Queen Xia, who was standing on the side, couldn't help but change her expression slightly when she heard the conversation between Chu Yi and the little prince, revealing a little worried, and subconsciously opened her mouth, but when the words came to her mouth, she didn't say anything.

Obviously, Empress Xia thought of the agreement between herself and the Son of Heaven.

Zhu Zaiji nodded excitedly at Chu Yi and said, "Taifu, don't lie to Ji'er!" ”

For the outside world, Zhu Zaiji is still very curious and yearning, especially not long ago, Chu Yi took Zhu Zaiji to play in the bustling streets of Beijing, it is precisely because he has seen the prosperous world outside, so Zhu Zaiji is still very much looking forward to shopping.

After all, Zhu Zaiji was born in the palace since he was a child, and it seems that there is everything in the palace, but he has no popularity and no prosperity in the outside world.

Especially for a child like Zhu Zaiji, if he has not seen the prosperity and liveliness of the outside world, it is fine, after all, there is no contrast.

However, Zhu Zaiji has been out of the palace and has seen the prosperity of the outside world, although he only went out once, but he left an extremely deep impression in Zhu Zaiji's heart.

At that time, Zhu Zaiji begged Empress Xia and the Son of Heaven several times to allow him to go out of the palace to play, but unfortunately it was impossible for the Son of Heaven and Empress Xia to agree to let Zhu Zaiji go out to play.

Seeing Zhu Zaiji sitting there honestly reciting a thousand-character text, Chu Yi couldn't help but smile.

But said that at this time, in the palace, Yue Buqun was the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and he was also a minority of the high-level in the Jinyi Guard, especially Yue Buqun sent the news to the palace through the channel of the Jinyi Guard, and it didn't take long for the chapter to arrive in front of the case of the Son of Heaven.

In the imperial study, Zhu Houzhao sent the cabinet to the cabinet to review and approve the pieces that he needed to decide, and after giving instructions, he stretched his body and his eyes fell on the piece of music.

For Jinyiwei, East Factory, and West Factory, Zhu Houzhao naturally attaches great importance to it, after all, Jinyiwei, East Factory, and West Factory are the eyes and minions of the Son of Heaven, if there is no such thing, the Son of Heaven is afraid that he doesn't know anything about the general trend of the world, and even if he is united by the ministers and kept in the dark, he doesn't know what is going on.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao attaches great importance to Dongchang and Jinyiwei, but Zhu Houzhao will check all the concerts presented by Dongchang and Jinyiwei as soon as possible.

Zhu Houzhao still has a lot of impressions of Yue Buqun, part of which is because of Yue Buqun's identity, and the other part is because Chu Yi is quite fond of Yue Buqun.

Just like Yang Yiqing, Wang Shouren, Han Kun and others, it seems that Chu Yi was born with a pair of eyes that can discover talents, but all the people who are valued by Chu Yi are people with good ability, at least so far, there have been no mistakes.

Looking at the news sent by Yue Buqun, Zhu Houzhao's expression changed, and in that recital, he described the situation in Nanyang in detail, and also mentioned what kind of power the maritime powers such as Portugal and the Netherlands had overseas and what vast land they ruled.

Although Chu Yi has learned a lot about the world outside the Ming Dynasty, and even through those merchants, in the past few years, the people of Jinyiwei, Dongchang, and Xichang have stepped out of Daming with the help of maritime merchants and collected a lot of news.

However, these news are obviously different from the information about the Western world revealed by Governor George and Earl Harry.

The caravans of the Ming Dynasty rarely crossed the South Seas to reach the Western world, so there was not much news about the Western world of the Ming Dynasty, and it could even be said that they did not know much at all.

According to what Chu Yi said, in the future, the Ming Dynasty will inevitably have contact with Western countries, as the so-called knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent will not slack off.

I don't know when, Zhu Houzhao was influenced by Chu Yi, and when he was thinking about a problem, he would subconsciously knock on the table, and he saw Zhu Houzhao sitting there attentively, but one hand was gently tapping on the table.

"It is rumored that Yang Yiqing, the first assistant of the cabinet, Wang Hua, Chen Ding and others entered the palace to meet him!"

When one of the Sons of Heaven reached the cabinet, several cabinet elders were also holding the news about Nanyang and the Western countries and discussing it.

After receiving the will of the Son of Heaven, several pavilion elders entered the palace as soon as possible.

In the imperial study, Zhu Hou looked at several pavilion elders and motioned for everyone to sit down, and then said with a straight expression: "Ladies and gentlemen, I have summoned you here today, but it is because of the news presented by Jinyiwei. ”

Yang Yiqing and the others' expressions moved slightly, and as soon as Zhu Houzhao said it, it reminded Yang Yiqing and the others of the information from Jinyiwei that they were arguing about not long ago.

Needless to say, in addition to this piece of information, what the Son of Heaven said is unlikely to be the second piece of information.

Zhu Houzhao noticed the change in the expressions of the crowd, and said knowingly: "If you want to come to that piece of information, all the secretaries have also read it." ”

Saying that, Zhu Houzhao waved his hand, and suddenly an attendant on the side took the information and walked towards several pavilion elders, and heard Zhu Houzhao say: "If any pavilion elder hasn't seen it, you might as well take a look." ”

Yang Yiqing took the piece of information, flipped through it, nodded slightly at several pavilion elders, and then said to the Son of Heaven: "Your Majesty, not long ago, the ministers and others were discussing this piece of information. ”

His eyes lit up, Zhu Houzhao smiled slightly, glanced at several cabinet elders and said, "Oh, I don't know what the cabinet elders have about this piece of information, and let's talk to me about it." ”

After glancing at each other, they saw Yang Yiqing speak first: "Your Majesty, the first thing we have to do is to determine whether this piece of information is true, and whether the information is true or not, is directly related to the response of the imperial court!" ”

Zhu Houzhao was stunned for a moment, then nodded slowly and said: "The words of the Qing family are the words of Lao Cheng to seek the country, indeed, this information is very important, and it is necessary to determine whether it is true or false." ”

Saying that, Zhu Houzhao said: "This news was presented by the commander of Jinyiwei to Tongzhi Yue Buqun, I think Jinyiwei will not do anything with this information, they don't dare, the only thing that can't be determined is how credible the news in this information is." ”

Needless to say, these messages were all learned by Jinyiwei from the mouths of those captives, not to mention the language barrier, communication difficulties, even if there is an interpreter, but sometimes there is a great possibility that the words cannot be understood because of the translation.

In this way, it is very likely that there will be some discrepancies in the information.

Everyone understands the truth of false rumors, so the accuracy and authenticity of this information are particularly important.

Chen Ding stroked his beard and said, "Your Majesty, since those alien races have been captured alive, you might as well escort them to the Beijing Division, and then send capable people to pry open their mouths and dig out the information and news we need from these people." ”

Wang Hua nodded and said, "Yes, it is said that there are thousands of prisoners, and when the time comes, these prisoners will be separated for interrogation, so that there is no need to worry that these people will use false news to fool people." ”

Chen Ding on the side kept nodding and said: "Lord Wang is right, the old man looked at the information before, according to the explanation of Governor George and Earl Harry, the navies of their two countries are extremely powerful, with thousands of ships, if this is the case, we must deal with it carefully." ”

An elder said with a look of disdain: "It's just a few thousand ships, I don't want to mention anything else, Cao Yun alone has tens of thousands of ships, in addition, there are also new warships that His Royal Highness King Wu has begun to build the year before last, and if you add up, there are no less than a thousand warships alone." ”

Coughing lightly, Wang Hua said to Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this matter is very important, so you might as well send someone to invite His Royal Highness King Wu, and everyone can listen to King Wu's meaning." ”

In the impression of many people, Chu Yi can be said to be a last resort, he has never missed anything, and everyone will not doubt what Chu Yi says on weekdays.

Now that they naturally thought of Chu Yi, several pavilion elders couldn't help but look at Zhu Hou.

Zhu Houzhao nodded and said, "Spread my will, and quickly invite King Wu into the palace." ”

Wuwang Mansion

Zhu Zaiji, who had a happy face, stood in front of Chu Yi at this time, holding his head high, and his little face was full of expectation.

Just looking at Zhu Zaiji's appearance, Chu Yi couldn't help patting Zhu Zaiji's head and chuckled: "Ji'er is so good, Taifu will take you to the street to play!" ”

While speaking, Chu Yi pulled Zhu Zaiji and walked towards the outside of King Wu's mansion.

The queen and several palace maids in the distance watched Chu Yi come to the palace with Zhu Zaiji, and they couldn't help but show surprise one by one, obviously they didn't expect Chu Yi to really take Zhu Zaiji to the street like this.

"Niangniang, the little prince ......"

Empress Xia took a deep breath, shook her head slowly, and said: "With Taifu accompanying Ji'er, we don't have to worry, besides, staying in the palace for a long time is not a good thing for Ji'er. ”

Not to mention the queen's opinion on Chu Yi taking Zhu Zaiji to the street, Chu Yi took Zhu Zaiji to walk on the endless long street.

Jingshi has been prosperous since ancient times, and it can be said that whether a country is prosperous and prosperous, and what the national strength is, can be seen from the prosperity of Jingshi.

Under the influence of Tuo Chuyi's strategy of opening the sea, the originally abandoned shipping became prosperous again, and the goods of Tiannan and Haibei appeared in the capital in the fastest time with the help of these merchants.

People come and go on the long street, it can be said that there is an endless stream, the sound of selling, shouting, and bargaining are mixed together, although it is quite noisy, but to Chu Yi's ears, it is extremely pleasant to hear.

Zhu Zaiji is such a little doll in the crowd but there is no fear at all, but his eyes are wide, looking at everything very curiously looking at everything around, when his eyes stop at one place, Zhu Zaiji can't help but grunt, swallow his saliva, and then said to Chu Yi: "Taifu, Taifu, Ji'er wants to ......"