My Daming New Empire

In Zhu Zhanji's letter to Zhu Di, he analyzed in detail the advantages and disadvantages of the two different titles. Unless he has achieved immortality, it is better to have fewer hereditary titles in the future.

Of course, Zhu Zhanji didn't ask Zhu Di to give up this kind of reward directly, but prepared to use this kind of reward in areas other than Daming.

For example, Ji Gang, a family that helps Daming to contain Dongpu overseas, can be named a hereditary Earl, so that his children and grandchildren can all serve Daming.

There are also ministers like Zhang Fu who have been conferred before, in order to dilute their influence in the country, they should all be conferred outside Daming.

In the future, when the Ming Dynasty conquers overseas, those barbarian lands can be handled in this way. If they want to be hereditary, they must go overseas. In the territory of the Ming Dynasty, all nobles must accept the condition of descending from generation to generation.

In Zhu Zhanji's heart, not only these ministers, but also the more than 20 princes who survived from the previous Zhu Yuanzhang era, should all be dispatched to expand the territory outside of Ming Dynasty in the future.

It's just that this idea is a bit too shocking. Zhu Zhanji has not yet ascended the throne, so naturally he will not expose this plan in a hurry.

Those people are used to enjoying life, so letting them leave Daming's fancy world and go overseas to suffer is probably more difficult than killing them.

This plan still needs to be planned slowly, not in a hurry.

At a later date, the Great Court Meeting ended, and all the rewards for this time came out.

In addition to Liu Sheng being made the Duke of the State, the most surprising thing about this award is that Zheng He, the deputy commander of the army, was also named the Duke of Dian because of his great achievements this time.

There have been three eunuch titles in history. The first eunuch, Zong Ai, was a close eunuch of Emperor Tuoba Tao of the Northern Wei Dynasty.He went out with the emperor and won a great victory. Because of the emperor's love, Zong Ai was named Duke of Qin County. He was also the first eunuch to be knighted in Chinese history.

This is not over yet, and later in the battle for the throne, he helped Tuoba Yu ascend the throne as emperor, and his title was promoted to King Feng Yi!But because of his favor and arrogance, he was eventually killed!

The second eunuch who was knighted was Li Fuguo, the spy chief in the Tang Dynasty.Although he is ugly and ugly, he is proficient in writing and sinister, because he controls the spy agency and gradually improves his status.

Because Tang Suzong followed him when he was the prince, he was deeply liked by Tang Suzong, and he was granted the title of Marshal's Marching Sima and the title of Duke of the Kingdom of Yi.

The third one is the villain Tong Guan who is familiar to everyone. He comes from the lowest level and knows the ways of the world very well.His luck is also very good, and he has the opportunity to lead the army to fight when he is favored by the emperor.

It was reused by Song Huizong only when he was about 50 years old!In the war to suppress the Fangla uprising, more than 7 Fangla troops were killed!In addition, he also won many victories in the wars with Xixia and Liao, and was finally named the king of Guangyang because he regained the territory of the whole Yan!

So far, he has become the eunuch who has led the army for the longest time, has the greatest military power, and has the highest title in history!

Compared with them, Zheng He's contributions are not weak at all, but Ming Dynasty suppressed eunuchs more severely, and Zhu Yuanzhang didn't even allow eunuchs to participate in politics at all.

But Zheng He was raised by Zhu Di, and he was deeply trusted by Zhu Di, and he made great contributions this time, so Zhu Di named him Duke of Dian.

However, his duke is different from Liu Sheng's duke. Although Liu Sheng's title is descended from generation to generation, he can still inherit it after all.

However, Zheng He's title cannot be inherited. It starts from him and ends from him.

Even if he accepts his eldest brother's son as his successor, that child cannot inherit his title, but only his family property.

Even so, this award made all the inner eunuchs envious, which meant that Zheng He had completely left the inner eunuchs and had the power to handle state affairs.

And these people are still just servants of the royal family.

Zheng He repeatedly declined in the hall, but did not get Zhu Di's permission, and finally "reluctantly" accepted the award.

Except for Zheng He and Liu Sheng, no one else was granted the title of duke, and the highest ones, Yi Xin and Zhu Zhen, were only granted the title of Marquis.

Although Ji Gang had a large number of enemies in the court, he resigned as the commander of Jinyiwei in the main hall, and with his intelligence service in Dongying, he was named Shi Jianbo and guarded Shi Jian for Daming for life.

A small Ishimi, there is no big county in Daming.But this is a real uncle's seal, which made a large group of civil and military ministers almost stare with jealousy.

The real seal of a county, even the prince of Daming did not have this kind of treatment, because the prince of Daming raises pigs, he can do nothing except the annual salary and the income of up to [-] mu of land, and he has no power at all. .

But Ji Gang now has the ruling power of more than 1 people in Shi Jianyidi, so it is not surprising that others are not jealous of this kind of reward.

After lighting the fire, Zhu Di then announced that in the future, the land acquired by the Ming Dynasty in its overseas expeditions will be based on this, and the generals will be rewarded.

This time it was not ignition, but a raging fire.

The civil servants all thought that this reward was too much, but the generals were very excited.

Until the end, Zhu Di made it clear that not only military generals, but even civil servants who made meritorious service in the process of overseas naturalization would be rewarded with this award, which calmed down the dispute.

Listening to Liu Wan's description of the disputes in the court, Zhu Zhanji laughed happily.

A seed was sown today, and this seed will grow into a towering tree in the future!

As long as the elites of Ming Dynasty all set their sights overseas, the world will soon be dyed yellow.

It is a pioneering feat that has never been done since Emperor Qin unified the world.

Being able to be the master of a land is more attractive than being an extremely human minister.

Not only the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, but even Zhu Gaochi was shocked, and when he came back from the next court, he was still a little out of his wits.

"Is this plan you talking to your grandpa?"

Zhu Zhanji led him to the front of the world map, pointed to America, Australia, and Africa and asked: "Father, if it weren't for the feudal system, how could my Ming Dynasty effectively rule the world? Taking Dongzhou as an example, the boat sailed for half a year. It takes a year to arrive, and if there is no benefit, who would want to leave their hometown to go there? I, Ming, want to manage it, how can I manage it without enfeoffment?"

Zhu Gaochi shouted: "If I can't control it, what's the benefit of my Ming Dynasty?"

Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "There are large mountains of gold and silver there. Don't you want it?"

This time Zhu Gaochi was not so confident, and just sighed: "Drive them away with profit, and kill them with profit!"

Of course, Zhu Zhanji couldn't explain to him that if Daming didn't take possession of this world, those Europeans would take it in the future.In the end, when they strengthened their strength, they would come to fight against Ming.

No matter what, Daming occupied these places first and immigrated vigorously.Even if these places no longer listen to Daming's words, there are still Han people and people of the yellow race.

After hundreds of years like this, no matter if they are black or white, they will all be nestled in the corner of Europe and Africa honestly, don't even think about turning the sky upside down.

At that time, even if the Ming Dynasty died, the world would still be decided by the Han people who spoke Chinese and wrote square characters.

Zhu Zhanji could only say: "If the father doesn't want to, I, the prince surnamed Zhu, can start to distribute the title, and the minister of civil and military affairs will descend the title. In this way, no matter what, the world will still belong to my Zhu family."

"Your Majesty is coming..."

Zhu Zhanji and his son didn't bother to talk, and greeted them in person.But before they went out, Zhu Di had already entered the main hall.

"What are you father and son talking about?"

Zhu Zhanji talked about the dispute between the father and son, and then said: "Foreign ministers are not allowed to be kings, and instead of staying in the confinement of the palace, I, the prince of the Zhu family, might as well let them go to Dongzhou and Nanzhou. This land of Zhongzhou is just Leave one of my direct descendants, and future generations can do the same. From now on, this world will belong to my Zhu family, and we can still look at each other as brothers and rely on each other."

Zhu Di nodded and said, "That's reasonable, but what about those ethnic groups who don't want to leave their homes?"

"It is inconvenient to insist on this matter. I am willing to be a pioneer and take the brothers and sisters of the royal family to explore overseas together, and then plan for the future. Everything is difficult at the beginning. As long as you have a foundation in various places, are you afraid that you will not be able to develop and attract people? ?”

Zhu Gaochi scolded: "As a grandson, a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall, but you travel across the ocean and put yourself in danger. This is inappropriate."

Zhu Zhanji thought to himself: "Isn't this matter agreed before? Why did you change your mind again?"

But he is a father after all, so he can't fight. Zhu Zhanji can only say: "Eunuch Zheng went to the West, and nothing happened. How can the child be so delicate! Besides, the child wants to go to the West to see it, not just for this matter." , also to inquire about the current situation of the Timur Kingdom. They have always refused to accept Wang Hua, and they once wanted to invade my Ming Dynasty. Although there are still civil wars due to the struggle for the throne, they still have the power to invade our Southwest Kingdom. Do not report."