My Daming New Empire

He knew that the era of sea power he had been looking forward to for a long time would begin in the hands of this grandson.

On the way back from Quanzhou, he kept thinking that what he had learned in this body would finally be useful.

Zhu Zhanji thought about the same as Zheng He.

Zheng He is known as the pioneer of the age of great navigation, and he is an expert on sea power who put forward the theory of sea power 500 years earlier than Ma Han. He saw the importance of sea power very early, but Zhu Zhanji and others in history Other ministers did not pay much attention to sea power.

In order to protect a Beiping, the Ming Dynasty gave up Nine Sides, Heilongjiang Estuary, and Jiaozhi in the hands of Zhu Zhanji.

When Jiaozhi was lost, the chain reaction triggered made Ming lose Nanyang and Xiyang. At this time, Daming completely lost its suzerain status.

But now, Zhu Zhanji will never allow this to happen. He wants to firmly control the entire eastern Asia in his own hands.

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As the sun was setting, Zhu Di yawned and stopped Zheng He and Wang Jinghong from their work reports.

"I have already read your memorial. It is a great achievement to be able to make new friends with the eleven tribes of Xizhou, mainly me, Da Ming... It must be rewarded..."

Zhu Zhanji and Zhu Di did not name the continents on the earth according to the geographical concept of later generations. America was renamed Southeast Continent and Northeast Continent by Zhu Di.

Australia was renamed Nanzhou by Zhu Di, and Africa was renamed Xizhou.As for Europe, although Zhu Di already knew that there were many ancient countries there, he didn't think that there was a separate continent called the Western Regions.

The original Western Regions refers to a large area of ​​Northwest and Central Asia, but Zhu Di has now renamed it Northwest.Where's the Northwest?Of course it is the northwest of Central Continent.

In today's Asia, this large piece of land has been renamed Zhongzhou, and Ming Dynasty is the name of the country, but on diplomatic occasions, it has been named China by Honglu Temple.

This is the meaning of taking the center of the country.

In his ideal, Daming should become the center of the world.

Although Zhu Di said rewards, it must be discussed by the court, and everyone who goes on an envoy will be rewarded.This set of procedures has been experienced three times, so no one is surprised.

I saw Zhu Di who was yawning, looked at his slightly tired expression, the drooping fat on his face, and his fat body.

Thinking of the majestic figure he saw when he was young, and the high spirits when he taught them how to learn literature and martial arts, Zheng He also had to sigh, the emperor is old!

"Let's stop here today, and tomorrow at the court meeting, you will tell the ministers about ancient times."

Zheng He bowed his head and bowed: "Your Majesty, I heard that the imperial court has acquired a rare object called a globe. It depicts all the continents and oceans in the world today. I hope that Your Majesty will allow us to observe it."

Zhu Di smiled, pointed at Zhu Zhanji and said, "I knew you would be interested in this thing, and the grandson is also looking forward to your return day and night. You can go with the grandson, I, an old man, will not accompany you."

Even if Zheng He didn't ask, Zhu Zhanji would show Zheng He the globe and give him one of the big globes.

For a warrior who travels across the world, it may be their lifelong wish to know an unknown part of the world.

Those areas of the world that have not been discovered by modern civilized society are the places that people like them want to know most.

These secrets let them know that they can do more than anyone else.

Zhu Zhanji got up, saluted Zhu Di, and then turned around and said with a smile: "Eunuch Zheng, Eunuch Wang, come with me."

In the west courtyard of the front hall of the Xingqing Palace, Zheng He and Wang Jinghong looked at the globe full of rooms, and the large-scale map drawn by cutting circles on the globe, and they were stunned in shock.

They stood in front of the five-square-meter world map, which was almost the same as that of later generations, unable to speak for a long time.

They thought they had traveled to most parts of the world, but now they realized that they were just spinning in the bath tub of Nanyang.

The Indian Ocean in later generations was renamed Nanyang. The so-called Zheng He's voyages to the Western Ocean should actually be renamed Zheng He's voyages to Nanyang.

The original Pacific Ocean was named the Eastern Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean was named the Western Ocean, and the Arctic Ocean was named the Northern Ocean.

Although these names are nothing new, they are absolutely easy to understand. Anyone only needs a simple comparison to have a clear understanding of the overall distribution of this world.

Zheng He looked at the area that his fleet traveled through from the map, and had to admit that this map was much more accurate than his carefully drawn ones.

Because of the different surveying and mapping methods, the current drawing method of Ming Dynasty, the scale of the map drawn is out of balance, and it can only distinguish the directions of various places.

However, through the appearance of the sextant, surveyors and mappers can accurately calculate the orientation of various places. Today's Daming map is like this. They send personnel to locate each city, each mountain, and each river, and they can draw a new map. scale-consistent maps.

Wang Jinghong saw that Zheng He was still immersed in the shock of the new map, while Zhu Zhanji stood with them for a long time, bowed and said, "Your Highness, forgive me, my lord and I have lost our composure."

Zheng He also came to his senses and apologized repeatedly.

Zhu Zhanji shook his head and said with a smile: "I'm not a person of great courtesy. The two of you are so obsessed, it means that you really saw it, and it gave me a sense of accomplishment like giving a sword to a hero."

Zheng He asked, "Your Highness, can I have a look at the utensils used to draw the map?"

"Of course..." Zhu Zhanji opened a box on the desk and handed him a brand new sextant. "This is a sextant, which means the sextant of east, west, north, south, up and down. By calculating the refraction of sunlight, you can clearly know your position."

There is a complete formula for the calculation of the sextant. As long as you master the calculation formula and understand a little arithmetic, most people can use it.

Both Zheng He and Wang Jinghong are well-educated and well-versed in the art of drawing stars.The calculation of astrology is actually more complicated than that of a sextant.

"This thing is really a nautical artifact. With this...sextant and this map, even in the deep sea, I dare to venture into it."

Zhu Zhanji smiled and said: "The depth of the sea is beyond the reach of human beings, and it is unknowable. My Ming Dynasty should first pay attention to the continents at this time. This is the future of my Ming Dynasty."

Then Zheng He sighed and said: "He always thought that he had traveled all over the world, but now he knows that he is just a frog at the bottom of a well. The world is so big, and He Yi only traveled to Nanyang. What a sight. Your Highness, even though he is not talented, he is still willing to be the vanguard of the Ming Dynasty and bring all parts of the world back to the Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "Gu also has this intention, but how to take it back requires a long-term plan. For example, there is no country in Dongzhou, Nanzhou, and Nanzhou. There are only some savages living in Dongzhou. Although there are tribes in Dongzhou, but Compared with my Spring and Autumn Period, it is still insufficient. Besides, it is said that the Dongzhou Savage drifted along the islands in the north of Dongzhou and Zhongzhou during my Shang Dynasty. Since he is of my Chinese ethnicity, how to make him recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors requires Create a complete strategy."

Zheng He and Wang Jinghong were a little confused again.They did not know the origin of the globe, nor did they know who surveyed and mapped the current globe.

They don't even know Dongzhou, so how do they know who is living on Dongzhou now!

Now I heard that the people living in the land of Dongzhou came from the Yin and Shang Dynasties, and they have the same roots and ancestors, which is even more fanciful.

Of course, this is the concept that Zhu Zhanji deliberately instilled.

It is true that Indians belong to the yellow race, but it has always been far-fetched to say that they have the same roots and ancestors as the Chinese.Although some tribes did use hieroglyphics, the language and characters of most Indians are far from those of China.

However, as long as this concept is instilled, a lie told ten thousand times will become the truth.

And as long as everyone accepts this concept, there is no need for the Chinese to carry out massacres like the Westerners when they rule Dongzhou in the future.

It only needs to win over the obedient, suppress the disobedient, and then change their living habits and intermarry. In one or two hundred years, this nation can be completely integrated into the Chinese ethnic circle.

And when the population of Ming Dynasty only needs to exceed [-] to [-] million, the color of the whole world will no longer be respected by white.

Of course, during this period, the pace of European exploration should also be cut off, confining them to that small piece of European land.

This two-pronged approach can truly make the Chinese nation the master of the world.

Just a population size can make it impossible for white people to rebel.

Only then did Zhu Zhanji introduce to the two of them how he "obtained" the globe, but deliberately ignored "Magellan".