"Since the prince has said so, I have no choice but to reply to my mentor like this."
Seeing Prince Ning's resolute attitude, Tong Yuan had no choice but to do so.
5% of the shares is already a lot, Liu Jin only holds 10%, and even the Emperor only holds 20%. Prince Ning's appetite is really not that big, and he can't wait to eat it and become a big fat man.
"Well, I won't get involved in the big business of the Egyptian canal."
"But I wonder if your teacher is interested in attacking the Lodi Dynasty in northern Tianzhu together?"
Prince Ning nodded slightly. To be honest, he really felt that 5% of the shares was too small. He had already calculated the income from this share and the one year after the opening of the Egyptian canal, which was a matter of several million taels of silver.
, if it is only 5% of the shares, it is only a few dollars.
It would be more cost-effective to capture more slaves on the Tianzhu continent. Each slave can be worth dozens of taels of silver.
Originally, he thought that he and Liu Jin would work together to do it, call a few capable people, and each person would get a certain amount of achievements. It would be perfect. It would be best to work with Liu Jin to find a way to capture Egypt, so that
There is no need to look at the Egyptians' faces and devour the entire canal to themselves.
Who knew that Liu Jin had come up with some kind of shareholding system and wanted to go public? Liu Jin, who had always been a cannibal, did not even think about occupying Egypt, but planned to cooperate with Kansu II.
Kansu II is nothing, and Egypt is nothing. Regardless of its claim to be an ancient civilization, in King Ning's opinion, it is not difficult to occupy Egypt. An army of 50,000 is enough.
He, King Ning, could not raise an army of 50,000, but if Liu Jin was willing, he could still raise an army of 50,000. Wouldn't it be better to take over Egypt easily and turn Egypt into a colony?
Forget it, I won’t participate in this Egyptian canal.
Now Prince Ning's main focus is on Tianzhu Continent, because the competition on Tianzhu Continent is too fierce.
There are vassal states established by dozens of vassal kings, large and small, and dozens of colonies, large and small. With such powerful power as the Western United Trading Company, one family may be able to swallow up the entire Tianzhu.
Therefore, the pressure of competition is high, and King Ning's main focus is on Tianzhu.
Tianzhu is a good place. It has a humid climate, fertile land, a lot of arable land, and is also extremely rich in various resources. Some people have discovered large gold, silver, and copper mines on the Tianzhu continent. These are all
It's something valuable.
If you don't seize the time to fight for it now, you won't have your share by then.
You have to know that the people around you are all vassal states and colonies. This vassal state was established by the descendants of the old Zhu family. You can't say that your brothers are fighting against each other, right?
As for the colonies, every boss behind them is a big shot with great skills and eyes, and they are not easy to offend.
Therefore, everyone's goal is very clear, which is to occupy as much territory as possible. The first to occupy it will be yours.
As for East Africa, although the competition is equally fierce and there are many vassal states and colonies, Africa is considered a civilized desert land. The Kunlun slaves here are still in a very primitive tribal stage, very lazy, and
It’s worthless, it doesn’t understand anything, and it can’t even be taught.
Therefore, in many vassal states in East Africa, colonial development was relatively slow, and they could only continue to attract Ming people to immigrate there, and at the same time purchase a large number of white slaves.
In comparison, Tianzhu has greater value and higher development potential.
However, the southern plateau of Tianzhu is now almost completely divided, but the most fertile, rich and populous northern Tianzhu has never been able to get its hands on it.
Northern Tianzhu, which was informed by the Lodi Dynasty, was very powerful. It would not be easy for these vassal states and colonies to win over it.
So King Ning thought of Liu Jin. If Liu Jin was willing to take action, Beitianzhu would be nothing.
With Liu Jin's strong strength, money, and people, it is not difficult to conquer Beitianzhu.
"I'm afraid my mentor has no interest in Bei Tianzhu."
Tong Yuan thought for a while and shook his head.
Liu Jin is very busy, and he has no time to pay attention to the affairs of Beitianzhu. What's more, there are many overseas colonies in which Liu Jin has shares. The largest colony in South Africa, Liu Jin is the major shareholder.
Furthermore, there are a lot of eyes staring at Liu Jin now. He is famous for his reputation, and Liu Jin has also kept a low profile. It is better not to get involved in such a big thing.
"That would be a real pity."
"In the whole of Tianzhu, the richest, most fertile and most populous is Northern Tianzhu. If Northern Tianzhu can be captured, let alone this slave, in Tianzhu alone in the future, millions of slaves will be captured a year.
There is no problem.”
When Prince Ning heard this, he immediately seemed disappointed.
"The prince can actually unite with the Western United Trading Company and other vassal states and colonies. We can send troops together to attack the Lodi Dynasty. Then we can discuss how to carve it up, right?"
Tong Yuan thought for a while and said.
"Having said that, who can know the thoughts of other vassals and colonies?"
Prince Ning thought for a moment and shook his head.
He actually had such an idea, but quickly rejected it.
Because King Ning knew that not every vassal king was as ambitious as himself, and some vassal states were actually very content with the status quo. For example, the Shu Kingdom next to Ning Kingdom, and the King of Shu who occupied the rich Goa region had no ambitions.
The area of the Kingdom of Shu was not large, just the size of a province. The King of Shu was very satisfied and lived a life of intoxication in his vassal. It is said that he bought hundreds of beauties and played songs every night.
Several times, King Ning wanted to join forces with the King of Shu to attack surrounding areas and expand the territory, but Shu refused. He also said that a vassal country can only have its own sky overseas, so don't think about it.
If it is too big and too strong, it will make the emperor jealous.
After receiving such a reply, Prince Ning was completely speechless.
The emperor has allowed them to go overseas and establish vassal states. Why does he care about how big the land you occupy? No matter how big it is, can it be as big as the Ming Dynasty?
If you don't think about progress, you don't want to make progress. If you make such an excuse for yourself, Prince Ning is also speechless.
In many areas, the scope is similar to that of the King of Shu. Just go overseas, occupy a piece of territory, establish your own vassal state, and live a carefree life. The ambition is not very big.
Only a few vassal kings, such as King Ning, King Chu, and King Zheng, were more ambitious and wanted to establish a large vassal state.
On the contrary, those colonies have great ambitions and are constantly expanding. Like the United Western Trading Company, they expand every year and occupy more and more colonies.
Every time they occupy a piece of land, they will build a large number of plantations and use a large number of slaves to work. The economic benefits are very high. The shareholders behind them are very satisfied and give them more and more support, allowing them to expand faster and faster.
Coming faster and faster.
This made Prince Ning see this, and he was also anxious in his heart. At the same time, he was annoyed by the incompetent brothers of his old Zhu family.
"Then I don't know what to do."
Tong Yuan smiled and said.
"Can you trouble Mr. Tong to write a letter to your teacher, hoping that he can write to the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, saying that life for us vassal kings overseas is not easy, and I hope that our vassal kings can be allowed to expand the number of their armies.
The number of troops was increased to 50,000."
"As long as your teacher is willing to write to the emperor, no matter whether the matter is successful or not, he will be greatly thanked."
Prince Ning pondered for a while, then thought about it and said again.
King Ning has great ambitions. He is not satisfied with everything now. He wants to expand and compete for more colonies. However, due to the Ming Dynasty vassal regulations, there are strong restrictions on the vassal state.
The most important one is to limit the number of armies of the vassal state, and to limit the arms and weapons of the vassal state's army. The vassal state is not allowed to manufacture arms and weapons privately, and must purchase them all from the Ming Dynasty.
This was tantamount to firmly blocking the development of the vassal state.
For the unambitious vassal king, it naturally doesn't matter, but for the ambitious one, like Prince Ning, it would be very uncomfortable.
Even though Prince Ning had formed an army beyond the regulations and was manufacturing weapons behind the scenes, the Emperor was far away, and in his own vassal country, it would be okay no matter what.
However, it is best to obtain the permission of the Ming Emperor and the Ming Dynasty to make this matter justified, especially since he next wants to attack the Lodi Dynasty in the north and seize the most fertile area.
Once the army he owns is exposed, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty will definitely know that an impeachment memorandum has been sent to the Emperor of Ming Dynasty.
Who knows what the Emperor of Heaven will think and do when the time comes. Maybe when an imperial edict is issued, he, Prince Ning, will be miserable.
"I will write to the teacher about this."
Tong Yuan thought for a while and expressed his willingness to help write a letter to Liu Jin.
"Thank you so much, Mr. Tong~"
Prince Ning immediately became happy when he heard this, and then he clapped his hands. Soon several beauties came in carrying several plates. On some of the plates, some placed an ingot, an ingot of shining gold, and some
On the plate are pearls, agate, emerald, and jade.
"Master Tong, this is a bit of my heart, please accept it."
Prince Ning smiled and said.
"My lord, I would never dare to accept these things. My mentor has repeatedly told us that a gentleman loves money and uses it in a wise way. I don't dare to accept it if I don't receive any reward for no merit."
Tong Yuan looked at it and said firmly.
He himself came from a big landowner family, and with a teacher like Liu Jin, he also had his own business, plantations, etc. In fact, he was not short of money at all, so naturally he would not accept these things from King Ning.
"Haha, it's true that famous teachers give birth to brilliant disciples. I'm so rude. I shouldn't use these dirty things to humiliate Lord Tong."
When King Ning saw Tong Yuan's attitude, he immediately smiled and waved his hand to signal those people to go down.
Then he looked at a huge map of Tianzhu and said: "Tianzhu is a good place, but currently, there are too few Han people here. This is something that I am very worried about."
"Your Majesty, this matter will be easy to handle."
"I heard from Li Xiang that there are now 150,000 Ming people in Ning State, and the prince has millions of slaves. From my point of view, the prince only needs to buy more women and distribute these women to the Ming people."
"As long as there are enough women, a man can give birth to many children. With dozens or hundreds of women, after decades, are you still worried that there will not be enough Han people?"