Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1502, King Xing

In the Daxing City of Daxing Country in the Gulf of Guinea, Xing Wang Zhu Youzhu was carefully studying the distribution map of the colonies in West Africa in his study, frowning while looking at it.

King Xing Zhu Youzhao was the fourth son of Ming Xianzong Zhu Jianshen, the half-brother of Emperor Hongzhi, the uncle of Zhu Houzhao, and the biological father of Ming Shizong Zhu Houcong in history.

In the seventh year of Hongzhi, that is, when Zhu Youzhan was eighteen years old and became an adult, he went to Huguang Luzhou to become a feudal clan, also known as Xingwang.

According to historical records, King Xing Zhu Youzhu was a five-good prince of the Ming Dynasty who had no ambitions, did not like to indulge in pleasure, and loved art and literature. He even wrote his own book and had his own representative work "Poetry of Enji".

It can be said that Zhu Youzhao in history was very clear about his status and status, and he did not dare to show the slightest ambition for the throne of the Ming Emperor. Of course, even if he had ambition, it would be of no use.

Because his elder brother Emperor Hongzhi's status is very stable, not only Emperor Xianzong of Ming Dynasty likes Emperor Hongzhi, but even most of the ministers in the court support Emperor Hongzhi, and Emperor Hongzhi himself is a capable emperor. Bury your ambitions deep in your heart.

Of course, it is also possible that he himself is such a person, and no one can tell.

However, history has undergone tremendous changes. The vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty went to sea one after another to lay down colonies overseas, established their own vassal states, and lived a happy life.

This also affected Xing Wang Zhu Youzhao. With the encouragement and support of his wife Jiang Shi, Xing Wang Zhu Youzhao also came overseas and established the Daxing Kingdom.

It's just that King Xing came a bit late, and the places near Daming had already been taken away. Tianzhu and East Africa were full of vassal states and colonies. He couldn't intervene, so he finally came to West Africa.

Grabbed a colony here in the Gulf of Guinea and established its own vassal state.

"The good places are all occupied by people. If you want to expand, you can only expand inland, or go to grab the Spanish colonies."

King Xing looked at the area, lost in thought.

In the past, when he was an idle prince, he naturally didn't have to worry about these things, and he could immerse himself in art and literature every day. But when he came overseas and established a vassal state, he really understood how difficult it is to govern a country.

Among other things, it is not easy to govern this small feudal state of my own. The current situation is that there is no money and no people. Even the infrastructure construction here in Xingguo The progress is very slow, and this palace of his own is still very simple.

"No money~"

"A penny is a hero. I didn't expect that I, a dignified prince of Ming Dynasty, would worry about money now."

"We need money to build a port, build a city wall, and build a city, but the palace has already used up all the money to go to sea. Where can we get money?"

King Xing Zhu Youzhan was thinking wistfully where he could get the money. This feudal kingdom is really not that easy to build. Don't look at Ningguo, Tangguo, etc., when they are really in their own hands, they will know the difficulty of being in charge.

"Father~"

At this moment, a childish voice sounded, and a little kid walked in excitedly, followed by a servant girl and a woman in gorgeous clothes.

"Xiao'er!"

Hearing the sound and looking at the son who came over, King Xing couldn't stop laughing from ear to ear, he quickly picked up his son Zhu Houcong, and lifted it up happily.

"Haha, I gained a lot of weight~"

King Xing liked his son very much.

His eldest son Zhu Houxi died early, and then the women in the palace gave him four daughters in a row, and it was not until the fifth that they gave birth to Zhu Houcong in front of him. Naturally, they loved him very much.

And this Zhu Houcong has been very smart and eager to learn since he was a child. He is very serious about learning everything and learns very quickly. This makes King Xing love him even more, and it hurts so much.

After playing with his son for a while, Shun Xing Wang asked the servant girl to take Zhu Houcong out to play, but he was ready to discuss things with Princess Jiang.

"Is the prince worrying about money again?"

Jiang is the daughter of a military general, but she is very virtuous. At a glance, she can see that Wang Xing is worrying about the affairs of the Great Xingguo, and the most important worry is naturally the matter of money.

It was only after I came here that I realized how important money is. Money is spent everywhere, and the depth is bottomless. When a hundred thousand taels of silver are poured in, I can’t even see a wave.

Originally, Prince Xing's Mansion still had a lot of family property. After all, he was the younger brother of Emperor Hongzhi, who is today's son. When he became a vassal, Emperor Hongzhi also gave a lot of things.

However, in order to establish his own vassal state, Xing Wang's mansion was also hollowed out, and this was exchanged for a piece of land on the West African side, and his own vassal state was established.

"Aifei still understands me~"

"This Xingguo was first built, and money is used everywhere, and it is far away from Daming, and everything is very expensive. The tens of thousands of taels of silver have been poured in, but there is not even a shadow."

"You can't do anything without money."

King Xing nodded helplessly, not knowing how to speak to his beloved concubine.

King Xing knew that his father-in-law was still rich.

His father-in-law is a military general. Over the years, the Ming Dynasty has been fighting abroad for years, and every battle is sure to win. The Ming Dynasty not only obtained a large amount of land and war reparations, but also became stronger as it fought.

For the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, Ming’s foreign wars are also a good opportunity for these soldiers to make a fortune. Not only can they make meritorious service and be promoted, but also every time they win, these soldiers can get a lot of rewards, such as land, slaves, and real money. .

As a senior general, his father-in-law has gone to war many times, and he has also received extremely rich rewards. He not only has several large plantations in Nanyang, but also has his own large pastures in several provinces in the Western Regions, Hezhong, and Central Asia. It also has its own wine estate.

In addition, it has invested in many commercial firms with many military generals Xungui Group. It has its own gold and silver mines in Huangjinzhou and its own fleet overseas.

It can be said that it is absolutely appropriate to be a rich owner.

King Xing was able to go to West Africa to establish his own vassal state, which is indispensable for his father-in-law's strong support, important people, his father-in-law is concerned about the military, and recruited more than a thousand retired soldiers as the basis for rejuvenating the country military force.

When they asked for money, they directly gave Xing Wang a million taels of silver as the initial capital, and they also entrusted connections everywhere, found people, helped them buy ships, supplies, recruited immigrants, and so on.

Without the support of his father-in-law, it is estimated that he would have to go through many difficulties if he wanted to establish this feudal kingdom.

"So, I still have to borrow money from my father-in-law, and I have to ask my concubine to help me speak to my father-in-law."

King Xing came to Jiang's side with a smile on his face, held Jiang's hand and said.

"The prince is in trouble, and the concubines will naturally do their best to help, but when we came out, my father only gave one million taels of silver, and now I don't think there is much silver in hand, even if they can help us, I'm afraid Can't help much."

"The key is to rely on ourselves!"

Mrs. Jiang was very virtuous, so she readily agreed, and she was going to write a letter to ask her father for money later on. She was still very clear about her family's situation.

In the past, my family was still very ordinary, with a low status as a military general and limited income, but since the military reform and Ming Dynasty’s foreign wars, the situation has changed completely. As a military general, my father quickly accumulated a huge family. Industry.

"Thank you concubine~"

Upon hearing this, King Xing Zhu Youzhu smiled and thanked him, then thought for a while and said: "I also know that we have to rely on ourselves, but we have only established Xingguo not long ago, and we are not very familiar with everything here, and it is not easy to make money what."

"I heard that when King Ning started his family, he did it for the sake of slave trading. Can we also do slave trading in Xingguo?"

Jiang Shi nodded slightly, she also knew the situation of Xingguo, so she thought about it and suggested.

"King Ning is lucky. He came out early, there is no competition, and the position is good. The slaves sold are all white slaves. We in West Africa are all Kunlun slaves. It’s not easy to sell, the price is low, and no one wants it yet.”

"The key is that there are many people doing the Kunlun slave business. Spaniards, Koreans, Japanese, and other colonial firms and vassal states. We can't sell them at any price."

King Xing shook his head slightly, the slave trade is not so easy to do.

"What about gold and silver and ivory?"

Jiang asked again.

"We haven't found gold mines or silver mines yet. The trading volume of ivory is too small, and we need a lot of money. It is difficult to maintain it in a short period of time."

"Building a port, building a city, cultivating fields, recruiting immigrants, etc., everything is money. Now if you want to attract people to immigrate, you must not only give them land, but also match them with women, at least they must be white slaves. One or two are not very attractive, but it takes at least two or three hundred taels of silver to attract one person to immigrate to our Xingguo."

King Xing anxiously counted and counted, the more he counted, the more worried he became.

At the beginning of Xingguo's establishment, what it needs most is not only money, but also population. Even with the care of the people on the side of its fief and the old man, until now, the population of Xingguo is only in the early [-]s, which is still a waste of money. He paid a huge price and offered a lot of good conditions to barely attract more than [-] people to follow him to West Africa.

"You men, even a woman can't figure it out, so you have to ask for a few~"

Hearing King Xing's words, Mrs. Jiang also despised her, but after thinking about it, she said: "It's good to have more women. If you have more children, the population will increase in ten years. Otherwise, it will attract a lot of people. No matter how much money it costs to immigrate, it is better to buy more female slaves to come and have children."

"My dear concubine, I think the same way, so I reached an agreement with some commercial firms to buy tens of thousands of female white slaves and distribute them to the people of Xingguo."

"Just don't get a few more barbarians into the palace."

Jiang Shi gave Xing Wang a blank look, and said lightly.

"How dare I, my concubine is enough for me."

King Xing immediately apologized and said with a smile, there is no way, the princess of heaven and earth is the biggest.

"I'm thinking, now West Africa is in chaos, the Koreans, Persians and Spaniards are fighting, and the pirates are rampant again, can we take this opportunity to make a fortune, or expand our Xingguo, after all, Xingguo is It's too small, if you don't seize the opportunity now, it will be difficult to expand when Xiao'er grows up."

"My lord is right. I also think that our Xingguo is too small. If we have a bigger place, we can't do anything. Afterwards, when it's time for Xing'er, other feudal states are very big, and our Xingguo is very small. That's not okay. .”

"But if we want to expand, we can only grab the Spaniard's territory."

"What happened to the Spaniards? I'm afraid they won't succeed."

"It's not a question of being afraid or not, but that our Xingguo has few warships and few people. Spain has a strong army in West Africa, so it's not easy to mess with them. The North Koreans lost their navy in the battle of Yanshan Port. Exhausted."

"What's more, what are we going to grab? There is no money and no one."

"My lord, why don't you write to the emperor, he is your elder brother, and he has always taken care of the clan, so he will definitely support one or two. It should cost a few million taels of silver, or a few warships. It's not difficult."

"I've thought about it too, but the Son of Heaven also has his difficulties. There are too many princes asking him for money and things, and I don't want to cause trouble for him."

"When is the prince still thinking about this? Other feudal kings don't think so. They have all come out to establish feudal states, and they will be regarded as separate families in the future. The Ming Dynasty is so powerful. If you don't do a better job of Xingguo, how can you do it?" Being able to be worthy of being the younger brother of the emperor."

"What Concubine Ai said is right, I'll write a letter back to Daming, and ask the emperor for some money and something."

"That's right, we have nothing to do to rejuvenate the country now, and there is nothing to do. He, a brother, must help anyway."

"Face is not worth a lot of money. When we have money, guns, guns, and boats, we can quickly expand our Xingguo. If we miss the good opportunity now, we will have no chance in the future."

"Let me tell you, my father's money is all for his grandson, you have to improve."

"I know, I know~"

(End of this chapter)