"This is the root of the question of 'why the Ming Dynasty has no relationship with the New World'."

Jiang Xinghuo patted his prison uniform, put down the globe in his hand, and stood up calmly in the cell, rubbing his wrist while saying.

"Since the unification of the six kingdoms by Qin, successive dynasties and countless kings have done to the common people the tricks of fooling the people, the weak people, the tired people, the humiliating the people, and the poor, the purpose is to make the common people hungry and struggling on the food and clothing line, so that they have no ability and willingness to rebel and threaten the rule of the king."

"The common people have never seen the light, they have not enjoyed the life of food and clothing, how many talented people do you think die of old age among the ridges just because they were born at the wrong time?"

Zheng He didn't agree with this.

Because Zheng He was originally a typical example of climbing to a high position by relying on his own hard work, Zheng He believed in hard work rather than fate.

In addition, I have read the history books of those emperors and generals since I was a child, and I always feel that as long as they are heroes and heroes, together in troubled times, there will naturally be a place to turn over.

Zheng He's black and red faces seemed to be twisted together, and after looking at the empty cells around him and seeing that there were no prisoners, he said: "If you talk about your background, isn't Emperor Taizu Gao from a common person?" If there are really heroes in the world, it is not impossible to create the current situation. ”

Jiang Xinghuo was even more bold, and said with a chuckle: "Don't tell me that as long as you have the ability, you can get ahead, the end of the Yuan Dynasty is the situation that creates heroes, and the world is anti-Yuan like cooking oil on fire, without Emperor Taizu Gao, wouldn't there be someone else to expel the Tartars and establish a new dynasty?" ”

Zheng He was speechless for a while.

Jiang Xinghuo's words became more and more intense, but he asked in a tepid tone: "Besides, it is also Emperor Taizu Gao, why is Peixian in the Han Dynasty all the elites in the world, and why can Huaixi in the Ming Dynasty produce so many generals?" ”

Zheng He didn't think about this problem, he only felt that according to the traditional saying, the cloud is from the dragon and the wind from the tiger, and there is naturally a group of ministers from the dragon for the monarch of destiny.

There was no room for Zheng He to think about the answer, Jiang Xinghuo continued.

"What did these people do before they rebelled?"

"Merchants, petty officials, peddlers, pawns!"

"Aren't they all the magnates of the Zhumen now?"

Zheng He was speechless for a while, and didn't say anything else, only saying that those in the Yan army who are now marquis and princes in the new dynasty were only low-level officers, street scoundrels, and Mongolian generals from the Northern Parallel Capital Division.

Even he himself is also a eunuch in King Yan's mansion, and now he has ascended to the sky, is it really arranged by God?

If you think about it carefully like this, wouldn't there be a group of capable people in every city in the world who can jump up and worship the prime minister as long as the time comes?

It's just that these people, perhaps working in the fields at this time, are struggling with food and clothing, just because they have not seen what a rich and equal life is like, so they have become those who are not shrouded in light.

"The times create heroes, and Shenzhou was originally as good as Yao Shun!"

"It's just because the kings of the past dynasties are for the sake of the world, and the ruling groups of the past generations are not allowed to see the light for the sake of the selfish interests of the portal."

When it comes to "light", Zheng He inexplicably remembered the previous topic - hard-working is a virtue.

It seems that everything has been foreshadowed.

Jiang Xinghuo continued to say calmly: "If there is any monarch who rules the world after the chaos, and the people have a little food and clothing, it will be the Holy Lord of Renjun, that's all!" ”

And next, it was Jiang Xinghuo's more heart-wrenching question.

"Even if the New World was full of gold and silver, and with countless high-yielding crops, what king do you think would encourage the people to sail for their own fortunes? If everyone has the heart of adventure and abandons their homeland and goes to the sea, won't the world be in chaos? ”

Zheng He was a little silent, because he knew very well that what Jiang Xinghuo said was right.

The reason why Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, promulgated the "sea ban order" was not only to prevent Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng's old department, but also to prevent the people from going to sea and causing instability in the national order.

"People can't be allowed to go to sea." Zheng He said: "Then can't it be done by the Ming government?" ”

Zheng He wanted to say, Mr. Jiang, don't lie to me.

In the first class, you said that the Ming Dynasty was going to the West.

Why can't you say it now?

But Jiang Xinghuo's intentions obviously don't stop there.

"Then let me ask you, who is the Ming Mansion made of?" Jiang Xinghuo asked rhetorically.

Zheng He thought for a while and replied, "Naturally, it is composed of officials and petty officials. ”

"Who are these people? Don't think about it, I told you the answer, these people are basically large, medium and small landlords! ”

Jiang Xinghuo sneered and asked, "It's that the New World really has high-yield crops, do you think they will be gladly encouraged?"

"Wrong! The first to oppose high-yielding crops were the landlords! ”

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the dirty cell floor under his feet, and his tone was inexplicably low.

"It only takes a small piece of land to sow the seeds, and everyone can be fed, who will sell their land cheaply in a disaster year? Who would borrow the profits to rent farm tools and seeds when they were young? ”

"If everyone is like this, won't the interests of these landlords be uprooted?"

"Ploughing and reading heirlooms, ploughing is to have land, reading is to gain power to maintain and increase land, do you think the landlord is really his own land?"

Jiang Xinghuo sighed deeply.

"The peasants who have not seen the light have not been driven to a dead end, neither dare nor have the ability, and the government will not allow them to go to sea to disturb the order of the country; And the landlords who have seen the light, for generations, want to follow the light and continue to follow the path of farming and studying the imperial examination to maintain their wealth, and they are not willing to take risks at all. ”

"I have talked about the "Theory of National Fortune", but unfortunately you have not heard it, that is, until the cultivators have no land and the landlords are in a hurry, a new round of chaos begins, and some peasants become new landlords, so the cycle is endless, and it is impossible to have the endogenous motivation and courage to explore the new continent overseas, understand?"

Zheng He's heart was deeply shocked, and even under the warm winter sun shining through the small window of the cell, his spine felt a little chilly.

He was silent for a long time, still speechless, and finally asked with difficulty.

"Then there is no other way? According to Mr. Jiang, Da Ming really has no chance with the New World. ”

Contrary to Zheng He's expectations, Jiang Xinghuo changed his words.

"Of course there is a way."

"What's the method?" Zheng He asked eagerly.

Jiang Xinghuo said as if he was self-contradictory: "Exploring the New World is something that the people can't do, and the government is unwilling to do it, but if there is a monarch who orders and drives it from top to bottom, as long as the process of arriving in the New World is completed, bringing back convincing wealth and crops with a yield of thousands of catties per mu, and cultivating new interest groups, it can be done." ”

Zheng He frowned slightly, obviously returning to the strange circle of the times creating heroes or heroes creating the times.

Jiang Xinghuo's words, isn't this inconsistent?

Since I have said so much before, but if under the torrent of history, a person is not irreplaceable, why is it said that exploring the New World can be done by a heroic monarch?

Jiang Xinghuo obviously saw his doubts and explained: "The affairs of the world have always been the current situation to create heroes, the torrent of history is mighty, the laborers are the group that creates history and creates the value, and the heroes are inseparable from the laborers and the current situation to independently change the trend of history." ”

"In fact, if you look at the internal and external environment of Daming, Daming does not have any internal drive and feasibility to explore the New World, so it is naturally impossible to do it."

"The only variable that exists is a ruler who is 'highly centralized and eager to build a peerless feat at the cost of exploration', and who needs to be convinced that the never-before-discovered New World can bring great benefits to the Ming and consolidate his rule."

"Today's Yongle Emperor meets this condition, of course, in the future I foresee, he did not reverse the tide in the end, and after seven voyages to the West, China will be completely insulated from the ocean."

"That's how heroes can't resist the times."

The ability to predict the future, Jiang Xinghuo had already demonstrated it when he met the other party's 'whether he could go to Mecca for the pilgrimage', and he didn't have any scruples at this time, and the other party didn't question it.

"Can you tell us more about the future and the whole process that Mr. Jiang predicted?" Zheng He said hesitantly.

Jiang Xinghuo said softly: "I also told you before, in a few years, Emperor Yongle will send Zheng He to the West. ”

"The reason why the Yongle Emperor can be called the Yongle Emperor is because he broke through the obstacles of the inherent interest groups within the Ming Dynasty and made the decision to go to the West. Zheng He went as far as the West to reach Africa, a continent full of deserts and grasslands. ”

Jiang Xinghuo pointed to the continent on the globe, which was the east coast of Africa, and then continued to rotate the globe and said.

"In fact, if Emperor Yongle had known in advance that the New World would have countless gold, silver, and high-yield crops, and had made up his mind to obtain them, the Ming fleet would have been able to go south along the African coastline, bypass the Cape of Good Hope, and reach South America from the Atlantic Ocean, and when it reached South and Central America, it would have been able to obtain all the rich products of the New World."

"It's a pity that even if the Yongle Emperor breaks through the layers of obstacles within the dynasty, in the end, Zheng He will stop on the east coast of Africa because of the cognitive limit, and after the New World, it is forbidden to go to the Western Ocean, abandon the huge fleet, burn the design drawings, and issue a sea ban, and there will be no peace on the southeast coast from then on."

"In other words, heroes are inseparable from workers and the times to independently change the trend of history."

"Unless, through the progress of productive forces, we can truly change the workers, can we reverse the trend of the times, and then change the trend of history."

Zheng He looked at the globe and was shocked in his heart.

One step away, the end of the world.

If you look like the continent on the globe, in the future predicted by Jiang Xinghuo, then you will only be a short distance away from reaching the new continent.

Looking at the globe, Zheng He easily speculated why in the future predicted by Jiang Xinghuo, he led the huge fleet of the Ming Dynasty to stop at the east coast of Africa.

Because that's the end of the world within my own cognition.

In fact, Zheng He speculated that he would continue to sail west after Mecca, instead of turning around and returning directly, and I am afraid that it was also in the country where Mecca was located that he received a hint from the local Great Food Law Sect, telling himself that there was still a continent to the west, and he would try it.

And after arriving on the African continent, no matter who makes the decision, looking at this barren and barren continent, I am afraid that I will not have the confidence to make up my mind to continue to explore the end of the world in the south of the country.

Therefore, even if he led the Ming fleet to make historic explorations and breakthroughs, he finally fell within the scope of the so-called cognitive limit.

If you don't meet Jiang Xinghuo, this may be your fate!

"No, I'm not reconciled to !!"

Zheng He's heart was roaring.

Zheng He suddenly raised his head and looked at Jiang Xinghuo.

"Mr. Jiang!"