The Most Powerful Man in the World

It can be said that this is definitely the biggest stroke of luck that Chu Yi has gained since he entered this world, and it has reached nearly [-].

When he came back to his senses, Chu Yi squinted his eyes, thinking in his heart what was the reason that made him so much fortune at once.

He has spent so much thought, excluding the cost of cultivation over the years, he has only saved more than [-] luck, but now it is good, and inexplicably, it has skyrocketed by nearly [-].

Chu Yi took a deep breath, and his eyes showed a bit of deep thought and shouted in a deep voice: "Come on!"

Soon, Lin Pingzhi's figure appeared in front of Chu Yi and he said respectfully, "I have seen the chief!"

Chu Yi didn't like to call him Prince, so everyone either called him Manager Chu or Master Chu.

Glancing at Lin Pingzhi, Chu Yi said, "Is there any important news from Dongchang and Jinyiwei recently?"

Lin Pingzhi was stunned for a moment, showing a somewhat puzzled look, but he still shook his head and said, "Report to the general manager, Jin Yiwei and Dongchang's subordinates will keep an eye on the news every day, and there is no important news!"

Chu Yi nodded, pondered and said, "If there is any important news coming in recently, let me know as soon as possible!"

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The four hundred and fortieth chapters open the sea

Taking a deep breath, Lin Pingzhi nodded towards Chu Yi and said, "This subordinate wrote it down!"

When Lin Pingzhi retreated, Chu Yi sat cross-legged, eyes closed slightly, and if there was no breath, he had already entered a state of cultivation.

In the past day, Chu Yi had a lot of affairs, and just dealing with some things took up a considerable part of his time and energy. This was the result of Chu Yi delegating power to others as much as possible.

If Chu Yi really had all the power in his hands, it would probably be twelve hours a day, and the whole person would be so busy that he might have unfinished business.

For Chu Yi to have such a cultivation level today, a considerable part is relying on the blessing of the Qi Luck Altar and burning Qi Luck, which makes Chu Yi's cultivation efficiency almost ten times as much as usual.

Don't look at how much Qi Luck is consumed once or twice, but once the number of times is high and a normal state is formed, Chu Yi just needs to consume a considerable amount of Qi Luck to maintain this state of cultivation.

The qi luck that Chu Yi has collected over the years is not a small number, but some of them are used for cultivation. It can be said that so far, this is the first time that the qi luck has exceeded [-].

In the state of burning Qi Luck, supported by the Luck Luck Altar, Chu Yi is in a state of mystery and mystery. If the efficiency of cultivation is known to others, I am afraid that the eyeballs will fall.

Even though Chu Yi only takes an hour or two to practice every day, the effect of his practice can be equal to that of others for two or three days. Moreover, compared to that kind of cultivator, he spends almost all his time on practice. .

On the second day, the sky was bright and Chu Yi was reading the memorials transferred from the cabinet. As the chief supervisor of the Sili Supervisor, Chu Yi had other people to help him take care of the entire Sili Supervisor, and even those memorials were not complete. It was reviewed by him, but by others in the supervisor of li, and then classified according to the priority of the matter. Only the really important matters would be presented to Chu Yi.

When Chu Yi took a memorial in his hand and glanced over the contents of the memorial, a light flashed in Chu Yi's eyes, and the contents of the memorial could be read as a good news.

Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, led by Cheng Xiangwu, had already returned from the grasslands, escorting the spoils they had captured along the way.

After reading this memorial, Chu Yi knew why Cheng Xiangwu had such a memorial. On the one hand, the reason was to report the victory to the court and Chu Yi, and on the other hand, it was to ask the court for help.

After all, Cheng Xiangwu had fewer men and horses. He was escorting more than [-] Tatar women, driving nearly [-] million cattle, sheep and horses. Wherever they passed, it was like locusts passing through the border. The grassland has left a deep imprint.

If this is still escorting prisoners, that's fine. The key is those trophies, whether they are cattle or war horses, for Daming, they are extremely lacking. If it is possible to bring more of these trophies from Zhejiang back to Daming, Then it will definitely bring great help to Daming.

Chu Yi mentioned the Zhu Bi, made instructions on the memorial in his own hand, and affixed the seal of the Supervisor of Li, and then the memorial would be sent to Zhu Houzhao, the son of the emperor. After reading the memorials printed by the supervisor, if Zhu Houzhao was indifferent to An Le and ignored the state affairs, then these memorials would be sent to the emperor for execution after a short walk.

Therefore, many times, on the memorial, the reviewing opinion of the supervisor of li is equivalent to the decision of the emperor, and it is precisely because of this that the supervisor of the li is called the inner minister.

Right next to Chu Yi, a small pile of memorials was piled high, all of which were selected by the Si Li supervisor and had to be decided by Chu Yi.

These memorials were sent from the capital quickly, and it took about an hour or two along the way. These memorials were all sent on the same day. If there is anything important, there will be special people who will send the memorials to the first. It was sent to Chu Yi in no time.

A pile of memorials was sorted out by Lin Pingzhi, and then arranged to send it back to the capital.

There was a loud bang, and a huge ship with a height of several meters was seen crashing into the river, splashing huge water.

Right at the shipyard, Chu Yi watched helplessly as the big boat entered the river. The hull swayed unsteadily. When the hull stabilized, even the splashing waves gradually calmed down.

Right next to Chu Yi, several shipyard managers watched the big ship fall into the water with nervous expressions, and they could not help but breathe a sigh of relief when everything went smoothly.

After all, Chu Yi was in front of him. If there was something wrong with the launch of the new boat, they were worried that Chu Yi would send someone to punish them.

Chu Yi nodded slightly, obviously very satisfied with the process of the new ship entering the water, his eyes fell on the heads of several shipyards, only to hear Chu Yi slowly say: "Mr. The shipbuilding capacity, how many such ships can be launched within a year?"

I just heard Director Lin take a deep breath and say to Chu Yi: "Report to your lord, if the raw materials are abundant, the shipyard workers can launch dozens of large ships a year."

When he said this, Director Lin showed a bit of pride and self-satisfaction on his face, obviously feeling very proud of such an achievement.

Chu Yi has not visited one or two shipyards. It can be said that he has a clear understanding of the capabilities of the shipyards.

This shipyard in Tianjin Wei is a large shipyard that can be ranked among the top three in the Ming Dynasty. It is indeed a lot for a shipyard to launch dozens of large ships a year, but Chu Yi feels a little slow. .

Noticing the change in Chu Yi's expression, and seeing that Chu Yi frowned and looked unsatisfied, Director Lin snorted and said in a low voice, "However, if you work overtime, the shipyard's production capacity can almost be increased by one more. About three percent."

Dozens of large ships, if it is said to be increased by [-]%, it is almost ten large ships, which is already a lot.

He glanced at Director Lin lightly, only to hear Chu Yi say: "Maybe the quality of the ship is guaranteed? If there is any problem with the quality of the ship, this king will definitely not mind cutting off a few more heads!"

Immediately, with a thud, Director Lin fell on the ground and kowtowed to Chu Yi continuously: "I can't wait, I can't wait!"

With a wave of his hand, Chu Yi beat these people but didn't say much. Chu Yi still knew a little about Daming officials over the years.

These officials are clearly able to do [-]% of their work, but in many cases they only do [-]% to [-]%, and very few people can do their due diligence.

If it is a newcomer, it is natural that they do not understand the doorway, but the reason is that the doorway is very clear. Just a knock can ensure that these officials do their best to do things, not It is clearly able to do [-]% of the effort, but only [-]% to [-]%.

Watching Chu Yi and his party leave, several officials headed by Director Lin breathed a sigh of relief. It is true that Chu Yi's power is too powerful. Don't look at Chu Yi looking very young, but he really faces Chu Yi. At that time, they could feel the power that Chu Yi exudes from the invisible.

In the final analysis, Chu Yi's reputation is too fierce. Even high-ranking officials and dignitaries are nothing in Chu Yi's hands, and the dignitaries who have been directly or indirectly seized by Chu Yi and wiped out their families are no less than a dozen or so. If you want, you can even easily destroy all of them.

Director Lin glanced at the crowd and said with a bit of a wry smile: "Everyone, everyone has heard the order of the chief executive, and in the days to come, I hope that everyone can do their best, go all out, and create as much as possible. Send more big ships."

Although Chu Yi said he didn't know what happened after he left, even if he couldn't see it, Chu Yi could guess it himself.

After leaving the shipyard, Chu Yi rushed to repair a barracks a few miles east of Tianjin Acropolis. The huge barracks shouted and killed incessantly, but it was the navy soldiers and horses that Chu Yi specially trained.

Originally, the Admiral of the Navy was appointed by Cheng Xiangwu, but now Cheng Xiangwu is leading the army to attack the prairie, so naturally he has no time to train the Navy.

However, there are more than [-] sailors and soldiers recruited by Chu Yi who are stationed in the capital. These soldiers and horses are all innocent and proficient men who were recruited by Cheng Xiangwu to the poor coastal areas of Fujian and Guangdong.

At the beginning, Cheng Xiangwu recruited nearly [-] soldiers and horses, but this did not mean that there would be no follow-up. According to Chu Yi's instructions, Cheng Xiangwu left some personnel in Guangdong, Fujian and other places to be responsible for small areas. recruited soldiers inside.

Not long ago, a group of nearly [-] recruits entered the barracks, bringing the total number of the newly renovated naval battalion to [-].

In the absence of Cheng Xiangwu, Chu Yi arranged for Xu Tianzuo to personally take charge of the training of the army.

When Chu Yi entered the military camp, a hot training scene entered Chu Yi's line of sight.

Xu Tianzuo came from a good background. Although he was not a direct descendant of Duke Ding's Xu family, he could also come into contact with the Xu family's family heritage.

The Xu family was inherited from Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan, who was a handsome talent in the Ming Dynasty, and even authored Xu Da's military book.

Throughout history, what kind of characters can be left behind, such as Taigong Jiang Shang, soldier Sun Wu, etc.

Xu Da was able to write a military book and pass it down, which shows Xu Da's accomplishments in the art of war.

The Ming Dynasty closed the sea for many years, but the huge navy team that used to traverse the ocean more than a hundred years ago has disappeared. Hundreds of years have passed, not to mention the soldiers of the past, even the ships of the past are now disappearing in the river of time. .

Now that Chu Yi has implemented the strategy of opening the sea, in just over a month, fishermen and people from coastal areas such as Guangdong and Fujian have gone to sea one after another.The **** that was originally sneaky suddenly became legal, and many private ships were suddenly able to see the light.

For this reason, Chu Yi established as many as a dozen municipal shipping companies in coastal areas to manage coastal commerce and trade and collect commercial taxes.

Originally, there were no Shibosi offices where merchants could legally trade in Daming, and several Shibosi offices that originally existed were gradually abolished, or in other words, the function of Shibosi had already been lost.

Nowadays, there are more than a dozen ship companies, and it is not necessary to say that the most delighted are those businessmen, which means that it is no longer illegal for them to go abroad to do business in the future. Businessmen, because the business tax collected by Chu Yi has reached as much as [-]%.

Although this commercial tax is negligible relative to the profit of the goods, these merchants in Daming are not willing to pay even a cent of the tax, let alone [-]% of the total value of their goods.

When Shiboji was just established, within half a month, there were not many ships that would take the initiative to enter these Shiboji to dock, and then report the goods on the ships according to the procedures, and pay the tax.

Huating County is the estuary of the Yangtze River, and it is also Shanghai in later generations, and now it has shown its geographical advantages.

The imperial court opened the Huating Ship Division in Huating, which is responsible for managing the business of Huating merchants going abroad. However, since the opening of the Huating Ship Division, it has been half a month since the opening of the Huating Ship Division, but no businessman went to the Huating Ship Division to report to the company. Pay tax.

Above a restaurant in Huating County, several wealthy businessmen dressed in exquisite silk and satin are gathering together to talk, only one of them can be heard frowning: "Everyone, since the court opened the sea, Guangdong and Fujian have A large number of people from other places joined the sea trade. In just half a month, the price of silk, tea, porcelain, etc. shipped overseas has dropped by almost [-]%. If things go on like this, I am afraid that our profits will be reduced A big cut."

Daming's silk, tea, and porcelain were themselves giants in overseas trade. Relying on these commerce and the terrible profits that were several times more than ten times, a large number of maritime merchants rose up, and a large amount of silver began to flow into Daming.

A wealthy businessman with a ruby-encrusted finger flashed a bit of hatred in his eyes and said: "Chu Yi opened the sea, causing us and others to suffer a lot of damage, especially unbearable, Chu Yi is simply crazy. The lion actually opened his mouth wide and wanted to swallow [-]% of the tax and silver of the value of the goods in one bite.

The maritime merchant just now glanced at the crowd and said, "Everyone, I believe that as long as I wait for the united, everyone should not go, and no one else should go to the Huating Ship Division to report the goods and pay taxes. I think it will take a month at most. The court will definitely abolish Huating Ship Division."

"Brother Liu is very true, we must unite, and let the court and Chu Yi know that we are not easy to mess with."

A maritime businessman couldn't help showing a bit of worry on his face: "Everyone, Chu Yi is not so easy to provoke. Have you forgotten that the head of the Jiangnan land that was killed by Chu Yi is rolling?"

[On the first day of the new year, I wish you all New Year's greetings! 】

The four hundred and fortieth chapters Shibo Division was destroyed

The Liu family master and even more than a dozen other people present changed their color when they heard the words. Among them, only the Liu family can compare with the few sea merchants in the south of the Yangtze River. The connection between these sea merchants is still quite close. , So what happened in Jiangnan, even if it was thousands of miles away, it still spread to the ears of these people.

If it wasn't because of Chu Yi's fierce flames, how could the sea merchants like them who dared to fight with the pirates in the sea merchants could be so honest.

If this were changed to the past, if the imperial court dared to set up the Shibo Division to collect taxes on them, the officials who took office the next day might be thrown into the water and die, or a group of people would directly attack the yamen.

Liu's Patriarch frowned and looked at the crowd and said, "Everyone, Chu Yi is very powerful. We must not have any handle in his hands, otherwise, we will definitely repeat the same mistakes."

A family owner said with an unwilling look on his face: "It seems that it is not so easy to make the government's decree impassable, or to keep the handle on it!"

The patriarchs sat there one by one with a solemn expression on their faces.

These sea merchants rely on sea trade to fetch gold and silver in large sums on weekdays. It can be said that all the gold, mountains and silver seas have entered their pockets.

Now that the imperial court has put their hands into their pockets, it would be strange if these people could hold their breath.

There's nothing wrong with asking them to take money out of someone else's pocket, but it's extremely difficult to get money out of their pocket.

Fortunately, these people did not come forward rashly. After all, Chu Yi's killing spree shocked a considerable number of people. Even a fool knows that whoever dares to come forward at this time will definitely become the target of Chu Yi's killing.

A dozen people sat facing each other for a long time, but in the end they did not discuss any way to do it, so some people left, and a dozen families left one by one. In the end, only the Liu family, the Zhou family, and the Wang family were left. These three families are also Huating County. The largest maritime merchant, it can be said that if the three are united, they can occupy half of the maritime trade in Huating County.

It was also the three companies who quietly spoke out, so that none of the large and small marine merchants who depended on maritime trade for food dared to go to the Huating Ship Division to report and pay taxes.

What the three families do is very secretive, even if those big and small merchants know that the three companies are putting pressure on them, but there is no evidence.

From this alone, it can be seen that these people have made up their minds not to be that early bird.

The Zhou family head watched the others leave, let out a long sigh, and glanced at the Liu family and the Wang family family head and said, "Brother Liu, Brother Zhou, there is no one else here, only me and the other three, what is there now? You can talk with peace of mind!"

The head of the Wang family has a strong back and a strong suit, looking more like a warrior than a sea trader.

However, the owner of the Wang family is an out-of-the-ordinary maritime businessman, who is just amazingly brave. The Wang family is also a family of famous sea pirates and maritime merchants. , is also a pirate, so the Wang family's power at sea is very large.

If Wang Ping, the head of the Wang family, gave an order, he could easily gather more than a dozen pirates active at sea, and gather thousands of pirates to loot coastal towns.

On the contrary, the Liu family was able to become the largest maritime merchant in Huating because one of the elders of the Liu family was the magistrate of Huating County in the previous generation. Fangcai rose rapidly in Huating.

As for the Zhou family, it is the most low-key of the three, almost to the point of being mysterious, and many people almost subconsciously ignore the presence of the ministers of the Zhou family.

The Zhou family has always been low-key, and Zhou Tong seems to be a scribe at all. If he sees it, few people will definitely regard him as a sea merchant with a smell of copper.