Beijing City in the eighth year of Wanli was lively.

The world's troops entered the capital, and for a time, merchants and people from all over the world participated in the grand occasion, and all the world's rare treasures gathered here.

But in the Forbidden City, the atmosphere was not the case, because the emperor invited the third lady who came from the Tumote tribe to lead 200 armored cavalry into the Forbidden City.

After Emperor Wanli told the world last year that he wanted to "quarrel" with Altan Khan of Mongolia, no one knew where the future development would go.

The northern border of the empire smelled the smell of war, but before the war began, everything remained as calm as usual.

There is a lake in the training ground of Emperor Wanli in the north of Wenhua Hall, which is formed by leading through the Jinshui River in the Forbidden City. On the dot platform by the lake, Emperor Wanli and the Sanniangzi and the little Mongolian prince stood together, watching the boats in the lake swaying and swaying, and the emperor, wearing a sealed robe and a dragon-patterned chestplate, explained carefully, and sometimes he would add hand movements.

As time goes by, the title of Little Short Legs is no longer applicable to the seventeen-year-old Emperor Wanli. He has a heroic face and firm eyes, but sometimes he will show a green smile.

"The Red Sea ship sailed past the flank of the Babulo and bombarded the opponent with its side cannons. Twelve shells hit the Babulo board. Only three shells swept on the upper deck could injure the Spaniards on the ship."

There are more than twenty small boats on the lake, and there is no sound of gunfire. On each boat, you can see a helmman controlling the warship models that shock the world and sailing in the lake. The stern of each boat is filled with thick black smoke. If you get closer, you can still hear huge noise.

The third lady could not see anything. She was more interested than those small boats that were not satisfied with even sails swimming in the lake in the Forbidden City in the high walls and deep courtyards.

It was a map where she could not see where the painting was painted. There were large light blue on the picture, and several huge pieces of land marked with strange pronunciations in countless colors and words. Although several familiar places could be found in the middle, it was too small.

But these images were very clear in the mind of the young emperor.

He said this was a naval battle that occurred several years ago in the South China Sea. The two sides of the war were the Ming Dynasty and the Spanish. The naval battle began with the encounter between the Ming general Chen Mu and the Spanish Yunbao fleet.

"I have simulated many times, using the shape, firepower and scale of the Spanish fleet, even if they add thicker hulls and faster speeds to them in terms of parameters, the Spaniards still cannot win."

"Does Madam Zhongshun know why I am so persistent in that naval battle?"

Emperor Wanli said to himself, and the third lady who was ecstatic when she held the little Mongolian prince Butashili to look at the map turned around and lowered her head with a humble smile and said respectfully: "I don't know when I go back to your majesty."

The wife with an imperial decree also praised her when she met the emperor.

"This naval battle took place here." The emperor walked towards the map beside the third lady. When he passed by the little prince, he took out a piece of rock candy wrapped in oil paper from his pocket and handed it out. Then he pointed to the location on the map and said: "In the same year, the Ming fleet stopped in Manila and drove away the Western Yi of Luzon; in the following two years, the countries of Luzon, Sulu, and Borneo competed to pay tribute, and the East-West and East-West Military Palace was established."

Emperor Wanli opened his hands on the map and pushed them vigorously to both sides: "My army, from east to east Asia and west to Atlantic Africa, you see this map."

"I saw it." The third lady not only saw it, but she was also very worried and said, "Please rest assured that Tumote had never been a disobedient person. Our descendants and tribes are willing to guard the borders for the emperor for generations."

"Don't be afraid. I have never doubted that King Shunyi is disobedient. What I am angry about is that he does not trust my prestige and goes to make others recognize him as a Khan."

The tone of Emperor Wanli's speech did not seem to be very angry, which made the third lady feel a little relieved and expressed her confusion to the emperor at the right time. However, the emperor did not answer, but raised his hand to point out a place in the north of the New World on the map and asked: "Do you remember there is a man named Hulan in Tumochuan, who is the cavalry that King Shunyi gave to me."

How could the third lady remember such a person? She collected unpopular unlucky men from various tribes in Tumot's tribes in Tumot's tribes. She could only shake her head slightly and said, "I don't remember, what did he do?"

"He has made contributions to me and obtained a piece of land here. I asked him to be the commander here. Guards are named Hulan Wei, Yongzhen Situ." Wanli turned his head and raised his hand and slowly shook his index finger, saying, "Don't say that he has guarded the border for me for generations. Look at this map and think where is my northern border?"

This question is too easy to answer, and there is a standard answer for the third lady. She didn't even need to look at the map and said respectfully: "Back to your Majesty, the farthest place in the Tumot rider can run north to the farthest, which is the border of your Majesty."

"Mrs. Zhongshun said it very well. Although it may not be my border or the border of the Ming Dynasty, it means the same. My border depends on where my army can go."

"You see, there are still many gaps in this map, but the shapes of the world have been roughly understood."

"There are three borders in my heart, the border of the Ming Dynasty, the border of my border, and the border of Greater China." When Wanli said this, he was maturing that the third lady could not understand. He drew a circle around the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty on the map and said, "This is the border of the Ming Dynasty. It reaches the sea in the south and the Great Wall in the north. The Ming Dynasty I took from my father is so big."

The third lady was about to say something, but was stopped by Wanli and said, "No need to say that the Tumote tribe is the border of the Ming Dynasty. When I took over the empire, until now, there were no officials I appointed and removed from Tumochuan."

Wanli also drew a huge circle on the map. This time, not only the most powerful right-wing Mongolia on the grassland, but also the East and the Atlantic Oceans. He said: "This is my border. Every country and every king respect me as the master. I am alive and powerful. I will face the boundaries of the Four Seas Empire. If it takes a long time, these places will become the borders of Greater China."

"If I am weak and I die, my prince will be a fool." The emperor clenched his fists tightly, as if he felt sorry that the heirs of the empire would not be as smart as the emperor in the future. The empire's blessing: "Then my territory will be reduced to the border of the Ming Dynasty. Fortunately... I can live for a long time, so Tumochuan is indeed my territory. What do you think of Mrs. Zhongshun?"

The third lady said, "As Your Majesty said, Tumochuan is the territory of Your Majesty."

"Since it is my territory, I want to use Tumochuan as the main formation and let my riders explore in all directions. What does Mrs. Zhongshun think?"
Chapter completed!