The next day's court meeting, the scandal about the water division in eastern Zhejiang is still the main topic of mutual attack between the two camps of the eldest prince Zhu Gaochi and the second prince Zhu Gaoxu, although Zhu Di does not like this matter to be used by people with intentions, and constantly bring out this scandal that makes him sad, but he has no way to stop it.

The emperor is not freewheeling, he can make the final decision on the affairs of the state, but he cannot gag the ministers and prevent them from speaking, or coerce them to say only what they want to hear, he has this ability, but he cannot abuse this ability, otherwise it will cause greater harm to his rule. However, to his gratification, today some officials are finally willing to pay attention to other aspects, first of all, some people impeached the Chaohu Water Division for not fighting for a long time, and the battle formation is inexperienced, and it is difficult to take on the heavy task of suppressing the Japanese. Then there were people who impeached the commander of the Fuzhou Navy Division, Chizhong's family discord, and the quarrel between his mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, it is said that his private life was not very prophysical, and he once kept male prostitutes, Fujian was the most popular place for men, and it is said that he also refused to take care of his close relatives who came from afar, so that he lived on the streets, begging for a living, and so on...... Baidu brocade bar, yellow door, hand-played.

These things seem to have nothing to do with his role as the commander of the anti-Japanese fleet, but the conduct and deeds of officials in that era were originally the most important criterion for judging whether an official was competent or not. These reasons can certainly be used to attack him.

Regardless of whether the impeachment of these envoys is chasing the wind or not, at least this kind of movement is very gratifying to Zhu Di, so Zhu Di took over the note with a pleasant face and ordered Yousi to investigate. Immediately, Wu Youdao, Huang Zhen and other more than 20 imperial envoys have been sparse, severely accusing the Japanese of being troubled, the coastal people of the Ming Dynasty have been invaded, as the Ming Emperor's royal seal of the Japanese king, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu is suspected of conniving at the rampant Japanese Kou, even if it is not, it is also a lack of governance and the suppression of bandits. For such a vassal state, we should not be accommodating, and should refuse to reopen trade with that country in order to sanction it.

When the military ministers were entangled in the case of the water division in eastern Zhejiang and were busy fighting for the wind and infighting, there were still so many officials who focused on the overall situation, and their role was really no less than the source of living water, Zhu Di was surprised and delighted. So under Zhu Di's intentional guidance, Wu Baiguan had to express his views on this issue.

The court meeting on that day did not reach an agreement on whether to sanction Japan, but this topic has already been raised, so it will be easy to do, since the ministers have been involved, they have to carry out their own proposals, and tomorrow when the court is in session, there will definitely be people who will put forward their own views on this matter, so it will also divert everyone's attention to the Zhedong sailor scandal in disguise.

Zhu Di and Yan Dayue, in order to show their attention to this matter and their appreciation for Wu Youdao, Huang Zhen and others for their general knowledge and major bureaus, immediately asked Scholar Xie Jin to review the evaluation books of the two last year, and then promoted Wu Youdao to be the deputy imperial envoy and Huang Zhen to be the imperial envoy of the capital.

Chen Ying is the imperial envoy of the capital, the director of the Metropolitan Inspection Yuan, parallel to the ministry, and collectively known as the Seven Qings. Although the number of envoys of Wu Youdao's faction is relatively small, this promotion occupies two key positions in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Wu Youdao's party also has some capital to check and balance Chen Ying.

The emperor used this kind of action to express his dissatisfaction with everyone's excessive entanglement in the Zhedong Navy Scandal case, and some officials secretly woke up, and the momentum of attacking each other showed some signs of cooling down.

The court meeting has ended, Zhu Di deliberately left Xia Xun and summoned him to play in the palace.

During this time, Xia Xun was busy forming his own team to suppress the Japanese, and Zhu Di also ordered the major ships to strictly step up the construction of sea ships. Fortunately, in the Song and Yuan dynasties, shipping was very developed, and sea-building ships were no strangers to major shipyards, whether it was technology or personnel.

Therefore, during this period of time, the Longjiang Shipyard in Nanzhili, the Clipper Shipyard specializing in the production of sea boats, as well as the Ma Shipyard and the Yellow Shipyard are all manufacturing various ships such as warships and transport ships for the ocean, the Fuzhou Shipyard specializes in the production of large ocean warships Dafuku, and the Dongguan Shipyard in Xinhui, Guangdong Province specializes in the production of small ocean warships such as Hengjiang ships and Wuchu ships.

With the full support of the emperor and the care of the cabinet, preparations in all aspects were in full swing, and the production of corresponding naval weapons was also intensified, and the equipment of firearms was strengthened. Although this posture is not the strength of the country, the intensity of the court's attention and support is more than ten times stronger than that of the Eastern Zhejiang Navy Division.

The shame of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di must be snowy, so he spared no effort to support Xia Xun, but the corresponding responsibility of Xia Xun is heavier, with such support, if he loses the battle again, he will really not be able to explain to the world. No one needs to be impeached, he has to take the initiative to take responsibility.

The two monarchs and ministers had a serious exchange on various combat readiness situations in the palace, and finally Zhu Di instructed: "Lian is not very familiar with the ocean and sea ships, and during this time, Lian has specially learned about this matter. If we can eliminate the threat posed by the Japanese to our coastal areas, we believe that in the future, we can transport grain to the north as much as possible through the seaway. In this way, the layer of loss of river transport can be reduced, and both the speed and the dynamic transport volume are far greater than that of river transport. At the same time, it can also reduce the heavy burden of canal transportation, so that the river can be used for industrial and commercial transportation, do you think? ”

Xia Xun was overjoyed when he heard this, during this time, he has also been learning about the things of the ocean, with his historical knowledge that later generations know, combined with the actual situation he has mastered, he believes that it is unfair to blame the Ming Dynasty for giving up sea power to the official government under the cultivation of Confucianism because of its conservative and unthinking expansion, at least it is not the main reason.

The real reason why the Ming Dynasty gave up sea power should be that the driving force behind the Ming Dynasty's expansion to the sea gradually disappeared.

Since the Qin and Han dynasties, Confucianism has become the only official doctrine to be followed, and the world is controlled by Confucian disciples. When the emperors had the merit of expanding their territory, did the Confucian ministers cheer and praise it, or did they try their best to oppose it? Why do they welcome land expansion, but they don't welcome ocean expansion?

Why did they build the Great Wall when the land expanded to a certain extent, and they were satisfied? Can anyone find that the Great Wall is built inside and outside the world? Why is agriculture flourishing on the inside of the Great Wall, but green grass on the outside of the Great Wall? Was it because there was no one to plant or because the climate and farming conditions were no longer suitable for planting?

Although these ancient politicians may not have clearly recognized and taken this as the criterion of action subjectively, objectively they took this as the criterion of action, that is: interests! When the benefits of the war and the cost of occupation are brought to the ground, the expansion of the territory is supported and praised. On the contrary, if it is to use military force, it will be opposed by the ministers. Of course, this is not the only reason, but it is the main cause.

What to open up enough living space, or those seemingly desolate places that in fact have countless mineral deposits, so they should be occupied at all costs, are the pipe dreams of the unproductive descendants, and for the people of the time, there is no such reason. The current population is not more, but less, and there is no sense of oppression in the living space, and there is no way for people to develop and survey, to discover what treasures are buried in those barren underground. If it continues to expand, it will be a waste of money for the people and a loss of money, and it will be beyond their means, then it will naturally become something that everyone is trying to oppose.

In Zhu Yuanzhang's early years, the Ming Navy Division was still relatively strong, that was because the Ming Dynasty had the need to control the sea power at that time, they needed to fight against Zhang Shicheng, Fang Guozhen and other remnants of the forces that fled overseas, and they needed to strengthen the defense of the southeast coast, which constituted the driving force for the development of the navy in the early Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Di later went to Nanyang seven times to communicate with overseas countries, mainly for political needs, in order to promote foreign lands, but in this process, the fleet of the Ming Navy Division went all the way, like a giant ship grinding ants, swept away Chen Zuyi and other large and small pirate gangs, subdued the small Nanyang countries that were hostile to the Ming Dynasty one by one, and brought back a large number of Chinese who had been displaced in Nanyang since the Southern Song Dynasty, and the Nanyang Chinese trade network was greatly reduced......

At the same time, the strength of the Ming fleet also caused heavy losses to the Japanese pirates, and the rise of Japanese exploration and trade gave the Japanese organizers a legal trade channel, and the threat of the Japanese pirates also decreased during that period. All of the above makes it so that whether it is in terms of coastal defense and security, or in terms of trade monopoly, the sea is no longer a threat to the Ming Dynasty, nor can it bring more benefits, so when the political task is completed, no one pays attention to the importance of sea power.

Of course, these are just Xia Xun's thoughts, and there are actually some other reasons. For example, the flow of population is not only a large number of Nanyang Chinese returning to China, due to the establishment of Beijing, the original internal population and economic heart are also moving north, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and a large number of people migrating to the north, the most populous Zhejiang area, in the Yongle Dynasty when half of the local population moved to the north, this series of changes, all made the Ming Empire's interest in the sea less and less.

At the same time, the rise of Tatar and Warat also made the strategic heart of the Ming Empire inevitably move northward, and gradually formed the Continental Army doctrine of army construction.

At this time, the military expenditure of the Ming Empire will inevitably be inclined to the north, to the infantry and cavalry, not only can the navy not be built, but the military budget has been reduced and misappropriated, and in the end, the fleet can only rot in the harbor, the navigation data is destroyed by the Ministry of War, the construction of ocean-going ships is stopped, overseas private trade is strictly prohibited, and the sea power is surrendered.

Although Xia Xun's understanding is not comprehensive, he has faintly discovered the essence of the problem, so when he heard Zhu Di's idea, he was very happy.

Zhu Di is a rare emperor who is willing to attach importance to sea power, although his original purpose is at the political level, and it is not enough to support the long-term sustainable development of Daming's sea power, but if he can add fuel to the fire and strengthen the actual benefits of Daming in the process of developing the sea, then, will Daming's warships still rot in the dock? Will the Ming Dynasty still be a century behind the West when it realizes the importance of sea power?

Xia Xun was overjoyed, and when he became Huang Zhen's second, he poured out to Zhu Di without money.

Zhu Di has been very depressed these days because of the scandal of the Zheshui East Division, but now he was amused by Xia Xun, he waved his hand and smiled: "Okay, okay, if you keep shooting, you will become a bewitching minister, hehe, the Japanese envoys have arrived in Beijing, and the Ministry of Rites is dragging them around, when do you plan to negotiate with them?" ”

Xia Xun said with a smile: "Tomorrow, the county wants to first welcome the Dingguo Mansion and visit General Chizhong!" ”

Zhu Di glanced at him with a smile and said, "The two people you chose have a lot of criticism from the ministers!" ”

Xia Xun said: "If you don't attract people's jealousy, you are mediocre, and you are ignorant of them, but you are full of confidence!" ”

Zhu Di, who was criticized by others, empathized with this sentence, and said with a smile: "Okay, since you want to use it, then use it boldly, and fully support it!" But if you come back from defeat, Lian won't spare you! ”

Xia Xun responded with a smile, and the two of them talked for a while, and Xia Xun left the palace.

Xia Xun did not return to the palace after leaving the palace, but went directly to the Dingguo Mansion. When Xu Jingchang, the Duke of Dingguo, came back from the early dynasty, he told him about the attacks of the imperial envoys and officials on Chizhong, and made Chizhong's face turn red with anger. People look down on Wu Chen, and Wu Chen has always looked down on Wu Chen, this uncle and nephew are hurting the minister with you and me, and someone came in to report that Yang Xu, the Duke of Fuguo, was here.

When the two heard this, they hurriedly greeted them.

As soon as he saw Xu Jingchang, Xia Xun smiled and said: "Dingguo Gong, I heard that General Chizhong has arrived in Beijing, no, I'll come after the play, I'm going to the East China Sea, this fame is all thanks to General Chi, don't you invite General Chi out and introduce him?" ”

In fact, he had already seen Chi Zhong in regular clothes on Xu Jingchang's side, Xu Jingchang and Chi Zhong came out to greet each other, and they both brought a personal entourage with them, but the guest of honor and entourage, it could be seen from the standing, clothing, and demeanor, Xia Xun only glanced at it, and knew that the young man next to Xu Jingchang was Chi Zhong. Seeing Chizhong at first glance, Xia Xun couldn't help but be a little surprised, listening to this name, and then listening to Xu Ming'er's introduction, in his imagination, this Chizhong general must be eight feet tall, mighty, decisive, resolute and brave A tiger general, but this look, I really can't see a little military style.

This Chi Zhong figure, etc., the body has been blessed, it is by no means a body of tendon meat, it is indeed a little blessed, the belly is slightly shy, a body of fine skin and white meat, it is obvious that he is usually pampered. That face can't be seen at all majestic and domineering, with long narrow eyes, a fleshy nose, and a little bit of Lei Gong's mouth, his appearance is not good.

Although it is said that people should not be discognizable, but this is also ...... Everyone loves Thirteen Niang, and everyone drinks Mumu milk.

When Xia Xun secretly looked at Chi Zhong, the personal attendant next to Chi Zhong stared at Xia Xun with wide eyes, already stunned!

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