"The minister thinks that the means of making money by cultivating goods, the most shrewd person in the world is none other than the Oriental marshal Jing Haibo, and now the easternmost telegram has been spread to Wangxia Prefecture."

Xu Guangqi arched his hand and said: "At most, the reply letter can be sent back in four months, why doesn't Your Majesty write a letter to ask?" ”

If you have no money, go to Chen Mu and ask what is the way?

Emperor Wanli didn't think about it, squinted, pouted, and shook his head: "No, I am already a mature emperor, and I can't ask Jinghai when I encounter something again...... Eh, is he still Jing Haibo? ”

Xu Guangqi nodded and said: "Yes, Your Majesty, the power of the four oceans, all hold the sword of Shang Fang as if Your Majesty is here, so the meritorious service will not be rewarded, and it will be rewarded when you return to Beijing to report on your work, and the minister remembers that he has seen such a statement in the newspaper of the Ministry of Officials." ”

"I told you?"

The emperor scratched his head and sat on the Taishi chair by the front lake: "Just say it, come on, bring me the clan roster in the study in the back hall, go out again, and recruit Jinyi Xu Dudu, he is in the capital, right?" Well, it's good to be here, tell him that I have no money, and let him bring a few guards who are familiar with the clan's property. ”

The military eunuchs stationed in Qinghua Garden were on call, and soon brought the roster, and some people drove the horses to the ship with the emperor's message, and sailed to the other side to fight the horses with a small boat.

The roster was sent, but Wanli was not in a hurry to look at it, he took the tea with his hand, but chatted as if he was talking to Xu Guangqi like a homely person: "Eh, Xu Qing, you said that Chen Shuai of the Nanyang Military Mansion is easy to say, since he took over the class of the old Gao Ge, Jingyun has not made any mistakes, and he has not done anything big, and when he reports on his work, he will be crowned an earl, do some rewards, and increase the governor of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and the military department and a right attendant, and serve in Beiyang; The West is similar, Yin Gong has done a lot of good things, but with the wealth of the West, he must have spent a lot of money on his own. ”

"The East is magical, you say that we are the world's largest Ming, how can we lay a bigger land than the Ming overseas? Daming will have to change the country name in the future? It's called Juming. ”

Wanli's operation frightened Xu Guangqi in his heart, and it was too exciting to stand next to the emperor...... Let the eunuch get the clan roster first, and then talk to himself about changing the country name.

I'm just a little mine smelting officer, why are you talking to me about this?

No matter how the imperial court rewarded Chen Dashuai, no matter what country name the Ming Dynasty will call in the future, where is this something he can answer, it is beyond the outline!

"Your Majesty, how do you know, it's okay for you to talk to me about mining technology and the tricks of making fire De Xingjun, these things are ......" Xu Guangqi smiled with a little timid compliment: "The minister really doesn't know." ”

"This is not waiting for Xu Jue, idle is also idle, chat casually, don't be so afraid." Wanli waved his hand and said: "The books I read at home since I was a child, my favorite is the national style and talents during the ancient Han and Tang Dynasties. ”

"The country does not pay attention to family background and informality, but only talent."

"The same is true for my grandfather and grandfather Cheng, how much talent you have, how high you can be a high official."

Wanli said and sighed: "It's different now, it's been peaceful for a long time, there is no ancestral sharpness, the court is dull, and everything follows the rules." ”

The emperor has become a little cynical.

In fact, he said that Xu Guangqi also knew this, and Xu Guangqi felt that this was normal.

In the serious pioneering period, flattering villains and people who can't do things have no chance to steal from a high position, because at that time, if you take a wrong step, you will never recover, and those who can forge ahead into a high position are not only material, but more importantly, luck.

In the 30 years before and after the great development in history, hundreds of thousands of people did not die because of it?

For example, the Han-Hun Hundred Years War, the Han family and the Xiongnu gathered national strength, and all national policies were carried out around the war, from the second year of Yuan Shuo to the third year of the expedition, the Han army beheaded and captured more than 30,000 Xiongnu in the battle of Henan; In the Battle of Hexi, the Han army beheaded and captured nearly 90,000 Xiongnu; In the Battle of Mobei, the Han army beheaded and captured nearly 90,000 Huns; In the battle of the Western Regions, the Han army annihilated more than 30,000 enemies, and in these 37 years alone, the Xiongnu, with a total population of more than 2 million in its heyday, were annihilated at least 240,000 in the war.

That war really affected the livelihood of every subject of the Han Empire, and the Han army finally achieved a complete victory, so that the fierce national style in the emperor's mouth could be sharpened in the war and the talents of madness were trained.

The situation of Daming is different.

Many overseas victories were almost all civilian victories, and from the Battle of Linlai onwards, the empire did not make any war a national policy, nor did it ever use its national strength to deal with anyone.

The enemy of Nanyang is very weak, and the influence of the empire is extremely deep, and the only imperial force there is the Nanyang Guard, a new garrison of 5,600 people, and standing next to them is not the imperial military department, but the private Fujian and Guangzhou merchants, and the coastal outcast pirates.

On the one hand, the rebellion of the new Continental Army representing the colonial hegemon Spain, and on the other hand, the landing of the warlords representing the strongest force of the Ming Empire, the two behemoths just stretched out their hands and broke their wrists, and no one planned to fight overseas thousands of miles away from the core land.

Spain has none.

The Nine Sides and the Netherlands are the real and persistent national policies of the two countries.

The West, the West is even more interesting, the West has never been for the purpose of opening up territory, all the warships sailing in the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea are only starting from to protect trade routes, and it is the monks who fight.

War and navigation are the same dangerous things in this era, and ordinary people instinctively resist these two things.

Everyone knows that maritime trade can make people rich, but only a few put it into action.

This has nothing to do with whether the Central Plains Dynasty is a so-called maritime country or not.

Except for a few people with special personality preferences, for most ordinary people, the decisive factor of whether or not to participate in war and sea trade is not that participating in dangerous sea trade and war will make me rich, or that participating in it will make my life better.

It's about not participating – I'll never get ahead, I'll be poorer.

In the three hundred years of seafaring in all countries, no great nobleman or high-ranking official went to sea to trade or to seize colonies by himself, and the sea was flooded with people who were eager to get ahead, eager to change their fate by fighting, and who were so rotten that they could no longer rot.

The great nobles and high-ranking officials would often get involved in this, and in another way, in Europe they financed the navigators and paid for the ships; In the Central Plains Dynasty, the coastal merchants and officials lent boats to their sons, nephews, and clan relatives to let them go to sea.

The so-called maritime country, just don't go to sea.

Not every country in this world has the foundation laid by the Central Plains Dynasty from the Qin Dynasty, and any period of time can be invincible in the world as long as it solves its own problems behind closed doors.

"Don't worry, I'm not going to do anything, look at how scared you are."

Wanli pursed his lips in a sense of boredom, raised his hand and patted the list of clans on the coffee table next to the Taishi chair: "Including this." ”