At this time, Yun Xi suddenly said: "Brother Huang, my brother is in a hurry. ”

"You go and take King Yong to the toilet." Yun Xi pointed to a small eunuch and said. The little eunuch agreed, and walked out of Yun Xi's study with Yun Xi.

When Yunxi walked out, Zhu Bai suddenly laughed uncontrollably; Yun Xi had already held back, but when he heard Zhu Bai's laughter, he also began to laugh.

The two laughed for a while, and Yun Xi asked, "Yun Xi has been the lord of the country for more than a year, is it still so indistinguishable between jokes and serious words?" ”

"No one in Yongfan dares to make such a joke with him, even Xu Zengshou only tells some jokes that are very simple and easy to understand." Zhu Bai said: "Not only him, but we are also the same in the place, so we can only talk to the princess and the commander of the capital and make some jokes, and everyone else is honestly afraid." ”

Yun Xi didn't speak. It's not just them, he is in the capital, although he talks casually with the prince in Beijing on the surface, but in fact, everyone is also careful when talking to him, for fear of annoying him.

Sure enough, the kings of ancient times were called lonely and widowed, which really makes sense. Even if it is a queen, she does not dare to speak casually. These princes are actually fine, at least when they come to Beijing to pay tribute, they can communicate with other princes on an equal footing, and I have no one who can communicate on an equal footing. Yun Xi thought.

However, Yoon-hee immediately began to restrain his thoughts. Such days will not change in the future, and it is useless to think too much.

"Uncle Twelve, at home these two days, has Jiudun been particularly sticky to you? Wen Kui hasn't seen his father for a year, but he misses him very much. Yun Xi said to Zhu Bai.

Zhu Bai had never heard of this use of the word 'sticky', but he immediately understood the meaning of Yun Xi, and said with a smile: "His mother also stayed in the capital, and I really miss it if I don't see him for a year, but it is not as good as Wen Kui, who is going to school alone in the capital." ”

"Is Yongfan still getting used to it?" Yun Xi asked again: "You were originally in Jingzhou, Jingzhou is in the Yangtze River, I guess you are not very suitable for the winter of Yongfan." ”

"Not only in winter, but also in spring. When I arrived in Vladivostok, it was already mid-February, but it was still very cold, colder than the winter in Jingzhou, and I didn't think it would be spring. ”

"Then the real spring came, but it was very short-lived, and soon it was summer, and the summer weather was similar to Jingzhou, very hot; After that it was a short autumn, and it was winter again. ”

"Yongming has almost six months of the year in winter, spring and autumn plus a piece of a total of only three months, and the remaining three months are summer, the weather is very strange, it's really hard to see how Yunxi endured it." Zhu Bai said.

"In fact, you will get used to staying in this kind of place, and you may not be able to adapt to the weather in the Central Plains after staying for a long time." Yun Xi smiled.

The two laughed a few more words, and Yun Xi suddenly said, "Twelfth uncle, you still remember my original intention of sending you to Yongming back then." ”

Zhu Bai immediately noticed that Yun Xi changed his self-proclaimed name from 'I' to 'I', and understood that Yun Xi was going to get down to business now, and his expression became serious and said, "Remember." ”

"I know that Uncle Twelve has also been to the Jurchen village to preach these days, and now you know how difficult the original Taoism is, right?" Yun Xi said.

Zhu Bai had a tangled look on his face. He himself preached in the Jurchen villages, and of course he knew that the original Taoism was not attractive to the locals at all, and if it weren't for the fact that Zhang Yishan, the master of the Vladivostok Taoist Temple, and his disciples spontaneously changed Taoism, there might not be a single Jurchen believer now. If you want Taoism to spread, you can only modify the teachings.

However, he Zhu Bai really believes in the current Taoism, and does not want the doctrine to be changed to become similar to Buddhism.

After struggling for a long time, Zhu Bai finally said: "Your Majesty, you are right, you can only revise the doctrine, otherwise it will be of no use to the barbarians at all, and they will not be willing to believe in Taoism." Perhaps one monk sneaked there and could make most of the local barbarians embrace Buddhism. ”

Yun Xi breathed a sigh of relief. He is not afraid of false believers, but of true believers who are pious and inflexible; Most of the true believers who don't know how to be flexible will do bad things, and he doesn't dare to use them at all.

"In this case, the nephew will be able to entrust a major matter to the twelfth uncle." Yun Xi said.

He then took out a map east of the Ming Dynasty, which included Fuso, the Ryukyu Islands, the Ainu Land of the North and South, and Jinning (Kamchatka Peninsula), but the land area on this map was very small, and most of the area was a vast ocean.

Yun Xi pointed at Jin Ning and said to Zhu Bai: "Twelfth Uncle, from here to the east, there may be a continent, at least a very large island, and the fleet led by Fang Mingqian found people here the year before last, although they are just some barbarians, but they are also people. ”

"I want Twelfth Uncle Jianye to follow Fang Mingqian's fleet from the Corridor Islands (Aleutian Islands) to this place for four years, to see how much land there is, how many barbarian people there are, if there is a suitable place to live, Twelfth Uncle you will be sealed to this place."

Zhu Bai never expected that Yun Xi would want to seal him in such an uncertain place, and he didn't know what to say for a while. He was silent for a long time before he said: "Jinning is very cold, not suitable for life at all, if it is about the same latitude as Jinning, it is not suitable for human life, I'm afraid there are only a few barbarians." ”

"Perhaps there is land south of the same latitude as Jinning, and there may be many barbarians there; Perhaps, if you continue south along the coastline, you will see the legendary Furat. Yun Xi said.

"Does Your Majesty really believe that the earth is round? Is it a ball? Didn't Your Majesty write it casually in a book? Zhu Bai said. Yun Hee had previously written in an internal reference book that the earth could be round.

"Who knows if it's true or false if it's something that hasn't been verified." Yun Xi said.

"If the earth is really round, then even if it doesn't turn, why don't people who live on the other side of the earth fall?" Zhu Bai said.

"Perhaps on the other side of the earth, there are no people or animals living in the first place, only flowers and trees growing downward. Perhaps," Yun Xi suddenly looked sideways at the blue sky outside the window: "There are reasons that we can't imagine now that people on the other side can live on the ground." ”

Zhu Bai shook his head and did not continue on the topic. In his opinion, Yun Xi's words are nonsense, and there is no need to even discuss them.

Yun Xi didn't talk to him about this topic anymore, turned his head back and said: "Regardless of whether the earth is round or not, at least there is likely to be a continent to the east of this ocean east of Daming, if the latitude of this continent is about the same as that of Daming, people can live there." ”