Daming Military Empire

Chapter 297 Cultural Invasion
Emperor Chongzheng of the Ming Dynasty was about to go to the European continent. Once the news was announced by the "Beijing News", it was like a thunderstorm. The outside is charred and the inside is tender.

Since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, no emperor has ever traveled so far. It can be said that in all dynasties, except for the emperor of Mengyuan, no emperor has ever set foot on the European continent tens of thousands of miles away. The explosiveness of this news can be imagined .

The empress dowagers of the two palaces couldn't sit still at first. After receiving the news, they immediately went to Qianqing Palace hand in hand, and caught Zhu Cijiong for a good lecture.

Zhu Cijiong naturally had a plan to deal with the two empress dowagers. He told a very powerful lie, that is, to accompany the imperial concubine Princess Anna back to Europe to visit her relatives. Her relatives are all from the royal family in Europe. !Besides, now that the steamship is almost built, it will take two or three months to go to Europe, which is about the same time as the Yujia's personal expedition to Dongfan and Liaodong, so there is nothing to worry about.

The two empress dowagers seldom interfered with him in the first place, and they were fooled by him. As for the civil and military officials, Zhu Cijiong also had the same reason. What if I want to accompany the imperial concubine to save my relatives? No matter, you are taking care of visiting relatives instead, isn't it too lenient!

Therefore, the ministers shut up. Of course, it is not that simple for an emperor to go to Europe. All aspects need to be prepared:
First of all, this ship must be available. He can’t go by sailboat. The emperor’s departure from Beijing is not a joke. It’s not a big problem to leave the capital for two or three months. If you don’t see anyone for half a year or even ten months, then the whole of Ming Dynasty will be messed up. No.

In addition, for the sake of safety and to support the scene, he decided to bring both the Nanyang Navy and the Beiyang Navy, as well as the First Corps of the Imperial Guard, and tens of thousands of Jinyiwei and eunuchs. These people must also be on ships, so he Simply order Dongda Construction Shipyard to stop all other work, and go all out to manufacture super treasure ships and transform old warships!

Dongda Construction Shipyard now has eleven waterways, which can accommodate [-] super battleships and five treasure ships at the same time. It will take at least half a month to transform a batch of old warships. Zhu Cijiong plans to bring at least [-] super battleships and warships this time. Two hundred Fuchuan warships are headed to Europe, so it will take two months to rebuild the old ships. He also wants to use a super treasure ship as the flagship. He doesn't know if he can build a super treasure ship in two months!

By the way, isn't more than 400 warships a bit too much?In fact, there are not many. You must know that when Zheng He, the eunuch of the Three Treasures, sailed to the West, the entire fleet had more than 200 large and small seagoing ships. As an emperor, he must not be worse than a eunuch!
After the matter of the fleet is settled, there will be many other things. Zhu Cijiong is not just trying to sabotage the peace talks this time. He also wants to take a good look along the way to prepare for the future colonization. The colonies are engaged in cultural invasion, and they also want to open the business of Ming Dynasty to the European continent, engage in economic invasion, and so on.

Among all these things, what Zhu Cijiong values ​​most is cultural invasion. The history of world colonization tells him that conquest by force can only be conquered for a while, unless you can maintain your dominance forever, otherwise once force fails, the colonies will inevitably become independent one after another, and cultural invasion will be inevitable. It's different, the culture has a long history and far-reaching influence throughout the ages!

Naturally, Zodiac Zhou was responsible for this cultural invasion, so after the Chinese New Year, when the fleet was arranged, Zhu Cijiong immediately recruited the Imperial Academy to offer sacrifices to Zodiac Zhou to see him.

Huang Daozhou is a well-known straight minister, as long as he thinks the emperor is reasonable, he dares to stand up to him, so when this guy entered the study, after performing the royal ceremony, he immediately began to remonstrate: "Your Majesty, you can't go to Europe. Ah, you can't miss a national event because of a woman, Europe is tens of thousands of miles away from Daming, in case something happens to you, what will Daming do, you don't know about the storm at sea..."

Seeing his eloquent posture, Zhu Cijiong immediately raised his hand and said: "Wait a minute, Huang Aiqing, just listen to me."

Huang Daozhou was very upset when his speech was suddenly interrupted, but the person who interrupted him was the emperor, and he was not easy to get angry, so he could only stand there arrogantly with his neck stuck up, as if he was ready to argue at any time , Waiting for the emperor to give an excuse so that he can refute at any time.

Zhu Cijiong didn't say any excuses, he just smiled and said: "Huang Aiqing, I came to you this time mainly to discuss the establishment of the Daming Chinese Academy in the colonies of the allies and Europe, and I am going to bring you together this time. Heading to Europe, are you going?"

Huang Daozhou heard that his face was like performing a face-changing skill in Sichuan opera. He immediately changed from a white face to a red face, and his stiff neck seemed to suddenly become made of water. Zhichen turned into a flattering jester, and saw his old face smiling like a chrysanthemum, flattering him: "Thank you, Your Majesty, I am willing to go to Europe with your Majesty."

Zhu Cijiong knew that this guy would be excited when he talked about spreading the knowledge of sages. He pretended to be serious and said, "You can't go with me alone. Do you want to stay in Europe or a colony of an allied country to be in charge of research?"

Huang Daozhou's head was running wildly, and the names of corrupt scholars appeared in his mind, such as Liu Zongzhou, Wen Zhenmeng, Zhang Shenyan, etc., but most of these people have very bad backgrounds, that is, they are all Donglin Party members people!

He is very clear that the emperor dislikes cliques. He himself is a member of the Donglin Party, but because he doesn't like to participate in crony activities, the emperor reuses him. Now those so-called Donglin Party remnants will not even learn from the emperor? Let them rule it?
Thinking of this, Huang Daozhou said anxiously: "I think of many scholars who can study, like Liu Zongzhou, Wen Zhenmeng, and Zhang Shenyan are all knowledgeable and talented. If they are in charge of studies, they will definitely be able to do well. They are members of the Donglin Party, I wonder if the Emperor is willing to use them?"

This straight man doesn't turn his back when he speaks. Doesn't this make it clear that the emperor will be in the army? If he meets a neurotic emperor like Chongzhen, he will be smashed to the end just based on this sentence, but Zhu Cijiong is not neurotic. He dislikes cronies, but those are cronies in the officialdom, and academic research has little to do with officialdom, so he doesn't care whether he has cronies or not.

Zhu Cijiong replied as if nothing had happened: "As long as they don't use their brains in the officialdom, it's fine. As for academics, of course they can. It's good to do more learning and less politics."

Huang Daozhou heaved a sigh of relief when he heard the words, and said sincerely: "I thank the emperor on their behalf. I don't know how big the emperor wants to set up a college, so I can determine how many people to bring."

Zhu Cijiong said boldly: "Scholarship is a matter for generations to come. Naturally, you can do as much as you can. It's the same sentence, don't be limited to imperial examination articles, but teach more practical things. The so-called applying what you have learned, so that you can attract more people." Many people come to learn."

Huang Daozhou knelt down on the ground excitedly when he heard the words, hissed: "Thousands of ages, ages and ages, what the emperor said is too good, I must let the knowledge of sages spread throughout the world, through ages and ages, with a long history!"

(End of this chapter)