Zhang Jun thought about this question before nodding.

Liu Yifeng is a talent.

It should be said that any traveler with the ability to take action, as long as he can adapt to the era of crossing, adjust his mentality, and integrate into the environment, can become a talent in the eyes of the people of the era he has crossed. Because the part of the people who are not talented will die at the beginning of the crossing.

Liu Yifeng's advantages cultivated by post-industrial education once impressed Song Yingxing, and later moved Zhang Jun. These two people are close to the age of not being confused, and they have both been mixed in officialdom, and they also have rich experience at the grassroots level, so they definitely have the ability to distinguish talents.

In addition, Zhang Jun is a little different from Song Yingxing, he is a soldier, and he is also known as the navy with the most thorns in the Ming Dynasty, and he likes Liu Yifeng's attitude of neither humility nor arrogance when facing him.

Even in later generations where the concept of human rights is relatively popular, those who can face no one without being humble or arrogant are in the minority, not to mention that this concept of human rights is close to non-existent in ancient times.

Some people will think that Liu Yifeng's humility and arrogance are arrogant, some people will think that Liu Yifeng's humility and arrogance are not polite, and some people think that Liu Yifeng's humility and arrogance are splendid.

Song Yingxing thinks that Liu Yifeng is the former and the latter, Wu Sangui thinks that he is the middle, and Zhang Jun thinks that it is simply the latter.

As the youngest military branch of the Ming Dynasty with an average age, coupled with the inherent character of navigators in this era, Liu Yifeng's humility and arrogance in the face of people with a higher status than himself made Zhang Jun really appreciate it.

So he wanted to subdue this kid.

And he has no offspring, he is nearly 20 years older than Liu Yifeng, and he can be his father. Of course, he didn't know that he had such feelings for Liu Yifeng.

Liu Yifeng was a little flattered, but more helpless, so he could only smile bitterly and said: "Lord Zhang, my way to Dongshan Prefecture, counting you, there are already many people who have won over me, including Song Yingxing and Lord Song, if I were willing to take refuge in others, I would have taken refuge in earlier." ”

"Lord Song is also ...... Who are you fooling? ”

"Master Zhang, you can ask the three disciples of Lord Song about this matter."

Now Zhang Jun had to believe it.

But unlike Liu Yifeng's expectation that Zhang Jun's enthusiasm would subside, he was more determined to accept this talent.

"It seems that you have a heart that is not willing to be subordinated to others."

"No, it's just that I have some ideas, if I live under people, then there is really no way to achieve it."

Zhang Jun became interested: "Let's talk about it." ”

"For example, I want to turn Dongshan Prefecture into the Dongshan Metropolitan Protectorate, and then become the Dongshan Metropolitan Protector, open up the sea passage to Europa, and make the Ming Dynasty an empire on which the sun never sets!"

This is the first time Liu Yifeng has said his true thoughts after crossing over.

In the past, he said at most that he wanted to build his own city, but in fact, establishing a city was only the final stage of Liu Yifeng's first step to help the Ming Dynasty conquer the Americas.

He didn't say it before, firstly, because it was not yet time, and no one believed him, and secondly, he was not a high-minded person, and he liked to do things in stages.

On the Nanyang class, he wanted to regain his free body.

In Mt. Akiyama, he was thinking about what to do with the firebolts.

In Jinshan City, he was thinking about how to accumulate the original capital of Jinshan City.

In Jinshan City, he thought about how to find the gold rush point.

In the camp, he found gold, and only then did he begin to think that the next step was to exchange the gold for the support of the Maritime Administration and go to the south to build a city.

Because during this period, he came into contact with the fleet chamber of commerce, and came into contact with the large and small trading houses in Jinshan City, only to find that the preliminary conditions for going to the south to build a city were already there, and at this time he began to take out the deepest ambition buried in his heart to appreciate and ponder alone.

As for why he said it now, the main reason is that Liu Yifeng has just won a tough battle, and he is a little proud and energetic. Then some of my thoughts have been held back for too long and need to be released. In the end, it is to say it and shock Zhang Jun, it doesn't matter if he believes it or not, just enjoy it yourself.

Zhang Jun was indeed shocked, and looked at Liu Yifeng dumbfounded. He could see that Liu Yifeng really thought so, not like those local "geniuses" who like to sit in the Qinglou or teahouse and talk about it.

After a long time, Zhang Jun stepped on Liu Yifeng's rare true feelings, and said with a smile: "You kid, I only want to be a commander and command a fleet, you still want to be the protector of Dongshan Prefecture, and before noon, you start dreaming?" ”

"Do you still have to have a dream, what if it comes true?"

Although Liu Yifeng said this with a hippie smile, Zhang Jun inexplicably felt that there was an indescribable subtle persuasiveness.

He even seriously thought about how to become the Dongshan Protectorate: "In terms of territory, Dongshan Prefecture can definitely become the Metropolitan Protectorate, but the Dongshan Prefecture is not very rich in products, and it is too far away from the mainland, and the most important thing is that there is nothing around except the brown-skinned savages, and trade cannot be carried out, so it is basically impossible to become the Metropolitan Protectorate." ”

Liu Yifeng pursed his lips and couldn't help but refute Zhang Jun's words.

Dongshan Prefecture is indeed far away from the mainland, which is a hard injury, and we can only wait for the upgrade of Daming's shipping capacity.

But Dongshan Prefecture is definitely not rich in products!

In later generations, there was a concept called the Pacific Rim Volcanic Seismic Zone, which is 40,000 kilometers long, in the shape of a horseshoe, starting from the southernmost tip of South America, going north along the Pacific Ocean all the way north to Alaska, crossing the Bering Strait to the easternmost part of Siberia, then passing through Kamchatka to Japan, passing through Taiwan to the Philippines, and finally passing through Papua New Guinea to the east of Australia, all the way to Antarctica.

This is caused by the conflict between the Pacific plate and several continents around it.

But everything has its two sides, although this volcanic seismic belt has continuous natural disasters, but it has a large number of various mineral deposits, so this Pacific Rim seismic volcanic belt is also called: Pacific Rim metallogenic belt.

The eastern section of the Pacific Rim Metallogenic Belt is almost all on land, that is, the Cordillera Mountains across the Americas, and the mineral deposits of the entire mountain system are still being dug even in the era when Liu Yifeng crossed, and the reserves are amazing.

Right now, these people are fighting and killing in this wilderness, and their brains are spelled out, why?

Isn't it for the gold deposits in this Pacific Rim metallogenic belt?

This is just mineral deposits, there are still a large number of natural crops in Dongshan Prefecture that have not been developed, which are the key crops that have allowed human beings to grow in the 300 years of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.

Therefore, Dongshan Prefecture is definitely not short of products, on the contrary, the products of Dongshan Prefecture are enough to support the Chinese civilization from the ancient Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties to re-take a civilization journey to the Ming Dynasty.

As for the inability to carry out trade, Zhang Jun was also trapped in the limitations of the times.

Why did Liu Yifeng choose to build a city in the south?

In addition to the fact that there is a very livable area of Los Angeles in the south, which has been proven to be very livable by later generations, there are also Francois people not too far away!

At present, the relationship between Daming and Francois is not hostile, there was a conflict back then, but Francois is still willing to do business with Daming.

Unlike the period in the official history when the maritime trade was controlled by the Francois and the Dutch, this Ming Dynasty, which was full of martial virtues, relied on the Protectorate of Annam to directly monopolize the eastern end of the Silk Road for maritime trade. If the Franciscans don't do business with the Ming, they will have to rob the Dutch traitors they hate the most.

Liu Yifeng's abacus is very loud, he believes that as long as his city can be built, then sooner or later it will become an important node of trade between the three northern cities and the southern governorate of New Francois (the name of Banya's country is a sensitive word, which means it), and the new Peruvian Viceroyalty.

This is the second step of Liu Yifeng's ambition.