As soon as Shi Kefa said this, all the monarchs and ministers in the court burst into laughter, they had never seen Shi Kefa so cute, after four years of hard work, the last reward turned out to be a hot pot!

Zhu Jie shook his head helplessly and said with a smile: "Xianzhi, look at your appearance, a hot pot will send you away?" Anyway, come and pass the decree, and order You Xianju to prepare hot pot ingredients immediately, and even the chef will enter the palace together to make a hot pot for Xianzhi, and since you want to eat hot pot, the best chef in You Xianju will also be given to you! ”

The emperor's holy decree, even if Youxianju is immediately closed and all the guests are driven away, the ingredients that the emperor wants must be prepared, and the current Youxianju is no longer a restaurant back then, there are three in the capital alone, there are two in Nanjing, one in each of Suzhou and Hangzhou, and at the same time Baoding, Kaifeng and semicolons, especially Chengdu, now Chengdu has opened three branches, business is booming, and the silver earned by the royal family every year has exceeded one million taels, a veritable big industry.

Soon, the hot pot and the chef were sent to the Qianqing Palace, and the shopkeeper of You Xianju was in charge of the spoon himself to serve the monarchs and ministers in the court.

"Okay, Xian Zhigong, Xia Guan and the others can't wait, let's talk, hehe......"

Fang Yizhi said with a smile.

Shi Kefa finally ate the hot pot that he missed for more than four years, this thing is not something that ordinary people can afford, even if the price is cheap now, if you want to eat a meal, it will cost more than ten taels of silver, Shi Kefa is in Japan, a table of rich hot pot is even more than a hundred taels of silver, in the past four years, the more Shi Kefa is homesick, the more he misses the mouth-watering hot pot.

"Oh, Your Majesty, the official will tell you once!"

Shi Kefa added a slice of mutton, dipped it in sesame sauce, and said with a smile: "This official will start from the beginning, first talk about Nanyang!" ”

Shi Kefa paused, and then said: "Nanyang, originally a Ming vassal, when the Three Treasures eunuch went to the West, many small countries in the South Seas all surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, recognized the Ming Dynasty as the suzerain, and later, I Ming Dynasty implemented a sea ban, no longer go to the Western Ocean, after more than a hundred years, so that the countries of the South Seas gradually broke away from the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty, and stood on their own, and later, in the Jiajing and Wanli years, the Western countries such as Portugal, Spain, and the Netherlands crossed east one after another, and came to the South Seas, with the help of artillery, and captured small countries. Entrenched in the South Seas, it monopolized the trade ...... between the Ming Dynasty and the West and the South Seas"

"Alright, alright!"

The cha bolt on the side said urgently: "Lord Xianzhi, what you said, we basically all know, jump over, and directly say the most exciting, I want to listen to dry goods!" ”

As the current secretary of the Admiralty, Cha Zhu is naturally familiar with the situation in the South Seas, and it can be said that he knows more than the current Shi Kefa! Shi Kefa gave him Nanyang, and he was naturally a little impatient.

Shi Kefa laughed and said: "General Cha, your so-called understanding is just this small pond around the South China Sea, do you think that's all there is to it in the South Sea?" Do you know that once you have passed Java and then to the south, the sun no longer hangs in the south, but in the north......"

Belch......

Not only is it a bolt, but other people's heads are also dizzy, and the sun is in the north? How can it be?

Huang Daozhou was shocked: "Xianzhi, you, you're not joking, are you?" The sun is in the north? How can it be! ”

Shi Kefa shook his head and replied: "So, I am convinced by the emperor's admiration, and the five bodies are thrown to the ground, this time I am on the mission, little brother, I have really seen it, after the so-called equator, the sun is in the north, when it is in the south of America, the four seasons there are completely reversed with the four seasons of our Ming Dynasty, when we are in the middle of summer, South America has already begun to enter the cold winter, not only that, really as the emperor said, the territory of the Americas is completely larger than the territory of two or three Ming Dynasty from the north to the south, Tens of thousands of miles away......"

Everyone is not calm, when some Westerners talk to them about these things, they still think that these people are talking nonsense, and now Shi Kefa also says so, so everyone can't help but believe it, who is Shi Kefa, looking at Daming, if you talk about conduct, I am afraid that no one dares to say that you can beat Shi Kefa, Shi Kefa never tells lies, let alone lies?

"And ......"

Shi Kefa continued: "In the Ming Dynasty, we have always regarded the west of Malacca, the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea and the Black Africa, as the Western Ocean, and the Netherlands and other countries as Western countries. The people of these countries are immoral, keen on plundering, and invading everywhere, and now the whole of Black Africa and the South Seas have been occupied by those small countries in the Western Ocean, they have a powerful fleet, they have sharp firearms, they are extremely cruel, and they even use the population as cattle to trade, it is really not a ...... for the sons of men."

Hiss......

The crowd gasped and sold the population as livestock! Is this still human?

Cha Xuan and Xu Yifan glanced at each other, it seems that what the emperor said to his own people at the beginning is true, no wonder the emperor has been making every effort to reorganize the army and fight the military, and he has never relaxed the Ming army at all, it turns out that it is really not only for the Manchurian disaster in the north at the beginning, but the most important thing is to guard against the invasion of these Western barbarians! Once the Ming Dynasty was invaded, the people of the Ming Dynasty were also sold and bought as livestock, how miserable it was!

"Nowadays, the Western countries plunder more than three million people from black Africa every year, and at least two-thirds of them are tortured to death on the way to transportation, and the corpses are thrown straight into the Atlantic, and a slave is sold to the Americas, worth dozens of taels of silver, but in black Africa, the cost of plundering a black man is only two or three taels of silver, and you can imagine what a big profit it is......"

Shi Kefa said.

An effort is worth tens of taels of silver, how much silver is that of a million people? Tens of millions, or even tens of thousands of taels of silver, even if half of them die on the way, there can be a profit of tens of millions of taels of silver, which is still only a year's profit! How much silver has you had to plunder over the years? Moreover, they are plundering not only the population, but also all kinds of resources, including gold and silver treasures!

Cha Zhu and Xu Yifan were completely dizzy, originally thought that in the past two years, the Ming Empire has risen to peace all over the world, and the Ming Dynasty has an annual income of more than 40 million taels of silver, which is already rich enough, but I didn't expect that people in the West are just trafficking in human beings, which is a lot more money than the Ming Dynasty earns in a year!