Chapter 247: The Emperor's Wife Becomes a Concubine
For everything that Zhao Hengyi depicted, Tang Ji felt that it was whimsical.
In such a barren place as the Wa Kingdom, there can be no gold and silver mines at all, and even if there is, it must be a touching output, and it cannot be called rich in any case!
As for joining forces with the Japanese to exterminate pirates, don't even think about it.
The Wa Kingdom is different from our Dayan Kingdom, their government is even more chaotic, I heard that even their emperor can only live in Gyeonggi now, and all the major national affairs are controlled by Dong Zhuo and Wang Mang, if you want to join forces with the Wa State to exterminate pirates, there must be someone who can unite with you, right?
It's just that Zhao Hengyi's attitude is very resolute, as if he has decided not to make trouble in the last game, and if he doesn't poke a hole in this day, he will not be reconciled!
In the end, Tang Ji had to express his willingness to provide a guide for Zhao Hengyi to go to the Wa Kingdom, and even if necessary, the people left behind by the Tang family in the Wa State Harbor could also help Zhao Hengyi match.
As for whether things can be done in the end, Don Ji has no hope.
Anyway, it's the kind of attitude that has given up on saving, if Lord Zhao wants to make trouble, let him make trouble, after all, if it's a waste of time and money, it's just a waste of money.
With the combat effectiveness of the Qiongzhou regiment, Tang Ji believed that as long as he did not encounter wind and waves at sea, he would be able to return safely after all.
As for the affairs in the court, the southeast coast, and the things on the sea, the boss of the court doesn't care much, as long as he hands over the silver that the court deserves, it is estimated that no one will care whether Zhao Hengyi has made trouble in the Wa Kingdom.
Even if someone wants to use this kind of thing to be unfavorable to Zhao Hengyi in the court, but when he thinks of the background of this guy Concubine Chen, Tang Ji also feels that it is not a big deal.
As soon as his thinking changed, Tang Ji suddenly felt that there was nothing to be afraid of, wasn't it just to accompany Lord Zhao to mess around, and there was no need to invest anything, Lord Zhao just felt happy, after all, this master was still the teacher of the fourth young master!
Zhao Hengyi originally didn't plan for Tang Ji to fully support him, not to mention that the rich gold and silver of the Japanese Kingdom was still tightly hidden by the Japanese people in this era, just say that those pirates and Japanese robbers, I'm afraid no one thinks that they can be wiped out!
Even, Zhao Hengyi can imagine that in Tang Ji's eyes, everything he said is probably a fool's dream.
After all, according to the perception of ordinary people, even if the combat effectiveness of Qiongzhou's regimental training is very strong, it is far from being able to destroy a country, and this kind of sky-heavy business has nothing to do with it!
Zhao Hengyi was noncommittal about this, after all, when a thermal weapon appears in this world, it will inevitably subvert the world's cognition, and in this subversion process, someone must act as the object to show the world the power of this weapon!
The Qiongzhou regiment is full of 4,000 people, all of whom are already familiar with the operation and use of the new firecracker, and even in the strict discipline formulated by Zhao Hengyi, the daily maintenance and simple repair of the firecracker are the content of daily subjects.
After Zhang Daniu and Wu Ren tinkered with the most primitive machine tools, the machining accuracy and production efficiency of the smelting workshop have undergone earth-shaking changes.
Many machines that were urgently needed by the basic industries that they had never dared to think of before were made by these two guys through various means and unbelievable imagination!
At present, what restricts the manufacturing efficiency of the customized gun gun is not the gun tube with the highest manufacturing difficulty and the strongest demand for accuracy, but the grinding of parts and the quantity of raw materials!
In this regard, Zhao Hengyi has gone all out to lean towards the smelting workshop, and a large number of people with certain blacksmith experience have been hired, urging Hengtong Firm to send out letters of high-quality iron ore and tungsten ore every other day!
With the resources that Zhao Hengyi currently has at his disposal, once he fully supports the production of the smelting workshop, the seemingly inconspicuous blacksmith shop will burst out with huge potential!
Even in Zhao Hengyi's plan, the first batch of the A-shaped battalion and the B-shaped battalion to go to the Wa Kingdom will have a full strength of 2,000 people, and the distribution of projectiles will be enough to support five to six high-intensity battles!
As for the large-scale killing weapons such as the flying thunder cannon, there are as many as there are, and as for the troops that will continue to be deployed in the future, the firearms and flying thunder cannons that need to be used can only be pinned on the efficiency of the smelting workshop.
People's thinking will change, Zhao Hengyi changed from the original defensive thinking to offensive thinking, and even chose to take the initiative to attack, just because of Wei Linglan's arrival.
Wei Linglan is now nearly five months pregnant, and Miao Xiaoyu is also willing to accept her and her unborn child, in such a situation, as a man, if Zhao Hengyi doesn't do something, he really can't say anything.
No matter what others think, whether they think that Zhao Hengyi is machismo, or whether they impose responsibility on themselves, they can't be changed, Zhao Hengyi wants to give Wei Linglan and the unborn child a name!
Wei Linglan's identity is too special, and if she wants to marry her, even if she is given the status of a flat wife, it must be difficult.
The difficulty of marrying Wei Linglan does not lie in marrying her, after all, with the degree of favor of Lu Guogong for his young daughter, and the current atmosphere of Dayan Kingdom, it is extremely common for a widow to remarry.
The difficulty is that with Zhao Hengyi's current identity as a man in Cangwu County, if he wants to marry Wei Linglan, the lord of Xiangcheng County, and wants to marry the little aunt of the current saint, he must first divorce his wife in the family, that is, Miao Xiaoyu...... Or transform Miao Xiaoyu's identity into a concubine, so that it is possible to marry Wei Linglan into the door!
Such a thing, not to mention that Zhao Hengyi can't do it, I'm afraid that even if he can do it, Wei Linglan will not be willing to enter the door of the Zhao family in such a way!
Things seem to have reached a dead end all of a sudden, but it doesn't matter, Zhao Hengyi has figured out a way these days.
Today's Great Yan Kingdom has shown chaos, and it is not an exaggeration to say that troubled times are coming.
There are many reasons why this decaying court can continue to hold on instead of collapsing with a bang, the most important of which is the abundance of wealth provided by maritime trade!
Even from Zhao Hengyi's point of view, the Great Yan Kingdom has long been difficult to return, and it has been spending money to buy peace for nearly a hundred years.
As long as he gets stuck in the throat of maritime trade, so that all merchants who come and go to the sea need to look at their faces, then even the imperial court will probably have to find a way to please themselves!
This is not Zhao Hengyi's whim, but after his consideration, he thinks that the most operational solution.
Ocean trade is indeed the most profitable, but there is one rule, the cycle is too long and the risk is too high, and the maritime merchants of the Great Yan Kingdom will basically choose to send their goods to a few specific large trading centers, where they will be sold to merchants in other countries in exchange for special products from overseas countries.
This trade model was extremely secure, and it was already a good choice before the arrival of the real Age of Discovery.
And Zhao Hengyi's plan is to reformulate the rules of the entire southeast coast with absolute strength on the grounds of exterminating pirates!
To put it bluntly, what he wants to do is to respect himself!
This matter really made him do it, not to mention marrying a Xiangcheng county lord to enter the door as a flat wife, even if you want to let the mother of today's official family be a concubine, it is not impossible to discuss with the princes in the court!