"Father, look at these things... My daughter-in-law doesn't talk about the courtesy of vassals or the friendship of vassals. But how can the United Kingdom, Jiaqing Kingdom, Xichu Kingdom and Zhungeer Kingdom... We are all kingdoms of the Xia Dynasty! They are scheming against each other now, and they are not allowed to break up and start a war in the future..."
Crown Princess Ding Yuying was wearing the latest style of red embroidered dress with narrow sleeves and waist. She was sitting in the Huangji Hall, looking at the memorial sent by the messengers of the King of Hezhong and the King of Jiaqing on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, while feeling a little emotional. posted their own comments.
It is now the end of summer in the twenty-seventh year of Hongxing's reign in the Ming Dynasty. However, due to the large Pacific Ocean, it is really inconvenient to exchange news, so what Ding Yuying sees is the news sent from Qingzhou, Kinmen, American Gulf and other places at the turn of spring and summer. Report coming.
The news that King Huai and De had discovered the "Golden City" and "Golden River" has not yet arrived - their memorial still has to cross half of North America!
What is being sent now is the memorial of the King of United and the King of Strengthening each other quarreling and stumbling upon each other!
Among them, the King of Hezhu was unwilling to hand over the two states of Kazakhstan and Ke to King Jiaqing, and even slandered King Jiaqing for changing the country's name to "Qing" because he had the ambition to be an emperor...
And Zhu Cihuan also sued Zhu Hehao in the memorial!
Said that he was too ambitious and wanted to swallow up the silver mines and gold mountains of New Spain! It is to monopolize the world's gold and silver!
These are really great uncles and nephews of Ming Dynasty...neither of them is a fuel-efficient lamp!
Now that Zhu Cixiang is still here, he may still be able to suppress them both. If he really becomes the late emperor in the future, it is estimated that both the United States and the Qing Kingdom will be difficult to deal with.
However, when Ding Yuying made her comments, her words were calm and there was no expression of indignation on her face... She knew Emperor Zhu's thoughts very well. He didn't want his son and his daughter-in-law to have a good time! From now on, everyone will have to work hard to become the emperor, queen, and queen mother.
Zhu Cixiang smiled and turned his attention to the good luck prince Zhu Hexing. This good luck prince has also grown up now. He served as county magistrate, prefect, and governor. He also directed the "no war" military operations in Heilongjiang and Anton, and was in charge of military intelligence at the Generalissimo's Mansion for a period of time. Starting from the 27th year of Hongxing's reign, he finally began to formally learn to govern the country from Emperor Zhu.
And before he started studying, his wife had been studying the ways of governing the country with Emperor Zhu for five or six years... Those who didn't know better thought that his wife was the "emperor's princess" and that he was the consort recruited from outside. Damn it.
However, after six or seven years of struggling outside, Prince Luck also somewhat understands his father's painstaking efforts - the world is very complicated, and even though Prince Luck is not the kind of "deep palace prince" who stays in the palace, he My experience and knowledge are still too shallow. You must go to the grassroots level to have a good experience and gain more experience, and then you can start to learn to govern the country.
Now seeing Zhu Cixi's malicious eyes, Zhu Hexing just smiled bitterly: "Father, this is probably the righteousness of the Spring and Autumn Period!"
What a progress! Everyone knows that the Spring and Autumn Period is a great righteousness - but what is the great righteousness of the Spring and Autumn Period? According to previous understandings, the Spring and Autumn Period was the era when rituals and music collapsed, and the conquest of rituals and music began with the emergence of feudal lords. How can we talk about righteousness? Even if there are great righteousness, such as respecting the king and conquering the barbarians, it is not too much. The melee of Zhu Xia is the main theme of Spring and Autumn!
But Zhu Hexing put forward the concept of "Spring and Autumn Great Righteousness"... In other words, the melee between the Xia in the Spring and Autumn Period also had a very positive side!
Without the competition among the Xia during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, how could there be the powerful Qin and Han Dynasties that later dominated the East? Where is the basic foundation of Chinese civilization? Where are the various basic elements of Chinese civilization?
The progress the Chinese nation has made in these five hundred years will probably exceed that in the next one or two thousand years!
Zhu Cixiang smiled and nodded, "Okay! I finally know the righteousness of the Spring and Autumn Period... The righteousness of the Spring and Autumn Period lies in the competition among the Xia and their own efforts. Competition is of course cruel. Who wants to be ignorant and weak? Destroy the country! But Zhu Xia is a family, no matter who can dominate, he is Zhu Xia's brother. Good luck, do you understand the painstaking efforts of being a father? "
"I understand," Zhu Hexing said with a smile, "No matter what, the Ming Dynasty is the leader of all the Xia Dynasties. He must have the spirit of an elder and take care of his younger brothers."
Zhu Cixiang smiled, without comment, and asked the question to Ding Yuying: "Yuying, tell me...if you take power one day, how will you punish those disobedient Zhu Xia brothers?"
What are you talking about?
Prince Luck feels so awkward! Yuying is the Crown Princess and will be the Queen in the future... If she takes over the power, she will be the Queen Mother. What should I do? Am I the late emperor? I am only in my twenties this year!
Ding Yuying glanced at her husband with some sympathy. He was quite strong. He looked like he would live a long life, right?
After looking away, the Crown Princess began to answer the questions.
She thought for a while and said: "Zongzhou's failure was not in the enfeoffment, but in the weak branches and weak branches. Of course, Zongzhou's weak branches were not what was envisaged when he was enfeoffed, but the place where Zongzhou was located. It is not easy to expand because it is either trapped by the vassal state or there are difficult Rong and Di.
Moreover, Zong Zhou enacted further enfeoffments on his already small territory, causing Zong Zhou's branches to be damaged rather than supplemented and increasingly weakened. This means that the more closed it becomes, the weaker it becomes, which is absolutely unfeasible. "
"It's not feasible to become weaker as you become more isolated. How can you become stronger and stronger?" Zhu Cixiang asked with a smile.
"Of course, you can become stronger with more titles," Ding Yuying smiled, "Father, by granting the title of King Huai and King De, doesn't it strengthen the control over the United States? My daughter-in-law thinks this method is very good... My son If my daughter-in-law wants to take over the power, she can also grant tens of thousands of households to the United States, the Southern Continent, Xichu Kingdom and Zhungeer. Oh, and the Qing Kingdom is about to become an indecent country, so she can also grant ten thousand households. King Hu comes over."
Zhu Cixiang's move of "conferring people without enfeoffing land" is really an irresistible "tonic" for the Xia Kingdoms such as the United States, Southern Continent, Western Chu Kingdom, Qing Kingdom, and Zhungeer, which have vast land and few people!
These countries have no shortage of land, and they don’t even lack fertility. There is also gold, silver, and brass buried under the ground!
But without exception, they all lack people! There is a special lack of Chinese people... For the United States, Western Chu State, Qing State, and the Southern Continent, one more ten thousand households can greatly enhance the national strength!
Therefore, it is impossible for them to refuse this tonic in predictable years.
As for the kings of Wanhu who were sealed in the past... there is no doubt that they are all the sons or brothers of the Ming Emperor, and they are all relatively reliable. At least when these Ten Thousand Household Kings are still alive, most of them will be "pro-Ming party" people.
"Haha," Zhu Cixiang laughed, "I can't hide this little plan from you! Good luck, you are so lucky to have such a wife!"
Zhu Hexing smiled: "That's all thanks to my father."
Zhu Cixiang nodded and seemed to agree with this opinion very much. Then he asked: "Then you can't just point at your wife. Your wealthy brother is not easy to deal with! Tell me, how will you deal with him and the United States in the future?"
"Father," Zhu Hexing said, "My son's idea is to support the Qing Kingdom... The United States cannot be weakened. Without the United States, the vicious people of the Ming Dynasty will have one less way out, and the country will not be easy to stabilize. . But the United States cannot monopolize the gold and silver mines in North New Zealand, otherwise the United States will sooner or later replace the Ming Dynasty and become the leader of China. Therefore, my intention is to support the Qing Kingdom! We can follow the precedents of King Huai and De and also grant a title The two kings of Wanhu will go to the two states of Ha and Ke. At the same time, these two states will be assigned to the state of Qing. In this way, although the state of Qing will be strong, the king of Qing will be weak."
Zhu Cixi smiled and said: "Who would be better to block?"
"The tenth and thirteenth brothers can be crowned King of Ha and King of Ke." Zhu Hexing said, "Ha and Ke are close to the silver mines and gold mountains of New Spain, so it should be easy to recruit military households. It may be difficult for 10,000 households, but it should not be possible for 5,000 households. Question. Moreover, the mothers of the tenth and thirteenth brothers are from the Kyushu royal family, so we can recruit some more warriors from Japan."
Zhu Cixiang nodded and said in his heart: Okay, you have also learned to trick your younger brother... Not bad, you have made great progress!
