Wu Mengming stood up and replied: "Your Majesty, Europa and Western Regions are not as good as Rakshasa Kingdom. There are a large number of Mongols in the Rakshasa Kingdom. Therefore, our Jinyiwei can still become a local herder and find out the relevant information, but the European and Western Regions are both white barbarians. Therefore, the Jinyiwei is not only inquiring about the news in the form of merchants, but it is difficult for the Jinyiwei to stay in the local area for a long time. In addition, in recent years, the Ming Dynasty's prestige has reached the West, and Western countries have also taken strict precautions against the Easterners. Therefore, the Jinyiwei can no longer inquire about the relevant situations of the European and Western Regions in the past."

"This is a problem!"

Zhu Youxiao nodded after hearing this.

"Your Majesty, in my opinion, the pacification of Europa and the Western Regions cannot be too hasty. The newly pacified areas have not been completely digested yet. It is on the one hand that cannot draw enough troops at the moment. It is also on the other hand that blindly expands military spending and does not wait for the internal and external livelihood to keep up with internal and external imbalances. It is better to focus on commodity input and cultural input, and military is a supplement."

Lu Xiangsheng said at this time.

"Commodity input and cultural input will also encounter other problems. Europa's main demand for our Ming Dynasty was raw silk and silk, as well as exquisite porcelain and high-end tea. In a word, in Europe, they were still their nobles. What they needed were handicrafts that were not conducive to large-scale production, not industrial products, but what we needed now was a large number of industrial products!"

"The other is cultural import. Europa has its own culture. It is afraid that it will not welcome our Chinese culture, and it is even very repulsive!"

Zhu Youxiao also started talking.

"What Your Majesty said is that the world still needs a thorough reform of our dynasty! And this reform cannot be allowed to come by themselves. If they come by themselves, they will become a powerful country. Since steam engine technology inevitably enters from the official factory to the private factory, it may fall into the hands of the foreigners. It is difficult to limit them to become stronger by simply blocking technology. Once these foreign countries really have to make up their minds to reform and strengthen."

Wen Tiren said at this time.

"What Yuan Fu said is very important, and we should not be careless. We should not fall into bloated because of our big dynasty. We should not be too bureaucratic and utilitarian, and we should not be able to make money in basic scientific research. We should not easily give up the research and development of some upstream technologies in order to make money for a while. We should not think that we should only rely on other people's technology to make money. The official industry must do this well, especially the private industry may be so short-sighted because of profits, but the official industry should rather lose money than think about the long-term strategy of the Ming Dynasty!"

Zhu Youxiao said at this time: "It is indeed not appropriate to use big wars against Europa and the countries in the Western Regions at present. The pace of unifying the world must be fast and slow. After the economic recovery is almost the same, large-scale military operations will be carried out. Now, diplomatic means must be used to instigate the battle between Europa and the Western Regions, as well as domestically between the two, and the same goes for the Americas!"

"Your Majesty just mentioned diplomacy, and I agree very much. Now I want to talk about business and business. Since the current problem in these countries is the lack of consumption power of civilians, it is better to find a way to allow me, Daming, to establish factories in his place, so that local civilians can be recruited as workers, and to make these foreign workers the first people who have become rich by the Ming Dynasty, and to become the first group of people who can buy our industrial products. At the same time, cultural exports will surely be better."

Wen Tiren said.

Zhang Tongchang nodded at this time and said, "France, Spain, and Portugal were forced to trade with us because of the previous Saint Emperor fleet's expedition, and they also reached relevant terms. Now it is just Holy Rome and Sweden. England and other countries have not yet officially traded with our Ming Dynasty, especially England. In order to protect the interests of their own domestic merchants, the king prohibited trade with our Ming Dynasty, and even sent a fleet to attack my Netherlands territory. His Majesty also knows this."

Zhu Youxiao ordered his head.

He naturally knew that England was in a competitive relationship with the Mind Netherlands in naval and trade.

Just as England and the Netherlands had several naval battles in history to fight for maritime hegemony, England also challenged the Ming Netherlands at sea in this life.

Because of this life, the Dutch sea fleet was already the Ming fleet.

The Ming Dynasty's fleet is incomparable to England in terms of warship equipment and naval combat experience.

So, England did not benefit much.

"This England is indeed abominable. Because it did not trade with me, Daming, I, Daming, also forbidden to trade with him. However, their merchants were greedy for the wealth of our Daming, and colluded with local people and officials to smuggle Wuxiang! Although they cracked down on it, they have been repeatedly banned. Now, the number of people who smoked Wuxiang in Ming Dynasty has been increasing, and the increase is becoming more and more terrifying."

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng talked about other things related to England.

Nowadays, the Western foreign countries such as France, Spain and Portugal have relevant treaties with the Ming Dynasty and have also seen the prestige of the Ming Dynasty, so they dare not engage in smuggling trade. The Netherlands also became vassals of the Ming Dynasty and did not dare to do anything. However, England, which belongs to the island country, is different from the Japanese who are also island countries, they will do anything to seek benefits.

Therefore, now Lu Xiangsheng only mentioned that England was smuggling Wuxiang to the Ming Dynasty.

"This has something to do with the opening of the country's doors, so some court officials suggested that the court reiterate the maritime ban or allow only one or two places to trade, but it was abandoned due to the opposition of many officials, saying that the civil affairs of various provinces have relied on commercial taxes and tariffs, and the court's national treasury is also highly dependent on it;"

Wen Tiren replied at this time, then looked at Zhu Youxiao and said, "Your Majesty, in my opinion, if you want to prohibit Wuxiang from flowing into our Ming Dynasty, you have to send troops to teach this England a lesson. It would be best to kill a few merchants, officials and even his kings, and force him to agree not to smuggle Wuxiang. Of course, if it is to be completely destroyed, it would be best to destroy his country!"

"Once Wuxiang is sucked, if you want to quit, you can only be executed! England is so despicable, so naturally it will be severely punished. After the Nanyang Annan and other countries are pacified, England will be the first Western vassal state to be destroyed! Now, we will first draw troops and supplies there during this period, and concentrate on St. Petersburg and the Netherlands along the Baltic Sea to prevent the destruction of Britain in the future!"

Zhu Youxiao said, and then ordered: "In addition, the Jinyiwei has a smoking ban and Pacification Department, and has transferred a capable Jinyiwei's force to form a smoking ban. It is directly responsible for investigating and smuggling businessmen and civilians who smuggled banned tobacco, and also responsible for supervising the situation of the local patrol camps to investigate the ban on tobacco. Anyone suspected of smuggling can be detained first and then tried. If you disobey, you can be executed first and then reported!"

"When it comes to Annan, the Western Fanduo rented fields in their territory to grow Wuxiang, and even colluded with local officials and merchants to smuggle the opium such as Wuxiang to our Ming Dynasty. Now it is just the right time to eliminate these people when the vassal states are destroyed!"

Lu Xiangsheng said at this time.

"The harm of Wuxiang should not be underestimated! Be sure to be very alert. Wuxiang seized by Jinyiwei does not have to pay special money to hire people to destroy it. He was also smuggled to England by a special official company, and let him try Wuxiang's power, which may make him have no war in the future and no one available! As for the collusion between the officials and merchants of Annan and the Westerners, smuggling Wuxiang is just the reason for the court to change the land and eliminate the Li Mo Er family in this place!"

Zhu Youxiao continued.

Today, Annan is divided into two parts, part of which is the Li dynasty, which controls the southern region; part of which is the Mo dynasty, which controls the northern region.

The Li family resisted the Dayue regime that rejected the establishment of the Jiaozhi Governor's rule over Annan, and after defeating the Ming army, it established the Dayue regime.

The Mo family was originally a powerful minister of the Li dynasty, but later betrayed the Li dynasty and became independent. During the Jiajing period, the minister belonged to the Ming Dynasty and was named the commander-in-chief of Annan by Jiajing.

Now both forces have achieved rapid development through the Ming Dynasty's East, with their own shipyards, their own handicraft bases, and of course, the Ming military bases and the Ming concession area.

However, because Annan's trade has always been in a deficit with the Ming Dynasty, there are no goods that can make considerable profits from the Ming Dynasty, the officials and businessmen in Annan were happy to collude with the British and smuggle Wuxiang to the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, because now they have come from the West and the trade line, except for West Africa, belonging to Portugal, are now controlled by the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty does not trade with England, so the British had to smuggle opium under the banner of Annan and other vassal states and travel as employees of some merchant ships in Annan.

It can be said that Annan, as one of the Eastern powers who once fought in the Western Conference with the Ming Dynasty, was also the protective umbrella of British smugglers today.

"Master Ruan! Thank you for helping us transport goods!"

This day.

In Annan Saigon.

An Englishman named Frank was talking to an Annan man named Ruan Wei, pointing to Wu Xiang, who was as big as a hall behind him, and said, "In addition, I don't know if Mr. Ruan can give us more land to plant on site, because our planting base in America was stolen by the hateful Japanese! If possible, we are willing to give you another 30% of the profit."

"boom!"

Suddenly, a loud bang came.

Then, before Ruan Wei could respond to Frank, he saw three Ming steam warships appearing on the sea, with their muzzles facing him.

After seeing this, Ruan Wei couldn't help but panic: "It's too late, Ming army is here!"

Frank couldn't help but scold: "Damn it! Why are they here? It's a pity that my British Empire hasn't developed a steam warship yet!"

"Everyone kneels down! Everyone kneels down!"

Ruan Wei quickly ordered his soldiers at this time.

After talking about it, he knelt down first.

Because everyone in Annan knows that when the Ming fleet came, the only way was to kneel down on the spot so that the Ming army would not fire the artillery and land directly.

But if you dare to resist at all, you will be bombarded so much that you will not be left, and the rebels will be beheaded.

The Annan people tried to resist, but after resisting, they found that they were indeed no match. Now they kneel down and surrender after seeing the Ming army.
Chapter completed!