Promotion Letter for the Chief Executive

All success does not come without a reason.

Don't look at Zhao Jie, the prince of Song Dynasty, who is now very prosperous at home and abroad. In fact, when he first went to sea, he lost his ugliness and suffered a lot.

Although he was not valued very much in the imperial confinement of the Great Chu, in any case, as a prince of a country, he was pampered. At least many chores were done by palace servants, but because of his own situation, he was often depressed.

After arriving at the naval training base in the southeast, Zhao Jie realized that in this world, the future is uncertain, anxiety and depression are not the most painful things.

Physical fatigue seemed to paralyze his mind.Every day when the cock crows and gets up to train, all the strength is exhausted, and I fall asleep as soon as I touch the pillow at night. Even time has become a dispensable thing, let alone other things?

Zhao Jie even felt a bit of inexplicable peace from such exhaustion.

Zhao Jie's favorite thing to do during his rotation is to sit on the boat, look at the endless sea, and the fishermen on the fishing boats passing by.

Some of these fishermen are young and energetic, singing ancient tunes, looking full of vigor in the vast sky and sea.But more are middle-aged people with weather-stained faces, dark skin, and numbness. They have been used to fishing for decades or even decades, and they don't seem to care much about everything.

Sometimes Zhao Jie can't help but think, if he continues like this, will he become like these people one day?

Become numb to the surrounding environment, forget your own situation, and only know to repeat the boring and heavy work day after day.

The birth gave Zhao Jie a vision far beyond that of ordinary people. He knew that there is a word in this world called "domestication".The emperor, the imperial court, and the government are all trying to domesticate these ordinary people, making them obedient and obedient, making them unaware of how bad their situation is, and making them take it for granted even if they are struggling to survive.

Will one day become like this?

On the empty sea, Zhao Jie asked himself this question again and again.He used this method to keep himself awake, even if only for a short moment.

At other times, there is a storm at sea, and everything seems to be washed away in the dark sky, and Zhao Jie will think again, people are so insignificant between heaven and earth, a small storm, an unpredictable natural disaster , can take their lives.So what is the meaning of all that I cared about before?

If the initial decision to agree to Zhao Can and Ping An's proposal was to seek a future for himself, then from then on, Zhao Jie really fell in love with Hai.For him, it's all-encompassing, seemingly endless, yet palpable and palpable.

It is beautiful, it is impermanent, and it is the embodiment of the will of nature, and it is worth spending a lifetime of energy to study it.

Although I have adapted to life at sea, going to sea is still a dangerous thing after all, and this is not the biggest difficulty.

For Zhao Jie, when he arrives in a new place, he needs to learn the local language, customs and various interpersonal relationships. Things that became popular in Dachu, in the end, you have to guard against other people's jealousy to snatch ships and goods...

For a while, Zhao Can even lived on the boat every day. He couldn't sleep well at night, and would wake up every so often. He had to get up and check before he could go back to sleep with confidence.

Of course, this kind of life can't be called a good one, but it is precisely because of this experience that Zhao Jie transformed and grew rapidly.On the day when he led the fleet for the first time to go through a long voyage and finally returned to his homeland, Zhao Jie set up his lifelong ideal - he would go to every place in the world by boat, and plant the flag of Dachu everywhere. the land on which he walked.

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When sailing at sea, anything is possible.

Rare, never-before-seen and unheard-of marine creatures will follow their big boats for tens of miles, and occasionally pull up a lot of brightly colored seawater fish from the net. In their common sense, the more Brightly colored things are more toxic.I don't know if these fish can be eaten, so I have to let them go.

The color of the sea is not exactly the same in a day.It also changes with lighting and angles.Sometimes it is a kind of light blue, which seems to have a touch of green, sometimes it is indeed the purest blue, deep and deep.

When there is a storm, the sea is black.It looks calm and peaceful, but in fact, one of the most terrible natural disasters in the world is brewing.

In Dachu, natural disasters were often regarded as a warning from heaven, and disasters were brought down because of dissatisfaction.Zhao Jie didn't think much about it before, but when he was sailing at sea, he couldn't help thinking, who is the sky warning?

In his cognition, nature is a warning to people.

But there was no one at sea.

Although there are also fishermen who go out to sea to fish, if it is not for the development of the fleet and the support of the imperial court, it is impossible for anyone to come to this place.Zhao Jie believed that he was the first.That being the case, if natural disasters appear here, who can they warn?

When training in the fishing village, Zhao Jie already knew that storms are actually traceable and even regular.The most experienced fishermen can tell if there is a storm or not just by the changes in the sky.

Therefore, natural disasters are natural disasters and have nothing to do with people.

If Zhao Jie has gained anything in these years, it is that he knows that man is not the master of this world.Even though there are many of them and they are of different types, the power of nature will always be beyond compare.

If people can conduct various researches on nature, and finally have a thorough understanding of the world one day, maybe at that time, they can barely call themselves masters, right?

Zhao Jie himself is very interested in these things.He has been accompanied by two fishermen all year round. They are experienced fishermen who know something about the sea itself, and Zhao Can taught them to read and write, and asked them to record various data every time they sailed. for research.

He is looking forward to what will happen on the day when he unveils the mystery of the sea?

According to ancient legends, gods and ghosts wept when Cangjie created characters, because this thing should not be used by humans.Then Zhao Jie thought, the power in nature may not be comprehensible to human beings.When the time comes, will thunder be punished from heaven to punish him, an ordinary person who dares to peek into God's Domain?

Zhao Jie is looking forward to it.

Although sailing at sea is very boring, the scenery is inconvenient day after day, and it seems that there is no end to it. This kind of life is very annoying, but it is different from those sailors who are looking forward to landing quickly and going down to make some corrections. I like to stay at sea, but I don't want to contact those natives.

The problem of not speaking the language barrier is that in the process, the back and forth with each other are calculations and tricks, which makes him feel bored.

Zhao Jie felt that he had become a rough man.He began to prefer simple, straightforward and easy-to-understand things, just like those things that can be seen in the sea, they are there, you can see them as you like, without any effort.

Fortunately, except for the first few years, as the prestige of Da Chu spread far and wide, of course the most important thing is that more and more people were sent by Da Chu, so gradually, many local people began to learn from Da Chu It is even fashionable to speak official dialect, and it is even more popular among the nobles.If anyone can't speak, when they go out to socialize, they will definitely be ridiculed and despised.

Moreover, their attitude towards the fleet has also changed from being cautious and tentative at the beginning to a welcoming expectation later on. Although they are more attention-grabbing, there is no need for Zhao Jie to waste any more thoughts by then.

Everything is as expected by Ping An.

Ping An calls this: cultural invasion.

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For Zhao Jie, Ping An is a very miraculous person.

After going out to sea and seeing the vastness of the outside world, Zhao Jie's original awe of Zhao Can, the emperor's brother, began to gradually decrease.After all, he has already understood that the emperor is not really the "co-lord of the world" and there are still too many things in this world that he cannot touch, and he knows that it is impossible to know.

Especially after getting in touch with more and more leaders of other countries, this feeling became stronger.

Zhao Can is just one of the lords of the country.Maybe his country is bigger, maybe he is more capable, maybe he has more means, but he is not a "god" after all, but a human being.

Since he is a human being, he will have flaws and faults, so naturally there is no need to regard him as superior and out of reach.This kind of cognition appeared in a subtle way, and even Zhao Jie himself couldn't tell exactly how it was formed and when it appeared.

But peace is different.

The more he saw the outside world, the more Zhao Jie felt that he couldn't see through him.

Almost every time Zhao Jie returned to China, he would find that some new things had been added to the country.Among them, he was most interested in those things discovered by the science of "nature".That seems to be similar to the cognitive world envisioned by Zhao Jie.

Zhao Jie couldn't describe this feeling.In the depths of his heart, he is not without a little pride, because he feels that he is the only one who goes out and comes into contact with different things, so he always feels that when he returns to Dachu, when facing these people in China, he will have a psychological An indescribable sense of superiority.

Even facing Zhao Can, it was the same.Occasionally, Zhao Jie would even think that his elder brother, as the emperor, could only be trapped in this palace for the rest of his life. Although he was in control of the supreme power, what was the point?

But in the face of peace, this sense of superiority can never stand up.

Because no matter what he says, Pingan can catch up with the words, and even spread them out to apply them to more things.Later, Ping An introduced several magazines to him, saying that the content on them was all about researching these things, and it would be good to read them frequently.And Ping An even introduced two people who specialize in these things to him, and asked him to take them on board to conduct more in-depth research on the ocean.

Zhao Jie was shocked that so many people in China started to study this thing, but after some investigation, he found that the person behind the control of this matter was actually Ping An.

Even in addition to these things, Ping An also has more shocking things in his hands.

From the perspective of others, these things are in the hands of the court, and they are hidden behind the scenes, so it is difficult to find out.After knowing this, Zhao Jie felt unbelievable.

Obviously, he has never left this place, but he seems to know a lot of things that others don't.So that Zhao Jie occasionally wondered, is there really someone born with knowledge in this world?

Later, with the appearance of artillery, trains and other things one by one, Zhao Jie was already numb.

In short, you can't treat Ping An as an ordinary person.

So when Ping An said that the earth is round, Zhao Jie never doubted it.He just wants to know one thing - how long will he need to sail to complete this circle?

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What Zhao Jie is most unaccustomed to is dancing parties.

After all, he is a big Chu person in his bones, and he is used to girls being raised in deep boudoirs, gentle and delicate, so he can't bear the Western balls and the enthusiastic girls at the balls.

Especially because of his noble status, so many girls regarded him as a target.Among them were the princess, the prince's daughter, and some other people. In short, Zhao Jie occasionally felt like a piece of delicious pastry, so that anyone who saw it wanted to take a bite.

Of course he is not interested in this kind of marriage of interests.

If he is interested, he should marry one in China.After all, in that way, his family members are in Zhao Can's hands, so he can feel more at ease about himself.

——Speaking of this, Zhao Jie was also surprised by Zhao Can's trust in him.You must know that after he left Dachu, he really felt that the sky was high and the sea was wide, and he could do whatever he wanted.One day, if he felt that there was nothing interesting in Dachu's country, he would take the fleet and leave directly, find a place to settle down, and never go back.

But Zhao Can never seemed to worry about this.

Of course, Zhao Jie himself has no interest in this kind of land seal.After all, he has also seen the distressed appearance of his brothers and relatives when they reclaimed new land overseas. He has also helped several times in the past and repelled the local natives.

Everyone has their own ambitions, Zhao Jie thinks that it is good to have a fleet of ships and sail on the sea.

It's far away, in short, Zhao Jie expressed his dissatisfaction with the situation that he was treated as fat wherever he went.So as Da Chu's influence grew, and these barbarians gradually didn't dare to make mistakes, he never went to the ball again.Even if you go, you must surround yourself with a group of people to ensure that no girl can get close to you.

Of course Zhao Jie also thought about his own marriage, what kind of girl should he find?

In his heart, of course he hopes to find someone with the same interests, who can understand these things he likes, and even like them.But Zhao Jie felt that this might be very difficult.

First of all, girls rarely have the opportunity to come into contact with these things. Even if the students of the female school in the capital can come into contact with them, most of them just long for stability. They may be curious about things that are very far away from them, but they don't How much desire to explore.

But the most critical issue is that there are no women on board.For someone like Zhao Jie who stays on the ship 360 days a year, 360 days a year, his wife cannot board the ship, so he can only live in two places all the time.So, what's the point of getting married?

It was a coincidence that Zhao Jie discovered the relationship between Zhao Can and Pingan.

Although everyone in the palace already knew about this matter, after all, Zhao Jie only came back once in a few years, and every time he came and went in a hurry, and since he didn't live in the palace, it was not easy to inquire about such secret things. So I never knew.

The reason why he was able to explore some clues was after Ping'an was named the guardian of the country.

Of course Zhao Jie didn't believe that Ping'an was not an eunuch, but just a lie that appeared by Zhao Can's side incognito.Not to mention that he had already entered the palace during the time of the first emperor, and all kinds of clues could be investigated clearly. Even if he wanted to get close to Zhao Can, he could easily stay outside the palace.So he didn't quite understand, what exactly was Zhao Can planning to do with so much effort?

Later, I gradually realized that Zhao Can wanted to push Ping An from behind the scenes to the front of the stage.

How many things were done by Ping An, but made the court a good name, Zhao Jie knew a little bit, and now Zhao Can was doing this, clearly to rectify Ping An's name.In this way, thousands of years later, in the history books, he will be praised and passed down forever.

But such painstaking efforts are just to rectify Ping An's name, which itself appears to be very problematic.

After some random exploration, Zhao Jie knew the relationship between the two.

Probably because of being well-informed, after Zhao Jie knew about this, he was only slightly taken aback, and then he was relieved.

He couldn't be more clear about what kind of person Ping An is.It is naturally normal to be favored and loved by Zhao Can.Even in Zhao Jie's heart, he was still a little bit envious—not everyone in this world was as lucky as Zhao Can to meet a peace.

It's no wonder that for many years Zhao Can has never established a concubine, and he doesn't even have a maid to serve him.

Zhao Jie, who was used to wandering, left Dachu again soon and set sail for a long voyage.This time, he plans to spend five to six years walking forward without looking back, hoping to finally return to Dachu from another direction, and prove that the land under his feet is indeed round.

Because the main purpose is to open up new shipping lanes, and now there is a fleet responsible for the business, so Zhao Jie's fleet has been streamlined a lot, with only thirty or so ships.But even so, on this sea, he is a well-deserved king!

A few months later, Zhao Jie's ship entered a new sea area. Just as he was relaxing on the deck basking in the sun, he suddenly heard a sharp warning call, "Enemy attack——"

Zhao Jie turned over and sat up, picked up the binoculars and put it in front of his eyes, and soon saw that on the distant sea level, there was a fleet of ships heading towards them like an arrow leaving the string.

Zhao Jie was taken aback for a moment, and then understood what they had encountered.

pirate!