The emperor's thinking was very simple. He must have thought that in addition to doing business, this group of merchant ships could also attack pirates, which would benefit Dakang without any harm.

Besides, most of the combat powers here are my people. No matter how powerful your Chen family is, can you instigate the servants of the Prince Yu’s Mansion and can you instigate the soldiers of the Cao Transportation Office?

Stop kidding!

All these are impossible!

It would be fine if the Chen family was a little honest. If they were not honest, they would teach them how to behave in minutes.

The emperor also knew that the Chen family could not be so stupid, so he was not worried.

On the contrary, through the Chen family's test sample, he wanted to see what the four-masted sailboat was like, and how to accumulate experience and lessons during the bandit suppression.

After all, although the current North and South Navy can be considered as completing its own tasks, the losses are also particularly large.

If there is no good supplement within two or three years, they may have to shrink their defense scope.

So from this point of view, Liu Mingqi's so-called new weapon that can be used on the ship made the emperor look forward to it.

In general, from his perspective, there is nothing wrong with all these measures.

But Emperor Jinghe didn't know what kind of hole he had torn open!

Dakang, a dynasty mainly based on the inland, will embark on a path of crazy expansion overseas.

Regardless of whether the emperor and the ministers of the court want to see it or not, the fact is that once the wealth and force effects of the Chen family are revealed, they will inevitably lead to crazy imitation and follow others.

There are not a hundred or eighty big maritime merchants in Dakang. If you include some maritime merchants who do some business in the nearshore areas, there are at least three or five hundred.

As long as one-tenth of the maritime merchants can join in, the speed of opening up new territory and doing new trade will be accelerated ten times faster!

At that time, the jealous sea merchants would rush forward, and those merchants who were originally looking for food on the shore would also be unable to bear to go overseas to make money.

It is really conceivable how much development potential a superpower with a population of 150 million has.

Liu Mingqi could imagine that at that time, at least dozens of maritime merchant commerce would lead tens of thousands of merchant ships, running around in every corner of the world, doing various business transactions.

Of course, this will not work to make them expand in disorder.

The Dakang court should control the greatest power and interests and occupy the best and most important strategic position so that they will not be like wild horses that have broken away.

At the same time, this is also the authority to maintain Dakang, so that businessmen like them know that they still have a country.

They must do various business and business under the leadership and protection plan of Dakang, and then flow the money they earn back to Dakang, nourishing the land they raised.

This money is naturally impossible to be used randomly. The court not only needs to develop education and encourage various inventions and creations, but also let them do the same thing, allowing culture to be continuously spread and science to continue to advance.

This is the key to the development of Great Britain.

The three idiots, the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal, are completely different examples. When they get money, they know how to eat, drink, play and live a variety of luxury life, so they disperse after two or three generations and have since become second- and third-rate countries.

In the Age of Discovery, you can't find a better example than Great Britain.

Of course, Liu Mingqi wanted to learn from them.

...

Chen Yuhua and Chen Xiaowei originally planned that it would take several days for Liu Mingqi to meet them.

Unexpectedly, early the next morning, Liu Mingqi sent someone to pick them up.

"Come on, sit on, sit on!"

Because he specifically said that he wanted to invite them to breakfast, the place arranged by Liu Mingqi was a dining room.

What they prepared were big buns with pork stuffing, and soy milk and pickles.

Originally, the location of the Gyeonggi area should be controlled by Hu La Tang, but who said that pepper has not yet developed yet, so Liu Mingqi can only eat what she likes to eat.

Chen Yuhua was a little nervous. He was afraid that Liu Mingqi would reject his father and daughter's idea, so he praised him while eating: "Well, it's delicious! The pigs raised in Prince Yu's mansion are different, and they are even more delicious than the pigs raised in Jiangnan according to the secret recipe."

"Oh, the fine pork in Jiangnan has become popular now?" the young man asked in a slight stuttering manner.

He stayed in Jiangnan for several months, but he had no time to care about this.

Chen Xiaowei then replied: "In fact, wealthy businessmen have already raised large-scale farming last year. If it weren't for the Japanese pirates' invasion this year, they might have expanded their scale again."

Liu Mingqi was a little curious: "Most parts of Zhejiang, as well as Anhui and western Jiangsu, seem to have not been affected by the disaster, right? Why didn't the scale be expanded?"

"Because they are afraid of death!" Chen Xiaowei said, "Most of the rich people in Zhejiang hid in Hangzhou City, and the rich people in the other two provinces fled far away, just trying to save their wealth and lives. How can they care about so much?"

"Um……"

Liu Mingqi laughed silently, but shook her head: "This is not possible. She is as timid as a mouse, but luxurious as a trend. This is not easy to take the lead... By the way, is it the same for your maritime businessmen?"

"No," Chen Xiaowei said, "but they also drove the ships to Zhoushan Port, Xiamen Port and other places to receive protection from the navy."

"It's quite smart." The young man pondered, "Mr. Chen, Miss Chen, if you formed a fleet, what is the specific scale? Can you tell me?"

Chen Xiaowei said, "Your four-masted sailboat is really huge, so for our fleet, we should mainly use these five four-masted sailboats, and at most five medium-sized ships and five sea falcons, which is enough.

As for personnel, each four-masted sailboat has 500 crew members, five marshals, and five sea falcons each carry one hundred crew members, a total of 3,500 people, which should be enough to deal with pirates and travel along the way.

When we went to sea for the first time, the cargo we prepared was 50% of the load, and the remaining 20% ​​were used as food and water reserves during the voyage. We passed through three large island countries and six small island countries. We expected to sail the farthest to Sulu, which happened to be a familiar place.

It is expected that after the entire voyage is ready, we will set off in May next year, then follow the sea breeze and head south. We will arrive in Sulu in July and return to Taizhou in November. We can report to you about the sea trip before the New Year."

According to normal circumstances, Chen Xiaowei's planning is very suitable.

Full preparation, clear purpose, reasonable allocation of time, strong strength...

It is conceivable that this trip to the sea will be very appropriate and safe, and will be able to complete the first trade smoothly, giving the entire caravan strong confidence.

Then the second trade in the following year will be much more harmonious, everyone's enthusiasm will be much higher, and thus the completion rate will be very high.

but!

But this does not fit Liu Mingqi's plan.

Time waits for no one.

Chen Xiaowei's plan is safe enough, but it consumes a lot of time.

According to her plan, it will take three years to explore all the Southeast Asian waters today, and it will take three years to completely eliminate pirates and form sufficient combat power.

It means that only six years later did Liu Mingqi have the strength to attack the vast Indian Ocean waters west of the Strait of Malacca.

Whether or not it can gain a foothold in the Indian Ocean for the past ten years is still a question.

How many decades are there in life?

How many decades have Dakang wasted in this time when the West was running and catching up?

Liu Mingqi's goal is not to kill all the Western pirates and navy for the rest of her life.

These are just a small step for him. His bigger goal is to establish the most powerful naval force, establish a solid colony around the world, and be able to have a stable operation for more than 30 years, forming a strong response to the country.

The lifespan of the ancients could not be calculated based on the age of ninety in his time. No matter how good Liu Mingqi was in good health or how well he maintained and exercised, he could only be calculated based on the age of seventy.

If it were Chen Xiaowei's steady progress, the young man would probably not be able to wait for himself.

He couldn't even wait, so how could he make the best choice based on the situation at that time?

Do you believe that if Liu Mingqi is not here, once there are various problems in the colony, the court will immediately give up on it?

When one is given up, it is easy to give up the second one, the third one... In 50 years, all the colonies of Dakang will be lost, and maybe they will be given dowry for others in vain.

This certainly does not conform to Liu Mingqi's plan.

The Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal can control the colonies for two or three hundred years, and Great Britain can even control the colonies for four or five hundred years. Why can I be destroyed in thirty or fifty years?

In terms of overall strength, on the cohesion of our overall Chinese culture, on our attachment to our hometown... which one is not stronger than their Westerners?

All we lack is the wolf ambition!

What is missing is the determination to hold all the good things in your hands regardless of everything!!

Of course this is also a very wealthy fault.

We occupy the best places besides the African continent and the American continent. We have rich resources and comfortable environments. We do not have too many natural enemies around us, nor too many disasters... The beauty of all this makes the rulers of our Central Plains seriously lack the enterprising spirit, second only to America and Africa.

In Europe, the area of ​​Europe has a small farming area, a small land and a small resource, which forces them to make money to support themselves through trade.

As they traded, after their force developed, they found that, hey, this robbery came faster than doing business!

Therefore, their country turned into robbers and began to slaughter and plunder continuously, thus developing a "civilized" modern Western civilization by sucking blood all over the world.

Liu Mingqi must be much stronger than this group of brutal bandits. He would not do that kind of crazy killing and robbery.

But Dakang must be preserved in the most fertile land, the richest resources and the most dangerous location!

Anyway, many of these places are now homeless.

Don’t think that Liu Mingqi is too greedy. Look at the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, where are there no islands occupied by the United States, Britain, France, etc. in the Pacific Ocean?

These islands still belong to them in the twenty-first century!

Why haven’t you seen them return these islands to the local natives and allow them to establish a country independently?

So don’t listen to the people in the West fart, saying that you should be compassionate, peace, and not plunder!

They are the ancestors of robbers!

The robbers are not as conscientious and shameless as they are!!

If God does not take it, he will suffer the consequences.

If the time fails, you will suffer the consequences.

Our ancestors had long explained these principles clearly, but many people did not study at all. Instead, they looked at a foreign sentence, a so-called chicken soup for the soul, and regarded it as a sacred text. This is really a humiliation of our great Chinese education.
Chapter completed!