"You just said there are two things, what is the other thing?" Chen Mo asked with a smile.

"Ziyi is gone." Dian Wei sighed and said, "The prince asked the general to come and ask your majesty who is suitable to succeed Ziyi?"

Chen Mo's hand holding the file trembled, he took a deep breath and closed his eyes and said, "He can decide for himself. I have already said that it is up to him to decide on the affairs of the court."

Dian Wei looked at Chen Mo, hesitated for a moment and then said: "Your Majesty, I would like to move in with you."

"If you don't enjoy a life of wealth and wealth, why do you come to this remote place in the mountains?" Chen Mo glanced at him and said, "You have been fighting for a lifetime, and when you get older, you can live longer and come back, and you are not afraid of people's jokes?"

"What a joke. Your Majesty is here. If they want to laugh, they should laugh at Your Majesty first. When the time comes, they will kill each other one by one..." Dian Wei suddenly paused at this point.

"Okay, you can live here if you want. Although it's not as prosperous as Luoyang, there are a lot of empty rooms. I'll teach these boys how to hunt from now on." Chen Mo nodded.

"Here!" Dian Wei said after hearing this.

"When will Ziyi be buried?" Chen Mo suddenly asked.

"On the ninth day of July, Your Majesty, are you going?" Dian Wei said.

"Of course I want to go. Ziyi and I met when we were young. At that time, Ziyi... He was really more annoying than you. He was so domineering. He used to contradict Shangguan. Others were living better and better, but he was

Kong had a lot of skills, but he got worse and worse as he got around. Finally, he offended someone and ran to Liaodong to avoid trouble. He didn't come back until I became the prefect of Hedong. Now think about it, so many years have passed... Sigh~" Chen Mo

He sighed leisurely. The biggest thing he has learned in the past few years is to accept the departure of relatives and friends one by one. Teacher, mother, Jia Xu, Lu Bu, Tai Shici. Now think about it, these generals who conquered the world with him, now

The only ones left are Gao Shun, Cui Geng, Yu Sheng and Dian Wei.

"Your Majesty, please don't be hurt. What do you say... people are going to die anyway." Dian Wei scratched his head and wanted to change the subject. He looked at the things Chen Mo was playing with and said curiously: "My lord,

What is this?"

"Gunpowder, and a steam engine." Chen Mo put down a polished iron plate that was quite flat and put it into the finished mold. Then he began to pour water and connect the things with copper juice, and then started to make the machine again.

"What's the use?" Dian Wei asked confused.

"Not now? But it will definitely be used in the future." Chen Mo said with a smile: "As long as someone keeps doing this, in another three to five hundred years? It will be almost the same." Chen Mo said with a smile.

"Three...three to five hundred years!?" Dian Wei looked at Chen Mo in astonishment.

"At the best, someone has to study this all the time? What if we stop it from now on? I'm afraid it won't be possible for thousands of years. This gunpowder is not difficult, but this steam engine..." Chen Mo shook his head. He could now pass Seiko

The method? Spend time polishing a steam engine? But in order to thoroughly understand and use this thing, someone has to keep working in this direction. If it breaks in the middle and picks it up again, he feels that it will take a thousand years to rely on luck.

? He is preparing a book like this to be passed down to future generations, hoping to leave something more for future generations.

"Your Majesty? Why are you doing this? Just let people do it three to five hundred years from now. Why should we do it?" Dian Wei was puzzled.

"Are you afraid that they are busy fighting for power and are unwilling to study these things?" Chen Mo shook his head and sighed: "Let's recruit Liu Yi and Ma Jun tomorrow and ask them to keep one of them to study with me? This thing? Even if the Ming Dynasty died?

It cannot perish."

"Your Majesty, please don't say anything depressing. The Ming Dynasty will be passed on to generations to come." Dian Wei said quickly.

"I will be satisfied if it can be passed down to thirty generations." Chen Mo glanced at Dian Wei with a smile. It is unrealistic to last for thousands of generations, unless the next whole that belongs to the East can be gradually found at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and productivity can achieve rapid breakthroughs.

It is that every generation after Chen Mo has spent a lot of energy to promote the development of industry. In that case, three hundred years later, China may be able to enter the technological era thousands of years before the West. Only then will there be a chance to say that for thousands of generations, this kind of

In Chen Mo's opinion, the government system, which lasts for three hundred years, has reached its limit. After three hundred years, there will be chaos. Even if the emperor is wise then, he cannot change this fact. At that time, the government system of the Ming Dynasty will inevitably be bloated, and the population will also reach a limit.

.

Dian Wei looked at Chen Mo blankly, with a confused look on his face. How could anyone talk about his dynasty like this?

"Forget it, you don't understand." Chen Mo shook his head and sighed, and continued to do his own thing.

In the next few days, Dian Wei moved to Chen Mo and played with a group of royal grandchildren every day. Chen Mo took his grandchildren to farm the fields. In order to avoid suspicion, Dian Wei went hunting or followed Chen Mo.

Farming, and listening to Chen Mo giving lectures to the children at night, I feel quite at ease. It is better to do something better than nothing.

On the ninth day of July, Chen Mo took Dian Wei to preside over Taishi Ci's funeral. Although it didn't last long, after experiencing the departure of so many old friends, Chen Mo took life and death a lot less seriously. After encouraging Taishi Ci's heirs,

, took Dian Wei back to Beimang Mountain, plowing fields, studying, and studying.

Three years of Ding You passed by quietly, until the third year, Chen Jin personally took the ministers to Beiman Mountain to ask Chen Mo to come down and take over the government.

In the fifth year of Kaiyuan, the marks left by the previous dynasty had been basically erased. The plague that had been raging in the world for decades also disappeared with the end of the war and the vigorous governance of the court. People's livelihood gradually recovered in these five years.

After Chen Mo returned to the court, he regained power and was not unfamiliar with the government. However, after he came to the court, he did not mess with the national policies set by Chen Jin. He only issued an order to encourage merchants to do business overseas and help Ming Dynasty paintings go overseas.

picture.

With the popularization of keel boats among the people, merchants traveling by sea have begun to appear in the Ming Dynasty. The furthest went to Fusang, and Fusang also sent people to want to learn. Chen Mo refused, but he was willing to trade with Fusang. Fusang's products

, you can enter the Ming Dynasty through maritime trade.

But if you want to learn something, Confucianism and Taoism can be taught, but the folk technologies of the Ming Dynasty, such as textiles, pottery and other folk handicrafts, are prohibited from being taught to foreigners. This is something written in the Ming law.

Chen Mo encouraged sea trade and left it alone. Merchants would naturally figure out how to take advantage of the court's policies to plunder a large amount of wealth from overseas, such as pottery and silk from the Ming Dynasty. In fact, not all of them were expensive in the Ming Dynasty according to their grades.

, but overseas, a piece of pottery with poor craftsmanship can be sold for a sky-high price in exchange for gold, silver or rare minerals. Chen Mo also asked people to pay attention to high-yielding crops overseas. As long as they are found and brought back, the court will reward them heavily.

It is precisely because of Chen Mo's words that the Ming Dynasty's Age of Navigation began. As for how it will develop in the future, Chen Mo has no control over it. He is just starting to get results. He will see it in his lifetime, in the fifth year of Kaiyuan.

Chen Mo was so busy. The main purpose of this busy time was to test whether Chen Jin, the prince, was qualified to accept important tasks due to his political achievements during his reign. The result was still satisfactory to Chen Mo. He felt that it was time for him to let go and take over the world.

This burden was given to Chen Jinlai.

In March of the sixth year of Kaiyuan, in the imperial palace and the imperial study, Chen Mo told Chen Jin what he meant.

"Father, I have no intention of tampering with you. Please tell me from my father." After Chen Jin heard what Chen Mo meant, his heart trembled. There was no surprise, only fright. He knelt down directly on the ground and said to Chen Mo.

"I know, how can I behave appropriately when I get up!?" Chen Mo waved his hand, signaling Chen Jin to get up.

"Father... son." Chen Jin looked at Chen Mo and frowned: "But someone is slandering?"

"No, I brought this world to you. You want to take it from me, but you are not enough." Chen Mo shook his head and said: "As for the throne of the throne to you now, it is also my intention. You all can come over."

Chen Zheng and Chen Rui were also a little confused at this moment.

"Father, you are at the peak of the Spring and Autumn Period, why do you have this thought?" Chen Jin looked at Chen Mo in confusion.

"The most energetic time in a person's life is between thirty and fifty." Chen Mo said: "Jin'er is now over 10 years old, and you have experienced what you should have experienced. With your level, governing the country is enough, but

If I don't die for a long time, if I live for another twenty years, Jin'er will be over fifty by then, and the best years of his life will be spent on intrigues. If I leave in a hurry, you won't be able to rise to power.

If I am in a hurry, it would be better for me to step down early and enjoy a few years of peace and quiet, while also avoiding unnecessary internal friction."

The three brothers Chen Jin did not dare to speak.

"Do you know what I am most afraid of in this life?" Chen Mo looked at the three brothers and said in a deep voice.

"This... child doesn't know?" Chen and Jin looked at each other. Their father had been fighting all his life. It was said that he killed people among the chaos when he was less than ten years old. He entered Luoyang at the age of thirteen, led an army to conquer at the age of fourteen, and beheaded generals in front of the battle.

Later, the heroes competed with each other, and from a small prince, he gradually conquered the world. He really couldn't think of such a person, what else could he be afraid of?

"I have fought in the world all my life. When I get on my horse, I can kill the enemy with my sword, and when I get off my horse, I can use my pen to decide the country. But I am still a human being and a father. I am not afraid of chaos in the world. At worst, I have to start over from scratch. What I fear most is that you brothers will kill each other!"

Chen Mo patted the shoulders of Chen Jin and Chen Rui, and said leisurely: "The royal family is the largest family in the world, but it is also the smallest. Look at the Han Dynasty, how many descendants of the Han Dynasty are there? Liu Neng alone has more than three hundred

But in the end it died. Throughout the history of the Han Dynasty, you will find that among the Han Dynasty children, there were still some outstanding people in the early days, but later there were fewer and fewer outstanding people. Why? It’s not that there are no outstanding heroes, but even if there are outstanding heroes, there are still some outstanding ones.

I dare not take the lead, but ordinary families are different. As long as there are outstanding children in the family, they will try their best to cultivate them. In this way, the royal family may not necessarily be wise in every generation, but the gentry has heroes in every generation. This is why the Han Dynasty has fallen to this point.

because."

Chen Jin Mo Ran, the most ruthless emperor, now he somewhat understands the reason why Chen Mo abdicated early.

"Right is a good thing, but if you can't restrain your desire to control it, you will eventually perish. I will start the Ming Dynasty. With me here, you can take over the throne with confidence. After a hundred years, if you can still lose

After taking this throne, I can only say that you are inferior to others. I just want your three brothers not to kill each other. Let my royal family have some heroes who can intimidate the ministers. Jin'er, the threat to the royal family has never been other royal children.

But the ministers! I hope you can understand as a father. As for the rules, I will not establish them anymore. The eternal thing in this world is change. I can restrain three generations, but after three generations, they will not be under my control. After succeeding to the throne,

, I hope you can be able to carry this country! I also hope that my lineage, the Chen family, will last forever!"

"My son, I obey!" Chen Jin quickly bowed down and kowtowed to Chen Mo.

"Go and get ready. The first day of next month is an auspicious day, and I will send you my message!"
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