If I fail to overcome the tribulation, I can only return to the Ming Dynasty and become a prince.

Chapter 103 Hoshicha Takumi
In the Ming Dynasty, officials did not take a holiday during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

According to the rules set by Zhu Yuanzhang, there were only three statutory holidays in the Ming Dynasty, namely the Spring Festival, the Winter Solstice and the Longevity of the Emperor.

In other words, during the Hongwu Dynasty, officials only had these three days of statutory holidays every year. If you wanted to take leave for something at home, you needed to write to the emperor, and the emperor would approve the leave for you.

Of course, this refers to officials who are qualified to write to the emperor asking for leave. Ordinary officials just write a request for leave to their superiors.

However, in the Yongle Dynasty when Zhu Di became emperor, this holiday became relatively normal. Historical records record: "Every year, the Zhengdan Festival begins on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and all civil and military officials have a five-day holiday. The Winter Solstice Festival begins today. Three days of holiday. In the seventh year of Yongle, the Lantern Festival was ordered to begin on the eleventh day of the first lunar month, and all officials were given ten days of holiday."

Although there are still not many holidays, at least everyone still has a normal holiday throughout the year to take a good rest.

Later, holidays gradually began to take place during festivals such as the Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, which were quite different from other dynasties.

Although it can't be compared with the Tang Dynasty's holiday method of ten days off and more than 100 days of rest a year, it is at least much better than the Hongwu Dynasty.

Therefore, it is not unusual for the emperor to hold a banquet during the Mid-Autumn Festival. What's more, Zhu Di probably wanted to use this Mid-Autumn banquet to resolve the matter of restoring the system of vassal troops commanding and then implementing the duty assignment. This year's Mid-Autumn banquet was grand. It is not unusual at all for Zhu Zhanjun to be solemn.

"The vassal kings will be entrusted with external seals, and the vassal kings will be used to expand the territory and prevent them from harming the place as they did in history. I wonder how effective this strategy can be?" Zhu Zhanchen was still very concerned about this matter. .

On the one hand, the heavy burden brought by the inability of the vassal kings and clans to lose their tails was one of the most important financial problems in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and it can also be said to be one of the important reasons for the final demise of the Ming Dynasty.

If this problem can be solved, it will undoubtedly be a huge benefit to the national destiny of Ming Dynasty.

On the other hand, when the vassal kings entrusted themselves to the outside world, they could play the original role of the feudal system, that is, to enfeoff land and build a country. The words "feud" and "jian" are two separate words.

Using these vassals to open up new land and carry out construction, so as to develop the raw land and bring it into the control of Chinese civilization, is a very good thing for both the entire Chinese civilization and the entire Ming Dynasty. things.

After all, based on the current level of science and technology of the Ming Dynasty, the huge territory stretching from Nurgandusi in the north to the Chief Secretary of Jiaozhi in the south, which almost spans the entire Asian continent, has really reached the scope of territory that the traditional feudal dynasty can rule. It's the limit.

Although Britain in later generations claimed that the sun never sets and had colonies all over the world, it still carried out colonial rule through the appointment of governors, not direct rule by the king.

What's more, Britain at that time had entered the era of industrialization. Britain, which had completed the first industrial revolution, had the most powerful maritime power in the world, and could naturally radiate its territory wider.

As for the huge territory that the Mongols established across the Eurasian continent, although they can all be regarded as the territory and territory of the Mongols, after the death of Genghis Khan, the Mongolian leader, the four major khanates essentially split from the Yuan Dynasty. .

Moreover, Mongolia still has more of an alliance structure of traditional nomadic tribes. Although they were influenced by the originally developed civilizations in these areas when they invaded Europe, Central Asia, and Asia, each of them transformed into a feudal country, but this also made them no longer the commander-in-chief of Genghis Khan. The whole below has become independent.

This is actually the limit that the feudal dynasty could achieve in the cold weapon era before the industrial revolution. After all, just relying on horse racing, even if it takes a year to run from the easternmost point of the Mongolian territory to the westernmost point, such a vast territory It was impossible for dynasties in the agricultural era to effectively rule distant frontiers.

However, enfeoffing vassal kings can effectively develop and manage remote frontiers, and at the same time stabilize the country's rule over local areas.

As for the local vassals no longer obeying the central government and wanting to go independent or seize the central power, for Zhu Zhanquan, this was actually rotten in the pot.

Because no matter which one they are, they are all members of the Chinese civilization. Even if the dynasty changes in the future and the Ming and Zhu families no longer exist, in the foreseeable hundreds of years, those places that Zhu Zhanquan regretted in his previous life will still be there. This life can still be regarded as truly "since ancient times".

This is much stronger and more important than maintaining a so-called family world of one lineage for eternity in a corner, and it is also much more important, and it can leave more marks and influences on history.

Of course, this is only true for the Ming Dynasty under normal farming civilization. For the Ming Dynasty, which has begun to be influenced by Zhu Zhanjuan and will become an immortal civilization in the future, it is impossible to say that one day the Ming Dynasty will be able to conquer the entire Eurasian continent. Are they all included in the territory?
Thinking of the national territory he had conceived before, Zhu Zhanqi couldn't help but feel dumbfounded. He had already planned to build the Great Ming Dynasty. This would not cross the Ural Mountains. He would follow the example of the Mongolians in those days and go to the Danube River to wash their feet or go to the Alps. Build a palace on the mountain?

Thinking of this, Zhu Zhanyu suddenly remembered that when he first traveled through time, he thought this was just an ordinary time-traveling historical dynasty, and he planned to create something on the top of the Five Mountains that would make future archaeologists scratch their bald heads.

For example, if you imitate the Bronze Palace of Wudang Mountain and build a similar Bronze Palace on the top of the Five Mountains, and then put a world map, a star map of the solar system, and your own autobiography as a time traveler in it, I believe that when the time comes, those historians will When these things are dug out, someone will definitely want to swallow the Suxiao Jiuxin Pill.

That kind of scene would have really made Zhu Zhanjun laugh in his grave.

But before he had time to do this, he traveled back to the world of immortality, wandering around for hundreds of years before returning to the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Zhanquan no longer had the original mood of wanting to have fun and do things.

In other words, when the Yun Dynasty is built, he will still be alive hundreds of years later, so there is no need to do such a thing.

With this kind of free time, wouldn't it be better to build a few star ships and let people explore the star sea?In a few hundred years, even if he did not intervene, the Ming Dynasty would have developed aerospace technology. By then, providing a few starships that could cross the star sea would be considered a contribution to the aerospace industry.

You must know that in the world of cultivating immortals, Zhu Zhanquan also had a magic weapon-level ship in his hands, as well as various treasure ship drawings designed by the old ghost who taught him the art of mechanism.

Just when Zhu Zhanquan was thinking that he should bring out that kind of treasure ship or Xingcha, Hu Shanxiang asked to see him outside the big tent.

　The design of the Immortal Boat Alliance of the Star Dome Railway is so cool. I also made a similar setting for this kind of giant ship traveling in the sea of ​​​​stars, but it was purely about cultivating immortals, and there was no such combination of technology and immortality.

　　At that time, the European barbarians are still engaged in large-scale navigation, and the Ming Dynasty has already begun to colonize the moon. It is very interesting to think about it, but this should be left to the later stage.

　　If the protagonist is now, he should wait for Zheng He's second voyage to the West in the ninth year of Yongle to return, and take out some big ships to build the Ming Dynasty navy. You can look forward to a first-hand

　　
　
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