Of course, King Ning knew how Zhu Gaochu got it, Zhu Gaochu had a fleet, which was outside all the year round, and the fleet was in charge of Zheng He and Yang Lishan, at first the two ran together, and after Yang Lishan got acquainted, the two took turns to run.

At the peak of this naval fleet, there were more than 200 ships, mainly running all over the world and doing business, and then they stopped doing business, mainly going around the world and engaging in intelligence, which was compressed to more than 20 ships, but they were all large ships of the treasure class.

Now Zheng He and Yang Lishan take turns, from the first year of Hongxi to the present, it has been almost eleven years, they have not stopped, they have been at sea, and the sailors above are also constantly rotating.

It can be said that almost all of the sailors of the Ming Dynasty have been to Europe and even Africa.

After reading the foreign ones, King Ning looked at the country again and found that Zhu Gaoxu was calling on merchants and nobles to organize people to colonize overseas.

Zhu Gaoxu said that places like Africa and America are all indigenous, and in the past, one or two hundred people were able to lay down a large area, and there was gold everywhere, and the merchants and nobles on the seaside, who had the strength, could apply to the imperial court to buy big ships and develop overseas.

Now there are more than 2,000 big ships in the Ming Dynasty, and only the official can build and sell them, so Zhu Gaoxu asked everyone to buy big ships and go overseas.

King Ning also saw a bounty column in the lower left corner, if anyone went to the Americas to find the seeds of a rubber tree and came back, a heavy reward of 100,000 taels of silver, if there were scholars in the family and were willing to be officials, one person could be designated to directly serve as a Zhengqipin official, and it could be hereditary for two generations.

This pay is quite generous.

Of course, if you become an official, you won't have any money, so you can choose one of the two anyway.

There is also a map of the Americas on the side of the news, probably in the location of Brazil in the later generations, the drawing is not very accurate, vague, and said, if you want to take this task, you can find the local Jinyiwei to sign up, and Jinyiwei will also issue a local chart to introduce what a rubber tree is.

This bounty column writes a lot of small needs of the imperial court, all kinds of seeds and specialties from overseas countries, as long as the Ming Dynasty does not have them, whoever brings them back will be rewarded.

"Mother's." King Ning looked at it and scolded with a smile: "Gao Xu just has a lot of ideas." ”

If Zhu Gaoxu continues like this, there will definitely be more and more people who are willing to go to the far sea in the future, and there will be no need for the imperial court to go out in the future, and all kinds of overseas situations, information, and specialties will be continuously brought back to Daming.

Zhu Panyan said again: "These places are thousands of miles away from our Ming Dynasty, what's the point of doing these things?" ”

"Of course it doesn't make sense to you?" King Ning said in a deep voice: "If the Ming Dynasty is getting bigger and bigger, far surpassing the dynasties, you see how the history books evaluate Zhu Gaoxu." ”

Isn't he still bullish to fly into the sky, the first emperor of the ages?

At the beginning of December, King Ning went to Lanzhou.

As a result, he was stopped five miles outside the city of Lanzhou, and he took his son Zhu Panyan to find a high place to look forward, only to see the flag in front of him, guns and arrows like a forest, and the dense Ming army, riding a horse is entering the city.

Only then did he remember that it was the eleventh year of Hongxi, and the second wave of Western conscription horses of the imperial court, under the leadership of Qu Neng, was gathering at Jiaxia Pass.

Today, a group of cavalry happened to come to Lanzhou, and King Ning stood on a high place and looked at it, and he was not convinced.

The current Ming army is all wrapped in iron armor, from head to toe, each person rides in pairs, riding one horse, and leading another.

Each rider has a strong bow and four quivers, and at first glance all the riders are ejaculation.

The key teams are also very disciplined, walking silently, arranged in an orderly manner, and look like a group of murderous machines no matter how you look at it.

"Gao Xu is right, my Ming army is the strongest in the world." King Ning was full of praise.

If it weren't for the fact that Shahru was too far away, only 50,000 elite horsemen would be enough to sweep Timur's entire empire.

"Where did the imperial court get so many war horses? Sheng Yong's westward expedition seems to have brought 80,000 horses? Zhu Panyan said strangely.

"The imperial court has large-scale horse farms in Liaodong, Shaanxi, Gansu, and Jeju Island, and now has an annual output of more than 250,000 high-quality war horses, which are inexhaustible." King Ning's face turned red.

It would make him feel truly honored.

In the early part of the original history, the Ming Dynasty relied on trading with various ministries outside the Guan, and now all the ministries outside the Guanxi were conquered by the Ming Dynasty and directly helped the Ming Dynasty raise horses.

The original history Zhu Di also has a cool policy, that is, Ma Zheng.

In the tenth year of Yongle, Zhu Di reformed the horse administration for the Northern Expedition, and included the people of the eight prefectures of Shuntian, Baoding, Hejian, Zhending, Shunde, Guangping, Daming, and Yongping into the scope of feeding and breeding horses, which were called household horses, and then promoted from the north to the south to the whole country.

He first set a horse for fifteen ding, and later changed it to twenty ding, and then to the fourteenth year of Yongle, and changed the northern households to five men to raise a horse, although half of the tax exemption for horse households, it is still very stressful, because Zhu Di requires each family to hand over a horse every year, but the production law of cattle and horses at this time, most of them are two foals in three years, Zhu Di's requirement has violated the law of biology.

The history records that "the civil officials and horses are tired, a horse is at home, fed day and night, to tie their bodies, and they are not allowed to run for food and clothing." “

The requirement for each family to pay a foal a year is very demanding, and if they can't, they have to pay money to offset it. Originally, there were many uncertainties about the birth of the foal, including whether the mare could get pregnant and whether the foal could survive after birth, but Zhu Di didn't care about this, if he couldn't hand it over, he would be severely punished. For this reason, in the Yongle Dynasty, there have been many tragic incidents, many families sold their sons and daughters, and even sold their wives, the purpose was to pay the horse tax to the imperial court.

In the twenty-second year of Yongle, Zhu Di died of illness, Zhu Gaochi officially ascended the throne, and issued an amnesty decree, the most important of which was to abolish Zhu Di's requirement that each family hand over a foal every year.

Even his son Zhu Gaochi knew that this was tyranny, a cool government, and he would abolish it as soon as possible.

Of course, Zhu Di of this world has no chance to engage in this tyranny, and Zhu Gaoxu has established a complete and huge horse farm on Jeju Island and the grassland.

The imperial court has an annual output of more than 250,000 high-quality war horses.

Of course, it is still a little worse than the tyranny of Zhu Di's original history, Zhu Di's horse politics are at the peak, and the country is raising 890,000 horses, which is really awesome, but how many people are bankrupt, and I don't know if they sell their children and daughters.

At this time, King Ning looked at the Ming army in the distance, the high war horses, and his heart was surging, as if he had returned to the moment when he swept the Northern Yuan Dynasty in Daning City.

However, at that time, the Ming army was also short of horses, and he would have thought that if I had so many horses in Daning at that time, it would not be difficult to fight the Northern Yuan.

Just when he was thinking a lot, someone in front of him ran over: "May I ask if it is Governor Zhu of Shazhou?" ”

King Ning was stunned for a moment, and then he reacted, he was calling himself.

He laughed and hurriedly signaled: "It's the governor of Ben-——." "He wanted to call himself king, but he changed his name to governor.

It was a military general, with a bright armor all over his body, and his armor was woven with steel sheets, heroic and close-fitting, and he was very handsome.

The person who came claimed to be Wei Feng, who used to be a commander, and this would be the deputy general of Qu Neng's Chinese army.

"The Duke of Shu is in Lanzhou, and I heard that Governor Zhu is also there, so I asked the last general to invite Governor Zhu's father and son to come over and pick up the wind for the governor at night."

"Haha, the Duke of Shu is too polite, okay." When King Ning heard that Qu could invite their father and son, he was still very happy in his heart.

Wei Feng walked over with him from the side of the Ming army, and the Ming army avoided one after another.

When I entered Lanzhou City, I saw a large number of carriages on the side of the street, there were hundreds of carriages along the way, and the carriages seemed to be very heavy, and later King Ning knew that there were iron materials on them.

Wei Feng said that an iron mine owner in Shanxi, in order to help his son get a seven-grade official, moved his family to Shazhou, brought 200,000 iron materials from Shanxi, found hundreds of carriages, and the entire family of hundreds of people immigrated to Shazhou.

“。。” King Ning was dumbfounded when he heard it, it turned out that what the newspaper said was true?

Zhu Panyan asked strangely: "Why didn't he sell the iron material and bring the money?" ”

Wei Feng said: "The imperial court wants iron in Shazhou. ”

"Doesn't this mean that the court is selling officials?" Zhu Panyan asked.

"Hey, hey." Wei Feng smiled but said nothing.