The Most Powerful Man in the World

"Fang Buer? It turned out to be Fang Buer, who has been in the limelight recently. It is said that Fang Buer started out as a sea trader, and now his net worth is no less than one million..."

No matter what the folks say, anyway, the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty were really suppressed, especially when a group of officials saw the carriages transporting gold and silver into the silver treasury of the Ministry of Housing. The officials closed their mouths one by one.

The biggest reason for their opposition to war with the outside world is that the imperial court is difficult to support the huge military expenditure. Who would have thought that the gold and silver that the Ming Dynasty spends on the army alone will reach as much as tens of millions of taels every year.

If this is before the tax system reform, if you really dare to play like this, I am afraid that the imperial court will be bankrupt long ago.

Of course, even now, so much military spending has led many people to impeach military generals and honorable men such as Wang Yangming.

But this time, the loot of about [-] million suddenly blocked the mouths of all those who opposed it. At least some of the officials still had a look of astonishment until now. Obviously, they did not expect Yu Dayou and the others to have such a big one. reward.

This year, overseas good news came frequently. First, Yu Dayou led the army to destroy the country overseas, and then there was good news. On the other hand, Xu Tianzuo led the fleet to land in the Americas and fought against the Spanish army who had occupied the Americas first.

Due to the geographical distance, the Spanish capital was breached, and the country's top officials and even its wealth were swept away. The news that even their own capital was occupied was not heard by these Spaniards.

This Spanish fleet is the strongest fleet other than the fleet left behind in the mainland. With this fleet and an army of tens of thousands, it has firmly occupied the Americas, and it has continuously transfused blood for the country.

America can be described as rich, precious mineral resources such as gold, silver, and precious stones are simply enviable. Every year, a ship of wealth flows across the ocean into Spain.

If it wasn't for decades of overseas plundering, how could it possibly have been cheaper for Yu Dayou and the others, who stumbled upon a huge amount of wealth in the capital.

The Spaniards, who regarded America as their own territory, saw how Daming could agree when he put his hand into his back garden.

However, the consequence of several battles was that the Spanish fleet was losing ground, and Xu Tianzuo was defeated by Xu Tianzuo with more advanced weapons and equipment, and a lot of territory was lost.

Ships are loaded with gold, silver, precious stones and many plants unique to the Americas, such as corn, sweet potatoes, peanuts, and dozens of other edible plants.

At that time, Chu Yi sent a fleet to the Americas to find corn and sweet potatoes. Although he also brought back the seeds of corn and sweet potatoes, it has not been popularized in Daming for more than ten years, and now there are dozens of new plants. Introduced to Ming Dynasty from America.

At the beginning, Chu Yi did not blindly promote crops such as corn and sweet potatoes, mainly because corn and sweet potatoes, as alien species, did not fully adapt to the climate, soil and other environments of Daming.

This is also in history. Obviously, sweet potatoes, corn and other crops were introduced into the Ming Dynasty in the late Ming Dynasty, but they were not widely promoted. Instead, they were completely spread out in the Qing Dynasty, and the so-called sweet potato flourished.

After all, it takes time for corn and sweet potatoes to adapt to the new environment from generation to generation. In addition, the imperial court did not enforce the promotion. It is obviously not too fast to rely on the spontaneous promotion of the people.

The most important reason is that there was no major natural disaster in Daming, at least there was no shortage of food. Otherwise, both Chu Yi and Zhu Houzhao would definitely promote these crops vigorously.

The large ships that returned from America were loaded with gold and silver, and once again made waves on the court. At this time, even a fool would know that if they shouted at this time, they would be fighting against Taotao. .

Zhu Houzhao looked at the small altar in amazement, his mouth was slightly open, and his face was a little puzzled. It was only half a month since he last checked, but it was only half a month. In time, the luck of luck has soared by millions, and the total amount of luck has reached [-] million.

"What is the reason why the luck has skyrocketed so much."

Zhu Houzhao obviously didn't understand why his luck had skyrocketed so much. It could even be said that if Chu Yi knew that Zhu Houzhao had skyrocketed so much at one time, he would probably vomit blood in depression.

He worked so hard for so many years, but he only saved millions of luck, but Zhu Houzhao, millions of luck fell from the sky without doing anything.

Rubbing the small altar, Zhu Houzhao's eyes flashed a bit of wise light, and his face gradually showed a sudden color.

In fact, if you only need to think about what happened in the past half-month, you will be able to come up with a clue.

And it was precisely after the fleet that returned from the Americas arrived in the capital that the skyrocketing luck in luck had arrived in the capital. Zhu Houzhao only needed to eliminate them one by one to be able to pinpoint where the skyrocketing luck in luck came from.

Sitting there, one hand tapped lightly on the table, Zhu Houzhao had a bit of contemplation between his eyebrows, and his eyes were fixed on the world map hanging on the wall in front of him. Maps that are not too far from modern maps.

On this map, some marks are clearly marked, and the area covered by the sun and moon flags occupies about one-third of the map.

Looking at the map, Zhu Houzhao thought secretly in his heart. In Zhu Houzhao's opinion, let alone whether he can occupy the whole world, even if he does occupy the whole world, I am afraid that there is also an upper limit to the luck that can be obtained in the end.

If Zhu Houzhao is willing, with his current physical condition, he may not have the hope of occupying the whole world after working hard for several decades, but it is obviously impossible for Zhu Houzhao to wait any longer.

He has set a deadline for himself. The twenty years of Zhengde is the deadline he set for himself. Before that, he will try his best to get luck. No matter how much luck he can get, he will board the board. Altar, take that crucial step.

As the saying goes, time waits for no one, maybe he can wait a few more years, but if he wants to achieve the plan in his heart, the longer the delay, the better, and the timing of some things is the most important.

Zhu Houzhao had a wild vision in his heart, that is to use the magical altar to do things against the sky.

No one knows Zhu Houzhao's great ambition hidden in the bottom of his heart, soaring across the country and establishing a supreme divine dynasty. Apart from Zhu Houzhao, even the arms of Zhu Houzhao such as Yang Yiqing, Wang Yangming and Shao Yuanjie are not aware of Zhu Houzhao's thoughts. Of course, Even if Zhu Houzhao told this to a few people, I'm afraid no one would believe it, but would think that Zhu Houzhao was crazy.

Rubbing the altar in his hand, Zhu Houzhao's eyes slowly moved on the map. Several eye-catching arrows centered on Daming and radiated in all directions. It was a fleet and an army sent by Daming to the outside world. In the direction of expansion, it can be said that every day there are places that are conquered and then brought under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, bringing a steady stream of luck to Zhu Houzhao.

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The spring of the nineteenth year of Zhengde

Several Daming fleets have conquered overseas lands, and each time they landed, the imperial court would immediately send out the royal clansmen who were already waiting for the reward.

Since the time of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, the royal family can be said to be numerous, but there are not too many who are really qualified to entrust overseas.

Of course, the fiefs of those princes are naturally larger. As for the royal family clans such as the princes who have been demoted, although they also have fiefs, the size of the fiefs is obviously a lot worse.

Originally, Zhu Houzhao had been hesitating whether to seal these county kings out, but after discussing with Yang Yiqing, Wang Yangming and other important cabinet ministers, Zhu Houzhao made up his mind and sealed them all out.

On the one hand, Zhu Houzhao needs these people to go out and completely occupy the land that has been seized. On the other hand, he also completely removes these royal clansmen who have been reduced to Daming's cancer in a gentle way.

Zhu Houzhao can even imagine that if the problem of the royal family cannot be solved, even if there is no natural or man-made disaster, the royal family of Daming alone is enough to drag Daming to death.

Since there is a lot of land overseas, and these royal clansmen are extremely cooperative, why not take the opportunity to send these people overseas.

Anyway, the basic plan of Daming has been laid down, and the vast land is not the bigger the better. If it only occupies the vast land but does not govern it properly, it will only become a burden on the court.

The most important thing is that Zhu Houzhao gained an extremely large amount of air luck through this move, and the steady stream of air luck gathered together. This is the fundamental reason why Zhu Houzhao insisted on segregation.

It's just obvious that with a lot of land being occupied, the newly added air luck has slowed down a lot. For Zhu Houzhao, who wants to get enough air luck, the more air luck, the better.

The reason for the slowdown in the rate of increase in luck is very simple. It is nothing more than that the territory that can be occupied has almost been occupied, plus several fleets that are out on the expedition, whether it is from generals or soldiers, in the process of external expansion for several years, From the initial excitement to the current dullness and even boredom, it can almost be said that the speed of the expansion of several fleets is several times worse than that of one of them at the beginning.

In fact, this is also a normal situation. It is not easy for Yu Dayou and others to maintain enough passion for several years.

On the one hand, the mentality of the soldiers has gradually changed. On the other hand, with the external expansion, the logistical supplies that each fleet can get is getting less and less, and the time is getting longer and longer, which limits several fleets to a certain extent. combat power.

Not to mention the rest, just talking about the fleet of Yu Dayou, this fleet can be said to be the earliest of several fleets to go to sea, and it is also the most powerful fleet.

Under the leadership of Yu Dayou, this fleet has fought against maritime powers such as Spain and the Netherlands more than once.

In the West, when it comes to the Ming fleet, those countries can be said to be both fearful and afraid. The collapse of the Kingdom of Spain really terrified many countries.

Several countries along the Mediterranean coast were destroyed by the Ming Dynasty, which completely suppressed the Western countries.

Originally, countries such as Spain, Portugal, and the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets have always been fighting each other because of their maritime interests.

However, as Spain was gently pushed down by the Ming Dynasty, the Western countries headed by Portugal and the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets suddenly increased their vigilance. Although they were shocked and afraid of the Ming Dynasty, it is obvious that they want these countries to surrender obediently. Unrealistic.

Yu Dayou and others pushed horizontally along the Mediterranean coast. Every time a country was destroyed, it was a stimulus to the remaining countries.

In less than half a year, an alliance born to fight against the Ming fleet was completely formed.

Led by the empire on the sun, Portugal, the Netherlands and other maritime powers, more than a dozen large and small countries have united to fight against the atrocities of the Ming Dynasty.

Every time a country is destroyed, Zhu Houzhao can get a lot of luck here. For this reason, Zhu Houzhao even personally passed the order to the fleet commanders such as Yu Dayou and Xu Tianzuo.

With the secret decree of the emperor, Yu Dayou, Xu Tianzuo and others did not hesitate to destroy the country.

After this set of procedures, even if the countries targeted are trying to confront, but where is the opponent of Daming, they are easily pushed down, and the country will be destroyed.

The appearance of the alliance was expected, even a little later than what Yu Dayou and Qi Jingtong expected.

In fact, in Yu Dayou's view, as long as they continue to toss in the West, sooner or later these remaining countries will be united. This is an instinct. Unless they can stop and stop continuing, the key is that they are willing, and the emperor will not. I would like to.

Large ships sailed on the sea, and the eye-catching sun and moon flags showed the identity of the fleet. It was the Daming fleet that set off stormy waves in the west.

Headed by Qi Jingtong, Yu Dayou and others, and looking at the battleships, almost all the battleships of the Daming Fleet were dispatched. Just looking at the posture, you could feel the pressure of the mountains and the rain.

On the flagship, more than a dozen civil and military officials, including Qi Jingtong and Yu Dayou, stood on the deck, looking at the sea in front of them.

He heard Qi Jingtong say to Yu Dayou: "Commander, this time the Western coalition forces are all out, I'm afraid it will be difficult to deal with."

Yu Dayou squinted his eyes and said with a bit of coldness in his expression: "Even if it is difficult to deal with, we have to go up, even if we lose the battle, we can fight, we are not afraid of failure, His Majesty will send it continuously. The big army, but the Western coalition can't be defeated. They have already gambled all their wealth. If the bet fails, the Western coalition will fall into a situation of doom. At that time, whether it is the Netherlands, Portugal or the empire on which the sun never sets , these countries are like our back garden, let us enter and loot."

Without Yu Dayou's explanation, Qi Jingtong, Yue Buqun and others knew one thing very well in their hearts, that is, this battle is of great importance.

There are no countries in the West capable of confronting the Ming Dynasty, but if they are spread out, it will take a great deal of time and energy to push them one by one.

After all, just avoiding and not fighting is not something Yu Dayou and the others can afford.

Although most of the materials needed by the fleet can be supplied in the countries they occupy, such as the barrels, fire guns and even artillery shells that need to be replaced, these need to be transported across the ocean from Daming, thousands of miles away, Therefore, Yu Dayou and the others simply can't afford it. They are not afraid of confrontation, but they are afraid that these countries will avoid fighting.

The appearance of the coalition forces is not without Yu Dayou and the others helping fuel the flames. At least Spain has been broken, and it is said that there is no problem in taking the opportunity to directly break Portugal.

However, Yu Dayou, Jiao Yuan and others did not turn around to deal with Portugal after their discussions. Instead, they launched a frantic offensive against the countries along the Mediterranean coast. In just over half a year, they stunned several countries. The country will be quelled until the sun never sets.

Under the threat of Ming Dynasty, these countries naturally gave up their mutual hostility and discord and united together.

The strength of Western countries varies, but no matter what, the strength of the coalition forces occupies most of the strength of the entire Western countries.

Gathering the strength of the various countries, the strength of the coalition fleet is almost inflated like a balloon, and there are thousands of warships piled up, with more than [-] soldiers.

With so many warships and men, it can be said that apart from the Ming Dynasty, no other country can make it together.But for the more than a dozen countries in the alliance, it is really not that difficult to come up with such a big battle and momentum.

Not long ago, the Alliance even dared to take the initiative to issue a gauntlet to the Daming Fleet. This was the first time. It shows the strength of the Alliance, and even made these people suppress the fear of the Daming Fleet in their hearts.

Scottish Seas

With the demise of Spain, the Kingdom of Portugal was originally the strongest at sea. Compared with Portugal, which could almost share the world with Spain at its peak, the Netherlands was already far behind the first sea coachman to rise.

However, the empire on which the sun never sets is a latecomer, and it has shown a strong maritime power in the alliance, almost on a par with Portugal.

In order to compete for the dominance of the alliance, the empire on which the sun never sets and the Portuguese empire have fought a lot of struggles.

If it weren't for this, I'm afraid that the combined fleet has already completed the assembly, and it has already started to fight the Ming fleet, and it will not be delayed until today.

Even so, the alliance still did not choose a real leader, but instead formed a situation dominated by the two kingdoms of Portugal and the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets.

There is a saying that when two tigers fight, one will be hurt. Since there is a first position, who would like to honestly take the second place. If it is really lacking in strength, that's fine. The key is the second's strength. It's not worse than the first, so why can't we fight.

The dispatch of the alliance army this time is indeed huge, and the thousands of warships are covered in black, which is an extremely rare scene in human history.

It's just that if someone can observe carefully, they will find one thing, that is, the thousands of warships are almost divided into two parts.

Needless to say, this was the result of the rivalry between the two countries, and the alliance army was also split into two invisibly.

Regardless of whether it is the Empire on the Sun or Portugal, after gathering the power of more than a dozen Western countries, they no longer take Yu Dayou, a Mingren fleet, in their hearts.

Although the Mingren Fleet is said to be very strong, can it be stronger than the coalition army no matter how strong it is?In the hearts of most people, as long as the coalition forces come out, the Ming fleet will be destroyed.

The battle area chosen by the two sides is this Scottish sea area. It can be said that the time and place are right and the people are in the hands of the alliance army. Although it is said that Yu Dayou's fleet is not in his heart, in order to prevent accidents, the alliance army is still general. The location of the battle was chosen in the Scottish waters.

Above the sea, the alliance army formed two distinct teams, facing each other at a distance.

The sea is calm and the sea is absolutely the best weather for fighting.

When dark spots gradually appeared on the sky, the spirits of the admirals, whether it was Portugal or the Empire on which the sun never sets, were all shocked.

Headed by Portugal and the Empire of Never Set Sun, some countries were drawn together below. These generals watched the Ming fleet slowly approach, and their hearts naturally became nervous.

After all, the Daming Fleet is famous for its fierce reputation, so it doesn't mean that it doesn't care if it doesn't matter.

When the coalition forces saw the Daming Fleet, the Daming Fleet did not notice the two distinct naval teams on the opposite side.