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

Chapter 144 Not building the palace
In fact, this is not a difficult choice for Zhu Zhanchun, or in other words, this is a more favorable choice for him.

Perhaps in the eyes of people of this era, the royal palace is a symbol of the power, status and majesty of a vassal, and it is also the greatest support and foundation for this sect in the future.

After all, the salaries of a clan are all paid to the feudal king, who then distributes them to each clan, and the warehouse where these salaries are stored is built in the palace.

In addition, the ancestral tablets of this lineage of clans are also enshrined in the royal palace. During festivals and festivals, the feudal king also presides over the clan's sacrifices and adds incense to the ancestral tablets.

Later generations may no longer attach so much importance to this, and apart from Qingming Festival, there are few other activities such as ancestor worship. However, in this era, ancestor incense cannot be missing at all. If it is missing, we must Being stabbed in the spine is unfilial.

No matter how poor you are, as long as you still have an ancestral tablet at home, you must put three sticks of incense on it.

Therefore, the vassal king who controls sacrifices and offerings does have great control and influence over the vassals of his own lineage.

As for the vassal officials, during the Zhu Yuanzhang period when the King Sai system was still sound, the vassal officials also worked in the palace. It can be said that the entire vassal palace in the early Ming Dynasty was a replica of the Forbidden City in Nanjing. A small court is not an exaggeration.

Even in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, when the vassal princes were raised like pigs and only some perfunctory long histories were left among the palace officials, the palace was still a palace.

But for Zhu Zhanqun, if he had the money to build such a big house, he might as well build his own fiefdom.

Tianjin in the early Ming Dynasty was not the famous municipality that it was in later generations. Today's Tianjin is just a small city that was just founded. Its population and economy are in the ascendant in all aspects, and it needs vigorous construction.

Especially according to Zhu Zhanchun's plan, he will conquer the Japanese Kyushu in the future. Compared with such a big island and a city like Tianjin, Zheng Wangfan will definitely focus on Kyushu in the future.

As for continuing to develop, that will happen after the capture of Kyushu Island.

Especially now that Zhu Zhanjun is preparing to conquer Japan, Tianjin will serve as his rear area. If he does not manage this place well, then even if his army is capable of fighting, there will be problems with the Japanese expedition.

After all, even if the Jade Guards are all Dao soldiers, they still have to eat, drink, and consume a lot of supplies.

We must know that whether in later generations or in this era, the most important thing in fighting a war is logistics. If there is a problem with logistics, it will be useless for the army to fight.

In other words, logistics is the guarantee for an army to fight. Otherwise, even if it were the Ming army, it would be worthy of the emperor to shoot three arrows before the battle.

So instead of spending money to build the palace, it is better to use the money on city expansion.

According to Zhu Zhancheng's plan, Tianjin City will not only become the gateway to Beijing and the hub of north-south transportation, but also become an important port, shipyard and industrial base in the north, producing and building large sea-going ships, and opening up routes to the Americas. The route connects Korea and the feudal lords of Japan.

Or to put it further, Zhu Zhanjuan wanted to use his fiefdom to open up the Ming Dynasty's great navigation era.

The Ming Dynasty started sailing nearly 100 years ahead of the West. If it hadn't stopped its voyages to the West during the Xuande period, there's really no telling who the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets was.

To realize all this, a good port and a shipyard with advanced technology and complete functions are naturally indispensable.

Of course, the most important thing is that there is a need to open up the ocean at the national level.In the past, the Ming Dynasty did not pay attention to these, but in Zhu Zhancheng's view, as the Japanese country was conquered, the large amounts of gold and silver mined would become a carrot hanging in front of the Ming Dynasty's donkey, making it yearn for the ocean.

Chinese civilization is a terrestrial civilization, and what Zhu Zhanchun has to do now is to implant marine genes into this terrestrial civilization.

This kind of thing is much more interesting than cultivating immortality on your own.

Perhaps it's because he returned to the Ming Dynasty, or perhaps it's because the real dragon has a long lifespan. For Zhu Zhanchun now, becoming an immortal is no longer his most urgent goal.

In fact, even in the world of immortality, although he has been cultivating immortality, he has never regarded becoming an immortal as his biggest goal.

On the contrary, the scenery on the way to practice is what he cares about more.

Otherwise, he would not have collected various skills and skills, and learned a series of things such as weapon refining, mechanisms, puppets, spells, formations, etc. that had little to do with his path to immortality.

Of course, it was precisely because he was distracted in these aspects that Zhu Zhanquan failed to overcome the tribulation and was struck back by the heavenly tribulation.

But thanks to the fact that he learned a lot of messy things back then, he also knew how to train animals and plant.

After all, it is a real world of cultivating immortals. The civilization of cultivating immortals has developed for countless years. There are beast-taming sects dedicated to cultivating various spiritual beasts, and farm sects that grow various elixirs, spiritual herbs, and even spiritual grains and immortal grains. of.

So Zhu Zhanyu, who is sitting in his study at the moment, is planning how to develop the northern region of the Ming Dynasty after conquering Kyushu Island.

In fact, developing the northern region is difficult to say but easy to say.

Difficulty, of course, refers to the Little Ice Age that has now begun, the harsh environment in the north caused by the cold weather in the north and the snow line moving south, and a series of problems such as desertification and soil erosion in the Yellow River Basin caused by the development of the Central Plains over the past thousands of years.

Not to mention these problems occurred in the Ming Dynasty, even in later generations, it took decades and several generations of efforts to restore the broken ecological environment of the Yellow River Basin bit by bit.

It's just that it's easy, because the methods for developing the north are all ready. Zhu Zhanqi just needs to sort them out and then do it.

For example, in the Qing Dynasty, rice went northward and hybridized with rice seeds. In later generations, the Three-North Shelter Forest, afforestation in the Yellow River Basin, and reservoir construction were carried out. In the Ming Dynasty, donkeys and horses were hybridized to cultivate mules, and sweet potatoes, corns, potatoes, and other crops suitable for mountain cultivation were introduced from the Americas. Crop promotion, etc., these can develop the north of the Ming Dynasty in this era.

Of course, perhaps it is not just the development of the north, but also the restoration of the Central Plains area that was over-consumed after the Tang and Song dynasties, so that the entire land of China can restore its past glory, rather than the future as Zhu Zhanquan is familiar with history For hundreds of years, the people's livelihood, culture, education and economy in the north were inferior to those in the south.

To achieve this, if we only use conventional means, it will be difficult to see results without decades or hundreds of years of persistence.

But for Zhu Zhanchun, a small method of cultivating immortality can shorten the original decades or hundreds of years to more than ten years or even a few years.

(End of this chapter)