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The specific details of the battle for the crown prince of Da Chu could be written into a book.

The telegram was limited by the number of words, so it was naturally impossible to elaborate on the matter. It only said that after more than ten years of fighting, the fourth prince finally won, and when Chu Wuzong was dying, he was established as the prince.

After the death of Chu Wuzong, the fourth prince ascended the throne as emperor, named Chu Ruizong.

Because Chu Wuzong was not very good at internal affairs, and more than ten years of competition for the crown prince caused internal abuses in Chu, and the people also lived in dire straits.

Therefore, after Ruizhong ascended the throne, he recuperated with the people on the one hand, and rectified the administration on the other.

After fully taking control of the government, he began to carry out some reforms.

It can be said that the current system of Da Chu was modeled by Chu Taizu and completely formed by Chu Ruizong.

In addition, Chu Ruizong, out of concern for the impact that the princes' seizure of the legitimate sons would have on the state affairs, explicitly established the "ancestral system". From now on, the eldest son of the Chu Dynasty will be the crown prince.

If the queen has no children, one of the princes will be adopted and given to the queen as his legitimate son, and then as the prince. This will be the permanent system of the Great Chu.

Afterwards, Dachu entered a relatively long period of relatively stable development.

By now, that is, when the Da'ei North Pacific Exploration Fleet visited Japan, Da Chu had been a country for 190 years and had passed on the throne to the Nine Emperors.

The current reigning Emperor of Dachu is named Jiahua, and this year is the seventeenth year of Dachu Jiahua.

As for the emperors after Chu Ruizong, most of them were mediocre.

There may be people who are fatuous, but due to the limitations of the Da Chu cabinet, the impact of fatiguing on national affairs will not be too great.

Similarly, occasionally a promising emperor who wants to exert himself will also be constrained by the die-hard forces led by the cabinet, making it difficult for him to exert his influence.

Da Chu's system is reasonably good. After all, it is an optimized version of the Ming Dynasty's system and is close to the Qing Dynasty's system.

However, after 190 years of inheritance, it is still full of shortcomings.

As for its biggest and most fundamental problem, it is still the administration of officials - the administration of officials is unclear, and many good policies exist in name only, or simply go out of shape and become bad policies.

Of course, the above information is only what Wang Shouzhe, Zheng Zunqian and others learned from Wang Yuanyang, a large merchant, and it is by no means the entire face of Da Chu.

As for the state of Chu, Liu Sheng guessed based on the history of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

If you want to truly understand the detailed status of Da Chu, you probably have to go there to find out.

After putting down the telegram, Liu Sheng stared at the air in the hall in trance.

He was thinking that if he went to Dachu in a few years, if the fate of Dachu was okay, he would not bother to destroy another country.

In other words, Dachu did not pay much attention to Tianmu Mountain in Henan. He could lead an elite team to sneak in in disguise and directly explore what happened to Tianmu Mountain.

But if Da Chu's Tianmu Mountain in Henan is an important area and is protected by Da Chu's army, then he can only send troops to destroy Chu.

When Wang Shouzhe was talking to Wang Yuanyang, he also inquired about the Tianmu Mountain in Henan.

As a result, Wang Yuanyang knew nothing.

Even if Wang Shouzhe hadn't mentioned it, as a Zhejiang native, he wouldn't have known that there was a Tianmu Mountain in Henan.

Knowing this, Liu Sheng thought: Either Xiong Mingyuan was not a time traveler, or he did not travel through the time and space gate.

Or maybe there is also a time and space gate in Tianmu Mountain in Henan Province of Dachu, but it is listed as a secret protection by the royal family of Dachu and is not known to the general public.

If it was the latter, he would have no choice but to raise troops to destroy Chu in the future.

As for saying that Da Chu cannot be destroyed?

Let alone the one or two hundred years since the founding of the Chu Kingdom, there are already many shortcomings. As people enter middle age, the country's power is not as good as before.

Even if Da Chu is at its peak, if he wants to overthrow Da Chu, he can do it.

Not to mention anything else, in terms of the development of firearms, Dawei has already surpassed Dachu. In terms of artillery, there are already new artillery, mortars, etc., and muskets have also developed into flintlock guns.

Last year, the Secret Manufacturing Bureau developed a practical rifled gun and a breech-loading gun with certain practicality.

Liu Sheng planned to have all the standing army equipped with flintlock muskets before he abdicated, while the personal guards would be equipped with rifled guns or breech-loading rifled guns.

As for when he goes to Dachu in the future, he plans to take away a brigade, or a division, of the Huben Guards, Xiaoqi Guards, and Shengjie Guards each.

With so many soldiers and horses, coupled with a brigade of Hailongwei, the foundation is much stronger than the foundation he started in the Ming Dynasty.

But speaking of it, as he gets older, Liu Sheng doesn't really want to use war to achieve his goals.

If possible, he would prefer to go directly to Tianmu Mountain in Henan to find out what's going on.

Why should he suffer when it can save time and effort?

It should be noted that even if Dachu's side of the country is conquered, it will be difficult to rule as a whole with Dawei.

After all, there is a Pacific Ocean between them. Not to mention the current situation, even in future generations, it is a bit too far away.

Even if he really destroyed Da Chu, he could only pass the throne to another prince, and it was impossible to hand it over to one person to rule.

This made Liu Sheng's desire to destroy Chu even smaller.

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April of the ninth year of Qianyuan.

Liu Sheng issued an imperial edict and ordered the hypocritical Li Zicheng and others to surrender to Dawei unconditionally.

Zicheng refused to listen, so Liu Sheng ordered the use of troops in the northwest.

The standing armies of the two divisions, as well as tens of thousands of garrison troops, who had been on the alert for a long time, immediately invaded the territory bordering Li Shun and Da'ei.

It should be noted that the standing army stationed in the northwest has been on a truce for several years and has been training to the point of roaring.

Now that they heard that they could finally fight and make meritorious deeds, everyone could be said to be happy to hear about the battle, and the war was particularly profitable.

Lintao Prefecture in Shaanxi Province, previously occupied by Li Shun, was captured within ten days.

Afterwards, the Yi army entered Gansu and was bombarded by new artillery.

In just one month, the Wei army captured the Jiayuguan Pass in the far west of Gansu, which was equivalent to penetrating the entire Gansu.

However, Li Shun's main force once again cut off his tail and escaped to the Western Regions...
Tianxin Palace.

With the assistance of the Secretariat, Liu Sheng once again analyzed the latest information on hypocrisy conveyed by the Western Region News Guard.

"Your Majesty, if the news delivered by the Western Region Xunfeng Guard is correct, this time Li Zicheng and other pseudo-submissive forces may have negotiated terms with Yarkand and want to use Yarkant to go further west."

The new secretary Lang Yu Chenglong handed over a stack of intelligence he had analyzed and gave his judgment.

Yu Chenglong was born in the 45th year of Wanli in the former Ming Dynasty and was born in Yongning Prefecture, Shanxi Province.

In the twelfth year of Chongzhen's reign, this person passed the provincial examination and was ranked second in the provincial examination, which meant that he was only one step away from being elected.

In the late Ming Dynasty, those who passed the provincial examination also qualified for official positions, which was regarded as a kind of kindness (bribing) from the Zhu Ming royal family to scholars.

Of course, with this kind of background, one can only be a low-ranking person below the seventh rank. Without a great opportunity, there is no hope of reaching anything above the seventh rank in this life.

Yu Chenglong felt the darkness of the imperial examinations and officialdom in the late Ming Dynasty, and also thought about his father's old age and the chaos in the world, so he did not run for an official position, but studied in his hometown to support his father.

In the history of later generations, Yu Chenglong waited until his father passed away in the 18th year of Shunzhi, and then he followed his father's orders to participate in the selection of officials in the Qing Dynasty, and was appointed magistrate of the county, and then became one of the famous officials in the early Qing Dynasty.

In this time and space, Yu Chenglong took the imperial examination in Da'ei just two years after he was admitted to Shanxi. In the end, he was valued by Liu Sheng as the fifth place in the imperial examination and was selected to be the secretary of the secretariat. member.

He was diligent, meticulous, and sometimes had unique insights, so he was quickly promoted to secretary. (End of chapter)