When the news of Mysore's victory came, Zhu Cijiu was extremely excited. He had already had a series of colonial plans in his mind, and now he could finally start to implement it. He was not in a hurry to plunder the colony. Now the Ming navy has not been successful, and even if he plunders the colony, there is no security guarantee. His colony plan is economic colonization and cultural colonization.

There is one advantage in cooperation with Portugal. They are now occupied by Spain and their economy cannot develop, so they can only directly plunder gold and silver from the colonies, or forcefully plant various spices and transport grain to Europe to make money, but there is no cheap goods dumped into the colonies. This is equivalent to a huge overseas market. Now this market is blank and is waiting for the Ming Dynasty to occupy it.

Mysore is just the first step to opening this market. With the role model of Mysore here, other Portuguese overseas nobles will definitely compete to follow suit. You should know that now they are completely unsupported and can only rely on themselves for everything.

During this period of time when the land was occupied, Portugal was not only open to colonies, but whether it could defend its original colonies was a problem. Many indigenous people in the colonies were resisting, and the powers such as Spain, the Netherlands, and Britain were also robbing their colonies, and their colonies were shrinking rapidly.

At this time, if the Ming Dynasty, a powerful ally, protects them and even helps them develop colonies, will they not be moved? Will they not compete to lean on the Ming Dynasty?

Someone wants to say that if you don’t occupy the colony, you will help others defend the colony. Idiot, what are the benefits of doing this? Not to mention that the Ming navy was unable to compete with the great powers in the ocean and was unable to develop the colony on its own, just talk about this benefit.

The benefits are great. First of all, the arms business will definitely become prosperous. Now it is the time when the flintlock gun is replaced by the flintlock gun. Portugal cannot produce flintlock guns by itself. What should I do? Then I can only buy it with others. In the past, they bought it with the UK and used a lot of wealth to buy inferior elimination goods from the UK, which made the UK slowly rise and come from behind. Now they will buy the Ming Dynasty as long as they are not idiots, because the Ming Dynasty's military products have advanced performance and excellent quality.

Then, economic colonization can be carried out. Anyway, Portugal is not able to develop its economy now. As long as there is a governor who asks for help from the Ming Dynasty or buys arms, then their colony is equivalent to the overseas market of the Ming Dynasty.

There are so many colonies in Portugal, and there may not be many in the late colonial period, but it was so terrifying in the early colonial period. You should know that the Age of Discovery was claimed to be equally divided with Spain. You half and I half, the Western Hemisphere belongs to Spain and the Eastern Hemisphere belongs to Portugal. You can imagine how many colonies they have. Of course, most of these colonies were snatched away by the Netherlands and Britain, and there are not many Portugal able to save them, but now with the Ming Dynasty, it will be difficult for them to grab them.

Finally, cultural colonization can be carried out. You should know that generally backward indigenous people do not have their own writing system, and some are not even sound in language systems. Therefore, the three major languages ​​in later generations are Chinese, English and Spanish. Chinese is the largest. This is because we have many people but the regions are concentrated together. To be honest, the most popular in the world are English and Spanish, and even Portuguese spreads to a wider area than Chinese. These are all caused by the colonization of the great powers.

Do you have any background in English, Spanish, and Portuguese? There are some, but compared with the foundation of Chinese for thousands of years, it is far inferior to the comprehensiveness of Chinese characters, the diversity of Chinese characters, and the artistic nature of Chinese characters are not comparable to other languages. To put it bluntly, only calligraphy works of Chinese characters in the world can be called works of art and sold at a high price. Even if you write a basket of other characters, can you sell them for money? Does anyone want them?

Zhu Cijing had a dream, that is, to turn Chinese into a common language in the world, so cultural colonization is a must.

At this stage, there is no need to hurry the arms business. As long as the world's leading performance and quality is maintained, more and more people will naturally come to you; cultural colonization cannot be rushed, as this requires basics, at least there must be communication needs to be promoted. There is no need for this demand yet. After thinking about it, what you can do now is to promote economic colonization.

There are many things that coincidentally. Zhu Cijiu is now striving to develop the Ming economy. In order to develop the economy, he even used the trick of building a railway. What should we say is the best way to promote economic development, what is accelerating infrastructure construction, vigorously developing industries, selling land, building commercial housing, etc. These are all formal means, and they are actually not fast to develop. The fastest way is economic colonization!

You should know that before the middle of the Ming Dynasty, all countries in the world had not as much wealth as the Ming Dynasty. However, from the middle and late Ming Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty, the great powers had surpassed our thousands of years of accumulation in just a few hundred years. What did they rely on? It mainly depends on economic colonization, and the speed was hundreds of times faster than regular means!

Of course, there is another faster way, which is to grab it, but it actually has nothing to do with economic development. It is equivalent to building a building in the air, and in the end it still depends on the economic foundation to maintain it, otherwise it will be a nouveau riche and will only be rich for several generations.

To carry out economic colonization, you must first have a large number of cheap goods, such as a piece of cloth. If the indigenous people woven the same quality as yours and the price is cheaper than yours, then why should people buy yours? Only when the quality is better than others and the price is cheaper than others can they occupy the market. This is equivalent to sales, but the cost must be controlled, the quality must be guaranteed, and the production capacity must be improved, so that they can rely on economic colonization to develop rapidly.

In other words, if the people of the Ming Dynasty still used old-fashioned looms to weave cloth, then this economic colonization actually didn't make much sense. Just to have enough food and clothing, why bother selling it abroad?

The advantageous products of the Ming Dynasty are military products and high-end luxury goods. However, these are sold to the great powers, not to the colonial natives. Making money is very profitable. However, the money is mainly made by Zhu Cijiu, which is equivalent to the country making money. The profit is high, but the scale is too small, and its effect on economic development is not very large. To put it bluntly, Zhu Cijiu has made a lot of money now. The cost and expenses he spends in a year can make hundreds of millions of taels of silver, which seems to be terrifying. But on average, it is less than one tael of silver for every Ming people, and one tael is equivalent to more than one hundred yuan in later generations. How significant is this to the development of a country.

Therefore, Zhu Cijing was preparing to launch an industrial revolution in the Ming Dynasty, promote steam engines to all walks of life, vigorously improve productivity, produce a large number of cheap goods, quickly occupy overseas markets through economic colonization, allowing the Ming Dynasty to regain the throne of the world's largest economic output, promote military development with the economy, and then use strong military strength to escort economic development, so that the Ming Dynasty can truly rise.

This is a very important topic and it is not something he can think about alone, so he had to summon a group of confidants to discuss again.

Of course, this time it was a literary man, and the generals were exempted. The main personnel he summoned were:

Xu Guangqi, the chief minister of the Cabinet, the Minister of Rites;

Bi Maokang, Minister of Works;

Wang Zheng, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Works;

Song Yingxing, the doctor of the Qing official department of the Ministry of Works;

In addition, Luo Yangxing, the commander of the Jinyiwei, was almost the same.

Why should I call Luo Yangxing, the commander of the Jinyiwei? He is just a spy leader. Does it have anything to do with economic development? Don’t forget that he is also the boss behind the Rixinglong Business. This guy is not interested in being the commander of the Jinyiwei, and making money is very exciting. Now he is a small economist. Zhu Cijiu asked him to come here mainly to hear his experience in making money. Developing the economy not only depends on technology, the market, but also on people. Someone has to take the lead and take everyone to make money. Such people are the so-called boss. Now the biggest boss of the Ming Dynasty is of course Zhu Cijiu, but he is only a part-time job, and his main business is still the emperor. This guy is the opposite. His main business is to be the boss and the side job is to be the commander of the Jinyiwei, so now the biggest private boss of the Ming Dynasty should be him, Luo Yangxing, the commander of the Jinyiwei!

When Zhu Cijiu arrived, he immediately raised the major issue of economic development, allowing them to speak freely and offer suggestions.

The first person to speak was Xu Guangqi, the chief assistant of the cabinet. He mainly focused on agricultural development. When it comes to making money, developing agriculture does not mean that it is impossible to make money. For example, increasing grain output can make money. The yield per mu of grain in the Ming Dynasty can be said to be pitifully low, only about three stones. As long as it can be increased to four stones, one mu can earn one tael of silver. You must know that the current arable land in the Ming Dynasty can have over one billion mu, which is terrifyingly large.

Of course, developing agriculture is not only about increasing grain output, but also vigorously developing economic crops. There are many lands that are not suitable for growing grain, but there is no problem in growing economic crops. For example, cotton, cinnamon, star anise and other spices can be grown in arid places. These are relatively profitable economic crops. There are many lands like Daming. If drought and inconvenient irrigation are not included in the arable land, there are nearly 200 million mu of wasteland. If all cash crops are planted, the profit is also terrifying.

There are also planting mulberry trees, raising silkworms, raising cattle and horses, making bonsai, etc., which are all economic growth points. In short, agriculture has great potential.

Zhu Cijing was stunned when he heard this. He didn't expect that Xu Guangqi was not only a master of Western learning, but also knew agriculture so well. These were indeed ways to make money. As long as the Ming Dynasty's GDP was effectively implemented, it could at least double. However, where did Xu Guangqi know so many things? It's not much at this moment. Where did he find out so many things? Zhu Cijing couldn't help but ask the questions in his heart.

It turned out that Xu Guangqi was writing the "Complete Book of Agricultural Affairs". The "Complete Book of Agricultural Affairs" was divided into 12 items, with a total of 60 volumes. The 12 items included: 3 agricultural books, 2 volumes of field production, 6 volumes of agricultural affairs, 9 volumes of water conservancy, 4 volumes of agricultural tools, 6 volumes of arboriculture, 4 volumes of sericulture, 2 volumes of wide variety of sericulture, 4 volumes of planting, 1 volume of pastoral care, 1 volume of manufacturing, and 18 volumes of wasteland. What he said is recorded in the "Complete Book of Agricultural Affairs".

What a good thing! Zhu Cijing immediately asked Xu Guangqi to increase the editing efforts, draw a large number of personnel from the Hanlin Academy, and compile the "Complete Book of Agricultural Affairs" as soon as possible.

Then, Bi Maokang, Minister of Works, Wang Zheng, Left Minister of Works, and Song Yingxing, the doctor of the Ministry of Works, also put forward his own opinions on the issue of steam engine promotion. There are many things that can be promoted, such as the flying-screw loom, which is already ready-made, and it can also develop steam printing machines, steam powdering machines, steam grinding machines, steam sawing machines... These workers can organize personnel to develop them, but there is one problem. These things cannot be given for free. You have to pay for them. Generally, civilians have so much money!

Now it's Luo Yangxing's turn to appear. It's easy to deal with without money. He borrowed from the Rixinglong Business Company. Are he afraid of who wouldn't pay back the money? The interest alone is quite considerable, and he can also purchase their products and sell them to overseas colonies. In this way, Rixinglong's development will be even more rapid.

Well, the loan that was borrowed well before was of the same nature as the bank loans in later generations. However, when it comes to purchasing products and selling them to overseas colonial areas, it is a naked copy of Zhu Cijiu's economic colonial viewpoint. It's just a different statement. Zhu Cijiu expressed strong contempt for him.
Chapter completed!