The only effect of the trend of the world situation on Gao Pragmatic is to increase his sense of urgency, but he has taken these situations into account in the plan he made at the beginning of the crossing, so he is not worried, at most he is to re-examine whether there are any mistakes or omissions in his plan.

He has never been as optimistic about the Ming Dynasty going to the ocean, as if as long as there is a leader who insists on opening the sea and colonizing, he can easily complete the huge transformation to the ocean.

China's territory is too vast, and the Chinese's "mainland policy" is too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, not to mention that the vast majority of Chinese in this era have never seen the sea at all in their lives, and it is impossible for them to casually abandon their thousand-year-old habits, abandon their ancestral idea of returning to their roots, and run to the "other side of the sea" to engage in colonial exploration.

The fox dies on the head hill, the fallen leaves return to the roots, this is the thinking of the Chinese who have inherited thousands of years, unless it is absolutely necessary, who is willing to die overseas thousands of miles away, and the ancestral grave cannot enter?

Not to mention China, even the early Western colonizers, most of whom were unable to get along in their own countries, had to be forced to go to the ocean. And those countries that engaged in colonial expansion from the beginning had to do so because there was no hope for land expansion at all.

For example, Portugal, the first country to carry out colonial expansion, has only one semi-encircled power, Castile (the predecessor of Spain), in addition to the Atlantic Ocean, which is not at all something it can afford to provoke, and Portugal has no choice but to consider expanding through the sea.

Castile, on the other hand, saw the benefits of Portugal's maritime expansion, so it followed suit and embarked on the road of colonial empire. Later, England, France, the Netherlands, and so on, were stimulated by the enormous gains from the Spanish Empire's maritime expansion, and they tended to keep up with this trend.

Why have the Chinese not been interested in overseas expansion for thousands of years?

The question is actually really complicated, some people say that China's land territory is so vast that it has reached the limit of its ruling power at that time; Some say that northern China has always been threatened by nomads and has no spare energy for overseas expansion; Some say that the poison of Confucianism caused China to lose interest in foreign expansion; Some people even say that Chinese have been peace-loving since ancient times......

Except for the fact that the Chinese have been peace-loving since ancient times, Gao pragmatically agrees with some of the above views, but at the same time believes that these views are not complete.

At least there is one thing that Gao thinks is important, and none of the above mentions whether the benefits of overseas expansion can outweigh the cost of ruling overseas territories.

To put it more simply: expanding overseas is a profit or a loss. Even if it's earning, is it earning enough? Isn't it worth the manpower, material and financial resources that the court spent to rule these overseas territories?

It's too far away, not to mention, in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, it was not without territory in Nanyang - the Old Port Propaganda Department understands?

According to the records of Yingya Shenglan, at that time in the South Sea country of Java (Java Island, Indonesia), the country was divided into three classes, the first class was the Tang people, that is, Chinese; The second class is the Arabs, the third class is the locals, the Tang people have the highest level of food and clothing, and the natives are the most vulgar.

At the same time, in the old port country of Nanyang (the old port of Malaysia), there were already many Chinese at that time, and most of the rich people in the land were Ming people who went down to Nanyang from the coast of Guangdong, and they mastered most of the local land and land, bringing advanced means of production and living to the local area, and were deeply respected by the locals.

It was here that Zheng He eliminated the pirate king Chen Zuyi, and later the Yongle Emperor set up the Old Port Propaganda Department here. At that time, Manraka originally had no king, but was only a dependency of Siam, which was administered by a governor sent by the king of Siam. Later, when Zheng He went to the West for the third time, he brought an edict from the emperor of the Celestial Empire, appointing the governor as the king of Manraka, and Manraka founded the country, and Siam did not dare to disobey after learning the news, and even did not dare to send troops to recover, which was the national prestige of the Celestial Empire at that time!

But even so, the Ming court still did not pay much attention to Nanyang, and later generations had two completely different views on this situation.

One of the most mainstream views is that the move to the West is costly, has no profit, and is completely at a loss, so as soon as Chengzu died, the imperial court stopped this waste of national strength.

Another point of view is to find a lot of historical materials to prove that going to Nanyang is actually a profitable thing, but because the matter of going to Nanyang is in the hands of the emperor and eunuchs from beginning to end, and the civil official group has no profit in it, so they fool the emperors of all generations after Chengzu and tell them that going to Nanyang is a ridiculous move to waste the people's fat and ointment.

With the great talent of Chengzu, he would send Zheng He to the West seven times in order to simply declare his national prestige? Or do you act like this in order to find Zhu Yunwen?

Are you kidding! When Zhu Yunwen owned the whole world, he had a million soldiers, and Cheng Zu dared to raise troops with a mere 800 guards, but after he himself sat on the world, would he be afraid of Zhu Yunwen, a hairy phoenix?

Don't be funny, it's Zhu Di, even if he is replaced by high pragmatism, he won't be afraid! This situation can also make you Zhu Yunwen turn the tables against the wind, Lao Tzu just find a piece of tofu and hit it headlong to death!

Therefore, Gao Pragmatic is more willing to believe that the main reason why the Ming Dynasty is unwilling to focus on the South Seas is precisely because the civil official group was unable to exert influence and gain benefits in the major event of Nanyang development, which forcibly reversed Chengzu's parallel strategy of "stepping on Mongolia in the north and going south to the West".

The emperor after Chengzu, because most of the people around him were civil officials, they also misunderstood the true intention of Chengzu when he went to the West.

In the final analysis, the civil officials could not reap the benefits, and the emperor was deceived by the civil officials, thinking that there was really no benefit, and the Ming Dynasty's parallel strategy of sea and land died abruptly.

But this does not mean that Gao Pragmatism only needs to explain the truth to Zhu Zaiyu or Zhu Yijun, and Daming can return to the right path, taking advantage of the fact that the Xiaoice River has not yet made a strong move, and quickly move the remaining population of the north to the south, or even simply migrate to the South Seas to engage in exploration-how is it so easy!

If the civilian clique is so easy to deal with, will Da Ming be so stupid?

Long Qing has such a high arch in his hand as a gold medal fighter who wants to have qualifications, prestige, wrists, and power, and only now has he carefully opened a small opening and threw out a small moon port to test the trend.

If Gao Pragmatic had the audacity to say that he should open the sea in an all-round way now and go to the South Seas, he would be so impeached that he would not even recognize his mother if he turned his head.

Why don't you talk about the next game of chess? Playing chess always has to come step by step, and the layout in front of you is not done, so you want people to bow down and admit defeat, and really think that you have become a traverser, that is, the child of destiny? Liu Xiu, the son of the plane, will not be convinced.