Daming: Brother, there is no future for monks, let's rebel

Chapter 169 Zhu Han's Strategy to the West

These simple plate armors developed from the new technology of Ming Dynasty not only have excellent defensive performance.

Moreover, it is light and flexible, and won the welcome of many soldiers in Chen Han's army.

The new type of plate armor is light and breathable, and is most suitable for use in Yunnan and Nanzhong regions, no longer afraid of the local hot climate.

"Now Zhu Yuanzhang has not only elite soldiers and strong generals, but also so many skilled craftsmen. I must not lose these weapons." Chen Youliang said with a frown.

However, if you want to buy medicinal materials, you also need to buy weapons, which has caused the Chen Han regime to be extremely short of money.

How to get enough money to buy the weapons, armor and medicines smuggled by Ming Dynasty.

Already a very difficult problem.

In Chen Youliang's territory, Sichuan, Yunnan and parts of northern Myanmar are all good places with good weather, but they have not fully recovered due to the invasion and plunder of the Mongols decades ago.

It is still very difficult to raise so much money to buy and smuggle Ming weapons and medicines.

At this time, Zou Pusheng suddenly said: "Your Majesty, not long ago, I read the official documents left by Dali and found that there are many copper mines in the local area! However, due to lack of manpower, the output of copper mines has not increased. If we can If the Burmese were captured as slaves to mine copper mines, wouldn’t they have inexhaustible money? At that time, our soldiers and horses will not only be able to consolidate Sichuan and Yunnan, but also counterattack the Ming army’s Guizhou and Hubei in the east. land, catch some craftsmen and come back to make new armor weapons by themselves.”

Zou Pusheng's words made Chen Youliang happy immediately.

Since Duan Gong was driven away, Chen Youliang has completely controlled Yunnan.

Moreover, Mang Hei, the leader of the local barbarians in Myanmar, has also surrendered to Chen Youliang.

Now he was worrying about how to deal with these surrendered Burmese, and he immediately felt enlightened after hearing Zou Pusheng's suggestion.

If the labor of the Burmese can be used, the copper mines in Yunnan can be mined!
Then the Chen Han regime will be able to realize the real prosperity of the country and strong army!
"Great! Let's do this!" Chen Youliang nodded.

"It's useless for those Burmese savages to stay under their command. Fighting is useless, and they don't know how to farm. They're all just a bunch of poor people!" Chen Youren said next to him.

Soon, Chen Youliang agreed to Zou Pusheng's proposal. He appointed Chen Youren as Pingzhang of the South Central Province, and was fully responsible for hunting down the indigenous savages of various tribes in Yunnan and Myanmar.

Chen Han's army hunted Burmese to serve as labor force, and began to vigorously mine copper mines in Yunnan.

For these local aborigines, Chen Youren has no mercy at all.

He ordered the Chen Han soldiers under him to take tough measures and captured a large number of young and strong men and women in the mine to serve as slave labor.

In just three months, most tribes in northern Myanmar lost most of their young adults.

Manghei, the local king of Burma who had surrendered to the Chen Han regime, was also ordered to be executed by Chen Youliang to reduce the possibility of Burmese rebellion.

This series of measures by Chen Youliang has greatly improved the output of copper mines in Yunnan.

However, it also caused the Burmese tribes in the South Central region to rebel.

They used the dense forest to start against the army of the Chen Han regime.

And Chen Youliang, who is strong and strong, doesn't care about the rebellion of these Burmese natives.

The entire Chen Han army resolutely implemented Chen Youliang's tough tactics.

All Burmese tribes who resisted are all just one word.

kill!

Daming Nanjing, Ying Tian.

In a large-scale manor outside the city, Zhu Han was watching a group of craftsmen operating a large number of transparent glass instruments.

Under the boiling water and the blazing fire, some colorful liquids boiled among these glass instruments.

The whole manor exudes a strong smell of alcohol and drugs.

This is the new drug that Zhu Han is experimenting with!

Zhu Han originally made Zhuge Xingjun powder with excellent medicinal effect by using the prescription obtained from system sign-in.

However, soldiers of the Ming army from all over the country reported that it was still inconvenient for Zhuge Xingjun to carry it loosely during the march.

Moreover, in a humid environment, this medicinal powder is extremely susceptible to deterioration due to the influence of wet weather.

So Zhu Han used his own memory to make a brand new medicine.

In order to make this kind of medicine, Zhu Han not only summoned the best craftsmen from Yingtian Mansion.

Moreover, many famous Chinese medicine practitioners from the entire Jiangnan area were also summoned.

Now this manor is the research and development base for Zhu Han to experiment with new drugs.

After about an hour, a doctor walked up to Zhu Han excitedly holding a small transparent glass bowl.

"His Royal Highness! It's done! It's done!"

The medicine in this small glass bowl is like a piece of crystal clear jelly, exuding a tangy aroma, very refreshing!

"The golden oil! It's finally done, Your Highness, please take a look!"

This imperial physician is called Hu Wenhu, he said excitedly.

This Hu Wenhu is a well-known family of traditional Chinese medicine in Fujian, because of his superb medical skills, he was recruited as an imperial physician by Ming Dynasty.

Just joined Zhu Han's new drug research and development base, Zhu Han took the glass cup, put the ointment inside on his nose and smelled it carefully, a refreshing breath penetrated into the nasal cavity instantly, making Zhu Han Han suddenly felt better.

Zhu Han said with a smile, "Not bad! Not bad! This is exactly the cooling oil I want."

This kind of medicine is not a rare thing for modern people, it is the cooling oil that people in later generations are very familiar with, the creamy cooling oil in a small iron box the size of a finger.

It has another name called Panacea Oil, and it is made of menthol, camphor, cinnamon oil, eucalyptus oil and other medicines, plus paraffin wax.

Its inventor was a Fujianese in the last years of the Qing Dynasty in history. Because many people went to Nanyang at that time and encountered hot weather and the infestation of mosquitoes and poisonous ants, this Chinese herbal medicine came into being.

It has achieved great success among the folks in Nanyang, and it was quickly sold back to China.

It is very effective for heatstroke and cold in hot areas.

Now that the Ming army is fighting in hot and humid areas in Guizhou, Guangxi and other places, it is also in great need of cooling oil, a drug that is effective and easy to carry.

So after this panacea is made.

Zhu Han already knew that the Ming soldiers would reduce a lot of unnecessary injuries in the future.

"Great! This million gold oil level is going to be produced on a large scale. Immediately make [-] pieces and send them to Lingnan and Guizhou for the soldiers to try. It is already May and June, and in two or three months, the southern region The weather is still very hot and humid, so the cooling oil will definitely be popular among the soldiers," Zhu Han said.

At this time, the imperial physician Hu Wenhu on the side showed embarrassment, and said to Zhu Han: "Your Highness, although the production of this cool oil is not very complicated, many of the medicinal materials needed are all paid by the vassal kingdoms of the Nanyang generation. There are not many medicines in stock, and if they are deployed to the army on a large scale, I am afraid that not only will it cost a lot of money, but the raw materials will not be sufficient."

Hu Wenhu's words immediately reminded Zhu Han.

Maybe it's a coincidence, maybe it's God's will, Hu Wenhu, the imperial physician of Ming Dynasty, has the same name as the person who invented cool oil in history.

Zhu Han also paid special attention to his words.

There are really many types of Nanyang medicinal materials that need to be used here.

If this is the case, it may not be enough to rely solely on the tribute from the small countries in Southeast Asia.

Zhu Han thought for a while and said, "Well, this king plans to set up a special company, and go to Nanyang to purchase the necessary medicinal materials. All the finished products of Panacea Oil will be supplied to the soldiers of Ming Dynasty at the cost price."

Refrigerant oil is a panacea for curing diseases and strengthening the body in hot and humid places. The Zhuge Xingjun powder that Zhu Han made before has been widely promoted in Lingnan, Guizhou and other places, and is regarded as a magic medicine by the local people.

Moreover, Zhu Han had heard long ago that many of Zhuge Xingjunsan entered Chen Han's army through smuggling channels.

However, these are situations that Zhu Han acquiesced to.

The price difference earned can reach dozens of times!
Let Zhu Han take this opportunity to earn a lot of money from Chen Youliang.

After all, Daming is now united from top to bottom, if it really wants to fight smuggling, it is impossible for a pack of Zhuge Xingjun to disperse and transfer to Chen Youliang's army.

All of this was within Zhu Han's calculations.

With the cooling oil, Daming will fully replace the previous Zhuge Xingjun San.

There are a lot of Nanyang medicinal materials that are needed for cool oil now, and the supply will definitely not be sufficient, and the Ming soldiers must be given priority.

So Zhu Han has decided to strictly control the cooling oil!

Don't let them flow into Chen Youliang's hands through private channels.

After making arrangements for the cooling oil production, Zhu Han originally planned to return to the city, and there was still a lot of official business to be handled by himself.

Hu Wenhu who was next to him said to Zhu Han: "Your Highness just came today. Yesterday, Xiaguan and others happened to test it out. The toilet water that His Highness mentioned before! I wonder if Your Highness has time to test the results of Xiaguan and others? "

"What? You guys made toilet water so quickly?"

Zhu Han couldn't help being a little surprised when he heard the news.

As for toilet water, he just casually mentioned it to Hu Wenhu and other imperial physicians before, without explaining any specific production process.

They never expected that they would mobilize their ingenuity to make toilet water so quickly.

After Hu Wenhu and others brought up the finished toilet water, Zhu Han immediately praised it when he heard it!
Because this toilet water has a more mellow aroma than the Liushen Bashen of later generations.

"Your Highness, I ordered people to use 43 herbs in it. It not only refreshes the mind, but also has a tangy aroma. When mosquitoes are raging, just two drops can drive away mosquitoes." Hu Wenhu said beside him.

"Good thing, this is really a good thing! But this packaging needs to be improved, it can't be put in this small porcelain bottle!" Zhu Han looked at the toilet water in his hand and continued, "Remember what I said, when the time comes I asked the glass workshop to make some transparent small glass bottles, specially used to hold this toilet water!"

"I want Daming's toilet water to be sold all over the world through sea trade! At the very least, I want to make back the cost of those Nanyang medicinal materials in the cool oil with toilet water."

After such a long period of sea trade, Daming has trained a large number of professional sailing talents.

Especially after Hu Dahai's fleet disappeared from the Blackwater Protectorate.

Zhu Han even strictly ordered the various city ship divisions and naval forces to strengthen the prevention of storm disasters.

Now the Ming Navy is familiar with the monsoon hydrology in the Nanyang area.

Zhu Han's plan to sail to the west has been officially put on the agenda.

The target of going to the Western Ocean is not only the small countries in the Southeast Asia, but also the Persians, Arabs and Asan in the Western Ocean.

In those places, there must be a lot of trade demand.

Toilet water not only smells good, but also has the effect of repelling mosquitoes and refreshing the mind. It will definitely be very popular in the Western area.

Zhu Han's voyage strategy is basically divided into three steps.

The first step is to open up the various small vassal states in the Nanyang area, establish the image of the Ming suzerain there, and then obtain some land near the coast to establish the supply bases and ports of the Ming Navy.

Then use these Nanyang vassal states as bases, cross the Strait of Malacca westward to Bangladesh, India, Ceylon Island and other places, and then, you can officially enter the western border.

After establishing a solid trade base in these places.

Continue westward to the east coast of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Persia and other places.

At that time, Da Ming will have trained a truly powerful Da Ming navy that can run across the world.

Zhu Han's three-step voyage strategy is fundamentally different from Zheng He's voyages in history.

In the history of Zheng He's voyages to the West, although there were large-scale economic and trade exchanges, the main purpose was to promote the majesty of the Ming Dynasty. In many places, the economic benefits that should have been readily available were discarded because of the consideration of the big country's face.

Its purpose...is naturally to win the local small country to be loyal to Ming Dynasty.

However, Zhu Han set the primary goal of this voyage as profit first!
That's right, profit comes first!
Maritime trade requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and there must be a huge driving force so that people can willingly overcome the huge waves and sail to the depths of the distant sea!

Otherwise, if there is no profit-driven, this sea trade will be gradually abandoned in a short time.

On the rough sea, several warships are cleaving the waves!

Hu Dahai stood in front of the battleship, looking at the vast sea in the distance, feeling a surge of emotion in his heart.

Hu Dahai's fleet drifted tens of thousands of miles in a storm a year ago, and ended up in a strange continent.

Now the most dangerous moment has finally passed, and finally came to a place close to the coast.

Although there is a lot of wind and waves here, Hu Dahai knows that he will see land soon with his years of sailing experience!
Because there are many seagulls on the sea!
They rise and fall on the sea.

Hu Dahai knew that he was not far from the land.

Before that, after staying on that mysterious continent for several months, Hu Dahai and the others first killed some hostile savages, and then they harvested some obedient savage slaves and replenished some supplies.

After making sufficient preparations, Hu Dahai ordered a few people and a ship to stay, and established a local stronghold.

Afterwards, Hu Dahai led the rest of his soldiers and returned to Daming along the original route on a battleship!

Now, seeing the seagulls rising and falling on the sea, not only Hu Dahai, but also everyone else cheered!
They all knew it must be close to land!

Although I don't know if it is the territory of the Heishui Dufu Mansion or the territory of the Wa people.

(End of this chapter)