In the upper study, next to the royal shore, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao looked at the Tianzhu area on the map with bright eyes.

But Liu Bowen set off a storm in his heart.

Tianzhu? Isn't that an ancient country that already existed in the Tang Dynasty?

Why would Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao be interested in that place that is 100,000 miles away?

And listening to Zhu Biao's tone, it seems that Tianzhu is still going to be included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty?

"His Royal Highness the Prince, you said you want to take Tianzhu down?"

Liu Bowen asked with some uncertainty:

"But Tianzhu and I have no grievances or enmity, how can I provoke a war for no reason?"

"Is it just to covet the land of other countries and start a war?"

Liu Bowen's eyes widened, and he still didn't believe that this was what came out of Zhu Biao's mouth.

You must know that Zhu Biao has been influenced by many celebrities and Confucians since he was a child.

And Zhu Biao lived up to expectations and became a benevolent, filial and kind prince.

Whether it is Song Lian or Liu Bowen, they all have great expectations for this gentle-tempered prince.

But now Zhu Biao, unconsciously, seems to have changed a person.

Before Zhu Biao could answer, Zhu Yuanzhang rudely interrupted Liu Bowen's questioning, but instead asked Liu Bowen and said:

"Berwyn, let me ask you, have you heard of this place in Tianzhu?"

Liu Bowen was stunned for a moment, and said reflexively:

"Naturally, I've heard of it."

"During the Tang Dynasty, there was Master Xuanzang, who traveled thousands of miles west and arrived in Tianzhu in order to obtain the true scriptures."

"In the Song Dynasty, due to the development of maritime trade, there have been more and more records about Tianzhu."

"Okay, in that case, tell us about the strength of the Tianzhu Kingdom?"

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes lit up, Liu Bowen knew the land of Tianzhu, it was naturally the best, and he went to ask Li Jin again.

Liu Bowen looked at Zhu Yuanzhang thoughtfully, in order to make Zhu Yuanzhang dispel the idea of attacking Tianzhu, Liu Bowen said:

"Tianzhu has a long heritage, the country has been peaceful for a long time, and the people in armor are almost the same as my Ming Dynasty, and there are millions of people."

"The people there are also very numerous, and they are a great power in the southwest."

Liu Bowen wanted to exaggerate Tianzhu's strength, so that Zhu Yuanzhang could give up his unrealistic thoughts.

But after Zhu Yuanzhang listened, his eyes were full of light, and he shouted:

"Okay, great."

"This Tianzhu can afford to raise so many troops, plus there are so many people in the country, there must be land in the country that is extremely suitable for farming."

"What we lack in Daming is this kind of place that can allow our Daming people to thrive."

"Here, we are bound to win!"

Liu Bowen was stunned, and looked at Zhu Yuanzhang with his mouth wide open, but he didn't expect things to turn out like this.

"Your Majesty, why did you become so greedy for the land of other countries?"

"Our Ming Dynasty is vast, and our territory is not more than ten thousand miles?"

"Now it's even more wasteland, no one cultivates, even if we occupy the land of Tianzhu, we don't have people to farm?"

"Why do you have to go on an expedition for this and waste your country's strength in vain?"

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Liu Bowen, slowly sat down on the dragon chair, and asked him a heavy topic.

"Berwyn, let us ask you, why can't our Huaxia Dynasty, since Zhou Tianzi, escape the fate of three hundred years of national fortune?"

Liu Bowen's brows furrowed into a Sichuan character, this kind of proposition, Liu Bowen really didn't want to answer.

When it comes to the issue of the national fortunes of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Bowen rarely mentions it again after Zhu Yuanzhang founded the country.

Because Liu Bowen knew that Zhu Yuanzhang had a gap in his heart, and if he said too much, he would only dislike Zhu Yuanzhang, and in the end, he would probably be killed.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao both stared straight at themselves in this matter, and seeing that they couldn't escape this time, Liu Bowen could only walk on thin ice and say:

"The emperor is the Son of Heaven, and the fortune of the country is naturally determined by God."

"As long as the emperor can carry out benevolent government and spread kindness, he will definitely be able to influence God and continue the national honor."

"Huh!"

Zhu Yuanzhang was amused by Liu Bowen's divine words.

"Nonsense, let's just want to say that the fall of the dynasty was because the kings of later generations were cruel and unkind, arrogant and lascivious, which led to the misery of the people."

"Thus began the rebellion, overthrew the faint monarchs of one dynasty after another, just like us, and drove the faint monarchs of Mongolia directly to Mobei to eat sand."

"Yes and no?"

"The Emperor Mingjian."

Liu Bowen was so frightened that he hurriedly bowed down, not daring to quibble.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang's face changed, and he said angrily:

"But things are not so simple, the fall of a dynasty is because of the nobles, gentry, scholars and landlords in the dynasty!"

"They are greedy and greedy, and they try to annex land, make other people's land small, and make their own land big."

"As a result, countless people have been displaced, starved to death, starved to death."

"These people are like moths, their corpses are vegetarian, and the people in the world are miserable."

"When the accumulation of displaced people reaches a certain level, quantitative changes produce qualitative changes, and eventually a dynasty will collapse."

"The previous dynasty was like this, and so was the Tang Dynasty!"

"In the future, our Daming may even be the same."

"In that case, why don't we find another way to seize overseas land?"

"As long as we have enough land in Daming, even if there are more people, we can transfer these people to overseas land."

"At that time, there will be no displaced people, and our Ming Dynasty will naturally be stable."

Liu Bowen was frightened into a cold sweat by Zhu Yuanzhang's words.

Not for anything else, because Zhu Yuanzhang's analysis penetrates into the core and points to the crux of the problem.

Doesn't Liu Bowen know the contradictions of the landed class?

Of course this is impossible, Liu Bowen is well-read, and he has learned the art of slaying dragons, so he knows these things well.

Then why didn't Liu Bowen say it?

Because it is very simple, Liu Bowen belongs to this class, and it is impossible for him to betray his class interests.

He has a vested interest, and there is no need to break such a class model.

Of course, there is the most important reason, that is, even if Liu Bowen says it, he can't solve this problem.

Because if he wanted to rule the world, the emperor had to rely on the power of the scholars, and in this era, the scholars were mostly the landlord class.

It is too difficult for poor students, the family is already poor, and they have to spend money and energy to study.

In the past ten years of hard study, it is equivalent to one less labor force in the family, and it will also increase the burden of studying.

Therefore, in the feudal society, poor students are extremely rare.

Another point is that once this kind of poor student enters the office, he pays more attention to money, which also leads to such poor students, and often eventually becomes a member of the landlord class.

The dragon slayer eventually becomes an evil dragon.

Whether it is a student from a poor family or an official from a family, he will eventually integrate into the landlord class.

When the whole of the Ming Dynasty was controlled by the landlord class, it was impossible for them not to annex the land.

This is a common trait of human beings, and greed is a nature that human beings can never get rid of.

Therefore, the fate of the dynasty for 300 years is predestined.

However, what Liu Bowen didn't expect was that Zhu Yuanzhang would find another way to alleviate this contradiction by occupying foreign land.

It's like dividing a big pie, since the huge big cake of Daming will be divided sooner or later, why not make a bigger pie and continue to divide it?

As long as there is land overseas, then the big ship of Daming will not sink.

Even if those overseas refugees rebelled, it would not affect the ontology of the Ming Dynasty.

When the land of the Ming Dynasty begins to be overwhelmed, then the way the Ming Dynasty helps the displaced people will also change.

Next, the Ming only needed to transport these displaced people to overseas places, which would not only strengthen the Ming's control over overseas lands, but also solve the increasingly intensified class contradictions in the Central Plains.

I have to say that this move is indeed amazing, so that Liu Bowen can't help but clap his hands and praise.

But there is a problem in Liu Bowen's heart, if this problem is not solved, then no matter how beautiful the prospect is, it will be just a mirror and a castle in the sky.