Chapter 435: Open Your Eyes to the World
Tianjin Wei is a sensation!
For the hundreds of thousands of people who gathered in Tianjin Wei and wanted to immigrate overseas, overseas is still full of mystery after all, and they choose to go to sea because they want to live a better life for themselves and their families and children, or even simply to find a way to live!
So they were anxious and expectant, and with the passage of time, when the huge fleet carried the emperor of war and more than 200,000 soldiers and civilians to sea, they were looking forward to the day when the fleet would return!
Now they've finally arrived!
Daming's Invincible Armada, the Invincible Sailor has returned to Daming!
What opened the eyes of the people of Daming was that it was not only the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division who came back this time, but also tens of thousands of deep-eyed and high-nosed barbarians, as well as blonde and blue-eyed women of different races!
However, there was hardly any blood on the faces of these aliens, and they were all languishing, as if they hadn't eaten for a few days.
The originally immature faces of tens of thousands of sailor soldiers have now become extremely resolute, and I don't know whether they have experienced the thrill of the waves at sea or the war, which has transformed these soldiers into real soldiers.
The sailor escorted these aliens and boarded the train to Beijing!
Gu Hou Shen Gengzhong's face was a little tired, nine months, a whole nine months!
Unlike the last time he traveled to the Americas through the Bering Strait, this time the Son of Heaven personally planned a detailed map, and even gave a roughly accurate time when to pass through the strait.
And this time across the ocean, although the Son of Heaven also gave the map, but the sea is vast......
Shen Gengzhong didn't know how many times the fleet had shifted its course, he only knew that he was groping his way on the sea with a compass, and it was nearly five months since he walked like this!
In the past five months, if it had not been for the map identification, and successfully found food and fresh water along the coast, 100,000 soldiers and hundreds of thousands of civilians would not have known how many would have died!
But they succeeded, and the fleet eventually reached the continent that the Son of Heaven called Europe, and landed in the country that the Son of Heaven called Portugal!
"Portugal ......" Zhu Houwei was a little speechless, and he didn't know if it was Portugal's bad luck or Zhu Houzhao's life was too hard, so he didn't reach the destination England by mistake, but arrived in Portugal......
The ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were also speechless, because they did not understand at all......
In the simple and humble perception of the ministers, they only know one Marco Polo from Italy, and none of the rest in this so-called Europe......
"And then?" Zhu Houwei met with the returning Shen Gengzhong in the main hall today, and his intention was very simple, that is, to let the officials of the Ming Dynasty open their eyes and take a good look at the world!
Shen Gengzhong smiled......
"When the Emperor of War was on the ship, he often chatted with the last general, and once said that His Majesty said that there are dozens or hundreds of countries in this land called Europe or Western Continent, and they have given birth to civilization, and even the works written by their ancestors are not much worse than the sages of China......"
As soon as these words came out, the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were suddenly unhappy, what?
The culture of the barbarians is no worse than that of China, nonsense, how is it possible, that is, a group of uncivilized savages, and the books written by the savages can be compared with the works of the sages?
That's blasphemy against the sages!
"Silence!" The eunuch on duty danced the whip.
"The Emperor of War led an army of 100,000 to land in Portugal, but he didn't expect that Portugal also had a naval division, but that naval division was simply vulnerable......
Covered by a round of artillery fire, dozens of wooden ships in the harbor were reduced to broken planks, and then the Emperor of War landed with an army of 100,000 troops!
Portugal also has an army, and it is well-armoured, with sharp bows and crossbows, but how can it be the opponent of the new army of the Ming Dynasty, in just ten days, the emperor sent a large army to divide into five routes, and raided and transferred at the fastest speed, and almost effortlessly killed the capital of Portugal, which is the city of Lisbon that His Majesty said!
Perhaps the Ming army was too strong, the king of Portugal did not resist and surrendered, and now he was brought back to the Ming Dynasty by the last general, in addition, according to the request of the emperor of war, the last general brought back 50,000 prisoners, and the emperor said that the Ming needed too many laborers......"
"It's still my brother who is considerate." Zhu Houwei sighed lightly.
"The Emperor of War has ascended the throne and become the emperor!" Yang Yiqing asked.
"Nope." Shen Gengzhong smiled bitterly: "The army doesn't understand this, even if the Emperor wants to be the emperor, he has to wait until His Majesty sends a Confucian minister over, otherwise he is afraid of causing jokes."
Yang Yiqing was very satisfied with this remark, look, it is still inseparable from the Confucian minister at a critical time.
As for whether the emperor can be called the emperor, this is not a matter at all, the serious son of heaven does not take the throne seriously, what is it to establish a country overseas?
What's more, Zhu Houzhao is the emperor of war, the emperor appointed by His Majesty, what bullshit is like a day, you talk to Emperor Jiajing with this set of rhetoric, the body that can be sprayed is incomplete, and the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty will obviously not be bored.
"The land over there?" Yang Yiqing asked again.
Shen Gengzhong shook his head and said: "In fact, the last general doesn't know much, after the last general was ordered to send 100,000 troops and 150,000 people to the interior of Xizhou with a sailor, he began to kill the barbarian sailors along the coast, but he almost didn't encounter any strong resistance, and when he finally returned to the Portuguese port, the emperor of war had already sent someone to send a war report, and after the last general escorted the prisoners onto the ship and replenished supplies, he began to reverse the voyage......"
Zhu Houwei smiled and didn't speak, because he was the only one in the hall who understood......
The West has not yet risen, and the two important signs of the rise of the West, one is that the Netherlands, a sea coachman, opened the Age of Discovery, if Zhu Houwei is not mistaken, the Netherlands is at least a few decades away from becoming a sea coachman and establishing a maritime supremacy.
But now the Netherlands should have been vigorously developing the shipbuilding industry, and it is not far from the rise, but it is a pity that they have met themselves, and they are destined to have no glorious history of maritime hegemony.
The other is the industrial revolution started in Britain, and again, Britain has no chance......
"The last general doesn't know much about the land situation in Xizhou, and when he turned against the ship, he also left a steel giant ship and twenty galleon warships in accordance with His Majesty's will, and this sailor will patrol the coast of Xizhou, as long as he sees the fleet of Xizhou country, he will be wiped out immediately!"
Yang Yiqing retreated to Chaoban, in fact, he barely got any answers he wanted to know.
Jiang Mian, the minister of etiquette and music, asked: "Dare to ask Your Majesty if the emperor of war is established overseas and called the emperor, then what is the name of the country, and what should be the name of the temple after 10,000 years?"
Zhu Houwei said with a smile: "I know that you Aiqing, there are too many questions in your heart, such as customs, such as land, such as the country, etc., so I will answer Jiang Aiqing's question first, the name of this country ......"
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