When the brothers in distress found that the benefactor's master's eyes fell on them, both of them couldn't help but feel at a loss, and the river wrapped the short brown on their bodies even tighter.

"Master, these two are two of them we rescued from the mountain, this younger one is called Jiang Shui, and the other is called Tanaka, their ancestral home is in Minnan." Lan Jian noticed the nervousness of the two and helped to introduce it.

Li Jingfu bowed his head, retracted his gaze and gave the maid a seat and asked the maid to serve tea, and when a few people sat down, he said to Lan Jian: "I have worked hard for you this time." ”

"The subordinates dare not speak hard, these are the things of the subordinates." Saying that, Lan Jian looked at the brothers in distress: "In fact, what is really suffering is that they are Dayu laborers, who do the heaviest work, but their lives are as cheap as grass mustard, and even filling their stomachs and sleeping for a few hours has become a luxury." ”

Xia Jing asked the brothers in distress some basic information, and asked them to go back to recuperate first, as for returning home with the fleet, it was easy to say that it was simple, and it was difficult to say that it was difficult.

When the fleet returns, in fact, the cabin must be filled with all kinds of supplies, but for the sake of these laborers, some places must be vacated for them.

Speaking of supplies, after the distressed brothers left with the maid, Xia Jing said to Lan Jian: "It's April now, and this time we have to go back before the hurricane season in July and August.

I have already told Li Dingguo about this, and here I would like to remind you again what materials to collect and prepare as much as possible. ”

Lan Jian listened to her words and was slightly stunned, "Niangniang, go back so soon?" ”

"Do you think it's fast?" Xia Jing chuckled: "Actually, it's not fast, this time I came out with Dayu's newly built navy to give them the opportunity to practice, whether it is a battle or a sea voyage, and team cooperation requires their tacit cooperation." ”

Lan Jian was slightly surprised, he thought that this time he would go farther away, but he didn't want to just go to Nanyang.

Seeing Lan Jian's expression, Xia Jing and Li Jingfu glanced at each other and smiled lightly.

"Since Niangniang has informed me of the date of the return trip, my subordinates will arrange for the people on our ship to collect the goods that are going to be transported back first, and will never delay the return time."

"Well, you look at the arrangement of this matter yourself, your Lan family has been doing maritime trade for many years, and you must be clear about which goods to enter."

After explaining some things to Lan Jian, let him go back first.

Li Jingfu raised his eyebrows: "Are you taking a fancy to this land?" ”

Xia Jing listened to his words and looked at him in surprise: "Why did you say this?" ”

Li Jingfu glanced at the door, where there was no longer a figure, and said, "Don't talk about Lan Jian, at first I thought that you would continue to explore farther seas. And now you're saying you're going to rush back before the hurricane season in June and July. ”

"What's wrong with that?" Xia Jing asked with a quiet smile.

"Big problem! According to my understanding of you, you wouldn't have organized a fleet to run this trip for the sake of this little benefit. "Li Jingfu has a look that I have seen through you a long time ago, and I want to see something from Xia Jing's face, so as to support my conjecture.

But Xia Jing's face was flat and he couldn't see anything, but he still continued: "Since we have come to Nanyang with great difficulty, will you easily return without getting much benefit?" ”

Xia Jing laughed when she heard it: "Who said that we didn't get benefits, the three colonies in the Strait of Malacca are now ours, this is the benefit!" ”

But he didn't want to, Li Jingfu heard this and shook his finger: "No, no, no, this little benefit can't move you, tell me quickly, what are your plans next?" ”

Xia Jing glanced at him: "Set off and sail back in two months!" ”

"What are your plans for the two months before you set off for the return voyage?"

Xia Jing found that Li Jingfu really wanted to know, so she leaned back and sighed: "You lean back." ”

Li Jingfu leaned back obediently, and asked inexplicably: "This is a very ordinary chair, it is very comfortable to lean on it, what do you want to say?" ”

"The reason why this chair is comfortable is because it is made by our Dayu craftsmen, and the reason why you are not surprised is because such chairs are very common in Dayu. In this land, such chairs are a rarity, reserved for privilege or wealthy.

You said that this more livable land, the future will be inhabited by Dayu people, like this chair ordinary people can also see, what do you think of my thoughts? Xia Jing didn't answer the rhetorical question.

Li Jingfu's eyes turned, looked at her seriously, and commented seriously: "Your idea is crazy!" ”

"Haha." Xia Jing listened to his evaluation and couldn't help laughing.

"However, it is possible to achieve it, what do you want to do?" Li Jingfu asked.

Let this land live in Dayu people, the idea is crazy, but Li Jingfu likes it, as long as the emperor is not a king who eats and waits for death, he wants to expand the territory.

Now it is not impossible to turn this piece of land into the territory of Dayu.

Xia Jing stretched out her hand and dipped a little tea, drew a narrow figure on the table, and said: "Now the land under our feet is like this, there are oceans on both sides, only the ends are connected to the mainland, the terrain is a peninsula, if we want to capture this land, we just need to lead the army to advance all the way."

And the land captured by the army, we can settle the people of Dayu who came with the boat, if our people of Dayu take root in this land, do you say that this land is not Dayu's? ”

"Although the people are recruited, they also live in hardship in Dayu, but Dayu is their ancestral home after all, and there is no place to settle down overseas, who would want to stay in this unfamiliar Nanyang?" Li Jingfu raised his own questions.

"Where to live is not life, as long as the living conditions can be improved, I believe that many people are willing to leave their ancestral homeland." Xia Jing thought for a while and said: "In order to keep these Dayu people, we can allocate some land to them according to the population, so that they can have a place to live." ”

Li Jingfu felt that her words made sense, but he still asked the most realistic question in front of him: "According to what you said, who do we send to manage this land?" You have to understand that this is Nanyang, and if you let the courtiers manage it, it will be equivalent to us supporting him as the king of this place. ”

After all, they returned to Dayu, and this land is still up to the manager, and the highest manager is equivalent to the local king, so it is very easy to breed the ambition of the courtiers.

"You're right, it's unrealistic to let generals or civil servants manage overseas colonies, there are many drawbacks, and it's easy to breed ambition." Xia Jing said and pointed outside, "This time with us, there is not a ready-made manager, whether it is identity or other comprehensive scores, he is the most suitable to take on this burden." ”

Li Jingfu was slightly stunned, and it took a while to realize who she was talking about, "Do you want Xiao Si to manage this land?" ”

Xia Jing bowed: "He is the most suitable person to manage this land, he can use this as a base to slowly erode to the periphery, as far as I know, there is a land larger than this one on the other side of the Strait of Malacca." ”

When Li Jingfu heard this, he finally reacted, he squinted at Xia Jing slightly, "Do you want to seal the old four points here?" ”

Xia Jing did not shy away at all, nodded and admitted: "Yes, the world is so big, why should everyone be confined to one place, if their brothers all stay in Dayu, in the case of the throne being inherited by Xiao Wu, they will probably do nothing for the rest of their lives." Rather than staying in Dayu to live a chaotic life, it is better to go overseas a little earlier to lay down a piece of the world. ”

Li Jingfu took a sip of tea cup to suppress his shock, thinking about the possibility of separating his sons overseas and becoming emperors.

It's just that before he could come up with a reason, he heard Xia Jing continue: "Of course, several sons are divided overseas, they are always the vassal states of Dayu, if there is a conflict between interests and Dayu, it is still possible to put the interests of Dayu first, and all the decrees of the vassal states are implemented according to Dayu's decrees." ”

Li Jingfu frowned slightly: "A few years later, are you sure that future generations will still be so obedient?" ”

Xia Jing looked at Li Jingfu: "The world is unpredictable, no one can guarantee that future generations will obey your and my will, if that day really comes, at least the rulers of these regions are your descendants and my descendants, and they are the royal family surnamed Dayu Li, just this is enough, you say yes?" ”

He uses a unified script, has a unified official language, and what's more, they are bleeding the blood of the descendants of Dayu Yan and Huang.

After the emperor and queen talked, all the troops of the fleet landed, advancing all the way from the land, and in the face of the firearms of the Dayu army, the timid natives basically did not resist much.

When Li Chengyi learned that his father and queen mother intended to divide him overseas, and this land would be his fiefdom, for a while, his feelings were complicated beyond words.

No wonder this time to go to sea, the other brothers did not choose, but chose him to follow him to the sea.

No wonder before going to sea, the queen mother recruited so many people who couldn't survive in Dayu and asked them to come overseas to dig gold together.

Now that I know the news, all this makes sense.

This emotion is the reluctance of Dayu's familiar land.

However, thinking that in Dayu, when his brother sits on the throne, he can only walk around the streets or visit the Qinglou in the capital every day, so as not to attract the suspicion of the courtiers and the jealousy of the emperor.

And overseas he is much freer, the highest local power holder, does not need to look at people's faces to act, only me! Think about it, my heart is much brighter.

Thinking about all this, Li Chengyi smiled bitterly, shouldn't he thank his mother, thank her for being far-sighted and thinking about everything for him before going to sea?

Li Chengyi was not needed to fight on the front line, and Xia Jing asked him to lead his private soldiers to manage the post-war area.

When Li Chengyi took over this rear, the first thing that came to mind was that there were three important ports and three colonies on this land, and the first thing that should be established was the City Shipping Division, the Strait of Malacca is known as the crossroads of the sea, and there are countless caravans passing by or docking every year, and only the first city shipping department can collect relevant fees from the fleets passing by.

Otherwise, when he first arrived in this Malay Peninsula, how would he have the money to arrange the next work?

After capturing this land, the aborigines were cleaned up by the army, and Li Jingfu gave Li Chengyi a ban.

That is, the Malay Peninsula was divided into his fiefdoms, and his fiefdoms were limited to the Malay Peninsula, at least Annam and Dongwu, and he was not allowed to touch half of it.

"Father, then you are framing me in a frame, how will my vassal kingdom develop?" When Li Chengyi heard this ban, he was so angry that he inevitably became a little impulsive.

"You can't move Annam Dongwu, but you can develop other places, such as the land across the Strait of Malacca, as long as you have the ability to occupy it all, I have no opinion."

Speaking of this, Li Jingfu remembered Xia Jing's instructions again, "Oh, I remembered, I almost forgot about this, the Malay Peninsula belongs to your fiefdom, but Temasek belongs to the imperial court, which can be regarded as another transit point for the imperial court in Nanyang." ”

At this time, Lee Seung-ik did not know the geographical importance of Temasek, and he agreed to the imperial court's desire to have a transit point in the Malay Peninsula, which was reasonable.

He didn't know that Temasek's tax revenue was equal to that of the two ports of Malacca and Penang combined.

Speaking of the tax of sea trade, Xia Jing remembered that thirty years before Huiyuan, Dayu collected two kinds of commercial taxes, one was a vassal state, and the other was a merchant.

The former is subject to a 50% tax, while the latter is subject to a 20% tax.

Of course, the benefits of maritime trade are simply windfall profits, and even if the imperial court collects such heavy taxes, their maritime trade is still a windfall profit.

Later, Emperor Huiyuan issued an edict in order to implement the Huairou policy on the vassal states, canceling the taxes of the vassal states, and all the vassal states of Dayu were exempted from their taxes.

As a result of this decision, the imperial court did not know how much tax revenue was lost every year, and how much silver was lost in the treasury.

"This time we will go back to rebuild the city and slowly recover the tariffs that have been discarded by maritime trade over the years."

Li Jingfu listened to her words, thought of the embarrassment of the treasury during his reign, nodded and did not object.

Time passed quickly, and by the beginning of June, the imperial fleet had to set sail.

On this return voyage, due to the influence of the monsoon, the speed of the fleet can be said to be nearly twice as fast as when it came.

When I returned to Dayu Lingnan Port, it was already the beginning of July, and the trip was shortened by more than ten days.

Back in Lingnan, Xia Jing and Li Jingfu were not in a hurry to return to the capital, but after inspecting their own industries in Lingnan, they sent several wills.

50,000 soldiers and horses from Bingzhou and 50,000 from Jiliao, a total of 100,000 soldiers and horses rushed to Lingnan.

Sima Lu, the governor of Lingnan, transferred 100,000 troops, plus 80,000 soldiers and horses from his own fleet (there were originally 100,000 soldiers and horses, leaving 20,000 in the Malay Peninsula), and the total number of soldiers and horses on the four routes was 280,000.

With Sima Lu as the overseer, he launched a general attack on Annam in November of the first year of the new emperor.

Annam's population was small, and their natural barrier was probably the tropical forests that blocked the footsteps of the imperial court's soldiers and horses.

However, the Annan army likes to come to the border from time to time to harass it, which makes Shi Mingbi, the chief soldier of Siling, very annoyed, and it is not good to privately order to invade Annan without getting the will of the imperial court, if it causes a border war between the two countries, then he is a sinner.

Suddenly, one day, he received a military order from the imperial court to prepare to use troops against Annan, and Shi Mingbi almost jumped up happily with the will.

"It's finally time for this day!"

(End of chapter)