When Qin Wei received the results of the Donghai Navy's battle, his brows furrowed slightly.
The massacre of 100,000 people is an inhumane thing no matter how you say it.
Although the residents on the island were all slaves of the nobles of the previous dynasty, they had been abandoned and had nothing to do with Ju Lan Dao and others.
It actually didn't matter whether he killed them or not. It was just a little food, and Dali could still afford it.
Qin Wei sat behind the desk, pondered for a while, and asked Eunuch Lu beside him: "Is there any movement in the court?"
Lu Gonggong said: "There is no movement, but Jiangzhou Supervisory Censor Chen Kezhong has filed a petition to impeach Lu Zhiqing for killing innocent people indiscriminately!"
"..."
Qin Wei didn't even know what to say.
Supervise the Censor!
These guys have the power to report something based on hearsay. If you want them to hear about it, they can file a petition for impeachment without providing any evidence.
The only thing that made Qin Wei feel good was that the censors in Dali's Inspectorate were not the kind to do things at will. There were no clear parties in the court and there was no party struggle, so the censors' power to report rumors was still very useful.
of.
For example, regarding the issue of Lu Zhiqing this time, Chen Kezhong was right to say that he killed innocent people indiscriminately.
It's just that most officials in the court don't care about this.
When the old emperor asked Mao Jiang to stage a fake rebellion in Yunzhou, millions of soldiers and civilians were harmed. Compared to this, Lu Zhiqing's massacre of 100,000 was nothing.
Qin Wei thought for a while and said, "Let's fine him half a year's salary!"
He knew that Lu Zhiqing was a good naval general. If Dali went on a long voyage in the future, he would need to use Lu Zhiqing again.
But he does not advocate this kind of massacre. Now it is only Xiaoyao Island and Qingfeng Island. In the future, Dali will capture more islands in the southeast islands to use them as Dali's supply base and defensive position in the sea.
You can't massacre every time.
"Isn't the penalty of half a year too light?" Eunuch Lu asked softly.
Qin Wei raised his head and glanced at him and said, "Then I'll punish you with thirty more military sticks! Make it painful and let him improve his memory!"
A fine of half a year's salary is indeed too light. Lu Zhiqing is a noble person, and all noble families have a lot of assets. They don't live on their salary at all, so they might as well work hard.
"Here!"
Qin Wei put down the memorial in his hand and picked up an account book. This account book came from the Royal Chamber of Commerce and was sent by Shen Wansan.
The content is the profits from the mutual trading between Dali and the surrounding royal courts in the past month or so.
The mutual market has just begun. There are not many goods traded so far, but the Royal Chamber of Commerce has still earned millions of silver dollars. Now Shen Wansan is busy opening stores all over Dali. He wants to open the Royal Chamber of Commerce's stores all over Dali.
every prefecture and city.
Of course, the Royal Chamber of Commerce store will not do any ordinary business, it is more like a wholesale display store.
The significance of the existence of the Royal Chamber of Commerce is not only to make money, but also to promote the economic development of the entire Dali.
Therefore, the Royal Chamber of Commerce will not run stores, but will wholesale the goods it obtains to private chambers of commerce and earn the price difference in the process.
Of course, this is just talking about ordinary business. When it comes to the cultivation industry, the Royal Chamber of Commerce will be involved.
Shen Wansan has already established an online relationship with Li Shizhen. In the future, the elixirs produced by Taiyuan Hospital will be sold by the Royal Chamber of Commerce, and the alchemists of Taiyuan Hospital will also profit from it.
This can also be regarded as Qin Wei's support for Dali's elixir business.
Don't underestimate this little change. In fact, this is very beneficial to every alchemist in Dali.
In the past, in Dali's elixir industry, alchemists were the source of the industry and were responsible for producing elixirs. But in fact, the real majority was taken away by the sect forces. Ordinary alchemists just made a hard-earned money, and only high-quality ones
Only a pharmacist can make a fortune by refining medicine.
If ordinary alchemists have no money, they cannot develop new elixirs or try to refine other elixirs.
Some alchemists have been practicing medicine all their lives and can only refine three or five types of elixirs. It's not that they don't want to learn, or that they can't learn, but that it costs too much money to learn to refine a new elixir. They support it.
Sorry.
No matter how powerful the alchemist is, he will fail dozens or even hundreds of times when refining new elixirs. Every failure will waste a lot of money. But after learning, he still needs to become more proficient in refining it successfully in the first place.
The rate is very low, the more you practice, the more you will lose.
When an alchemist learns to refine a new elixir, it is impossible to increase the success rate to 50% without summarizing hundreds of experiences.
Under normal circumstances, when an alchemist refines elixirs, it is not a loss if the success rate reaches 30%, but even a 30% success rate is very difficult.
Therefore, most alchemists have to rely on the resources of the sect for training. Since they have been trained by the sect, they naturally have to work for the sect.
However, it is not easy for the sect forces to train alchemists, and they will not train too many. They will only select some people with relatively high talents to train.
This leaves many low-level alchemists without any chance to improve.
The alchemists of Taiyuan Hospital are naturally the most talented alchemists in Dali. In the past, Taiyuan Hospital only trained alchemists with relatively high talents.
But the Royal Chamber of Commerce does not need high-grade elixirs. In fact, they need low-grade and medium-grade elixirs because the demand for low-grade and medium-grade elixirs is greater.
This also led to the Taiyuan Hospital to expand its production scale, recruit more alchemists, and increase the productivity of elixirs.
Currently, the Taiyuan Hospital has found a beautiful place outside Kyoto and plans to use it as an alchemy workshop under the Taiyuan Hospital. The Taiyuan Hospital is also preparing to recruit more alchemists from the private sector.
Qin Wei even proposed to Taiyuan Hospital to open an alchemist academy to train more alchemists.
However, these are all things for later. At present, Qin Wei is most concerned about the profits gained by the Royal Chamber of Commerce through the mutual market.
At present, it seems that the profits generated by the mutual market are still very large.
But it makes sense to think about it. In the trade between the two sides, Dali is in a trade surplus position. Dali's tea, porcelain, silk, etc. are all the favorite products of the surrounding royal court.
In addition to these, the Rong people in the north are short of salt and iron, the countries in the western regions are short of food and medicinal materials, and the three southern barbarian countries like all kinds of exquisite jewelry, gold and silver jewelry, etc.
The land of Dali is vast and rich in resources. As long as it is not messed up, Dali has an absolute advantage among the surrounding royal courts.
What's more, Qin Wei also used the new money to make a fortune for Dali.
The profits from this can be imagined.
After seeing the profits from the mutual market this month, Qin Wei fell into deep thought again.
Currently, what matters most to him is the financial issues of the court.
If Dali wants to develop, he needs to invest countless amounts of money, so since he ascended the throne, he has tried every means to increase the income of the court.
Tax reform, minting new money, the Royal Chamber of Commerce, the Central Bank, etc. are all designed to help the court obtain more money.
Next, Qin Wei wants to develop people's livelihood, increase people's income, build a voyage navy, and improve Dali's overall cultivation level, which requires an astronomical amount of money.
And just money is not enough, more cultivation resources are needed.
There are some resources that money cannot buy, such as the Awakening Fruit, no amount of money can buy them.
Although Qin Wei is willing to trade the Awakening Spirit Fruit with Wang Yixian, it does not mean that he does not want more spiritual planting fruits such as the Awakening Spirit Fruit.
But if you want more spiritual plants, you need to go to Qiongtian Sea Area.
Now is not the time for Qin Wei to go to Qiongtian Sea Area, but it does not prevent him from making some preparations in advance.
The voyage navy is already under construction, but there are still a lot of preparations that need to be made in advance.
For example, if you don't have a nautical chart, you're going to die if you go on a long voyage.
Another example is the supply point along the way. The three thousand miles of sea area requires more than ten days of sailing. This distance is still too far. If Qin Wei wants to establish a perfect route, it is best to occupy some islands in the southeastern islands and practice
It forms a road leading to Qiongtian Sea Area.
Thinking of this, Qin Wei suddenly murmured in a low voice: "Lu Sheng's Royal Court!"
The Royal Court of Lu Sheng is only more than 300 miles away from Dali's Yuezhou. If Dali wants to sail southeast, he must pass by the Royal Court of Lu Sheng. As for going around, it is not impossible, but it is very dangerous.
Navigation is not something you can just go around when you want. When sailing in the sea, you must consider various phenomena in nature, such as wind direction, waves, tides, currents, reefs and drifting ice, etc.
Dali Dongfang is a vast ocean. Except for some islands offshore, there are almost no islands more than a thousand miles away. Moreover, the climate is extremely complex and is not suitable for navigation at all.
This is also the reason why they are called Southeast Islands and not East China Sea Islands.
Because starting from the coastline of Dali Yuezhou and extending to the southeast is an island chain that is three thousand miles long. Naturally, it is most suitable for Dali to go on a long voyage along the island chain.
It's just that Lu Sheng's Royal Court happened to be blocking the front end of this island chain, blocking the gateway to Dali's voyage.
If Dali wants to sail far away, he must first deal with Lu Sheng's royal court.
Moreover, the Lu Sheng Royal Court provoked Dali one after another, and Dali had to fight back, otherwise those guys in the Southeast Islands would think that Dali was easy to bully.
The last time the Lu Sheng Royal Court's 100,000 naval troops attacked, if the attacks from other Royal Courts had not been resolved quickly enough, they would have landed in Dali Yuezhou.
"Recruit Uncle Chang Yang and Uncle Nanshan to the capital!" Qin Wei raised his head and ordered Xiao Shunzi who was not far away.
Changyang Bolu Zhiqing was the commander-in-chief of the Donghai Navy, while Nanyang Boliu Zhen was the commander-in-chief of the Nanhai Navy. Both naval divisions were under the jurisdiction of the Chinese Army Dudufu.
Before dealing with the Royal Court of Lu Sheng, he had to first understand the specific situation of the two major naval forces. He must know that the navy of the Royal Court of Lu Sheng was very powerful. If he did not make complete preparations, he might capsize in the ditch.
"Here!"
Xiao Shunzi responded.
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While Qin Wei was busy handling government affairs, Wang Yixian stayed in Kyoto.
Although he knew Qin Wei's plan, he still did not leave Kyoto.
Because he really wanted to get the Awakening Spirit Fruit, even if it was just an equal deal, he was willing.
In order to obtain the Awakening Spirit Fruit, he was willing to make some compromises, even if it meant becoming an enemy of Yuehai Island. He was originally going to be an enemy of Yuehai Island, but now he just needed to spend more ordinary resources to trade.
Therefore, in anger, he still accepted Qin Wei's plan.
Among the inns.
Wang Yixian looked at a letter and said to Song Yuanhao beside him: "Calculating the time, the support from Yuehai Island should be almost here!"
Song Yuanhao thought for a while and said: "If we send a ship back to report the news, it will probably take more than ten days to arrive."
"What if we use the communication array?" Wang Yixian said.
"That should be soon!" Song Yuanhao said.
Wang Yixian nodded, "Keep an eye on the port of Linhai Prefecture and inform our master as soon as they arrive."
"Master, are you worried?" Song Yuanhao asked softly.
Wang Yixian took a deep breath and said: "I am indeed a little worried. Let's see who they come this time. If it is these two old guys Dongfang Hong and Dongfang Zheng, we will have no choice but to give up on the Awakening Spirit Fruit Tree."
There are five powerful people in the Jingzhao Realm on Yuehai Island, among which Dongfang Hong and Dongfang are the two strongest. Both of them have reached the late stage of the Jingzhao Realm, and their artistic conception cultivation is not low.
With Wang Yixian's strength, there is a big gap compared with them.
"Then do you want to ask the master uncle to come?" Song Yuanhao asked.
Wang Yixian shook his head and said: "Forget it, your uncle is at a critical moment now and cannot leave confinement."
"If something can't be done, the worst we can do is give up!"
Song Yuanhao nodded gently.
It's best to get the Awakening Spirit Fruit. If you don't get them, there's no loss.