.

After Zhang He's death, he cut off contact with pirates in order to maintain the image of a great and righteous man.

The reason why this proposal was written last year is that when he was planning the war with the Ming Dynasty, he felt that Shuangyu Island was a good fulcrum.

According to various intelligence, Shuangyu Island is currently occupied by several groups of pirates, not to mention the threat routes, and often carry out raids.

It has a great impact on the coastal security of the Ming Dynasty and the trade security of the Eastern Qin.

In addition, it is not far from Ningbo, how can such a critical place be handed over to pirates to wreak havoc?

Yan Zheng flipped through the information sent by Shang Jia and recorded it silently.

Write down: The pirates of Shuangyu Island are rampant, and they have robbed the merchants who are good friends with us many times.

This article elaborates on some of the information sent by the merchants, pointing out the location of the pirates on Shuangyu Island and the threat they pose to trade on the routes.

At the end of the article, he also analyzed the reasons for the emergence of pirates on Shuangyu Island, pointing out that at least half of the responsibility lay with the Ming court, and the inaction of the Ming court led to the bandits of the coastal people and the threat of maritime merchants.

After writing it, Yan Zheng handed it over to Lan Ya and asked her to send it to Huaxia Daily immediately and put the article on the front page.

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