In Liu Jin's house, Liu Jin crossed his legs and thought about what to do next.
"The next step is to send a fleet to Australia to open a route from Australia to the South Golden Continent. This route will not be affected by the climate, it can also be sailed in winter, and there are many islands along the way, so it is safer."
"If this route is successfully developed, a dual north-south route will be formed. Adding the route to Hawaii in the middle, there will be three routes, and a circum-Pacific route will be initially formed."
"When the time comes to build colonies along this circum-Pacific route, the entire Pacific Ocean will almost be regarded as the inland sea of our Ming Dynasty."
"Tsk, tsk, the thought of this makes me happy."
Liu Jin happily asked his servant to open a world map, looked at the huge Pacific Ocean, and then looked at the vast Golden Continent and Australia. He suddenly felt that he had traveled through time and had finally done something.
"The pastures in Australia and South America are some of the best in the world. When the immigrants come there, they can also establish some fixed pastures for future generations. If some grassland people immigrate there, they will no longer have to worry about running out of wool and horses.
."
"Well, here in Nanyang, we will clean up Annan this year~"
"This Annan is a bit dishonest. He said that if you occupy the north, you will have a foothold on the Indochina Peninsula, and then slowly expand and let you become a vassal state of our Ming Dynasty. I will not accept it without suffering some hardships.
Everyone is self-righteous."
"Colonial strongholds need to be established in Tianzhu to facilitate the exchange of merchant ships. Historically, in a few years, Europeans will enter the South Asian subcontinent and enter the Nanyang region on a large scale."
"First stop them on the Tianzhu side. It is best to stop them on the African side. The west coast of Africa belongs to them first, and the east coast belongs to our Ming Dynasty."
"As for the Golden Continent, there is no telling. It must all belong to our Ming Dynasty."
Looking at the world map, I keep recalling the major navigation events in history.
Vasco da Gama opened up the East India route, and then Europeans began to arrive in Tianzhu and Southeast Asia, colonizing all the way.
What I have to do now is to colonize all the way from east to west. In the end, there will inevitably be conflicts in Africa or Tianzhu, competing for colonial strongholds and the like.
"We still have to find a way to fight through land~"
"The Western Region is a great place, with cotton, cattle, sheep, and beautiful women~"
Soon Liu Jin looked at the Western Regions again, and in his mind he thought of the many beauties from the Western Regions that he saw on TV in later generations, and he finally understood why the ancient emperors liked to have beauties from the Western Regions paid tribute.
"Fighting all the way from the Western Regions to Eastern Europe, we naturally have contact with Europe. It's just easier to conquer this vast land, but it is very difficult to rule here for a long time~"
Thinking of this, Liu Jin became thoughtful.
If you just knock it down, there is no problem at all.
The military reform of the Ming army was continuously completed, and the military soldiers with low combat effectiveness gradually became farmers, working diligently to farm the land.
The new conscripts are trained every day, and their weapons and equipment are the best in this era. Their combat power is very strong. In Gansu and Shaanxi, the new army has fought against the Warazhungar tribe several times, and every time it was easy.
defeated the tough prairie people.
The 10,000 cavalry led by Wang Shouren are rampaging across the grasslands, and are now gradually beginning to move from Liaodong to the west in preparation for attacking the Western Regions this year.
The 50,000 newly trained cavalry were trained on the grassland every day, running, cavalry training, and artillery training. They were just waiting for Emperor Hongzhi's order to fight towards the Western Regions.
Liu Jin felt that there was no problem in conquering the Western Regions. The key was how to rule the Western Regions.
The Western Region is an extremely vast land, not to mention that it has to go all the way to Europe. Central Asia is also very huge, with vast grasslands and deserts everywhere.
But this is not the key. The key is that there are no Ming people in these places. Even if they are occupied, it is impossible to rule such a vast place without a large number of Ming people.
What's more, this area was once ruled by the grassland people, and many places are still ruled by the descendants of the Golden Family.
"It's difficult~"
“Maybe there will be large-scale immigration again~”
"It's just that the Western Regions and Central Asia are similar to Nanyang and Liaodong, so it's not easy to immigrate to them~"
Thinking of this, Liu Jin felt troubled.
These places are very important places, with vast land and rich resources. Even if they are not of great use now, they will be left with huge wealth to future generations.
"Immigration requires large-scale immigration~"
"The official population of the Ming Dynasty is 60 million. Adding in the concealed population, I am afraid it can easily exceed 100 million. After a while, I will ask Emperor Hongzhi to exempt the population tax and then find out the population.
Come."
"There will definitely be no problem in immigrating millions of people from Shaanxi, Henan, Shanxi, and Sichuan provinces."
"There are millions of people in the Western Regions and Central Asia. If we encourage births when the time comes, this place will be stable in a hundred years."
Liu Jin looked at Ming Dynasty, and suddenly felt that Ming Dynasty's population seemed a bit small, and there was a feeling that it was not enough.
This is Nanyang, the Golden Continent, and Australia. Immigrants have settled everywhere, and it seems that the population is really not enough.
"Sir, Zhou Jing, the former Minister of Household Affairs, is here~"
At this moment, the housekeeper from home came over and said.
"Zhou Jing?"
When Liu Jin heard this, he was slightly startled. What was he doing to come to him?
Is it because of the Shanxi merchants?
"Please go to the living room~"
After thinking for a while, Liu Jin ordered.
Here in the living room, Zhou Jing brought Fan Hanshi, Wang Wentian and Huang Liwen to visit Liu Jin.
After much thought, he found that in the entire Beijing-Tianjin area, Liu Jin was the only one who had such great power and used this method to block Shanxi merchants.
And Zhou Jing also knew that Liu Jin hated those who broke the rules. It was obvious that Fan Hanshi and the others were breaking the rules and ruining Liu Jin's layout, so they were banned by Liu Jin's order.
“Isn’t it good to follow the rules and make money?”
"There are so many things that must be done to cause outrage and public dissatisfaction. If this unfinished matter gets too big, once the court gets involved, these real estate properties will no longer be available for play. This will cut off everyone's financial path.
, no wonder it was blocked."
After thinking about it carefully, Zhou Jing figured out the fundamental reason why Shanxi merchants were banned.
They offended not only Liu Jin, but everyone else and cut off everyone's financial resources. It would be strange if they were not blocked.
"Gong Zhou~"
Soon, Liu Jin came over with a smile on his face.
Seeing Zhou Jing, he quickly smiled and said.
"Mr. Liu~"
When Zhou Jing saw Liu Jin, he also shouted solemnly, and Fan Hanshi and Wang Wentian also followed suit and saluted.
"Duke Zhou, I don't dare to be that. Just call me a brat as before~"
Liu Jin quickly said in fear, considering Liu Jin's current official position, he can actually be called Liu Gong, but think about it, he is still in his twenties, and being called like this makes him old even if he is not old.
"Who are these?"
Then he looked at the three people he brought over, Fan Hanshi, with some confusion.
"This is Fan Hanshi from the Fan family in Shanxi, Wang Wentian from the Wang family, and Huang Liwen from the Huang family~"
Zhou Jing quickly introduced it.
"Oh~ I've admired you for a long time~ I've admired you for a long time!"
When Liu Jin heard this, he knew immediately. It was exactly what he had guessed. When he looked at the Shanxi merchant, he immediately smiled.
"I wonder if Duke Zhou came here today to give you any advice?"
Don't talk nonsense with them. Liu Jin doesn't have a good impression of these Shanxi merchants. It's for Zhou Jing's sake that he doesn't directly drive them away.
"Liu Jin, their families now know they were wrong. I wonder if you can show your favor and let them go. The conditions are easy to negotiate. As long as you tell them, they will definitely comply."
Seeing the displeasure on Liu Jin's face, Zhou Jing immediately understood that this must be Liu Jin's doing.
I couldn't help but sigh in my heart. If other people were bleeding, they might still be able to escape this disaster, but it was Liu Jin.
He still knows Liu Jin relatively well.
What this person hates most is those profiteers.
The grain merchants who had just started and the salt merchants behind them all made Liu Jin miserable.
The former famous Huizhou merchants and the most powerful families were all tortured to death by Liu Jin, especially the salt merchants, but now they are all very honest.
On the one hand, Liu Jin leads people to make money, but on the other hand, he hates people who do anything to make money.
Fan Hanshi, Wang Wentian and others just broke the rules. It was too difficult to get Liu Jin to let them go.
If he wants money, Liu Jin already has money, if he wants power, he also has power, if he wants reputation, there is nothing worthy of Liu Jin letting them off the hook.
"Mr. Zhou, why can't I understand what you are saying?"
Liu Jin looked at Zhou Jing and said calmly.
"Liu Jin, people in the Ming Dynasty will not speak secretly in front of people. Now that Shanxi merchants have been banned by everyone, they also know that they have brought it upon themselves and are willing to change their ways. Please be kind and give them a way out!"
Seeing Liu Jin pretending to be confused, Zhou Jing sighed, thought about it and spoke bluntly.
"Mr. Liu~"
"We have realized our mistakes and the many mistakes we have made. We are willing to bear all the responsibilities for this. Please let us go. We will comply with all the conditions you set."
Fan Hanshi also stood up and said very respectfully.
After Zhou Jing's guidance, they finally understood who they had offended. It was Liu Jin who they offended.
"It's not that I won't give you a way to survive~"
"You have cut off your own path~"
"A gentleman loves money and gets it in the right way. If he does too many things that are harmful to nature, he will naturally receive retribution."
"Come and see the guests off~"
Liu Jin looked at the three of them, sighed and walked away.