Fortunate enough to transmigrate, and born into a landlord's family, I will never lack food or clothing in this life, yet I don't want to just drift along. So, Fu Xiaoguan casually did a fe...
Count Pizarro felt like vomiting blood.
He was extremely surprised that the Eastern emperor could speak English.
But the young emperor asked him to hand over the nautical chart!
How can this be?
That was something I had to work so hard to draw, and it was something I had to have back in Frankie!
But this young emperor seemed unreasonable, he wanted to take it by force - all along the way, I have been taking things by force from others, by the way, you are a prisoner now.
Count Pizarro was very depressed. As a prisoner, according to their Frankish rules, he became someone else's slave. This Majesty was his master unless he could escape.
How can I escape from this?
What can he do now?
Fu Xiaoguan didn't want to waste any more time talking to this guy. He suddenly glared at him, put his hand on the tea table, and used his Qi to move his Dantian. Pizarro was so scared that he took three steps back.
With a "crack", the exquisite tea table broke into two pieces in the hands of the young master.
Fu Xiaoguan started chattering again, and Pizarro's black face turned pale.
Zhuo and his group of four saw cold sweat on Pizarro's forehead - Fu Xiaoguan was full of murderous intent, and his aura was locked on Pizarro. He took out a small gun and pointed the muzzle at the foreigner. Pizarro felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.
Is this the majesty of the Eastern Emperor?!
This was a cold murderous aura that made it impossible for him to muster up the will to resist!
He had no doubt that the Eastern Emperor would really shoot him to death!
Pizarro fell to his knees with a thud. He was careless and thought that by destroying the Ryukyu Kingdom, he could destroy the entire Eastern world. Now he knows what power is!
This country called Daxia must be the most powerful country on this continent!
Even Frankie, who is invincible at sea, is like an ant in front of this country.
Pizarro gave up the idea of escaping. At this critical moment, he decisively chose to surrender.
The coldness on Fu Xiaoguan's face gradually faded, and he started chattering again. Zhuo and his group saw the foreigner raised his head and wiped the sweat off his face, and also chattered something with gestures.
Then Fu Xiaoguan pointed at Bai Yulian and said something to the foreigner. The foreigner nodded frequently, as if agreeing with His Majesty.
Fu Xiaoguan laughed. He put away his gun and walked over. He patted Pizarro on the shoulder affectionately and then said to Bai Yulian, "Take him to the treasury. There's a nautical chart in the compartment of one of the boxes. Ask him to find it and bring it back to me."
Bai Yulian listened for a long time in confusion before she realized that His Majesty had achieved his goal.
"This guy's called Pizarro. Treat him well. He'll be of great use to us in many places... Oh, and let him stay in the guest room of the Honglu Temple. As for the rest of the captives, find a Hope Primary School with few people in it and have the guards look after them. Then send them all there so they can learn the language of Daxia."
Bai Yulian took Pizarro away, and Zhuo and his companions sat down in confusion - the coffee table was broken, and they had to ask the Ministry of Works to make a new one.
"Your Majesty... you, you can speak that foreign language?"
Zhuo Yixing asked this question very carefully because his Majesty was so mysterious.
"Ah, I understand a little bit."
Fu Xiaoguan chuckled, "This foreigner has traveled all the way from the European continent to a coastal country called France. This country is quite powerful, especially good at naval warfare. However, it seems that they are no match for us. They haven't entered the first industrial revolution yet, but I think it will be soon..."
Fu Xiaoguan did not tell Zhuo and his party about Frankie's situation in detail, nor did he ask for details, but since Pizarro was able to travel thousands of miles across the ocean to come here, it was estimated that the first industrial revolution in the West was about to begin.
What Daxia needs to do now is to climb the technology tree and must not fall behind the West in technology.
"Master Meng, please ask the Minister of Works, Wei Chang, to come over later. I have two important tasks for him... The other is to wait until this batch of treasures is registered and stored in the warehouse, keep the gold and silver, and sell the rest. The silver obtained from this..."
Alas, Fu Xiaoguan sighed. Logically, all the money earned should be spent on the construction of the navy, including the establishment of a giant shipyard, a ship research institute, and the three major naval fleets.
But the situation cannot be like this now. When Daxia was first established, the former Yi country was extremely poor. The provincial governors of Jingdong and Hebei provinces submitted memorials saying that everything needed to be rebuilt. It was indeed a waste of work.
The key to this waiting is the word "wait".
With financial support, we can prosper. Without financial support, I'm afraid we can only hang on to the lives of the common people!
Yan Hanyu had been in charge of Yi State for two or three years, and he had completely ruined the foundation of Yi State. Most of the big merchants in the four regions had fled, and the only ones left were the small vendors who could not escape and the farmers who were confined to the fields.
"Of the money we earned, one hundred million was used to support infrastructure construction in the two provinces of Jingdong and Hebei, solving the farmers' income problems."
"The two prefectures of Jingxi and Huainan have allocated a total of 100 million yuan to address the drought. The Ministry of Chancellery should pay attention. This kind of drought is very likely to lead to a locust plague. Local officials must pay close attention!"
"Of the remaining 100 million, leave me at least 50 million taels. As you can see, the enemy could appear from the sea at any moment. Although we won this time, we lost three warships, and another three will need major repairs."
"We can't afford to be careless about this. The Jiangcheng Shipyard is no longer able to adapt to the development of the navy. We must build a new dock."
This time, none of the three chancellors objected. Nangong Yiyu even glanced at Liu Jin and asked, "How about...letting Eunuch Liu go out to sea and rob again?"
When Liu Jin heard this, his eyes lit up - although he had snatched back a boatload of treasures, compared with Bai Yulian... it was simply not worth mentioning, okay?
As he looked forward to it, he saw the emperor shook his head and said, "We have to wait until next year. We don't have enough warships now."
"The current situation is that we need to stabilize and develop internally first. Externally... externally, we don't have the conditions for large-scale overseas expansion yet."
"No agricultural, commercial, or technological advancement can be left behind. There are only two and a half years left in the first five-year plan, and it's about to be restarted nationwide. The rest of the provinces must keep up with the pace of the Yuanwu Dynasty, so the three of you must pay close attention to the development of the other provinces."
"Fan Tianning sent me a letter. It seems that the people in Dali and Yueshan haven't shown much resistance. These four regions have been least affected by the war, but their infrastructure is too backward."
"I've already asked Yun Xiyan to tour these four roads to see the business potential."
"Also, I have to tell you that I have pardoned the death sentences of Chen, Lu, and Zhou, and have allowed them to resume their old businesses. Of course, those businesses are now state-owned, and they will manage them on my behalf, earning 20% of the profits."
"Okay, that's it. I might have to go out in a few days."
Zhuo Yixing was stunned: "Parade?"
"No, go and take down Xiaye."