It should be said that in the Chinese tradition, the emperor's wife is not his own, but common to all the people in the world. Otherwise, how can it be called the mother of the world? But this matter is also divided into two ends, in ancient times when there was no genetics, we also knew that children inherited from their parents had their own personalities and talents, but under the standard of three from four virtues, the girl's external appearance was almost carved out of a mold, how can you tell if this person has the mind and wisdom to be the mother of the country? Are the children she gives birth to smart enough to run the country well?

Jiang Tian, who can't be the emperor in this life, doesn't have to worry about this, he didn't deliberately ignore the beauties in his family, but at a certain time, he showed a little bit of tone, but all the women almost vetoed the proposal to be a wife, because they also have no hope for the status of the woman in the dust in their hearts, if Jiang Tian is just a down-and-out show, it's just a pity that now he is already a very young and promising minister, maybe in the future, how can this kind of person take a disgraceful woman? Even if he swears by it now, he will naturally regret it when his status grows higher, so instead of annoying people when he is no longer young, it is better to let him feel guilty and blame himself now, and he will be more affectionate in the future.

This is the wisdom of the ancients, as a woman, they have long abandoned the so-called love, and turned to a very pragmatic connection between marriage and life. As often said in the Qinglou, the woman who was moved by her true feelings was nothing more than a pile of white bones on a mass grave. After losing those unrealistic visions, the people who feel that they are not competitive have slowly dispersed, and the remaining people are either outstanding people like Xinyue and Linglong, or "considerate" types such as the Qingyou sisters. They think that they still have at least the strength to fight, and if they can finally mix the identity of a concubine in the Jiang Mansion, it will be a positive result.

Jiang Tian's troubles don't stop there, after these overly realistic women meet him at home, they will show a little flattery, but they will not be too explicit. They hope that one day the master will not be able to control himself and take the house. But he didn't dare to accept Jiang Tian's plan to treat all of them as equal wives, first of all, there was only one identity issued by the imperial court, if people asked which one was the main wife and which one was the concubine, how could they answer? What woman in the dust doesn't yearn for this title? And what girls haven't dreamed of wearing a xia veil in and out of the palace? But they rationally chose to give up, just because they were born as lowly and could never turn over.

Jiang Tian's student population has been reduced by a bit, and the teachers and researchers who have returned to the furnace have been forced to abandon their studies and go to work. Just because from the perspective of the world, the things they are learning now are enough, the country needs them, and there is no reason why they must take on their responsibilities, and if you want to study in the future, it depends on whether you have the opportunity to join Jiang Tian's disciple again. Without the private school of the advanced class, Jiang Tian was able to devote all his energy to these new generations. According to the habits of later generations, he has graduated from the first phase of Jiang Mansion, and the second batch of students should have gotten rid of that kind of quick education method and turned to lay a solid foundation perfectly, but Jiang Tian is only one person, and he is destined to be unable to take care of everything.

A healthy horse rushed into Dengcao Hutong at a gallop, and passers-by all avoided it from a distance. I hadn't seen this scene for a few years, and when the war was tense at the border pass, I could often see blood-stained riders bringing back battle reports from the front. There was no blood on this man today, and there was no sign of a fight, except for the panting horses, there was no problem at the border, so the good man was a little relieved. A few years after this peaceful day, the court promulgated a new law every day, as long as the people in the market felt the hope of life beckoning to them, they really didn't want to go back to the previous days of fear.

The horse stopped at the door of Jiang's mansion, and Jiang Tian, who was teaching, saw the rider from the window, only to see him come up and knock on the door, and after saying a few words to the porter, he rode on the horse and left again. After a while, a little guy came running with a letter. Who is so pushy to send letters? Jiang Tian looked a little confused, but Liu Baokai, who grew up in the barracks, patted his head: "Isn't this a herald in the army?" ”

The army sends a letter to itself? Jiang Tian was even more strange, so he opened the letter and looked at it carefully. In fact, the contents of the letter were not surprising, Jiang Tian inquired about the trade situation of Japanese merchant ships two days ago, and after this inquiry request was sent to Tianjin, the customs officials from the army, in addition to collecting as much detailed information as possible, used their connections to send soldiers to deliver the letter. In his opinion, whether it is Jiang Tian's official position or his relationship with the military system, it is worthy of such a stirring up of the people. The letter explained in detail that in the past half month, a total of 15 Japanese merchant ships have docked at the customs at Dagukou, but because of epidemic prevention reasons, they were not allowed to go up the sea river, and a large number of blister copper and silver ingots of poor quality were transported with the ships, and they strongly requested the purchase of finished steel ingots and some works of art. A Chinese shipowner familiar with the Japanese market said that if these steel were shipped to Japan, its value would be more than three times that of China, and that Japan lacked systematic smelting technology, so in addition to some swordsmiths who knew some secret recipes that were not passed down, whether it was the common people or the aristocracy, there were very few iron tools in their daily lives, and iron tools were quite expensive, so it was understandable that they asked to buy smelted steel ingots. But there is one detail that has been captured by customs, and that is that all the ships are decorated with the Tokugawa family's crests, and it is clear that they all belong to the same shipowner.

Jiang Tian was not surprised by this, or it was completely expected, otherwise Fujiwara would not be in a hurry to find himself to implement the agreement, don't look at the little devil's ship is not big, and their land area and army size are also not large. If the steel ingots of fifteen ships were shipped back, it would be enough to make the Tokugawa shogunate full of confidence, whether it was resold at a higher price or forged into new weapons, it would make the surrounding feudal states dare not make a mistake, and now looking at the whole of Japan, who else can buy steel on a large scale? Not even the emperor.

The crux of the problem is focused on the transportation capacity, Tokugawa Iemitsu strongly implemented the lockdown of the country when he was alive, and there were not many ships along the coast, and now they are waiting to decay. The shipwrecks of the merchants were not suitable for warfare, so under the premise that other daimyo could not resist, Tokugawa Iemitsu initially completed the control of the domestic feudal domains, and Japan had a shortcoming compared with China, they were too dependent on the small fishing and transportation industry along the coast, and the reason why the Tokugawa shogunate was able to surrender so happily was that it blocked Tokyo Bay with the Americans in a large way, and after the logistics industry in Edo was basically paralyzed, the shogunate had to agree to negotiate first in order not to run out of food. At this time, although Tokugawa had an Ataka Maru known as an ironclad ship, it was too cumbersome and could only rely on paddling to move forward, let alone drive from Tokyo Bay to the Bohai Sea, and even Nagasaki could exhaust those rowing sailors. Overseas trade can only rely on less mature domestic ships, as well as some custom-made merchant ships in China. Jiang Tian could imagine that as the trade between the two countries gradually deepened, the Tokugawa family, which accounted for the main profits, would inevitably turn to the sea, whether it was upgrading their own shipbuilding industry or increasing orders for Chinese shipyards, which would lead to another imbalance between Japan's major powers. As the saying goes, the richer the richer, the poorer the poorer, and a Tokugawa shogunate with trade advantages will never fall lightly.

After weighing it repeatedly in his heart, Jiang Tian quietly put the letter away, didn't care about the curious eyes of the students, and continued his lesson. To be honest, even if the Tokugawa family survives for 200 years, their ultimate goal will not change anyway, it is nothing more than to correct the implementation method of the plan and ensure the correctness of the results. If this news really touched Jiang Tian, it was to remind himself to step up the upgrading of shipbuilding technology, and now with the fireship tactics often used by the Zheng family, they can still fight evenly on the sea, and European countries are also fighting in a pot of porridge and have no time to free up their hands to invade China, so the Manchu Qing Dynasty can have a stable development period of more than 100 years. But letting this kind of dividend gradually disappear is not what Jiang Tian is pursuing.

Sometimes Jiang Tian imagined in his heart that if Zheng He's fleet had not disappeared from the ocean, what would Vasco Vasco have when he first sailed into the Indian Ocean and saw the shocking figure of the treasure ship? Does he still have the audacity to erect a stone monument to claim his sovereignty here? If the Europeans had failed to colonize the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia, would their Renaissance be delayed for a long time? If the Ming Dynasty could obtain what it needed through guò ocean trade and absorb a large amount of customs duties, would the Manchus still have a chance to enter the Central Plains? It is a pity that history has no assumptions, and how to curb the rise of Japan, how to weaken Europe's power in Asia, and how to dump Chinese products all over the world are the most urgent tasks.

Building a navy that dominates the world is by no means an overnight effort, and even if the Zheng family fully supports it, it will be difficult to see results in a few decades; if we want to compare with the European countries with a total tonnage of more than one million, we must only work innovative ships, and let China's warships be able to fight as ten in the face of a tidal wave of enemies, and at the very least, we must maintain sea supremacy in East Asia and the South China Sea. So when it is temporarily impossible to build steam ironclad warships, what other ship types and weapons are suitable for quickly increasing China's naval strength?

"Which of you is interested in the sea and ships?" Jiang Tian in class suddenly asked a nonsensical question.

For China, a traditional land country, the sea is almost dispensable, China's foundation is on land, China's biggest threat is also on land, and the eyes of Chinese scholars have always been on land, except for a few cattle people who can see the importance of the sea in the future, no one will think that those overseas people who are fuss about everything can drive a sailboat to invade China.

Seeing that none of his classmates answered, Zhang Huan couldn't help but raise his hand: "Sir, I have seen a model ship made by Yiren, but I have never seen the sea. So the student really didn't know how to answer the question. ”

Jiang Tian nodded, and then looked at the half-cut political textbook, which happened to talk about the distribution of means of production and productive forces, so Jiang Tian picked up the chalk and randomly drew a simple sailing line on the blackboard: "This is the treasure ship used by the Spaniards to transport silver, although the displacement is different, but the largest is about 1,000 tons, which is twice as large as the largest warship of our sailors." ”

Jiang Tian drew a smaller line, and the students could tell which was a Chinese ship from the unique shape of the hard sail at a glance, and just when everyone was secretly lamenting that the ship was inferior to people, Jiang Tian drew a huge ship three times larger than the Spaniard, with as many as nine masts and a castle-like hull, and the students were stunned one by one.

"This is the flagship used to go to the West during the Yongle period, the car of the Three Treasure Eunuchs. Forty-four zhang long and eighteen zhang wide! No other country has ever built such a huge ship, so imagine how many ships would be equivalent to one ship if this ship were used to transport grain from Luzon. ”

This question is very abstract, so the answer must be very abstract, but Jiang Tian didn't want them to calculate a math problem, from the slightly regretful expressions in these people's longings, everyone knew that this ship was going to go to sea, even if you didn't have a single artillery, no one would dare to rob such a ship. Because the average sailboat simply can't reach its gunwald height. Even if you barely climb up, you will face more sailors than pirates.

Tian Xuhai, who is very good at drawing inferences, nodded thoughtfully, and then asked: "Mr. said that if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, if you have this national weapon, not only will the Xiyi people not dare to make a mistake, but even the surrounding Xiaoxiao will be swept away, and no one will dare to compete with us for the short and long, so we will occupy the majority of overseas trade and the acquisition of products, and the means of production will be concentrated in our hands, so we can weaken the strength of others!" ”

I have to say that Tian Xuhai's summary is really a bit specious, in this era when fists are bigger than books, it is not difficult to gather shipwrights to build a giant ship, but the difficulty is how to build this ship? Mo said that the drawings of the treasure ship have long been lost, even the Nanjing shipyard has been abandoned for many years, and the experienced shipwrights are all scattered all over the place, and the treasure ship can only be regarded as an ancient engineering miracle. In terms of practicality, it is not too high, and only Zheng He's fleet can afford to use such a giant ship. In other words, in addition to being used to show off one's national strength, whether it is used to carry goods or people, it is a bit more than worth the loss in this era. Unless you learn from the old French scoundrel named Louis, and transform the treasure ship into a casino for European nobles @ lewdness @ promiscuity. If you think about it, if there really is such an ultra-luxurious cruise ship cruising in the Mediterranean, then the extravagant European aristocrats will not have to go up to play.

Jiang Tian shook his head and threw out the unrealistic idea, and then said with some regret: "It's a pity that all the ministers in the imperial court were against navigation back then, which made the big country even have to ask for help from Xiyi in disguise to transport grain." ”

Tian Xuhai frowned this time: "What Mr. said the students dare not agree, you must know that the cost of going to the West was quite high back then, isn't it a waste of money for the people?" ”

"Then you said that if sailing is a loss-making business, why do so many Xiyi travel thousands of miles around the world to do business with us?"

Jiang Tian's rhetorical question made many people a little embarrassed, in fact, the imperial court has been vigorously preaching the importance of overseas trade, and also taking these Europeans as an example, Spain's treasure ships have to go around the whole earth every time to carry out a circle of trade, and the accumulated wealth makes the old and young of the Ming Dynasty a little unbelievable. But the facts are in front of you, whether it is Nanming to feed a large number of displaced people and troops, or now rely on foreign grain to maintain the economy of the north. It would not have been possible without the huge trading fleets of the Europeans. However, the officials from Jiangnan somewhat hated these Xiyi, if nothing else, because the grain they brought was a little too much, in addition to supplying the army and the disaster areas in the north, there was also a lot of surplus, which led to a sharp drop in grain prices, and the income of the gentry who had accumulated huge land by investment was also pulled down to a new stage. Quite a few tenants have taken a fancy to the convenience of the lack of taxes and state support in the north, and have instead emigrated there to become yeoman farmers. Jiang Tian also knew about this situation, so the public opinion in the south has always hated the grain carrier, of course, the so-called public opinion is actually controlled in the hands of a few people, and this is also the reason why the previous dynasties failed to shake the interests of the scholars. Therefore, Zhang Tao could only slowly divide and disintegrate, and did not dare to be in a hurry.

A good political lesson turned into an analysis of trade and shipping, not to mention that the students were more welcoming to such a practical lesson, rather than memorizing a written essay that was awkward. Generally, when it comes to the policies of the imperial court, Zhang Huan will remain silent, but this does not mean that he resists this content, on the contrary, he himself is also thinking. For him, his father is a figure comparable to the three emperors and five emperors. But some of his policies are difficult to understand, and compared with the books and the sages of the former teachers, it seems that there is always something so specious that it is elusive. It wasn't until he began to study politics that he realized that for his father and this gentleman, what the saints said about the peaceful and prosperous world was just a ridiculous lie, what is the prosperous world? It is the prosperous era that can keep the people fed and warm, and will not suffer misery because of the tyranny of those in power. If it is according to this standard, it is true that the end of many dynasties is because the monarch is unknown and the ministers are not virtuous, which leads the people to suffer and the country to be defeated. However, in the eyes of Mr., the fate of the country is directly linked to the distribution of productive forces and means of production, which makes Zhang Huan feel like he is seeking in the fog but suddenly enlightened.

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