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Hai Rui's pilot project of high-yield crops in Henan Province has also achieved great success.

High-yield crops such as corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, wheat, etc. have achieved amazing bumper harvests.

Adding up all kinds of crops, the autumn harvest in Yu Province has a total grain output of 400 million shi!

Compared with previous years, the grain output is more than ten times higher!

If this data hadn't been reported by Hai Rui, no one would have believed it!

With so much grain, not only is there no longer any fear of famine in Yu Province, but the autumn grain collected by the imperial court from Yu Province has filled countless warehouses.

The guards in Nanzhili under Lu Li's rule also reaped a bumper harvest.In addition to guaranteeing the rations of the soldiers and civilians under his command, he also handed over countless grains to the court.

Adding up the two sides, and counting the autumn grain collected from all over the country, the Minister of the Household Department found that the Ming treasury was full of grain.

With grain in hand, don't panic in my heart.

Drought in Shaanxi Province?How much food do you want? Is 100 million stone enough?If it is not enough, I will give you 200 million stones!

Hai Rui returned to Beijing to meet Sheng, reported on the promotion of high-yield crops in Henan Province, and advised Emperor Jiajing: Once high-yield crops are promoted nationwide, the people of the world will no longer have to worry about famine!

Emperor Jiajing was overjoyed: What happened to my cultivation of immortality?What happened to Lao Tzu ignoring the government?The country has no frontier troubles, and the people have no worries about famine.Who of you can do it?

What about Qin Huang Han Wu?What about Tang Zong and Song Zu?Who of you can do it?stand out!

I didn't do anything, and became an emperor through the ages!This is the destiny!

With joy in his heart, Emperor Jiajing decreed: Hai Rui was promoted to be the Minister of the Household Department, and took charge of the promotion of high-yield crops across the country.

There was no opposition to this decree.One is that Hai Rui's character is too strong, and the other is that Hai Rui's promotion of high-yield crops in Yu Province is too scary.Even if someone envied and hated Hai Rui, they would not dare to gossip.

Hai Rui took office, and based on the various agricultural knowledge he learned in Lujiazhuang, as well as his experience in promoting high-yield crops in Henan Province, he made a detailed plan for the promotion of high-yield crops according to the actual conditions of the provinces across the country.

In the north, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes and wheat are the main crops. In the water towns of the south of the Yangtze River, rice is the main crop. Corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes and other crops are also widely planted in other hilly and mountainous areas.

In fact, the northern part of the Great Ming Dynasty was short of food. It mainly relied on the south to bring in food to make up for the lack of food in the north.

Today, after the comprehensive promotion of high-yield crops, there is no shortage of food in the north.There will be no shortage of food in the south.

As long as high-yielding crops are widely planted across the country next year, Ming will no longer have to worry about famine.

These high-yielding crops were all produced by Lu Li.

Emperor Jiajing didn't forget Lu Li either.Isn't there no more Japanese pirates in the south?Then give him another general title.

Thus, Lu Li's title of Hussar General was upgraded to "General Zhu Guo".Then... Jiajing sent dozens of court ladies.

The title of General Zhu Guo is quite good, only three levels away from the title of General Zhu Guo.But... What does it mean to send a girl again?What happened to me being single?Have you eaten your white rice?

After Lu Li received the imperial decree, he couldn't help but roll his eyes.

At the end of the year, Lu Li did not return to Songjiang Mansion. Instead, he built a "Nanhai Governor's Yamen" in Guangzhou Mansion City, and took charge of the South China Sea to handle various military affairs.

Starting from the construction of the Keelung Harbor Naval Base on Bay Island in August, in the past four months, Luli's multi-threaded operations have fully blossomed, and the construction of various naval bases has basically begun to take shape.

The Qiongzhou Base, Bay Island Base, Ryukyu Base, Jeju Island Base, Hokkaido Base, and Jinshan Port Base of the headquarters have all been completed one after another.

Except for the key development of the Bay Island base, where 1 Japanese captives and [-] garrisons were arranged, only [-] garrisons were stationed in other bases, and more than [-] refugees collected from coastal states were resettled.

The captives and refugees were in charge of industrial and agricultural production, and the garrison maintained order.In the future, we will continue to emigrate, carry out overseas colonization, and strengthen base construction.

At this moment, a large amount of coal, ammunition and various supplies have been stockpiled in various bases.This allowed Lu Li's fleet to obtain supplies at various bases, greatly increasing the voyage.

By the end of the year, the fleet under Lu Li's command had further expanded in size.

The third batch of destroyers presided over by Zheng Yuan has been completed.The number of destroyers in this batch reached thirty.

Today, the number of destroyers under Lu Li's command has increased to 53 warships.

Therefore, Lu Li divided his fleet into three parts: North Sea Fleet, East Sea Fleet, and South Sea Fleet.

The North Sea Fleet has ten destroyers, five destroyers stationed at the Hokkaido base, and five destroyers stationed at Jeju Island, responsible for patrolling and protecting the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea and the surrounding sea areas of the North Sea.

The thirteen destroyers of the East China Sea Fleet are stationed at the Jinshan Port Base, the Ryukyu Base, and the Bay Island Base respectively, and are responsible for maintaining maritime order around the East China Sea.

Lu Li took all the remaining [-] destroyers to the South China Sea and gathered them at the Qiongzhou Island base.

In front of this irresistibly powerful fleet, the coast around Daming was peaceful and peaceful, and there was no longer any threat on the sea.

As a result, Ming's overseas trade grew explosively.

One after another, there was an endless stream of trading merchant ships heading to Wa and Goryeo.

Prosperous overseas trade is a good thing, but...the Ming court does not receive a penny in taxes, which is not a good thing.

I worked so hard to pacify the sea, but let you big Ming moths make a fortune, how can there be such a good thing?

Therefore, Lu Li appealed to Emperor Jiajing to set up a city shipping department.In Songjiang Prefecture, Ningbo Prefecture, Quanzhou Prefecture, and Guangzhou Prefecture, the Department of Shipbuilding was established to take charge of overseas trade.

All in all, a word "tax"!

When this memorandum was passed to the court, a stone caused a thousand waves, and the officials of the court were in an uproar.

In this day and age, among the officials and gentry families of the Ming Dynasty, the only ones who did not engage in maritime trade business were individual officials like Hai Rui.

How dare Lu Li propose "taxation"?Isn't this grabbing meat from our rice bowl?

It really makes no sense!

All of a sudden, Lu Li was like a rat crossing the street, everyone yelled and beat him.There are countless memorials to impeach Lu Li like a snowflake.

The ban on the sea is the law of the ancestors, and Lu Li's false talk of opening the sea is a great treason.

Such a statement is not bad, and more officials, like mad dogs, caught Lu Li and complained wildly.

What is "self-respect for soldiers", what is "naturally rebellious", what is "rebellion is well known".There was even the impeachment of Lu Li for "calling hundreds of prostitutes to prostitute themselves with his soldiers in the military camp. The lewdness is illegal and the scene is unsightly".

It's rumors!Don't you just spray it as you want?

Emperor Jiajing was not stupid, on the contrary, he was a rare person with high IQ and smartness. How could he not know what was going on?

Lu Li set up a memorial to the Municipal Bureau of Shipbuilding, stabbed a hornet's nest, and made these officials frantically counterattack and bite.

It's just... For Emperor Jiajing, what is the most important thing?Immortal cultivation is the most important thing.

It's so noisy that I'm not quiet when I'm cultivating immortals, what the hell!

Therefore, Emperor Jiajing issued an order to reprimand Lu Li, and the proposal to set up a city ship department was naturally invalidated.

In this way, the court hall will be quiet immediately.

Lu Li frowned slightly when he received the imperial edict of reprimand, and a stern look appeared in his eyes.

Dare to go against Lao Tzu?I'm afraid you don't know who is in charge at sea, right?

Lu Li immediately ordered that the North Sea Fleet, East China Sea Fleet, and South Sea Fleet all set out to patrol the sea area. Any sea-going ships would be intercepted and no sails could go out to sea. Those who resisted would be sunk immediately!

Didn't you tell Laozi "the law of the ancestors"?

Well, the law of the ancestors is "a piece of sail can't go to sea".This decree must be thoroughly and strictly enforced.

The sea ban order was issued, and the three major fleets attacked across the board to intercept any sea ships that dared to go to sea.

From the North Sea to the South Sea, countless sea merchants and thousands of ships along the coast of Daming were blocked by Lu Li's strong ships and guns.

Not that no one resisted.

There are always some guys who think they are very powerful and no one dares to mess with them, and want to challenge Lu Li's maritime supremacy.

For example... the Xu family in Songjiang.

As the leader of Qingliu, Mr. Xu Ge was the chief assistant of the court, but there was no Qingliu in his family.

The Xu family owns 24 mu of fertile land, planting silk and hemp extensively, and has opened countless silk workshops. It is the largest maritime merchant in the southeast today, not one of them.

After Lu Li's order to ban the sea was issued, countless sea merchants were driven back by strong ships and sharp guns, but... the Xu family is not afraid of Lu Li.

When the first minister of the court, let's find out.

You, Lu Li, are just a general, why are you still fighting against the chief minister of the dynasty?Don't even dare to borrow your courage!

Therefore, the Xu family organized a huge fleet, sailed out of Songjiang Mansion, and set sail in the direction of the Wa Kingdom.

In today's Ming Dynasty, the main target of overseas trade in the East China Sea is the Wa country.

Overseas trade in the direction of Southeast Asia includes the grape duck people and Spanish duck people in Annan, Siam, and even Malacca.

The Xu family's fleet went to sea, which also brought countless sea merchants from the Su and Song prefectures to follow.

All of a sudden, a huge fleet of hundreds of ships sailed into the ocean mightily.

Then...the North Sea Fleet sailing out from the direction of Jeju Island was blocked in the East China Sea.

"Attention the front fleet, this is the Ming Dynasty North Sea Fleet."

The destroyer stopped in front of the fleet, and the fleet officer shouted to the fleet through a huge bronze megaphone: "According to the ban on sea, it is illegal for your fleet to go to sea. Please lower your sails and stop the ship immediately!"

Five destroyers lined up, and the voice in the megaphone kept ringing.

However... Xu's family is very strong, and they don't pay attention to this fleet at all.

In the Ming Dynasty, my elder Xu Ge had the final say, you Qiu Ba are nothing!

"Hang up the big flag with the word Xu to show your identity."

One of the Xu family stewards snorted disdainfully, "Run directly over there, let's see which one of them dares to stop!"

The Xu family flag was hoisted high, and the Xu family's fleet rushed towards the intercepting destroyer with the following sea ships. They had no scruples at all and were extremely overbearing.

"Fire warning!"

The general gave an order, and the five destroyers fired a salvo at the front of the fleet.

Intensive shells bombarded the sea, blowing up huge water columns.The splashing water even fell on the leading Xu Jiahai boat.

"They fired, what to do?"

On the leading Xu Jiahai boat, the crew members who sailed the boat trembled a little.

"It's just a show, they don't dare to really do it!"

The manager of the Xu family was full of disdain, "In today's Ming Dynasty, who would dare to offend our Xu family? Keep going!"

The artillery fire warning was ineffective, and the fleet rushed forward arrogantly.

On the destroyer, the commander of the squadron held up his binoculars and saw this scene with a cold expression on his face.

"These moths are really arrogant and domineering!"

The squadron commander let out a cold snort, and waved his hand to order: "Focus on fire and sink the first ship of the fleet!"

With an order, the five destroyers formed a battle formation, and the side guns aimed at the lead ship of the fleet.

"Boom!"

There was a shocking explosion, and dense shells bombarded the first ship in the fleet, blowing the ship into pieces in an instant!

"Ah...how dare? How dare you?"

Seeing this scene, everyone in the Xu family's fleet, as well as the other maritime merchants who followed, screamed in shock.

"Lower the sails and stop the ship. Otherwise, sink them all!"

Another cold warning sounded from the megaphone on the destroyer.

This time, no one fought back.

One ship has already been sunk, and if you still dare to resist, sinking all of them is just a matter of firing a few more shots.

Under such circumstances, the Xu family fleet and the accompanying merchants could only return honestly under the escort of the destroyer.

After this battle, no sea-going ship dared to go out to sea in the Daming Sea again.

Marquis Huating had a direct conflict with Elder Xu Ge, and everyone was waiting for the final result.

When Lu Li received the report that the North Sea Fleet sank a ship belonging to the Xu family, he just curled his lips and didn't take it seriously.

At sea, I have the final say!This is the supremacy of the sea!

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Beijing.

Elder Xu Ge received a letter from the Xu family and learned about the fleet under Lu Li's command. He sank one of the Xu family's ships and blocked all the fleet back to the port.

Xu Ge's face was livid with anger, but he was helpless!

Because... Lu Li triumphantly submitted a memorial, submitting to the court a work summary of "Strictly implement the laws of the ancestors, clean up the sea area, and ensure that no sails can go into the sea".