Chapter 147 Your boat is good, I want it! [400 monthly ticket +1
The world's number one world.
It has been a month since Zhu Tiedan's last rebellion, and the subsequent messes are still being cleaned up.
Punishment for punishment, demotion for officials, and beheaded for officials.
Ganqing Palace.
Emperor Zhengde Zhu Houzhao was checking the account book, with a strong anger on his face.
After overthrowing the Iron Dan Shenhou, he pulled out the radish and brought out the mud. A large number of officials were dismissed and their homes were confiscated.
He never expected that the property seized from these officials' homes would be so generous.
Among the officials who were confiscated, there were many second-rank officials with border ranks, and many fifth-rank officials with Beijing.
After repeated inventory, all the goods copied were obtained, and the amount was about 80 million taels worth.
What is this concept?
In the entire Ming Dynasty, there were 9.11 million household registrations and a population of 50.2 million. The land tax collected every year was: 19.56 million stones of rice, 6.77 million stones of wheat, 36,700 jin of silk, 2.65 million jin of cotton, and 1.15 million pieces of cloth. 88.42 million jin of household registration, 73 million jin of miscellaneous courses, 2.04 million jin of salt courses, 89,000 jin of tea courses, 2.93 million jin of military grain, and 7.98 million jin of tax-free grain.
If it is converted into silver, it will be about 20 million taels.
In other words, the property seized from the homes of these officials is worth the taxes of the four years of the Ming Dynasty.
"This is the so-called honest official? No one can die well!"
The more I looked at it, the more angry he became. Zhu Houzhao waved his hand and the account book on the imperial desk was swept to the ground.
Seeing that the Lord Longyan was furious, the eunuchs in the hall were frightened like little quails and shivered.
"Old slave Cao Zhengchun bowed to you to Master!"
At this time, Cao Zhengchun walked in and leaned over and bowed.
"Eunuch Cao is here, hurry up and calm down!"
Seeing that the person coming was Cao Zhengchun, Zhu Houzhao's anger disappeared and she smiled.
"What's wrong with Master Long Live? Why are you so angry?"
After Cao Zhengchun got up, he saw the documents on the ground and couldn't help but come forward to pick them up.
After a look, I realized it.
It turned out that I saw the property seized by the officials and was stimulated.
"The country's sycamos!"
Zhu Houzhao snorted coldly, not as angry as before.
"Long live the lord, don't be angry, so as not to get angry!"
Cao Zhengchun bowed and advised.
"I didn't expect that those people were so brave. A mere seventh-rank official actually embezzled million taels of silver!"
Zhu Houzhao shook her head and asked, "Okay, if you don't talk about this, will you have something to do when you come into the palace?"
"Long live, do you still remember the old slave once said, "The Three Treasures's voyage to the West?"
Thinking of the reward mentioned by Renzu, Cao Zhengchun felt excited.
"It's OK to be right now!"
Hearing the three words "Traveling to the West", Zhu Houzhao put away the anger on her face and nodded.
"Well, I will order you to be the main envoy of the ocean to patrol the border and promote the prestige of the Ming Dynasty!"
After thinking about it, Zhu Houzhao said in a deep voice.
"Thank you, Master Long's kindness, I will live up to my expectations."
Cao Zhengchun hurriedly thanked him.
"Okay, go down and prepare. I will order all departments to cooperate with you in the ocean!"
Zhu Houzhao waved.
"Old slave!"
Cao Zhengchun hurriedly bowed and retreated.
Then, we will do our best to urge the construction of sea ships.
Among the royal family, there were drawings of the three-masted blessed ship that Zheng He rode on when he was voyage to the West. It only needed to be built according to the drawings, which was not difficult.
Then, after more than a year of full-scale construction, it finally came to the time to set sail.
The size of the entire fleet reached 600, nearly three times that of Zheng He when he went to the West.
Among them, the three hundred treasure ships are all forty-eight zhang long and eighteen zhang wide, with a load capacity of up to 800 tons, and can accommodate thousands of people at the same time.
This is the largest sailboat in the world at this time, no doubt about it.
There are also many horse ships, grain ships, boats, warships, etc.
On this day, Zhili and Taicang Port.
Early in the morning, the port was martial law, and countless soldiers holding weapons surrounded the port.
The people around have already received news that today is the day when the nine thousand-year-old Eunuch Cao goes to the ocean and officially set sail.
Many people ran to the port to watch, wanting to witness the fleet set off with their own eyes.
When they arrived at the port and saw the huge creature on the sea, everyone was shocked.
The main ship is a giant sailing warship that is ninety feet long and twenty-five feet wide, which is located at the center of the fleet.
The huge and majestic hull, the sails covering the sky and the sun, and the dark muzzles were exposed on both sides, like a huge giant beast resurrected in myth, standing on the sea.
This is a fleet that can sweep the whole world. In today's world, no one or country can resist it.
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At the moment, the sound of trumpet blowing sounded from the port, and the dull and melodious sound came from afar.
"Set off!"
Standing on the deck of the main ship of the Expedition, Cao Zhengchun was full of energy and waved his hand.
Immediately, a flag bearer began to placate flags to other ships and issued orders to start the ship.
Chat group.
Cao Zhengchun: "Our family has finally taken the first step to go out of the ocean, and the fleet is now officially set off!"
Looking at the sun on the sea east, Cao Zhengchun thought and opened the chat group.
Not only that, he also took a video of the Expedition under him and the fleet behind him, and it was posted to the chat group.
Emperor Shi Huang of the Great Qin: "Hey, your ship is good. Do you have any drawings for building ships? I want one!"
Looking at the video uploaded by Cao Zhengchun, Ying Zheng immediately fell in love with the giant ship beneath him and asked Cao Zhengchun for drawings.
Wudang Dao Ren: "You are so unkind, Emperor First Emperor, you are so unkind. Governor Cao is on the boat. Did he even carry the drawings with you?"
After watching the video uploaded by Cao Zhengchun, Zhang Sanfeng was also very slandered. After all, his apprentice was the emperor. With this thing, it would be no longer a dream to conquer the whole world.
Cao Zhengchun: "Master Zhang is right. Our family didn't expect the drawings to be useful to the First Emperor, so we didn't carry them with us."
Emperor Shi Huang of the Great Qin: "Well, let's talk about it when you come back next time!"
Ying Zheng sighed.
Valkyrie of Huashan: "Old Cao, your next trip to the ocean can be as good as the taxes for the Ming Dynasty for one year."
Cao Zhengchun: "That's sure, the barbarians occupy a wealthy land, just like a child holding gold in the market. If I don't take it in the Ming Dynasty, others will take it!"
Cao Zhengchun went to the ocean to travel around the country, nor did he say that he promoted his national prestige.
That's just a slogan, and you can't take it seriously.
You will know the name of the giant ship beneath him, Expedition.
To conquer.
In addition to him, there were 50,000 fully armed troops and martial arts masters.
The ancient three-pronged team has participated in the father and son, Duan Tianya, Guihai Yidao, Shaolin Temple and other major sects.
Before leaving, Cao Zhengchun said that no matter where you conquer, where you are your territory, you can be a local emperor.
Not only that, he also blew up those small countries, including silver ores, copper ores, etc.
It immediately attracted the attention of all the forces in the world, followed him, preparing to establish unparalleled merits.
Of course, a horse cannot be fat without night grass, and a person cannot be rich without windfall.
If the Ming Dynasty wants to rise rapidly, it can only plunder one way.
Chapter completed!