Back to the Ming Dynasty to be a tyrant

Li Chengyan asked suspiciously: "Since Mr. Song has seen all this, why didn't he admonish the emperor himself?"

Song Yunxian said with a wry smile: "What is the meaning of your majesty's support of the hundred schools? It is nothing more than the fact that Confucianism is so powerful that it has threatened the monarchy, so your majesty has no choice but to do so.

Moreover, His Majesty has already made a decree in advance, and the officials of the ministries are not allowed to interfere with other affairs, and they only need to do their job well - and Song is both a minister of the Ministry of Industry and a servant, and a student of Confucianism, what will happen if he rashly advises? "

Li Chengyan was also speechless immediately.

All civil and military officials knew very well what Emperor Chongzhen was thinking—before there were people in various departments who were not doing their business, and they hadn't fully understood their own affairs, but they stretched out their hands to other yamen. It slows down the efficiency of work.

Especially those civil servants of Confucian origin are even more bullshit-they are ancestors and sages who open their mouths and keep their mouths shut. They can't be counted on for the real expansion of the territory, and they can't be counted on even if there are natural disasters and man-made disasters. Well, I am also doing things with the mentality of dying to repay the king.

Just like Emperor Chongzhen cursed in secret, it is easy for an official to die, but the mess left behind belongs to the court and the emperor.

Under such circumstances, it is pure bullshit to expect Emperor Chongzhen to have a good impression of civil servant meddling and Confucianism.

After pondering for a while, Li Chengyan said: "Then, according to Master Song, is it to discourage His Majesty from building the canal?"

Song Yunxian said bluntly: "No! Instead of dissuading His Majesty from building the canal, he wants to facilitate it.

If His Majesty can't build a canal, he will think of going around that corner to attack Yingyi. If something unbearable happens, the sky of the country will collapse.

Only by promoting the construction of the canal can His Majesty's energy be involved in the canal, and other messy things can make His Majesty temporarily abandon those British and barbarians.

Besides, just as Master Li said just now, no matter how many deaths there are, he is still a dead barbarian. Why should you and I worry about this? "

Li Chengyan suddenly burst out laughing, but laughed out his tears: "Lord Song, don't worry, I will definitely try my best to facilitate the construction of the canal!"

Song Yunxian said sternly: "In that case, Mr. Li will be responsible for everything!"

Li Chengyan said with a smile: "You and I both serve His Majesty, how can we divide each other?"

After Song Yunxian left, Li Chengyan picked up the pen and slowly wrote the memorial.

In the tent not too far away, Suleiman was also writing a letter.

PS: I had a lot of fun today, so I came back late...

Chapter 672 A Difficult Decision

Whether it was for the sake of the jade pendant, or for the continuous flow of money in the future, or simply for himself and the Ottoman Empire, Suleiman felt that he should promote the opening of the Suez Canal.

Judging from the current contact with Ming people, they are very elegant, very polite, and very generous, and they don't care much about silver coins and money.

And the news that their officials inadvertently disclosed showed one thing even more.

The expensive and irresistible drugs that became popular among the western aristocrats should have come from the hands of the Ming people, and those Dutch people made a fortune from it.

If their plan to contract the canal is now agreed, then the money can be earned by the Ottoman Empire instead of by the greedy Dutch.

After trying to come up with a lot of reasons, Suleiman was a little helpless to find that none of the reasons was as perfect as the reason of drugs—some people in the upper echelons of the Ottoman Empire had already started smoking this thing.

Although the entire Ottoman Empire is still banned from smoking, alcohol, and pleasure, how do you count drugs?This stuff is not tobacco - although this stuff needs to be smoked just as well.

After the high-level officials of the empire began to take drugs, faced with the temptation to obtain drugs without going through the Dutch, how could they bear it?

The answer is yes, they must not be able to bear it, and they will definitely help themselves to speak up, and then promote the contracting of the Suez Canal by the Ming people from the bottom up.

After finishing writing and waiting for the paper to dry, Suleiman hurriedly put away the letter, slept on the couch, and waited for the arrival of the next day.

As soon as the sky dawned, Li Chengyan couldn't wait to drag Suleiman along the canal. The officials of the Ministry of Industry kept watching with binoculars along the way, and Li Chengyan quarreled with Suleiman along the way.

After walking slowly for several days, Li Chengyan said with a smile when he saw that he was about to reach the northern end of the Suez Canal, "How is it? How sure are you?"

I have to admit that Li Chengyan should be born to be a diplomat - after a few days, the relationship between him and Suleiman has improved by leaps and bounds, and they almost slept in the same bed with their shoulders crossed.

Suleiman's mood was not as good as Li Chengyan's, and he was even a little worried: "I hope the true god can bless us, let us make this business a success—to tell you the truth, I have already spent a lot of silver coins on this matter If you don’t succeed, I’m afraid you will lose everything.”

Li Chengyan said indifferently: "What's so rare about silver coins? As long as the matter is successful, I will give you twice as much as you spend!

Even if it is unsuccessful, I will still bear the cost of this silver coin, and I guarantee that it will only be more or less, interesting enough? "

After giving a thumbs up, Suleiman said: "That's interesting!"

The conversation between the two people did not use an interpreter during the whole process, which made the interpreter a little depressed-these two geeks, the speed of learning the language is really too fast, although there is no way to communicate fluently in such a short period of time, but like this The stumbling conversation is no longer a problem.

In this world, there really are geniuses, but it's a pity that it's not me...

While the two were talking nonsense, Song Yunxian had already returned with a group of officials from the Ministry of Industry, but his face was a little ugly: "It's not impossible to rebuild the Suez Canal, but it's just too expensive. I really don't know if this is the right choice. wrong?"

Li Chengyan laughed aloud and said, "What's the big deal about this? Your old brother only needs to do the research, and someone else will naturally worry about the rest."

Song Yunxian nodded and said: "That's right, the old man can just lead people to investigate."

Li Chengyan said to Suleiman with a smile: "Since our people have finished the exploration, what is left is to wait for your good news?"

Suleiman nodded and said: "Don't worry, no matter from the friendship between you and me, or from the benefit of the country, these are what I, the governor, should do."

After the group returned to the starting point at the southern end of the Suez Canal, Li Chengyan cupped his hands and said, "Let me take my leave first?"

Suleiman smiled and said, "Wait a minute, I have one more thing I want to discuss with you."

Li Chengyan nodded and said, "Please tell me?"

Suleiman said: "I have received information before, saying that the fleet that sent you is extremely powerful, so I thought, can I buy a few warships from you?"

Li Chengyan said: "I can't promise you about this, but you can ask."

Seeing Suleiman's overjoyed face, Li Chengyan quickly poured cold water on it: "Governor Suleiman, don't be too happy, I just asked, but I can't guarantee you that it will be successful."

Suleiman's expression darkened immediately.

Suleiman had never seen how fierce the warships of the Ming people were, but judging from the reports of Abu Mahad and others, the artillery equipped alone was enough to cause headaches.

In fact, it is the huge and incomparably huge hull, which is enough to cause headaches for all the warships in the world - immobile!

How about the speed? It's hard to say, but do the warships of the Ming Dynasty need to rely on speed?

Even if it is fast and powerful, so what?Facing the artillery of the warships of the Ming Dynasty, can we get closer?Can you win?

Even if he ran away, the warships of the Ming Dynasty could not catch up, but slowly hanging behind was enough to scare people to death!

But Ming Guo Li did not promise himself that he could get this kind of warship, which made Suleiman feel very sad.

Li Chengyan said again: "I don't know if Governor Suleiman knows anything about the Dutch and those Franji people?"

Suleiman nodded and said, "I still have some understanding, although not very much."

Li Chengyan said: "How about their three-masted warships? If you want, I can sell you two. If there are more, we need to find another way."