Chapter 84 The World

Yu Xiaotian touched his nose with some embarrassment. In fact, Chongzhen hated it. It was enough for ordinary people to hear this. He wanted Chongzhen to believe that he did it for the sake of the Ming Dynasty. It was really not so easy to deceive Chongzhen.

But he still defended himself, "Your Holy, if you say so, there is nothing Weichen can do!"

"But please think about it. First, although it is true that Weichen took Taiwan Yuan Island, may I ask the Holy One that the red-haired people occupied Penghu in the year of the Tianqi period, and the Fujian officers and soldiers conquered Penghu. What is the result? I'm afraid that the emperor is not clear. At the beginning, the officers and soldiers gathered 20,000 troops to go to Penghu, and the red-haired people who occupied Penghu had only less than 1,000 troops, but the Fujian officers and soldiers could not overcome them.

Later, when the leader could not be captured, the Fujian official made an appointment with the red-haired man and let the red-haired man withdraw from Penghu and retreat to Taiwan member island to build a city!

This means that at that time, the court did not regard Taiwan Member Island as a Ming territory, but as an enclave, and it would be fine for anyone to occupy it.

At that time, Weichen was still a thief at sea and did not hesitate to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to gain a firm foothold on Taiwan Yuan Island, and controlled Taiwan Yuan Island after repeatedly fighting with the Red-haired people and the Gan Lasi people.

At that time, countless subordinates of Weichen died on Taiwan Member Island, and Weichen occupied Taiwan Member Island first and was touched after being touched, which means that Weichen did not send troops to Taiwan Member Island without authorization after being touched.

In addition, Weichen knows more about the practices of Daming local officials than the emperor. If Taiyuan Island is handed over to the court and let the court send local officials, then Weichen can guarantee that with the behavior of these local officials, it is impossible to operate Taiyuan Island into the current scene.

In addition, the emperor said that Weichen occupied land in Fujian, occupied Weitou Bay, and collected taxes from those merchants who went to sea to trade, which Weichen did not deny.

However, the emperor should understand that Daming did not publicly admit that he could legally allow these merchants to go abroad for overseas trade, so what Weichen charged them was only protection fees.

The court wants Weichen to Pingjing Sea, and Weichen needs to have a boat to do it. If there is no money, Weichen is also difficult for a skillful woman to cook without rice. Naturally, this is not a Pingjing sea. Following the previous practice of Fujian and Guangxi, I'm afraid that there are still bandits in the southeast sea, so Weichen did this for the Ming Dynasty. .

It was by collecting fees from these Tonghai merchants that he raised a strong soldier who could dominate the sea that he was able to appease the pirates along the southeast coast for the court, so that he could no longer be a disaster!

So it's not a big mistake to do this! It can be said that it is taken from the people, used for the people, and done the things of Pingjing Hai bandits for the imperial court!

However, Weichen did not agree with Weichen's self-respecting army. If it hadn't been for the efforts of Weichen to create such a strong soldier, how could Weichen do it if the court had adjusted Weichen to the north to calm down the Denglai Rebellion?

And it is impossible to build a strong soldier, like those Ming military generals, by drinking the blood of soldiers and deducting food and salary to enrich their own pockets.

The emperor knows that although Fujian has also allocated grain and salaries to Weichen over the years, the grain and salaries allocated by these governments are far from enough to support so many soldiers.

Moreover, Weichen never deducts a penny of salary from his soldiers. On the contrary, the salary given to them is far beyond the quota given by the court. Only when the soldiers are full and warm can they work at ease and give heavy care of casualties, so that they can go forward! Can the emperor think that such a strong soldier can be created only by relying on the grain and salaries allocated by the government?

Besides, I'm afraid that the emperor has heard that the firearms under the command of Weichen will be sharp, but does the emperor know how much money it takes to build a 700-material warship? How much does it cost to build a Hongyi cannon? How much does it cost to build a good bird?

If anyone wants to build an elite division, especially the firearm-based elite under the command of Weichen, it can be said that it is piled up by silver, close to the grain and salary allocated by the court to Weichen, and even the clothes of the soldiers and generals are not enough to wear, how can they build an elite?

Therefore, Weichen needs money, and it is impossible to build an iron army without money, and Weichen can also tell the emperor that the number of soldiers and horses is no longer the key factor affecting the battlefield. Since ancient times, there have been words in military tactics, and there are few soldiers, which is the reason why Yu can do this now.

If Yu doesn't find a way to make money, how can he help the pirates on the southeast coast of Pingjing now? How can we help the court calm down the Denglai Rebellion? How to disintegrate the ice of the Jiannu army?

Daming has been sitting in Baoshan for so many years, but he has not got any benefits. The products of Daming have been continuously sold abroad by those merchants, but they have not received any benefits. In order to export goods, these merchants have competed to squeeze prices with each other, and the benefits have been earned by those Thais.

Even if they make money, they only fill the private pockets of those profiteers, cheap those local officials, make them full of pots, and raise their brains full of fat, but for Daming, there is no benefit at all.

After pacified the sea, he rebuilt the order at sea, curbed the pirates' invasion of maritime merchants, made it safer to go to sea merchants, and designated a series of rules to abide by the sea and earned countless benefits for Daming. Why should Weichen get rewards from it? Does the emperor think that this silver is better than what I earned for those red-haired devils and those profiteers and corrupt officials?

Speaking of this, I'm afraid Weichen is going to talk about the general trend of the world! ......”

Chongzhen snorted coldly and said disdainfully about Xiaotian's defense: "Strong words are unreasonable! I won't argue with you! In this world, am I not even as good as you?"

"It's not! I'm afraid that the general trend of the world mentioned by the emperor is limited to the Ming Dynasty, but Weichen wants to ask the emperor, what is outside the Ming Dynasty and the sea in the far east? Where is Taixi? What is the land in the far south? What is the land in the far north? Yu Xiaotian shook his head and refuted Chongzhen.

Chongzhen thought for a moment and said with a sneer, "I don't know, but do you know?"

Yu Xiaotian nodded and said seriously, "Of course! I'm afraid that the emperor doesn't even know what the shape of the land under his feet is, but Weichen knows it!"

Chongzhen is also a well-learned man. He is quite unconvinced about this and refuted Yu Xiaotian. Chongzhen accepted the old-style theory of heaven and earth. In ancient China, the sky was regarded as round, but the earth was square, so there was a saying that China was in the middle of the world, so he claimed to be China, but it was not clear. What countries exist in Chu, which is farther away from the world.

In the past few decades, with the increasing appearance of Europeans in Asia, people know that there are many small countries far away in the West, collectively known as Taixi, but no one knows what is on the other side of the eastern ocean. They only think that when it comes to the sea, there is no sea. Marginal.

Yu Xiaotian listened to Chongzhen's words, shook his head with a smile, took out a very exquisite globe made of exquisite glass, put it in front of Chongzhen, and then took out a hand-painted world map, which was also placed on the dragon case in front of Chongzhen.

Pointing to this globe and world map, Yu Xiaotian began to give a world geography literacy lesson to Chongzhen...

There has been no roar of Chongzhen in the hall for a long time. I can only hear Yu Xiaotian's unique voice and say something to Chongzhen. Both sides outside are staring. Even if they listen to it with their ears, they can't really hear it.

Yu Xiaotian gave Chongzhen a world geography class in the hall for more than an hour. During this period, his mouth was dry and people sent tea to drink.

And Chongzhen also heard such a new thing for the first time. Although he hated Xiaotian, it did not prevent him from being curious about the unknown things in the world.

During the period, Chongzhen doubted some of Xiaotian's statements, but Yu Xiaotian found many supporting evidence to prove the correctness of his statement.

Chongzhen asked Yu Xiaotian why he knew so much. Yu Xiaotian simply lied that he had sent people to these places. In addition, he also drew maps drawn by Thai people, so he knew so clearly. Moreover, he also said that there were still many unknown places in the world waiting for people to discover.

He even told Chongzhen that he was not born in the Ming Dynasty, but in a very distant place, but he was a Han Chinese. There is no doubt that the blood of the pure Han people flowed in his veins, so he hoped to do something for the Han people.

Now this era is the era of geographical discovery, the era when some maritime powers divide up the world. The Ming Dynasty is already a step late. If this era is missed, the Chinese nation will always be left behind, and it may be difficult to catch up with the Taixi people in the future.

The two kept talking until noon, and Chongzhen became more and more silent. After he ascended the throne for so many years, he had almost never paid attention to what happened outside the Ming Dynasty.

But he still knows that many Thai people have come to Daming from far away, and few people can say where they come from.

And Yu Xiaotian's words about him today have completely subverted his previous worldview. He has always believed that Daming is already very big, but when Yu Xiaotian presented this world map in front of him, he found Daming on the world map and found that Daming was actually here. The world is not big, or even small. It only occupies a corner of Asia in the world, and there is nothing to show off.

In history, the emperor of any dynasty in China regarded himself as the master of the whole world, believing that this is the center of the earth. Even if there are some small countries in other places, they can only be regarded as some small countries that can't compete with China at all, so it is reasonable for all nations to come to the dynasty.

But today, after listening to Yu Xiaotian's class, Chongzhen found that he was actually a frog in the bottom of the well. He didn't know how big the world was. It was ridiculous. All the previous accumulated prides seemed to have become arrogant now. This It makes Chongzhen very uncomfortable.

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