"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness King Yi has a letter to send back." In the Qianqing Palace, Lu Yi held the letter in both hands and bowed.
"A letter from King Yi?" When Yun, who was criticizing the memorial, heard this, he put down his pen and took the letter from his hand, and immediately opened it and started reading. After reading for a while, a smile gradually appeared on his face, and at the same time, he kept talking. He muttered: "We have discovered an animal with a pouch on its abdomen, and babies are often carried in it? How many of them should be captured and sent to the capital? It would also be better to build a zoo in Beijing to collect all the animals that are not common in the Central Plains. Let’s put a few in the zoo for the children to watch. It seems that Shanglinyuan has a similar errand. After a while, I will call the officer from Shanglinyuan to ask.”
The place where Yiwangzhu is located is naturally the only Australian land where kangaroos live in the world. In October of the 16th year of Jianye last year, when Fu An and Clavijo were meeting with Quijano, Su Fan's The fleet wandered to the 13th degree south latitude, then sailed eastward, discovered Australia, and landed at what would later be known as Darwin Harbor.
After landing, this group of people immediately realized that they had discovered a new land. They were very excited and began to explore to see if they could discover a large open-pit gold mine like the first people who landed on the Hanzhou continent and become rich in one fell swoop.
If they could sail further south for a while and arrive at about 35 degrees south latitude, they might be able to find gold mines; but there are none in northern Australia. Not only are there no gold mines, they have not found anything of value.
They did find the local natives, but the level of civilization of these natives was beyond their imagination. They did not even have the skills to weave cloth, and were even more backward than the legendary natives living in the jungles of Sumatra. Their so-called The wealth has no value at all.
After searching carefully again and confirming that there was nothing valuable, they had to return to the ship and return to Su Fan to report the discovery of this large island to Su Fan's navy.
After Zhu Gaoxu heard about this, he immediately sent a navy to the Australian land based on the longitude and latitude coordinates provided by these people. They also surveyed the entire land and determined that there were no valuable minerals. After the local natives were not only sparse in number but also low in civilization, Zhu Gaoxu decided to tell Yun the news instead of keeping it secret himself.
Yun's heart was not disturbed after learning that the Australian continent was discovered. Although the Australian continent has some minerals, their value is extremely low from an agricultural perspective. With the technological level of this era, there is no way to immigrate in large numbers; the freight to transport the minerals back to the country is high. It's terrible and makes no sense.
But now that he had discovered it, he couldn't leave it empty. Yun wanted to choose one of his uncles to seal him. Emperor Taizu's twenty-fifth son, Yiwang Zhu, had not yet been sealed, and he also had a very violent temperament. Yun was very fond of it. I hate him, so I decided to ban him to Australia: go and unleash your tyranny on the local natives.
Of course Zhu did not want to go to such a desolate and backward place, but he did not dare to disobey Yun's will, so he could only set out for Australia with hundreds of unlucky guardsmen.
Although Zhu was tyrannical, he was not stupid. In order for Yun to be merciful and give him more people and goods, he wrote to Yun from the first day after arriving in Australia, describing in detail what he had seen and heard in Australia, in order to impress Yun. .
Yun was indeed impressed by him. "Since he is so knowledgeable, the prisoners who will be exiled to Nanyang next year will allocate 100 people to him. In addition, they will also give him enough food to feed 5,000 people for three years and cloth to make clothes for 5,000 people.
Then buy some indigenous women from Su Fan and other vassal states and send them to his soldiers." Yun thought.
"How long has it been since the King of Liao and others set out?" Yun suddenly asked Lu Yidao again.
"Your Majesty, it has been thirty-five days," Lu Yi replied.
"I don't know if they are safe," Yun said again.
While conferring the title of Yiwang Zhu to Australia, Yun also did not forget the newly discovered Nanhanzhou. On the first day of the first lunar month, he summoned the vassal kings who were still in the Central Plains and asked them if anyone was willing to go to Nanhanzhou. Most of the vassal kings
None of them were willing, and only King Ning Suijue and King Zhu Zhi of Liao agreed. Naturally, Yun was unhappy and pressed Tang King Zhu and Ying King Zhu Dong, who were in Beijing and had not yet become vassals. They were forced to agree to go to Nanhanzhou.
Yun quickly prepared enough food and goods for the four vassal kings, and gave them some people, so that they could board ships and head to the Hanzhou continent. They would first arrive at Jinshan City, and then go south along the west coast of Hanzhou to Zhu
Yun's fiefdom transported the large ship from land to the other side, and then headed to the southern Hanzhou continent. Of course, King Zhu Zhi of the Liao Dynasty did not have to be so troublesome. His fiefdom was the Columbia area in later generations, and he could just continue south along the west coast.
Of course, Yun would not give the entire Southern Han Continent to the four of them. The most valuable place in Southern Han Continent, and the only place where there is hope for the rise of a powerful country, is the central and eastern part of Argentina, including Paraguay, Uruguay and even southern Brazil. Yun
He planned to entrust this rich land to his son.
In fact, not only Southern Hanzhou, but also Northern Hanzhou, he decided to seal Texas and the Mississippi River estuary area to his son. In this era, to open up wasteland east of the Appalachian Mountains was basically asking for death. Historically, immigrants
I don’t know how many times the regiment has been destroyed, but no matter how valuable it is, I can’t fill this fire pit. Texas has been easily conquered by the Castilians in history, which shows that it is not difficult to control. If it develops well, it will be able to penetrate into the interior of North Hanzhou in the future.
In Yun's opinion, it was the best place, so he wanted to leave it to his son.
"If there is any news coming back from Hanzhou, report it to me immediately." Yun regained his thoughts and gave another order.
Lu Yi agreed, and seeing that Yun had no other instructions, he bowed and left.
Yun continued to comment on the memorial for a while, and it was already noon. Yun put down the memorial that he had finished commenting on, ordered it to be sent to the General Affairs Department, and went to Kunning Palace.
Xiyao welcomed her husband into the palace, chatted with him for a few words, and then said: "Husband, Uncle Qing is about to return to the capital. Uncle Qing's wife died early. It is said that the newly married wife has a child born to the original wife.
Unkind. There is no need to mention those who are already adults. Those who are still young, do you want me to take them into the palace and raise them?" In the first month of this year, when Yun asked the vassal kings if they were willing to go to Nanhanzhou, Taizu's 16th son Qing
Wang Zhu not only said that he did not want to go to Hanzhou, but also said that he did not even want to continue to be the vassal king in Ningxia. After Yun asked him several times, he said so, and he would rather stay in the capital without power and soldiers than return to the capital. Yun then said that he did not want to go to Hanzhou.
Complying with his request, he withdrew his vassal and allowed him to return to the capital.
"Well, it's not necessary." Yun thought for a moment and said, "You blatantly brought these younger brothers and sisters into the palace, and you don't know how to openly accuse the current concubine of being unkind? Uncle Qing has no face. When they arrive in the capital, you summon them
When Princess Qing comes to the palace, I will just give her a few words."
"What if Princess Qing doesn't listen to my concubine's advice and is still unkind to them?"
If Xiyao is suspected of neglecting her ex-wife's children and is derelict in her duties, it will not be good for her reputation.
"If she doesn't listen to my advice, then bring them into the palace." Yun thought for a while and said.
Xiyao agreed and was about to talk to him about other things when Miner and others walked in. Xiyao had no choice but to remain silent.
"My daughter has met her father and her mother." Min'er saw that her parents seemed to have something to discuss, but since they had already come in, they couldn't leave again, so they could only pretend to know nothing and salute.
"Father, I heard that you have recently become obsessed with tinkering with all kinds of weird gadgets and have spent all your monthly money?" Yunque asked.
"No matter how strange things are, they are all useful things." Min'er said: "These things my daughter plays with are all semi-finished products developed by people from Gezhiyuan. If they can be completely successful, they will be of great use.
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"Father also knows." Yun said with a deliberately straight face. Of course he investigated what the allergic children played with. Many of the things in her dormitory and in the backyard were the result of various imaginations developed by researchers at Gezhi Institute.
, such as aircraft that claim to be able to fly freely in the sky, wooden oxen and stray horses that can replace oxen in plowing fields, shoes that can speed up people's walking speed, etc.
More than 80% of these things are useless, but in order to encourage invention and creativity and cultivate scientists with independent consciousness, Yun did not designate the research scope of Gezhiyuan based on his own 'experience', but let them do their own research. Of course,
There are no restrictions. Each researcher has a certain amount of funding. If he still cannot get useful results after spending all the money, he can only stop research.
Of course, these researchers did not want to stop, so they went around begging for money. One day, after returning from Gezhiyuan, Yiwen told Min'er that these people were asking for money everywhere as a joke.
Unexpectedly, Min'er was actually very interested in this. She asked them in detail about the content of their research, and asked Wen to send some people's semi-finished products to the palace for her to see. After that, she used her own money to fund some people's research, and the conditions
It is the research results that you want to share with yourself.
How could these researchers be unwilling? They agreed immediately. After that, Miner Tuowen gave them a sum of money every month, and they sent a copy of the research results to the palace.
"That's all you need to fund their research. After all, it's your own money. My father doesn't care how you spend it. But you can't just fill your house with these things. Besides," Yun paused.
Before she could say anything, Xiyao said: "Min'er, you are not young anymore this year. You are already twenty years old. You would have several children in a commoner's home. Your father indulges you and becomes a mother."
I also love you. It’s okay for you to get married a few years later, but it’s time to get married. But you have such a strange reputation, which is not good for you to choose a husband.”
Compared to the gentle words Yun wanted to say, Xiyao spoke more directly. She really couldn't stand that her daughter was already in her twenties, not only not yet married, but not even engaged. Yunlan was already over 20 when she got married.
But she had been engaged before, but the potential prince-in-law died in the battle in Annan, and she was only in her twenties; Min'er had never been engaged at all.
"Mom, my father has always insisted on marrying only if he is willing. My daughter has no one she likes." Min'er said.
"No matter what, you can't go on like this. Within a year, you must get engaged within a year. If you can't choose the person you like, mother will choose one for you." Xiyao ignored her daughter's words.
Quibble, say it directly.
"Dad!" Min'er looked at Yun.
"Min'er, your mother is right, you can't keep putting off getting married. But don't worry, if you don't like anyone, your father will definitely not let your mother choose someone you hate, let alone have the courage to discipline you.
Yours. You can still do whatever you want after marriage just like you did before marriage." Yun said.
"That's it! You have to be mentally prepared!" Xiyao finally said.
"Yes, dad, mom." Faced with the words of her parents who have different attitudes but have the same meaning, Min'er can only agree. Of course, this is also affected by social trends. In this era, unless you are a widower, no daughter will not marry.
After all, Min'er is also a person of this era and has no idea of being single all her life.
Hearing Min'er's answer, Xiyao breathed a sigh of relief. At this time, she noticed that there were only herself, Yun and Min'er in the huge pavilion, and even the servants were missing. She hurriedly shouted for everyone to come in. When she heard
Following the queen's instructions, the eunuchs and maids hurriedly walked in, served them to sit down, and brought out the meals that had been prepared.
Wen Luo also walked in to eat at this time. After hearing the greetings from his fourth daughter, Yun remembered that she insisted on learning astronomy and calendar a few years ago, just like Wen, and asked casually: "Wen Luo, has Gezhiyuan done anything new in astronomy these days?"
discovery?"
"Ah, I almost forgot." Wen Luo suddenly put down his chopsticks and patted his head, and then said with Yun: "Dad, Mr. Cao and Mr. Bo recently studied astronomy and developed a new kind of mathematics, which seems to be of some use.
Not only in the study of astronomy, but also in other studies."
"Why don't they report such results?" Yun asked.
"Mr. Cao and Mr. Bo said that they want to report their results to their father after they get results in astronomy." Wen Luo replied.
"There is no such need. As long as it is a useful research result, my father will like it, and it does not have to be in astronomy." Yun thought about it again and felt that he should have nothing to do in the afternoon and could squeeze out time, so he said: "This afternoon
Father is going to Gezhiyuan for an inspection, Wen Luo, are you willing to go?"
"Of course my daughter wants to go." Wen Luo nodded without any hesitation.
"Dad, my daughter also wants to go." Min'er also said.
"Okay, you all go." Yun said, and then told Wenyuan: "You also go together." Then he said to the others: "If you want to take a look, you can go together."
"Yes, father." Wen Yuan was reluctant but did not dare to go against his father's words and agreed.
"My son is willing." Wen Qi and Wen Yin agreed.
After lunch and a nap, Yun got up in the afternoon, took his children out of the palace, and went to Gezhiyuan.
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"Where is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?" At this time, at the Lifanyuan Yamen, Claviyo hurriedly walked in from the outside and asked loudly.
"His Royal Highness the Prince did not come to the Yamen in the afternoon. Most likely His Majesty had other errands to give." Fu An, who had been in the Yamen, replied. "What happened?" he asked again.
"Quijano came to the Central Plains from Castile and has something important to report." Claviyo whispered a few words in his ear. Fu An's expression immediately changed and he said: "It's so sudden! Come on!
This matter is very important and must be reported to Your Majesty and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince immediately! The two of us will go to the palace immediately to ask for an audience with Your Majesty."