In the Eastern Palace, after Crown Prince Zhu Biao returned from Yan Changqing's place.
The first thing he did was to gather the scholars of the Imperial Academy from the left and right Spring Workshop of the Zhan Affairs Bureau to discuss the arrangements of the royal family.
However, since this concerned the future of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Biao was still much more cautious.
Unlike Zhu Di, he didn't tell her what he heard from Yan Changqing. He just found a random excuse to brush it off.
Although the group of Hanlin scholars were surprised, they still carried out Zhu Biao's orders without any hesitation.
Other than Zhu Biao, the King of Qin, the King of Jin, the King of Zhou, the King of Chu, and the King of Qi were also in their respective residences.
He gathered his lecturers, guests, and aides to discuss the issue of the salary of the royal family.
After all, they didn't want the Ming Dynasty to be destroyed in the future because of the issue of the salary of the royal family, and they also didn't want the treatment of their descendants to be reduced.
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On the other side, Yan Changqing did not know what the Crown Prince and the other princes were doing.
Of course, even if he knew, he wouldn't care.
At this moment, he was walking along the Shangxin River Wharf in the west of Nanjing City to Jiangdong City outside the Jiangdong Gate.
Ever since the unification of the world and Zhu Yuanzhang settling the capital in Nanjing, Nanjing had once again flourished rapidly.
Relying on Nanjing's unique water resources, water transport once again developed vigorously.
Wharves appeared one after another at Jiangdongmen, Longjiang, and Shangxin River. There were more than 20,000 porters working at each wharf.
The Laibin Market outside Zhonghua Gate, Jiangdong City outside Jiangdong Gate, and Longjiang City outside Xiaguan all had large trading markets, which were also distribution centers for large quantities of goods.
These large-scale trading markets gathered goods from all over the Ming Dynasty. Even foreign merchants who had suffered shipwrecks and were stranded overseas could be seen from time to time.
At this time, the sea ban policy had already begun to be implemented, but it prohibited the coastal people from privately trading at sea.
However, overseas merchants took the initiative to come to Great Ming to conduct trade, and this was not banned.
These foreign merchants were Yan Changqing's target.
Firstly, he wanted to use these overseas merchants to perfect his resume!
No one was born with knowledge, or rather, people who were born with knowledge were probably not normal people.
What kind of treatment would an abnormal person receive in ancient times?!!
It was possible that he would be considered a saint, or he might be considered a demon.
However, in reality, whether it was a Saint or a monster, as long as they were extraordinary people, they actually carried a lot of risk.
This was because the ancients could not determine whether such an extraordinary person was a saint or a demon. They were also not sure if it was an auspicious sign from the heavens or a sign of national subjugation for themselves and the country.
Therefore, in the face of such risks, the ancient people's methods were often simple and crude.
That was to kill him!
Whether he was a saint or a monster, as long as he was killed, everything would be settled.
Therefore, in order to avoid such risks as much as possible, Yan Changqing had been trying his best to find a reasonable source for his incredible knowledge!
For example, his knowledge of world geography.
A person who had grown up around Nanjing and had never even stepped out of Nanjing could know the world's geography.
This was illogical and unreasonable.
It was like a blind man who didn't even touch the elephant and directly opened his mouth to say the specific appearance of the elephant.
He even clearly described the patterns on the elephant's body. This was impossible under normal circumstances.
However, if someone told the blind man how many parts of the elephant looked like, and then the blind man imagined, perfected, and summarized it, he would finally come up with the complete appearance of the elephant.
Although this still sounded ridiculous, it was still somewhat reasonable.
After all, the latter meant that the blind man was still a human being.
However, the former was not human at all. They were either treated as saints or treated as monsters.
And now, Yan Changqing needed those foreign merchants to be the people who "told" him about the world's geography!
However, based on the geographical knowledge of the world that the foreign merchants "told" him, he summarized, sorted out, summarized, and perfected it, finally forming his knowledge of world geography!
As for whether those foreign merchants really knew the world's geographical knowledge, or whether they really " told " him the world's geographical knowledge, these were not important.
The important thing was that as long as others had seen him communicate with those foreign merchants, it would be fine.
As long as he left such an impression on others, he could push the blame to the foreign merchants if anyone asked him about the origin of his knowledge.
In this way, he would have a source for his knowledge of the geography of his world.
With evidence, he would not be regarded as a monster. That was enough.
As for whether or not someone would find a foreign merchant to verify the reason he had fabricated, Yan Changqing was not worried at all.
Not to mention whether those overseas merchants would still stay in Nanjing and Ming after the trade ended.
Even if those overseas merchants were still in Ming and Nanjing, and were found to verify his words in private.
It didn't matter, because the final result would only prove that what he said was true.
This was because Yan Changqing was really exchanging knowledge about the world's geography with those overseas merchants, especially knowledge about maritime shipping.
However, the knowledge that Yan Changqing could obtain from him about world geography and maritime shipping was very, very little.
Because at this time, even Spain and Portugal had only just begun their voyage.
At this time, these overseas countries had not yet formed a complete maritime shipping knowledge system. They still relied more on luck to go out to sea.
However, no matter how little knowledge the overseas merchants provided about world geography and maritime shipping, they were still a source of serious knowledge about world geography and maritime shipping.
As for how to expand and perfect the knowledge of the world's geography and maritime shipping to a true world's geographical knowledge.
Yan Changqing said that he was talented and well-read, and then he deduced it, right?!!
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