Feng Bao was instructed by the Empress Dowager Li to not allow the prince to be crowned externally.

It's just too hard.

What's even more amazing is that as soon as Chen Mu entered the palace, he was taken by the eunuch to the square in front of the palace of Emperor Wanli, and the little emperor was shooting the grass man with a bird, and in the crisp sound of the bird, the little emperor frowned and asked angrily: "Jinghaibo, why did you send my uncle and brother to the bitter cold place overseas?" ”

"It's bitter cold overseas, Your Majesty, it's not bitter cold overseas, it's very warm on the equator, and it's summer at four o'clock, that's a good place for vassal kings."

Chen Mugang responded casually, Xiao Wanli threw the dragon pattern bird gun to the weapon rack, waved the hand in the big sleeve, and withdrew the eunuch brocade clothes accompanying him, and then twisted his eyebrows and said to Chen Mu: "Sure enough, it's you!" I know that overseas is your core interest! ”

The little emperor is quite good at learning and using it.

It can be seen that the vassal king's transfer of title provoked him.

"The core interests of the minister are not overseas, how can he give up the core interests to others." Chen Mu arched his hand, and then asked, "Your Majesty is unhappy because of the matter of transferring to the vassal king?" ”

"Hmph, you still dare to ask, you want to seal all my uncles and brothers overseas, and find an excuse to be not good at learning, then if I am a vassal king, I will not be able to do learning!" The little emperor looked like he wanted to be angry but didn't know where to start, and then put his hair crown in his hands and then put his stomach in the big sleeves of the sun and moon robe, and his tone softened and said: "The vassal king just does something more, and he won't be sent overseas to die, you look at the Ma Gui of your subordinates, more than 1,000 people have died and there are more than 200 left." ”

"I have 20,000 clans in the Ming Dynasty, and those who are sorted out by the cabinet to do learning, but there are only a few dozen people who can be judged, and these 20,000 clans are distributed overseas, and there are still 4,000 dead after a year, how do you tell me to face my ancestors, and I will not go to pay homage to my ancestors in the future?"

This logic ...... Invulnerable!

Chen Mu did plan to Zhang Juzheng two years ago when he suggested that the vassal king be sealed, the dead will die, and the living will clean up the place, anyway, it will be a waste to leave the country in the country, as long as tens of thousands of sects can produce a few talents, it is enough, but now this is not the case!

Zhang Juzheng obviously thought about it more comprehensively than Chen Mu, and he was not so hasty, he had been preparing for more than two years to let Shoufu keep thinking about it, and now he took it out because the time was ripe.

Chen Mu smiled and said, "Your Majesty hasn't discussed this matter with Elder Zhang Ge?" ”

The little emperor glanced at his face and said, "No, the matter has not been reported to me, it is all the courtiers who are discussing it." ”

As he spoke, he glanced at Chen Mu and said, "But the news has already spread, and the clan is frightened. ”

Chen Mu sorted out his language and said: "The outer seal of the sect is not what His Majesty thinks, the 20,000 sects are to be slowly sealed out in a step-by-step way, it is absolutely impossible to agree on things even if it is sealed, and it is impossible to seal it to the immature America in a short period of time, the first choice is the mature Nanyang, in the past, the minister traveled back and forth to Guangdong and Nanyang countries several times a year, and even the reefs in that sea area were clearly explored by the Three Treasures. ”

"Your Majesty, you must know that the clan is not doing well in the country, some of them are as poor as the people, and some of them encroach on the people's land, but the officials and the people dare not say it in their eyes."

"Even so, you can't separate them overseas!" The little emperor stretched out his hand and said, "There are a few unscrupulous descendants, but there are also virtuous kings?" ”

"Then Your Majesty thinks that the clan has a good chance of being a virtuous king, or is it a good chance of being unscrupulous?" After saying something a little arrogant, Chen Mu hurriedly followed up: "If the clan is as virtuous as His Majesty, how can a courtier be willing to seal people overseas and stay in the country to devote himself to writing!" ”

Seeing that Xiao Wanli fell into deep thought, Chen Mu paused before striking while the iron was hot and explained: "It sounds like it is a punishment to transfer overseas, because as soon as it is transferred, Zhuang Tian and Lumi will be gone." If this is a punishment, it will not affect everyone, this is to encourage the clan to be studious, not to violate the law and ancestral system, and to guide the clan to do learning. ”

"The vassal kings have a carefree life, but as the descendants of the royal family, everyone should take on the responsibility of the country's progress, they can delve into science without violating the ancestral system, and there is no one more suitable than them, and the elder of the pavilion has considered it very thoroughly."

"If this plan is accomplished, and there are more scholarly clans in the country, fewer clans will ensure that everyone will be treated more favorably, not to mention the rewards brought by scientific and technological progress, and their lives will be richer and more respected, otherwise as they are now, they will enjoy glory and wealth but cannot stretch their aspirations, and the life of the clan will not be boring?"

"Even if it is not suitable for learning, it can defend the country by mastering a little military politics overseas, and if you are not in charge of military politics, you can also get overseas Wangzhuang to earn wealth, overseas is not only a bitter cold place, but also a rich place, last year, the imperial court received forty percent of the silver, and twenty percent of the rice and grain flowed in from overseas, so how can it be said that overseas is a bitter cold place?"

The little emperor's brows furrowed again, and if he continued like this, he was afraid that he would age quickly, and said: "But the silver, rice and grain are all brought back by merchants, and the clan does not know how to do business, how can they earn wealth?" ”

"Your Majesty doesn't really think that Da Ming is doing business overseas, right?" Chen Mu smiled, the little emperor was quite naïve, and said: "The cost of merchants doing business is silver, and the cost of the Ming Dynasty overseas is the Four Oceans Fleet, which is the military power of the Ming Dynasty, which is powerful, and can allow our merchants to monopolize the sea trade, and the sea ships of other countries do not have to leave the port, and our commercial goods can earn ten times and a hundred times the profit from this port to another port." ”

"In the ports of Luzon, the best goods were purchased by the Ming Dynasty; In Malacca, the most expensive goods were sold by the Ming Dynasty; Science and technology are the primary productive forces, and people only pay attention to the outer seal of the vassal king, but do not pay attention to the highest thing in the world, and technological progress is left to the clan to fill this gap. ”

The little emperor crooked his mouth and squeezed his eyes, trying his best to explore the new words he heard from Chen Mu: "Productivity? ”

"In India, they grow cotton on vast lands so that it is cheap, and then they spin it into cloth, and it takes them three months to weave a piece of cloth alone; In Guangdong, we have to buy a huge amount of cotton every year, our weavers are more skilled, our looms produce faster, we have 100,000 people doing this industry, if it costs 100,000 taels to buy cotton, we produce 1.6 million pieces of cloth a year, they only have 400,000 horses, our cloth quality is better, the output is more, and then dumped back, we can earn 1 million taels, and crush their market. ”

"Over time, their weavers could not survive, they had to go back to growing cotton, they were getting poorer, we were getting richer, and now there is no one in India to weave cloth, because it is more expensive to weave it yourself than to buy it."

"As long as the technology advances, overseas clans can make money from anything, because our technology is the best, and no one can surpass us."

"The minister's thinking at the beginning was indeed wrong, so although the vassal king's outer seal was first proposed by the minister, he did not say a word in the court's discussion, because Zhang Ge Lao was more thoughtful than Chen, he was right, and the clan was also an indispensable part of the Ming Dynasty, and it could also make remarkable achievements for the world."

Chen Mu saw that he had said almost the same, and eliminated his misunderstanding in Wanli's eyes, so he took out the boat map and said: "Your Majesty, the four giant ships traveling around Zhoutian have been completed, and now they are driving to Dagukou, this is the boat map......

"The teacher has already said that these four boats, I don't look at the boat map, so I'll go to invite the queen mother."

The emperor pushed the boat with his small hand and went to greet the eunuchs.

"I want to see the ship!"