Yue Buqun saw that the group of disciples were still in shock, and paused, letting everyone digest it.

Yue Buqun continued: "Since the earth under our feet may be a sphere, it is not boundless, I think it must be the sea surrounding the land, and the land is separated by the ocean. ”

"It's hard and time-consuming to travel by land, but it's much easier by boat. ”

"For example, in the early days of the dynasty, the eunuchs of Zheng He went to the Western Ocean seven times, and there were thousands of warships, and in one or two months, tens of thousands of people could be transported thousands of miles away. ”

"If the Ming Dynasty still has such a fleet strength, as long as there is a place near the sea, it is not feasible. ”

The seven disciples in the hall all nodded again and again, thinking of Zheng Gong's time, thousands of warships, covering the sky and the sea, stretching for dozens of miles, such a majesty is unprecedented, it's a pity!

Yue Buqun's face was slightly heavy, and he said: "The dynasty has been peaceful for a hundred years, the gentry and nobles are not greedy enough, the land annexation is becoming more and more serious, and the number of landless people is increasing day by day. ”

"Throughout history, it has come to this point that there are only two ways to solve it. ”

"The first is to use the sword and the plough to open up the territory and expand the territory to support the people; the second is to raise the number of displaced people, change the dynasty, kill on a large scale, artificially reduce the number of people, replan the land, and settle the remaining people. ”

"History has shown that the land routes to the north, south and west are difficult to pass. ”

"But today, navigation technology can already support our Chinese civilization and continue to expand through the sea. ”

"Nowadays, the sea ships can send Hermes-Epitek to any coast, and rely on the coast to develop inland, and the sea can connect all Hermes-Epitek, as long as we are not afraid of the sea, we can do that. ”

The Seven Sons suddenly realized that indeed, as long as the people were not afraid of the sea and went to the sea on a large scale, all the seashores of this world would be occupied by the Han people.

Yang Jian hesitated: "Although we are not afraid of the ocean, but the sea is indeed unpredictable, the slightest carelessness, the ship capsized and people died, only people who have no way to go, are willing to go to sea, as soon as they get on the ship, they entrust their lives to God, and they don't belong to themselves." ”

Yue Buqun nodded and said: "This is what the inland people think, but if you look back, now in the South China Sea, the East China Sea, and thousands of miles of blue waves, how many sea ships are walking!"

"All year round!"

"If it's really that dangerous, and there's no return, who else would want to go to sea. ”

Yang Jian thought about it and asked strangely: "Yes! There are many ships on the sea, and the sailors all say that it is dangerous, but they all go to sea without hesitation, why do we all still think that going to sea is a great danger?"

"The dangers of navigation are there and they are not small, but as long as we grasp the laws of the changes in the wind and rain of the sea and the changes in the currents, and find out the shipping lanes, we can avoid these dangers as much as possible. ”

"Don't today's maritime merchants regard the nautical chart as more important than their fate? The nautical chart and the choice of the time to go to sea are just to avoid danger. ”

"If you want to talk about danger, the mountains are not dangerous, the jungle is not dangerous, the rivers are not dangerous, the desert is not dangerous? Even if you go out, you may encounter wild wolves and poisonous snakes, why are we not afraid, just afraid of the sea?"

"In fact, everyone can imagine these dangerous situations, but they still feel that the danger is due to human factors, and some people are secretly fueling the troubles, deliberately exaggerating the dangers, and publicizing them all year round, causing most people and the imperial court to regard the sea as a daunting way and shrink into the mainland. Yue Buqun said with hatred.

Xue Changle said angrily: "Who is so vicious, isn't this a disaster for the country and the people?"

Liu Changan also said: "Yes, find him out and kill him with a sword." ”

The other few were also angry, their eyes were red and murderous.

Yue Buqun smiled and pressed his hands and said: "Okay, don't be angry, this is not the work of one or two people, it is the intentional or unintentional action of all the maritime merchants and the high-ranking officials and relatives behind him." ”

"These people are not trying to cut off the way of living on the mainland, but they are narrow-minded and selfish to maintain the current state of affairs, and to grasp the wealth of the sea in the hands of a handful of people in their own hands. ”

"They don't know at all that what they are getting now is only a small profit, such as the lifting of the sea ban, the Han people go to the ocean on a large scale, and the profits they get are more than thousands of times, which is really a small inch, harming others and the country in order to benefit themselves. ”

Yue Buqun hates that iron is not steel, but human nature is like this, and the maritime merchants and the forces behind them are extremely powerful, and the current Huashan cannot be shaken at all.

"For us, these sea merchants are very powerful, and direct confrontation is the next policy, so we still have to develop slowly, accumulate strength, continue to guide, continue to build overseas bases, organize landless people to reclaim land, as a sea supply, and expand outward step by step. ”

Yang Jian said: "I heard those sailors say that on this sea road, there are places with supplies all the way, which means that those places are all mastered places, and when we went, didn't we just rob other people's land?"

Yue Buqun said with a smile: "This is how the expansion of civilization is, how else to say that the sword and the plough are supported! Those who accept the education of the Chinese civilization will also become the people of China, and naturally coexist peacefully." ”

"For those who are stubborn, they should be domineering!" Yue Buqun's tone became a little cold and hard.

"What's more, now the sea route that our Ming Dynasty passes through is roughly north to Japan, south to Java, and then west to Tianzhu, Persia, and Dashi. ”

"In the south of Java, there are many islands, and there are no Ming people to explore carefully, and in the east of Java, there is no better place, which is waiting for our Chinese people to reclaim. ”

"It is said that the Franc machine has arrived in Java, this Franc plane is tens of thousands of miles away from Java, people have the courage, there is this navigation technology across the ocean thousands of miles, we are dignified Chinese people, we have not heard of the Franc plane. ”

"It shows that in the development of the sea, our Ming Dynasty has fallen behind, and if we don't catch up, maybe in another hundred years, those borderless places in the sea will be occupied. ”

"From then on, our Chinese civilization can only shrink on the mainland, become a soil-eating nation, and watch people show off their power on the ocean. ”

The seven disciples all felt heavy in their hearts, and Liu Changan said: "It's just that we in Huashan, with few people and weak wealth, can't do such a big thing, only the imperial court can do it with the strength of the whole country." ”

Yue Buqun saw that the mood of the disciples was a little sluggish, and he couldn't continue to fight, and said with a smile: "Although our Huashan is small, we also have advantages, now we will take the lead first, develop Ryukyu first, and let people see the sweetness." ”

"Profit-seeking is the normal situation of people, there will always be people who will follow up, and slowly carry out appropriate publicity, there will be more people to follow suit, more people are a general trend, we Huashan is not promoted, and countless people are flocking to. ”

The seven sons didn't understand it very well, but since the head said so, it means that the head of the house has a plan in his heart, and he and the others just need to obey the orders and do a good job of the boss's orders.