The depressing ten minutes were the most unbearable. Li Wei didn't know how long it had been.
Finally, Ming's cabinet ministers seemed to have agreed, as if a switch had been flipped.
They all packed up the documents in their hands and piled them on the positions of Li Wei and Ruan Dacheng.
"Hey, King of Korea, why are you kneeling?"
Hao Ren, the Minister of Justice, rubbed his eyes and looked curiously at Li Wei, who was kneeling on the ground and couldn't help but tremble.
"It's so cold on the ground. Get up quickly. Look at the sign on the table. We've prepared your seat a long time ago. Why don't you sit down?"
Hao Ren, slightly sullen, slowly helped Li Wei up and pressed him on the chair.
Although Li Wei stopped shaking, she felt even more uneasy.
Because he saw the familiar sharp look in Hao Ren's kind eyes.
No matter how stupid Li Wei is, he now understands that this is the legendary power...
Li Wei sat upright on the chair, with the stack of documents piled on his chest.
Zhu Zaiming no longer held the globe, but greeted the kings of the two vassal states.
Li Wei almost knelt down again, and Ruan Dacheng was not much better.
"Okay, Ming Dynasty is no longer in favor of kneeling. It is more important for you to sit upright than any other etiquette."
Zhu Zaiming had something to say.
The Ming Dynasty had its own considerations in retaining vassal states rather than directly embezzling them into rule.
There are certain things that are not very moral, and Ming cannot let them go.
Political, economic, military... there are always some conflicts that need to be transferred outward, which requires a few good dogs to bite people outside.
But Ming Dynasty sat firmly on Diaoyutai and stood on the moral high ground.
Zhu Zaiming smiled and patted Li Wei on the shoulder, causing the latter to shake instantly with a flattering smile on his face.
“The center of the world has always been in the east. It was so in the past, it is so now, and it will be so in the future.
Just like this globe, it always rotates around an axis, and the world becomes orderly on this axis.
As the empire of the world and the beacon of civilization, I, the Ming Dynasty, have the ability and responsibility to maintain the balance of this world.
Today, I announce that the Ming, North Korea, Annan, and Fuso axis system has been formally formed, and all member states will surround Ming and jointly maintain the world system..."
As Zhu Zaiming explained, Li Wei and Ruan Dacheng gradually understood Ming's ambitions, and at the same time, they observed three seconds of silence for other countries in the world.
The world is material, land output is limited, and the limited natural resources are more for you and less for me.
If the Ming Dynasty occupies too much, it will inevitably squeeze the living space of other races.
As for these other races, Ming Dynasty cannot directly implement humanitarian destruction.
Because of the market, because the rapidly developing industry requires a huge market to consume production capacity.
The markets of the Ming Dynasty and vassal states alone were not enough.
Ming Dynasty needs a huge market to dump industrial products, so that Ming Dynasty people can lie on the bodies of other countries and suck blood.
This is the new colonial method, or system of exploitation, used by later developed countries to colonize the Third World.
Monopolies are formed through high and new technologies, and the development of other countries is restricted through various barriers, including but not limited to patent trolls, carbon emissions, etc.
Western developed countries can maintain a high-welfare social system and maintain an employment mechanism with low working hours and high wages because of the generosity of their ancestors and the completion of bloody primitive accumulation.
At this point in time, Ming Dynasty stood at the turning point of neo-colonialism.
The colonial system always collapses, but the more invisible colonization is taking root in people's hearts.
Daming has gradually established the high value-added concept of Daming products in the trade that lasted for a year.
Some key products such as clocks and ballpoint pens have become synonymous with high technology.
Coupled with the Ming Dynasty media's chicken soup essays and the hype in newspapers and magazines from all over the world, the inherent impression that "the Ming Dynasty moon is round" has been silently implanted in the personal values of people around the world.
These people tend to pay for the crazy premiums on Ming products.
In terms of politics, economy and culture, Ming Dynasty is quietly affecting the entire world.
As a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty and a member of the Eastern Axis.
North Korea and Annan have the responsibility to work hard to maintain this system as the vanguard of the Ming Dynasty for the sake of these hard-won benefits.
Therefore, when Li Wei opened the document with the words "Eastern Axis" printed on it, his eyes were filled with shock.
Because in the Charter of the Eastern Axis, Article 1 stipulates that the focus of the work of the vassal countries must be oriented towards the interests of the Axis countries.
In the subsequent treaties, the significance of the existence of these vassal states was also clearly stated.
All high-ranking officials need to pass the assessment of the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Ming Dynasty before they can take office.
The Ming Dynasty had the right to fully utilize all land resources, human resources, etc. in the vassal states during wartime.
The vassal states were de-militarized independently, but two divisions were set up each under the guidance of the General's Office, and a management committee was appointed by the General's Office for personnel management.
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One by one, they almost have betrayal written all over their faces.
Li Wei swallowed. He quickly weighed the lost sovereignty of the kingdom and the benefits he could gain, and finally signed his name on the first page.
Then the second page, the third page...
After a brief period of disappointment, Li Wei became determined to hold onto Daming's thigh.
It is true that after signing the "Axis Treaty", Ri Hye almost became the mascot of North Korea and the titular king.
But in the history of Korea, how many periods were there when the king of Korea really held power?
With the care of the father in heaven above, and the overwhelming power of the ministers below, the King of Joseon was mostly a human-shaped stamping machine.
It is not the king's turn to dictate matters of so-called national importance.
Li Wei thinks, how bad can it be, no matter how bad it is?
After officially becoming a member of the Eastern Axis, the benefits that North Korea can have are obvious.
First, no other country can bully them anymore.
Secondly, these vassal states will soon fight for their own colonies with the support of Ming Dynasty!
After signing the Eastern Axis Treaty, Ming officials will go to the vassal states to guide the establishment of the new court.
The General's Office will also be responsible for the training of the vassal country's troops.
The military system was basically copied from the Ming Dynasty. The army had two divisions, each with 32,000 people. The weapons used were needle guns newly developed by the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty.
In addition to the army, the vassal country also needs to build a naval fleet, with the battleship Daqing as the flagship, and several cruisers designed after the Daqing...
Li Wei was lying on the bed, thinking about everything that happened today.
He suddenly jumped out of bed, and a strange feeling rushed to his head.
If all this can proceed in an orderly manner.
I sat up in shock while dying of illness, the great powers are actually myself?
Thinking of this, Li Wei, who had signed and stamped for a long time, trembled all over.
