When Zhang Shou stepped into the Wenhua Palace, he found countless glances, among them, some of them were extremely hot, he looked at it from the corner of his eye, and saw a group of girls, he couldn't help but be stunned at first, and then woke up. It turned out that at the banquet in this Wenhua Palace, it was really like what Zhu Ying said, and many girls attended!

In that era when the heroes rose together and drove out the Meng Yuan, unlike those previous dynasties, it was often high-ranking officials and dignitaries, or warlords who had been in charge of the army for generations to steal the fruits of victory. Otherwise, what he saw now would not be a group of girls participating in the prayer feast, but countless little feet!

In this era when there is no footcloth, it is indeed comforting to see this group of young and energetic girls!

The crown dress that Zhang Shou is wearing today is specially tailored for him by Zhu Ying, not only the cut is appropriate, not the craftsmanship of an idle tailor, and even the accessories are all from the imperial gift - of course, this cannot be his original, it is said that Zhu Ying personally went to the emperor to ask for him.

At this moment, he did not avoid the girls' gaze, but looked over generously. When he saw Zhu Ying, he did not shy away from bowing his head to her slightly, and a smile appeared on his face.

And Zhu Ying was overjoyed when she saw Zhang Shou saluting him so aggressively in front of the public. Although Liu Qing was desperately tugging at the corner of her clothes on the side, and Princess Deyang was also gently pulling her sleeve as a reminder, she still smiled brightly and brightly, and even stretched out her hand to beckon Zhang Shou.

The smile and gesture fell in the eyes of the daughters next to them, some resented, some envied, some jealous, some disdainful, but in the eyes of the men who were quietly looking at the other side, no matter how old or young, they couldn't help but have a pounding heart.

Everyone said that the eldest lady of Zhao Guogong's Mansion was bright and incomparable, and she was the first beauty in the capital, and in the past, Zhu Ying was unscrupulous on the long street of the prancing horse, and they had not seen it, but the heroic riding outfit could only show one side of Zhu Ying's beauty at most, how could it be compared to the look of the eldest lady who carefully groomed her makeup for Ruyi Langjun at this time?

For a while, someone even had a nonsensical idea, let Zhang Shou and Zhu Ying stand side by side on this hall, will it be a very beautiful scenery?

But this is the Wenhua Hall Sutra Feast, Wu Ge Lao's thought was also a turn in his heart, and then he shook his head in disappointment, and his eyes fell on the artifact that was pushed into the Wenhua Hall with a black cloth before Zhang Shou entered the hall. Not only him, but also Confucius University, Zhang Yu, and even most people in the hall were very curious about what it was.

There are even people who spent a lot of money to order a table clock from Zhu Ying, and they had a very subtle idea. Could it be that Zhang Shou used the feast as a place for sales and display? Although it is said that Zhang Shou dedicated a formula known as crystal glass to the emperor, as if he was not very greedy for money, the table clock that Zhu Ying personally sold with his tongue can be a lotus, and he has already made a lot of money!

Even Zhu Jing and Zhu Tingfang, father and son, couldn't help but look worried, and then they all looked at Zhu Ying with their eyes, only to see that she didn't notice their gaze at all, and was smiling, as if she was talking to Liu Qing and Princess Deyang beside her. As a result, the father and son, who were not seated together, could only focus on Zhang Shou.

Zhu Ying may be angry on a whim, Zhang Shou...... Probably not, right? They would rather Zhang Shou be like Ge Yong, and talk about the complex and difficult arithmetic in this Wenhua Palace!

However, when Zhang Shou lifted the black curtain and revealed the object underneath, Zhu Jing was stunned for a moment. Because others may not have seen it, but he has seen the real thing in the Ordnance Bureau.

Because that is the world's globe instrument made after the legend of Taizu Mengtian Emperor! Of course, it is said that when Taizu saw the real thing, he called it a globe in one mouthful, and now the official name is the descendants racked their brains to come up with and added it, thus adding a layer of mythology to Taizu's victory over the world.

On this occasion, what did Zhang Shou take out such a thing for? No, why would Zhang Kang, the Bo of Weinan, give such a thing to Zhang Shou? With the acquiescence of the emperor? Or is there something else in mind?

There are not many officials like Zhu Jing who have seen Qiuyi, but there are still more than a dozen in this Wenhua Palace. Some people just regard this thing as one of the many things that Emperor Taizu did on a whim in the past, but some people have vaguely heard that although the foreign situations explored by the official ships after they went to sea in the early years are somewhat different from those drawn by the ball, most of them are still very accurate.

Zhang Shou glanced around at the huge Wenhua Palace, and then clapped his hands lightly. At this time, soon another group of powerful chamberlains came out and slowly unfolded a huge map.

The material of this map is a special paper painstakingly developed by skilled craftsmen of the Ordnance Bureau over many years, which can draw the same pattern on the front and back without infecting each other. It's just that one side is positive, and the other side is negative. And this unfolds on the central axis of the Wenhua Palace, of course, the girls will suffer a little, and they see the opposite side.

But even so, when they saw such a large map for the first time, they felt very novel, and they forgot for a moment that this was in the Wenhua Palace, and the Queen Mother and the Emperor were watching from above. Especially when Zhu Ying actively explained to everyone and pointed out where the current Daming is, they were even more amazed.

Even if it is a beautiful China, on such a map, it is not so conspicuous?

After a ball instrument and a map were unfolded, Zhang Shou said with a smile: "This is a treasure in the Ordnance Bureau, a ball instrument made by Emperor Taizu Mengtian Emperor, and a map of the world made after the ball instrument was unfolded." And this map of the world not only includes the Ming Dynasty, but also many countries in the extreme east and west, many of which are small countries. ”

He paused for a moment, and then continued unhurriedly: "There is a way that it is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books, so I went to Emperor Taizu's old system, and those who can enter the ministry and the cabinet must have the experience of being close to the people, in order to know the customs of the world and not to work behind closed doors." And Emperor Taizu was far-sighted and looked at the world, not limited to the Ming Dynasty, which was the first of the dynasties. ”

The emperor, who has always admired Taizu the most, of course, agreed with Zhang Shou's words very much, and nodded frequently for a while. And other people who had been planning to provoke assassins for a long time saw Zhang Shou repeatedly saying that Taizu's old system and quotations were used as arrows, and they were immediately annoyed and helpless.

The emperor was like this just now, and now Zhang Shou is also like this, is this gentleman and minister negotiable?

Just when the Confucian scholar secretly decided that if Zhang Shou said something deviant, or if he bewitched the emperor to send an official ship to the sea again, then even if he tried his best, he must stop it, but he heard Zhang Shou laugh.

"In a foreign land, unlike my dynasty, although there are also monarchs and ministers, they are hereditary, even if they are extinct, but as long as there is a male in the family, even if it is a grandson, as long as it is operated properly, they can inherit the title. Even kings often have a family name completely cut off because of the extinction of the heir, and the son-in-law or grandson has a surname other than the heir, and a new dynasty is opened......"

"In many countries in the West, people are born destined for a future, there is no imperial examination to select talents from among the common people, and the local system is even somewhat similar to the division of princes in the Xia, Shang and Zhou periods. The lords and nobles are divided into five ranks, such as princes, princes, and men, and there are knights who have a piece of land, or knights who don't even have land, and so on, the lords and vassals of each level rule a country together......"

Zhang Shouyan briefly introduced the lordship system in Western Europe, and then casually pointed to a country on the map and began to describe the situation of each country. For example, in England and France, he talked about the wool trade in Flanders, to the Salic succession, and to the Hundred Years' War between England and France.

And a war between the two countries that lasted for a hundred years, whether it was the emperor or the ministers, they were very calm when they heard it. The reason is very simple, the chaotic era of Wuhu at the end of the Jin Dynasty lasted for one hundred and twenty years, and the turbulent era of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms at the end of the Tang Dynasty lasted for fifty or sixty years. What's more, what earth-shattering battle can the two small countries that Zhang Shou finger fight?

At this time, Zhang Shou was rendering the legend of Joan of Arc in a strong manner. Although he knew it was a morale-boosting religious myth that had been pushed out, Joan of Arc's story was fitting for the moment. Sure enough, Zhu Ying was extremely interested in the fact that there was such an illiterate but strange woman who crisscrossed the battlefield and defeated the enemy many times, and the other girls couldn't help but be amazed.

Although Liang Hongyu's story is only hundreds of years ago, none of the ladies present here will really regard a courtesan from a Qinglou as the same kind, but the song "Mulan Ci" is more likely to resonate with people.

When I heard that a sixteen-year-old foreign peasant girl raised her arms and commanded the three armies when her family and country were in danger, but was finally betrayed by her country's magnates and captured, not to mention Zhu Ying's righteous indignation, even Princess Yongping couldn't help but scold in a low voice for being despicable and shameless.

However, although the girls were so indignant that they devoted themselves wholeheartedly to it, most of the bigwigs didn't believe Zhang Shou's story, and the Confucius scholar even sneered coldly and said, "It's just an apocryphal!" ”

Zhang Shou didn't care what kind of reaction he would get. He talked about the war between England and France, the customs of the two countries, from the staple food of the common people, black bread, to the lackluster meals of the common lords and nobles, the gloomy castles, and the large number of servants...... But soon, he changed his words and began to refer to the rise and fall of the great powers that were once powerful and prosperous even more recently.

Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Roman, Macedonian, Byzantine Empires...... Kingdom after kingdom was once strong, but in the end it was blown away by the rain, and in its place, a huge Ottoman Empire gradually rose over the years.

Although many officials only feel that it is absurd to resist, for the girls who have never been out of Beijing since they were children, even if they do not stay at home, most of them have never been out of Beijing since they were children, and what Zhang Shou said is bizarre, but it is still enough to attract many people.

Zhang Shou knew very well that in this era of history, China stuck to its homeland, except for pirates and smugglers, almost never went to sea, and when it went to sea, it was to trade with Japan and Southeast Asia, so there was no conflict of interest with the Ottoman Empire, but in today's era when merchant ships sailed all over the world to grab huge profits, it was difficult to talk about conflict.

Even if there is no conflict now, when the Ottoman Empire completely becomes the hegemon of the Middle East, then controlling trade is what he will definitely do, and as long as there are merchant ships to trade to the west, it will inevitably lead to conflict.

In history, a big war broke out between the Tang Dynasty and the Great Food in Hengros, and finally ended with Gao Xianzhi's defeat and the return to the dynasty to organize the fight against the Anshi Rebellion after putting down the four towns of Anxi. But now I can't say for sure!

When he gradually extended from the Ottoman Empire to the Eurasian continent, and said that the eldest son of the Mongolian people had set foot in many small countries in Europe, and the cloud of national extinction and extinction permeated the heads of countless countries, the Confucius scholar finally couldn't help but say: "The eldest son's westward expedition is just that, but Dr. Zhang's talk about the rise and fall of these small countries has never been heard of before, how do I know if it is true or false?" ”

Zhang Shou smiled and said: "If the Confucian scholars think that I am lying and deceiving, they can naturally entrust a merchant ship to go to the extreme west to investigate, and even invite a few foreign scholars to bring back a batch of foreign classics to refute my absurdity. ”

Am I full of food and holding on? Scholar Confucius almost lost his breath and crooked his nose, especially when he saw the emperor's eyebrows fluttering, he immediately realized that if he didn't quickly plug this opening, maybe the emperor would gladly agree! He coughed instinctively, and then said stiffly: "No need, it's just a small country in a small land, and it's not worth bothering!" ”

"Not bad." Zhang Shou smiled slightly, and said lightly, "However, the great enemy of China has always been not even a small country before its rise, but it is just a tribe in the north, from 1,800 people to thousands of people, and then to the various tribes, and finally converge into a country of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people." ”

"This is true of the Xiongnu, this is the case of the Turks, this is the case of the Hui, this is the case of the Khitan, this is the case of the Jurchens, and the same is true of the Mongols! In times of peace and prosperity, shouldn't we look at the world and be prepared for danger in times of peace? If you don't pay attention to the small country of a foreign country, how can you be the heart of the minister? ”

You can question the speaker during the feast, which is also a rule left over from the Taizu period, but it has become more and more rare over the years. Especially those who can go to the feast, most of them are respected Confucians, protégés are all over the world, and the court officials will probably save face for people, even if they are some stunned young people who are high-spirited, they will often be more restrained.

However, Zhang Shou is too young today, and it is Confucius Scholar who is not the first assistant (Confucius Scholar himself identifies it), so he was so angry that his face turned blue when Zhang Shou refuted it.

"Absurd, Huns, Turks, Khitans, Jurchens, Mongols...... These were all once on the frontier, these small countries you are talking about, just look at this map, isn't it 108,000 miles away from my Ming Dynasty? Can they put on their wings and fly over? How can it threaten our country? ”

Zhang Shou looked at the angry Confucian scholar calmly, and then said lightly: "Haven't Confucian scholars heard a word from Emperor Taizu?" Sometimes, the moat can also change the way! ”

After he said this, he clapped his hands lightly, and the next moment, he saw that the map was removed, but there was another thing covered with black cloth that was pushed out by several strong attendants, and when he uncovered the cloth casually, there was an uproar in the hall.

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