When Chen Mu walked out of the palace, it was getting dark, and thanks to Xu Jue of the next dynasty, he sent someone to pass a message to Juniper, so that Du Heizi did not wait stupidly in the brocade room.

Jinyi left a message to the minister of Nanyang, his family's five-grade groom Du Heizi went to Liuquanju in the west of the city at noon to eat some snacks, and ran to listen to the play in the afternoon with two pots of wine in his arms, drank too much and was jealous and started with people, one person let go of six strong men, and by the way beat three Jinyi who stared at the stalk, and lost nine people after waking up, and took people to the Crane Year Hall to grab medicine.

Chen Mu walked out of the palace city, listened to Jinyi Qianhu tell him about Juniper's situation, and listened to him chuckle lightly, feeling uncomfortable.

He knows Juniper's problems, he is strong in martial arts, short-tempered, narrow-minded, and always wants to fight with a sword and a horse and advance lightly every time he encounters a war, even if he graduates from the North Lecture Martial Arts School, he can improve, but his character flaws increase with age - it is not terrible to make mistakes often, what is terrible is that this guy always has a self-destructive tendency of 'if he does not succeed, he will become benevolent'.

It's good to have this kind of mortal heart when the nation is in danger and the war is dying, but it's a bit terrifying to always have this mentality, Chen Mu has handed Juniper some ordinary little things more than once, this guy can actually say things like 'If you don't do well, I'll become a monk'.

Chen Mu has already thought about it, Juniper said that he can't stay in China anymore, and when the serious route overseas comes out, he will throw him to Mexico, but he must wait for the serious route to try, really speaking, the tenacity in Juniper's character is far less than one-tenth of Lin Manjue, and he can also be a general, and he has no ability to take on the profession of explorer who has too high requirements for character.

Shen middle-aged also just came out of the palace, he and the other two ministers stayed in the cabinet all day, and the eunuch went to see Chen Mu and the little emperor a few times in the middle, and each time the response was that the little emperor was dancing and talking about something, and he looked like he was chatting with Chen Mu very happily - the elder really didn't expect that the age difference between these two people was nearly twenty years old, and they could actually talk together!

Not to mention, the two of them can indeed talk together, and in some emerging fields, the little emperor's understanding is even more than most people in the world, because he has received little knowledge, and the beginning of his understanding of the world basically originated from the "Chen Tao Te Ching", and he accepts all new things much faster than others.

There are still people in both the government and the opposition who do not believe that they can sail from the east and return from the west—of course, only if they do not believe it, even if someone really comes back from a circle, there is nothing to shock the government and the opposition.

The sky is round and the place is an old Chinese theory, but few people know how old this theory is, and in the Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty, this theory was not in fashion.

During the Han Dynasty, Bashu learned to fall into the Hong for the formulation of the calendar, put forward the 'Hun Tian Theory', his calendar is more accurate than others, called the Taichu calendar, was selected as the official calendar, but at that time no one could be sure what shape it was, so it was just a statement.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Heng developed the Hun Tian Theory, and there was also an opposing doctrine called the 'Gai Tian Theory' in the same period, which belonged to the land where the sky was round in the early period, and the earth also became round in the later period, and the point of contention was only whether the heaven and the earth were spherical or hemispherical.

The observation and progress of astronomy has been developing, and by the Tang Dynasty, the monks who measured the distance of the meridians completely overthrew the Gaitian theory, and the calendar he formulated for Tang Xuanzong was called the Great Yan Calendar.

In this world, not only navigators need accurate astronomical navigation and positioning, but also agricultural civilizations need accurate astronomical calendars.

For the government and the opposition officials and the people, it doesn't matter whether there is someone circling the world for a week, and even if they really know that someone is circling the world, it will not have any substantive significance, and the days will have to pass.

But for the little emperor, it should be his fleet and his people who should surround Zhou Tian, and if not, his people should go.

"Chen Shuai is very happy, and he must have talked very happily with His Majesty." Zhang Juzheng pretended to be confused, greeted Chen Mu in the mansion, and said with a smile while leading the way: "Can you talk to the servant?" ”

"Your Majesty is modest and studious, and has the atmosphere of a wise man, which is the blessing of the Ming Dynasty, and the old man of the pavilion has made great contributions." Chen Mu smiled and complimented Zhang Juzheng, and whispered to Zhang Juzheng outside: "Your Majesty wants to issue an edict, when the Ming army lands in Molica, South Asia, and recruits soldiers and warships to form a fleet to travel around the world, I recommend my subordinate general Lin Manjue, whose temperament is strong and strong, and can take on the important task of opening the world." ”

"Around the world?"

Zhang Juzheng's brows furrowed, and he wanted to say something, but when the words came to his lips, he pulled Chen Mu aside and asked, "Profitable?" Don't build a 5,000-material giant treasure ship to highlight the weather, the old man who studied the Navy Lecture Hall has seen it, that kind of giant ship is not suitable, and it costs the people and money. ”

Hearing that Zhang Juzheng didn't seem to object in his words, Chen Mu breathed a sigh of relief and arched his hand: "Elder Ge, rest assured, Daming already has a nautical chart to go east to Spain, which is a mature route; To the west, there is a nautical chart of the Three Treasures Gong that traveled to Africa, and the Ming Dynasty is actually only a millimeter away from the map of the world. ”

"There is no need to make a big move, to the east, according to the contract, the Ming Dynasty is as far as the Spanish garrison; To the west, according to the contract with Portugal and the Lion Country, there are many Portuguese merchant stations along the way to supply, only need to send a fleet of 3,000 people, carry the messengers, brocade clothes to the west, and then recruit civilian caravans to accompany them, and go to various places, in the next thought, the three largest warships, with the Nanyang Weigang newly built 2,500 miles of warships and 2,000 warships are the most suitable. ”

"Along the left and right of the route, the envoy signed a treaty of trade with various countries, Jinyi secretly checked the national conditions and national strength, surveyed and mapped, and the merchants wrote down their national specialties, scarce commercial goods, and prices in the country, and further expanded the overseas market, and then the private caravans traded with various countries with small orders, and the imperial court set up caravans to obtain profits from the import and export of large quantities of goods.

"But the names of those three giant ships, I want to ask the elder for permission."

What Chen Mu said is not novel, it is basically the same as Zheng He's method of going to the West in the past, and it is also the way of folk caravans and imperial court caravans, the only difference is that in the past, the imperial court did not send caravans, and the people rarely sent caravans to the sea to such a far place.

But now the country already knows a truth, the original price of goods, between transportation, can be increased several times or even more than ten times, the biggest profits in the past have been given away in vain!

In the past, there was still a security issue in front of everyone, and now the Nanyang Military Government is like a huge octopus stretching its tentacles everywhere, and this war machine that is difficult to stop when it is turned on is escorting merchant ships, what is there to hesitate about?

Zhang Juzheng heard that Chen Mu and the emperor were not stupid enough to use the huge and clumsy sealed boat to travel around Zhoutian, which made him breathe a sigh of relief in his heart, the larger the size of the battleship, the geometric increase in the difficulty of manufacturing, and the cost naturally increased, not to mention the need to add arms, he didn't want Chen Mu to make a few hundred thousand taels of warships to do this kind of invisible thing.

He asked, "What do you think of the name of the giant ship?" ”

Chen Mu sold it first, and said: "The Ming fleet circled the world for the first time, its symbolic significance is huge, the first ship is two thousand five hundred warships, Your Majesty wants to name it Wanli, which will bring great prestige to the emperor, and the remaining two main warships will escort the Wanli, and should choose one article and one martial arts, and if you want to name it Taiyue and Nantang, I don't know what the old man wants?" ”./14_14088/