Mixed with salted fish in Hongwudang

When Lao Zhu heard Ma He's words, he was so surprised that he could stuff an egg into his mouth, and his face was full of disbelief.

He knew the second idiot of Old Zhu's family too well. That guy might be a little stupid, but he couldn't be so stupid.

Can the rebellious son Zhu Xi open up the territory for the Ming Dynasty, or is he on an unknown continent?
Even if you beat Lao Zhu to death, you wouldn't believe it!

Zhu Yunxi's heart moved, he glanced at Ma He meaningfully, and then quietly took a few steps back.

Sure enough, just after Zhu Yunxi took a few steps back, Lao Zhu gave him an exasperated look.

"This is the good apprentice you taught!"

"Grandpa, calm down!"

"Maybe Second Uncle repents and really wants to make some contribution to our Daming?"

Old Zhu snorted coldly when he heard this.

"he?"

"Ha ha!"

"Ma He, tell us the truth, did that traitor Zhu Xi die at sea!"

"We can hold on, we will never be sad for that rebellious son!"

Ma He secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the words, and his guilt towards the grandson of the emperor and His Majesty the emperor weakened somewhat.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, His Royal Highness King Qin really did not have any accidents. He just insisted on staying in the Golden State to develop. The slaves couldn't help it, so they had to take people back first..."

"However, the servants have left a temporary camp over there, and there are 2000 people stationed there. I think His Royal Highness King Qin will be fine."

"Oh?"

Seeing what Ma He said, Lao Zhu couldn't help muttering in his heart.

Could it be that Zhu Xi has really changed his sex?

"Fifth, tell us, your second brother..."

Zhu Huan looked at Ma He with a strange expression, and after another inner struggle, he nodded towards Old Zhu.

"Reporting to my father, the second brother did not have any accidents, but he didn't take the initiative to stay in the Golden State to expand the territory as Ma He said."

"Second brother fell in love with the daughter of a local Tubo leader, and stayed there to be his son-in-law."

"This……"

Old Zhu's mouth won the battle again. Although Zhu Huan's answer was more nonsense, for some reason he felt it was more credible.

"Is the second child really staying in the Golden Continent?"

"Yes……"

"This pervert!"

Old Zhu gritted his teeth and cursed, and when he turned his head to look at Zhu Yunxi who was chatting with Ma He, he cursed Ni Sun again, then flicked his sleeves and led Zhu Xi away.

On the way, Lao Zhu questioned Zhu Wei again and again, and seeing that Zhu Wei answered the same every time, Lao Zhu accepted the fact that his second son stayed in Huangjinzhou as his son-in-law.

Zhu Huan didn't want to cooperate with Ma and Lie at first, but when he thought about what he had experienced this year, he shuddered. What if he offended the grandson and threw himself out?
When there were only Zhu Yunxi, Ma He and others on board, Ma He knelt down with a plop and pleaded guilty to Zhu Yunxi.

"My servant pleaded guilty to Your Highness. King Qin didn't stay in Huangjin Island voluntarily, but my servant deliberately threw him there..."

"Oh?"

Zhu Yunxi had known for a long time that there was something tricky here. Just now when Lao Zhu was present, he didn't have the nerve to ask. Now seeing Ma and himself admitting it, he immediately asked.

"Let's hear it, why are you targeting King Qin?"

Ma He faltered when he heard the words.

"There is selfishness...and righteousness..."

"Let's talk about selfishness first!"

"Selfishness is the woman who was robbed by the King of Qin..."

"woman?"

Zhu Yunxi looked at Ma He quite unexpectedly, not to mention, this guy really looks like a dog, it's just a trick of good fortune.

"Is it you that the daughter of the Tubo leader first fell in love with?"

"Yes……"

Zhu Yunxi was quite helpless when he received an affirmative answer.

"Ugh!"

"This matter is that Daming is sorry for you, but Gu will make up for you in other ways."

Ma He knocked his head three times when he heard the words.

"Da Ming didn't feel sorry for his servants, and even treated them kindly..."

"If the servant hadn't suffered that knife when she was a child, the servant would definitely not have a chance to be with His Highness in this life, and it would be impossible for the servant to perform such an inexhaustible feat!"

Zhu Yunxi nodded appreciatively towards Ma He.

"If you can think so, Gu can rest assured."

"Now talk about justice!"

Ma He heard the words and said solemnly.

"Reporting to Your Highness, this servant thinks this way. This round-the-world voyage cost a lot, but it is not as profitable as doing business."

"However, after sailing around the world for a year, this servant has already deeply understood what His Highness said that the future world belongs to the sea."

"The sea is so rich, as long as you master the sea, you will master the wealth of the world!"

"My servant is worried that His Majesty will listen to the words of the officials in the court, saying that the voyage will waste the people and money, and then stop the great voyage. Therefore, the servant deliberately left King Qin to prepare for the future voyage..."

Zhu Yunxi burst out laughing immediately upon hearing this.

"You hozen are really scheming, even the dignified prince of Ming Dynasty has become your stepping stone!"

"The slaves are terrified!"

"Get up, you don't need to worry about this matter, as long as I'm here, this sailing thing will not stop!"

Ma He smiled happily when he heard this. He still had a selfish intention, that is, people like him can only be useful when sailing with a fleet.

Because the imperial court would never worry that an eunuch would establish himself as a king overseas. Based on this, his position as the admiral of the sea was firmly established.

And for him, only at sea can he make contributions.Once Daming stopped exploring the ocean, the most he could do as a eunuch in his life was to stay in the palace to serve people.

Zhu Yunxi did not delve into Ma He's little thoughts, but asked him to lead the way and check the results of this trip.

"Your Highness, please..."

"This cabin is full of seeds from the Golden Continent, and the corn and sweet potatoes you told me have also been brought back."

"Oh?"

"Hurry up and take Gu to see!"

Ma He led Zhu Yunxi to the bottom of the cabin, and opened a thatch, revealing a warehouse full of corn.

Zhu Yunxi looked at these unthreshed corn cobs with disappointment written all over his face.

"Is this too small?"

"Where's the sweet potato?"

"Sweet potatoes are here..."

Ma He lifted a piece of tarpaulin again, revealing sweet potatoes that were already full of sprouts.

"how so!"

"Your Highness, I really don't know that sweet potatoes will sprout. I have taken good care of them along the way. I really don't know why it happened..."

Zhu Yunxi waved his hand towards him.

"fine!"

"The characteristics of this thing are like this, and it will not affect its cultivation."

"Sweet potatoes are growing well, although they are not as big as I expected, but they are better than corn."

Seeing that Zhu Yunxi didn't blame him, Ma He immediately boldly asked.

"Your Highness, do you want to promote these two crops in Daming?"

Zhu Yunxi nodded.

"Ok!"

"These two crops are high-yield and don't choose the land, so they are very suitable for Daming."

Ma He heard the words and agreed.

"The corn is soft and glutinous, and the sweet potato is sweet, both of which are rare and delicious..."

"If the common people of the Ming Dynasty can eat this, it will be a blessing for the common people of the Ming Dynasty!"

"Lucky?"

Zhu Yunxi smiled slightly when he heard the words. It may be a blessing for the people of Ming Dynasty now, but for people hundreds of years later, these things are just animal protein feed.

"It's really hard to say in the future, but at this stage, it can make the people of Ming Dynasty no longer have to worry about famine!"

"That's good……"

"By the way, Your Highness, what do you plan to do with the Golden Continent?"

"The Golden Continent is vast. If I, Ming Dynasty, don't occupy it, it will sooner or later become the territory of other countries!"

"The servants passed through Europe this time, and had contact with the monarchs of some small European countries, and found that they generally have a strong interest in great voyages, but due to economic and technical reasons, they cannot organize a large fleet to go to sea."

"Oh?"

"Tell me in detail!"

Ma He recounted what he had seen and heard on the road. In order to make the emperor feel a sense of crisis, he even added extra details to beautify the European monarchs, describing them as monarchs with great achievements.

"Golden Continent must belong to Daming, but before Daming dominates there, it may still need some process."

"What process?"

"For example, reduce the number of aborigines there, so that our Ming people have more living space."

"This……"

Ma He thought for a long time after hearing the words.

"Your Highness, this servant has contacted the local natives on the Golden Continent. It is said that their ancestors migrated from a strait. Maybe they have the same origin as us?"

Zhu Yunxi shook his head when he heard the words.

"It's hard to say about it. It's hard to say that they have the same origin as us, but it's not easy to deny it."

"They migrated from the Bering Strait more than 2 years ago. At that time, we didn't even have the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties here, and even the Three Emperors and Five Emperors were not born."

"If you have to find relatives for them, the Mongolian people in the north are closer to them, much closer than us."

"This……"

Hearing this, Ma He felt a huge shock in his heart. He was shocked by Zhu Yunxi's profound knowledge, and worried about the natives of Huangjinzhou.

Although he didn't stay in the Golden Isle for a long time, just a few months, he fell in love with that land and the people who lived there.

If possible, he hoped that Daming could protect them and save them from being killed.

But now, looking at what the emperor grandson meant, it seemed that he was going to use a knife on them?

"Your Highness, the servants' fleet has arrived at the Golden Continent and received a lot of favor from the local natives. Let's..."

Zhu Yunxi smiled slightly when he heard the words.

"You don't have to worry, I, Daming, am a teacher of benevolence and righteousness, and I will never do that kind of cruel thing that slaughters the aborigines."

"However, I will migrate some European criminals there in the future..."

"After they have done all the evil, let's go and uphold justice for the natives of the Golden Continent!"

In Zhu Yunxi's vision, the priority of the European continent is higher than that of the Americas.

After all, Europe is connected to Mingzhou, so it is more convenient to rule.

In addition, the Ming Dynasty is the only one in the world, and it's not like they can't beat the land turtles in Europe, so why are they so busy developing wild lands?

Even if they want to develop, they still have to wait for others to develop and mature for them, and then Daming will go to pick peaches!

After inspecting the horses and the fleet, Zhu Yunxi immediately found a place in Daming to try planting corn and sweet potatoes in preparation for the promotion of these two crops.

At the same time, Zhu Yunxi ordered the shipyard to overhaul the ship and design and build a new large ship to prepare for the next round-the-world voyage.

For a long time to come, Zhu Yunxi's main job will be to build two canals.

One is the Hongwu Grand Canal in Egypt, and the other is the Hongyun Grand Canal in Huangjinzhou.

Only when these two canals are completed, will the ships of Ming Dynasty complete the circumnavigation in the shortest time and connect Europe, Africa, Golden Continent, and Ming Continent.

However, at present, it is very difficult to build the canal in Golden Island, because the population there is too small, and it is not easy to arrest the local aborigines to build the canal.

One is that people are too scattered and difficult to catch, and the other is that it is easy to cause conflicts.

Therefore, Zhu Yunxi could only focus on the land of Egypt first, and try to find a way to build the Hongwu Grand Canal first.

Daming Embassy in Cairo, Egypt.

With the sound of ticking electricity, a telegram across more than a dozen transit stations was transmitted.

Zhang Zhiqian, the ambassador here, immediately went to the Cairo Palace in a carriage after seeing it, and met Ashraf, the king of the Mamluk dynasty.

Ashraf has just succeeded to the throne not long ago. On the one hand, the situation in the court is unstable, and on the other hand, he needs to avenge his father Karawin, so he needs Da Ming's help very much.

After hearing that the envoy of Ming Dynasty came to pay a visit, he immediately walked out of the palace to welcome him warmly.

"Oh!"

"My respected Zhiqian Zhang, I miss you so much, your arrival has made my palace brighten both the floor and roof..."

"King Ashraf, that's called Plumeria radiata, not all floors and ceilings radiate brilliance..."

"oh oh!"

"Look at my memory, I got it wrong again."

"However, your Daming official language is really too difficult to learn. I have learned from you for so long, and I even got a single idiom wrong."

Zhang Zhiqian praised sincerely.

"I'm surprised that you can learn so quickly."

"I came here today for a major event. Our Royal Highness, the Emperor Taisun of Ming Dynasty, is not satisfied with the construction speed of the canal. I hope that King Ashraf can capture more slaves and strong men."

Ashraf's heart suddenly sank when he heard this, and his face was no longer as bright as before.

Since he took the line of Daming, he has successively put 30 people into the canal.

He has already caused complaints in the country. If he recruits young men again, it is hard to say that he will not be overthrown by his own people.

"Zhigan Zhang!"

"Please think about it from my point of view. I'm going to conquer Ak City now, and I really can't spare enough troops to help you arrest people."

Zhang Zhiqian sneered when he heard this.

"What are you using to attack Ake City?"

"If I remember correctly, Ake City is separated from your country by the Red Sea, right?"

"It's fine if you walk by land, but the supplies along the way will probably make you uncomfortable, right?"

"This……"

Ashraf was confused when he heard the words, Zhang Zhiqian was right, but most of the problems he said came from Daming.

If Daming hadn't occupied the coasts of the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, he would have gone to Jerusalem long ago to avenge his father!

"I wonder if Mr. Zhang has any good ideas?"

Zhang Zhiqian smiled confidently.

"Of course there is a way!"

"If King Ashraf doesn't mind, our Ming warships can assist you in transporting troops and supplies."

"This……"

Ashraf was very moved when he heard the words. Deming's warship is really advanced, not only faster, but also has a huge cargo capacity.

If he had the assistance of the Ming Fleet, he would be able to attack Ake City with twice the result with half the effort.

However, there is no free lunch in the world, especially the price of Daming's lunch is ridiculously high.

"It's a good way, but how can I repay Daming?"

Zhang Zhiqian said calmly upon hearing the words.

"Good job!"

"All the enemies captured this time, all rushed to work on the canal!"

Ashraf was not surprised to hear Zhang Zhiqian's words, he was just a little confused, that is, Da Ming had such a powerful weapon, why didn't he go and arrest him himself?

"May I ask Mr. Zhang, you Daming can capture the slaves by yourself, why do you want to use my hands?"

Zhang Zhiqian smiled and said.

"What are you talking about..."

"To be honest, my Ming Dynasty is a state of etiquette, and I never take the initiative to do things that hurt nature and reason."