The Most Powerful Man in the World

Fang Li nodded and said, "The exact geometry of the property is still under statistical calculation, but it can be roughly determined, at least five million taels."

Chu Yi took two steps slowly and looked up and said, "One million taels of silver are taken out as the Jing Navy's salary for the next two years, and the remaining four million taels of silver are all used to purchase the raw materials needed for shipbuilding and put them into Xiamen Shipyard. I hope Master Gu can build a fleet of thousands of ships for this Governor."

Gu Bing sucked in a breath of cold air and said in horror: "Master, if you want to build such a fleet, if there is only one shipyard, I am afraid that it may not be able to build it in ten years. Not enough for shipbuilding."

Chu Yi nodded and said, "Bendu naturally knows this. Bendu will build several shipyards on the coast and start several shipyards inland at the same time. In the past, Emperor Chengzu could build a fleet of Zheng He's treasure ships. Why is Bendu? Can't we build a huge fleet that surpasses Zheng He's fleet?"

At this time, Western navigation was prevalent. On the vast ocean, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, and even the future empires on which the sun never sets, are all crazy to develop their navies. Western warships will appear in the coastal areas of Daming.

You must know that even now, there are traces of Western warships along the coast of Daming, and the cannons of the Franji were introduced to Daming at this time.

In order to build Zheng He's fleet, Chengzu spent more than ten million taels. Chu Yi wanted to build a fleet that surpassed Zheng He's fleet. giant.

This is indeed an extremely large and amazing investment. Even Chengzu took more than ten years to build such a fleet of giant ships at sea, which is equivalent to investing one or two million taels of silver every year.

And Chu Yi obviously doesn't have the patience to wait for ten or twenty years. He wants to build a sea fleet in two or three years, which means that he will invest [-] to [-] million taels of silver in two or three years.

When Chu Yi revealed his ambitions, everyone in the tent showed dull expressions on their faces. If it wasn't for Chu Yi's calm expression, they would all wonder if Chu Yi was talking in his sleep.

Tang Yin, who seldom speaks, couldn't help but speak at this moment, looked at Chu Yi with a worried expression, and said, "Professor, that is as much as [-] to [-] million silver grains, I'm afraid the court officials will not agree at all. what!"

If it is really according to Chu Yi's plan, it means that almost three or four million taels of silver will be invested every year. Above the court, the civil and military officials will never agree to put so much gold and silver into shipbuilding. .

Fang Li squinted his eyes thoughtfully.

Gu Bing's face was horrified. He really didn't expect that Chu Yi would have such great courage, but he was also worried about Chu Yi.

A huge fleet is not only built, but even more terrifying is the later maintenance. It can be said that the later maintenance is even more amazing than the investment in shipbuilding. Years of maintenance can even be enough to build another fleet.

Chu Yi waved his hand and said, "Since the Governor dares to think so, he naturally has a way to raise enough funds to build such a fleet."

After speaking, Chu Yi looked at Gu Bing and said with a light smile: "As long as such a fleet is built, the huge profits Jie Shi can reap from the sea, I think Patriarch Gu should be aware of it."

Gu Bing sighed lightly, nodded slowly and said: "If the Governor can really build such a fleet, and supplement it with elite soldiers, then the harvest will far exceed the investment."

Chu Yi knows better than anyone how amazing the benefits of having a huge and amazingly powerful fleet in this era can be.

Iwami Silver Mountain, American silver, and many mineral deposits in Dongying, and even overseas trade, it can even be said that if it were more aggressive, many small countries overseas would loot the past, and the wealth of each country would be astonishing.

Of course, this is not Chu Yi's ultimate goal. The reason why he has to build a huge fleet is that on the one hand, if Daming wants not to follow the old road, he must choose to open the sea to compete with the West. More importantly, Chu Yi will lead the way. The fleet goes to overseas countries.

But he wanted to see whether it could affect the small overseas countries to obtain luck. If he could gain luck, Chu Yi wouldn't mind destroying those small overseas countries.

Fang Li squinted, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, Tang Yin couldn't help frowning when he saw it, "Fang Li, the Governor's move is too crazy, you are deeply valued by the Governor, why not persuade the Governor to think twice!"

Fang Li glanced at Tang Yin and smiled slightly: "It's nothing more than raising tens of millions of taels of silver. It may be difficult for others, but for the Governor, it's really not that difficult."

Seeing the strange light flashing in Fang Li's eyes, Tang Yin was not a fool, he suddenly reacted, and his heart was filled with waves.

Today, the three families of Gu, Qin, and Han have as much as seven or eight million taels of silver, and Jieshi only needs to find a few maritime merchant families to raid their homes.

Even Tang Yin felt that there was no need for Chu Yi to take the initiative to find the troubles of those sea merchants, and those sea merchants would hand over the handle to Chu Yi themselves.

At this moment, Tang Yin thought of the Lin family. When Cao Shaoqin was interrogating Lin Guangwen, Tang Yin, as a secretary, witnessed with his own eyes and heard with his own ears the plans of the Zhejiang Lin family against Chu Yi.

The Lin family is the real maritime merchant family, plus the large and small maritime merchant families gathered around the Lin family, if these people do anything wrong, Tang Yin can imagine that those maritime merchant families will face How repressive Chu Yi is.

At that time, it is only a matter of time to snatch the family and destroy the family. With the wealth of these maritime merchants, not to mention the tens of millions of taels of silver, I am afraid that it will not be a problem to double it.

Tang Yin sighed softly in his heart, maybe Chu Yi's actions of raiding his family and exterminating his family seem to be ruthless, but in fact, none of those who were raided and exterminated were wronged, all of them were moths of the country, killing them would be beneficial to the country, otherwise they would go to all officials in the middle. There will not be such a small number of loyal officials willing to support Chu Yi.

Gu Bing looked at Chu Yi with a hesitant look on his face, obviously he had something to say, but he was scruples.

Seeing this, Chu Yi turned to Gu Bing and said, "Does Patriarch Gu have anything to say?"

Gu Bing took a deep breath and bowed to Chu Yi and said, "Gu Bing is bold and urges the Governor to only punish Qin and Han's direct relatives."

Cao Shaoqin's eyes narrowed and he couldn't help staring at Gu Bing, and Gu Bing suddenly felt like he was being targeted by a poisonous snake.

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Chapter 1 The evil of the human heart is better than the mountains and rivers! 【[-] more】

In the big tent, several other people also looked at Gu Bing curiously. After all, everyone knew that the Qin and Han families ended up in such a land. Although it was said that it was caused by the position of the two families, Gu Bing personally went to testify. , which made the two families hate Gu Bing to the extreme.

Perhaps in the hearts of the two families, it was not Chu Yi and Cheng Xiangwu that hated them the most, but Gu Bing who chose to betray them.

From Gu Bing's standpoint, it is best for the Qin and Han families to cut the grass and kill the other, so as to prevent the Gu family from being secretly retaliated by the remnants of the two families in the future.

It is absolutely impossible for people like Gu Bing to not realize this, but at this time, Gu Bing asked Chu Yi to let some of the Qin and Han families go.

Chu Yi looked at Gu Bing and said slowly, "Oh, I don't know why Patriarch Gu pleads for Qin and Han?"

Gu Bing looked straight and said: "It's not that Gu pleads for the two families, but I implore the governor to allow Gu to select some people who are proficient in shipbuilding from the Qin and Han families. There are many people in the Qin and Han families. They are all proficient in the craftsmanship of shipbuilding, and even the master craftsmen of the two shipyards are mostly people cultivated within the two families. If these people are really killed together, I am afraid that the governor ordered Gu to build Xiamen Shipbuilding. The factory is going to be short of craftsmen!"

Frowning his brows, Chu Yi nodded slowly and said, "Okay, the Governor will order you to select people who are proficient in shipbuilding from the Qin and Han families. These people have all worked in the Xiamen Shipyard all their lives, and they will never be allowed to do so. Relieve, your Gu family is responsible for taking care of it!"

Gu Bing was overjoyed when he heard the words, and respectfully bowed to Chu Yi: "Gu Bing, thank the Governor!"

At the end of the day, Gu Bingbao kept some people from the Qin and Han families for the consideration of the Gu family. Since the Gu family chose to stand on Chu Yi's side, they naturally wanted to have a certain position in Chu Yi's heart.

And Chu Yi handed the Xiamen Shipyard to their Gu family to take care of it, this is an opportunity.

Just listening to Chu Yi's ambitious dreams, Gu Bing knew that in Chu Yi's future map, the shipyard was definitely an indispensable part.

But Chu Yi wants to build too many ships, and it is by no means comparable to a shipyard. Not long ago, he had learned from Fang Li that a brand-new Longjiang Bao Shipyard was under construction in Nanjing.

That is to say, more than one shipyard will exist in the future. In this way, which shipyard can build more warships and merchant ships for Chu Yi will definitely be valued by Chu Yi.

If the three shipyards of Gu, Qin, and Han are combined into one, the scale is naturally not small, but no matter how large the scale is, if there is no manpower, it will not be able to build many large ships.

Most of the shipbuilding talents are from the Qin and Han families. For the sake of the future of the Gu family, he knew that saving some of the Qin and Han families would most likely pose a certain threat to the Gu family, but Gu Bing still chose to save them. Some shipbuilding talents.

Fortunately, Chu Yi demoted these people to servitude and could not release them for the rest of their lives, and at the same time handed them over to the Gu family to take care of them.

It is conceivable that as long as the Gu family does not want the remnants of the Qin and Han families to seek revenge from them in the future, they will definitely take care of the remnants of the Qin and Han families with great care, and will only oppress these people, and will not let them get away. hope.

A group of soldiers suddenly appeared in several counties under the jurisdiction of Fuzhou Prefecture. These soldiers posted notices stating that they would recruit soldiers to join the Jing Navy. As long as they can join the Jing Navy, they will directly give ten acres of fertile land and ten taels of silver to settle down.

Even in the Beijing camp, [-] taels of silver is almost equivalent to two years of military salaries, not to mention that there are [-] acres of fertile land, which is more precious than anything in the mountainous and watery land of Fuzhou.

It can be said that as soon as the announcement came out, those poor families almost boiled over it.

This era pays attention to having more sons and more blessings, so even if they are poor, there are usually three or five males in a family. Even for the ten acres of fertile land, these extremely poor people are not willing to give up one or two sons.

After all, even if you are extremely poor and sell your life as a slave, you may not be able to sell ten taels of silver, let alone the temptation of ten acres of fertile land.

Even if many people are reluctant to join the army, under the temptation of Liangtian and An Jiayin, all the young people who meet the conditions in the entire Fuzhou Prefecture will go to the recruiting points everywhere.

Among the millions of people in the land of the government, there are at least [-] to [-] strong, and at least half of them are willing to join the army, which means that there are at least [-] strong candidates.

At the moment, Chu Yi was watching the progress of the recruiting at the recruiting point outside Fuzhou, accompanied by Cheng Xiangwu.

There are at least [-] or [-] people in darkness, all of whom are strong and fit for their age, but at first glance, most of these people are pale and ragged, which shows how poor these people are.

Of course, if it wasn't for the poor family, I'm afraid no one would be willing to join the army.

Looking at the dark crowd of young people who came to apply for the application, Cheng Xiangwu's face was full of joy and he said to Chu Yi: "If there had been the temptation of Liangtian and An Jiayin, how could there be a mere ten thousand people recruiting for so long? I'm afraid that ten days will be enough."

Chu Yi didn't say a word, looked at the elites, his eyes flashed with brilliance, and suddenly looked at Cheng Xiangwu: "Uncle Dingwu, since so many elites are willing to join the army, you said that the Governor planned to recruit [-] sailors. , isn't it a bit conservative?"

Cheng Xiangwu was stunned for a moment, but when he reacted, he first showed excitement on his face, then shook his head with a wry smile: "If the Governor can expand the army, it would be even better, but there is no problem with An Jiayin, the key needs to be allocated to the soldiers' Tianmu. It is barely enough for [-] soldiers, if we expand our army, we will need a lot of fertile land, but the fertile land around Fuzhou City is simply not enough.”

Chu Yi sighed softly: "Yes, there is not enough fertile land!"

Fang Li, who was dressed in a scholar's robe, accompanied Chu Yi, heard Chu Yi sigh and couldn't help sneering: "Master, this subordinate is willing to issue a military order to the master, at least half a month, the subordinate will definitely be able to find him for the master. One hundred thousand acres of fertile land!"

Cheng Xiangwu suddenly looked at Fang Li, while Chu Yi glanced at Fang Li lightly, and nodded slightly after pondering for a long time: "In that case, Uncle Ding Wu, you can send [-] troops to Fang Li."

After speaking, Chu Yi stared at Fang Li and said, "The Governor can do whatever you want, but you must know that this country gentleman has both good and evil, and the Governor does not want to hear that you are bullying the good!"

In fact, when Fang Li opened his mouth, Chu Yi knew how Fang Li raised his farmland. In this era, the Ming Dynasty has been under peace for a hundred years. Many squires have swallowed up a large amount of fertile farmland by various means. It can be said that those who own the most farmland are those scattered among the townships. squire.

There are hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile fields in a county, and most of them may be concentrated in the hands of those squires, so it is not difficult to raise land and acres, as long as you work hard and find those squires who do all kinds of evil on weekdays. Custody can not only gain good land but also gain popular support.

I just want to raise [-] mu of fertile land, but I'm afraid that dozens of squires' homes will be seized. Although these squires are all deserving, but if they don't have a heart, they can't do it.

In dealing with these evil squires, Chu Yi naturally has no psychological obstacles. These people oppress the common people on weekdays, and in every disaster year, they will annex the good land of the common people by various means, and even kill and set fire to it.

Of course, not all the squires are rich and unkind in the evil villages. There are also poets and books heirlooms, good families who manage their families with etiquette, paving roads and building bridges on weekdays, and providing porridge to the people in disaster years. It is Chu Yi who also has respect.

After telling Fang Li, Chu Yi invited Cao Shaoqin to personally lead the Dongchang fans to assist Fang Li. Although there is no famous saying, Cao Shaoqin and those Dongchang fans are obviously a shackle that Chu Yi has added to Fang Li, and Cao Shaoqin is at the side to deter him. , Custodian Fang Li did not dare to do anything to those kind houses.

Seeing Fang Li and Cao Shaoqin hurried away, Cheng Xiangwu looked at Chu Yi expectantly and said, "Is the Governor planning to expand the Jing Navy?"

Chu Yi nodded and said, "After all, the number of [-] sailors is a bit less. Originally, the Governor planned to recruit [-] sailors first, and then expand them in the future. Now, it seems that it is better to expand together."

Cheng Xiangwu laughed and said: "It's so good, but I don't know how many people the navy master plans to expand to?"

Chu Yi looked at Cheng Xiangwu and said with a smile: "Let's recruit [-] elites first!"

Although Cheng Xiangwu was prepared, he couldn't help feeling excited when Chu Yi asked him to recruit [-] young men. If he added the [-] or [-] soldiers he had already recruited, it meant that the Jing Haijun would arrive. will reach nearly [-] people.

Sometimes I have to admit that some people are really talented in certain things. If Tang Yin is asked to seize the squire's house to raise land within half a month, I am afraid that Tang Yin can raise tens of thousands of acres and laugh.

However, Fang Li seems to have a natural talent in this area. In just half a month, in several counties under the Fuzhou government, with the selection of Jinyiwei intelligence and preliminary investigations, Fang Li spent seven days, directly Fifty squires were locked.

Scattered into various counties, there are about six or seven households in a county, accounting for about [-]% of the squires in a county.

All these squires were in line with Chu Yi's requirements. In normal times, they were evil villages, their hands were covered with blood, and a large number of fertile fields had been annexed. Even some squires were clearly suave squires, but secretly they were bandits who plundered the people.

In the study, Chu Yi looked at the materials presented by Cao Shaoqin about those selected by Fang Li as evil country gentry.

This copy in his hand is the information of Ma Xing, a squire of Yongtai County. Ma Xing is the leader of Yongtai County, sitting on more than [-] acres of fertile land, but these fertile fields were obtained from the people of Yongtai County by brutal means in just ten years. According to the information recorded by Jin Yiwei, in order to annex a small village with hundreds of acres of fertile land, Ma Xing even pretended to be a mountain bandit and slaughtered more than a dozen households in that small village and nearly [-] people in one night. A fire burned a dozen other people's families to death. It can be said that the lives of his hands were no less than hundreds.

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Chapter 2 That long sigh! 【[-] more】

Looking at the evil things listed one after another, even though Chu Yi was well aware of the wickedness of human nature, he never thought that there are such wicked people in this world.

At this moment, there was only an angry shout, and then saw Tang Yin who was sitting there slap his face on the table, blowing his beard and staring at the table, looking at the posture, as if he was about to kill.

Chu Yi glanced at Tang Yin and said, "Tang Yin, why is this?"

When he came back to his senses, Tang Yin naturally knew that he had just lost his temper under his anger, but thinking of the evil records he had just seen about a gentleman, he couldn't help but said to Chu Yi: "Master, Bo Hu is disrespectful. Now, the fact is that Meng Anguo, the gentry of Lianjiang County, has done too much evil, and I can't be angry for a while."

Chu Yi was surprised: "Oh, I don't know what Meng Anguo did to make Bohu so angry."

Taking a deep breath, Tang Yin shook the document and said: "Jin Yiwei records that in the third year of Zhengde, the gentry Meng Anguo bought 500 acres of the Chen family's fertile land and gave [-] yuan of silver. The third son of the Chen family refused to accept it, and was stunned by Meng Anguo's sent people to beat him with a stick. He died, and the Chen family was eight young and old, the man was arrested to work in the Mengjia Mine, the woman was sold to a brothel, and the baby less than a month old was thrown to death on the spot by Meng Anguo..."

Speaking of which, Tang Yin shivered and gritted his teeth: "Besides this, there are more than a dozen tragic incidents, each of which is really sensational. Although Tang has seen many wicked people, he never thought that there are such cruel people in the world. It deserves to be killed, it really deserves to be killed, even if it is cut with a thousand swords, it will not be able to atone for it!"

A beautiful figure was sitting there, who was not Yang Liuli who had assassinated Chu Yi earlier.

But at this moment, Yang Liuli looked at a document in her hand with an unbelievable look in her eyes.

In fact, the document in Yang Liuli's hand, Chu Yi, has already been read, and the above list is the evidence of a person in Luoyuan County.