The whole Mafu is divided into the front yard and the east and west cross courtyards, Zheng He occupies the east cross courtyard, and the west side is left to his son, Zheng Enlai to live.

Zheng He is a person who knows how to enjoy it, after years of his own single-handedly built, today's Ma family mansion can be said to be an elegant and exquisite garden building, rockeries, corridors, pavilions, everywhere, all kinds of exotic flowers and plants dotted among them, making the whole mansion like a small garden.

At this time, a tall horse stopped outside the house, and a burly man on horseback hurriedly walked in.

This man is none other than Zheng He's stepson Zheng Enlai, he walked to the East Garden with a gust of wind, the East Courtyard is not as big as the world imagined, but it seems a little narrow, in addition to a small attic, there are many exotic flowers and plants, and even planted with rare grain trees, Po Sa trees and other odd numbers.

Zheng En didn't have time to take a closer look, he went up to the attic, the attic is divided into three floors, hidden in a dense green bamboo, only slightly exposed the corner of the eaves of the small building, the early morning fog is filled, the morning sun is obliquely shining, occasionally the breeze blows, the green bamboo is swaying, quiet and claustrophobic, it is really a residence.

Zheng Enlai stood still in front of the door on the second floor, knocked lightly, and shouted softly, "Father-?"

There was silence inside, followed by Zheng He's voice: "Come in, the door is unlocked?"

Zheng Enlai answered, gently pushed open the door, the ancient door made a babbling sound, which looked extremely moving in the early morning.

The furnishings of the small building are extremely simple, in addition to a bookshelf on the left side with dense ancient books, there is also a bookshelf on the right, and the shelves are mostly placed with various stones, coral reefs and other decorations, but compared to the two bookshelves, the huge drawing in the middle direction is more eye-catching.

This is a nautical chart, the original name is "Zibao Shipyard sailed from Longjiang Pass to foreign countries", because of its lengthy name, later generations referred to as "Zheng He's nautical chart". The whole picture is in the form of a long scroll. From right to left, one page in order, twenty pages of drawings, and finally two pages of "Crossing the Ocean and Pulling Stars". The map is the meaning of Zheng He's route to the Western Ocean, which is based on the practice of Zheng He's fleet six voyages to the Western Ocean and the practice of voyages on the basis of inheriting the navigation experience of his predecessors.

The basic route depicted on the map takes Nanjing as the www.biquge.info of Biquge, goes down the river, goes south along the coast after going to sea, along the coast of the Indochina Peninsula and the Malay Peninsula, crosses the Strait of Malacca, and passes through the Ceylon Mountains (present-day Sri Lanka) to the country of Tashan (present-day Maldives). It was divided into two routes, one across the Indian Ocean to the east coast of Africa, and the other from the mountain country across Arabia to Khurumus.

It is rare that the mountains, islands, bridges, temples, cities and other objects in the Western Ocean are drawn in the form of traditional Chinese landscape paintings, which are intuitive and easy to identify during navigation. The main countries, states, counties, health offices, and inspectors are marked with boxes to show their importance. A total of more than 533 names are drawn on the map, and there are more than 50 round-trip routes, which is the largest number of navigation charts in the past.

At this time, Zheng He was carefully using a white handkerchief to gently wipe the chart, moving slowly and gently, his eyes followed the sea line, slowly moving, as if at this moment he was taking a treasure ship, from Liujiagang in Taicang, leading more than 27,000 people to sail to the western Pacific, all the way to Java, Sumatra, Sulu, Pahang, Chenla, Guli, Siam, Punggara, Adan, Tianfang, Zhofar, Kurumus, More than 30 countries, such as wood and bones, used porcelain and tea from the Ming Dynasty to exchange spices, dyes, precious stones, elephant skins, and rare and exotic beasts that the Ming Dynasty lacked......?"

Zheng He watched carefully, his eyes getting brighter and brighter, and finally his eyes stayed on a red circle in a certain part of the drawing for a long time, that is, Mecca, the place where he needed to make a pilgrimage.

In this way, I don't know how long it took before I heard Zheng He exhale lightly, turned around, put the spotless square handkerchief into his sleeve, and fell into his seat before he said softly: "Say, what news did Jinghong bring back to you?"

Zheng Enlai hurriedly said: "The prince asked the child to sue his father, Lord Chen insisted on inspecting the loss of silver in Dabao'en Temple, it seems that most of them are coming at his father, and the prince asked the child to tell his father, so be careful?"

Zheng He nodded, then frowned and muttered for a moment, then slowly raised his head and asked, "Does the prince have any opinions on this matter?"

Zheng Enlai said: "The prince said that the prince is quite protective of his father, and he doesn't seem to believe that the 500,000 taels of silver fell into the hands of his father?"

Zheng He's eyes lit up and said, "Does the prince really say that?"

Zheng Enlai nodded solemnly and said, "Yes!"

Zheng He's originally sad face slowly welled up with a smile, it seems that this prince still has some affection for me Zheng He, it is rare that he can still trust me at this time, so I am afraid that my move to the West will fall on him.

"Daddy-?" Zheng Enlai looked a little unnatural when he heard about the West.

Zheng He glanced at him and said, "Do you have anything to say?"

Zheng Enlai hesitated for a moment and said, "Does Daddy still want to go to the West?"

Zheng He's expression froze, and said: "It is my father's lifelong wish to go to the West again, if there is the emperor's support, I, Zheng He, will definitely lead the Ming treasure ship again, sail out to sea, and strengthen my Ming national prestige?"

Zheng Enlai sighed softly and said: "Daddy is dedicated to strengthening the national prestige of my Ming Dynasty, and he has gone to the West six times over the years, and he has worked hard and made great achievements, but what in the end, as soon as Emperor Chengzu died, the new emperor ascended the throne and scolded Daddy's Western behavior, and it was even more hateful that those literati, Daddy's trip to the West obviously made a lot of benefits for my Ming Dynasty, but they said that it was a move to work the people and hurt money, and those with ulterior motives even said that Daddy's trip to the West was unbearable-?"

Zheng He silently listened to his son's complaints, and surprisingly there was no anger on his face, but a calm face, it was really more than a year, all kinds of duties, insults, he heard a lot, one thing, if a person heard too much, he would be numb.

He glanced at his son in front of him with a smile, and said with a smile: "These are nothing, are they a waste of money and labor, those literati know better than anyone else?"

"They know that why do they say that Daddy's trip to the West is useless, that is, the current saint-?" "Even the current emperor has a lot of reprimands for his trip to the West!"

Zheng He waved his hand indifferently and said, "This is the genius of the literati? They know that during the Yongle period, Chengzu built an ocean-going fleet, and at the same time built Beijing City, built the Forbidden City, built the Changping Imperial Mausoleum, sent troops to the Northern Yuan Dynasty five times, repaired the Great Wall, and dredged the North-South Grand Canal." All of them are nationwide projects, and miscellaneous taxes are being paid, which is not enough to support Emperor Yongle's large-scale spending again and again, where does this silver come from, and it is not that I, Zheng He, went to the West to earn a large amount of silver taels for the imperial court, so that Emperor Yongle has such confidence to act again and again.

Zheng Enlai, as the son of Zheng He, heard more about going to the West than others, but in the past year or so, he has heard the argument that going to the West is really a move to work the people and lose money, although he has preached the prestige of the Ming Dynasty and all nations have come to the court, but the Ming treasury has paid a lot, but it has never had the corresponding income, so it has attracted the dissatisfaction of today's saints, and the first order after ascending the throne is to stop going to the West! If he hadn't heard Zheng He talk about it with his own ears, he would have thought that the minister was talking nonsense?

Zheng He was immersed in the pride of going to the West, and he didn't notice the surprise in his son's eyes at all, and continued: "Not to mention, it is to bring back pepper from overseas countries, this kind of medicinal material needs a lot of pepper in my Ming Dynasty every year, but my Ming production is very small, after I went to the West, I paid tribute from coastal countries, and its price was equivalent to gold, which was twenty times that of the country of origin." By the fifth year of Yongle, the market price per catty of pepper in Daming had dropped to ten times. Today, the price of pepper has fallen to 100 yuan per catty. I need more than 10,000 pounds of pepper for a year. Moreover, my father went to the West six times and brought back pepper, peony, cloves, beans, agarwood, wood, dipteroscope, etc., as well as a large number of Chinese medicinal materials that are rare and in short supply in China, such as Dafengzi, Evil Tomato, Blood Exhaustion, Sulfur, Rhino Horn and Antelope Horn, etc., as many as one hundred and sixty-four kinds, including aromatic herbs alone, and these medicinal materials are not profitable in my Ming Dynasty. Zheng He seemed to spit out the evil anger in his heart, and his tone unconsciously increased a few points.

Zheng Enlai didn't know how profitable it was to go to the West, and when he heard Zheng He say this, it didn't seem to be fake, he pondered for a moment, and said: "Since there is such a big deal in the West, why do the literati keep saying that the Ming household department is overstretched, and His Majesty stopped going to the West?"

Zheng He laughed and said: "I have been in the Ming Dynasty since the Yongle Emperor ascended the throne, built Beijing City internally, compiled the Yongle Canon, moved the capital, and externally conquered Jiaozhi in the south and Mengyuan in the north, using troops everywhere and spending money everywhere, but the people are full, the government is overflowing, and it is known as the prosperous era of Yongle. A trip to the West is a great move that is beneficial to the country, and it must never be stopped?"

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I'm going to go out to play today.,It's a little vacation for yourself for more than a year.,So this chapter is sent early.,Please rejoice!