The book on the secret box prepared by Zhang Lu for Zhang Shou appeared on the emperor's desk as soon as possible. When I saw Zhang Shou claiming that the soldiers of the Rui Cavalry Battalion were stationed around, it was too easy to arouse the speculation of the officials and the people, so it was better to leave the Shanhai Guards as a defense. If you are still worried that someone is trying to escape or even plotting against you, or outsiders are peeping, then you can transfer a few royal attendants to squat.

Faced with this book, which was obviously not Zhang Shou's handwriting, the emperor couldn't help but flick the small piece of paper in annoyance, and said angrily: "He will send students casually, and even such a book will be ghostwritten!" He thinks that a large number of soldiers of the cavalry battalion are there, which has attracted too many people's curiosity, don't I know? If anything goes wrong, can he explain it? ”

After all, but the emperor also knew that what Zhang Shou invited was indeed reasonable, so when he saw that the third prince was standing aside and wanted to speak, he said helplessly: "San Lang, you don't need to say it, your teacher's request is agreed, and I will ask Hua Qi to pick a few smart imperial attendants to help." If you have that kung fu to worry about your teacher, you might as well worry about Shiro. ”

"The fourth brother was sold by the teacher, and he will help him count the money." The third prince smiled slightly, and when he saw the emperor glaring at him, he knew what his father was annoyed about, and immediately said again, "The fourth brother is a person who is out of the ordinary, so he doesn't like all kinds of rules since he was a child, and he likes to be closest to his father, and it is also because his father has never been in charge of him, and he lives very freely." ”

"And now he likes the teacher so much, also because the teacher has the most whimsy, and he is not too restrained, he never worries about nothing to do, and he doesn't have to study every day in the palace."

"What's wrong with studying every day in the palace? I think at the beginning, I was also bored in the palace and read every day! Don't look at Old Master Ge who seems to be very amiable now, I think he really dared to hold the ring ruler at the beginning......" Thinking of Ge Yong's taste of the ring ruler, the emperor stopped abruptly, but snorted lightly.

"Even if the content of Mrs. Ge's lecture is vivid and interesting, after all, it is impossible to indulge you and Shiro like Zhang Shou, and let me do whatever I want! Therefore, Zhang Shou is at this point, it is really better than blue. ”

"In the final analysis, you are lucky now, I am in the way, Zhang Shou is young and capable, but he is still tough, otherwise...... You, the prince of the East Palace, have to read in Ciqing Palace every day until you get dizzy, and listen to the same old tune every day! Emperor Taizu said back then that the most popular thing that scholars in the world, especially those famous and sage, love to do is academic disputes. ”

"The greatest glory of life is to make one's own learning an official study, and the imperial court is the favorite to choose the most conducive to ruling the world's knowledge as an official study, and then popularize brainwashing from top to bottom, the emperor listens to them every day when he is still a prince, and the emperor and the gentry rule the world together!"

"So I feel choked every time I think about it now, thinking that after Emperor Taizu set the throne, it was too troublesome to dislike the myriad problems of governing the country, so I tried my best to cultivate Emperor Taizong, but as a result, I left my hand too early, and people disappeared overseas, and the set he set failed to become an official school, otherwise, why would it be so difficult to open a Jiuzhangtang?"

"Why did Zhang Shou have to find another way to open a public school? Is it not good to promote it directly in Guozijian and even in the county schools of the world? ”

Speaking of this in one breath, the emperor seemed to think that it was useless to say these things again, so he gradually stopped at the moment, and after a long time, he looked at the third prince who had been established as the East Palace.

"Therefore, I actually hope that those so-called envoys are true, and I really hope that the descendants of Taizu will establish a country overseas. Without the shackles of many eunuchs and local wealthy families, a new country that can be swayed at will will be built from scratch, and it will be much easier to govern. ”

If Zhang Shou heard the emperor's words, he would definitely smile and feel that the emperor was really thinking too much. Building a country from scratch is the way to survive with great difficulty.

Later generations have said how rich the Americas were, how they were a godsend, and how they were all kinds of new food crops and cash crops...... But don't look at the fact that from the discovery of America to the plundering of America to the colonization of America, those guys in Europe did not take less time, and also increased the wealth of the suzerainty through a large amount of plunder, and the wealth in turn stimulated the development of science, otherwise how could there be a later leap?

Can the barrenness of the widows of those small countries in Europe support such huge ambitions?

Moreover, although the climate in the Americas is generally good, much stronger than in Africa, it also has all kinds of hurricanes and tornadoes every year, no large livestock, and few leafy vegetables. The most important thing is that Emperor Taizu's team is looking for the New World, not well-prepared colonists!

If he had quietly come back to transport all kinds of supplies and personnel supplies after arriving there, it would have been fine, but if this was the first time he had come back, he would not be optimistic at all about this so-called country of Haidong, which called itself Huaguo! What's more, it may be fake.

After the so-called waiter of the fourth prince went to deliver wine and food to entertain him, he really patiently watched others eat, and slipped back after a long time. As soon as he entered the room, he shouted: "Teacher, teacher, the complexion of those so-called envoys is a little darker than that of the people on our side, but they are similar to those I have seen in the countryside of Baijia Village, and other than that, there is no other difference. ”

Zhang Shouzheng is working his desk to write - after all, after Ge's arithmetic has compiled a total of ten volumes, his new textbooks are a little unable to keep up, physics is on the road, chemistry has not yet had time to be involved, although he himself learned well in college, but memory is memory, and it takes a lot of effort to organize the memory into textbooks, so every bit of time must be grasped.

Therefore, when he heard the shouting of the fourth prince, he asked without raising his head, "Oh, what else?" What other big discoveries? ”

Although Zhang Shou was still only concerned about writing, he did not ignore his words, and the fourth prince was already very satisfied, so he went around in a circle and came to Zhang Shou's side, and said flatteringly: "Also, they speak the same as our people, the official language of the capital, and the words are correct and round." You must know that the official language of the capital was promoted by Emperor Taizu, which is quite different from the original words in the Gyeonggi area. ”

"Teacher, I don't think they look like foreigners!"

Hearing the confident statement of the fourth prince, Zhang Shou couldn't help but sigh. He finally put down the pen, and after rubbing his wrist, he glanced at the quill with satisfaction, and thought to himself that the blonde boy had come to be really good, although the pencil pen and the like could not be used, but the quill was finally available. After all, it doesn't matter other times, writing formulas with a brush is really tiring enough!

Immediately after, he raised his head and said to the four princes in a serious voice: "The appearance is similar, it doesn't mean that people must be from the Ming Dynasty." And the similarity of language may also be the result of the words and deeds of the group of people brought by Emperor Taizu at the beginning. After all, as long as the kung fu is deep, even if it is a country of barbarians, it can learn the Yayin of my Celestial Dynasty. ”

There are a lot of theories about the origin of the American Indians, and the speculation that the Yin people crossed to the east once had a large market, and among the existing famous sites in the Americas, whether it is historical materials or various mural relics, it is a living sacrifice at every turn, and the blood of the killing is almost completely similar to the most popular human and animal in the Yin Shang, not to mention the oracle bone inscriptions found.

Therefore, at this moment, Zhang Shou smiled and told the story that he had told Zhu Ying and Lao Xianyu before, that Hou Xi led the army to the east to the Haidong Continent. Although he still pretended that it was a legend, the four princes still listened to it, and the bear child was full of excitement, not considering at all that in the various history books of this year, all of them were derogatory to Shang Zun Zhou.

He even grabbed Zhang Shou's sleeve and couldn't wait to ask: "Teacher, what happened to that Hou Xi after he came to that Haidong Continent, did he kill the Quartet, and then respect Yin Shang?" ”

"How do I know?" Zhang Shou suddenly laughed dumbly, "I've just heard such a legend and story, as for the follow-up of Hou Xi, I don't know." Moreover, if I want to say, even if he really brought tens of thousands of troops and even a corresponding number of women and children to Haidong, and then he could multiply, but a strange and isolated continent is too difficult to develop. ”

"Even if they originally had writing, etiquette, and even other fine things that were no less than those of the Zhou people, but think about it, after the Shang Dynasty, to the Zhou, Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Qin, Han, Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties, have you ever heard the three words Youhou Xi? Undoubtedly, no. In other words, even if those people went to a certain continent to the east of the sea, they never returned. ”

"They may have completely forgotten their ancestors, and they may have been reduced to barbarians in our eyes!"

The fourth prince's face finally changed. Although he had always been reluctant to refute his teacher, he was still unconvinced at this moment and said: "Could it be that the teacher means that even if Emperor Taizu's fleet really drifted to the Haidong Continent, they have forgotten their ancestors?" But you said before that he found a stone tablet over there! ”

"Maybe the stele was left there by someone like him after they crossed the ocean?" After asking rhetorically, Zhang Shou smiled and touched this child who obviously said that people were imposters, but he still seemed to hope that Taizu's group of people really drifted to the Haidong Continent back then, and then said with a smile, "Don't worry, wait until they are full ...... and drink."

"I'll see them again."

The fourth prince was suddenly stunned: "Teacher, shouldn't it be better to go to see them when they were tired, tired and hungry in a hurry?" When I saw them eating, they were so tired that their heads were about to be buried in the bowl, and they probably didn't eat much before they wanted to sleep. ”

"Oh, according to you, then I'll go now."

Seeing that the fourth prince was genuinely dumbfounded this time, Zhang Shou laughed: "When people are tired and hungry, they will of course want to sleep, and once they are extremely sleepy, even if they are trained strictly, all vigilance and vigilance will drop to the lowest point." What's more, I'm not going to talk to them, so I'm going to talk about family life. ”

"This kind of talk about everyday things, it's even more difficult to fake."

Without waiting for the fourth prince to say anything, he said bluntly: "So, Zheng Qiang, you follow me, you have to be mentally responsible to the end, and the emperor is waiting for you to report back!" ”

At this moment, the four princes are truly satisfied. He no longer had any objections, and followed behind Zhang Shou with his head held high. As for things like identity, the bear child has long been completely left behind. After messing around with those poor students in the public school for so long, and messing around with a group of poor boys in Baijia Village for so long, he doesn't care so much about the identity he once valued the most

Of course, a big part of this is because the third brother became the crown prince. Therefore, when he arrived at the door over there, the golden branch and jade leaf even took the initiative to open the door curtain, then turned a little sideways, and said very courteously: "Son, please come in." ”

Hearing this son, Xiao Cheng and Little Peanut in it shuddered together, and when they saw Zhang Shou coming in calmly, they were busy adding food and pouring wine for people, and they peeked at the four princes who looked like a waiter, and they all felt that the scene in front of them was too weird, and Little Peanut even thought very seriously about whether he wanted to pull Xiao Cheng away from him.

And Zhang Shou saw that someone was already standing up in a hurry, the cups and plates on the table were messy, and the carefully prepared hot pot and shabu-shabu were motionless at this time, all kinds of meat had been swept away, and the meatballs had moved slightly, but there were still a lot left. The stir-fry dishes are almost empty, as if they want to lick the plates clean.

In contrast, it was the pot of rice that was piled up like a hill, and no one even touched it.

Seeing this, Zhang Shou couldn't help but glance at the little peanut and Xiao Cheng who were standing in a regular manner. As a result, Little Peanut immediately said aggrievedly: "Childe, I told them that rice is the best to eat with vegetable soup, but they refused to eat it all, saying that they had never eaten it before." ”

Zhang Shou saw that there were six people in this room, and it was clear that one Eight Immortals table could sit down, but two tables had been deliberately set up before, so there were three people standing next to each of the two tables at this time, and he saw that most of him looked cramped and uneasy. I don't know how to swing my hands, I don't know how to speak, and at first glance, it really doesn't look like a very knowledgeable person or a city government.

Having said that, Zhang Shou knew that what he saw with his eyes was not very trustworthy, so he immediately smiled and made a gesture: "Sit, you don't need to be so restrained." Since they are the people of the descendants of Taizu of my dynasty, then they are also the people of my dynasty. ”

The fourth prince was very unimpressed after hearing this, but he was now Zhang Shou's servant, so he could only lower his head and pouted quietly. However, he thought that no one else had seen it, but the little peanut and Xiao Cheng on the opposite side were so sharp-eyed that they could actually see it clearly. And among the six so-called envoys who seemed to be a little afraid and timid, some people also saw this scene keenly.

And the person who noticed the contemptuous eyes of the fourth prince immediately exploded in the next moment: "This prince, we are indeed not those noble adults in our Chinese mission, but the accompanying escorts, because we were separated from the main ship and did not know the direction, we worked hard to find a warm and unfrozen place to anchor ashore, but we are by no means thieves and bandits!" ”

No wonder the four princes don't believe that people are from the Haidong Continent at all, and these people's Chinese dialect is really good. Zhang Shou thought so in his heart, but a smile appeared on his face that made people feel like a spring breeze: "Oh, so to speak, did you find this ice-free port with great difficulty?" So, I would like to ask you if you sail from north to south when you sail along the coast? ”