Comprehensive martial arts: Summon the thunder and lightning general, I will rule the world

Chapter 503 Choice
Zhu Houzhao's face showed a confident look: "If they can really figure out the reason, I am actually looking forward to it.

Just imagine, if all their steel is used to build ships, how can they make weapons?"

Zhang Juzheng was also shocked when he heard this. This is indeed true. He can even use this to trick other countries, as long as the iron smelting technology does not spread.

In this way, other countries will inevitably be unable to catch up with the Ming Dynasty.

For Ming Dynasty, it would also be a good thing if other countries also studied steam engines.

Zhang Juzheng left quickly. Especially after knowing that Zhu Houzhao seemed to have little interest in visiting the shipyard in person, Zhang Juzheng took the initiative to take over this responsibility.

It's not that Zhu Houzhao is not interested in shipbuilding or anything else. No one understands the importance of the ocean to a country better than Zhu Houzhao...

I just don’t know how many countries will follow suit in the future.

And in this world, we don’t know what is on the other side of the sea?
It seems there are no seven continents and four oceans, right?
"What is your Majesty thinking about?" After Zhang Juzheng left, Zhu Houzhao fell into deep thought, and Huang Rong stepped forward and asked.

During this time, Huang Rong and Shao Min also returned to Zhu Houzhao.

Naturally, he didn't want to miss the time with Zhu Houzhao Nuwai.

"I'm thinking about how to make fun for other countries!" Zhu Houzhao said directly without hiding anything: "I feel that Kublai Khan and his friends are living too easy now."

"Your Majesty, do you think we are not working hard enough?" Shao Min also looked at Zhu Houzhao with some resentment after hearing this.

Shao Min was responsible for many of Dayuan's actions. In fact, Shao Min did a pretty good job.

At present, much of Ming's intelligence on Dayuan was collected by Shao Min.

"No, Minmin, Ronger, you have done a good enough job!" Zhu Houzhao shook his head repeatedly. No matter how strict he was with the two women, he could not put forward higher demands on Huang Rong and Shao Min in this matter. .

After all, Shao Min and Huang Rong were not only collecting intelligence, but also arranged for a large number of spies and spies to join Dayuan Wenwu.

Some people even began to continue to incite these civil and military people. Although these people were still listening to Kublai Khan's words honestly on the surface, Zhu Houzhao knew that as long as Kublai Khan died, it might be impossible to continue to suppress these people. The Yuan will be torn apart.

Moreover, the previous information about phoenix eggs was also spread by Shao Min and Huang Rong.

There is no doubt about the ability of these two people.

"I was just thinking that if Kublai Khan were allowed to continue his attack like this, the Yuan Dynasty would have already annexed the Northern Song Dynasty before the Southern Song Dynasty took action!" Zhu Houzhao sighed softly: "The Northern Song Dynasty is still too weak now."

If the Northern Song Dynasty was a little more powerful or a little weaker, Zhu Houzhao would not think so much.

The current Northern Song Dynasty is obviously still making its final resistance, but it is now in a state where it is impossible to be eliminated by the Yuan Dynasty in a short time, but it is almost impossible to fight back.

"Tell me, did I push Dayuan too hard before?
It would be great if Kublai Khan could launch a desperate attack on the Northern Song Dynasty. "Zhu Houzhao's words made Shao Min and Huang Rong roll their eyes. Kublai Khan should also want to increase his strength to deal with the Northern Song Dynasty, but he couldn't stand it. Zhu Houzhao had millions of troops on the border between the Ming Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty. There are still three to four hundred thousand troops among them, and they are still fighting intermittently.

If Kublai Khan really dared to wage a desperate war against the Northern Song Dynasty, then the Ming Dynasty would definitely launch a large-scale attack on the Yuan Dynasty.

Even if they cannot occupy a large amount of land in Dayuan, they can still eliminate the opponent's effective force.

Zhu Houzhao will not refuse this!
But now that Kublai Khan is neither up to nor down, this is very embarrassing. If the Ming Dynasty can be eliminated, I believe Kublai Khan would rather give up part of his interests and want to kill Zhu Houzhao.

"This is not an option now. Although Daming wants to recuperate, but there is so much noise outside, is it really okay for us to recuperate like this?" Then, Zhu Houzhao rubbed his head again and said softly.

"Your Majesty can take the opportunity to recruit refugees so that they can build the facilities of the Ming Dynasty. With the existence of Skynet, there is no need to worry that these people will be spies. But if these people can truly become people of the Ming Dynasty, it will also be of great significance to Your Majesty. Small benefits!" After thinking about it, Shao Min suggested to Zhu Houzhao: "After all, the Ming Dynasty is still quite short of population."

"Based on universal rationality, this is indeed the case!" Zhu Houzhao nodded slightly: "I will contact Wu Qi and the others right away."

Kublai Khan had also gone crazy during this period. Except for those who surrendered, all the places he passed were massacred, just like locusts.

Not only was Zhu Houzhao shocked when he learned about this, but other countries were also shocked.

On the one hand, this is to intimidate, and on the other hand, it is also to force surrender.

As for massacres of cities, Zhu Houzhao doesn't really like to do them, but isn't it commonplace for foreigners to massacre cities?
Isn't it normal to massacre the city at every turn?
But this also scared the people of the Northern Song Dynasty. Before this, Zhu Houzhao was also accepting some refugees, but the intensity was not very great.

Now that he heard what Shao Min said, Zhu Houzhao also became interested.

After ordinary people came to the Ming Dynasty, would they still think about the Northern Song Dynasty? As a monarch, Zhu Houzhao had confidence in the Ming Dynasty!
Is it possible that the Ming Dynasty under his control is not as good as the Northern Song Dynasty? I am not Chongzhen!
The people of the Ming Dynasty at the end of the Ming Dynasty may indeed have lived a miserable life. There were natural and man-made disasters, and the official and gentry groups above also began to cause trouble. They can even be said to be one of the most miserable people in Chinese history.

Chongzhen could not impose those taxes on the officials and gentry, so they were all transferred away and transferred to ordinary people.

As for the lives of ordinary people, does Chongzhen know?
Maybe he knew, or maybe he didn't know, but as an emperor who relied on the Donglin Party, Zhu Houzhao felt that Chongzhen didn't know. Even if he knew, there was nothing he could do.

He wanted to be an emperor, and he also believed in the twists and turns of Confucianism. However, as an emperor, Chongzhen wanted to fulfill the obligations of an emperor, but he did not know that the ministers below may not fulfill their obligations. .

In the final analysis, he still doesn't understand the sinister nature of people's hearts, or maybe he was pushed to the throne by the Donglin Party in the first place.

He needs to make some trade-offs.

However, as an emperor, being deceived by the Donglin Party and allowing his own people to be oppressed at the same time was not the behavior of a qualified monarch.

Similarly, Zhu Houzhao was not optimistic about Zhao Ji and others, and allowed his people to suffer. This in itself was their incompetence.

Of course, the really hateful people are those ministers.

(End of this chapter)