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"If nothing else, the Cape of Good Hope should have been taken!"

Again, standing in front of the very large, but somewhat "distorted" world map, Zhu Mingzhong deliberately took a pen and put a point on the southernmost point of Africa.

That's the Cape of Good Hope.

A few bites of flesh on the weakening Dutch were an inevitable move for China to the sea. After all, in Asia, and even in the Tianzhu Sea, the greatest threat was not the Spaniards, not the Portuguese, and even less the British, but the Dutch.

The world in the middle of the 17th century was different from the 19th century, which was Victorian, the century of Britain, and any country that tried to rise had to rely on Britain's "care". In the 17th century, however, it was a century of strife among nations, where there were no real strong men, and the strong were on the way to rise.

The reason why the Netherlands is the threat of the Ming Dynasty is because compared to the Portuguese who are more oppressive and the Spanish are more missionary, the Dutch are a group of merchants, from the Southern Ming Sea to the Tianzhu Sea, the Dutch merchant ships account for half, they almost monopolize the spice trade between Europe and Asia, and the trade routes between the South Seas and the Ming Dynasty, and the South Seas and India are full of them, which is the threat of the Dutch.

It is impossible for a country that does not understand the seas to benefit from navigation. For China, with its 2,000-year-old continental tradition, the only way to understand the sea was through maritime trade, not through the French government, where the king could exhaust the treasury and build a huge fleet, but in the end, because it could not obtain enough benefits from the sea, its naval power always declined again and again.

A navy that is not supported by maritime interests cannot last long. A country that does not understand the sea will not choose the sea. To understand the ocean, you have to let people know what it can do for them.

Can bring wealth! A steady stream of wealth!

And this needs to be supported by trade routes, hundreds of merchant ships need to sail on the routes, engaged in all kinds of trade, and in the end, those captains and sailors bring back new gadgets and stories, which will slowly make people understand the sea, let them know the importance of the sea, make them eager to sail, and yearn for the wealth of the new world.

At this time, the consciousness of the sea will be generated in this country, and only then will the king's fleet become the fleet of the state, and it will not be the king who will promote the development of the fleet and navigation technology, but the entire country from the bottom up.

History has long proved all this, and the mighty Zheng He sailor, after losing the support of the emperor, made the Chinese hate hundreds of years later. And now, what Zhu Mingzhong needs is to use interests to awaken the country's ambition to go to the sea.

Benefit!

It's all the driving force that drives everything, just like Nanyang!

"The clan will be sealed in Nanyang, of course, the future will also include all the Yidi, just to borrow their hands to spread our Chinese civilization in Yidi, Nanyang, Africa, America, and ......"

Staring at the uncharted sea area to the south of the map, there's a continent, a continent that hasn't been discovered by all countries, no, it's been discovered a long time ago.

As early as 1605, Dutch navigators sailed from the Indonesian island of Jafur along the southern coastline of New Guinea, crossed the Torres Strait, and landed in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia. They named the place New Holland and said they were the first people in history to discover Australia. From 1642 to 1644, the Dutch East India Company sent people to Australia to conduct two large-scale expeditions, discovered the later New Zealand and Tasmanian islands, and went west to the mouth of the Williams River in the middle of the west coast of Australia, and found that Carpentaria was not a strait but a bay, thus concluding that Australia was a large island. The Spaniards also discovered Australia, and even now, the strait between New Guinea and Australia has long been explored by the Spaniards.

It was only not far from the Dutch and the Spaniards that kept the discovery secret and did not allow it to be disseminated. This is so because they do not have the strength to occupy Australia for the time being. Secrecy is the best choice in the Age of Discovery. Of course, this is also related to the fact that they arrived on the relatively barren south and west coasts of Australia is the root cause of their reluctance to colonize.

"Southern Continent! That is, the "New Netherland" in the secret archives of the Dutch. ”

Pointing to the southern sea area on the map, the corners of Zhu Mingzhong's lips raised.

"After the Dutch handed over Batavia, we obtained the secret archives of Batavia, so that we learned about their discoveries on the southern continent. The Dutch expedition identified a coastline of about 7,000 miles, thus proving that the so-called "New Netherland" is an extremely vast continent, and this place can also become the fiefdom of the Ming Dynasty in the future. ”

The sealing of the Ming Dynasty!

It's not a colony of the Ming Dynasty, these are two very different concepts. Before making the fiefdom, Zhu Mingzhong had thought about the rule of the future colonial empire more than once, but now, he has put this problem aside.

It is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to occupy the whole world!

Even if it is occupied, it is impossible to rule the whole world. And a huge colonial empire could not last, as Spain, England and France have all demonstrated. But Chinese civilization can spread to the whole world, at least to the so-called "wild land".

"The road is blue, in order to enlighten the mountains and forests. Fu has barbarians, so as to belong to China. ”

Reading these sixteen words silently on his lips, the Ming Dynasty is just an era, and Huaxia is China!

"Your Majesty, the history of the Zhou Dynasty "concurrently controls the world, the establishment of seventy-one countries", the seventy-one sages of the country are blue, in order to enlighten the mountains and forests, only then there is the great unification of today's China, now His Majesty intends to divide the clan, although it seems that the colony can not be directly accepted for my Ming Dynasty, but it can make China spread out in the world again, although it is a temporary feud, but the minister thinks that after a thousand years, the countries will be unified again, at that time, the world will be the same. ”

Datong!

This is exactly the pursuit of Chinese civilization, unlike other civilizations that enslave and slaughter the natives, the expansion of Chinese civilization is "indoctrination", through indoctrination, to change the raze into summer.

"Indeed, in the pre-Qin period, the heaven and the earth were wild, and the Son of Heaven divided the world, which was to influence the remote tribes outside the Central Plains with the culture of Zhuxia, so that they could be naturalized into Xia and changed into Xia, which is exactly where my mission in China lies, but since the first emperor, the successive dynasties have forgotten my mission in China, and sat in the land of pre-Qin education, so that my China has been frequently destroyed in internal friction, and even destroyed by Yi several times to civilization. For the great harmony of the world, for the transformation of Di into summer, with all the sects for the summer, to educate the world, so that the world is the same! ”

At this moment, not to mention other people, even Zhu Mingzhong himself, felt an unprecedented sense of mission, and even a stream of hot blood surged out of his chest, and even that blood boiled with it.

"Your Majesty, if, if this wish can be fulfilled...... The minister is only willing to be driven by His Majesty to realize the wish of the world to be in harmony! ”

Gu Yanwu was also stunned by the big glutinous rice balls of "Datong", at this moment, he seemed to understand why His Majesty would change the Temple of Literature to a temple throughout the country, and why the main hall of the temple was called "Datong Temple".

"The road is also a trip to the world, the world is for the public, the selection of talents and abilities, and the belief and harmony. Therefore, people do not only kiss their relatives, nor only their sons, so that the old have their ends, the strong have their usefulness, the young have their growth, and the widows, lonely and sick people have all been raised. Men have a share, and women have a home. If you abandon the goods on the ground, you don't have to hide them for yourself; The power of evil does not come from the body, and it does not have to be for oneself. It is because of the conspiracy to close but not to prosper, to steal and thieves not to do, so to do not close the outside household, it is said to be the same. ”

Silently reciting the "Book of Rites, Rites and Fortunes", these 100 words are exactly the "highest state" pursued by Confucianism. In the past, for Zhu Mingzhong, what he did was just to make Confucianism virtual, make it a philosophy, become a god, and then let people stay away, after all, the Chinese people have never been a pious nation throughout the ages, they will worship Buddha, Bodhisattva, will also worship Heavenly Father, Allah, as for the mountain gods, land, river gods, fox fairies, there are countless of them, but no matter what they worship, they have never talked about any piety.

As the saying goes, "when you see the Buddha, you will worship, and it is not strange to worship the Buddha", the psychology of the vast majority of Chinese people towards religion is to worship when needed, and when they save their lives, they are eager to worship all the gods and Buddhas they know, as for piety...... People who can eat meat in front of the Buddha and chant the Buddha in front of the Tao are not close to their piety.

It is precisely because he understands the character of the Chinese people who are eager to talk about Allah with Jesus and talk about eating meat with Allah, that Zhu Mingzhong boldly "edifies", which is nothing more than to weaken his influence.

But now, Zhu Mingzhong has found that there seems to be no better tool than "Datong". Just imagine, we came to Africa, not to enslave the African people, but to bring them a developed civilization, to improve their lives, to free them from ignorance. It is to promote the harmony of the world.

"Don't kiss their relatives alone, don't have only sons and sons, so that the old have their ends, the strong have their usefulness, the young have their growth, and the widows, lonely and sick people have all ......"

Repeating this sentence again, Zhu Mingzhong suddenly discovered that "Datong" seemed to be invulnerable, that the mission of Europeans was for enslavement and colonization, and what did we Zhuxia arrive all over the world for?

In order to achieve such a "world of great harmony", of course, in the process, there may also be some "unpleasantness", but ...... This is the price of progress, there are always some ignorant conservative "feudal forces" who are stubbornly resisting, who are still trying to enslave their compatriots with their ignorant, backward and barbaric ideas, while we, Zhuxia, have brought civilization to them! Let them bask in the glory of Datong!

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