This group of Western pirate leaders who took the first step had a large number of overseas colonies in the eastern and western oceans.

In particular, the newly rising England is competing with the Kingdom of Portugal for ownership in Tianzhu, Luzon and other places.

There is also the Wa State, perhaps because the Celestial Empire has put too much pressure on them, and they actually want to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, lure the English into the customs, cede a piece of land, and trade with it.

In addition, with the opening of the sea in Great Xia, there were many maritime merchants who did business in the Celestial Empire.

The corners of Sheng Yihong's mouth were almost to the root of his ears, and he immediately felt refreshed as he watched the carts of silver move to the silver treasury.

"This Englishman is really rich, and he has raised five million taels of silver in just two days...... But Master Hou, we have negotiated with these Westerners before, and we can be regarded as friends when we open the sea to trade. Isn't that a bit ...... Something immoral? ”

Jia Cong snapped the folding fan in his hand, thrust it into the back of his neck, and prepared to leave with his back hand.

The group of Pixiu in the household department are all the same, and their saliva is about to flow out.

"Isn't it five million taels of silver? It's as if you've never seen the world. The cotton stuff was planted with several Nanzhili, and the slave trade from Africa was endless, and the silver earned was enough to rebuild the Forbidden City with gold. ”

When these words fell on the ears of Sheng Yihong, the head of the treasury, it was like crawling with ants, and he immediately grabbed Jia Cong's arm.

"Don't go, really? This English is so rich? ”

Jia Cong glanced at the English envoy who was handing over to the officials of the household department, and whispered: "I said Master Sheng, no matter what you say, you are also the head of our household department, and you should pay more attention to the news outside." England fought a war with France on the American continent and snatched large swathes of the colonies from France. Xiyi doesn't talk about any holy way benevolence and righteousness, people slaughter the herd and exterminate the clan for the sake of gold and silver......

In fact, England is still far from being as powerful as an empire on which the sun never sets.

But it is undeniable that through the slave trade and the plundering of the colonies, England has amassed enough wealth to make the group of Pixiu of the household department crazy.

Blocks of large gold bricks, egg-sized jewelry, massive gold, silver and jade, and pieces of fertile soil, which one is not what the Celestial Empire wants?

Forehead drops, forehead drops, all forehead drops!

The officials of the Celestial Empire are still too benevolent and righteous, and they don't need to talk about morality with the pirate leaders at all.

Only the army of the Celestial Empire can bring a bright future to this world, at least even if the Celestial Empire engages in the slave trade, it will not stuff people into the cabin and suffocate to death.

Or, like Xiyi, slaughter a people for gold and silver. This kind of thing that hurts the peace of heaven and earth, and the kind people of the Celestial Empire will not do it.

At most, precious pottery, porcelain, linen, and silk were exchanged for ......

That's right, that's it. The people of the Celestial Empire are so kind, pulling boatloads of ceramics to exchange for gold, silver and jade, I think those Indians and blacks will be willing.

Off-track......

"Lord Shan, don't keep staring at the interior of the country, just with our population and today's commercial development, whether it is the gold standard or the silver standard, the existing gold and silver are far from enough. We're going to grab ...... Ahem, going outside and constantly transporting gold and silver back to China can make commerce more prosperous and the dynasty will never be short of money......"

The dynasty began to prepare for the state-owned bank two years ago, but unfortunately, when it was calculated, there were tens of millions of taels of silver in the treasury, but it was still not enough to issue paper money.

That's embarrassing!

In order to save money, the officials of the household department were even more crazy to card the financial expenditures of various ministries and departments, and they almost had to card the emperor's worship silver.

Jia Cong whispered in Sheng Yihong's ear about the black tribes on the African continent, the Indians and Mayan tribes on the American continent, including the gold, silver and jade in their tribes, and the huge profits obtained by Xiyi through burning, killing and looting, constantly instilling the awareness that gold and silver are everywhere overseas and that they can trip over big gold nuggets when they walk.

After Jia Cong's bewitchment, Sheng Yihong's eyes turned red.

He now looked at the English envoy's gaze as if he were looking at a huge gold ingot.

"Master Hou, I think that our Celestial Empire has the need and responsibility to rescue the Indians who are suffering! As the saying goes, the whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister. The Indians should bathe in the kingly and in the grace of His Majesty. ”

Sheng Yihong will turn into a saint, as if he is shining with holy light, compassionate and resolute.

"Africa and America have been an inseparable part of the Celestial Empire since ancient times! Xiyi must return a lot of the territory of our country that he has occupied, and the evidence has been found, and in a few days, he will ask the people of the Hanlin Academy to translate the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", and all the parrots, French, and Spanish will be translated and shown to them......"

Good fellow, the hearts of those who read are really dirty.

Jia Cong nodded with satisfaction and seconded the proposal, which is what it looks like to be an official.

He bowed to Sheng Yihong: "Then please leave this matter to Lord Sheng, remember to find a few more colleagues to give your majesty a lesson, and the fleet and soldiers will help you prepare." ”

In Sheng Yihong's stunned and shocked gaze, Jia Cong swaggered away from the household treasury.

They all blocked the 50,000 horses of Xiyi in the ditch under the snow-capped mountains, and they still talked about morality with people.

Be thick-skinned and ruthless, if you offend anyway, you might as well offend to death.

If you want to pull the ruling class of the entire dynasty into the water, it is absolutely right to use gold and silver as bait.

……

In the past, in order to open the sea, Jia Cong did not talk much about overseas gold and silver.

But whether it is the officials of the Celestial Empire or the common people, most of them are just anecdotes, and at most they talk about it after dinner, and they are not very interested.

But when Jia Cong completely unraveled the huge benefits obtained from the colonial plunder of Xiyi, the DPRK and China immediately changed the direction of the wind.

The mountains of gold and silver are there, and I don't have to take them.

But Ling Xiyi can't snatch it back, it's even worse than killing me!

Therefore, at the court meeting on the first day of August, Sheng Yihong united more than ten officials from the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of War to write to the palace.

It reaffirms the inherent territory of the Celestial Empire since ancient times, and everything that shines on the sun and moon is Han land!

His Majesty's people overseas are being bullied and tortured by the Xiyi, and it is the responsibility of the Celestial Empire to send a large army across the ocean to the Americas and Africa to rescue the people of the Celestial Empire!

Jia Cong almost believed the righteous words of Sheng Yihong and others, and looked at the gang of people he pulled, which one of them was about to drool.

The eyes of the cotton spinning machine of the Ministry of Industry were green when they lacked raw materials, and when they heard that the black people were good at growing cotton, they almost forced the Ministry of Industry Shangshu to personally go on the ship to grab people overseas.

Not to mention the people in the military department, if you don't fight, where will the status and interests of the military department come from?

After Sheng Yihong said that the matter of robbing the silver was a righteous act to save the people of the Celestial Empire, the wind direction of the Great Dynasty suddenly turned to a strange angle.

The officials of the Ministry of Rites, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Six Departments were stunned, and they clearly said that they would make His Royal Highness the Crown Prince agree to suspend the reform of the imperial examination today, so how could it become that they would go to sea to rescue some Indians.

Oh, there was gold in that one.

So what? It's just gold......

What? Gold everywhere? Can you pick up a jewel the size of a pigeon's egg with a casual fall?

"The ministers and ministers seconded He Shen in the matter!"

"Zhou Jun, a member of the Ministry of Rites, seconded it!"

"The minister seconded the proposal!"

"The minister seconded the proposal!"

……

Can you grab ...... Ahem, we are all disciples of saints, and those who read the Analects and the Spring and Autumn Period are the most unbearable to see people suffering.

Xiyi is so brutal and unkind, the Celestial Empire naturally has the responsibility to send troops to rescue the people of Limin.

Besides, Sheng Yihong is right, what is clearly said in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is that the east and west of heaven and earth are 28,000 miles, and the north and south are 26,000 miles......

In addition, the distribution of domestic, overseas and wilderness, including the Americas and Africa, is not excessive.

Originally, he was going to force the prince of the prison state to agree to suspend the reform of the imperial examination today, but as soon as he heard that Xiyi had snatched so much gold and silver from under their noses, the civil and military officials in the Fengtian Palace felt even more uncomfortable than killing them.

Forehead drops, forehead drops, that's all forehead drops!

Jia Cong shook his hands and looked lively, and the prince looked at the palace in a daze, full of righteous indignation, and the hundred officials who wanted to bite Xiyi to death looked at the cabinet scholars with great confusion.

"A few masters, this ......"

Old man Zhou Jiong took leave again today, and it is said that his body is not very comfortable, and he has to recuperate for a few days.

Xia Lingxing, the second assistant who temporarily presided over the affairs of the cabinet, nodded and replied: "Your Highness, the old minister thinks that it is time to start the division of the Americas. ”

In fact, the Celestial Empire had long formulated a complete and detailed strategy for colonizing the Americas, but only a few important ministers and imperial relatives knew about it.

Today, I just took this opportunity to reveal part of the plan, which can be regarded as a test of the court's reaction.

"Partition? What is the sub-seal? ”

It was the first time that those middle-level officials in the hall had heard of it, and after Xia Lingxing briefly introduced what the governor system and the overseas sub-feudal system were, Fengtian Hall completely fried the pot.

"To put it simply, as long as you have the ability to go to the Americas and Africa to occupy a piece of land, the imperial court will not hesitate to seal it, as long as you pay tribute to the imperial court every year!"

Princes and princes, as long as you can respect the Celestial Empire, the principality and the Hou Kingdom are not dreams!

This is the strategy formulated by the center, rather than fighting within the country, it is better to fight.

"What if a merchant lays down a piece of land overseas? Can it be sealed? ”

Someone raised this question, but Xia Lingxing just smiled slightly: "As long as you can fight down and hold it, it is not a problem to seal a governor." ”

What merchants, standing behind them, are all gentry and officials.

This temptation is also expected by the cabinet, the population of the Celestial Empire will only increase, although the Celestial Empire is vast and rich, but one day it will be crowded to the point that the land cannot be fed.

It's better to set the tone now and keep expanding outward.

Go out, the sky is high and the earth is wide!

Of course, if we say that we are allowed to colonize the sea, we only issue a decree.

In addition to the feudal royal family relatives and Wuxun nobles, the rest of the people had to go to sea, raise their own funds, recruit their own personnel, and the imperial court only provided nautical charts, which could be sold to sea ships at a low price.

Just like the original voyage to the West, the first batch of people to go to sea will basically only be outlaws who are not afraid of death.

"Okay, it's been a few years since the sea was opened, and you've all heard more or less about what it's like overseas. There are infinite riches at sea, but also countless dangers. But now is a world of great disputes, I don't fight, only cheap Xiyi. Therefore, the cabinet proposed to order Youji to form an army of no less than 50,000 people, cross the sea to the east, and colonize ...... Go to the Americas to rescue the suffering people of the Celestial Empire! ”

It doesn't matter what he thinks inside, anyway, the prince expressed his meaning in righteous words.

The Indians of the Americas are the people of the Celestial Empire since ancient times, and they must be saved from fire and water.

The Governor's Mansion and the Ministry of War began to discuss, and selected a part of the elite soldiers from the forbidden army, and at the same time posted a list to seek talents, and recruited young people from the people.

After Jia Cong handled a few official duties in Taifu Temple, he left the imperial city leisurely and prepared to return to Rongguo Mansion.

I didn't want to be surrounded by a group of people before I even boarded the carriage.

"It can be regarded as waiting for the Hou Ye, the heads of the families of the Beijing Chamber of Commerce such as the old man, prepare a little thin wine in Penglai Pavilion, and invite the Hou Ye to go to a talk."

The news spread really fast!

Jia Cong smiled and nodded at the heads of the Beijing Chamber of Commerce.

Penglai Pavilion was originally the base camp of the Beijing Chamber of Commerce, Cao Desheng, as the president of the Chamber of Commerce, and Li Daozheng, the head of the Li family who was backed by the Tu family, and Zhang Zhiwei, the brother of Zhang Siwei, the political envoy of Sichuan, sat together, and looked at Jia Cong expectantly.

"Looks like you've received the message......

Jia Cong didn't hide it, behind this group of people basically stood the emperor's relatives and relatives, and they had long known about the division of overseas.

The division of the main family is doomed, but these vassal families actually have their own careful thoughts.

Now that the dynasty has set an example of allowing them to go to sea on their own, even if they can't divide the overseas like the lord's family, it's not bad to go overseas to fish for gold.

It would be great if he really landed a piece of land overseas like those Xiyi and made a viscount, a baron, a governor, or something.

Of course, Jia Cong can guess the thoughts of these people, such as Cao Desheng, he is the concubine of the Queen Mother's family, and the Cao family has no share in the matter of being feudal, but he also has the expectation of being knighted.

"Master Hou, Lao Yu and a few other friends want to order ten big ships in the Ministry of Industry, and ask Master Hou to pull the strings......"

As he spoke, Cao Desheng clapped his hands, and two strong men walked into the private room with a large wooden box, and opened the box with a clang.

Ah, it's glaring!

The box was full of gold, silver and jewelry, and Jia Cong raised his hand to cover his eyes.

"What does the Cao family mean? With the friendship between us, why bother with this? ”

Jia Cong's face was displeased, as if Cao Desheng's move had tarnished the pure friendship between them.

But Cao Desheng still insisted, and asked people to put the wooden box on the lid and put it next to Jia Shiyi.

"Master Hou, friendship is friendship, if you don't accept this box, we won't have the face to let Master Hou be this person. I waited until I was well-informed and close to the center, so I invited Master Hou first. I am afraid that the orders of the Ministry of Industry are going to rise sharply, and with you as this person, we can rest assured. ”

Cao Desheng is an old man, and he knows that the Ministry of Industry is Jia Cong's self-reserved land, and it is not the shipyards of the Ministry of Industry.

At this time, whoever has a fast hand can occupy the greatest advantage.

If you want the Ministry of Industry to take over their order, you have to have Jia Cong talk about it.

is his master Cao's family, and he is not a good envoy in the Ministry of Industry.

Jia Cong nodded "reluctantly" and accepted the silver, and glanced at the wealthy businessmen and giants present.

"You all know Ben Hou, for the sake of our friendship over the years, Ben Hou will give you a thorough ......"

Everyone instantly cheered up, only to see Jia Cong Zhengse said: "Australia is set by my family for the prince in the palace, and Tianzhu is the Ji Palace...... To the east, in the Americas, England and France are about to hit the dog's head, and it is not suitable for you to go for the time being. Go to Africa, the southernmost tip of Africa is known as the Golden Horn......"

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Yesterday, there was a chapter written about colonization that was sealed.,Can't release it.,Today's re-writing of a chapter.,It should be able to pick up the previous plot.。

I'll change it tomorrow and see if I can release it......

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