The Most Powerful Man in the World

"Hey, how come there are so many!"

Several other people noticed that Yu Dayou's expression reaction could not help revealing doubts on their faces. They were very curious, what kind of numbers could actually make Yu Dayou have such a reaction.

Just like Lin Pingzhi, with a bit of a smile, he said: "Lin is very curious, how many gold and silver treasures are in the treasury, which can make Master Yu lose his temper like this."

Yu Dayou didn't care about Lin Pingzhi's teasing at all, he calmed down and handed the booklet to Lin Pingzhi: "The booklet is here, Mr. Lin might as well take a look for yourself."

Lin Pingzhi was not polite, he took the booklet from Yu Dayou's hand, his eyes swept away, just like Yu Dayou's, his eyes shrank, his hands trembled slightly, and he couldn't help spit out a turbid breath: "As expected of a sea power."

Jiao Yuan and Yue Buqun looked over curiously, but when they saw the numbers clearly written on the booklet, they couldn't help but tremble in their hearts.

"Silver [-] million taels, gold [-] million taels, and more than [-] boxes of jade and jewelry..."

No wonder Jiao Yuan, Yue Buqun and the others were so surprised. You must know that they came all the way, not one or two countries were destroyed along the way, and there were dozens of treasuries raided.

However, in the treasuries of those small countries, most of them can find [-] to [-] million taels of silver, and the few are only a few hundred thousand taels. However, like the Kingdom of Spain, it is true that so much gold and silver can be found in the treasury at once. is amazing enough.

Previously, they had looted tens of millions of taels of gold and silver treasures from the king's treasury, and now they have found so many gold and silver treasures in the treasury. If added up, their value has exceeded [-] million taels of silver. as much.

Such a terrifying amount, even the Ming treasury does not have so many gold and silver treasures.

Stroking his beard, Jiao Yuan said with an excited expression on his face: "As expected, it is the number one power in the sea. This treasury alone will throw other countries out of the way."

Yue Buqun nodded slowly and said: "Actually, if you calm down and think about it, it is not unusual to have so many gold and silver treasures in the treasury. Don't forget, Spain has been invincible across the sea for decades, and its footsteps are almost all over the world. During these decades, an unknown amount of wealth has been brought back to Spain by its fleets around the world."

After such accumulation, the treasury is naturally full of gold and silver mountains and many treasures.

A look of embarrassment appeared on Jiao Yuan's face soon, and Yu Dayou and the others were puzzled. Could it be that he should not be happy that he had captured so much wealth?Why is Jiao Yuan so embarrassed?

Lin Pingzhi looked at Jiao Yuan and said, "Lord Jiao Yuan, you are..."

Jiao Yuan sighed slightly, pointed to the mountains of gold and silver that were like hills, and the boxes filled with gems and jades, and said, "I'm worrying about how to transfer these treasures to the bright future."

Everyone looked at the gold and silver jewelry, and then thought that Spain was thousands of miles away from Daming, and they were all stunned.

Based on the big ship alone, to be honest, if you want to run the gold and silver treasures they have harvested this time, I am afraid that there are not hundreds of large ships that can successfully transport these gold and silver treasures away.

What's more important is that now they have just completed the search of the king's treasure house and the kingdom's treasury. You must know that in the city of Toledo, there are many nobles of the Spanish kingdom gathered.

The king may be the richest one in Spain, but don't underestimate the nobles who are attached to the Kingdom of Spain. These nobles rule as the upper class of Spain and control almost [-]% of Spain's wealth.

Any aristocrat, as long as he is not the kind of prodigal, will probably accumulate a huge amount of wealth.

Once they do something with these nobles, even Yu Dayou and Jiao Yuan would not dare to estimate how much gold and silver they can snatch from these nobles.

After all, many nobles were formerly the generals or governors of many Spanish fleets. These people rode warships in all directions, and part of the looted wealth went into the king's private treasury and the treasury, but at least most of them fell into these in the hands of nobles.

Anyway, according to Yu Dayou and the others' estimates, if these nobles are really copied to the bottom of the sky, the wealth that can be retrieved at that time will not necessarily be less than that of the king's private treasury and the treasury.

On the fifteenth day of occupying the city of Toledo, Daming completed the looting of the entire capital. To be precise, it should be a three-foot search.

Just to transport the looted goods out of the city of Toledo, thousands of soldiers were transported for almost a day from morning to night.

According to statistics after the event, the carriages were dispatched thousands of times. In order to escort the nearly [-] carriages, Yu Dayou dispatched a team of [-] people to escort them.

The Battle of the Strait of Gibraltar and the Battle of Toledo, Daming easily destroyed the Kingdom of Spain. Once the news came out, it caused a sensation in the entire Western world.

After all, Spain is now at its peak, and the Empire of Never Setting Sun, which later replaced it, is also quietly accumulating strength, hoping to step on Spain one day.

But before they did it, Daming brought a profound shock and impression to Western countries.

Mingren is here!

If it is said that in the past, many Western cognitions of Daming were more in legends, but now the Daming fleet has come across the sea, directly under their noses.

I don't know how many people couldn't help but be shocked when they got the news, marveled at Daming's combat power, and at the same time, they couldn't help but feel a great sense of crisis.

Even Spain is not an opponent of the Ming Dynasty, so who can be an opponent of the Ming people?

However, Yu Dayou and the others didn't care about this. At this moment, they were leading the army to sweep across the countries along the Mediterranean Sea.

Backed by hundreds of warships, it is conceivable that when the Daming fleet entered the Mediterranean Sea, it was like a ferocious beast plunged into a flock of sheep, and the countries along the Mediterranean Sea suddenly fell into a panic.

大 明

Outside the imperial city, on a flat land, a black figure is busy in full swing. Looking at it with big eyes, it can be roughly seen that the number of these people is probably no less than ten thousand.

More than [-] strong laborers are working hard to build the altar of sacrifice to heaven, and so much human and material resources are used, but it is to build an altar of sacrifice to heaven. If this is not the will of the emperor, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty may not agree.

Of course, the more important thing is that the construction of the Tiantian altar is not for labor, but in the form of recruiting public servants.

During these years, whenever the imperial court started to build a large-scale project, the imperial court recruited young and young laborers by paying money. Although it is said that the labor system has not been completely abolished, the imperial court has repeatedly come in the form of recruitment, which is almost a disguised form. the abolition of servitude.

Unpaid labor is different from paid labor. The atmosphere of work is different. There is a lively scene on the huge construction site. Although there are many people, it is orderly.

Such an altar to sacrifice to Tiantian is by no means a day or two. It has been almost a few months since the start of construction. With tens of thousands of people invested, it is only about half of the construction.

Even so, even if you climb high and look far in the capital, you can already see a behemoth rising from the ground when you look to the east, almost the same every day.

If the altar with a height of [-] feet is converted, it is almost more than [-] meters high.

Such a height is rare in modern society, let alone in the Ming Dynasty, when such a towering altar was formed little by little, it almost became a scenic spot.

Many people in the capital even came to watch from a distance, pointing to the altar, which was almost a hundred meters high.

It is almost impossible to find buildings over ten feet in the capital, let alone an altar of several ten feet.

In order to build such an altar, a steady stream of loess was transported from afar. For this reason, the Ministry of Works made a plan for the land to borrow soil outside the imperial city, but the plan came out of a large lake.

After all, if you want to build the altar, aside from other things, the loess required is not a small amount, even if you excavate a lake, the soil taken out may not be enough.

The altar with a height of several tens of meters is now a bit of a gigantic sight. Anyone who sees this altar that has been repaired by manpower will involuntarily have infinite horror.

At this time, accompanied by several figures, one person was standing in the pavilion in the distance, looking at the altar that was under construction. There were faint figures around the pavilion protecting the pavilion.

The white-haired Chen Ding is conscientiously reporting the progress of repairing the altar to Zhu Houzhao, who is staring at the altar with his back to him.

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"Your Majesty, now we have recruited more than [-] young and strong people, and completed about half of the main body of the altar..."

Seeing that Zhu Houzhao, who was in uniform, turned around slowly, his eyes fell on Chen Ding, and he said slowly, "Chen Aiqing, I just want to know how long it will take for the altar to be completed!"

Chen Ding coughed for a while, and an official next to him quickly supported Chen Ding, who was swaying, and it could be seen that Chen Ding's physical condition was not good.

From the early years of Zhengde to the present, if one considers the years of Emperor Xiaozong, Chen Ding has been sitting in the position of Minister of the Ministry of Household for almost twenty years.

Being able to sit in one seat for ten or twenty years is very rare in the court and the opposition. With Chen Ding's temperament, it is obvious that he has done his best in this seat, and of course his body will be affected to a certain extent.

Seeing Chen Ding's weak body, Zhu Houzhao sighed softly and said to Chen Ding, "Aiqing, sit down and rest for a while, didn't I send an imperial physician to take care of your body?"

After taking a breath, Chen Ding, who was sitting down, shook his head towards Zhu Houzhao and said, "Old minister, thank you Your Majesty for your care, how the old minister is, the old minister can't be more clear in his heart, the imperial doctor just asked the old minister to let go of everything and take care of his body, but this is so If the minister does not keep an eye on the big project, even if the minister sleeps, it will not be stable!"

With Chen Ding's temperament, as he said, if Chen Ding didn't stare at such a big project, he would definitely find it hard to sleep.

Zhu Houzhao looked at Chen Ding and said, "Aiqing's body is more important. I will send others to supervise this project..."

Although Zhu Houzhao didn't really like Chen Ding's temperament, there was one thing that Zhu Houzhao knew all too well, that is, there was no one who was more suitable than Chen Ding to sit in the seat of the Minister of the Ministry of households.

Like Chen Ding, who can sit in such an important position as the Minister of the Ministry of Household for more than ten or twenty years without being greedy for ink.

You must know that in today's treasury, not to mention other things, the gold and silver that can be mobilized alone are as many as hundreds of millions of taels.

As I said, if Chen Ding, who is the minister of households, is willing, if he moves a little bit, he is afraid that he can lose countless family properties. However, everyone knows that Chen Ding's family has only the meager treasures besides the treasures given by the emperor. 's salary.

No matter it is Jinyiwei, Dongchang, or Xichang, other officials probably don’t need Jinyiwei and Dongchang to fabricate any evidence of corruption. If you pick out a few officials, most of them will be able to find out the problem, but Chen Ding It is pure and innocent, with clear arms, and the real can be said to be incorruptible as water.

Therefore, although the emperor did not like Chen Ding, he respected him from the bottom of his heart. After all, an official like Chen Ding could never be found in the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty.

However, before the emperor's words were finished, Chen Ding who was sitting there suddenly stood up as if he had been beaten with blood, only a few people were startled, and Chen Ding said to the emperor: " Your Majesty, you promised the minister to supervise the repair of the Altar of Heaven for His Majesty before the minister takes office!"

Zhu Houzhao frowned, looking at Chen Ding hesitantly said, "But Aiqing, your body..."

Chen Ding couldn't help but patted his chest and said to Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty, I can still bear it. Besides, although I don't know what the purpose of His Majesty's repairing this altar is, I know that this altar is definitely for His Majesty. It is very important, if someone else is replaced to supervise in the middle, I am really afraid that someone will do something in it, if this ruins the important affairs of Your Majesty, the old minister will die!"

Zhu Houzhao narrowed his eyes and looked at Chen Ding who was bowing. To be honest, if he really handed over this matter to someone else, even if the people from Dongchang and Jinyiwei were watching, Zhu Houzhao would not be too relieved.

After all, if the officials below want to embezzle and accept bribes and do something, even if Dongchang and Jinyiwei are staring at them, they may not be able to avoid caring people.

But Chen Ding is different. With Chen Ding's decades of experience in charge of the Ministry of Households, I am afraid that if anyone wants to do anything on the altar, they will definitely not escape Chen Ding's eyes.

After pondering for a long time, Zhu Houzhao couldn't resist Chen Ding's request, plus he attached great importance to the altar, Zhu Houzhao nodded towards Chen Ding and said, "I can promise Aiqing, and still let Aiqing be responsible for the altar affairs, but Aiqing also promises me. a request."

Chen Ding nodded and said, "If you have any requirements, this minister should obey."

Zhu Houzhao said slowly: "I have no other requirements, but Aiqing must agree to me, and must follow the advice of the imperial physician and rest as much as possible."

After speaking, Zhu Houzhao said to Wang Zheng who was beside him: "Jiang Wang, please write it down. Later, remember to pass my oral order to the imperial physician order and ask him to send the best imperial physician to take care of Chen Aiqing."

Chen Ding couldn't help but hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, this minister..."

Zhu Houzhao waved his hand to Chen Ding and said, "If Aiqing still wants to be in charge of the altar, then follow my arrangement, otherwise, Aiqing will unload the burden first and take care of her body."

Under the threat of Zhu Houzhao, Chen Ding had no choice but to accept it.

Nodding slightly, Zhu Houzhao looked at Chen Ding and said, "Chen Aiqing, according to your estimation, how long will it take to repair this altar?"

Chen Ding raised his brows, lowered his head and pondered, seeing that Chen Ding should be estimating the time in his heart, and when Chen Ding raised his head, the eyes of several people naturally fell on Chen Ding.

"Go back to Your Majesty, according to the minister's estimate, if you want to completely complete the altar, I'm afraid it will take more than half a year."

If it is considered the time that has been spent, then the completion of this altar will take almost a year.

In a year, tens of thousands of young and strong labor were used to repair an altar. It is conceivable how majestic this altar should be.

Just looking at it right now, although the altar with a height of several dozen feet can't be said to be towering, it is also very eye-catching. Every day, many people come here to watch from a distance.

Fortunately, in order to prevent any trouble, the imperial court specially dispatched a guard and horse to sit in the town. Under the [-] ***, just barely stopped some people who were trying to approach the altar. Otherwise, I don’t know how many people would have run away. Look around in front of the towering altar.

Zhu Houzhao nodded slightly. To be honest, Zhu Houzhao didn't think it was too long. He could afford to wait a year, and he still had to wait for the news of the fleets that were out on the expedition.

With the help of the small altar of luck, Zhu Houzhao could feel the change of the luck he gathered at any time.

With Zhu Houzhao's intelligence, it is naturally possible to calculate the fastest way to gather air luck.

Divide the kings overseas and destroy countless countries. These actions bring him a lot of luck every time, and the number is constantly increasing.

In order to gather enough luck to achieve its purpose, even if the altar is repaired successfully, but if the amount of luck is not reached, Zhu Houzhao will not act rashly.

In this case, Zhu Houzhao was not too anxious about the speed of repairing the altar. To be honest, what Zhu Houzhao paid most attention to was not the speed of the altar, but the speed of foreign expansion of Yu Dayou, Xu Tianzuo and others who were on expedition.

Just as Zhu Houzhao and several important officials were talking in the pavilion, a swift horse rushed in, and a messenger came hurriedly.

"Your Majesty, the navy is urgent!"

Wang Zheng stepped forward, took the urgent report from the messenger, and carefully handed it to Zhu Houzhao.

Zhu Houzhao glanced over with a look of curiosity on his face, because the letter was jointly signed by Yu Dayou, Qi Jingtong, Yue Buqun and others.