The Most Powerful Man in the World

At that time, when it is divided into seals, ruled over a country, and has great power, how can such a suffocated prince be comparable.

The royal family was shaken by it, and the world was shaken by it.

But all the princes of the royal family who have such ambitions are looking forward to it one by one, watching every move of the court, just hope that it is not a momentary joke by Zhu Houzhao.

In the winter of the fifteenth year of Zhengde in Daming, with the will of Zhu Houzhao finally reaching the hands of several overseas fleets, Daming finally showed his fangs.

Pieces of land were occupied by Daming, and the kingdoms were destroyed. Under Daming's strong ships and cannons, it can be said that the world can stop the rudeness of the Daming fleet.

It was also in this year that Zhu Houzhao personally ordered the King Qin of Daming to establish a state and a state in overseas places.

The King of Qin received the emperor's will and was overjoyed. He cooperated with the government to hand over the millions of acres of fertile land occupied by the King of Qin's mansion to the government. The mighty went overseas.

To this end, the Ming Dynasty even dispatched thousands of large ships, and the shipping cost alone drained the savings of the Qin Dynasty for hundreds of years, and even owed the court millions of taels of property.

According to Zhu Houzhao, since it is to be entrusted to be the king, then it should be self-reliant. The court can subsidize some materials, but more needs to find a way.

The King of Qin had no choice but to use up the savings of the King Qin's mansion for hundreds of years, and he had to owe a huge loan agreement of millions of taels to the court. Finally, it was enough to build a country overseas.

Although the court had the intention of taking advantage of the fire, but one willing to fight and the other willing to suffer, even if the family was emptied, the King of Qin was extremely excited.

Hundreds of thousands of people who followed him overseas, plus the thousands of Royal Guards expanded by the Ministry of War, were enough for him to gain a foothold overseas.

King Qin successfully listed the land and sealed the state, and the court made it clear that it was not as simple as saying it, and that Zhu Houzhao really wanted to divide the seal.

As the Qin Wangfu was divided overseas, it became a famous prince, and the princes of the other branches of the royal family were anxious one by one.

Although overseas is vast, no matter how large the territory is, it is limited. If the emperor suddenly gave up the idea of ​​​​separation, or the overseas lands were divided, wouldn't these princes who were not able to get out of the Ming Dynasty cry to death?

For a time, the messengers of the various palaces gathered in the capital, and the residences of the elders of the cabinet were almost trampled by these people.

That is to say, Zhu Houzhao was in power, and he had great power, and he didn't have to worry about the unwillingness of the princes in the world.

If this is replaced by other emperors, if the princes in those places dare to send people to Beijing to contact important officials in the court, they will be seized by the imperial censor and impeached frantically, or they will be feared by the emperor. , and ended up with an excommunication.

But this time, Zhu Houzhao deliberately condoned and even pushed it, and several patriarchs even obtained the will of the emperor in advance, so they would not refuse the envoys of the princes in these places, and screened out the candidates for the emperor.

After all, the Daming royal family has been inherited for hundreds of years, and to this day, there are no less than dozens of princes alone. As for the princes and the like, there are hundreds of them. Among them, there are those who are content with the status quo and those who are quite ambitious, so Zhu Houzhao does not. It may be possible to seal everyone out at once, so only some of these princes can be selected first.

There are frequent overseas good news. It can be said that except for the presence of Portugal, Spain, England and other maritime powers in Europe, the Daming fleet has no key strategy. As for other places, all of them have become the focus of the Daming strategy.

Everywhere was beaten down, and then the princes who migrated from the Ming Dynasty would be welcomed.

An area of ​​tens of thousands of square kilometers or even hundreds of thousands of square kilometers was sealed as a country, and tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of Daming people dragged their families out of Daming to take root overseas and spread their branches and leaves.

In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the situation of land annexation was very serious. I don’t know how many people have already lost their land and become tenants and servants of those wealthy families.

These people who lost their land were nothing more than during the Taiping years. Once they were in the famine years, they were the most likely to become part of the hidden dangers of the Ming Dynasty.

I have to say that Zhu Houzhao's restart of the enfeoffment system, to a certain extent, can definitely be regarded as serving multiple purposes.

The imperial family division system established by Emperor Taizu is absolutely harmful to Daming. According to the expansion rate of the Daming clan, even if Daming is not destroyed by natural and man-made disasters, it will probably be destroyed by the increasingly huge Ming clan system. Dragged down.

Even in the end, Daming's finances may not be enough to support the Daming clan. It is conceivable how bad the Daming royal family's vassal system is.

Zhu Houzhao's restart of the enfeoffment system not only occupied a huge amount of land overseas, but also solved the harm caused by the enfeoffment system of the Daming royal family to Daming, and successfully recovered a large amount of land from these princes. Moving overseas has alleviated the population crisis to a certain extent.

In the eighteenth year of Zhengde in Daming, for several years, the Daming court was like a clockwork machine. In these years, in addition to normal affairs, Daming's energy was focused on overseas distribution. .

Dozens of princes were completely sealed off, and even the county kings were relocated, and the overseas land was divided into hundreds of vassal states by the imperial court.

In the imperial study room, Zhu Houzhao, dressed in regular clothes, was sitting there, looking at Chen Ding, who had white temples and an old face, and only listened to Chen Ding: "Your Majesty, according to the statistics of the Ministry of Households, over the past few years, I have divided into [-] large and small vassal states. There are as many as [-] million mu of land, [-] million taels of gold and silver, and more than [-] million people moved out from the hands of these royal clans. Ten thousand taels of gold and silver..."

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Except for Chen Ding, the faces of several cabinet elders present were all red, and they could say that they already knew about this data.

It has to be said that even when they learned about this data, it was still a bit unbelievable.In just a few short years, with the full investment of the imperial court, such an earth-shattering thing has been accomplished.

Not to mention the rest, the human and material resources of the millions of people who have moved out of the country are simply shocking when you think about it.

In order to relocate the millions of people, the Ming Dynasty ordered as many as [-] large ships, and dispatched large ships tens of thousands of times.

That is to say, Daming has implemented the policy of opening the sea for nearly ten years.

Under such a big environment, Daming did not know how many large ships he had built. It must be known that even in the case of Daming banning the sea, in order to maintain the existence of water transportation, it is in the hands of the governor of water transportation to run the grain and feed through the north-south aorta. There are more than [-] ships.

Of course, most of these tens of thousands of ships controlled by the Governor of Water Transport are only small ships, and there are not many that can really be regarded as large ships.

But from this point alone, it can be seen how profound the background of Daming is. When Daming opens the sea, the power that erupts can be imagined.

If it were another country, it would definitely not have such a foundation, such a mobilization ability, and only Daming could achieve this by virtue of its vast territory and abundant population resources.

Of course, this is also in the hands of Zhu Houzhao, otherwise, Zhu Houzhao's orders will not be carried out, no matter how good the idea is, I am afraid that it is impossible to do this.

As the master of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Houzhao's aura became more and more condensed, and Zhu Houzhao's imperial aura against the infinite majesty was extremely strong, and people who were idle would not dare to look up and look at Zhu Houzhao under the pressure of Zhu Houzhao's aura.

Listening to the data from Chen Ding, Zhu Houzhao looked at a map of the world in front of him. This map of the world clearly marked the vast area occupied by the enfeoffed Ming clan.

From south to north, from east to west, it can be said that a vast land several times the size of the Ming Dynasty was divided by these vassal states.

Looking around, on the map of the world, almost a quarter of the area has completely fallen into the control of Daming.

If this is done by other emperors, I am afraid they will be complacent, and Mount Tai will sacrifice to the sky to show their supreme deeds.

But Zhu Houzhao's face was calm, and even a bit of disappointment flashed in his eyes.

What he saw was the entire map of the world. On the map of the world, the territory occupied by the Ming Dynasty was not very large, especially in the West, where there were many countries, big and small, and the pace of expansion of the Ming Dynasty was even in the West. was hindered.

As the core of Western civilization, this area has brought together many large and small countries, such as Portugal, Spain, England, Germany and other large and small countries.

Yu Dayou, Yue Buqun and others are indeed outstanding men of a generation. Relying on the tyrannical combat power of the Daming fleet, they have repeatedly confronted the fleets of Portugal, Spain and other countries at sea. Although they can win every time, their losses cannot be underestimated. .

After all, it is far away from the ocean, and it is almost thousands of miles away from the mainland of Daming, but if it is damaged a little, it will not be able to be effectively replenished because it is far away from Daming.

This is different for Western countries, because it is close to their country, so even if there is some loss, it can be effectively supplemented.

It is precisely because of this that Yu Dayou and others' footsteps were obviously blocked. Although they said they had the right to take the initiative to attack, it was an indisputable fact that they were stopped.

Although it is said that Yu Dayou and the others can continue to move forward regardless of the losses, but in this way, even if they can lay down more land, what if they have finished all the land, won't the land they occupy be lost again?

Yang Yiqing, Wang Yangming and others noticed the change in Zhu Houzhao's expression, and the excitement on his face gradually disappeared.

Even an idiot could see that Zhu Houzhao was not complacent because of their achievements, on the contrary, they were all very excited. Now, it seems that their xinxing strength is far worse than that of the emperor. many.

In particular, Wang Yangming, who created a great school, thought that he had already reached the level of calmness, but he did not expect that when facing the opportunity of being famous for the ages, his concentration was still a little short.

"not enough!"

Just when Wang Yangming and Yang Yiqing were in the mood, Zhu Houzhao suddenly sighed.

Trembling in his heart, Wang Yangming and the others looked at Zhu Houzhao. Even though they were faintly aware of Zhu Houzhao's thoughts, when he heard Zhu Houzhao's sigh, he couldn't help but feel a stormy sea in his heart.

Chen Ding looked at Zhu Houzhao in shock and said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, this minister has verified several times, and there is absolutely no falsehood. If your Majesty doesn't believe it, you can send someone to monitor..."

Thinking that what Zhu Houzhao said was not enough was because he suspected that the data he had calculated was wrong, so Chen Ding responded with a bit of grief and indignation on his face.

Zhu Houzhao was stunned for a moment, looking at Chen Ding's appearance of being greatly aggrieved, and even when he reacted, he realized that his words made Chen Ding have other associations.

With a light cough, Zhu Houzhao looked at Chen Ding and said, "Chen Aiqing wants to be wrong, I have never doubted the integrity of the Qing family, if I can't even trust the Qing family, I don't know who can take charge of the household for me. Ministry, take care of Daming's purse."

After speaking, Zhu Houzhao explained to several people, "What I said is not enough is not that what you have done and achieved in the past few years is not enough, but that I think the territory occupied by Daming is not large enough."

As he spoke, Zhu Houzhao raised his brows and said, "Not long ago, I looked through the royal clans in the Ming Dynasty's residence with clear records. As of today, there are still about half of the royal clans in Daming who have not been enfeoffed out of the Ming Dynasty. I want the whole world to be illuminated by my bright light."

Speaking of which, Zhu Houzhao's eyes flashed a bright light, and he put one hand on the densely packed country and said, "This is it."

Yang Yiqing and Wang Yangming looked at it, and at a glance they saw that Zhu Houzhao's hand was pressing the essence of the West.

At any rate, Daming has opened the sea for so many years, so Daming has a very deep understanding of overseas places. Among them, the area where Zhu Houzhao's hand is pressed is the most important. In that area, there are at least ten several large and small countries.The most important thing is that these countries themselves are not bad.

"Your Majesty, do you really want to go to war with these countries?"

As the Minister of War, Wang Yangming had a clear understanding of the positions of several overseas fleets. In the West, the Daming fleet that was on the verge of this western essence was led by Yu Dayou, Yue Buqun and others.

Zhu Houzhao nodded slowly and said, "There is no king in the world, and there is no king on the coast of leading the land. From my point of view, if you ignore these alien races, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not become a confidant in the future."

Looking at Zhu Houzhao now, Wang Yangming already understood Zhu Houzhao's ambition to swallow the world.

On the huge map of the world, there is a clear mark on the place where Zhu Houzhao's slap shot just now.

Looking at each other, Wang Yangming smiled bitterly and said to the Son of Heaven: "Your Majesty, if you really want to capture and occupy the western land, I am afraid that if there are not hundreds of thousands of troops to go west, Yu Dayou and their hundreds of ships alone will not be enough. It is impossible to occupy and destroy so many countries, especially the national strength of these countries is not bad."

Zhu Houzhao's expression remained unchanged, and said indifferently: "Then send troops and horses to go, I don't believe that with my current strength, can I still defeat a group of barbarians?"

Speaking of which, Zhu Houzhao pointed to the land of Nanyang: "Since all the land of Nanyang has fallen into the hands of Daming, then Dong Yichuan, who is based in Nanyang, will be transferred to the west to assist Yu Dayou, Yue Buqun and others in attacking the western countries."

Wang Yangming nodded solemnly and said, "Your Majesty, don't worry, I will collect everything as quickly as possible, and wait for His Majesty's order to set off for the army."

Zhu Houzhao laughed and said, "I have always trusted the ability of the Qing family, and the Qing family will personally supervise this matter. If there is anything wrong, I will grant you the right to kill it first and then file it."

Knowing the great ambition revealed by Zhu Houzhao, Yang Yiqing and the others felt ashamed, and their fighting spirit was high.

Even the Son of Heaven has the heart to swallow the world, and they have never thought of swallowing the world, let alone how ashamed they are.

Yang Yiqing bowed to Zhu Houzhao with a serious expression and said, "The ministers and others must do their best to share the worries for Your Majesty."

The spirited Yang Yiqing, Wang Yangming and others left the Forbidden City, and Zhu Houzhao was the only one left in the imperial study. Even Wang Zheng, who had been serving by his side, was sent by Chu Yi to see Yang Yiqing, Wang Yangming and others.

In the imperial study, Zhu Houzhao was sitting there, holding the altar in his hands, a flow of information, the altar actually gathered as much as three or four million luck.

Holding the altar, the luck that ordinary people can't see at all is clearly seen in Zhu Houzhao's eyes.

"It's not enough, it's not enough, I need more, bigger luck, the emperor's way to soar, even if there is no way forward, I have to open up a path."

Although Shao Yuanjie made up the theory of the ascendant of the imperial road, it was said that it touched Zhu Houzhao's heartstrings, but Zhu Houzhao obviously couldn't believe it completely, and even the way forward had to be opened up by Zhu Houzhao himself.

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As a generation of emperors, especially those who have been in control of such a huge dynasty over the years, he is no longer the overwhelmed and ignorant emperor who was forced by a group of civil and military forces in the past.

Zhu Houzhao may not have noticed any flaws in Shao Yuanjie's concocted statement at that time, but after Zhu Houzhao completely calmed down, it is impossible for Zhu Houzhao not to realize that Shao Yuanjie's so-called emperor's soaring ascension is a kind of inconsistency. A realistic fantasy.

If it was someone else, he might just give up, or even take anger on Shao Yuanjie, but after realizing this, Zhu Houzhao did not take his anger on anyone, but tried to realize Shao Yuanjie's statement.

It can even be said that Zhu Houzhao's idea has gone beyond Shao Yuanjie's previous statement.

As far as Zhu Houzhao thought about it, his own ascension was naturally not as high as the national ascension. Of course, Zhu Houzhao knew the difficulties.

But looking at the altar in his hand, Zhu Houzhao's eyes flashed with hope.

This altar was left to him by Chu Yi. Such an altar can only be used once, which means that he has only one chance. Therefore, in the past few years, Zhu Houzhao has not only been working hard to plan the luck needed to activate the altar. , and at the same time perfecting the idea in the mind.

When he was with Chu Yi in the past, Chu Yi also joked about some absurd stories, intentionally or unintentionally. In some of the stories that Chu Yi told, there was a saying that he carried a world soaring.

If it wasn't for this, it would have been impossible for Zhu Houzhao to be moved by what Shao Yuanjie said at the beginning.

The ascension of the imperial road and the ascension of the world are involved in one point, and that is the massive luck.