Li Jinglong gnawed on the sugar cane, regained his strength all over his body, he beckoned the soldiers, and patrolled around. As far as the eye can see, there is a verdant green, the land under your feet is fertile, and there are already people cultivating it, in addition to sugarcane, rice, beans, and vegetables, and it seems that the level of farming is not low.

Li Jinglong tried to remember, but did not come up with where this was.

But just as they were searching forward, suddenly from both sides of the ridge, shouts of killing sounded, and a group of people rushed over with rudimentary swords.

Although Li Jinglong had a bucket, but in the face of these rabble, it was also brave and invincible, and immediately commanded the men and horses, stepped forward to meet the enemy, and after a quarter of an hour of fierce fighting, after killing three enemies, he finally conquered this group of savages, they knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing.

Li Jinglong was interested, brought everyone over, and asked carefully.

This question is terrible, Li Jinglong finally made it clear that they had arrived at Dongfan Island.

Originally, he encountered a typhoon in Penghu and blew it eastward for a while, and then he reached Dongfan, which is not far away, Li Jinglong should indeed be glad that if he encountered a typhoon in other places, he might be blown to the Pacific Ocean.

After careful interrogation, these rabble they encountered turned out to be Fang Guozhen's old department. After the defeat, they died at sea, and some of them went to the Wa Kingdom and became the Wa Kou who gave Zhu Yuanzhang a headache in the early Ming Dynasty. And one of them, first to Penghu, and then to Dongfan, gradually settled on the island.

Dongfan Island is a vast land, almost the size of half a province, with plenty of land to cultivate, and they grow grain, raise livestock, extract sugar, and do business with the occasional merchant ships.

"You are Fang Guozhen's old department, so do you want to rebel against the imperial court now?"

"I don't want to, I don't want to! Emperor Hongwu is wise and wise, and we are all on the ground! ”

"Ahem...... Now it's the son of Yongle. Li Jinglong coughed and reminded.

"Yongle? Emperor Hongwu...... Dead? ”

"Well, there was another Jianwen puppet emperor in front, but he was eliminated today." When Li Jinglong faced these people, he had a feeling that he didn't know that there was a Han, regardless of Wei and Jin.

It turns out that the legendary Peach Blossom Spring really exists!

It's just that soon Li Jinglong felt that this paradise was not so beautiful!

In order to entertain their guests, these islanders took out their treasures.

A box full of grease, Li Jinglong frowned, "Is this butter, or mutton fat, why doesn't it look like it?" ”

The other party smiled and said, "My lord, I don't know, this is made of more precious raw materials, but in fact, ...... It is the oil of the soil! ”

"Tsuchiban?"

Li Jinglong was so frightened that he immediately stood up, and kicked the box over, he opened his eyes wide, and pulled out a knife.

"You eat, eat people!" Li Jinglong couldn't believe it.

The other party didn't care, "My lord, it's just a dirt, it's not human, this thing is a special supplement, the effect is magical, it can tonify the kidneys and strengthen the body......"

"Shut up!"

Li Jinglong was too lazy to listen, and directly asked people to take care of these guys, he had to figure out what kind of goods he had encountered!

At this moment, someone suddenly reported that they had found a group of natives and screamed at them.

"Grandpa Guo, what should I do?"

Li Jinglong thought for a moment, "The brothers are too tired, they have just come ashore, and it is not suitable to go to war, so they took some things off the ship, put them in front, and told the natives that if they can retreat immediately, they can choose some things as gifts, and if they must fight, they will fire two cannons first to scare and scare them." ”

The men hurriedly complied, and the native monsters rushed over with a scream, saw something, and stood still.

They circled around for a long time, and compared with the soldiers here for a long time, and they didn't know whether they understood or not, but the natives picked some silk cloth and ran away.

The next day, the natives came again, this time they drove cattle and sheep, and also brought deer skin and antler velvet, as well as many precious medicinal materials, to trade with the Ming army.

Li Jinglong quickly figured out what was going on, it turned out that after Fang Guozhen's old troops arrived on the island, they grabbed the territory of the natives, and the two sides fought fiercely for decades. There are a large number of natives and brave soldiers, while Fang Guozhen's old department is experienced and advanced, and no one on either side can help anyone.

As a result of the fighting, many natives were killed, and some were boiled into grease.

"Grandma, you guys are too much. I will now command you to apologize to the natives...... From then on, both sides were allowed to fight and kill. And yes. You are all the people of the Ming Dynasty, and from now on, your mission is to grow sugar cane. Tell all the people on the island that as long as you obey Benjue's assignment, you will be fed and clothed, and you will live a good life from now on! If anyone dares not listen! Come! ”

Li Jinglong roared angrily, "Go, pull up Benjue's cannon!" ”

"Give them a good look at how powerful Benjue's cannon is!"

Li Jinglong's approach can be called child's play, but this kind of child's play has played a role, and within a few days, all the surrounding 100 miles have surrendered.

Liu Chun wanted him to go to Java to establish a stronghold, but who would have thought that he would go to Dongfan first.

So what does Toban have?

Gold?

Silver?

Or spices?

There are none of them, but Dongfan Island is suitable for growing sugar cane, and that's enough.

As mentioned earlier, when the poor get rich, the commodity that increases the most is cane sugar, which is sweets. That Shaharu was stunned and ate colic, which is the best example.

The people of the Ming Dynasty have begun to consume sucrose generally.

How expensive is this sucrose, one tael is about 20 wen, that is to say, one pound of sugar is 320 wen, and one tael can almost buy more than three catties.

And a tael of silver, in some places, can buy two stones of grain!

Compare the price of grain and sugar in later generations, and you can know that sugar in the Ming Dynasty was ridiculously expensive! However, if you look at the West at the same time, the price of sugar in Daming is outrageously cheap.

Although Li Jinglong's brain is not good, Liu Chun has made up so many things for him, and he vaguely knows that sugar is definitely a profiteering industry, and the demand for sugar is much more than spices.

I thought I had missed a silver mine, but God gave it to a gold mine!

O God! Am I your own son?

After Li Jinglong sighed, he remembered that he should hurry up and report to the country, especially to ask Liu Chun whether he should develop Dongfan or go south to Java.

Li Jinglong, the second cargo, was delayed for six or seven days before sending out the news, and when his ship rushed to Xiamen, all the ships that searched and rescued him on the sea retreated.

Regardless of unanimous opinion, Cao Guogong Li Jinglong has died at sea!

Someone else is dead!

In the past few days, the whole capital has been discussing, in the past, the big guys said that overseas was too risky, but the several trips to sea arranged by Liu Chun were successful, blocking the mouths of many people, but now that Li Jinglong is dead, what else is there to say.

Although the cabinet and the six ministries can be stabilized for the time being, the discussion of Kedao and the people all point to the matter of going to sea, and some people even took out Lao Zhu's ancestral teachings and opposed going to sea.

They said it very well, the Ming Dynasty has everything, and there is no need to covet overseas products at all. For the sake of a small profit, he repeatedly took risks, disregarding human life and death, which really outweighed the loss.

There are also people who say that going to sea to take a risk, let the barbarians do it, the people of the Ming Dynasty should not do this, Liu Chun agitated to go to sea, it was the desire for profit.

Some people are even overjoyed, it was Liu Chun's uncle who died this time, just wait for the Liu family to make trouble!

The surname is Liu, this is your retribution!

Faced with a flood of accusations and ridicule, the situation in Liufu does not seem to be so easy.

"Sir!"

Liu Chun looked up and saw Li Wuflawless walking over in a plain outfit, which was really similar to flawless white jade.

"You're here, sit down!"

Li Wuflawless sat down, "Master, Li Xian came just now!" ”

Liu Chun was slightly stunned, and then said slowly: "What does he ask for here?" ”

He ...... He said that he wanted his son to inherit his father's business and go to sea! ”

"What?" Liu Chun was shocked, Li Xian is Li Jinglong's son, and he is not yet twenty years old this year, "He really wants to go to sea?" ”

Li Wuflaw smiled bitterly, "I, who is an aunt, didn't expect that the child would have such ambitions." Master, do you think you should agree? ”

Liu Chun didn't know how to answer for a while, of course it was a good thing for the child to be used for exploration. But there are not many men in the Li family, Li Jinglong is dead, so he can't be let go of it!

"In this way, hand over Li Xian to the sailor, let him have a good experience, go to sea this time, let Zheng He lead the team, if something happens again, I will go to sea in person!"

Liu Chun slapped the table vigorously and roared angrily: "I don't believe it, I will fail again and again!" ”

Liu Chun is so resolute, compared to him, Zhu Di's attitude is even more crazy.

Zhu Di announced that he would hold a funeral for Li Jinglong.

You must know that Zhu Di is a person who loves money very much, but this time he took out 200,000 taels from his inner money. Just spending money is not enough, Zhu Di gave Li Jinglong supreme mourning.

Posthumously gifted Li Jinglong as the Taibao, gave the king of the sea, and issued a decree that Li Xian would inherit the title of Duke of Cao Guo.

On the day of the funeral, all the civil and military ministers were present.

Zhu Hu worshiped Li Jinglong on behalf of the clan.

The generals came to pay their respects.

Even Blue Jade came.

After they worshipped, Zhang Yu took the initiative to say: "Although Li Jinglong did things for the puppet emperor Zhu Yunwen, in the battle of Jingjing, everyone despised him a lot, but now, Li Jinglong sacrificed his life for the country, and Zhang Mou respects him as a man!" I know that some people are still impeaching Li Jinglong's brother Li Zengzhi, telling those people that whoever dares to attack the Li family again, I, Zhang Yu, are inseparable from him! ”

"And I, Zhu Neng! I'll put my words here, if anyone looks down on the King of the Sea, he will immediately lead his troops out to sea, so that everyone can see his ability! “

Li Jinglong never dreamed that he would be recognized by the generals in this way.

At this time, Zhu Di and Liu Chun arrived, and the monarchs and ministers came almost side by side.

"Li Jinglong died for the country, and died for the great cause of opening the sea, which is as heavy as Mount Tai. I feel that I want to let him deserve to enjoy the temple. Zhu Di said with a cold face: "Many people say that Li Jinglong is dead and can't continue to go to sea, but I don't think so." We can't let Li Jinglong die in vain, immediately elect a successor, reorganize the fleet, and go to sea immediately! ”

Just when Zhu Di made the final decision, someone suddenly stumbled in, and this guy's voice changed.

"Your Majesty...... Next, Cao Guogong's envoy returned, returned! ”

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