Zhu Yuanzhang in the cellar

Chapter 143: The Sun-Destroying Plan
"what."

On November 24, the fourteenth year of Hongwu, in the city of Nanjing, Zhu Yunfeng yawned and touched the head of the dog next to him.

There was no snow in Nanjing this year. The weather was gloomy and there was a cold wind.

But he was wearing the ancestral pajamas of the Hunan people, with his feet on the solid wood stove, a blanket draped over his body, lying on a recliner, and sitting drowsily at the gate of the Qianqing Palace.

As the boss of the modern Yunfeng Group and His Royal Highness the King of Wu during the Hongwu Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yunfeng feels that his life has reached its peak.

Being rich in modern times and powerful in the Ming Dynasty, he lived a happy and comfortable life.

Every day, with the opening and closing of his eyes, the company's account would add millions, and the annual income would reach more than one billion. Looking at the cold tens of billions in the card, he felt confused about the future and full of boredom.

He doesn't know how to spend his money. Even traveling to scenic countries like Europe seems meaningless to him. It would be better to lie at home and bask in the sun every day.

"boring."

Zhu Yunfeng felt like he was about to fall asleep.

After I became rich, I spent money like crazy and also experienced the life of the upper class.

Luxury cars and mansions are all available.

He no longer drove the Maybach, but bought a Rolls-Royce, an Aston Martin, and a manor villa in Changsha.

Apart from that, he spent his time drinking, eating, and having fun.

Basically, apart from being irreconcilable with gambling and drugs, I have played all the games I should play and spent all the money I should spend.

But he found that even so, he couldn't spend much money. Money was like a child, and wealth grew much faster than it was spent.

So he decided to give back to the community. On top of the already very generous salary, he significantly increased the employees' wages, and then built a gym, a cafe, a game room, and a computer room for employees' entertainment.

Overtime is prohibited, and if overtime is necessary, high overtime pay is given. In the past, weekends were used as weekends, but now it has been changed to a two-day weekend, with the same salary and all kinds of benefits.

I originally thought that this would allow me to spend a lot of money.

As a result, in the second half of this year, the company's business experienced explosive growth due to the employees' overflowing sense of happiness and Zou Ting's effective management.

Even if there was no gold collected from the Hongwu and Yongle dynasties, Zhu Yunfeng could just lie at home and sleep soundly. It is estimated that by next year, the total assets of Yunfeng Company will exceed 10 billion.

If it were to go public and raise funds, its market value would easily reach tens of billions.

This made Zhu Yunfeng feel even more bored.

Because when you have no money, you will feel how good it is to be rich. But when you are really rich, especially when you have tens of billions, you will find that money is just a number.

No matter how much you spend, you can never spend it all, even in your lifetime. When you hold the money in your hands, you don’t know what to do with it.

However, even so, Zhu Yunfeng still asked Zou Ting to continue to expand the company's business and business scope. It is not necessary to make money. The most important thing is comprehensive development to accumulate and lay the foundation for Daming's future industry.

Under such requirements, their company's business covers a very wide range, involving manufacturing, mining, finance, Internet, real estate, light industry, heavy industry and other industries.

It has everything, but none of it is the best in the industry, highlighting the fact that it is diverse but not excellent.

Yet, he is still able to make a living in this industry, and his performance is growing rapidly despite the unfavorable overall environment, which is a miracle.

Now that Zou Ting is in charge of the company, Zhu Yunfeng has had enough of playing in the modern era, so he comes to the Ming Dynasty to lie down when he has nothing to do.

of course.

The most important thing is that only he and Ji He Zhu Di can transport things to the Ming Dynasty.

So I can only stay here most of the time.

"What are you doing."

Ji He came up from the steps of the underground palace and saw Zhu Yunfeng lying at the gate of the Qianqing Palace, with Pipi Dog also lying on the recliner next to him.

"Take a nap. Why did Tingting look for you in the morning?"

"Approve a note."

"Are you two getting together?"

Zhu Yunfeng said casually: "I saw you looking for Tingting quite frequently some time ago."

"Psycho, you probably don't know how many handsome, rich and handsome men are chasing after Tingting, and there are also many elites who have returned from overseas."

Ji He pulled a recliner over from the side and sat on it. The recliner creaked. He closed his eyes comfortably and said, "Tingting is not very pretty, but she is rich now."

"Then why do you look for her every day?"

"I asked her to help find some designs."

"design diagram?"

"It's the design drawings of ironclad ships and steam locomotives."

"Why would you ask her for such a small thing? Can't you just spend some money online to get it?"

"The Internet is not reliable. She has a classmate in the UK who found the original British design drawings from World War I directly from a British library and asked her to borrow them to scan and print. They are now in the Nanjing Shipyard."

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Zhu Yunfeng couldn't help but sigh: "Although we are already rich and not poor enough to limit our imagination, it is still necessary to have academic qualifications to experience such things. Poor students like us can't think of such things."

Ji He said disdainfully, "You are a poor student but I am not. I didn't study hard at all. I played around in high school, but I still got into a second-tier university. You were an art student in a second-tier university, and you only scored over 400 points in the college entrance examination."

"Don't be so mean, I almost became an international student back then, you know."

Zhu Yunfeng recalled that his father almost sent him abroad because of his poor academic performance.

That was in 2018, when his family had not yet fallen on hard times, and with his assets worth hundreds of millions, it was more than enough for him to study abroad.

"Where to go?"

"Over there, the Japs."

"Then why didn't you go?"

"My dad said that we are in a foreign land and cannot live together, so he won't let me go."

"Your father is quite patriotic, so why did you go to the Japanese?"

"I was fascinated by comics at the time and wanted to learn it so that I could come back and save the declining Chinese comics."

"you sure?"

Ji He asked suspiciously, "Are you trying to experience the local characteristics?"

"Am I that kind of person?"

Zhu Yunfeng said righteously: "I really want to learn some comic experience. Even if I go to experience it, it will be a critical experience. Besides, didn't I go?"

"Alas."

Ji He shushed him, then said, "Speaking of the Japs, it's time to kill them."

"Have you solved the problem with your ship?"

Speaking of this, Zhu Yunfeng reluctantly became interested. The only thing that could make him slightly more excited now was to kill the Japanese devils and see what kind of world was behind the stone tablet.

What if it’s not the later Ming Dynasty, but another world?
However, due to the situation during the Yongle reign of Emperor Zhu Di, Zhu Yunfeng did not dare to open the portal to the next world easily.

First of all, opening the portal requires a lot of electricity.

During the last Yongle reign, Zhu Yuanzhang went to the modern era to accompany Empress Ma in a tumor removal surgery, while Zhu Yunfeng was in the Ming Dynasty, helping Zhu Biao get rid of Hu Weiyong.

The portal was not opened for more than a month and was being charged with industrial electricity before the second world was blasted open.

The development of the Hongwu Dynasty requires a large amount of modern materials, which cannot be stopped for a day, so there has been no time to start it.

Secondly, the development of firearms is not as good as expected.

Although a bolt-action rifle has been developed, it is impossible to bring many people to explore other worlds, and the power of a bolt-action rifle is still far inferior to that of an automatic rifle.

If you can get more automatic rifles and bullets, you will be more confident when exploring other worlds.

At least if it were to reach the end of the Ming Dynasty, a world where bandits, soldiers, roving bandits, and the military were rampant and ordinary people were slaughtered wantonly, there would still be a bargaining chip to save one's life.

In fact, AK is still being made at the moment, and a stamping machine has been allocated for its special production for use by Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao's personal guards, but the efficiency is too slow, and so far only more than 200 have been produced.

Although more than 200 AKs are enough, who wants less of this kind of thing? Moreover, more guns mean more bullets and better safety.

Therefore, Zhu Yunfeng will consider opening the next world only after the Ming Dynasty is fully prepared.

And before that.

Destroying the Japanese is Zhu Yunfeng’s biggest goal.

"not yet."

Ji He shook his head and said, "I went to the shipyard to take a look, and the craftsmen are still in the exploratory stage. I don't know if it will be possible next year."

"Then why are you anxious?"

Zhu Yunfeng said speechlessly: "If you want to destroy the Japanese, there are only two ways. One is to take the ocean route, and the other is to go to Tsushima Island in Korea. Our ancestors haven't even pacified Liaodong, let alone going south to Korea. You don't know how dangerous it is to take the sea route."

"How dangerous?"

"You know about the Tang envoy, right?"

"know."

"A total of 30 groups were sent, but only 40 arrived, with a % annihilation rate. And even those that arrived were not necessarily intact. There might be four or five ships and hundreds of people sent out, but only one or two were left when they arrived. The shipwreck rate was over %."

"That's really dangerous. I heard that the Song Dynasty had been engaged in maritime trade with fifty or sixty countries. So they were going out to sea with their heads on their belts?"

Ji He opened his eyes wide, only then did he realize how dangerous ocean voyages were in ancient times.

Zhu Yunfeng smiled and said, "That's not the case. During the Song Dynasty, Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, trade with Southeast Asia, Central Asia, West Asia, Africa and Europe was not across the ocean, but along the coastline. There were supplies and land along the way, which was safer. Japan's trade was mainly across the East China Sea. The sea breeze was strong, and there was no land or supplies. It would take one or two months to drift on the sea, and the probability of encountering danger would be much higher. In addition, the technical level of Japanese ships was also low. Our ships would be slightly safer if we switched to them."

"certainly."

Finally, he added, "It's not too high. After all, it's a wooden boat crossing the ocean, so there are definitely risks. Jianzhen made six voyages to the east, and he actually went out to sea three times. He was almost killed twice by the wind, and the third time his ship ran aground and was lost. The Mongol invasion of Japan was also plagued by typhoons."

Since the Tang Dynasty, exchanges between China and Japan have been very frequent. Japan has been learning from Chinese civilization in many aspects such as trade, culture, education, and technology.

But after all, the risk of crossing the sea is very high, so although the exchanges are frequent, the exchanges between envoys are not as close as in North Korea.

The most important factor is still the same thing - the sea is far away and dangerous.

Apart from the fact that a large number of landless farmers were forced to become pirates and risked their lives to plunder the southeast coast, there was very little civil exchanges between the two sides.

"Well, I'd better speed up my ironclad ship project. Anyway, we already have the steel, all kinds of welding equipment, enough trained craftsmen, and engines."

Ji He nodded and said, "As long as we can get the ironclad ships out, we won't expect tens of thousands of tons of destroyers, but a few 500-ton destroyers will be enough to end our lives."

"Come on!"

Zhu Yunfeng stroked Pipi's dog head and said, "When the ironclad ships come out, we will also give them a black ship incident and turn those bastards into slaves who dig for gold and silver. The reserves of Sado Gold Mine and Iwami Silver Mine are still quite large."

"Yoshi."

Ji He spoke in his native dialect, his eyes sparkling.

At this moment, Zhu Di poked his head out from the Qianqing Palace and said, "Something big has happened."

"what's up?"

Zhu Yunfeng turned his head, confused.

Zhu Di said happily: "Father defeated Nahachu in one battle, Nahachu surrendered, and the Northeast was taken."

"Isn't this expected? There's nothing to be excited about."

When he heard this, Zhu Yunfeng rolled his eyes.

If you can't deal with a group of Mongolian cavalry with 30,000 bolt-action rifles, that would be terrible.

Zhu Di smiled and said, "Isn't this the conquest of Northeast China? Of course I have to tell you about such great news."

Ji He said excitedly: "We have taken over the Northeast, so is North Korea the next step?"

"It's not that easy. It's easy to conquer a country, but it's hard to keep it. Our ancestors probably have to wipe out a wave of Jurchens in the Northeast, then bring the Northeast under their rule, and relocate their tribes to be under the jurisdiction of the Han people."

Zhu Yunfeng said, "You have never been to the Northeast, so you don't know what the situation is there. Going south to Korea is all mountainous, and it is very difficult to conquer. My opinion is that it is better to take it in as a dog and use it as a base for attacking Japan. There will be plenty of opportunities to take over large tracts of land in the future."

"Well, my opinion remains unchanged. We can slowly recover the land in other places, but we have to speed up our daily life, otherwise my work on the engine will be in vain."

Ji He shed tears when he thought about how he had lost weight and almost lost his appearance in order to transport those boat engines.

So what's the point of working so hard?
Isn't it because the Ming Dynasty has the ability to sail across the East China Sea and attack the Xiao Rizu?

It’s difficult to take action in modern society, so let’s go back to ancient times.

Anyway, the Ming Dynasty has its reasons.

Firstly, Japan believes that there is no China after the Tang and Song dynasties. Who are you, the Ming Dynasty? Are you worthy of asking me to submit?
He even wrote a poem to satirize Lao Zhu.

Secondly, the matter of you killing my messenger is not over yet.

Although he was killed by Prince Huailiang of the Southern Dynasty, and he had retired in 1372, he was not dead yet.

Zhu Yuanzhang had considered attacking Japan, but the Ming Dynasty was in a difficult situation in the early days and a long-distance expedition would not be beneficial to the country, so he eventually gave up the plan.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty had reasons and a just cause for attacking Japan.

Since you don't acknowledge that my Ming Dynasty is the orthodox Chinese dynasty like the Tang and Song dynasties, and you even think of yourselves as the orthodox ones, I will beat you until you acknowledge it and exterminate your race!
"Then we should formulate a plan to destroy Japan. Anyway, we have money, food, and guns now. All we need is warships. Once the warships are out, we can directly execute it."

Zhu Yunfeng suggested.

"it is good!"

Ji Hyuk said excitedly, “It should have been done a long time ago.”

(End of this chapter)