Ignoring Yan Shifan's cannibalistic expression, Tang Yi talked eloquently in the main hall.

He told everyone that after the establishment of the city, due to the influx of a large number of Western merchants, it was urgent to understand the situation, know their customs and habits, and whether the strength of the country would threaten the safety of the Ming Dynasty. To this end, Tang Yi first sent sailors to sail with the Xiyi fleet, and after accumulating a certain amount of experience, about three years ago, he was funded by the Municipal Shipping Department to select merchant leaders from the southeast people, and seconded 200 sailors from the sailors, plus 1,200 light and strong men recruited by the local government, and after rigorous training, he started a great journey to explore the route.

The whole fleet was divided into two parts, the main force consisted of twenty-three ships of various types, they carried silk, porcelain, handicrafts and other materials, set out from the port of Quanzhou, followed the southward Western merchant fleet, went to Malacca, and then crossed the strait, entered the Indian Ocean, reached India, and then went to the Middle East, reached Africa, and went south along the coast of Africa, rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and sailed into the Atlantic.

Almost at the same time, another convoy of eight ships sailed straight east, tracing the direction of the rising sun, and sailed at sea for four months before finally rounding a winding strait and entering a water that had never been seen before. As they continued north, they encountered a large number of islands and joined up with their main fleet.

The confluence of the two fleets was on the island of Cuba, where they spent half a year repairing before returning to the Cape of Good Hope, reaching Africa, and returning from Malacca to Daming.

Listening to the names of places that he had never heard of keep popping up, Jiajing's head was big, and he looked like he was listening to the book of heaven.

Tang Yi hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, about three years ago, the minister once presented a complete map of all countries. ”

"Find, find out!" Jiajing said hurriedly.

Huang Jin agreed, don't say it, it didn't take long for a while to bring a map, which was more than a zhang long, and the two little eunuchs carried it, panting and running over.

Just in front of the gossip cloud bed, hanging the map high, Jiajing put on reading glasses and leaned in front of the map.

This map was specially drawn by Tang Yi's subordinates, out of selfishness, he put Daming in the center of the world, and even made many places out of proportion for this reason, but even so, Daming is only a small and pitiful piece in the vast world, to the north, to the south, to the west, there are large areas of land, many countries, some of which are so large that they are not much worse than Daming.

Jiajingzai looked carefully, his slender brows tightened, revealing a thoughtful look. Tang Yi was furious for a while, and he gave Jiajing a map in the hope that His Majesty the Emperor could have a little more common sense in the world so as to support his operation to open the sea.

But who knows, Jiajing's interest is not here at all, he only cares about how much income he can bring, and he didn't even look at the map, so he threw it into the warehouse.

Now he suddenly took it out, he thought it would be imperceptible, but it turned into a storm, Tang Yi was afraid that Jiajing would be angry, and he dared to draw Da Ming so small and cut off your head!

Tang Yi's neck was cold, and he actually regretted it a little, it seemed that it shouldn't be too much!

He trembled, and Jiajing suddenly said, "Tang Yi, come here." ”

"Yes." He obediently arrived at the front of the map, Jiajing stretched out his hand and pointed at Malacca, and thought for a moment: "This, horse, Malacca, it seems to be the Manraka canonized by Grandpa Cheng back then, right?" ”

Tang Yi hurriedly nodded, "Your Majesty is wise, this is indeed Manraka, in the ninth year of Yongle, Bairi Missoula succeeded to the throne, led his wife and retinue, a total of 540 people came to the court, paid tribute to the unicorn, and Grandpa Cheng gave him a gold jade belt, a guard of honor, a saddle horse, and a crown dress for the princess. In September, King Bairi Misula resigned, and Chengzu gave a banquet in Fengtianmen, gave a gold jade belt, a guard of honor, a saddle horse, and gave one hundred taels of gold, five hundred taels of platinum, and four hundred thousand banknotes. Zheng He went to the West and used this place as a base camp to build city walls, grilles, drum towers and corner towers, and build warehouses to store money, grain and department stores. Zheng He's fleet sailed to Champong, Java and other countries, and first anchored in Malacca; On the return journey from Siam, Khurumos and other countries, he also gathered in Malacca, collected some money and grain, stored it in storage, and waited for the trade winds to sail back to Daming. It is said that there are still many relics of Zheng He, including Sanbao Mountain, and there is still a Sanbao Temple at the foot of the mountain and a Sanbao Well that is said to have been excavated by Zheng He's order......"

Jiajing bowed slightly, since the unicorn came into the world, he also asked people to turn out some records of the year, and only then did he know about the addition of the Qilin, so when he looked at the map, he could break it in one word.

It's just that Jiajing is not happy, how did it become Malacca, and the name of the country given by Grandpa Cheng was changed?

"Tang Yi, there's a lot of Xiyi there, right?"

"Don't dare to hide it from Your Majesty, it's true, the Xiyi fleet uses this as a stronghold, and the place where the eunuchs of the Three Treasures were stationed in the past has become the world of Yiren, and the ministers, ministers and others are guilty!" As he spoke, Tang Yi's knees weakened, and he knelt on the ground, along with the other ministers.

The depression on Jiajing's face became thicker and thicker, "Da Ming has given up, naturally someone will occupy it, no wonder you guys, get up!" ”

All the ministers were ashamed, like a ruined son who had lost his ancestral family business, and his original joy was weakened by three points.

Huang Jin hurriedly said on the side: "Emperor, those heroes who have returned from the voyage are ready, shouldn't they come in." ”

"Well, let them all in."

Not long after a while, the little eunuch led two people to walk in from the outside, Tang Yi knew both of them, and it was Zhao Xu who walked in front, but he had changed his name, called Xu Huan, in his words, to take on a new look and redo the newcomer, as for the follow-up, it was Xi Muyun who had met in Tianjin.

Both of them are smart people, and the officials of Honglu Temple have taught them the etiquette of facing the king, and it is not bad at all. Jiajing smiled, "Get up, let me, and all the adults, take a good look at you!" ”

"Yes!"

They got up from the ground and stood with their hands down, and all the people looked at them and exclaimed. These two people were tanned and shiny, not to mention the two pieces of charcoal, Xu Huan, who was the leader, only had the upper half of his left arm left, and one eye was also blind, covered with a black cloth, and he looked full of gangsterism.

Jiajing's pupils shrank, looked at it for a long time, then stretched it out, and said in a harmonious voice: "You guys have a hard time at sea, right?" ”

The two of them said in unison, "It's really sad." ”

"Well, when you get home, tell me about any bitter water, and I will call the shots for you."

A sentence arrived home, evoking countless sad things for the two of them, Xi Muyun stood up first, he set off from the Pacific Ocean, although he heard Xiyi say that the Pacific Ocean is extremely vast, and they were well prepared, but they met Xiyi's merchant ship halfway, and one of their grain ships was robbed.

For more than a hundred days, they could not see the land, they could not see the islands, and in the second half of the journey they had to endure the torment of hunger almost every day, and when they had eaten up all the good grain, they went to the moldy grain to find rice worms to eat, and they were so hungry that they could not stand it, so they took down the cowhide from the ship, because of the wind and sun, the cowhide was no worse than the stone, and they had to soak it in the sea water for four or five days before they could bite it.

In the end, they even had to eat sawdust and drink rainwater, fortunately, in a sea area, they ran into a huge whale, Xi Muyun relied on his courage, and hunted the whale with his men, and they relied on whale meat to support the Strait of Magellan and re-reach the rich shore.

When they went out, there were more than 300 people, and when they arrived on the island of Cuba, when the two sides converged, there were only more than 200 people left under Xi Muyun, and almost half of them were lost.

The danger of the sea is really chilling.

Jiajing was terrified when he heard this, and couldn't help asking, "Xi Zhuangshi, do you dare to sail again?" ”

"Of course!"

Xi Muyun's eyes lit up, and he kowtowed vigorously, "Your Majesty, although the sea is extremely risky, but wealth also comes from the sea, and it just so happens that there is something to be dedicated to Your Majesty." ”

"Hahaha, I'm just going to see what treasures are overseas."

The little eunuch ran over with a sandalwood box, Huang Jin hurriedly took it with his hand, the weight of the box was amazing, Huang Jin's hand trembled, and he almost fell. He hugged it hard and sent it to Jiajing.

"Emperor, please see."

Opened the box, Jiajing probed, and suddenly his eyes straightened, oh my God, the golden light was shining, and there was a piece of dog's head gold the size of two fists, and it shimmered.

Jiajing trembled his hands and took the gold nugget out of the box, and suddenly there was an exclamation in the hall, and even Yan Ge Lao rubbed his glasses vigorously and looked at it carefully.

Such a big dog's head gold, I'm afraid it weighs dozens of pounds!

Jiajing hugged him for a while, and then felt that his arm was sore, so he had to hand it over to Huang Jin, let him take it, and send it to the minister, so that the big guy could take a look. For a while, the hall was full of exclamations, and they were amazed.

"Xi Muyun, this is something you found overseas?"

"Your Majesty, it is true, beyond the eastern ocean, there are two connected lands, both of which are incomparably vast, and they are rich in gold and silver, but the Xiyi have already taken the lead, and most of the gold and silver they use to purchase silk come from the American continent. Xiyi enslaved the local natives and used them to dig silver, earning tens of millions of taels of income every year. ”

As soon as these words came out, the hall was all jumped, especially the people in the household department, they were all dumbfounded, my God, the household department worked hard for a year, counting the listed shipping company, the maximum annual income was only 10 million taels, and Xiyi could get tens of millions of taels just by digging silver mines. What is this concept?

If the Ming Dynasty occupied that America, just digging up silver, and there would be no need to collect taxes, wouldn't the world be the same?

They all felt incredible, but the dog's head gold was in front of them, and they couldn't help but believe it!

Jiajing couldn't help but sigh, "Alas, I only know that Daming is rich, but I don't know that there is such a treasure overseas!" ”

Yan Shifan's one-eyed swaying back and forth, he hated Tang Yi to death, a good unicorn came to the world, and the limelight was all taken away by Tang Yi, isn't this a busy job!

He suddenly stood up and sneered: "Lord Tang, according to Xi Muyun's words, isn't it an overseas wilderness, and it is even richer and more prosperous than the Ming Dynasty?" Have I become a frog at the bottom of the well? Your Majesty, please Your Majesty, cure Tang Yi for the crime of bullying the king! (To be continued.) )