Cannon Fodder Is King

Arc 3.30

"Is there a big boom here?"

Ta Lu, the eldest son of the Southern Kingdom of Ryukyu Mountain, looked forward and spoke fluent Central Plains Mandarin, na Na said.

Ships, there are ships everywhere, hundreds of ships, thousands of ships, entering the port, leaving the port, magnificent, mighty, unclear number, can't come through.

There is also the towering fort in the distance, towering into the clouds, stretching endlessly, and there is no reason why people raise a sense of awe.

"What's this?" Hou Li's official from Hongyu Temple said proudly: "The three major ports in the south are much larger than here. I heard that there are no fewer than 3,000 foreign merchant ships entering the port every day."

This is the truth.

In the fifteen years since Ningwu, after the imperial court opened up sea trade, life was like a dream, one day after the other.

He was still young, but he still vaguely remembered the scene when the imperial decree was issued. Like chicken blood, waved the bank notes and swarmed into the household.

The old lucky ship of five thousand taels of silver, and the new lucky ship of eight thousand taels of silver, it is said that eight thousand ships were sold that month.

Foreigners' money is really good, and the vain money goes into the purses of the merchants like flowing water.

It is this tax payment that is painful to people, and it's three out of ten.

In this way, the merchants rushed to the sea, and the farmers flooded into the factories.

Who would have thought that in just over two decades, the land tax and Ding Shui that the peasants were almost out of breath would be gone. In order to retain the farmers who planted the land, the imperial court initiated subsidies to the farmers, one penny per dime per year.

Then, in order to build ships, all the large trees that could be used as keels in China were cut down, and the shipyard began to buy wood from the West (referring to Southeast Asia and Europe in general).

There are so many woods on the western side, big and thick, such as camphor wood, beech wood, red sandalwood, golden nanmu, huanghuali...ships and ships to the country.

When the Forbidden City was renovated, all the wood used was shipped back from the West. I heard that the sixty huge pillars in the Palace of Emperors are made of whole golden nanmu, so thick that two people can barely hold them together.

Then, the pirates came, robbed a few caravans, and killed thousands of people. The news came out, and the ruling and the opposition shook. In order to ensure the safety of merchant ships, the emperor sent navy officers to destroy the pirates, not to mention, but also in one breath near the western sea routes, or occupying no man’s land, or spending huge sums of money to purchase land from neighboring countries, and build more than ten military ports. To ensure the safety of ships passing by.

Just thinking about it, it was their turn to enter the port.

Stepping onto the flat ground, the Honghe Temple officials couldn't stop their mouths.

"This is a concrete road, and the sidewalk next to it is paved with red bricks. These are all good things developed by the Firearms Bureau. They are cheap and durable. I use them to build houses..."

Looking at the spacious driveway in front of him, Lu Mu couldn't help but exclaimed. He said, "I heard that Dayang's official roads are all paved concrete roads?"

"More than that, the court is now organizing manpower to build roads again. I heard that it is going to pave cement roads in every village."

As they were talking, a team of carriages appeared right in front of them, and from time to time someone walked over, took out a handful of money and gave it to the coachman, and then got into the carriage.