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Ma Xiangnan smiled proudly, "Your Majesty, the minister has been reading since he was a child, but what he loves most is to read history, and he yearns for the grandeur of all countries in the heyday of the Tang Empire!" But later, the empire declined, the sea was forbidden, and the thriving trade routes of the past were cut off. ”

Qin Feng was taken aback, "Haimao? ”

"Of course, it's Haimao!" Ma Xiangnan's eyebrows danced: "The book I read once said that Haimao, that is simply a good business!" Your Majesty, although Baoqing was a military port in the past, it is not impossible to turn it into a civilian port. Even if it doesn't work, I, Changyang County, can find another place in Baoqing to build a port after making money. I have already contacted some businessmen in Jiangnan through some old relationships in the past, and everyone is very interested! ”

Qin Feng smiled: "Sea trade is indeed a very profitable business. But old horse, you won't wonder why the sea trade declined in the end to be completely cut off! ”

"Isn't it because the Tang Emperor was mediocre later and closed the sea and closed the country?" Ma Xiangnan said indignantly.

"I heard Zuo Shuai talk about this at the beginning." Qin Feng sighed: "Haimao is a big piece of fat, but not everyone can eat it. During the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, it was true that all countries came to the dynasty and the sea trade was prosperous, but it was built on the invincible sailors of the Tang Empire. But anyone who wanted to take a bite on the big fat of Haimao was hung on the mast by the Tang Dynasty sailors to bask in the sun. ”

Ma Xiangnan was stagnant, he only thought about money, but he didn't think about the hardships on this road. "It doesn't have to be that dangerous, is it?"

"It's not necessarily, it's for sure!" Qin Feng shook his head and said, "I think such an obvious way of making money will not be something that no one wants to do, but why is no one doing it now?" It must have been the experience of blood and life. ”

"But as far as I know, whether it is Qi or Chu, there are still overseas goods coming in, and the price is extremely high!" Horse to the south.

"No need to ask, the people who sell these things are sure that they themselves are pirates." Qin Feng said with a smile: "Old Ma, if you want to open a sea trade, there must be a premise, that is, we have a strong team of sailors in the Ming Dynasty who can deter the Quartet, and can hang the heads of all the guys who covet our wealth on the mast to bask in the sun." But now, do we have it? ”

"Baoqing Shipyard!" Horse to the south.

Qin Feng laughed: "How many ships have been launched in our Baoqing Shipyard now?" How many sailors are there? Have you formed combat power? If you don't have any of these, you will not make money when you go to sea, but die. ”

"Your Majesty, I think it's time for us to build a powerful naval division, not to mention that it can attack Qi by land and water, and it can be used to open up sea trade!" The horse roared south sharply.

"It's not so easy to build a sailor!" Qin Feng shook his head with a smile and said: "This is more difficult than training a cavalry, it is said that cavalry is a money-burning goods, and a sailor is a money-burning thing!" Okay, okay, Lao Ma, I know your thoughts, you don't want to eat a fat man, the matter of sea trade, we can't worry about it for the time being, you, or plant your fruit trees, medicinal herbs, and grain, first let the people under your rule eat their stomachs, dress warmly, and after a few years, let's discuss the matter of getting rich! ”

Ma Xiangnan nodded a little depressedly: "Your Majesty, I know." You said that in a blink of an eye, Luo Yishui and Chen Ci have also been out for several years, why don't they have a letter? If there is news from them, we will have a little bit outside, and this business will be done. ”

Qin Feng smiled and said: "You, it's better to die of this heart, they go to sea, to be honest, it is a road to death, even if they stand on their feet, how can there be news back for a while?" ”

"Water Master, Water Master!" Ma Xiangnan snorted: "Your Majesty, the general of the Sailor Division dug up from the Chu State has been taken to Changyang County by the Eagle's Nest a few months ago, and his family is placed in Changyang County, do you know this?" ”

"I know, this time I went to Baoqing, just to meet him, the report from the Eagle's Nest, nearly a hundred people came together, and they have all passed their review and confirmed that there is no problem." Qin Feng said with a smile.

"It seems that Changyang County still has to grit its teeth and tilt Baoqing a little more, otherwise when will this water division be established!" Ma Xiangnan said thoughtfully.

Qin Feng shook his head, this old man has a stubbornness, but without his own orders, the sea trade will not be opened, and he is too lazy to talk to this old man anymore. Now, I really don't have the energy to think about the affairs of sea trade, and the things on land have not been sorted out!

Tuk's voice sounded, and Grandpa Le knocked on the carriage door outside, "Your Majesty, the meal has been prepared, is it to eat in the carriage or outside?" ”

"Outside, I've been sitting inside for so long, and I'm a little stuffy." Qin Feng looked at Ma Xiangnan and said, "Let's go, go down to breathe, and drink a few glasses to get rid of fatigue?" ”

"Have a few drinks!" Ma nodded to the south.

The three of them got out of the carriage, and Grandpa Le had already laid out a felt blanket outside, and the food had already been prepared on the blanket, which was still in the style of the army, and the coarse porcelain bowls were filled with all kinds of food, which was no different from the soldiers on the side, the only difference was that there was an extra jar of wine in their place.

In fact, Grandpa Le has long felt that this is really a loss of royal style, in the palace of Yuejing City, there were originally exquisite and luxurious tableware, even if Qin Feng once waved his pen and drew most of them to the heavens and earth, let Ziluo take these royal things to earn those unjust money, but there are still a lot of them in the palace, with Grandpa Le's opinion, Your Majesty travels, these things, you have to prepare a set.

However, Qin Feng doesn't do it, in his opinion, when he stays with the soldiers, he has to eat and live with the soldiers, share weal and woe, so that the soldiers can return to their hearts even more.

In these aspects, Le Gonggong is not able to resist Qin Feng, and now the palace in Yuejing City has been divided out of most of the yamen belonging to the imperial court, in the eyes of Le Gonggong, now the place where His Majesty the Emperor lives, is not as good as some luxury families! In the past, there were thousands of palace maids and eunuchs in the palace, but now it is good, there are still about a hundred palace maids, but there are really only a few dozen eunuchs left, and they are all too old to work.

Fortunately, the emperor's family is very simple, except for His Majesty the Emperor and the empress's mother, there is only one little prince and a little princess, and there is no one else.

If there are more masters in the palace in the future, how can these people support them? In the eyes of Le Gonggong, with the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, this is almost a sure thing. Of course, he won't show a trace of half on his face, the queen mother is not a vegetarian, and Grandpa Le even heard in private that the queen doesn't even want to have any more children, which is unimaginable in Grandpa Le's opinion, the royal one doesn't want their descendants to prosper, what is it now that there is only one single seedling?

Maybe in a few years, those courtiers outside won't do it, but wait and see!

Qin Feng, who picked up the bowl, found that on the road they had walked, the Agni Death Camp had set up a roadblock and completely closed this section of the road, and at this time, at the other end, there were actually a lot of carriages and pedestrians gathered, who were standing or sitting at the moment, looking at this side with their eyes blank.

"This is a caravan?" Qin Feng turned his head and asked the horse monkey who was walking over, "It doesn't look like it, it's dressed in tatters, some old and some young, but it looks like a deserter!" What's going on? ”

Ma Monkey coughed dryly, glanced at Ma Xiangnan, and said: "Your Majesty, it's not a caravan, let alone a desert, the last general has carefully asked the leader of this team, they are the people of the horse guard." ”

"What? My people? Ma Xiangnan pointed to his nose, inexplicable.

"Ma County Guard, the leader is holding the guard issued by your Changyang County Guard, and it is covered with your big seal!" The horse monkey couldn't help but laugh, "Those people whose clothes are like flowers are the exiles he got from the Qin State. ”

"Okay, old horse, it's really yours, you are cutting first and then playing!" Qin Feng understood as soon as he heard it, "You went to Dengxian County to tell me that you want the displaced people of the Qin State, and asked me to order Chen Zhihua to get someone for you, it turns out that you have already started doing this." ”

Ma Xiangnan also reflected, looked at Qin Feng, and said with a dry smile: "Your Majesty, there is such a thing, but I didn't expect them to be so fast!" Let's get people here, General Ma, you go and call the leader, and I'll ask what's going on! ”

Qin Feng sneered: "Can you not be happy?" Is there a more lucrative business in this world than human trafficking? I'm afraid they didn't spend any money. Didn't you tell me to buy a person for five taels of silver? ”

"No, no, no, a man in the prime of life is only five taels of silver, and the others are not worth so much money!" Ma Xiangnan waved his hand again and again, and when he saw that Qin Feng's face was not good, he immediately covered his mouth. When Qin Feng founded Taiping City, he relied on refugees to start his business, and he saw a lot of miserable scenes of refugees, and the most unseen thing was this kind of behavior of selling children and daughters.

Qin Feng waved his hand: "Call the leader." ”

The horse monkey listened to Qin Feng's words, and immediately ran towards the bayonet, and in the blink of an eye, he dragged a chubby guy in his hand and ran over, the man couldn't run fast, and was almost carried by the horse monkey in his hands and feet suspended in the air.

The chubby merchant was carried all the way by such a heavily armed fellow as the horse monkey, and his face was already frightened, but when he saw the horse to the south, his face immediately showed joy.

"Ma Gong, Ma Gong, the villain you want has been brought to you." He shouted.

Ma Xiangnan glanced at Qin Feng embarrassedly, "Bold, you dare to be so presumptuous in front of Your Majesty, and you don't kneel down to see His Majesty the Ming Emperor!" ”

When the chubby merchant heard this, his legs immediately went limp, and he slipped away into the ground with a chirp, and the monkey was quick to pick him up again.

"See... See... See Your Majesty! The merchant clattered his teeth against each other.