Strict management? Let's say it lightly!

Emperor Zhu glanced at Qian Qianyi, "What Emperor Zheng said is not right, how can there be firearms flowing from our dynasty to Dongyu?" Our firearms are slightly inferior to those in the West and more expensive than those in Japan. Even if there are profiteers, they must also import Western and Japanese firearms into the north. As for the words 'Made in London, England', most of them are planted by people with intentions!

Emperor Zheng, don't you say? ”

"Yes, yes, Your Majesty! Those firecrackers are either Japanese or Western, and they may also be made by Tianzhu. ”

Zheng Zhilong is a clever profiteer? As soon as Zhu Cihong mentioned it, he immediately knew that this matter could not be taken from domestic profiteers.

Because to control the export of firearms is equivalent to imposing a ban on the sea - how to control firearms? Now build a 1,000 stone (load) sea boat to ask the shipyard to provide a few 3-pounder guns and 6-pounder guns.

As for the firecracker, it is a must-have for a long voyage! Not only the maritime merchants and pirates want to buy, but even the farmers who go to the Jing Navy and the Jinou Army to farm the land are also owned by everyone...... If it weren't for the cannons on the ships and guns on everyone, going out with bare hands would not be a colonizer, but a slave to others!

Therefore, from the perspective of internal control, colonial expansion is really better than closing the country!

And whether some of the firearms that flow out of the Daming port will flow to the Qing Kingdom, there is no need to ask - 100% yes!

As soon as the ship goes out to sea, it is a free world!

There is no royal law, absolute freedom!

Therefore, it is normal for domestic and foreign profiteers to sell the firearms of the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Kingdom, even if the merchants of the Ming Dynasty are all loyal merchants, can they still manage so many Western merchants? If we want to put an end to the entry of open-made firearms into the Qing Dynasty, the only way is to restore the sea ban......

"Emperor Zheng," Wu Xiang, the secretary of the Ministry of War, suddenly asked at this time, "In your opinion, who imported Japanese or Western firearms into the Qing Kingdom and planted them to England?" ”

Netherlands! Definitely the Dutch!

Zheng Zhilong had mixed with the Dutch, he had been a comprador of the East India Company, and he knew too well what these unconscionable profiteers could do for money!

"Spain! It must be the Spaniards! Zheng Zhilong gritted his teeth and said.

He can't expose the Dutch - because the core of Ming's overseas policy is pro-Dutch!

Because the Western countries that had strong influence in the Eastern Sea in those years were the Netherlands, England, Spain, and Portugal.

England aside, the sun will not set on the empire in the future! Can Zhu Cihong not guard against them a little?

Portugal and the Ming Dynasty have a very good relationship, but Portugal is now a mud bodhisattva, completely suppressed by the Dutch in Southeast Asia and India, and even worse mixed in Europe, swallowed by Spain for 60 years, and is still fighting the war of independence.

And Spain is the empire on which the sun never sets, and it is a bit brainless, and it can't go to war with the whole world, how can Daming be friends with Spain?

Therefore, the only Western powers that can cooperate are the Netherlands, the coachman of the sea.

Since you don't have a choice, you can only turn a blind eye......

"Emperor Zheng himself is right!" Zhu Cihong nodded, "It must be the Spaniards who are making it bad!" That Caballero had been gone for months, and there was not even a single reply...... It seems that they don't want to sign a treaty with us for the protection of expatriates!

This group of Xiyi is simply not a thing, not to mention that they have taken away our vassal Luzon, and they have to use our people to farm and build houses for them, and after they are used up, they can't see our people making money, so they will levy heavy taxes and set up harsh laws, forcing our people to rebel, and then they will go on a killing spree! After killing a batch, they came to lure our people to Luzon to make a living.

Now he is openly smuggling the guns produced by our Daming Dynasty to Dongyu, which is really too deceitful! ”

"Your Majesty, the Spaniards are the most unpleasant thing, they are really hateful!" Zheng Zhilong gritted his teeth, "A few years ago, they also invaded Taiwan, and forced the people of the Ming Dynasty on the island to build a fortress for them...... This kind of thief is really a big trouble on my way to the South Seas, and I can't help but guard against it! ”

Zheng Zhilong followed Zhu Cihong's words and shouted and killed there, but he just shouted.

The galleons of the Spaniards were not enough to meet the navy of the Dutch and the English, but the Ming navy could not defeat the Spanish navy.

The Ming Navy, including the Zheng Family Naval Division, has only seven 500-ton (referring to deadweight tonnage) Galen ships that can run the ocean, and these seven Galen are still copied from armed merchant ships, which are not real warships, at best they are armed merchant ships with relatively strong firepower.

After the completion of all the Galen ships in this batch (all can be completed by the end of the third year of Hongxing), the shipyard of the Zheng family in Anping and the López shipyard in Shanghai (opened by the Portuguese) will begin to build real Galen battleships, not large ships of more than 1,000 tons, but imitations of the "Hetock" battleship of the Dutch East India Company - in order to "copy well", Zhu Cihong is still in the first month of the third year of Hongxing and Fan. Diemen negotiated a "technology transfer contract" for a 12-month lease of the Hertok, the purchase of drawings, and the hiring of 20 Dutch naval architects. For this reason, the Ministry of War and Navy of the Ming Dynasty had to spend 80,000 taels of silver and the head ship of the imitation Hertok to the East India Company - for the fulfillment of this contract, Emperor Zhu could not turn his face with the Dutch!

Although the Hertok was a 600-ton (dwt) medium Galen battleship with two gun decks and a maximum of twenty-four 12-pounder guns, it was an authentic battleship, strong enough and seaworthy for ocean-going combat. It's better than any kind of warship that the Ming Navy has at the moment!

But this battleship is a little worse than the Spanish Grand Galen. There were quite a few Spanish galleons with deadweight tons of more than 1,000 tons and could be equipped with 24-pound cannons. If the Dutch sailors were to control the "Hertock" class, they would not be afraid of the Spanish galleons, but the level of the officers and men of the Ming Dynasty was limited - the century-old navy was not casually talked, who could expect that the skills of the officers and men of the Ming Dynasty, which had only been open for a few years, could be comparable to the Spaniards?

Zhu Cihong nodded: "Since the Spaniards are unwilling to protect the Ming people in Luzon, then I will order the evacuation of overseas Chinese...... The Jinghai Navy's Cam Ranh trading port will be open to all Luzon Ming people, and if they are willing to go to Cam Ranh, they will be given a piece of homestead land, a piece of agricultural land, or a piece of land where they can build a shop or workshop. And you don't have to pay any tax for the next three years, and half the tax for the next two years. ”

The current Jing Navy and Jin Ou Army are not self-financing, and must be maintained by a large amount of subsidies from the imperial court. Therefore, the autonomy of these two feudal towns is not large, and the Ming court can also command remotely - in fact, it is Zhu Cihong and Zheng Zhilong who are in command.

The way they developed the colony was to colonize the commercial city and the medium-sized capitalist farms—specifically, to colonize the commercial cities as the economic centers and the farms as the economic base.

As the economic center of the commercial city there are currently two, one is called "Cam Ranh", which is probably the location of Cam Ranh Bay in the future market, which is the center of the Jing Navy; One is called "Jin Ou", which is the original firewood stick, and is the center of the Jin Ou army.

Around these two economic centers were farms of 500 acres – although Zhu Cihong did not advocate equal land, he also knew the dangers of the large estate system, so he limited the size of the farms in the colony from the beginning. There is not only an upper limit, but also a lower limit. The upper limit is 5,000 mu (per household) and the lower limit is 500 mu, and colonial farms can only be transferred and inherited in units of 500 mu. For a 500-acre farm, no form of division is allowed to ensure the scale effect of the farm and the tax revenue of the colonial government.

In addition, all the people who arrived in Jinlan and Jinou from the Ming Dynasty (and now Luzon) could receive 500 acres of land for free to establish farms. If you are not willing to cultivate the land, you can get a piece of white land in the cities of Cam Ranh and Jinou to build a house or run a business.