After helping Xiao Mu realize the inoperability of his idea of "selling dinner with the emperor", Lin Yi picked up the needle and thread in his hand again, sewed the pattern on the handkerchief, and asked casually, "Didn't you think of two ideas?" Tell me, what's another idea? ”

Obviously, Lin Yi didn't have much hope for Xiao Mu's other ideas, but only gave Xiao Mu a chance to speak, and Lin Yi was reluctant to even take a short break from the time he sewed handkerchiefs to listen to his "good ideas". Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Due to the setback just now, Xiao Mu also became a little unconfident at this time, for fear that his next idea would also be found out unrealistically, but after all, he had already told Lin Yi that he had two ideas before, if he didn't say it, Xiao Mu was naturally still a little unwilling, so he said cautiously, "The other idea is to really sell some official positions." ”

Xiao Mu could clearly find that after his first sentence was finished, Lin Yi didn't even seem to have the most basic desire to listen, so he quickly explained, "Of course, this doesn't mean that I'm really going to sell my official beard. ”

Obviously, Xiao Mu's two sentences before and after are obviously full of contradictions - first he said that he really wanted to sell some official positions, and then he said that he was not really selling his official position, which made Lin Yi also feel a little confused, obviously you are going to really sell your official position, and you also said that you are not selling official positions, isn't this a contradiction?

So Lin Yi finally put down the needle and thread in her hand, moved her gaze from the handkerchief to Xiao Mu's body again, and then asked, "What does this mean?" Tell me more about it. ”

"I think so, the current Great Tomorrow is divided into two capitals and thirteen provinces, or in other words, the territory of the Ming Dynasty is as big as a total of fifteen provincial-level regions." Xiao Mu continued to explain, "Therefore, if you want to ensure that you don't add unstable factors to the existing society of the Ming Dynasty, the official position you sell must not be within the two capitals and thirteen provinces. ”

"It's not within the two capitals and thirteen provinces, do you want to sell the official position in the area of Liaodong that has been occupied by the Later Jin?" Lin Yi seemed to understand what Xiao Mu meant, and then asked.

The example given by Lin Wei is really not what Xiao Mu originally thought, in fact, Lin Ye's idea made Xiao Mu inevitably think of some situations in the Three Kingdoms: after the alliance between Wu and Shu against Cao Wei, they once "divided the world in the middle", and divided Cao Wei's territory imaginarily, taking half of each with Hangu Pass as the boundary, and then within the two countries, they would give their courtiers an official position in the territory that was still in Cao Wei's hands, such as the history of Yongzhou - although the territory of Yongzhou was firmly controlled by Cao Wei. But Shu Han still gave his courtiers such an official position.

"That's probably the idea, but it's not to sell the official position in the area occupied by the Houjin, because the Liaodong region occupied by the Houjin originally belonged to the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty." Xiao Mu first affirmed Lin Yi's conjecture, then denied the example she cited, and then added a digression, "It turns out that in the time and space of the Ming Dynasty, this place in Liaodong turned out to be under the jurisdiction of the political envoy of Shandong, I really didn't expect it." ”

However, Lin Yi was naturally not interested in Xiao Mu's last digression, and she continued to ask, "Since you don't sell the official position in the Houjin occupied area in Liaodong, what other official position can you take out and sell?" ”

Lin Yi's question asked the key, and Xiao Mu finally lost the nervousness he felt when he first described the idea, but continued to explain, "It's the seventeenth century, the Age of Discovery for the whole world has begun, and the New World has been discovered. ”

"So, you want to expand the territory of the Ming Dynasty to the New World?" Lin Yi seemed to understand Xiao Mu's thoughts, "And then sell an official position such as 'North American Political Envoy' and 'South American Governor'?" ”

"That's not so exaggerated, with the current Ming national strength, it is a fool's dream to want to incorporate the American continent into the territory." Xiao Mu shook his head and replied, "I mean, since it is now the era of the Great Voyage, you and I are traversers, of course, we should also participate in it, even if we can't occupy the territory of the American continent, but we should also occupy some large islands and other territories around the East Asian continent." ”

"And then? You continue. Although Lin Ye's two conjectures were close to Xiao Mu's thoughts, they were not very accurate, and were finally denied by Xiao Mu, so she stopped guessing, but let Xiao Mu continue.

"First of all, the most important place to occupy is Taiwan." Xiao Mu said, "This island is so important, we all know that Taiwan is Chinese territory, but it seems that it has not been developed at this time, and it is occupied by some Dutch." ”

"Yes, Zheng Chenggong defeated the Dutch to recover Taiwan, which is about twenty or thirty years later in history, and now Taiwan should still be occupied by the Dutch." Lin Yi nodded in reply.

Xiao Mu also nodded, and continued, "So, I think it is necessary to directly include Taiwan in the scope of Ming rule, it is a big island, and it is located in a relatively warm south, there is a lot of arable land that can be cultivated in the future, not to mention that there are many rich resources on the island, and it is also an important node of shipping......

"You and I both know the benefits of Taiwan, so I don't need you to continue to talk about it." It's just that Xiao Mu didn't finish speaking, but he was stopped by Lin Yi, "I can also understand the significance of bringing Taiwan under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, but what does this have to do with the 'selling officials' you just said?" ”

Lin Yi finally asked the most crucial point of the whole question.

"Of course it does, and that's the core part of the idea I had in mind. You and I both know how important it is to bring Taiwan under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, but for the current Ming court, this is almost impossible, after all, the Houjin in Liaodong is still eyeing the tiger, and there are so many messes to deal with in the country. Hsiao Mu replied, "Therefore, I will sell the official positions in Taiwan, which will be under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and then let the people who bought them go and take back their territory from the Dutch, and then build the land they govern themselves." ”