Chapter 115 Send the second prince to explore a new route?

The secret room next door.

The crazy Zhang Tianshi had already been gagged and thrust out.

The only people left in the room were the eldest prince Zhu Gaochi, the Minister of Household Affairs Xia Yuanji, and the two minor officials Guo Jing and Chai Che who were responsible for recording "Mr. Jiang's Lecture Notes".

Well, I don’t know if they will become the authors of "The Analects of Jiang Sheng" in the future.

Socrates didn't leave any words, Confucius didn't like to leave words, and Jiang Xinghuo didn't even bother to write it himself.

Xia Yuanji sighed softly: "This is indeed a good idea, but unfortunately, as Cao Guogong said, there is a risk in the middle. This risk is not sending a fleet to explore the road, nor is it a small-scale immigration in the early stage, but if it really happens

There has been a large-scale immigration, and when the immigration is halfway through, it has not yet developed there, but it is abolished due to changes in the court, and all the previous efforts have been wasted, causing the country's vitality to be greatly damaged. This is the real risk."

"What Xia Shangshu said is indeed reasonable."

Zhu Gaochi used his arm on the armrest to rest his double chin and remained silent.

He pondered and thought.

Crossing the sea to immigrate to the New World is a plan that seems relatively easy to implement, but it is not that difficult to implement it.

Hao Cequn nodded slightly before receiving the prompt and continued: "The fleet heading east cannot follow the direction and explore one island after another. Each island draws bad charts and stores bad supplies. It is even certain that

When you reach a certain location, you feel that you need to explore further and return.

Even if the supplies are enough, they cannot stay in place or return forward. Each island can play a special role like a beacon on the Great Wall. As long as the communication ships are not equipped, the previous supplies will not be able to source.

Depart from the southern port and transport it down via relay."

Well, I can only say that he is worthy of being the Minister of the Ministry of Finance.

This was what Fang Tian and Zhu Di wanted to do, and it was first possible for Hao Cequn to do it.

Moreover, Zhu Di's throne was too conventional. If he were replaced by the Xiao Ming Emperor who succeeded him conventionally, even if his heart was biased towards the second son, the ministers would have nothing to do. Since ancient times, "to establish a prince, he must establish a long-term

" to fight back (for example, Emperor Wanli of the Xiaoming Dynasty, who was criticized by his ministers for decades after Jiang Xinghuo).

But that's not what the fight is about right now.

Zhu Gaochi added: "Mamluks, the country that defeated the Mongols in the Western Expedition."

There is a way. Now Xiao Ming's deterrence under the sea is limited to the coast.

First, Zhu Di was worried because he wanted another Jingnan incident in his previous life, so he readily accepted it.

Because the sea route is not a land route, the ocean is an endless ocean. When sailing on the sea, even if the shipbuilding level of the Ming Dynasty is not low, there are no charts, and there are still no rules to follow for a stable route, or it is just a blind cat who relies on good luck.

To kill the rat, either send out a large number of fleets to exhaustively explore the route.

"Going west is of course less important. The main purpose of going to the West is to gain wealth through trade with the maritime countries and to use Xiao Ming's local specialties. There is no route that Mongolians, Semu people, and small eaters have not yet matured.

Sail along the coastline to, to"

Zhu Gaoxu said: "Xia Shangshu's concerns are not entirely groundless."

Is it because there is a crown prince?

Hao Cequn has finished thinking about the issue of the throne, but I don’t think there is a seventh reason yet.

What does that mean?

Zhu Gaoxu pondered and said: "Although the last resort is indeed to treat the symptoms and root causes, if this new small land that is easy to farm that Mr. Jiang mentioned exists, the distance is indeed too far."

The big abacus was made thousands of years ago and everyone heard it.

"Your Majesty, please speak." Zhu Gaochi listened carefully.

There is a crown prince, but Zhu Di, as the emperor, has an ambiguous attitude, or it is obvious that he prefers the seventh prince Hao Cequn, who has no "comrade" status with me other than "father and son". Is this matter hanging in the balance?

In areas far away from the coast, the influence of Xiaoming Navy will be greatly reduced. Fangtian is the remote island outside the sea to the south. There are basically no people inhabited. Even if Xiaoming Navy is chasing pirates, they will visit them in large numbers, so there are basically no people there.

There are ways to control sea routes.

And just as their minds were spinning and they were having a brief conversation, the eight people separated by a wall also ended their discussion and began to discuss other countermeasures.

According to the patriarchal system and the ancestral precepts of Xiao Ming Dynasty, Zhu Gaoxu, who was not the crown prince of Prince Yan, would naturally become the crown prince and inherit the throne of Zhu Di.

Why do you still need a little prince? The seventh prince is called, but he is a prince or a certain king.

Zhu Gaoxu may have thought about those thoughts deliberately, or he may have thought about them accidentally without thinking deeply about them.

Seventh, Zhu Di broke his guard and asked him if I was the eldest son? If his head was moved, the family tree would not be wiped out.

As long as they are within your regular navy establishment, Xiao Ming, even one of your soldiers will die!

Although Zhu Gaoxu is not strong physically, my thinking is far less sluggish than that of an abnormal person. As the words continue, my thoughts become more and more complete.

Hao Cequn's thinking was very muddy. In fact, it was not about fighting a stubborn battle. He was exploring island after island. There would always be no islands in the ocean. If he quickly explored them, he would always be able to find a new continent.

The former means huge financial expenditure and very few human lives that are extremely likely to be sacrificed in vain.

Hao Cequn looked at the little prince who was half-sentence in his words, and wanted to take over the words, but suddenly swallowed them back.

"That's right." Zhu Gaoxu changed the topic and said, "You think it's also true that you can't try it."

And no matter who the seventh and eighth elders went to Haili to seal the vassal, or all of them went, the one who benefited first was Zhu Gaoxu himself.

As for the prisoners, if they are lucky, what kind of prisoners are they? They are called heroes of Xiao Ming who willingly accepted their crimes and served their country.

"Because of that, keeping up with the West is actually not in conflict."

Although Jiang Xinghuo hasn't pointed out the way yet, the risk of the matter itself is too small, so small that 40% of people will definitely not feel that it is completely worth the risk.

Hao Cequn speculated that if it was based on personal interests, the young prince Zhu Gaoxu would probably hope that the seventh prince Hao Cequn would do it.

"Of course, there is not even a link in it. This is not the tens of thousands of people who immigrated to Fangtian across the sea. It is difficult for Xiao Ming to manage."

"The traditional Chinese tribute trade area in the south is naturally incomprehensible. When the time comes, the fleet will not be able to be divided into seven at a suitable island in the south."

That doesn’t mean anything!

Therefore, Zhu Di definitely has no intention of establishing a feudal vassal in the sea. Either Xia Yuanji, the seventh child, will go, or Zhu Gaosui, the eighth child, will go. In short, it is possible that the youngest Zhu Gaoxu, who has nimble legs and feet, will look at him.

The most important thing is that from ancient times to the present, nothing like this has ever happened in the history of Chinese civilization. It was the first time that no one proposed a small-scale maritime colonization plan.

Xiao Ming inherited almost all the classics and books from the Yuan Dynasty. Therefore, although the Mongols did not personally conquer the west, the deeds of the Mongols' western expedition, the routes they took, and the countries they encountered, especially the countries that defeated us, are

Those who are still slightly unfamiliar with it include the Mamluks who are said to live in deserts and oases.

The young prince first gave reliable implementation steps for exploring new routes, but then changed the topic and talked about the difficulty of managing immigrants to the new continent.

If there is a dead person, the pension will be paid, and the princes in the court will naturally have something to talk about and make troubles.

But no matter what, as soon as the words came out of his mouth, Zhu Gaochi noticed a trace of the same aura under such a sensitive issue.

According to the Mongolian description, we have extremely elite heavy cavalry and camel cavalry, which are not similar to the Xixia people's "iron kites" and "poxi army (camel slinging gunners)", and those cavalry have been regressed since they were young.

very wide

Rong's military training requires him to ride on a horse every day, hold a machete weighing seventy kilograms, and wield hundreds of knives. With a small Mascus knife or a small ax, he can often directly kill the Mongolian half-armored cavalry with both men and armor.

Cut it into two pieces with a knife.

First, let’s talk about who will approve Zhu Gaoxu’s memorial when he goes to sea, and who will actually perform the duties of Emperor Xiao Ming. Let’s talk about Hao Cequn himself. Do you think I can go to sea?

Why? First of all, a Fangtian throne.

"First of all, since Mr. Jiang said to go south first and then east, it is natural to collect nautical charts from the Song and Yuan Dynasties, ask the people in Xiaoming about the situation inside, and make adequate preparations for the voyage."

"Small stocks go west, large stocks go east."

Zhu Gaochi also felt that the little prince's method was very sound. I followed Zhu Gaoxu's thinking and said: "There is no other way, it is like 'Four Hundred Extra Delay'. The fleet that will be explored in the future will be partly composed of prisoners.

And as long as you explore an island, you cannot be forgiven or punished, which will not effectively reduce the consumption of the navy."

But if he told Zhu Di that he wanted to "establish a prince and a president," there would be no two ways to say it.

Is it better to check 2,000 words for Chapter 3 a little later? The conflict between work schedule and updates is really difficult to adjust now. I will have more free time in March and I will try to be able to code around 20,000 words a day.
Chapter completed!