mtl008 Chapter 134
Chapter 134
Chapter 134: Frontier Crisis! The mystery of luck?!!
Looking at the world map, calculating the various materials and manpower needed for Daming to expand around…
Zhu Xiongying couldn’t help but secretly speak.
Controlling a small sultanate costs so much! What kind of investment is needed to conquer the world?
That’s how you can imagine!
“You still have to make more money first.”
“It’s easy to get things done when you have money.”
“Otherwise, with powerful technology and troops, it will be difficult to last long!”
Zhu Xiongying now has a deeper understanding of the meaning of the phrase ‘fighting a war is fighting money’.
So, he began planning his first trip to the West with the main purpose of commercial profit.
He planned to send out 15 sail battleships and escort 100 Galen ships to complete the mission.
100 Galen ships with an average net cargo capacity of 1,000 tons each.
In total, it can carry 100,000 tons of cargo.
These goods are all hard currency of Daming.
Including silk, ceramics, glass, handicrafts and other products that are very popular in the West.
Zhu Xiongying planned that five of the sail battleships 830 with a group of craftsmen would arrive halfway to Malacca and camp down to establish a large port city there.
The name of the port, he had already thought of, was called ‘Xingzhou’, which became the southernmost state capital of Daming.
The remaining sail battleships escorted the Galen ship forward.
Cross the Indian Ocean, around the Cape of Good Hope, straight to Portugal.
Even into the Mediterranean, to France, Venice, Hope, Byzantine Ottoman…
Products are sold to the Mediterranean coast and throughout Europa.
This road is at least a distance of 560,000 li.
Even with his purple qi acceleration, he needs to sail all the way for fifty or sixty days, a round trip is more than 100 days, and he can only run three round trips a year.
Of course, he did not have this time to do the transportation business of the shipping industry.
If someone else runs this road, because there is no purple gas acceleration, it will only be two back and forth to die in a year.
If the net profit of one round trip is 3 million taels of silver, the profit of two round-trips a year is almost 6 million taels of silver.
That is, basically, 100 Galen ships, plus 10 sail battleships for escort.
The volume of trade for a whole year was only about enough for Daming to garrison troops along the Suez Canal.
“It’s not easy to make money!”
“No wonder the later Great Eagle Empire also experienced more than a hundred years of wealth accumulation, only to slowly suppress the maritime powers of Spain, the Netherlands, and Portugal, and achieved the hegemony of the sun never sets!”
After understanding this, Zhu Xiongying couldn’t help but sigh again and again…
Just as Zhu Xiongying was intensively planning foreign expansion, Zhu Shu, the king of Qin, returned to the northwest with his second concubine Deng Shi, as well as Fang Xiaozi and others.
This Deng clan is the eldest daughter of Deng Fang, the king of Ninghe, one of the six founding kings of the Ming Dynasty.
At this time, Deng Yu had died of illness for two years.
Since Deng Yu did not have a concubine, the imperial court had not yet agreed on which of Deng Yu’s sons would succeed him.
The Deng family has gradually shown signs of decline.
However, although Deng was only a second concubine, Zhu Shu was extremely fond of her.
Zhu Shu’s concubine Wang Shi was the daughter of Wang Baobao, a famous general of Yuanbed, the king of Henan.
However, Zhu Shu did not wait to see the Wang family, but placed her in a corner of the Northwest Qin King Mansion, and would not see her for ten days and a half months.
At this time, Deng grumbled in the carriage: “My father started fighting against the Yuan at the age of 16 and died young in 40. ”
“Worked hard for Daming and made great contributions.”
“But now, it’s been almost two years since I died, and there is not even a successor to the title in my family.”
“It’s really cold, it’s chilling…”
Zhu Shu smiled and said, “Madame, don’t be impatient.” ”
“When I have great power, I will make those younger brothers of yours king!”
When Deng heard this, his eyes immediately lit up.
Holding Zhu Shu’s arm, he was coquettish.
Zhu Shu really loved Deng, not only ordered a set of queen’s clothes for her, but also placed a five-clawed golden dragon royal bed for the emperor in the bedroom.
In the original history, after this matter was discovered, Zhu Yuanzhang gave death to Deng, but at this time, Zhu Shu obviously had great control over Xi’an Prefecture.
Now Zhu Yuanzhang has great trust in him, and everything is covered by Zhu Shu.
The affairs of Xi’an Prefecture could not be transmitted to Jinling at all.
Soon after, soon after Zhu Shu arrived in Xi’an Prefecture, a local tycoon Li Qianli came to visit.
This Li Qianli, of course, is Li Zhong before.
At this time, his identity was the fort owner of Lijiabao, 500 miles northwest of Xi’an Prefecture, with 3,000 war horses, and he was a super powerful man in Shaanxi and Gansu.
Recently, I heard that Li Qianli defeated another remnant of the Northern Yuan and captured two war horses.
For a while, the sound was shocking.
At the moment, Zhu Shu and Li Qianli hit it off.
Zhu Shu privately appointed Li Qianli as the commander of Gan Dongwei.
In this way, Zhu Shu already has 16,000 troops of the Three Guards.
In addition, there are 3,000 private soldiers.
Plus more than 5,000 cavalry of Li Qianli.
In addition, Deng’s second brother Deng Ming, third brother Deng Duo, and fourth brother Deng Quan also brought more than 1,000 generals and personal soldiers to cast.
His forces have grown to nearly 26,000.
If Zhu Xiongying was by Zhu Shu’s side at this time, he would definitely see that his luck value had risen to 1999 at this time.
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And Zhu Huo, the king of Jin in Taiyuan, has changed his temperament greatly since he was last held hostage by Lü Xun.
Zhu Hui this person, with beautiful eyes and beautiful hair, Gu Yi has a mighty appearance, and at this time he has already grown a beard and looks similar to Guan Gong.
However, this person, who was originally relatively generous, has recently become extremely cruel for some reason.
Not long ago, because the dishes were too light, he tied up his chef and smoked it fiercely.
In the past two days, he also tied up a Taiyuan prefectural official who opposed his views and divided the body on the street.
It’s outrageously brutal!
Due to the previous Taiyuan Rebellion, Zhu Yuanzhang added troops to Zhu Huan.
At this time, Zhu Zha had 60,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry under him.
Among the kings, the army was the strongest.
If Zhu Xiongying was by Zhu Huan’s side at this time, he would definitely see that Zhu Xiong’s luck value had risen to 1999 at this time.
Daming, the frontier luck is flourishing!
If, at this time, there was a lookout like Lu Ben standing at an extremely high place looking at the entire Daming.
It will be found that the northwest, north, and even Jinling City are all wisps of black gas at this time.
Continuous corrosion eats away at Daming, and the luck of the Zhu family.
In fact, this is also the fundamental reason why Zhu Xiongying recently found it difficult to grow his luck
It’s just that Zhu Xiongying didn’t discover this at this time…