People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 281 The navy is ready to attack the pirates! Southeast Asian countries fell into the trap and started hoarding food! !

More than three months have passed in a flash.

In the past three months, Lan Yu has arrived in the waters outside Ningbo Port and started training.

Lan Yu is indeed a person with strong willpower.

It is said that on the first day out to sea, Lan Yu, who had never been to sea before, and his subordinates such as Dingyuan Marquis Wang Bi and others became seasick.

After all, they are inland people and rarely have water fights.

So after bouncing around on the sea, I almost vomited my intestines.

However, these people are holding back their anger, that is, they must not be underestimated.

He must not live up to the recommendations of His Majesty the Emperor, His Highness the Prince and Chen Han, so Lan Yu and his loyal brothers began to eat and drink on the ship day and night.

No matter how much I vomit, no matter how uncomfortable my body is, I am still drifting on the sea.

And the stronger the tide and the stronger the wind and waves, the more they have to drive the warship out, that is, to withstand the test in the bumps on the sea.

After staying on the sea day and night for more than half a month, they lost weight twice because of vomiting. They finally adapted to the bumpy sea and could finally train normally.

To be honest, this kind of behavior that goes against the will of the human body is very admirable.

Moreover, they also showed the will of soldiers, which made those naval soldiers who have been living on the coast admire such a strong-willed commander.

Even though he was vomiting so much, everyone felt distressed to see him. There were even several naval generals who had been at the seaside all year round. They couldn't help seeing Lan Yu in this state and advised him not to work so hard.

But who is Lan Yu?

He is a proud commander.

He is a commander who must complete all tasks on the battlefield.

It is because of this willpower that he was able to win so many battles.

It is precisely because of this willpower that he was able to become a general and a marquis.

Moreover, he has been settling down for two years. During these two years, he has been hidden in the snow. How could it be possible if he didn't have a little bit of resentment in his heart?

How could it be possible if there wasn't even a little bit of desire to fight in my heart?

So in this situation, on the one hand, he refused to admit defeat, and on the other hand, he didn't want to live up to Chen Han's expectations of him.

In the next few months, Lan Yu led his navy to conduct various trainings on the sea.

Especially the red cannon, after it was moved onto the warship, made all the navy soldiers extremely excited.

When the navy was not established and was still a navy, the cannons they used were small-caliber and powerful and could only be used to intimidate the enemy.

Now, not only are the warships smaller in size, but each one is thirty meters long and more than ten meters high.

And they are all brand new warships.

This naval formation consists of a command ship, thirty warships, ten supply ships, and five observation ships.

The main battleship has three red cannons mounted on it, and one red cannon is mounted on each warship.

This time Chen Han and the others sacrificed their capital to build the strongest navy.

In other words, this naval formation has a total of thirty-three red cannons.

Weapons and ammunition are continuously supplied.

At the same time, there were 5,000 navy soldiers in the first formation of the entire naval team, but they only had 3,000 guns.

Except for those sailors, almost every naval soldier has the latest type of gun.

As for other weapons and equipment, they are even more neatly equipped.

Pulling out such a luxurious team would be invincible.

What Chen Han meant was to arm this unit with the strongest combat effectiveness in the shortest possible time, so that the pirates on the sea would be frightened, so that they would never dare to think of any invasion again.

In order to successfully complete the task this time, Chen Han even spent a lot of money to have the steel factory create a large number of steel sheets with hydraulic stamping machines.

These thin plates are inlaid on the main battleships.

With such armor as protection, ordinary swords or even cannons would only form a small white dot when hit on it.

Originally, this kind of technology was unavailable with Ming's current technology.

However, after Chen Han refined the steel and polished it with a hydraulic press, it was possible to polish the iron sheets as thin as paper.

Only then could it be installed on the hull, making the first armored warship appear in front of the world.

Although it is not possible to turn all warships into armored warships, the main warship is a huge warship that is sixty meters high and more than ten meters long.

As long as the sails are inflated, it can attack the enemy ships like a giant. At that time, the enemy warships will be scattered like stones smashing eggs under the huge impact.

How could Lan Yu not feel heroic while leading such a powerful battleship?

On this day, Lan Yu stood on the deck overlooking the sea and prepared. If a war came, he would definitely be able to lead this army to a great victory.

Not to mention that he himself has a strong sense of smell and strong command ability.

Just say that with such powerful weapons and equipment in front of you, if you can't win the battle, how can you live up to your title of victorious general?

Besides, he is already used to the wind and waves on the sea, so he is now waiting for a big battle to come.

Just as Lan Yu led his generals and sighed on the deck, a messenger hurried over.

"Commander! Commander! The court has a decree."

Lan Yu, Dingyuan Marquis Wang Bi, Nanxiong Marquis and others saw that the messenger was so anxious and immediately disembarked.

After coming down, the messenger announced the imperial edict.

It turned out that Xia Yuanji, the chief envoy of Guangdong, hurriedly wrote a memorial to the court.

Recently, Chen Zuyi's pirate gang has become more and more rampant. Guangdong's navy can no longer resist it and urgently needs the support of the court.

After the imperial court received the letter from Guangdong, it immediately forwarded it to the navy training outside Ningbo Port, that is, Lan Yu,

Lan Yu was both angry and excited after hearing this memorial.

Just now, he was discussing with his generals. With such a powerful force, how could he not make full use of it?

And now that we have a fighting chance, how can we not be excited?

What is the greatest expectation of these generals in this life?

Isn't it the outbreak of war?

Although this seems a bit immoral, if these generals want to be remembered in history, they must constantly experience the baptism of war and kill the enemy on the battlefield and make meritorious deeds.

After Lan Yu received the report, he turned back and looked at the generals under his command.

He held the memorial and said loudly: "Soldiers, the opportunity we have been waiting for has come!!"

Just one sentence made the generals below and the navy soldiers' eyes turn red.

They didn't want to wait for a moment and were ready to go. The grain ship loaded the supplies and the equipment ship filled all the equipment and supplies.

On the fifth day, he immediately rushed to the Chief Secretary of Guangdong.

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Annan Kingdom. Since last year, that is, in September of the 25th year of Hongwu, the envoys of Annan Kingdom went to the Ming Dynasty.

After being deceived by Chen Han, he began to conduct overseas trade with Ming Dynasty and purchased large quantities of grain.

They collected grain by themselves in the country and then resold it to the Ming Dynasty.

The envoy who went on the mission was very thief. After he returned, he found businessmen he was familiar with, as well as relatives and friends.

He spent a lot of money to buy more than a dozen ships of grain and sold them all to the Ming Dynasty.

That time their profits were ten times those at home.

This time, the eyes of these people turned red.

They purchased large amounts of grain from the private sector.

It was even just as Chen Han and the others expected.

These people did not help Daming to publicize it at all, but tightly suppressed the news.

First, he enriched his own group of people. After half a year, many big grain merchants noticed this matter, and the envoy had no choice but to reveal it.

It turns out that Ming Dynasty offered a huge price to buy grain.

Of course, he did not say that the Ming Dynasty was willing to pay three times the local grain price, but quietly purchased the grain at a low price and sold it to the Ming Dynasty at a high price.

In this way, the purchase price of grain in the Ming Dynasty was two to three times higher than that in their country.

As a result, not only Annan Kingdom, but also neighboring countries such as Chenla, Champa, and Java, as well as Southeast Asian countries, began to purchase grain.

Then they were sold to Daming one after another.

After the Ming Dynasty opened the Maritime Bureau, although there was no explicit statement that the maritime ban would be lifted, everyone saw a strange phenomenon.

In the past, the coastal navy conducted strict screening of ships going to sea. Private ships were not allowed to go to sea, and only official ships could travel.

But now private ships only go to the seaside, or even go fishing for more than ten miles overseas, and no navy will search them.

Now the people understood that it was a shame that the imperial court did not explicitly say that the sea ban would be lifted.

After all, the old man Zhu Yuanzhang at that time issued an order that Pianfan was not allowed to go to sea.

If you rashly lift the sea ban at this time, your face will be disgraceful.

That proves that the previous policy was wrong, so in this default way, the people can experience it on their own.

And the common people will naturally spread the word from one to ten.

In the end, this policy will become a rule by default. Sure enough, under the effect of this recommendation that was passed down from one person to another, everyone acquiesced that the imperial court had actually opened up the sea ban.

Because of this, ocean trade began to flourish, and the energy accumulated for decades was all released this time. The business opportunities in this can be imagined.

Because of this, the countries in Southeast Asia made a lot of money in the process of selling food.

Of course, the money they earned this time was settled with treasure notes.

At first, the countries in Southeast Asia were not at ease because they all knew the urinary properties of the treasure notes.

The treasure banknote you got this year is worth a thousand dollars, but next year it may become half a thousand dollars.

But after some inspections, they found that this year's banknotes not only did not depreciate in value, but actually appreciated.

This proves that what Chen Han said is right.

Therefore, using treasure banknotes as settlement currency has won the trust of businessmen from all over the world.

They sold grain or local products to merchants in the Ming Dynasty. After receiving a large amount of treasure money, they used the treasure money to buy silk, porcelain, tea, etc., and sold them in their own country.

This time, for them, they just exchanged grain for some silk tea and porcelain.

Although they need several boatloads of food to exchange for half a boatload of silk and the like.

But for them, this is still profitable.

Because food is very cheap to them.

So much so that they didn't even notice.

But under this situation, someone discovered something was wrong, but there were still very few people who understood this.

A teahouse somewhere in Annan Kingdom.

There are many businessmen gathered here, and what they want to discuss today is a big deal.

"I have good news for you. Grain prices in Daming have continued to rise recently.

I heard that in order to build the Great Northwest Barrier in the Ming Dynasty, tens of thousands of migrant workers were mobilized to carry out the construction project.

This is good news for us. The more people they mobilize, the better it will be for us.

From now on, as long as we continue to sell food, we can make a lot of money.

However, I still want to say here that we have encountered several problems now and need to discuss them with you. "

A businessman below immediately said: "President, please tell us carefully, what problem did you encounter?"

"This is an issue related to everyone's financial fortune. If it is not resolved, we will not be able to make stable money."

The businessmen sitting below said one after another, "Yes, President, we must not be careless about this matter. We have just engaged in such a profitable business, and if it is cut off like this, most of the work for the past six months will be in vain."

"You're right, I have acquired more than 2,000 acres of land this year, preparing to grow a large amount of food and sell it to Ming Dynasty.

If my fortune is cut off, it will be a huge loss, and I can't afford it.

Of my capital, there were more than 20 traders involved. If this amount was lost, those 20 partners would have to take my skin off. "

Everyone agreed with this statement.

After they discovered this business opportunity, they all began to hoard large quantities of grain. Then some people became bolder and began to hoard land and grain fields.

In order to expand their own production, they even occupied many people's fields.

The purpose is to take advantage of this opportunity to make a fortune.

So they don't dare to be careless.

The president of the Chamber of Commerce did not hide anything and said: "The first one is that there is a group of people in the court who believe that our purchase of grain will lead to a sharp decrease in domestic grain. Once there is a famine, people will starve to death.

These people are spreading rumors everywhere, saying that our purchase of grain is a treasonous act. "

As soon as these words came out, many people present immediately shouted angrily, "Nonsense, this is simply nonsense.

The grain we purchased was sold in exchange for a lot of silk, porcelain, and tea, so that our people can also taste the benefits.

How many ordinary people can now make a lot of money growing food at home, and how many people have we helped make their families rich? Why didn't those officials say anything?

The people are getting rich because of our efforts.

Now they are chasing us and beating us fiercely. They are jealous because we have made some money. "

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(End of this chapter)