After Jin Yiwei's trial, Liu Daxia was all teased in a few clicks, and he really hid all the relevant materials of the sea chart.

At that time, he served as the head of the Ministry of War, and when he learned that the first emperor Chenghua intended to return to the West, he took advantage of his power to hide all the materials and hide them in his own home.

This is followed by an impassioned statement to Xiang Zhong, the secretary of the Ministry of War, I have burned all the relevant materials with a fire, if you want to cure the sins of the officials, please do it!

An iron-clad image of a gentleman for the country and the people was born.

Knowing this, Emperor Hongzhi's heart that he had been carrying was finally let go and pardoned Liu Daxia from the edict.

And Liu Daxia is also very good, the first thing he did when he came out of the edict was to submit his resignation on the grounds that he was old and wanted to return to his hometown to spend his old age in peace.

Emperor Hongzhi approved.

The nautical materials hidden in Liu Daxia's house were sent to the palace, and there were several boxes.

After making such a fuss, the hard work accumulated by these countless people, Zhu Youzhu was no longer at ease with the archives handed over to the Ministry of War, so he had to put it in the palace and under his nose to rest assured.

After being summoned, Xia Yuan entered the palace, and he was ordered to get the shipbuilding drawings when he entered the palace this time, after all, the shipbuilding was handed over to the shipyard in the eastern suburbs.

Entering the Qianqing Palace, several large boxes were placed on the ground, each box was wide open, and Emperor Hongzhi was taking out documents from these boxes and looking at them at random.

Seeing Xia Yuan come in, Zhu Youzhu put the document in his hand back into the box, and said with emotion: "I have really gained knowledge, it turns out that this ocean thing is like this"

As he spoke, he noticed that Xia Yuan was still holding a scroll in his hand, and the words in his mouth couldn't help but pause, and he asked instead, "What do you have in your hand?" ”

"Oh, the minister has silver in his hand."

“？”

Zhu Youzhu was stunned, no matter how you look at it, this is a piece of rice paper rolled up and held in his hand, is it a painting, an ancient painting that can be worth a lot of silver?

"Does Your Majesty want to see it?"

As he spoke, Xia Yuan had already unfolded the piece of paper in his hand, and Emperor Hongzhi looked at it, but he frowned, this seems to be a map?

And it should be newly drawn, the ink on it has not dried, and even, he knows that it was drawn by Xia Yuan.

Because he recognized the handwriting on it.

After a closer look, he frowned even more, this map does not draw the geography of the mountains and rivers of the Ming Dynasty, it seems to be another country, because he has never heard of many place names marked on it.

After a while, he withdrew his gaze to look at Xia Yuan, not knowing what kind of medicine this kid was selling in his throat, and asked bluntly, "What does your map have to do with silver?" ”

Xia Yuan's expression was straight, "It has a lot to do with it, it's very related." ”

Seeing his serious look, Emperor Hongzhi smiled, "Okay, then what do you have to do with me?" ”

"Your Majesty, do you see the position of these circles?"

Zhu Youzhu lowered his eyes and snorted, he saw it, and even noticed these at first glance, among which there was a most conspicuous circle, which deepened the ink, and there were two words written on it.

What has to be?

"The place where the circle is drawn is a silver mine."

"Silver mines?"

"Yes, Silver Mine."

When he said this, Xia Yuan raised his eyes and looked at Emperor Hongzhi's face, but was disappointed to find that Emperor Hongzhi's face had not changed at all, as if the word silver mine was nothing in his eyes.

Is this reasonable?

As a poor man, shouldn't he be ecstatic to hear that there is a silver mine?

Of course, if from a personal point of view, Zhu Youzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, is far from being poor, with nearly three million silver deposits lying in his pocket, and when it comes to wealth, he is the best in the world.

But if you consider that these silver have to feed tens of thousands of palace maids and eunuchs, and you have to pay salaries to various pro-army yamen, then you are purely poor.

Emperor Hongzhi sighed and bowed his head, "It turned out to be a silver mine." ”

And then there was no follow-up.

Xia Yuan couldn't fix it, and after holding it for a while, he said dryly: "Your Majesty, this is a silver mine, and a silver mine can mine silver." ”

"I know that silver can be mined in silver mines, but so what?"

So what

And how..

How is it

What.

Xia Yuan was shocked, what was the matter with the Dog Emperor's face that regarded money as dung?

When did you change your style?

Emperor Hongzhi paced around a few boxes, looked down and looked, "Xiao Banban, you find a few people to turn over the shipbuilding drawings and let him take them back to build the shipbuilding." ”

Xia Yuan couldn't bear it anymore, and took a few steps forward, "Your Majesty, this map was specially drawn by the minister, and this map is of great use to the state." ”

Zhu Youzhu moved his gaze over, stared at this map, and said, "If I am not mistaken, this map is not my Ming region, right?" ”

"Your Majesty really sees it, this is indeed not my Ming realm, it is the Wa Kingdom."

"Wakoku"

The name of this country is relatively familiar to Emperor Hongzhi, from the beginning of the founding of the country, the southeastern provinces of the Ming Dynasty have always had serious troubles, and it has only stopped in the past few decades.

"Since it is the map of the Wa Kingdom, then what is the use of you and me talking about this, even if the Wa State has silver mines, can I still go to the Wa State to mine it?"

"Yes, why not, just take a boat across the sea, set off from North Korea, if it goes well, you can reach the country in less than half a month."

"Oh, then the Wa Kingdom is willing to let you mine?"

"Send troops to fight them, and then mine them when they are done."

“.”

Hearing this, Emperor Hongzhi put away the indifference on his face, turned to a straight color, stared at Xia Yuan with a pair of eyes, and after a long time, he asked, "Qing is talking about state affairs with me, not joking?" ”

"The minister didn't laugh, the minister is extremely serious now." As he spoke, Xia Yuan tightened his face and made a solemn expression.

"Do you know, then, how much food it will cost to send troops to attack a country, regardless of success or failure, and for whatever reason, when the war starts?"

"At most, it's only a million taels."

Now it's Emperor Hongzhi's turn to be shocked, what's going on with this kid's face that treats money like dung?

There is too much black money from selling white sugar, so it is floating?

A million taels is not a serious matter?

"Spend a million taels to attack a Japanese country, just for a few silver mines?"

A few silver mines

Xia Yuan was choked by these words, "Your Majesty, this is silver"

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Zhu Youjiao, "Okay, don't talk nonsense anymore, I don't care about your crazy words." When this shipbuilding plan is found, you will quickly get the order out of the palace and build a ship. ”

Although Xia Yuan repeatedly emphasized the silver mine, it seems that this silver mine is wealth, in fact, the silver mine is indeed wealth, because it represents silver.

But in the eyes of Emperor Hongzhi, silver mines are really nothing, because the Ming Dynasty is not without silver mines, and even the imperial court is mining several silver mines in the country every year.

The silver mines of the Ming Dynasty were concentrated in Yunnan, and all the silver mines in the country could be mined every year.

That's a lot.

This is already the most silver mining in all dynasties, you know, even in the Tang Dynasty, every year about the mining of silver ore, the country's silver ore together is only more than 10,000 taels.

The Ming Dynasty has multiplied tenfold, isn't it powerful?

And use millions of taels to attack a country, and then occupy a few silver mines, even if these silver mines are as large as those in the Ming Dynasty, then if you want to return to the capital, you have to wait at least ten years, and after occupying the silver mines, you have to send troops to be stationed there all the time to prevent the silver mines from being recaptured.

I have to pay money and food all the time in the follow-up, which is completely worth the loss.

(End of chapter)