"Dad, what did you say to Zhang Tan? He doesn't look very relaxed." Wen Di returned to the palace, sat next to his father, and asked.
"My father gave him an errand."
"What errand?"
"The king and prime minister of the vassal state of Madagascar, of course, is the right king." The left is in charge of the army and the right is in charge of the people. Of course, the left king must appoint a trustworthy person to do it.
"Dad wants to confer a vassal king on the island of Madagascar? But is this island worthy of conferring a vassal king?" Wen Di asked. The distance between Madagascar and the Central Plains is about the same as that of Egypt, but the distance between Egypt and Madagascar is more important.
Is there anything worthy of conferring a vassal title?
"Of course Madagascar is not worth much now, but it's hard to say in the future." Yun explained: "Madagascar is located at a very important point on the new shipping route. When the new shipping route opens in one or two hundred years, it will become a very important place.
I can grant a vassal title to my father in advance, so that when the new sea route opens in the future, I will already have a firm foothold in the local area, and there will be no need to worry about this island being occupied by others."
In fact, not only Madagascar, but also the southernmost tip of the Merga continent, which was later known as South Africa, also wanted to be sealed off. South Africa was a more important place than Madagascar and could be called the choke point of the new shipping route. But he just said that he was not allowed to enter the Silk Road.
If you seal off this place on the Galie Continent, you will be doing yourself a disservice. You can only later instruct the people who will be sealed off on the island of Madagascar to send troops to occupy the Cape of Good Hope.
"So that's it. My father can plan things for two hundred years, but my son can't." Wen Di said hurriedly.
"Stop saying that." Yun scolded with a smile.
Wen Di laughed again and said: "It is indeed appropriate to confer a vassal king on the island of Madagascar, but although Zhang Tan has been in Madagascar and knows the local area very well, he may not be trustworthy, right?
Will he eat it inside and outside?"
Hearing this, Yun thought: 'It was because I thought he was untrustworthy, so I made up that statement, saying that both you and Li Jiqian proposed severe punishment, which frightened him into begging for mercy, and then told him that he would not be punished.
He, let him be grateful and dare not think of anything else.'
But what he said was something else: "Whether he can be trusted depends on whether the Ming Dynasty is strong enough. If the Ming Dynasty is strong enough, even if he wants to defect to other countries and get some confidential information, he will not dare to do anything else. If he provokes
If Ming is angry, unless he goes to heaven and earth, he will die sooner or later, and no country dares to protect him. As for confidential information, what confidential information can there be in such a remote place as Madagascar? So there is no need to worry about whether he is trustworthy.
"
"That's what dad said." Wen Di said, and then asked: "Who is dad going to banish to Madagascar?"
Yun raised his head and glanced at him, and said calmly: "Wen Di, why do you ask this?"
"Dad," Wen Di didn't seem to hear the dissatisfaction in his father's tone and said with a smile: "My son's fiefdom of Egypt is on the Moga Hunter Continent, and the island of Madagascar is also near the Moga Hunter Continent. Although it is not close, if it is
Sailing westward from the Central Plains, there is a large section of the same road in the middle, and they only separate in the Gulf of Aden, so they can help each other. That's why my son asked who should be sealed off to Madagascar."
"My father plans to grant your fourth brother a vassal title. He is eighteen years old this year and it is time for him to be granted a vassal title."
"Fourth brother?" Wen Di frowned and was about to say something. Seeing that his father noticed his expression, he changed his words: "The relationship between my son and fourth brother was only weak in the past. It would probably cost more to help each other."
of strength."
"The purpose is to choose a brother who is not very close to you." Yun Xin said: "Choose a brother who is very harmonious with you and let you run Madagascar into a colony? Madagascar is a vast island with few people, so that won't be the key point.
In a place of development, I am afraid that the population will not increase within a hundred years. The population is too small to even develop handicraft industry, and the necessary goods can only be bought from other places; and the place relatively close to Madagascar is Abyssinia
Country, India, Tianfang and Egypt. You already have a fief in India. If you continue to have good relations with the Abyssinian country, it is unknown whether you will form a powerful force in the eastern part of the Merga Hunter continent. The reason why your father is here
Mentioning your name in front of Zhang Tan, he said that you proposed to deal with him severely, and you also wanted to prevent the vassal state of Madagascar from having a good relationship with you.'
In fact, Yun may not be able to think of these things that Wen Di is worried about now, or he may not be able to think of them all. But it is always right to be prepared, even if it is his own son who needs to be prepared.
"Who told you not to study seriously in the past few years?" Yun said to Wen Di: "Wen Kun loves reading the most. If you also studied seriously in the Imperial City School, how could you not have a good relationship with Wen Kun? Now it's bad, right?
?But you don’t have to worry, you are brothers after all, it’s easy to discuss anything.”
"That's what dad said." Wen Di seemed to be really persuaded by these words and said with a smile: "Fourth brother is always easy to talk to and easy to discuss anything."
Speaking of this, Wen Di seemed to remember something again and said: "Dad, my son almost forgot, why should we reward Miura Yuzhennan with part of the Hanzhou continent? Wouldn't it be better to give him the southernmost point of the Mojia hunting continent?"
"My father is to protect the entire Hanzhou, so that this continent is at least the land of the people of the Central Plains and will not become the land of Fu." Yun pointed to the map and said: "My father gave Miura Youzhen the southern Hanzhou continent.
The east coast is located south of the equator and north of ten degrees south latitude. What can you tell by looking at the shapes of the west coast of the Mogali continent and the east coast of the Nanhanzhou continent?"
"My son can't see anything," Wen Di said.
"The place given to him by his father is the Hanzhou continent where Fu Ren is most likely to come when he goes south along the new sea route. In order to prevent this place from falling into Fu Ren's hands, we can only send people to occupy it in advance. But this
This land is covered with a large area of extremely dense forest, and it is very difficult to develop. If a prince were granted the title, he would definitely not be willing to do so, and my father would not want the Han people to suffer such a hardship."
"So just give this land to Kazuto. Kazuto has always wanted to own a piece of land alone. How could my father not know about it? It's just that there are tens of millions of people in Japan who also want to use their father, so they just turn a blind eye.
.Give this land to him, and he will do his best to develop it. Even if Fu Ren comes to the Southern Hanzhou continent in a few years, it will not be taken away. This has achieved the purpose of being a father."
"Dad, my son is confused about something." Wen Di asked: "Is there any difference between letting the Japanese occupy it and letting the Japanese occupy it?"
"There is a difference."
"What's the difference?"
"At least, the appearance of Japanese people is slightly different from that of Han people, or even no different." At this point, Yun closed his eyes. He couldn't tell Wen Di about the real reason.
Wen Di saw that his father did not mean what he said, but he understood that his father did not want to say more. Anyway, the matter of the Hanzhou continent had nothing to do with him, so he did not ask further, and just said: "Dad only gave them the land from the equator to ten degrees south latitude, but
They may not obey their father's words honestly. Seeing that the place in the south is good and no one is occupying it, they may occupy it privately. There are very few ships going to Nanhanzhou in the first place, and they may not be able to find it in a few years or even more than ten years. etc.
If we find out decades later, I'm afraid there will be no way for Kazuto to withdraw."
"So my father is about to grant two more vassal kings in Nanhan Continent." Yun pointed to another big river in Nanhan Continent, where the La Plata River later enters the sea and said: "My father is going to grant your third brother the title of vassal king.
"Here," he pointed to the vicinity of Rio de Janeiro in later generations and said: "My father will seal your Uncle Lu Wang here. The two places occupied by Kazuto, Dongxian Island and the east coast of Nanhanzhou, my father will also let him separate."
Belonging to the two vassal kings, the Japanese forces were scattered in two places and could not be gathered together."
"Dad has indeed been prepared for this. My son is worried for nothing." Wen Di said quickly.
"It's good that you can think of this." Yun said.
Wen Di thought of something else. After the King of Lu Zhu Zhaohui was granted the title of Southern Han Dynasty, there were only four princes left in the Han Dynasty in the traditional Central Plains: King Zhu of Zhou, King Zhu Chun of Shu, King Zhu of Su, and King Zhu Ying of An. Among them, King Zhu Ying of An had long said that he
Instead of becoming a vassal, they would rather hang around in the capital and wait to die; King Zhu Chun of Shu, King Su's fiefdom is on the border, shouldering part of the border defense responsibilities, and facing the Tibetans who are fighting and pulling, they will not withdraw from the vassal easily; only
Some mainland vassal kings were only Zhou kings. Unknowingly, the vassal kings in the Central Plains had almost disappeared. After the death of the current Zhou king Zhu and the crown prince Zhu Youdun, they found an excuse to seal the Zhou king's line overseas.
The vassal kings in the Central Plains were completely eliminated.
‘My father’s scheming is really deep.’ Wen Di thought to himself.
"Wen Di, what are you thinking about?" As he was thinking, Yun suddenly asked.
"My son is thinking that the eldest brother, the third brother, and the fourth brother all have fiefdoms. I wonder where the fifth brother and the sixth brother will be fiefted," Wen Di said.
"Your fifth brother will also be granted a fiefdom in Hanzhou, but it will be Northern Hanzhou." Yun glanced at the Texas area in later generations and continued: "But your sixth brother's fiefdom has not been decided yet."
"Did dad arrange our fiefdom as early as when our sons were just born?" Wen Di asked again with a smile.
"That's not true. I was just thinking about which places the vassal kings should occupy at that time, and I didn't make arrangements more than ten years in advance." Yun said with a smile.
"Even if you just think about which places you want to divide and occupy, your son's admiration for his father will never end." Wen Di said with a smile.
"You kid!" Yun laughed and scolded him again.
It was already late at this time, almost noon, and there were many memorials piled up on Yun's table without any comments, so he stopped going to the harem and ordered the meal to be eaten in Qianqing Palace.
Wen Di naturally wanted to stay and have a meal with his father. During the meal, the father and son chatted about some interesting things. Because it seemed ominous to ask about the massacre during the previous New Year, Yun did not ask about the detailed process of massacre of the Egyptian locals; although it was not yet the first month of the year
, but after all, he had already begun to go to court, so Yun no longer held back and asked about the massacre of Cairo City. This was nothing, but Wen Di suddenly remembered someone else, which triggered the fourth incident.
