In the next two years, the Ming Dynasty completely entered the fast lane of development, and there was a steady stream of resources from Dongying outside, especially gold, silver and timber, which were the most scarce in the Ming Empire, and at the same time, because of the liberalization of trade, the trade between the Ming Empire and Western countries was thriving, and the rapid development was eye-popping.

Today's Yanhuang Company is not only the original trade volume of only 10 million taels a year, in just three years, the annual import and export trade volume of Yanhuang Company has reached 30 million taels, directly chasing the East India Company of the Netherlands, and even has a faint tendency to surpass, the annual tax paid to the Ming Empire has reached 3 million taels, plus the profits handed over to the imperial court, as high as 5 million taels of silver, those few participating princes, one by one is making a lot of money.

At this time, the Ming Empire ushered in a special person - Shi Kefa returned!

Shi Kefa was ordered to send envoys to the Western countries, along the Maritime Silk Road, into the South Seas, from the South Seas to India into the Arabian Sea, and then from the Arabian Sea to the south, around the Cape of Good Hope, after a long journey, arrived in the West, where he was received by kings and even the Pope of Rome.

After visiting the Western countries, Shi Kefa, who was still unsatisfied, went straight to the Americas on a sealed boat, all the way from the Americas around South America, entered the Pacific Ocean, continued to travel westward, and finally returned to Daming after more than three years of journey.

When Shi Kefa was in Songjiang Mansion, Zhu Jie got the news from Songjiang Mansion, Zhu Jie was so excited that he couldn't sleep, and he couldn't wait to kill him directly from the capital to Songjiang Mansion.

Now, Shi Kefa has finally returned to the capital.

Zhu Jie led hundreds of civil and military officials and directly responded out of Yongdingmen.

"The minister's history can be seen by the emperor, long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

Shi Kefa's mood is also very excited, after nearly four years, he has finally returned to the homeland of the Ming Dynasty, finally returned to the capital again, and finally saw the emperor and his colleagues again!

"Haha, Xianzhi, Xianzhi, I finally looked forward to you back, four years, four years, I miss you all the time......"

Zhu Jie laughed and helped Shi Kefa up, don't think that Shi Kefa travels around the world is an easy errand, running down in a circle, the journey is more than 100,000 miles, and the average daily trip is more than 100 miles, even if it is on the boat most of the time, it will be very tired, foreign countries, all are unfamiliar environments, even if you want to eat a bowl of noodles, there is no place to eat, Shi Kefa stayed by the Tianwei Army, because of injuries, more than one-third of the staff was reduced, and in the end, he had no choice but to cremate the bodies of these people, Brought the ashes back.

"The minister also misses the emperor all the time......"

Shi Kefa had tears in his eyes, these four years have been too bitter, too difficult, and an experience has made Shi Kefa not want to run back to Zhu Jie all the time to admit his mistakes, he turned out to be really sitting in the well and watching the sky, what is the heavenly kingdom, what is the whole world, is it not the king's land, the shore of the land, is it not the king's minister? It's all a joke, it's all a joke, not to mention the West, even in India, people don't recognize that the Ming Empire is the first in the world, the Ming Emperor is the co-master of the world, to black Africa, and even those countries don't know the existence of the Ming Empire at all, and some still think that the Eastern world is still under the management of the Tang Empire, as for the West, people are completely self-contained, there, each country has its own king, all countries are the same as the Pope, and the Pope of Rome is the king.

Although the Westerners themselves showed enough respect, Shi Kefa still didn't think that the Ming Empire was still an empire that could control the entire world, look at the giant warships of the Dutch and the English, even more than half the size of the Ming Empire's sealed boats!

All Westerners are thinking about how to make money, how to make money efficiently, how to make more money, for the sake of gold and silver treasures, no one will care about the life or death of others, those boatloads of black slaves were sold to the West Ocean, sold to the Americas, miserable, at the beginning, Shi Kefa still wanted to be kind, hoping to save these people, and then he didn't even have the intention of saving, he couldn't save it at all, he only brought less than a thousand people, six or seven boats, how to save people?

It was an eye-opener, a complete eye-opener, and I finally realized what the outside world was really like.

"Your Majesty, the ministers and ministers are ashamed......"

Shi Kefa wiped the corners of his eyes and said guiltily.

"Where?"

Zhu Jie laughed and said: "Don't say anything else, let's go, let's go back to the palace first, you and I have to talk about the old days, but I have prepared a feast for you in the Qianqing Palace, just waiting for you to catch the wind!" ”

As he spoke, Zhu Jie took Shi Kefa's hand and shouted: "Pass the decree, go back to the palace!" ”

The group rode the carriage and returned to the Qianqing Palace, and everyone greeted each other again, especially the colleagues who had not seen each other for a long time, and greeted Shi Kefa one after another.

Zhu Jie raised his glass and said in a loud voice: "Ladies and gentlemen, the Duke of Xian has been ordered to travel far and wide, travel around the world, and finally return today, after all the hardships, even if it is Tang Sanzang's ninety-nine eighty-one difficulties in Journey to the West, it is nothing more than that, I propose, everyone toast together, congratulations to the Constitution!" ”

Shi Kefa hurriedly thanked him and drank the wine in the cup in the noise.

"Xianzhigong, this mission to the West must be a great gain, but the lower officials are waiting for you to tell us about the exotic customs......"

Fang Yizhi, the secretary of the Ministry of Education, is considered a younger generation among the courtiers, and he is even half a disciple of Shi Kefa, so he asked.

"Hmm!"

Zhu Jie glanced at Fang Yizhi with a smile, and said with a smile: "Mizhi, don't worry, I also want to listen to Xianzhi talk about what he has seen and heard in the past four years, but let's wait patiently, we must let Xianzhi take a breath, come, Xianzhi, let's eat and talk at the same time!" ”

Shi Kefa is also a little let go now, and laughed and said: "Since the emperor said so, the minister is not welcome, four years, after all the hardships, the minister finally returned to the Ming Dynasty alive, but the minister has to be cheeky to ask you for some reward!" ”

Zhu Jie was stunned and said: "Xianzhi, you have changed, you have really changed, when will you also learn to be such a philistine, say, what do you want?" As long as I can afford it, I will definitely not be stingy, even if I give you a marquis, it is all right, travel around the world, you are the first person in the Ming Dynasty in ancient times!! ”

"It's easy!"

Shi Kefa laughed and said: "The minister has only one request, that is, to ask the emperor to let the minister eat the hot pot of You Xianju first!" ”

(End of chapter)