As the saying goes, if you don't suffer from widowhood but suffer from inequality, the biggest resentment in Zhu Fan's heart may be Lao Zhu's partiality.

Although Lao Zhu prefers him a little more than his other sons, as long as he thinks that the throne can only turn in the vein of the eldest brother, his heart is full of resentment.

He's also a son-in-law!

And he was the oldest after the death of his eldest brother!

Why can't he be made the prince?

"Zhu Yunxi, Da Ming is not only your imperial grandfather's, but also our vassal kings!"

"Your imperial grandfather was influenced by those corrupt Confucians, and he would rather pass on the throne to the young lord than to his son, this is a very dangerous thing!"

"The Lord is suspicious, and the world is restless. The state has a long monarch, and it is the blessing of the society!"

"As the second son of the emperor, I am the oldest existence after your father's death, why can't I compete for the crown prince!"

"Besides, before you are in power, you have already tossed the black smoke miasma of the Ming Dynasty, and the people are not happy. When you really become the emperor in the future, this Ming Dynasty will not be able to turn the sky upside down?"

The more Zhu Fan talked, the more angry he became, obviously caught in his own situation and couldn't extricate himself.

Zhu Yunxi just listened quietly until Zhu Fan finished complaining.

"It seems that the second uncle has read a lot of books recently, and even the Lord Shaoguo is suspicious."

"You accuse me of not being able to govern the country, so what do you say about how you will govern the country?"

"Are the people of your feudal kingdom doing well?"

"In addition, my new tax system is approved by the imperial grandfather, you don't think you are wiser than the imperial grandfather, do you?"

"Let's not talk about these things, let's talk about what to do with you."

"I'm going to play Grandpa Huang, let you go to sea with the fleet, verify my conjecture, and when you really get to the sea, I will secretly order someone to throw you into the sea to feed the fish!"

Zhu Fan was directly dumbfounded when he heard this, this eldest nephew is so ruthless, he had a good chat just now, why did he turn his face in a blink of an eye and say that he wanted to throw himself into the sea?

"Zhu Yunxi, you can't do this!"

"Why do I say it's also your second uncle, you can't mutilate your clan relatives!"

Zhu Yunxi didn't bother to take care of him, and walked outside as soon as he scared Zhu Yunxi, Zhu Rong hurriedly caught up with Zhu Yunxi, hugged Zhu Yunxi's thigh and didn't let go.

"Big nephew, we have something to say, you must not be thrown into the sea by me to feed the fish......

"I promise not to go against you in the future, so you let me stay in the capital, woo woo woo......

"Someone!"

"Hurry up and pull King Qin away, and let someone from the Jing Navy come to pick him up later, and let him go to the ship to get used to it for a few days!"

"No!"

Under the strong pull of Jin Yiwei, Zhu Fan was pulled into the house. It's just that seeing that the struggle was hopeless, Zhu Fan returned to his true colors and launched endless abuse of Zhu Yunxi.

However, no matter how Zhu Fan insulted, he could not prevent the fate of being brought to the Jing Navy.

When Zhu Fan arrived at the Jing Navy, he was taken to the ship on the same day and followed the coastal patrol ships to inspect the Daming Sea Frontier.

This made the landlubber Zhu Fan very unhappy, and he was so seasick that he even vomited bile.

It wasn't until ten days later that he gradually got used to the bumps on the ship and could calmly look at the scenery from the deck.

Although Zhu Fan is now from Qinshu, no one on the ship dares to support him to work. They just took the order of the imperial grandson and let Zhu Fan sneak off the boat.

Zhu Fan now spends every day as if it was his last, insisting on going to the deck every day to watch the scenery.

Because he knew that he would be drowned by Zhu Yunxi's turtle grandson, Zhu Fan was not as hateful as before, and he treated the sergeants on the ship much kinder, and he didn't put the prince's stinky shelf anymore.

Because there is really no need to swing, whenever there is a wind and waves, everyone on the ship has to work together, even he, the prince, has to drag the rope and bundle the sails together.

In the vast sea, this ship is all they have, and it is the sustenance of their lives.

After Zhu Yunxi threw Zhu Fan on the boat, he began to build momentum in Daming.

He first found a few tosses and argued in the newspaper whether the earth was round or square. The two sides went back and forth for a while, and then he, the imperial grandson, stood up and put forward a point of view.

Then, in order to test this point of view, an army was formed, and they were asked to start from the Ming Dynasty and march in the direction of the setting sun and circle the earth......

Although Zhu Yunxi has long known that the earth is round, in order to trigger the exploration of the New World by the Ming people, he still has to play some tricks.

Fortunately, he had already carried out training for the voyage mascot Ma He, so that he followed the Ming ocean-going fleet to the South Seas and Africa, and accumulated rich sailing experience.

As long as the momentum on his side is completed, Ma He will be able to lead the Ming fleet to achieve a round-the-world voyage.

Zhu Yunxi gave Ma He a lot of privileges for the sake of Ma He and his peace of mind to accomplish this great feat, and also equipped him with the latest radio transmitter launched by the research institute.

When Zhu Yunxi was busy with various preparations before going to sea, there was also a wave of discussion in the Ming court.

The scholars and doctors of the Ming Dynasty no longer cared about the trivial matter of taxing the acres of land, and in their leisure time they all discussed whether the earth was round or square.

Among them, the officials of the Ministry of Industry quarreled the most, and Shangshu Qin Kui even started a gambling game in the Ministry of Industry, so that the support of the local government and the support of the local circle said the bet.

As for him, he is still a scholar, and the two do not help each other and act as arbitrators.

At the time of the heated discussion in the Ministry of Industry, Lao Zhu was also chatting with Tang He and several other old people about the matter.

"Do you say that the earth is really round?"

"If the earth is round, then why didn't we fall?"

Tang He and the others are just responsible for chatting with Lao Zhu, and they don't care about the round sky.

But Tang He was an old fox, so he hurriedly followed, which directly made Lao Zhu laugh.

"Superior, the old minister doesn't know whether the earth is square or round, but the old minister knows one thing, that is, whether the earth is round or square, the old minister only needs to remember that the whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister!"

When Fu Youde and the others heard this, they all secretly gave a thumbs up to Tang and the old fox.

This old man is so powerful, he can't be invisible!

Lao Zhu was also amused by Tang He's words, and pointed at him and scolded the old fox.

Just as they were laughing, Zhu Yunxi jumped in.

"Grandpa Huang, I know whether the earth is square or round, I learned it in the academy......

"Oh?"

When Lao Zhu heard this, he just wanted to ask, but he was preempted by Tang He on the side.

"Four Emperor Grandsons, then you can explain to us whether the earth is round or square!"

"Okay!"

"According to the teachings, the earth is round, and the earth on which we are stepping on is a big round ball, floating in the darkness

...... in the universe"

Zhu Yuanzhang asked puzzled.

"Then why can't we fall?"

"Because the earth has gravity!"

"Like an apple on a tree, why does the apple fall from the tree when it ripens instead of flying into the air?"

"It's because the earth is attractive to the things on it, and it attracts them not to fall......

"Who taught you this?"

"It's the gentleman of the Hope Academy, but according to the gentlemen, they also learned it from the third brother, and they also said that this is called Zhu Yunxi's Three Laws......

Several old men in the Heart Cultivation Hall were all attracted by the "Three Laws of Zhu Yunxi", but Zhu Yunxi, a waste material, couldn't understand it at all, and several people became more and more confused when they heard it.

Fortunately, Zhu Yunxi didn't come to this in the first place, he saw that no one was paying attention to him, so he secretly stuffed a note in Lao Zhu's hand, and Lao Zhu took the note and secretly opened it to take a look at it when he was serving tea sideways, and his brows wrinkled on the spot.

"Come on, go and call the imperial grandson to us, and let that kid tell us personally!"

After a while, Qin Deshun ran back.

"Emperor, the imperial grandson doesn't have time

, is fiddling with a eunuch named Ma He."

"What machine?"

"Call it a transmitter?"

"A thing that can make people communicate for thousands of miles!"

"Oh?"

Lao Zhu became even more curious when he heard this, thinking that there was nothing to do in the left vicinity, so he took a few old guys to the Wenhua Palace.

When Lao Zhu and the others came over, Zhu Yunxi was writing letters with the horse and using the transmitter, and the room was full of tick-tock, tick-tock.

Lao Zhu came to Zhu Yunxi, looked at the machine in Zhu Yunxi's hand, and asked with curiosity.

"Big grandson, is this something that can communicate for thousands of miles?"

Zhu Yunxi took off his headphones and nodded to Lao Zhu.

"yes!"

"I started the project two years ago, and it wasn't until recently that I started mass production."

"Would you like to have fun and experience the current state-of-the-art communication equipment?"

Lao Zhu patted the iron bump on the table disdainfully.

"Why don't we believe it!"

"Such a small lump of iron, can you really get the message out?"

Zhu Yunxi said confidently.

"Of course!"

"If you don't believe it, let's do it ourselves!"

Zhu Yunxi ordered someone to prepare a piece of paper for Lao Zhu, let Lao Zhu write on the paper, and then handed the paper to Ma He on the other side of the screen in front of Lao Zhu, and asked Ma He to send it to himself by telegram.

Lao Zhu cooperated with a smile throughout the whole process, wanting to see what tricks the eldest grandson played.

After a ticking sound, when he saw that the eldest grandson had actually written the secret letter he had just written on the paper, Lao Zhu's eyes widened like a dragon's eye.

"How did you do that?"

"Did someone secretly tell you what we just wrote on paper?"

Fu Youde, Tang He and the others on the side were also taken aback when they saw this, muttering words like immortal magic in their mouths.

"Superior, could this be the immortal art that His Royal Highness the Imperial Sun learned from Zhang Zhenren?"

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he also looked at Zhu Yunxi inquiringly, and if Zhu Yunxi said that this was immortal art, he promised not to doubt it.

However, Zhu Yunxi only shook his head lightly in the face of Old Zhu's earnest eyes.

"Grandpa Huang, this thing transmits messages through radio waves, you don't care what radio waves are, you just need to know that this thing can transmit messages thousands of miles away!"

"From today onwards, I will officially enter the telegraph era!"

Lao Zhu really didn't understand, but he didn't bother with this, but just wrote a few more letters to verify the ability of the transmitter.

After being convinced that this thing could transmit the message, Lao Zhu greedily slapped the transmitter and said with longing.

"As long as this thing is popularized, in the future, our Ming envoys, prefectures and counties will be integrated, and our decrees can be spread to every prefecture and county in the Ming Dynasty in one day, and every prefecture and county in the Ming Dynasty can also inform us of local matters at any time......

"At that time, our governance of the Ming Dynasty will be as clear as the text in the palm of your hand, hahaha!"

After Tang He and the others heard Lao Zhu's longing, they hurriedly sent a rainbow fart and called His Majesty Shengming.

After accepting their sycophants, Lao Zhu patted Zhu Yunxi's shoulder with a smile and said.

"Eldest grandson, there are not many of these things now, and how much does it cost, can we meet the needs of a thousand sets for the imperial court?"

Zhu Yunxi shook his head firmly and said.

"Grandpa Huang, don't think about it in the short term, this thing will be distributed to the sea fleet first, followed by the coastal prefectures and counties, and the northern border army, and finally it will be the turn of the imperial court."

"As for the cost......

"How can I explain it to you, for example, I want to build a kitchen knife, but I have to open an iron mine and a coal mine first, and then cast a hammer, anvil and other tools before I can make a kitchen knife."

"It's the same with this thing, the principle is not complicated, but every part used on it needs to be supplied by a small workshop, and it is very difficult to put together this industrial chain."

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Taking the first transmitter in front of me as an example, from the beginning of the project two years ago to its birth, it cost me a total of more than two million taels of silver!"

Zhu Yunxi shut up when he said this, thinking depressedly in his heart, this still has a full set of drawings and ready-made theoretical guidance as the basis.

If it's from zero to one, the money is estimated to have to be multiplied by ten.

Lao Zhu almost dropped his jaw in fright when he heard that the first one took two million taels to build.

"This little thing is worth two million?"

"We finally know why you are always short of money, whether it is the city department or the weaving bureau workshop, many businesses seem to be very profitable, but at the end of the year, you always have no money......

"Do you dare to invest all your money in these places?"

Zhu Yunxi looked at Lao Zhu proudly when he heard this.

"Grandpa Huang, do you think your grandson is doing the right thing?"

Lao Zhu was silent for a while when he heard this, and then gave a thumbs up to his eldest grandson.

"Let's not talk about anything else, just talking about your transmitter is enough to shake the past and the present!"

"With this thing, we can know the major events in the world at any time, and governing the world will become like an arm!"

After Lao Zhu finished saying these bold words, his tone suddenly changed and he asked a very sharp question.

"Eldest grandson, since we all have such a weapon for governing the country, don't throw your second uncle into the sea, right?"

When the others heard Lao Zhu say this, they hurriedly found an excuse to slip away, but Zhu Yunxi hid at the door and didn't come in at all.

After a while, only Zhu Yunxi and Lao Zhu were left in the Wenhua Palace, and even Ma and this eunuch slipped away under Wang De's urging.

Zhu Yunxi stared at Lao Zhu's face and asked unhappily.

"Grandpa Huang, who is so fast, and you are chewing the root of your tongue here?"

"Is it Tang He or Fu Youde?"

Because these two people were suspended in the Jing Navy, Zhu Yunxi was the first to suspect these two people.

Old Zhu shook his head when he heard this.

"You don't care who it is, hurry up and order someone to call your second uncle back, what if you really fall into the sea and drown?"

Zhu Yunxi had already made up his mind to send his second uncle Zhu Fan abroad for further study, how could he easily get him back?

"Grandpa Huang, that's what my grandson thinks."

"Sun Er is going to form a fleet of more than 5,000 people to travel around the world right now, and I don't feel at ease if I don't send someone from our old Zhu family to keep an eye on me!"

"If the leader of the fleet has the heart to stand on his own, won't we five thousand people just fight with chickens and eggs?"

"Moreover, I spent tens of millions of taels of silver to build this fleet!"

"Grandpa Huang, think about it, such an expensive fleet, who can help me keep an eye on it except for the second uncle?"

As soon as Lao Zhu heard that he had spent tens of millions of taels of silver, he immediately felt distressed.

"You're right!"

"With such an important fleet, it's not okay not to send one of our Zhu family members to keep an eye on it!"

"Since you trust your second uncle so much, then we have nothing to worry about......