Daming: If I find a great-grandson, I will teach an emperor through the ages

Chapter 205 Another way to fly into the sky!

ability……

Zhu Xiongying pondered in his heart. When asked who was the most capable in the Ming Dynasty, the first thing he thought of was Cao Wei, the Grand Master standing in front of him at this moment.

It can be said that in Zhu Xiongying's eyes, Cao Wei is almost omniscient and omnipotent!

Since Cao Wei took action, the Ming Dynasty has undergone earth-shaking changes in the six or seven years before and after, the military power, economy and finance have soared, and the Ming Dynasty now has a decisive influence in the world. Not 90%, but more than 80% of the credit must be attributed to Cao Wei. On Wei!

If Cao Wei is allowed to be the king of that overseas country, there is no doubt that Cao Wei's level of governance will make the country prosperous.

But if Cao Wei goes overseas, what will happen to Ming Dynasty's technological development?

Zhu Xiongying felt that Cao Wei must have many things that he had not yet shown. If Cao Wei went overseas, the manpower in the manufacturing bureau alone would definitely not be able to match Cao Wei, and the development of Ming's science and technology might come to a standstill. This is Zhu Xiongying Don't want to see it.

He tentatively said, "Grand Master, do you want to try to be the emperor?"

Cao Wei was stunned when he heard this. Become the emperor yourself?

Then he realized that Zhu Xiongying had misunderstood, smiled and waved his hand,

"Your Majesty, I have never liked the strict rules and regulations in the officialdom of the court, and I don't like to always stay in the deep palace. I will definitely not be able to sit on the throne."

Zhu Xiongying breathed a sigh of relief. As long as Cao Wei could continue to stay in Ming Dynasty, everything would be fine.

Then Zhu Xiongying began to think again, since Cao Wei did not go to the emperor's addiction on his own, then besides Cao Wei, who else has the ability to govern a country?

The next moment, a resolute face flashed through Zhu Xiongying's mind. It was Zhu Di who traveled thousands of miles to Europe for the Ming Dynasty!

Besides Cao Wei, Zhu Di was the most suitable candidate, and Zhu Xiongying understood.

Zhu Di was a military general who fought against the Northern Yuan Dynasty in his early years. After the Northern Yuan Dynasty was destroyed, he went to the Japanese Kingdom, and then the Japanese Kingdom was also destroyed. Then he was sent to Europe with a transfer order, and he made great achievements in Europe. This all shows that Zhu Di has ordinary people. Unattainable military capabilities.

At the same time, Zhu Di is also a descendant of the royal family. He also has good political skills and can be said to be both civil and military.

Let Zhu Di, who is both civil and military, stay in Europe to manage the country. His opponents are only those European countries that still use cold weapons. Presumably, there will be no problems.

But...back to the original question, Zhu Xiongying had never heard of such a thing as one dynasty splitting two countries. He was really not sure whether he should listen to Cao Wei and directly turn the old Kingdom of Sardinia into another. A "Ming Dynasty".

Zhu Xiongying was not unaware of Zhu Di's coveting of the Ming Dynasty throne, but Zhu Yuanzhang did not give him a chance, so Zhu Di had to give up and honestly be his vassal king.

Zhu Xiongying could see this kind of thing, but he never told anyone about it. After all, this kind of thing was not conducive to the unity of their monarch and his ministers.

Now that my uncle is asked to be the emperor, he has fulfilled his wish. But if he becomes an overseas emperor, will my Ming Dynasty be affected? Zhu Xiongying thought in his mind.

"If the fourth child had other intentions, this letter would not have been sent back," a voice suddenly sounded outside the door, and then Zhu Yuanzhang pushed the door open and entered.

Cao Wei and Zhu Xiongying looked at each other. Neither of them noticed when Lao Zhu hid outside the door and started eavesdropping.

But this is what Zhu Yuanzhang said. Europe is thousands of miles away from the Ming Dynasty. If Zhu Di had evil intentions after occupying the Kingdom of Sardinia and just silently developed in Europe for a few years, the Ming Dynasty would only be kept in the dark. , with guns and cannons in hand, it is not easy for Zhu Di to build his own country!

But Zhu Di, who had a strong desire for the throne, did not do this. He did what a Ming official should do. Like Lan Yu, he reported to Zhu Xiongying exactly what happened in Europe.

It can be seen that Zhu Di has Ming Dynasty in his heart.

"Grandpa Huang means that I should listen to the Grand Master's suggestion and let my fourth uncle establish a country in Europe?"

Zhu Yuanzhang sat down on the chair, but fell silent.

After Zhu Xiongying waited for a few breaths for a reply, he realized that Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to make up his mind. He just said something that he was not aware of.

Zhu Yuanzhang remained silent, only looking sideways at Cao Wei.

To be honest, Cao Wei's proposal of two countries in one dynasty is very bold, and can even be said to be audacious!

If it were placed on the emperors of previous dynasties, Cao Wei's suggestion would probably be canceled directly, because this suggestion itself poses a certain threat to the imperial power.

But the Ming Dynasty at this time was different from previous dynasties.

Ming Dynasty is developing too fast, Ming Dynasty is too powerful!

Since the rapid development of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty's army has continuously broken through from less than two million at the beginning, and today it has exceeded 3.5 million!

Such a large number of troops represents extremely powerful military strength. Naturally, such powerful military strength cannot be wasted.

But for the Ming Dynasty, it is difficult to expand in Asia, because the surrounding countries are all vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, and they all play the same role as the younger brothers of the Ming Dynasty. It is difficult for the Ming Dynasty to directly launch wars.

If you want to expand Ming's interests again, you must look overseas, such as Europe.

Cao Wei put forward this suggestion, which sounds unreasonable, but it can indeed further expand Ming's interests.

The previous dynasties would not agree to Cao Wei's proposal. Fundamentally speaking, none of them could reach the strength of the Ming Dynasty today.

There was no such thing as a strong Qin, a prosperous Tang, or a strong Han.

If these dynasties were as powerful as the Ming Dynasty, it would not be impossible for Cao Wei's proposal to be adopted by the current emperor.

Cao Wei once said a very interesting point of view, there are strong countries and weak countries in the world, and there is another kind, which is a superpower!

Once a superpower appears, it will dominate a large part of the world situation, which is the so-called one superpower and many powers!

A superpower needs many other large and small powerful and weak countries to contend together!

A superpower requires the accumulation of a large amount of primitive capital, which is plunder!

Ming Dynasty now has the prototype of a superpower, but it is not enough. It needs to plunder and accumulate more resources!

Cao Wei's proposal to establish a country in Europe can actually be seen as another means of plundering and accumulating capital.

Zhu Yuanzhang believed that if he really wanted to make Ming Dynasty a superpower, he would have to take an unusual path! This is the two dynasties proposed by Cao Wei.

The Ming Dynasty dominated the situation in Asia, plundering and accumulating capital, and another "Ming Dynasty" dominated the situation in Europe, also plundering and accumulating capital.

There is definitely a certain risk in doing this, but the risk is much smaller than before when there was no wireless telegraph machine.

If we really want to establish another "Ming Kingdom" in Europe, we also need to maintain real-time communication with the Ming Dynasty, just like Dongyi Province, so that everyone can rest assured.

Europe is much further away from the Ming Dynasty than Dongyi Province. At first glance, it seems impossible to achieve real-time communication between Europe and the Ming Dynasty.

However, if we follow the Silk Road that extends from the Central Plains to the West and set up transfer towers all the way, it is not necessarily completely impossible to achieve. It is just that compared with setting up transfer towers between Dongyi Province, it will be much more difficult... …

There is another issue that Zhu Yuanzhang is also very concerned about. Zhu Di has lived in the Ming Dynasty since he was a child. The things he is familiar with belong to the Central Plains and the Chinese dynasty. The political systems of European countries and the entire country's system are mostly the same as those of the Ming Dynasty. It's completely different here. The span is so big all of a sudden. Can Zhu Di do it well?

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang asked Cao Wei,

"We have never been to that European place, so we don't know the specific situation. If we establish a country in Europe, will it be difficult to manage?"

After hearing this, Cao Wei smiled and shook his head. "Not at all. It can be said that the common people in Europe are much easier to manage than the people in the Central Plains."

Since the unification of China under the Qin Dynasty, the system implemented is actually not a feudal system, but a county system, which belongs to the imperial power system. But Europe is different, it still implements a complete feudal system!

Under the king, there are great nobles, under the great nobles, there are knights and brave men, and under the knights, there are serfs.

The people of the Ming Dynasty were called farmers. There were no farmers in Europe, only serfs. They had no freedom at all. They were just the property of the upper-class landlords, and they lived in darkness.

In the Central Plains Dynasty, the rulers worried about many things, such as internal fighting in the court, invasion by foreign enemies, disasters from the sky, etc., but what frightened the rulers of the Central Plains Dynasty the most was the peasant uprising that broke out every two to three hundred years!

There are no peasant uprisings in Europe. To be more precise, there are no large-scale peasant uprisings.

Peasant uprisings in Chinese history often numbered hundreds of thousands, while peasant uprisings in Europe only numbered tens of thousands at most.

The difference is because the imperial system and the feudal system are different.

The imperial power system allows everyone in the world to know that the leader of the country is the emperor, and those who want to revolt must be aiming to overthrow the emperor.

The feudal system in Europe meant that the serfs could not be relieved by the king. It was the big landowners who directly faced them and oppressed them.

Therefore, the target of serf uprisings in Europe has always been the big landowners above them.

A big landowner has a group of serfs. After the serfs revolt, they often form separate factions to settle accounts with the landlords who had oppressed them in the past. They do not work together and naturally do not pose much of a threat to the entire country.

The European serfs revolted and put forward the most "excessive" condition, which was to restore the previous tax rate. As long as the king lowered the tax rate for them, they would honestly continue to farm.

If this kind of thing were done to the Chinese peasant uprising army, they would be laughed out of their colleagues. Is the uprising just for lowering tax rates? Do you have any dreams?

In other words, if Zhu Xiongying agrees to let Zhu Di establish a country in Europe, ruling Europe will be much easier than ruling the Central Plains. He only needs to train the country's nobles and big landowners well, and the entire country will not even have a decent threat.

Cao Wei picked up the key points and talked about the differences in systems between Europe and the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Yuanzhang gave up his concerns.

"It seems that it is more than enough for the fourth child to manage a European country." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

Cao Wei nodded, not only was it more than enough, it was just killing a chicken with a bull's-eye.

Zhu Di, the Yongle Emperor who created the Yongle Era in China, could handle the whole of Europe even if he gave it to Zhu Di, let alone the territory of a small kingdom of Sardinia.

After Zhu Xiongying saw that Zhu Yuanzhang let him make a decision, he had been thinking and weighing.

After thinking for a while, I still felt that I should follow Cao Wei's suggestion.

This is an essential step for Ming Dynasty to become a superpower.

It's just that this puts more pressure on him, the Ming Emperor.

But compared with the entire Jiangshan Sheji, it is worthwhile for him to bear a little pressure.

Although Grandpa Huang did not say it explicitly, he also meant that he supported the establishment of a country overseas...

After a while, Zhu Xiongying took a deep breath and looked at Cao Wei,

"I think what the Grand Master said makes sense, but for such an important matter, the officials in the court must be informed. I would like to trouble the Grand Master to go to the palace tomorrow. If the Grand Master can get the civil and military officials of the court to agree, I will let the four officials agree." Uncle founded a country in Europe."

Zhu Yuanzhang also looked at Cao Wei.

Cao Wei knew that this was the biggest concession Zhu Xiongying had ever made, so he took advantage of the situation.

"Your Majesty, Holy Might!"

"I will definitely go to the palace tomorrow."

Zhu Xiongying nodded, feeling a pressure and relief in his heart at the same time.

"Besides, I have something else to tell your Majesty," Cao Wei added. "Two days ago, Song Ping came to report to me that the first batch of manual rifles produced by the firearms factory has been completed, and the number is one thousand."

As soon as these words came out, Zhu Xiongying and Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes lit up at the same time.

A thousand manual rifles caused?

You have to go check it out.

Manual rifles are the weapons with the longest range and the most power among most existing weapons, except for the Thunderbolt Cannon.

And compared with the Shenwei Thunder Cannon, the manual rifle is lighter and more maneuverable in complex battlefield conditions.

"Let's go and take a look." Zhu Yuanzhang stood up first.

Cao Wei and Zhu Xiongying followed, and walked out of the gate of Cao's mansion and headed towards the manufacturing bureau.

On the way, Zhu Xiongying asked Cao Wei,

"I heard that the Grand Master has been at home these days and rarely goes to make bureaus. Could it be related to what I saw in the Grand Master's house just now?"

What Zhu Xiongying was talking about was the objects Cao Wei was playing with in the house before he arrived.

After hearing this, Cao Wei smiled and nodded, "Exactly."

"Oh? What are you planning to build this time?"

Hearing that Cao Wei would have another new invention, Zhu Xiongying's curiosity was aroused.

Last time, Cao Wei quietly built a big killer weapon like a manual rifle, which made everyone on the scene look stunned. What good thing will he build this time?

Cao Wei smiled mysteriously and lowered his voice.

"Your Majesty, do you still remember the huge Kong Ming Lantern built by your Majesty's Ministry of Engineering when I first lived in Zhengkan Village?"

"Of course I remember it. Speaking of it, it was the first work of the Grand Master. At that time, the Grand Master once said that besides the Kongming Lantern method, there is another way to send people to the sky."

At this point, Zhu Xiongying suddenly stopped and his eyes widened, with a look of surprise and shock on his face.

"Could it be that...that's another method of flying to the sky that the Grand Master once said?"

(End of this chapter)