Back to the Ming Dynasty to be a tyrant

After Zhu Chunchen heard Xu Hongji's words, he also remembered what Emperor Chongzhen had said before.

Although looking at Xu Hongji is not pleasing to the eye, but this kind of thing is good for everyone, why do you have to jump out and oppose it?

You are also a beneficiary!

Seeing that the two of them stopped arguing, Emperor Chongzhen simply smiled and said, "There is no need to argue about this matter, Zheng Zhilong's contribution is already enough to confer the title of Duke, and the rewards that others should deserve, the two lovers also discussed to repay it to me. "

After speaking, Emperor Chongzhen turned his attention to Wen Tiren, Shi Fenglai and Xu Yushan: "What do you think of this newly discovered big island?"

Wen Tiren bowed first and said: "Your Majesty Qizuo, I think this place is far away from our Ming Dynasty, so it is better to follow the example of Xinming Island and divide it into vassals and rule it."

But Xu Yushan snorted coldly: "What Wen Ge said is very true, but I don't know how many vassal princes in my Ming Dynasty can be moved over?

Your Majesty is in the prime of life, and so far there are only two princes, both of whom are underage, how to divide them up? "

Hearing Xu Yushan mention his two sons, Emperor Chongzhen immediately said in pain: "I have long ago decided to make the eldest son the King of Liao. The second son is still young and has not yet been decided. All the lovers will choose someone else."

After hearing Emperor Chongzhen's words, the three people below immediately looked at each other in dismay.

When the eldest son of the emperor was born, it had already been decided to assign the Liao king. Everyone in the world knew about it, but the second son, the direct prince, had not yet made a decision.

His Majesty's choice for the crown prince?

If it is proposed to entrust the crown prince candidate that His Majesty likes to be entrusted to the newly discovered big island, will His Majesty hold grudges in the future?

Numerous previous facts have proved that His Majesty the emperor in front of him is definitely a master who has no hatred overnight, and no one dares to take this risk.

After thinking for a while, Wen Tiren simply bowed and said, "Your Majesty Qizuo, I think King Su, King Min, King Han, and the original King Liao who was renamed King An can be great leaders."

Selling the vassal king, this is not the first time the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty have done this kind of thing, even the seventh generation Liao king Zhu Xian? was killed by Zhang Juzheng - this unlucky boy died of the Liao palace because he drank while drinking Guard Lao Zhang.

And Lao Zhang's grandson, Zhang Baigui, became the famous Zhang Juzheng later.

During the Longqing period, because the court received a large number of reports against the Liao king, it planned to send someone to investigate.

Then Zhu Xian? At the critical moment of his life, he decisively made a strange move - he found a big white flag, wrote "Litigation of Injustice" in two big characters, and then stood it at the gate of his own palace.

He didn't study hard, he thought that noble people would help him by raising a big banner to call out grievances, but he forgot that Zhu Di, the king of Yan, planted a white flag with "Jing Nan" written on it, and then took over the world.

Those who wanted to plot against King Liao directly characterized the matter as treason, and Zhang Juzheng, who was the second assistant to the cabinet at this time, still remembered the deep hatred of his grandfather's drunken death, so he exerted a little influence. Liao King Zhu Xian? It was abolished, and all the Liao Palace and family property were awarded to Zhang Juzheng's father and brother - Zhang Juzheng would sigh that Feng Shui took turns, and his grandfather's work unit would become his own property.

Until Zhang Juzheng died ten or six years later, Emperor Wanli planned to liquidate.

At this time, the seventh concubine of Liao Wang took the opportunity to report to the court, saying that the property of the Liao king had been unreasonably invaded by the Zhang family. Emperor Wanli decisively copied the Zhang family, and then announced the confiscation of the family property, and the abolished Liao king's title was restored again.

Then because the son born to Emperor Chongzhen was named King Liao, he was changed to King An.

In short, selling the vassal king did not put any pressure on the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty.

As for the feudal lords, apart from the current Zhu Yujian who already holds real power and no one is willing to use them to earn their prestige, which one is not a pig raised by the court and used to earn their prestige by the way?

Emperor Chongzhen thought about it, and felt that these vassal kings were still too few.

Let's not talk about the size of the African continent-in fact, Emperor Chongzhen didn't know how big the African continent was.

But there are more vassal kings who have been transferred to the past, and there are many benefits.

Then Emperor Chongzhen discovered that there were still fewer vassal kings in Ming Dynasty.

Chapter 555 Not enough people

What are the benefits of having more princes?

If there was not much land like before the first year of Chongzhen or earlier, the people of Ming Dynasty would still not have enough to eat, and one more vassal would be one more disaster.

After all, feudal lords are just like Pixiu, they only eat the horns they don't want to pull, they take advantage of the advantages and don't do human affairs, and dig Ming's corners, constantly squeezing the living space of ordinary people.

It is the same whether it is land, money or other means of production.

But now Daming is completely different.

After the pacification and establishment of slavery, a large amount of land was vacated in Liaodong, and even more land was vacated in Nurgan, even close to one-third of Ming Dynasty.

The land itself is enough to feed Ming's current population of less than [-] million, but the East China Sea Fleet and South China Sea Fleet have taken Luzon and Batavia back to Ming Dynasty, and this is not counting Taiwan.

With so much land, plus there is Chen Zuqi at the Royal Academy who is constantly researching high-yielding crops, maybe one day the grain will suddenly become high-yielding, and feeding the existing [-] million people is simply too simple thing.

The combination of these conditions creates a situation where the land is vast and the population is small, so the benefits of having more vassal kings are really too much!

Let's not talk about how much land the vassal kings have vacated. After all, the current situation in Daming is that there is too much land and too few people.

Not to mention that the departure of the vassal kings will make Emperor Chongzhen a lot of income-won't you pay tribute and still want to get a good place?

Just like Zhu Yujian and Zhu Cunji, those guys who chose to replace the fief and go to sea in the early days, not only returned the fief land to the Ming court in its entirety, but also paid a large sum of money to Emperor Chongzhen.

The biggest advantage is that it means that Emperor Chongzhen's dream of turning the earth into a pigsty and a world war as a civil war is one step closer.

After all, no matter how stupid these vassal kings are, once there are tangible benefits, who wouldn't risk their lives to develop their own feudal kingdom?

And what is the first element of developing a closed country?

It's not the army, it's not technology, it's not money, it's population!

Without a population, there would not be enough troops, let alone enough taxation, and there would be no way to develop any unnatural black technology.

In order to have enough population, Zhu Yujian's scumbags not only recruited refugees at the beginning, but even distributed the Anjia money. How big of a problem did they solve for the already precarious Ming Dynasty?

The same is true now!

As long as there are enough vassal kings in Ming Dynasty, what kind of benefits will these sweet vassal kings not promise in order to have enough population in their fiefdom?

silver?house?Even a daughter-in-law?I didn't see that Zhu Yujian's scumbags have already introduced a new policy in Xinming Island, saying that they will give ten taels of silver for each extra child?

Once these vassal kings who could not be officials and could only study knowledge became smarter, Emperor Chongzhen never dared to underestimate their lower limit - there is no minimum, only lower!

Then, the Tweeting Order turned elephant-like vassals into donkey-sized countries. Who is the biggest beneficiary?

It's still Daming!

Or Emperor Chongzhen himself could not see this day in his lifetime, but his children and grandchildren always have the opportunity to see it, right?

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen simply said: "Where are Shi Aiqing and Xu Aiqing?"

Shi Fenglai bowed and said: "Qizou Your Majesty, I think that we should entrust the vassal king and the governor-general to govern at the same time, so as to prevent the vassal king from becoming a big one, and prevent the people from being separated from us."

Lowering his head and taking a look at Shi Fenglai, Xu Yushan simply bowed and said, "Your Majesty Qizuo, I follow what Elder Shi Ge said. If only feudal lords are entrusted to govern them, the people in the land will only know that there are vassal kings but not that there is a Ming Dynasty." , prone to trouble."

Anyway, Shi Fenglai and Wen Tiren definitely don't like each other, so it doesn't seem to be a problem to add a fire by yourself?