Zhu Su's persuasion of Li Jinglong to go on the expedition soon alarmed the Cao State Mansion. Li Wenzhong, who was already desperate for this sister-in-law, wished that his son Jackie Chan was resurrected, and almost escorted Li Jinglong to Zhu Su's Zhou Mansion to thank him. Even Li Zhen took a sedan chair to thank Zhu Su, and went to the palace to find Lao Zhu and Queen Ma to thank them, thanking them for bringing Li Jinglong, the unsuccessful grandson.

Who is Li Zhen? Among today's royal relatives, only he and Lao Zhu are equals, and Li Zhen is simple and virtuous, so even Lao Zhu respects this brother-in-law who was hard to find. With him coming forward, Li Jinglong's going with Zhu Su is basically a certainty.

Li Jinglong himself actually moved his mind and wanted to test whether he could make a difference in the maritime industry. Therefore, since he had already boarded Zhu Su's thief ship, he also worked hard for Zhu Su to send him. He had worked in Daming Qianzhuang for a long time, and he was good at communicating, and he was already familiar with most of the wealthy merchants and landlords everywhere, so Zhu Su arranged for him to be responsible for attracting investment and restoring the Maritime Silk Road, while he went to Zhang Luo for the rest of the affairs.

Flickering, coughing cough, when convincing Li Jinglong, Zhu Su himself also remembered a major event: although the Ming Dynasty is now vigorously building shipyards to develop guns, although the weapons have improved, they have forgotten to train suitable admirals. Now when it comes to maritime affairs, Zhu Su can only think of Zhang He and a few other people, and the martial arts department in Guozijian only has army-related coursework, but only the navy is missing.

Although for the Ming Dynasty now, the sea is still just a virgin land for them to roam, but in another hundred years, the vigorous era of exploration will begin. It doesn't even take a hundred years for the West to build a clipper ship that crosses the ocean to China, and it is still unknown who will have the upper hand in China if it is really a competition for sea power and naval generals.

However, even if you want to train naval generals, there is a lack of relevant theories and accumulation. Zhu Su could only keep this thought in his heart, and wait for the Ming Dynasty to accumulate enough maritime experience in the future before opening relevant education. But now, at this time, there is also a way to quickly accumulate Daming's maritime experience. The so-called practice can produce true knowledge, in the past, when Lao Zhu led the Huaixi nobles to fight the world, few people really knew how to lead the troops to fight, and they didn't go to the battlefield head-on, and they would fight and fight.

Since there is no accumulation of naval theory now, if you take a few people to go to the sea for a walk, maybe someone will be able to sum up any lessons and experiences.

So Zhu Su began to lobby many nobles in Beijing, persuading them to participate in the operation to go to sea, and also persuading them to send their children on board the ship to seek common causes. In order to fool more people, Zhu Su talked about the future situation in the world, predicting that the future achievements would definitely come from the sea, and if he did not have access to the sea, he would definitely fall behind. Besides, even the little grandfather of the Cao Guo Mansion has followed us on the boat, the Cao Guo Mansion and the Heavenly Family are real relatives, if this king's ship is really a thief ship, can he still pull his own family to harm him?

Originally, the nobles felt that Central Asia and the West were too far away, and the fame should be taken immediately, and they should urge their children to learn bow and horse kung fu well, so as to wait for the imperial court to conquer Annam and Tianzhu in the future. But being fooled around by Zhu Su like this, quite a few people were fooled and lame. In particular, Zhu Su's guy is still quite "miraculous" in the court, and it is very likely that he has obtained some master's inheritance, not to mention that the map of Kunyu Wanguo is even more wonderful. Obviously, for thousands of years, no one can be sure that there is a "new continent" Fengmingzhou in the east, and this prince swears that he can still draw that place on the map in great detail.

Even the gold mine in Jinshanbao in Fengmingzhou, and even the name of the crop, the yield per mu, and the utility, can be predicted, just like the one that was calculated earlier.

Such an "unpredictable prophet" said that the future fame is on the sea, and those noble families really dare not believe it. Some nobles not only took out their family wealth to support the fleet's westward expedition, but also sent their own children to follow Zhu Su to the sea to see the world first.

Whether these noble sons are on paper or not, most of them are also familiar with some martial arts, and they can barely be used. There are also those prisoners who have been in charge from the six departments, and Zhu Su's civil and military team that went to sea this time can be regarded as quite luxurious.

Although Li Jinglong pulls his hips in military affairs, he really has some abilities that ordinary people can't do in business communication. With the help of his contacts in the money village in the past, he soon gathered many businessmen who were willing to contribute troops to the army and were interested in doing business in the South and the West. Under the guidance of Li Jinglong, Zhu Su also took the time to meet with these merchants who were willing to go to the sea, and promised that the Ming Dynasty would allow them to set up concessions on the Nanyang Islands in the name of the Ming Dynasty for them to build ports, and all the profits from the completed ports could be collected by the merchants themselves within 30 years.

Thirty years later, the imperial court took back the ownership and taxing rights of the port concession, but the merchants who participated in the construction of the port could still enjoy permanent tax incentives in the port.

This is the method of bidding for investment by the government in later generations, but at this time, it is the first time it has been announced. A group of businessmen couldn't help but marvel at the fact that His Royal Highness the King of Zhou really could do business, which was tantamount to empty mouth and white teeth, and directly harvested many ports on the Silk Road that had been repaired for the imperial court.

Although they complained, they could not refuse. How much can it cost to build a port? Everyone knows that as soon as the Maritime Silk Road is opened, the many ports of the Nanyang Islands will be an inexhaustible cornucopia. Even if you can only hold this cornucopia for thirty years, it will be enough to earn ten lifetimes of inexhaustible silver.

Moreover, they also had to cooperate with the imperial court. If there is no imperial court to set up a concession, without the prestige and deterrence of the imperial court, and the merchants go overseas to build ports with their own money, how will the chieftains of the Nanyang countries pay attention to you? If you don't eat it and wipe it clean directly, it will be considered benevolent and righteous!

In the name of the imperial court, those chieftains resolutely did not dare to act rashly. Even if one or two people dare to mess around, it will fall into the hands of the imperial court: Isn't this the handle of the knife stuffed into the hands of our Daming, begging our Daming to directly take their entire territory into their pockets?

The interests are in front of them, and the businessmen have nothing to disallow them. What's more, this time, the imperial court's fleet went to Persia to rescue, and it was able to take everyone on the sea for a while...... The Ming Dynasty's merchant freight to the west is ten times more profitable, even if it only goes to Persia, it can make a lot of money.

It's almost a crouching business that can pick up money, and even if it is necessary to balance out a part of the profits to feed the army, the merchants still flock to it. Soon the military supplies for the expedition were all saved, and there was even a surplus. The imperial court also issued an order to summon 15,000 military households of the Jiangnan Guard Station to accompany the expedition, and everything was ready, just wait for the arrival of the wind and the sail.

(End of chapter)