Imperial City, outside Hongwu Gate.

A group of carriages, parked in the square in front of the city gate, wearing purple official clothes, wrapped in jade belts, wearing black sand hats, and two hat wings stretched out, got out of the sedan chair, holding the wat board in their hands, and entered the palace city.

On the other side, the generals on horseback also dismounted, gathered outside the Hongwu Gate one after another, and then entered the palace in groups.

After the Son of Heaven moved to Beijing, the imperial city was given to the king of Chu to supervise the country, but Wang Yan still lived in the palace of the king of Chu, and did not live in the palace city, but only borrowed a few large halls to deal with state affairs and hold grand ceremonies.

Today is the first great dynasty convened by Wang Yan since the reign of the country, and the civil and military forces above the five grades in Beijing must participate, because of the large number of people, it can only be held in the palace hall.

In order to avoid suspicion, Wang Yan has asked people to remove many things in the three major halls, and also changed the name of the hall.

The place where I was summoned today was to talk about the martial arts hall, and I could guess the general content of the proceedings by listening to the name.

"Congratulations to Dai Guogong!" In front of the martial arts hall, several officials who had been waiting early couldn't help but bow when they saw Dai Zhifan coming over.

Dai Zhifan was named the king of Guangling, it is already an ironclad thing, it is said that the canonized pardon letter arrived at the Ministry of Rites as early as possible, just waiting for the auspicious day to be issued.

It is a supreme glory to be crowned a king, and wherever he goes now, he is naturally the focus of attention, and he is the center of everyone's discussion.

Hearing the voice, the officials present all looked down the steps, and saw Dai Zhifan, dressed in a scarlet robe and embroidered with a unicorn complement on his chest, walking with several military generals, so he also hurriedly bowed his hand.

Dai Zhifan had to come forward, but he was not complacent, he smiled and returned the salute to the Quartet, and said with a greeting, "Cabinet ministers and colleagues, you came so early. ”

Many of the officials present were of lower rank than him, and besides, he was the one who wanted to be crowned king, so everyone felt more comfortable seeing him so polite.

At this time, Qian Qianyi smiled slightly, "Does the Metropolitan Governor know what the prison state summoned us for?" ”

"It's said to be a matter of Nanyang, but I don't know why the prison country is so prosperous!" Dai Zhifan knew something, and he heard that the affairs of Nanyang were more tricky, but the threat of the Ming Dynasty and the threat of the Central Plains Dynasty in the past dynasties came from the north, and he felt that there was no need to convene a great dynasty to discuss the problem of Nanyang.

There are several ministers next to him who also have this opinion, Xiyi provokes trouble in Nanyang, just send troops to destroy it, the Ming Dynasty even defeated the Manchu Qing, who are you afraid of?

At this time, the ministers had basically arrived, and they were talking, and the guards came out of the lecture hall and announced that the ministers had entered the hall.

At the moment, several cabinet elders organized outside the hall, and more than 200 civil and military officials, according to their official titles and departments, first lined up outside the main hall, with the red robe in front and the green robe in the back, and then the fish penetrated into the hall.

In the hall, Wang Yan is high on the throne of the prison country, a huge picture of all countries in the middle of the hall, directly spread on the floor, all the civil and military people go to the palace, bow and worship, and shout the prison country.

"Excuse me!" Wang Yan said softly, waited for Wenwu to stand on both sides of the main hall, and continued: "Today, I summoned all the secretaries to come here to discuss the affairs of Nanyang!" ”

Wang Yan looked down as he spoke, "Everyone must have heard something about Nanyang. According to the latest military reports received by the imperial court, the Dutch had formed an alliance with the Spaniards, and united with Malacca, Masaka, Orissa and other countries in the South Seas, instigating Bago, Chenla, Siam and other countries to attack Champa together. Fortunately, King Zhenla's heart was to my court, and he asked me to report to the court to the merchants, so that Gu realized that the affairs of Nanyang were not simple! ”

After the Ming Dynasty implemented a new vassal state policy, it was no longer as before, as long as it paid tribute, it was a vassal. Now in addition to paying tribute, the vassal must also use the name of the Ming Dynasty and the law, and there can be no transgression in the etiquette system, and the diplomatic power is returned to the suzerain, and the Ming Dynasty provides protection to the vassal state.

This new tributary system required vassals to give up many of their sovereignty in exchange for recognition and protection from the Ming Dynasty, some of which were acceptable to the vassals, while others were unwilling to lose their sovereignty.

After the Ming Dynasty abolished the previous policy, in addition to the five countries of Annam, Quang Nam, Gao Ping, Ryukyu and Korea, the five countries of Annam, Quang Nam, Gao Ping, Ryukyu and Korea formalized the vassal relationship, several sultanates in Nanyang were controlled by the Dutch and had severed their contacts, and the Bago, Chenla and Siam sandwiched between these sultanates and the three kingdoms of Quang Nam were in a state of vacillation.

The Netherlands wooed these three countries, but Zhenla obviously didn't want to provoke the Ming Dynasty, so he passed the news to the Ming Dynasty, so as not to be implicated in the war once the war started.

Saying that, Wang Yan got up from the throne of the prison country, and then walked to the center of the main hall step by step, and directly stepped on the huge map of all nations. "I believe that you are also as puzzled as Lone, what kind of ability do these Xiyi have, they have actually controlled the trade routes in Nanyang for decades, why can they make waves in Nanyang, and repeatedly tear up the agreement with our dynasty, and do not put our dynasty in their eyes, what kind of ability do they have, and where do they come from, dare to challenge my Ming?"

Many officials in the hall couldn't help but whisper, most of them really hadn't thought about these issues.

This is for a long time, the concept of the great power of the Celestial Dynasty has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the Ming Dynasty is the center of the world, and the ministers are not very interested in the surrounding areas.

Of course, the ministers cannot be blamed for the success of this concept, this is the sense of superiority formed by the entire civilization leading the world for thousands of years, and it is inevitable that it does not appear suddenly.

This is the same as the arrogance formed by white people, how can China not have a great power mentality for thousands of years.

Moreover, two hundred years ago, the Ming Dynasty also went out to see, turned around and found that none of them could fight, and did not find an existence worthy of learning from the Ming Dynasty, they were all savages.

It is true that many of the surrounding ministers do not know these problems, or only know a general idea, Wang Yan's words aroused their interest, and many people's eyes looked at the map at Wang Yan's feet.

This map is Wang Yan let the painter of the Ministry of Industry, according to the scale of the map of the world enlarged, drawn on the white cloth spliced out, nearly three zhang long, two zhang wide, can be said to be the largest map of the Ming Dynasty, but because of the rush relationship, the pattern is not particularly exquisite, just has a rough outline.

The map of all countries has been there for a long time, but such a large map of all countries, it is really the first time to see it, after many people saw the location of the Ming Dynasty, they were shocked that the world was so big, and Wang Yan's first view of the map felt almost the same.

Wang Yan glanced at everyone, and then said: "In the art of war, knowing oneself and knowing the other side will win all battles, but we don't even know what the Netherlands and Spain are now. Today, I will take a look at it with you, and see why these enemies from the far west dare to offend me many times and times! ”

"Please also ask the prison country to teach!" Then all the ministers of the temple bowed together.

Wang Yan waved his hand, "It's not clear to Lone about this, but Lone has found someone who can explain it clearly, and Lone will listen to it with you!" ”

Saying that, Wang Yan stood in the center of the map, where was the location of Da Ming, he pointed to his feet, and said with a smile, "Here, everyone knows where it is!" Seeing that everyone nodded, he spoke: "Bai Shilang, tell you where the Netherlands and Spain are, and how they came from thousands of miles away!" ”

Bai Yingli was a missionary in the Ming Dynasty, and Wang Yan became acquainted with him when he was in Guangdong. On the condition that Wang Yan was allowed to proselytize and finance the construction of a church, he asked Bai Yingli to help recruit a group of Portuguese to cast firearms for the Ming Dynasty, and later asked him to translate many Western books with Huang Zongxi, as well as Latin and French.

In the process of translating Chinese classics, he developed a stronger interest in Chinese culture, especially in favor of many aspects of science. But he is more disgusted with Wang Yan's admiration of psychology.

This is dictated by his position, he is a Jesuit missionary, so first of all he must be loyal enough to the Pope. So they sided with the popes in the Western Reformation, and many of them were ascetics, opposing the Protestant Reformation.

In the Western Reformation, it was proposed that everyone could communicate with God through multiple faiths, without the need for the church as an intermediary medium, while Xinxue proposed that there was no need for the rules and regulations proposed by the theorists, and that they could seek holiness from their own hearts, which was a reform of disintermediation and emancipation of the mind.

As a faithful believer of the Pope and a missionary of the Catholic Church, he naturally did not like the study of the mind, but attached great importance to the idea of "preserving the principles of heaven and destroying human desires" in the science.

Zhu Fuzi said, "Diet, heavenly principles; The delicacies of the mountains and the sea, the desire of people. husband and wife, heaven and reason; Three wives and four concubines, people also want. He can interpret "preserving heavenly principles" as what God has set and taught, and "destroying human desires" means to eliminate evil and self-denial, which is very much in line with the values of an ascetic.

In addition, it is believed in science that the "Three Principles and Five Constants" are eternal and unchanging "Heavenly Principles", "monarchs and ministers have the gifts of monarchs and ministers, and fathers and sons have the gifts of fathers and sons; The division of the father and the father, the division of the son and the son, the division of the king and the king, and the division of the minister and the minister. It was also recognized by Bai Yingli. Because the church itself is a hierarchical organization, the pope is even more indispensable, waiting for the Lord to speak out.

Wang Yan was not interested in the beliefs and thoughts of this missionary, he had his own beliefs in his heart, and he only cared about the skills of these Westerners.

Civilization includes many aspects, such as thought, humanities, science and technology, art, astronomy, geography, and so on. Each civilization has different lengths in these aspects, such as the Mayan astronomy and calendar have reached an amazing level, but they have not even invented a wheel, Western civilization is also long and short in these aspects, and their strengths that interest Wang Yan are only technology.

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