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Chapter 610: If You Don't Learn Math, Physics, and Chemistry, Everything Is Magic

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The Great Ming's foreign policy was very gentle.

From the beginning of the dynasty, the Great Ming formulated the "Fifteen Countries Not to be Conquered." Except for the unswerving attack on the Northern Yuan and the elimination of this previous dynasty, the Great Ming had never launched a sustained war of national annihilation. The wars against Luchuan and Annan were mainly based on defensive counterattacks.

Annan, which was actually occupied during the Yongle period, was reluctantly abandoned during the Xuande period and confirmed to be abandoned during the Zhengtong period. It was also because some people in the court believed that Zhu Di's occupation of Annan violated the fact of the "Fifteen Countries Not to be Conquered" in the Ancestral Instructions of the Imperial Ming. The ancestral laws could not be violated, which was also the political correctness of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Cong, Gui E, and others criticized the Three Yangs mainly to criticize the lowly Confucians, who only knew how to guard the ancestral laws, were stubborn, and did not know how to adapt.

Kanda Shinichi actually understood the Great Ming very well, because it was the Heavenly Dynasty, so it naturally had the magnanimity of a great country. To put it more simply, it was that they loved face.

If you gave the Great Ming enough face, no matter how big the grudge was, it would pass.

But now Kanda Shinichi clearly knew that the Great Ming had changed. This set of methods no longer worked. Now the Great Ming had become aggressive, had completely lost its magnanimity, and was calculating and fighting for every bit in everything it did.

After the Seventeen Articles, there was the Bai Yin Sulfur Treaty, and the Bai Yin Sulfur Treaty had supplementary clauses: Tsushima Island and the 15 million silver war indemnity.

Oda Nobunaga would not sign this treaty, and the only one who could sign it was Kanda Shinichi, and he had to sign it, unless Kanda Shinichi was crazy and hoped for a comprehensive war.

"Allow me to report to the domestic General before making a decision." Kanda Shinichi's eyeballs rolled, preparing to use the "drag" tactic. This was a trick commonly used by the Great Ming's lowly Confucians. Many things, big things dragged into small things, small things dragged into nothing happening, were very easy to use.

Dragging and dragging, people would no longer pay attention.

Kanda Shinichi was a bureaucrat cultivated by various Confucian classics. The entire East was influenced by Confucian culture. It was natural to know a few tricks of the lowly Confucians.

Gao Qiyu's mouth hooked into a smile. He had a sense of déjà vu of facing the lowly Confucians in the court. There were too many lowly Confucians in the Great Ming. He had seen too many tricks over the years. In Hai Rui's words, it was an old trick.

In terms of how to be a good lowly Confucian, the Great Ming was the ancestor of Japan.

"You want to drag it out? Oh, it doesn't matter. Marquis of Shouli has already led the navy to Osaka Bay. I believe Oda Nobunaga will send the signed treaty to the Great Ming." Gao Qiyu told Kanda Shinichi a desperate reality, that the Great Ming did not stop its attack because of the arrival of his envoy.

No one stipulated that war and negotiation could not be carried out at the same time.

Hearing this, Kanda Shinichi's face went from shocked to confused, and finally became dead and decadent. This war to resist the Great Ming's deep interference in Japan's national affairs was lost by Japan. Without the Kumano navy, it meant that the Great Ming navy could land at any place along the long coastline suitable for landing, and then launch an attack on Japan.

"I tell you solemnly again, because the Emperor was worried about the safety of the Nagasaki Governor's Office, he was extremely cautious about the Bai Yin Sulfur Treaty and let the Nagasaki Governor's Office discuss it again. It was that they did not agree, and the court discussion did not pass. It was you who provoked the war. You must bear the evil consequences of the war yourself."

"The Great Ming has never lost the magnanimity of a great country. The Emperor has always been a benevolent Son of Heaven. This is entirely your own fault!"

"Moreover, the Kumano navy entrenched itself in Kumano Beach. Staying in their old nest, the Great Ming navy could do nothing, because the Great Ming navy knew very little about Kumano Beach. A rash attack would pay a heavy price, but now the Kumano navy has been completely wiped out."

Gao Qiyu's words made Kanda Shinichi even more decadent.

Kanda Shinichi was the representative of Japan's resistance faction, and now, the result proved that their resistance was like a joke, bringing extremely bad consequences and needing to bear the Great Ming's anger.

The Kumano navy stayed in Kumano Beach, and the Great Ming really had no strategy. Because Kumano Beach was shrouded in the fog of war, the Great Ming knew very little about Kumano Beach. A rash attack would pay a heavy price, but now the Kumano navy had been completely wiped out.

Kanda Shinichi played the "drag" card, but it didn't matter. The Great Ming navy continued to attack. The Osaka Bay Defense Battalion could be used as a springboard to insert directly into the heart of Japan, Kyoto—Heian-kyo.

Sometimes, Gao Qiyu didn't know how to evaluate Japan. These Japanese pirates really stole everything, even the place names.

Japan's Kyoto, Heian-kyo, was divided into two parts, east and west, with the central axis Suzaku Street as the axis. The eastern part was built imitating the layout of Luoyang during the Tang Dynasty, called Luoyang, and the western part was built imitating Chang'an during the Tang Dynasty, called Chang'an. Chang'an and Luoyang were collectively called Kyoto.

Later, "Chang'an" declined, and "Luoyang" became the synonym for Japan's Kyoto.

Japan had a special term called "Shangluo," which was the process of a Warring States daimyo leading troops into Kyoto, called Shangluo. The Muromachi Shogunate had done this, and Oda Nobunaga completed Shangluo in the second year of Longqing.

The Great Ming's strategy towards Japan was very clear. From the Nagasaki Governor's Office as a bridgehead, to the Osaka Bay Defense Battalion, and then to the current closed-door policy, it was trying its best to build Japan into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. The dirty work and tiring work were all done by the Azuchi Shogunate and the Warring States daimyo, but the benefits should all belong to the Great Ming.

Semi-colonial and semi-feudal was more cruel than full-colonial and full-feudal. Full-colonial meant it was one's own industry, so naturally, one had to try every means to maintain stability. Just like before, Suiyuan was not yet called Suiyuan, and when it was still in the hands of Altan Khan and Tumen Khan, the Great Ming could even think of ways to encourage Lamaism. Once obtained, the imperial court immediately changed its face, flexibly switching from supporting Lamaism to exterminating Lamaism.

Full-feudal was the world with strict hierarchy constructed by Confucianism. Although the hierarchy was strict, everyone could catch their breath. Even the worst order was still an order.

And semi-colonial and semi-feudal meant that the local feudal forces did not need the recognition of the local nationals to survive, so all order was for you to serve the suzerain.

The Great Ming was trying its best to weaken Japan's resistance ability, letting them kill themselves. This was the cruelty that the Emperor did not care about.

The Emperor cared very much about Altan Khan. Even though Altan Khan was already old, he still bullied Altan Khan for being old, wanting to pull Altan Khan to the capital to be beheaded and displayed, to make a final conclusion to the past twenty-five years of war, and to give everyone a final result.

This was caring.

The Great Ming Emperor did not care about the Japanese people. The Emperor just wanted to destroy Japan.

It was just that the Great Ming's miscellaneous newspapers did not seem to care about the great victory the Great Ming achieved in Japan. The miscellaneous newspapers simply published the results of the great victory. Some miscellaneous newspapers described the process in slightly more detail, talking about the participating parties on the Great Ming side and the scale of the enemy and us; some miscellaneous newspapers simply said one sentence: Japanese people attacked Nagasaki, Marquis of Shouli rushed to aid, and wiped them all out.

This was also an old tradition. One sentence for winning, and long-winded for losing.

Compared to the great victory in Nagasaki, the miscellaneous newspapers were more concerned about the cowpox issue. Regarding cowpox, almost all miscellaneous newspapers were opposed to it. The "Gewu News" conducted a special report, but it was drowned out by the noise. Zhu Yijun immediately ordered the Ministry of Rites to publish the "Gewu News" research on cowpox in the "Di Bao," which finally clarified this matter thoroughly.

But judging from the reactions of all parties, it was still opposition.

"I am a human, not a god. What is all this! If I plant cowpox, will I be controlled by me, this living Yama?" Zhu Yijun spread his hands. He could only hold his forehead at this kind of conspiracy theory in the miscellaneous newspapers.

In the description of the miscellaneous newspapers, planting pox became a ritual of some mysterious power. The planted cowpox became a brand, and then they were influenced to be confused, becoming the Emperor's loyal servants and running dogs, and then calling on everyone not to plant pox. "The body, hair, and skin are received from parents." Planting cowpox into the body, and it was still strange cowpox, it was really too strange.

The Emperor was the living Yama, then the grand physicians were Ox-Head and Horse-Face, and the Huimin Pharmacy belonging to the Dissection Institute and the Imperial Hospital was the City God who hooked souls and took lives in various places, and planting cowpox was the ritual.

"This is not even the most outrageous. Some people say that those who plant pox will definitely go to hell after death, and it is the eighteenth level." Feng Bao took out a more outrageous miscellaneous newspaper and placed it in front of the Emperor. This one was more outrageous. Going to hell was fine, but it was the eighteenth level of hell.

If you don't learn math, physics, and chemistry, everything is magic.

For the Great Ming's scholar-officials, planting cowpox to prevent smallpox was a fantasy magic. A mere cowpox could prevent smallpox, such a terrible disease? For them, this was an incomprehensible spell.

"Issue a decree ordering the Dissection Institute to vaccinate me and my relatives with pox seedlings tomorrow." Zhu Yijun chose to support the cowpox cause of the Dissection Institute with his own body.

During the Kangxi period, Kang Mazi once organized 400 palace maids to be vaccinated with the human pox method, and four died. In the place where smallpox was rampant and abandoned by Heaven, dying half was light. This 1% mortality rate was really very low.

Later, he ordered the princes and princesses to be vaccinated. Later, Kangxi recalled this matter in "Court Teachings and Maxims," saying with great self-satisfaction:

"At the beginning of the dynasty, many people feared smallpox. By the time of my cowpox method, all children and your children were safe because of the cowpox. Now the 49 banners outside the border and the various Khalkha vassals are all ordered to plant cowpox, and all those who plant cowpox are well."

"I once remembered when I first planted it, old people still thought it was strange. I insisted on doing it, and thus saved the lives of these thousands of people. Is it accidental?"

Since the Kangxi era, the human pox method to plant seedlings formed the ancestral law.

The human pox method of the Kangxi era planted "good seedlings." Cultivating good seedlings was actually killing and inactivating them, taking pox seedlings from smallpox patients, killing them with water bath, and planting them in the nose.

Feng Bao thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, I think we can wait a little longer. After all, smallpox is extremely rampant on the grasslands. Let's wait for the border people to be vaccinated. If it is effective, it will be appropriate to make a decision after awarding Pang Xian."

Large-scale practical experience would be tested on the grasslands first. If it is effective, it will be promoted. If it is not effective, it will not be too late to punish them.

"That's fine, wait, don't rush." Zhu Yijun accepted good advice and chose to accept Feng Bao's persuasion. Mainly, he could let the miscellaneous newspapers continue to argue. The more intense the argument, the better. By then, with Pang Xian's experimental data on the grasslands, promoting the cowpox method would become a matter of course.

"The road from Shengzhou to Datong Prefecture has been opened to traffic!" Zhu Yijun looked at the memorial of Zhou Liangyin, the Governor of Shanxi, and clicked on it several times, saying: "Issue a decree to the Ministry of War, the Sixth Engineer Regiment that participated in the construction, reward everyone with five silver!"

"Good!"

The Engineer Regiment was also called the "Yong" Regiment. For example, the Sixth Engineer Regiment that built the road from Shengzhou to Datong Prefecture was actually called the "Fenyong" Battalion, but Zhu Yijun preferred to call them the Sixth Engineer Regiment.

Shengzhou had an open-pit coal mine. There were two roads for the coal from the Shengzhou coal mine. The first was to go to Shuofang Prefecture, to Guihua City, and enter the Xuanfu market through Daqingshan. The second road was to go directly to Datong Prefecture, and then enter the Xuanfu market. This was an important part of the coal-silver convection. The opening of this road meant that the scale of coal-silver convection would further expand.

The Great Ming was flourishing and rising steadily.

Since the destruction of the Bansheng City built by Altan Khan in the ninth year of Wanli, the hand of the Great Ming reaching into the Hetao finally became a tangible big hand.

"Summon Chen Mo to see me." Zhu Yijun finished his vermilion approval of all the memorials and summoned Chen Mo, who had just returned to the capital. He needed to understand the journey of the study tour group.

Since Lin Fucheng and Li Zhi left the capital, Zhu Yijun had not watched the fun. Mainly, the level of the gathering in the capital was really limited. In mid-May, the 50-person study tour group of Lin Fucheng and Li Zhi finally returned to the Great Ming capital along the road.

The Great Ming Emperor could use his "Young Master Huang" name again to watch the fun.

"I pay my respects to Your Majesty, Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live." Chen Mo changed into the flying fish suit and respectfully paid his respects.

"Exempt from courtesy, sit down and speak." Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "Is this trip smooth?"

"It's hard to say in one word." Chen Mo's face was extremely complicated. He thought for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, I would rather take 100 children than take 50 Confucian scholars to the grasslands. It is really too difficult."

"Oh? Tell me in detail." Zhu Yijun said with great interest.

Chen Mo frowned and said: "At the beginning, the study tour group thought that the embroidered-uniform guards sent by the Emperor were not protecting them, but monitoring them. They were not allowed to get too close, nor were they allowed to interfere. According to my plan, actually, before the heavy snow, we could have reached Kaiping Guard, but it was all delayed by these Confucian scholars."

"No one is willing to do physical work, but someone has to carry the food and drink. The livestock power is not enough, and no one is willing to carry it on their back. Some Confucian scholars even quarreled over who was qualified to sit in the carriage. Not only were they unwilling to carry their own food and drink, but they also quarreled over sitting in the carriage. They didn't even want to walk. Finally, they discarded part of the food and drink and all sat in the carriage."

"This part of the baggage was discovered by the observing embroidered-uniform guards and picked up."

Zhu Yijun was stunned for a moment and said: "Didn't they bring servants?"

"They brought them, and the servants and the embroidered-uniform guards walked together." Chen Mo also specifically explained the reason in detail. Servants were brought, but only two per person were allowed. The servants were driven to the same table as the embroidered-uniform guards. The reason was not complicated. Since it was a study tour, they had to practice it with their own bodies.

Chen Mo did not use the term "lowly Confucians" to refer to the study tour group, because the study tour group was really not lowly Confucians. At least they were willing to practice with their own bodies and were willing to practice reality. This was ten thousand times stronger than lowly Confucians.

Chen Mo described the entire study tour process in detail.

On the first day, the discarded part of the baggage hit the Confucian scholars' foreheads like a boomerang that very day, because the tools for making fire were in the discarded part of the baggage. The grasslands were very cold, the temperature difference was huge, and they could not make fire. It was no different from killing them.

Chen Mo had no choice but to return the picked-up baggage to the Confucian scholars.

"Ah? Drinking raw water? Are they crazy?" Zhu Yijun looked at Chen Mo sluggishly and said blankly: "Didn't they make fire? How could they drink raw water? Don't Li Zhi and Lin Fucheng know?"

"That day, half of the fifty-person study tour started to have diarrhea, to the point of exhaustion and dehydration." Chen Mo said helplessly: "I didn't let the Confucian scholars drink the stream water. I told them it wasn't clean, but the Confucian scholars said I was meddling in other people's business and told me that this was such an inaccessible place, so naturally the water was clear. How could it not be drinkable?"

Naturally clear water, pure, natural, and unpolluted—this is the reason why the Confucian scholars insisted that the stream water could be drunk. But it was precisely for this reason that more than twenty people had diarrhea that day, to the point of dehydration. This directly led to the entire study tour being unable to move forward for three days, greatly delaying the travel plan.

"The Confucian scholars soon started infighting. The most experienced Li Zhi was squeezed out first, and later it was Lin Fucheng. After the two were squeezed out, they immediately started infighting. I was really convinced." When Chen Mo talked about this experience, his whole face was black. This caused quite a mess.

Chen Mo answered the Emperor's question about why Lin Fucheng and Li Zhi did not remind them, because they were squeezed out.

Because of the infighting, three people whispered together. The embroidered-uniform guards were relatively far away. One didn't watch them, and these three people ran away. They almost couldn't find them.

They left by themselves and soon got lost. Once they got lost, they ran around, making the embroidered-uniform guards look for them for a long time. If they didn't run around, it wouldn't be so hard to find them. These three people also had infighting and parted ways. If they hadn't brought them back, Chen Mo would also be responsible.

Later, the embroidered-uniform guards had to stay closer to prevent accidents from happening again.

"The Confucian scholars were infighting, did the embroidered-uniform guards not?" Zhu Yijun had been reading military horses since he was ten, but he had no marching experience.

"Yes, the thing that is not lacking in the embroidered-uniform guards is the thorns. I cleaned them up, and they were convinced." Chen Mo said with a smile: "I was a beacon guard for five years on the grasslands. Cleaning up a few thorns is still very easy."

The army is the king of the strong, and the fist is the hard truth. Chen Mo had rich survival experience, and he was also very capable of fighting. As soon as he left Xuanfu, he established his leadership position that day, and soon he cleaned up the embroidered-uniform guards and servants, making them convinced.

"The Confucian scholars never planned anything. On the seventh day, they had already started to run out of water and food. Lin Fucheng and Li Zhi were driven to the embroidered-uniform guards' side. It was Yao Guangming, the second young master of the Yao family, who came to ask for help. I sent someone to borrow a batch of water and food. When I arrived, good guy! The Confucian scholars saw a wild boar and planned to press the wild boar with their bare hands!" Chen Mo stared and said: "That is a wild boar."

One pig, two bears, three tigers. It is not talking about the strength of the wild beasts, but the degree of danger to humans. The first one is the wild boar, because the wild boar is relatively common, and its personality is fierce and not afraid of people. The number of bears and tigers is much smaller, and they are extremely alert by nature and will actively avoid them, because the terrifying upright ape is not easy to mess with, especially people with weapons.

Pressing a wild boar with bare hands, this seemed like looking for death in Chen Mo's eyes. Chen Mo rode his horse to arrive, drew his bow and shot an arrow, wounding the wild boar. Finally, after other embroidered-uniform guards arrived, they surrounded and killed it, which was the only way to avoid a tragedy.

Starting from the seventh day, the embroidered-uniform guards and the Confucian scholars could be considered to have merged. These Confucian scholars who were willing to go to the grasslands for a study tour were actually not lowly Confucians, but they had their own pride, but these prides soon fell before the ruthless nature.

Only seven days later, these Confucian scholars accepted the reality, changed from self-reliance back to the young masters served by servants. Being served and not causing trouble, Chen Mo thanked Heaven and Earth.

Pride was shattered, kindness was deceived, cognition was subverted, pity was used, sincerity was betrayed, etc., all were Chen Mo's memorials. The Confucian scholars' study tour to the grasslands this time still had some gains. At least the Great Ming had 50 fewer Confucian scholars who might become lowly Confucians.

"Does Lin Fucheng know that Young Master Huang is me?" Zhu Yijun was curious. It had been almost a year. Could it be that Lin Fucheng still hadn't guessed the Emperor's identity?

"I initially thought he was 'rarely confused,' but later I found out that he was indeed truly confused. Li Zhi knew the Emperor's identity and hinted at him many times, but Lin Fucheng just didn't hear it." Chen Mo really thought Lin Fucheng was pretending to be confused, but later found out that Lin Fucheng really thought that Young Master Huang of the General's Mansion could do whatever he wanted.

Once, Li Zhi mentioned that the mobilization of embroidered-uniform guards required a middle decree, that is, yellow paper, and the Emperor's personal imperial writing to mobilize. Lin Fucheng said as a matter of course: The General is the head of the military, so the Emperor naturally wants to treat him well. This is clear rewards and punishments;

Li Zhi said again: Mobilizing more than 100 people requires the Ministry of War. Lin Fucheng replied: It should be so. Military affairs are the major events of the country, so naturally, it should be cautious;

Li Zhi almost said clearly: The embroidered-uniform guards accompanying him are the Emperor's will! The General also has the General's difficulties. Please mobilize the embroidered-uniform guards, it is very taboo!

But Lin Fucheng felt that since Marquis Qi pacified the Japanese in the south and resisted the Hu in the north, the General's Mansion could naturally make decisions on military affairs.

Later, Li Zhi gave up telling Lin Fucheng the truth, unless he pointed it out directly.

On the afternoon of the next day, Zhu Yijun went to Yanxing Building. First, he wanted to check the accounts of Yanxing Building. This was also the time to check the accounts every ten days. The accounts of the Yanxing Building trading house were mainly the 3/1000 stamp duty and the subscription of ship tickets; second, it was to hold a welcome party for Lin Fucheng and Li Zhi.

These two people did not go to the grasslands in vain. At least they confirmed the necessity of the order to exterminate Buddhism.

Ship tickets were still in full swing, but because the five-masted ocean-going ships were opened for private purchase, the number of five-masted ocean-going ships in the trading house was always maintained at a level of five per month, causing dissatisfaction among the economic buyers of the trading house.

Originally, they could have added a meal, but this extra meal was snatched away by the gentry of Jiangnan!

The main subscribers in the Yanxing Building trading house were the powerful and wealthy in the north. They did not have the geographical advantage, so they naturally could not go to sea in person. In the eyes of the powerful and wealthy in the north, the southern gentry's request to open five-masted ocean-going ships was competing with them for profit! Such big ships should be controlled by the imperial court!

"When I didn't let them buy ships, they said I was eating alone. Now I let them buy ships, and they are sold for 50,000 silver each, and they say the imperial court has lost its majesty. How can I do anything wrong!" Zhu Yijun spread his hands and said to Wang Qian: "Young Master Wang, look at me, the Emperor, I have become a two-headed block."

"It seems that no matter what I do, they are not satisfied."

"Yes, as long as the silver does not completely enter their pockets, the powerful and wealthy will always have complaints. Any decree, or any matter, cannot satisfy everyone." Wang Qian bowed and said.

Wang Qian's meaning was very clear. Since it was impossible to satisfy everyone, one should conditionally satisfy those who were loyal to the monarch and patriotic, so that more people would unite around the Emperor.

"Someone has the idea of building a shipyard." Wang Qian said with an extremely ugly face: "I heard that recently someone has been clamoring for wind power, plotting the five major shipyards of the Great Ming."

Longjiang, Songjiang, Mizhou, Fuzhou, and Guangzhou, the five major shipyards, were not just five official factories, but five industrial groups. How long the shipbuilding industry chain was, the scale of these five official factories was that big.

Clamoring for wind power public opinion was mainly concentrated on criticizing competing with the people for profit, criticizing the rigidity of official factories, criticizing the corruption of official factories, and criticizing official factories for abandoning the root and pursuing the end.

Rigidity and corruption were issues that the imperial court had always been concerned about, and several anti-corruption campaigns had been carried out. Rigidity was also gradually improving. Criticizing abandoning the root and pursuing the end was mainly criticizing the scale.

"The five major shipyards now have 150,000 craftsmen. These 150,000 people are all strong men. Craftsmen do not engage in farming, which is abandoning the root and pursuing the end. Some people plan to push the responsibility of land abandonment to the official factories." Wang Qian leaned forward and said: "These guys just fancy the thick profits of the official factories, not for the sake of land abandonment."

"When there were no official factories, the land was also abandoned. This is the inevitability of the small-scale peasant economy under natural closure."

When Lin Fucheng and Li Zhi discussed the limitations, closure, and unreasonable distribution of the small-scale peasant economy, they explained this cycle.

Because the distribution is unreasonable, grain cannot be commercialized. Those who need it do not have the consumption ability, and those who have the consumption ability do not have the demand, and production stagnates;

Because of the limitations, productivity and means of production are backward, and the ability to resist risks is extremely weak. A natural disaster, even rich farmers and landlords, will have to wander, and production is unstable;

Because of the closure, places lacking grain have no grain, and places not lacking grain have grain piled up and rotting. The lack of transportation capacity caused this universal phenomenon, and grain cannot flow smoothly;

The reason for land abandonment is extremely complex. The official factory group construction and the engineer regiment absorb wanderers for the overall stability of the Great Ming's rivers and mountains.

"You mentioned this problem, and Elder Wan also told me." Zhu Yijun sneered and said: "They say all day that the official factories I set up are scrap metal. How come when they are trying to scrape it into their own hands, they are all so full of energy? This official factory plantation has half of my shares. Competing with me for profit, how many regiments do they have in their hands!"

The Great Ming's opening of the sea currently has two heavy assets: one is the shipyard, and the other is 150 overseas plantations. These 150 plantations have more than 1.5 million qing of land, not much, just 150 million mu of plantations.

Zhu Yijun is the biggest landlord leader in the Great Ming world!

And in these two heavy assets, half of the shares belong to the Inner Treasury, which is the Emperor's own. It was built by Zhu Yijun uniting all parties at a cost of 37.12 million silver when opening the sea.

Plotting the official factories is not competing with the Emperor for profit?

The greed and stinginess of the Great Ming Emperor are known to everyone from Ireland to Nagasaki. ===== CHAPTER 611 =====

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