Dominate the Country

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"Your Majesty. In the past month, more than 3,400 copies of the world map in Nanjing have been sold, and sales have increased tenfold." Liu Wu said to Chen Ming with a smile.

This change proves the power of "rumors" from one side, and the public's interest in America is rising sharply. According to statistics from the Press and Publication Administration, in this month, among all the new book numbers applied to the authorities, including publishers of many higher education institutions, books about the geography, history, humanities and nature of America accounted for 70% to 80%. The number of applications is more than twice that of the previous month.

This is normal.

What the superiors like, the subordinates will follow.

Looking at the history of China, Qin Shihuang was fooled into believing that there were immortal mountains and immortals in the world, and there was an elixir of immortality. Then, when it came to Han Wu, Tang Zong, and even the emperors of the Ming Dynasty around the year, they were all crazy about refining elixirs.

Even the three fairy islands of Penglai, Fangzhang and Yingzhou in Chinese mythology can frequently appear in countless myths and legends, and their status is extremely stable, which is inseparable from the influence of these emperors.

From the kings and princes to the common people, how many people in all dynasties have sought the immortals?

This is the influence of the superiors.

Chen Cong and Chen Jiqing have met with many people for drinks these days, and a secret that is not a secret has spread to most of the circles of nobles and ministers. Chen Ming doesn't care how excited these people are. Anyway, a visible craze for America has suddenly set off in Nanjing.

When these princes and ministers are also frantically collecting all the information and intelligence about America, the power they have driven can stir up the whole of China.

When Emperor Chen Ming once again expressed his interest in America and his positive attitude towards the European great voyage, all the civil and military officials in the court, whether stupid or smart, participated in this craze without hesitation.

Although many middle and senior officials who have not yet been able to contact the top are quite confused, they don't understand what is going on in this world. Why is there a sudden wave of American fever? Although Xiangzhou is also in the American territory, the gap between the two sides is still thousands of miles?

But they can only shout the tune with their throats. There is no way. Do they have to keep in line with the top?

Chen Ming has successfully planted the seed. It will take root and sprout in the future, and will slowly grow into a towering tree until one day, the final mission arrives.

Chen Ming looked at the world map hanging on the wall. He relied on his memory to mark a point on the location of Hawaii. Since the establishment of the Overseas Exploration Bureau II, the latter's biggest task is to discover Hawaii and find Hawaii.

This is not for direct flights between China and the United States [America, not the United States]. In this era, China Unicom's connection with the Americas is still safer and more reliable by relying on the northern line of the Arctic Circle.

The reason why he insisted on discovering Hawaii is because Chen Ming wants to occupy Hawaii. Before the steamship era came, he hoped that he could change Hawaii from "barbarian" to "Chinese". But not so that Chinese ships can now sail directly to the other side of the Pacific Ocean.

At this time, China's long-term route to America can only be fixed on the northern route.

From the mainland to Sakhalin Island, then to the top of the Kamchatka Peninsula, and then along the Aleutian Islands to Xiangzhou, which is Alaska. After that, the ship can go south along the west coast of America until it encounters the California cold current, and then it can go directly to Mexico.

When the ocean currents, monsoons and more detailed climates are familiar in the future, the Japanese warm current, the North Pacific warm current, the California cold current, and the North Equatorial warm current are a circulation circle in the North Pacific. It can follow the ocean currents and monsoons to speed up the operation little by little.

Unfortunately, Chen Ming has already returned a lot of geographical knowledge to his junior high school teacher, and there is only one iconic thing left in his head that he still has some impression of.

——That is, not only the North Pacific, the South Pacific, the North and South Indian Oceans, the North and South Atlantic Oceans, with the equator as the dividing line, in his memory, there are ocean currents/monsoon circulation circles.

Europeans have already understood the ocean currents and monsoons in the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Far East, but in the Pacific Ocean, everything is just beginning.

Chen Ming began to regret why he couldn't remember the names of those warm and cold currents? Now think about it, many of the names of ocean currents are related to large regional geographical terms, which are obviously very easy to remember. But now there are only impressions left in his mind, vague impressions.

And monsoons, he is also very ignorant. The only thing he remembers clearly is China's winter and summer monsoons, the return time of foreign trade ships...

As he encountered more and more problems in this life, Chen Ming felt more and more regretful. He encountered many, many problems in this life, some of which required very professional knowledge depth, and he would not know it if he didn't know it. But many of the knowledge required for many problems is not that profound, just like the current problems of ocean currents and monsoons, which are all basic common sense, but he just forgot it. In the last time and space, everyone had computers and mobile phones at hand, so these problems were never a problem, and the answers could be found with a casual search. But in the current world, it takes a very long time and a lot of effort, including the cost of life, to explore and reveal the secrets of nature bit by bit.

Navigators were a very respected group in this era. Even Franklin gave great affirmation to the famous Captain Cook. This was the time of the American War of Independence. Benjamin Franklin, the American ambassador to France, still issued special instructions to all American warships, requiring them to treat Cook's ships in a friendly manner if they encountered them, not to regard them as enemies, and not to detain them unnecessarily. This is respect from the enemy!

Is there anything more glorious and proud in this world than being affirmed by a mortal enemy?

The night was getting darker, and Chen Ming stayed in the Qianqing Palace. The bright lamps lit by whale oil illuminated the inner hall like daylight. After Liu Wu left, Chen Ming looked through the intelligence summarized by various departments. Sometimes he put down the book in his hand and looked up at the inner account on the top. His eyes were dull and he didn't know what he was thinking about. Sometimes the smile on the corner of his mouth was really the mouse that stole the lamp oil.

On the twenty-first day of the first lunar month in the fourth year of Chengtian, Chen Ming issued a declaration at the court meeting: the system of replacing wages with land would have a two-year countdown. After the fifth year of Chengtian, all salaries, whether officials or soldiers, would be re-determined, and the system of replacing wages with land would be abolished.

Chen Ming was ready to resort to tricks. Two years was enough time for him to use this trick - that is, national debt.

Pitt the Younger, a politician who served as British Prime Minister at the age of 24, spent his most glorious moments in his life fighting against France and Napoleon. Although the huge debt crisis caused by his alcoholism and extravagance, plus the failure of the Fourth Anti-French Alliance, eventually destroyed his health, he died of illness in London in 1806, but this person's lofty status in British history is unquestionable.

And even such an outstanding talent used "an empire built on long-term national debt" to describe the Kingdom of Great Britain. Then, similarly, the method of long-term national debt can also be applied in China.

Chen Ming honestly didn't want to owe national debts, which was related to his personality. But if his grand wish is to be realized in the future, it is completely inevitable that Chen Han will owe a lot of debts. Even if there is no war, it is hard to say when China can achieve a balance of payments. Once the war starts, it will be even more ridiculous.

Therefore, national debt, long-term low-interest national debt, China must also take this path.

But from Chen Ming's heart, he does not want his empire to be burdened with extremely heavy debts.

Even if he seals off countries in America in the future, the domestic economic prosperity caused by the sealing off of countries, think about it, the establishment of various industries in each country requires huge industrial and agricultural forces to support, which can naturally trigger a domestic economic frenzy, but it is a bit extravagant to rely on these to erase the country's foreign debt.

Chen Ming is now eager to have a windfall.

Because the situation of a country owing too much debt is really not a good phenomenon.

The British succeeded. If China carries out national debt "construction", it can learn a lot from the British experience. But the national debt far exceeds the fiscal revenue, but France has fallen. What if China's national debt control is unreasonable?

Chen Ming does not reject national debt in his heart, but he is absolutely unwilling to rely on foreign debt without limit. Because this is risky. So his mind jumped out of this plate and thought about a problem from the perspective of an "outsider". Is there any way to quickly accumulate enough wealth to support the war?

After thinking about it, there is only "windfall".

What is windfall?

At the national level, "windfall", a windfall that can support the war consumption, is nothing but looting. For example, if you loot Japan now, you can certainly earn this much wealth, but this is obviously impossible. Another way is to loot several states in India, and the gold and jewelry are absolutely astronomical figures.

Chen Ming still remembers the story of the treasure of the Indian temple that was exposed on the Internet, and the wealth of the Indian princes. There are rumors that when the British captured the capital of Mysore, they robbed the kingdom of 15 million pounds of treasure from the treasury, and the value of the loot taken from the court alone exceeded 12 million gold households.

If China took action against India, such as the Kingdom of Wadiyar, which had previously fought with the East India Company, it would certainly make a fortune. But China has no roots in India, and the British have been operating in India for one or two hundred years. The consequences of the same action will be completely different.

Take the Kingdom of Wadiyar, which is now the Kingdom of Mysore. King Hyder Ali was a famous general in the first war against Britain. Ten years ago, Colonel V. Smith of the East India Company led the British and Carnatic troops to invade Wadiyar. After defeating the Wadiyar army in the border town of Jingma, they advanced to the hinterland and occupied 1/3 of Wadiyar's territory. The British army was far from the rear, with poor supplies, scattered forces, and weakened combat capabilities. In the following year, Hyder Ali led an elite force deep into the enemy's rear, raided the isolated and weak enemy, and forced Smith to retreat to Kolar. In the second year, he did not recover the lost territory, invaded Carnatic, approached Madras, where the British army headquarters was located, and finally forced the East India Company to sue for peace. The peace treaty stipulated that both sides withdrew from the occupied areas and established a defensive alliance.

Haider gained control of the military during the war. He organized the first Indian army controlled by Indians and equipped with flintlock weapons, overthrew the King of Wadiyar, and established the Kingdom of Mysore. The Marathas took the opportunity to invade the territory of Mysore. The British did not support Hyder, which naturally offended him. He, a soldier king who rose in the war, turned around and allied with his enemy Nicham Ali Khan and the Marathas to fight against the British. Although on the surface they were still neutral in the war between the British and the Marathas.

"Sell arms!"

Chen Ming woke up the next morning and looked at the words written on the paper on the bedside, his face full of bitterness. Selling arms is really not a good choice. But to make money, it is necessary to delay the British conquest on the South Asian subcontinent until China has the strength to officially enter the Indian region. Chen Ming can only think of this trick.

Taking advantage of the fierce contradictions between Mysore and Mattala and the British, transport arms to the Indian mainland to make huge profits. Strengthen the strength of the Indian natives and block the British conquest.

As for whether this would hinder China's "conquest" of India in the future, Chen Ming was very clear in his heart that there would definitely be obstacles. But if they don't sell arms, what can they sell to India now?

Now is not the last time and space, there are all kinds of clothes, toys, household appliances, electronic equipment, large and small machines, etc. for Sino-Indian trade exchanges. Now China's main exports are raw silk, silk and cotton textiles, tea, porcelain, etc. India is far from an indispensable trading partner.

Direct trade between China and India has just begun. And the only thing China imports from India is cotton.

China is still unable to intervene in India's political and military fields, but China wants to stop the British conquerors. Therefore, the most important thing for China now is to take advantage of this wave of opportunities that Britain and France are about to rise, and quickly sell some arms to India, while making huge profits, and also strengthen the strength of the Indian anti-British alliance. Don't forget that there are still French people on this land of India.

Although the disastrous defeat of the Seven Years' War caused the French military to withdraw from the Indian region, the influence of the French continues. The Mattalas and Mysores, who have a certain relationship with the French, are now at war with the British, while the other is relatively neutral, but has signed an agreement with the Mattalas. It is almost foreseeable that a war against the British will break out in India in the near future.

Maybe the French in Europe are boiling now, and they are going to roll up their sleeves to fight John Bull again. It would be a good opportunity and the last chance to intervene in India's arms trade at this time.

Chen Ming hopes that he can seize Ceylon [Sri Lanka] and then have another foothold on the Indian mainland. He doesn't want to destroy Burma before he can take care of India. The British have conquered Mysore.

On the world map hanging on the wall, Chen Ming marked a huge mark in South Africa. The gold mines there have long been his eyes, but South Africa is too far away from China. China must communicate with the world of Tianfang and gain a foothold on the east coast of Africa while having a considerable foundation in India, so that it can communicate with South Africa. Among all these, India is of vital importance!

Besides, Chen Ming couldn't just watch the British put the crown of India on his head.

The gold mines in South Africa need to be operated bit by bit; the same is true for intervening in India. China now has more private trade with them.

Compared with those indigenous princes, what can win their friendship more easily than arms?

The gold mines in South Africa still need China to dig them by hand, but the gold mines in India can grow gold for people to harvest. As long as China has a foothold in India, it may be able to pay off most of the court's national debt.

But to achieve all the goals, it is necessary to interrupt Britain's conquest of India!