"Your Majesty, such a small piece of land like a rooster is really my Ming Territory?" At this time, the great Confucian Gao Qi raised suspicions. I didn't say it before because Zhu Yuanzhang was punishing the nine clans of scholars, but now saying it means that the matter just now is completely turned over. said that he was a scholar, and now he is completely on the emperor's side.

"How can it be fake?" Zhu Yuanzhang pointed to the map, "Look, this is Liaodong, here is Shaanxi and Gansu provinces, here is Tubo, and here is Baiyue...... This river is the Yangtze River, this river is the Yellow River, and there are Tianzhu, Jiaozhi, and Tubo around the Ming Dynasty...... All the provinces and mountains and rivers of the Ming Dynasty, including the surrounding neighboring countries, are clearly marked, can there be fake? ”

When the ministers heard this, they were suddenly silent.

"Oh my God, I'm so small!?"

"I'm just a corner of the world?"

The ministers said one by one.

Liu Bowen Gao Qi's heart was also trembling, although they were all extremely knowledgeable, they were the three famous Confucians in the early Ming Dynasty, but they had never seen the map of the Ming Dynasty's territory, let alone the world map.

"It can't be, it can't be." The old minister Song Lian said again and again.

And the rest of the Wenchen scholars, some of them even cried, and the sad voices filled the entire court.

Since ancient times, these scholars have always known that the world is a round place, and China is in the middle.

I feel that Huaxia occupies most of the land in the world, and the rest of the corners are barbarians and have not been educated by saints.

This is also the origin of their cultural self-confidence and national pride in their hearts for thousands of years.

However, today, they found that Huaxia was so small, let alone the center of heaven and earth.

Their cultural self-confidence and pride have been completely destroyed.

The cruel reality makes them a little unacceptable.

"What is a howl?" Zhu Yuanzhang said coldly, "In addition to the territory, I am not the first in the world, and even the fertility of the land is not. The United States of America is not only larger than ours, but also basically plains, full of land of fish and rice. In both aspects, they are stronger than my Daming, so you can imagine how strong their national strength is. ”

"And that United States is already engaged in a globalization strategy, that is, a global localization strategy. If one day they invade our Ming Dynasty, won't China be going to destroy the country and extinct the species? ”

"Your Majesty, is America really that strong?" With a trembling hand, Song Lian pointed to the square territory on the other side of the sea.

"Do you need to ask?" Zhu Yuanzhang said, "The land area is larger than ours, and the land is more fertile than ours, so they have reason not to be strong?" That's why we're so anxious to get feet and a sharp mouth for the rooster. ”

"If we don't become strong sooner, maybe one day in the future, they will sail to attack my Ming Dynasty just like the Qianyuan invaded the Central Plains. The sons and daughters of China must not be enslaved by foreign races, and my Ming must not become a weak Song Dynasty. ”

"We will never allow the shame of Jingkang to appear in my Ming Dynasty, and we will never allow the humiliation of the sheep ceremony to reappear in my Ming Dynasty. The two miscreants of the Second Emperor Huiqin coaxed the soft eggs and harmed the entire nation. ”

"Therefore, we must not be pessimistic and hopeless now, but must be ashamed and courageous!" Zhu Yuanzhang said coldly, "And you scholars, you are short-sighted, and just now you actually objected to us getting chicken beaks and feet for roosters?" ”

"If there is no chicken mouth and feet, my Daming is a delicious fat chicken that will be eaten by others casually."

"Your Majesty, since I'm a rooster. So after getting the mouth and feet, should you eat the centipede in front of you? Deng Yufeng Weiguo Gong stood up and said, "That's a delicacy in front of you, rich in nutrition, and after eating it, the rooster will be even stronger." ”

"And the minister also heard that this insect has been jumping very hard recently."

It can be heard that he is trying his best to get Zhu Yuanzhang to send him on an expedition to the Japanese country.

"But all insects, centipedes, and so on, are all very powerful, and even highly poisonous. It's not so easy to eat, and we'll talk about it later. Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Wait for Tang He to return and cultivate a group of naval combat talents." ”

Jumping hard? The ministers shook their heads secretly when they heard this, the current king of the Wa Kingdom is Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, who is only a teenager this year, and he can't jump at all. And he also has an old enemy, that is, the authentic heir of the Muromachi shogunate, a monk named Chiju Maru.

The two are fighting among themselves, and they have no time to look west.

When the generals said this, it was clear that they wanted to find an excuse to fight.

Since ancient times, the court has been full of military generals who want to fight, and civilian officials have done everything possible to stop it.

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"Your Majesty's foresight is beyond the reach of ministers." Li Shan said.

"Your Majesty is a rooster for me, and seizing the mouth of the chicken is a meritorious deed, and it is related to the lifeblood of Yanhuang." Liu Bowen, "The rooster obtains the beak and claws, which is the most important thing to enhance my Ming national fortune." ”

"So the battle of the expedition to Goryeo must be fought, just now we are shallow. Wang Lei, the imperial historian, is so pedantic that he doesn't know His Majesty's good intentions, and his death is as light as a feather! Gao Qidao.

"As for that bug, it's not too late to eat it after you find both feet and chicken mouths."

"Your Majesty is wise!"

The ministers bowed down one after another, and shouted three times long live.

"Your Majesty!" At this moment, Li Shanchang stood up and said, "The fact that the land of the Ming Dynasty only occupies a small part of the east must not be known to the people of the world. ”

"Why?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

"Because the people of the world are also like us before, they think that the Central Plains is the center of the world, and China is the oldest and most civilized country in the world." Li Shanchang said, "If they know the fact that Daming is actually very small, they will know that Huaxia is not the most civilized place in the world." They will lose their self-confidence and their pride in their own people. ”

"If the people of the world have no self-confidence and pride, and the whole country mourns, it is quite terrible. They will lie in bed without enterprising ideas, do not work, do not starve to death, and even lead the way in the event of foreign invasions. ”

"Nonsense!" Zhu Yuanzhang said, "The people's pride in the nation comes from the current court's courage to fight. Territory and ancient civilization can only represent the past. And the court dares to fight and fight, right in front of you. ”

"Your Majesty is right." Liu Bowen said, "The proudest time for the sons and daughters of China was in the Han Wu period and the Tang Taizong era. These two dynasties all dared to fight abroad. ”

"And the two dynasties of the Han and Tang dynasties are also the thousand-year-old pride of my descendants of Yan and Huang." Gao Qidao.

"So from now on, the minister must abandon the previous stubborn thoughts and support His Majesty's foreign war!" Li Shanchang said, "The people of Goryeo, Qionghai, Beigang, and even Siam, Cochin, Wa, and Java all moved there by the descendants of Yan and Huang. His Majesty has collected all of them in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, recovering lost territory rather than encroaching upon. ”

"I really want to see that one day in the future, the world will gather."