However, of the 700,000 taels of dividends, only 100,000 taels belonged to Mr. Zhao. Moreover, the debt of Jiangnan Group was even more in the tens of millions of taels, so it was impossible to give him a dividend this year.

But Master Zhao was still as happy as a child for the 100,000 taels on the account, and he sat up and cheered.

This is not just an ordinary 100,000 taels, this is a glorious and great 100,000 taels!

Because behind it there are water conservancy projects stretching for hundreds of miles and 600,000 acres of fertile farmland.

It has boosted the county's economic development and benefited hundreds of thousands of households. Next year, the entire Kunshan County will be greatly changed!

It also eloquently proved to the gentry and landlords that they were not as good as the Jiangnan Group in farming. Handing over the land to the Jiangnan Group would save them trouble and ensure a stable harvest regardless of drought or flood. What was there to hesitate about?

So this money is the most meaningful 100,000 taels that Mr. Zhao has ever earned! He finally determined that the land finance he borrowed from later generations would work! He could promote it and lead the leapfrog development of Jiangnan!

~~

Qiaoqiao was looking down at him in a daze, and Zhao Hao suddenly stood up, and their faces touched.

But this is not the point. The point is that the four lips are pressed tightly together.

Sister Qiaoqiao's eyes suddenly widened, as if she was frightened.

Secretary Ma's pupils also shrank, and he was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth.

She couldn't believe what she saw. This couldn't be real. I had already reserved the young master's first kiss...

It was taken away just like that. The one I thought was the least threatening...

Zhao Hao's heart skipped a beat. It seemed like he had never kissed a girl in his previous life. Although it hurt.

Qiaoqiao was stunned. She even forgot to breathe and just stood there motionless.

With a bang, the folder in Sister Ma's hand fell to the ground and hit Qiaoqiao's feet.

Qiaoqiao finally woke up from her dream and quickly pushed Zhao Hao away.

However, Master Zhao decided to go for broke. He raised his hand to lift Sister Ma's chin and stared at her with wide eyes, as if he was gathering strength for a big move.

Ma Xianglan became flustered by the young master's burning gaze. No matter how rich the theory is, it cannot replace practice.

"I'd better avoid it." Sister Ma turned her head away in a hurry, wanting to escape. She thought to herself that she had to at least keep her first kiss. Even if it wasn't "a date after dusk, with the moon on the willow branches", she had to "lean on the embroidered bed, chew the red fur, and spit on her lover with a smile".

But Zhao Hao pinched her pointed chin and turned her head away, then kissed her cherry lips like lightning.

"This way you won't be able to laugh at us!" Master Zhao then laughed and left the cabin.

Now it was Sister Ma's turn to be stunned. How could the young master be so skilled? The bloodline of the old Zhao family had awakened. Did he learn it on his own?

Until Zhao Hao left, Qiaoqiao covered her burning face blankly, and after a long while she shyly muttered, "Why is he crazy?"

Secretary Ma saw how embarrassed she was and felt that she should also blush, so she also said shyly: "Who knows, I was implicated by you..."

She was very depressed. What does "this way you can't laugh at us" mean?

Shit! My first kiss was thrown away so carelessly for such a ridiculous reason...

Sister Ma felt upset and wanted to cry, but also felt happy and wanted to laugh.

I don't think I need to calculate it so clearly...

~~

Zhao Hao fled out of the cabin and came to the poop deck, his heart still beating fast. He didn't know why he reacted like this, he was just a pervert.

"This is not the real me. I am still young and must be pure and abstain from desires, otherwise I will be unbridled..." Young Master Zhao muttered to himself in the sea breeze, calming his restless heart. "Yes, it must be a hereditary inheritance from the old Zhao family. I must control myself, control myself."

"Young Master, what do you want to restrain?" A voice sounded behind him, scaring Zhao Hao.

But when Mr. Zhao turned around, he had already regained his usual calm demeanor. In the past two years, he had perfected his skills in keeping a straight face.

"It's windy here, why did Mr. Kaiyang come up?" he asked with concern.

Zheng Ruozeng came to Zhao Hao with the help of his son. Zheng Yinglong saw the rouge on Mr. Zhao's lips and was about to smile and remind him, but his father grabbed his hand and he quickly stopped talking.

"It's okay. I'm just feeling a bit agitated and it's a good opportunity to get some fresh air." Zheng Ruozeng smiled and shook his head.

"Oh, Mr. Kaiyang also kissed..." Zhao Hao almost let it slip, but he quickly stopped himself and said, "I wonder what you think since you experienced Jeju Island?"

Oh, that was a close call.

So, a man can only supply blood to one side. If you want to do great things, it is better to be pure-hearted and free from desires.

"I have a lot of feelings." Zheng Ruozeng smiled and nodded, looking at the Hallasan Mountain with layers of forests and said, "Temra Island is really a good place. In the autumn of the 35th year of Jiajing, I was ordered by Lord Meilin to take a Dafu ship to investigate the coastal defense against the Japanese and visited this island."

"At that time, I thought, this place is great, it controls the gateway to Japan. If we set up a navy here, the Japanese pirates will not dare to go out to sea. The Creator specially set up this danger to block the invasion of the Japanese pirates and protect the thousands of miles of coast of our Ming Dynasty." As he said this, he tapped the railing and sighed:

"That time, I had already negotiated with the governor of Jeju at that time to borrow Chengshan as a berth for the Celestial Empire's navy to defend against the Japanese pirates in Hizen and Nagato. However, after returning to the country and reporting to Lord Meilin, the matter was left unresolved. Alas..." Zheng Ruozeng sighed regretfully.

"At that time, our Ming Dynasty was defeated in land battles but won in naval battles. The gentlemen in the southeast all knew that the Japanese pirates were not used to naval battles. The best strategy to resist the Japanese pirates has always been to resist them at sea, but few people can resist them at sea. Why is that? No civil officials go to sea, so the generals are afraid of the tides and are unwilling to go out to sea; the generals are unwilling to go out to sea, and they ask the officers and sailors to do it, but they also stay near the harbor and are unwilling to patrol far away. Therefore, the pirates do not come. If they come, they will land and destroy the place. The land generals will be severely punished, and the naval generals will watch."

He looked at Zhao Hao with a complicated expression and said, "At first, they all said that my idea was just a scholar's idea and a fantasy. I didn't expect that fourteen years later, this thing would be realized in your hands."

"I also read Mr. Kaiyang's "Chou Hai Tu Bian" and followed the prescription." Zhao Hao looked at him frankly and said, "Otherwise, how could I, a little kid, know so many things about overseas?"

"Oh haha, then this old man can be said to have tried hard to plant flowers but they didn't bloom, but accidentally planted willows and they grew into a shade." Zheng Ruozeng smiled with great enjoyment, and the wrinkles on his face seemed to be smoothed out a lot.

"Yes." Although what Mr. Zhao said was not entirely true, his admiration for Zheng Ruozeng was genuine.

The "Chou Hai Tu Bian" compiled by this old gentleman not only declares that "Diaoyu Island belongs to China", but also has a detailed discussion of the coastal geography, coastal defense strategy, weapons and facilities of the Ming Dynasty. The most distinctive feature is that it clearly puts forward the concept of "controlling the ocean".

Zheng Ruozeng believed that coastal defense must be prevented at sea, and advocated "detecting pirates in the distant ocean and attacking pirates in the near sea." That is, to set up water forts on the distant islands, establish a navy in the near sea, and use the advantage of the Ming navy being stronger than Japan to impose a blockade on Japan. The Japanese pirates could not leave, and the Ming Dynasty naturally had no Japanese threat.

It was not until the 19th century that the American Mahan put forward a similar view that "whoever controls the ocean can control the land"...

~~

Hearing Zhao Hao's praise, Zheng Ruozeng was happy, but he was very modest and said: "I am still a little conservative. You should read the book by Wu Zihua from Fujian. It will definitely open your eyes. That's what ambition is."

"Is it 'The Chronicle of the Dragon's Flying' and 'The Equation of Crossing the Sea'?" Young Master Zhao asked with a smile.

"So you have read his book." Zheng Ruozeng was slightly surprised, then smiled and said, "That's right, your erudition is unmatched in ancient and modern times, how could you not have read his book?"

In fact, there are many books that Zhao Hao has not read, but Wu Pu's book is so famous and important that it can even be said to be the foundation book of his future naval school!

So Mr. Zhao not only read it, but also recommended it to Jinke, Wang Rulong and others for study.

Stimulated by the Japanese pirates from the east, the Ming Dynasty in the Jiajing period really started a wave of research on naval warfare and navigation. Scholars wrote books and promoted their own views on coastal defense. Among them, Wu Pu, a scholar from Fujian, was considered their ancestor, but no one, including Zheng Ruozeng, could reach his strategic height!

Wu Pu was from Zhangzhou, and his home was near Yuegang. Fujian was a land of mountains and few fields, and in order to make a living, people in Fujian had been going out to sea one after another since the Song Dynasty, either building ships and going to sea, or doing business in their native land, or seducing bandits, or helping foreign ships. Wu Pu, a commoner, mixed in with them, and "knew everything about astronomy and geography, ancient and modern events, the mountains and rivers of the four barbarians, and the distance and danger of the roads, all of which were in his mind."

His early work, Longfei Jilue, recorded in detail the local products and customs of the countries in Southeast Asia and the West, and advocated lifting the ban on sea trade! After the publication of the book, Wu Pu was thrown into prison for making false statements about the ban on sea trade.

While in prison, he wrote the immortal "Equations for Crossing the Sea" in anger! This book is a complete compilation of Zheng He's compass routes for sailing to the West and many private ocean route books, which can provide accurate compass routes and sea charts for sailors. To this day, Fujian and Guangdong sea merchants have half a copy.

The reason why it is half a book is that the whole book is divided into two parts, the "scripture" and the "illustration". In order to save money, the sea merchants abandoned the first half and only printed the "illustration" in woodblocks, which is the "Sea Road Needle Classic". The sea masters are uneducated and misrepresented it as the "Pirate's True Scripture" and regarded it as the number one magic weapon for ocean voyages.

But the merchants, pirates and sea masters did not know that the "scripture" they had discarded was actually the true scripture that embodied Wu Sheng's most brilliant thoughts!

In the "Establishing Strategies", Wu Pu not only asked the court to open up the private maritime industry, but also clearly stated that he hoped that the Ming Dynasty would establish a fleet to cruise the vast seas from the Yalu River in the northeast to the Persian Gulf in the southwest, just like Zheng He's voyages a hundred years ago! He also hoped that the Portuguese and Ottoman forces would be driven out of the Ming Dynasty!

Following the example of Zheng He's establishment of the Jiugang Xuanwei Office, several protectorates and maritime customs offices were set up at several key nodes in this vast sea area to carry out management and trade.

He also said that if the imperial court was temporarily unable to look south, it could legalize civilian maritime forces and use them to drive away the increasingly arrogant Portuguese.

ps. Mr. Zhao is growing up, please give me your monthly votes!

ps2.404 The beast is too scary, and Young Master Zhao is largely forced to be pure...