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When Li Chuan arrived at the palace, Zheng Ming was giving a lecture.

Mathematical classes are given to the officials of the county government and the teachings of the literary academy, which are still elementary school mathematics.

Teaching mathematics to such a group of old antiques almost didn't make Zheng Ming angry, each of them seemed to be elm knots, but they were not enlightened.

As one of the six arts of Confucianism, it is not that there are no scholars who are proficient in mathematics, but there are no such talents in Shanhai County.

The entire Shanhai County can't pick out a single mathematician with elementary school level, let alone equations, many people can't understand even the slightly more complicated addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

"Lu Cheng, what are you doing? You dare to doze off when this king lectures!"

Zheng Ming pointed at a middle-aged man and cursed angrily.

Lu Cheng is the son of Lu Shou. He is over 40 years old this year and works as a civil servant in the household of the county government.

This guy is a second-generation official, but he has an elm head.

"His Royal Highness, you know your fault." Lu Cheng stood up and said aggrievedly.

Zheng Ming took a deep breath and suppressed the irritability in his heart.

"Okay, let's go here today, go back and review it yourself."

He feels that teaching these people is not as good as teaching seven or eight-year-old children, at least the children's thinking is not solidified.

But he can't really go to the academy as a substitute.

"His Royal Highness, do you think I did the right thing?" Song Baobao came to Zheng Ming with his pamphlet.

Zheng Ming looked at the delicate notes above, and his mood suddenly improved a lot.

It's not that there is something wrong with his teaching, it's that these students are too stupid.

"Yes, yes, yes, the baby is indeed the smartest."

In order to prove that his teaching was okay, he praised him unabashedly.

Immediately, all the old masters next to him blush, and there is no face left here.

"Meet Your Highness!" Li Chuan came to Zheng Ming.

Zheng Ming's eyes brightened, and he said, "I'm back! Let's go and tell me what the Dongying Dynasty was like."

Saying that, he brought Li Chuan to the study.

"What's the gain this time?" Zheng Ming asked.

Li Chuan sorted out his thoughts and said, "Return to Your Highness, this time the two merchant ships made a total profit of 3000 taels apart from refined salt. Besides, according to His Highness, the villain divided the refined salt into dozens of shares and gave it to Wealthy families and big merchants on Shiro Island."

"Before the villain returned, he had already received an order for [-] dans, each priced at [-] taels of silver."

The Dongying Dynasty consists of four major islands and many small islands, namely Beiguo Island, Siyu Island, Yinshen Island, and Jiuling Island. This time, Lichuan only went to Siyu Island.

The first time he went to the Eastern Empire Dynasty, Zheng Ming didn't care about how much money he made, what he cared about was whether he could open the market of the Eastern Empire Dynasty.

Refined salt is a stepping stone, and now it seems that this stepping stone is very good.

Even if the price is ten times higher than that of ordinary salt, it still receives a lot of orders.

"How is the situation in the Dongying Dynasty?" Zheng Ming asked again.

"It's chaotic!" Li Chuan frowned and said, "Although the Dongying Dynasty respected the emperor, it was dominated by big names everywhere, but there were more than ten big names in Siyu Island, and they attacked each other. long-term scuffle."

"The way of cultivation is mainly based on Martial Dao and Yin-Yang Dao. They have no sect power, but exist in the form of cultivation families. Behind each big name is the support of cultivation families."

"The villain also specifically inquired about the situation of the Inoue family. It is said that 20 years ago, the Inoue family was a supporter of the Matsudaira daimyo. At that time, the Matsudaira daimyo was the strongest daimyo in Shimijima. The daimyo was killed, and the Inoue family left Shimijima and came to the Fallen Feather Islands."

"There are still branches of the Inoue family on Siyu Island. They took refuge in Uesugi Daimyo."

After Zheng Ming heard this, he laughed.

"interesting."

"I'm not afraid of him being chaotic, but I'm afraid that he will not be chaotic."

"Is this the opportunity before us?"

The chaos of the Eastern Ying Dynasty was only good for Zheng Ming and not bad.

In the current situation of Shanhai County, it is almost difficult to expand outward.

Needless to say, on the Dali Dynasty side, Zheng Ming is not qualified to leave Shanhai County.

As for the Great Jin Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty, Zheng Ming was not able to intervene.

Only the chaotic Dongying Dynasty is an opportunity for Shanhai County.

Of course, Zheng Ming didn't want to conquer the Dongying Dynasty. He didn't have the strength now. What he really wanted to do was to fish in troubled waters.

"You go to the Siyu Island a few more times to find out the situation and make an assessment of each daimyo's strength, character, potential, etc." Zheng Ming ordered.

"Little man obeys." Li Chuan replied.

Next, Zheng Ming recruited Yuhuatian again and asked the Auditor to prepare to expand to Siyu Island.

Intelligence is the most important part at any time. Knowing yourself and the enemy is the only way to be victorious in every battle.

Only when all the information is in hand can all kinds of tricks be exerted.

Zheng Ming wanted to reach out to the Eastern Ying Dynasty, and the Inspection Yuan was his vanguard.

After everything was arranged, Zheng Ming recruited Wan Luoshan to Shanhai County.

Now that the situation in Luoyu Archipelago has stabilized, Yihetang has all the islands in its hands, and the remaining small pirate forces are either captured or destroyed.

At the same time, Yihetang is expanding with the support of Zheng Ming, and the strength of his subordinates is getting stronger and stronger.

But these are not enough, what Zheng Ming needs is a fleet that can travel far and wide.

Plan before it rains.

With the opening of the sea route, Shanhai County will not only conduct business with the three surrounding dynasties, but also go further.

The Qiandao Alliance in the southeast, the wild tribes in the north, the shaman tribes in the south, the legendary Shangyu land, etc., as long as they can pass through the seas where the boats go to the end, he doesn't want to let them go.

Compared with the surrounding area of ​​Dali, the vast sea area is more attractive. Zheng Ming hopes that one day he can go around the world to see if the world is round like the earth.

Chapter 60 Merchant ship hijacked

in the library.

Wan Luoshan stood in front of Zheng Ming respectfully.

"This king intends to divide the fleet into two parts, one part is the offshore fleet, which is mainly responsible for the maritime trade around the Luoyu Islands, including escort and looting, under the control of your Yihetang."

"The second part is the voyage fleet. How far Shanhai County can go in the future depends on how strong this fleet is."

Zheng Ming handed Wan Luoshan the system and personnel arrangement of the two fleets.

After Wan Luoshan watched it, his mind moved.

"The subordinates must fully support the construction of the voyage fleet."

From Zheng Ming's planning, he can see that Zheng Ming attaches great importance to the voyage fleet.

At the same time, he also knew that Zheng Ming wanted to divide the power of Yihetang.

Now Yihetang's fleet has reached more than 4000 people, and it is still recruiting, and it is expected to recruit 7000 to [-] people.

Such a huge fleet has surpassed the army of Shanhai County.

In the personnel arrangement of the voyage fleet, it is full of balance.

The Audit Office, the battalions in the army, Yihetang, Beixuanzong, etc., people from all sides made interspersed arrangements to avoid certain people from forming a group.

The expedition fleet, in particular, is directly under the commander of Gao Shun in name. The captains of the three fleets established below are Qian Yushan, Wu Hao, a disciple of Huang Yu of the Northern Xuanzong, and Muyang, who has just joined Shanhai County. Third-rank warriors, and there is almost no relationship between them.

In addition to this, checks and balances have been placed in key positions in the fleet.

'It is worthy of being a royal family, and it shows the way the emperor uses people. '

Wan Luoshan thought silently in his heart.

He didn't have anything he didn't want. The fact that Yihetang was too strong was not a good thing for him, the hall master.

In case Zheng Ming felt that he was a threat one day and clicked him, he would not even have a reason to reason.

So he didn't mind Zheng Ming's power to divide Yihetang.

Zheng Ming nodded slightly and reassured: "Don't feel wronged, no matter what in the future, Yihetang will be part of this king's command, and you must be the chief officer of the offshore fleet."

This is his promise, and it is also his affirmation to Wan Luoshan.

"Your Highness Xie is very important." Wan Luoshan breathed a sigh of relief.

With Zheng Ming's words, he can be considered at ease.

To be honest, he was very uneasy recently, for fear that Zheng Mingqiu would settle accounts and cross the river and demolish the bridge.

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Above the sea, the situation is unpredictable.

After the fleet that went to the Dongying Dynasty returned, the fleet that went to the Great Zhou Dynasty also returned within a few days.

However, compared to the former, the fleet heading to the Great Zhou Dynasty was much more embarrassing.

Not only did they encounter storms, but they were also attacked by pirates.

There were more than 100 people when they left, but there were less than 80 people left when they came back. Even Zhao Nanguo, the leader of the team, was seriously injured.

Zhao Nanguo is Huang Yu's fourth disciple. He is in his 40s, has a third-rank cultivation, is familiar with maritime affairs, and has a stable temperament. However, even if he led the fleet to sail, he suffered such a blow. This made Zheng Ming deeply understand the nature of the sea. impermanence.

In the palace study.

Zhao Nanguo hung his right arm with gauze wrapped around his chest, and stood in front of Zheng Ming with a face full of shame.

"My subordinates are ashamed for not completing His Highness's mission." He said with a gloomy expression.

This was the first mission he received when he joined Zheng Ming's subordinates, but not only did he not complete it, but he also lost his troops.

Zheng Ming stood up, walked in front of him, and comforted: "It's not your fault. There are many dangers in the sea, natural and man-made disasters continue, and no one knows what will happen."

"It's good that you can bring back the boat and most of the people."

However, his comfort not only did not make Zhao Nanguo feel at ease, but instead became panic.

"Please, Your Highness, give this subordinate another chance."

This failure not only represented his personal failure, but also the failure of Northern Xuanzong.

Don't think that Bei Xuanzong will be safe if he joins Zheng Ming's command. In fact, Bei Xuanzong still has many competitors.

One of the biggest threats is Yihetang.

Now everyone in Yihetang is jealous of the Northern Xuanzong, thinking that they are just lucky, and they took refuge in Zheng Ming ahead of time before they obtained the order of the sect.

The people of Yihetang are eager to let Beixuanzong fail, so as to replace Beixuanzong and become the new sect of Shanhai County.

Before Zhao Nanguo came to Shanhai County, Huang Yu told him to do his best, and the first mission was like this.

The key is that Li Chuan completed the task. Comparing the two, doesn't it mean that their Northern Xuanzong is really inferior to Yihetang.

Zheng Ming smiled and said, "You should take care of your injury first, and then set off after half a month, or go to the Great Zhou Dynasty."

"Thank you, Your Highness, this subordinate will never fail again!"

Zhao Nanguo was overjoyed when he heard the words.

"Go, go, have a good rest, and heal up."

After Zhao Nanguo left, Zheng Ming's face became gloomy.

It is not Zhao Nanguo's fault that the fleet encountered a storm. After all, without the observation of weather satellites, no one can accurately predict the weather changes.

However, when encountering pirates, there are some things that can't be said.

Yihetang came from a pirate background, but was robbed by pirates, this is a bit too much.

"Do you know the origins of those pirates?" Zheng Ming asked Yu Huatian next to him.

Yu Huatian said a little nervously: "I don't know."

Zheng Ming glared at him fiercely and said, "If you don't know, go check it out."