At that time, Zhu Youxiao sent the emperor's fifth son to the army in order to reuse the royal children to avoid the appearance of feudal officials who threatened the interests of the royal family because of their excessive military power and being far away from the Central Plains.
But Zhu Youxiao also knew that if a member of the royal family performed too eye-catchingly, it would break the balance, which would be detrimental to the emperor's ability to check and balance the forces of all parties, and would also be feared by future monarchs, unless the monarch was himself.
"Your Majesty, this is a memorial from His Majesty the Seventh Highness. He said that his Qinghe Imperial Manor had harvested a lot. He was aware of the difficulty of farming. He also asked someone to send three measures of corn harvested by his own cultivation, so that Your Majesty could have a try."
When Zhu Youzong was hesitating whether he should transfer the fifth emperor's son back and replace him with other princes to gain experience in the Western Expedition Army and grow into a general who led the army, Wen Tiren sent Zhu Cikai's memorial.
Zhu Youxiao also took Zhu Cikai's memorial and read it carefully.
"Your Majesty, my dear father, after staying in the Imperial Manor for a year, I have indeed seen and heard more than I have seen in the previous decades. I finally know my father's good intentions, and I finally understand why. Why did my father and the ministers insist on putting the wealth of farmers and workers first? From what I saw, only wealth can enable the surrounding towns to develop rapidly, so that even in the countryside, Only when commerce and trade can prosper can large-scale workshops appear! Sure enough, only the wealth of producers can make the world prosperous. Instead of having only the powerful and wealthy bureaucrats, a large number of people can only gather in big cities to serve as their servants or work for them. Talents can be prosperous and prosperous. Now, because of the wealth of local farmers, the population does not have to move elsewhere and can make a living in their hometown..."
After Zhu Youxiao read Zhu Cikai's memorial, he frowned for a moment and thought to himself: "Is this really a gender change?"
Zhu Youxiao decided to test it out.
So, after reading Zhu Cikai's memorial, Zhu Youxiao told Sun Chuanting: "Last time you reported that you still need to arrange for a group of officer cadets to go to the Anxi Protectorate to participate in military affairs. Among the princes like me, I graduated from There are not many people who teach martial arts, and the Seventh Prince of the Emperor is one of them, so let him go too! After studying for a year, since he has made some progress, we will not go to the factory first, and let him go outside with the army first."
Sun Chuanting knew that Zhu Youxiao wanted to replace Zhu Cizhuo with Zhu Cikai, so he couldn't help but remind him: "Your Majesty, in this case, I am afraid that more than one prince will easily affect the stability of the country because of his seniority in the military."
"I know! But if we don't do this, how will they be able to maintain their domestic rule when they dominate the vassal state in the future? I will transfer them away before they become a problem."
Zhu Youxiao replied.
"yes!"
When Sun Chuanting heard what Zhu Youxiao said, he didn't say anything else. He knew that His Majesty the Emperor wanted to train the children of the royal family.
He also knew that although turning all the royal family members into useless people except the crown prince would help reduce internal struggles within the royal family, it would indeed be detrimental to the interests of the entire royal family and even the long-term interests of the entire Ming Empire.
After all, if the future emperor has no children, he will need to be succeeded by the royal family.
And if the world is in chaos, if the royal family is really useless, there won't even be a single person who can take orders in times of crisis.
"The Rakshasa Kingdom has been destroyed. Next, there is no need to use troops in the west for the time being. To suppress the rebellion of the natives in the south, it is still up to the governors of various places to deal with it. But it cannot just suppress the natives. Tell the governors of various places to also restrain the local Han officials and gentry. Don't We really killed all the natives. Our Ming Dynasty needs the market now. No matter how many Han people there are, it is impossible to give birth to hundreds of millions in a short time. Even if there are hundreds of millions, they will have to wait until they grow up."
Zhu Youxiao said.
"What your Majesty said is that the governors in various places have also dealt with the evil gentry, and have also adopted some policies to appease some natives who were forced to rebel!"
Sun Chuanting replied.
"Next, the main focus of the military must be on the east. According to the strategy, Japan must be completely destroyed first!"
When Zhu Youxiao said this, he glanced at the position of Japan and said: "There is no need for the existence of the shogunate. What the Ming Dynasty needs now is for the income of the people of Japan to increase so that they can consume our industrial products and let the Privy Council deploy an army of troops. , formed the Eastern Expedition Army, and on the grounds that the shogunate and all the daimyo were too inhumane to the people of the country, announced that the Japanese country would be included in the area directly controlled by the central court of the Ming Dynasty, and put the emperor's eldest son in command. He was familiar with the Japanese country, and arranged another land and sea combatant. Generals who are good at commanding are his deputies!"
"yes!"
Sun Chuanting knew that His Majesty the Emperor wanted the eldest son to take command in order to prevent the eldest son from having no experience in the military.
For the Japanese country, it was inevitable that they would be completely destroyed by the Ming Dynasty.
Among the daimyo that still existed in the Edo shogunate and the Japanese country, there were still many sober-minded Japanese nobles who knew that the Ming Dynasty would completely destroy their country sooner or later.
"General, moving to our territory in America is our only way out now! The powerful Celestial Empire will not allow an independent vassal state to appear under his eyes!"
Sakai Tadaki, an important minister of the shogunate, spoke to Tokugawa Ietsuna at this time.
In the past, the Japanese shogunate had paid for and sent troops to expedition to the West with the Ming Dynasty's navy, and also participated in the carving up of Spanish colonial interests. Therefore, although the Japanese country in this era seemed weak in front of the Ming Dynasty, it was also one of the great powers in the world. One, they also have their own colonies in America.
It’s just that most of the minerals mined by the Japanese shogunate in the American colonies flowed into the Ming Empire due to the trade deficit with the Ming Dynasty.
"I never thought that one day, my Tokugawa family would have to move thousands of miles away, but we have all accepted Chineseization. Isn't that enough?! You see, now, the area directly ruled by my shogunate is almost a town. They all have Chinese language classes!”
Tokugawa Ietsuna said quite depressedly.
"But general, if we stay, we will not be treated like nobles. Can you accept it?"
Sakai Tadakiyo said.
"Forget it, let's move away! To America, maybe we can get rid of all the Westerners there, and then build a powerful Yamato Empire, like the Celestial Empire, to dominate the world!"
Tokugawa Ietsuna couldn't help but look forward to the future.
For this reason, when Zhu Youxiao had just decided to completely destroy the Japanese country, Wu Mengming, the Jinyiwei, came to report: "Your Majesty! According to my Jinyiwei's inquiries, a large number of ships from the Japanese shogunate are heading towards the Americas recently!"
Zhu Youxiao laughed after hearing this: "Are you planning to run away?"
Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but begin to imagine a group of Japs going to the American continent and killing them like crazy, and thought to himself: "That's good, let those Westerners who immigrated to the Americas also have a taste of what it's like to be hacked by Japs!"
In this era, there was already a route from the east to America, which was opened by the Spanish.
After the Ming Dynasty conquered Spain and divided its colonies with Confucian countries such as Japan and Korea, they also obtained this route.
Naturally, it would not be a problem for the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate to go to America.
"Your Majesty, the Rihan Temple has reported that the shogunate, Sakai Tadakiyo, has arrived in Ningbo and sent a message requesting an interview with you."
Not long after, Assistant Minister Lu Xiangsheng handed Zhu Youxiao another report from Lifan Temple.
Zhu Youxiao laughed because of this: "This Tokugawa Ietsuna is a smart man! In return, let him come to the capital to see me!"
