The Most Powerful Man in the World

Just like Dongying, if a fleet like Daliqisi landed in Dongying, it would really not be a problem to break the countries established by the Ming Dynasty in several places. A casual search would be millions of taels of gold and silver.

It's not surprising that Dalikis was able to take out hundreds of thousands of gold coins in one go. At the same time, it also made Chu Yi realize that during this period, the maritime powers such as Portugal, Spain, and the Netherlands had already shown their fangs and began to grab overseas wealth.

Fortunately, because of him, under his guidance or persecution, a considerable number of people stepped out of the country and set their sights overseas.

Although the policy of seclusion and isolation of the country is some kind of ancestral system, the system has always been broken. The reason why so many people resolutely opposed opening the sea in the courtroom is still for profit.

The Ming Dynasty banned the sea, but the lords and dignitaries of the people were conducting maritime trade in private one by one, swallowing up a lot of wealth.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has opened the sea, when a large number of people have stepped out of the country and gained a lot of wealth from overseas, it will inevitably attract more people to go out.

When this torrent is getting bigger and bigger, I am afraid that even he or the big tomorrow will not be able to stop this torrent. At that time, anyone who dares to say no to the sea will definitely be such a huge torrent 's enemy.

In the face of such a torrent, unless the army is used, I am afraid that no one can stop this trend.

Taking a deep breath, the corners of Chu Yi's mouth twitched slightly, and he nodded, "In that case, this king will give you this chance!"

Dalikis, who had been worried all the time, finally breathed a sigh of relief, and Chu Yi willingly agreed, which meant that he could save his life.

However, what Chu Yi said next made him suddenly lift his heart.

I only heard Chu Yi say: "But before that, I want to wrong your Excellency, and I will go to the capital for a while."

However, Chu Yi made up his mind to select some officers from the Portuguese fleet, such as Dalikis, or people with noble backgrounds to be sent to the capital.

If the officials above the court learned that they could obtain a lot of wealth from these people, I don't know what their expressions would be.

A single Dalich can come up with hundreds of thousands of gold coins, and all the Portuguese naval officers who came here to be Fu would definitely be willing to give out a lot of gold and silver to redeem themselves.

From Tokyo Port, a steady stream of convoys came from the direction of Kyoto. An escort team composed of thousands of Ming troops was escorting hundreds of carts.

Each of these carts is filled with large boxes and stretches for several miles. It was Lu Dazhu, who was sitting in Kyoto, who sent people to transfer the wealth confiscated from the houses of the powerful and powerful in Kyoto to this port.

As the closest port to Kyoto, according to Chu Yi's order, all the wealth confiscated from the capital will be packed and escorted to this port after some selection, classification and statistics.

Tokyo Port is a large port, although it has only been occupied for a long time, but at this time, a large number of ships have gathered in the port.

Because Chu Yi ordered Li Degong and Pang Shiqi to dispatch a large number of warships to Iwami Port to face the Portuguese fleet, the number of warships left in Tokyo Port was not too many, but a large number of supply ships were docked.

You must know that Zhai Luan came across the sea with an army of [-] troops. In order to carry so many troops and horses, Daming has dispatched a large number of ships from China. Although a considerable number of supply ships have returned to Daming, they are still in this port. There are still nearly [-] merchant ships and supply ships docked.

A large number of ships are docked in the port, and a large amount of logistics materials are piled up here. It can be said that the Tokyo Port is definitely a logistics center for the Ming army.

In order to ensure the safety of Tokyo Port, Chu Yi dispatched a full 1 people to guard Tokyo Port just in case.

Although Iwami Port is said to be responsible for part of the logistics, but as the army is on the verge of Kyoto, the distance from Iwami Port to Beijing alone is too far, and naturally it is not as convenient as Tokyo Port.

The number of ships and soldiers stationed in Tokyo Port can be said to be several times that of Iwami Port.

When a large number of convoys slowly came from the city of Kyoto, which is dozens of miles away, the general in charge of the port of Tokyo received the news early and sent troops to respond.

A carriage slowly moved forward, and Yu Dayou, Zhai Luan and others were slightly behind the carriage on horseback, which could make Zhai Luan, the deputy commander of the army, fall behind. others too.

Even a commander-in-chief like Lu Dazhu was only on a par with Zhai Luan in terms of identity, and would not let Zhai Lan take the initiative to fall behind.

Chu Yi simply arranged for Qi Jingtong to send someone to escort Dali Qisi and others to Tokyo Port and then brought people to Tokyo Port.

It has been almost a year since Chu Yi left Beijing to conquer Dongying, and now the capital has been captured, although there are still many famous local names that have not been destroyed.Even with the capture of Kyoto, many daimyo in Eastern Ying, who have been stimulated, have faint signs of uniting.

But Chu Yi never took the big names of Dongying to heart.

After all, after destroying more than a dozen kingdoms, Chu Yi couldn't be more clear about the composition of the names of places like Dongying.

Perhaps decades later, after experiencing the baptism of the turbulent times of the Warring States Period, a group of heroes such as Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu were born in the turmoil of the Eastern Land.

Even Toyotomi Hideyoshi, after integrating the military forces of the East, led such a strong army of elite soldiers who had gone through troubled times to land in Korea, trying to provoke the status of the Ming Empire.

As a result, it was suppressed by Daming at will. It is conceivable that in the future, Dongying will be easily suppressed by Daming in its heyday, not to mention that a large number of future Dongying heroes and talents have not grown up during this period.

With an elite army of 10,000+, as long as the generals are not too incompetent, it is not difficult to completely pacify Japan.

Chu Yi is about to go back to Beijing. During this trip to Dongying, Chu Yi has gained a lot. Not to mention the other things, the luck that Chu Yi cares about most, from the time of landing in Dongying to the present, during the one-year period, The stun is skyrocketing, soaring by nearly one million.

Chu Yi has roughly summed up the rules one by one. Whenever a place's famous name is destroyed, the altar of luck will shake, and then the luck will skyrocket by tens of thousands.

Chu Yi has no doubt that if the remaining local names are completely wiped out, then the luck he can get will most likely reach as much as 200 million.

With so much luck, it can be said that it far exceeded Chu Yi's expectations.

However, Chu Yi is about to return to Beijing. The situation is very good now. Although there are still many famous names in Dongying, but Chu Yi can easily pacify Dongying by handing it over to Zhai Luan or Lu Dazhu. He will not stay here any longer. It is of great significance. After all, he has already verified that, whether it is his own hands or not, if these famous names in the East are destroyed, the altar of luck will get a sum of luck.

Another point is that Zhu Houzhao, the son of big tomorrow, has sent people to pass orders to him several times, hoping that he can return to Beijing as soon as possible.

Coupled with this battle with the Spanish fleet, Chu Yi, who had already given birth to the idea of ​​returning to Beijing, finally made a decision.

Port of Tokyo

With the arrival of Chu Yi's motorcade, that afternoon, the huge motorcade from Kyoto also arrived at the port.

The person in charge of escorting was a guerrilla general. The guerrilla general carefully handed over several extremely thick account books to Lin Pingzhi, who then handed it over to Chu Yi.

Chu Yi casually glanced at it, his eyes could not help shrinking.

What was recorded on this ledger was the detailed data that had been confiscated in Kyoto this time.

Although Chu Yi was already mentally prepared, he also knew that Dongying, who had not encountered foreign enemies for thousands of years, had accumulated a lot of wealth.

At least [-]% to [-]% of this wealth has been deposited in Kyoto. It can be said that Daming's move to raid his home in Kyoto this time has hollowed out the wealth accumulated by Dongying for hundreds of thousands of years.

Although Dongying is an island country, it is very rich in gold and silver deposits. There are more than one rich mines such as Iwami Ginzan.One can imagine how much wealth he has accumulated over the years.

Fifty-five million taels of silver, 500 million taels of gold, countless jewels and jade...

No wonder Chu Yi was so shocked. Even with a large amount of gold and silver flowing into Daming, Dongying still accumulated so much wealth. This is only Kyoto. If the names of those places are completely pacified, it is impossible to say that they will be able to scavenge at least the top. Ten million taels of gold and silver came.

Thinking about later generations, Dongying claimed hundreds of millions of taels of silver from the Qing Dynasty, and Chu Yi suddenly felt that the tens of millions of taels of gold and silver on this account book were not that much.

Of course, Chu Yi also knew in his heart that with the influx of American silver and Japanese silver into China, China was able to accumulate a large amount of silver. During this period, it was absolutely beyond imagination that he could snatch so much silver from Dongying.

You must know that Chu Yi ransacked his home several times in Daming, especially in the Jiangnan area, those nobles and dignitaries who gathered almost half of Daming's wealth were raided and exterminated, but they only got hundreds of millions of silver.

Although it is said that in the past few years, the Ming Dynasty has never been richer than before, but as the national treasury is full, the court is spending a lot of money. A large number of projects are started at the same time, and they are taken from the people and used for the people. Most of it has been spilled out in a while.

Chu Yi could imagine how the civil and military ministers above the court would react once he returned to Beijing with the huge wealth he had obtained by confiscating the capital.

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Chapter Five Hundred and Seventh Chapter Chu Da Companion is coming back! 【2 more】

When tens of millions of taels of gold and silver are placed in front of these civil and military forces, one wonders whether these civil and military forces will expand wildly one by one. What about the big and small countries?

People's hearts are greedy. In the past, everyone just stared at Daming's three-thirds of an acre of land. The taxation of the entire imperial court was only a few million taels every year. It is unbelievable to say it.

Now Chu Yi has stolen as much as tens of millions of taels of gold and silver. Even if this is a one-shot deal, if you do it this time, there will be no next time, but compared with the income, I believe that those civil and military officials will also be crazy about it. Bar.

The reason why these officials oppose foreign expeditions is simply because they do not see any benefits, and instead they will end up with a notorious reputation for being ruthless.

But now Chu Yi has opened a precedent for them, just like opening a window for them.

It turns out that foreign expeditions will not weaken the national strength, but can obtain a lot of wealth to enrich the national treasury.

While his thoughts were flying, Chu Yi briefly flipped through the account books. There were dozens of account books that were half a person in height, which recorded in detail the trust data of the gold and silver belongings that had been escorted. It was obviously impossible for Chu Yi to look carefully. To check, that is, to have a general understanding of the data.

Putting down the ledger, Chu Yi glanced at Lin Pingzhi, tapped the table lightly and ordered, "Go on and start loading the ship!"

A large number of supply ships were left behind, waiting for this moment.

When these empty supply ships slowly approached the shore, a large number of carriages also came to the shore, and a very tight box that seemed to be closed was carefully installed on the large ships.

Naturally, there are hundreds of large ships that cannot be used for so many ships. These large boxes are full of large ships that can be filled with more than a dozen ships.

However, the remaining supply ships are loaded with a large amount of precious wood, spices and other materials.

After all, these big ships can't be empty and go back, so let's just pick some valuable materials and bring them back to Daming.

A large amount of supplies were transferred, and in three days, hundreds of supply ships were finally fully loaded and ready to set sail at any time.

Above the port, Chu Yi was saying goodbye to Lu Dazhu, Zhai Luan and others.

Unexpectedly, Chu Yi kept both Zhai Luan and Lu Dazhu to sit in Dongying, but made clear arrangements for the division of labor between the two.

Zhai Luan is in charge of the political affairs of Dongying, while Lu Dazhu is responsible for responding to the counterattack of the famous name of Dongying.

In one year, Daming has changed a lot, as the saying goes, money is easy to do.During this year, the imperial court alone allocated as much as 4000 to [-] million taels of Wenyin from the treasury. Every time the Ministry of Households allocated Wenyin, it was frightening.

How did they ever have so much gold and silver in their hands? It can be said that among the several departments of the imperial court, the most diligent change of officials was the Ministry of Household.

It is true that many household officials could not stand the temptation of huge wealth, and even tried to embezzle the silver money allocated by the state treasury.

It's a pity that these officials are blinded by gold and silver, and they don't even think about whether these gold and silver have life to take or not.

The intelligence agencies of Jinyiwei, Dongchang, and Xichang stared at the military officials of the Chinese military, and dared not say that these officials said a word to their wife at night, and the emperor would know the next day, but he wanted to find out these The evidence of people's greed for silver in the treasury of Mexico couldn't be simpler.

Zhu Houzhao showed no mercy to these officials who dared to embezzle the silver in the Mexican treasury, and changed his lenient temperament, but all officials who were found to be embezzling the insignia of the Mexican treasury would be investigated and their families destroyed.

If it weren't for Jiao Fang and other cabinet members to persuade jointly, I'm afraid that Zhu Houzhao would have resumed the punishment of stripping the skin and filling the grass, which was practiced by the former Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang.

At this moment, Zhu Houzhao had a cold face. In front of him, Qian Ning, the commander of Jin Yiwei, was standing there with his head lowered, and there was a memorial on the ground.

This memorial was presented by Qian Ning, and on it was the content of Qian Ning's impeachment of several officials of the Ministry of Households.

Rubbing his forehead, Zhu Houzhao looked very angry, and he heard Zhu Houzhao say, "How many officials have you killed?"

Qian Ning said almost immediately: "Reporting to Your Majesty, since the treasury was filled up to now, Your Majesty has issued an order to kill as many as 48 household officials who are corrupt."

Zhu Houzhao was slightly taken aback when he heard the words, and then laughed angrily: "48 people, I really didn't expect that the heads of 48 people can't deter these people. Could it be said that gold and silver things are really better than their items?" Is the head more important? Or do they think I can't detect their little movements?"

Qian Ning lowered his head and said indifferently, "Humanity is greedy. In the face of so much gold and silver, there are not many people who can control their hearts."

Zhu Houzhao snorted coldly, "That's because I didn't kill enough people."

During the speech, Zhu Houzhao took a deep breath, and a murderous message flashed in his eyes: "Instructing Jinyiwei and Dongchang to jointly arrest those who are greedy for ink, the evidence must be conclusive, no one should be wronged, and no one should be wronged."

Qian Ning took the order and left.

Zhu Houzhao sat down with a tired look on his face, while Gu Dayong, who had been serving on the side, stepped forward and carefully massaged Zhu Houzhao's temples.

Zhu Houzhao squinted his eyes, enjoying Gu Dayong's service and said, "Gu Dayong, do you think I am too lenient with these officials?"

Gu Dayong hurriedly said: "Your Majesty is a benevolent prince. To have such a monarch as Your Majesty is the blessing of all officials and the great Ming."

Zhu Houzhao snorted softly: "If it wasn't for Chu Dafan's expedition to Dongying, I would have asked Chu Dafan to strictly investigate the corruption of ink, but I would like to see whether it is gold and silver that is more important, or my own life."

Gu Dayong smiled slightly and said, "Didn't your Majesty have already issued an order to the Chief Executive, and the Chief Executive will be back soon after coming."

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but pouted and said, "I gave Da Compan an decree a few months ago, but Da Compan said that Dongying was undecided. Right now, Da Compan wants to pacify Dongying. You shouldn't let your companion lead the army to Dongying!"

Gu Dayong said with a light smile: "Yes, if there is a general manager sitting in the court, those people would not dare to embezzle the silver in the state treasury, and those local officials would not dare to embezzle the gold, silver, grain and other disaster relief materials allocated for disaster relief. !"