When a decision is made, it is executed.

As the director of the "Internal Security Division", Shi Lei has always been inconspicuous in the Pingyu General's Mansion, and many times, outsiders will even ignore him, but he is one of the few people who can see the prince at the first time without reporting every day.

Any modern person understands the importance of intelligence work!

Intelligence work even directly determines the fate of the country. This is precisely the reason why Zhu Guoqiang attaches importance to intelligence work. Of course, intelligence agencies can be used not only to gather intelligence, but also to accomplish a number of other tasks.

The task of searching for Zheng He's treasure ship and nautical charts fell on the "Internal Guard". However, only three days later, the intelligence station on the side of the capital received the order.

After receiving the order, Li San, who had been lurking in the capital, was not worried, in his opinion, this was just a simple task.

As usual, when it was almost noon, Li San carried the food box into the yamen of the military department and delivered food to the big men in the yamen.

"Master Song, the meal you ordered."

Looking at the food on the table, Song Yu smiled.

"Li San, today's meal looks good, and it looks like it's done with care."

"Of course, you have to be careful about the food for the big man."

Li San asked with a smile.

"Master Song, I heard that you are in charge of the treasury of the military department?"

Song Yu smiled:

"Well, it's just an idle errand, there are no weapons and medicines in this warehouse to be sold, and there is no secret collection of classics for people to copy, but there are some old documents hidden, which is really idle."

Because of the high literacy rate, the publishing industry of the Ming Dynasty is extremely developed, and the bookstore prints everything, and the printed books do not worry about sales, but there is a lack of manuscripts, especially good manuscripts. In the case of a lack of manuscripts, for the sake of booksellers, they set their sights on the government with a large collection of books, especially Wenyuan Pavilion, although it is not open to the people, but there is money to make ghosts grind, and booksellers naturally have a way.

The Beijing officials were poor, and the booksellers were rich, so they asked the officials to copy on their behalf at a high price, and then published them, and a complete industrial chain had already been formed. Even, this has become the capital of some Beijing officials to make a living.

However, this kind of thing obviously has nothing to do with Song Yu, the treasury is the archive, who will need those old documents?

Li San said.

"Master Song, a few days ago, a person from Zhejiang came to our restaurant, saying that he wanted to copy something in the treasury of the Ministry of War, and the person said that if it is done, there will be heavy thanks."

"Oh? Is it? ”

"The man said he was willing to give five hundred taels of silver."

In the afternoon of the same day, Song Yu first went through some information, and then went to the warehouse alone.

When the treasurer saw the salute, he asked.

"I don't know what documents Director Song is looking for?"

Song Yu smiled:

"The nautical chart of the Three Treasure Eunuchs is the "Map of the Ships from the Treasure Shipyard to the Water from Longjiang Pass to Foreign Countries", plus the "Treasure Ship Construction Minutes".

The treasurer was puzzled for a moment before he spoke.

"Wait a minute, let me find out."

During the Chenghua period, some eunuchs suggested following Yongle and going to the West to obtain treasures and money. Who knew that Xiang Zhong, the secretary of the Ministry of War, led people to rummage through the materials for a few days and nights, but the information they were looking for was nowhere to be found. After some investigation, it was found that it was Liu Daxia, the driver of the military department, who hid these materials. In this regard, Liu Daxia asked confidently

"The eunuchs of the Three Treasures went to the West, spending tens of millions of dollars and food, and tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians died...... Even if the case is there, it should be destroyed......"

This means that even if the nautical charts are still there, they should be destroyed.

But it is rumored that it has become "take it and burn it", saying that Liu Daxia burned the navigation charts, and Liu Daxia became a national sinner on the Internet in later generations.

Actually, it's a burner. According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, it is a felony to burn the book, and Liu Daxia's eight dares dare not destroy it privately, at most, it is just a temporary hiding.

Zheng He's navigation chart, at least during the Chongzhen period, stayed in the treasury. Mao Yuanyi compiled "Wubei Zhi" and entered it into it, which was recorded for dozens of pages!

Even if the nautical charts were destroyed, they were burned in the Manchu Qing Dynasty along with the millions of books in the Wenyuan Pavilion.

The treasurer searched the index for a while, and soon found the chart. In addition to the full name of "Zibao Shipyard from Longjiang Pass to Foreign Countries Map", there are hundreds of volumes of written materials similar to navigation logs, recording the customs and customs of various countries along the way and the special products of each country.

Song Yu directly called a few scribes to copy the full text of these materials, and also copied a copy of the navigation chart.

A few days later, when Song Yuming sent the copied charts and books to the restaurant and got the silver, he looked at the silver with white flowers and had only one thought in his heart.

"Five hundred taels of silver, this maritime merchant is really magnanimous! But what is the sum of this chart? ”

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"Master, with these charts, I guarantee that I can reach every place on the charts, Master, look here......"

Staring at the charts on the table, Lee Hye-mi looked a little excited.

In fact, she has been learning how to measure latitude and longitude with a sextant and a clock, but those need to be calculated, and a certain mathematical foundation is required, which is not something that can be learned in a few months, and just knowing how to measure latitude and longitude does not mean that she can sail, after all, sea navigation also needs to face various problems including the direction of ocean currents and winds.

And Zheng He's chart just solves these problems, at least to some extent. Of course, more importantly, this kind of nautical chart, which seemed puzzling to the world in later times, was precisely familiar to the shipowners of the Ming Dynasty at this time.

Zhu Guoqiang's navigation technology at the beginning of the 19th century may be advanced, but it may not be able to be popularized without a few years, or even more than ten years of study, and these charts are the most suitable choice for colonizing Southeast Asia.

"Emi, you don't have to go there in person, this month, try to use this chart to guide you to the estuary, first open up a stronghold in the local area, and then slowly send the immigrants over, it's a pity ......"

Zhu Guoqiang shook his head and sighed.

"The construction minutes were actually burned, otherwise a big treasure ship could be built, so that the immigrants could be transported more over."

Although the chart is in the capital, the construction minutes of the treasure ship have been stored in the Longjiang Shipyard in Nanjing, and it has long been destroyed in history with the shipyard, which is really a pity, after all, it is the legendary "10,000-ton giant ship".

"Big Treasure Ship?"

Lee Hye Mi asked rhetorically.

"In fact, the boat is not necessarily less than the number of people who go there, that is, the boat is more than 20 zhang long, at most it is five or six hundred people, the boat is bigger, it seems to transport more people, but there are more sailors on the ship, and the operation is more inflexible, in case something happens, it is not a loss, after all, the ship is carrying people ......"

Listening to Li Huimei explaining the pros and cons between the big boat and the small boat, Zhu Guoqiang just smiled and said.

"The ship is big and the ship is small, it doesn't matter at the moment, but for the navy, heavy artillery giants are the future, as for now, the most important thing is to transport people!"

The finger drew a line on the chart, and finally landed on the position of Taiwan, he added.

"We want to send people here, put hundreds of thousands, millions of people here, and then spread from here to the entire Nanyang ......."

In fact, to a certain extent, I am afraid that it is the most suitable era for colonizing Taiwan, affected by the Xiaoice period, the current Taiwan is not in the subtropical region, the winter of the chicken coop will snow heavily, as for the big member, that is, the later Tainan, where the winter still needs to wear thick clothes.

It's no wonder, after all, it's snowing heavily in Hainan!

This temperate-like climate reduces many tropical diseases, which is undoubtedly more conducive to the colonization of migrants.

"We can start here, and then the estuary,"

Fingers were drawn across the map to the location of the Mekong Delta, and then across the South Seas.

These places are supposed to belong to Huaxia since ancient times, after all, Huaxia was the first to discover these areas.

However, now let others take the lead, but now it is still too late to remedy, as long as you hurry up, these areas will still become the land of fish and rice in the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, in order to achieve all this, one thing must be solved first - the Netherlands!

In addition to the Netherlands, there is also the Zheng family, because they are an impossible force to avoid on this path. If you become an enemy, you will definitely add a lot of risks to the path of immigration.

"Hey, we still have to negotiate."