"Half percent?"

Zhu Di's expression froze, stared at Guo An tightly, and asked: "Guo An, do you know what you are talking about, my Ming Dynasty is the Heavenly Empire, and my territory is tens of thousands of miles, how can it be that in addition to my Ming Dynasty, there are twenty countries that are larger than my Ming Dynasty?" ”

"Your Highness has misunderstood!"

Guo An smiled lightly and explained slowly: "What Xia Guan said means is the land area outside my Ming Dynasty, which is twenty times the area of my Ming Dynasty.

As for the country, it should still be my Ming Dynasty, which is the strongest. ”

"Are you saying that the area of the continent where those Fanbangs are located is twenty times the size of my Ming land?"

Although he understood, Zhu Di's eyes were full of disbelief.

How could he believe that outside of the Ming Dynasty, there was such a big land?

Guo An was not ready to argue with Zhu Di, but asked slowly: "Your Highness, I don't know if you have heard that some envoys from Fanbang came to my Ming Dynasty by boat, and it took half a year on the road?" ”

Zhu Di nodded slightly: "We heard about this when we were children. ”

"However, those states are all from the west."

Guo An said: "It takes half a year for Fanbang in the west to come to my Daming, how far does this have to go?" And to the east of my Ming Dynasty, there are also Goryeo, Jurchen, and Wa Kingdoms;

In the north of my Ming Dynasty, there is a large grassland occupied by the Northern Yuan, as well as the vast desert, the land of the extreme north!

What about the south of my Daming? ”

Zhu Di was taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "Yes, what about the southern part of my Daming?" ”

Guo An replied: "Your Highness, the southern part of Daming is a group of small islands, such as Luzon, Brunei, and Sudan.

As for the area of these small islands, although they are not large, they add up to half of the territory of my Ming Dynasty.

And to the south of these small islands, there is a large island, the area is about the same as the territory of my Ming Dynasty.

To the south, it is the land of the extreme south, and the area of the large island in the extreme south is hundreds of the territory of my Ming Dynasty! On top of it, it is covered in ice all year round, and it does not melt even in the middle of summer. ”

Zhu Di gradually opened his mouth wide, completely stunned by what Guo An described.

After a while, he asked slowly: "These are also what you know from ancient books?" ”

Guo An said: "Your Highness is wise! ”

"Xia Guan learned from ancient books that when the territory of the Yuan Dynasty was the largest, it surpassed Yin Mountain in the north, quicksand in the west, Liaozuo in the east, and the sea surface in the south.

Its merchant ships even sailed thousands of miles, spending as long as a year, to the Great Food Sea.

As for the ancestor Guo Taishi, in compiling and formulating the "Time Calendar", it took several months to go to the extreme north to test! ”

Zhu Di opened his mouth and found that he was powerless to refute, when he was studying in the main hall, he had not read a book seriously for a day.

Moreover, no one has told him what Guo An said.

"What about the sea?"

Guo An sighed lightly, "Your Highness, except for these places, the rest is the ocean!" ”

Zhu Di: "......"

Guo An said again: "Your Highness, just the area of the sea outside the southeast of my Ming Territory is dozens of times the size of my Ming Territory.

If I can catch all the sea fish living in it, it will be enough for all the people of my Ming Dynasty to eat sea fish for hundreds of years, maybe they won't be able to eat it all! ”

"How is this possible?"

Zhu Di muttered to himself.

All of this Guo An said has always impacted Zhu Di's inherent concepts.

Suddenly, remembering something, Zhu Di perked up and retorted: "Since there are so many big fish in the sea, why has Wang Chao never organized an army to go to the sea to fish?" ”

Guo An replied: "Your Highness, the sea is very dangerous and windy, and it is not safe to farm.

Moreover, there are not so many big boats to go to the sea to fish, in addition, the sea is extremely deep, as light as dozens of zhang, as deep as thousands of zhang, if you want to catch the big fish below it, it is impossible.

Moreover, the vastness of the sea, when a 10-foot ship enters, it will be smaller than an ant, and before it enters the deep sea area, the ship will get lost......"

Zhu Di was a little stupid, "What if all the fleets of my Daming Naval Division go to sea to fish?" ”

"Your Highness, first of all, you need the consent of Your Majesty, and then you need the consent of the generals of my Daming Water Division, and you also need tens of thousands of soldiers of the Water Division......"

"It's a pity that in the vast sea, there are Japanese robbers and Zhang Shicheng, Fang Guozhen and the rest of the party to make trouble!"

"Yes, if these people are wiped out, such a vast sea can be used by my Ming Dynasty!"

"Fuck it, there are so many sailors, why can't you find those widows, Zhang Shicheng, and Fang Guozhen in the sea?"

“……”

Zhu Di stayed in Guo An's mansion all day, and only left when it was getting dark.

This matter naturally attracted the attention of some inspectors and some officials.

Guo An didn't know about these, but he hurriedly took Guo Erniu to the county government for a turn, which was regarded as a check-off card, and then he went back to the mansion with peace of mind.

Following.

After finishing the morning hall, Guo An went to the Yanwang Palace.

"Your Highness!"

"What are you looking for?"

Seeing Guo An with a respectful face, a trace of doubt flashed in Zhu Di's heart.

Guo An was speechless, but this time he had a request, so he could only reply honestly: "Your Highness, Your Highness came this time to watch the textile wheel in His Highness's palace." ”

"Huh?"

Hearing this, Zhu Di finally remembered.

However, he looked at Guo An with a strange look in his eyes.

"How can you be interested in such a craftsman as a textile machine?"

Guo An smiled lightly, "Your Highness, since the invention of this textile machine, how many people have been saved?" I don't know if you can calculate it? ”

Zhu Di was rarely not angry, but his face was grim.

"Songjiang cotton, clothes are all over the world. The emergence of the loom has allowed Songjiang Mansion to weave tens of millions of cotton cloth every year, so that all the people in the north and south of the Ming Dynasty have cotton clothes to wear, and there is no need to endure the cold in winter, and there are countless living people! ”

"Then what does His Highness think of Huang Daopo?"

"Teaching textile skills, inventing textile machines, living countless people, for the Vega Star, the first cotton god."

Guo An nodded slightly, although Zhu Laosi sometimes likes to scold people and is rude, but the three views are still positive.

"How, then, can a loom be just a craftsman?"

Zhu Di said impatiently: "What do you want to say?" ”

Guo An hurriedly smiled and said: "Your Highness, the lower officials are just unhappy for the people of Wanping County!" ”

"Uneven?"

Zhu Di's eyes widened, "What does the loom have to do with the people of Wanping County?" ”

Guo An said: "Your Highness, now I have five to ten acres of private land, and I must plant half an acre of cotton.

Although it is beneficial to grow cotton and pay taxes, the people of Wanping County can still keep a large amount of cotton in their hands.

The cotton that the people of my Wanping County worked hard to grow was finally taken away by those merchants at a low price and sold to Songjiang Mansion, where they were spun into cotton cloth or clothing by the weavers in Songjiang Prefecture, and then sold to the people of Wanping County at a high price.

In this way, how much money will the people of Wanping County have to lose? ”