Daming Jingtai: I am the eternal benevolent king

Chapter 351: Painting Bastards and Theory of Diplomacy, from Conquest by Force to Diplomacy and Mediation

Capture Bangladesh and split Yunnan into two provinces, creating a key link to India. Then relax restrictions on India, attract foreign countries to enter India, and divide the interests.

To put it bluntly, it is to use India's interests to satisfy the ambitions of other countries and allow the Ming Dynasty to enter Africa.

This is an exchange.

Yao Kui pointed at Sri Lanka: "This place is also important. If you control here, you can control South India on the sea. The old minister believes that all the islands on the south coast of India will be allocated to Sri Lanka. This will form an encirclement of South India. A country will be established here and enfeoffed to a country." The feudal king."

Zhu Qiyu squinted his eyes. His sons were too young, and he had no intention of entrusting the fertile land to the clan.

"Your Majesty, although the prince is young, he can first send an important minister to take control. When the prince comes of age, he can succeed the vassal."

Yao Kui was worried that the emperor wanted to take control, so he immediately said: "This place is tens of thousands of miles away from the capital. It takes a year to come back. Moreover, this place is barren, so there is no need to occupy the center."

"Yao Qing, I didn't say I wanted to occupy an island."

Zhu Qiyu said: "I am thinking about which prince is suitable."

Upon hearing that the emperor had confirmed the enfeoffment, the courtiers were relieved, and they immediately discussed the advantages and disadvantages of Sri Lanka, and then discussed the character of the prince.

Sri Lanka is very close to the Ming Dynasty, and it is not the base of a king and hegemony, so just put a defender in it.

The key is to put an overlord in power, and it can only go to the South Indian Peninsula to conquer the country, and even threaten the Ming Dynasty's Burma.

In the first circle adjacent to the Ming Dynasty, a group of guardians should be placed.

In this way, it can play the role of protecting the Ming Dynasty.

In the second circle, release some capable vassal kings, and in the third circle, release the pioneering lords, allowing them to conquer thousands of miles of land.

Once someone turned around and invaded the territory of the vassal king, the Ming Dynasty would send troops to quell them.

Nianfu made the final decision: "I think the Seventh Prince is the most suitable. Although the Seventh Prince is capable, he is thin and weak. He will be entrusted here. He is close to China. If there is an accident, he can return to his country to recuperate."

"If the Seventh Prince feels that Sri Lanka is too small, just carve out a piece of land from South India, merge it and entrust it to the Seventh Prince."

The seventh prince is Zhu Jianchao, with average ability and poor health. He should be placed closer. If there is no son, he can adopt one from other branches.

Sri Lanka is as big as two Qiongzhous, so it is too small. It would be fine to split it from South India.

"Do you think Lao Qi is suitable?" Zhu Qiyu looked around at the ministers.

The main reason is that Lao Qi is of the right age. Lao Qi is thirteen years old this year and will be able to succeed the vassal in three to five years. By then, the Ming Dynasty will probably have finished cleaning up, which is just right.

"I think it's appropriate." The courtiers discussed it before making a decision.

"Then it's the seventh one. The name of Sri Lanka is not nice. Let's change the name and choose one of the names of the Spring and Autumn Period."

In the 156 countries of the Spring and Autumn Period, the princes and princes of the past dynasties were all selected from these 156 characters. Even the names of countries before the Yuan Dynasty were selected from these 156 characters.

"How is the country?" Bai Gui asked.

Zhu Qiyu raised his eyebrows and said, "The State of Yan? Is it the State of Yan that was destroyed by the State of Lu?"

"Shandong is the land of Qilu, and the country of Yan is on the land of Qilu. Isn't Sri Lanka too far away from Qilu?"

Zhu Qiyu felt that this word was not good. It was such a rare word and not very friendly.

"Then there is raw silk in Sri Lanka. How about calling it Zeng? Zeng country!" Li Bingdao.

"The state of Zeng, the feudal state of Qu Lie, the second son of Shaokang in the Xia Dynasty, is also called the state of Zu. Your Majesty, it would be very good for the seventh prince to be enthroned as king of Zu." Geng Jiuchou said.

Mainly because it has a good meaning.

"Then let's confer the title of King Qishao to the old man. We can officially canonize him after the feudal state is settled." Zhu Qiyu said.

Now that we are talking about Sri Lanka.

Then you have to send troops to capture this place, and then slowly develop it into a Han land before you can grant it to your son.

"Send a capable general to destroy Sri Lanka this winter and occupy this place." Zhu Qiyu wanted to swallow it in one gulp and slaughter it slowly.

Nianfu said: "Your Majesty, don't be impatient. Now is not the time to send troops. First annex Bangladesh and then Sri Lanka."

Zhu Qiyu frowned: "If I can wait, can the King of England wait?"

"Your Majesty, the king of England is just a king of barbarians, and we are thousands of miles away from the Ming Dynasty. How can we not wait!"

Nian Fu said: "Borneo is expected to take twenty-five years in Jingtai to be completely cleaned up. Luzon needs to be thoroughly cleaned up and the sphere of influence of Luzon Province needs to be expanded. It may take thirty years in Jingtai to completely end it."

"What the old minister means is that we should attack three Burma first, control Burma, and then expand westward little by little. We can't eat one fat man in one bite."

Zhu Qiyu was so anxious that he wished he could just wipe a city off the map, but the war had to be fought bit by bit.

"Then just wait."

Zhu Qiyu handed the letter to Nian Fu: "Nian Qing, please write a reply to the King of England."

"Old minister, I obey the order." Nianfu didn't find it difficult.

China has a geographical advantage. There are no strong enemies around, so it doesn’t have to worry too much. It can build and expand at the same time.

Finished talking about the letter.

Zhu Qiyu said again: "Have you read the military report? Fan Guang was defeated."

Fan Guang was too greedy. He crossed the desert and fought with the Golden Horde on the grassland. As a result, his retreat was cut off. The oasis between the two deserts was cut off, leading to Fan Guang's defeat.

"Fan Guang's goal is wrong."

"Since we want to capture the Fergana Basin, we should join forces with Yang Xin and try our best to capture Anyanji."

"Instead of going to the grasslands to fight with the cavalry of the Golden Horde."

Geng Jiuchou said: "Now we are neither advancing nor retreating. We are in a dilemma. This is a strategic mistake."

Zhu Ying, who had never spoken, said: "Not necessarily. Now that the Golden Horde is in civil strife and countless careerists are rising, it is not wrong for Fan Guang to want to get in and get a share of the pie."

"A small defeat is really nothing."

Geng Jiuchou argued: "But have you ever thought about how many soldiers the Ming Dynasty could deploy in the west?"

"Based on the current transportation capacity, it can supply up to 200,000 troops."

"This is a fight near Lake Balkhash, which can support these."

"If we go further west, we can support up to 100,000 soldiers."

"Limited troops should maximize their profits, instead of just grabbing wherever they see benefits!"

"This is stupid!"

"This is the Western Region, not the Mainland. The Ming Dynasty in the Mainland can support millions of troops, but the Western Region cannot!"

"With a hundred thousand troops, the most cost-effective way is to occupy Anyanji, capture Kuzhan, and close the Western Regions, instead of just blindly fighting westward to gain so-called benefits."

"Even if we seize the benefits, Ming Dynasty can't hold them or bring them back. What's the use of seizing them?"

Geng Jiuchou believed this was a major strategic mistake.

Zhu Ying had no way to defend herself. If she lost, she would lose.

"Geng Shangshu is right."

"But Fan Guang wants to open up another battlefield and share the pressure of the construction of the Western Region."

Li Bing looked further: "It's not a strategic failure. The Ming Dynasty can afford to lose thousands of people."

"It's not about how much you lose!"

Geng Jiuchou said with a serious face: "If there is a strategic mistake, if it is not reversed in time, the mistakes will become bigger and bigger in the future. This is no joke. It involves huge amounts of supplies and the lives of soldiers."

Zhu Qiyu frowned, listening to the courtiers arguing, and slowly asked: "How does Geng Qing think we should deal with it?"

"Reverse the strategy, abandon the expansion to the west, and instead concentrate our forces in the Fergana Basin, striving to capture the basin and seal the Western Region."

After Geng Jiuchou finished speaking, Zhu Ying sneered: "Fergana is full of strong soldiers."

"You also said that Ming's transport capacity can support up to 200,000 troops."

"And the army in the Fergana Basin is more than a million?"

"When Ming Dynasty entered, it fell into a big quagmire. It was easy to get in but difficult to get out."

Geng Jiuchou argued: "How about going west? The transportation capacity can't keep up. Apart from increasing casualties, what's the benefit?"

Zhu Qiyu waved his hand: "Stop arguing now."

"There is no commander-in-chief in the Western Region. The three generals are their own commanders, each in charge of one side. Fan Guang's troops are heading west to gain more benefits; Yang Xin wants to enter Fergana to get a share of the pie. This is all within his own business."

"Winning or losing doesn't matter."

"Gentlemen, who can tell me whether I should attack the Fergana Basin first? Or go west to conquer the wider grassland?"

This remark caused controversy again, with support from both sides.

"Since you don't know, and I don't know either, let's do it and see."

"Since we are exploring unknown things, it is inevitable to make some sacrifices."

Zhu Qiyu said: "The Western Region will maintain its original policy unchanged and make its own decisions without any comment from the Central Committee."

"But we must reprimand Fan Guang. He cannot go deeper into dangerous situations and make fun of the lives of elite soldiers. These soldiers are the foundation of Ming Dynasty's strength. They are not allowed to be used for experiments casually!"

"We can recruit a group of local servants, another 30,000 Sauron soldiers, 10,000 Mongolian capital's elite cavalry, and another 30,000 Huerha people, making a combined force of 70,000 to support the Western Region."

The courtier rolled his eyes, are you too cruel?

"Your Majesty, Sauron's elite should not recruit too many troops. Ten thousand is enough. We will collect 70,000 from the Mongolian capital and the Hurha people."

Li Bing is even worse. Sauron's soldiers are elite, but they are few, so they have to use them sparingly. The key is that the Western Region has no need for these elites.

The Huerha people can't fight a tough battle, so it doesn't matter if they are consumed.

There are too many Mongols in the Mongolian capital, and too few Han people have moved there. It is necessary to recruit more soldiers to reduce the number of Mongolians.

If the Mongol capital was not enough, a batch of troops would be recruited from Rehe and Ningxia to make up for it.

"Then order Duosdusi to send out 10,000 troops, and Wusudusi to send out 5,000 troops."

Don't even think about fleeing.

Zhu Qiyu said coldly: "Go to the Japanese country to recruit 15,000 Japanese soldiers. We must collect 100,000, and Yang Xin and Fan Guang will each receive half."

It is clear that the emperor wants to dye the road out to the west red with blood.

Daming’s transportation capacity is limited, but there are many people! Energy is constantly sending troops here to wear them down.

"Order the cannery to produce a large number of iron cans. Those with a shelf life of more than three years will be equipped for the Ming army."

Geng Jiuchou had a toothache, and the iron can was extremely expensive to make.

Preservatives are also precious, so how much do you need to use?

"Your Majesty, how many do you want to equip?" Geng Jiuchou asked softly.

"Two hundred thousand."

puff!

Geng Jiuchou closed his eyes: "Your Majesty, how much is this body of my flesh worth? Sell me!"

"Giving up your choice?" Zhu Qiyu was unhappy.

"Your Majesty, you can make 200,000 tin cans with just one mouthful. Do you know the cost? The cost of one tin can can buy one Japanese slave! It can buy three Indian slaves!"

"Two hundred thousand, let's buy 600,000 Indian slaves, kill them and bleed them, turning the Fergana Basin into a sea of ​​blood, okay?"

Geng Jiuchou was even more dissatisfied: "Two hundred thousand tin cans, how many people can feed them? How many days will they last?"

"How about you just fill the west side with corpses!"

Zhu Qiyu stroked his beard and said, "Let the cannery offer a lower price. The focus is on bulk purchasing."

"Stop it!"

Geng Jiuchou said: "Let's just say that the factory cost of an iron box is 30 cents. What about the meat? A box of meat costs 30 cents, right? The preservatives cost 30 cents, right? That's only one yuan! What about the cost of the cannery? Let’s calculate less, it’s still three cents, one dollar and two.”

"The cost of a tin can is only one yuan and two."

"Make the canneries not profitable."

"It won't make any money if the center comes to transport it. If you don't go far, just transport it from Chang'an to the Western Regions. Don't overestimate the cost. It's only one dollar and a half, right?"

"The cost is two seven yuan, a box of tin cans."

"You want them to pay three yuan for a meal? A human life is not worth three yuan!"

Zhu Qiyu curled his lips, it was indeed a bit high.

Locally produced canned meat in glass bottles costs two yuan, clay pots are cheaper at one dollar and fifty-six, canned fruits are cheap at one yuan in glass bottles, and thirty-five cents in clay pots.

Otherwise, this thing is the first choice for gifts during holidays.

Don’t think Ming Dynasty is expensive. A bottle of canned meat that Ming Dynasty exports to Europe only costs ten yuan!

The order is signed for ten years at one time, with payment first and delivery later.

The ones supplied to the royal families of European countries are all packaged in custom-made porcelain. One bottle costs 200 yuan, and demand exceeds supply.

This is the flagship export product of Ming Dynasty.

"Pretend I didn't say anything." Zhu Qiyu relented.

Geng Jiuchou immediately handed the steps to the emperor: "Your Majesty, I understand that you love the people, but this is a luxury product. Even in my family, I can't eat it all the time. Anyone who eats it will be poor."

It seems that the emperor never eats it.

The courtier suddenly discovered a problem. The emperor never ate canned food, not any canned food, and it seemed that the emperor did not eat pickled products either.

The emperor only ate fresh food and did not touch out-of-season food.

why?

"Sun Qing, this matter will be left to the Ministry of War. You can make the decision. I won't ask." Zhu Qiyu looked at Sun Yuanzhen.

Sun Yuanzhen received the decree.

After the court meeting was over, the courtiers returned to the Yamen.

Zhu Qiyu also began to read memorials.

While eating, Feng Xiao whispered: "Your Majesty, Eunuch Xu has found out."

As he spoke, he handed over a piece of paper.

Above are a few names.

"Check it out, execute it, don't make it public." Zhu Qiyu thought about it for a long time last night and decided to suppress it as much as possible.

"My servant obeys the order." Feng Xiao accepted the order and left.

Zhu Qiyu squinted his eyes: "The princes will be announced in the afternoon. I will take the exams for the school exams. There is no need to announce them. I will go to the Wenhua Palace."

After dinner, Zhu Qiyu went to Wenhua Hall.

At this time, it was just twelve o'clock, and the princes should be taking a lunch break. They would eat for half an hour, and the lunch break would be about half an hour.

Zhu Qiyu walked into the Wenhua Hall. There was no one in the hall, and books were neatly placed on the desks, which was quite orderly.

He picked up a book at random to see how the princes read it.

After the lunch break, the princes walked into the Wenhua Palace talking and laughing, but when they saw their father standing there, they all shivered with fright.

They all knelt on the ground to say hello.

Zhu Jianyi, the eldest child, saw his father looking at his homework, and cold sweat flowed from his forehead. He drew a little tortoise on the paper today.

Zhu Qiyu glanced around and saw sixteen princes kneeling on the ground.

The fourth child went to Tongzhou to plead guilty.

"The painting is not bad." Zhu Qiyu looked at Lao Ba with a faint look.

Lao Ba immediately trembled: "My son is naughty, please punish me."

"The painting is very childish. What kind of crime do you want to punish me?"

Zhu Qiyu was sitting in the seat of the little tortoise, and found that he also drew a little tortoise under the seat cushion: "You like the tortoise so much?"

The princes burst into laughter.

Lao Ba wanted to die, and replied with a red face: "I don't have one."

"How about I give you a bastard and you can follow the painting?" Zhu Qiyu seemed to be smiling but not smiling.

The princes almost burst out laughing.

Lao Ba is also bad: "Father, Lao Jiu also painted it!"

Laojiu Zhu Jianzhu's little face turned red from holding back: "It was Brother Bage who drew it in my notebook, not me!"

Lao Ba came over on his knees and showed Lao Jiu's notebook to his father: "Father, look, this is what Lao Jiu drew."

If the ninth one wants to grab it, the eighth one will give it to the emperor first, and then come back quickly, and the main one will die together.

Zhu Qiyu almost laughed when he saw it.

The tortoise painted by Lao Jiu has a small face on the tortoise shell, like a big spider. But if you look closely, this face looks like Lao Ba!

The main reason is that the mole on this person's face is exactly the same as the mole on Lao Ba's face.

Zhu Qiyu was even worse. He held up the two paintings and said, "Look, who is the better painter?"

The princes burst out laughing when they saw it.

The fifth child, Zhu Jianhu, pointed at the eighth child: "The one the ninth child drew is you, hahaha!"

Lao Ba could tell at a glance. That face was dark. I taught you to draw with good intentions, but you drew me? Not a son of man!

"Bago, I really didn't draw you, you have to believe me." Lao Jiu whispered.

This kid is wilted.

At this time, Liu Daxia, the master of this class, came in. When he saw the princes laughing, he immediately frowned, then knelt on the ground and saluted the emperor.

The princes have four classes a day, each class lasts two hours, and four teachers take turns teaching them. The courses are set by the teachers.

Occasionally, classes would be suspended for a day, and Nian Fu, Geng Jiuchou, Wang Lai and other important ministers would give lectures to them, while the teachers of the Hanlin Academy would be suspended for a day.

The princes all stopped laughing when they saw Liu Daxia. Liu Daxia had a stern face all day long. Despite his young age, his teacher's airs were extremely high.

"Liu Daxia, tell me, how should I deal with this prince drawing bastards in his notebook?" Zhu Qiyu looked at Liu Daxia.

"Wei Chen thinks that he should slap his hand ten times as a warning to others."

Liu Daxia said coldly: "If you laugh in class, you will be beaten ten more times. If you are playful and naughty with your father and don't understand the rules, you should be beaten ten more times. In total, you should be beaten thirty times!"

The princes' faces turned pale.

He kept winking at the emperor, asking him to intercede.

"Then let's fight." Zhu Qiyu was also happy to watch the fun, he was just a fun person.

"The minister obeys the order!"

Liu Daxia kowtowed respectfully, then took out his ruler and walked to the prince.

The prince was still kneeling.

He knelt directly opposite the prince and said coldly: "Take your hands out."

"You are the prince's teacher, how can you kneel down for the students? Get up." Zhu Qiyu went even worse, digging a hole for Liu Daxia.

When the prince's wings get stiff, how can I deal with you?

The corners of Liu Daxia's lips twitched, but he gritted his teeth and stood up.

The princes, including the prince, knelt in front of Liu Daxia. Liu Daxia didn't hold back at all and hit their hands hard.

Except for Lao Ba, everyone else feels that they have been wronged and Mr. Liu is unfair. I will kill you when I am strong enough.

Zhu Qiyu is a happy person. My son was beaten, but he was still laughing.

After finishing the prototype, Liu Daxia said seriously: "I will be delayed for twenty minutes today, finish class twenty minutes late, and double the homework."

The princes wailed, we were slapped, how can we write?

Liu Daxia ignored that and returned his orders to the emperor.

The emperor had no intention of leaving. He sat directly in the teacher's seat and started giving a lecture on how to transport grain.

This is strange. I thought Liu Daxia would talk about some theoretical knowledge, but I didn't expect that Liu Daxia would talk about specific operations.

Anyone who has transported military rations can never explain the details behind it. Zhu Qiyu would not have known how to transport rations if he had not read thousands of memorials every day and accumulated them over many years.

Liu Daxia explained everything in detail.

The princes listened attentively. Although Liu Daxia was a rigid person, his lectures were not rigid at all. He quoted classics and was humorous. He talked about military rations, marching, and finally governing the country. At the end, he advised the princes to cherish food.

Zhu Qiyu understood clearly that Liu Daxia was asking for an official position.

He did not want to be trapped in the center, but wanted to be an official.

After listening for a while, Zhu Qiyu left. He didn't have time to listen to these trivial matters. When he entered the Yangxin Palace, he told Feng Xiao to ask Liu Daxia to come over after class.

At half past two o'clock, Liu Daxia came to the Yangxin Hall.

After saluting, he saw that the emperor was busy, so he sat on the Jindun and waited for the emperor to handle official business.

Zhu Qiyu asked him while reading the memorial, and Liu Daxia answered clearly and clearly.

"I can't bear to leave the center."

Zhu Qiyu closed the memorial and stood up: "I feel relieved to have a strict teacher like you to teach the prince."

But Liu Daxia knelt on the ground and admitted frankly: "Weichen is the one who is guilty of asking His Majesty for an official position under the guise of giving lectures!"

What he is going to talk about today is not about transporting grain. It is just that when he saw the emperor, he deliberately showed off his talents and sought out places.

"Oh, it's a good thing that you are motivated."

"Who wants to watch over a bunch of stupid kids?"

Zhu Qiyu smiled and said: "It doesn't matter if you go somewhere. The place also needs capable ministers like you. Where do you want to go?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the princes are all smart and eager to learn. They are by no means stupid. As teachers, I have Your Majesty protecting me. This is the merit of following the dragon."

Liu Daxia said bluntly: "But the humble minister is unwilling to succumb to Feng Pavilion."

"His Majesty has always said that the prime minister starts from the state pastor, and the ministers are willing to start from the local area. They are not willing to accept the mentorship of the prince and steal the central government, which is a joke."

Anyone who dares to say this is a man of great talent.

Zhu Qiyu admired this guy a little: "You are louder than Xu Jin. When Xu Jin asked me for an official position, he said that he wanted to become a general and become a prime minister."

"Okay, since you have such ambitions, I'll give you a chance to see if you are my prime minister, or if you are just a fool who boasts nonsense, pick your place!"

"Wei Chen is willing to go to the Western Regions." Liu Daxia said seriously.

"The Western Regions are miserable. The barbarians are being governed, and there are constant wars. How can you withstand the wind and sand in the Western Regions if you are so thin?" Zhu Qiyu teased him.

"Wei Chen is not afraid of hardship. I just ask Your Majesty to give Wei Chen a chance to show his talents!" Liu Daxia said.

"Northern Xinjiang is under construction, so it's not too difficult. There are deserts all over southern Xinjiang, but there's no danger. Let's go to Western Xinjiang, under Fan Guang's command."

Zhu Qiyu gave him a hell level difficulty.

Liu Daxia accepted it happily.

This is a smart man.

As soon as the emperor dealt with the officials of Zhan Shifu, he immediately asked for release, making it clear that he did not want to enter the whirlpool.

He is a capable minister, let him be fulfilled.

As soon as he left, Feng Xiao whispered: "Your Majesty, we all know that the clues of the investigation seem to point to him."

"He is not from Zhan Shifu."

Zhu Qiyu frowned, Liu Daxia was extremely smart, and he was a staunch civil servant who would never succumb to imperial power, which was possible.

"Your Majesty, you may not be an official of Zhan Shifu to do this." Feng Xiaodao.

Zhu Qiyu sneered twice: "Give him a chance and let Fan Guang take care of him. If he makes great achievements, the merits and demerits will be equal to each other."

In the evening, Concubine Chen led Lao Ba to plead guilty.

"What's the crime for me to draw a picture in my spare time?" Zhu Qiyu looked at Concubine Chen, who was Chen Xianzhang's daughter.

Concubine Chen breathed a sigh of relief. She first took Lao Ba to Concubine Qin's palace to plead guilty. Who asked this boy to confess his brother Lao Jiu?

Concubine Qin is the sister of Qin Hong and the mother of the ninth-old Zhu Jianzhu, the sixteenth-old Zhu Jianzhe, and the twenty-fourth old Zhu Jianxi.

Lao Ba knelt on the ground like a doormat: "I shouldn't have painted while studying, and I shouldn't have confessed my brother to him. I know I was wrong."

"It's okay, just make the tortoise look better in the future." Zhu Qiyu said.

Lao Ba burst into tears.

He is the bastard, and the brothers secretly call him bastard.

"Your Majesty, what are you talking about!" Concubine Chen was anxious. She could even imagine that her son would be laughed to death by his brothers.

Zhu Qiyu suppressed a smile: "What I said is true, Feng Xiao, is the golden turtle ready?"

Feng Xiao couldn't help but laughed.

Lao Ba really cried.

Concubine Chen didn't know why and wanted to laugh too, but her own son was crying. She pulled him up and said, "Go back and burn those bastards. You are not allowed to paint anymore! You are not allowed to teach others to paint either!"

Zhu Qiyu turned away, his shoulders twitching.

"Your Majesty wants to laugh, just turn around and smile openly, and make your son laugh to death!" Concubine Chen said angrily, I want to laugh too!

Zhu Qiyu turned around innocently: "I'm not smiling? My beloved, you seem to be smiling!"

"I don't have it!"

She immediately took Lao Ba out.

Lao Ba was hit hard by ten thousand points in his heart. His father smiled and he smiled. Why did his mother laugh too?

"Give me the golden turtle." Zhu Qiyu added, then burst into laughter.

Lao Ba staggered and burst into tears.

Concubine Chen wanted to scold her son for being embarrassed, but when the words came to her lips, the corners of her mouth curled up. I wanted to laugh too, but I couldn't hold it in anymore!

"Mom!" Lao Ba happened to raise his head and saw his mother who was suppressing a smile, and his heart collapsed.

"Go back to the palace quickly, you shameless thing!"

Concubine Chen felt that practicing the trumpet was useless. She still had two sons, so she should hurry up and practice a new one.

On the way back to the palace, I saw many maids looking at her wrongly. It became clear that the news about Lao Ba's painting of the tortoise had spread, and she felt that her face was shameless, so she cleaned up Lao Ba when she got back.

She is the daughter of Chen Xianzhang. In recent years, Chen Xianzhang has founded a sect and is expected to become the first person in contemporary Neo-Confucianism. As Chen Xianzhang’s grandson, the eldest son did not inherit any literary qualities. Instead, he was very naughty. He followed the fourth and fifth children to mischief. .

She was so angry that she beat her even harder, and she cried all night long.

July 18th.

Chen Jiayou went to the palace to pay homage to him, who was about to go on a mission to Britain.

"Have you thought about it? I allow you to regret it!" Zhu Qiyu looked at Chen Jiayou and asked.

"I have no regrets and am willing to serve as your Majesty's envoy to the UK!" Chen Jiayou said firmly.

"When you go to England, it's not like in India. I can send troops to you. But England can't. You are just an envoy. Ming's treasure ships can't go to England. They have to be Portuguese ships."

"You will definitely be bullied and your life will be in danger along the way."

"Are you sure you want to go?"

Zhu Qiyu did not scare him. The envoy to England took a Portuguese ship. There was a blood feud between Ming Dynasty and Portugal, and the envoy's life would definitely be difficult.

Chen Jiayou knelt on the ground and said: "I am not afraid of hardships and difficulties, and I will definitely bring good news to His Majesty."

Zhu Qiyu patted him on the shoulder: "It's difficult to go on a mission, it's difficult on the road, and it's difficult when you get to England."

"But when Ming Dynasty gets the chart, he will no longer be angry with Portugal!"

"Chen Jiayou, if you are angry, just endure it. Sooner or later, I will destroy Portugal and avenge you!"

"Can't wait long."

"The king of Chu has a vassal land, which is near Portugal. If the king of Chu takes the fiefdom, he can use his troops against Portugal!"

"So, please be patient for the time being, don't be afraid of spending money, give Portugal more benefits, and then you can get it back with interest."

"If something goes wrong, you can temporarily stay in the UK. I agree that you will not come back for the time being."

"At the latest the year after next, the Ming army will appear in the Mediterranean."

Chen Jiayou choked up and thanked him.

After a few more words of explanation, Chen Jiayou left the palace. I don't know how many years it will be before he comes back next time.

In the past few years, Ming Dynasty and Portugal have had wars and cooperation. Cooperation is greater than war. After all, they control the sea charts and are sea coachmen.

Now this chart is coveted by all countries in the world, including the European countries. Now that the war between Britain and France is over, the two countries will soon launch troops against Spain and Portugal, forcing them to hand over the chart.

At that time, Ming Dynasty will be able to take the opportunity to master the sea map through Africa.

Before that, Zhu Jianshen had to take control of North Africa and establish the Chu Kingdom. The Ming Dynasty's troops would go directly to the Mediterranean, and Spain and Portugal would not be able to do it without handing over their sea maps.

And Zhu Jianshen can also serve as a transit station for China-Europe trade, which is much more cost-effective than transiting through the Ottomans.

Osman peeled off the skin in the middle and made money on both sides.

Not only the Ming Dynasty was dissatisfied, but the extremely high prices in European countries were all caused by the Ottomans. Europa was also extremely dissatisfied.

Even the declining Timurid Empire sometimes stepped in to help, and the Ming Dynasty suffered a lot.

Therefore, the Ottoman mountain must be lifted.

Geng Jiuchou's plan was to open up India and allow the Ottoman and European countries to enter India to divide their interests and jointly develop India.

As long as Europa has enough interests in Asia, they will dare to set the table with the Ottomans.

The Ming Dynasty was able to dig meat from Osman, and the king of Chu's kingdom was established.

This year, in order to appease the Ottoman Empire, Ming Dynasty imported massive amounts of oil from the Ottoman Empire in order to use economic benefits to bind the Ottoman Empire.

Let Osman allow the king of Chu to succeed.

The choice given to the King of Chu was the Gulf of Aden, a small piece of territory called Somalia, which was not Ottoman territory.

But if Ming wants to enter, he must give Osman enough benefits before Osman can agree.

Honglu Temple has formed a mission to negotiate with the Ottomans.

"Xie Qian, what do you think of Osman?" Zhu Qiyu suddenly asked.

Xie Qian, who was accompanying him, immediately reported back: "Wei Chen thinks that the outside world is strong but the inside is weak, the territory is too large, there are many ethnic groups, and there is not even a unified writing or language. It is just suppressed by force. If the force is gone, it will fall apart."

Yes, Osman is like a gluttonous fat man.

Crazy encroaching on the land.

But I forgot that I would suffer from indigestion.

The Ottomans were a bit like the Qin Dynasty. They used their military class to encourage external expansion. Once they stopped external expansion, they would immediately collapse.

But it was not the Qin Dynasty. The Qin Dynasty collapsed too quickly. The Ottoman Empire did not collapse too quickly because the theocratic system prevented it from collapsing quickly.

"Wei Chen believes that the most terrifying thing about the Ottomans is the sect that confuses people's hearts."

Xie Qian said: "Why the Mongol Empire was able to expand disorderly is directly related to this sect, which is full of radical and expansionist doctrines."

"However, the Mongol Empire was also powerful for a while and then fell apart."

"The same goes for Osman."

"Actually, there is another reason, that is, there are no powerful countries around the Ottomans."

Can't say the same.

Whether they are strong or not is a very subjective view. Daming has never competed with them, so he cannot tell whether they are strong or weak.

Anyway, the Ottomans were not strong at sea, and the Ming Dynasty was not strong at sea either.

You have to go to the mainland to know whether it is strong or not. When they encountered the Ming army in the Western Regions, Timur and Jinzhang thought that the Ming Dynasty was not strong, so they could try again when they went to the mainland!

"Your Majesty, I believe that the main reason for Osman's strength is the decline of Timur's empire."

Wang Hua on the side said: "The decline of Timur's empire made Osman invincible."

"If I were the Ming Dynasty, I would capture Sri Lanka from the east."

"The west takes northern Africa."

"The Ming forces put Osman in the middle."

"If the imperial dynasty can take advantage of the decline of Timur's empire and tear off a piece of fat, then the Ming Dynasty will be able to surround the Ottoman Empire from the north, east and west."

"When the time comes, we will know which one is stronger or weaker between the Ming Dynasty and Osman."

Wang Hua smiled and said: "Wei Chen thinks that Ming Dynasty is still strong enough."

Zhu Qiyu crossed his arms and chest and looked at the map: "My lords, can the Ming Dynasty control the world situation?"

Xie Qian was stunned.

"Since the Zhou Dynasty, the country has been called China, and it is the country in the middle of the world."

"Now our country is strong and powerful, and it is the world's hegemon."

"But the country has never interfered in the internal affairs of the world."

"I have always thought, what is a strong country?"

"Does it have to be to strengthen Qin, go west to Hangu, and wipe out the six kingdoms to be a strong country?"

"I think soft knives are more useful than hard knives."

"To demonstrate a strong country, it does not necessarily only require a strong military. It also requires strong diplomatic capabilities, strong economic strength, and strong political capabilities."

Zhu Qiyu said slowly: "With these three things, Ming Dynasty can control the situation of all countries in the world and become the true overlord of the world."

Why does the sun never set in Dai Ying?

It’s not that you have strong military strength, but that you have good political skills and excellent political vision!

They can stand on the overall situation of the world, advance or retreat, interfere unscrupulously in the internal affairs of various countries, and turn countries into chickens that lay eggs. When they come to collect the eggs, the countries that are harvested have to say, thank you.

The United States also continued to follow the political vision of the British, and it sucked the blood of the whole world.

Ming's diplomatic skills are really terrible.

Except a threat is a threat.

He looks condescending, or starts fighting, just like the flat-headed brother.

This will kill you sooner or later.

Why does Dai Ying play diplomacy? Because Europe is not a unified country at all, just like the diplomats Yan Ying, Zhang Yi, Su Qin, Fan Ju, Lin Xiangru, and Mao Sui in the pre-Qin period, right?

The wealthy people of the Ming Dynasty were peaceful and liked to live behind closed doors.

This results in the fact that strategic vision is inherently inferior, and the country is unified and surrounded by weak countries, so there is no need to cultivate strategic vision at all.

The reason for this kind of character is also determined by the external environment. There are no strong enemies outside the Ming Dynasty, and there have been no enemies since ancient times. They are all weaklings and juniors. There is no need to cultivate diplomatic skills at all. Once the mainland is unified, it will be invincible.

Daiying is different. They are an island. Without diplomats, they will be trapped on an island.

Another point is that Europa is more like the pre-Qin Dynasty of various schools of thought. On the road to unification, they discovered the great voyage. The history slightly deviated from the track and unexpectedly changed the world structure.

China was two thousand years early. Without the great voyage, it directly transitioned to the era of great unification. It was feudal for two thousand years, one reincarnation after another.

Europa was two thousand years late and got a huge advantage. It was also the emperor who took turns being the hegemon and the overlord who took the turn.

"Your Majesty, isn't it enough that the overlord is the strongest in the world and everyone in the world knows it?" Xie Qian did not turn around.

The Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period, the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, the Northern and Southern Dynasties, if they are strong, they will be strong, but nothing good?

"Then what's the point of being strong?"

Zhu Qiyu asked him with a smile: "How to show the strength of a country? Is the land large enough? Is the population large enough? Or is it richer than anyone else?"

Wang Hua said in a daze: "If any country insults the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty can send troops to destroy it."

"and then?"

Zhu Qiyu asked him: "For example, if the Ming Dynasty is here and Portugal insults the Ming Dynasty, how can we destroy him?"

Wang Hua was speechless.

Xie Qian thought for a long time: "Your Majesty means diplomacy."

Zhu Qiyu nodded: "It's diplomacy."

"All disputes in this world cannot always be resolved by force."

"There was nothing like this during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The Qiang Qin Dynasty always used force to conquer, and the final result was the death of the second generation. Now the whole world cannot do that."

"And the previous tribute system can no longer be used. It is no longer suitable for this era."

"Use diplomacy."

"The Ming Dynasty is the hegemon of the world, so it must guide the world and control the world."

"But how to control it?"

"War is only a part, a very small part."

"In the end, we have to return to the negotiating table, and diplomacy has become the most important part. It is best to use diplomacy to resolve the problem before the war occurs, so as to save people and money."

"Diplomacy requires mastering methods and methods. How to ensure the interests of the Ming Dynasty, how to maintain the demeanor of the Ming Dynasty's overlord, and how to solve world affairs?"

"This is all about diplomacy."

Seeing Xie Qian and Wang Hua confused, Zhu Qiyu smiled and said: "To put it simply, you have made a fortune, do you still want to walk at night in brocade clothes? Do you know how?"

To put it bluntly, if you don’t show off when you are rich, you will feel uncomfortable.

When a country is rich, it has to show off and take advantage everywhere to show its presence.

A name appeared in Xie Qian's mind, Theory of Diplomacy!

He and Wang Hua looked at each other and saw blazing flames.

diplomatic.

This is a new direction. No one has thought about using diplomacy to resolve international disputes and use diplomacy to dominate the world.

The way to express the hegemony of the world is to manage all countries in the world.

"There is only one Ming Dynasty now, but there will be countless feudal states in the Ming Dynasty in the future."

"Does Ming Dynasty not care about the conflicts between feudal states? Or should everything be sent to the central government and let me take care of it one by one?"

"Diplomacy is a thing that must be mastered and mastered well!"

"This is the concrete manifestation of Ming Dynasty's overlordship."

Zhu Qiyu's words were shocking.

Xie Qian and Wang Hua are going to look up information and rack their brains to write an article on diplomacy. This article can accompany the sages!

(End of this chapter)