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

Chapter 207 Cao Wei and the emperor are acting!

It is now June, the fourth year after Zhu Xiongying ascended the throne. The weather in Yingtianfu has warmed up very early, and is even slightly muggy.

But all the ministers standing in the Fengtian Hall felt a chill from the bottom of their hearts, as if the entire hall had no connection with the outside world.

Just now, they heard that Cao Wei, the most powerful person in the Ming Dynasty and the most trusted by Emperor Zhu Xiongying, proposed to establish a country overseas in Europe! Self-contained!

Establishing another country means having an extra emperor!

What is this nonsense?

A dynasty is a country, and a country can only have one emperor! This is an everlasting law!

Now Cao Wei proposed to establish a new country in front of the civil and military officials of the court and the emperor Zhu Xiongying. In the eyes of others, these remarks were really audacious! It can even be said to be irrefutable evidence that Cao Wei is committing rebellion!

While everyone was shocked, a question emerged in their minds.

Did Cao Wei take the wrong medicine today? He actually threatened to establish another country! What's the benefit to him?

Even if it is really beneficial, it must be taken with a life...

When Zhu Xiongying heard what Cao Wei said, there was no way he would not react at all. Regardless of whether his former adoptive father or mentor, he would definitely be punished in some way.

Strange!

What happened today was extremely strange!

Most of those civil servants have read the history books, but they have never seen Cao Wei acting like this, so unrealistic!

The officials around Cao Wei had changed their expressions, and moved their steps quietly, a little further away from Cao Wei. This was telling Zhu Xiongying:

Your Majesty, we have nothing to do with Cao Wei.

That is to say, Yan Zhenzhi and Xu Yungong are close to Cao Wei on weekdays, and they are loyal enough. At this juncture, they are willing to stand up and defend Cao Wei.

But no one expected that after Yan Zhenzhi and Xu Yungong spoke out and defended Cao Wei, Cao Wei did not appreciate it and said that was his original intention. He just wanted to establish a country in Europe and create an emperor.

Everyone was really dumbfounded now. Cao Weigang and Princess Zhu Hanming gave birth to a fat boy, and they could only live a good life. What kind of death was this?

Cao Wei's words almost shook Yan's head to the point of smoke. He couldn't figure out why Cao Wei did this. Some words were stuck in his throat and he could no longer say them.

The same was true for Xu Yungong. His Adam's apple was rolling for a long time, but he didn't know what to say.

You could hear a needle drop throughout the hall, the silence was terrifying and eerie.

Cao Wei naturally didn't care about other people's opinions, but he still remembered Yan Zhenzhi and Xu Yungong's willingness to defend themselves.

After a long while, Zhu Xiongying's eyes glanced around the hall and settled on Cao Wei again.

"Master Cao, it seems that your proposal is too loud and has frightened all the adults."

The mood swings in Zhu Xiongying's tone were not obvious, and there was no trace of anger in it. All the ministers were even more confused.

Zhu Xiongying's ambiguous attitude made them feel even weirder...

Cao Wei threatened to create another emperor, aren't you angry? Aren't you worried about the future of Lao Zhu's family?

Here Cao Wei chuckled lightly and said, "My lords, this is for the Ming Dynasty and your Majesty's plan. It should be like this. My thoughts are too shocking. Please listen to my explanation."

No one in the hall dared to make a move. Only Zhu Xiongying nodded slightly and said, "Grand Master, please speak."

After Cao Wei cupped his hand, he said, "Years ago, according to His Majesty's orders, King Bingjian went to Europe to stabilize the situation, and by the way, he dealt with the disobedient Kingdom of Sardinia."

"King Jingjian has outstanding abilities. After arriving in Europe, it only took him one month to evacuate all the troops in the hands of the King of Sardinia. He almost took down the city of Sardinia without any bloodshed, occupied the palace of the King of Sardinia, and defeated King Old Modre of Sardinia. Everyone in the family here is arrogant."

"Then when Sardinia's 500,000 remnant soldiers came to attack, King Bingjian killed them all with just a snap of his fingers."

"Having such an outstanding King is a blessing to the Ming Dynasty, to His Majesty, and to all the people of the Ming Dynasty."

"Because as long as we firmly occupy the territory of the Kingdom of Sardinia, we can gain immeasurable benefits for the Ming Dynasty."

"However, just now, after the old editor of the Hanlin Academy expressed his thoughts to the Minister of Revenue, he found that it was difficult to maximize the benefits of the European territory."

Speaking of this, Cao Wei paused.

"What your Majesty wants is to reduce Ming Dynasty's external expenditure as much as possible, and the more revenue the better. This is to increase revenue and reduce expenditure."

"The minister's proposal to establish a country in Europe is also the original intention. Although it sounds a bit bold, it can truly increase revenue and reduce expenditure."

"I don't need to explain the difference between a place where troops are stationed and a country. All of you, your lords, also understand that it is nothing more than that one has the means to support itself and the other has none."

"As long as a new vassal state of the Ming Dynasty is established on the territory of the former Sardinia and becomes its own entity, the Ming Dynasty will not have to send money and energy to Europe every year, because a country has its own financial revenue."

"Besides, our Ming Dynasty is so powerful now. The army has already reached three million people. Such a huge army certainly means that Ming Dynasty has the world's top military strength, but the huge number of soldiers also means that the court must upgrade its military every year. Expense."

"These more than three million troops are useless if they are only put in their hands. Ming Dynasty should take advantage of today's good opportunity to use the power in its hands to do more things and save more family property for our descendants. …”

Listening to Cao Wei's words, many people began to feel shaken, as if... what Cao Wei said did make sense!

No matter how much wealth you have, there will always be a day when you can only live in vain.

Whether it is increasing revenue and reducing expenditure, or coercing European countries, only by doing everything possible to bring more benefits to the Ming Dynasty can officials like them have a good life, right?

They don't want to wait until the imperial court's economy is unable to make ends meet, and then live a life of only one hundred or dozens of taels of silver a year.

"Master Cao,"

Over there, Cao Wei was still talking, and a voice sounded. Cao Wei turned around and saw that it was veteran Geng Bingwen.

This veteran has been fighting with Zhu Yuanzhang all his life, and he can be said to be loyal to the Zhu family. Although what he heard from Cao Wei makes sense, he is even more worried about whether the establishment of a vassal state will cause harm to the main country of Ming Dynasty. threaten.

This veteran thought very simply. He was not afraid of going back to live a hard life, but he was afraid that the Ming Dynasty they had fought so hard to conquer would fall into turmoil again... "Master Cao," Geng Bingwen handed over to Cao Wei, but his tone was neither humble nor arrogant.

"Master Cao said so much, even a military commander like me can't quite understand it. I just want to ask Master Cao one thing, and that is how to ensure the safety of the Ming Dynasty."

"Master Cao's intention is to establish a vassal state in Europe. Since it is a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty must also provide it with basic weapons such as muskets and artillery."

"What if one day, the subordinate country has evil intentions and uses the firearms made by the Ming Dynasty to attack the Ming Dynasty? If this problem cannot be solved, I am sorry that I cannot agree to Taishi Cao's proposal to establish a country from scratch!"

After Geng Bingwen finished speaking, many officials slowly nodded in agreement.

To put it bluntly, Ming's supreme status cannot be shaken! There must be no threat to Daming's safety!

No matter how much money the Ming Dynasty makes and how much salary they are given, if war breaks out, they will still have no life to spend, right?

Zhu Xiongying, who was sitting on the dragon chair, looked at Geng Bingwen, who was holding his neck below, and nodded slightly with a smile in his eyes.

Although the other party interrupted him, Cao Wei did not feel displeased. He knew that Geng Bingwen was really thinking about the Ming Dynasty. There were not many loyal ministers and generals who dared to speak out like this...

"Don't be anxious, General Geng. Please listen to me slowly." Cao Wei responded with a smile.

Geng Bingwen naturally wanted to give Cao Wei this face, and immediately lowered his neck and raised his head.

"When I first thought of this method, I naturally considered it carefully. I also considered the question asked by General Geng."

"Actually, it's not difficult to solve this problem, but before answering, I want to ask you a question first."

"If your Majesty and your lords agree to establish a country in Europe, who should be appointed to take charge?"

Geng Bingwen thought for a moment, then opened his mouth and said:

"Of course they are relatives of the royal family."

Others also nodded. It was a country. The emperor would never send his ministers to become another emperor, and the ministers in the dynasty would never dare to think so.

Cao Wei nodded, "General Geng is right. Those who go to Europe to become another emperor must be relatives of the royal family. In fact, the kings of the European vassal countries are similar to the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty. However, the territory is larger and the team is more complete, but no matter what, above it, there is still the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. He is always the courtier of the Ming Dynasty, but with fewer restrictions."

"Then, the emperors of European vassals and the emperors of the Ming Dynasty are one family. Isn't the possibility of killing each other much smaller?"

Everyone pondered and nodded again unconsciously.

It is true that originally the vassal kings had no chance to become emperors, but establishing a new country gave a vassal king the opportunity to become emperor.

When a vassal king who originally could only be a vassal king became an emperor, he would only cherish this hard-won opportunity even more.

Moreover, there is a huge gap in national power between the subject country and the Ming Dynasty. As long as the emperor of the subject country is not a lunatic, he will definitely be his own overseas emperor.

As for the rebellion... As mentioned before, the emperor of the vassal state and the emperor of the Ming Dynasty are one family. The emperor of the Ming Dynasty gave you the opportunity to be the emperor for the development of the Ming Dynasty. If you rebel like this, you will be infamy for eternity!

In fact, of all the vassal kings in history who rebelled, only Zhu Di succeeded. But the reason why Zhu Di rebelled was because he was forced by Zhu Yunwen's big head.

Therefore, under such circumstances, the possibility that the vassal emperor would rebel and threaten the Ming Dynasty was extremely slim.

Besides, fighting back all the way from the European rebellion is not an easy task. Whether it can be done or not remains to be seen.

Geng Bingwen's expression softened, and he seemed to think that what Cao Wei said made sense.

Here Cao Wei is still adding:

"Of course, it is better to take precautions before anything happens, especially when it comes to the safety of the two countries."

"Therefore, the Ming Dynasty should also formulate another policy. All the military weapons and equipment of the Ming Dynasty, the subject countries can only use the previous generation. Until the Ming Dynasty develops newer weapons, the subject countries can use the weapons and equipment updated and iterated by the Ming Dynasty."

"For example, since the Ming Dynasty developed firearms, it has produced repeating muskets, divine thunder cannons, and manual rifles."

"Manual rifles are the latest weapons and equipment. The Ming Dynasty can only hold them in their own hands. What the subject countries can use are the repeating muskets and divine thunder cannons developed in the previous generation. When the Ming Dynasty develops more powerful and longer range After obtaining further weapons or military equipment, the subject country will have the authority to use manual rifles, and so on..."

When everyone heard this, they finally understood and suddenly became enlightened. They all admired Cao Wei's wisdom and all raised their thumbs up.

What a brilliant plan!

The foundation of any military march must be based on whether the forces in the hands of one party are sufficient and whether the weapons and equipment are sophisticated and effective.

According to Cao Wei's method, it goes without saying that the military strength of the subordinate countries must not be as large as that of the Ming Dynasty, and their weapons and equipment are not as good as those of the Ming Dynasty. Even if they really fight, they have no chance of winning.

Putting aside the powerful thunder cannons that both sides have, the manual rifle has a range of four hundred meters! The vassal country only has repeating muskets with a range of 70 to 80 meters. The gap in weapons and equipment is so huge. How about taking the lead?

At this time, in the eyes of the ministers, the repeating musket with a range of only seventy or eighty meters seemed to be out of date, but outside the Ming Dynasty, it was still a terrifying weapon that made other countries talk about it!

In this way, the Ming Dynasty could steadily suppress the vassal states, and the vassal states could stably suppress other countries and steadily collect benefits, forming a perfect closed loop.

It was the first time Zhu Xiongying heard the last policy guideline mentioned by Cao Wei today. He felt unexpectedly happy and couldn't help but smile on his face.

Sure enough, his worries were unnecessary, Cao Wei would never let him down!

Geng Bingwen, who was below, clasped his fists and saluted Cao Wei. He seemed a little ashamed for questioning Cao Wei. He said how offended he was, and then returned to the military attache team.

Yan Zhenzhi keenly observed the smile on Emperor Zhu Xiongying's face and knew that the matter was basically done, so he immediately stood up to support Cao Wei again.

"Master Cao's plan is very clever. He kills three birds with one stone. I admire him!"

He said it very tactfully, and did not directly support the establishment of a country overseas. He only said that Cao Wei's method was good. In the end, the emperor had to make the decision on whether to establish a country.

Xu Yungong also stepped forward to help.

"Grandmaster Cao is the first to have a son, but he can still find time to think about state affairs. I admire him very much!"

The rest of the ministers were only belatedly aware of this. Zhu Xiongying had just said that Zhu Di had defeated Sardinia in Europe, and Cao Wei had come up with the principles and policies for the founding of the country. Isn't it too fast, too fast? What a coincidence?

The Emotional Emperor and Cao Wei had already discussed the matter and came to the main hall to go through the formalities. They even cooperated with each other back and forth to keep them in the dark.

Well, the emperor agreed, why do they still object?

(End of this chapter)