As the scrolls show national treasures that were plundered by Westerners, the simple descriptions behind these national treasures also indicate the year they were unearthed, as well as the country where they were plundered and the place where they were collected.
The more I looked at it, the heavier the hearts of the three emperors of Kangxi, Yongzong and Qianlong became. Because they saw many national treasures marked with "dead", "missing", "destroyed by fire" and other explanations on the back.
In other words, these national treasures may no longer exist in this world.
Then the screen turned, these pictures disappeared, and Grandma’s voice once again sounded in the scroll:
[Even now our Chinese nation has gone through the most painful period. day. But the national humiliation cannot be forgotten. We all sincerely hope this never happens again! 】
【Never forget the past, the teacher of the future. We will always remember these shames and pass on these painful histories from generation to generation. 】
【I hope that our descendants will learn from history and never fall into the turbulent days of the late Qing Dynasty, when the entire country was slaughtered and bullied by Western powers. 】
【But, no matter what, what we hope more is that it is best for China to never fall into that dark historical period. 】
As the national treasures were displayed one by one in the heavenly scrolls, the emperors in the Imperial Garden also became active.
[@子公Cruel old father: Chongzhen, right? You should have had a chart leading to the Western Ocean at that time, right? Send it to your ancestors now. The ancestors will try their best to get these Western oceans first. People are civilized. 】
[@国 ministers mistook me for a pine tree: Ancestor, yes, I have it, but I can’t send it to you. This chart is very complicated, and it shouldn't be easy to draw just by dictating it. 】
【@子公Cruel old father: I’m so angry, I’m so angry. I thought that the Meng Yuan Dynasty was already angry enough, but I didn't expect that the Qing Dynasty would be even more cowardly. It was really cowardly! 】
Seeing the furious look of the ancestor in the scroll, Zhu Houzhao curled his lips.
He has thought of this method for a long time, but as Chongzhen said, although the text can be displayed in the Emperor's Garden, they don't know how to send the picture content such as sea charts to the sky. superior.
Otherwise, he would have asked his wife and grandfather for it a long time ago, so why bother asking people to search for it among the people?
Fortunately, hard work paid off, and he had found the nautical chart and treasure ship blueprints. Construction has already begun, and I'm afraid it won't be long before the treasure ship can hit the sea again.
A few days ago, the second version of the bicycle was built. He even went on a ride. Although he always wanted to fall down at first, he quickly mastered his balance and skills, and it was really fun.
Although this bicycle is not as heroic as riding a horse, riding this thing to travel in the Forbidden City is much faster than a sedan chair. Moreover, according to the craftsmen, in the process of building the bicycle this time, they created many craftsmanship that had not been available before.
For example, the so-called bearings on the drawings, and the increasingly thinner chains being created. The other thing is the rubber mentioned in the drawing. They have never even heard of this thing before. Now that they know the existence of this kind of thing, they are sending people everywhere to look for it.
It was at this time that Zhu Houzhao understood the reason why his grandmother asked him to build a bicycle first. A small bicycle has hundreds of parts. I really don’t know how people in later generations thought of assembling these parts together. It’s so ingenious.
Therefore, now that Zhu Houzhao is yearning for the steam locomotive more and more, he is also becoming more and more confident in building this thing.
Compared with the unconventional Zhu Houzhao, the biological son of Emperor Yongle is still relatively filial. When he saw his father getting angry, he immediately comforted him and said:
[@ anxious old uncle: Father, please calm down. The next time Sanbao goes to sea, Erhuang will definitely let him find America. There is also Europa. It is said that it can be reached from land. I will also find ways to find them to show my great power. 】
【@子公Cruel old father: Good boy. But I can't rely on you alone. I will let the fourth child start the training of the navy. No matter how difficult it is, I will never let the sea power fall to those ambitious robber countries. 】
【@ANGSTERED OLD UNCLE: Fourth child...Father, you are talking about...son emperor? 】
[@子公Cruel old father: It’s not you, it has nothing to do with you. Just go to the Western Ocean and build the treasure ship bigger and stronger. If you see those iron shells in later generations, they will be built according to that. 】
【@ANGSTERED OLD UNCLE: ...Yes, Father! 】
After a slight pause, Zhu Yuanzhang once again sent a few messages in the Imperial Garden.
[@子公Cruel old father: The descendants of the Ming Dynasty in this garden, listen to your orders! No matter what the ancestral precepts of our Ming Dynasty were at your time, from today on, our ancestral precepts of the Ming Dynasty have changed. 】
[@子公狠老 father: From today on, in addition to expelling the Tatars, our Ming Dynasty’s ancestral precepts also include one more - to expand our Ming Dynasty’s sea areas and strive to prevent thieves from overseas. 】
[@子公Cruel old father: In my Ming Dynasty, the princes and grandsons not only have to guard the nine fortresses for my Ming Dynasty, but also open up territories on the sea for my Ming Dynasty. I promise that as long as I, the prince of the Ming Dynasty, can open up my maritime territory of the Ming Dynasty, I can break the earth and become the king! 】
Zhu Yuanzhang racked his brains on how to let his descendants enjoy royal treatment. Because no matter how favorably he treats his children and grandchildren, there will always be times when the land is not enough for the children and grandchildren to pass on from generation to generation.
And now, we know that there are vast seas and territories overseas. And a few hundred years later, these barbarians, who he originally ignored, could even invade Chinese land.
Then why not take advantage of the fact that the Ming Dynasty’s national power is far superior to overseas and take all the land and sea into its pocket? Since the land in China will not be enough for the descendants of the Zhu family in the future, is there not enough land overseas for the descendants of the Zhu family?
I have to say that Zhu Yuanzhang really made a good calculation.
The emperors before him were nothing, after all, Zhu Yuanzhang was their descendant. Even if they had the same idea as Zhu Yuanzhang, many dynasties failed to do so.
And when Li Shimin heard Zhu Yuanzhang's words and watched Zhu Yuanzhang give the order, everyone in the queue behind him "obeys", he suddenly felt a sudden enlightenment.
Although the maritime trade of the Tang Dynasty is not particularly developed now, it is almost impossible to go east to Japan and escape death. It is almost impossible to go to the West and find the so-called America. And now almost all those doing business with the Tang Dynasty are Persia, Dashi and other countries.
But according to businessmen coming and going, if you go further west, you will reach Europe. This Europe should be the Western countries that invaded China in later generations. He could send an envoy to continue looking west, and maybe he would get something different.
As for sea trade, he can also make preparations in advance to see if he can build a large ship similar to the treasure ships of later generations. There is also the compass from the time of Song Renzong. Objects such as compasses can also be made in advance.
Thinking of this, he also left a message in the Emperor’s Garden:
[V@久久 exhausted Li Erlang: I would like to ask you and grandma, can you tell me the manufacturing method of compasses and compasses? I will teach you one or two. 】
【@爱狠的狠的狠狠狼的BRother: Your Excellency Taizong, I have the relevant production methods. I will have people bring the book recording the relevant techniques in a short while and read them to you. Have someone record it and see if you can reproduce it this way. 】
【V@ work hard Li Erlang: Thank you Kang Lang Xiandi! 】
When he heard the word "anti-wolf", the corners of Renzong's mouth twitched and he thought... Thank you, but don't say these two words. It's really ugly. But until now, he didn't know why he was called this name in Tianjuan.
However, he felt depressed, so he hurriedly asked someone to find the relevant books and sent them to Li Shimin alone without mentioning them.
As the display of the lost national treasure in the Heavenly Scroll ended, Lei Xiaomeng’s voice rang again:
[But expectations are just expectations. No matter how great the emperor is, he will only maintain his rule to the maximum extent. Once something new threatens his rule, even just a little bit, they will never let it continue to exist. Just like Emperor Kangxi. 】
【Do you think he has not seen the role that technological development has in promoting society? No, how could he not notice it. But what impact will technological development have on his rule in the end? The people are smarter, and naturally they are less easily fooled. 】
[In other words, he doesn’t care about the benefits of technological development to the people. Because this is far less effective than a war against Galdan in stabilizing their regime. 】
When Tianjuan took stock of these lost cultural relics just now, the three emperors of the Qing Dynasty fell silent, and now they don't know what to say.
More importantly, they are all in introspection or shock.
Kangxi: I really never thought about popularizing Western mathematics, astronomy, and geography to the Qing Dynasty. Even if it is a scientific examination, it only tests the strategy of governing the country, not science and engineering. I hope that Nan Huairen can live up to my expectations and make the science and engineering disciplines in Qing Dynasty flourish.
Yongzheng: After all my hard work, I was definitely not the one to be plundered by the Westerners in the end. No, I have to find a way to deal with these Westerners. Even if the results are minimal, they cannot be allowed to become so rampant in the future.
Qianlong: What flashed by just now seemed to be the golden sword hilt that I just put into the Old Summer Palace a while ago. This is something from the Western Zhou Dynasty, and it is nearly three thousand years old. Even the Westerners looted it and even lost it. It's unbearable and mature!
At this moment, Qianlong saw an icon flashing in the lower right corner of the scroll. He opened it, but it was his imperial grandfather who sent him a private message.
[@ Quan Keba will live another five hundred years: Hongli, how are you doing? 】
Qianlong looked solemn... The emperor's grandfather was testing him.
He was thinking about how to answer, but he heard Lei Xiaomeng's voice in the scroll say slowly after sighing:
[This is true for Kangxi, one emperor throughout the ages. Are other emperors also like this? 】
Lei Xiaomeng’s words immediately made the emperors turn their attention to Tianjuan again.
(End of this chapter)