Chapter 302: The envoy to the West returns to the capital, bringing only a pile of books

Kong Kong Wenyin certainly knew the benefits of being Duke Duke Yansheng, but Kong Kong Wenyin really didn't want to bear this title. The split between the Southern Branch and the Northern Branch can be traced back nearly three hundred years. After the Southern Kong branch ceded the title to the Northern Branch, the Southern Branch never wanted to have anything to do with the Northern Branch again!

If you want the pear wood portrait, I can give it to you, but if you want me to be one family with you, the Southern Kong branch is absolutely unwilling.

After the Northern Branch surrendered to the Hu Yuan and submitted a letter of surrender, the Southern Branch had long since stopped recognizing the Northern Branch as relatives.

Kong Kong Wenyin refused the title of Duke Duke Yansheng, and the reputation of the Southern Branch immediately reached its peak. The "cheap Confucians" once again praised the Southern Branch. Even though Kong Kong Wenyin had scolded them until they were covered in blood outside the Xi'an Gate, just as Kong Kong Wenyin said, the "cheap Confucians" needed a high-held, virtualized Kong Sage to endorse the sins they committed, just like in the Western world, where those priests always like to play with little boys while praying.

Zhu Zhu Yijun arrived in the busy sixth month. Every sixth month is the time for Zhu Zhu Yijun to receive foreign envoys, because it is the frequent period for ships to arrive at Great Ming ports.

Antonio's large ship had already docked at the Xingang of Songjiang at the end of the fifth month. It was very regrettable that one five-masted ocean-crossing ship did not survive the terrible waves of the Atlantic and sank forever into the boundless ocean. However, Antonio still placed a large order in Songjiang to purchase new five-masted ocean-crossing ships.

Antonio was a very experienced captain. In such waves, if it had been the Spanish galleons of the past, they would have all been destroyed and killed long ago. How could only one have sunk? The Great Ming ships had withstood the test of the monstrous waves in terms of safety.

Antonio docked at the Xingang again, and there were some special people on the ship. They were Great Ming envoys: Xu Xu Jie's rebellious son Xu Fan and Zhang Zhang Juzheng's rebellious disciple Gao Zhu Qiyu. These two people, leading a team of more than thirty people, had participated in a "Grand Tour" in the West and officially returned to their homeland in the sixth month of the sixth year of Emperor Wanli.

On the fifth day of the fifth month of the sixth year of Emperor Wanli, the Great Ming received the alliance letter and treaty with the seal of the Altan Khan, Prince Prince Shunyi. Zhu Zhu Yijun, taking advantage of the harsh conditions proposed by Qi Qi Jiguang, had them accepted in full by the Altan Khan, who feared that the Great Ming would not let go of his dispatching troops to Song Yingchang. Zhu Zhu Yijun did not meet the Altan Khan's envoy because this time it was not the Loyal and Obedient San Niangzi entering the capital.

According to the intelligence from the Marquis of the Beacon Towers, because of the death of his eldest son Sengge, the Altan Khan had fallen out with the Third San Niangzi. Although they were still harmonious on the surface, it had almost reached the point where enemies meeting would be extremely jealous. Everyone knew that Sengge's death was not an accident, and everyone knew that Sengge's death had a thousand threads of connection with the Third San Niangzi. The Altan Khan also knew, but the Altan Khan could not tear his face off with the Third San Niangzi.

The Great Ming's position was very clear. The Great Ming court was more inclined toward the reconciliation plan proposed by the Third San Niangzi and was more inclined to support the Third San Niangzi, rather than the Altan Khan, this Prince Prince Shunyi. The Altan Khan was old and muddled, and no longer stable.

All the iron pots, salt, and tea for the Right Wing tribes of the Altan Khan were supplied by the Third San Niangzi, and all the wool business for the Right Wing was handled by the Third San Niangzi's people in communication with the Great Ming, including pricing. To achieve this, the Third San Niangzi even sent her younger sister to the Minister of the Court of Ceremonial, Chen Chen Xuehui, to open the channel for dialogue and to be able to enter the capital for an audience.

The Altan Khan held most of the military power, while the Third San Niangzi held the financial power. Because of the financial power, she had gained a portion of the military power, as well as the vast majority of political power. The Loyal and Obedient San Niangzi had now almost sidelined the Altan Khan. If the Altan Khan had known today would come, he would definitely have regretted his lustful impulse when he conquered the Oirat tribe back then.

The Altan Khan's Right Wing was now in a state of intense top-level conflict, like sitting on a powder keg, waiting for the day it would be ignited. At this time, everyone dared not act rashly. At this time, it was the Tumet Khan who suffered.

The Great Khan of the Tatars, the Tumet Khan, Borjigin Tümen, had truly been suffering in his heart recently.

In the spring, the Great Ming's elite troops gathered in Song Yingchang had built military camps and showed signs of mobilization. The Tumet Khan could only prepare two hands: continue to move west or fight with Qi Qi Jiguang again. The news that the Great Ming army was still going to advance was spread with nose and eyes. After all, the Great Ming's Minister of War, Tan Lun, had also arrived at Song Yingchang Prefecture. As a result, it was spread for a whole spring, and Qi Qi Jiguang also huddled in Song Yingchang without moving at all.

The Tumet Khan had to prepare to welcome Qi Qi Jiguang's conquest, which naturally delayed production and life. The Left Wing, which was already fleeing from famine, had an even more miserable life. Coupled with the Battle of Song Yingchang, they lost soldiers and generals. For a time, more and more people fled from the Left Wing tribes. Some fled to the Altan Khan, and some fled to Datong and Xuanfu. After all, Datong and Xuanfu were mixed with Hu and Han, and running in to wait for the Great Ming Emperor to grant a general amnesty to the world to become a Great Ming person.

The most outrageous ones even fled to Song Yingchang Prefecture!

Song Yingchang Prefecture was where Qi Qi Jiguang was personally stationed. Were they running over to die? But nearly twenty thousand people fled to Song Yingchang. Qi Qi Jiguang and others were also a bit confused. A fierce tiger was hunting on the grassland, and the prey fled for a period of time before suddenly turning around to seek refuge. The fierce tiger had to hesitate for a while, and finally figured out the reason. This was all the fault of Hou Hou Yuzhao.

When Hou Hou Yuzhao was reclaiming land in Zhangwu, he reclaimed land suitable for farming, and used land unsuitable for farming to raise sheep. But he needed shepherds. These Hu people were good at herding sheep. Hou Hou Yuzhao organized these Hu people into households, meaning they participated in land reclamation, which meant they could take a shortcut and obtain Great Ming status directly without waiting for the Great Ming Emperor's special amnesty!

Qi Qi Jiguang knew the ins and outs of the matter and couldn't help but laugh or cry. He could only accept these people in batches.

Qi Qi Jiguang opened the pass to let people in, and the Tumet Khan's days became even more miserable!!

Because more people ran to Song Yingchang to seek refuge, the Tumet Khan lost another ten thousand people. This head was being squeezed by the Right Wing, and that head was being sharpened by Qi Qi Jiguang. The Tumet Khan, who was caught in the middle, hardened his heart, stamped his feet, and directly sent his eldest son, Buyan, to the capital for an audience. Rather than calling it a peace talk, it was better to call it a surrender.

The Tumet Khan intended to surrender. He intended to see what surrender conditions the Great Ming would give. If it didn't mean letting him die, he would surrender directly.

On the fifteenth day of the sixth month of the sixth year of Emperor Wanli, Xu Fan, Gao Zhu Qiyu, Antonio, and others arrived at Tianjin Wei on a hydrofoil sailing ship. The Western envoy, Li Li Yashi, went to Tianjin Wei to meet Antonio and bring him to the capital. On the sixteenth day of the sixth month, Zhu Zhu Yijun received Xu Fan and Gao Zhu Qiyu in the Zhao Wenhua Hall.

The changes in the Great Ming were truly very, very large. Xu Fan returned to Songjiang Prefecture and wanted to go home, but was told that his home was gone, which scared Xu Fan enough. It was only after understanding the details that he knew it was because wealthy households were moved to the capital.

And after entering the capital, Xu Fan saw from Tongzhou to the Chaoyang Gate dwellings stretching as far as the eye could see, and the official road and post road from Tongzhou to the Chaoyang Gate had been hardened. The word "prosperity" jumped into Xu Fan's mind for the first time.

Compared with the city-states seen during the Grand Tour in the West, the Great Ming city was a behemoth. A city of a million people would inevitably have all kinds of problems, and in order to face these new problems, the Great Ming's various levels of government offices were dizzy and exhausted.

Zhu Zhu Yijun only allowed Xu Fan and Gao Zhu Qiyu to be received first.

"Your subjects pay their respects to Your Majesty. Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live, long live!" Xu Fan and Gao Zhu Qiyu led a delegation of over thirty people into the hall to pay their respects.

Zhu Zhu Yijun stretched out his hand and said with a smile: "Exempt from rituals, rise."

"Your subjects have returned from the West and have travel notes on navigation to present. I ask Your Majesty to take a look." Xu Fan and Gao Zhu Qiyu each took a thick navigation note from their sleeves. Zhu Zhu Yijun received the two notes and smelled a scent of ink. Inside were small regular script characters, the palace cabinet style, and the size of each character was almost the same, clearly copied later.

"What about the originals?" Zhu Zhu Yijun closed the two notes. Zhu Zhu Yijun wanted to see the originals.

Xu Fan and Gao Zhu Qiyu's travel notes and navigation notes were sent to the capital by large sailing ships every year, so these were just copies that had been copied long ago.

Xu Fan and Gao Zhu Qiyu looked at each other, and Xu Fan bowed his head and said: "They are at the Hall of Foreign Guests."

"Feng, my beloved attendant, go and get them." Zhu Zhu Yijun wanted to see the originals. Xu Fan and Gao Zhu Qiyu could not refuse to let His Majesty see them.

While Feng Bao went to get the originals, Zhu Zhu Yijun talked with Xu Fan and Gao Zhu Qiyu about their observations in the West. There was laughter in these observations, and there was also tragedy.

The delegation of thirty people returned with thirty people, but some returned as clothing and hats. They encountered robbers on the road, and those who stayed behind to cover the retreat had their bones lost forever. Some returned as ashes. In some conflicts, these secret guards loyally fulfilled their duty of protection, but also died in a foreign land.

Only twelve people in the entire delegation returned to the Great Ming alive.

"The resistance in the Netherlands region succeeded. The so-called 'Empire on which the Sun Never Sets,' Spain, failed to suppress the endless resistance in the Netherlands. After a major defeat, they could only shrink into the large cities, waiting for reinforcements from Spain. But it is a pity that they are afraid they will not wait for reinforcements, because Spain itself is facing the threat of the Ottomans, whether at sea or on land." Xu Fan focused on introducing the resistance movement in the Netherlands.

Xu Fan and Gao Zhu Qiyu stayed in the Netherlands for no more than a month before turning to England, because the riots in the Netherlands were too intense and too dangerous.

Antwerp, The Hague, Utrecht, and other cities erupted in large-scale activities to destroy religious icons. The citizens rushed into churches and monasteries, smashed all the icons they could see, confiscated church property, and burned church debts and land deeds. When the two of them left, more than 5,500 churches, monasteries, and tribunals in the Netherlands had been destroyed.

Spain's high-pressure rule in the Netherlands was achieved through the church. The church would lend large amounts of debt, and these debts were tools for the annexation of the meat-eaters, and the "Bloody Edict" was also one of the sources of resistance.

The "Bloody Edict" was the belief in Calvinism in the Netherlands, which in the eyes of the Roman Curia was heresy. All believers of Calvinism were heretics and would be thrown into the tribunal to be executed.

"Heresy" is a basket; anything can be put into it. For the sake of collecting wealth, the people caught by these tribunals were not real heretics at all. Hundreds of thousands of Dutch people died under this charge.

Resistance was universal and intense. The Netherlands had been fighting for more than ten years and still hadn't finished.

"Your subject heard on the road that Your Majesty had arrested the Duke Duke Yansheng Mansion and its claws and teeth to the capital. Your subject thinks that with the precedent of the Netherlands, the disposal should be decisive." Xu Fan specifically talked about the Netherlands as an attitude. He had just returned and his political stance was unclear, so after finishing his observations, he directly stated his attitude.

The Qufu Kong Mansion should be killed.

"In your view, my beloved subject, is there any difference between this Qufu Kong Mansion and the tribunals of the West?" Zhu Zhu Yijun thought for a moment and asked.

Xu Fan was silent for a moment, bowed his head and said: "Your subject is dull and cannot see any difference; they are all beasts in clothing."

"Clothing" is the representative of etiquette and the symbol of power. Whether one is dressed well or not shows one's class at a glance. And "beast" is not an insult; it refers to the patches on the official uniforms of the Great Ming civil and military officials. For example, those above the first rank have Qilin, Baize, etc., while civil officials have birds on their chests, and military officials have beasts on their chests.

The beauty of the term "beasts in clothing" is that it attacks the social phenomenon of the Great Ming. Civil officials love money, military officials fear death, they oppress the people, and do all kinds of evil. The people view officials with beasts on their clothing as "beasts in clothing."

This term appeared in the legend *Jin Jin Lian Ji* in the sixth year of Emperor Wanli, a total of thirty-six chapters.

This term is extremely precise.

Feng Bao brought the originals back to the Zhao Wenhua Hall. These manuscripts were very messy, and even the ink marks were messy. Some used blood, because the red was very abnormal, and it was unclear whether it was human blood or animal blood. Clearly, in the West, Xu Fan and Gao Zhu Qiyu did not have a smooth life, and they couldn't even guarantee ink, so they had to find their own ways.

There were some differences between the originals and the copies. For example, some of Xu Fan's thoughts on Western systems were not included in the copies. Clearly, the Ministry of Rites officials responsible for copying thought these contents were not suitable for appearing in the Great Ming.

"Your subjects brought back many, many books from the West. Inside are the anatomy book *Human Structure*, the blood circulation book *On Veins and Valves*, *On the Motion of the Heart and Blood*, the physics book *On the Development of Academic Studies*, and the mining and metallurgy books *On Metals* and *On Mineral Smelting*, etc.," Gao Zhu Qiyu said.

Returning to the Great Ming this time, Gao Zhu Qiyu brought nearly three thousand volumes of books, all of which he bought in Naples. These books were extremely expensive even at local prices. He only obtained them after selling his only silk official robe from the year he was woven.

The anatomy book *Human Structure* was authored by Vesalius.

Vesalius was born in Brussels (the EU headquarters) on the banks of the Seine. Generations were court pharmacists, and Vesalius had a great interest in human structure. In order to dissect, he often went to ownerless graveyards in the suburbs to steal corpses for dissection; he also risked being caught and killed to steal the corpses of criminals under the gallows.

Finally, *Human Structure* was born. But this rebellious book was not allowed to exist by the church because it had a serious conflict with the doctrine.

For example, in myths, men have one less rib than women, because in myths, women are men's ribs, while *Human Structure* clearly shows that the number of ribs in men and women is exactly the same;

For example, in myths, it is said that there is a resurrection bone in the human body that is not afraid of fire and will not rot, and this resurrection bone is the support of the human skeleton and the key to God's resurrection three days later, while *Human Structure* indicates that anatomy does not support the existence of the resurrection bone;

For example, both East and West commonly believe that the heart is the place for life, emotion, and thought activities, but dissection found that the brain and nervous system are the places where these advanced activities occur.

*Human Structure* introduced in detail the human skeletal system, muscular system, blood system, nervous system, digestive system, heart blood circulation, brain, etc.

This book was brutally banned by the church as soon as it was published, and Vesalius was sentenced to death by the tribunal. Later, the Spanish royal family mediated, and Vesalius was exiled and finally died on the island of Zante.

Vesalius died, but *Human Structure* was passed down.

Gao Zhu Qiyu said with a strange expression: "Your Majesty, your subject has always heard a legend in the West, that there is an ancient civilization in the vast ocean named Atlantis, or the Great Western Continent. This ancient civilization was destroyed in a prehistoric flood, and in this Atlantis, there is a place called Solomon's Palace."

"And this Solomon's Palace is the Academy of Sciences. Under the leadership of Solomon's Palace, craftsmanship developed rapidly, production rates increased rapidly, people had no worries about food and clothing, material abundance reached the extreme, and everyone was humble and loving to each other."

"Your subject returned to the Great Ming and heard that Your Majesty had organized a place called the Imperial Academy of Sciences, specializing in the infinite principles of all things. Your subject was shocked by this."

In the West, Solomon's Palace is a vague myth, while in the Great Ming, the Imperial Academy of Sciences truly exists and is effectively improving craftsmanship, such as water lifting, coal mining, textile, vehicles, ships, etc.

Zhu Zhu Yijun smiled and said: "I have heard this story. Li Li Yashi once sold such a story, but it was to secretly preach to me. I found it interesting and thought it was not impossible, so I did it. In fact, the Great Ming indeed has so many talents and the ability to gather heroes from all over the world to promote the study of the infinite principles of all things."

The Imperial Academy of Sciences, when Zhu Zhu Zaiyu first entered the capital, Zhu Zhu Yijun had already moved his heart to want one, specifically to cultivate Great Ming scientific talents for Zhu Zhu Zaiyu. Later, in the communication between Li Li Yashi and Chen Chen Xuehui, the story was mentioned. Zhu Zhu Yijun just used this as an excuse to willfully use the Emperor's privilege to complete the construction of the Great Ming Imperial Academy of Sciences.

Now, in the West, these are all myths, but Zhu Zhu Yijun has the ability to make myths a reality.

In the eyes of a devout believer like Li Li Yashi, the Great Ming Emperor and the God of the Trinity are not much different. The only difference is that the Great Ming Emperor really will not be resurrected three days later.

"I will set up a department for the two of you in the Academy of Sciences to translate Western imported works. There is no need for those religious contents. Just pick some useful ones to translate, and by the way, verify them with the Dissection Institute and the Academy of Sciences to ensure accuracy." Zhu Zhu Yijun handed the large pile of books in his hand to Zhang Hong.

In those days, Tang Tang Sanzang went to the West to obtain scriptures and returned to the Great Tang to translate Buddhist scriptures in the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda. Today, Xu Fan and Gao Zhu Qiyu went to the West to exchange and learn, bringing back a large number of books. Among these books, there are many, many that Antonio did not bring to the Great Ming.

If what Antonio brought into the Great Ming was Hinayana Buddhism, then what Xu Fan and Gao Zhu Qiyu brought back to the Great Ming was Mahayana Buddhism.

Because of the issue of faith, Spain and Portugal were isolated from the Grand Tour activities, which caused problems in cultural exchange. Many books appeared in the lands of heretics, rather than in Spain and Portugal, which were full of tribunals.

And Xu Fan and Gao Zhu Qiyu's status was that of Great Ming envoys, so they were not excluded. For example, *On the Motion of the Heart and Blood* was a thesis that an old scholar in London was selling everywhere but no one cared about. Gao Zhu Qiyu bought the 72-page *On the Motion of the Heart and Blood* with the idea of "hitting a pole whether there are dates or not," and was shocked as he read it!

This blood actually has so much knowledge!

Zhu Zhu Yijun promised Xu Fan and Gao Zhu Qiyu a place to focus on translating imported works. This is giving them an identity: Doctor of the Academy of Sciences.

Once you enter the Academy of Sciences and become a Doctor, you are jumping out of the Five Elements, not in the Three Realms, a person without cause or effect.

Xu Fan is Xu Xu Jie's eldest son, and the sins Xu Xu Jie committed have no cause and effect with Xu Fan. Gao Zhu Qiyu's *Shun Also Ordered Yu* in the Ying Tian Prefecture provincial examination, even if it is talked about by others again, has nothing to do with Gao Zhu Qiyu.

The price of entering the Academy of Sciences is: from now on, there is no relationship with the official career. The Dean of the Academy of Sciences is the Emperor's uncle Zhu Zhu Zaiyu. If the Emperor's uncle Zhu Zhu Zaiyu had any interest in politics, Zhu Zhu Yijun, as the Emperor, would absolutely not be able to tolerate Zhu Zhu Zaiyu. The Great Ming's Emperor's uncle, if he still has an interest in politics, is a potential stock for rebellion.

After all, the Prince of Yan, Zhu Di, as the Emperor's uncle, succeeded in rebellion.

Xu Fan and Gao Zhu Qiyu being able to obtain the identity of Doctor of the Academy of Sciences is also an excellent result for them. They are no longer a combination of scholars and bureaucrats, but pure scholars.

The Great Ming's social customs are declining, and the rituals and music are collapsing, which has a great deal to do with this aspect. Great Ming scholars are not pure; they are usually highly tied to and overlapping with bureaucrats, which creates a terrible fact: Great Ming academic research has stopped. Bureaucrats themselves are very busy. Unless they can climb to the level of political officials, the administrative officials are busy with worldly affairs, so where would they have time to research academics?

The Academy of Sciences, a place outside the Five Elements, separates the dual identity.

In fact, the Great Ming had such a place before, and that is the Hanlin Academy's Five Classics Doctor. They are also responsible for the academic progress of the Great Ming and the virtue of Duke Duke Yansheng. But the Hanlin Academy's Five Classics Doctor cannot fulfill this function. Zhang Zhang Juzheng said that "virtue" is "practicing the Way and having gains." If you have doubts when doing things, you are truly doing things, and you are thinking. This is having virtue.

To have the virtue of Duke Duke Yansheng, one must practice. But the Five Classics Doctors have excellent learning, but their practice is zero, so the virtue of Duke Duke Yansheng stagnated.

And the Academy of Sciences cut off the bureaucratic attributes from the beginning. Cutting off bureaucratic attributes does not mean complete de-administration. The Academy of Sciences' "Gridding Doctor" is a proper fifth-rank official, and the person in charge of the Academy of Sciences is a proper second-rank official. The true master of the Academy of Sciences is the Great Ming Emperor.

This means that the Doctor of the Academy of Sciences is the Great Ming Emperor's staff.

The Great Ming's official selection system is not limited to the imperial examination; it also includes the hereditary privilege system, the hereditary military nobility system, the recommendation system, and even the system of respectful invitation. For instance, the Great Ming's Grand Secretaries are respectfully invited by the Emperor to be enfeoffed as marquises and appointed as prime ministers. There are also rituals for Grand Secretaries to enter the Cabinet, and the Emperor must also respectfully invite them.

Hereditary military merit and hired Grand Secretaries are actually the Emperor's own staff. Under the imperial system, staff is greater than official status, which is greater than clerks.

"Your subjects kowtow and thank you for your holy grace." Gao Zhu Qiyu and Xu Fan performed the grand ritual again to thank him. This means that as long as they do not participate in court politics, they will not be easily affected by the court's infighting. Of course, if the Emperor himself changes his nature, is unwilling to continue to revitalize the Great Ming, is slack, and wants to surrender, that round of earth-shattering infighting will still affect the Academy of Sciences, and even the Academy of Sciences itself will be razed to the ground.

Zhu Zhu Yijun began to receive Antonio, this Western captain, whose appetite was extremely large this time. He seemed to intend to stand on his own.

"Your subject Antonio pays respects to Your Majesty. Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live." Antonio entered the door and performed the Great Ming's grand ritual of five kowtows and three prostrations.

"Western envoy Li Li Yashi pays respects to Your Majesty. Long live, long live, long live." Li Li Yashi also performed the kneeling ritual. He did not call himself a subject, but handled it vaguely, and did not perform the grand ritual of five kowtows and three prostrations.

Li Li Yashi is a subject of the Spanish royal family, a believer in the supreme power of the Great Ming Emperor, and a betrayer of the promise of lifelong celibacy to serve the Lord. After death, there will be no protection, and he will be nailed to the Wall of Unbelievers.

"Your subject earnestly requests the wise and great Great Ming Emperor to be able to give me a total of twelve five-masted ocean-crossing ships. I swear that these twelve five-masted ocean-crossing ships, at any time, will not point their cannons at the Great Ming. I also need six thousand strong naval soldiers. I earnestly request the benevolent and great Your Majesty to agree to your subject's humble request." Antonio knelt on the ground, bowing his head and pressing his ears to the ground.

Antonio wanted so many ships and so many people for only one purpose: rebellion. He wanted to be the King of Portugal. He had the support of the commoners, but not the support of the nobles, and the nobles controlled the army. Antonio needed the support of the Great Ming Emperor.

"Philip II's defeat in the Netherlands has made your ambition impatient." Zhu Zhu Yijun said very calmly and composedly: "I hope you can be calm. As a regicide, your rule will be extremely short. The Pure One, Henrique, is still alive. You should not be so anxious."

"The Pure One, Henrique, is already very old, Your Majesty. Your subject has no time left." Antonio knelt on the ground and shouted: "The Great Ming navy is very brave, but it also needs time to familiarize itself with the battlefield to fight."

Zhu Zhu Yijun pondered for a long time and shook his head, saying: "Your anxiety I have already felt. Twelve five-masted ocean-crossing ships, I can agree to give you, and I can also lend you money, but I cannot agree to give you six thousand naval soldiers."

"You said it yourself, fighting needs time to familiarize. I do not hope that Great Ming soldiers will go to the West to take risks. The navy is my soldiers, the Great Ming's soldiers, and they are also the sons of their parents and the fathers of their children. No matter what, I cannot agree to let soldiers go to the West to take risks."

Antonio looked at His Majesty silently. This greedy tyrant, in the face of huge profits, still cared about the Great Ming soldiers first. He thought seriously for a long time and said: "This… I earnestly request the Great Ming to send naval inspectors. My supporters are all commoners."

"This is naturally possible. Instructors are possible." Zhu Zhu Yijun agreed to this matter. He could afford the home-leave subsidy for the long distance of ten thousand miles. Zhu Zhu Yijun asked with a smile: "Then, what benefits can I get?"

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