The Ming Dynasty’s Prodigal Son - Chapter 1207

[1207. Chapter 1152 Fang Dashan will help you make a fortune]

. This is the benefit of Fang Jifan.

No matter what his disciples and disciples wanted to do, Fang Jifan could always do his best to support them.

This is not ordinary spiritual support. Generally, people who give spiritual support at every turn are scum, but Fang Jifan is different. He also provides material protection.

Crossing the Bering Strait is of great significance.

On the one hand, it has found a way to cross two continents overland and reach Alaska directly.

You know, Golden Continent is so big that under the current traffic conditions, it is impossible to go from east to west or from north to south.

Xu Jing and others found a way to reach the Golden Continent through Kunlun Continent, so they are now continuously migrating people to central America or Venezuela in later generations.

The Zhang Heling brothers found a way to cross the Pacific. They could ride the ocean currents to the east coast of Mexico, and then spread throughout the Southern Golden Continent to establish settlements.

But when people arrived in this vast Golden Continent, how to build more settlements became a problem again. There is a huge desert between the South Golden Continent and the North Golden Continent. Under the current conditions, it is difficult to Crossing over is difficult. Needless to say, between the two, there may be natives with unknown enemies and friends at any time, and they may even encounter Francois. Not to mention, there are countless forests and mountains across them.

If you want to reach the Northern Golden Continent directly, or even get there before the Francois, slowly establishing settlements one by one and passing directly through the Bering Strait is one of the ways.

Although there are countless dangers and obstacles in this process, it can be said to be extremely difficult, but no matter how difficult it is, compared with the big voyage, it is actually only half a pound of weight.

In this era, it is extremely difficult to break through geographical limitations. The great voyage of the Francois was also paved with blood and tears.

In addition, the most important thing about this adventure is to accumulate enough experience and slowly figure out a method in the vast ice field.

After the great voyage in history, countless adventure teams appeared in Franji. They crossed swamps, crossed ice fields, and crossed deserts. People only saw the majesty of the great voyage, but little did they know that countless explorers were everywhere in the world. All around, leaving footprints.

Now, the Little Ice Age is nothing more than an opportunity.

Fang Jifan cheered up and immediately went to the palace.

Emperor Hongzhi didn’t expect that Fang Jifan would take the initiative to come to see him when the sun came out in the west, so he said with a face: “If you have nothing to do, don’t go to the Three Treasures Hall.”

“Yes.” Fang Jifan said, “I have a copy of the charter here. Please take a look at it.”

Xiao Jing sent the charter to Emperor Hongzhi. Emperor Hongzhi opened it, took a look, and said in surprise: “Why go to the West when you can go to Huanghuangzhou by land…”

“Uh…” Fang Jifan was silent. After a moment: “Your Majesty, the land route is also very dangerous. It needs to cross straits and ice fields, and there is endless ice and snow. My dear…”

“Oh.” Emperor Hongzhi frowned: “So, this risk is even greater than that of sailing. Bigger.”

Fang Jifan said: “Among the brothers, the person who proposed this theory was Wang Wenyu, my disciple. Your Majesty must have an impression of Wang Wenyu. He was the person who proposed the round earth theory at the beginning. He served as an official in the Academy of Sciences. As a Hanlin scholar, he was consulted on many things that His Majesty wanted to do when he was waiting in the palace. He volunteered and hoped to organize an expedition to open up a land route. “

Emperor Hongzhi took a breath.

These guys from Xishan Academy are really crazier than the last.

Going up the mountains and into the sea, everyone seems to be risking his life.

Emperor Hongzhi had read the map.

The slave Gandusi that the Ming Dynasty could control was extremely cold, which was the limit of human activities. They still had to go north, or even… east, to cross a frozen strait.

Not to mention, God knows whether the strait is frozen or not. What if the top is just floating ice?

There are really too many variables here.

Emperor Hongzhi asked: “Does this expedition team need to be of such a huge scale?”

“Yes, prepare a scale of at least two thousand people. Your Majesty, on the one hand, we need enough manpower to help each other. Only then will they have a greater chance of survival.” Some, and since you want to cross the strait, you must have enough supplies. On the thousands-mile ice field, supplies are easy to handle. The snow is smooth. If you have a sled, you can bring enough supplies. But the most terrifying thing is. In that snowy field, they may be attacked by wolves and other beasts at any time. If the number of people is too small, a single wolf attack is enough to wipe out their entire army…”

Fang Jifan wanted to play a big game.

“In this case, how much silver is needed?” Emperor Hongzhi frowned again.

Fang Jifan thought for a while: “Here in Xishan, we are preparing to raise one hundred thousand taels. If it is your majesty’s internal funds, I will also be willing to spend some…”

Emperor Hongzhi pondered for a long time: “Since there are so many people, and they are all my warriors of the Ming Dynasty, , If you can really cross this ice field, it will be a great achievement.”

As he said, he ordered people to take out the map.

At present, the entire west coast of the Golden Continent is criss-crossed with many Franco and Ming settlements. This is the information obtained by the factory guards from the Franco people. It is extremely inaccurate, but it can be determined that many Francos Robots, there are already quite a few settlements on the east coast of Northern Golden Continent.

But between the North and South Golden Continent, there is a desert. For people like Lu Guogong, this is nothing more than a natural chasm.

In order to catch up with the Franconian people in the Northern Golden Continent, the rapid migration of a large number of people from the Northern Golden Continent, especially to its west coast, formed a rivalry with the immigrants from the Southern Golden Continent, and suppressed the Franconian people. Man, then…that seems to be an option.

Emperor Hongzhi tapped the document gently with his hand: “This is the foundation of the country. Only success is allowed, failure is not allowed. I also put out one hundred thousand taels of silver. If it is not enough, please go and raise it. I have always been thinking about the relationship between the DPRK and the government about gold.” There are not many people who are enthusiastic about the Golden Continent. It seems that the management of the Golden Continent has nothing to do with them. My ministers cannot teach them to stay out of it. “Jifan, what do you think?”

“This is easy to handle,” Fang Jifan said. Privately raising money, fooling… no, not fooling, recruiting funds for expeditions from hundreds of officials, and at the same time, giving dividends on the proceeds of the expedition. What do you think, your majesty?”

Emperor Hongzhi smiled: “Sure enough, you still have a way. But…are they willing?”

Fang Jifan said, “If you tell them that this expedition has a narrow escape, they will definitely refuse.”

Emperor Hongzhi said, “I don’t care how to deal with it.”

“Understood.” Fang Jifan felt happy.

Emperor Hongzhi added: “These days, clan members are starting to come to Beijing one after another. These are all relatives of the emperor. When they come to Beijing, I can’t just leave them alone. I have to let them stay in Beijing comfortably.” It’s better to obey. This time… let Prince Xing, my younger brother, take charge of the clan affairs. You are the prince-in-law, so you have to help me.”

Fang Jifan nodded: “I understand, Xing. His Royal Highness’s house is almost complete.

………

The expedition team began to be formed.

This is the first geographical expedition team of Xishan Academy, and their first expedition directly chose the hell mode.

Therefore, Fang Jifan needed to recruit a large number of manpower, prepare dry food along the way, as well as clothing to keep out the cold, and all materials.

The cost of this is not small.

Because what they have to face is extremely bad weather, just clothes to keep out the cold, not ordinary clothes. In order to ensure that they do not freeze to death, all clothes need to be specially made.

Dry food should not only be portable but also be able to provide enough calories.

There are also weapons, and encountering a pack of wolves is no joke.

Medicines also need to be well prepared.

Most of the people selected were sergeants from Liaodong, who had a certain understanding of the snowy weather.

And be sure to be a loyal minister enough. Under heavy reward, there must be a brave man who can be rewarded heavily, which is silver.

After hearing that there was a land route that could reach Golden Continent, many people suddenly became curious.

After that, Xishan began to issue adventure stocks.

If you are willing to fund the expedition to reach the other side of the Pacific, the mines and land discovered by the expedition can be distributed in proportion to the shares in the future.

Immediately, news came out that one hundred thousand silver was invested in the palace, and one hundred thousand silver was invested in Xishan.

At this time, many people could not sit still.

Overland…

That Golden Continent has long been proven to contain countless fertile lands and minerals.

In the past few years, the Ming Dynasty has become more and more dependent on minerals. Of course, it is obviously unrealistic to supply the minerals of the distant Golden Continent to supply the needs of the Ming Dynasty, but… there are many precious metals in the Golden Continent.

Everyone has seen this thing with their own eyes. Countless ships directly brought gold and silver to Tianjin Port. I don’t know how many people became rich overnight because of this.

But now, the Golden Continent can be reached by land.

If we can really reach it, wouldn’t it be…a tenfold or a hundredfold reward?

The Zhang brothers were the first to become unable to sit still.

After that, many people began to gather around Xishan and inquire about the truth of the news.

But here in Xishan, it’s just hesitating.

Fang Jifan was ill.

Good guy… Duke Guo of Qi is actually sick. He is young and not sick at other times, but he happened to be sick at this time. This piece of shit doesn’t want to bring everyone with him when he gets rich.

The more this happens, the more anxious everyone becomes.

Nowadays, the value of money is depreciating day by day. In addition to buying a house, it is really worrying to keep money in your hands and watch your wealth shrink day by day.

Now that there is such a good thing… everyone was a little confused at first, why… Xishan would issue stock certificates, but then, some people figured it out.

First, the palace bought shares, and then Xishan. The palace invested one hundred thousand taels. How dare the Fang family have more shares than His Majesty? Therefore, they could only invest one hundred thousand taels, but where could they raise the rest of the money? ?

(End of chapter)