Strict control? That’s easy to say!

Emperor Zhu glanced at Qian Qianyi and said, "What Emperor Zheng said is wrong. How could there be firearms flowing from our country to the Eastern Han Dynasty? The firearms of our country are slightly worse than those of the Western countries, and more expensive than those of Japan. Even if there are profiteers, they will definitely use the Western weapons to

, Japanese firearms were imported to the North. As for the words 'Made in London, England', they were probably framed by someone with deliberate intentions!

Dear Prince Zheng, do you think so?"

"Yes, yes, your majesty is wise! Those muskets are either Japanese or Western. They may also be produced in Tianzhu."

Is Zheng Zhilong more clever than a profiteer? When Zhu Cixiang mentioned it, he immediately knew that this matter could not be blamed on domestic profiteers.

Because to control the export of firearms is equivalent to implementing a maritime ban. How to control firearms? Now, if you build a sea boat with a load capacity of 1,000 shi, you can ask the shipyard to provide a few 3-pound guns and 6-pound guns.

As for fire guns, they are a must-have item for long sea voyages! Not only the merchant pirates have to buy them, but even the farmers who go to Jinghai Navy and Jin Mau military fields have guns. If it is not that the ships have cannons, everyone has guns.

Going out with bare hands is not to be a colonist, but to be a slave!

So looking at the problem from the perspective of internal control, colonial expansion is really better than closing the country off!

As for the firearms that flowed out of the Ming Dynasty Port, whether some of them would flow to the Qing Dynasty, that is 100% possible without asking!

Once the ship goes out to sea, it's a free world!

No royal laws, absolute freedom!

Therefore, it is completely normal for domestic and foreign profiteers to sell Ming firearms to the Qing Dynasty. Even if all Ming merchants are loyal merchants, how can they control so many Western merchants? If we want to prevent Ming firearms from entering the Qing Dynasty, the only way

The solution is to restore the sea ban

"Prince Zheng," Wu Xiang, Minister of War, suddenly asked at this time, "In your opinion, who imported Japanese or Western firearms into the Qing Dynasty and then framed them for England?"

Netherlands! Must be Dutch!

Zheng Zhilong lived with the Dutch and worked as a comprador for the East India Company. He knew very well what these heartless profiteers could do for money!

"Spain! It must be Spanish!" Zheng Zhilong said through gritted teeth.

He cannot reveal the face of the Dutch because the core of Ming Dynasty's overseas policy is pro-Dutch!

Because the Western countries with strong influence in the Eastern Sea these days are the Netherlands, England, Spain and Portugal.

Let’s not talk about England, there will be an empire on which the sun never sets in the future! Can Zhu Cixi not be wary of them?

The relationship between Portugal and the Ming Dynasty was very good, but Portugal is now a clay Buddha. It was completely suppressed by the Dutch in Southeast Asia and India. It was even worse in Europe, being swallowed up by Spain for 60 years. It is still fighting a war of independence.

And Spain is the empire on which the sun never sets, and it is a bit stupid. It wants to go to war with the whole world. How can the Ming Dynasty be friends with Spain?

Therefore, the only Western powers that can cooperate are the Dutch, the sea coachmen.

Since I have no choice, I can only turn a blind eye.

"What Emperor Zheng said makes sense!" Zhu Cixiang nodded, "It must be the Spaniards who are causing trouble! That Caballero has been gone for several months without even a reply. It seems that he doesn't want to sign an expat protection treaty with us!

This group of Western barbarians are simply nothing. Not only did they take away our vassal Luzon, but they also used our people to farm and build houses for them. After using it, they didn’t see our people making money, so they levied heavy taxes and enacted harsh laws to force them to

Our people rebelled, and then they went on a killing spree! After killing a group of people, they tricked our people into going to Luzon to make a living.

Now we are openly smuggling guns produced by our Ming Dynasty to the Donglu, which is really too much!"

"Your Majesty, the Spaniards are the worst thing. They are really hateful!" Zheng Zhilong gritted his teeth. "They invaded Taiwan a few years ago and forced the people of the Ming Dynasty on the island to build fortresses for them. Such evil thieves are really

I have to take precautions against the serious dangers on my way to Nanyang from the Ming Dynasty!"

Zheng Zhilong followed Zhu Cixiang's words and shouted to kill him, but he just shouted.

When the Spanish galleons met the Dutch, the English navy was not enough, but the Ming navy could not defeat the Spanish navy.

The Ming Navy, including the Zheng Family Navy, had only seven 500-ton galenic ships capable of traveling across the ocean. These seven galenic ships were copied from armed merchant ships. They were not real warships, at best.

It's just an armed merchant ship with relatively strong firepower.

After all the Galenic ships in this batch are completed (all can be completed by the end of the third year of Hongxing), the Anping Zheng family shipyard and the Shanghai Lopez Shipyard (run by the Portuguese) will begin to build real Galenic warships.

It was not a large ship of more than 1,000 tons, but a replica of the Dutch East India Company's "Hettok" battleship. In order to "copy it well", Zhu Cixiang also negotiated with Van Diemen in the first month of the third year of Hongxing and reached a lease "

Hutok" for 12 months, and purchased the blueprints and hired 20 Dutch shipbuilding engineers in a "technology transfer contract." For this purpose, the Ministry of War and Navy Department of the Ming Dynasty had to spend 80,000 taels of silver and the cost of the replica Hutok.

The ship was given to the East India Company. In order to fulfill this contract, Emperor Zhu couldn't even fall out with the Dutch!

Although the Hertok is just a 600-ton medium-sized Galenic warship with two gun decks and can only be equipped with a maximum of twenty-four 12-pound long guns, this is an authentic warship and is enough

It is sturdy and has very good seaworthiness. It is suitable for ocean warfare. It is better than any warship currently owned by the Ming Dynasty Navy!

But compared with the Spanish Galen, this battleship is a bit worse. There are many Spanish galleons with a deadweight tonnage of more than 1,000 tons, and they can also be equipped with 24-pound cannons. If the "Hettok" is operated by Dutch sailors

level, they are not afraid of the Spanish galleons, but the level of the Ming Navy's naval officers and soldiers is limited. A century-old navy is not something you just talk about casually. Who can expect that the skills of the Ming Navy's officers and soldiers, which have only been in business for a few years, can match the skills of the Spanish?

Zhu Cixiang nodded: "Since the Spaniards are unwilling to protect the Ming people in Luzon, then I have decreed the evacuation of Jinlan Commercial Port in Jinghai Navy and will open it to all Ming people in Luzon. As long as they are willing to go to Jinlan, they can do so for free.

Get a piece of residential land, a piece of agricultural land or a piece of land that can be used to build shops and workshops. And you will not need to pay any taxes in the next three years, and you will pay half the tax in the next two years."

The current Jinghai Navy and Jinou Army are not responsible for their own profits and losses, and must be maintained by the court to provide large subsidies. Therefore, these two vassals have little autonomy, and the Ming court can also remotely control them. In fact, Zhu Cihong and Zheng Zhilong are commanding them.

Their method of developing colonies was to combine commercial cities with medium-sized capitalist farms. Specifically, they used commercial cities as the economic center and farms as the economic basis to develop colonies.

There are currently two commercial cities as economic centers. One is named "Jinlan", which is probably the location of Jinlan Bay in the market outlook, and is the center of the Jinghai Army; the other is named "Jinou", which is the original Chaigun, and is the center of the Jinou Army.

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Surrounding these two economic centers are farms with an area of ​​500 acres. Although Zhu Cixi did not advocate equalization of land, he also knew the harm of the large-scale real estate system, so he restricted the size of farms in the colony from the beginning. Not only did he

There is an upper limit and a lower limit. The upper limit is 5,000 acres (per household) and the lower limit is 500 acres. Colonial farms can only be transferred and inherited in units of 500 acres. No form of transfer is allowed for 500 acres of farms.

Divided to ensure economies of scale for the farm and tax revenue for the colonial government.

In addition, all people who arrive in Jinlan and Jinou from the mainland of the Ming Dynasty (now including Luzon) can receive 500 acres of land for free to establish farms. If they are unwilling to cultivate the land, they can receive it in Jinlan and Jinou cities.
Chapter completed!