The ancestor of the apocalypse is so cool after being reborn!

Chapter 289 Deploying troops
The brothers in need noticed that their benefactor's master's eyes were on them. Both of them couldn't help but feel at a loss, and Jiang Shui wrapped the short brown clothes around them tighter.

"Master, these two are the two people we rescued from the mountain. The younger one is named Jiang Shui, and the other is named Tian Zhong. Their ancestral home is in Minnan." Lan Jian noticed the tension between the two of them. Helped introduce.

Li Jingfu nodded, looked back, offered a seat and asked the maid to serve tea. After everyone sat down, he said to Lan Jian, "Thank you for the hard work this time."

"I don't dare to express my sufferings. These are all my duties." After saying that, Lan Jian looked at the brothers in need: "Actually, the ones who are really suffering are they, the Dayu laborers, who are doing the heaviest work, but Life is as cheap as a piece of grass, even a full stomach and a few hours of sleep have become a luxury."

Xia Jing asked the brothers in need some basic information, and then asked them to go back and recuperate first. As for returning home with the fleet, it may be easy or difficult to say.

When the fleet returns, the cabin must be filled with various supplies, but for these workers, some space must be left open for them.

Speaking of supplies, after the brothers in need left with the maid, Xia Jing said to Lan Jian: "It's already April. This time, we have to go back before the hurricane season of July and August. In addition to the need for navigation, The time consumed only gave us two months to collect and sort out the materials.

I've already told Li Dingguo about this, and here I'd like to remind you again what materials you need to collect to be as prepared as possible. "

Lan Jian was slightly stunned after hearing her words, "My dear, are you going back so soon?"

"Do you think it's fast?" Xia Jing chuckled: "Actually, it's not that fast. The purpose of bringing Dayu's newly built navy out this time is to give them a chance to experience, whether it's fighting or sailing on the sea, as well as teamwork. They work together tacitly.”

Lan Jian was slightly surprised. He thought he would go further this time, but he didn't want to just go to Nanyang.

Seeing Lan Jian's expression, Xia Jing and Li Jingfu looked at each other and smiled lightly.

"Since the empress has informed us of the return date, my subordinates will arrange for people on our ship to collect the goods to be transported back first, so that the return journey will not be delayed."

"Well, you can make arrangements for this yourself. Your Lan family has been doing maritime trade for many years, so you must have a good idea of ​​what kind of goods to import."

After explaining some things to Lan Jian, he asked him to go back first.

Li Jingfu raised his eyebrows: "Are you interested in this piece of land?"

After hearing his words, Xia Jing looked at him in surprise: "Why did you say that?"

Li Jingfu glanced at the door where there was no one left, and said: "Don't talk about Lan Jian, at first I thought you would continue to explore further sea areas. But now you said you would rush back before the hurricane season in June and July."

"Is there a problem with this?" Xia Jing asked with a calm smile.

"It's a big problem! From what I know about you, you won't organize a fleet to make this trip just for this small benefit." Li Jingfu looked like he had seen through you a long time ago and wanted to see it on Xia Jing's face. Order something to support your conjecture.

But Xia Jing's face was dull and she couldn't tell anything, but he still continued: "Since we have gone to Nanyang with a lot of trouble, will you return easily without getting much benefit?"

Xia Jing was amused after hearing this: "Who said we didn't get benefits? The three colonies in the Strait of Malacca are now ours. This is a benefit!"

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Li Jingfu shook his finger: "No, no, no, this benefit can't move you. Tell me, what are your plans next?"

Xia Jing rolled her eyes at him: "We will set sail back in two months!"

"I'm asking you what are your plans in the two months before setting off to return home?"

Xia Jing realized that Li Jingfu really wanted to know, so she leaned back and said with emotion: "Lean back."

Li Jingfu leaned back obediently and asked inexplicably: "This is just an ordinary chair. It's very comfortable to lean on. What do you want to say?"

"The reason why this armchair is comfortable is because it was made by our Dayu craftsmen. The reason why you are not surprised is because such chairs are very common in Dayu. But in this land, such chairs are rare. Goods can only be owned by privileged or wealthy people.

You said that this relatively livable land will be inhabited by Dayu people in the future, and chairs like this can be seen in ordinary people's homes. What do you think of my idea? "Xia Jing asked instead without answering.

Li Jingfu rolled his eyes, looked at her seriously, and commented seriously: "Your idea is crazy!"

"Haha." Xia Jing couldn't help laughing after hearing his comment.

"However, it is possible. What do you want to do?" Li Jingfu asked.

It was a crazy idea to let the people of Dayu live on this land, but Li Jingfu liked it. Anyone who became an emperor wanted to expand the territory as long as he was not a king who was just waiting to die.

Now it is not impossible to turn this piece of land into Dayu's territory.

Xia Jing reached out to dip her hand into some tea, drew a long and narrow shape on the table, and said: "Now the land under our feet is shaped like this. There are oceans on both sides, and only the end is connected to the mainland. The terrain is considered a peninsula. We think To capture this land, all you need to do is lead the army and push all the way in.

As for the land captured behind the army, we can settle the people of Dayu who came with the ships. If our people of Dayu take root in this land, do you think this land belongs to Dayu? "

"Although the people were recruited and lived in poverty in Dayu, Dayu is their ancestral home after all, and they have no place to live overseas. Who would want to stay in Nanyang, a place they are unfamiliar with?" Li Jingfu raised his own questions.

"Where you live is not life. As long as living conditions can improve, I believe that many people are willing to leave their ancestral home." Xia Jing thought for a while and then said: "In order to retain these Dayu people, we can allocate some to them based on population. Land, let them have a place to settle down and live.”

Li Jingfu felt that her words made sense, but he still asked the most realistic question before him: "According to what you said, who should we send to manage this land? You have to understand that this is Nanyang. If we let the officials manage it, That is equivalent to us supporting him to be the king of this place."

After all, they returned to Dayu, and the managers of this land still had the final say. The top managers were equivalent to the local kings, so it was very easy to breed the ambitions of ministers.

"You are right. It is unrealistic to let generals or civil servants manage overseas colonies. There are many disadvantages and it is easy to breed ambition." As a manager, regardless of his status or other comprehensive ratings, he is the most suitable person to take on this responsibility."

Li Jingfu was slightly stunned, and it took him a while to realize who she was talking about, "Do you want Xiaosi to manage this land?"

Xia Jing nodded: "He is the most suitable person to manage this land. He can use it as a base to slowly erode to the surrounding areas. As far as I know, there is a landmass across the Strait of Malacca that is larger than this."

When Li Jingfu heard this, he finally came to his senses. He narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Xia Jing, "Do you want to sequester the fourth child here?"

Xia Jing did not shy away from it at all, and nodded and admitted: "Yes, the world is so big, why should we be limited to one place? If these brothers had stayed in Dayu, and Xiao Wu had inherited the throne, they would probably have been busy all their lives. Inaction. Instead of staying in Dayu and living a miserable life, it would be better to go overseas and conquer the world as soon as possible." Li Jingfu took a cup of tea and took a sip of tea to calm down, thinking about the possibility of entrusting his sons overseas to become emperors.

But before he could come up with the reason, Xia Jing continued to say: "Of course, several sons are entrusted overseas. They are always the vassal states of Dayu. If their interests conflict with Dayu, they can still be granted by Dayu." Our interests come first, and all government orders in the vassal states will be implemented in accordance with Dayu’s orders."

Li Jingfu frowned slightly: "A few years from now, are you sure that future generations will still be so obedient?"

Xia Jing looked at Li Jingfu: "The world is unpredictable, and no one can guarantee that future generations will obey your will and mine. If that day comes, at least the rulers of these areas will be our descendants, and they will be the royal family surnamed Li of Dayu. Just because of this A little is enough, don’t you think?”

He uses a unified script and has a unified Mandarin. What's more, they are bleeding from the descendants of the Yan and Huang descendants of Dayu.

After a conversation between the emperor and the empress, all the fleet's troops landed and advanced all the way from the land. Facing the firearms of Dayu's army, the timid natives basically did not resist.

Li Chengyi learned that his father, the emperor, and his mother intended to entrust him overseas, and this land would be his fiefdom. For a moment, his mood was so complicated that it could not be described in words.

No wonder the other brothers did not choose him to go to sea this time, but he chose him to go to sea with him.

No wonder before going to sea, the queen mother recruited so many people who could not survive in Dayu and asked them to come overseas to make money with them.

Now that I know this news, it all makes sense.

This emotion is the reluctance to leave the familiar land of Dayu.

However, thinking about Dayu, when his brother was on the throne, he could only walk around the streets of the capital or visit brothels every day, so as not to arouse the suspicion of the courtiers and the fear of the emperor.

But overseas, he has much more freedom. The highest local power controller does not need to act based on other people's faces. He is the only one who dominates!Thinking about it makes my heart more open.

After thinking about all this, Li Chengyi smiled bitterly. Should he thank his mother for her foresight and thinking of everything for him before going to sea?
Li Chengyi was not needed for the frontline war, so Xia Jing asked him to lead his private soldiers to manage the post-war zone.

When Li Chengyi took over this rear area, the first thing he thought of was that this land has three important ports and three colonies. The first thing that should be established is the Shipping Department. The Strait of Malacca is known as the crossroads of the sea, and countless caravans pass by or dock every year. Number, only the first municipal shipping department can collect relevant fees from passing fleets.

Otherwise, how would he have the money to arrange his next work when he first arrived in the Malay Peninsula.

After conquering this piece of land, the natives were dealt with by the army in an orderly manner. Li Jingfu gave Li Chengyi an injunction.

That is, the Malay Peninsula was divided into his fiefdom, and his fiefdom was limited to the Malay Peninsula. At least Annan and Dongwu, he was not allowed to touch even half of it.

"Father, how can my vassal state develop after you have framed me in a framework?" Li Chengyi was so angry when he heard this prohibition that his tone of voice inevitably became a bit harsh.

"You can't touch Annan Dongwu, but you can develop in other places, such as the land across the Strait of Malacca. As long as you have the ability, I have no objection to occupying it all."

Speaking of this, Li Jingfu remembered Xia Jing's instructions again, "Oh, I remembered it and almost forgot about it. The Malay Peninsula belongs to your fiefdom, but Temasek belongs to the imperial court. It can be regarded as another transit station for the imperial court in Southeast Asia. "

At this time, Li Chengyi did not know the geographical importance of Temasek. The imperial court wanted to have a transit station in the Malay Peninsula. This request was reasonable and he agreed without much thought.

Little does he know that Temasek’s tax revenue is the sum of the two ports of Malacca and Penang.

Speaking of taxes on sea trade, Xia Jing remembered that 30 years before Huiyuan, Dayu collected two types of commercial taxes from foreign countries, one from vassal states and the other from merchants.

The former is subject to a % tax, while the latter is subject to a % tax.

Of course, the benefits of maritime trade are simply huge profits. Even if the court charges such heavy taxes, their maritime trade is still huge profits.

Later, in order to implement a tolerant policy towards the vassal states, Emperor Huiyuan issued an order to cancel the taxes in the vassal states, and all the vassal states of Dayu were exempted from taxation.

This decision caused the court to lose an unknown amount of tax revenue every year and how much money was missing from the treasury.

"This time we go back to rebuild the shipping department and slowly recover the tariffs that have been discarded in maritime trade over the years."

Li Jingfu listened to her words and nodded, thinking of the embarrassment of the national treasury during his administration, and did not object.

Time passed quickly when I was busy, and in early June, it was time for the imperial fleet to set sail.

On this return trip, due to the influence of the monsoon, the fleet's speed could be said to be nearly twice as fast as when it arrived.

By the time we returned to Dayu Lingnan Port, it was already early July, and the trip was shortened by more than ten days.

After returning to Lingnan, Xia Jing and Li Jingfu were not in a hurry to return to the capital. Instead, after inspecting their properties in Lingnan, they issued a few decrees.

troops and horses were mobilized from Bingzhou and from Jiliao, making a total of troops and horses rushed to Lingnan.

Sima Lu, the governor of Lingnan, mobilized 28 troops, plus troops and horses from his own fleet (there were originally troops, but were left in the Malay Peninsula). The total of the four troops and horses totaled troops.

He appointed Sima Lu as the military governor and launched a general attack on Annan in November of the first year of the new emperor.

Annan has a small population, and their natural barrier is probably the lush tropical forests that block the movement of the imperial troops.

However, the Annan army likes to come to the border to harass from time to time, which makes Shi Mingbi, the commander-in-chief of Siling, very annoyed. He cannot order the invasion of Annan privately without getting the order of the court. If it causes a border war between the two countries, then he will be a sinner.

Suddenly one day, he received a military order from the imperial court and prepared to use troops against Annan. Shi Mingbi almost jumped for joy when he received the order.

"Finally wait for this day!"

(End of this chapter)