Wei Bao nodded instructively, "I understand what Taishan means, I don't have to deliberately contact Empress Zhang, nor do I need to deliberately contact Zhang Guoji." ”

"By the way, what everyone has done, in fact, others have an evaluation, do you think that your thoughts, the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party, they can't understand it? In fact, everyone knows it in their hearts. Your Majesty likes you, firstly because you are the same age, and secondly because you can really do things! It can even be said that because you are greedy enough, your Majesty and Wei Zhongxian can rest assured of you. Therefore, you must not make people think that you only want to get money, not power, and you will be stable. With our British government here, no matter how greedy you are, it's not a big deal. ”

Wei Bao had a knowing expression and almost laughed.

Depend on!

Lao Tzu still thinks he is very smart all the time, it turns out that everything about Lao Tzu, his father-in-law can see it clearly?

"You are doing very well now, the Donglin Party does not hate you, and the Eunuch Party still reuses you. You know why? Zhang Weixian continued: "It's not because you are generous, you like your lover to eat and drink." In fact, even if you give everyone money, others may not say that you are good. It's that you can really get things done! There are a lot of redundant officials and redundant personnel, everyone knows that it is not good, and they all know that they need to be dismissed, but no one has the courage to do it, and you have done it, so only the victimized people will be angry, and the officials who stay will not say that you are not, and the common people will praise your benefits. Moreover, after you took charge of Shandong, the place was stable, and hundreds of thousands of bandits killed them when they said they would, which ordinary people could not do. Whether it is the Donglin Party or the Eunuch Party, the Ming Dynasty, whether it is a Beijing official or a local official, I can say that except for my Zhang Weixian's son-in-law, no one has this skill! ”

Zhang Weixian said and smiled proudly.

Wei Bao felt comfortable in his heart, it felt like drinking honey, and the praise of the old man made Wei Bao very useful.

"Not only that, there is a reason why I think your proposal is good and very likely to be approved this time, because you won Nurhachi in Liaodong! This hasn't been done in years, and it's not all! You also fought the surrender of an entire Mongolian tribe, which has not happened since Emperor Chengzu. These can give confidence! If it weren't for the fact that you were still too young, and you were almost the best official, Da Ming would not have become a marquis at the age of fifteen, and your brother would still be nothing. Zhang Weixian stared at Wei Bao appreciatively.

Wei Bao was a little embarrassed by his father-in-law.

Although Wei Bao is not married in modern times, he does not have a father-in-law.

But Wei Bao heard that the relationship between son-in-law and mother-in-law is generally good, and the relationship with father-in-law is very embarrassing.

"Taishan, don't praise me anymore, I'm embarrassed to praise me." Wei Bao laughed.

"I want to praise you, but also say you, you are too greedy, I hope that after this matter is over, you will try to sink as much as possible, preferably within three or five years, and the officials of the Ming court will try not to mention your name." Zhang Weixian said.

"I'm afraid it's unlikely." Wei Bao sighed and said, "I understand what Taishan means, Taishan wants me to keep a low profile. But I'm already a marquis at such a young age, and I'm still low-key. ”

Zhang Weixian smiled slightly, he felt very funny about Wei Bao's words, for example, this is low-key, although Zhang Weixian can figure out what it means, but only Wei Bao will have such a novel statement.

chatted with his father-in-law for a while, and under his father-in-law's nose, Wei Bao wrote the recital that he was going to take to the cabinet tomorrow for Gu Bingqian.

Zhang Weixian watched it several times and felt that there was no problem before agreeing.

Wei Bao left.

Wei Bao originally thought that he would need to talk all night, but he didn't expect it to be done in half an hour, which made Wei Bao very satisfied.

Wei Bao was in a good mood, and on the way back, he had been humming a little song with Erlang's legs crossed in the rickety sedan chair.

People, either like chili peppers, have a temper.

Either there are layers like cabbage.

Either it has a heart like a lotus root.

But a lot of kind people can't do it.

Ordinary people play like a sugar cane,

There will be no beating around the bush, one is one, and two is two.

Although such a character can't be eaten and is easy to offend people, most people still like themselves like this.

Don't be hypocritical, don't count others, like to be your true self, good will be rewarded, evil will have evil consequences.

People are alive, stupid, stunned, silly, it doesn't matter, it's good to be simple.

If you are too shrewd, too clear, too understanding, you will be sad, you will be sad, you will be tired, and you will only suffer yourself.

Whether it's a friend, a relative, or a lover, don't take it too seriously, and get along with each other in a muddle.

That's the biggest understanding.

No one is much smarter than the other, and no one is much more stupid than the other.

Being stupid doesn't mean you're really stupid, and many times you're just being loyal.

Stupid people don't mean they're blind, they just don't want to debunk it, they don't want to see through it.

Stupid people don't mean that they are easy to bully, many times they just tolerate it generously.

Sometimes I don't care, I don't get angry. It's because there's still affection to speak of.

Sometimes I will be soft-hearted and forgive, because the deep love is still there.

Life is only a few decades in the world, and suffering is a blessing.

Why bother to calculate carefully because of profit, and why bother with love because of love.

Wei Bao always believes that good people have good rewards, and foolish people have stupid blessings.

My father-in-law said well, I thought I was hiding it well, but in fact, what I had done, no matter how closed the Heaven and Earth Society was to the outside world, it was impossible for the outside world to be unheard.

There is such a large piece of land in the Ming Dynasty that has been taken up by a foreign minister, how can others not pay attention to Wei Bao.

Of course, the area under the rule of the Heaven and Earth Society is closed to the outside world, and there will not be too much news coming out.

Moreover, what Wei Bao got was a barren land, and everyone couldn't imagine that it could develop so fast, and they all thought that the places controlled by Wei Bao needed huge investment so that people would not starve to death on a large scale.

No one could have imagined that the area under Wei Bao's Heaven and Earth Society was almost self-sufficient.

Of course, Wei Bao is clear about these outside views.

This is also the reason why Wei Bao was able to hold the area under the rule of the Heaven and Earth Society, the emperor and Wei Zhongxian did not say much, and the ministers did not have too much criticism.

What Wei Bao was worried about was not the matter of the treaty port, but whether the matter of whether the Yamen, the governor of coastal defense, wanted to take charge of all the sailors of the Ming Dynasty.

If he can fully control the Daming Naval Division, it doesn't matter to Wei Bao whether he can open a commercial port or not, because the Naval Division can be used to bring goods and protect trade, and he will become the largest naval commander of the Ming Dynasty, or the biggest pirate leader of the Ming Dynasty.

The sailors of the Ming Dynasty once had a glorious history, and in the process of establishing the Ming Dynasty and defending the Ming Dynasty, they have established outstanding feats.

In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the rapid decline of China's once-powerful navy caused the Ming Empire's national security space in the northern Indian Ocean and the western Pacific to shrink dramatically.

As a result, it changed the pattern of power in the Eastern Hemisphere and influenced the course of modern and modern history of the entire world.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, China had a navy of 3,500 warships, which carried out massive cruises every spring and summer, and in 1373 and 1374 the Ming Dynasty sailors pursued the Japanese as far as the Ryukyu Islands, and defeated the Vietnamese pirates in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1409.

During Zheng He's Sixth Maritime Expedition, a Chinese detachment sailed around the Cape of Good Hope into the Atlantic Ocean and into Southwest Africa.

Another detachment entered the Pacific Ocean via the Solomon Islands to the east coast of Australia.

In the Strait of Malacca, Sri Lanka and Sumatra, challenges to China's maritime authority were crushed, envoys from thirty-six countries submitted to the Ming Empire, and China became the most powerful maritime power at that time.

As a result, a Ming overseas empire was formed, consisting of the trading fortresses of the North Indian Ocean, the Malay Peninsula and the South Sea Islands, and the Sulphur Islands.

But the great Ming naval hegemony began to decline in the middle of the fifteenth century.

The decline of the Ming Dynasty's sailors began in the orthodox period, and it was abandoned to the bottom in the Jiajing period, and strengthened at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

This is manifested in the emptiness of the coastal guards and the low morale of the sailors.

The Guards' Army was a hereditary professional army, with a meager salary, only one stone a month, and was exploited by the officers, and lived in hardship.

For example, the shortage of the seven guards in Guangzhou reached 69.8 percent in the middle of the Jiajing period, and the shortage in Zhenhaiwei in Fujian was 76.1 percent.

The fleet is reduced, the ships are damaged.

The sharp reduction of the Weisuo army has also led to a sharp decrease in the personnel of the naval division, such as the shortage of 73.7% in the Fenghuomen Water Village in Fujian, the shortage of the Tongshan Water Village in Tongshan has reached 65.8%, the number of ships in each fleet has decreased sharply, the original 700 warships in the fleet of Zhejiang Province have been less than half in 1440, the 400 warships in the Xinjiangkou fleet, only 140 have survived in 1474, the important naval base Dengzhou Wei, once had 100 warships, in 1503, only 3 remained, and the ship manufacturing industry declined, During Zheng He's expedition, the treasure ship of 2,000 materials slowly rotted in the harbor.

By the beginning of the 16th century, the largest warships used by the Ming Dynasty sailors were 400 materials, and they were all built from the timber of old ships.

The coastal defense strategy of the Ming Dynasty regressed, and the coastal defense line shrank.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, an offensive defensive strategy was implemented, and in response to the maritime threat from the Japanese invaders, the Ming Dynasty sent thousands of warships to patrol the northern and southern seas every year, the so-called spring patrol and summer patrol.

First of all, the fleet patrolled the sea, alert reconnaissance and sought opportunities to destroy the enemy.

When the Japanese invaders penetrated deep into the inland sea, they used the alarm communication system to concentrate the naval division and the defenders of the outer islands to coordinate annihilation.

If the Japanese invaders landed, they would be annihilated by the naval division and the garrison of the coastal guard.

In addition, the Ming army often sent fleets to attack enemy-occupied islands and smash the bases of the Japanese invaders.

The culmination of the offensive strategy was the pursuit of the Japanese by the Ming army, which reached the coast of Korea and the Ryukyu Islands.

And in order to eliminate the maritime threat from the direction of Southeast Asia, Zheng He's fleet fought in the Strait of Malacca.

In short, annihilating the enemy at sea is the core of the coastal defense strategy.

After Renxuan, the Ming Dynasty began to shrink the coastal defense line, the ocean-going fleet was recalled, the construction of large ships was stopped, the island base was abandoned, the retreat policy caused the naval division to suffer heavy losses, and the coastal defense line was pressed back to the coast from the open sea and even the ocean.

Of course, the decline of the navy was relative, and until the 16th century, the Chinese navy was still able to defeat the Portuguese navy in the South China Sea three times.

The failure of the anti-Japanese war was not mainly in terms of equipment and tactics, that is, it was actually fighting against a Japanese mercenary army equipped and commanded by Chinese merchants.

But the great decline of the Navy is unquestionable, and China in the Zheng He era had the status that the U.S. Navy has today.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the navy could no longer find the pomp and circumstance of a maritime expedition, and it had declined from an ocean-going navy to a maritime guard.

The reduction of personnel, the loss of the fleet, and the shrinkage of the coastal line are all manifestations of technical manifestations with profound social motivations.

First, the disappearance of the driving force for expansion into the sea is the most obvious reason for the decline of the sailors.

The maritime threat of Japan's islands, the high profits of overseas trade, and the importance of the defense of the southeast coast caused by the migration of the population to the southeast caused by the elimination of Zhang Shicheng.

Fang Guozhen's overseas remnants constituted the driving force for the development of the naval division in the early Ming Dynasty.

Under the blow of the Ming Dynasty sailors, the Japanese invaded only 14 times in the middle of the 15th century, and 10 of them were crushed, and the Japanese did not dare to attack.

Coupled with the rise of Sino-Japanese exploration and trade, the organizers of the Japanese invaders had legal trade channels, and the threat of the Japanese seemed to be no longer a concern.

Under Zheng He's military suppression and the Ming Dynasty's recruitment, the Chinese maritime refugees based in Southeast Asia were eliminated, especially after Chen Zuyi was eliminated, they either defected to the Ming court or disappeared, and the Nanyang Chinese trade network formed since the Southern Song Dynasty was shattered, and it could no longer constitute a threat to the mainland.

Whether it is in terms of coastal defense security, or in terms of trade monopoly.

The glory of the sea expedition was enormous, but the profits of the tributary trade soon disappeared.

With the decline of the Ming Dynasty's military power and the depreciation of paper money, the Ming court can no longer use the forced price and payment of paper money to make profits, in 1433 the Ming Dynasty can use half guan banknotes to buy spices with a current price of 5-50 guan, can use 50 guan banknotes to buy one or two gold, and the official exchange rate is 400 guan.

However, in 1453, when the market price of spices was 5-8 cents of silver, the Ming court had to pay 7 cents of silver, and the tributary trade was no longer profitable.

Eventually, the three-century-long migration to the southeast coast came to a halt and a large number of people returned inland, from 10.5 million to 5.3 million in Zhejiang, from 4 million to 2 million in Fujian, and from 3 million to 2 million in Guangdong.

The northward shift of population and economic centers has greatly reduced the pressure to expand into the ocean.

A series of changes during this period reduced the Ming Dynasty's interest in the sea, but the lack of stimulation was only one of the reasons for the decline of the sailors.

Second, the Ming Dynasty invested resources in other areas.

The threat of the Japanese was enormous, but by no means fatal, and the greatest threat of the Ming Dynasty came from the nomadic cavalry of the Mongolian plateau.

The expeditions of the Hongwu and Yongle eras left the Mongols battered and divided, but when the Ming army declined, they launched a counterattack against the Ming.

In 1449, the Mongol army captured the Ming emperor and approached the capital, becoming the strategic center of the empire to guard against threats from the north, so it was bound to retreat in the direction of the sea.

Most Ming officials did not understand the importance of the Shui Shi and instead appropriated resources that should have been used for the Shui Shi.

After the opening of the Grand Canal, they transferred the sailors to the canal to transport grain, and the sailors became transport workers.

More than seventy percent of the soldiers along the coast were sent to farm, thirty percent were sent to build ships, a large number of sailors were transferred to the capital to build palaces, and the manpower of coastal defense, which should have been used, was occupied by transportation, agriculture, and construction.

The most terrible thing was that the short-sighted emperors embezzled a large amount of water and silver.

The money saved by the cessation of the sea expedition in 1425 was used to reward the emperor's family.

In 1436, the construction of warships was greatly curtailed, and funds were used to build the emperor's tomb.

Thirdly, the corruption of the Ming Dynasty regime and the backwardness of geopolitical thought were important reasons for the decline of the Ming Dynasty's sailors

The damage caused by the corruption of the Ming Dynasty was obvious, the emperor appropriated the silver of the sailors, the eunuchs used the transport fleet, the officers withheld the salaries of the sailors, and the warships were used for smuggling, all of which caused the exhaustion of the sailors.

At the same time, the entire Ming Dynasty was mired in partisan disputes, and no one cared about the maritime interests of the Ming Dynasty.

The harm of corruption is obvious, but the obstacle of ideology and concept is indeed difficult to detect.

Ancient Chinese geopolitical thought had two Achilles' heels.

First, the lack of the concept of sea power is a typical continental geopolitical view.

China was not a country lacking in seafaring traditions, having had maritime transport and a navy at the latest in the Spring and Autumn period.

However, there is a lack of attention to the strategic value of the sea, only Zheng He has a strategic vision of the sea, and some members of Zheng He's fleet have the spirit of maritime exploration, for which they have gone deep into the sea that no one has ever set foot in before, and they are actually the first navigators to enter the South Pacific and the South Atlantic.

However, their tragic origins doomed their efforts to failure.

These rare navigators in ancient China were discriminated against eunuchs, and their success only exacerbated mainstream society's hostility towards seafaring.

In 1422, the Ming bureaucrats finally got the emperor to abandon his attempts to expand overseas while Zheng He was far away, arguing that the outside world was too big for us to fear.

Soon Zheng He was recalled, the fleet rotted in the harbor, its navigation data was destroyed by the Ministry of War, the construction of ocean-going ships was stopped, overseas private trade was strictly prohibited, and the control of the sea that was close at hand was ceded to others.

The lack of a concept of sea power has led to the Continental Armyism in the national defense strategy, which has resulted in insufficient resources for the naval divisions.

The second Achilles' heel is semi-fictional Sinocentrism, in which China has since considered itself the Celestial Empire and treats other countries as barbarians, indulging in a world centrality that is at first real, then illusory, and finally falsified, and unwilling to understand the world outside the tributary circle.

Due to the backward geographical outlook, it was believed that Zheng He had reached the whole world at that time, and no power was found at sea to rival China, so it became unnecessary to maintain a naval division.

The sense of cultural superiority brought about by Sinocentrism has led China to pursue a cosmopolitan diplomatic line, which pays more attention to the promotion of values and the radiation of culture, although there are also geopolitical interests and resource-trade considerations.

This kind of foreign strategy is much more civilized than colonialism and imperialism, but it is easy to ignore the strategic interests of one's own country.

When Zheng He crushed the challenge from the Strait of Malacca, Ceylon, and Java, the Ming Empire gained legitimacy to control these strategic locations, allowing it to control the Eurasian international shipping route.

However, the traditional policy of softness again led to a missed opportunity, otherwise the Portuguese would not have had a chance to enter the Far East.

The lack of nation-state consciousness led to the automatic abandonment of overseas interests in the Ming Dynasty.

All of this combined led to a sad ending, when Western Europe did not hesitate to borrow money like the Venetian bankers in order to build a navy, Liu Daxia, a staff member of the Ming Dynasty's military department, was strategically valuable, and the nautical materials obtained by Zheng He's fleet after decades of sacrifice and death were destroyed, and were praised by all officials of the Ming Dynasty.

The retreat of a maritime force that had played a significant role in the western Pacific and the northern Indian Ocean would undoubtedly have far-reaching and complex implications.

The collapse of the tributary trade circle in the northern Indian Ocean was also an important reason for the decline of the Ming navy.

Chinese merchants played an important role in the Indian Ocean trade as early as the Tang and Song dynasties, and this influence extended into the 16th century.

Goredo once said that he found many Chinese trading posts on the coast of India.

Another Portuguese book says that according to the people of Hormuz, there are many Chinese ships, and 4,000 Chinese ships enter the strait at a high tide alone.

During Zheng He's naval expeditions, through military deterrence and peaceful trade, many Indian Ocean countries became vassals of the Ming Dynasty, constituting a tributary trade circle in the northern Indian Ocean.

It includes three cities on the east coast of Africa, Mogadishu, Mombasa, and Laval, including Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, the southwest coast of India, Hormuz, Aden, and the east coast of Africa.

These cities controlled the trade routes to West Asia, East Africa, and the hinterland of India.

The monopoly of Arab traders on Indian Ocean trade was over, and the Portuguese would not arrive until 1498, and China had a century to control Indian Ocean trade, which in turn became an inland lake for the Ming and Ming dynasties.

As a result, the Ming Dynasty would become a world maritime power before the opening of new shipping routes, and control the maritime silk and spice routes.

Westerners will not have a chance to establish hegemony in Asia and Africa.

But all this came to naught with the end of the expedition at sea.

Although the tributary trade continues and there are many private Chinese merchant ships in the Indian Ocean, China has lost control of the Indian Ocean trade.

Without a strong maritime deterrent, foreign merchants were reluctant to buy and sell at official prices and accept paper money, making tributary trade unprofitable and diminishing.

Diplomatic relations between the Ming and Ming dynasties and the countries of the northern Indian Ocean were also estranged.

At the same time, there is no guarantee of security for a merchant fleet without a sea escort.

On July 7, 1511 alone, five Chinese merchant ships were robbed by pirates in the Strait of Malacca, but they received no protection from their homeland.

The Ming Dynasty, which had withdrawn its naval divisions from the Indian Ocean, was no longer able to protect its northern Indian vassals.

Less than a century after the end of Zheng He's expedition, the tributary circle in the northern Indian Ocean had collapsed.

Portugal occupied Laval in 1511, Howbasa and Mogadishu in 1520, he completed the occupation of the southwest coast of India in 1510, Malacca in 1511, Hormuz in 1515, and soon west of Sri Lanka.

At this point, all the vassals of the Ming Empire in the Indian Ocean, except for Aden, became Portuguese colonies.

Chinese merchants, who had played an important role in the Indian Ocean trade, were either expelled or subservient.

Due to heavy taxes and pirate raids by the Portuguese, Chinese merchants were at a disadvantage in the Indian Ocean.

Although the Portuguese did not have any competitive industrial and shipping capacity in the Indian Ocean trade, they relied on naval superiority to make huge profits, accounting for 80% of their total international trade profits.

The Ming Dynasty not only did nothing about this, it simply knew nothing.

When Malacca fell, it could only issue an edict ordering Portugal to retreat and Thailand to send troops, because the Ming Dynasty had no soldiers in the Indian Ocean at this time.

The collapse of the tributary trade circle in the northern Indian Ocean wiped out seven expeditions, thirty years of operation, and China lost its chance to become a world empire.

And the local people became slaves of Portugal and suffered brutal colonial rule.

As the only Eastern Empire that could stop Portugal, China not only failed to act as a protector, but also lost its military barriers and trade routes at sea, which was China's last chance to become a global power.

The shrinking sphere of influence in Southeast Asia was also a reason for the decline of the Great Ming Naval Division.

Relatively speaking, the tributary circles of the northern Indian Ocean were really just coastal cities, and China could only get giraffes, pearls and ginger in addition to cultural superiority.

The value of these port cities lies in the fact that they are strategic locations in the Indian Ocean, and controlling them would control the international shipping routes between Asia and Europe, while China is not a commercial colonial empire committed to maritime expansion.

Southeast Asia was of much greater importance to China, with most of the Ming Empire's major vassals located here, and all of Indochina and most of the Nanyang Islands being Chinese vassals.

Malacca and the Old Port are also nominally Chinese overseas territories.

In the tributary trade, China received minerals, timber, spices, gold, jewelry, and rice from here. In particular, the import of tin ore from Southeast Asia is of great importance to China's economy, as the former is an important raw material for the manufacture of copper coins, and the latter is a source of food for the inhabitants of Fujian and Guangdong.

And through exports or re-exports to Southeast Asia, China's porcelain, textile, tea and shipbuilding industries are very profitable. The wealth is huge, "more or more rich, and the country is also envious".

In addition to trade, Chinese immigrants play a pivotal role in Southeast Asia's economy.

At the same time, China has established a huge strategic buffer zone in its southeast by regulating international disputes, suppressing regional hegemons such as Java, Thailand, and Vietnam, establishing a China-Southeast Asia system under its own leadership, and incorporating Southeast Asia into its Huayi clan system.

Regarding the strategic position of Southeast Asia, Zheng He once said: "If you want the country to be rich and strong, you must not ignore the sea. Wealth comes from the sea, and danger comes from the sea. Once the king of another country seizes the sea, China is in danger. Our fleet is invincible, and can be used to expand trade and subdue foreign lands, so that they dare not covet the seas. ”

After all, there were very few talents with strategic vision like Zheng He, and the Ming Dynasty not only retreated from Southeast Asia itself, but also severely suppressed the Chinese merchant groups in Southeast Asia, destroying the Chinese merchant network since the Song and Yuan dynasties.

However, Chinese merchants turned to smuggling and even pirate trade, which eventually forced the imperial court to abandon the maritime ban.

At the same time, under the pressure of population and taxation, a large number of residents of the southeast coast migrated to Southeast Asia. The overseas Chinese have an autonomous status in Southeast Asia, are armed, and have great economic power.

"Since the Renxuan era, Nanyang has been actively operating Nanyang, which has become a part of China and is a vassal of China economically, culturally and politically. The civilization of Nanyang is entirely the efforts of the Chinese. If the Ming Dynasty had been able to continue its business, it would not have waited for the Europeans to come eastward, and the Nanyang countries would have become Chinese territory. ”

Zheng He's prophecy was unfortunately true, due to the retreat of the Ming Dynasty's sailors, China lost control of Southeast Asia, after the withdrawal of the Chinese fleet, Vietnam, Thailand and other regional powers bullied the weak, Southeast Asia once again fell into chaos.

"and Zheng He's warships withdrew from the South Seas, and the small countries and scattered islands immediately collapsed, and returned to their former state of mutual coaxing."

China was left with the false name of its suzerain, and it lost its maritime deterrent power, making it powerless to stop the wars for hegemony between its vassal states, and the relationship between suzerains and vassals became increasingly hollowed out, eventually becoming ceremonial.

Ignoring the warnings of the Ming Empire, Annam annexed the city of Zhancheng, which was also a Ming vassal domain.

Wei Bao's Heaven and Earth Society is ruled by the region, which currently only exists on the mainland.

It's like the tail of a giant dragon, the control area of the land, but Wei Bao is accumulating strength.

Wei Bao knew very well that the only way to make this dragon take shape and take off was to let the dragon go out to sea and soar into a wider world.

The next day, Wei Bao arrived in the cabinet very early.

Cabinet ministers are very punctual.

Whether it is a minister of the eunuch party or a minister of the Donglin party, there is no problem of labor discipline.

But today, Wei Bao, who usually can't catch up with the early dynasty, was the first to come, because they all drank too much yesterday.