Zhang De, have you heard of the sky and the place?”

Guo Jin put down the book "Study on Things" in his hand, looked at the eunuch Zhang De beside him, and asked him.

Zhang De bent his body and thought for a while.

"Your Majesty, when I was young, I heard the old people in my hometown say that the sky is round and the earth is square. The old people say that the sky is round and the earth is square, so we live on a large flat ground and we can see the sun rise and set."

Guo Jin nodded.

"If someone tells you that not only the sky is round, but the earth is round, we live on a huge sphere, do you think this is true or false?"

Zhang De blinked, but he didn't feel anything after a while.

"Your Majesty, I don't quite understand what Your Majesty means..."

"It's not what I said, the Supreme Emperor said. The Supreme Emperor said that we live on a sphere, and the reason why we didn't fall to the ground is that this sphere, like a magnet, can firmly absorb all the people living on it."

Guo Jin opened the book "Study on the Essay" and pointed out this paragraph to Zhang De.

Zhang De looked at it, his face full of strangeness.

"This... Your Majesty, I am just a eunuch. Although I have read in the inner study, I have never read any books or have no teacher. I really don't understand these great principles. The Supreme Emperor is a very smart person. How can I understand the Supreme Emperor's holy intention?"

Zhang De demoted himself to nothing and tried to avoid Guo Jin's deathly serial questions.

Guo Jin was silent for a while.

"Forget it, you really don't understand, but... Why has the Supreme Emperor never told me about this? We live on the same ball? Really? How did the Supreme Emperor know?

Speaking of which, the Supreme Emperor really knows a lot of things, and I don’t know many things. They were all told by the Supreme Emperor. Many things are incredible, but they are very right. I really can’t figure it out..."

Guo Jin looked at this book "The Study of Physics" with a puzzled look on his face.

"Then... what is your Majesty going to do?"

Zhang De looked at Guo Jin.

Guo Jin looked at Zhang De.

"What else can I do? I promised the Supreme Emperor that no matter what happened in the school, I would not participate or interfere. When I said that, I had to do it, otherwise how could I do it? I am the king, and I have no jokes and cannot regret it."

Guo Jin put the book "The Study of Things" aside.

"Just pay attention to these things and tell me, don't interfere or involve them. What the Supreme Emperor wants to do, you can't object, you can only support them, so as not to make the Supreme Emperor unhappy, do you understand?"

"I understand."

Zhang De nodded in agreement.

Guo Jin put this matter aside. Although he cared about what Guo Peng wanted to do, he did not dare to involve too much.

He can understand many things such as light, force, refraction, etc.

He understands mathematics and has the ability to think logically. Guo Peng has developed a dialectical way of thinking about problems, but these things that he has never heard of are indeed difficult to understand.

But none of these matters, making Guo Peng happy and satisfied is the most important thing.

He also pointed at Guo Peng as satisfied with him, and then helped him take the blame for his subsequent ban on his brothers' behavior.

Otherwise, Guo Peng would be dissatisfied with him and stand up and say that he is unfilial, he would be overwhelmed.

Therefore, Guo Peng's request for the royal family to change their identity and enter the school to study with ordinary students was also recognized by him.

Guo Peng asked the royal family, especially Guo Jin's sons, to change their names when they reach age and live outside the palace, and to spend the same study life as ordinary students under the protection of a dedicated person.

During their studies, it is necessary for them to spend this time outside the palace to cultivate their understanding of the sufferings of folk life and a deeper understanding of folk life.

In this way, no matter who becomes the emperor in the future, the governance will not be as meaningless as the castles in the air, which is very important.

Children can only return to the palace on holidays, and the rest of the time must be spent outside the imperial city.

Guo Jin remembered that Guo Peng once taught his younger brothers this way.

Even now, the sixteen-year-old brother Guo Heng is still living outside the imperial city and studying hard in the Imperial Academy. He stayed up and studied without sleeping to pass the exam, and his life was very tense and exciting.

Thinking of his hard-working experience and his easy-to-management methods now, he felt that nothing was wrong with all this.

If he had not had the hard study and the hard experience he had at that time, he would not have controlled government affairs at this time, and he could not have been able to control his power, let alone imperial power.

Anyway, Guo Peng has the final say in the education of the royal family, so he doesn't care about it.

Guo Jin's opinion is not bad for Guo Peng to teach him.

By learning from Guo Peng, you can still understand what the king is, what the people are, what the common people are, what they are, what they are, what they should do, what they should not do, what they should believe, and what they should not believe.

At least, the position of being a king cannot be missed.

The butt cannot be crooked. Once the butt is crooked, no matter how good it is, it will be useless.

Once the butt is crooked, the higher the threat to the Wei Empire, the greater the threat.

Guo is the king, so he must never lose his position. He must hold on to taxes and land tightly, and crack down on tax evasion groups, otherwise he will be inferior to the common people in the end.

Guo Peng handed over all the powers belonging to the emperor, including military, financial, and regime. He only retained the power to specialize in education, and he could not meet this requirement.

What he is more concerned about now is in addition to stabilizing his status and power as soon as possible, but how did the brother Guo Jun who has gone out to expand his territory do?

No one cares more about whether his brother can gain a foothold than him, it is true.

If his brother cannot gain a foothold, wouldn’t it mean that Guo Peng’s feudal policy is problematic and difficult to implement?

Once this policy is difficult to implement, wouldn’t he just have to work hard to deal with his brothers again?

Although Guo Qiong was granted a title, he has not left yet. Obviously, he also has the idea of ​​waiting and watching the situation.

Ajun, you must not lose your chain, you must succeed.

With such expectations, Guo Jin prayed seriously that his brother would succeed.

Perhaps it was because Guo Jin's prayer had worked, and Guo Jun had successfully landed on the Indian mainland.

Although I encountered sea storms and dangers on the way, I was still lucky and my life was saved. I only sank a few ships and lost some food and grass.

His landing location is in the southeast of India, the wider coastal plains in the eastern part of the Deccan Plateau.

Several rivers originating from the Deccan Plateau flow into the Indian Ocean from west to east, bringing rich water resources to the coastal plains. The water vapor from the Indian Ocean further makes this generation of precipitation abundant and fertile soil, which is conducive to the development of agriculture.

After boarding this land, almost immediately, the agricultural experts who followed the ships to the sea for more than two months were very excited to tell Guo Jun that it is suitable for the development of agriculture here.

In time, this place will definitely become a fertile soil for abundant food and will definitely fill their pioneering and enterprising needs, without the need for long-term blood transfusions from the court.

Ah, I know, of course I know that it is suitable for agriculture.

However, I came here not just to develop agriculture.

What I want is to build my own country.

Before Guo Jun led the main force to land, the place where they landed was already a stronghold on the coastal commercial road of the Wei Empire. Navy soldiers had already established small strongholds here, managed small strongholds, and were waiting for merchant ships from China to dock, rest and replenish at any time.

Guo Jun's arrival excited the managers here. They told Guo Jun very enthusiastically about the situation around the area and the issues of the indigenous settlements that Guo Jun cares very much about.

"In other words, there are many people living in this area, and many people have reclaimed these lands?"

Guo Jun's eyes were lit up and he asked with interest.

"Yes."

Wang Haibo, the top manager of the stronghold and middle-level naval officer, reported to Guo Jun: "There are eighteen barbarian settlements within a radius of dozens of miles. We fought with three of them and beat them back.

They seemed to think it was not a good thing for them to appear here, but when we drove them back, they changed their attitude, and the eighteen barbarian tribes began to trade with us, exchange their crops for our weapons, and some gadgets."

"What weapons do they use?"

"There are wooden sticks, stones, and some bows and arrows, as well as some hunting hounds, and they can put them on the battlefield. There are also iron tools, but they are very small in quantity and poor in quality, so they are not our opponents at all when fighting, but we have few people, so it is not convenient to pursue them."

Guo Jun nodded and asked again, "So you changed your weapons with them?"

Guo Jun looked at Wang Haibo.

Wang Haibo scratched his head.

"Switch, why not? We can eat more food, so we can eat better. The food here is similar to ours. If you can eat it, I will not hide it from the young master. I really don't care about the seafood, and the amount of land we reclaim here is really limited."

"Aren't you afraid that they will attack you with the weapons they have received?"

"I was worried, so I was careful at the beginning and only gave me a knife, not a bow and crossbow. As a result, they didn't use weapons to hit us, but they went to fight those tribes that didn't exchange weapons with us."

Wang Haibo smiled as if sarcastic: "Then the defeated tribe will also change weapons with us. After changing, then fight again. Then when the weapons are used up, then change again, and fight again after changing. It is very interesting.
Chapter completed!