At noon, the East Palace of the Forbidden City was one big and one small, and two young people who had not had enough sleep were sitting outside the hall wearing thick winter clothes and basking in the sun.

The Han warrior in golden helmet and golden armor moved the Huntian ball in the emperor's bedroom to the stone steps outside the hall. Below the chairs of the two men were paved with a huge world map made of tanned deer skin.

"Your Majesty has read Chen's Tao Te Ching, what do you think of that book?"

In the palace, Zhang Juzheng and Empress Dowager Li sat on the side. The emperor was like a quail and didn't dare to ask anything. He was not as spirit as the court meeting. Chen Mu naturally did not dare to be arrogant. He ate a serious meal and was very boring.

If they continue to control like them, although Xiao Wanli has a high talent, he will definitely have problems with his nature and personality. Later students are nervous in their studies, and the teacher is strict, but there are still classmates who accompany them to play and chat to relieve the pressure. But what does the emperor have?

Chen Mu was pulled to the East Palace by Wanli, and saw the little emperor commanding the strong men to carry out the Huntian Ball. He took out a huge world map that he had hidden for a long time. The countries on it were filled with different color blocks, and there were also childish notes such as Xijing Madrid, Mongolian horse farm, and Nanyang fishing ground. He invited him to watch it like a treasure. With a proud look, he raised his chin and said that he had a little cleverness of covering the window at night with a thin cloth that was not transparent and bright, which made Chen Mu feel sad for no reason.

This picture is very naive and very naive. It draws and changes the traces on it, which even lowers the level of the leather map.

Chen Mu can draw any twenty flag officials from the Navy's Martial Arts Hall to the military guards and can draw a hundred times more rigorous than this picture.

But its magnificent length of four zhang and three zhang wide means that this is absolutely possible by the power of a person. Wanli is only one person, only twelve years old. Chen Mu seemed to be able to see that the doors and windows of the bedroom were covered with cloth and the lamps were carefully lit in the hall. The little emperor who avoided his mother's punishment lay clumsy and serious on the ground, carefully outlining a grand blueprint with his pen and ink.

No one can play with him, and no one can even speak with him normally. The descendants of the royal family have been lonely since childhood.

Chen Mu dared to guarantee that Zhang Juzheng must have realized this problem. Because he went to court in a straight room, he heard Xu Jue casually mention that the cabinet produced white lotus and the Hanlin Academy produced double white swallows. Zhang Juzheng was brought to the emperor for fun, but was scolded by Feng Bao.

‘The emperor is young and should not use these strange things to make the emperor playful.’

As the eunuch leader, I know the general idea very well, but in fact the emperor is not greedy for fun, he has no choice but to play.

So Chen Mu listened to the emperor's masterpiece all morning, like describing the grand blueprint of the great empire in a childish tone and idea, like finding a long-lasting soulmate to tell the secrets buried in his heart, and more like students finally found a farewell to the teacher and waiting for the homework to check, memorizing the specialty of the plots of land and describing the arrangements of the people in the future.

"You talk first."

Little Wanli held the pet cat that was paid tribute from Siam at the end of last year, squinted his eyes and spread it on a chair, basking in the sun lazily, and occasionally putting out a small piece of pie from the small square box between the two. He took a bite and let the cat eat it.

The pie is still the old taste that Chen Mu entered the palace several years ago. It was bought by Wanli who sent eunuchs outside Donghuamen.

Today he was licensed to spend one day with Chen Mu, who had not returned to Beijing for four years. It seems that Chen Mu doesn't care about the rules, and will not scold him for not sitting there, nor does he look afraid of him. This makes him very comfortable, and said, "You have heard a lot. The earliest and best map of the Ming Dynasty was painted by you. What do you think of my map?"

"Your Majesty is wrong. The first best map of the Ming Dynasty was not painted by the minister. The map requires standards. The first method of drawing squares in the map was chosen. This method originated from the six-body drawings made by Pei Xiu in the Jin Dynasty. The map was made inch by inch and was folded by one inch by a hundred miles. Many maps of the Kingdom used this method. The best one was Luo Hongxian's "Guangyu Map", but this method did not take into account that the universe was round."

Chen Mu raised his hand and pointed to the huge Huntian Ball, and taught and enjoyed it: "If a county and a government, you don't think about these things, but the world map must consider the meridians. During the Kaiyuan period of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, a monk and his team selected four places with the same longitude, namely Baima, Junyi, Fugou and Shangcai, to measure the height of the shadow, overturned the statement that the Northern and Southern Dynasties was "a thousand miles apart and a shadow was one inch long" before, and concluded that the distance between the north and south was 351 miles apart, with one degree difference."

"The map covered by Chen in the Tao Te Ching, Jingwei followed this example, combined with the Western map obtained by the profits of the war, and pieced together it into the map today. Your Majesty can see that many places on the map are newly added. All powerful countries in the world have joined the competition to discover the world. Their technology is improving. Your Majesty was born in the Emperor Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty cannot be the one who was discovered, and the one who discovered others."

Xiao Wanli seemed to understand, nodded and smiled, weighed the large sleeves of the Sun and Moon robe, exposed his hand and pointed at Huntianqiu and said, "I have discovered them!"

"You mean, my map is already very accurate?"

"At this stage, this map is the most accurate map of the world in the Ming Dynasty, but I think that Your Majesty can make it more accurate." Chen Mu smiled and said, "The Nanyang Military Palace has always been used for warfare. It is insufficient in China. In recent years, the calendar of the heaven and the time has not been accurate enough. Predicting solar eclipses often missed. New calendars should be compiled. Mathematics have made sufficient progress. New calendars should be formulated and further measured. This is not only beneficial to the calendar, but also beneficial to wars."

"In the future generations, China's territory will expand rapidly. It now has the jurisdiction of Luzon. The Xinming plot is still small. However, with Xinming and Guinea further reclaiming and exploration, the territory will be more huge. We need an accurate calendar and map that can be used in any corner of the Ming Dynasty."

After Chen Mu finished speaking, he bowed to Xiao Wanli and said, "I have finished talking about my view on the map. Your Majesty should also tell you what Your Majesty thinks about the Tao Te Ching."

The little emperor blinked and said, "Is that over?"

"It's not over yet. You haven't said whether this map is suitable for me or not. It's impossible. When the Queen Mother saw this map, she burned it. The corners were burned before I begged to snatch it back. The Grand Tutor made me humble and studious, and thought more about the strategy of governing the country, and not do these meaningless things. Why are you?"

Chen Mu smiled. Of course he knew what Wanli wanted to hear, and he also knew what others meant to say. He said: "The Empress Dowager is Your Majesty's mother. The Empress Dowager can decide what Your Majesty learns and what you don't learn. Master Zhang is Your Majesty's teacher. Master Zhang can advise Your Majesty what you learn is beneficial to the country."

"What the Empress Dowager and the Master of the Pavilion are teaching right, but this does not mean that the minister has to repeat the right persuasions again. Your Majesty can make this picture with a young body. Even if it is copied and copied, it will not be able to do it without half a year. Your Majesty has this intelligence and perseverance, and the Queen Mother and the Master of the Pavilion will naturally remember the restraining and perseverance of the Queen Mother and the Master of the Pavilion of the Pavilion, and understand the emperor's responsibilities. I think I don't need to persuade me anymore."

"I think if the late emperor was still there, I would be very pleased to see this map of the world and would encourage you more. As an important minister of the court, Chen should be arguing and tell Your Majesty a truth on behalf of the late emperor."

Chen Mu said, and took his hand from the big sleeve of the blush robe, picked up a piece of pie and chewed it slowly. This pie is not as delicious as the sea of ​​delicacies. In fact, the taste is just ordinary, but this is the pie that Emperor Longqing liked during his lifetime.

"The Ming Empire, which was taken over by the late emperor, was in a turmoil, with a fiscal deficit inside and a captive in the south and the north outside. Rebellions emerged one after another in various places, the generals and the school clan were unable to do anything, and the wise ministers worked hard, and the emperor was helpless. If he was not careful, he would fall apart."

"And the Ming Dynasty, which Your Majesty took over, domestic reforms have begun to show results. The warehouse has been used for two years, and the grain output has increased year by year, military technology has developed rapidly, commercial activities have unprecedented prosperity, and countless cultural and educational entertainment. The imperial soldiers are prone to attack and defensively entering the hometown of Japanese pirates. The Tatars in the north of the Frontier farmed and raised sheep and did not dare to talk about robbing the border. The Emperor Ming fleet is invincible in all directions - this is the most powerful empire in the world."
Chapter completed!