Zhu Jianji saw the bewildered appearance of the ministers, especially some courtiers who did not understand the knowledge of world geography showed embarrassment, slightly annoyed, and said unhappily: "The world topographic map printed by me is such a clear and clear description of the world we live in, just like this, is there still a Qing family who thinks that the sky is round under our feet, and does not accept the theory of the circle of the earth that Bai Xiu has measured, so they don't buy and study the world topographic map?"

The map of the world has long been drawn and published.

It's just rougher.

There is no comparison with the world map of later generations, and the error is also large, mainly because the time was too busy in the past few years, and I didn't get the longitude and latitude things, and the world map has no latitude and longitude to determine the coordinates, and the error is even greater.

But fortunately, there is not much use of the world map now, you just need to know the general direction.

Someone bowed their heads in annoyance.

There are quite a few such people!

Zhu Jianji sighed secretly in his heart, the road to "literacy" has a long way to go, and even the scholars who came out of the imperial court do not believe in the Diyuan doctrine so much, so few people are willing to believe in this doctrine.

Yes, the question of the Department of Education!

Later, I will talk to Chen Xianzhang of the Department of Education.

After glancing at the Fengtian Hall carefully, he turned his head to Dai Yi and said, "Quickly go to the Wenhua Palace, bring the big world map in my study, and in addition, take someone to the Education Department and call Chen Xianzhang over, and say that I told him to drink!"

Dai Yi left in a hurry.

Zhu Jianji said to He Jian: "I have the same idea as you, after fighting Phnom Penh and Dacheng, the country needs to recuperate for three or five years to digest the resources of the Indochina Peninsula to quickly improve its own strength, as for the Bay of Bengal region, I think I can fight or not, fighting, it is just to promote national prestige, the consumption is relatively large, and the gains outweigh the losses, if you don't fight, when the time comes, I will go to it to trade, will it dare not listen?"

He Jian said: "Wechen also thinks so, the key is that the Bay of Bengal region is relatively barren, the country is poor, the people are poor, and there are not many mining resources, but there is some black oil."

The Ministry of War, of course, must follow the footsteps of His Majesty Emperor Guang'an of the Ming Dynasty and understand the situation in foreign countries.

The Bay of Bengal region is indeed poor.

As for black oil or something, there is no technology for large-scale exploitation now, and it is not very useful, so the military department has always believed that the Bay of Bengal region belongs to chicken ribs.

Zhu Jianji said: "What He Shangshu said makes sense, but my idea may be slightly different from that of the Ministry of War, and my meaning is not to send a large army to fight the Bay of Bengal region, but to let the South China Sea Fleet go."

The army went to the Bay of Bengal region, and the route was too far away.

It is better to knock on the doors of those states in the Bay of Bengal with strong ships and cannons, and get twice the result with half the effort.

He Jian asked, "Your Majesty, Wechen has the courage to ask, it will take a few years for the South China Sea Fleet that Your Majesty has used all its resources to build to form combat power, and Wechen estimates that it will take another ten years."

The South China Sea Fleet has long had combat power.

The South China Sea Fleet is under the command of Zhang Bu and Xiang Yuzai, and its predecessor is the naval division operated by Baozong in Taiwan, and it itself has all kinds of naval warships and has rich experience in actual combat.

is not weaker than the Ming sailor.

If it weren't for the exquisite layout of His Majesty back then, when he recovered Taiwan, where Baozong was entrenched, the predecessor of the South China Sea Fleet had really fought a fierce battle with the Daming Navy, the outcome would not have been certain.

He Jian asked about how many years it would take for the South China Sea Fleet to equip steel warships with combat effectiveness.

Steel battleships are in production.

However, at present, only three ships are under construction at the same time, and it will take at least a year and a half before they can be sent out of the dock and sent to Taiwan for the South China Sea Fleet.

Therefore, He Jian believes that it will take at least another ten years for the South China Sea Fleet to form combat effectiveness.

Zhu Jianji said: "It doesn't take ten years, five years at the latest, and after ten years, the East China Sea Fleet will form a sequence of combat effectiveness." Seeing that He Jian was about to speak, Zhu Jianji smiled and said, "I haven't finished speaking, He Shangshu, you are bold!"

He Jian laughed, "Please forgive your majesty."

Jiuqing

One of them, and the secretary of the Ministry of War, Yu Qian's right-hand man, is well versed in Zhu Jianji's temperament, and knows that Zhu Jianji is not angry that he lost his honor in front of the palace.

Just kidding to liven up the atmosphere.

Zhu Jianji was really not angry, although no one dared to interject when he spoke except for being interrupted by his family over the years, but as the Son of Heaven, he didn't have this kind of mind, it was too narrow-minded.

He said, "I said, today there is no sin of dereliction in front of the temple."

He also said: "The South China Sea Fleet will form a sequence of about fifteen warships within five years, although only three docks are currently under construction at the same time, but when these three ships are completed, the personnel of Dengzhou Shipyard will have experience to learn from, and the speed of shipbuilding will be greatly improved, and at the same time, as long as we ensure that we have enough steel to support Dengzhou Shipyard, plus human and financial support, in the next three years, the remaining seven docks of Dengzhou Shipyard can also start construction at the same time, in this way, within five years, It is possible that the Dengzhou Shipyard will build fifteen steel warships for the South China Sea Fleet, and fifteen steel warships will be enough to form an invincible fleet that will run rampant on the sea!"

After a pause, "There are materials, manpower, financial resources, experience and technology, so in the matter of building steel warships, we can use "dumplings" to describe it."

The crowd couldn't laugh or cry.

Battleship launches, dumplings?

Moreover, it is a steel battleship that has never appeared between Zhou and Yu, and it is launched at a speed like dumplings, so at that time, the Daming Naval Division, will not Yu be invincible.

But there are also people who don't understand.

Shaoqing of Dali Temple got up, "Your Majesty, there is something unknown in Weichen, my Daming Sailor is invincible in the world, not boasting that it is a rare opponent between the universe, since the founding of Taizu and my Daming Sailor has a brilliant record, in recent years, the Daming Sailor has only played a little role in the military, and the war on the Indochina Peninsula and Mobei has little to do with the Sailor, only when the Guangxi Metropolitan Division went to occupy the city, the South China Sea Fleet went to the coast of Zhancheng to carry out the military mission of blockading the escape of the Champa royal family, Now Mobei and the Indochina Peninsula are already the territory of our Ming Dynasty, if you don't fight the Bay of Bengal region and Manchuria, let alone the sailors, even the land army will be disarmed and returned to the field, but the imperial court has spent so much manpower, financial resources and steel to build a fleet of two steel warships, isn't it a bit ...... Some of them use knives to kill chickens?"

[In view of the general environment,

Zhu Jianji motioned for Shaoqing of Dali Temple to sit down and looked at everyone, "Are there still many people who have such questions?"

Among the ministers present, many people nodded.

They really don't understand.

The already invincible Daming Sailor, why do you want to build a steel battleship, Dali Temple Shaoqing said more euphemistically, saying that it is a knife to kill chickens, but in fact, the real meaning is that His Majesty is so happy, a bit of a waste.

Zhu Jianji said with a smile, "After the opening of the sea by the Ming Dynasty, with the recognition and popularization of the Earth Circle Theory, a new era is destined to come, that is, the Age of Discovery, and the steel battleship is to ensure that the Ming Dynasty is still the supreme status of the Celestial Empire in the Age of Discovery, of course, this is not a waste, it is a forward-looking arrangement for a rainy day, I clearly tell you: The steel battleship is the important weapon of the Ming Dynasty in the next Age of Discovery!"