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

"I know a little bit, but I don't know completely!" After hesitating for a while, Shan Meixian stood up and explained: "After all, in the past few years, Japan was relatively honest.

As long as we don't offend Japan, Japan will not come against us.

But starting last year, they began to change. Not only did they attack some islands and occupy them, they even robbed ships at sea and collected protection fees!"

"Are you charging protection fees?" Zhu Houzhao narrowed his eyes after hearing this, "It seems that Ming Dynasty has not encountered such a situation yet."

Zhu Houzhao issued the maritime ban for the Ming Dynasty!
After all, in Zhu Houzhao's view, sea bans and other such things are simply stupid behaviors.
Although this is Zhu Yuanzhang's idea, there is really a problem.

Aren’t you just worried that people will run away and not cultivate the land, making it difficult to manage!?
But what about that?
Zhu Houzhao believed that Zhu Yuanzhang was one of the top ten or even top five emperors in Chinese history.

He was an emperor who knew how to maneuver, and he was also the emperor who pushed the imperial power of the feudal dynasty to its peak.

In the future, many people will say that Kangxi, Yongzheng and so on are stupid people, but Zhu Yuanzhang, with some methods, is even worse.

Even Zhu Houzhao would not deny this.

When it comes to emperors who play tricks, when it comes to emperors' power, their Ming emperors are not inferior to others.

Not to mention emperors such as Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, there are also Zhu Zhanji, as well as the Jiajing and Wanli emperors in history. Their imperial powers are all top-notch.

But a carpenter emperor and a fool emperor appeared later, which directly made Ming miserable.

Of course, those civil servants were actually restraining the imperial power from behind. After Zhu Qizhen, the status and power of the Ming Emperor became smaller and smaller.

Even later, if the emperor disobeys, these civil servants will just change the emperor at worst.

There were many emperors in the Ming Dynasty who drowned or died of sudden illness.

Is this really related to the emperors themselves?
How can this be?
The greater the emperor's ability, it is not a good thing for ministers like them.

Even after the Ming Dynasty, the party and government played very hard, almost breaking their heads and destroying the country. These civil servants were the kind who did not hesitate, and they still continued to limit the emperor's power.

If Zhu Yuanzhang knew that the subsequent emperors were such trash, he would probably want to kill all these trash descendants directly.

Even if you have to compromise, you have to kill one group, then compromise, and then kill another group, step by step, at least kill more. After that, as long as the emperor is not killed by the civil servants, the Ming Dynasty will naturally get better.

Zhu Yuanzhang's decision to impose a sea ban was actually not a problem in many aspects.

After all, building a navy costs too much money.

It is no exaggeration to say that the money spent by Ming Dynasty to build a navy was several times that of cavalry.

Ships can now be mass-produced in the Ming Dynasty, but most of the ships produced by the Ming Shipyard are used to make warships.

Just this one item is an astronomical figure.

If the money is used to build other armies, it can at least be used to build an army of millions.

This is the real gold-swallowing beast!
Zhu Houzhao had nothing to do about this. He really knew the importance of the navy. Every year, he would allocate at least 10 million taels to build the navy. This was just a foundation, and it was also because the output was somewhat insufficient.

If the output is sufficient, Zhu Houzhao would not mind changing the 10 million taels to 20 million taels, or even 30 million taels.

It’s a pity that Ming Dynasty’s productivity cannot keep up now!
Having money but not being able to spend is also a worry. Moreover, based on the current situation in Ming Dynasty, almost no country will continue to sell iron ore to Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty was already a behemoth, and it was enough to attract the attention of all countries.

Song State needed Ming Dynasty to deal with Yuan Dynasty, and Yuan Dynasty also needed Dayuan Dynasty to deal with Ming Dynasty.

Similarly, other countries also hope that Ming can be contained. After all, if Ming continues to develop, other countries will also be in crisis.

The previous Dayuan was already a behemoth, but now the Dayuan is constantly failing in the hands of Zhu Houzhao.

No one wants to see the Ming family dominate.

In fact, Daming has a lot of iron ore. For now, the country with the most iron ore in the entire Zongwu Continent is Daming. The country with the most iron ore production is Daming. The country with the most iron production is Dayin.

It’s just that Ming Dynasty was also the country that used the largest amount of iron.

At this time, other countries were naturally unwilling to sell things to Ming.

Of course, Daming's products are still very popular in Zongwu Continent, such as salt and glass.

Just because during the recent period, Ming Dynasty and surrounding countries are almost on the verge of war or in the midst of war, which has also resulted in many goods being unable to be sold.

But there are so many people in Ming Dynasty that I can’t stand it!
The territory occupied by the Ming Dynasty now accounts for at least one-fifth or even one-quarter of the entire Zongwu Continent.

The population is not large at all, and their consumption power is also no problem.

Stimulating domestic demand is the kingly way. In fact, in this world, there is no problem and no solution. Who makes Ming Dynasty's current productivity not high?

At this time, when Zhu Houzhao saw Shan Wanjing and Shan Meixian, he also thought of the Dongming Sect. It seems that the Dongming Sect is also famous for selling weapons.

And it seems that they really have iron ore. If they remembered it earlier, they could ask Shan Wanjing and Shan Meixian to buy iron ore.

It's just a pity now. Shan Wanjing and Shan Meixian may have lost control of the Dongming Sect.

Now it is almost impossible to get help from Shan Wanjing and Shan Meixian.

Thinking of this, Zhu Houzhao's self-reflection when he looked at Zhu Yuyan was full of resentment. This woman can't do it!!
I didn't even bring Shan Wanjing and Shan Meixian to me before. You must know that these two people are actually very useful.

But Zhu Yuyan guarded against herself as much as she guarded against thieves. Apart from Bai Qing'er and Shi Qingxuan, she had never brought any beautiful girls to her.

This was to protect himself, Zhu Houzhao clearly felt it.

I can still understand if you don’t bring Wanwan to me.

After all, Wanwan still needs to practice the Secret of the Heavenly Demon, and will inherit the Yinkui Sect in the future. But you haven’t introduced Shan Wanjing and Shan Meixian to me. Is there something wrong?
Of course, it was fortunate that Zhu Yuyan didn't know what Zhu Houzhao was thinking. If she had known, she would have cried to death.

After all, she still recognized Zhu Houzhao very much and her loyalty was quite good. Moreover, she could be regarded as truly taking refuge in Zhu Houzhao.

If he had not taken refuge with Zhu Houzhao, he would not have told Zhu Houzhao about his previous hard work.

Those things have been traded with Li Gong a long time ago. (End of chapter)