In fact, Xia Yuan felt that he had asked it, so what could he do, not to mention that there was no need to ask about this matter.

Liu Daxia was a jinshi in the eighth year of Tianshun, and he became a jinshi for three years, which was only three or four years after he became a jinshi.

At that time, Liu Daxia was still very young when he first entered the officialdom, and he should have not been impregnated by the officialdom, and he should have the heart of serving the country and the people.

Why do you say for the country and the people?

Because Zheng He's voyage to the West was a complete waste of labor and money, to talk about benefits, he showed off his national strength to other countries, opened up shipping routes, improved the shipbuilding level of the Ming Dynasty, and increased China's understanding of the sea.

But there are more drawbacks, neither to carry out overseas trade, but also to use other countries as dumping grounds for Ming goods, so as to earn wealth.

He has an invincible fleet and has not plundered other countries by force.

is even like a fool who rides a horse, every time he goes to a small country in Fanbang, he is rewarded with a large amount of real money and silver, so to speak, Zheng He's trip to the West is a loss-making business.

It's a loss to grandma's house.

Every voyage is the expense of millions of taels of silver, and what you get is nothing more than some so-called false fame, so-called friendship.

This friendship is a real friendship, and who doesn't want to be friends with a fool who gives money all the time?

That is, when those small countries come to pay tribute, they can take away a lot of wealth from the Ming Dynasty by casually pulling some local products.

Otherwise, those small countries are thousands of miles away, and they come to pay tribute tirelessly, what are they trying to do?

Isn't it that the Ming Dynasty is obviously a powerful empire, but this empire is like a retard?

Just send some chicken and dog pieces, and the reward you get is silk cloth, silk, gold and silver treasures.

If not, who wants to come, how good would it be for me to lie at home, waiting for you to bring me silver in a fleet?

No matter how Zheng He's seven voyages to the West are advertised, no matter what kind of great achievements they are, it is difficult to hide the absurdity and ridiculousness in them.

A fleet of sailing sails proudly sailing on the sea, and behind the rewards sent to those small countries are the people of the Ming Dynasty who have been drained of their blood.

It is the consensus of people to go to the West to work and lose money.

Therefore, the ministers in the back were always opposed to this matter, and Emperor Chenghua wanted to open the sea ban and go to the West again, just to do things that would work the people and hurt the money.

At that time, Liu Daxia burned the charts and shipbuilding charts, whether it was out of the public desire to serve the country and the people, or the selfish desire to seek fame, he finally succeeded in preventing this matter.

But now is different from the past, the nautical charts are gone, the shipbuilding charts are gone, if you want to do things in the West again, you have to start all over again and explore again.

Among them, how much time and energy will be paid, and how much money and food will be spent.

issued an edict to arrest Liu Daxia, Emperor Hongzhi's anger seemed to have found an outlet, and was vented out some, seeing this, Xia Yuan said hard-headedly: "Your Majesty, now there is no shipbuilding map, no sea chart, but the minister feels that this Western Ocean is still going to be issued."

As soon as the words came out, Zhu Youzhu turned to him, "I can't say anything." ”

"I also know how important this Western Ocean is, now there are no charts, no shipbuilding materials, no experience of predecessors to learn from, but this Western Ocean is related to my future plan, and it is still necessary to go down."

"Back then, the ancestor Emperor Taizongwen could go to the West, and I could also go to the West, and the predecessors could go to the West from scratch, and it is not impossible for people to do it today."

Hearing this ambition, Xia Yuan was relieved, and he hurried to the palace for this matter, for fear that Emperor Hongzhi would hear that there was no nautical chart, no shipbuilding map, so he would give up the matter of going to the West.

As long as you don't dispel the idea of going to the West, everything can be discussed.

Ma Wensheng sighed secretly in his heart, His Majesty still thinks too much about this ocean matter, although he is from Henan, he has served as an envoy in Fujian.

Fujian is a province close to the sea, and he knows a little about this sea thing.

The sea is incomparably terrible, sometimes the wind blows, the heavens and the earth change color, and the waves on the sea are hundreds of feet high, in the face of such a great force, no matter how many people are not enough.

And there is also a monsoon, a tsunami.

Among the burned nautical materials were not only shipbuilding charts, nautical charts, but also maritime materials.

In the ocean, if you encounter wind and waves, how to deal with them, how to judge whether there are big waves by looking at the sky, what season the wind and waves will be big at sea, what season the wind and waves will be small, how to replenish fresh water at sea, and how to distinguish the direction on the endless sea.

These are all recorded with detailed information, and they are records that have been explored by predecessors with human lives.

But now that there are no these, how many lives will be taken to fill it, and how long will it take, will their generation be able to see the fleet set sail, and can they see the fleet returning with food?

To tell the truth, Ma Wensheng, the secretary of the military department, no longer has much confidence in going to the West, and even retreated.

At this time, Xia Yuan talked about the second intention of this time, "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Liu Daxia may not have burned the literature of this voyage, and Liu Daxia has been an official in the court for a few years at that time, and he must know the rules of this court."

At that time, he was the head of the Ministry of War, and his duty was to take care of the archives of the map, if he really burned the charts, the first emperor would not be held accountable, if he was investigated, he would definitely be questioned, or even beheaded. ”

"The minister thinks that Liu Daxia Xu didn't burn it, or that what he claimed to have burned it was just a pretext, maybe the chart was hidden by him, if the first emperor was investigated at that time, he could also take it out again, so that the guilt could be minimized, so that he could be considered prepared."

What Xia Yuan said was not all his own speculation, in fact, there has been a debate about whether Liu Daxia burned the charts in later generations.

Both sides have their own evidence, one is why the nautical chart data disappeared if it was not burned, and the other claims that if it was burned, how could there be a record of Zheng He's nautical chart in the Wubei Zhi in the late Ming Dynasty.

In the end, each has a point.

But from a logical level, forty years ago, even if Liu Daxia wanted to stop this matter, he didn't have to burn it at all, just hide it, and then claim that it was burned by him, and the goal would be achieved.

In addition, there is nothing wrong with Liu Daxia's brain, although last year, Xia Yuan seized the opportunity to say that Liu Daxia had brain damage, but this is completely a personal attack.

After hearing these words, Emperor Hongzhi couldn't help but feel that it made sense, and hope ignited in his eyes again.

Ma Wensheng also felt justified when he heard it, and Liu Daxia's purpose was not to burn those navigation materials, but to prevent the idea of the first emperor from going to the West.

Thinking like this, his body straightened up a little, "Your Majesty, if those charts and literature still survive, but they are hidden by him, it will be really my great luck." ”

Xia Yuan continued: "Now I just need to ask, ask Liu Daxia whether he burned these information about navigation back then, and if not, where did he hide these materials." ”

"Of course, the minister thinks that in order to prevent Liu Daxia from losing his temper like decades ago, it is more appropriate to ask in the edict."

(End of chapter)