In this era, it is not easy to drag out a group of people from an agricultural society who yearn for the ocean and are willing to make money in the ocean.
This kind of heart of the ocean is indeed rare for mainland people.
Although the reason for the emergence of such a heart of the ocean makes people feel somewhat indignant, since it has appeared, they themselves are not willing to return to agricultural production, so there is no need to force them to go back.
Exploring the ocean is also the national strategy of Ming Dynasty in the future.
So Su Yonglin didn't pay attention to this problem.
Instead, they directly began to analyze the current controllable channels with the personnel of the Guangzhou Shipping Department, and made preliminary preparations for the channels that Ming Dynasty fully controlled.
Once the control of waterways begins to be established, residential settlements and overseas garrison bases will have to be arranged, and immigration to live overseas will also be the only way.
"What is known so far is that as early as the pre-Tang Dynasty, there was a mature waterway in Guangzhou called the Guangzhou Tonghai Yi Road. Starting from Guangzhou, you can go directly to the capital of the Black Clothed Food Country. For hundreds of years During this period, the passage was never cut off.”
An official from the Guangzhou Shipping Department took out a hand-drawn map that looked old at first sight and handed it to Su Yonglin.
Su Yonglin looked at it for a long time but couldn't see any clues, so he took out the world map he carried and compared it, and then he could see something about it.
Basically, it starts from Guangzhou, along the Southeast Asian coastline, through the Strait of Malacca, then to Bangladesh, then circumnavigates the entire India, turns northwest, and crosses the Strait of Hormuz to reach the destination.
In addition, this route can also lead to Egypt and Africa, indirectly related to Europe, connecting the three continents of Asia, Europe and Africa, passing through more than 100 countries and regions, bringing Chinese goods to the world, with sales comparable to The price of gold.
After Su Yonglin read it, he nodded slowly and was very emotional.
"The ancients did do a lot of wrong things, but they also did a lot of right things. The opening of this waterway is very meaningful to us. If we want to make sea trade bigger and stronger in the future, we must We have this channel firmly under our control.”
"Control?"
Yu Xingyan asked: "You mean to use the navy to control the waterway?"
"That's natural."
Su Yonglin nodded: "Sea trade channels are a lifeline for us and practitioners. How can we not hold our own lifeline in our own hands?
The navy of the Ming Dynasty is so powerful, is it only used to guard the door? Staying in the port and not going out? how can that be possible? Navy...no, Navy! The Navy is a pioneering branch, not a household dog! "
Su Yonglin clenched his hands into fists, punched the table, and said in a deep voice: "Our own lifeline must be in our own hands. This is the welfare of the people of Li!
The navy they raised with taxes must fight for their happy life and cannot live up to their expectations! If we can firmly grasp this route, it will be of great significance to us! "
Next, Su Yonglin began to explain his thoughts.
Very simply, they are the population centers and garrison bases in the surrounding areas along the routes.
The Ming Dynasty needed to select strategically important places on the land along this waterway as the Ming Dynasty's garrison base. It not only had to build a naval port, but also built a residential area, and then stationed the army to guard it, using this as a fulcrum to defend the sea trade channel with the navy.
These fulcrums along the sea trade routes have multiple functions such as naval ports, army bases, citizen cities, farmers' farming areas, and merchants' free trade zones. Therefore, they not only need an army and navy, but also a considerable population.
These fulcrums are equivalent to the overseas territories of the Ming Dynasty. They need people to operate and produce, provide food for the local garrison, and also provide some commercial services to the merchant fleets from various countries that stop along the way to earn some fees.
Su Yonglin plans to build more than a dozen such fulcrum seaport cities.
Of course, it is not to be established in a short time, but to take it slowly. First, let the naval fleet lead professional navigators to conduct detection along the route and select suitable areas.
If it is an uninhabited wasteland, then send people to develop and occupy it, and it will naturally belong to the Ming Dynasty.
If there is someone, let me tell you, it is not impossible to buy it with money.
Once these fulcrum cities are established, they can not only be used for commercial navigation, but can also be used as a backing to develop local Renaissance organizations. They can serve as fulcrums for the development and growth of Renaissance societies and form a spread of ideas along commercial shipping routes. chain.
Once this communication chain is formed, it will be able to radiate the Ming Dynasty's influence along the commercial waterways, greatly enhancing the Ming Dynasty's presence and influence around the world.
Su Yonglin was looking forward to such a day.
Officials from the Guangzhou Shipping Department and the Ministry of Finance were very concerned about some of the ideas and achievements for the future described by Su Yonglin, which aroused their extensive thinking and discussion. Finally, they reached a consensus that the future described by Su Yonglin was very promising. Significant.
However, the amount of money that needs to be invested may not be a small amount, or, in other words, it is a large amount comparable to the Yellow River Diversion Project. Everyone has an idea of how much it will cost to build settlements and garrison points from scratch.
Yu Xingyan raised this point euphemistically, hoping that Su Yonglin would give it more consideration.
Su Yonglin just shook his head.
"If you want the horse to run fast, but don't want the horse to eat good concentrated feed, how can there be such a good thing in the world? If you want to get it, you have to be willing to invest. Every year, sea trade can bring so much money to the Ming Dynasty , but what’s the use of just money?
Money does not reproduce, so it only makes sense to spend it. There are only so many places where money can be used in the Ming Dynasty. Too much money will only make money worthless. If you want to maintain a good situation, spend the money. , obtaining greater returns from the outside world is also the only way for us. "
After hearing this, Yu Xingyan nodded slowly and did not raise any objections.
The rest of the officials did the same and raised no objections.
Su Yonglin is not arbitrary in his approach to politics. He also promotes internal democracy within the Renaissance Association, advocating members to question and ask questions about decision-making, and calling on everyone to actively question and put forward additional opinions.
However, since the founding of the country, Su Yonglin's judgments have never made any mistakes and have always been correct.
Everyone enjoys the benefits of Su Yonglin's correct judgment all the time, and therefore, everyone has a strong degree of trust in Su Yonglin's judgment.
He said this, then we will put forward some things that are available and not as usual, and then we must believe in this and work hard to push forward, and then we can get good benefits.
No matter how subjectively Su Yonglin opposed personality worship, objectively speaking, personality worship for him had been inevitably established among all strata of Ming society.
This was true within the imperial court, the Fuxing Association, and the army. Even among the people, there were many places to build living shrines to Su Yonglin.
Follow him and do what he says, and you will succeed, win, and live a better life.
Who wouldn't?
Seeing the undisguised trust and even a hint of fanaticism in the eyes of the officials, Su Yonglin felt the existence of this emotion that he didn't like. He wanted to do something, but after much thought, he still didn't go. Do.
His revolution was not something that should have appeared in this era. It was he who forcibly brought this concept to this era. As the source of revolutionary ideas and a symbol of the legitimacy of the revolutionary cause, Su Yonglin's influence on this country and this cause is almost Decisive.
If he is good, the revolution will be good; if he is not good, the revolution will be bad.
It's really that simple.
He cannot return to his identity as a normal person until he is not sure that the revolutionary cause will become an existence that can be accepted by this world and this era.
He must guide people forward with an almost divine presence to ensure that the cause created by countless people's blood and sacrifice is not subverted.
As for whether the length of this time will require him to spend his whole life, or whether he will be lucky enough to have some time of his own, that is really unpredictable.
Su Yonglin didn't know either.
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