Chapter 493 – Shock

Zhu Di is obviously extremely interested in extraterritorial matters.

He looked at Zheng He, while Zheng He bowed and said, “The slave girl set sail, first through the Tianzhu, and then traveled far across the ocean, taking the route that Teng Jian had taken at the time, first arriving at a continent, and then traveling all the way along the coast of this continent, circling around for thousands of miles, and traveling all the way to the north, arriving at this land in the far north.”

Zhu listened attentively while looking down at the charts.

Zheng He also said: “This place is also fertile land, mostly white face red law of the ghost-like, seems to be divided into various countries, but similar to my China pre-Qin Dynasty.”

“Pre-Qin?” Zhu said in surprise, “It’s Spring and Autumn?”

Zheng He said, “This is generally true, there are dozens and hundreds of large and small states here, attacking and attacking each other, or combining and combining, and they have been conquering for hundreds of years.”

Zhu Di nodded, “After hundreds of years of conquest, it’s a good thing they can make a fuss.”

Zheng He said, “The slave girl thinks the same way.”

Zhu Di teasingly looked at Zhang Anshi and said, “Minister Zhang, aren’t you also extremely interested in overseas affairs? How does Secretary Zhang feel about it?”

Zhang Anshi s words were surprising, only to see him say, “The war of hundreds of years …… of conquest is what I feel terrible.”

“Oh?” Zhu said, “How can you see that?”

Zhang Anshi then said: “Years and years of chaos, must make its soldiers, farmers, industrialists and businessmen, all for the service of the war, in order not to make their own defeat, then must give up all the useless red tape, all the materials and goods, all into the armament, and must promote the force, and all the literati, is bound to pursue simple and effective intrigue and power tactics, and will not fall into the Qingtian. Its unprecedented emphasis on war will also inevitably lead to a constant renewal of their tactics.”

Zhang Anshi thought about it, also intends to cite the classics, so said: “As if it is the Warring States period in general, at first it was Li Yul changed the law, so that the state of Wei is strong, and created Wei Wu pawn military system, so Wei is very strong for a while, so the countries in order to survive, it is bound to have to change the law. After that, King Wuling of Zhao started to ride the horse and shoot, so that Zhao’s military reached its peak, and all the countries saw the situation, and must quickly follow, and after that, there was Wu Qi’s change of law in Chu, Yan enabled Su Qin and Le Yi, and Shang Yang’s change of law in Qin.”

“In order to make the enhancement of national strength, external defense against the enemy, countries do not repeatedly iteration of the internal affairs, military, and so that the artisanal art also with the war, the constant iteration, I heard, the warring states when many of the skills of forging weapons, even if it is placed in the decades ago, my Daming artisanal households, may not be able to fight with the length of it. So I thought …… it is still appropriate to be vigilant, and must not be tolerated.”

Zhu Di listened to it, but pondered it seriously.

In fact, for many things, a point is clear to a person like Zhu Di.

It can be said that the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period was the most turbulent period in the world, but at the same time, it was also the period of the fastest change of laws and weapons and tactics.

Almost in a matter of decades, a new variation of the law emerges, a new hegemon emerges, and soon, other nations follow suit and learn from it, building on it and iterating on it.

So Zhu Di thought deeply said: “Zhang Qing’s words, can not be said not thoughtful, once I stabilized in the Central Plains, is bound to Chengping, Chengping day long, may not be blessed. But today under the peace, when how can we stop the peace of the loose heart?”

Zhang Anshi said, “I …… thought, when set some statutes, just how to draw up, but also need the crown prince your highness down to preside over.”

Zhu Di then looked at Zhu Gaoqi and said, “The Crown Prince and Minister Zhang, Minister Jin and others have a good discussion and come up with a constitution.”

Zhu Gaoqi said yes.

Zhu Di looked at Zheng He again, “In this way, this is like the red ghosts of the countries, not to be underestimated, Zheng companion companion can there be anything to advise?”

Zheng He said: “I Ming’s many goods, are loved by them, slave ship of some people, and they trade, even if the unusual porcelain, they are willing to compete for the purchase, in addition, their countries for navigation, also quite interested in, among them, there are the state of the Frankfurt, they are well versed in navigation, and the state of England, is also interested in sailing, slave ship also heard that they and the east of the great eclipse, but the hundred countries are in conflict and attack each other is really chaotic. The slave girl also heard that they and the east of the great eclipse, also is the war endlessly, just a hundred countries, each other attack, really chaotic, slave girl also can not say.”

When Zhu Di heard this, he could not help but sigh and said with emotion, “If there is a Shi Huangdi in this place, it will be even more of a great danger to the heart.”

Zheng He also said: “As for this along the way, slave girl through a large continent, the last voyage, in fact, has arrived at the east coast of the continent, just this voyage to know the continent of the huge, the continent people skin like black charcoal, mostly natives, to collect and hunting for a living, this place is not barren, but many of the landing crew, once docked, but prone to disease, fortunately, the ship is equipped with the king of the county of Wuhu produced drugs, and can be cured. Fortunately, the ship was equipped with medicines produced by the King of Wuhu County, which could be cured.”

“The continent from the slave girl’s voyage, I’m afraid that no less than three times the Central Plains, is not to be underestimated, slave girl back to the voyage, left hundreds of people in the various ports, so that they are stationed, to be the next year again under the Western Ocean, and then send the ship to the replenishment of ……”

Zhu nodded.

Zheng He also said: “and then there is the Tianzhu country, Tianzhu country is also a hundred countries, which there are many when the Mongol conquest of the Khanate of the survival of the slave girl this time back to the voyage, and then the Tianzhu for a longer period of time, in the Tianzhu a big island, spend a lot of money, purchased land, set up a wharf, but also to understand the customs of the Tianzhu … … …”

Zhu Di said: “Could it be that this Tianzhu, and that the country where the Buddha is, is also the time of the pre-Qin Dynasty?”

Zheng He said, “Exactly.”

Chu: “……”

Zhu Di actually felt surprised in his heart!

To be honest, Zhu Di is actually a bit incomprehensible, in the deep-rooted thinking, at least Zhu Di is that the world then returned to unity is the norm.

The so-called great unification has become a deep-rooted claim as early as the Han Dynasty.

Originally thought that the other continents of the world, also must be so, today realize that the original Ming is that anomaly.

Zhu frowned nanly, “The many khanates ……”

He paced back and forth with his hands behind his back and a frown on his face, looking preoccupied.

Zhang Anshi looked at the speechless Zhu Di and suddenly understood Zhu Di’s mind.

When it comes to guessing the upper intention, it is Zhang Anshi’s strength, so he said furiously, “Your Majesty, the tyrannical Yuan has been plaguing China for a hundred years, and I have never thought that there are still so many remnants of the tyrannical Yuan outside this domain, and even though Emperor Tai Zu Gao was born as a man of cloth, he expelled the Tartar captives, and Your Majesty, being the descendant of Emperor Tai Zu Gao Gao, should inherit the legacy of Emperor Tai Zu and expel the tyrannical Yuan, and return my …… return the rivers and mountains of the Tianzhu people.”

All of a sudden, the words were like a sudden explosion, and the hundred officials underneath began to whisper.

They know well what Zhang Anshi is a virtue, this guy is usually quite calm, but now it is suddenly aggressive, nine times out of ten this guy is speculating on the will of the upper.

But if Your Majesty is so …… This is not to ……

Zhu Di heard, then smiled and said, “Yuan brutality, so that my Chinese charcoal, I did not think that the Tianzhu people also suffered this calamity, hey ……”

Zheng He said at the side: “Your Majesty, in fact …… that the Mongolian khanates, has not yet penetrated deep into the Tianzhu, most of them are only in the western region around …… this …… ”

Zhang Anshi immediately said, “This is even worse, Tyrannical Yuan aggression is good, is bound to go south, when ……”

Zhu Di didn’t wait for Zhang Anshi to put words into his mouth, so he pressed his hand and said, “Okay, okay, the situation of the Tianzhu Kingdom, first on a charter, and then make a conclusion.”

After a moment’s pause, he suddenly remembered something, but he looked at Zheng He and said, “As for the captured red-haired ghost, escort him to meet him in a few days.”

Zheng He said, “The slave servant obeys the order.”

A pilgrimage meeting that ended there.

When Zhu Gaoqi left the palace, he led Zhang Anshi.

The two were first one in front of the other, and thereafter they walked side by side.

Zhu Gaoqi then whispered: “Fang just in the imperial court, you that some words, quite reasonable. Just now the father wants this palace on a charter, in your opinion, how should it be?”

Zhang Anshi smiled and said, “Brother-in-law, once upon a time, there was a saying that a prime minister starts in a state or county, and a fierce general starts in a pawn; if that’s the case, it may be solved.”

Zhu Gaoqi back hand, learning from Zhu Di, striding, one side said, “But Anshi, you do not forget Hu Weiyong.”

As the saying goes, prime ministers start from the counties and fierce generals start from the pawns, there is a serious problem involved here, and that is, these local experienced officials and military generals are bound to cultivate a large number of cronies and subordinates as they rise up the ranks step by step.

For example, a person, in the process of going through the county, governor, the cloth minister, he will be in the process, cultivate a class bottom, and this class bottom of the people, with the person eventually into the center, and even become the prime minister or cabinet minister, then this person not only get the center of the book, and its disciples of the old, but also spread all over the world, after his cultivation, his disciples of the old also served in various places of the important positions.

It is precisely for this reason that the defeat of Hu Weiyong, or the successive dynasties, the tail of the phase power.

Of course, there have been many attempts to do so in history, and in that case, the emperor simply went about replacing the prime ministers frequently, with a new one every one or two years.

However, this has led to a new problem, that is, before the person’s position is warmed up, someone else will take his place, and the end result is often that the order cannot be continued.

Therefore, it is now spawned the so-called cabinet system, the cabinet system of the university sergeant, often starting from Hanlin, almost no local experience, may be in the capital city all his life as an official.

The work of the Hanlin, too, often dealt only with the written word, making this university scholar, completely reduced to a secretarial body.

This approach, indeed, solved the problem of Hu Weiyong, but the new problem is that, although the power of the phase has suffered a great weakening, and because there is no real experience in the big storms, no experience in governing a party, although its political wisdom is enough, but can not be done to know what is going on underneath.

Zhang Anshi understood Zhu Gaoqi’s concern, so he smiled again and said, “Brother-in-law, this may not be without a solution.”

Zhu Gaoqi immediately raised his eyes to Zhang Anshi and said, “Oh? Tell me about it.”

Zhang Anshi, however, said, “Even if I say it now, brother-in-law will think that I am talking out of my ass, only seeing is believing. As for this charter matter, leave it to me, I will send a great charter to His Majesty, and keep His Majesty satisfied.”

Zhu Gaoqi laughed, “You guy ……”

He showed a few helpless colors, but didn’t continue.

For Zhang Anshi, he was extremely trusting. This guy was the one he grew up seeing, the ability to toss and turn was there, but the ability to do things was also quite a lot.

At that moment, he said, “Father is in a hurry, so hurry up some, or it will be this palace that will have to be blamed by Father when the time comes.”

Zhang Anshi swore, “Brother-in-law don’t worry.”

Zhu Gaoqi remembered something at this time, so he said, “That Tianzhu Kingdom, why are you shouting and fighting?”

Zhang Anshi said: “is not against the Tianzhu people, but …… I heard, the Tianzhu people history suffered a lot of aggression, really intolerable …… initially, I heard that first what the Persians attacked India, and after that there are Macedonians, and then there are the Serbs, the Anshi, the Great Yuezhi, the Persians, Turkic people, and now even the Mongols are also eyeing. After that, there are more Serbians, Sabaeans, Great Yuezhi people, Persians, Turkic people, and now even the Mongols are also eyeing, these thousands of years, the wars are endless, there is no one day of peace and quiet, so ……”

Zhu Gaoqi sucked in a breath of cool air, good guy.

Zhang Anshi said These invaders, some of them are unheard of by Zhu Gaoqi, but there are also a lot …… of them that he has heard a little.

For example, the Sabbath, the Moon, Persia, Turkic and so on.

However, the above states, no, to be precise, this is not even talk about the state, for Zhu Gaoqi, it is more appropriate to say that they are the ministries.

After all, many of these people do not even have the qualifications to call the country, such as the Yuezhi, was once the Xiong Nu people under the defeat, Han Wudi conquered the Xiong Nu, had wanted to contact the Xiong Nu expelled Yuezhi people, together with the Xiong Nu troops, but unfortunately, the Yuezhi people by the Xiong Nu people out of the shadows, and no longer refused to east, did not expect to …… them to actually go south.

As for the Turkic, it is also considered familiar, only …… when the Tang Dynasty, it has long been expelled, just never thought that these Turkic people, but also in the extra-territorial resurgence.

Zhu Gaoqi looked at Zhang Anshi with a slight smile and couldn’t help but say, “I didn’t expect that you still have this kind heart.”

Zhang Anshi actually sighed and said, “Brother-in-law, I just want to accumulate some virtue for Changsheng.”

Zhu Gaoqi: “……”

Well, that was a reason he was powerless to refute!

Zhang Anshi is usually lazy, but he is a man of action, back to Qixia, Zhang Anshi immediately began to repair the book, and then called for this letter to be sent out.

And in the Forbidden City, Zhu Di seems to have a sudden preoccupation.

Zheng He brought the news of the world’s countries, although it did not give Zhu Di to bring a huge shock, can bring the thinking, but it is not small.

After breaking through the fog of geography, like Zhu Di such a male master, really open eyes to see the world, and how could not have their own thinking?

Seeing that His Majesty was preoccupied, Yiluoha looked at the color of the sky and reminded, “It is time for Your Majesty’s meal.”

“Uh-huh.” Zhu nodded faintly.

Yiluoha was going to order people to pass the meal, Zhu Di but suddenly added: “Tomorrow give some things to Zheng companion companion, he is not easy outside, it is not easy to come back to the capital, should enjoy a blessing.”

Yiluoha hurriedly said, “The slave girl obeys the decree.”

Zhu Di added: “You say, Zhang Qing said things, can be justified ……”

“Your Majesty refers to ……”

Zhu Di at this time, but revealed a few points of emotion, said: “All dynasties, after the war, civil ministers and military generals, most of the good, so often after the founding of the country, always not inevitably into the heyday. But decades later, the world is peaceful, the civil ministers can not be practiced, military generals are also therefore the horse on the South Mountain, within a few decades, the world seems to be peaceful, but there has been fatigue. It seems that the world is peaceful, may not be all good.”

Also lost ha laughed and said: “Isn’t there a saying? It is called into the lawless family whisks, out of the enemy foreign patients, the country eternal death. I think what the Wuhu County King said is this truth.”

Zhu Di nodded: “Yes, I think about it, not without reason, my children and grandchildren, now have a few looks, but if the world’s civil ministers and military generals, but most of them are mediocre, I’m afraid that it is also difficult to achieve.”

Yizhuoha, on the other hand, said with concern: “Your Majesty has thought a lot, if this goes on, I am afraid ……”

Zhu Di said, “I am the son of heaven, can I not think a lot? The world’s affairs, I do not think, have to let my children and grandchildren think. I do not go to the hand to solve, have to let the children and grandchildren to solve. Taizu high emperor, when it is also blood, set the law, but ultimately …… is not also a poor move, out of a Zhu Yunzhu it? I do not want to be like Taizu high emperor, leaving behind a legacy of hatred.”

Yiluoha thought about it, then advised: “your majesty why worry about it? Why don’t you take a look at the crown prince and His Royal Highness the King of Wuhu County, into the constitution is.”

Zhu nodded, “It has to be.”

The next morning, Zheng He came for an audience, saying that two red-haired ghosts had come.

Zhu Di immediately raised the spirit, full of curiosity, immediately called the minister, to teach the ministers also come together to see a two.

Zhang Anshi did not rush into the palace, as a former head of the Jinyiwei, or the two ‘red-haired ghosts’ to carry out some verification, to ensure that nothing is wrong.

The duo, sure enough, had red hair, their looks were typical European features, their beards were drawn, and they muttered and gabbled for a long time.

The ministers had already accompanied Zhu Di and waited in the hall before Zhang Anshi led the lieutenants to escort the two into the hall.

As soon as these two entered the hall, they immediately attracted the attention of the hundred officials.

The crowd looked at these two, all of them were horrified.

Most of the ancients were not comfortable with the appearance of Europeans, and only felt that their faces were strangely ugly, like evil spirits.

Now that I’ve actually seen it for myself, I feel even more creeped out.

These two stood in the middle of the hall.

Zhu Di, as an emperor, was still very capable of stabilizing his expression, and at this moment, he was calm, only sizing up the duo carefully.

These two actually knelt down directly and opened their mouths, “Greetings, Your Majesty.”

What was said was surprisingly in the Han language, although this Han language …… carries a Fujian accent similar to that of Yang Rong in general.

But when you think about it, it makes sense.

These two were captured by the flotilla and had a year on their return trip, on this flotilla, as captives, there was naturally a need to communicate, and a year was enough time to learn some simple communication with the people on the ship.

Zhu Di carefully observed these two for half a second before saying, “Can you two have a name?”

The two said in unison, “There is the name of Han.”

Zhu said, “Report it.”

One of them said, “My name is Two Egg.”

The other said, “Strawman Donkeyball.”

Chu: “……”

The temple was in an uproar.

Zheng He, on the other hand, was in a hurry and said in a panic, “Your Majesty, this may be the sailors in the ship …… fooling around …… giving them names and surnames …… slave girl ……”