Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 375, Difficulties of the Nanyang Route
"...You brat can't see it, you are really insidious."

After listening to Liu Jin's strategy, Zhang Mao couldn't help but said to Liu Jin.

"...Mr. Zhang~"

Liu Jin is speechless. You have said that about your own people.

"Old Liu, this is a good move. It will kill those salt merchants."

Zhu Houzhao also applauded. He has long disliked those salt merchants and Huizhou merchants, but now he is just a prince and has no power, so he has nothing to do with those people.

It's all right now, with Liu Jin's trick, it's enough to kill these people.

"Let's not talk about the Changlu saltworks, let's talk about the second thing."

"That is the matter of opening up the Nanyang route."

Liu Jin smiled. It’s fine for other people to agree to the Changlu Salt Farm. It doesn’t matter if you don’t make any money for the time being. As long as you destroy those salt merchants and occupy the market, you can make money in the future. What's more, Liu Jin never thought about making a lot of money from salt.

There are so many profitable transactions, why should I become the second salt merchant? You still have to have a conscience when doing business, and you can’t only have money in your eyes. Once you fall into the eyes of money, you will only have money.

"Open the Nanyang route?"

When everyone heard this, they immediately regained their spirits. These people present are all winners of ocean trade. Now they just go to North Korea and Japan, and they can bring back boatloads of white money every month.

If the Nanyang route can be opened, according to what Liu Jin said at the beginning, the money earned will be even more, because after passing through Nanyang, you can reach Tianzhu and the Middle East. When the things from Ming Dynasty are shipped to these places, the price will skyrocket. If you can do business with Europeans in the future.

This silk and porcelain can be compared to gold.

If you want to go to farther places to make a fortune in the future, this Nanyang route must be opened up.

"It is very difficult to open up the Nanyang route~"

Then Liu Jin said in a low voice.

His words also made Zhang Mao, Zhu Fu, and Xu Guangzuo nod along. They originally wanted to open up the Nanyang route, so they had already found someone to understand a lot of things in advance.

"Difficult?"

"Is it more difficult than going to the Golden Continent?"

"I've seen the world map you gave me, Old Liu. It shouldn't be difficult to go to Nanyang. Even Annan is connected to our Guangxi. We can just go south along the coastline."

Of course Zhu Houzhao didn't know why it was so difficult, so he said it full of doubts.

"The difficulty in opening up the Nanyang sea route lies not in the technology of navigation, but in the people~"

Zhang Mao thought for a while and replied.

"These big families and businessmen in the Jiangnan area control the ocean trade in the Nanyang area. On the surface, they support the imperial court's ban on the sea, but secretly enjoy the huge profits of the Nanyang trade."

"At the same time, they also supported and colluded with pirates and Japanese pirates, forming a large number of pirates and Japanese pirates in the southeastern coastal area. Any merchant ships that were not theirs would be ransacked by these pirates and Japanese pirates to the point of losing everything."

Zhang Mao told what he learned.

"Collude with pirates and Japanese pirates?"

Zhu Houzhao's small eyes widened immediately, he never thought it would be such a reason.

"Yes, I was attacked by pirates when I went to Japan to do business with several ships last month. Fortunately, our ships are all made by Tianjin Shipyard. They are fast and big, so we escaped."

Zhu Fu also nodded and said.

"Because we went to North Korea and Japan to do business and robbed some of their business, so now pirates and Japanese pirates are also starting to loot our merchant ships."

"I am worried that there will be more and more pirates and pirates, and they will become bolder, so we still have to find a way to get rid of these pirates and pirates."

Then Zhu Fu also talked about the fact that the sea route to the Wa country was not peaceful recently, and the pirates and Japanese pirates had already been eyeing them.

"It's unreasonable, it's so audacious~"

Zhu Houzhao immediately became angry.

"Of course they are bold, and there is nothing they dare not do."

Liu Jin nodded and said, colluding with pirates and Japanese pirates, in a few decades, these pirates and Japanese pirates even dared to go ashore to loot the Ming city, and it was often difficult to wipe out these pirates and Japanese pirates when the imperial army wiped them out. One very important reason is that some people cooperated inside and outside to inform the pirates and Japanese pirates.

Hearing Liu Jin's words, Zhu Houzhao was silent. That's right, there is nothing they dare not do, even the imperial power, what else are they afraid to do?

"Whether we want to open up the Nanyang route or maintain our current route, we must deal a heavy blow to these pirates and Japanese pirates."

Liu Jin thought for a while and continued.

His words also received everyone's support, and everyone nodded.

Just kidding, the route between North Korea and Japan is the lifeblood of everyone, and it is the most profitable business now. If the Japanese pirates and pirates are destroyed, the current good situation will be completely ruined. Liu Jin himself worked hard to get it done The sprouts of capital that have grown up may die.

This is something Liu Jin absolutely cannot allow to happen.

"Old Liu, don't be so secretive. What to do, tell me the rules."

Zhu Houzhao was very impatient and asked directly.

"We should tackle this issue from multiple perspectives."

"First of all, we need to find out the source of these pirates and Japanese pirates. The Japanese pirates basically come from the Japanese country, because the current Japanese country is in the Warring States period, and the continuous attacks among the Japanese daimyo have caused many warriors to be unable to get along in the Japanese country. , so they became Japanese pirates."

"As for pirates, they are basically cultivated by big businessmen and families in the Jiangnan area, so we can start to solve them from these two aspects."

"We can use the name of Ming Dynasty to ask Wa to restrain our warriors, otherwise we will punish Wa."

Liu Jin thought about it carefully, and then slowly began to talk.

The Japanese pirates are not too serious now. In a few decades, the Japanese pirates will become a scourge, and they will never be suppressed. They have harassed the southeast coastal areas of Ming Dynasty for decades.

Later, after the Warring States Period of the Wa Kingdom was over, and after the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate, and the establishment of rule and control over the Wa Kingdom, the sources of Japanese pirates were greatly reduced. Coupled with the extermination of the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese pirates were slowly wiped out.

One of the very important points is the control of the warriors by the Japanese side. The current Ming Dynasty has enough deterrent power to the Japanese country, and it is nominally the suzerain of the Japanese country. The words of the Ming court are still very useful.

Dealing with the Japanese pirates requires two hands. On the one hand, we must resolutely wipe out those Japanese pirates who are causing trouble, and on the other hand, we must put enormous pressure on the Japanese side. It is not difficult to deal with the Japanese pirates.

"As for the pirates, the most important thing is to clean up the big families and big businessmen who support the pirates. Only when these big families and big businessmen are cleaned up, the pirates will be difficult to become. At that time, the navy of the court will be enough to clean up these pirates. "

Hearing Liu Jin's analysis, everyone nodded one after another. Now that they have clearly recognized the origin of the pirates and Japanese pirates, knowing the roots of these pirates and Japanese pirates, it is not difficult to deal with them.

"It's not a big deal to deal with the pirates and Japanese pirates in front of us. If we want to make money in the world outside of Ming Dynasty in the future, then we will not only have to deal with the pirates and Japanese pirates in front of us."

"There are also pirates in the Nanyang region. In Tianzhu, the Middle East, and Europe, there are pirates everywhere. In addition, once the profits involved are too large, not only pirates, but other countries will also have interests with us. Conflicts, when the time comes, what we have to deal with is not the pirates, but the navy of other countries.”

"So fundamentally we need a powerful navy that can sweep across the world to escort us and protect our interests."

"At that time, whether we encounter pirates, Japanese pirates or the like, or compete with other countries for interests and territory on a global scale, we will be tough enough and have enough power."

After listening to Liu Jin's words, everyone present nodded, Zhu Houzhao was even more excited, and his small eyes were shining with light.

This guy admires generals like Huo Qubing and Wei Qing the most. He was so excited when he heard about the battle. In history, Zhu Houzhao even led his army to fight against the grassland army that went south to plunder, and even let him win.

King Ning Zhu Chenhao rebelled, and Zhu Houzhao, who heard the news, was even more excited. He personally led the troops to the south to suppress the rebellion, but who knew that King Ning was cleaned up by Wang Shouren before he arrived in Jiangxi. Chen Hao, and then he will come and wipe them out again.

It can be seen that this Zhu Houzhao is definitely a war fanatic.

Now hearing Liu Jin say that he wants to fight pirates, wipe out Japanese pirates, and build a powerful navy to sweep the world, his blood boils.

"Yes~ yes, we must build a navy that can sweep across the world, and we must bring down the whole world, so that no one dares to mess with us, Daming."

Zhu Houzhao clenched his fists tightly and nodded repeatedly.

Zhang Mao, Zhu Fu, and Xu Guangzuo immediately smiled when they saw Zhu Houzhao. They saw that the nobles had a bright future, and they had been oppressed by civil officials all the time.

Zhang Mao, he is a majestic prince, the thing he does the most is to sacrifice to the Taimiao. The entire honorable group does not have any power in its hands, and all power is controlled by civil servants.

It's not that they haven't thought about getting it back, but it's really too difficult. Even the emperor has to get the approval of the Ministry of War if he wants to dispatch troops, let alone their noble generals.

"However, this matter requires a long-term plan, and it is not up to us to decide. It needs the joint efforts of the whole court to realize it."

"What we can do now is to develop here~"

Liu Jin smiled, then pointed to the location of Treasure Island on the huge map in the study.

　The big guys think of a way how to get back the military power from the civil servants?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)