Liu Xu had already felt the emperor's vacillation and his fear, which was understandable, after all, no son of heaven would allow a courtier to appear under him who was even more powerful than himself, not to mention that this courtier was in the prime of life and in the prime of life. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

However, Liu Xu is not afraid, he has already grasped the emperor's heart, and the emperor's weakness is like a fire in front of him, and he is not afraid.

Emperor Chongzhen is the beast in his trap, he has grasped all the weaknesses, he wants Chongzhen to be happy, he wants Chongzhen to be happy, he wants Chongzhen to be disappointed, he can let Chongzhen down.

Emperor Chongzhen is the Ninety-Five Emperor in front of his courtiers, the son of heaven, but in his hands, he is allowed to knead the round and flattened dough, without any temper.

This is the power of wisdom and language.

Liu Xu suddenly sighed: "If the emperor is not willing to adopt this middle policy, the students still have this middle strategy for reference." ”

"Say it." Emperor Chongzhen's voice was calm, and ordinary people couldn't hear any emotion, but Liu Xu could feel a trace of helplessness and murderous intent from it.

"But you don't dare to kill me, you still have to beg me, and you have to obey me in the future." Liu Xu thought proudly.

"Your Majesty, please look at this picture." Liu Xu looked at Wang Chengen, and he wanted the latter to take out the props he had prepared.

Wang Chengen just woke up from a dream, and everything just now seemed like a dream to him: he had never seen a courtier dare to speak to the emperor like this, and he had never seen a courtier who could manipulate the emperor's will like this.

"Maybe he is more powerful than the emperor, and the future of Daming is not in the emperor, but in this person?" Wang Chengen thought so, but secretly slapped himself: "It's a big rebellion, this is what you can think about!" ”

A map was presented, this map is seven or eight feet square, is put together with several silk silks, on which the charcoal carefully drawn map of the world, in the center of which there are seven vigorous and powerful characters "Emperor Ming Wanzai Huanyu Map". Located in the middle is the Ming Empire, which has a vast territory, from West Asia to the west, to the coast in the east, to the Arctic Liaodong, and to the South Sea, which is the greatest empire in the world. It is surrounded by small states such as Korea and Japan to the east, the Franchi colony to the south, the Ottoman Empire and the Safavid Empire to the west, and the westernmost continent of Tessie. Manchurian Jiannu was regarded as a rebellious barbarian, so although they occupied the territory and marked it in purple, they did not have a country name, which was different from the vermilion Ming territory, which meant that they were "evil purple and seized Zhu", stealing the fertile land of China, not Yanhuang orthodoxy.

On this map, there are Eurasia and the Mediterranean coast, North and South America, Arctic, and four oceans, but there is no Australia, and there is no Africa - Emperor Chongzhen does not need to know Australia and Africa, so there is none.

The Chinese don't seem to be very keen on making maps, so not many people make maps of the world, except for what appears on Zheng He's charts with what appears to be land blocks of America. The first real world map in Chinese history, "Kunyu Wanguo Quantu", was brought to China by Matteo Ricci, which shows that China is indeed a little backward in this regard.

The map has a broad and majestic beauty: when you cross the Shandong hills, the North China Plain, the Loess Plateau and even the Hetao Plain from east to west, you will have a sense of pleasure that the world is in the palm of your hand, and when you gently clench your palm and hold the entire Jiangnan land in the palm of your hand, you will feel that you are the king of this world! And when you increase the scale and look at the whole world, you will find how big the world is, and how insignificant the individuals, empires, and territories are -- Russia in the north of the Ming Dynasty, Ottomans and Europe in the west, and the vast ocean in the south, and you can see the continental shelves of North and South America if you go eastward!

Emperor Chongzhen looked at the map with intoxication and admiration, and did not speak for a while.

"Your Majesty, this is your country." Liu Xu respectfully pointed to the vermilion country in the center of the map and said.

"Good, good, great!" For the first time in his life, the emperor seemed to feel the meaning of being the ruler of an empire: his world was not in the palace, not in the Forbidden City, not even in Beijing, his empire was in Hebei, in Shandong, in Shaanxi, in Jiangnan, in Lingnan, these places may not be visited once in his life, but these places belong to him.

It's all his!

And when the emperor set his eyes on the northeast region, his brow furrowed again, and he saw his nightmare, his old enemy, his desperate, Jiannu.

No one dared to speak, everyone, except for Liu Xu, looked at the emperor blankly, their mood changed with the emperor's facial expressions, the emperor was happy, they were happy, the emperor frowned, they were sad.

The emperor is the eunuch's day.

"Heaven is a god, endow me with the emperor, my descendants will be forever protected, and the generations will be forever prosperous!" Liu Xu suddenly knelt on the ground and shouted loudly: "One day, the place where the sun shines is the territory of my Daming, and there will always be sunshine in the land of my Daming!" ”

"Heaven is a god, endow me with the emperor, my descendants will be forever protected, and the generations will be forever prosperous!" The eunuchs didn't know what to do, but they were smart enough to choose to kneel and shout with Liu Xu, and for a while, the shouts of praise resounded through the narrow space of the platform.

"Heaven is a divine territory, endow me with the emperor, my descendants will be forever protected, and the generations will ......be forever prosperous," the young son of heaven muttered to himself, "Such a large territory is all mine, and it is all mine...... Hahahaha, hahahaha! He looked down at the map, and suddenly laughed out loud, laughing so unbridledly, laughing so happily, laughing so unscrupulously: "Good, good, good!" Liu Xu, you are good Liu Xu! ”

Liu Xu knelt on the ground and was silent, staring directly at the emperor in front of him, without saying a word.

The emperor's laughter gradually faded, he looked away from the map, looked at the map again with reluctance, and then said: "Sir get up and speak, this is what Sir gave me?" ”

Liu Xu stood up and still stood with his hands down: "Emperor Qi, the next policy is in this map, this map is not the next policy." ”

"What's the next step?"

"Your Majesty, dare to ask, why did this peasant traitor arise?"

At this time, the emperor already knew that Liu Xu's every question had a deep meaning, so he replied seriously: "Naturally, the taxes are too heavy, natural disasters and man-made disasters, and if you can't afford to eat, you will rise up and rebel." After saying this, he sighed again: "The thief is also my child!" ”

Liu Xu glanced at the emperor in front of him with a vague look of pity, if it was in modern times, how could a child of this age be a high school student, how could he bear such a heavy burden?

In that sense, he is sad.

Lao Ziyun "suffers from the dirt of the country, is the master of the society, and the country is ominous, and is the king of the world", without the spirit of bravely taking responsibility, enduring dirt and humiliation, he cannot be the son of heaven, but the burden of the country, internal strife and foreign enemies still seems to be too heavy for a young man.

But he will not show mercy to his subordinates because of mercy, otherwise it will be cruel to himself.

Liu Xu uses words as the blade and wisdom as the armor, and wants to create a peace in this chaotic era at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

By means of thunderbolts, the bodhisattva's heart is revealed.

"Since this is the case, then let's let them afford to eat, and the common people can afford to eat, so naturally they will not rise up and rebel."

"It's just, Ji will be released?" The emperor looked at Liu Xu with surprised eyes, if the problem of eating can be solved by talking, then where would there be so many peasant uprisings in history!

"Here!" Liu Xu squatted on the ground and pointed his finger, the target was Taiwan!

Chongzhen looked at the island on the map and was silent. He knew the place, after all, he was the nominal owner of the land. In that year, Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, made an expedition to Japan, encountered a kamikaze failure, and had to make a detour to Taiwan, passing through Penghu to set up Penghu, in an attempt to enter Taiwan, in preparation for another expedition to Japan. In the Ming Dynasty, this place was subordinate to the Quanzhou Mansion of Fujian, and the chief official was the Penghu Zhai Inspector, which was later abolished due to the sea closure policy. Later, because of the coastal coastal defense, it was not until the Francophone occupied it.

It's just that this small island can really solve the problem of Daming?

"Your Majesty, don't look at this small place in Yizhou, it seems inconspicuous, but its ground is humid and hot, and rice can be planted twice or even three times a year! The students once sent people to visit them, and if they were to be cultivated, millions of mu of paddy fields could be reclaimed, and at the rate of 5 million mu, two crops a year, and two stone rice per mu, no less than 20 million stone of rice could be produced every year! ”

20 million stones!

This number is so huge, and it is more reliable than the unattainable imposition of tariffs, and the grain itself is a more useful resource than silver, so that Emperor Chongzhen was a little dizzy for a while!

Based on the calculation that a person eats two stone of rice a year, these rice can supply 10 million people!

"Sir, is that serious?" Emperor Chongzhen asked in a slightly trembling voice, his voice had long since lost the murderous intent just now, and it was all the tone of his younger brother begging for his brother.

This young man has a request for others.

Liu Xu has mastered the knowledge and the future, and he can't help but not give in.

Although one is standing and the other is sitting on the surface, in fact, the status of the two has long been reversed.

"If you can't produce these rice, please kill Liu Xu's head!" Liu Xu replied categorically. However, he immediately said: "But Your Majesty, although this place is good, there is a drawback. ”

"What's the downside?"

"The original natives of the island numbered 10,000 people, divided into hundreds or thousands of tribes, and there were constant blood feuds among them, and they took pleasure in hunting each other's heads, and their civilization was too low to be feared. But the southern part of the island was already occupied by the Dutch, a branch of the Franco. If you want to open up Yizhou, you must first expel the Dutch! ”

Emperor Chongzhen suddenly understood something, he looked at Liu Xu with a complicated eye, and there was pity and happiness in his tone: "Mr. wants to go to Yizhou to explore?" ”

"The road is not good, take the pole to float in the sea." Liu Xu's expression was not sad or happy: "Since the emperor is unwilling to adopt the student's best and middle strategies, the student has no choice but to get involved in Yizhou, provide food for the Ming Dynasty, solve problems for the emperor, work hard, and die!" (To be continued.) )