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Chapter 404 Encouraging King Wu to Attack Luzon Island

Wu State, Jiannan City, this is the capital of Wu State, and Zhu Changluo's palace was built here.

It is located on the southwest plain of Diwan Island, with developed rivers, and many places have now been developed.

Since Zhu Changxun, the king of Wu, became a vassal, the entire country of Wu has gradually been on the right track.

"King Wu, this memorial says that the shipbuilders and weapon craftsmen sent by Zhen Dongbo have arrived. May I ask how to arrange them?"

One day, an eunuch said to Wu Wang Zhu Changxun with a memorial.

"Oh, is the craftsman here? Pass on the king's will, and ask Zhou Cheng, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, to settle down properly." Zhu Changxun ordered to his eunuch.

"King Wu, this is the plea submitted by Liu Benzhou. He requested to form Wu's own merchant fleet to participate in maritime trade and enrich Wu's finances." After the eunuch recorded the handling method of the previous memorial, he picked it up again A memorial.

"It's okay to form a merchant fleet, let Liu Benzhou take care of it." Zhu Changxun nodded and said.

Hearing Zhu Changxun's words, the eunuch wrote down the results of the treatment, and then picked up a memorial again.

"This is a memorial from General Chen Wenhong. He said that the barbarians on the island often attack the people. He requested a major crusade against the barbarians on the island." The eunuch said to Zhu Changxun.

"Yes." Hearing the eunuch's words, Zhu Changxun nodded in approval.

"This is the memorial of Mr. Wang, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment. He said that I, Wu Xinli, should formulate my own laws. He asked the Ministry of Punishment to compile Wu's own laws." The eunuch said to Zhu Changxun.

"Sure." Zhu Changxun agreed after thinking about it.

As the king of Wu, he became the king of Wu, so he naturally needed to have his own set of laws, and he couldn't copy everything from Ming Dynasty.

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A few months later, Wu Guonan built a port.

Today, Wu Wang Zhu Changxun's motorcade came to a group of buildings by the sea with a high profile.

Here is the first large shipyard in Wu State.

The technology and capital of the shipyard were all paid by Emperor Wanli, who was taken advantage of.

Zhang Qingfeng knew that Emperor Wanli loved Zhu Changxun's son, so he just mentioned a word, and Emperor Wanli agreed to help Zhu Changxun build a shipyard in Wu State.

In addition to the shipyard, it also supported a firearms manufacturing factory, allowing Wu to produce flintlock guns and artillery by himself.

"King Wu, here is our own shipyard in Wu State. This shipyard is fully capable of building Galen warships with a displacement of [-] tons."

In the shipyard, an official is taking Zhu Changxun to visit the dock of the shipyard.

In the dock at this time, some workers have already started laying the keel.

"Not bad, not bad." Seeing the busy scene of countless workers, Zhu Changxun nodded repeatedly.

After visiting the shipyard, Zhu Changxun visited the firearms factory.

Zhu Changxun was very happy that Wu Guo himself was able to manufacture firearms.

"King Wu, Liu Benzhou, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, wrote a letter saying that our merchant ships from the state of Wu have returned, and this time they traded with Nanyang and earned 50 taels of silver."

After visiting the factory and returning to the palace, Zhu Changxun received such good news.

"Okay, that's great. It is said that Liu Benzhou came to see the king, and the king will reward him very much." Zhu Changxun said happily.

50 taels of silver is not a small amount. For example, in North Korea, the annual tax revenue of the treasury may not necessarily be 50 taels of silver.

50 taels of silver can completely support an army of tens of thousands of people.

"Liu Benzhou sees King Wu."

"I love you for your safety." Zhu Changxun said to Liu Benzhou.

Liu Benzhou is a man less than 30 years old. He looks very young. No one would have thought that such a young man would be the Secretary of the Household Department of Wu State.

Liu Benzhou, who used to be the president of the Royal Bank under Zhang Qingfeng, was very talented, so Emperor Wanli sent him to his son Zhu Changxun as a courtier.

"Liu Aiqing, tell me about the situation of the caravan." Zhu Changxun said to Liu Benzhou.

"Back to King Wu, it's like this..."

Afterwards, Liu Benzhou told Zhu Changxun about the merchant ship trade.

It turned out that a few months ago, Liu Benzhou formed a merchant fleet with dozens of merchant ships given to his son Zhu Changxun by Emperor Wanli.

Merchant ships purchased tea, porcelain, silk and other commodities in the Ming Dynasty, and then transported them to Luzon and Malay to trade with Western merchants.

Between one round and one round, I made a profit of almost 50 taels of silver, which can be called a huge profit.

"King Wu, in fact, I think that if we can send troops to take down Manila, we will only make more money." Liu Benzhou said to Zhu Changxun.

"Oh? How do you say it?" Hearing Liu Benzhou's words, Zhu Changxun became interested.

Seeing that Zhu Changxun was interested, Liu Benzhou quickly took out a map of Nanyang from his body.

He came to Zhu Changxun and pointed to the map and said, "Look, King Wu, this is Luzon Island. Its area is several times larger than that of our country of Wu. It is less than a thousand miles away from our country of Wu. It takes a few days to travel by boat." arrive."

"This is now controlled by a European country called Spain. There are only more than 2000 Spaniards on the island, and they are also equipped with matchlock guns and small-caliber artillery. We only need to send 5000 people to drive the Spaniards out. The islands can all be owned by our Kingdom of Wu."

Liu Benzhou pointed to the map and said: "This island is rich in spices, and these spices are one of the favorite commodities of Europeans. As long as they can occupy this place, the spices produced on the island can be sold for millions of taels of silver every year."

"In addition, here and here on Luzon Island are all plains, which are much larger than the southern plains of our country of Wu. If they can be reclaimed, there will be at least tens of millions of acres of arable land. If these lands can be cultivated, they will feed thousands of people. A population of [-] is not a problem, and if you grow sugar cane, cotton, soybeans and other cash crops, you can easily earn several million taels a year."

"As long as we can take Luzon Island, I, Da Wu, can use this place as a springboard to take down these islands one after another, especially this island, which is much larger than the Central Plains area, and here, it is the passage to the Indian Ocean. If Being able to win here is equivalent to controlling the trade channel between the East and the West, and earning tens of millions of taels a year is no problem."

Liu Benzhou kept drawing big cakes to Zhu Changxun.

"The Spaniards really only have more than 2000 people here? Can we defeat them by sending 5000 people there?" Zhu Changxun became interested in the Luzon Island Liu Benzhou said.

Especially when I heard that there were only more than 2000 Spaniards on Luzon Island, and the weapons were particularly backward.

"Yes, the mainland of Spain is thousands of miles away, and it is impossible to send many troops here."

Liu Benzhou said: "The reason why Spain was able to occupy this place is mainly because of their guns, artillery and gunboats."

"However, their gunboat artillery is not as powerful as our naval artillery, and the artillery on land is only a small-caliber artillery, which is not very lethal. Moreover, their muskets are not as advanced as our muskets. I really can't think of it. We With such a big advantage, why not beat the Spaniard."

(End of this chapter)