Jiang Bin and a few brothers who share life and death are eating roasted sweet potatoes while looking forward to a better life after entering Beijing. Zhou Chong, who is far away in Songjiang Prefecture, is also eating roasted sweet potatoes with others, but he, as the governor, is not as good as Jiang Bin.

Such a small commander, at least he was still surrounded by the stove in the room, eating sweet potatoes warmly, and drinking tea when he was thirsty, but he could only raise a fire in the wilderness and roast the fire while cooking.

While gnawing on sweet potatoes in the cold wind.

This is a wasteland along the east coast of Songjiang Prefecture. Zhou Chong, Wang Shouren and Jiao Fang surrounded a large fire. There were many people around him holding bamboo poles to measure it, as if they were surveying something.

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A few months ago, Zhou Chong, who received the order of Zhengde, finally moved the capital of the Sihai Governor's Office from Shuangyu Port to Songjiang. As soon as this news came out, both Shuangyu Port and Songjiang Prefecture caused a huge sensation, among which Songjiang

The whole mansion is very excited because they all know that the Governor's Office in the Four Seas is in charge of maritime trade. If the capital is moved here, it will definitely drive the local economy. The rich can use this to expand their wealth in their families, and the poor will make more living.

The road is so popular with this matter.

Shuangyu Port has caused many people's concerns. After all, Shuangyu Port was originally small in area. It was previously built by smuggling, and then with the support of the Governor's Office, it could develop into a large harbor of hundreds of thousands of people.

, If the Governor's Office is now moved to Songjiang, it will definitely have a huge impact on the maritime trade at Shuangyu Port. Therefore, after receiving this news, many people immediately ran to Songjiang as quickly as possible, and then bought land to buy industries.

The migration gate was agreed upon a long time ago, and it is related to the future development of the Governor's Office. Zhou Chong and others have also expected some of the consequences that may be brought about after the migration. Therefore, they will not consider the consequences of some people.

Changes were made due to interests, and in order to show his determination to move, Zhou Chong took the lead in moving the Governor's Office from Shuangyu Port to Songjiang Prefecture. Before the construction of the new Governor's Office had begun, he temporarily used the Zhou family's old house as the Governor's Office.

When I work, I squeezed a little, but I can just put it in.

After the Governor's Office moved to Songjiang Prefecture, the local prefect also actively cooperated. Xu Shenzhong's father had been transferred to the capital. The current prefect is named Yu Ji, who has the same name as a charlatan in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. He is a middle-aged man in his forties.

He was white and fat, very smooth, and he was very flattering to Zhou Chong, his new boss, and even wanted to give up the prefect's office to Zhou Chong, but Zhou Chong refused.

After moving to the Governor's Office, Wang Shouren and Jiao Fang and other subordinate yamen also began to move to Songjiang. The new yamen has not been built yet, so they can only rent a private house like Zhou Chong's Governor's Office. They temporarily rent a private house to live in and work, although Songjiang Mansion

It's not big, but there are still many empty houses, especially in order to curry favor with various yamen, some people are rushing to give up their houses, so subordinate yamen like the Censorate were quickly settled.

After Wang Shouren arranged the affairs of the Censorate Office, he immediately began to plan the Naval Academy with Zhou Chong. Speaking of which, the Navy was not valued by the court, and most of his attention was attracted by the Beijing Army Academy, so the Navy Academy was

The resistance was extremely small, and the teachers and students were almost ready, so they were waiting to build the military academy and start classes.

Today, Zhou Zhong had a whim and came to the construction site of the military academy with Wang Shouren and Jiao Fang. This is a hilly area on the east side of Songjiang Prefecture. The entire military academy is built on a hill near the sea. The military academy is built on the other side near the sea.

The main body, the school buildings, canteens, dormitories and so on, have almost been built. Some school buildings that were built earlier have already started teaching in the school, but the training ground in the back mountain has not yet started. Zhou Chong and the other two have today

It is to supervise the test of the training ground.

Speaking of the training grounds of the military academy, it is not just the training grounds in ordinary military camps of the Ming Dynasty, but also a collective name for various terrain, firearm tests, fixed ship platforms and other sites. The scale of construction needs is not as large as that of Qianshan.

The school building is small and even costs more money. After all, students in military academy will not just sit in the classroom to study. Most of the time, they need to transform the learned knowledge into practical skills on the training ground. Only in this way can they become

Qualified military academy students.

It is now the winter of the ninth year of Zhengde. Although this year's winter is not as cold as the seventh year of Zhengde, it comes very early and the temperature drops very quickly, at least it is much colder than usual winter, such as Zhou Chong and others

Three craftsmen were supervising the measurement of the training grounds in the back mountain for a while. In a short while, they were blown by the mountain wind here and their whole bodies were chilling. The old Jiao Fang felt even more unbearable and her nose was flowing.

Come out.

Zhou Chong himself couldn't stand it. The winter in Songjiang is cold and humid. The light wind makes people feel like they are soaked in ice water. Not to mention northerners like Jiao Fang, even Zhou Chong is in Songjiang like this.

Even those who grow up can't stand it.

So in this case, Zhou Chong took Jiao Fang to find a place to go against the lee, and asked the guards to cut down some dry branches to raise the fire, and then found some sweet potatoes from the canteen where the craftsmen were cooking. After the fire started to burn.

, divide the half-burned black ash into a pile, and then put the sweet potatoes inside and buried them.

After the roasting and hot, the sweet potatoes inside were almost stewed. Just as they were about to eat, Wang Shouren also came to him as he smelled the smell. At that time, the three senior officials from the Governor's Office chatted while chopping the sweet potatoes from the ashes.

Come out and uncover the outer skin that has been burnt black, revealing the tender flesh like topaz inside. A sweet smell makes people's appetite wide. No one is polite at the moment. I bury my head and eat it. After a while,

The three of them had black and gray on their hands and faces, and there was no such thing as an official.

"Sir, the sweet potato you presented to the court is really great. Not only is the yield high, but it can be eaten raw and cooked. I heard that the farmers in the Ming Dynasty are growing this thing now, and even the border troops have used sweet potatoes as a

Military rations, and our northern regions have achieved self-sufficiency in food and are no longer so dependent on food in the south. In this way, freight alone can save a lot, let alone other manpower and material resources."

Wang Shouren was eating roasted sweet potatoes, and his mouth was covered with black and gray smile.

"Hahaha~, so we cannot just focus on our country, but look outward. Look at sweet potatoes, corn and peppers, these are all produced in the mainland thousands of miles away, and there are not only these ones there.

The sample crops are also rich in gold and silver. Why did the Portuguese agree to compensate us for two million taels of silver at once? It is mainly because the new continent discovered by Europeans are rich in silver and gold, which makes European silver not very valuable, and there is also the South China Ocean.

The copper and gold, and the silver produced by Japan are also abundant. These are all urgently needed by the Ming Dynasty. We only need a strong navy. These overseas resources are available for us to obtain. Military academy is the first step for the Ming Dynasty to move towards the sea!

"Zhou Chong also laughed after hearing this. His words did not conform to the mainstream values ​​of the Ming Dynasty. In the eyes of some scholars, they were undoubtedly robbers.

Hearing Zhou Chong's description of overseas, Jiao Fang also laughed and said, "Not bad, I have lived all my life, and my eyes are limited to the Ming Dynasty. But it was not until I came to the Governor's Mansion that I realized that our world is very big.

, overseas products are even more abundant than those in the Ming Dynasty. If we don’t take them, we will be cheaper sooner or later, so we must not be polite in the Ming Dynasty!”

Jiao Fang has lived so old that she has seen through the worldly affairs and has no pedanticism in ordinary scholars. He also supports Zhou Chong's theory of robbers. Even in his opinion, as long as he can make the people of the Ming Dynasty live.

It is normal to have a good life even if you steal all overseas.

Wang Shouren is not only a Confucian master, but also a philosopher. When he first heard Zhou Chong's theory of robbers, he thought of himself as he saw the riots of the natives in Nanyang and the dislike of the local Han people towards those natives. The Ming Dynasty is now

The population has been overloaded. If you want to make the extra people live, you can only start to expand outward. During this expansion process, you will definitely fight with the outside world. As for the overseas resources mentioned by Zhou Chong,

In his opinion, it was just a bait to attract the people of Ming Dynasty to move actively. After all, everyone is pursuing profit. Only by seeing the real interests of gold and silver can more people move out of Ming Dynasty, for example,

Now there have been reports of many gold and copper mines found in the Nanyang coast. It is said that people have taken the initiative to take a boat to Nanyang to hunt for gold on a boat.

Thinking of Nanyang, Wang Shouren suddenly thought of something and said: "Governor General, according to some merchants who went to India some time ago, the Portuguese seemed to have begun to increase troops on India again, and there were also many warships coming to India from Europe.

, Do you think the Portuguese will be stubborn and attack Nanyang again?"

"Brother Bo'an, you have to remember one thing, those small European countries, whether they are Portuguese or Spanish, even French, English, etc. These Europeans are all a group of robbers, and they are about our Ming Dynasty and

Nanyang will never give up. Now what we have to do is to strengthen our strength as quickly as possible, then completely defeat them on the sea, and even let them go back to their hometown in Europe forever. Only in this way can our Ming Dynasty be even more powerful

Safe!" Zhou Chong said viciously at last. He had no favoritism for those European robbers. If it weren't for the distance, he really wanted to lead the Ming fleet to Europe to rage and let those European white-skinned ghosts taste it
Chapter completed!