Zhu Di was stunned when he heard it, he didn't expect that Beijing had developed to this point, and he couldn't wait to go back and take a look.

"Sambo, my father is here, what I ask you, you don't have to be afraid, do you want to go on a pilgrimage to Mecca?"

Before Zhu Gaoxian's words fell, Ma Sanbao's legs were weak, and he knelt on the ground, "Your Highness, slave and maid ......"

"In my eyes, you are not an internal official, Ma Sanbao, you are the person who helps me do things, not the subordinate who serves people. I know your beliefs, it's nothing, everyone can have their own beliefs, it doesn't get in the way of others. ”

Zhu Di was also shocked, Ma Sanbao was the one who followed him at a very young age, but later, he was taken by his son and followed behind his son to do things.

"Shura Warrior God"

"I wonder what His Highness has sent to his subordinates?"

"I'm short of money, although you are vigorously developing industry in Beijing, but it is a drop in the bucket, I want to build a railway, which will burn money, and the purpose of your going to sea is to make money for me."

"My subordinates are willing to go to the soup!"

Zhu Di asked, "If you go to sea, I'm afraid you won't be able to come back for a year and a half, and the matter over there in Beijing, it's easy to say, who are you going to hand over the weapons and tractors?" ”

Ma Sanbao thought for a while and boldly suggested, "Your Highness, Your Highness, follow your subordinates Hou Xian, and your subordinates think they can take on a big responsibility!" “

"Okay, the person you recommend must be right, turn around, I recognize my face." Zhu Gaoxian is a very appropriate person who knows Ma Sanbao, and he asked, "If you go to sea, what kind of manpower do you need, just mention it." ”

"Your Highness, this, the subordinates haven't thought about it yet, if His Highness thinks there is a suitable candidate, the subordinates can contact him first."

"Candidates, goods, you can prepare them first. The main thing is, you come and look at this map! ”

Zhu Gaoxian didn't simply want Ma Sanbao to cross the ocean to do business in Haiti like in history, seemingly to promote the prestige of the Ming Dynasty, but in fact to help his father earn money for the Northern Expedition.

Zhu Gaoxian put a map on the table, and he pointed to the land in Australia, "Here, this island, the area is not much smaller than our Daming, in the southern hemisphere, this country has the best minerals, with the world's best iron ore." And this iron ore, you know, we need it when we build the railroad. ”

Zhu Di's heart was raised in his throat, what does his son mean? Do you want Ma Sanbao to drive a ship and invade this country? Robbing someone else's ore?

"Such a good piece of land, if we don't grab it, in the future, it will be snatched away. This is a 'country sitting on a minecart', Sambo, how many people, how many weapons, how many ships to drive, you can sum it up first. We can pass through many countries along the way, we can start from Jiangning, follow Luzon, bypass Yin Li'an Island, the Solomon Islands, and from here, reach the southeast of Australia. ”

"You can also go this way, from the coast of the Philippines, through the strait, from the Banda Sea, from the Timor Sea, and come ashore here in Hedland."

Zhu Gaoxian didn't know what the name of the Philippines was at this time, let alone the name of Australia, so he simply said the name of the place he was familiar with.

"There are two routes, which one is more suitable for us?"

Ma Sanbao looked at the map in front of him, he was simply stunned, he knew that the world was big, but he didn't expect the world to be so big, looking at the blue ocean area, his eyes flashed with tears of excitement.

The sea was a place he longed for, his grandfather and father had made a pilgrimage to Mecca, and he had never dreamed of going there, but he knew who he was, and it was almost impossible for him.

He never dreamed that he would have a time when he would look up to his ideals.

Zhu Gaoxian saw the tears flashing in his eyes, and sure enough, Ma Sanbao was a natural navigator, he didn't expect Sanbao to answer, and his voice softened, "Where you want to go, Saudi Arabia, the holy land of Mecca is here...... Although we are not going in this direction this time, but, Sambo, I promise you that soon, I will let you go to Mecca. ”

"Your Highness!" Ma Sanbao hurriedly knelt down, "It doesn't matter if your subordinates don't go to Mecca." ”

"No, it doesn't matter! You know, what's here? ”

Zhu Gaoxian pointed to the location of Mecca on the map, this is Saudi Arabia, "There are a lot of gold, silver, copper and iron, there are many treasures, soon, you can go on a trip, go on a pilgrimage, and bring me a lot of ore back......

Zhu Di was frightened all of a sudden, "Son, what do you mean?" Do you want to sail with Ma Sanbao to the sea? ”

How is this possible!

Ma Sanbao also felt that it was impossible, and said, "What His Highness wants, his subordinates helped His Highness find it, but the sea is windy and boundless, and His Highness can't go." ”

If he could, Zhu Gaoxian didn't want to go to sea, in his previous life, the company organized a cruise ship, and along the coastline, from Shanghai to Japan, he was seasick on the cruise.

However, the ore is not a crop planted in the ground, let alone a fruit that grows on a tree.

Fortunately, with a sharp eye, Zhu Gaoxian had to go.

Located in the southwest of Oceania, bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the east and the Indian Ocean to the west, Australia is a continent in its own right.

In 1606, the Dutchman Wayne Youngs landed on the Cape York Peninsula in northern Australia, marking the first recorded European landing on the Australian continent. After that, the Dutch called Australia "New Netherland".

In 1770, the famous British navigator Captain Cook discovered the east coast of Australia, named it "New South Wales", and declared the land to belong to the United Kingdom.

From there, the British began to exile convicts to Australia to solve the problem of prison overcrowding, and in January 1788, the first fleet, consisting of 11 ships carrying more than 730 convicts, landed in the southeast of Sydney.

It is now 1403 A.D., more than 300 years before the British declared Australia to belong to the United Kingdom.

"Dad, my son doesn't want to go, but my son has to go, and only when my son goes, can I know where to dig what ore? The area of this land is second only to my Ming Dynasty, and there are a lot of scarce resources in my Ming Dynasty on the land, if you don't grab it back now, when other countries know about it in the future, to occupy it, although we are not afraid, but after all, it is still a little troublesome. ”

"Moreover, my son thinks that the land is very good, the east is mountainous, the middle is a plain, the west is high, the highest peak is more than 2,000 meters above sea level, there are a lot of gold reserves here, as long as my son goes to Australia and comes back, our railway can be built all the way to the bank of the difficult river, or even farther away, and when my father will attack the Northern Yuan in the future, my son will send my father a more powerful weapon, and we will lead 5,000 people to drive the Northern Yuan to the end of the sky."

Zhu Di was not fooled by his son to the point of being hot-headed, he said firmly, "No matter what you say, my father will not agree, I want to go, let Sanbao go, where is the ore, you give him the picture, since Mu Cheng can help you find the rubber tree, Sanbao can also help you find the ore you want." “