eldest son of Ming dynasty

Chapter 756 The World Situation
After returning to the Palace of Qianqing, Zhu Houzhao ordered his people to find a copy of "Western Geography" and bring it to the palace, and then placed Jing Yang beside it.

This guy couldn't figure out the emperor's thoughts and thought that his daughter had committed a terrible crime.

Zhu Houzhao asked while looking at it: "Jing Yang, your daughter shouldn't be very old, right?"

"How dare your Majesty ask about my little girl's age? She just turned twenty this year."

"Oh." Zhu Houzhao thought for a moment, he was a bit older, "Is he married to someone else?"

"Uh..." Jing Yang muttered in his heart, but still said: "Your Majesty, my daughter has been betrothed to the son of the household minister Zuo Yu of the Ministry of Revenue."

It's a pity that such a woman should not get married. After getting married, if she meets a husband who doesn't understand her, then it is very likely that she will not be able to pursue these 'hobbies' unless she is lucky enough.

But then I thought again, I was really a bit 'disregarding others', just for the sake of the Ming Dynasty and the country, I told a young woman not to get married...

"Well..." He frowned and thought slowly. In fact, there is no other way. "Have I ever asked you for advice on this "Western Geography"?"

"I don't dare to deceive the emperor. My daughter has never been to the sea. I wrote this book in my spare time. First, I read through "Overseas Illustrations" and other books, carefully compared the contents of many books, and eliminated obvious errors. The second is to seek help from all the ministers."

Zhu Houzhao nodded, "Am I just asking you for help? You don't know everything."

Jing Yang wondered what he meant by this.

"She did want to seek advice from others, but it is inconvenient for girls to show up in public, so Wei Chen stopped her."

"No wonder, there are errors in this book."

Jing Yang paused slightly, "My little girl has only a limited knowledge, and she is not as knowledgeable as your Majesty. I will go back and ask her to review it more, and I will order someone to destroy this book."

Zhu Houzhao turned back and continued to look down. The angle from which people of this era see the world is actually quite interesting.In this book, of course, there is still no breakthrough in the overall roundness of the sky and the earth. The Central Plains is located in the center of the world, and overseas countries are like barbarian countries in the corners.

He banged his head again and thought about when Magellan completed his global voyage... The time should be about the same as now, but he can't remember the specifics.

In addition, the book is not very clear about the classification of overseas countries. I just think that people with fair skin and green eyes are all the same kind of people, which is also inaccurate.

"……right,"

When the emperor said a word, Jing Yang immediately lowered his head. As a father, he was still afraid of the emperor's anger on his daughter.

"You don't have to panic. What I want to say is that there is always a process for understanding new things. It often takes decades or even hundreds of years to go from vague concepts to detailed understanding. Future generations cannot say the mistakes of their predecessors. , In this era of Ming Dynasty, it is good for someone to know her like this. When you bring her into the palace, I will meet her, Xiuyu likes her very much."

Jing Yang felt that he had entered a volcano from an ice cellar, and he was immediately delighted, "My little girl is a person with little talent, and she does not deserve your majesty's praise."

"Okay, don't drop your book bag." Zhu Houzhao thought of something else, "Now in our Ming Dynasty, who know the most about overseas people?"

It shouldn't be such a little girl, right?
"There seem to be such strange people in the south of the Yangtze River, and even crazier ones follow merchant ships out to sea."

"Why don't you organize it and hold a conference in the capital to bring these people together. On the one hand, it is the attitude of the court. I have never agreed that Ming scholars should be frogs in the well. The so-called prosperous age is to be open and tolerant. If there are more overseas For a strong country, we should keep in mind the words of Confucius. Among three people, there must be one teacher. If we learn from others, why not improve ourselves? If not...well, it will look boring, and I will be lonely all the time."

Jing Yang only felt shocked, a generation of Zhengde emperors, such a scene was really unrivaled.

"Secondly, since scholars are engaged in learning, they should be truthful and pragmatic. They should not talk behind closed doors and talk nonsense. This is what it means to bring these people together. I guess that now among the people, not only this "Western Geography" , there should be other people writing the book, and of course there will be various mistakes.”

"Your Majesty said it very well."

"You go to the Coordinating Foreign Affairs College and offer a course on world geography, and retain those who performed outstandingly at the conference as teachers. In the future, Gu Zuo's Ministry of Foreign Affairs will select officials from among these students. I don't want to destroy my country. The officials who went out were so stupid." "Yes."

As Zhu Houzhao expected, in the past ten years, some intellectuals among the people have indeed been learning about the West. The fact that Jing Wan can compile such a book shows that the information has a source and that there is also a certain audience.

And if it was spontaneous among the people in the past ten years, then starting from this year, it will be promoted by the official power of the court. At the same time, various maps are actually being drawn and published.

It can be said that the children of this generation who have grown up, as long as they are educated, should not be so shallow.

Looking back, although this book has errors, the concept of understanding the world contained in it is still there.

"You address."

"My slave is here. Please collect a few books of the same nature and distribute them to the cabinet and the six ministries for all the ministers to read."

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A few days later, Zhu Houzhao summoned several important ministers to meet because of another matter.

Because the memorial of Xinjiang Yang Yiqing has arrived.

This is serious business and cannot be done with a smile.

Both Wang Hao and Yang Tinghe had read the memorial, and then passed it on to Liang Chu, He Jian, Wang Jing, Wang Hua and others.

Zhu Houzhao paced slowly in front of them and said: "Yang Yiqing mentioned two things in total in the memorial. First, Xizhou transferred two Han guards, and they wanted to set up a Hu guard based on the Hu people. Second, , is now the Seven Guards of Kansai, excluding Hami, it should be the Six Guards of Kansai, how should we deal with it?"

There is actually something strange here.

Wang Jingdang, the Minister of War, said: "Aren't these Six Guards of Guanxi the Hu Guards?"

Of course Zhu Houzhao understood, "In the final analysis, what they mean is that they need an obedient Hu guard. The Six Guards of Guanxi have despised the imperial court for a long time. Now that Xinjiang has just been established, the imperial court's control over them is worse than that of ordinary chieftains. This in itself does need to be considered." A question. But what Wang Jing said is right. After struggling for a long time, we finally changed from Hu Renwei to Hu Renwei, which is meaningless."

The matter in the Western Regions was originally difficult to solve. The most critical factor was that it was difficult to effectively project the power of the Central Plains there. Now this difficulty has been slightly alleviated, so we can see hope. Otherwise, there is no need to discuss it.

Yang Tinghe concluded with one sentence, "It's nothing more than a question of whether to fight or not to fight. If you want to solve the problem, then fight. If you want to abandon it, then don't fight."

In fact, this question is also very simple. With the Ming Dynasty's momentum today, can it still resist fighting?

"Order Yang Yiqing to act according to the opportunity, to engage the enemy attentively, and to strive to eliminate these hidden dangers as soon as possible!" The emperor suddenly turned around and announced, "The original idea of ​​our ancestors to set up the Seven Guards of Guanxi was to set up a screen at the border to keep the enemy out of the country. However, after more than a hundred years of vicissitudes, , these people have changed their minds long ago. I don’t want to mention the past grievances and grievances anymore, just clean them up. I agree with the Hu Renwei’s proposal, but the commander must be my general, and they can no longer have the right to self-determination. Since The military guards of the Ming Dynasty must be ordered by the imperial court, otherwise I, the emperor, will be a sham!"

The emperor did not specify when or how to solve the problem in his decree. He only said that he would act according to the situation, which was regarded as giving Yang Yiqing a lot of freedom.To put it bluntly, don’t ask about the process, just give me the results.

All the ministers lamented that the Ming Dynasty's military force was now so sharp that the barbarians from all directions would probably be wiped out.

"Come on, follow your orders!"

"Don't leave in a hurry. I've asked the Supervisor of Ceremonies to send you some books these days. Have you read them all?" Zhu Houzhao curled his lips and said, "If you have free time today, can we monarchs and ministers discuss the situation of the world?"

(End of this chapter)