Let's go ahead!

Expand your territory.

Open your eyes and your minds.

Don't be limited to one place in China, but look farther away.

A powerful China should look at the world, let its footprints spread all over the world, and should dominate and lead the times, rather than resting on its laurels and being willing to fall.

Go out, follow in the footsteps of your predecessors, set sail in the era of great navigation, and embark on a different path that symbolizes the unknown and hope.

Xiao Ruxun didn't know what kind of changes this would bring to the land of China, maybe there were good changes, maybe there were bad changes, but he knew very well that this was the only way, and it was also the road that had to be taken.

He knows very well that the history of mankind is a history of cannibalism, and the difference is only that it is our own people who eat each other, or whether they unite to eat others, our ancestors chose to eat their own people, and they have eaten for thousands of years, and the effect is not good.

There is no doubt that in the era of the Ming Dynasty, China's navigation technology was obviously stronger than that of Portugal and Spain, and there was obviously a first-mover advantage in opening the Great Voyage, but this was useless and did not bring any practical benefits to the Ming Dynasty.

Because Zheng He's ship was full of pride and pride and empty eyes of the Celestial Empire, while Columbus's ship carried absolute greed and desire.

It is easy for modern Chinese people to criticize the Ming Dynasty government's maritime policy as an extremely short-sighted policy, and it is an extremely short-sighted behavior to close off the country, lament its misfortune, and be angry with it, why not learn from the Western colonizers to colonize the world, to absorb the flesh and blood of other nations to enrich themselves, but instead end up in the status quo of passive beating, subject to others everywhere.

There is no need to deny that Xiao Ruxun also hated it like this, and the hatred was heart-wrenching, and he hated that he couldn't return to that era to lead a wave of the trend of the times.

But after personal experience, Xiao Ruxun understood.

Even the traverser could never succeed in persuading the Chinese at that time, who were absolutely politically correct in benevolence and morality, to carry out a strategy of colonial expansion, and the people of that era generally pursued the morbid morality that ability could not be moral, and there could not be the slightest flaw.

Political correctness has a strong binding force in any era, especially political correctness standing on the moral high ground, which is simply invulnerable, and cannot be changed by one or two people, one or two new ideas.

Travelers go back to that era and trumpeting foreign colonial expansion and seeking a breakthrough within the system, but they can only get heretical treatment, and the end will not be good.

The way out of the cycle of reincarnation was blocked by the moral masters in the name of Confucius, and the people of that era could not change it.

Under such a general premise, the Chinese civilization, which has been leading the way, will suffer the fate of being backward and beaten in the next few hundred years.

Although the Ming Dynasty's preferential treatment of the gentry created an unprecedented cultural prosperity in the Ming Dynasty, the increasingly authoritarian and rigid political system and guiding ideology all prepared the elegy of Chinese civilization.

The aborigines of Australia and the Americas were slaughtered and exterminated for various reasons, and the blacks and Indians were enslaved in large numbers.

The two lines of fate collided in 1840.

What happened after that, anyone who went to school knows it, and there is no need to say more.

So Xiao Ruxun figured it out, reform is an extremely thankless thing, especially when the goal is too big and the resistance is greater, reform is no different from seeking death, and reform without the support of an absolute foundation is bound to fail and cannot succeed.

He admired Wang Anshi and Zhang Juzheng's courage in daring to kill vested interest groups, and he also admired the will and determination of countless reformers, but this is meaningless, and the reform without moving the foundation is just a continuation of life.

Hsiao chose to cut off its roots to promote revolution in the true sense of the word, giving a new meaning to the word revolution, and thus leading the country on a completely different path and towards a different future.

And for his followers, the impact is very large, and they have never imagined looking overseas, pursuing their future on the ocean as far as the eye can see.

Farmers born in the mountains are accustomed to mountains surrounding small streams, growing on the earth, well-fed scholars, accustomed to the wind blowing wheat waves, wind and snow, and down-to-earth, they have a natural confusion and fear of the boundless ocean.

For this point, Xiao Ruxun is clear.

The generals under his command were basically born in peasant households and ate from the fields, and the civil officials who followed him also grew up reading the Four Books and the Five Classics.

He knew that he couldn't just use a sentence or two to dispel the doubts and fears of his followers and go to the ocean.

But he hoped that he would push for it to happen.

Therefore, he will still give land and privileges to his followers, so that they have the most basic trust in him, and have the least courage to go overseas and open up new worlds.

This is the basis for them to go to the ocean.

"In the future, my policy goal is to open the sea in the southeast, open the treaty ports, and encourage private and official trade with Daqin abroad, with the Wa State, with Korea, with the Nanyang countries, and with the Europa countries.

And my request to you is to lead the army to organize and manage the refugees and displaced people in the coming period, overhaul the world, adopt the policy of Qin Shi Huang, repair the Dachi Road from Beijing to all parts of the world, and strengthen the central government's control over the localities.

And in the meantime, I will eliminate all hidden dangers, and after all this is over, it is time for us to turn our eyes overseas, and then you will find that beyond Daqin, there is a wider world that can gallop across the country. ”

After Xiao Ruxun finished speaking, he looked at the confused eyes of the generals, paused, and said: "I know that you will also have some worries and doubts, because Song Taizu chose to release the military power with a glass of wine after the yellow robe was added. ”

This is the key point, after saying this allusion, the generals' eyes instantly sharpened.

It is impossible to say that there are no such concerns.

They all know the story of the release of military power with a glass of wine, and they also know what happened to the warriors after the yellow robe was added.

But they couldn't resist the temptation of the benefits of the yellow robe, so they resolutely did so, but after doing so, more worries also appeared.

Because if Xiao Ruxun wants to attack them, they will have no power to resist.

Xiao Ruxun's prestige in the army is too great.

"I understand your concerns, and I know them well, and I would be so worried if I swapped identities with any of you."

Xiao Ruxun said slowly: "You will worry that I will be suspicious of you, and I will worry that your subordinates will do the same thing to you, so as to solve my worries with a glass of wine and release the military power, go back to the old way of the former Song Dynasty, and even learn from the former Ming Taizu and kill you." ”

The generals' expressions became unnatural.