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"If nothing unexpected happens, the Cape of Good Hope should have been taken down!"

Once again, standing in front of the world map that was very large but somewhat "distorted", Zhu Mingzhong deliberately took a pen and placed a point at the southernmost point of Africa.

There is the Cape of Good Hope.

A few bites of meat on the increasingly weak Dutch are inevitable for China to move towards the sea. After all, in Asia and even in the Indian Sea, the biggest threat is not the Spanish, not the Portuguese, nor the British, but the Dutch.

The world in the mid-17th century was different from the 19th century. The 19th century was Victorian and the British century. Any country trying to rise must rely on Britain's "response". However, in the 17th century, it was a century of disputes among the nations. There were no real strong people, and the strong were on the road to rise.

The reason why the Netherlands is a threat to the Ming Dynasty is that compared to the Portuguese, Spain is a group of businessmen, but the Dutch are a group of merchants. From the South Ming Sea to the Tianzhu Sea, Dutch merchant ships account for half of them. They almost monopolize the spice trade between Europe and Asia. The trade routes between South Ocean to the Ming Dynasty, and South Ocean and India are filled with them. This is the threat to the Dutch.

A country that does not understand the ocean cannot gain benefits from navigation. For China, which has a two thousand-year-old continental tradition, if it wants to understand the ocean, it can only use maritime trade, rather than like France. The king can exhaust the national treasury and build a huge fleet, but in the end, because it cannot obtain enough benefits from the ocean, its naval power will always decline again and again.

A navy without maritime interests as support cannot last long. A country that does not understand the ocean will not choose the ocean. If you want to understand the ocean, you must let people know what the ocean can bring to them.

It can bring wealth! A continuous stream of wealth!

This requires the support of trade routes, and hundreds of merchant ships need to sail on the routes and engage in various trades. In the end, the fresh things and stories brought back by the captains and sailors will allow people to slowly understand the ocean, let them know the importance of the ocean, make them yearn for sailing and the wealth of the new world.

At this time, the consciousness of the ocean will be generated in this country. It is not until this time that the king's fleet will become the country's fleet. It is no longer the king who promotes the development of fleets and navigation technology, but the entire country will promote from the bottom up.

History has long proved all this. After the mighty Navy Zheng He lost the emperor's support, he left the Chinese people hundreds of years later. Now, what Zhu Mingzhong needs is to use his interests to awaken the country's ambition to go to the sea.

Benefit!

It is all the driving force that drives everything, just like Nanyang!

"The clan sealed the royal family in the South China Sea, of course, will also include all the barbarians in the future, so as to use their hands to spread our Chinese civilization into barbarians, South China Sea, Africa, America, and..."

Staring at the unpainted sea area to the south of the map, there is also a continent, a continent that has not been discovered by various countries. It is wrong, but it has been discovered long ago.

As early as 1605, Dutch navigators sailed along the southern coastline of New Guinea from Indonesia, crossed the Torres Strait, and landed in the Gulf of Capentalia, Australia. They named this place New Holland and said they were the first people to discover Australia in history. From 1642 to 1644, the Dutch East India Company sent people to conduct two large-scale investigations on Australia, discovering the islands of New Zealand and Tasmania in later generations, and headed west to the estuary of the Williams River in the central west coast of Australia. They found that Capentalia was not a strait but a bay, thus concluding that Australia was a large island. The Spaniards also discovered Australia, and even now, the strait between New Guinea and Australia has long been clearly explored by the Spanish.

It's just that no matter whether the Dutch or the Spanish kept this discovery confidential and was not allowed to be spread. The reason for this is that they have no power to occupy Australia for the time being. Confidentiality is the best choice for the Age of Discovery. Of course, this is also the fundamental reason why they are unwilling to colonize Australia's relatively barren South and West Coasts.

"Southern Continent! That is, the "New Holland" in the Dutch secret archives."

With his hand on the southern waters on the map, Zhu Mingzhong raised the corner of his lips.

"After the Dutch handed over Batavia, we obtained Batavia's secret archives, so that we can know their various discoveries in the southern continent. The Dutch expedition team found a coastline of about 7,000 miles long, thus proving that the so-called "New Netherlands" is an extremely vast continent, and this place can also become the finite of the Ming Dynasty in the future."

The fief of the Ming Dynasty!

It was not a colony of the Ming Dynasty, these were two completely different concepts. Before making the closure, Zhu Mingzhong had thought about the future rule of the colonial empire more than once, but now, he has let go of this problem.

It is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to occupy the whole world!

Even if it is occupied, it is impossible to rule the whole world. Moreover, the huge colonial empire cannot last. Spain, Britain and France have proved this. However, Chinese civilization can spread to the whole world, at least to the so-called "wild land".

"The road is blue and arduous to open the mountains and forests. There are barbarians who belong to China."

I silently recited these sixteen words on my lips. The Ming Dynasty is just an era, and China is China!

"Your Majesty, history records that the Zhou Dynasty "controlled the world and established seventy-one countries". The ancestors of the 71 countries worked hard to open mountains and forests to achieve the great unification of China today. At this time, Your Majesty wants to enfeoff the royal family. Although it seems that it cannot directly accept the colonies for our Ming Dynasty, it can allow China to grow branches and leaves in the world again. Although it is a temporary feudal, I think that after a thousand years, all countries will be unified again. At that time, the world will be united."

Datong!

This is exactly the pursuit of Chinese civilization. Unlike other civilizations who enslave and massacre natives, the expansion of Chinese civilization is "education" and is transformed into Xia through education.

"It is true. In the pre-Qin period, the world was wilderness, and the emperor divided the world into the world, which was to influence remote tribes outside the Central Plains with the Xia culture, so that they could be transformed into Xia and turned into Xia. This is exactly the mission of my Chinese. It can only be different from the First Emperor. In the past dynasties, I have forgotten my Chinese mission and guarded the pre-Qin education. It has caused my Chinese frequent internal consumption and even been destroyed by the civilized civilization several times. Now, what I have done, what I have done is not the world of the Zhu family, but for the destiny of my Chinese civilization, the great harmony of the world, the transformation of Di and Xia, and the sects are the Xia, and the education of the world is the great harmony of the world, and the great harmony of the world is the great harmony of the world!"

At this moment, not to mention other people, even Zhu Mingzhong himself felt an unprecedented sense of mission, and even a stream of passionate blood surged from his chest, and even the passionate blood boiled.

"Your Majesty, if this wish can be fulfilled... I only wish to drive your Majesty to realize this wish of great harmony in the world!"

Gu Yanwu was also shocked by the big dumpling "Datong". At this moment, he seemed to understand why His Majesty changed the Confucian Temple to a temple across the country, and why the main hall of the temple was called "Datong Temple".

"In the great way, the world is the public, chooses wise and capable, and is faithful and harmonious. Therefore, friends do not only care about their relatives, not only their sons, but also their sons, so that the elderly can have something to live, the strong can have something to use, the young can have something to be good, the widows have something to be good, the widows have something to be lonely, the sick have something to be cared for. Men have a share, women have a return. If goods hate them, they don't have to hide themselves; if strength hates them, they don't have to be for themselves. Therefore, they are closed but not promising, stealing thieves without doing anything, so they do not keep them in their homes, which is called great harmony."

Reciting the Book of Rites: Rites and Lucks, these hundred words are the "highest realm" pursued by Confucianism. In the past, for Zhu Mingzhong, what he did was just to make Confucianism empty, make it a philosophy, a god, and then to keep people away from it. After all, the Chinese people have never been a pious nation throughout the ages. They would worship Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, and also worship Heavenly Fathers and Allahs. As for mountain gods, land, river gods, and fox fairies, there were countless people, but no matter what they worship, they could never be pious.

As the saying goes, "Work when you see the Buddha, it is not surprising that there are too many rituals." Most Chinese people regard religion as they need it. When they save their lives, they even want to worship all the gods and Buddhas they know. As for piety... those who can eat meat in front of the Buddha, and those who chant Buddha before the Tao cannot be compared with them.

It is precisely because of the Chinese people who want to talk to Jesus about Allah and the meat-eating character that Zhu Mingzhong boldly "educated" was nothing more than to weaken his influence.

But now, Zhu Mingzhong found that there seems to be no better tool than "Datong". Imagine that we came to Africa not to enslave the African people, but to bring them developed civilization, to improve their lives, and to rescue them from ignorance. It is to promote the world's great harmony.

"It is not only about having relatives, not only about having children, but about having children, so that the elderly can have something to live, the strong can have something to use, the young can have something to be good, and the widows and lonely can all be raised..."

Repeating this sentence again, Zhu Mingzhong suddenly realized that "Datong" seemed to be impeccable. European missionary preaching was for slavery and colonization. What was our summers going to all over the world?

It is to achieve such a "world of great harmony". Of course, in this process, some "unpleasantness" may occur, but... this is the price of progress. There are always some ignorant and conservative "feudal forces" who are resisting. They still try to enslave their compatriots with ignorant, backward and barbaric ideas, but we, Zhuxia, have brought them civilization! Let them bathe in the glory of great harmony!

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