In addition to lowering housing prices, Wang Yu also took a series of measures, such as profiteers hoarding grain in an attempt to raise grain prices, Wang Yu opened a warehouse and released a large amount of grain to lower grain prices; When the climate turned colder, profiteers hoarded cotton in an attempt to raise the price of cotton, so Wang Yu released cotton to lower the price.

After a series of battles, with He Wenrui, Ye Chengchang (Ye Xianggao's son) and a group of Donglin Party businessmen ended in a complete fiasco, in this contest between the state and profiteers, Wang Yu is much more confident than Emperor Chongzhen, he does not care about what to compete with the people, and firmly grasps the most profitable industry in his hands, that is, the state monopoly, all mines are nationalized, and strategic materials are not allowed to be privately controlled.

Because of the money in their hands, the country won a great victory in "competing with the people for profit", He Wenrui, Ye Chengchang and others suffered heavy losses, and many bankrupt Donglin Party businessmen chose to jump from the upper floors or jump into the Huangpu River.

Ye Xianggao was in the Wanli period that year, he opposed the emperor sending mine supervisors to mine mines, and opposed the collection of mining taxes. However, those mining taxes were all taxes of the Donglin Party, not taxes from the peasants, so naturally they would be strongly opposed by these scholars.

Now Wang Yu wants all the mines to be nationalized and to tax commerce.

"Competing with the people? If I don't collect taxes from the rich merchants, do I collect the heavy taxes from the poor peasants? Stir up another official coercion and civil rebellion? And then let the Tartars find another chance? Wang Yu angrily rebuked the group of civil officials.

Subsequently, Jin Yiwei found out that there was black-hearted cotton in the military coat provided by Ye Chengchang, and Ye Chengchang sold it to the military coat in the Northeast Zheng Raid Army, which was mixed with a lot of black-hearted cotton, in addition, Ye Chengchang also maliciously lowered the price of grain during the harvest season, hoarded grain in the green and yellow season, and sold grain at a high price.

After the case was discovered, Ye Chengchang and a large number of high-ranking officials who had colluded with him were taken to the execution ground and beheaded.

On the edge of the wharf on the Huangpu River in Shanghai, a new-style fleet is moored.

The flagship of this fleet is the latest type of Li Dingguo ironclad ship of the Ming Navy, this ironclad ship has a displacement of 8,500 tons, a length of 1005 meters, a width of 18 meters, a draft of 5 meters, the main engine is two vertical three-cylinder reciprocating steam engines, with 12 coal-fired boilers to drive the steam engine, the power reaches 7,500 horsepower, the maximum speed of 16 knots, the maximum coal load reaches 1,500 tons, and the endurance is 6,000 nautical miles when sailing at a cruising speed of 12 knots.

With a cruising range of 6,000 nautical miles, this ship obviously cannot reach the Americas.

But the Ming had two supply points in the Pacific Ocean, one for Japan and the other for an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, and on that archipelago there was a new city called Honolulu.

Li Sixing boarded this huge battleship named after his father, and his heart was full of emotion.

King Jin's henchman Jin Tongwu naturally left Daming with King Jin and went to the American continent. He boarded the ironclad ship, stroked the railing, and sighed, "This ship is so big!" ”

The so-called ironclad ship, in fact, the hull is still made of wood, but the outside of the hull is covered with a layer of ironclad, this ironclad ship has four rotating turrets on the upper deck, each turret has two 305 mm breech rifled guns, and there are eight 37 mm six-barreled hand-cranked machine guns on the upper deck.

Below the main deck, the artillery deck remained, and inside the gun deck, there were forty 100-mm breech-loading rifled guns.

In addition to this, the battleship carried two torpedo boats of the latest type.

With the advent of the compressed air-powered torpedo, torpedo boats replaced the almost suicidal pole mineboats and became a powerful maritime weapon.

The second battleship of this fleet is the Zheng Chenggong ironclad ship, which is exactly the same as the Li Dingguo, and the two warships are sister ships.

In addition to the two behemoths, there are two Jinan-class armored cruisers, four Qi Jiguang-class armored cruisers, and six Shantou-class destroyers.

The Jinan-class armored cruiser has a displacement of 4,200 tons and is armed with eight 152-mm breech-loading rifled guns, sixteen 37-mm hand-cranked machine guns and six 533 torpedo tubes.

The Qi Jiguang-class cruiser had a displacement of 2,300 tons and was equipped with two twin 203-mm rear-loading turrets, four single-mounted 152-mm rear-loading secondary guns, eight 37-mm six-barreled hand-cranked machine guns, and four 533-mm torpedo tubes.

Shantou-class destroyers, with a displacement of 450 tons, and a maximum speed of up to an astonishing 30 knots! Armed with two 76-mm breech-loading rifled guns and four 37-mm hand-cranked guns, the destroyer was equipped with extremely powerful torpedo tubes, although the guns were not powerful enough.

It was an all-steam fleet that, in addition to fourteen battleships, was followed by a six-thousand-ton coal carrier that could replenish the fleet along the way.

"Woo-" The whistle sounded, and the huge Li Dingguo ironclad ship slowly left the dock, split the white waves, and sailed in the direction of Wusongkou.

Li Sixing has a separate room on the ship, which was originally the captain's room, but now it is temporarily given to him.

The captain's room had a separate bathroom, a living room and a bedroom, in which there were several sofas and a desk, and at this time electric lights had not yet been invented, and the cabin was lit with whale oil lamps and bright gas lamps.

The gas lamp is quite bright, one gas lamp is equal to the light of a hundred candles, and it illuminates the captain's room.

Li Sixing and Jin Tongwu left the Ming Dynasty with a carefully selected 5,000 elites, originally they had more than 50,000 people, but the fleet could not take them away at one time, so they took 5,000 people over first, and then slowly emigrated people later.

Although 5,000 people are not much, but it is the most elite troops, each soldier is a veteran of a hundred battles who came over in the sea of corpses and blood, before going to the Americas, Wang Yu also generously changed their clothes, all equipped with rear-loading rifled guns, and presented six 75-mm rear-loading mountain guns and four 82-mm mortars.

The fleet sailed at a cruising speed of ten knots, and to cross the Pacific Ocean to reach the Americas, the cruising speed of the steam fleet was actually not as fast as that of clippers, but the speed of steam warships was stable, and the tonnage was large, and the seaworthiness was much better.

After a four-day, four-night voyage, the fleet arrived in Tokyo, Japan, where it was replenished with coal, fresh water, and food, and then pulled a group of Japanese passengers bound for the Americas.

"How come any of the widows are also on our ship?" Li Sixing asked Captain Shi Zhenhong puzzled.

"They all paid money, and our number of immigrants was not enough, and many Han people were still unwilling to cross the ocean to the other side of the ocean, so they had to pull a group of Japanese and Annam people over, after all, they were the same skin color as us."

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