[Ming] Wuzong's Chronicle of Rebirth

What is this world like?Is it like in the book that the sky is round like a cover and the place is like a chessboard, or is it like those high-nosed foreigners say that the world is round?

Wei Jia was always confused.Just never had a chance to confirm it.Until he met Zhu Houzhao.

Because of the sponsorship of Emperor Zhengde and the Duke of Anguo at that time, he began to have the opportunity to explore what the world was like.

Manlaga, Semu, Ottoman, Europa, Africa, and the New World. In his life, he has traveled all over the world. Only the place called Antarctica mentioned by the Supreme Emperor has never been to it. This is a great regret in his life.

The first time he went to sea, he set off from Hangzhou, passed through Quanzhou, passed through Manga, crossed the vast ocean, passed a place called Africa, and finally arrived at Frangji.

What he learned during this period overturned the education Wei Jia had received over the past twenty years.It turns out that there are really people as black as coal in this world.It turns out that on the other side of the world, there is another place that is not less prosperous than the Ming Dynasty.They have an etiquette system completely different from that of Ming Dynasty. They yearn for the gold and silk porcelain in the East, and they look at the East with covetous eyes.

Here, he saw the dark Holy See and the king, saw the incomparable mechanical inventions, and knew that there was a place called Indiana, which was the new continent that An Guogong said.

Peppers, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, these are the tasks assigned to him by Anguo Bus.He didn't believe that these things worked at first.Where in this world can there be such high-yielding, drought-resistant and flood-resistant crops? If there are such things, how rich should the countries that own them be?

It wasn't until later that he saw stretches of farming in the capital that he realized that there were really people who owned such magical crops without knowing it.Look at what those foreigners have done in the new continent they discovered, burning their palaces and temples, treating them as heretics and massacring them, doing everything for a little gold.They completely ignore these most precious things, but discard the essentials, give up the gold that can produce gold, and use various methods to snatch the cold gold.

However, sometimes when dreaming back to Daming, he would ask himself, if Daming would do such a thing to these people?At this time, the answer often surprises me.

He also received a mission to escort Luo Zhicheng, who was involved in a major treason case, back to Flangji.During this trip, he once discussed the future of Ming with Luo Zhicheng.Luo Zhicheng said that people in Ming Dynasty are all hypocrites, officials in Ming Dynasty are incompetent and corrupt, and Ming Dynasty must perish.

If he was a young man who went out to sea for the first time to see the outside world, he might have believed Luo Zhicheng's words, hated Daming from then on, and was full of despair towards Daming.However, he has been a traveler who has been wandering in the sea for a long time. He has seen too much and experienced too much.Hypocrisy is always better than naked evil, and he believes that with visionary people like the emperor and prince, Daming will be stronger.

The facts turned out to be as he had imagined, and Daming did not live up to his expectations.The navy is getting stronger day by day, and the Shibosi is becoming more friendly to merchants day by day.When I first started doing business, merchants were still the most despised category of people. Later, when Emperor Yuanyou came to the throne, everyone was already very tolerant of merchants.Although the immediate family members of officials within three generations are still not allowed to do business, other regulations have been abolished and improved.

He once questioned whether the law of Emperor Zhengde Taishang was really fair to businessmen, but he was convinced.When the status of the merchant is low, a wealthy merchant can still control the big officials of the court, let alone after the status of the merchant is improved.Corruption is not the only problem brought about by government-business collusion.Only then did he realize that he hadn't seen it thoroughly enough. He was still limited to his one-acre three-point land, and hadn't considered these issues from the perspective of the country.

When he was getting old, looking back on his life, the greatest thing he had done in his life was crossing the ocean and finding a new route to another continent.

King Ning rebelled, and he decided to stop when he stopped, and started the battle with no end in sight with the fleet ready to go.

Several months of voyage, with dozens of boats and thousands of people crossing the vast ocean, the taste cannot be understood by outsiders.It is said that they are wandering in a foreign land, but they are the real wandering in a foreign land.Drifting on the sea every day, day after day, always repeating days, every day is the same sea and the same sun.No matter how delicious canned food, biscuits and dehydrated vegetables are, anyone will get tired of eating them for a few months. If they catch a sea fish, they will be happy for a whole day.

Later they finally arrived at the fabled New World.No surprises or frights.In the uninhabited virgin forest, there are no cattle, horses, livestock, or familiar wild flowers and vegetables.They started from scratch, built houses, slashed and burned, and left traces of the Ming people on this land for the first time.The only good news is that they made sufficient preparations before coming to this continent, including a lot of medicine, food, and tools.It was precisely because of these adequate preparations that they survived a long winter safely and set sail back to Daming in the second year.

This voyage, how many hardships and dangers, how much moving.What he remembers most is the crystal clear tears on his face when he saw Emperor Zhengde.This was the first and last time he saw a generation of emperors shed the most sincere tears.

At that time, he didn't quite understand the meaning of the tears. It wasn't until rubber and silver mines were developed one after another, and Daming also reached a cooperation agreement with the natives. This continent called Indiana became Daming's granary, that he understood the importance of the New World to Daming. Significance.

Just imagine, if these things fell to those Europeans who were eyeing the east, and Da Ming continued to move forward in arrogance.In a hundred years, Da Ming still has the power to fight back. What about after a hundred years?

It was from this moment that Wei Jia vaguely guessed the secret of Zhu Houzhao and Du Ruo.In the eyes of others, these two people are Wentao Wulue and far-sighted.But in his opinion, it is far from that simple.He has dealt with the people of Europa for many years, how could he not know the difficulty of sailing.How many people in Europa are determined to sail, and how many years of hard work have been devoted to this matter.Why can the calculation of the emperor and An Guogong be able to achieve what others have been unable to do for hundreds of years.

As for the experience planning, Wei Jia didn't believe it at all.He has been running the fleet for so many years, and he has never heard of a plan that can hit every hit.The emperor and An Guogong's accurate grasp of the geographical terrain is shocking, and the "intuition" in their mouths has completely surpassed the scope of intuition.

From then on, Wei Jia began to search for various evidences.And when the evidence was in front of him, he had to believe that these two nobles were not normal people.As for whether it is a god, a ghost, a human or a demon, he doesn't know.

In the end, he still burned the evidence, and never told anyone that he had suspected such a thing, nor did he tell anyone about the abnormality of these two people.

No matter where they come from and where they will go, the friendship of these decades is not fake, and what he sees is not fake either.He could see that they were really big and good, and they were also real gentlemen.Since this is the case, why would he set off this turmoil that is neither good for the country nor good for himself?

In Li Zhinian, Xu Beiniang, the little sister who used to be next door, finally agreed to the marriage proposal of the rich Northwest businessman Kerimu and married to Hami as a Hui daughter-in-law. Those old guys who had worked hard together also had families.He felt that he too should have a home.

Although he is determined to sail and loves adventure by nature, he still has the old concept of marriage. He thinks that love and love are not important, and it is best for two people to stay together and manage the family.According to the order of his parents and the words of the matchmaker, he married a woman as gentle as water.

In his life, he thought he owed nothing to anyone.For his opponents, he is ruthless and has his own bottom line of principles; for his friends, he is loyal and courageous; for the two bosses, he is also dedicated to his duties, and has never cheated or concealed.Only for his wife, he has deep guilt.

He is a prodigal son who is destined to wander forever, he can't stop exploring the other side, and he is not afraid of any wind and waves.His little wife is completely different from himself.She is tough, kind, and has the tenderness and vulnerability unique to a woman.She yearns for stability and a stable life, which he will never give her.

He could only pretend not to see her tears hidden behind her back.He couldn't make up his mind to get rid of the fear that was rooted in his adventurous genes.

It was he who failed her.It wasn't until his wings became old that he couldn't fly anymore, that he rested in her arms and knew to rest.

In the modern history of China, Wei Jia, Marquis of Jinghai, was undoubtedly a very colorful figure. In the era when great masters were born, his love for sailing and exploration of the unknown world made him not inferior to many figures who appeared in the same period of the Ming Dynasty.

It can even be said that without Wei Jia's voyage discovery, there would be no subsequent frenzy of new academic and new ideas based on the development of the new world.

He is the first recorded person from Daming to reach Europa from Daming by sea.He was also the first person to introduce emerging crops such as corn and sweet potatoes to Ming Dynasty.The beginning of the age of great exploration.Hongzhi's 21-year overseas movement was also handled by him.

He is the well-deserved father of navigation and an important witness and participant at the turning point of the Ming Dynasty. He personally wrote the beginning of the history of navigation in the Ming Dynasty and ushered in a new era.

——Anonymous book "100 Years of Stirring"