Zhu Yuanzhang's worries are not unreasonable.
After all, in his knowledge, there is a vast land to the north.
There can be many kings there.
As a result, now, the line drawn by Han Cheng was suddenly restricted here.
Then... without so much land, is there really enough left?
Even if it is enough for his son, what about his grandson?
Through Han Cheng's words, he already knew that his descendants would inevitably reach a terrifying number in the future.
Zhu Biao looked at Han Cheng, also a little worried.
Although I knew through Han Cheng that the world was very big, I didn't have a clear idea of how big the world was because I didn't have a clear idea in my mind.
Like Zhu Yuanzhang, he also believed that the land in the north was the most.
Han Cheng said: "Your Majesty, brother, there is no need to worry about this matter at all.
I have said before that the world is very big, so big that it is beyond your imagination.
Without enough land, it is completely non-existent. "
Is there really so much land?
Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao still seemed suspicious of this.
Han Cheng saw the reactions of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao in his eyes, and he knew that it was time for him to take out the globe.
"Wait a moment, I will show you the globe, and you will know that what I say is true."
As Han Cheng said this, he walked to his bedroom and took out the globe he made.
After a lot of hard work, Han Cheng has finished the globe.
Naturally, it is not as accurate as those globes sold in later generations, and the content recorded on them is far less than that of later generations.
However, there is no shortage of continents, oceans, important islands, important straits, mountains, plateaus, plains, etc.
For this reason, Han Cheng has racked his brains and mobilized his memory.
Although it is not accurate, it looks crude overall, and many sections have even been deformed.
However, it can still be used to explain the situation and impart some knowledge.
At least it's much better than nothing.
"Is this the globe you're talking about?"
Zhu Biao looked at the spherical object that Han Cheng took out, asked aloud, and watched curiously.
Zhu Biao has long been curious about this globe.
Not only Zhu Biao, but also Zhu Yuanzhang.
After all, what Han Cheng said before about those sweet potatoes with a yield of several kilograms per acre was a huge shock to the two of them!
They were impressed.
When Zhu Yuanzhang dreamed, he wanted to get these good things!
According to Han Cheng, the globe is crucial to obtaining these things.
Under such circumstances, how could Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao be unhappy when they heard that Han Cheng had made a globe?
This is equivalent to adding another condition for traveling overseas to obtain good things.
When they saw the globe, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao's first feeling was that this globe was really strange!
After they saw the globe at this time, they already understood what the globe was.
Isn't this thing just a map?
He even gave it a rather fancy name, like a globe.
What made Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao feel awkward and strange was precisely the shape of the globe.
The maps they had seen in the past were all drawn on a piece of paper, and they were more consistent with what they saw with their naked eyes.
But now Han Cheng has transferred the map to a spherical object. No matter how you look at it, it makes people feel uncomfortable.
"Well, this is the globe. What I drew on it is the general topographic map of the entire earth."
As Han Cheng spoke, he stabilized the large homemade globe.
After Zhu Yuanzhang looked at it for a while, he found no sign of Daming.
Looking at Han Cheng and saying: "Han Cheng, where is our Ming Dynasty?"
Han Cheng scanned the globe and found the location of the Ming Dynasty he had drawn. He stretched out his hand and pointed, "This is it."
What Han Cheng pointed out was the location of the Ming Dynasty, but what Zhu Yuanzhang saw was different from what Han Cheng pointed out.
Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes saw the whole of Asia.
"Is this our Ming Dynasty? The land area is indeed quite small.
It's just... Han Cheng, your picture is a little inaccurate! It's so wrong.
The map shape of our Ming Dynasty is not like this! "
After confirming that Zhu Yuanzhang was pointing to the whole of Asia and regarded Asia as the Ming Dynasty, the corners of Han Cheng's mouth twitched.
"Your Majesty, you are wrong. This is the territory of the entire Asia, not the Ming Dynasty.
The location I pointed out just now is Daming. "
Han Cheng said, once again pointing with his hand at the rooster located in the east of Asia.
Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned for a moment, with a look of disbelief on his face.
He looked at the area occupied by the rooster-shaped map, then turned the globe to see the rest of the area.
"Han Cheng, are you mistaken? Our Ming Dynasty only has so much space?"
Zhu Yuanzhang asked Han Cheng in disbelief.
Some couldn't accept what they saw.
Zhu Yuanzhang has always felt that the Ming Dynasty is rich in resources, especially after conquering the sixteen states of Yanyun that had returned to the Han people for hundreds of years after the death of his son Emperor Shi Jingtang, and now conquering the southwest, Zhu Yuanzhang feels that the Ming Dynasty is rich in resources.
There is no country larger than Ming Dynasty.
"Also, is the position you drew wrong? Shouldn't Ming be in the center?
Why are you here? "
"Yes, Han Cheng, your map is indeed inaccurate. My Ming map is not like this.
The shape you drew is the same as a rooster, which is very different from the shape of the Ming Dynasty map. "
Zhu Biao also expressed his doubts.
He also felt that Han Cheng had made a mistake.
Han Cheng was not surprised that Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao had such reactions.
As a person who has always felt that he is in the center and that the land of China is very vast, I saw the globe for the first time and saw the huge gap between the land of Ming Dynasty and the entire world.
It is completely normal for them to have such a reaction after their cognition has been subverted.
Han Cheng said: "It is true that the drawing is not very accurate. I am not familiar with the topographic map of the Ming Dynasty. The map drawn is a map of the country where I will live in future generations.
However, in total, the territory of the Ming Dynasty reached its maximum during the Yongle period.
The total area is not much different from that of later generations.
It's just that some places that the Ming Dynasty does not have now will be available in later generations.
And where there was no place in later generations, Ming Dynasty still controls it.
Although the territory has changed somewhat, overall, many places have remained unchanged.
Especially relative to the world at large, that position can't go wrong.
Your Majesty and Big Brother don’t have to worry about this. "
It's actually true?
Is the Ming Dynasty really only that big?
Zhu Yuanzhang brought the map of the Ming Dynasty and compared it with the map on Han Cheng's globe. He found that the overall situation was indeed as Han Cheng said.
Although there are differences, many places are still very similar.
Especially along the east coast.
This made Zhu Yuanzhang a little confused about what to say.
By this time, Zhu Yuanzhang was actually 80% convinced.
"Han Cheng, something is not right about this!"
Zhu Yuanzhang was still a little reluctant to believe that the Ming Dynasty was only so small compared to the entire world, and its location was so remote.
"Do you know that the earth we live on is round? How did you record such a large area?
How much manpower and material resources are needed to complete such a large number of places?
There will definitely be a lot of things going wrong! "
Han Cheng shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, you have no doubt about this matter.
It can only be that my painting is not very standard, but overall there are not too many mistakes.
This is especially true for the original globes of later generations.
In our time, there was already something.
The name of this thing is a satellite.
After launching it into the sky, you can overlook the earth from a very high altitude, take pictures of the earth, and record the image of the earth.
Then people use these images to create topographic contour maps of the world..."
It was okay that Han Cheng didn't explain, but as soon as he did, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao were immediately confused.
satellite?
What's this?
And fly to the sky?
Still taking photos?
What is taking pictures?
A series of question marks popped up in their minds one after another.
As soon as Han Cheng saw the two of them, he knew that a lot of what he had just said was in vain.
After giving an explanation, you often need to give more explanations to explain your own explanation.
Therefore, before the two of them could ask questions, he took the initiative to explain: "Satellites originally refer to stars that revolve around a certain planet. For example, the moon is the satellite of our earth.
When I say satellite, I mean artificial earth satellite.
Later generations of people used rockets to send the completed satellites into the sky and into the predetermined orbit.
The satellite will always follow this orbit.
It can orbit the earth more than ten or dozens of times a day.
These artificial satellites have different purposes.
Some satellites are mainly used for scientific research, some are used as telecommunications relay stations, some are meteorological satellites used to study weather changes, and some are used to explore earth resources...
As for taking pictures...it's a later technology.
Use cameras and other tools to record the scenery...
Your Majesty can understand it as painting, but that kind of technique is to paint everything you see in front of you exactly as it is..."
Although Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao didn't quite understand Han Cheng's explanation, they were shocked!
It’s really shocking!
Can you actually send things to the sky?
Can you still play like this?
That's the sky!
And this photo shoot is really magical!
"This... Han Cheng, why do we think this thing is wrong?
I feel like you are telling a myth.
That satellite, even if future generations really have a way to send it to the sky, it can't exist in the sky for a long time!
Will it eventually fall off? "
Zhu Yuanzhang touched his beard and looked at Han Cheng's puzzled inquiry.
What Han Cheng said was too contrary to common sense and subverted cognition.
Zhu Yuanzhang felt that this was a major flaw in Han Cheng's words.
In fact, not only Zhu Yuanzhang, but Zhu Biao also felt that this was a major flaw in Han Cheng's words.
After Zhu Yuanzhang asked this question, Zhu Biao also waited to hear Han Cheng's explanation.
I want to see how he can explain this matter.
Anyway, Zhu Biao doesn't think anyone can fill this loophole reasonably.
Han Cheng said: "Your Majesty, this involves another piece of knowledge, which is universal gravity.
Why do things fall down? The earth is obviously a ball. When a person is turned upside down, why doesn't he fall down?
It is because of the existence of universal gravitation.
This kind of force will firmly absorb everything here.
However, some people in later generations concluded that when the speed is fast enough, it can offset the earth's gravity.
The earth's gravity will keep the satellite from leaving the earth and pull the satellite towards the earth, forming a relatively stable orbit.
The centrifugal force generated by high-speed motion will cancel out the gravity and maintain balance..."
Han Cheng used his own knowledge as much as possible to tell Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao the principles here in a more accurate and simple way.
After that, go see the two of them again.
Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao, who had been looking at Han Cheng with interest just now, waiting to see how Han Cheng would explain this matter, looked confused when they found new loopholes in Han Cheng's explanation.
What is gravity, what is separation, what is mutual cancellation, what is orbit?
What? What? What?
What is Han Cheng talking about? ! ! !
For later generations, it was a very simple thing, but at this time, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao were filled with doubts.
Even if Han Cheng tried to make it as simple as possible, it still wouldn't work.
"Okay, so that's it!"
After Zhu Yuanzhang came over for a while, he closed his open mouth and nodded as if he had some understanding, as if he understood.
Zhu Biao was stunned by this scene, but he couldn't help but feel admiration.
Does your father understand now?
Are you enlightened now?
He truly deserves to be his father!
He is truly worthy of becoming an emperor!
This determination and thickness of face are far inferior to mine!
Judging from Zhu Biao's intelligence, how could he not see that his father was pretending to understand here?
He believed that his father also knew that he and Han Cheng could tell that he did not understand.
But he just dared to do it.
My father is really capable!
After being tortured again by Han Cheng with explanations he couldn't understand, Zhu Yuanzhang no longer let go of the fact that the satellite would fall if he grabbed it.
Later, after learning about the functions of some satellites from Han Cheng, Zhu Yuanzhang became excited again.
Not to mention what Han Cheng said about scientific research, as long as it has a camera function, it is simply invincible for him!
Why is it so difficult to eliminate the remnants of the Tatars who fled north?
The biggest reason is that the grasslands are vast and these people have high mobility.
Often after learning that their side is going to fight, they will leave far away so that no one can catch them.
But if we had that satellite and photographed them directly, wouldn't these Tatars have nowhere to hide?
At that time, you can beat them however you want! !
Zhu Yuanzhang became extremely excited when he thought of this, looking at Han Chenggong and wanting to speak.
As a result, before he could say anything, Han Chenggong waved his hands repeatedly: "Your Majesty, I can't do it, don't make it difficult for me.
I think it will be very difficult to come up with the predecessors of mobile phones, wired telephones, and wired telegraphs in my lifetime. "
Zhu Yuanzhang's words were blocked here and felt uncomfortable.
Thinking about the magical effect of the satellite, Zhu Yuanzhang felt particularly uncomfortable when he could not get such a good thing.
After being silent for a while, Zhu Yuanzhang tried hard to take his thoughts away from the satellite. When he looked at the globe again, his eyes gradually brightened again.
After hearing about satellites and other miraculous things of later generations, Zhu Yuanzhang no longer doubted the authenticity of the globe.
Later generations have developed to an extremely miraculous level!
Many things that are very difficult for others to understand are ordinary to them.
If I have the chance, I really want to see it in the future!
Look at what China has become in the future and how far it has come!
After accepting that the globe was real, when he went to see the world again, Zhu Yuanzhang discovered that his previous worries were indeed unnecessary.
Even if the king is not enfeoffed in the north, there is still countless land in the south that can be used to enfeoff kings!
There is so much land!
The world is so big, beyond imagination!
So much land!
There is so much land that does not belong to the Ming Dynasty!
How great would it be if all these lands were transformed into the Ming Dynasty? !
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the globe in front of him and wished he could say, "What's mine, everything is mine!"
Han Cheng looked at Zhu Yuanzhang, who was breathing increasingly rapidly in front of him, and couldn't help but smile to himself.
Sure enough, as long as you are a hero, you can't resist the temptation of the globe.
After seeing that the Ming Dynasty only occupied such a small amount of land, many of the emperors who thought they had occupied most of the land in the world would once again become ambitious and scold Fang Qiu!
Now, for Han Cheng, it is the best time to start a big voyage.
The conservative nature of feudal landlords and bureaucrats who have lived off the land for generations will unconsciously resist opening up the sea.
Now Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor, is still in his prime. After more than ten years of governance, a lot of the mess left by the Yuan Dynasty has been dealt with, and he can now turn to the sea.
With Zhu Yuanzhang, the Hongwu Emperor who founded the country, he could still control the situation and withstand the conservative landowners and gentry.
The earlier you do this, the easier it will be.
Because the founding emperor and the founding generals are still there.
The spirit of determination and enterprising spirit has not disappeared, like a person who has been reborn from the ashes after suffering, and still has the idea and strength to fight.
The further the dynasty goes, the harder it becomes to accomplish anything.
The ancestors established the law, and the various interest groups that have been formed control power far less than the founding emperor... All kinds of things will be entangled in the huge dynasty.
It made it difficult to walk, and it was difficult to even turn his head, let alone change direction.
This is also the main reason why many problems are discovered in the middle and late stages of the dynasty and attempts to carry out reforms often fail.
Now, after meeting Zhu Yuanzhang, Han Cheng didn't have to worry about this at all.
As long as he can handle Zhu Yuanzhang, he doesn't have to worry about the rest!
"Han Cheng, there is more land in this area, but if we keep enfeoffing foreign lands like this, we will be able to enfeoff them all one day.
Later on, wouldn't it lead to fights among the descendants of the Zhu family?
It is also inevitable that the descendants of the Zhu family will kill each other.
The Western Zhou Dynasty carried out enfeoffment, but in the end, the power of the Emperor of Zhou was reduced, and the various princes fought with each other.
In the end, even Emperor Zhou was gone..."
After Zhu Biao stared at the globe for a while, he finally came out of the surprise and shock.
But after the surprise, some new worries came to mind.
After hearing what Zhu Biao said, the corners of Han Cheng's mouth twitched. This uncle had thought far enough!
Han Cheng wanted to explain, but when he caught a glimpse of Zhu Yuanzhang's expression, his words changed: "Brother, let His Majesty answer your question."
Hearing what Han Cheng said, Zhu Yuanzhang was not polite. He looked at Zhu Biao and said: "Biao'er, you are thinking too far. Look how much land there is! I want to take it all down, but I don't know how long it will take." !
Whether our Ming Dynasty can take them all down is a matter of two opinions!
If we can really rely on the feudal lord's outer seal to win them all, then we can really laugh out of our dreams! "
Zhu Yuanzhang said these words with a bright smile on his face. He no longer felt the discomfort he felt when he heard the fights between Zhu Di and Zhu Yunwen.
“In the Ming Dynasty, there were too many kings who surpassed the surrounding areas from the beginning.
In the future, we will definitely find ways to strengthen the authority of Ming Dynasty in various ways. These advantages cannot be surpassed in a short while.
If they all have such advantages, the successors here in the Ming Dynasty will still be outmatched by the vassal kings from outside, and even the country will be taken away by them.
Then all we can say is, trash! Deserve it!
Such trash is a scourge to many people in the Ming Dynasty. It would be better if they were driven out as soon as possible!
By that time, it must have been many generations later.
The reason Lao Si and Yun Wen's grandson are so quarrel is because they are in the same country and have too much conflict of interest.
That's why the collision started not long after our death.
Now, the outside territory is vast enough. When we go outside to make the king, we will definitely not let them get too close and leave enough space for each other to develop.
If the room for development is large enough, the time when they have conflicts of interest will continue to pass.
It is not that easy to reach the level of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, when princes competed for hegemony.
A hundred years, or even two hundred years, would not allow such a situation to develop.
When the situation finally develops into that situation, in fact, for you and me, there is not much to worry about anymore.
There is no difference.
Because no matter who wins the world, they are all descendants of our Zhu family!
According to the original history, our Ming Dynasty would have ceased to exist in less than three hundred years, and there would be all kinds of aggrievedness after that.
Now we can use this method to extend and control it to one or two hundred years, or it may take two to three hundred years before such a situation occurs. Isn't it already a huge profit?
The curse of the three-hundred-year dynasty is very likely to be broken by our Ming Dynasty! "
After hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's words, Zhu Biao's worries suddenly disappeared a lot.
Yes, I am indeed overthinking, and I am not as open-minded as my father.
"Biao'er, you just said you were worried that you would follow in Zhou's footsteps. In fact, if our Daming could really follow in Zhou's footsteps, I don't know how happy we would be!
Zhou Ke ruled the world for eight hundred years! ! !
I don’t know how much more than our Ming Dynasty!
Besides, during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, there was nothing wrong with fighting, it was inevitable.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, those vassal states fought various wars. What was the result? It’s a hundred schools of thought contending! The Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period were created!
Another Qiang Qin came out!
It created a country that was infinitely stronger than the original Western Zhou Dynasty!
They are all princes who were separated from Zhou Dynasty at the beginning, and the same is true for the unified Qin Dynasty.
In our opinion, the inheritance of the Western Zhou Dynasty has not been cut off and has been continued.
Just in exchange for a way!
After listening to Han Cheng's words, let's think about it again and feel that what Han Cheng said is very reasonable.
In the past, we only used our current concepts to apply to the Western Zhou Dynasty, forgetting the conditions at that time.
The Western Zhou Dynasty was simply unable to control so much land, and many of the places allocated to the princes were undeveloped and barbaric lands.
When many princes took office, they only brought some soldiers, horses and servants with them.
Once you get there, quickly build a city as the foundation for your settlement.
Then use this city as the starting point, fight outward bit by bit, expand outward, and conquer the land.
During this process, some princes and kings were so suppressed by the savages outside that they hid in the city and did not dare to come out...
It was precisely because of the enfeoffment of the Western Zhou Dynasty that the territory of the Western Zhou Dynasty expanded rapidly.
The authority of Emperor Zhou was not only not weakened at the beginning, but on the contrary, it was greatly strengthened...
Without the enfeoffment of Zhou Dynasty, there would be no rapid development and expansion of Chinese civilization!
After having a globe, when we look at the world again, we feel that the situation encountered by Ming Dynasty is very similar to that of Zhou Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty is indeed very big, but compared to the entire world, it is far from big enough.
It is impossible for Ming Dynasty alone to defeat and control all those numerous places.
In this case, why not learn from the Western Zhou Dynasty and spread fire to the whole world?
Let’s also have a great spread of Chinese civilization!
If a few hundred years later, a war breaks out among these many vassal states, and a strong Qin-like entity really appears, sweeping across the other vassal states and unifying all the places, then we will all laugh out loud!
Because our Ming Dynasty has not died and continues in an even stronger manner!
Beyond all dynasties! ! !
Achieved a great goal that is so arduous and so great that no one else can even think of it! ! ! "
Zhu Yuanzhang became excited as he spoke.
Because he was too excited, his face was a little red, with a smile on his face, tears in the corners of his eyes, and his eyes were full of longing!
"Biao'er, if we, father and son, can get this right, then our journey into this world will really be worthwhile!"
Zhu Yuanzhang held Zhu Biao's hand, and held one of Han Cheng's hands in his other hand.
Feeling his father's powerful palm, feeling his father's heroism, listening to the words he said and the blueprint he conceived, Zhu Biao's emotions also agitated.
My mind also becomes broader.
No longer worry about possible battles between vassal states in the future.
Zhu Biao had to admit that in the face of major events, in terms of courage and decisiveness, he was far behind his father!
"Han Cheng, let's go on together!!"
Zhu Yuanzhang turned to look at Han Cheng and said.
At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang had a very charming personality.
"Okay! Keep going! When a man is born in this world, he always has to do something, and he can't just go away in vain!
Establish your mind for heaven and earth, and establish your destiny for the people! Continuing the unique knowledge for the past saints and creating peace for all generations!
Bigger and stronger! Create greater glory! ! ! "
Han Cheng's voice unconsciously brought out some sonorous sounds!
"Hahaha! Okay! That's right! Establish your mind for the heaven and earth, and establish your destiny for the people! Continue the unique teachings of the past saints, and create peace for all generations!
Bigger and stronger! Create greater glory! ! !
Man, this is how it should be! ! ! "
Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao both echoed.
Suddenly, this ordinary side hall contained infinite pride!
An extremely great national policy has been temporarily laid down with a preliminary framework!
Oh dear lord, who domains the fate of this world?
Qia's classmate is a young boy who is in his prime; he is a scholarly student and scolds Fang Qiu. Pointing out the country and inspiring words, thousands of households will live in the dirt!
…
"Your Majesty, if you want to seal the throne, these places cannot be sealed off, they must be in the hands of the Ming Dynasty.
Even if they are far away from the mainland of the Ming Dynasty, a system must be formulated to list them as areas directly under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty! Those who are outside the seal are not allowed to get involved.
If any feudal vassal king dares to get involved, his title will be revoked and his feudal title will be revoked.
And called on the other vassal kings to attack him! "
After calming down, Han Cheng took a deep breath, then picked up a charcoal pencil and drew a few circles on the globe.
Han Cheng said to Zhu Yuanzhang with an unprecedented serious expression.
Seeing Han Cheng like this, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao did not dare to be negligent and hurriedly looked at the circles drawn by Han Cheng.
I want to see what kind of place it is that makes Han Cheng so solemn!
I recommend this book by a friend, "Resurgence of Myth: I Prove the Truth through Side Doors". He is a veteran at writing books. Interested book friends can check it out.
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