Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes widened and he looked at the dragon tooth gate pointed out by Liu Bowen.

On the chart in front of him, the area around Longyamen was isolated and helpless, drifting alone in the waters of Fujian.

Moreover, the dragon tooth gate is only the size of a sesame seed on the chart, and even the label is too small to see clearly, which makes Zhu Yuanzhang unable to believe his eyes.

Because in the Shanghu County Military Base, Zhu Yuanzhang saw a dragon tooth gate marked with big red letters, and the strategic location of the dragon tooth gate can be clearly seen.

Connecting the previous and the next, the Dragon Tooth Gate is not only the lock between Nanyang and the Ming Dynasty, but also the necessary place for traffic in the east and west seas.

Now that Zhu Yuanzhang is on this chart, he doesn't see the importance of the Dragon Tooth Gate at all.

Alone, there aren't even any islands around, let alone straits, and it looks ridiculous.

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but wonder if Li Jin sent troops to garrison troops in various parts of the sea in order to open up the sea for himself, and as a result, he drew such a fake map by himself.

But then Zhu Yuanzhang denied this idea, because not only Li Jin himself had been to the Dragon Tooth Gate, but even Xu Da had personally attacked the Dragon Tooth Gate.

If the location of the Dragon's Tooth Gate was not so important, Xu Da would not give him that letter, hoping that he would be able to send troops to garrison in the ocean.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Liu Bowen again, and asked in a deep voice:

"Berwyn, you said this chart, will there be a problem?"

Liu Bowen frowned slightly, what did he say about this? Although he knows astronomy and geography, his exploration of the ocean is really his blind spot.

For overseas islands, he also knows some island countries at most, but when it comes to the specific location of the islands and the name, Liu Bowen has some ignorance.

"Your Majesty, the ministers don't know about this matter."

"However, the ocean is boundless, and it is even more difficult to draw nautical charts, and it is inevitable that nautical charts will be wrong."

"Could it be that the emperor has ever seen another version of the chart?"

Zhu Yuanzhang bowed slightly, and then began to talk about the sea charts he saw in Shanghu County, and his plan to open the sea.

Liu Bowen, as Zhu Yuanzhang's previous think tank, has a deep understanding of Zhu Yuanzhang's strategic direction.

In the course of last year's southern tour, after Zhu Yuanzhang inspected the tragic situation in Yangzhou, he had already made up his mind to recuperate, restore the people's strength, and actively encourage the people to farm.

For this reason, Liu Bowen also arranged his proud disciple Yang Xian in Yangzhou, hoping that Yang Xian could make a difference in Yangzhou.

But now that he heard that Zhu Yuanzhang planned to open the sea, he couldn't help but shock Liu Bowen's heart.

You must know that opening the sea is contrary to agriculture, because opening the sea means developing sea trade.

Maritime trade belongs to the scope of commerce, and it is mutually exclusive with agriculture, and Zhu Yuanzhang has always been extremely disgusted with overseas before, but now his attitude has taken a 180-degree turn.

Liu Bowen couldn't help but ask:

"Dare to ask the emperor, why do you suddenly want to open the sea?"

"The ban on the sea has just been issued for no more than two years, if it is suddenly changed, will it cause the people to complain?"

"Berwyn. You don't know. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang's expression remained unchanged, a smile rolled up slightly at the corner of his mouth, and said:

"Before, it was forced by the situation that we had to issue a ban on the sea, so as not to kill the people along the coast by the pirates and pirates."

"But now, the situation has completely changed, and the current sea area is no longer the world of the Japanese invaders."

Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang's smug smile, Liu Bowen knew that Zhu Yuanzhang must have done something big in these days.

Thinking of Zhu Yuanzhang's attitude towards opening the sea, could it be that Zhu Yuanzhang has managed to exterminate all the pirates on the sea?

Thinking of this, Liu Bowen couldn't help but be shocked in his heart, you must know that the Japanese invaders have been wreaking havoc in Zhejiang and Fujian since the previous dynasty.

When the Ming Dynasty was first established, the pirates were even more rampant, and the Ming army often had no way to deal with these pirates.

For this reason, Zhu Yuanzhang had to issue a ban on the sea to avoid further losses of the Ming Dynasty.

But I didn't expect that in just half a year, Zhu Yuanzhang would clear the sea frontier, which is really incredible.

Although I don't want to believe it, Zhu Yuanzhang's performance has already illustrated this fact.

Thinking of the young man with strange behavior in Shanghu County, Liu Bowen only felt that the river was overturned.

Liu Bowen always thought that young man had the talent to govern the country, but now it seems that he still has the ability to lead the army.

In such a short period of time, all the pirates and pirates along the coast were wiped out, and Liu Bowen had to give Li Jin a thumbs up in his heart.

"Congratulations to the emperor, for this talent. This is a great talent from heaven to help me to exterminate the Japanese invaders. ”

Liu Bowen bowed down to congratulate Zhu Yuanzhang, after all, it was indeed gratifying to exterminate the Japanese Invaders.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw that Liu Bowen guessed what Li Jin had done, and he no longer pretended to be deep, and laughed:

"Berwyn is still so clever that he can guess it right."

"Li Jin's bastard boy doesn't know what shit luck he has taken, and he basically wiped out the pirates and pirates on the southeast coast."

"Even the Jiangyang thief, Chen Zuyi, was shot to death by this kid."

"Now that the sea has been cleared, it is naturally not the same."

"We want to reopen the sea, but that kid Li Jin is even more radical and wants to take the opportunity to conquer Wadao, so I call you to ask for advice."

"Berwyn, do you think we should punish the Wajima monarch a little?"

Liu Bowen felt that his scalp was a little numb, what kind of ecstasy soup did Li Jin pour into Zhu Yuanzhang, which made Zhu Yuanzhang so swollen now?

You must know that the Wako are just some of the samurai wandering on the island, and they are already so difficult to deal with.

And on the Wa Island, there are even millions of such samurai, and Zhu Yuanzhang actually wants to conquer the Wa Island, which is really too frustrating.

"Your Majesty, is it too early to discuss attacking Wajima?"

"Although the plague has been lifted for the time being, there are still millions of Japanese people on the island."

"If you really send troops to attack Wajima, you will think that the labor division will go on an expedition, and there will even be an accident in the end."

"Compared with Wajima, which is isolated overseas and thousands of miles away from China, if you really want to attack Wajima, just transportation and logistics will be a very difficult problem."

"The minister thinks that it is enough to send an envoy to the palace of Wadao to reprimand him, and there is no need to mobilize the people and waste the people and money."

Liu Bowen tried his best to keep his tone steady, after all, with such an arrogant idea, Liu Bowen only felt that Li Jin and Zhu Yuanzhang, the two monarchs and ministers, were too arrogant.

Zhu Yuanzhang hadn't spoken yet, but Zhu Biao next to him was the first to speak:

"Lord Liu, you don't know the national conditions of Wajima, that's why you think this matter is very ridiculous."

"If you know about the current situation in Wajima, you won't be so surprised."

Liu Bowen's eyes instantly became puzzled, could it be that something happened to the current Wadao?

But a few years ago, didn't Wadao send several waves of envoys to meet the suzerainty of the Ming Dynasty?

Before he could figure it out, Zhu Biao had already begun to explain:

"The current Wadao is actually in turmoil, similar to the Spring and Autumn Period in our China, where hundreds of princes fought against each other."

"The lord of Wajima, like Zhou Tianzi, has lost the ability to dominate Wajima."

"As long as our army arrives, we will definitely be able to defeat Wajima."

"Without a unified command, Wajima is simply a plate of scattered sand."

Only then did Liu Bowen understand that the current Wadao was just an empty shelf, and it was useless.

However, Wadao is so far away from the Ming Dynasty that even if a part of the territory of Wajima is conquered and punished slightly, the Ming army will withdraw later.

After all, the cost of maintaining this Daming Yuan stationed on Wadao is very huge, so what benefit does this have for Daming?

Liu Bowen's doubts have been circling in his heart, and it was not until Zhu Yuanzhang spoke again that Liu Bowen found that Zhu Yuanzhang had undergone earth-shaking changes.