Chapter 54 Cultivating a Sense of Sea Power
If the Ping Wa is only attacking the Japanese who have come ashore, it is only a symptom but not a root cause, and it will not be able to completely eliminate the Japanese pirates. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoIf you want to completely destroy the Japanese pirates, you need to go to sea and completely destroy the Japanese lairs' lair.
Zhong Yu also told Zhu Houzhao that if he wanted to pacify the Japanese, he must form a strong naval division to strike at sea against the Japanese.
Of course, if we want to form a strong sailor and go to sea to eliminate the Japanese invaders, we must first open the sea, which involves too many conflicts of interest, and it cannot be done overnight.
Later generations of Zhong Yu often regretted that the Ming Dynasty closed off the country, so that he missed a good opportunity for development and expansion. During this period, the adventurers of Spain and Portugal, with the support of the king and nobles, were frantically grabbing territory.
Now that Zhong Yu feels that he is standing in this position, it is possible to change this historical process, and he should do his best. Zhong Yu felt that he should use the formation of a sailor to exterminate the Japanese invaders, and cultivate Zhu Houzhao's greed and ambition to look at the world and aim at the four seas.
Of course, it is still a distant and difficult thing for the Ming Dynasty to lift the maritime ban and expand externally.
If you want to open the sea, it will not only involve the national policy of Emperor Taizu and his old man's forbidden sea, but also involve those families in the south of the Yangtze River who have acquired the smuggling interests brought by the forbidden sea. Zhong Yu's later generations learned through some information that the forbidden sea of the Ming Dynasty was not actually all caused by the ruler's short-sighted concept of self-sufficiency in the Celestial Empire, as the school history textbook said, but in fact, it involved too many entanglements of interests.
As vested interests in the forbidden sea, those big families in the south of the Yangtze River have huge profits from their smuggling because of the forbidden sea. Jiangnan is also a place where there are many scholars, and the children of the Jiangnan family who have successfully conducted scientific research have naturally become their agents in the court, and they will naturally safeguard the vested interests of the Jiangnan family and strongly oppose the opening of the sea.
When Zhong Yu saw Liu Jin, Gu Dayong, Zhang Yong and other eunuchs, he was filled with indignation after hearing the brutal and vicious deeds of the Japanese Kou just now, and he couldn't help but feel a move in his heart, maybe he could use these powerful eunuchs of the future Zhengde Dynasty to achieve the goal of opening the sea.
The Ming Emperor, who is the supreme monarch of the Central Dynasty, even if he opens the sea, I am afraid that he will not casually send generals to go on overseas expeditions. A powerful sailor who hangs overseas and is difficult to supervise and control, who can guarantee that the generals in command will not have the ambition to establish themselves as kings. But the eunuchs are different, although the eunuchs are also good for wealth and power, but in the eyes of the Ming Emperor, they have no heirs, so they will not have the ambition to become kings themselves, and they are only the emperor's domestic slaves, it is difficult to get the heartfelt support of the soldiers. Therefore, Zhong Yu felt that if Zhu Houzhao could really open the sea and form a sailor to expand externally after he ascended the throne, this responsibility of leading the sailor would be inseparable from these close eunuchs around Zhu Houzhao.
So, Zhong Yu spoke passionately about the situation when Zheng He led the invincible fleet at that time and praised Zheng He's supreme achievements. Recalling the eventful years of the past, not only Zhu Houzhao longed for it, but even Gu Dayong and others also had red eyes.
Liu Jin said in a deep voice: "Eunuch people, if they can be like Gonggong Zheng, it is not a miracle to make a success, and they will be famous for a hundred generations, what more can the husband ask for?" "The eunuchs have no heirs, and they can't seek family wealth for hundreds of generations, so they can't help but be very enthusiastic about the fame of this later generation, and Zheng He has always been a role model for the eunuchs.
Gu Dayong also looked at Zhu Houzhao with tears in his eyes and said: "If you ascend the throne in the future, our family also wants to lead me to the Ming Sailor to calm the Japanese and thieves from all over the world for you." Our family doesn't dare to compare with Gonggong Zheng, and we just want to do our part for the prince! ”
"Fuck off, if I ascend the throne, I will lose your benefits! Doesn't the Taifu often say that only one piece and one relaxation, the way of civil and martial arts, can maintain long-term prosperity. My father has worked hard for so many years, and his rule is prosperous. If I ascend to the throne one day, I will surely rearm myself and put down all the thieves who are not subservient, and then I will naturally take you as my arms. ”
Zhu Houzhao was so heartfelt, Zhong Yu couldn't help but be moved in his heart, and hurriedly said that he would do his best and die. Gu Dayong and Liu Jin also loudly expressed their loyalty.
Zhong Yu was also busy saying: "If I go to sea to pacify the Japanese, Your Highness will hand over this fleet to Gonggong Liu, and Gonggong Liu and they will definitely be able to pacify the Japanese and prestige overseas!" ”
Liu Jin couldn't help but cast a grateful glance at Zhong Yu.
Zhu Houzhao said a little sadly: "Actually, I would rather never be the emperor of this Laoshizi, I only wish my father is in good health, and I would rather be a carefree prince." Alas, my father's health is getting worse and worse now, my father is so diligent that in order to govern the world, he is even physically exhausted, but those imperial historians still write nonsense and accuse their father from time to time, which is really hateful. In fact, I also want to study hard to make my father happy, but I really can't listen to the ancient truths that these civil officials say. ”
Zhong Yu saw the deep love between Zhu Houzhao and Emperor Hongzhi father and son, and couldn't help but feel a little touched, saying that the heavenly family was ruthless, but here Emperor Hongzhi and Zhu Houzhao were really father and son, and Empress Zhang was really a couple, and Emperor Hongzhi alone could be called a good emperor.
At this time, Zhu Houzhao was definitely not as absurd as described in the history books of later generations, only from his father-son affection for Emperor Hongzhi, it can be seen that this is at least a filial child. Zhong Yu feels that a filial person, no matter how bad he is, will not be so bad.
It's just that Zhu Houzhao was in the rebellious stage of adolescence at this time, and those civil officials blindly followed the standards of the emperor in their minds, and wanted to cultivate Zhengde into an emperor in their minds, instead of teaching Zhu Houzhao according to his aptitude according to his actual situation, which caused Zhu Houzhao's rebellion to be even more aggravated. And Liu Jin and other servants around Zhu Houzhao took the opportunity to mislead him to be lustful and lustful, which created the absurd and nonsense Emperor Zhengde in the later history books.
Zhong Yu felt that whether it was for the wish in his heart or Emperor Hongzhi's kindness to him, he should do his part to lead Zhu Houzhao on the right path.
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Now Zhong Yu has a hard time in the morning, sitting behind the bookcase for three hours every morning, listening to these boring courses and suffering from the devastation of those prince's teachers.
Zhong Yu couldn't understand what the prince's masters thought, every day he just talked about those rigid theories with a straight face, who could listen to these boring things.
Alas, there is no way, who told us to be the prince's attendant, grit your teeth and stiffen up!
When Zhong Yu reviewed the course for Zhu Houzhao in the afternoon, he arrived at the stage where Zhong Yu told the story.
As soon as the bachelor on duty left today, Zhu Houzhao couldn't wait to shout for Zhong Yu to speak: "Zhong Shiyu hurriedly continued, what kind of Spanish Armada and what kind of Dutch battle situation!" Also, yesterday Zhong Shi read that thousands of miles away from the east of our Ming Dynasty, there is a continent that is bigger than our Ming Dynasty, I asked many people, but they have never heard of it! ”
Zhong Yu smiled: "Well, I also occasionally heard a Francophone say, if His Highness asks about the new Daming Francosian, maybe they will know." This continent is what they found! At this time, Columbus discovered the New World only for more than ten years, and the Ming Dynasty claimed to be the superior country of the Heavenly Empire, so he naturally did not know about Europe, so he naturally did not know that there was a very large continent on the other side of the sea!
Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but pout, as if he didn't believe it. Zhu Houzhao recently listened to Zhong Yu's stories, and he always made new statements, he wanted to believe it or not, but Zhong Yu could always say some reasons, so that he couldn't refute it, and he couldn't help but be interested.
For example, Zhong Yu said a few days ago that people live on a ball, Zhu Houzhao and Liu Jin don't believe it, people live on a ball, wouldn't the people under the ball fall. But Zhong Yu said that when looking at the seaside, he always sees the sail first and then the hull, which proves that this place where everyone lives is not flat, and Zhu Houzhao really can't argue.
Zhong Yu's description of the earth being round is just a casual mention, at this time Europe has begun to believe in the theory of the circle of the earth, and after Columbus discovered the New World, it confirmed the theory of the circle of the earth. But in Daming, naturally there were no people who believed in this matter, and Zhong Yu naturally wouldn't tell Zhu Houzhao anything like gravity, and they didn't understand it when he did. Zhong Yu was very skeptical that these things he told would be considered heretics by those old scholars and burn him alive!
In this era, the West has established early colonial rule in Asia, Africa and Latin America, with Portugal and Spain as the center, and the sea has brought rich rewards to the monarchs and nobles of the two countries. Later, the Netherlands, Britain, and France also participated in colonial expansion, and Western European countries began to constantly compete for colonies and maritime supremacy over maritime interests.
In order to cultivate Zhu Houzhao's awareness of sea power in all directions, Zhong Yu mixed the current European countries' struggle for maritime supremacy with the adventure stories of Spanish pirates and Portuguese pirates, and told Zhu Houzhao in the form of wonderful stories. In order to keep things interesting, Zhong Woo also performed some fantasy stories of Pirates of the Caribbean.
Even in order to make Zhu Houzhao empathize with the pain caused by not having sea power, Zhong Yu also fictionalized a Mayan Empire similar to the Ming Dynasty and located farther away from the sea, telling the story of the Mayan Empire due to its isolation and lack of awareness of sea power, from prosperity and power, to being bullied by sea power powers, until its decline.
Zhong Yu told Zhu Houzhao the story of the Western hegemony and pirate adventures that he fused, and told them the situation of chapter hui style every day, which attracted everyone's yearning.
The fascinating pirate story fascinated Zhu Houzhao, who loves novelties, and even Liu Jin couldn't help but attract them. There are more and more listeners to Zhong Yu's story, until the moment when Zhong Yu tells the story, the eunuchs and eunuchs in the East Palace come to listen to Zhong Yu's story, and the later "Eight Tigers" is really a non-pull!
Today, when Zhong Yu said that in order to compete for maritime supremacy, European countries declared that they were incompatible with pirates on the surface, but secretly cultivated pirates to attack the merchant ships of other countries, Gu Dayong and Liu Jin on the side frowned slightly, despising the unseemly actions of these small barbarian countries.
Zhu Houzhao was gearing up and said leisurely: "Okay, it's really a good strategy." With the support of the imperial court behind the back, and without losing the face of the imperial court, such a deal can be done, and even I want to do it! ”
Well, this future Emperor Zhengde is really a sincere person, without the slightest pretentiousness of those sanctimonious court ministers.
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