At noon, in the East Palace of the Forbidden City, one big and one small, two young people who hadn't slept enough sat outside the hall in thick winter clothes to bask in the sun.

The golden-helmeted warriors of the Han Dynasty moved the armillary sphere in the emperor's bedroom to the stone steps outside the palace, and under the chairs of the two was a huge map of the world made of tanned deerskin.

"Your Majesty has read Chen's Tao Te Ching, what do you think of that book?"

In the palace, Zhang Juzheng and Empress Dowager Li sat on the side, the emperor was like a quail and didn't dare to ask anything, not at all like the spirit of the court meeting, Chen Mu naturally didn't dare to be presumptuous, and the meal was very boring.

Under the control of them like this, although Xiao Wanli will have high talents, but he suppresses his nature, and his personality is definitely going to be problematic, and the students in later generations are nervous about schoolwork and the teachers are strict, but in the end, there are classmates to play and chat with them to relieve pressure, but what does the emperor have?

Chen Mu was dragged to the East Palace by Wanli, and watched the little emperor command the wrestlers to carry out the armillary sphere, and took out a set of huge world maps that he had hidden for a long time, on which the countries were filled in with different color blocks, and also marked with naïve notes such as Xijing Madrid, Mongolian Horse Farm, and Nanyang Fishing Ground, and invited him to watch it like a treasure, with a proud look on his small chin and said that he covered the window with a thin cloth at night and did not let the light be light, which made Chen Mu's nose sour for no reason.

This picture is very naïve, very naïve, and the traces of sketching and alteration on it have lowered the grade of the leather scroll map.

Chen Mu was randomly transferred from the military government to the guard, and twenty naval martial arts graduation flag officers could draw a hundred times more rigorously than this picture.

But its grand length of four zhang and width of three zhang means that this is absolutely impossible to accomplish, and there is only one person in Wanli, and he is only twelve years old, Chen Mu seems to be able to see that in countless nights, the doors and windows of the dormitory are covered with cloth, the hall is carefully lit with lamps, and the little emperor who is avoiding his mother's punishment lies on the ground clumsily and seriously, carefully sketching a grand blueprint with pen and ink.

No one plays with him, no one can even talk to him normally, and the royal descendants have been lonely since childhood.

Chen Mu dared to pack tickets Zhang Juzheng must be aware of this problem, because he was in the straight room before the court, he heard Xu Jue casually mention that the cabinet produced white lotus, and the Hanlin Academy produced double white swallows, and Zhang Juzheng brought it to play for the emperor, and was beaten by Feng Bao.

'The emperor is young, and he should not be made to play with these strange things. ’

As the leader of the eunuchs, he is very knowledgeable, but in fact, the emperor is not playful, but he has no play.

Therefore, Chen Mu listened to the emperor's masterpiece all morning, like describing the grand blueprint of the great empire with childish tones and ideas, like finding a long-looking bosom friend to tell the secrets buried in his heart, and more like a student finally finding a teacher waiting to check his homework, reciting the specialties of the plot and describing the arrangements of the people everywhere in the future.

"You speak first."

Xiao Wanli held the pet cat that was paid tribute by the Siamese State at the end of last year in his arms, squinted his eyes and spread out on the chair, lazily basking in the sun, and from time to time a small piece of pie was placed from the small square box between the two, and he took a bite and let the cat eat a bite.

The pie is still the old taste of Chen Mu's last time he entered the palace a few years ago, and it was bought by Wanli sent a eunuch to Donghua Gate.

Today he was allowed to stay with Chen Mu, who had not returned to Beijing for four years, for a day, it seemed that Chen Mu didn't care about the rules, he wouldn't scold him for not sitting, and he didn't seem to be afraid of him, which made him very comfortable, and said: "You have heard a lot, the earliest and best map of the Ming Dynasty was painted by you, what do you think of this map?" ”

"Your Majesty is wrong, the first best map of the Ming Dynasty is not painted by the minister, the map requires standards, the first choice is the method of drawing the square, this method originates from the Jin Dynasty Pei Xiu's cartographic six-body, the map is based on inches, an inch is folded a hundred miles, many maps of the dynasty are used in this method, the best is Luo Hongxian's "Guangyu Map", but this method does not take into account that the universe is round."

Chen Mu raised his finger and pointed to the huge armillary sphere, and said in a good way: "If there is a county and a government, you don't have to think about these, but the map of the world should consider the longitude and latitude, and the monks and a group of monks in the first century of Tang Xuanzong in order to formulate a calendar to measure the meridian, selected the white horse, Junyi, Fugou and Shangcai four places with the same longitude, measured the shadow height, overturned the previous Southern and Northern Dynasties 'the land is separated by thousands of miles, and the shadow is one inch long', and the distance between the north and south is 351 miles and 80 steps, a difference of one degree. ”

"Chen's map covered in the Tao Te Ching, Jingwei will follow this example, combined with the Western map obtained by the war booty, pieced together for today's map, Your Majesty can see that many places on the map are newly added, all the powerful countries in the world have joined this competition to discover the world, their technology is improving, Your Majesty was born in the Emperor Ming Dynasty, the Ming can not be the one who is discovered, the one who wants to find others."

Xiao Wanli seemed to understand whether he understood or not, and with a smile on his chin, he lifted the big sleeves of the sun and moon robe, exposed his hand and pointed at the Heavenly Ball and said, "I have already discovered them!" ”

"You're saying that my map is very accurate?"

"At this stage, this map is the most accurate map of the world in the Ming Dynasty, but the minister thinks that His Majesty can make it more accurate." Chen Mu raised a smile and said: "The Nanyang Military Government has been used for conquest, there is a shortage of manpower in the country, in recent years, the celestial calendar is not accurate enough, the prediction of solar eclipses is often unpredictable, a new calendar should be compiled, mathematics is advanced enough, a new calendar should be formulated, and further measure the latitude and longitude of the universe, which is not only beneficial to the calendar, but also conducive to the war." ”

"In the future, China's territory will expand rapidly, and the current jurisdiction of Luzon and Xinming is still small, but with the further reclamation and exploration of Xinming and Guinea, the territory will be doubled, and we must have an accurate calendar and map that can be used in any corner of the Ming Dynasty."

After Chen Mu finished speaking, he arched his hand to Xiao Wanli and said: "After the minister finished talking about the minister's opinion on the map, Your Majesty should also say Your Majesty's opinion on the Tao Te Ching." ”

The little emperor blinked and said, "This is the end?" ”

"It's not over, you haven't said whether I make this map is suitable or not, but it's impossible, the Queen Mother saw this picture and let people burn it, and the corners were burned before I begged to snatch it back; Taifu asked me to be modest and studious, think more about the strategy of governing the country, and don't do these meaningless things, why are you? ”

Chen Mu smiled, of course he knew what Wanli wanted to hear, and he also knew the purpose of others saying other people's words, he said: "The Queen Mother is Your Majesty's mother, and the Queen Mother can decide what Your Majesty learns and what she does not learn; Zhang Ge is His Majesty's teacher, and He can advise His Majesty to learn what is beneficial to the country. ”

"What the Queen Mother and the Pavilion Elder taught are right, but this does not mean that the ministers have to repeat those right persuasions again, Your Majesty can make this picture at a young age, even if it is copied and copied, the energy and time spent are not half a year can not be done, Your Majesty has this wisdom and perseverance, the Queen Mother and the Pavilion Elder's restraint and persuasion will naturally be kept in mind, understand the responsibility of the emperor, and think that there is no need for the ministers to persuade again."

"The minister thought that if the first emperor was still there, he would be very pleased to see this map of the world, and he would encourage him more.

Chen Mu said, showing his hand from the big sleeve of the scarlet robe, picking up a piece of pie and chewing it slowly, this cake is not as delicious as the mountains and seas, in fact, the taste is just ordinary, but this is the favorite pie of Emperor Longqing during his lifetime.

"The Ming Empire inherited by the first emperor was stormy, there was a financial deficit inside, there were southern and northern captives outside, rebellions emerged in various places, the generals lacked skills, the virtuous ministers were exhausted, the emperor was helpless, and if he was careless, he fell apart."

"The Ming Dynasty inherited by His Majesty has achieved initial results in domestic reforms, with two years of storage, grain production increasing year by year, rapid development of military technology, unprecedented prosperity of commercial activities, and countless culture, education and entertainment. The imperial soldiers attacked and defended and easily entered the hometown of the Japanese invaders, the Tatars in the northern part of the country did not dare to talk about the Koubian anymore, and the imperial fleet was invincible across the four seas - this was the most powerful empire in the world. ”

"The Ming Dynasty is a ship, the rudder is in the hands of His Majesty, and what the minister wants to tell His Majesty on behalf of the first emperor is that for the revitalized Ming Empire, there is no impossibility, there is only one question, where does the king want to lead his people?"