Zheng He knelt down and was also as tall as Zhu Zhanji, raised his head to look at Zhu Zhanji and asked, "Since it is a scarce thing in my Ming Dynasty, how can I distinguish it from a useless thing?" ”

Zhu Zhanji said: "Animals like me that the Ming Dynasty does not have, other countries have them. If horses, sheep, and pigs are larger than ours, they can be brought back and domesticated. Other animals that cannot ride or eat meat are useless. ”

"I understand."

Historically, the political role of Zheng He's expedition to the West was far greater than the economic role, which cannot be said to be indistinguishable from the important, at least it is putting the cart before the horse.

Bringing back those auspicious ones, a few are okay, and many tropical animals are transported back for a while, and then they all die.

Waste of resources.

With such a large fleet, more than 20,000 people, and a cargo capacity of 560,000 tons, you can make a lot of money just by bartering it.

I can't interfere with the fleet's decisions now, but I must first plant a seed in everyone's hearts.

He wants everyone to know that going to the West is not only about losing money, but also about transferring more money back.

Zheng He's fleet can be turned into a golden fleet.

Zhu Zhanji deliberately pretended to think about it and said: "It's okay if you don't make money the first time, with these news, next time I go again, I must take out my private money and exchange it for the emperor's grandfather, grandmother, father, and princess, so that they don't have to worry about gold and silver again." ”

He deliberately showed a hint of childishness, wanting to tell Zhu Di through other people's mouths that he wanted to make money not for himself, but for them.

In this way, not only will you not lose a reputation that is open to money, but you can also add points to your own image.

As for grain, Zhu Zhanji did not mention it this time, because it was still the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the population was sparse, and there was a lot of wasteland, and now the country's grain could not be eaten, and there was no need to import it.

Now the key is to give Zheng He and them the idea of making money through sea trade, and with benefits, this door can't be closed if they want to.

After Zhu Di learned the news, he thought about it for two days and asked Wang Yan to add a special team of eunuchs to the fleet, who was specifically responsible for barter trade and understanding the prices in various places.

In June of the third year of Yongle, Zheng He went to the West for the first time.

The fleet sailed from the Liujia River in Suzhou to Fujian, and then Yang Fan from Wuhumen in Fujian Province first carried a group of soldiers to Zhancheng to participate in the crusade against Annam.

On the first day of the sixth month of the fourth year of Yongle after Zhang Fu discussed Ping'annan, Zhu Di told the world with the edict of Ping'an Nan, changed Annan to Jiaozhi, and set up the political envoy department, the capital command envoy department, and the inspection envoy department, officially turning Annan into a province of the Ming Dynasty.

Zheng He's fleet then sailed south in the direction of Java and landed at Semarang, Java, on June 30 for trade.

At this time, this place is called the country of Ma Ba Xie, the ancient name of Java is Japo, densely populated, rich in products, and developed in commerce.

When Zheng He's fleet arrived, the eastern and western kings of the country were fighting a civil war. The Eastern King was defeated, and his possessions were occupied by the Western King's army.

The men of Zheng He's fleet went ashore to do business in the bazaar, but were mistaken by the occupying forces for coming to the aid of the king of the east, and were mistakenly killed by the king of the west, King Ma and Baxie, and killed 170 people.

The officers under Zheng He asked for war one after another, saying that the blood of the soldiers could not be shed in vain, and they were eager to declare war on the country of Ma Ya Ba Xie and retaliate.

After the manslaughter, the king of the west was very frightened, sent a messenger to apologize, and offered to compensate for his sins with 60,000 taels of gold to atone for his crimes.

Zheng He's first trip to the West was unfavorable, and he innocently lost 170 soldiers and soldiers, which would inevitably lead to a large-scale battle.

However, Zheng He was afraid that once he started to kill, the Western countries along the road were afraid of the Ming Dynasty coming to invade, and later learned that it was a manslaughter.

Sixty thousand taels of gold, this is not a small amount of money, Zheng He can't call the shots, and sent a ship back to Daming to report the matter.

Zhu Di was used to being generous, and when he heard about it, he was ready to wave his hand and cancel the other party's compensation. But it happened that he was reading a treatise written by Zhu Zhanji on the inner sage and the outer king.

Zhu Zhanji has been studying for three years, and with Zhu Di's tacit consent, he began the next stage of studying the Four Books and Five Classics, and at the same time has two Taoist masters, and it is inevitable to learn some Lao Zhuang thoughts.

And what he happened to hold in his hand was Zhu Zhanji's Zhuangzi Tianxia Chapter on the Inner Sage and the Outer King, which is equivalent to a propositional essay.

Ordinary students, when they see such a propositional essay, will definitely expound the topic with their own body, write moral cultivation by human desire, restraint, and etiquette, and then show their attitude towards the world with various moral behaviors.

And in the eyes of ordinary Confucian students, the first thing to see is the inner sage.

But Zhu Zhanji's article went the opposite way, directly taking the king as the theme, and did not write about himself, but directly wrote about seeking the country.

In this way, the pattern of this paper is countless times larger, but it also happens to be in line with his identity.

has only been enrolled for three years, and it is a bit early to write a thesis, but for this grandson, Zhu Di has long stopped treating him as an ordinary person.

Although the language of this treatise is somewhat plain and straightforward, it is concise and to the point. Zhu Zhanji analyzed the importance of economic and trade exchanges to the rule of the Ming Dynasty and the influence of neighboring countries from a political point of view, not from an economic point of view.

And the central point of the inner saint and the outer king, it shows the idea that the Ming Dynasty should treat the people and foreign races differently, and the holy way is applied internally and the royal road is applied externally.

Zhu Zhanji is nine years old and has been enrolled in school for three years, and being able to write such an essay has made Zhu Di unable to ask for more.

Since he agreed with Sun Tzu's thoughts, he naturally couldn't dismantle his platform at this time, so he muttered for a while and ordered: "Draft a decree, accept the compensation from the king of the west of the country, transport back the ashes of the slain soldiers, send them back to the township, and give them again." ”

Zhu Zhanji of the Deep Palace didn't know at this time, because of his theory, Zhu Di accepted the first non-war compensation in the history of the Ming Dynasty, which also made the future diplomatic positioning slightly changed.

After settling the dispute with the King of the West, Zheng He recruited local translators who were proficient in various Chinese dialects to understand the hydrology and national conditions of the Nanyang countries.

Originally, Zhenla, Ceylon and other countries that were going to go have decided to return because of the lack of preparation this time.

In order to transport the sergeants bound for Annam, this time the fleet carried not much cargo that could be traded. In the country of Ma Ya Xie, most of these goods have already been traded.

After returning to Sriwijaya, the rest of the supplies can be exchanged.

At the end of the fourth year of Yongle, the fleet arrived at the old port of Srivijaya, and Shi Jinqing, the overseas Chinese leader of Guangdong in the old port, came to report that the pirate king Chen Zuyi had set his sights on the fleet.

Chen Zuyi is the pirate king of the South Seas, with more than 100 ships, burning, killing and looting in the South Seas, and doing all kinds of evil. Because of the great power, all the countries in the South Seas are helpless against him.

Chen Zuyi believed that Zheng He's huge fleet had treasures, but 60,000 taels of gold had already made him excited, not to mention the various materials that the fleet traded in the Three Kingdoms of the South Seas.

But he underestimated Zheng He, and at the time of the Battle of Jingjing, Zheng He had already experienced a hundred battles and showed excellent military command talent.

When Chen Zuyi led the pirates to attack, Zheng He was already prepared.

Sriwijaya is rich in hot oil, and Zheng He traded a whole shipload on this trip to transport it back to the capital.

In response to the pirate ship, he resorted to fire and burn the pirate ship. The oil was extinguished with water, the pirate ships were on fire, and the pirates were crying and howling.

Seeing this, Chen Zuyi, who was panicked, had long lost the momentum of the pirate king, and was captured by the warship soldiers on the way to escape.

In this battle, more than 5,000 pirates were wiped out, and the largest pirate force in the South Seas was swept away.

The people of the old port rejoiced and organized a large army of laborers to bring all kinds of supplies to the fleet.

In the spring of the fifth year of Yongle, Zheng He's fleet left the old port, and in addition to loading it with all kinds of materials traded, it also brought back the pirate king Chen Zuyi, who had been captured alive.

In May, the fleet returned to Yingtianfu, and the first voyage to the West that lasted two full years came to an end.

The large fleet of returning ships attracted countless onlookers, especially those animals that had never been seen before, such as elephants, which were even more stunning.

60,000 taels of gold were directly transported to the palace, but Zhu Di, who was a big spender, was rewarded within a month.

Also transported into the palace were the statistics of various places requested by Zhu Zhanji, as well as gifts specially given to the nobles in the palace.

Those animals were looked at by Zhu Zhanji and them, so they asked the Siyuan Bureau to exhibit them at the foot of Qingliang Mountain for a fee.

Those strange animals are shocking in this era. Many ministers also brought their families to see the strange.

And those ordinary people don't care about a few copper plates, which actually attracted hundreds of thousands of people to buy tickets to visit.

This made a group of eunuchs in the Siyuan Bureau smile one by one, preparing to open the first zoo in the Ming Dynasty for a long time.

Most of the materials brought back by the fleet were sold in Yingtianfu, and these hundreds of thousands of tons of goods were sold for two months before they were all sold short.

Everyone was happy, but only one person was unlucky, and that was the pirate king Chen Zuyi. Zhu Di didn't even see him, and when he gave an order, he directly beheaded him for public display.

Zhu Zhanji deliberately studied the information that Zheng and they sorted out for a period of time before letting people put it away.

In modern times, he knows the mineral resources of any country and any region in this world.

Since this is not another world, it means that these resources still exist, and no one understands the situation in this world.

Therefore, he actually has no interest in these materials. He just wants to exchange his own attention for the attention of others, and subtly change everyone's thinking.

Commerce, industry, this is an important foundation for the development of the times.

Only by increasing the productive forces, freeing the people from the land, and diverting the eyes of the ruling stratum from the poor and white peasants, can society truly stabilize and develop.

He is still young and has no power, so he can only change in this subtle way.

I have been in this world for three years, and although this world is backward, it is precisely because of backwardness that I have done a lot.

Now, he has an interest.

Zheng He's fleet returned only five months before it set off again.

Although the main task this time was to send the envoys of various countries back to China, under Zhu Di's arrangement, in addition to the people and horses, the ship was loaded with all kinds of Ming specialties.

These are not bounties, but trade goods.

A group of eunuchs who saw the money, and those noble ministers, all carried private goods in the fleet.

Zhu Zhanji did not have the slightest dissatisfaction, and he could make them think of going to trade, which was progress.

(The layout of the childhood is finally written, and the next step is to enter the main text.) The old demon is also getting better, please believe that the old demon will try his best to write a good-looking story. ）