After five years of teaching support, Daming became an empire on which the sun never sets.

Chapter 72 Pride comes from daring to fight

"Your Majesty, is such a small piece of land like a rooster really my Ming Dynasty territory?" At this time, the great Confucian Gao Qi raised doubts.I didn't say it before because Zhu Yuanzhang was killing the nine clans of scholars, but saying it now means turning the story over.Said that he, a scholar, is now completely on the side of the emperor.

"How could it be fake?" Zhu Yuanzhang pointed to the map, "Look, here is Liaodong, here is Shaanxi-Gansu province, here is Tubo, here is Baiyue... This river is the Yangtze River, this is the The river is the Yellow River, as well as Tianzhu, Jiaozhi, Tubo around Daming... All the provinces and mountains and rivers of Daming, including the surrounding neighboring countries, are clearly marked, how can there be fakes?"

When the ministers heard the words, they fell silent.

"Oh my god, I am so young!?"

"My Daming is actually just a corner of the world?"

The ministers said one by one.

Liu Bowen and Gao Qi were also trembling in their hearts. Although they were all highly knowledgeable, they were three famous scholars in the early Ming Dynasty, but they had never seen the map of the Ming Dynasty, let alone the world map.

"It's impossible, absolutely impossible," said Song Lian, the old minister.

As for the rest of the civil servants and scholars, some even cried, and the sound of grief filled the entire court.

Since ancient times, these scholars have believed that the world is a round place with China in the middle.

I feel that China occupies most of the land in the world, and the rest of the corners are barbarians and have not been educated by saints.

This is also the source of their cultural self-confidence and national pride for thousands of years.

Today, however, they discovered that Huaxia was originally so small, and it was not the center of heaven and earth.

Their cultural self-confidence and pride were completely destroyed.

The cruel reality made them somewhat unacceptable.

"What is a howl?" Zhu Yuanzhang said coldly, "Except for the fact that my territory is not the best in the world, I am not even the fertile land. The United States in the Americas section not only has a larger territory than us, but also basically has a The plains are full of land of fish and rice. They are stronger than me in both aspects, and it is conceivable how strong their national strength is."

"And the United States is already pursuing a globalization strategy, that is, a globalization strategy. If one day they invade my Ming Dynasty, won't China destroy the country and exterminate the species?"

"Your Majesty, is America really that strong?" Song Lian pointed to the square territory opposite the sea with a trembling hand.

"Is there any need to ask?" Zhu Yuanzhang said, "The land area is larger than us, and the land is more fertile than us. There is a reason why they are not powerful? This is why we are so eager to get feet and mouths for the rooster."

"If we don't become strong earlier, maybe one day in the future, they will sail to attack my Daming just like the former Yuan invaded the Central Plains. The children of Huaxia will never be enslaved by foreign races, and my Daming will never become a weak Song."

"We will never allow the shame of Jingkang to appear in my Daming Dynasty, and we will never allow the humiliation of the sheep-carrying ceremony to recur in my Daming. The two cowards of the second emperor Huiqin have harmed the entire nation. "

"So we must not be pessimistic and despair now, but we must be ashamed and then brave!" Zhu Yuanzhang said coldly, "And you scholars who are short-sighted, you actually objected to us getting the beak and feet for the rooster?"

"If I didn't have chicken mouths and feet, I would be a delicious piece of fat chicken, which would be eaten casually by others."

"Your Majesty, since I am a rooster. After obtaining the mouth and feet, should I eat the centipede in front of me?" Deng Yu Feng Wei Guogong stood up and said, "That is the delicious food in front of you. Nutritious, after eating, the rooster will be stronger."

"And I also heard that this worm has been jumping very fast recently."

It could be heard that he was trying his best to get Zhu Yuanzhang to send him on an expedition to Japan.

"As long as insects, centipedes, etc., they jump around so badly, and they are even highly poisonous. It's not that easy to eat, and we will discuss this matter later." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Wait for Tang He's return, and cultivate a group of naval warfare talents."

Do you dance very well?The civil servants shook their heads secretly after hearing this. The current king of the Japanese country is Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, who is only a teenager this year and can't jump at all.And he also has an old enemy that is the authentic heir of the Muromachi shogunate, a monk named Chikumaru.

The two are fighting infighting, and they have no time to look west.

The generals said this, making it clear that they wanted to find an excuse to fight.

Since ancient times, military generals want to fight in the court, and the civil officials do everything possible to stop them.

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"Your Majesty is far-sighted, beyond the reach of ministers and others." Li Shan said long.

"His Majesty has captured the chicken's mouth for my Daming rooster, which is a long-term achievement and is related to the lifeblood of Yanhuang." Liu Bowen, "The rooster's acquisition of the chicken's mouth and claws is the most important thing to enhance my Ming's national fortune."

"That's why the expedition to Goryeo must be fought. Just now, I was so ignorant. The imperial censor Wang Lei was so pedantic that he had no idea of ​​His Majesty's good intentions. His death was as light as a feather!" Gao Qi said.

"As for that worm, it's not too late to eat after getting both feet and chicken mouths together."

"Your Majesty is wise!"

All the ministers bowed down and shouted three times long live.

"Your Majesty!" At this moment, Li Shanchang stood up and said, "The fact that the land in Daming occupies only a small piece of the East must not be known to the people of the world."

"Why?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

"Because the people of the world, like us before, believe that the Central Plains are the center of the world, and Huaxia is the oldest and most civilized country in the world." Li Shan said, "If you let them know the fact that Daming is actually very small, they know that Huaxia is the oldest and most civilized country in the world." Nor is it the most civilized place in the world. They will lose their self-confidence and their pride in their nation.”

"If the people of the world lose their self-confidence and pride, and the whole country is in mourning, it will be quite terrifying. They will lie in bed without thinking and do not work or starve to death. They will even lead the way when they encounter foreign invasions."

"Nonsense!" Zhu Yuanzhang said, "The pride of the people in the nation comes from the daring to fight and fight in the current court. Territories and ancient civilizations can only represent the past. And the court's daring to fight and fight is in the present moment."

"Your Majesty is right." Liu Bowen said, "The proudest time for Huaxia's children was during the Hanwu period and the Tang Taizong period. Both of these two dynasties dared to go abroad."

"And the two dynasties, the Han and Tang Dynasties, are also the thousand-year pride of my descendants of Yan and Huang." Gao Qi said.

"So from now on, the ministers must abandon the stubborn ideology of the past and support His Majesty's foreign expeditions instead!" Li Shan said, "Koryo, Qionghai, Beigang, and even Siam, Jiaozhi, Japan, and Java are all citizens of Yanhuang. The descendants moved in. His Majesty reclaimed them all in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and is recovering the lost land rather than occupying it."

"I really want to see one day in the future, when the world's Yan and Huang gather together."

(End of this chapter)