Qiming 1158

Chapter 1351 Guangzhou Tonghai Yi Road
In this era, it is not easy to drag out a group of people who yearn for the ocean and are willing to make money in the ocean from the agricultural society.

This kind of heart of the ocean is indeed rare for mainland peoples.

Although the reason for the emergence of this heart of the ocean is somewhat resentful, since it appeared, they themselves are not very willing to return to agricultural production, so there is no need to force them to go back.

Exploiting the ocean is also Daming's future national strategy.

So Su Yonglin didn't care about this issue.

Instead, they directly started to analyze the channels that can be mastered at present with the personnel of the Guangzhou Shipping Division, and made preliminary preparations for the channels that Daming completely controlled.

Once the control of the waterway is established, settlements and overseas garrison bases will be arranged, and immigration to live overseas will also be the only way.

"As far as we can tell, as early as the Tang Dynasty, there was a mature waterway in Guangzhou, known as the Guangzhou Tonghai Yidao. Starting from Guangzhou, it can reach the capital of the black-clothed food country, hundreds of years. During this time, the passage has not been cut off.”

The officials of the Guangzhou Shipping Department took out a hand-drawn map of the age, and handed the map to Su Yonglin.

After looking at it for a long time, Su Yonglin didn't see any way, so he took out the world map he carried and looked at it, only to see a little of the appearance.

Generally speaking, it starts from Guangzhou, follows the coastline of Southeast Asia, passes through the Strait of Malacca, then goes to Bangladesh, then detours the whole of India, turns northwest, and crosses the Strait of Hormuz to reach the destination.

In addition, this route can also lead to Egypt and Africa, which is indirectly related to Europe. It connects the three continents of Asia, Europe and Africa, and passes through more than 100 countries and regions. It brings Chinese goods to the world and sells them like gold. s price.

After Su Yonglin read it, he nodded slowly, feeling very emotional.

"The ancients did a lot of wrong things, but they also did a lot of right things. The opening of this waterway is very meaningful to us. If we want to make sea trade bigger and stronger in the future, we must make This channel is firmly in hand.”

"In your hands?"

Yu Xingyan asked, "What do you mean, use the navigator to control the waterway?"

"That's natural."

Su Yonglin nodded: "The sea trade channel, for us and for practitioners, is the lifeline, how can there be a reason why we don't control our own lifeline?

Daming navy is powerful, is it only used to guard the portal?Nest in the port and can't go out?how can that be possible?Navy... no, navy!The navy is a pioneering branch of arms, not a dog of the house! "

Su Yonglin clenched his hand into a fist, slammed his fist on the table, and said solemnly: "Our own lifeline must be in our hands, this is the well-being of the people of Limin!

The navy they raised with taxes must fight for their happy life and cannot live up to their expectations!If this route can be firmly grasped in our hands, it means a lot to us! "

Next, Su Yonglin began to explain his thoughts.

Quite simply, it is the population settlements and garrison bases in the surrounding areas along the route.

Daming needs to select important geographical locations along the waterway as Daming's garrison base, not only to build a naval port, but also to build a residential area, and then send the army to guard, and use this as a fulcrum to defend the sea trade waterway with the navy.

The fulcrums along these maritime trade routes also have multiple functions such as naval ports, army bases, citizen cities, peasant farming areas, and merchant free trade areas, so not only the army and navy, but also a considerable number of people are needed.

These fulcrums are equivalent to the overseas territories of the Ming Dynasty, which require population to operate, produce, provide food for the local garrison, and also provide some commercial services for the merchant fleets of various countries that stop along the way to earn some fees.

Su Yonglin intends to build more than a dozen such fulcrum seaport cities.

Of course, it is not established in a short time, but slowly, let the navy fleet lead professional sailors to detect along the route and select suitable areas.

If there is no wasteland, then send people to develop and occupy it, and naturally it belongs to the Ming Dynasty.

If there is someone, let’s talk about it, and it’s not impossible to buy it with money.

Once these fulcrum cities are established, they can not only be used for commercial navigation, but can also be used as a backing to develop Fuxing Association organizations in the local area. chain.

Once this transmission chain is formed, it will be able to radiate the influence of the Ming Kingdom to the commercial waterways, greatly enhancing the presence and influence of the Ming Kingdom in the world.

Su Yonglin was looking forward to that day.

The officials of the Guangzhou Shipping Department and the Ministry of Finance were very concerned about some of the ideas and results for the future that Su Yonglin had described, and they had aroused extensive thinking and discussion. Finally, they reached a consensus that the future described by Su Yonglin was very important. Significant.

It's just that the amount of money that needs to be invested may not be a small amount, or a large amount comparable to the Yellow River diversion project. How much does it cost to build a settlement and a garrison from scratch? Everyone has a steel scale in their hearts.

Yu Xingyan raised this point euphemistically, hoping that Su Yonglin would consider more.

Su Yonglin just shook his head again and again.

"If you want horses to run fast, but don't want them to eat good concentrate, how can there be such a good thing in the world? If you want to get it, you must be willing to invest. Every year, sea trade can bring so much money to Daming. , but what's the use of just money?

Money will not prosper, and it only makes sense to spend it. There are only so many places where money can be used in Daming. Too much money will only make money worthless. If you want to maintain a good situation, spend money , to obtain greater returns from the outside world is itself the only way for us. "

Yu Xingyan listened, nodded slowly, and did not raise any objections.

So did the rest of the officials, who made no further objections.

Su Yonglin does not act arbitrarily in the way of governance. He also promotes internal democracy within the Revival Association, advocates members to question and inquire about decision-making, and calls on everyone to actively question and provide supplementary opinions.

However, since the founding of the country, Su Yonglin's judgment has never made any mistakes, and has always been correct.

Everyone enjoys the benefits of Su Yonglin's correct judgment all the time, and therefore, everyone has a very strong degree of trust in Su Yonglin's judgment.

He said this, then we put forward some things according to the usual practice, and then we must believe in this, and we must work hard to push forward, and then we can get good benefits.

No matter how subjectively Su Yonglin was against the cult of personality, objectively speaking, the cult of personality towards him had been inevitably established in all strata of Ming society.

This was true within the imperial court, within the Renaissance Society, and within the military. Even among the people, there were not many places where Su Yonglin's ancestral hall was built.

Follow him, do what he says, and you can succeed, win, and live better.

Who doesn't want to?

Seeing the undisguised trust in him and even a hint of fanaticism in the eyes of the officials, Su Yonglin felt the existence of this emotion he didn't like. He wanted to do something, but after thinking about it, he still didn't go. Do.

His revolution was not an existence that should have appeared in this era. He forcibly brought this concept to this era. As the source of the revolutionary idea and a symbol of the legitimacy of the revolutionary cause, Su Yonglin's own influence on this country and this cause is almost Decisive.

If he is good, the revolution is good; if he is not good, the revolution is not good.

It's really that simple.

He cannot return to the identity of a normal person until he is not sure that the revolutionary cause can be accepted by this world and this era.

He must guide people forward with an almost divine presence to ensure that the cause of countless bloodshed and sacrifice is not subverted.

As for whether the length of this time will require him to spend his entire life, or if he is lucky enough to leave some time of his own, it is really unpredictable.

Su Yonglin didn't know either.

(End of this chapter)