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Chapter 194 My Ming Dynasty Can't Be So Small

"In that case, the young masters should follow me to the guest room and stay for a while!"

At this time, Crown Prince Zhu Biao spoke as if he had thought of something.

I wonder if we can go to the study where Master Song is and wait for a while? I have heard that there are many books in the study of Master Song Lian, and Master Song has inherited Master Song Lian's skills.

If you can learn something from it, you will benefit a lot.

After hearing this, the butler immediately said happily.

"You little guys can talk, in that case, then follow me!"

Then the butler brought these people to the study, served them tea and left.

Crown Prince Zhu Biao felt somewhat fortunate in his heart. Fortunately, Song Lian had always taught him in the main hall at that time and had never returned to Song Lian's residence. Otherwise, his identity would have really been seen through by the man in front of him.

Prince of Jin Zhu Gang looked at Crown Prince Zhu Biao with some dissatisfaction.

"Brother, you woke us up so early, aren't you just going to visit that kid Song Shen?"

"That boy seems to be about the same age as us. How can he allow us to visit him? How can this be disrespectful?"

Prince of Qin Zhu Chong and Prince of Yan Zhu Di both nodded.

This matter sounds really too ridiculous.

Although Prince of Yan Zhu Di obeyed Zhu Biao's words, he had his own ideas.

The people he admired most were the great generals who were good at fighting, rather than the weak scholars.

Although the great scholar Song Lian has a great reputation, it has little to do with him.

I will only be a vassal king in the future. I don't want to ascend to that position. What's the point of having such a good reputation? When the crown prince Zhu Biao heard this, he was immediately unhappy.

"Don't talk nonsense. Mr. Song is not an ordinary person. Not to mention you, even if my father is here, he has to call him Master Song!"

"Even if Mr. Song Lian or all the scholars in the Hanlin Academy were added together, they might not know as much as Mr. Song!"

When the little ones heard this, their faces were filled with disbelief. This evaluation was really a bit too much.

If they didn't know Crown Prince Zhu Biao's character, they would have thought that the Crown Prince was bragging.

They felt a little unconvinced, so they waited here, very curious about what Song Shen was capable of.

At this time, Prince Yan Zhu Di was looking at an unfinished drawing on the table and couldn't help but become curious.

However, when he looked at the drawing, he was immediately shocked by its content.

"Brother, come and see what this is?"

When several people heard the voice of Prince of Yan Zhu Di, they ran directly towards the desk. When they arrived at this place, they saw the drawings on it.

King Qin Zhu Chong glared at him with disdain.

"Look at you yelling, 'Second Brother', I was almost asleep and you woke me up again. Isn't this just a stick?"

"what……"

At this time, King Qin Zhu Chong had not yet finished speaking when he felt that the things painted on it seemed a little different.

Prince of Jin Zhu Gang frowned.

"This seems to be a firearm, but it seems we have never seen this kind of firearm before!"

At this time, Crown Prince Zhu Biao was stunned when he saw the things on it.

This turned out to be a breech-loading musket, and it seemed to be a flintlock rifle. I had heard Song Shen talk about it before, and I never thought that I could see the drawings of this thing in this place.

"It's a musket, better than the ones we use now. In particular, it doesn't need to be loaded with gunpowder from the front. You only need to pour the gunpowder wrapped in kraft paper from the back, and then use the flint at the back to ignite and fire. But looking at the structure, it's a little different from the muskets we use now in the Shenji Camp. It must have been improved!"

The three princes were extremely surprised to hear this. They never thought that there were improved firearms.

Prince Yan Zhu Di's eyes were full of stars, and he was very clear about the power.

Powerful weapons can play a decisive role on the battlefield.

Firearms can play a significant role on the battlefield, but they also have many disadvantages. This type of gun solves many of these disadvantages. This means that if this type of musket is used on the battlefield, it will definitely bring them unexpected gains.

"I didn't expect that Song Lian's grandson actually knew how to modify firearms. Not bad!"

Prince of Yan Zhu Di rarely showed some recognition of Song Shen.

At this time, Crown Prince Zhu Biao said with a smile.

"Of course, Master Song knows much more than we imagined. Father said that we should follow Master Song and learn as many skills as possible!"

"If what I have learned can be useful to my Ming Dynasty, I will be rewarded by my father when I return!"

King Jin Zhu Gang had some doubts in his mind.

"If Father is really interested in this person, can't he just capture him and bring him back?"

"When the time comes, just let him tell you everything he knows. There's no need to go through so much trouble!"

Crown Prince Zhu Biao's face suddenly became dark. This could not be done this way. Song Shen possessed the ability to connect different dynasties together.

No one is sure what other mysterious abilities Song Shen possesses, and offending him is definitely not a good thing. Now that he is in the Ming Dynasty, we should make friends with him. If we do it just for those things, we will end up draining the pond to catch fish.

"Don't be rude. Young Master Song Shen is very capable. How can the Ming Dynasty treat such a talented person like this? This matter was decided by my father. If you dare to disobey my father's order and be punished by him, don't blame me for not helping you!"

The three princes were stunned when they heard this. In the past, no matter what mistakes they made, their eldest brother would take the responsibility for them.

This was the first time that Crown Prince Zhu Biao spoke such serious words to them. At this time, they also realized the importance of the matter and did not dare to be presumptuous in the slightest.

At this time, King Jin Zhu Gang suddenly glanced at what seemed to be a map on the table next to him.

He was very curious as to how a scholar could have a map in his study.

When he took it out and saw the contents on the map, he was shocked.

Then he took out the map, and everyone's faces were filled with disbelief when they saw the map.

There is so much to cover on this map.

Prince of Yan Zhu Di was very confused.

"What is this map of?"

"How come we've never met before?"

At this time, he searched on the map and finally found the name of Ming Dynasty in a place.

As soon as he saw the territory of the Ming Dynasty drawn on it, his eyes widened.

"How is this possible? Our Ming Dynasty is obviously very powerful, how is it possible that we have only such a small territory?" Crown Prince Zhu Biao and others were also stunned.

Before, Song Shen only said that there were many countries in the world, but he didn't know how many there were.

Now, after looking at the map, he realized that the outside world was so big.

From the Ming Dynasty to the north, the Northern Yuan Dynasty still had a large territory, and to the south it was the territory of King Liang, and there were even a series of countries such as Dali, Dai Viet, and Nanzhang nearby.

Further south there is an extremely powerful country called the Khmer Empire.

And across the former Tubo area in western Hunan, which is now the U-Tsangdu Provincial Administration, there is such a large land. This land seems to have been called Tianzhu in ancient times. Now there is also a big country on it, called the Delhi Sultanate.

If you go northwest from here and cross the Hexi Corridor, you will reach the former Western Regions, today's Eastern Chagatai Khanate. To the west of the Chagatai Khanate is the Timurid Khanate.

The only difference is that there is a bracket after the name of Timurid Khanate, which reads Timurid Empire.

What does this mean? Could it be that Timur will establish a powerful empire in the future? If so, it would be a huge problem. Moreover, there are many countries to the west, which they cannot even name.

To the north there are the Golden Horde and the White Horde, and further northwest, there is the Ilkhanate.

They had never heard of these places. To the east of the map was a vast ocean with many countries on it. They were all islands. Some of the islands were no smaller than a provincial administration here. Across the ocean to the east were two continents, which they had never heard of before.

This shocked them greatly, and Prince of Yan Zhu Di said in confusion.

"Isn't there only Penglai Island across the East China Sea? How come there is such a large continent? Could it be that Penglai Island is a continent?"

"So, can we go and take a look?"

When Prince of Jin Zhu Gang heard this, he immediately rolled his eyes at him.

"Are you stupid? Don't you see how big the ocean is? We can put the territory of our Ming Dynasty in it. I don't know how long it will take for our Ming Dynasty to travel from west to east. If you want to reach this new continent, you will have to drift on the sea for several months!"

"And I heard that the sea is very unpredictable. There are many huge waves that are enough to overturn people and boats. I'm afraid this is not an easy task!"

Crown Prince Zhu Biao nodded.

"What you said makes a lot of sense, but you must not tell anyone about this. Once this matter gets out, it will definitely cause great panic!"

After hearing this, several people nodded.

Song Shen had just woken up at this time. The housekeeper beside him told him about the four people who suddenly appeared. This made Song Shen very confused, as he seemed to not know many people in Yingtian Prefecture.

Could it be that someone is looking for him? Thinking of this, he went straight to the study. When he saw the leader, he was stunned for a moment.

He was very familiar with this person, it was Crown Prince Zhu Biao.

Unexpectedly, Crown Prince Zhu Biao actually came in person. At this time, Song Shen directly asked the housekeeper and others to leave, and said to Crown Prince Zhu Biao in front of him.

"Your Highness Song Shen pays homage to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin, His Royal Highness the Prince of Jin, and His Royal Highness the Prince of Yan!"

When Crown Prince Zhu Biao saw Song Shen being so polite, he hurriedly helped him up.

"Teacher Song, what are you doing? You are our teacher. No matter what the situation is, you should not bow to us. We should bow to you!"

Then he turned to look at his three younger brothers.

"Hurry up and salute Master Song!"

The three princes bowed respectfully to Song Shen.

"I am waiting to see you, sir!"

Song Shen had no choice but to help them up. At this time, he looked at the Crown Prince Zhu Biao in front of him and said.

"Did His Majesty allow you to come to this place?"

After hearing this, Crown Prince Zhu Biao nodded.

"Of course. Without my father's permission, I would not dare to bother you. But my brothers are really useless. I am dull and don't understand many things. So I want to ask you for advice. I hope you can give me some advice!"

At this time, Prince of Yan Zhu Di looked at Song Shen with confusion and said.

"Song Shen, uh, sir, you know my eldest brother, but how did you guess the identities of the three of us?"

Song Shen smiled and said.

"Those who can follow the prince are naturally not ordinary people, and the clothes you wear are not something that ordinary children of the Orange family can wear!"

"Plus, you all have extraordinary and heroic temperaments. Only the children of the royal family have such a demeanor, so it is not difficult to guess the identities of the three of you!"

When they heard this, they were all very proud. This person must be very capable to be chosen by their father. Now that he is praised by this person, they can brag about it when they go back.

After understanding the situation, Song Shen also knew what they meant. Zhu Yuanzhang simply wanted to take advantage of Song Shen's presence in his territory to give his sons some special treatment. After all, the one who is close to the water gets the moon first.

Song Shen didn't feel aversion to this. After all, he was teaching someone else's son something on someone else's territory, so there was no big problem.

"Okay, I already know what happened to your Majesty. Go back and tell your Majesty. I will teach the princes well!"

Crown Prince Zhu Biao was extremely excited when he heard this.

"If the emperor knew about this, he would definitely be very happy!"

At this time, Prince Yan Zhu Di on the side couldn't wait to hold the drawings on the table and said.

"Sir, did you design the musket on this drawing?"

Song Shen nodded after seeing it.

"Yes, this is indeed what I drew. It is slightly different from the weapons we are using in the Ming Dynasty now, but there shouldn't be any problem using such weapons on rainy days!"

Since everyone's eyes lit up when they heard this, this is a good thing. It is very difficult to use firearms on rainy days.

This is also a disadvantage of firearms. I didn’t expect that this thing could actually solve this problem. That’s really a good thing.

At this time, King Jin Zhu Gang took out a map and said.

"Sir, is what is drawn on this map true?"

"Are there really so many countries outside of the Ming Dynasty?"

Song Shen was extremely surprised when he saw this map.

This map was originally drawn in my spare time based on my memory.

Although there are some errors, it is much more accurate than maps of this era.

I didn't expect that it was taken out by these little guys.

Song Shen sighed and said with a complicated expression.

"You are right. This is indeed the world outside of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty may be powerful, but there are many powerful countries in this world, not just the Ming Dynasty!"

(End of this chapter)