The manager of the Ming Dynasty's overseas royal estate was equivalent to the governor of the colony.
It's just that he has no official status and only takes orders from the emperor and the consortium, not the court.
Therefore, during this negotiation, all official matters related to the negotiation were in charge or coordinated by Honglu Temple Shaoqing Shen Fu.
All unofficial activities, all places required for personnel living and negotiation, and all services are handled by Zhu Guangrui, the shopkeeper of Haijiao Huangzhuang.
Zhu Jingyuan had breakfast in the palace and rested for a while. Shen Fu, the young minister of Honglu Temple, and Zhu Guangrui came to visit.
Zhu Guangrui, who was fifty-six years old and had gray hair and beard, saw Zhu Jingyuan and bowed his hands:
"My nephew Guang Rui has met my uncle..."
Zhu Jingyuan, who came from modern times, was obviously surprised when he was called uncle by an old man, but he quickly reacted:
"Oh...yes, I remembered, the shopkeeper...Guang Rui is also a member of the clan."
Zhu Guangrui introduced with a smile:
"My nephew is from the Zhou family, his generation is "Guang", and he is the same generation as "Di" from Chengzu's family. "
Zhu Jingyuan had read Zhu Guangrui's information, and now that the other party mentioned it, the information immediately came to his mind.
Zhu Guangrui is a descendant of Zhu Yuanzhang's fifth son, King Zhou Zhu. Zhu's eighteenth generation grandson is now a very remote clan.
In addition, Zhou Wangfu has many descendants, which is the highest among all Ming Dynasty princes.
From the beginning of the Ming Dynasty to the end of Chongzhen, there were a total of twelve Zhou kings after Zhu Zhu, but some of them were brother-in-law twice, so it actually only lasted ten generations.
However, the county kings granted a total of seventy-six titles, so on average, each generation of Zhou kings was a big family of eight brothers, and there were countless generals and lieutenants under the county kings.
Therefore, the ordinary clans in Prince Zhou's Mansion feel more remote.
Zhu Guangrui's ancestor was already a distant branch during the Chongzhen period, and his title reached the lowest rank of Fengguo Lieutenant.
After the Renwu Dynasty, all nobles in the clan were tested for the title. There was a generation of ancestors in front of Zhu Guangrui who failed to do their best, and the title was simply lost.
However, after Renwu, all clans were able to enjoy "compulsory education" and had channels for advancement.
Zhu Guangrui himself also worked hard, and went all the way to a university specialized in the clan. After graduation, he entered the imperial village system, and worked all the way to the top shopkeeper of an overseas imperial estate. His actual status was equivalent to that of a governor.
Zhu Guangrui is fifty-six years old this year, but he is indeed one generation younger than Zhu Jingyuan in terms of seniority, so he calls him uncle when meeting him.
After saying hello, Zhu Guangrui still said with a very warm smile:
"My uncle doesn't need to see anyone outside here, but if you need anything, just tell your nephew and I'll keep it safe for you."
Zhu Jingyuan could only smile and agree.
Shen Fu waited for Zhu Jingyuan and Zhu Guangrui to talk about their relatives before reporting the matter:
"Your Highness, representatives from various vassal states and imperial estates have arrived, ready to meet with the two imperial princes.
"It's not a very formal ceremony, it's just a simple meeting. Is it convenient for Your Highness today?"
Zhu Jingyuan agreed directly:
"It's convenient for me. I don't have any other arrangements now. I can do it this morning or afternoon. You can ask Uncle Jiu if he has time."
Shen Fu nodded lightly and immediately asked someone to make arrangements, and finally set the time at ten in the morning.
Zhu Jingyuan's waiting time was almost up, so he took the carriage prepared by Zhu Guangrui and went to the side hall of the palace, also named Wenhua Hall.
The staff of Haijiao Imperial Villa usually clean and maintain the palace buildings. These days, they have specially cleaned the palaces that may be used. According to the situation, they also added two chairs under the throne of Wenhua Hall to sit south and north. chair.
Although Shen Fu said it was not particularly formal, representatives from the vassal state and Huangzhuang did not dare to neglect, and they all went to the Wenhua Hall of the palace in advance to wait for the two princes.
At ten o'clock in the morning, the two princes Zhu Jingyuan and Zhu Jianfeng walked into the Wenhua Hall side by side, obviously keeping a certain distance.
The representatives of the vassal state and the imperial village immediately bowed together and saluted.
The two princes sat down on the chairs under the throne. Representatives from the surrounding vassal states and imperial estates took their seats one after another, and then began to introduce themselves one by one.
Only today did Zhu Jingyuan finally have the opportunity to meet people from all the overseas territories of the Ming Dynasty at the same time and hear the names of all the vassal states and imperial villages at the same time.
The vassals in Northeast China: Ryukyu Kingdom, Korea Two Domains, Xianbei Three Domains, and Japan Four Domains.
The vassals in southern China: Annan Kingdom, Nanzhang Kingdom, Chenla Kingdom, Burma, Siam, and Malacca.
The vassals in the eastern part of the Nanyang Islands: Luzon Kingdom, Medan Kingdom, Java Kingdom, Old Port Two Kingdoms, and Borneo Kingdom Three Kingdoms.
The western vassals of the Nanyang Islands: Makassar Kingdom (Sulawesi Island), Meloju Kingdom (Malu Valley Islands, also known as the Spice Islands), Diwen Kingdom (Timor Island and surrounding islands), and Yinli'an Kingdom. (Yinlian Island), Solomon Kingdom (Solomon Islands and Bismarck Islands).
There are two vassals in the Ming Dynasty: Yingzhou Kingdom (Hawaiian Islands and surrounding islands), and Fiji Kingdom (Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu, New Caledonia and other South Pacific islands).
The vassals of Tianzhu and Dashi: Ceylon Kingdom, Six Kingdoms of Tianzhu, and Three Kingdoms of Dashi.
Mozhou vassals: Jizhou Kingdom (Djibouti), East Mexico Kingdom (East Africa), Mazhou Kingdom (Madagascar), and South Mexico Three Kingdoms (southeast Africa).
The four vassal states of Northern Yinzhou (western United States, western Canada, Alaga, etc.).
The Seven Kingdoms of Tiannan (Australian continent).
A total of sixty-four vassal states.
Counting the previously removed Xihai Kingdom and the five counties in the southwest of the Persian Gulf, the Ming Dynasty originally had seventy vassal states.
The current division of these vassal states does not seem very reasonable.
The Japanese archipelago has a total area of 370,000 square kilometers and is divided into four vassals, each with more than 90,000 square kilometers.
The Beiyinzhou area has a total area of more than five million square kilometers, and it is also divided into four vassals, each with one million square kilometers.
Because the Japanese archipelago has a large population and is close to the mainland, in order to facilitate governance and control, it must be divided into small pieces.
The Beiyinzhou colony was small in area and very sparsely populated when it was first developed. The key was that there were potential competitors.
Therefore, the vassal state should be larger and have enough power to expand and resist possible enemies.
The situation in other vassals varied, but most were somewhere in between these two situations.
Most of the vassal kings of these vassal states are descendants of Emperor Shizu and his brothers, and a small number of vassal kings are descendants of the heroes who contributed to the Ming Dynasty when Shizu revived the Ming Dynasty.
Before this year, all vassal states were effectively vassal states of the Ming Dynasty and were under the direct or indirect jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty court.
It is a vassal state in the modern sense, not the so-called tributary trading state in the past.
But now, due to Zhu Jingyuan's vassal reform plan, some of these vassal states have now existed in name only.
More vassal states have also determined their "timetable for existence in name only" and are waiting to be included in the Ming Dynasty.
Except for several vassals in Beiyinzhou, the colonial territorial disputes with Britain, France and Spain really need to be discussed at the meeting. The other vassals basically come to make up for it.
After the reform of the vassal state, all officials were directly subordinate to the imperial court, and now they were only nominal vassal officials who served part-time.
I don’t know whether it was accidental or man-made. Now most people in the feudal country already know how the final decision was made to withdraw the feudal vassal after decades of efforts to no avail.
It was directly promoted by the negotiator this time, Prince Zhu Jingyuan of Dashi.
It was he who forced the old gentlemen of the court to accept it in the name of cooperating with the negotiations.
It was he who asked the emperor to open six major industries in exchange for the local dignitaries and elites accepting this resolution.
In other words, Prince Dashi directly changed his destiny, turning himself from a vassal minister into an official of the Ming Dynasty.
Or there is a high probability that he will become an official of the Ming Dynasty in the future.
Put this in the traditional oriental cultural atmosphere, this is almost the effect of reinvention.
Therefore, when representatives from the vassal states came to see Zhu Jingyuan, they were quite excited and very solemn.
When he was introduced to the two princes, when he saluted solemnly again, he was basically directed towards Zhu Jingyuan.
Both the etiquette and the words are extremely sincere.
As for Prince Zhu Jianfeng, it was normal court etiquette, and everything he said was standard respectful speech.
After saluting, everyone was basically paying attention to Zhu Jingyuan, waiting for Zhu Jingyuan to lecture.
Zhu Jianfeng certainly felt this atmosphere, but he didn't take it seriously at all. He just sat on a chair casually and watched the excitement.
What is special are the two vassal states in the Dashi region.
The Two Rivers Kingdom in the Mesopotamia was established on the land occupied during this war.
For the time being, there is a vassal state but no vassal king, and there is no state of even ministers. In the future, there may never be vassal kings and ministers.
The representatives coming now are from the local garrison, so they have no feelings for Zhu Jingyuan people.
Then there is Zhu Jingyuan’s Big Food Country.
The Dashi Kingdom was formed by the merger of the countries in the southwest of the Persian Gulf, and the ministers of the vassal state were all pieced together from the original vassal states.
Most of the officials of the original vassal state have returned or are returning to the Ming Dynasty.
Some continued to work as aides with the prince who removed the vassal state, and some went to the Ministry of Personnel as scholars, preparing to re-enter official careers in the Ming Dynasty.
More and more people simply quit officialdom and go to other areas to make a living among the people.
In theory, the ministers of the Dashi Kingdom are all staying here voluntarily, but in fact they are probably the "wrongdoers" of various princes.
Now they all look bitter.
Zhu Jingyuan looked at his theoretical palace chief, a thin middle-aged official in his thirties, and felt that he could see the word "bitter" on his face.
However, this feeling is understandable. In the eyes of ordinary people in Ming Dynasty and even the whole world, the land in the southwest corner of the Persian Gulf is nothing but sand.
To passively serve as an official in that kind of place, to serve as an official in a vassal state under the vassal king who is promoting the withdrawal of the vassal state, and to almost never see the vassal king's ministers, is a feeling that other officials will never experience.
I have absolutely no idea what the future will hold.
Zhu Jingyuan planned to find an opportunity to have a good chat with the other party after meeting today.
My mother is already preparing personnel and technology, and will go to dig for black gold (oil) when the peace talks are over.
When the time comes, keep each other happy and blossom.
The other party will then understand that the current suffering is worth it.
After the introduction by the representatives of the vassal state, the personnel from each imperial village began to line up one by one.
The royal villages around China: South Old Port, West Java, Lion City, Bangkok, North Borneo, East Bengal, Andaman, Sulu (Palawan), Ampurna (Natuna Islands).
Ocean Palace in the outer sea: Western Cape (Cape of Good Hope), Rain Island (Vancouver Island), Jinshan (San Francisco), Baiyun Islands (New Zealand), Nantianfu (Tasmania).
Finally, there are the sixteen imperial villages of Xintianfu in Nanyinzhou.
The Ming Dynasty did not have a vassal state in Nanyinzhou. The land of more than 5 million square kilometers was divided into 16 imperial villages of different sizes.
This is probably an instruction left by Emperor Shizu.
Because Zhu Jingyuan knew that among the overseas lands currently occupied by the Ming Dynasty, Nanyinzhou was almost the best piece of land.
The scope is probably later Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia, and southern Brazil.
Because it looks like an inverted triangle when viewed on a map, it is collectively known as the "Southern Cone" in modern times.
In the Ming Dynasty, it was called "Xintianfu". This name has two meanings. First, it means the new kingdom of Tianfu, and then it means "Xintian" mansions like Yingtianfu, Shuntianfu, Chengtianfu, etc.
There is fertile black soil here, and the developable arable land is very vast, probably more than the entire Ming Dynasty itself.
In terms of resources, except for a slight shortage of coal, it has everything else. The Antarctic Peninsula opposite is also rich in resources.
Except for the fact that there are no coal mines, the natural conditions are no worse than those in North America. At the same time, there is no cold wave that runs through the entire territory of North America.
If it were managed by China's middle-level or above monarchs in the classical era, a large empire would definitely be developed here.
In the early industrialization era, it was difficult to develop, probably because of the lack of coal mines.
But you can also make a fortune by selling minerals, and there is absolutely no shortage of food.
After the second industrial revolution, as long as it is managed well, it will definitely take off.
It’s just that in real history, this land was wasted by Latin American countries.
The biggest disadvantage of the Southern Cone is that it is located in the Southern Hemisphere and is the southernmost point of the New World far away from the mainland islands.
It is far away from other major birthplaces of human civilization and away from major industrialized countries.
The United States is more isolated than North America.
Zhu Jingyuan felt that the name Xintianfu might mean that Emperor Shizu was planning to use it as a retreat for the Zhu Ming royal family.
If you are killed in the homeland, you can run away to "Xintianfu" to renew your life.
Zhu Jingyuan thinks this plan can be considered.
The second industrial revolution has just begun, and a new Tianfu development plan can be formulated.
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