"The Age of Discovery!" Shu Fen sighed: "Just listening to these five words, you can imagine how magnificent it is!"

Fan He Yinghe said: "Your Majesty's ambition is unprecedented, the opening of the Great Voyage means that the Ming Dynasty will dominate the sea, and then open the curtain of attacking the entire world, such achievements, who can compare with the Han Wu Tang Sect, Your Majesty will inevitably become an emperor of the ages!"

Yan Song smiled bitterly and shook his head, he was different from Shu Fen and Fan He.

If it weren't for Emperor Jiajing's ascension to the throne, then he would only go step by step in this life, starting from a low-level official and slowly climbing up, looking forward to the day when he could be a very popular minister.

What about Shufen? He is also a traditional Confucian scholar, and he also became the champion of the Ming Dynasty by writing Bagu articles, but the Son of Heaven studied the world, and Shu Fen in order to understand the politics of the Son of Heaven, so he also devoted himself to studying Xinxue for a period of time.

As for Fan He, not to mention, people are the champions who have become champions by relying on new learning, and in a certain sense, they can no longer be regarded as Confucian children, at least not pure Confucian students.

Listening to the two talking now, Yan Song also shook his head and nodded, Yan Song didn't know much about the ocean, so he didn't have much deep feeling about the significance of the so-called Age of Exploration opened by the Son of Heaven, and he knew that the Son of Heaven opened the sea to let the coastal people have the capital to rely on the sea to eat the sea, and it was also to completely solve the problem of the Japanese invaders.

The other is to build a large number of sea ships to send as many immigrants as possible overseas, one is to reduce the population pressure of the Central Plains, to ensure that the people have enough arable land, and the other is to import a sufficient number of foreign laborers, with the lives of these laborers to pile up a great, can be called the world's majestic project!

"It can't be!" Zhai Luan's face turned red!

At this moment, Zhai Luan and Emperor Jiajing in the imperial study were blushing and their necks were thick, and the rest of the important ministers were putting on a posture that had nothing to do with themselves, and by the way, they looked at Zhai Luan with a slightly sympathetic gaze in their spare time.

That's right, what is being discussed in the Imperial Study at this moment is a great project!

It can be called a miracle-like project!

Longyang Gorge Dam! Gezhouba Hydropower Station!

These two great projects are built by later generations, if they are built according to the scientific and technological strength and technical strength of later generations, there is certainly difficulty, but they can definitely be overcome one by one, but don't forget, whether it is Longyang Gorge or other large-scale water conservancy projects, they were built very early, for example, Longyang Gorge was built in the mid-seventies, how developed was science and technology at that time?

In the end, it still relied on a large number of manpower to tackle key problems layer by layer, which led to this pearl on the Yellow River!

In this era, there must be too many difficulties to overcome in the construction of Longyang Gorge, but Zhu Houwei also has three major advantages!

One is the absolute will of the Son of Heaven! Of course, this later generation also has it, that is, the will of the country!

Second, a large amount of manpower! With so many overseas foreign laborers, Zhu Houwei feels that even if he uses human lives to fill it, he can fill in Longyang Gorge! It's not that he's cold-blooded, it's that he doesn't have to worry about the death or injury of alien laborers, in other words, the lives of Western Europeans are not worth anything to him!

The third is foresight!

In later generations, Zhu Houwei went to Longyang Gorge, the Three Gorges and Gezhouba, so he knew the general situation of these dams and the basic construction ideas, and he took out these construction ideas, and he didn't know how many detours could be saved for water conservancy people.

However, these are things that Zhai Luan can't understand, because he can't understand them, so he raises the bar.

"Nothing is impossible." Zhu Houwei refuted with a light smile: "Qin Shi Huang built the Great Wall, and since then, the land of China has won the foundation of great unification, so let the people of the Ming Dynasty build the Great Wall, what will be the result?"

Could it be that Zhai Aiqing thinks that the people of the Ming Dynasty will be worse than the people of the pre-Qin Dynasty? ”

Zhai Luan was depressed, he really didn't understand water conservancy, but he was not ashamed to ask, when he was in the Yellow River, he didn't refute Shen Zhong, because he didn't have a bottom in his heart, but after returning to the capital, he found a few officials who understood water conservancy, and finally came to the conclusion that it was impossible!

Longyang Gorge is different from the Great Wall, it is indeed difficult to build the Great Wall, but as long as you have enough manpower, you can still transport a piece of boulder to repair after all, but what about Longyang Gorge?

That's the Yellow River! To build the Longyang Gorge Dam, the most difficult place in Zhai Luan's opinion is to cut off the Yellow River, and it is not a day or two to cut off, the water of the Yellow River comes from the sky, it is a surging Tianwei, you want to cut it off, if it is so easy, why will there be a yellow plague in China every two years!

Therefore, Zhai Luan felt that the emperor was whimsical, not that he opposed the construction of Longyang Gorge, he also knew that if Longyang Gorge was successfully built, it would be of great significance to the governance of the Yellow River, but he felt that this was just a waste of people's power and a waste of money!

With this money and such a huge amount of people's power, if it is used to build official roads, build railways, and even dredging the Yellow River and canals, then it is worth it!

Similarly, Zhai Luan didn't think that the emperor's brutal actions would cause any bad impact, and Emperor Jiajing was not Emperor Qin Shi Huang or Emperor Yang of Sui.

Qin Shi Huang repaired the Great Wall, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty dug the Grand Canal, are the merit of the contemporary, the benefit of the great cause, but it is precisely because of the construction of these two major projects, causing the people to complain, although not the direct factor that led to the demise of the Qin and Sui dynasties, but the emperor lost the hearts of the people is inevitable.

But the Jiajing Dynasty is different, the Ming Dynasty has no forced labor now, and the people work for silver, so what is the dissatisfaction, if you are dissatisfied, you can not do it, anyway, there are many people who are willing to do it!

Moreover, there are trade unions to protect the vital interests of the laborers, and it is impossible for the gentry and merchants who employ the common people to anger the Son of Heaven and bring disaster to their families for the sake of petty profits.

The other is the captives, now the captives of the Ming Dynasty mainly include the grassland people and the Xiyi people, adding up to nearly 100,000 people, and when Gu Hou comes back this time, this number may reach 300,000, or even 500,000 people.

The emperor didn't care about the lives of these people, and even deliberately wanted to consume these aliens through labor, so he let these aliens devote themselves to major projects......

As for whether the alien laborers will riot, that does not exist, because the laborers are also human beings, and they also want to live well, although they are a little tired, but they can eat enough, why do they rebel?

What's more, there are garrisons for all mega projects, and rebellion is basically no different from looking for death.

Therefore, Zhai Luan retorted, but simply felt that manpower could not defeat Tianwei, and the emperor's idea was not only incredible, but also too absurd......

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