Emperor Tianqi relaxed his heart after hearing Zhang Jingyi's words.

Nowadays, it is a whole body that affects one's own strength.

Once the minerals in Liaodong cannot be supplied to railway companies on a large scale, the railway companies will fall into an embarrassing situation of project suspension.

Once a railway company has problems, other industries will also have a huge impact.

The current Emperor of Heaven has obviously figured out the trick.

He knew very well that the power and capital driven by the new pillar industries of the imperial court are amazing.

But at the same time, it is also very fragile.

Once a problem occurs, it will be doomed.

Emperor Tianqi immediately changed his subject: "Last time, Zhang Qing mentioned the issue about Folangji and the Netherlands. Zhang Qing believed that the Netherlands and Folangji countries should unite to work together to comply with the Japanese pirates and invade our Ming Dynasty. This matter... How likely is Zhang Qing."

Zhang Jing thought for a moment: "This matter is definitely not groundless. Folangji, the Netherlands, and the wolf ambitions. They established strongholds, fortresses, killed local natives in Luzon and other countries, and gradually eroded the land of the natives. Wherever they passed, there were sorrows everywhere. Therefore, I think that for the sake of benefits, they could do anything that harmed the heavens. Because of this, I, the Ming Dynasty, must strictly prevent it. Otherwise, if there is something to prepare, it will be beyond the reach."

Emperor Tianqi said: "It seems that Zhang Qing believes that he is at least 80% sure."

Zhang Jing nodded and said, "Yes, I dare not say that I am 100% sure, but 70% or 80% of them. In fact, after all, this is the problem of path dependence."

"Path dependency?"

"Just..." Zhang Jing thought for a long time before he found a suitable metaphor: "Just like Your Majesty, at the beginning, there were internal and external troubles, the treasury and the treasury were empty, the country was in trouble, there were bandits inside and Jiannu people staring at him. But since Your Majesty confiscated the first house... he found that scouting the house could greatly make up for the shortcomings of the treasury. So, does Your Majesty think that scouting the house is very important? If something happens in the future, the first thing that comes to mind is to search a few more to see if it can solve the problem."

Emperor Tianqi blushed and said for a long time: "No, I have never thought of such a thing."

Zhang Jing said, "Your Majesty, there is no difference between good and bad in the house, it is just a means to govern the country. In essence, the court has lost money, but the Liao generals and the aristocratic races are all rich and powerful. Moreover, they are corrupt and abused the law and oppressed the people on weekdays, and they have reached the point where both man and gods are angry. So Your Majesty serves the country, the people, and the people, and the people are punished. What is wrong? What I want to say is the problem of the path. We did something and tasted the sweetness, and we will want to continue to do it. So gradually, we are becoming more and more good at chasing the house. Many times, when we encounter difficulties, what we think of is the first to use chasing the house to solve the problem. This is the dependence on the path."

"By the same reason, the Folangji people and the Netherlands were just barren countries. In Central Asia, the Ottoman Empire had cut off the land route. The barren land was unable to farm and could not support themselves. The trade routes on the land were also cut off. Like the Ming Dynasty, when the people were unsustainable, the people were extremely poor and the people were living in poverty. Therefore, they had to go into the sea, called doing business, and in fact they did what pirates did. Unexpectedly, they were a great success. Over the past few decades, they have repeatedly plundered, and have repeatedly used business to open up overseas territory and looted the gold and silver of the natives in the world. They have long made a fortune, so... they have also formed a path dependence."

"Now they have encountered the same situation as before, that is, they themselves have encountered a crisis, a large amount of debt has begun to appear, and the expansion has come to an end. At this time, Your Majesty think about it, how will they choose to solve the problem?"

"Are you trying to copy the homes of their big merchants who are rich enough to rival the country?"

"The pirates who couldn't survive simply copied their princes and nobles together?"

Zhang Jingyi raised one question after another: "Or, follow their original path, just do a big vote and carry out the biggest looting in the world. As long as they succeed, they can solve all the problems at the moment overnight. But when they were in desperate situations and went out to sea, there were only three or five ships, and there were only hundreds of people on the ships, all of them were ragged, like beggars. But now, under the nourishment of these decades, they have strong ships and cannons. The armor worn by the soldiers is enough to arm themselves and their teeth, and they are equipped with excellent cannons and muskets. Therefore... they are confident that they can rely on these to solve the problem, so why don't they do this?"

Emperor Aoki understood immediately.

"I'm addicted to copying, they're addicted to grabbing, right?"

Zhang Jingyi said: "Your Majesty is wise and has extraordinary talent."

Emperor Tianqi said: "If they dare to come, I will personally lead the elite troops of the Ming Dynasty Donglin Army to fight to the death with them. I will definitely teach them to know that they have found the wrong person this time. Good guy, I didn't look for them. They dared to commit beards. I really don't know how to be so arrogant. I want to see if I copied them in the end, or they robbed me!"

When Zhang Jing heard this, she didn't know what words to use to describe it.

Are two tigers fighting?

Or... the turtle stares at Mung Bean and looks at each other?

This is also a moment of brilliance. In fact, everyone is working as a bandit.

Zhang Jingyi sighed and said, "The key to the problem is not this. Your Majesty, if the other party is willing to fight against our Ming Dynasty, I am quite sure. But the Folangji and the Netherlands have their own tactics for survival, just like the enemies in the desert. In the past, the Central Plains dynasty fought with the cavalry in the desert. It has never been because of the fact that our central country was not strong enough, but most of the time, the tribes in this desert did not seek a decisive battle with us, but were constantly harassing. When we gathered countless troops and horses, the elite troops came out, they fled into the depths of the desert. Until our elite troops and horses were trapped and were exhausted, they gathered together and gave us a fatal blow."

Zhang Jing said, "The Netherlands and Folang Ji people are essentially grassland cavalry in the sea. It is not enough to rely on the army. Just like Emperor Wu of Han attacked the Huns, did he rely on infantry? It depends on our Han cavalry. Our cavalry is more sophisticated than them. A Han cavalry can withstand five Hun cavalry. Therefore, the sealed wolf and plow the courtyard and sweep the caves. The Hu people were so anxious that they heard that the Han army arrived."

"In this way, it depends on Zhang San?"

Zhang Jingyi sighed and said, "Zhang San is not incompetent, but most of the ships in the Ming Dynasty are big-bellied sea ships that can carry more cargo, which is not suitable for naval battles. The Netherlands and Flangji countries were born on the sea. For decades, if the ships were not strong enough, they would be at risk of overturning at any time. Therefore, their ships made new progress in ten years. Their skills of manipulating artillery and sails, as well as the dispatch of ship combat, would have a new innovation in almost three to five years. The rapid progress was shocking. Not only that, in the past few decades, in order to build ships, they often cut down the strongest trees as ship materials, and a good piece of ship materials required countless processing to resist the erosion of seawater. Because of this, they had almost cut off all the top trees in the middle of the country after two generations of operations in the past few decades, and made countless ship materials..."

"And my Ming Dynasty had only been a few years since I started to build ships. Many ship materials were not enough to be fabricated. Many places... I dare not say that they were inferior to others everywhere, but at a disadvantage, I had to face it. This is not that my Ming Dynasty was not the rival of the Folangji and the Netherlands. But the ships were the guys who were eating, so they had to create them with all their might. But what about the Ming Dynasty? I ignored the sea defense, but for 250 years, the majestic treasure ship had already become ashes and was destroyed by others. Everything needs to be started again. My Ming Navy alone could deal with Folangji and the Netherlands in Ryukyu and Luzon. But if they united and had to worry about the main fleet of Europa coming here and fight to the death, I think... this is not optimistic."

After hearing this, Emperor Tianqi couldn't help but feel sad and pondered for a long time: "If you say this, is there no way to do it?"

"There is a way." Zhang Jing said: "The wooden ship is far from their opponent. Not to mention anything else, the Folang Jiren has a saying called the Centennial Navy. Of course, this is not an exaggeration, but because it takes at least a hundred years to build a ship to grow an oak. Other woods are far inferior. And even if the wood is cut down, it will take several years to carry out various processing before it can be used as a ship. How can I wait for the Ming Dynasty? Since that is the case, I can only count on the ironclad ship."

"armor?"

"Building ships in iron armor can bypass the problem of wood."

"Yes, I remembered that, Zhang Qing lied to me at the beginning... no, he took a lot of silver, tens of millions of taels of silver, saying that he was building an iron ship?"
Chapter completed!