Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

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Emperor Hongzhi stared at Fang Jifan and remained silent for a long time, as if trying to figure out something on Fang Jifan's face.

After a while, he snorted coldly and said: "You two are really like dogs! Today, I was scolded on the head! I just wanted to see, what did you say about the unity of knowledge and action, and what you said about understanding the sufferings of the people , then let me see how you arrange the refugees. "

I finally didn't get entangled in the first half, but now... Sure enough, I will finally start to test the results.

Zhu Houzhao was not idle either, and exchanged a glance with Fang Jifan.

Immediately afterwards, the two each took out a stack of documents from their sleeves.

so much……

This is so eloquent, I am afraid there are hundreds of thousands of words.

The anger on Emperor Hongzhi's face has not dissipated, but he was stunned when he saw the documents Fang Jifan and Zhu Houzhao took out.

What is this?

"Bring it..." Emperor Hongzhi said solemnly.

The prince just spoke plausibly, and he said it happily. If you are happy, then that’s fine. Let’s see how you helped the victims in Xishan. Can't swallow this breath.

At this time, Zhu Houzhao smiled slightly and said, "Father, this is wrong."

Emperor Hongzhi raised his eyebrows and said, "What's wrong?"

Zhu Houzhao said earnestly: "Just now, the minister criticized the emperor because of the personal relationship between the father and the son! But the matter of helping the refugees is an assignment that the emperor promised to the minister. Then, it is an official business. Why don't you call the cabinet scholar to see him?" , to discuss together?"

"..." Emperor Hongzhi was also convinced.

In fact, Fang Jifan also admired Zhu Houzhao's unafraid of death. At this time, he smiled at Emperor Hongzhi honestly, trying to resolve his hatred.

However, it seems that Emperor Hongzhi ignored him.

This is a bit embarrassing.

Emperor Hongzhi glared at Zhu Houzhao, and then said: "You are not afraid of shame, but I am. Well, it's up to you, come here, and call the cabinet scholar to have an audience!"

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At this time, in the Ministry of War, a report from Quanzhou had been sent to the desk of Ma Wensheng, Minister of the Ministry of War.

Ma Wensheng is doing well these days, at least the matter of sailing to the West has been finalized, and naturally it is completely dominated by the Ministry of War!

Now the vanguard fleet of the Ministry of War has been in the sea for more than a month. After they come back and confirm that the position of the chart is correct, they will start to build more ships and train more sailors and helmsmen. It will replicate the grand occasion of Emperor Wen's time!

Just thinking about it made Ma Wensheng quite excited.

In any case, once voyages to the West become an important national policy, the position of the Ministry of War in the six ministries will naturally rise. The voyages to the West need a lot of money and food, which is naturally controlled by the Ministry of War, and it also requires a lot of manpower and skilled craftsmen. These... It all means that the authority of the Ministry of War is about to expand.

The most important thing is that Fang Jifan, that crow's mouth, finally went to Xishan with the crown prince, and there was no news for more than two months.

This feeling... not bad.

In the past, whenever that guy made some remarks, the Ministry of War was choked up once. Now that Fang Jifan has finally calmed down, it is really... a happy thing.

Today, he was on duty as usual and had nothing to do, but when a clerk hurriedly delivered the report from Quanzhou to his desk...

His brows furrowed deeply!

I saw the writing on it: "Wang Qing, the magistrate of Quanzhou, reported: Recently in the open sea, a sea patrol found a sailor floating on a wrecked sampan. He had been drifting at sea for several days. It is known that the military fleet is hundreds of miles overseas..."

The fleet is sunk!

After Ma Wensheng finished reading the report in detail, he immediately shuddered.

It was the entire fleet of the Ministry of War, which was directly annihilated!

They headed south all the way according to the original sailing route, originally planning to travel south along the coast of Annan Kingdom, and then stop at Champa.

According to the report of the rescued crew member, their fleet ran aground after going to sea for a few days. The route marked on the original chart was completely wrong. The islands that should have fresh water had no fresh water, or even insufficient fresh water. And the hidden reef that shouldn't have appeared.

As a result, the ship was pierced by a hidden reef, two ships were severely damaged, and the remaining ship was in a dilemma. It planned to go all the way west and use the only fresh water to maintain the minimum supply of the crew on board to reach the place where An Nanguo was located. Island, pity...

The island on the map actually didn't exist at all, and at this point, they had no choice but to return immediately.

It's a pity...it's obviously too late.

There was no maintenance, no fresh water, and the food on the ship was empty. Diseases broke out in the fleet, and a group of disgruntled sailors began to riot. The officer of Qianhu in the fleet was killed, and some sailors who were loyal to Qianhu He quickly found a sampan and jumped into the sea.

The lucky crew member relied on this sampan to drift in the sea for several days, and when the sea patrol found him in the offshore, he was already dying.

After the Quanzhou prefect learned of the situation, he knew that the matter was of great importance.

A fleet, hundreds of people, the whole army was wiped out!

How important this is.

And the result of the destruction... was actually only because of a mere mistake in the nautical chart.

There is no fresh water on the island that should be able to go to the shore for repair;

The islands that appeared did not appear, and the sea area where there were no hidden reefs was actually densely covered with hidden reefs.

On the vast ocean, even a single mistake on the map may bring bad luck to a fleet, not to mention frequent mistakes, such a map will directly ruin a fleet.

As a result, he immediately rushed to the Ministry of War and reported to the Ministry of War.

After reading the report, Ma Wensheng couldn't regain his composure for a long time.

The maps and materials kept by the Ministry of War are completely wrong.

He even thought in his mind, if it wasn't for the fleet to explore first this time, then it would not be this small fleet that was destroyed, but...

Soybean-like cold sweat broke out from his forehead, and then Ma Wensheng said angrily: "Check, let me find out who copied the map at the beginning, and all the officials who copied, verified, wrote, and cataloged, no matter where they are today. What position do you occupy, and whether you have sent scholars to return to your hometown, let me check and find out."

The problem is obvious.

The route and the map drawn by the eunuch Sanbao through repeated voyages to the West are definitely not wrong, otherwise, why did nothing happen during the seven voyages to the West?

There was nothing wrong when it was sealed up at the beginning.

Then the only thing that went wrong, naturally, was the issue of the Ministry of War's storage, sealing, and re-transcription. The re-transcription and transcription during the Chenghua period had hundreds of mistakes and omissions. It was so perfunctory. People pointed out the problem, which led to this huge shipwreck!

Hundreds of lives were lost, and even all the ships that the Ministry of War could use were involved.

What's even more frightening is that since the current map and data are full of mistakes and omissions, then... everything has to be explored again!

But the voyage to the West is imminent, and this...how much time will be delayed, how much effort will be spent, and how much manpower and material resources will be sacrificed.

"Fang Jifan is really...a crow's mouth..." Ma Wensheng cursed angrily, grabbing his heart.

How did he hit it again?

He said with a ferocious face: "Investigate to the bottom of the sky, if the person who dealt with it back then, even if he is in the cabinet now, he must be investigated!"

The matter is so serious and the loss is heavy, why doesn't it make him worry.

Immediately, he picked up the report again and looked at it steadily, as if he was thinking about something, but it was obvious that his face was miserable for a long time, and his eyes were dark and unclear. After a long while, he suddenly said: " To the cabinet, to the cabinet!"

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Ma Wensheng is already ashamed to go to the Meridian Gate in a sedan chair. I really can't afford to lose this person. Although the mistakes were most likely made by the officials of the Ministry of War during the Chenghua period and had no direct relationship with him, this was a huge negligence of the Ministry of War after all. .

No wonder.

It's no wonder that when there was a debate about going to sea, although the former Minister of the Ministry of War strongly advocated going to sea, a group of officials in the Ministry of War, headed by Liu Daxia, strongly opposed it. It turns out...

There is such a strange thing here! Come to think of it... At the time of transcribing, no one took these maps and materials seriously at all. Everyone believed that the imperial court's sea ban was already a national policy, and it was impossible for the Ming Dynasty to go to sea. Although it still needs to be re-transcribed and saved according to the rules, no one cares about it. All the people who handled it are actually perfunctory, and everyone finds it troublesome.

Everyone can't wait to copy it casually, and then trade it for leisure.

The result, a chain of errors, resulted in a horrific shipwreck.

By the time he reached the cabinet, he was out of breath.

Liu Jian and others seemed to be there.

The crown prince entered the palace today, and they hoped that His Majesty would get along well with the Crown Prince. In this case, they, the foreign ministers, would naturally not disturb His Majesty's reunion with the Crown Prince and his son.

As soon as he saw Ma Wensheng coming in a hurry, Liu Jian felt that something was wrong.

If it's just an ordinary matter, just send someone to deliver a note with a message, so there's no need for Ma Wensheng to go himself.

But when he saw Liu Jian, Ma Wensheng actually knelt down with a thud.

He... burst into tears and cried.

"Grand Liu, something serious has happened. I've been appointed Minister of the Ministry of War. Since I took office, I've been sitting on a vegetarian diet like an old dog. I only know how to breathe. Not only did I not repay the kindness in the palace, but... it caused a huge disaster. This is The negligence of the subordinate..."

Liu Jian's heart skipped a beat, it must be a big deal!

Even Xie Qian and Li Dongyang, who had heard the news, also came after hearing the news, looking at Ma Wensheng in a panic, with horror on their faces.

However, Liu Jian could still hold his breath. He said solemnly: "What happened, no matter what happened, what's the use of crying? You play first."

Ma Wensheng entered the memorial without saying a word.

Liu Jian took it, opened it, and saw that the complexion of the veteran minister who had lived through several dynasties completely changed.

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