When he saw Zhu Ying and Kang Tai, Cao Chao finally understood why Wen Yang would say that.

They looked at them with fear in their eyes.

Even his voice trembled a little.

Cao Chao chuckled, "You two, why are you so afraid of me? Is it because of my notoriety? ”

Hearing this, Zhu Ying hurriedly said: "Your Majesty's martial arts are unique through the ages, and who in the world dares not to be afraid of Your Majesty?" ”

Cao Chao suddenly raised his head and laughed.

"You two, don't be so afraid, give me a seat!"

The two thanked each other again, and then carefully sat down beside Cao Chao.

Cao Chao looked at the two of them, took out a book, and put it in front of him, "I discussed with Lu Gong about overseas affairs not long ago, and Lu Gong gave me this book, Zhu Gong, you are writing well." ”

Cao Chao said with a smile: "If you want to be well-informed, you should come first." ”

Zhu Ying and Kang Tai breathed a sigh of relief.

It turned out to be for overseas affairs, as long as it wasn't some kind of assassin rebellion at home.

Zhu Ying also hurriedly said: "Don't dare." ”

"You don't have to be so modest, I read your book seriously, and Kang Gong, you originally gave Sun Quan a recital, and I also took it to see, you two have a lot of experience going to sea."

"I summoned you this time for this overseas matter."

"I asked Lu Qing about Wu Guo's going to sea, and when I heard him talk about General Wei and General Zhuge about it, I was very dissatisfied with this, if it was under my command, such a thing would never have happened!"

"Conquer new islands for me, this is a trip to expand the territory, and you can be a marquis!"

"How can you say that there is no merit?"

Hearing Cao Chao's words, Zhu Ying trembled, but Kang Tai couldn't help but say: "Your Majesty, the Great Emperor is not a person who kills indiscriminately. ”

"Oh?"

Kang Tai explained: "At the beginning, the emperor sent them to the sea, so that they could go to Wajima, contact the countries on the island, and discuss the matter of joint attack, but these two people set off with more than 10,000 people, and they were never able to reach Wajima, and caused great casualties, and in the end they only brought back more than 1,000 people in Yizhou."

Even if they have become the people of Great Wei at this moment, they still have a lot of respect for the past emperors.

Now they have to defend themselves in front of Cao Chao.

Cao Chao was not angry, the emperor at this time was originally sacred, and it was a very normal behavior to defend his former master.

Cao Chao spoke again: "I also want to send people to the sea, explore many islands, establish contacts with those small countries, and let them come to pay tribute, do you have anything to say?" ”

Cao Chao was asking them if they were willing to cooperate.

If they are willing to cooperate and follow Cao Chao to do great things together, it will be very good.

But if they are unwilling, Cao Chao will not force it, and he Wei is not without navigators, so he will not look at people's faces.

Zhu Ying glanced at Kang Tai before saying, "Your Majesty, the minister is willing to serve Your Majesty!" ”

Cao Chao was overjoyed.

He hurriedly asked people to prepare good food and wine, and then said with a smile: "I invited you from Pingzhou just to hear this!" ”

"Do not worry, for I have never treated those who have merit, and if you can make meritorious deeds, I will never neglect to reward you."

"Now that I have completed the great unification, the overseas countries still do not know about it, I want to open up a prosperous era that is more powerful than the Later Han Dynasty, how can I not come overseas to pay tribute?"

Hearing these words, Zhu Ying suddenly said: "Your Majesty, when the minister was in Funan, he met a person. ”

"This person is called Chen Song, and he is from Tianzhu."

"I was very surprised at the time, I don't know why he appeared in Funan, a Tianzhu person, and later learned that he could reach Tianzhu from the sea."

"We once sailed in the direction of Tianzhu with him, and saw several islands, and the cultural customs on the islands are completely different from ours, and they look strange."

Listening to Zhu Ying's words, Cao Chao couldn't help but nod his head and listened very carefully.

Zhu Ying looked at Kang Tai again, "Kang Gong has a book, called "Wu Shi Foreign Chronicles", which records many small countries overseas, including many islands on the other side of Tianzhu. ”

Cao Chao looked at Kang Tai again, and Kang Tai also recalled this incident, and truthfully talked about the many small countries he had seen overseas.

"In the past, there was a businessman, this person was called Qin Lun, he came from the Great Qin State and came to meet the emperor."

"Da Qin??"

Cao Chao was stunned for a moment, he really didn't know about it.

Sun Quan also met the Romans??

"You can tell me in detail!"

Kang Tai hurriedly said: "When Huang Wu was in the fifth year, he arrived in Jiaozhi County by sea, and the Taishou at that time hurriedly sent him to meet the emperor. ”

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"This man knows some elegant words, but he is not very skilled, he is not an ordinary businessman, there are more than 200 slaves accompanying him."

"The Great Emperor once asked him about the customs of the Great Qin State, and he answered them one by one, and then he saw the Shanyue people, and felt very strange, so he asked the Great Emperor for it, and the Great Emperor gave him some Shanyue slaves and sent officials to send him back to China."

Cao Chao couldn't help but sigh.

O Romans by water.

It's also amazing.

This strengthened Cao Chao's idea of sending people to sea.

When Cao Chao asked how to get in touch with these foreign countries more, Zhu Ying said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, in fact, there are many merchants in Wu Land, and they all want to go out, but they were not allowed to go out in the first place. ”

"But why did Your Majesty do this?"

Zhu Ying immediately explained.

It turned out that Wu Guo forbade the people to go to sea without permission, and Sun Quan himself didn't care so much about those desert islands.

Wu itself has a large amount of land, and these places have not been developed, so where can they take care of those islands overseas?

Moreover, the population of Wu was not large, and Sun Quan believed that if they were allowed to go to sea, a large number of people would flee.

The merchants, in particular, may sell some important resources in the country, which Sun Quan cannot tolerate.

Merchants have always been not very popular with feudal rulers, not only Sun Quan, but also many kings think that merchants are unscrupulous, that they are not engaged in production, and cannot produce any benefits for the country.

Of course, Cao Chao knew that this was wrong.

Commercial activities should be protected by the temple, and private commercial activities can also promote the development of the temple.

Where the merchants could reach, the temples could be visited later

Besides, the merchants sold the temple to their interests, and there had to be someone around the Great Wei who could let the merchants sell their interests, who did they sell to? Yamatai?

Or is it the country of Funan with an army of 10,000??

Or is it in Daqin, thousands of miles away?

With the character of Chinese businessmen, even if they go to business, they are afraid that they will go to collect other people's wool, and they will run back with these things when they are done

Cao Chao started talking to these people again, and the result was that the more they talked, the more speculative they became.

Neither Zhu Ying nor Kang Tai had ever met Cao Chao, and in their impressions, Cao Chao was a cruel and ruthless tyrant who would go crazy from time to time and kill people of the three clans.

But after talking, they were surprised to find that this emperor was very kind and friendly.

He even has some knowledge of things overseas.

When it comes to overseas human geography, he can tell what he knows, and he doesn't talk to himself, and he is happy to accept new knowledge.

At this moment, the two of them finally understood why he was the one who could complete the unification.

In the face of such an emperor, Wu Guo lost unjustly!

The atmosphere immediately became harmonious.

Zhu Ying and the others said a lot of suggestions on going to sea correctly, and Cao Chao accepted them all.

He attached great importance to these navigators, as well as to the whole of his seafaring career.

At this time, Zhu Ying was a little entangled, and he wanted to speak several times and stopped.

Seeing his appearance, Cao Chao smiled and said, "Here in me, you can speak freely, and I will never make people guilty because of my words." ”

Only then did Zhu Ying say: "Your Majesty, the minister wants to talk to you about the affairs of the Wu family. ”

Kang Tai was stunned for a moment, hurriedly lowered his head, pulled Zhu Ying's sleeve, and motioned him not to say more.

Cao Chao said calmly: "Okay, what do you have to say?" ”

Zhu Ying said: "Your Majesty, since the state of Wu has surrendered, then Your Majesty should treat the Wu people as his own people. ”

"It is because the Qin people treated the six countries as prisoners, persecuted them, bullied them, and finally made the six countries rebel, but Emperor Taizu of the Han Dynasty treated the countries with benevolence, let them recuperate, and treated them equally, which led to the creation of the Han world."

"You have defeated the Shu State and the Wu State successively, but you have followed the example of the First Emperor and cannot treat everyone equally, is this a policy to govern the world well?"

Cao Chao said with some surprise: "Why don't you treat everyone equally?" After I defeated Shu and Wu, I exempted them from forced labor and taxes, and used a lot of money and grain to build channels, engage in water conservancy, and cultivate fields. ”

Zhu Ying said helplessly: "Your Majesty, the sages you forcibly relocated to the two places, after we arrived in Pingzhou, we didn't have enough food, no clothes, and even had to go to the field to farm to support ourselves, everyone was displaced, and there were a lot of people who died, everyone complained about this policy, isn't your behavior a persecution of the sages in the two places?" ”

"We are also willing to assist Your Majesty, we are willing to serve you, and please Your Majesty can consider this matter well."

When Cao Chao heard this, he immediately laughed.

"I once talked to Zhong about the Qin and Han dynasties, and I asked Zhong Hui why Qin lost the world and why Han won the world."

"Zhong Hui said: This is because the Qin State did not migrate the big clans of various countries, which led to the big clans of all countries raising troops to restore the country, and the former Han Dynasty migrated the big clans from all over the country to the northwest, which got the world."

"What do you think?"

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