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Chapter 355
Forced marriage, a privilege only available to parents, has spread to subordinates to their superiors in the wicked feudal society. Whether the superior has children is very important to a political system.

Ordinary people, whether you get married or not, and whether you have children is your personal freedom, but in a regime, this is a huge matter, and it involves the issue of heirs.

Without an heir, that regime can easily collapse.

Take Lantian as an example. The reason why Lantian is booming now is because of the existence of Li Chaosheng. If Li Chaosheng dies and has not left any heirs, then who can take over the position of Lantian? There are not a few people who are dissatisfied, and it may cause turmoil in Lantian.

And after Li Chaolong comes up, will he resolutely implement some of Li Chaosheng's policies?

Not necessarily, just like popularizing education, which many ministers think is a thankless thing. Although Li Chaosheng made it very clear, many people think that it is easier for them to rule if they do not enlighten the people's wisdom.

Yuan Shikai is still restoring, and sometimes rights can make a person lost, and even make a person make a wrong decision, just like Qianlong's unwillingness to let foreign advanced technology enter China.

But it’s different if there is an heir. If Li Chaosheng has an accident, these Li Chaosheng’s old team will also look at Li Chaosheng’s kindness and face to support the young master, so that Li Chaosheng’s regime will not have too much accident. Officials Can check and balance each other, then the situation will be much better.

Therefore, an heir is an important symbol of whether a regime can continue.

"Xianzun, we can't delay any longer, our Lantian already has such a scale, we should have an heir."

"That's right, the county lord, if our Lantian is only a county, it's fine, but now we have occupied nearly half of Guanzhong, how can the county lord have no heirs!"

"The county lord can't delay."

A group of people persuaded Li Chaosheng, and finally Li Chaolong came over and said, "Chaosheng."

As soon as Li Chaolong said this, everyone shut up immediately, looked at Li Chaolong, Li Chaosheng also looked at Li Chaolong, Li Chaolong looked at Li Chaosheng and said: "Chaosheng, let me talk to you now as the elder brother of Li's elder brother, your big wedding The matter must be put on the agenda, if you still don't obey, I can only go back and let my father come and tell you in person."

Li Chaosheng looked at the intimidating people in front of him and smiled wryly: "Shouldn't we just get married? As for what? All right, you can arrange it."

After hearing this, everyone couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, followed by Qi Qi and bowed his hands to Li Chaosheng: "The county lord, we are taking our leave."

A group of Guo Bao turned around and left. When they left the room, several people looked at each other. Guo Bao said with a smile, "I thought the magistrate would refuse, but luckily he didn't."

Li Chaolong said: "Now our hearts have settled down, but Guo Bao, the official wife of our county lord can't be fooled, we must choose carefully, and it must be in line with our county lord's wishes."

"Don't worry, as long as the news that our county lord wants to choose a wife, there will be no one in this world who will not be tempted."

After hearing this, Li Chaolong said: "Then you must also pay attention, don't sneak in the spies."

After hearing this, Bai Shoumin said: "Don't worry, I will check all the eight generations of ancestors of all the candidates."

After hearing this, everyone was relieved, and turned to study what kind of daughter-in-law to find for the county magistrate.

In the office, Li Chaosheng looked at the group of Lantian important ministers walking away, and said with a wry smile, "What's this called?"

Just after Li Chaosheng finished speaking, Gu Zi looked a little weird and said, "The county lord."

"Ok?"

Li Chaosheng glanced at Gu Zi, Gu Zi hesitated and said, "It's fine."

Li Chaosheng looked at Gu Zi and said, "What are you doing hiding with me? Tell me."

"Yes, the county lord still remembers Song Sanniang."

Gu Zi looked at Li Chaosheng and said, Li Chaosheng was taken aback when he heard this, and couldn't help thinking of that woman, Song Ying and Song Sanniang, in his mind.

"Remember, how did you know about her?"

Li Chaosheng glanced at Gu Zi, and Gu Zi said: "I don't know, but I think the county lord had a relationship with her before, should you also inform her about the county lord's wedding?"

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng said, "I can't find anyone, where can I tell her the news, oh~"

"Then the magistrate has been unmarried for so many years because he waited for her?"

Gu Zi asked tentatively, and Li Chaosheng looked at Gu Zi strangely and said, "Don't you know why I haven't been married for so many years? Every day, the county government office is with you old men, and there are piles of official duties." It needs to be dealt with, do I have time to fall in love?"

Li Chaosheng scolded him head and face, and Guzi looked aggrieved, blaming me, I'm not married either.

The reason why Li Chaosheng didn't get married was because he was too busy with his official duties, and he had to deal with a lot of things every day, so he didn't have time to waste on dating.

The second is that Li Chaosheng forgot that he still has rights in his hands, and he can 'abuse his private power' to find a partner for himself. I have to say that the feudal society is quite good.

In addition, Li Chaosheng was impacted by modern thinking, thinking that he was only in his 20s, why was he in a hurry to get married, let's talk about it when he was 30, so he didn't care too much.

In this way, Li Chaosheng has been delayed until now.

In addition, power is indeed more attractive than women. People in power are far less fond of women than ordinary people. This is the experience Li Chaosheng has summed up over the years.

"By the way, Guzi, has Li Chaoshui sailed yet?"

Li Chaosheng put down his preparation for the big wedding first, and now there are still a lot of serious things waiting for him. After hearing this, Gu Zi said: "The voyage from Guangdong Port yesterday was a large-scale modified warship of 800 materials. The original shape of the ship modification is the boat used by Zheng He when he sailed to the West. It is 24 feet long and nine feet ten feet wide. The ship carries 24 cannons made by Lantian, and carries 300 people from Lantian to train the precision water army. There are two warships of the same type in total. Launching, the target is the Nanyang area, opening up sea trade routes for Lantian."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng looked at Gu Zi and said, "It's still too small to take a boat. Have you found the blueprint of the treasure ship used by Zheng He?"

Gu Zi said: "No, Jiajing, Fujian Quanzhou Shipping Department, which stored the blueprints of Zheng He's warships, suffered a fire in the past 20 years, and the blueprints of the treasure ships stored there were burned. All we can find now are the blueprints of the ships, and they are still in Xinhui, Dongguan, Guangzhou. Built by the Ship Division."

"However, I heard that the Fujian Quanzhou Shipping Department still kept the manufacturing drawings and manufacturing technology of the horse boat, but that is Zheng Zhilong's territory, and our people can't infiltrate it."

"Zheng Zhilong."

Li Chaosheng narrowed his eyes and murmured that Zheng He had five types of ships on his voyages, ranging from the largest treasure ship of [-] materials to the smallest warship of [-] materials.

The largest of them is the treasure ship, which is 44 feet four feet long and eighteen feet wide. The current size is 151 meters long, 61 meters wide, and more than 20 meters high. The whole ship has four floors and nine masts on it. Zhang Fan, the anchor weighs several thousand catties, and more than 12 people are required to operate the ship at the same time to start it. A ship can accommodate thousands of people.

The second is the horse boat, which is said to be used to transport war horses. The horse boat is 37 feet long and 28 feet wide. The third type is called a grain boat, which is used to transport grain. The second is by boat, which is the warship Li Chaoshui refitted for this voyage. The captain is 24 feet long and nine feet four feet wide.

The smallest is a small warship, eighteen feet long and sixty-eight feet wide.

At present, Lantian bought out the Guangzhou Xinhui Dongguan Shipbuilding Department. This shipping department is about to close down. When Lantian found out, there were only a dozen old boatmen left here. When they learned that Lantian was coming to build ships, these old boatmen were very happy. Yes, if you make a request, as long as they have enough food, they will do it for Lan Tian.

In this way, with the support of Lantian, the shipping company reluctantly opened its business. Lantian modified it and sent a regiment of troops to protect it. It took more than a year to create two qualified ships that can go to sea. small battleships.

In fact, Li Chaosheng originally planned to build ships in Fujian or Shandong shipyards, but in the end he rejected this idea. The main reason is that the shipbuilding industry in these two places has been monopolized. The Shandong Shipbuilding Company is the Dengzhou Navy. It's okay, although the Dengzhou navy is very good at cooking, but Shaanxi is too far away from Shandong, and it's too far away. No matter how good the Dengzhou navy is, it's also a regular army.

Li Chaosheng built a ship here, and the risk of being detained was very high. Li Chaosheng didn't want to work hard for a long time to make a wedding dress.

So the Shandong Shipping Department just skipped it, and then the Fujian Shipping Department, let alone the Fujian Shipping Department. Fujian is Zheng Zhilong's territory. If warships are built on this big pirate's territory, won't they wait to be dealt with?

So after looking around, Lan Tian found Guangzhou Xinhui Dongguan Shipping Department. As for why the mess here is so miserable, the reason is very simple, the sea ban.

The Shandong Shipping Department was able to support itself because of the Dengzhou Navy in Shandong, and the Fujian Shipping Department was able to support it because of the great pirate Zheng Zhilong.Of course, now Zheng Zhilong is the commander-in-chief of the Fujian Navy of the Ming Dynasty, and a court official of [-], he is not a pirate.

As for the Guangdong Shipping Department, there is no backstage and no support from large sea merchants. The reason why there are still a few cats and dogs left is all due to receiving orders for fishing boats. It is precisely because of such decline that Li Chaosheng can take advantage of it.

Li Chaosheng looked at the relevant information that Guzi had found, then turned to Guzi and said, "How much do we invest in this shipyard?"

After hearing this, Gu Zi said with a bitter face, "No less than 100 million taels."

Li Chaosheng twitched his lips. Sure enough, sailing is a gold-swallowing beast. If you don’t have enough financial resources, you don’t dare to try it. At the beginning, Zhu Di used the money he snatched from Mongolia and threw it into Zheng He’s fleet. And the grand occasion of sailing to the West.

The seven voyages to the West also emptied Daming's family. Once Zhu Di died, the voyages to the West were put on hold, and in the end even the rule of sea ban appeared.

However, regarding the sea ban, Li Chaosheng thought at first that the Ming Dynasty wanted to block the sea to prevent Japanese pirates from flooding and invading the mainland. However, after coming to this world, after learning some real situations, Li Chaosheng realized that this was not the case.

The ban on the sea is for the common people, but the rich merchants along the coast colluded with the government, monopolized the business of shipping, and made a fortune.

Monopoly is profiteering, not to mention the monopoly of the sea.

Sugar, spices, buckskin, and various commodities are all astronomical trade volumes, but the money has nothing to do with the country, and it all goes to the pockets of individuals. Think about it, what a horrible thing this is.

It was time for the Ming Dynasty to perish, all kinds of national interests were corrupted by officials and wealthy businessmen, and the court had to ask Kuhaha for money.

Isn't this country dead?
Wealthy businessmen colluded with the government to carry out sea trade, without tariffs, without various constraints, and the money earned was terrible.

You must know that the Eight-Power Allied Forces used cannons to open the gates of the Qing Dynasty for trade. If the Qing Dynasty was honest and willing to accept the trade from the Eight-Power Allied Forces, maybe they would not beat you anymore. Of course, they would definitely be squeezed by them in the end.

You must know that if trade is really started, and the goods produced by the industrial revolution at that time flow into China, the local goods in China will be a disaster.

Therefore, the sea ban of Ming Dynasty banned ordinary people and small businessmen, but it never banned big businessmen. The sea ban was actually a tool for officials and businessmen of Ming Dynasty to grab profits.

But today, Li Chaosheng was going to come over and get a hand in it, to get a share of the action.

The period at the end of the Ming Dynasty was the beginning of the division of the world by the great powers, and it was also the most important period of time. In fact, the Ming Dynasty had fallen behind, and armed merchant ships such as the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal were already on the sea.

Not to mention, the current Ryukyu Island is Taiwan Island, which is still under the control of the Dutch red-haired ghost. As for the Strait of Malacca, many routes in the South Seas are still under the control of the British, Arabs, and Portuguese. Now the maritime hegemony has begun. , but Daming can't fall behind this time, at least Li Chaosheng can't let his Lantian fall behind.

Li Chaosheng thought about approving the note that Guzi handed over. With this sum, 100 million taels of silver will be gone. The wealth that was looted from Zhangjiakou was easily spent. Not even hot.

But every penny of this money has to be spent, and none of it can be saved. Li Chaosheng looked at his empty silver warehouse, and couldn't help but sighed: "This silver is not enough to spend, so I have to find a way to make money."

Li Chaosheng sat at the desk and said, "Go and call me Ma Tengyun, the people from the Commerce Department and the Finance Department, I want to have a meeting."

Li Chaosheng didn't stop, and immediately held a business meeting. The meeting lasted for two hours. After the meeting was over, all the participants looked at Li Chaosheng with respect and admiration.

Because Li Chaosheng wants to do a big thing, that is to recast currency.

Li Chaosheng put forward a concept at the meeting, that is the definition of money, money, silver, is his value because he is a precious metal?
No, money is the embodiment of the productivity of the common people, and without the productivity of the common people, money has no value, so, must money be used in silver?

Shells can be used as money in ancient times. In the Song Dynasty, there was Jiaozi, and Jiaozi could also be used as money. The money in later generations is paper currency, and silver is no longer used. Therefore, it can be concluded that silver can be replaced, and that silver can be replaced. Lantian will also Are you short of money?

(End of this chapter)