Back In Time For Imperial Examination Chapter 296

The two princes-in-law were going to the north at this time not to take advantage of Jizhen's military achievements, but because the fleet sailing to the West was about to set off soon.

Now the court craftsmen have gained experience in building copper cannons and no longer need missionaries to watch over them; the Ministry of War has gathered ships and cannons for going abroad; the Ministry of Rites, the Censorate, and the Imperial Guard have also selected talents who can speak and understand foreign languages   fluently...

The cabinet ministers and officials from the six ministries have already decided in court that they should take advantage of the recent warm weather and suitable wind direction and ocean currents to send these people to the Western Ocean together with reliable merchants carefully selected by the two provincial governors of Guangdong and Fujian.

The fleet would leave within a month or two at most, and the brothers would never be able to learn a foreign language, so they could only settle for the next best thing and go fight outside the Great Wall.

But for some reason, even though it was safer to go to the frontier than to go abroad, their family members refused to agree. They had already knelt down, begged, and gone on a hunger strike in front of their parents, but their own father didn't feel sorry at all! He was no longer the same father who had asked for teaching materials, found sailors, and supported them in learning foreign languages!