Chapter 617: Cognitive Gap

"The world is divided into three parts of land and seven parts of the sea. The land is so big, the owner of the Ming Dynasty, less than one-tenth. The land is like a giant ship floating on the surface of the sea compared to the sea. The ocean, which binds the world together, is the eternal bond between this world. Land is finite, and the population increases indefinitely because it can reproduce. Although the Ming Dynasty is very large, it has already experienced a turmoil caused by natural disasters after the population increased. Those who do not seek eternity are not enough to seek a moment. Whoever wants to seek eternity should be a prophet of the things of the world. Those who know that there are Taixi countries thousands of miles away, large and small, and they are constantly fighting with each other. In order to survive, this generation came by boat, once harassed the coast of Fujian in the Ming Dynasty, and entrenched in countless islands in the Ming Dynasty. This generation is the most brutal in the world, in Africa, they plundered and trafficked people, and in South America, the 20 million indigenous people were reduced by more than half as a result of the invasion. In North America, these are still the people who are fighting with the indigenous people for land and other living space. They are extremely vicious, their humanity is destroyed, and all the sins of the world can be found in them. The ministers made these people colonizers! Colonists from Tessy Europe. Today they can burn and loot along the coast of Fujian, and tomorrow they will be able to enter the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty and do all kinds of evil. Although Jiannu is cruel, compared to them, it is slightly inferior. I thought that if the Ming Dynasty maintained the status quo, two hundred years later, the European countries of Taixi would definitely go deep into the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty and do whatever they wanted, and they could not control it. European countries became rich because of colonization, developed the art of Gewu because of their wealth, and then became strong because of Gewu, and finally came across the sea with strong ships and cannons. The minister did not want his children and grandchildren to encounter such a thing, so he took precautions. Chenxing industry and commerce, advocating Gewu, are all based on this consideration. The purpose of sending troops overseas is to keep the enemy out of the country. The enemy came from the sea, and I held the key points of the strait. With artillery bombardment, it did not dare to lightly violate the Ming Sea Frontier.

Now, the ministers are entrenched in Java, Sumatra in the west, and Borneo in the east, these islands are for the Ming Dynasty. It's an unsinkable warship. And the ministers and their descendants will be at the helm of these warships. In the future, with His Majesty's foresight and wisdom, he will definitely be able to deal with it properly. The minister bowed his head thousands of miles beyond the sea frontier. ”

This recital, what it says is still very implicit, is such a status quo, your majesty xià to get an idea, how to locate the relationship between the two. As a courtier, I can't say anything about this. It's up to Majesty to decide. But there is one point, Chen Xie is clear, that is, he doesn't want to establish a country, otherwise he won't pretend to be a minister.

Zhu Youzhen understood what Chen Xie meant, Da Ming is pitiful compared to the whole world. And the continents of the world, compared to the oceans, are also pitifully small. As Chen Xie used to say. The sea is where he belongs. Chen Xie won't fight for anything in Daming, that's what he said now. That's what it does.

Zhu Youzhen is very conflicted, on the one hand, he is happy to see Chen Xie's actions, on the other hand, he regards Chen Xie as a cornerstone for his son to sit on the throne in the future. If Chen Xie will not come, then it is a question whether Zhu Cihong's position as emperor can be held firmly in the future. After reading this recital. Zhu Youzhen has been thinking about this all afternoon and asking you, that is, how to locate the relationship between him and Chen Xie, or how to locate the relationship between Chen Xie and Daming. Do you treat it as an ordinary courtier? Hehe, Chen Xie agreed, but Zhu Youzhen didn't dare to agree.

Can't think of a good way. Zhu Youzhen and headaches. The emperor is rich in the concept of the world, which is deeply rooted in his bones, and he can't accept these overseas territories, which are not counted on the head of the Ming Dynasty, and he is even more worried that Chen Xie will not accept the so-called statement that Xinghai City is part of the Ming Dynasty. Of course, people's thoughts will change wherever they go. If he were Chen Xie, he might have to seek to usurp the throne.

Zhu Youzhen was puzzled, just when Wang Chengen came, he reported with a smile: "Long live Lord, I'm very happy, the imperial doctor said that Princess Kunxing is in good health, and there is no problem at all." Thanks to Sihua's explanation, Liu Ruis supervised the princess to walk for an hour every day, once in the morning and once in the evening. A miracle doctor is a miracle doctor, and he really has his set. ”

Zhu Youzhen smiled, of course he likes his grandson, especially Zhu Yu's birth, which is even more different. stood up and walked two steps: "This will, the Chen Mansion is very lively." Wang Chengen smiled and said: "Long live Lord Wise, there are many people who will congratulate you, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has also gone." Before, I was afraid of rushing into trouble, and the queen mother asked the prince to block the drive. ”

Zhu Youzhen also felt that this was the right thing to do, according to the Mandate of Heaven, the prince was the future master, and he was very angry. "Okay, I'll go check it out, hehe." After laughing, Zhu Youzhen suddenly thought of something, smiled even more happily, and his steps became brisk.

When the emperor arrived, everyone in Chen's mansion came out to greet him and knelt on the ground. Empress Zhou also knelt at the door, and Zhu Youzhen came and said, "I just came to see my grandson, and I don't need to mobilize the people." Seeing Zhu Cihong beside Queen Zhou, he nodded and said, "The prince is also here, just right, I have something to tell you, so let's borrow Sihua's study." ”

This is the emperor's style, saying that he came to see his grandson, and when he arrived at the place, he talked about his affairs first. No one dared to say anything, the two entered Chen Xie's study, Zhu Cihong was very familiar with this place, and tasted a sip of tea with his own hands, and then put it in front of the emperor. This move, Zhu Youzhen was unusually satisfied. Nodding with a smile, this son, in terms of filial piety, that is not said.

"Prince, I want to ask you a question, if you ascend the throne in the future, how should you face your brother-in-law Sihua?" There are a lot of problems in this statement, and there are many factors mixed in the seemingly simple words. For example, this Sihua brother-in-law, that is a hidden problem. Since he is the emperor, the love of the two daughters will be downplayed, for the sake of the country, killing Lao Tzu and killing brothers abounds, isn't it trivial to kill a brother-in-law?

"Father, you are in the prime of life, why are you here to ask?" Zhu Cihong was a little flustered, this question is not easy to answer. When it comes to the idea of the East Palace, in front of the imperial power, what about the crown prince? Once the imperial power is threatened, the abolition of the crown prince is not without historical precedent. With Zhu Cihong's age and experience, how could he not panic when he was suddenly asked this question?

Zhu Youzhen smiled calmly: "You don't have to think about it, just tell the truth, just how to deal with your brother-in-law." ”

Seeing him panicked, Zhu Youzhen was relieved, which showed that the prince was not prepared for this problem at all, that is, he never thought about becoming the emperor now. If he didn't react at all, then Zhu Youzhen really had to be suspicious.

Zhu Cihong slowly regained his composure, sat upright and thought for a while before slowly saying: "Father, the sons and daughters think that Sihua's brother-in-law is an immortal material of the Ming Dynasty. The current situation of Daming, the future of Daming, and how to go in the end, all have a blueprint in his heart. When I was in Nanjing, my brother-in-law often said that the future of the Ming Dynasty was above the sea. Because the world of the future belongs to the sea. Although Erchen didn't understand it very well, he remembered this sentence and verified it little by little in the future. Now it seems that some of it has been verified. The brother-in-law sees the problem far away, and rarely makes mistakes. Speaking of this, Zhu Cihong looked at Zhu Youzhen and stopped talking.

"You don't need to look at me, I know in my heart that Sihua is destined to be a long-lived person. I dare not say that I am 100 years old, but I am stable at the age of 70 or 80. As for me, if I live to be sixty years old, I will be content. Sihua is the pillar that I plan to leave to you, inheriting the past and opening the future, and the overall situation of the Ming Dynasty is on the prince and Sihua. "Zhu Youzhen has not forgotten what Chen Xie said, one day the agricultural tax will be exempted, then no one will be able to move the foundation of the Ming Dynasty. Whoever comes, who dies, without the emperor's move, the people of the world can consciously destroy this goods.

"Erchen is not Adou, and brother-in-law is not Zhuge Liang. The brother-in-law will always do it first, and then let the son-in-law see it and find the truth inside. He rarely talks about the truth, and always asks his sons to discover it by themselves. My brother-in-law is now running around for the Ming Dynasty in Nanyang, and Nanyang will inevitably belong to the Ming Dynasty in the future. The minister heard that there was a dragon car in Liaodong, and his brother-in-law said that since the dragon car was there, the steamer would not be far away. The dragon car can travel 2,000 miles a day, and the steamer can travel 1,000 miles a day. At that time, even if it is thousands of miles away in Nanyang, it will only take more than ten days to travel to and from Beijing. With such a sharp weapon, the imperial court can calmly dispatch and quickly respond to what happens thousands of miles away. It will not be like now, if there is something happening on the frontier, it will be a month sooner or two months later before the imperial court can respond. This is the power of Gewu! In general, Erchen hopes that his father will live a long life and live a long life. If there really is such a day, the son will definitely ask his brother-in-law to write a detailed report on governing the country, and then verify it one by one, and if the verification is not completed in his lifetime, he will hand over to his children and grandchildren to verify it. The Ming Dynasty is a family for all generations, and the sons and daughters think that it can be expected. ”

Zhu Cihong's words, after Zhu Youzhen finished speaking, he was dumbfounded. At this time, he realized that everyone, including himself, did not have as much influence on the prince as Chen Xie. How did Chen Xie do this? Sermon? The prince said just now, and he rarely preached. Then the answer is obvious, Chen Xie is doing it to the prince, and he is very honest about putting a qiē thing in front of the prince, convincing him with facts, and then it will have such an effect.

From this point of view, Zhu Youzhen's unconscious self-reflection felt that his understanding of Chen Xie was far less profound than that of the prince. One is to guard against Chen Xie, and the other is to hand over the future planning of the Ming Dynasty to Chen Xie. What kind of trust this is, in contrast, he is still scheming against Chen Xie, the cognition between father and son, the difference between cloud and mud, and the judgment is made.

Thinking back to every word in Chen Xie's recital, Zhu Youzhen's heart gradually had a formed idea. (To be continued......)