It's April, but the back garden of the palace in Yuejing City is already full of flowers. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info a lot of timely flowers are blooming, decorating this small back garden with colorful colors. The weeping willows by the pond have drawn new branches and sprouts, and when the wind blows, the willow tops gently blow across the water, opening up layers of ripples, causing groups of koi in the water to rush in.

The Imperial Garden is one of the most luxurious places in the Imperial Palace. Today, Qin Feng is here to entertain guests. The guests were Ning Zeyuan, He Ying, and others, the newly baked director of the Maritime Administration, who had just sailed away, and the first assistant Quan Yun, Su Kairong of the household department, and the kitten of the military department were accompanied.

Although Ning Zeyuan, He Ying and others are big tycoons, rich and enemies, but this palace is the first time they have come to the palace, so they are naturally full of curiosity, and the emperor's banquet in the palace is naturally the first time, and they are naturally full of joy. Although they are thieves, they are thieves, and after making a lot of money, they will naturally not be satisfied with their status. Naturally, I want to wash myself and walk in the sun with dignity.

This is also the dream of people like Ning Zeyuan, when Ning Zeyuan's dream is not only to whitewash himself, he also wants to drive a battleship across the world, and it is because of this that Ning Zeyuan is now sitting in front of Qin Feng.

Ning He and the others thought that they were the emperor's honor, Qin Feng's eating, drinking and living were naturally extravagant, and before entering the palace, both of them also had a good intention of opening their eyes, and they didn't want to enter the palace, but they were disappointed. The imperial palace of the Ming Dynasty covers a wide area, but most of them are now set up as official offices, and the remaining small part is not much bigger than his Ning family's residence in Quanzhou.

Looking at the dishes on the table in front of me, I was even more inexplicably surprised and with a bit of admiration. It's just a few new side dishes plus two dishes of meat, and the simplicity is far inferior to Ning's banquet. Even the Ning family's ordinary family banquet was much stronger than the one in front of him.

But seeing that many important ministers of the court are all peaceful, it is obvious that this is a common thing.

No wonder Daming has had feng shui in the past few years, and the two of them looked at Qin Feng's expression, and they were even more in awe of admiration. In this palace, there are no colored palace maids, no luxurious banquets, and an emperor doesn't care about these things, so what he wants, isn't it about to come out.

Su Kairong now sees that Ning Zeyuan and the two of them are very good, not for anything else, but for the two of them to sail this time, and the wealth they brought back makes him happy.

When he was in Baoqing, Ning Zeyuan led the ship to sail away, Su Kairong heard the huge profits of the sea trade, and of course the little heart jumped up immediately, but he knew that the news was too late, and he wanted to intervene, and for a while, where did he prepare those goods? After thinking about it, I finally thought that in Changyang County, the Medical Department has a lot of pharmaceutical factories, and the various types of medicines that have been concocted by those medicinal materials are not also considered goods? Where there are people, there are naturally patients, and those who are sick naturally need medicine, and those small barbarian states overseas, if they can get the magic medicine of the Heavenly Empire, isn't it joyful?

In order to make money, Su Kairong really worked hard, and immediately organized people to sweep away all kinds of medicinal materials and medicines from these pharmaceutical factories, loaded a boat, and handed them over to Ning Zeyuan to take overseas for sale.

Su Kairong has been in the household department for a long time, and he is naturally good at calculating, and he has roughly calculated how much he can profit from these medicinal materials in his heart, but he didn't expect that this time Ning Zeyuan returned, and the profits he brought back made him directly straighten his eyes, which was about fifty percent higher than he expected, which was really a huge profit.

It was a casual move, but he made a lot of money, Su Kairong's heart blossomed, the medicinal materials are already like this, the profits from other things, so do you need to talk about it? This sea trade, as Your Majesty said, is an inexhaustible treasure trove, and in the future, it is only necessary to organize a huge fleet of ships to go overseas once a year, and the treasury is not yet full. Is it like now, when the treasury can't stay in the country, and everything you do is shrinking, and you have to run away in embarrassment when you see those officials who come to collect debts?

There is no money in his hand, and the neck of this household book just can't be stiffened!

Moreover, Su Kairong knew very well what else was going on today. Ning Zeyuan got the goods from other ships, but I am afraid that I can't bring them back, originally those profits were going to be taken back to demonstrate with the boss of the Ning family, in order to snatch the position of the head of the Ning clan, but now, the boss of the Ning family was caught by the queen mother and smashed into the dust, everyone is under house arrest in Yuejing City, there is no reason to bring these goods back, I am afraid that the final outcome is also into the treasury, and there is another sum of money in his hand, in his opinion, this Ning Ze is far from being like a fortune boy, how can he not be happy.

Quan Yun and Kitten are not concerned about this, as the first assistant of a country, Quan Yun prefers to know the political system of these overseas countries, how to govern the country, and Kitten, as the secretary of the military department, naturally wants to know how the strength of these overseas countries is, although there are many people in the banquet, but including Qin Feng, they all listened carefully to Ning Zeyuan's words, Ning Zeyuan is indeed a talent, and he talked about it, but what he talked about was the most interesting issue for everyone in the field.

Everyone listened carefully, just interjected in the key place to ask, and then Ning Zeyuan came to answer, and after talking for a while, everyone had a general understanding of these overseas countries. These overseas states are all island countries, and the largest is only equivalent to the size of the two counties of the Ming Dynasty, and the strength of each is not too strong, the only thing to worry about is that these island countries have a naval division that is not weak, at least compared to the current Ming Dynasty. You must know that the current Ming Dynasty only has two warships, and even the sailors can't get together, and the third battleship can't be launched until the end of this year. And those island nations, each of which has several such warships, and the sailors are even more inexhaustible.

But that's it, after Ning Zeyuan finished his introduction, everyone here also understood that these island countries were a source of wealth for the Ming Dynasty, and they were a source of money without any threat, which was enough.

Only the kitten's eyes flashed, and as for what he was thinking, no one knew.

Su Kairong finally seized an opportunity, looked at Ning Zeyuan and asked, "Lord Ning, it's really strange to me to say, isn't it that these island countries are in short supply of medicinal materials?" The profit from my shipload of medicinal herbs was really beyond my expectations? ”

Ning Zeyuan is now the director of the Daming Maritime Administration, so he is naturally his colleague.

Hearing Su Kairong's question, Ning Zeyuan owed slightly, and said with a smile: "That's not it, although those island countries are small, they don't lack ordinary medicinal materials, but the luck of the Su Hu Department is really good, this time this ship of medicinal materials was sold for a sky-high price, but it was because there was a war over there." ”

"War?" At this moment, everyone, including Qin Feng, became curious.

"Yes, when I was in Baoqing, the minister told His Majesty that there is an island country that is the strongest, with the largest land area, the largest number of troops, and the most warships, and this is Manila. Manila's location is critical, just stuck in the trade channel from the west to this side, whether it is a merchant ship from the west, or a merchant ship from the east to pass, they have to pay money, it is precisely because of this location that Manila has always been the leader in this sea area. The naval battle a few years earlier was a coalition of forces organized by the king of Manila. Although the battle was won, the king of Manila, Nilan, was also wounded, and for several years afterward, the injuries lingered, but this year they suddenly worsened, and he died with a whimper. ”

"Oh?" Qin Feng raised his eyebrows: "But there is a problem within this Manila, the old king is dead, but the new king can't serve the public?" ”

Ning Zeyuan clasped his hands together and snapped: "Your Majesty Shengming, that's exactly the case." But what is strange is that this time it was the most useless son of King Nilan of Manila who rebelled. Nilan I, the hero of Nilan I, probably never thought that his most useless son would now make Manila a disaster. ”

"If it's the most useless, how can this result happen?" The kitten asked curiously.

"Strange is strange here. This guy's name is Chalan, and he was originally divided into the poorest and barren places in Manila, not to mention that the sea trade is not touched, but the production of his fiefdom is very meager. But since the beginning of the army, this Chalan has been like a bamboo, although there are not many soldiers and horses, but those soldiers are like veterans of a hundred battles, beating the unsuspecting royal forbidden army to a sparse place. ”

"This is really strange, could it be that this Chalan is hidden and has been pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger?" Qin Feng was also surprised.

"Not really. According to the merchants who came from there, this Chalan is still as useless as ever, but he does not know where to take a few subordinates, and his generals are very powerful, not only with fierce soldiers, full of tricks, but also in terms of governance, it is also extremely good, from the time they started the army to the present, but in only half a year, it has already occupied one-third of the land of Manila, that Chalan is just because of people, since people have been lying at home and have everything. ”

"And such a thing?" The Ming monarchs and ministers present were greatly surprised. "Can you find out where these of his subordinates come from?"

Ning Zeyuan shook his head: "I didn't inquire about this in detail, because since Manila is connected by war, it is inconvenient for us to go over." It's just that some businessmen who came over talked about it intermittently, and only said that these subordinates of Chalan, who seemed to have arrived in Manila four years ago, were very miserable at that time, and this guy Chalan deserved good luck and helped these people, and then these people voted for him. ”

"This is really interesting, this matter is far from the heart, we must check it in the future, this Manila status is so critical, and it will be very critical for us to go to the sea in the future."

"Yes, Your Majesty."