In front of the vertical board, Zhu Yuan looked at the expressions of the ministers on both sides of the conference table who were either surprised, confused or thoughtful, and couldn't help but smile.

Is this shocking?

Then do it again.

After a little consideration, he looked at Lao Zhu again, and got a signal, Zhu Yuan continued: "In addition to politics, economy and culture, the Wa Kingdom actually has another very important role for my Ming Dynasty, it ...... It's a springboard!"

Springboard?

In the face of everyone's curiosity and doubts, Zhu Yuan looked at Lao Zhu again before continuing, and gestured to the western region that was not covered by the sea chart in front of him: "Here we have to talk about the earth first, to the east of our continent, there is an ocean that spans nearly 20,000 miles, and on the other side of the ocean, there are two continents."

When Zhu Yuan said this, the first old Zhu raised his hand to signal.

The ministers in the conference room thought that His Majesty the Emperor was going to let a certain young man Pingzhang stop, but they heard Lao Zhu say: "In this case, bring the globe, anyway, I have already seen everything that should have been seen."

In the past year, Lao Zhu has shown many people about the globe and even the world map. Even, the previous Gongwei Division, and the current Jinyi Guard, also quietly reported.

Some people already have a replica of the globe in their homes.

Even so, what else is there to hide?

Although I have just read Liu Lian's remarks on technical secrecy, Lao Zhu feels that there are all central ministers in front of him, and there is really no need.

What's more, for technical secrecy, under the continuous indoctrination of his own baby twenty-third grandson, Lao Zhu also has his own understanding.

Approximately...... Just like the gunpowder, the principle is too simple, if you want to keep it secret, you can't keep it at all, so what should you do?

The answer is very simple, control the raw materials.

Strict control of saltpeter and sulfur involving gunpowder, then, even if *** is everywhere, it is useless to find raw materials.

In the same way, many technologies in the future will be relatively simple, as long as people can't find raw materials and tools, it will be in vain.

As for some esoteric technologies that ordinary people can't understand, they are simpler, they can still be firmly held if they control talents, production, and even circulation.

Not only that, but in the future, it will be possible to further legislate.

Regarding the ...... "patent", his baby twenty-third grandson has also mentioned it in private, and Lao Zhu thinks it is good.

The globe was soon moved.

Zhu Yuan looked at the large globe in front of him and continued, "You can see that if you want to go to the two continents in the extreme east, if you pass through the central equator, a distance of nearly 20,000 miles, it is not realistic at all, so what should you do?"

Saying this, Zhu Yuan did not wait for everyone to answer, and had already drawn a line from the coast of Daming to the Japanese archipelago and then to Alaska on the other side of the Bering Strait, and then to North and South America: "The answer is that we can bypass it little by little from the north."

After speaking, he glanced at everyone, and Zhu Yuan kept talking: "So, the question arises again, why do we do this?"

In response to this question, many people in the conference room reacted, subconsciously remembering the remarks made by the young Heizhang about the leap from the "agricultural age" to the "industrial age".

Resource!

Seeing that many people's expressions were abrupt, Zhu Yuan also smiled and nodded: "That's right, it's still for 'resources', and compared to the moment when my China has lasted for thousands of years and entered the peak of the agricultural age, the two continents at the same time, many places, are even in the primitive Stone Age. Over here...... All the guards who have read my book "The Science of Economics" should know that the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, these are the three stages of the agricultural age, and each era, even if it is not qualitatively changed, the gap is also oppressive, therefore, as long as the Ming Dynasty can arrive, it can easily occupy those two continents and realize the pioneering feat that the strong Han and the Tang Dynasty have not been able to complete. At the same time, the resources of the two continents are enough to support the easy development of our Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years."

When Zhu Yuan said this, some people in the conference room ...... It's already a little cloudy.

What is the theme of this conference?

You're not talking about, well, the great victory of Dai Qu

What's the matter, why do you have to open up new land and surpass the Han and Tang Dynasties in a blink of an eye?

But......

Then again, beyond the Han and Tang Dynasties, I feel that I can still give it a try!

When everyone's thoughts were flying, Lao Zhu, who had listened to a lot of the various indoctrination of his precious twenty-third grandson, was more sober, and quickly pulled the topic back.

After some discussion, various decisions were made quickly.

First of all, in this battle of Daiqu, although the naval governor Hua Gao and the deputy envoy of the camp Liu Lian took the initiative to ask for the guilt, but the enemy was prepared to attack and was unprepared, and could not be prevented, therefore, the coastal departments were not at fault, not only that, but then the naval departments responded in a timely manner, and on the same day, they blocked Zhao Dingxi's department in Daiquyang and annihilated them all, so they were all meritorious.

Lao Zhu issued an edict asking the Navy Governor's Office and the Yinghai Division to list the merits of participating in the navy and helping the fishermen as soon as possible and report to Jinling.

Secondly, Zhao Dingxi, the head of the Kou, and Chen Ning, the deputy of the thief, although both of them were dead, they could not be forgiven, so the Mingzhou side broke the bones of the two and threw them into the sea. Murata gatekeeper, a merchant of the Japanese Kingdom, was a female spy and caused a tragedy of stone and wood, and the crime should be Ling Chi. Although the rest of the captives and thieves surrendered, because of their raid on Jiaxing, it was inevitable that they should all be executed to set an example.

Finally, the edict ordered the navy to prepare secretly, and after the beginning of spring, when the south wind rose, it would cross the ocean, attack the Japanese state, and the goal was to take the Jiuwei Island where Zhao Dingxi's department was entrenched, and establish the Ming naval base to deter overseas.

In addition to these, all kinds of aftermath, Lao Zhu also asked the local government to deal with it properly.

As for Liu Lian's request to strengthen technical secrecy, there was no result for a while, and His Majesty the Emperor just asked Zhongshu to carefully consider and discuss and make a plan first.

At the end of the meeting, the officials dispersed to implement the series of decisions just now, and Lao Zhu shouted his baby twenty-third grandson to come to his study together.

The ancestors and grandsons sat down opposite each other, and Lao Zhu threw a secret letter over, and said with a smile: "On the day when the victory of Daiqu reached Mingzhou, that Liu Lian ...... When I saw those star-pulling instruments and other things found from the enemy ship, I vomited blood and fainted, and after I woke up, I kept saying that I was wrong, and said that you were right, Yuan'er, I am also curious, what is the reason for this?"

Zhu Yuan quickly browsed the secret letter in his hand, the content was roughly talking about the situation of the day, knowing that this must be sent by the secret spy arranged by Jinyiwei in the navy, and he didn't delve into it, thought about it, and said, "Ancestor, probably...... I guess I talked to him last year."

Last year in the brick and tile factory, Hu Shang and Zhu Yuan actually didn't remember it clearly, and it was also a whim at that time.

Zhu Yuan didn't expect that in just one year, it would come true.

As he spoke, he briefly explained the views of the time.

After hearing this, Lao Zhu thought about it and couldn't help asking, "You said this...... I'm afraid it's ...... Later, right?"

"It's been two lifetimes of old things," Zhu Yuan nodded, a little embarrassed, and said, "Later, I always talked about the four great inventions, among which gunpowder was roughly the Mongol expedition to the west, which was transmitted to Europe. Moreover, back in this era, I also found that the good things that we have transmitted to Europe are definitely not just gunpowder, for example, engraved watches, but there is no evidence. Then, our Ming Dynasty, from the founding of the country to the end of the period, has actually entered the era of thermal weapons to a large extent, but after the Manchurians entered the customs, they were afraid of firearms, and they were suppressed back, but the West continued to develop thermal weapons to the extreme, plus there was a steam engine, the result is that at the institutional level, they are only equivalent to our Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but at the level of science and technology, they have achieved qualitative changes, from the agricultural era to the industrial age, and then there are those things that I and my ancestors said. Culturally inferior civilizations, because of the extremely advanced science and technology, have covered up some fundamentals, but have become representatives of human civilization. But in essence, it is the logic of "whoever has a big fist, who is richer, who is a good person, and who does everything right."

As he spoke, Zhu Yuan suddenly smiled again and added, "However, there is actually some truth in this, Cang Liao really knows etiquette, and when people are rich, at least on the surface, they will indeed appear more civilized."

Lao Zhu listened silently, waved his hand with a bit of reassurance, and said, "Heh, there are many 'uneasy feelings' there, let it pass in the past." This time...... It's going to be done."

Zhu Yuan nodded.

Think about it or there is still no explanation.

It's not uneasy.

It's just...... Brother Xun seems to have a sentence, what it is, I can't remember it for a while.

So I didn't bother to think about it anymore.

Lao Zhu heard the reason why Liu Lian vomited blood, so he didn't delve into it, changed the topic, and said, "These days, I have asked the Ministry of Rites to verify the system of knighthood in the past dynasties, and I have been considering it in private...... What do you have to say?"

"This ......" Zhu Yuan didn't expect Lao Zhu to suddenly mention it, in fact, he also thought about it in private, but he couldn't get Lao Zhu's thoughts for a while, so he could only say, "...... Ancestor, if you want me to say, the background you are considering should be to stretch the timeline, to a scale of three or five hundred years, well, think about it...... Our clan disciples, one day, reach one million, or even two million, how should we deal with it?"

Lao Zhu smiled: "These ones, you don't need to remind them repeatedly, I have thought about it, this time, whether it is the sect or the honorable ...... They can no longer be hereditary, and after some inheritance, they should belong to the people, and they will be the people. If you don't have the ability, like that Liu Xuande, weaving mats and selling shoes is also fate."

Zhu Yuan nodded: "It's best if the ancestor can think like this."

"I have to think like this, ...... in the future It is better to become an ordinary person than ...... If there is a drastic change, it is better to be hacked and killed by someone according to the clan register." Lao Zhu said, and sighed again: "I thought that the Han family pushed the order before, which was too unkind. Now that I think about it, after that generation, the clan was also hidden among the people. Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bei of the Shu Han Dynasty...... If we can do the same in the future, it will be good. It's much stronger than another time, one by one, but they all grow into waste."

Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, and Liu Bei of the Shu Han Dynasty, were already far away from the glory of their ancestors at that time, but they also had some achievements.

In comparison, the Ming Dynasty clan seems to be living a good life, but in fact, there are more confinements.

What's more, saying that it is a good day is just the idea of ordinary people.

Later, many of the Zhu family's disciples may be inferior to Liu Bei. Because of the ancestral system, they can't engage in serious occupations, and the imperial court can't afford to pay for it, so some of them are so extreme that they even deliberately commit crimes, just to enter the Fengyang high walls of the Zhu family and ask for a worry-free food and clothing.

High walls are often synonymous with "prison".

This actually comes from the compound where the Ming Dynasty held the clan in Fengyang.

Anyway, all the details that Zhu Yuan remembered had already been told to Lao Zhu in many daily exchanges.

After chatting a few words, Lao Zhu talked about the specific plan: "These days, I have been thinking about it constantly, and I have roughly determined my ideas. The nobles of the clan, such as the prince, the twelfth, such as the prince, the ninth, the marquis, the sixth, and the earl the third. This title cannot be reduced in one generation, and it will be reduced once in three lifetimes. Moreover, if there is a great merit, it can also be attacked, and similarly, if the guilty person is also reduced...... Oh, just like you, although you should be the king of the county, I plan to list you as the twelfth prince of the same dynasty, but are you satisfied?"

Zhu Yuan smiled and nodded: "Yuan'er thanked the ancestor first."

"Heh, why don't you give in this time?"

Zhu Yuan showed a unique smile of the younger generation: "Yuan'er is actually the most in favor of the ancestors' rewards and punishments."

"You have such a temperament," Lao Zhu muttered, but put away his expression again: "It's just, call you...... But there's a problem."

Zhu Yuan also put away his expression.

I probably know what kind of problem Lao Zhu is talking about.

At the beginning of the discussion with Lao Zhu, a Ming Dynasty, 500 years of national ancestry, Zhu Yuan did not dare to guarantee 100%, but, if in this world, a series of Great Qin, Great Chu, Great Yan, and Great Jin, which were also created by the children of the Zhu family, then not only can they theoretically support each other to ensure that the Zhu family will not affect the whole clan because of the collapse of a trunk or branch, but also, among them, ...... There can always be a few that can achieve the goal of 500 years of national glory that Zhu Yuan promised at the beginning.

[The app that has been running stably for many years is comparable to the old version of the book-chasing artifact, which is used by old bookworms.]

Law, the prince can only pass on the twelfth, about 300 years, then, in the future, it will theoretically belong to the vassal king of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention the final time limit, that is, according to the specifications of three generations and one lord, I am afraid that within a hundred years, I will face legal problems.

For example, when the seal is out, it is the prince who owns a huge piece of land, and after three generations, he is demoted to the king of the county, theoretically, whether it is a fief or a fief, it should be reduced, then, when the time comes...... What to do?

It is conceivable that if one is not handled well, it will be another roommate!

Lao Zhu waited for a while, and saw that his precious twenty-third grandson had a thoughtful expression on his face, but he didn't speak, so he simply asked, "Since you have thought of it, just talk about it?"

Zhu Yuan pondered for a moment, and shook his head with a wry smile: "Ancestor, this matter is simple and simple, but difficult...... It's also difficult. To put it simply, it's just that the two knighthood systems are parallel, one side can be hereditary, and the other side is a decreasing title. The difficulty lies in the fact that it is ...... It's hard to level a bowl of water. Moreover, even if the ancestral generation reluctantly leveled this bowl of water, when it comes to the next generation, it will still face the same problem, and even the next generation will have to face this problem, and when the problem accumulates to a certain extent, the result will definitely be something."