The ancestor of the Qianguo Mansion is really surnamed Zhu, although he is a righteous son, although he later changed back to his original surname, but Mu Ying was adopted by Zhu Yuanzhang when he was eight years old, and it was not for Mu Ying to decide to change back to the surname Mu, he could only do this. Because his father Zhu Yuanzhang seized the world and became the emperor.

has become the emperor, the rules in this family are big, if Zhu Yuanzhang doesn't win the world, and there are no such big rules in the family, there is no need for Mu Ying to change back to her original surname.

The status of the Duke of Qianguo in the Ming Dynasty is very special, between the martial arts, under the clan, there is both the dignity of the martial arts, and there is no ban of the clan, the Duke of Qianguo is loyal to the monarch and the country, and the body of the court is excited, guarding the southwest for two hundred years, and he is loyal, because the ancestor is really surnamed Zhu.

Why was Yin Zhengmao so honored by the emperor?

Now Yin Zhengmao has been given the national surname, which is considered a clan and a martial artist.

The last time Yin Zhengmao returned to Beijing to report on his work, the officials and soldiers on the ground in Luzon unanimously agreed that Yin Zhengmao must be the illegitimate son of the Ming royal family.

Now that the Ming Emperor is so gracious, in order to explain this phenomenon, this speculation in everyone's hearts has become a little firmer.

"The surname of the country, Your Majesty asked the surname of the country to collect the payment by force, does the surname of the country have any ideas for this matter?" Li Yougong asked with a little curiosity, this matter is very difficult to do, these red-haired pans are deeply rooted in these plantations, the roots are deep, and the military strength of the Daming Water Division is always strong, but this is a way that the strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, and these head snakes are not so easy to deal with.

"Divide and dissolve, break each one, instigate rewards and punishments, and leave the gap." Yin Zhengmao leaned forward, stretched his hand forward slightly, and grabbed it hard, indicating that it was all in his control, from Yin Zhengmao to Luzon, he found that the Ming Emperor coveted the plantations in the South Seas, not a day or two, but has been hungry for five years.

Yin Zhengmao has also been thinking about what to do.

Li Yougong pondered for a moment and asked, "Sow discord?" ”

"Pouting inside and out." Yin Zhengmao chose to answer positively.

Yin Zhengmao, who left the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, no longer has to generally abide by his high morality, but chooses the most cost-effective and long-term peace and stability of the play, not to let the Ming Dynasty in the process of collecting payments, become the appearance of the invader, but to play the role of the savior, when they hit the head and bleed, and then a little shot, you can achieve the effect of four or two thousand catties.

"The surname of the country is that he deserves to be a scholar." Li Yougong picked up his wine glass.

"It's just picking people's teeth." Yin Zhengmao and Li Yougong touched a cup, he said that picking up people's teeth and wisdom, it is not nonsense, he explained: "In the first year of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Dou Xian defeated the Northern Xiongnu, driving more than 3,000 miles. ”

The trick of sowing discord is played by the ancestors, and it is not an uncommon tool.

Full of wine and food, Yin Zhengmao arranged for Li Yougong and other angels to stay in the governor's palace.

Picking inside and out, intensifying the contradictions between the Taixi Hongmao colonists and the local natives, and then appearing as a savior to save the common people from fire and water, these tasks must be completed by the water flyers, and there are also preparations for war, such as the five-masted transoceanic ship, three-masted plywood ship, and battle-mounted ship deployed by His Majesty in Luzon are still on the way.

The preparations also included locking the entire Mindanao in a high wall, so that they could not interfere with the process of the Ming Dynasty's military collection of goods, the emperor was salivating, Yin Zhengmao was preparing for a long time, and when the holy decree came to Luzon, the war machine began to run slowly.

After dawn the next morning, Yin Zhengmao took Li Yougong to visit the Luzon shipyard.

Luzon shipyard, from the very beginning has the ability to build a three-masted plywood ship, the first comprehensive imitation of the Taixi plywood ship of the Ming Dynasty was launched in the Luzon shipyard, when the shipbuilding lost its commodity advantage, imitation is not a shameful thing, and then the Ming Dynasty quickly figured out its own industry, opened up the industrial chain, and once again enabled Longjiang Shipyard, Songjiang Shipyard, Fujian Shipyard, Guangzhou Dianbai Shipyard and Luzon Shipyard.

Daming shipbuilding industry has become vibrant.

Opening the sea is not Zhang Juzheng's new policy, it is the emperor's new policy, this is His Majesty's new policy, and the courtiers around the opening of the sea have a political background of the imperial party.

Luzon shipyards have their own advantages, that is, the raw materials are cheap, and the freight of timber from Nanyang to Daming is more expensive than that to Luzon.

"This and No. 2 ponds, is the previous Hongmao fan built ponds, is too small, silt is very much, and there is no hardening bottom, resulting in this production is prone to strange problems, the last time two boats were launched, the mast was crooked, but how can not find the problem, it turned out to be land subsidence, so now the No. 1 and No. 2 ponds have been expanded and bottomed." Yin Zhengmao talked about shipbuilding.

No. 1 and No. 2 ponds are old ponds, which are built by Hongmaofan, there is no lime bottom at the bottom, that is, concrete bottom, there is a deviation in the production process, the craftsmen who build the ship, look for a long time to solve the problem, and even suspect that it is the god of Taixi who is angry, so there is this kind of trouble, burning incense and worshipping the Buddha does not work, so I have to clean up the pond, only to find that the bottom has collapsed.

"Is it possible to build a five-masted ship at this pond mouth?" Li Yougong looked at the scale of the remaining seven ponds and felt a little familiar.

Da Jue laughed. Yin Zhengmao shook his head, he looked left and right, picked up a wooden piece from the table, disassembled it casually, and then put it together again, there were four more parts, and it couldn't be installed.

The ship is life at sea, and these four parts come out, isn't it nonsense?

He picked up the woodworking toy Luban lock next to him, opened it and scattered it all over the ground, and said with a smile: "The warlike Felipe II of Tessie, the captain Antonio, is the reason why they are willing to pay for the five-masted ship, is it because they don't want to imitate it?" It can't be imitated. ”

"Just like this Luban lock, it's easy to disassemble, but it's hard to rebuild."

Luban lock, legend is a toy invented by Luban, six wooden strips cleverly lock each other, no external force is needed to form a stable whole, without training, disassemble can not be closed, the Ming Dynasty's five-masted ships are similar structure, you can dismantle, but whether it can be installed, it all depends on the will of God.

The meaning of Yin Zhengmao's words is naturally that it is not easy to imitate the five-masted ship, in fact, there is another layer, the trust of the Luzon ground and the imperial court is still very weak, if Yin Zhengmao really dares to build a five-masted ship, it will cause irreversible damage to this trust, and this precious trust is definitely not something that can be repaired by silver.

Yin Zhengmao was deeply favored by the emperor, the Luzon Governor's Mansion was born with the emperor's grace, bathed in the emperor's ze, and it is hard to imagine that the Luzon Governor's Mansion betrayed the emperor, and the Ming Emperor had to go crazy.

As far as the temper of the Ming Emperor is concerned, I am afraid that the palace will be demolished, and the ship will be built, and if the wood is not enough, the ground building of the Ming Emperor's mausoleum will be demolished, and the Luzon rebellion will also be pacified.

Emperor Daming really can do it.

Yin Zhengmao took Li Yougong to visit the shipyard, and then went to visit the lime factory, the road hardening, the shipyard bottom casting, the coastal embankment, etc., all need to use the lime plant, especially some wooden trestle bridges in the port, which are also replaced with steel-concrete structures, which are more durable.

In the afternoon, Yin Zhengmao led Li Yougong to visit the copper mines of Luzon, a small town less than 30 miles east of Manila, which now has its own name - Tongxiang Town.

It has also changed from a small town of less than three to five hundred people to an important town with more than 30,000 craftsmen.

Chen Chengyi is the supervisor of this copper factory, which is the superintendent appointed by His Majesty the Emperor, the last time the big ship sent 500,000 catties of red copper to Songjiang Mansion, Chen Chengyi was promoted to the supervisor of the Luzon Copper Factory because of his meritorious work in copper mining, and was fully responsible for the mining of Luzon copper mines.

Chen Chengyi is the official of the court of Zhengqipin.

Chen Chengyi took Li Yougong and the entourage of the Governor's Mansion to the copper mountain, and the wooden rails were laid on the road, in order to facilitate the smelting of copper materials down the mountain, and the amalgam method was more efficient, but Chen Chengyi still chose the lead smelting with lower efficiency, first, there was no mercury, and second, there were no old craftsmen under the amalgamation method, and it was considered a long life if he could live more than twenty.

Chen Chengyi took Li Yougong to stand in front of the mine and said: "Old craftsmen, identify the topography and landform with experience, find Miao Yin, and look for ore according to Miao Yin. ”

Looking for Miao Yin, in this line is called looking for the dragon, that is, looking for the big dragon of the vein, the style of painting is probably similar: looking for the dragon to see the winding mountain, a heavy entanglement is a heavy pass, if there are eight dangers in closing the door, there is no yin and yang gossip.

Of course, in fact, it is a difficult geological problem to find seedlings, Chen Chengyi has been summarizing the methods of finding seedlings, topography, soil composition, etc., summarizing the experience, and finally forming a technology that can be passed on to others, which is what Chen Chengyi has to do.

"I found the seedling lead, chiseled along the seedling vein, and then classified it in the tong. It is mainly inclined alleys into the mountains, and the deep ones are as long as several miles, and they are mined step by step. The inside of the tong is topped with a wooden frame, and sometimes the lime steel column is used to inlay the top, to prevent collapse, the ventilation is a wind cabinet, a kind of reciprocating large bellows, if it is a long roadway, it is a mine hole of more than 100 steps, it is necessary to build another wind shaft, the wellhead is inlayed, if there is water, you can climb out. ”

"There are more than 100 water dragons in a mile-long alley, and more than 1,000 people are employed."

Chen Chengyi introduced many equipment for copper mining, such as support, ventilation, emergency evacuation exits, drainage, etc., which require a lot of manual work to dig holes day and night.

And the underground is hired by the aborigines, not from the Central Plains to migrate from the Han people, but the local aborigines, because they are more short, labor costs are low, this kiln is a hard work, all rely on manpower to dig, with sacks and hanging baskets to carry out the copper material, the conditions are extremely bad, if you encounter water, collapse, the dead are wide, less than twenty or thirty, more than one hundred thousand people.

In April of the sixth year of Wanli, a four-mile-deep alley first erupted with groundwater, and then the collapse began, and more than 100 kiln people were buried in the mine forever.

"Mining experience is something that needs to be accumulated, especially underground." Chen Chengyi said some cruel words very calmly, the progress of mining technology, the local natives bear the price, and donate their lives to accumulate experience.

This is very cruel and realistic, Chen Chengyi has seen a lot, from the beginning of a little unbearable, to later become a cold bystander, Daming's Wang Hua is indeed mild compared to Taixi, but it is also mild, not cruel, at least the Ming government-run kiln factory, pay money on time and in quantity, never in arrears.

"It is estimated that next year, it can produce 6.4 million catties of copper." Chen Chengyi did not take Da Jue deep into the mine, they also had to visit the copper smelter, and reported on the expected output for next year as they walked.

"Copper?" Li Yougong frowned and asked, 6.4 million catties of copper is enough, if it is red copper, this place, Daming must not give up!

Emperor Daming, Taifu of Daming, and Daming Household Department, all of them are still thrifty masters, and they can't wait to break a penny into an eight-petal flower!

Without him, I am afraid.

Chen Chengyi said with great certainty: "Red copper, next year is expected to produce copper can cast 800 million miles of Tongbao, which has exceeded the output of Yunnan copper." ”

Yunnan's copper, transportation is inconvenient, and only 30 miles away from the port of Tongxiang Town, obviously has more transportation advantages, this is the meaning of opening the sea, Daming lack of gold and less silver without copper, Ming Fujian Henan Yinshan, a year can also smelt 100,000 taels of silver, but Yunnan copper can not produce the equivalent of red copper for a year.

800 million Tongbao is equal to 800,000 yuan, and the official exchange rate is equal to 800,000 silver coins, but according to the exchange rate of the people, these 800 million copper coins can be exchanged for 1.15 million silver coins.

Daming Baoyuan Bureau is one silver is equal to one thousand copper coins, and one silver is equal to seven hundred copper coins, the reason why there is such a difference, naturally because the absolute amount of copper obtained by the Ming Dynasty is far lower than the silver obtained, the silver of the Ming Dynasty can now flow into four million silver to six million silver a year, mainly from Taixi and the Wa Kingdom, but the production of copper, all depends on Yunnan copper.

Some people make this money, exchange silver ingots for copper coins, go to the people for scattered silver taels, and refine the variegated silver collected into gold and silver, and then exchange them for copper coins in the Baoyuan Bureau, to complete this cycle, this transaction, is a new way for the privileged class to realize their privileges, but those who can exchange for copper coins are only those in the court.

The Ming Emperor did not prohibit this kind of trading, because the process of turning the scattered silver taels into silver coins was conducive to the monetary policy of the Ming Dynasty.

The money of the two Song Dynasty, Jiaozi, Huizi, Yuan Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty all prove the existence of the current society, the banknote law is not suitable for large-scale implementation, and the implementation of the money law is limited by the import of copper and silver, and the folk scattered silver is collected and forged, which the court does not have so many manpower and material resources to complete.

The scattered silver taels of the people are not only the silver bare in the hands of the people, but also the silver buried in the pigsty by the landlords of the townspeople, which is recycling, and it is a silver mine, but it is just a human mine.

According to the estimation of Wang Guoguang of the Ministry of Household Books, from the establishment of the city in the Tang Dynasty to the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, at least 100 million taels of silver flowed into the Ming Dynasty.

All this can be established because the number of copper coins in the Ming Dynasty must be sufficient, and the number of copper coins directly determines the efficiency of the Ming Dynasty's mining of human mines.

While Yunnan copper is developing rapidly, the copper mines in Luzon are not inferior.

"The year after next is expected to reach 12 million catties of red copper, that is, 1.6 billion copper coins." Chen Chengyi looked at Tongshan and Tongxiang Town, and said a number.

"So much?" Li Yougong's eyes widened, how could this double in a year? He is here on behalf of the emperor, Chen Chengyi can't talk nonsense, if he can't achieve it, it is the crime of bullying the king, and Chen Chengyi can't afford this crime.

Chen Chengyi is actually very conservative, he put forward the production target of 800 million next year and 1.6 billion the year after next, there is a huge redundancy, unless Yin Zhengmao is defeated by Hongmaofan and is attacked by Hongmaofan Manila, otherwise he will be able to achieve this output, and greatly exceeded.

"Your Majesty's investment has arrived, and this must be reciprocated, right?" Chen Chengyi said with a smile on his face.

Emperor Ming invested a total of 1.5 million silver here for the expansion of copper production, originally the idea of the Ming Emperor was to invest indirectly, borrow money to eat interest, the interest is not high, four percent a year, that is, an annualized 4%, not too much interference in the operation of the Luzon Governor's Palace.

However, Yin Zhengmao said that it is better to invest directly, which is the economic fetters of the Ming Emperor, and the fetters are also fetters, and they are the invisible ropes that strengthen between the Ming Dynasty and Luzon.

Yin Zhengmao couldn't wait for the Ming Emperor to invest all 20.1 million silver in Luzon, and Luzon would become the emperor's private property.

The investment of 1.5 million silver is only one of the reasons why Chen Chengyi is full of confidence, and another important reason is that the industrial craftsmen have been cultivated and matured, and the speed of exploring seedlings has exceeded the speed of mining, and a pillar industry is taking shape.

As everyone spoke, they arrived at the copper smelting official factory in full swing, most of the craftsmen here are Han people, not local natives, copper is not valuable, red copper is money, and it is the Ming people who have mastered the core technology, which makes Yin Zhengmao feel at ease.

The Han people are the basic territory of the Luzon Governor's Office that can occupy the ruling class, and Yin Zhengmao knows this very well.

The copper furnace is divided into a super-large one-foot five-foot furnace, a large-scale eight-foot furnace, a medium-sized seven-foot furnace, a medium-sized, large-scale, super-large, three-size workshop, which is in full swing, and the sun of the equator is in full swing.

"Why medium, large, super-large?" Li Yougong asked a little strangely.

"There's also a small stove, five feet high, that was discarded a few days ago." Chen Chengyi hurriedly explained that he was not testing Da Jue's patience, it was just a technical upgrade, and the specifications had not been updated immediately.

"The Governor's Palace of Luzon, 12,000 taels of gold are sent to the interior every year!" Yin Zhengmao took Li Yougong to another place, which was guarded by guest soldiers, it was the Luzon gold ingot factory, and the gold ingots here were completely supplied to the emperor's internal funds, 12,000 taels, but 750 catties, is it worth Yin Zhengmao to be so troubled and proud to say it?

Of course it's worth it, there are not many gold mines in Daming, and the quality is not high.

The gold cake of the Han Dynasty is a thing to worship the ancestors, and every year the major princes have to try their best to get enough gold, otherwise you are embarrassed to call yourself a feudal clan? The golden cake has an extremely strong political symbol, representing a kind of submission and obedience, and it is also a part of political bondage, and it is a symbol of centripetal force under the feudal system.

These small yellow croakers are ritual vessels and tributes.

According to the listing price of the Daming Baoyuan Bureau, one tael of gold is equal to sixteen taels of silver, and the 12,000 taels of gold is nearly 200,000 silver.

200,000 silver is really a lot, and the Ming Dynasty is now generous, but these 200,000 silver can repair two-fifths of the Longqing Imperial Mausoleum.

On the third day, Li Yougong finally completely relieved, walked on land, and finally stopped hanging upside down.

And Yin Zhengmao also began to make a list of pure sea, from September, Wanli Haitang is expected to have an unknown intensity of war, the Ming merchant ship cautiously go, the words of the Governor's Mansion of Luzon are very effective, when the Governor's Mansion announced that there will be a war, the war will inevitably be known as scheduled.

The clouds of war began to condense in the sea pond, the harbor was full of warships in and out of the sea, all kinds of Ming firearms gunpowder, hook locks, landing ships, began to appear in the harbor, and some big cannibals began to frequently enter and leave the governor's palace, before the red hair fan did not come, the big cannibal is the actual ruler of the sea pond, the red hair fan came, the big cannibal no longer occupies a dominant position.

Yin Zhengmao was very busy, Zhang Yuanxun accompanied Da Jue to a number of plantations in Luzon, the palm orchard produces oil, the tung orchard produces tung oil and lacquer, and the sugar cane orchard produces sugar, especially the sugar cube that Captain Antonio is proud of, is the fist product of the Luzon sugar cane plantation, the scale of these plantations is less than 10,000 mu, more than 50,000 or 60,000 mu, and around the plantation, there are a large number of granges, which are responsible for the production of rice, these agricultural products, are the fist products of Luzon's exports.

And the rubber plantation that His Majesty the Emperor is very concerned about is only more than 1,000 acres, planting this thing, the Ming Dynasty is inexperienced, even if Baoqi Division has given guidance, the yield of the rubber plantation of Hongmaofan is higher.

In addition to the plantation, some of the pirates led by Lin Afeng have become local hunting teams, specializing in killing crocodiles, as well as poisonous snakes in the mountains and forests, and some have become loggers, logging and reclamation everywhere, and forest farms and crocodile orchards are also being established.

There is also an industrial chain around crocodiles, crocodile skin, a very popular type of leather, which is extremely expensive, almost equivalent to gold.

One of the biggest advantages of crocodile leather over other leathers is that if it is properly maintained, it will become brighter and last for a long time.

Li Yougong spoke highly of the development of Luzon, when the emperor's eyes did not look at Luzon, everything in Luzon was thriving, and some desperate landless tenants and poor coolies in the Ming Dynasty also had a way to make a living and were qualified to live.

On the first day of the ninth month, the Daming Sailor was opened, and unlike Zhang Yuanxun, Feng Zilong and other martial artists who liked to use force, Yin Zhengmao showed the vicious side of the scholar in this armed debt collection action.

The Great Cannibal led the natives into the plantations of the Red Hair Fan to burn and loot, and those Red Mao Fan could only hide in the strong castle to resist the enemy.

Yin Zhengmao, who mixed the water, set off with the fleet, and the fishing in troubled waters began.

Even if it is not instigated by Yin Zhengmao, these contradictions are deep-rooted and irreconcilable, and the resistance under the cruel oppression will inevitably break out into this chaos.

The war began, and the Daming sailors began to attack in all directions.

At the same time that the plantations on the list were occupied one by one, Yin Zhengmao occupied more than a dozen good ports because of the needs of the war process, as the garrison and pioneer place of the Daming Water Division, it was definitely not an inch, it was definitely not a grass to beat rabbits, but only for the needs of the war process.

In the course of the war, those Hongmao Fan, who resisted and tried to defend with the castle, saw Yin Zhengmao's strength to drop ten times, and when five ships loaded with coffin explosives rushed to the water gate, these castles were breached one by one in a violent explosion.

Zhang Yuanxun and Feng Zilong began to go to sea to fight, while Yin Zhengmao gave an approximate end of the war, three years.

It will take at least three years.

The war is like this, you can only decide to start, you can't decide to end, Yin Zhengmao, the country's surname, doesn't know when he will be able to win, and he is not even sure whether the Ming Dynasty will win, but just like Li Chengliang in the first year of Wanli, the meaning of taking advantage of the heavy snow to fight is the same, as long as it is fought, it is meaningful.

The Ming Dynasty has been more than 170 years, has not shown their strength on the sea, thousands of miles of sea pond countries, has forgotten the fear of being dominated by the Ming Dynasty, Yin Zhengmao must awaken their sleeping memories, knock out their sleeping hearts, once again let the Ming Dynasty's military bondage, spread to the thousands of miles of sea ponds.

This is the Wanli Sea Pond of the Ming Dynasty, which is the buffer of the security of the Ming Sea Frontier.

Li Yougong reluctantly got on the hydrofoil sailboat, his next stop was Naha Port in the Ryukyus, for the hydrofoil sailboat, Li Yougong was really unwilling to sit, but had to sit, he had to return to Beijing before the year to resume his life.

In October of the sixth year of Wanli, Li Yougong set foot in the port of Naha in the Ryukyus, where there are still some depressions, and the prosperity of the sea beam of all countries does not exist.

Ryukyu can't even make up the fish oil and shark oil that went to the Ming Dynasty this year, and the production and life of the people of Ryukyu have been absolutely destroyed, which is in stark contrast to the vigorous development of Luzon, and some baby flags that have not been cleaned up also make Li Yougong's teeth itch, those children were killed and hung on the flagpole, and no one in the local area came to clean up, because no one was alive.

The king of the Ryukyus is still long, and he plans to go to Gyeonggi in the Ming Dynasty to personally ask for guilt.

Li Yougong judged that this is still a long time to say that it is a plea, I am afraid that I want to run to the Ming Dynasty to avoid the limelight, and now the Ryukyus are still in the period of war, and the Ryukyu native Japanese are basically cleared, but the Ming Dynasty wants to attack the Shimazu family in Satsuma, and it is also more difficult.

People are afraid of war, whether it is the poor coolie, or the powerful right, the sword and arrow are not long-eyed, you are the king and do not shoot?

Li Yougong still took Shang Jiu, the king of the Ryukyus had a good abacus, and if he wanted to go out to avoid the limelight and come back, it would be as difficult as climbing to the sky.

Whoever runs for the peoples, he is the king of the peoples.

Recommend a book: "Save the Ming Dynasty: I Can Exchange Bodies with Chongzhen" Introduction: In the ten years of Chongzhen, Zhu Changgan, whose soul pierced the Ming Dynasty, wanted to be an idle prince, but the Ming Dynasty collapsed, and the first unlucky ones were their clans, who were slaughtered.

Thinking that seven years later, King Li Chuang entered Beijing, and Houjin entered the Central Plains to massacre the Han people, "keep your head without hair, keep your hair without your head" and "......."

At this time, Zhu Changgan found that he could exchange bodies with Chongzhen. There is a through train.

"Do you want to save the Ming Dynasty?"

"I'll do it, and you'll be in charge of watching it, and you'll ...... Beep less! ”

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