At this time, Yunzhen suddenly said: "Brother, the emperor is in a hurry."
"Go and take King Yong to the toilet." Yunxi pointed at a young eunuch and said. The young eunuch agreed and led Yunxi out of Yunxi's study.
When Yunxi walked out, Zhu Bai suddenly laughed uncontrollably. Yunxi had already held back, but when he heard Zhu Bai's laughter, he also started laughing.
The two laughed for a while, and then Yunxi asked: "Yunxi has been the leader of the country for more than a year, and you still can't tell the difference between a joke and a serious statement?"
"No one in Yongfan dared to make such a joke with him. Even Xu Zengshou only told some easy-to-understand jokes." Zhu Bai said: "Not only him, but we are the same in the local area, and only with the princess,
The commander-in-chief of Dusi can still make some jokes, but everyone else is frightened."
Yunxi didn't speak. It wasn't just them. He was in the capital. Although he seemed to be talking casually to the prince in the capital, in fact everyone was careful when speaking to him, for fear of offending him with any words.
'Sure enough, the ancient kings were said to be lonely, Taoist and few, which makes sense. Even the queen did not dare to talk casually. These princes are actually okay. At least they can communicate with other princes on an equal footing when they come to Beijing to pay tribute.
I have absolutely no one with whom I can communicate on an equal footing,' Yunxi thought.
However, Yunxi immediately began to restrain his thoughts. Days like this will not change in the future, and it is useless to think too much.
"Uncle Twelve, have Jiudun been particularly attached to you these past two days? Wen Kui hasn't seen his father for a year, but he misses him very much." Yunxi said to Zhu Bai.
Zhu Bai had never heard of the word 'stick' being used in this way, but he immediately understood what Yunxi meant and said with a smile: "His mother also stayed in the capital. I really missed him after not seeing him for a year, but I also
Not as good as Wen Kui, who goes to school alone in the capital."
"Are you getting used to staying in Yongfan?" Yunxi asked again: "You were originally in Jingzhou, and Jingzhou is on the Yangtze River after all. I guess you are not used to the winter in Yongfan."
"I'm not used to not only winter, but also spring. It was already mid-February when I arrived in Vladivostok, but it was still very cold there, even colder than the winter in Jingzhou. I don't think it can even be considered spring."
"Then the real spring arrived, but it was very short. Soon it was summer, and the weather in summer was similar to Jingzhou, very hot; then there was a short autumn, and winter came again."
"Almost six months of the year in Yongming are winter, spring and autumn plus only three months in total, and the remaining three months are summer. The weather is very strange. It's really hard for Yunzhen to endure it," Zhu Bai said.
"Actually, you'll get used to it if you stay in this kind of place. If you stay for a long time, you may not get used to the weather in the Central Plains." Yunxi said with a smile.
The two joked for a while, and Yunxi suddenly said: "Uncle Twelve, remember my original intention of sending you to Yongming."
Zhu Bai immediately noticed that Yunxi changed his self-identification from 'I' to 'I'. He understood that Yunxi was about to talk about the topic now, so he looked serious and said: "Remember."
"I know that Uncle Twelve has also been to Jurchen villages to preach in the past few days. Now you know how difficult it is to spread Taoism in the past?" Yunxi said.
Zhu Bai had a tangled look on his face. He personally preached in Jurchen villages, and of course he knew that the original Taoism had no appeal to the locals. If it weren't for the current Taoist priest Zhang Yishan and his disciples in Vladivostok Taoist Temple, they spontaneously became interested in Taoism.
Changes have been made, and now there may not be a single Jurchen believer. If you want Taoism to spread, you can only modify the teachings.
But Zhu Bai really believed in the current Taoism and did not want the teachings to be changed and become similar to Buddhism.
After struggling for a long time, Zhu Bai finally said: "Your Majesty, you are right. We can only modify the doctrine, otherwise it will be of no use to the barbarians. They will not be willing to believe in Taoism. Maybe a monk sneaks there and can make most of them
The local barbarians believe in Buddhism.”
Yunxi breathed a sigh of relief. He was not afraid of false believers, but of true believers who were devout and didn't know how to adapt. Most of the true believers who didn't know how to adapt would do bad things, so he didn't dare to use them at all.
"In this case, my nephew can entrust a big thing to his twelfth uncle." Yunxi said.
He then took out a map east of the Ming Dynasty. The map included Fuso, Ryukyu Islands, North and South Ainu Land, Kinning (Kamchatka Peninsula) and other places. However, the land area on this map was particularly small.
Large areas are covered by vast oceans.
Yunxi pointed at Jin Ning and said to Zhu Bai: "Uncle Twelve, from here to the east, there may be a continent, at least a large island, and the fleet led by Fang Mingqian found people here the year before last. Although it was not
They are barbarians, but they are also human beings."
"I want my twelfth uncle to follow Fang Mingqian's fleet from the Corridor Islands (Aleutian Islands) to this place in the fourth year of Jianye's reign to see how much land there is, how many barbarians there are, and if there is any suitable place to live.
This place, Uncle Twelve, you will be sealed to this place."
Zhu Bai never expected that Yunxi would want to seal him into such an uncertain place. He didn't know what to say for a while. He was silent for a long time before saying: "Jin Ning is very cold and is not suitable for life at all. If he is with
The place at the same latitude as Jinning and Ning is not suitable for human life. I am afraid there are only a few barbarians."
"Perhaps there is land south of the same latitude as Jinning, and there may be many barbarians there; perhaps, if you continue south along the coastline, you can see the legendary Futan people (referring to Europe)." Yun
Xi said.
"Does Your Majesty really believe that the earth is round? Is it a ball? Didn't Your Majesty just write it casually in the book?" Zhu Bai said. Yunxi had previously written in an internal reference book that the earth might be round.
"Who knows whether something is true or false without verification," Yunxi said.
"If the earth is really round, then even if it doesn't rotate, why won't people living on the other side of the earth fall?" Zhu Bai said.
"Perhaps there are no humans or animals living on the other side of the earth. There are only flowers, plants and trees growing downward. Or maybe," Yunxi suddenly turned his head and looked at the blue sky outside the window: "There are reasons that we can't imagine now.
People on the other side can live on earth."
Zhu Bai shook his head and did not continue to talk about this topic. In his opinion, Yunxi's words were nonsense and there was no need to discuss it.
Yunxi stopped talking about this topic with him, and turned his head back and said: "No matter whether the earth is round or not, at least there is probably a continent to the east of the ocean east of the Ming Dynasty. If the latitude of this continent is the same as that of the Ming Dynasty,