Father can be an enemy country

Chapter 347 Wei Hui Consensus
That night, a group of people arrived at Weihui Mansion, and the brothers lived in the magistrate's yamen.

After eating hot local specialties, the brothers continued the previous topic.

"I thought about it from the perspective of sea power that Lao Liu said, and I really saw a whole new world." Lao Si held a high-pile steamed bun that is also a local characteristic, and said with great interest:

"Except that people cannot live in this sea, it is actually no different from land!"

"It's also uninhabitable in the wilderness." Zhu Zhen is more interested in the local pork buns. The buns here are thin and stuffed, and the size is like eggs. A bite is full of oil, which is very satisfying.

"It's still possible to farm in the wilderness." The third brother deliberately raised an argument.

"You can still fish in the sea." Zhu Zhen retorted.

"I'm not targeting you, I'm arguing with the fourth brother." The third brother explained to him.

The fourth child rolled his eyes, and continued: "Anyway, what the sixth child said makes sense. With the connection of sea routes, barbarians from all over the world are no longer limited to mountains and seas, isolated in a corner. Instead, they can be closely linked together."

"Besides, when I went to Korea, I carefully observed that it took nine hundred carriages to load a four-hundred-hundred-year-old sea-going ship. Moreover, the ship was on the sea, sailing with the wind and the current, and only a dozen or so Sailors can manipulate it, and the cost of eating horse chews is saved a hundred times. Therefore, sea transportation is far superior to land transportation.”

"Of course." The youngest said: "Didn't you see that Jiangnan relies on boating for both travel and cargo transportation, and there are almost no carriages?"

"How can the two places be considered to be closely connected? It should not be simply distinguished by distance, but by the convenience of people and goods transportation? For example, Weihui is less than a hundred miles away from Lingchuan County in Shanxi, so it is considered close? But if you want to go there, go , but have to go around the Taihang Mountains, which is very inconvenient, so no matter how close the two places are, they are almost inseparable from each other.”

The fourth child said in a deep voice: "But if the sea route is smooth, relying on the speed and convenience of sea transportation, large quantity and low price, even though the two places are thousands of miles apart, they can still be closely connected!"

"Fourth brother said it very well!" The sixth child was almost ashamed of himself. Before he instilled these thoughts beyond the times to his brothers, he was always worried about whether they would accept and understand.

Obviously he was overthinking, everything from top intelligence to top intelligence, once he leads in, people can figure it out by themselves.

Of course, this is also related to the great development of the navigation industry in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and the objective conditions for discussing sea power have matured.

After all, even if he didn't ripen himself, the fourth brother himself would start the great Zheng He's voyages.

No one really thought that he sent Zheng He to the west to find Emperor Jianwen, right?
No, no, no?
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The sixth son ate six meat buns beautifully, then took the fourth brother's words and said:
"I said before that the 'country of Fanyi' around Nanyang is warm and humid, and the land is sparsely populated. Rice is harvested three times a year, there is no famine every year, and there is a surplus every year! It is a treasure land given to me in China, connected by sea. , definitely not 'the land is not enough to supply'!" Zhu Zhen paused, and said in a low voice:
"As for 'getting the people is not enough to make orders', the brothers know more about 'using Xia to change barbarians' than I do, so I don't need to say more?"

"Hehe, no need." The brothers shook their heads together. It was nothing more than immigration, enlightenment, changing customs... With a multi-pronged approach, in 20 years, Di Yi will be able to conquer China.

"There is one last one." The third brother was very satisfied with the answer of the sixth child.

"The third one is that the country needs to rest and recuperate after pacifying the Southwest, and the emperor can no longer use military force for us." Zhu Zhen said with a smile: "Actually, this is the last thing to worry about. With the wisdom of the third brother, don't you understand that when the birds are gone , After the death of the cunning rabbit, what is the hunter's biggest headache?"

"How to deal with the good bows and lackeys that are no longer needed..." Jin Wang's pupils shrank suddenly, he knew that Lao Liu was definitely not alarmist.

Not to mention anything else, just why did the father want to divide the vassal kings?And why did they hone them abnormally?Isn't it just to let their brothers take back the military power from the generals as soon as possible?
So the father has long been vigilant against his arrogant soldiers.In the future, if the military generals are sensible, they may still get a "good bow" ending;

But the brothers all know that the father is usually better than Han Gaozu, and he has always said that he will not do anything to the old brothers who fought together like Han Gaozu.So the father really wanted to get a good reputation of 'treating heroes well'. Of course, whether it can be done is another matter.

The third child believed that his father must be worrying about how to deal with those arrogant soldiers after destroying Beiyuan and pacifying Yunnan.

"Lao Liu's 'opening up borders overseas' is indeed a way to get the best of both worlds, and my father is sure to be happy with it." Zhu then considered it carefully:
"Of course, the premise is that the court can afford it."

"What if the court doesn't have to bear the military expenses for 'opening up borders and overseas'?" Zhu Zhen asked with a smile.

His smile was as harmless as ever, even a little simple and honest.

"Then father must agree!" The brothers couldn't help laughing: "For all emperors, expanding the territory is a fatal temptation. No matter how wise the father is, he will not be immune."

"I'm just afraid that spending too much money will bring the country down." The fourth child said, "If you can avoid spending money from the court, why not do it?"

"But who will pay if the court doesn't pay? We don't have that much money." The King of Jin smiled and said, "Our little salary is hard to live on. To open a Golden Lotus Courtyard, you have to use your sister-in-law's dowry. If you let me pay In terms of military expenses, selling your sister-in-law is not enough."

"You don't need to come out, I will come out." Zhu Zhenshi said in shock.

"You!" The elder brothers took turns touching his forehead and said, "Lao Liu, don't you have a fever? Just your two lucky money? Is it enough to buy a string of whips?"

"I don't have any money now, but I will soon have money." Zhu Zhen finally said in a desperate way: "Father has promised to reopen the Shibo Department, and I will take full responsibility for it!"

"Shi, Shibo Secretary? Is it very profitable?" the second brother asked.

"Let's put it this way, the annual income of the Southern Song Dynasty is 1000 million guan, and Shibo's income is 200 million guan, accounting for [-]% of the national annual income!" Zhu Zhen said solemnly:

"During the Yuan Dynasty, the income of Shibo was higher than that of the Southern Song Dynasty, and it could still account for 400% of the country's annual income. The Taicang Shibo Department alone handed over [-] catties of pearls and [-] taels of gold to the Yuan court a year! So people at that time It is said that the income of Shibo is 'the capital of the military country'!"

"So it is reasonable and reasonable for Shibo to pay for foreign war military expenses." His tone is full of self-confidence: "I am confident that within a few years, Shibo will regain its former glory! And in the future, it will definitely far surpass that of Song and Yuan level!"

"Well, we believe in you, it will definitely be possible!" The brothers nodded heavily.Then he asked: "We can't just sit back and enjoy the benefits, just tell us what we need to do, just tell us, and we must do it!"

"Okay!" Zhu Zhen laughed loudly, "That's what you said!"

(End of this chapter)