Hearing Ye Guan say this, the little boy was just a little curious and unconvinced, but the middle-aged scribe beside him, whose face had been smiling, suddenly changed color, and made an unknown gesture behind him, so that the old butler who was about to reprimand Ye Guan automatically retreated.

"How could these Yi people follow Childe?" The middle-aged scribe smiled and looked at the missionaries who were following Ye Guan and asked.

"Oh, these people, they are from the Franc machine, and they want to see the emperor in our great ming, and they have to admire the heavens. However, they do not know etiquette, so they sent me to teach them etiquette, so as not to lose their manners. ”

"Since they are foreign envoys, why are they still wearing Confucian clothes?" When the little boy saw those Yi people wearing Confucian clothes, he always felt nondescript, so he interjected and asked curiously.

"The envoys of the Japanese people in the Li Tang period were different, they wore robes and robes to come to our country to meet them. What's more, at that time, they were only close to the Fusang people, but now these people are Xiyi people tens of thousands of miles away, and they can't be the same. ”

"Thousands of miles away? So far! Hey, how big is your country and where is it? The young man poked his head out and looked at the muttering missionaries.

"We are here from Europa's Franco, the territory is not big, not as big as your country's Fujian. However, the navigators supported by our King Noon II have helped our King find countless new continents and colonies. Because we have been in China for a long time, we can only hear from the passing sailors that our territory already contains India and a place also called India. Calculated in total, it should be as large as the territory of the North and South Zhili, and it is still expanding. (PS: At that time, Columbus thought that the American continent he discovered was the legendary India, so he was called Indian, and this America was officially named after Columbus's death.) ）

"What, your territory was originally not as big as Fujian, but now it is as big as the north and the south combined?" Not only the middle-aged scribe and childe, but even Ye Guan was surprised.

It was one thing to know about the colonization process of Portugal, but it was another thing to hear these things from the mouths of the Portuguese, so Ye Guan was still shocked. You must know that the territory of the Ming Dynasty has actually been shrinking in recent years, and the Ming Dynasty army has fought several battles with the King of Hami, during which the Ming army of Hamiwei has been driven out of the Western Regions several times. Since the Yongle Emperor, Annam has also escaped from the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty. During the orthodox years, 500,000 Ming troops were even more discarded by Wara, Yingzong was captured, and then there was no longer the grand occasion of Taizu and Chengzu chasing the remnants of the Yuan in the Mobei grassland. The former vassal Duoyan Sanwei also took advantage of the weakness of the border defense to advance from the Xilamulun River to beyond the Great Wall, and from time to time pretended to be Monan Mongolia to come to the border city to fight the autumn wind. During the reign of Emperor Chengzu, more than 130 guards set up along the Ussuri River in Heilongjiang were all deserted, and the command of the local guards was filled by local tribal leaders, and the power of the Ming court shrank to the border of the Great Wall. Although it has been relatively stable at home and abroad in recent years, the middle-aged scribe and young man were still surprised to hear that the country of Didas had changed from not as big as Fujian to the size of four provinces in the north and south.

"How did you treat the natives there?" The middle-aged scribe was still older after all, and asked different questions from the younger son.

"We preach the Lord's indoctrination there, and help them build a civilized system of nations, let them learn our knowledge, and make the native nobles proud to be our friends and our local officials." Diddash said proudly.

"Really?" Including the middle-aged scribe and others asked curiously, is there such a good person in the world?

"Of course it's true, but at the cost of exterminating those who don't believe in it, and setting up a governor there, who will become the de facto leader of those lands. And in return for their proclamation of the glory of the Lord, they took away from them countless gold, silver, and precious spices, so that the country of Franc was small, but everybody was rich. Ye Guan exposed Diddash's lie in a timely manner.

"Lord Ye, we have traveled thousands of miles to help those natives enter the civilized world and spread the mercy of the Lord, which also needs to be consumed, and it is normal for them to contribute some gold and silver as a reward to the Lord and the Lord's pious servants." Diddash was not ashamed and replied in righteous words.

"Father...... Father, are they doing the right thing? When the young man heard Diddash say this, he turned to his father.

"Well, maybe not." The middle-aged scribe touched his son's head lovingly, thought for a while, and decided that it was wrong to do so.

"What's wrong, this is to change the land and return to the stream, aren't a few political envoys in the southwest of our Ming Dynasty similar to the situation now, disobeying the king, and setting up a small court on their own. It's a pity that the border guards have been eroded in recent years, otherwise they should have changed the land and returned to those places a long time ago, and ordered the officials to govern the places and send the army to impeachment and crush the king of the soil. Ye Guan thought of the Yongzheng period, which strengthened the centralization of power, successfully avoided the emergence of the second, third, and even nth Kashag governments at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and avoided division to the greatest extent.

"The little brother is very knowledgeable." When the middle-aged scribe heard Ye Guan say this, he also smiled, and after talking to his subordinates for a few words, he turned to Ye Guan and Didas and said with a smile: "If there is something at home, I will leave Xiao'er first, and we will meet again in the future." ”

"Farewell" Ye Guan hugged his fists, and continued to walk forward with Didas and others, and after walking a few meters forward, the young man suddenly turned around and shouted at Ye Guan: "How did the land of Franc become so big?" But what does it have to do with the cyclical law of history that you talked about last time? ”

"Because their king's prince himself set up a nautical academy to encourage the people of the country to help their royal family expand their territory. If there is a plan at the top, it will be attached to the bottom, so that a trend can soon be formed in the country. The major events of the country, only worship and Rong, when the sacrifice can be held up, we can raise our heads and say, we did not cut five cities today, cut ten cities tomorrow, and then have to sleep peacefully. On the contrary, the territory of the empire is getting bigger and bigger, and the life of the people is getting better and better, and the fifty can wear clothes, and the seventy can eat meat, and this is enough. The law of historical cycles, maybe it matters, maybe it doesn't matter, after all, I haven't been to the Franco. Ye Guan thought about the difference between the life of European countries and his own country in the future, and he was moved.

"I finally understood the true meaning of "Banggi Qianli, Weimin stopped", and in this way, this person's words are much more interesting than Mr. Li's class. The young man stood in the distance and watched Ye Guan's departure. Said seriously to his father.

"It's good to understand, but Mr. Li is a great Confucian in the world, and his teachings must be not wrong. Go, the hour has come, and it's time to go and say hello to your mother. Seeing that there were all his guards around, Emperor Hongzhi did not hide it, and said lovingly to his son.

"Well, polish and polish, maybe it can be useful." This is a sentence that Emperor Hongzhi said to himself before entering the palace, looking at a stone on the ground.