open sea

Chapter 623
Feng Bao was instructed by Empress Dowager Li not to allow princes and vassals to be granted external titles.

This is too difficult.

What's even more amazing is that as soon as Chen Mu entered the palace, he was taken by the eunuchs to the square in front of the Wanli Emperor's palace. The little emperor was holding a blunderbuss to shoot the grass man. He said: "Bo Jinghai, why did you send my uncles and brothers overseas to a place of bitter cold?"

"Overseas is bitterly cold, Your Majesty, overseas is not bitterly cold, it is very warm on the equator, and summer is four o'clock, that is a good place for princes."

Chen Mu just responded casually, Xiao Wanli threw the dragon-patterned bird gun on the weapon rack, waved his hands in his big sleeves, and pushed back the accompanying eunuch Jinyi, then he frowned and said to Chen Mu: "It really is you I knew that overseas is your core interest!"

The little emperor is very good at learning and using it flexibly.

It can be seen that the reassignment of the vassal king has pissed him off.

"The core interests of the minister are not overseas, how can I hand over the core interests to others." Chen Mugong handed over, and then asked: "Is your majesty unhappy because of the transfer of the feudal lord?"

"Hmph, you still dare to ask, you want to seal all my uncles and brothers overseas, and find an excuse that you are not good at learning, then if I am a vassal king, I will not know how to study!" The little emperor thought. Looking like he was going to vent his anger but didn't know where to start, he put the hair crown in his hands and then put it in the big sleeves of the sun and moon robe to hold his stomach, and his tone softened by himself: "Even if the king does something else, he won't be sent to death." Overseas death, look at your subordinate Magui, more than 1000 people died, and there are more than 200 left."

"I have [-] clans in the Ming Dynasty. According to the cabinet, there are only a few dozen people who can be judged as winners. The [-] clans are distributed overseas. After a year, there are only [-] left. How do you tell me to deal with it? Ancestor, will I go to visit the ancestral mausoleum in the future?"

This logic... is impeccable!

Chen Mu really planned this way when he suggested to Zhang Juzheng two years ago that the vassal prince should be sealed off. Those who die will die, and those who are alive will clean up the place. Anyway, it is a waste to leave the country. As long as tens of thousands of clans can produce a few talents, it will be enough , but this is not the case now!
Zhang Juzheng obviously thought more comprehensively than Chen Mu, and he was not so hasty. He had been preparing for more than two years and asked the chief assistant to keep this matter in mind, and now it is because the time is ripe.

Chen Mu cupped his hands and smiled, and said, "Your Majesty hasn't discussed this matter with Mr. Zhang Ge?"

The little emperor glanced at his face and said: "No, the matter hasn't been reported to me yet, it's all the courtiers who are discussing it."

As he said that, he glanced at Chen Mu and said, "But the news had already spread, and the clan was terrified."

Chen Mu sorted out his words, and said: "The external sealing of the clan is not what His Majesty thought. The [-] clans are to be sealed out in a gradual and orderly manner. For America, where the route is immature, the first choice is the mature Southeast Asia. In the past, I traveled to and from Guangdong and various countries in Southeast Asia several times a year, and even the reefs in that sea area were clearly explored by Lord Sanbao."

"Your Majesty, you should know that the clan's life in the country is not good. Some of them are as poor as ordinary people, and some of them occupy the land of the people. The officials and the people dare not speak out when they see it."

"Even so, they can't be entrusted overseas!" The little emperor stretched out his hand and said, "There are a few unworthy descendants, but there are also virtuous kings?"

"Then your Majesty thinks, does the clan have a higher chance of being a virtuous king, or is it more likely to be unworthy?" After saying something presumptuous, Chen Mu quickly followed up: "If the clan is as wise as your majesty, as a courtier How can you be willing to seal people overseas, it is only right to stay in the country and devote yourself to writing!"

Seeing that Wanli was lost in thought, Chen Mu paused for a moment before striking while the iron was hot and explained: "It sounds like transfer to overseas is a punishment, because once transferred, Zhuangtian and Lumi will be gone. If this is punishment, it will not affect everyone , This is to encourage the clan to be eager to learn, not to violate the law and ancestral system, and to guide the clan to learn."

"The vassal princes have a carefree life, but as the descendants of the royal family, everyone should shoulder the heavy responsibility of the country's progress. They can study science without violating the ancestral system. No one is more suitable than them. Elder Ge has considered very carefully."

"If this plan works out, leaving clans who are good at learning in the country, fewer clans can guarantee that everyone will be treated more favorably, not to mention the rewards brought by scientific and technological progress, their lives will be richer, and their lives will be better. He is more respected, otherwise, as he is now, enjoying the glory and wealth but not being able to stretch his ambitions, wouldn't the life of the clan be miserable?"

"Even if you are not suitable for learning, you can still defend your home country by entrusting overseas with a little military administration. If you don't take charge of military administration, you can also get overseas Wangzhuang to earn wealth. Overseas is not only a place of bitter cold, but also a place of wealth and honor. Last year, the imperial court received silver every year. [-]% and [-]% of rice and grain flow in from overseas, so how can it be said that overseas is a place of bitter cold?”

The little emperor frowned again. If this continues, he might grow old very quickly. He said, "But the silver and rice grains were all brought back by merchants, and the clan doesn't know how to do business. How can they earn wealth?"

"Your Majesty doesn't really think that Daming is doing business overseas, right?" Chen Mu smiled, and the little emperor was quite naive, and said: "The cost of merchants doing business is silver, and the cost of Daming overseas is four dollars." The ocean fleet is the military force of Ming Dynasty. It is so powerful that it can allow our merchants to monopolize the trade in the sea area. Sea ships from other countries do not need to leave the port. Our merchants can earn ten times and a hundred times when they go from one port to another. profit."

"In the port of Luzon, the best goods are bought by Ming; in Malacca, the most expensive goods are sold by Ming; technology is the primary productive force, and people only pay attention to the outer seal of the vassal king, but they don't pay attention to the world's most expensive goods. technological advancement was left to the clan to fill the void.”

The little emperor squinted his mouth and squeezed his eyes, trying to explore the new vocabulary he heard from Chen Mu: "Productivity?"

"In India, they grow cotton on their vast land, so that the price is low, and then weave it into cloth. It takes three months for each of them to weave a piece of cloth; in Guangdong, we buy a huge amount of cotton every year, and our weaving skills are even better. Well, our looms are faster to produce. We have 10 people in this industry. If we spend 10 taels of cotton, we can produce 160 million pieces of cloth a year, and they only have 40 pieces. Our cloth quality is better , produce more, and dump them back, they can earn 100 million taels and crush their market.”

"Over time, their weavers can't survive and can only return to growing cotton. They are getting poorer and we are getting richer. Now there are no people in India weaving cloth, because weaving by ourselves is more expensive than buying."

"As long as technology advances, overseas clans can make money from everything produced, because our technology is the best, and no one can surpass us."

"The minister's thinking at the beginning was indeed wrong, so although the minister first proposed the feudal king's outer seal, he did not say a word in the court's discussion, because Mr. Zhang Ge was more thoughtful than Chen. He was right. The clan is also an indispensable part of the Ming Dynasty, and it can also make remarkable achievements for the world."

Chen Mu saw that what he said was almost the same, and cleared up his misunderstanding in Wanli's eyes, he took out the ship map and said, "Your Majesty, the four giant ships to circumnavigate around the sky have been completed, and they are now sailing to Dagukou. This is the ship map... ..."

"The teacher has mentioned these four ships a long time ago. I don't look at the ship map, so I'm going to invite my mother."

The emperor pushed the boat map with his little hand and went to greet the eunuch.

"I want to see the boat!"

(End of this chapter)