The February sun shone on the imperial city from the south-slanting sky without warmth, a row of small yellow doors and a group of palace maids walked with their heads down, and the little eunuch in the lead gradually saluted Liu Hong.

Coming out of the Qianqing Palace, Liu Hong gradually became a little worried, I don't know when Liu Honggradually stopped coming here when he first came, and the idea of waiting for death to eat.

Probably from the time when the emperor shed tears in the court, alas, this uncle, it's so pitiful!

Now, this official is also pitiful!

Liu Hong shook his head gradually, didn't think about it anymore, and walked towards Duanmu Palace.

"What has His Royal Highness the Crown Prince been doing lately?" As soon as Liu Hong entered, he saw the prince Zhu Cihong's big companion Dahai ushering.

"Back to the Hou Ye, in addition to going to the Wenhua Hall to listen to and read these days, the Chitose Lord has been fiddling with a round thing, and the Chitose Lord said that it was a globe!" Huge Hai naturally knew the relationship between An Guohou and the crown prince, and he was extremely cordial.

"This kid is quite motivated!" Liu Hong said casually.

Liu Hong gradually said casually, frightened the huge sea, and shouted that this kid is a thousand years old, I'm afraid I'm not tired of it!

Before he could say anything to remind him to be cautious in his words and deeds, An Guohou had already strode towards the study, alas, that's it, we can't afford to mess with this person, Da Dahai shook his head, shook off the dust and followed into the house.

In the study room in the Duanmu Palace, there is a pair of couplets hanging in the small hall of the door, the upper couplet: ten thousand volumes of ancient and modern eternal days, and the lower couplet: a window of dawn to send the passing year.

In front of the bookshelf, there is a large case of pear marble, on which there are various celebrity law posts, as well as several square treasure inkstones, various color pen holders, and all kinds of brushes in the pen sea.

On the left red sandalwood shelf is a large blue and white porcelain plate, which contains ten delicate yellow and delicate Buddha's hands, and a large picture of Confucius lectures is also hung on the west wall.

The crown prince Zhu Cihong is holding a globe, comparing the map drawn by Daming, and comparing and checking Daming's surrounding neighbors one by one.

"Chitose Lord, An Guohou is here!" Huge Sea reminded in a low voice.

"Master Liu, come and help the palace take a look, why can't you find this Franco palace on the map?" Zhu Cihong saw that Liu Hong was coming, and his face was full of joy.

He still can't get used to using the globe, after all, the concept of the sky and the round place has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, you tell him, all this is fake, not only the sky is round, the earth is also round, and the Ming Dynasty is round.

Although Zhu Cihong knew that An Guohou would not lie to him, he was still angry, after all, many of his masters taught him like this, and only this youngest master said that the ground was round, what should I do, who should I believe?

So he had no choice but to take out a rough version of the world map made by the Ministry of Rites, and began to study which was more reliable for the thing called the globe that Master Liu gave him.

"Furlong, I could have found it with my eyes closed." Liu Hong gradually walked to the front of the case, pointed to Spain and Portugal and said.

The Ming version of the world map draws the whole of Europe into a mess of twisted flowers, rough no, you can find it before you meet a ghost.

"Is the Furlong machine only that big? This palace saw that many of the artillery pieces in our dynasty were called Franc cannons, and thought that Franc was a very big country, at least as big as the Ming version. ”

"Your Highness, the strength of a country cannot be determined only by the size of its territory! Of course, the territory has an advantage in nature, but the most important thing is the army, the equipment and discipline of the army, oh, and the warships! ”

"What about my Ming warship?" Zhu Cihong asked.

"Your Highness, Daming has no water master!" Return the warship, hehe.

"I heard from a huge companion that Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Dudu are my Ming sailor governors, and there are many warships under his hands!" Zhu Cihong looked like a huge sea, and the huge sea grinned and nodded.

"Your Highness, don't make a mistake, Zheng Dudu has a lot of warships, but that's his, not Daming's!" Zheng Dudu still has a lot of silver in his family, which has something to do with your old Zhu family.

This guy is just a warlord, and you command him to do what he can do with his hands, and maybe he will obey your edict, but if you let him fight with Francois and the Dutch Navy, will you see if he will listen?

That's the family foundation that people have won overseas for half their lives, and it has nothing to do with Daming!

"This ......, then why don't we establish a water division in the Ming Dynasty?" Zhu Cihong didn't quite understand, but it didn't matter, his mind was now full of questions.

"I didn't have money before, but now I don't have time!" This has to start with Cheng Zu, Liu Hongjian has no time to talk about it, so he can only casually talk about the current embarrassment.

Zhu Cihong seemed to understand whether he understood or not, dipped his brush in ink, and wrote down two words with a brush.

Before the pen and ink were dry, he carefully handed the rice paper to An Guohou.

Righteousness? What kind of plane?

"Master Liu, Cihong has been having a question recently, Master Ma told Cihong that a monarch should be benevolent and righteous, and govern the world with benevolence and righteousness, so that he can be admired by all the people!

But I watched my father and emperor work hard for more than ten years, and they all treated the ministers and the people with benevolence and righteousness, but not only did it not work, but became more and more busy, and the people became poorer.

The huge companion also told the palace that those Dongyang and Nanyang feudal lords were all vulgar bandits, but they were all wealthy.

It is Cihong who is very puzzled, is this benevolence really the way to govern the country? ”

"Your Highness asked well, according to this, this benevolence and righteousness is just a nonsense thing! If you want to govern the country by this, the Ming Dynasty will die! ”

You tell a group of beggars who beg for food to be polite, to be benevolent, believe it or not, they beat you with a dog stick.

"Your Highness, benevolence and righteousness are the biggest lies, it is a prison painted by those civil officials for the emperor, and it turns the people of the Ming Dynasty into docile sheep, so that when a strong enemy comes to attack, they become powerless.

It is understandable that the people should be kind, but in addition to being good, our Han people should also be a martial nation!

During the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Han people attacked the Xiongnu in the north, sealed the wolf Juxu, and the northern barbarians who fought continued to move westward, but since the dethronement of the hundred schools and the exclusive respect for Confucianism, the Han people slowly became sheep.

So that since the two Song Dynasty, to my Ming Dynasty, my Han people have been bullied by the nomads in the north, although heroes continue to emerge, but also mostly ended in failure, so I thought that benevolence and righteousness were not enough to believe, and the martial arts should rejuvenate the country! ”

The benevolence and righteousness advocated by Confucianism are certainly the good medicine for the ruler to rule the people, but it also depends on the time, and the current situation is a mess at home, and there are many strong enemies abroad.

Do you still talk about righteousness?

Facts have proved that whether it is an enterprise or a school, it is always bad for one company to monopolize it.

Throughout the Ming Dynasty, the emperor has been trying to check and balance Wenchen, to put it bluntly, this is the disadvantage of the Confucian family, and a major reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty is also because this balance was broken by Emperor Chongzhen.

Think about it another two hundred years later, the Manchu Qing continued to implement this so-called Confucian policy, and the people continued to be insensitive in front of the sheep until they were beaten to the doorstep by the ironclad warships of the great powers.

The whole nation was pressed to the ground and rubbed vigorously for a hundred years.

"Benevolence and righteousness are not enough to believe, and martial arts should rejuvenate the country." Zhu Cihong was like being struck by lightning.