After getting off the court, He Qiu shouted to Yanzhao and paced for a while.

"Originally, I wanted you to serve in the Siyi Pavilion, but since you are going to send personnel to the sea next, there are also talents like you who are proficient in the Xiyi language, so you just follow to be a messenger, right?"

Yu Yanzhao was also a person who participated in this court meeting, but he didn't expect such a big job to fall on his head.

Despite some apprehension in his heart, he finally decided to give it a go.

"Good countryman, I am willing to go to sea, but the old mother and young son at home also ask adults to help take care of one or two ......"

While talking about Yu Yanzhao, he cried there, now going to sea is still a very risky thing, and no one knows if he will die of epidemic disease on the way to sea.

Yu Yanzhao was very afraid that he would die on the road, and he might not be able to return to the Central Plains and see his children again.

He Qiu looked at Yu Yanzhao's posture and hurriedly said.

"Don't worry too much, send your child to me, the prince has just given birth to a child recently, and it just happened to be cultivated together."

Yu Yanzhao looked at He Qiu in shock, he didn't expect He Qiu to give him such a big surprise.

That's the prince's child!

He just wanted He Qiu to take the place of the imperial court, even if the imperial court did not agree at that time, with He Qiu's reputation, he could ensure that his family had no worries about food and clothing.

He Qiu saw that he was there, so he added.

"I can call the shots in this matter, I will never lie to you, even if it is not good, I promise to accept your child as an apprentice!"

"Hou ...... Master Hou, your treatment is too generous, I didn't react a little. ”

Yu Yanzhao dared to guarantee that if the ministers outside knew about He Qiu's guarantee, they would definitely go crazy to compete for Yu Yanzhao's deputy envoy position.

Not to mention anything else, just having a child by the side of the prince's child is already a great gift, enough to ensure the prosperity and wealth of a family for decades.

He Qiu didn't take it seriously, he felt that the Yu Yanzhao in front of him was probably Yu Qian's father in history, after all, there were too few people with the same characteristics.

For He Qiu, if he can be accepted as a disciple of Shaobao, he himself can't ask for it!

He Qiu just smiled and said.

"It's just that I accept him as an apprentice, and there are not a few apprentices under my disciples, and it still depends on them what they really develop.

As for the matter of the prince's children, I can only promise to do my best, but it may not be possible. ”

The truth in He Qiu's words, Yu Yanzhao can understand.

In the final analysis, the prince has lived in the East Palace for a long time, and many things are also decided by Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, He Qiu just occupies the identity of the prince's brother-in-law and teacher, and it is quite difficult to promote this matter.

As for the child's future learning, no one dares to guarantee it, and now the child is only a little more than a year old, who dares to guarantee that he will be able to make a difference in the future?

As long as He Qiu has such a guarantee, it is enough for Yan Zhao.

In this way, the court quickly finalized the candidate for the envoy to the West, Ma He was responsible for deciding on maritime affairs and was the deputy envoy, and Yu Yanzhao was responsible for communicating with Xiyi and serving as the chief envoy.

In fact, if you really want to talk about it, Ma He has experience in going to sea, so he should be a righteous envoy, but who made Ma He a eunuch, this is a political incorrectness, and naturally there is no way to be a righteous envoy.

I have to say that Zhu Di's determination is very great, in less than two months, the ships to go to sea have been prepared, and Ma He, a talent who is proficient in maritime affairs, has prepared all the items needed at sea.

Before leaving, He Qiu specially found Yu Yanzhao and made some instructions again.

"Now you have to remember that you are representing the Ming court, you must be courageous, the envoys of the Han and Tang dynasties are watching you from the sky!"

He Qiu's words immediately ignited the fire in Yu Yanzhao's heart.

"South Vietnam killed the Han envoys and slaughtered them as nine counties. King Wan killed the Han envoy, Touxian Beique. North Korea killed the Han envoy and immediately exterminated. ”

Isn't the pride of these ancestors worth learning from now?

What's more, today's Daming is not weaker than the original Han family!

Yu Yanzhao bowed deeply to He Qiu and said respectfully.

"I've been taught."

Later, the high-spirited Kazuma and others boarded a ship bound for Songjiang, and when they arrived in Songjiang, they would change to a sea ship, and from there they would set off for the South Seas, and then go to the West.

This time, Ma He and the others carried 2,000 horses of silk and 10,000 loads of tea, after all, their first task was not to sell goods, but to try to establish diplomatic relations with the countries along the way.

Of course, the most important thing is to draw a good chart, with the chart, in the future, the officials and merchants of the imperial court, or the private maritime merchants can go to the West to trade.

Yu Yanzhao's mother and wife and children were at the dock, looking at the high-spirited Yu Yanzhao, they were still a little worried in their hearts, after all, this might be a long way away, or at sea.

It's just that men should do something, so they can only bury such worries in their hearts.

He Qiu walked up to them, looked at Yu Qian, who was only one year old, and said loudly.

"Let's go, I have already rented a house for you, it is near my mansion, and I can take care of it at all times, Qian'er will come to my house for at least three days every ten days in the future, and I will personally teach him to read."

Yu Yanzhao's wife thanked He Qiu very gratefully, but it was not very cramped, compared to Yu Yanzhao's guy, it was much more atmospheric.

He Qiu could only sigh that Yu Yanzhao's life was really good.

Back in the mansion, He Qiu also thought in his heart, this time there were thirty ships that went to sea in the Ming Dynasty, and they were all big ships.

Among them, there are ten warships and twenty merchant ships, but they are only merchant ships, but in fact, they only carry goods on them, and if you really want to talk about regulations, they are exactly the same as warships.

Moreover, the ship also brought a lot of new breech guns, as well as some iron cannons produced by the Zunhua Iron Factory, and the martial arts were not abundant.

With those small sampans in the current Nanyang countries, don't even think about fighting a naval battle with the Ming Dynasty.

In history alone, when Zheng He went to the Western Ocean, the treasure ships made by the Ming Dynasty were enough to shock these uninformed barbarians, let alone the current ones.

These countries in the South Seas really developed after the maritime trade between the East and the West, that is, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

Now most of them are still just city-states, and their national strength is not strong.

It's just that He Qiu's vision is not limited to Nanyang, he is more concerned about whether it is possible for the Ming Dynasty to reach the Americas one step ahead of the Europeans.

If the ships of the Ming Dynasty can prove in this voyage that they can reach Europe, or even not far, to Central Asia, He Qiu can accept it.

If the Ming fleet can run so far, it will inevitably be able to reach the Americas, and at that time, it will be able to exchange a wave of goods with the local natives.

As for colonizing the Americas, at least the current He Qiu has no such plans, the distance is too far, and the cost of ruling is too high, maybe the Han people in the past will rebel like the European immigrants?