The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

Heartbreak!

"After the two teeth occupied every continent in the world, they began to plunder gold and silver frantically!"

"Among them, Spain alone, from the occupied Aztec Empire, has plundered 20 large ships in one year! The total value is more than three million taels of gold!"

sizzle~~~

There was a sound of sucking air in the whole bathroom. .

Chapter 315 "Theory of Sea Power" exploded 【4】

"Three million taels?!"

"gold?!"

"One year?!"

The three wealthy men of Ming Dynasty jumped up from the pool of the bathhouse at the same time, splashing the servants behind them.

The servants were dumbfounded.

These rich businessmen, what the hell is going on?

Why do they all look like cats whose tails have been stepped on?

"Oh my God!" Shopkeeper Qian was a little lost: "Here, three million taels of gold! We've never heard of it."

"I'll go!" The shopkeeper of the pawn shop said viciously: "If more than a hundred years ago, the eunuch Guo surnamed Ye Sanbao went to Nanyang and continued, maybe we could discover the New World! Where are the two teeth now? We You can transport gold to Daming every year! Three million taels a year!"

Another businessman scolded: "Liu Daxia, that bastard! Short-sighted! An upright official is wronging the country!"

What he scolded was the story of Liu Daxia, a charioteer during the Chenghua period, who burned Zheng He's charts.

The archives of Zheng He's voyages to the West, "Zheng He's Missions by Water", were originally stored in the Ministry of War.During the Chenghua period of Emperor Xianzong of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor intended to continue to explore ~suo Haiyang, and ordered the Ministry of War to search the old archives of Sanbao. The Minister of the Ministry of War, Xiang Zhong, sent officials to search for three days but could not find it. Liu Daxia, the driver of the car, had hidden it in advance.

Xiang Zhong asked Liu Daxia, how could the files in the warehouse be lost?Liu Daxia, who was present at the time, said, "Three guarantees went to the West, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, and tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians died. What good is it to get the treasures? Even though the old files are there, they should be destroyed. Why are you asking?"

In the end, this so-called Qingliu Zhichen burned all the "Zheng He's Missions on the Water" with one fire!Afterwards, with the support of Qingliu, instead of being dismissed from office, he was promoted step by step, and finally became Prince Taifu and Minister of the Ministry of War.

Zheng He's charts include a large number of original materials, such as the emperor's edict, the establishment of Zheng He's fleet, lists, logbooks, accounts, etc.It is still a mystery whether the large number of Zheng He files were destroyed by Liu Daxia.A large number of Zheng He's archives disappeared, which brought great difficulties and restrictions to the Ming Dynasty's exploration of ~suo Haiquan.

The so-called sea chart is the embryonic form of China's understanding of the geographical locations of the world's countries. Now it seems that this sea map is indeed a priceless treasure, but in the eyes of the so-called direct minister Liu Daxia, this sea map is a representative of the emperor's indulging in fun and not thinking about making progress.

People back then didn't have much opinion on this.

But now, because of Yan Song's "Sea Power Theory", the entire Ming Dynasty knows what a stupid thing Liu Daxia, an orthodox and upright official, has done, and what a precious and priceless treasure he has burned!It even made Daming fall far behind in the process of dividing up the world!

Liu Daxia may be an upright official, but he is a sinner of history!

Shopkeeper Qian and others scolded Liu Daxia for a while before continuing to read.

"Even after Hernando Curtis, the Spanish and Mexican conquistador, kidnapped the Aztec emperor Montezuma II, he asked the Aztecs to use a whole house of gold to redeem their emperor. .He got a room full of gold, but in the end he executed Montezuma II.”

"A whole room!"

The merchants of the Ming Dynasty stared at each other again, full of golden light.

"This is too rich!"

"My Ming Dynasty has few gold mines, and the gold is extremely scarce. The amount of mining in ten years can't fill a house."

"I don't think fifty years is enough."

"It seems that America is full of gold and silver."

The more the three of them thought about it, the more angry they became, they took out Liu Daxia again, scolded him for a while, and discussed when they would hire someone to go to Liu Daxia's hometown and steal his ancestral hall.

How can this kind of muddleheaded official who is called an upright official but is actually a national traitor be entitled to enjoy the incense in the ancestral hall?

……

In addition to the teahouses of Shengdou Xiaomin and the bathhouses of wealthy businessmen and nobles, Wansong Academy, one of the four major academies in Hangzhou, also has the sound of reading "The Rise of the West".

On both sides of Wansong Academy, hang the famous couplet.

"The sound of the wind and rain, the sound of reading, the sound is in my ears."

"National affairs, family affairs, world affairs, and care about everything."

This couplet shows the most progressive and advanced thinking and power of the Confucian school in Ming Dynasty.

That is, it is not to study books by heart, but to combine reading with the world, not only to be good for oneself, but also to benefit the world!

A student wearing a white turban, with a dignified appearance and an upright face, was holding a book of "The Rise of the West" and was reciting aloud.

His name is Wang Xijue, and he is a scholar of Wansong Academy in Hangzhou at this time.Although he is destined to have high school Huiyuan in the future (ranked first in the [-]st Jiajing Examination, and second in the Imperial Examination), flourishing, as the first assistant (the first assistant in the [-]st year of Wanli), and in power One day, but at this time he was seriously reading "The Rise of the West" according to the request of his teacher Shen Lian.

"Sea power is everything that can make a nation a great nation by or through the sea."

"Sea power should include maritime military power and non-military power730. The former includes fleets owned, including affiliated bases, ports and other facilities, while the latter includes maritime-related subsidiary organizations and Its capabilities, that is, the sum of the country's marine economic power."

"Sea power not only marks a country's overall ability to use and control the sea, but also determines whether a country and nation can become a great nation."

"Spain relied on its mastery of sea power to conquer dozens of Native American empires such as the Aztecs. Since the fifth year of Emperor Hongzhi of the Ming Dynasty, when Spanish Columbus landed in America, Spain has continued to conquer and conquer the American continent and the Caribbean. It colonized and successively occupied most of the West Indies, Mexico, most of South America, Central America, the western Pacific coast of North America, and the interior of central North America. Its area is equivalent to a Ming Dynasty.”

"Relying on sea power, Portugal~tao captured Madeira, the Azores, Brazil, the coast of Africa and India, and over a hundred colonial strongholds in Malacca. "

Many students below listened with gusto, sometimes frowning in thought, and sometimes clenched their fists angrily.