Yu Xiaotian touched his nose a little embarrassed, Chongzhen actually hated it, he just said it to ordinary people, he wanted Chongzhen to believe that he did it for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, and it was really not so easy to deceive Chongzhen.

But he still defended himself: "Holy Lord, if you say this about Weichen, Weichen can't help it!" ”

"But please think about it, one: Although it is true that Weichen took Taiyuan Island, but may I ask the Shengshang, when the red-haired people occupied Penghu during the reign of the Emperor Apocalypse, and the Fujian officials and troops conquered Penghu, what was the result? I'm afraid that the saint didn't know that the official army gathered 20,000 troops to attack Penghu, and the red-haired people who occupied Penghu only had less than 1,000 troops, but the Fujian official army could not overcome it.

Later, when the lead could not be attacked, the Fujian official made an appointment with the red-haired people, so that the red-haired people withdrew from Penghu and retreated to Taiyuan Island to build a city!

This means that at that time, the imperial court did not regard Taiyuan Island as a Ming dependency, but as an enclave, and it didn't hurt anyone to occupy it.

At that time, Weichen was still a thief at sea, and he did not hesitate to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to gain a firm foothold on Taiyuan Island, and repeatedly fought with the red-haired people and the dry wax people before he took control of Taiyuan Island.

At that time, Weichen had countless subordinates who died on Taiyuan Island, and Weichen entered and occupied Taiyuan Island first, and was appeased later, which means that Weichen did not send troops to occupy Taiyuan Island without authorization after being appeased.

In addition, Weichen knows better than the saint about the practices of the local officials of the Ming Dynasty, if the Taiyuan Island is handed over to the imperial court and the imperial court is sent to the local officials, then Weichen can guarantee that with the actions of these local officials, it will never be possible to run the Taiyuan Island into the current scene.

In addition, the saint said that Wechen wantonly occupied land in Fujian, and encircled Weitou Bay, and collected taxes from those merchants who went to sea to trade, which Wechen did not deny.

However, the saint must understand that the Ming Dynasty did not publicly admit that these merchants could be allowed to legally go to sea to do sea trade, so what Weichen charged them was only protection money.

If there is no money, it is difficult for Weichen to cook without rice, which is naturally not what to say about calming the sea, following the practice of Fujian and Guangxi in the past, I am afraid that the southeast sea is still raging, so Weichen is doing this for the sake of the Ming Dynasty.

It was through guò that Weichen collected fees from these merchants and raised a strong army that could dominate the sea, so that he was able to pacify the pirates on the southeast coast for the imperial court, so that they could no longer be a troublemaker!

So there's nothing wrong with that! It can be said that it was taken from the people, used for the people, and did the thing of pacifying the sea for the imperial court!

But if it weren't for Wechen's efforts to create such a strong army, how could Wechen be able to do it when the imperial court transferred Wechen to the north to quell the Denglai Rebellion?

And to build a strong army, like those generals of the Ming Dynasty, it is impossible to rely on drinking the blood of soldiers and deducting food and salary to fill their pockets.

The saint knows that although over the years, the Fujian side has also allocated food and salary to Weichen, but the food and salary allocated by these officials are far from enough to support so many soldiers.

And Weichen never withheld a penny of food and salary from the soldiers under his command, on the contrary, the food and salary given to them should far exceed the quota given by the imperial court. In order to let them have no worries, with only those rations and salaries allocated by the government, does the saint think that he can create such a male army?

Besides, I'm afraid that the Holy Lord has also heard that the firearms held by the soldiers under the command of Wei Chen are sharp, but does the Holy Lord know how much silver it costs to build a 700-material warship? How much silver taels does it cost to build a Hongyi cannon? How much does it cost to build a good bird?

If anyone wants to build an elite division, especially an elite like Weichen's firearms-based, it can be said that it is piled up with silver, and it is close to the little food and salary allocated to Weichen by the imperial court, and even the clothes of the soldiers are not enough to wear, how can they build an elite?

Therefore, Weichen needs money, without money, it is impossible to create an iron army, and Weichen can also sue sù Sheng, now the number of soldiers and horses is no longer the key factor affecting the battlefield, since ancient times, the art of war has been said, and the soldiers are fine but not many, which is the reason why Yu can do this now.

If Yu didn't want to find a way to make money, how could he help the imperial court pacify the pirates on the southeast coast now? How can we help the imperial court quell the Denglai Rebellion? How can the army of Jiannu be dismantled?

For so many years, Daming has been sitting on Baoshan but has not gotten any benefits, and the products of Daming have been continuously sold abroad by those merchants, but they have not gotten any benefits, and these merchants have competed to lower prices in order to export goods, and the benefits have made those Taixi people earn.

Even if they make money, they only fill the private pockets of those profiteers, cheapen those local officials, and let them make a lot of money, and they are full of brains and intestines, but for Daming, there is no benefit at all.

After pacifying the sea, the order on the sea was re-established, the intrusion of pirates on the maritime merchants was curbed, so that they could go to sea more safely, and a series of rules were specified to be complied with at sea, and countless benefits were earned for the Ming Dynasty. Does the Holy One think that this silver is better for those red-haired devils to earn, and for those profiteers and corrupt officials to earn than for me?

Speaking of which, I'm afraid Wechen is going to talk about the general trend of the world! ……”

Chongzhen snorted coldly, and said with disdain for Xiaotian's defense: "Strong words! I won't argue with you! In this general trend of the world, am I not as good as you? ”

"No, no! The general trend of the world mentioned by the saint is probably limited to the place of Daming, but Weichen wants to ask the saint, what is the place outside the Ming Dynasty and the sea in the extreme east? And where is Tessie? What is the Far South? What is the Far North? Yu Xiaotian shook his head and retorted to Chongzhen.

Chongzhen thought for a moment, sneered and said, "I don't know, but do you know?" ”

Yu Xiaotian nodded and said seriously: "Of course! I'm afraid that the saint doesn't even know what shape this land under his feet is, but Weichen knows! ”

Chongzhen is also a well-educated person, quite unconvinced, and Yu Xiaotian argued, Chongzhen accepted the old-style theory of heaven and earth, ancient China regarded the sky as round, but the earth is square, so there is a saying that the sky is round and the place is round, thinking that China is in the middle of the world, so it calls itself China, but it is not clear that the farther part of the world, what kind of country exists.

In the past few decades, as more and more Europeans appeared in Asia, people knew that there were many small countries far away in the west, collectively called Tessie, but no one knew what was on the other side of the eastern ocean, only that when it came to the sea, the sea was boundless.

Yu Xiaotian listened to Chongzhen's words, shook his head with a smile, and from the suitcase, took out an extremely delicate globe made of exquisite glass, and placed it in front of Chongzhen, and then took out a world map that he personally hand-drawn, and also placed it on the dragon case in front of Chongzhen.

Pointing to this globe and world map, Yu Xiaotian began to teach Chongzhen a world geography literacy lesson......

There was no roar of Chongzhen in the hall for a long time, and I could only hear Yu Xiaotian's unique voice slightly, saying something to Chongzhen, and the people outside were staring at each other, even if they listened with their ears pricked up, they couldn't really hear it.

Yu Xiaotian was in the main hall and gave Chongzhen a world geography lesson for more than an hour, during which his mouth was dry, and he asked people to send tea in and drink it.

And Chongzhen also heard of such a new thing for the first time, although he hated Xiaotian, but it did not prevent him from being curious about the unknown things in this world.

During this period, Chongzhen was skeptical of some of Xiaotian's statements, but Yu Xiaotian found a lot of supporting evidence to prove the correctness of his statement.

Chongzhen asked Yu Xiaotian why he knew so much, Yu Xiaotian simply lied, saying that he had already sent people to these places, and added the map drawn by the Taixi people, so he knew so clearly, and he also said that there are still many unknown places in this world, waiting for people to discover.

He even told Chongzhen that he himself was not born in the Ming Dynasty, but in an extremely distant place, but he was a Han Chinese, there is no doubt about this, and his veins flowed with the blood of the pure Han nation, so he hoped to do something for the Han people.

Now this era is the era of geographical discovery, it is the era of some maritime powers to carve up the world, the Ming Dynasty is one step late, if you miss this era, then the Chinese nation will always be left behind, I am afraid it will be difficult to catch up with the footsteps of the Taixi people in the future.

The two of them talked until noon, Chongzhen became more and more silent, he had been thinking about Da Ming for so many years since he ascended the throne, and he almost never paid attention to what happened outside Da Ming.

But he still knew that there were many Taixi people who had come to Daming from far away, and as for where they came from, almost no one could say clearly.

And these things that Yu Xiaotian said to him today also completely subverted his previous world view, he has always thought that the Ming Dynasty is already very big, but when Yu Xiaotian presented this world map in front of him, he found the Ming Dynasty on the world map, only to find that in fact, the Ming Dynasty is not big in this world, and it can even be said that it is very small, only occupying a corner of Asia in this world, and there is nothing to show off.

In history, the emperors of any Chinese dynasty all regarded themselves as the masters of the whole world, believing that this was the middle of the earth and the central government, and even if there were some small countries in other places, they could only be regarded as some small countries, which could not be compared with China at all, so it was a matter of course for all countries to come to the court.

But today, after listening to Yu Xiaotian's class, Chongzhen found that he was actually a frog at the bottom of the well, and he didn't know how big this world was, which was ridiculous, and all the pride accumulated in the past seemed to have turned into Yelang arrogance at this time, which made Chongzhen very uncomfortable.

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