My Pen Pal Zhu Yuanzhang

Chapter 221: The Ming Envoy is not a human being

It was decided that Liu Sanwu would be in charge of the manufacturing of the new gun, and the manufacturing of the new gun was listed as the top secret of the empire. Liu Sanwu took the process flow chart and immediately left the palace and returned to the Industry Department under the escort of the Jinwu Guard and the Jinyi Guard to start organizing people to tackle the new gun.

Then, Zhu Yuanzhang told everyone about his plans and deployments for Annan.

After listening to this, everyone thought that this plan was very good. The Minister of Revenue Yang Siyi, who had been silent before, also put forward his own opinions at this time.

He didn't care about the land of Annan, because in the eyes of the current Ming Dynasty God of Wealth, making money from land was the most shameful thing.

Growing crops on the land depends on the weather for the harvest. How much money can be made from the land? One has to deliberately compete with the farmers for benefits, which is laborious and thankless. If one is not sure, it will arouse public anger. Only rich landlords like to buy land. In a word, their vision is too low.

What he cared about was how big the market of Annan was, how many goods of the Ming Dynasty it could consume, and how many resources the Ming Dynasty needed.

How many natural harbors and mineral deposits are there in that place?

When did the Ming Dynasty's treasure notes officially enter Annan and become the local legal currency?

Some time ago, in order to obtain Ming Dynasty treasure notes for trade, Ryukyu actually sent a lot of gold and silver.

The most important thing is, after overthrowing the Li Jixian group, who will collect Annan’s taxes?

When Zhu Yuanzhang and others heard this, they were stunned. As the saying goes, one should do one's job well. What Zhu Yuanzhang considered most was the geopolitical interests, while Xu Da and Li Wenzhong were thinking about how to crush Li Jilian's group in one fell swoop with a powerful momentum.

No one has ever thought about this most practical issue.

Li Min couldn't help teasing Yang Siyi, saying that he was now obsessed with money and as vulgar as a profiteer.

Yang Siyi replied calmly, "You don't run the household, so you don't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are!"

This is indeed the truth. During the early stages of the Ming Dynasty's industry, the country had to prepare for the Northern Expedition. Yang Siyi worked very hard to raise money, and he had to take money from one pocket to build another, just to build the factory.

Money was needed everywhere, and at that time Yang Siyi wished he could sell himself to fill the financial hole.

Even Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but tease Yang Siyi, calling him the Ming Dynasty's tailor.

Fortunately, the industrialization of the Ming Dynasty progressed smoothly, and many things were quickly marketed once they were put into production, which relieved Yang Siyi's urgent need.

No wonder Yang Siyi is sensitive when it comes to money, and when it comes to overseas, he starts thinking about how to make money.

There’s no way. I was really afraid of being poor before.

However, when Yang Siyi mentioned the mineral deposits, it aroused Zhu Yuanzhang's nerves. From the mineral map given to him by Li Han, he remembered that Annan's mineral reserves were quite rich.

There are iron, copper, coal, gold, silver, rare earths, oil, natural gas, etc. He doesn't understand rare earths, but iron, copper, coal, especially gold and silver, are urgently needed by the Ming Dynasty!
After joking around for a while, everyone returned to the opinion put forward by Yang Siyi. After some consultation, Zhu Yuanzhang finally made the decision and decided that he would lead the Ministry of Revenue and work together with the Ministry of Works to come up with a complete economic plan for Annan.

……

If we talk about the most popular government offices in the Ming Dynasty today, they must be the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Works.

The Ministry of Industry was in charge of all factories run by the imperial court within the Ming Dynasty, and the initial form of an industrial consortium had already been formed.

The benefits this brings are unquestionable. One of them is that when a product needs to be produced, the upstream and downstream industrial chains, from mines at the raw material end to factories at the manufacturing end, are all available, and all factories can cooperate with it.

In other words, it means concentrating our efforts on major tasks.

In addition to managing factories, the Industrial Department of the Ministry of Industry also had the responsibility for weapons research at the Armament Research and Development Institute of the Ordnance Bureau.

Things like the improvement of needle-fired guns and the research on hot air balloons are being carried out in the weapons research and development.

After returning from the palace, Liu Sanwu soon received an imperial edict from the palace, officially appointing him as the supervisor of the production of the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle.

With the imperial edict, Liu Sanwu gathered the technical staff of the Armament Research and Development Institute of the Military Equipment Bureau and the heads of various factories to discuss the preparations for the manufacture of the new gun. The division of labor was quickly completed, and the manufacturing flow charts of the various parts of the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle were split after being backed up. The new steel process was sent to the smelter, and the drawings of various machine tools such as the new forging machine and pressing machine were also sent to the machine factory.

At the same time, the Industry Department selected some elite craftsmen from the gun factory and began to train them on the manufacturing process of the new guns in advance.

Everything was proceeding in an orderly manner, and the giant beast of the Ming Dynasty slowly revealed its sharp fangs.

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Annan, Jiaozhou Prefecture, inside the Prime Minister's Palace.

"Assholes, this is outrageous, these damn Han people are really going too far!"

Li Cang roared angrily, and Li Jilan's face turned pale as she looked at her eldest son without saying a word.

Just now, the envoy of the Ming Dynasty arrived. After meeting with the King of Annan, Chen Riwei, he read out the edict issued by the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty in public.

The content of the edict was very simple. The King of Annan was canonized by the Ming Dynasty and his authority could not be questioned. It required Li Jilian to return power to the King of Annan, Chen Riwei, from that day on.

At the same time, he demanded that Li Jilian immediately withdraw his troops from the Laotian border, otherwise he would soon suffer the wrath of the Ming Dynasty.

Although Li Jilian, as the prime minister, had sidelined Chen Riwei and actually controlled the government of Annan, this was a tacit understanding among everyone in Annan.

But how can we bring something that is tacitly understood to the table?
Damn it, these bastard Ming Dynasty envoys really don't give any face at all. When Li Jilian thought of the Ming Dynasty envoys pretending to be righteous in the court, he couldn't help but feel furious.

Asking Li Jilian to return power? How is this possible?

Is it that Daming is too naive and wishful thinking, or does he simply not take Li Jilian seriously?
Once he loses power, death will not be far away!

As a powerful official who had controlled the court for many years, Li Jilian was no fool. He quickly figured out the key to the problem.

The Ming Dynasty's envoy did it on purpose!
The purpose was to tear apart the last bit of face between the Prime Minister and the King of Annan, and force Li Jilian to start the rebellion in advance!

All the arrangements were disrupted by the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty envoys are simply not human beings!
But he could do nothing about the Ming envoys. Although he wanted to chop off their heads and grind them into meat paste, doing so would be tantamount to declaring war on the Ming.

"Father, are we just going to let the Ming Dynasty do whatever it wants to us?"

After Li Cang vented his anger, he said to Li Jili:

"You saw how proud Chen Riwei was today. Did he really think that the Ming Dynasty would back him up? This ignorant puppet, I will go to the palace right now and chop off his head in front of the Ming Dynasty envoys!

I want to see what Daming will do. "

"Shut up, you bastard!"

Li Jixian finally couldn't help but shouted loudly: "A little impatience will ruin a big plan. The Ming Dynasty is forcing the emperor to abdicate. Don't you see?

After the Ming fleet arrived in Annan, they sent out spies to find out all the news about Annan. They had planned this long ago!"

"Then father, what should we do? Are we just going to wait for death?"

"Humph, they are aggressive, so we will temporarily stay away from them. We can't mess up our big plans because of such a small matter. The Ming Dynasty wants face, so we should give them face!"

"But father, I really can't stand Chen Riwei's smug look!"

"After sending away the Ming envoy, Chen Riwei will be dead!"

A cold light flashed in Li Jilian's eyes, "The Ming Dynasty has just annexed the Mongolian desert, but the desert is still unstable. Their focus should be in the north, not the south. As long as we endure this period of time, then it will be time for us to really start an uprising!
The Ming Dynasty would not be so foolish as to go to war in the south while the north is unstable. Otherwise, I am afraid that the Ming Dynasty would not be able to protect itself!
Besides, our strength is not weak either. When the Mongolian cavalry invaded us, they were defeated by us. How can the Ming Dynasty compare to the Mongolian cavalry?"

(End of this chapter)