In the original history, Emperor Chongzhen would seal Zhu Cijiong, the son born to Concubine Tian, as the eternal king in March of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen.

However, because Zhang Mingwei crossed over on the first day of the first month of March, the butterfly's wings were big enough, so that Emperor Chongzhen had been busy with political affairs and delayed.

With the recovery of Tian Guifei, Emperor Chongzhen has been thinking about the matter of appointing Zhu Cizhi as the eternal king.

However, as soon as he heard Zhang Mingwei's words at this time, he calculated it in his heart.

If you give birth to a few sons, then you will have a few vassal kings. Of course, if your son becomes a vassal king, you must want it. However, after his own generation, if the next generation of emperors can be born, there will be many vassal kings......

To tell the truth, Emperor Chongzhen's fertility is still relatively strong, and by the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, there are three living princes. If nothing else, there will definitely be a prince in the future.

Emperor Chongzhen took himself as a reference, and thought about it for a while, and suddenly, he was a little dumbfounded.

If it goes on like this, even if it is not as greasy as Mr. said, there are so many vassal kings in the world, and when the time comes, the grain fields of the Ming Dynasty will not be enough for these vassal kings. As for the grain fields of the vassal kings, if they were calculated as usual, they were not subject to taxes. In this way, where does the money and food used by the imperial court come from?

As an emperor, he absolutely attaches great importance to this issue! Because he couldn't collect taxes, he could wake up from his dreams about the predicament of the court having no money, and knew that the end would inevitably be the destruction of the country.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen figured out the consequences, and said with a headache, "The matter of this vassal royal clan has always been one of the most troublesome things in the imperial court. However, to this day, there is no good way to solve this problem once and for all! I wonder what the constitution is? ”

As for the local squires who used the name of the vassal king to annex land, these are actually minor problems. As long as the problem of the vassal king's clan can be solved, then these things that are attached to the vassal king's clan will naturally become rootless duckweed, and it will be easy to solve.

For this point, Emperor Chongzhen thought very clearly, and it was Zhang Mingwei who took the initiative to raise the problem of the vassal royal clan, so he estimated that Zhang Mingwei had a solution, so he directly asked Zhang Mingwei what the charter was?

Zhang Mingwei listened, smiled slightly, and said, "Your Majesty, in fact, this matter is not difficult to solve, just cancel the hereditary system!" ”

Hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen was obviously a little hesitant, so he asked again, "Is there any other way?" ”

Since ancient times, feudal dynasties have a very important foundation, which is actually hereditary.

The emperor died, and the emperor's son continued to be emperor. If it is said that the hereditary system is abolished, then what can the family say? Although it can be said that the royal family is special, the feudal lord did not come out of the imperial family!

If the treatment of the crown prince and other princes is too different, it will inevitably trigger a series of reactions. The struggle for power in the palace will be even more intense! And they are all the emperor's sons, in their opinion, what's wrong with letting their sons be hereditary princes?

In addition, for foreign surnames, the highest reward is also a hereditary title.

Therefore, it can be said that the hereditary system was a very important foundation of the feudal dynasty. If the hereditary system is abolished, it will inevitably be attacked by huge vested interests. Don't talk about Zhang Mingwei, even the emperor's throne may be unstable!

These things may not be taken very seriously by people in later generations. However, for people in this era, this is the same as whether "you can eat noodles, don't eat rice" in the future, which is theoretically feasible, and in fact everyone knows that this is not possible.

In the same way, Emperor Chongzhen asked if there was another way?

This is equivalent to if eating rice in the future will really kill people, then it is not unacceptable to eat noodles all the time.

Zhang Mingwei listened, nodded and said, "There is another way, which is to follow the policy of dividing the feudal princes in the Shang and Zhou dynasties to divide the feudal kings......"

"What?" As soon as he heard this, Emperor Chongzhen immediately said a little unhappily, "Sir, I am discussing state affairs with you, not joking!" ”

"I'm not kidding!" When Zhang Mingwei heard this, he couldn't help but smile and said, "When I said that the feudal king was divided, it was not divided into the territory of the Ming Dynasty, but sealed overseas......"

When Emperor Chongzhen heard that he was not joking, he was really a little unhappy. Anyone knows how Chengzu became the emperor back then, right?

However, before he could express his dissatisfaction, he heard Zhang Mingwei's later words, and suddenly, he was a little stunned and went overseas?

To be honest, this idea had never been thought of, or even heard of.

"How many places were there in the Shang and Zhou periods?" Zhang Mingwei pretended not to see Emperor Chongzhen's surprise, and continued, "Dividing the princes, and then unifying after many years of operation, can we have the foundation of our Han territory today. If the vassal kings are divided overseas, and when the descendants of future generations are waited, the Ming Dynasty at that time will be far more than the current land! ”

All feudal emperors, the one who doesn't like to expand the territory, Emperor Chongzhen heard it, and naturally liked it, but he still shook his head and said, "But sir, overseas is a barbarian land, and if you divide the feudal kings in the past, isn't it equivalent to exile?" ”

"Those places that His Majesty regarded as barbarian lands are now about to become someone else's!" Zhang Mingwei said solemnly, "This era, later generations will call it the Age of Discovery, that is, the era of sailing away and carving up the world. ”

Seeing Emperor Chongzhen's somewhat puzzled expression, he gave an example and said, "Not to mention anything else, there are Franc Ji people in Haojing Ao in the Ming Dynasty, Spaniards in Luzon, and Hongyi, etc., Your Majesty must know all of them, right?" ”

Emperor Chongzhen nodded when he heard this, still a little confused about what Zhang Mingwei meant.

Zhang Mingwei obviously saw it, so he continued, "They are an example of Xiyi sailing out to sea and occupying territory everywhere. Don't look at all wild places, you know, even wild places have their own specialties. I'll just give you the simplest example, the Middle East is full of deserts, and the underground is full of untold amounts of oil, which is a good thing to be compared to gold in the future. If we don't grab these things, and wait until they're all done, will we still have our share? ”

Speaking of this, perhaps to say excited, he didn't wait for Emperor Chongzhen to speak, he rushed to say again, "They plundered resources from all over the world, making their home country richer and more powerful!" And if we don't keep up with the times, in the end, they will inevitably come to attack us. As His Majesty saw in the documentary, backwardness is a situation of being beaten! ”

Emperor Chongzhen didn't expect that from the issue of the vassal king's clan, Mr. would lead to such a terrifying result, and for a while, he really couldn't understand it. Of course, there are also some words in Zhang Mingwei's words that he has never heard of, which increases the difficulty of understanding.

Zhang Mingwei pointed to his head and said loudly to Emperor Chongzhen, "In those wild places that Your Majesty thinks, there are very large gold mines, iron mines, silver mines, etc., many of which can be calculated in tens of thousands of catties. ”

Hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen was a little hard to imagine, how many thousands of catties are there? Or gold, silver, iron and the like!

Just thinking about it made his eyes turn red.

I haven't spoken for so long, but at this time, I immediately said, "Sir, needless to say, the vassal king is not feudal, I will send troops myself!" ”

"......" Zhang Mingwei was dumbfounded when he heard it.

He thought that after saying these words, Emperor Chongzhen would agree. As a result, I didn't expect that Emperor Chongzhen actually wanted it.

But think about it, such a huge wealth, for the poor and scared Emperor Chongzhen, it would be strange to give it to others!

He was in a daze, but Emperor Chongzhen was a little anxious, grabbed his hand, and couldn't wait to ask, "Sir, why don't you tell me a close place, and I will send troops and horses?" ”

"......" Zhang Mingwei continued to be speechless!

After Emperor Chongzhen said it again, he came back to his senses, and said with a wry smile, "Your Majesty, that's a wild place!" ”

"What are you afraid of in the wilderness!" When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he replied without hesitation.

"People everywhere are uncivilized, the kind that drinks Mao Ru's blood!"

"What are you afraid of, I'm not going to fight against them, I'm going to mine!"

When Zhang Mingwei heard this, he imagined in his mind that Emperor Chongzhen was against those indigenous poems, and he couldn't help but shudder, and didn't dare to think about it anymore, so he directly refused, "Your Majesty, wake up, your basic plate is here!" Now it's still messy, first govern the Ming Dynasty to the peace of the country, is it okay to revive the Ming Dynasty? ”

Hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen, whose eyes were shining, finally regained a little consciousness, but he still said a little unwillingly: "Isn't this Zhongxing Daming also asking for a lot of silver?" ”

"Then does Your Majesty have a trustworthy sailor? Is there enough fleet for long-distance voyages? ”

Hearing Zhang Mingwei's words, Emperor Chongzhen was a little dumbfounded.

Hit by this reality, he finally regained his senses, but he still said regretfully, "That's not a pity, what if it is dug up by those Xiyi first?" ”

When Zhang Mingwei heard this, he said without hesitation, "As long as Daming is strong enough, what if Xiyi digs it up first?" Grab it back! ”

"Yes, sir, you're right!" When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he immediately nodded, without a little reserve.

Zhang Mingwei felt a little headache, so he said directly to him, "And if you want the Ming Dynasty to be strong, you must calm the civil strife and solve the problem of land annexation, that is, to solve the problem of the vassal king's clan......"

Speaking of this, he already knew Emperor Chongzhen's thinking, so he immediately added, "Divide some places that are not particularly critical to the vassal royal clan, so that they can not talk about the mature management of the raw land, and they can also solve all the domestic problems." Of course, I keep all the good places for Your Majesty, what does Your Majesty think of this arrangement? ”

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