"You say!"

Luo Xin nodded and said, "First thing, after I leave you, I will go to the southeast to solve the matter of the city." The Wa Kingdom should have been occupied by us. There won't be so many troops. Leave it to straighten out the Japanese army, free up a part of the army, wait for my orders, and then exterminate all the Japanese at sea. ”

"No problem!" Luo Sheng nodded and said: "It's very easy to destroy them, their equipment is very poor, and the most important thing is that I know the strength of those pirates, and I also need where they will stay." I didn't have the energy to exterminate them, but I sent someone to get in. ”

"Good!" Luo Xin's heart is at ease, with an army and a secret agent, at most half a year, the pirates can be cleared out. Turn your head to the doorway:

"Daqing, bring me the map."

"Yes, Master Hou!"

Lu Daqing walked in with a long box and handed it to Luo Xin. Luo Xin asked people to remove the wine and food, and took out a map from the long box, which she drew one by one according to the memories of later generations. Spread the map on the table and looked at Luo Shengdao:

"Cousin, what do you know about the current situation at sea?"

"I've heard about Frangi and the Spaniards. I've had a few encounters with their fleet, but they're not a good match for us. ”

Luo said secretly in confidence, it is not that Spain and Franco are not strong, but that his arrival has changed history and made the sailors on his side too strong. He stretched out his finger and drew a line on the map:

"Cousin, what do you think would be the power of Spain and Francis at sea without us?"

Luo Sheng was silent for a moment and said, "It's very strong, there should be no opponent at sea." ”

Luo Xin nodded, how to draw a circle on the map with his hand: "In this large sea area, if there is no us, it will belong to Spain and Franc in the future, and the line I draw is the dividing line between Spain and Franc, and this dividing line is before we appeared, that is to say, fifty years ago, the maritime strength of Spain and Franc was already very strong, dividing the world's seas, and the west of this dividing line belongs to Spain, and it belongs to Franc Machine." ”

Luo Sheng nodded and said, "I said why do I often encounter the fleets of Spain and Franco, it turns out that we are in the sphere of influence of the two of them. ”

"How many times have you had an encounter with them?"

"Three times!"

"The result?"

"They are not our opponents, their ships are not as strong as ours, and their guns are not as good as ours." Luo Sheng smiled confidently.

Luo Xin nodded, he believed that the shipbuilding, gun and cannon ideas he gave Luo Sheng, although because he didn't understand it very well, just put forward a concept, but what is often lacking in the world is the concept, as long as there is a concept, those craftsmen can improve step by step, and now Luo Sheng's mastery of the ship, grab and cannon may not be much higher than the Spanish and Franco, but only a little higher, that is the advantage.

Not to mention......

This is Luo Sheng's home turf, and neither the number of ships and men, nor the number of supplies, can be compared to the Spanish and Franco. It also has the advantage that Spain and Franc do not have, that is, Luo Sheng is more familiar with the sea terrain here than Spain and Franc. So, even if the Spanish and Fran mechanisms are taken for granted.

However, if Luo Xin led the sailors to start an expedition and began to compete for the world that had been divided between Spain and Francois fifty years ago, there would be no advantage of being familiar with the sea area, but Spain and Franco would be more familiar with the terrain of the sea. After a moment of silence, he said:

"Cousin, you should have sent someone to explore the sea lanes all these years, right?"

"Yes!" Luo Sheng nodded and said, "As you said, those sides are all ruled by Spain and Franco, and the fleets we are scouting are all based on the situation of caravans, and in those places, they have many advantages. ”

"Not bad!" Luo Xin said with a solemn expression: "They are the current overlords of the sea, and they are invading everywhere, even if they are Ming, they don't want to let go." Their greed makes them want to take everything they can. Once in the Zhengde period, the Francois wanted to occupy Tuen Mun in Guangdong as a bridgehead for them to attack the Ming Dynasty, but they were defeated by my Ming Deputy Envoy of the Guangdong Sea Road.

Ten years later, however, they made a comeback, this time occupying Yujing in Xiangshan County, Guangdong, and renamed Macau. ”

Luo Sheng nodded and said: "But their number is not large, not to mention that they are not as good as the Ming Dynasty, even compared with our Huaxia, we have Taiwan, Ryukyu, and now we have the Japanese Kingdom as the foundation, the supplies are endless, and the soldiers are also endless, but they are like rootless drifters." If you go on an expedition, the outcome is unpredictable. However, it is not difficult to drive these Francotics away from the waters around Daming. If it weren't for the fact that you had occupied the Wa Kingdom first, I would have let them get out of here. ”

Luo Xin smiled and said: "You are right, whether it is Spain or Franco, these two countries are very small, especially Francois is smaller than Spain, before they have not become ocean-bound hegemonic, the population is only more than one million, which is not as good as our Daming Dynasty." Such a small place, relying on the sale of wine for a living, so it is also called Portugal. Such a place, if you want to become strong, in the eyes of our Ming people, it is definitely a fool's dream. It's like Taiwan, there is only one island, if you want to become strong, I'm afraid my cousin thinks it's impossible, right? ”

Luo Sheng nodded and said: "No, in fact, I often think about this matter, even if we occupy Taiwan, Ryukyu, Wa, and further occupy Goryeo, the territory, resources, and population we have are still far inferior to the Ming Dynasty." It's very difficult to get strong. ”

"yes!" Luo Xin nodded: "The environment restricts development, just like Portugal a few decades ago. It was impossible to be strong, but Portugal was strong and built an empire. ”

Speaking of this, Luo Xin swiped his finger on the map and said: "This circle is called Asia, and our Ming Dynasty is in Asia." This circle is called Europe, Spain and Portugal belong to Europe, and although Portugal's territory in Europe has not changed in the past few decades, it is still that little bit of a small land. But it is expanding its territory in Africa like crazy, taking over almost all of Africa. Moreover, Tianzhu, Malacca, which occupies our Asia, and even this circle, which is called the Americas, occupies a territory far more than those powerful empires in Europe, even compared with our Ming Dynasty. Cousin, why do you think they were able to do this? ”

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