Since the Ming Dynasty occupied the Strait of Malacca many years ago, the entire Nanyang has become the back garden of the Ming Navy. After several years of hard work, several large islands in Nanyang were finally established colonies, and refugees arising from famine or other reasons in the Ming Dynasty.

Being moved here made the Ming Dynasty's rule over the South China Sea more and more stable, and the development of various large islands became increasingly deeper. In addition, the rich products of the South China Sea made the South China Sea slowly become one of the richest areas in the Ming Dynasty.

With the stability of the South Ocean and the development of local industry and commerce in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming caravan began to enter the Indian Ocean. In addition, the heroic battle of the Ming Navy finally defeated the Portuguese, allowing the Ming Dynasty to control several important routes in the Indian Ocean.

After years of development, the northern and central parts of the Indian Ocean have been ruled by the Ming Dynasty, and only the areas close to Africa in the south are ruled by the Portuguese who retreated there.

However, compared to the Ming Dynasty's rule in the Indian Ocean, it still has no progress on the larger Pacific Ocean. In fact, this is not accurate, because both the Ming coast and the South Ocean belong to the Pacific Ocean in broad terms, but in addition to this

Most of the remaining Pacific areas are still blank. Although Zhou Chong has occupied the Edo Bay in Japan long ago as the base for the Ming Dynasty to develop the Pacific Ocean, after these years, Edo Bay has not sent a single one.

The ship enters the Pacific Ocean.

In fact, it is not that Zhou Chong doesn't want to develop the Pacific Ocean, but the Pacific Ocean is too big. As one of the largest oceans in the world, the Pacific Ocean accounts for almost half of the world's ocean area, and on such a vast sea surface, the number of islands can be inhabited.

Not many. Most of them are concentrated near Australia in the southern hemisphere. There are no large islands on the ocean surface of the northern hemisphere. This also makes it very difficult for the Ming Dynasty to go to America through the Pacific Ocean.

For Australia located in the southern hemisphere, Zhou Chong has no plans to develop it yet. First of all, the journey is long. Although it can be easily accessed through the South Ocean, the Ming Dynasty has not yet been digested by the South Ocean, let alone the distant one.

There are Australians, but there are still some bold merchants who have discovered routes to Australia from South China Sea in order to pursue profits, and brought some Australian products from there, such as strange animals such as kangaroos, and precious metals such as gold.

Of course, Zhou Chong has not been planning to enter the Pacific Ocean in recent years. He is just making some preliminary preparations, such as Edo Bay in Japan, which is a base for the development of the Pacific Ocean. Moreover, the Ming Dynasty has sent a lot of people over the years.

Starting from Edo Bay, we look for an ocean current flowing through the Edo Sea. This ocean current is called the North Pacific warm current. Following this ocean current, we can reach the Americas very conveniently and quickly.

After years of observation, the Ming Dynasty can now determine the location and direction of the warm current in the North Pacific. Even officials in Edo Bay have written to the court several times, hoping to arrange ships to enter this warm current as soon as possible to reach the legendary America.

According to the news received by the Ming Dynasty from the Portuguese, gold and silver were everywhere in the Americas, which also attracted the attention of countless people. It can be said that these people are waiting for the opening of this route.

It’s a pity that Zhou Dong has been busy reforming the internal drawbacks of the Ming Dynasty in recent years, and has to guide the development of the navy in the South and Indian Oceans, and has no time to take care of the Pacific Ocean. He does not think that Spain will welcome them into the Americas, although Spain’s influence in the Americas has just been

They started, but they had occupied the most civilized Central America. If the Ming fleet arrived there, they would likely have conflicts with the Spanish or even wars.

It is precisely because of the above reasons that the Ming Dynasty's plan to explore the Pacific Ocean has been delayed again and again. However, after Zhengde pacified the Tatars in the north, the entire Ming Dynasty basically had no external enemies, and Tibet had long been inside.

Attachment: The Wusizangdusi, who became the Ming Dynasty, used to be very weak in the rule of Tibet, but with the increase of national strength, the Ming Dynasty's rule of Tibet also strengthened. As for Yilibali in northern Tibet, it is even more worth mentioning.

Zhengde's next goal is it. Without external threats, Zhou Chong finally turned his attention to the Pacific Ocean.

In September of the 20th year of Zhengde, a Ming fleet that had been prepared for a long time set off from Edo Bay. The fleet was not very large, with only five ships, but these five ships were specially made in the ocean.

The ships have first-class performance and are equipped with a large number of weapons. Such armed forces are not only pirates, but even if they encounter the regular Spanish navy, they can escape if they cannot be defeated.

This fleet is mainly used to explore routes, otherwise the size of the fleet will increase by several times, because many Ming people believed the news promoted by the Portuguese, believing that the Americas are really full of gold and silver, so the country is home to

Many people are full of yearning for exploring America.

Although Zhou Chong knew that Portugal had no good intentions to promote this news, they wanted to shift the Ming Dynasty's attention to the Americas, let the Ming Dynasty conflict with the Spaniards, thereby reducing the pressure on themselves and even allowing them to regain the Indian Ocean.

Control, but Zhou Chong did not explain the truth to the people in the country, because he needed this belief to inspire the people of Ming Dynasty to explore America. Only in this way can the route between the United States be opened faster, and even directly in America.

Colonize and seize the resources of the New World. I believe that when the fleet that explores the way back, the Ming Dynasty will set off a craze for exploring the New World.

When the fleet exploring America set sail from Edo Bay, Zhou Chong, who was far away in Beijing, sat in his study and looked at the report sent by the Shanghai Naval School, which recorded Selim's young son Mura

De's performance in the military academy has been in the military academy for nearly three years. Every three months, the military academy will record his performance and send it to Zhou Chong.

The Ottoman Empire was the only powerful empire that could be compared with the Ming Dynasty. Although the two countries were jointly building the Suez Canal, the relationship between countries has always been very fragile. Moreover, as the Ming Dynasty recovered the grasslands, Zhengde planned to march to the Western Regions.

At that time, it is inevitable to confront this huge empire in the future. In order to weaken this huge empire, Murad's dark chess becomes more and more important. Therefore, Zhou Chong needs to know Murad's performance in the Ming Dynasty and follow the other party's performance.

Make your own plan.

Zhou Chong looked at the report in his hand and kept shaking his head while reading it. It has to be said that although the heir system of the Ottoman Empire is cruel and even inhuman, the heirs selected from this system are very outstanding.

Murad was able to become a substitute for Suleiman. In addition to his good luck, his talent was also excellent. His performance in the military academy can be described as a genius. Each assessment was very high and the same

Among the military academy students who have been admitted in 2018, there are almost no better students than him.

However, although Murad showed amazing academic abilities, he was not without shortcomings. For example, he received a harsh education since childhood, which made him unable to interact with others at all and had no friends in the military academy. However, this is also

No wonder, after all, he was educated by the king. As a king, he did not need friends or even any feelings. For example, the current Ottoman Sultan Selim, who is a son who can even slaughter.

monster.

Thinking of Selim and looking at the report about Murad in his hand, Zhou Chong couldn't help but think of his eldest son Zhu Zaiyuan. According to the imperial edict issued by Zhengde, Zaiyuan had been made the crown prince, although he was only twelve years old.

However, in order to become a qualified heir to the throne of the Ming Dynasty, we have now begun to receive strict royal education. Even the cabinet has discussed Zaiyuan's education for several days. After all, this is related to the inheritance of the throne of the Ming Dynasty and the future.

The direction of the Ming Empire was unstoppable.

Zhou Chong didn't care about the royal education his son received at the beginning, but when he saw that his son had heavy studies every day, he not only had to learn etiquette, but also learned a lot of Confucian classics, which was said to make young

The prince was influenced by the saints since childhood, and in the future he could not become a king who only knew how to play like Zhengde.

After Zhou Chong saw this situation, he immediately used his identity as a ruling magistrate to suspend his son's studies because he felt that there was a big problem with the royal education in the Ming Dynasty. He did not object to learning etiquette, and even did not learn some Confucian classics.

Problem, but his son will become an emperor in the future, not a scholar exam. He only needs to understand the Confucian doctrines roughly. There is no need to memorize so many things every day. This is not something a king needs to learn.

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So in this case, Zhou Chong personally formulated the education of his son. First of all, those royal etiquettes must be learned, but in addition, Zhu Zaiyuan did not need to recite those Confucian classics anymore, but spent a lot of time every day following them.

Zhou Chong learned to deal with the government affairs. Even whenever he had time, Zhou Chong would often take his son to the people to experience the sufferings of the people, understand the people's ideas, and know what they want most.

If you know this, you can only become a good emperor in the future.

In addition to learning to govern the country, Zhou Chong also used some subjects as his son's auxiliary learning subjects, such as mathematics, biology, physics, etc. Most of these things were brought by Zhou Chong from later generations. Now he needs to use these to cultivate his son's interest in learning.

After all, in addition to being an emperor, Zaiyuan is also an individual, but also a child. He needs to have something he is interested in. Only in this way can he form a complete personality and not become a character flaw like Zhengde.
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