"It's really impressive that Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling, a pair of idiots, were able to conquer Burma."
Liu Jin was slightly surprised when he saw the latest news coming back from Myanmar.
To be honest, Liu Jin's impression of the Zhang brothers was still as described in history. They were a pair of brainless, arrogant and domineering people who relied on their sister to become the queen's idiot.
And judging from the several encounters with the Zhang brothers after traveling through time, it turns out that the Zhang brothers are indeed not much different from idiots.
But who would have known that these idiot brothers have now made great achievements overseas, not only occupying Eastern Tianzhu, but also conquering Myanmar, colonizing two vast lands, and seemingly
Huge wealth can be obtained from the colonies every year.
This made Liu Jin have to look at the brothers with admiration.
To be honest, since the rise of colonialism, the Ming Dynasty has never stopped its overseas colonization and expansion. The overseas colonies have made huge profits, which greatly stimulated the Ming Dynasty's lords and powerful landlords, gentry, merchants, etc. to devote themselves to overseas business.
Go in the midst of colonial activities.
However, overseas is overseas after all. In the concept of Ming people, overseas is a barbaric land and people overseas are barbarians. Life in such a place is definitely not as comfortable as living in Ming.
Therefore, even though there are already many vassal states and colonies overseas, there are still very few Ming people among these vassal states and colonies. Many people are unwilling to go to sea for fear of dying at sea or overseas.
And working hard overseas is not an easy task.
The resistance of the colonial natives requires the use of real swords and guns. If you cannot win, you will die overseas.
There are also colonial diseases that kill people invisibly.
On the African side, many vassal states and colonies have never dared to go deep into the hinterland of the African continent, and can only carry out colonial activities and expansion along the coast and along rivers.
A very important reason is the fear of diseases here. For example, yellow fever in Africa makes people talk about it. Many people who went to colonize overseas died from various diseases.
Many people originally went out with the idea of getting rich overnight, but not only did they not get any money, they died overseas, and even their bones could not come back.
Although overseas colonization and trade are profitable, they are also very risky. This has led to the fact that in the Ming Dynasty, although many people know that overseas colonization and trade can make a fortune overnight, they always dare not go overseas.
The Zhang brothers dared to go out bravely to seize colonies, expand colonies, and effectively rule and plunder the colonies. This made Liu Jin look at them with admiration.
At least it is stronger than many powerful people in the capital.
"The new lands occupied by the imperial court can be developed through forced immigration. However, the vassal states have no way of doing this in these overseas colonies."
"The key is to establish the spirit of bravery and struggle. We descendants of Yan and Huang still lack the spirit of adventure in our hearts and prefer a comfortable life!"
Liu Jin thought carefully.
As the old saying goes, a golden nest or a silver nest is not as good as a doghouse at home. Although it is rich in philosophy, it can also reveal the spirit and character of the entire nation of the descendants of Yan and Huang.
In comparison, we indeed lack the spirit of adventure and adventure. Sometimes we would rather die poor in our hometown than venture abroad.
"It seems that the deeds of the Zhang brothers need to be well publicized. Otherwise, if they all stay in the Ming Dynasty, how will they be able to defend their overseas territory in the future."
Soon, Liu Jin made a decision.
I am determined to publicize the great achievements of the Zhang brothers, publicize the impressive achievements of the Zhang brothers, and stimulate people all over the world to let them see the benefits of overseas colonization and adventure.
As long as there are enough benefits, someone will always do it.
Although overseas colonization is risky, the rewards are also great.
"Someone, please send this material to the Ming Dynasty Morning Post. Let the Ming Dynasty Morning Post report it carefully and focus on the Zhang brothers' gains overseas. At the same time, similar reports should be made frequently in the future, especially about personal gains overseas.
Hugely successful report.”
After thinking about this clearly, Liu Jin immediately shouted.
"Yes, Master~"
Soon a servant came in and followed Liu Jin's instructions.
Early the next morning.
"Sell newspapers~ sell newspapers~"
"Marquis Shouning, Jianchang Bo led the colonial army to conquer Myanmar. From then on, the jade and jade business was in the hands of the Zhang family. It is expected that jade and jade worth more than ten million taels of silver can be mined from Myanmar every year."
"Myanmar is rich in resources and contains huge amounts of copper, gold, and silver mines. It is expected that the Zhang brothers can mine millions of taels of silver every year."
"Myanmar has an extremely large virgin forest. It has been detected that Myanmar has the largest reserve of teak in the world. Teak is a precious tree that is most suitable for shipbuilding and is extremely valuable. Zhang's Shipyard is likely to become the largest shipyard in the Ming Dynasty in the future."
"Some colonial experts pointed out that if the Zhang brothers occupied Myanmar, as long as the colonial method was appropriate, it is conservatively estimated that they could obtain a huge wealth of more than 20 million taels of silver from Myanmar every year."
"If you include the occupied East Tianzhu area, the Zhang brothers' colony will bring a huge wealth of more than 30 million taels of silver to the Zhang family every year."
"The Zhang family's colony will also become the largest overseas colony, surpassing the Western United Trading Company and the South African Union Trading Company, becoming the largest colony and the colony with the highest output."
With the shouts of the newsboys, the entire Beijing-Tianjin area began to come alive. A large number of people poured out from every corner and quickly bought all the newspapers in the hands of the newsboys.
The morning morning in Beijing and Tianjin begins with newspapers and morning tea.
Teahouses of all sizes are already overcrowded. If you are not a regular customer, or if you get up a little late, it will be difficult for you to find a seat.
As the most famous teahouse in Beijing, Tingyuxuan's business is naturally the hottest, and it is already full of people early in the morning.
"Houning Hou, Jianchang Bo?"
"Aren't these the two brothers-in-law we have today? Aren't they notoriously arrogant and domineering?"
"I've heard that they beat people to death in order to clear a piece of land."
"No, I'm from Cangxian County. In our Cangxian County, the Zhang family has been lawless for a long time. In the past, I often heard that he robbed people of their land and bought and sold it by force."
"I haven't heard much about them in recent years. I didn't expect that they went overseas and conquered such a big colony. They went overseas to make a fortune."
"Who in the capital doesn't know about the Zhang brothers? They relied on the Queen's favor in the past, so they were arrogant, domineering, and extremely brainless brothers."
"How big of a colony can they build overseas?"
Inside the teahouse, the tea patrons looked at today's Ming Dynasty Morning Post with some disbelief.
The reputation of the Zhang brothers is not very good, but they are quite famous here in the capital.
"Is this fake news?"
"Myanmar used to be a vassal state of our Ming Dynasty. It is said that it is still very powerful. It can even fight Siam. Now it has been defeated by the Zhang brothers?"
"What's more, how can we get tens of millions of taels of wealth from this wild overseas land in a year?"
Some people really don’t believe that this colony is so easy to occupy? How profitable is it?
"Oh, this is so weird for you."
"Myanmar is rich in jade and jade. Do you know how much silver a jade the size of a finger costs here in the capital?"
"Last time I was with some friends. One of my friends also made a lot of money doing business overseas. He was wearing a top-quality imperial green jadeite ring. It was as big as it could be. It was said that it cost tens of thousands of taels of silver."
"The jadeite from Myanmar is famous for its large output and good quality. It is much more valuable than Hotan jade and mutton-fat jade from Hotan."
"Since this family has a monopoly on the jade business, how much money do you think it can make in a year?"
"Yes, yes, I didn't see it written clearly in the newspaper."
"In Myanmar, there are not only jade and jade, but also copper, silver, and gold mines. There are also precious mahogany, nanmu, teak for shipbuilding, etc. Myanmar has a large population. The brothers of this family account for
If you live in Myanmar, you will really get rich in the future."
"Every year they can continuously plunder huge wealth from the colonies. Now they no longer look down on the little land we have in the Ming Dynasty. They will never come back, and they have never heard of their domination and land grabs.
Already."
"Isn't that right? This land is really worthless. That is to say, the land in the Beijing-Tianjin area is still valuable. The land in the countryside is worthless at all. No one wants to rent it to others. If you grow your own land, the little food you can produce in a year will be worth nothing.
Even if we sell them all, we won’t be able to sell them for more than a few copper coins.”
"In that case, overseas colonization has great potential."
"Of course, I didn't see that the Zhang brothers have become rich now, and they can all sit and collect money in the future. Everything in the colony belongs to their Zhang family. In the colony, they are the emperors of the country."
"But why did I hear that many people went overseas and either had accidents at sea or were beaten to death by colonial natives, or died of strange diseases overseas? Originally, I planned to go overseas to see if there was any development.
"
"A wolf travels a thousand miles to eat meat, but a dog can only eat shi after traveling a hundred steps at home."
"If you want to get rich, you have to work hard and create something. Look at the Chen Feng reported in this newspaper. He was originally a poor military man who couldn't even marry a wife. But later, he went to
Huangjinzhou, gold and silver mines were discovered here, and I became rich. Later, ginseng was discovered here in Huangjinzhou, and I became rich all of a sudden.”
"Now here in Huangjinzhou, not only do we have countless wealth, we have more than a dozen wives, big and small. As for the land, it is said that there are tens of thousands of acres, and they don't like farming."
"So, if you want to work hard, go for it, maybe you will become rich overnight!"