"It's simple." Luo Ye smiled: "Get some rice pulp and wipe your face, and when the rice pulp is dry, it will be like that." Oh teacher"

Luo Ping nodded and said, "Although it's simple, it's practical, and even I can't recognize you." If you don't have a preparation in your heart, but you meet it on the road, you will never recognize it. ”

Luo Xin on the side looked at Luo Qing and Luo Sheng and said, "Big brother, cousin, you two have made an appointment?" ”

"It's not!" Both men shook their heads at the same time.

Luo Xin couldn't help laughing and said, "That's really a coincidence!" ”

Luo Qing and Luo Sheng looked at each other and smiled: "It's really a coincidence!" ”

Then the two of them looked at Luo Heng and Luo Ye respectively, Luo Ye looked at Luo Heng again, and Luo Heng smiled:

"It's up to the two of you to talk about it."

The two of them nodded and glanced at each other, Luo Qing said with a smile: "Cousin, let's talk first." ”

"It's good!" Luo Sheng organized his language, looked at Luo Xindao, and said: "No, Taiwan is developing well now, and shipbuilding has comprehensively surpassed all the forces on the sea. And we've already started working on building the kind of iron ship you mentioned. ”

Luo Xin's eyes lit up and said, "The steam engine has been studied?" ”

"Not yet!" Luo Sheng said with a smile: "But there has been great progress, those craftsmen said that they can study it in one year at the shortest, three years at most." ”

"Good!" Luo Xin said happily.

"Artillery and musket technology is also being studied, it's just that bullets and shells like the one you said can't be made."

"How's the electricity research?"

"A hand-cranked generator has been developed, and wind power generation is being studied."

"When you come up with wind power, you can study a machine, called a lathe, and a stamping machine, and so on, and then I can give you a general direction for those craftsmen to study. When they make these machines, there will be no problem making bullets and shells. ”

"Good!"

Luo Sheng was overjoyed, he had tasted the benefits of technology, and now his fleet was invincible at sea, and with the equipment of thermal weapons, it was also invincible to land on one island after another.

"No, now the Ryukyu and the thirty-six islands that Wang Zhi occupied in Japan back then are also occupied by us, and they are developing well, and Japan has been completely surrounded by us geographically."

Luo Xin raised his eyebrows and said, "Is Japan's Warring States Period over?" ”

"Not yet!" Luo Sheng shook his head and said: "But according to our observation, it is almost over, Japan has been very weak after the baptism of war. If we go to war with Japan now, I firmly believe that Japan will soon be completely occupied. ”

Luo Xin pondered for a moment and said, "The specific time, cousin, can handle it himself." ”

"Good!"

"What's the difficulty?"

"Food!" Luo Sheng said: "Taiwan has developed too fast, and has annexed the Ryukyus and the 36 islands, and the population has increased dramatically, but the planting area is not enough, so there is a shortage of food. Although some grain was exchanged with the Ming trade. However, there are many things that we cannot exchange with the Ming Dynasty, such as firearms and ships. Therefore, the exchange of grain is still not enough, and when Japan is occupied, I am afraid that food will become a further problem. ”

"After the occupation of Japan, food will not be a problem." Luo Xin said with a smile.

"Why?"

"Japan has a lot of silver mines."

Luo Sheng looked happy, and then shook his head and said, "Even if you have a lot of silver, you can't exchange it for food." Daming's food is not enough to eat. ”

"Go to Lingnan, where there is a kind of rice that can be harvested three times a year. As long as you have silver, you can exchange as much as you want. ”

"Really? Why haven't you heard of it before? ”

"Transport! Daming can't solve the transportation, and from land transportation, it is simply losing money and consuming too much. And you don't have this problem, because you can pass by sea. ”

"Great!" Luo Sheng looked at Luo Xin excitedly and said, "No, when are you going to Taiwan to have a look?" ”

"Let's talk about it!" Luo Xin thought for a moment.

Luo Sheng also knew Luo Xin's difficulties, and it was impossible for him to leave the capital for so long at will. So he said:

"No, what else do you command?"

Luo Xin thought for a moment and said, "No, your next plan is to target Japan." ”

"Understood."

Luo Xin looked at Luo Qing. Luo Qing said with a smile: "Now the grassland has been completely unified, with 200,000 soldiers and horses. My problem is also the lack of food. Although Uncle Lu's side has been supporting, the grassland has been cultivating and recuperating for so long, and the older and more the population is, the more food is needed. Some are not enough, and Uncle Lu is also very worried. ”

Luo Xin looked at Luo Sheng and said, "After you go back, put the affairs of Lingnan first." Although there is a Ming government there, the situation is very complicated, and the territory that the Ming government can control is less than one-third of Lingnan. You can start with glass...... By the way, there are a lot of mosquitoes in Lingnan, I will give you a method of making mosquito coils in a while, you can first support an indigenous person in Lingnan, and then exchange food with them with glass, mosquito coils and other goods through that native. Half of the food exchanged was kept by himself, and half was traded with the eldest brother. Big brother trades with you with horses, cattle and sheep on the grassland. ”

"Good!" Luo Sheng nodded happily and said, "We just lack horses, cattle and sheep over there. Moreover, once the food problem is solved and there is sufficient grain and grass, it will not be a problem to occupy Japan. ”

"The most on my side are horses, cattle and sheep." Luo Qing said with a smile.

The food problem was solved, and everyone was very happy. Luo Qing looked at Luo Xin and said, "No, what are we going to do next?" No, my cousin is still fighting, can't let me raise an army of 200,000 and do nothing, right? ”

Luo Xin thought for a moment and said, "Send troops to the Western Regions." ”

"Sending troops to the Western Regions?"

"Yes, open up the Silk Road. At that time, you don't have to trade yourself, just build cities and collect transit taxes along the way from the steppes to the Western Regions. ”

"It's like a city company that charges customs duties?" Luo Qing's eyes lit up.

"Yes!" Luo Xin nodded and said, "What you collect is the tariff." Of course, you also have to ensure the safety along the way, regularly go out to suppress bandits, only when the road is safe, there will be more merchants from the Ming Dynasty and merchants from various countries in the Western Regions to and from the Silk Road, and you will collect more and more tariffs. ”

"There's no problem with that!" Luo Qingmo shook his hands and said: "There are no big countries in the Western Regions at all, they are all small countries, and it is not difficult to conquer them at all. ”

"Remember, big brother, we want more than just conquer, treat them as our subjects. We want those small countries in the Western Regions to disappear and just become a state and a government of our own country. ”

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