Suncheonfu, the capital of the city.

The sunny day in autumn is even more rare because the sky is high and the clouds are light, and the sky blue is as if it has just been washed.

Could it be that there is such good weather, Liu Jun deliberately took time out to take Liu Hekun and Liu Heyuan's two slightly older sons to play in the imperial garden. On the lawn that has turned from green to yellow, Liu Jun is playing a leather ball with them.

Two three-year-olds, who rarely play with their father, giggle and chase the ball, and occasionally fall on the grass. However, it doesn't hurt to fall on the grass, and the two children are not so delicate. When Liu Jun saw them fall, he laughed heartlessly, and didn't go over to help them at all, but shouted, "Son, get up quickly and continue!" ”

Empress Lu and Concubine Li, Concubine Li, Concubine Shen and a group of concubines watched from the sidelines, and they all felt a little distressed, especially the mothers of Queen Lu and Concubine Li's two children, who wanted to go down to help the children when they fell in pain several times, but they were all stopped by Liu Jun.

"Wherever you fall, you get up, it's just a lawn, you can't fall at all. Don't just want to be like an old hen guarding her chicks, if you keep treating them as chicks, then they will really become grass chickens when they are older. If you are willing to let go and let them fly and flutter like eagles, they will be able to soar into the sky when they grow up. Do you want your son to be a straw chicken or an eagle in the future? ”

In the end, Queen Lu and Concubine Li Guifei did not dare to help anymore.

After playing for a long time, the two children were all grass and ash, their hands and faces were dirty, and they were sweating. Even Liu Jun himself was sweating.

"Let's go, son, let's go swimming."

Liu Jun doesn't plan to spoil his son, but he usually doesn't have so much time to spend with them. From the second half of the year, the two older sons had to attend classes five days a week and read half a day a day.

The Imperial Garden has both a large bathroom and an open-air swimming pool.

"Your Majesty, the princes are still so young, where do they dare to take them to swim." Empress Lu couldn't help but object.

"Swimming helps with fitness, I think these two boys are reading well now, but their bodies are a little weak. Usually there is too little exercise, and when I go to class and study in the future, I am not allowed to take the chariot in the palace again. Liu Jun wiped the sweat on his forehead and pinched the shoulders of the two little guys.

"Write it down for me, in the future, the two princes will run a thousand meters every morning, learn boxing in the afternoon of two days a week, learn queue in two afternoons, learn to swim in one afternoon, do handicrafts in one afternoon, and do labor in one afternoon. In the future, shoes must be worn by oneself and cannot be served. ”

Although Liu Jun will not let his sons receive Spartan training, he must also cultivate their independent character from an early age. Why Is The Average Life Expectancy Of An Emperor That Short? There are many short-lived emperors who have not been trained well when they were children, and they have been weak since childhood, and many of them still like wine when they grow up, so of course their bodies are easy to hollow out.

For the education of the prince, Liu Jun feels that it is very important to choose some good teachers, but there is also a very important point, that is, the princes should not be allowed to contact their mothers for too long, and the prince's mothers should be properly kept at a distance from their children, and the prince's mothers should not spoil their sons too much.

The outdoor pool water in October was very cold, and Liu Jun did not take his son to swim here. He took the two princes to the indoor swimming pool, which has special warm water.

The father and son stripped naked and played in the wet pool for half an hour before it ended, and when they came up, the two little ones were still a little unfinished and wanted to play more.

As soon as he came out of the bathroom, Liu Jun originally planned to accompany the two children to do some quizzes and other small games, but he saw Wang Kun, the eunuch of the master of ceremonies and the palm seal, standing outside with several attendants waiting.

Previously, the imperial court abolished the large military region, abolished the governor-general, the governor-general, and the three commanders and eunuchs were also abolished, and the original commanders and eunuchs were demoted to palm seal eunuchs. Wang Kun, the celebrant and the admiral, was once again unlucky after the reform of the separation of powers in the imperial court last time, he lost power last time, and this time he was demoted.

"What's the matter?" Liu Jun asked.

"It's news from Java." Wang Kun said, "Banten and Mataram are willing to send troops to assist Batavia. ”

Liu Jun smiled, "Oh." He paused, "They're so happy?" It must have put forward a lot of conditions, right?

Wang Kun has followed the emperor for several years, and he has long been surprised by the emperor's keen intuition. He replied, "Yes, both Banten and Mataram are willing to send troops to assist Batavia, and they are willing to recognize that the Han will take over all the rights and interests of the former Dutch East India Company in Java, and they are even willing to join the South Seas Trade Alliance mentioned by our DPRK and set up a ******." However, they did put forward their own conditions, and Banten demanded that the imperial court sell warships and guns to Banten at the best price, and the first order included an order for twenty warships for four 104-gun former Han general-class first-class battleships. In addition, they also ordered hundreds of naval guns, field guns, and coastal defense guns, as well as 10,000 flintlock muskets."

"Mataram also wants to be able to order warships and guns in large quantities."

"They don't just want to buy guns and guns, do they also hope that Dahan can have further support?" Liu Jun smiled, "Let me guess, do Banten and Mataran both hope to get the support of the imperial court to help them attack the other side?" ”

"Your Majesty is really like a god, and nothing can escape Your Majesty's divine calculations."

"This is not some divine calculation, don't look at the South Seas is now a plate of scattered sand, in fact, for thousands of years, the South Sea Islands have also appeared several powerful countries, once almost unified the entire South Seas. During the Tang and Song dynasties in the Central Plains, there were three Buddhas in the South Seas, which arose in the current island of Sumatra, and once defeated the East Java country that unified the island of Java, and then almost controlled the entire South Sea Islands. It was not until later that it was destroyed by the Jajapahit kingdom. The Majapahit Kingdom, which flourished in Java, also occupied most of the South Seas when it was in its heyday. Later, the Sultanate of Malacca on the Malay Peninsula rose up and dominated the South Seas until Portugal came to the east, and finally, the West Yi rushed into the South Seas, and the South Seas no longer had a strong indigenous state, and fell into a state of fragmentation and scattering. ”

"The natives of Nanyang have many strong beliefs, and they have many large and small sultanates, and they are constantly fighting with each other. Before the Dutch established themselves in Java, the indigenous countries on Java were already fighting with each other, and the changes continued, and finally the situation of West Banten East Mataram was formed, but this balance was also fragile, one mountain could not accommodate two tigers, and the two countries had long had the intention of annexing each other, but before there was a Dutch inserted between the two countries, but they made peace with each other for a long time. ”

"Now that they can buy battleship artillery from my big man, they will naturally think of destroying each other and becoming the hero of Java."

Wang Kun asked, "Then are we going to sell them firearms?" ”

"Of course it sells, both of them sell, no matter who buys it, you can sell it." With such an obvious question, Liu Jun did not hesitate.

Arms trading is one of the most lucrative commodities in the world. Even if the Han really established a ****** in Batavia at that time, built a shipyard and a gun factory there, and exempted all weapons from export taxes, its profits would still be very high, especially for the high-end warships and sophisticated guns that the two countries wanted to buy.

Moreover, selling arms is not just about making money.

As long as the two countries have sophisticated weapons and warships, they will definitely send troops to attack each other, and then the sandpiper and the clam will fight, and the fisherman will benefit. Not only can it sell arms to make war money, but it can also weaken the strength of the two families, and if the two families fight on the island of Java, the Han will naturally be more stable in Batavia.

The current focus of the imperial court is on the Indochina Peninsula, but this does not mean that the imperial court will really sit idly by. Do not use force, but you can also use other methods to disrupt the pattern of the South Seas, and then the Han can sit back and reap the benefits.

Later, Liu Jun summoned Foreign Secretary Feng Yuanbiao and gave some instructions on Nanyang affairs.

"Banten and Mataram want to buy battleship guns, there is no problem, they can sell as many as they want. However, they have to send troops to help us capture Batavia first, and then there is another one, this time to fight Batavia, we must mainly use the soldiers and horses of Banten and Mataram, let them play the vanguard, and try to avoid casualties among our soldiers, even if they besiege Batavia for half a year or a year. ”

"If other countries in the South Seas want to buy arms, they can agree to sell as much as they want."

Feng Yuanbiao asked with some concern, "What if these natives come to us with these warships and artillery in the future?" ”

Liu Jun said disapprovingly, "Don't worry about this, the natives of Nanyang can only buy 1,500-ton battleships when they order our top warships, but the latest type of battleship we are building now is 2,000 tons, and the imperial court has already mastered a full set of design drawings of 2,500-ton battleships as technical reserves, and they can start building at any time, and our designers and engineers are already studying the design drawings of 3,000-ton battleships." ”

"It's the same with guns, we have enough technical reserves, we have strong manufacturing capabilities, and what they can buy will never be the strongest, and they will always be one level lower than our existing equipment. Besides, even if we buy a few warships and some guns, we can make them turn out of the palm of our hands? Don't worry, we sell one of their warships now, and with the money we earn, we can build several more ships, sell them some arms, and then secretly fan a few fires and stir them up, it is estimated that these natives will swell to tear each other apart, and then they will only fight weaker and weaker, and will never fight stronger and stronger. ”

"If we sell them more weapons, we can even destroy their ability to build warships and guns, and if they dare to blow up with us in the future, then the court will cut off the supply of weapons, and they will be completely finished."

Can you buy and sell? The cost of building a 1,500-ton 1,000-ton 100,4-gun three-gun deck warship was 500,000 silver dollars per ship, and because of the improvement of the shipbuilding industry and the reduction of raw materials, the price was 100,000 yuan cheaper than the original cost of 600,000 ships.

But Liu Jun planned to sell it to the natives of Nanyang for a price of one million silver dollars each, 1,500 tons, one hundred and four guns, four masts, three guns on deck, and a rated crew of 800. The bottom guns are all 32-pounder guns, which are definitely not weak, even stronger than the original warships of European colonists such as the Dutch East India Company and the Spanish Philippines.

But no matter how strong he is, he can't threaten the big man.

First, the number of warships in the Han Empire is larger, and second, the new generation of 2,000-ton battleships of the Imperial Navy has already started construction and will be installed.

There is one more, that is, the battleships of the Great Han have now begun to be equipped with canon grenades and explosive bombs, and in front of this explosive bomb with an excellent time-delay fuse, the sail wooden ship, is too brittle.

It is simply not feasible to fight the big Han by buying arms from the big Han. (To be continued.) )