Chapter 1168: Be Serious, Divide the World!
Investing in the ...... of Nationbuilding Still buying and selling?
Although Zhou Guozhang is a big businessman and has millions of family properties, his pattern is not large, so he can't understand the relationship between investment and nation-building, let alone treat this matter as a business.
How is this a transaction? The founding of the country is a rebellion! That's what Li Zicheng and Nurhachi did......
Zhu Youzhen, you are too emperor, why are you still restless? What else do you want to build a country...... It's nothing if you just think about it behind closed doors, why are you still setting up a stall in front of Inshou Palace to raise funds for rebellion? Don't say that today's Jinyiwei is doing things well, but there is no Jinyiwei to report, and the emperor can't know it! You're living in the right door! You are selling things here to raise money to build a country, how can the emperor not know?
Thinking of this, where does Zhou Guozhang dare to see his son-in-law? Isn't it a conspiracy to rebel when you see it? That's not going to work...... Gotta get out of the way, no, not just slip away, but also report to the emperor about his father's plot to rebel!
The old man is clever, and he knows that at this time, he must stand with his good grandson with a clear banner, otherwise his head will have to move!
Thinking of this, he didn't say hello to the old eunuch who walked in front of him to open the way for him, he slipped away, plunged into the crowd and disappeared, the speed was so fast that he didn't even react to the imperial guards who followed the old man - these people are the guards of Emperor Chongzhen, and they have followed since the beginning of the Jiashen years, and they have not been replaced for twenty years, and the youngest ones are in their forties, and their skills have long been out of order, among which the head of the guards who followed Zhou Guozhang is still a fat man, weighing at least 200 pounds, and he is panting when he walks.
And although Zhou Guozhang is 74 years old, he is in good health, not fat or thin, his legs and feet are neat, and he disappeared in a flash, and the fat man was still standing there dumbfounded, not understanding what was going on at all!
When Zhou Guozhang slipped away to report to Zhu Cihong, his good son-in-law Emperor Chongzhen was in the Imperial Palace!
Emperor Taishang set up a stall or something, but it's just a saying, how can Emperor Chongzhen really go to Renshou Palace to set up a stall to do business! If you want to go, then you can't sell anything...... So in a row of improvised sheds outside Renshou Palace, it was actually the great eunuch Pang Tianshou and his godsons who set up stalls.
As for Emperor Chongzhen himself, he went to the Emperor's Palace to grab the territory!
The world is very big, but there are too many people who want to participate in the carving!
Chongzhen himself has more than 100 sons, and one person is a thousand miles away, then 100,000 miles! Zhu Cihong, Zhu Cijiong, and Zhu Cizhao also have many sons, and they also have to participate in the partition!
In addition, there are a large number of princes, county kings and their children in Yingtian City, these dragon sons and grandsons have not been pigs for 20 years, and a group of young ones don't know the happiness of being pigs at all, and they are all full of urgency!
Now the princes of the Ming Dynasty are in addition to those who have the name of "overcoming difficulties" (as long as the king of Tang, the king of Lu, the king of Dai, and the king of Luokun have a few princes who lead troops), the other kings have surrendered.
The prince's son is the king of the county, the son of the prince of the county is the prince of the county (only the hero can be the prince of the country), the son of the prince of the county is the marquis, the son of the prince is the uncle, the son of the uncle is the son, the son of the son is the man, and then the common people...... And a lord can only pass on one son, and the other sons are ordinary people!
You say this is in a hurry, isn't it?
Most of the prince's family has a bunch of sons, and there are still some sons in the world, what about the others? Can you not be anxious, can you not be anxious, can you not work hard?
But hard work doesn't mean results! It's impossible for everyone to be a top student! Although the baby from the prince's family can enter the best primary and secondary schools in Tianfu, there is no advantage when it comes to college, just a little more than one or two points...... This is still the "Beijing Department" (that is, Yingtian University, Nanjing Institute of Technology, Wuhan University of Arts and Sciences, Tianjin University and other institutions derived from the Beijing Academy) and the Department of Military Studies (various military colleges) to add points, and the "Department of Taixue" (Nanjing Taixue, Wuhan Taixue, Tianjin Taixue) and "Minxue Department" (private universities, mainly concentrated in Jiangnan, Jiangbei, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and other rich provinces) universities are not a plus.
And having extra points does not mean that you will definitely be able to get in, because there are many people who are eligible for extra points when they are admitted to the Beijing Department of Studies and Military Studies!
In addition, there are a bunch of half-military and half-civilian junior military academies such as army middle schools and navy middle schools under the various colleges of the military academy.
Compared with these students who entered the military academy in their teens, the children of the Wang Ye family have no advantage even if they add 20 points......
Therefore, a group of princes and the princes and grandchildren below are not anxious, and the success of the "fool king" Zhu Cihuan, who lost all the pension money of Emperor Chongzhen, made this group of anxious dragon sons and grandsons see hope!
The success of the three brothers, Zhu Cihong, Zhu Cijiong, and Zhu Cizhao, will not let them see hope. Because three of them are awesome! Needless to say, Zhu Cihong, Emperor Taizu Gao is alive!
Zhu Cijiong has been on the front line of the northern resistance!
Although Zhu Cizhao is a little worse than his two elder brothers, he also has the great merit of Ping'an Nan and saving Siam...... It's almost a tyrant in the south of the sky, who is still not convinced?
But Zhu Cihuan has no ability, everyone knows this...... In addition to being handsome, he has no advantages, he is a straw bale prince.
He can open a country of 15,000 miles overseas, why can't other dragon sons and grandsons?
So when the big guy saw that the title of the Jiaqing Kingdom was selling hotly, his heart warmed up.
The baron of Jiaqingguo is really in short supply! There are a total of 500 places, and 25 were taken away from Chongzhen, and there are 475 left, how many rich people and various second generations are there here in Yingtianfu? It sold out in less than ten days...... So Zhou Guozhang, who was far away in Suzhou Mansion, didn't know that there was such a good thing!
This money is easy to make like this, can everyone not be hot?
Of course, these hot-eyed guys don't know how much Zhu Cihuan spends on there!
The more than four million taels are not enough to spend at all - Zhu Cihuan is actually poor and happy.
But it's better to be poor and happy! Even if there is an overseas marquis, it is also a spiritual sustenance - even if there is no title of the Ming Dynasty, there is still an overseas marquis, it is still hereditary, and it is also a fief for the people......
Therefore, the princes of Ying Tianfu quickly formed the "Six Princes Founding Group" and came together to "ask for land" from Emperor Zhu.
The so-called "asking for land" is, of course, not to cut meat from the territory of the Ming Dynasty's direct provinces, internal subordinates, and foreign vassals, but to "invite the borderless land".
However, the "Borderlands" are limited after all, and there are even fewer of them that are closer to the Ming Dynasty and are wealthier.
Gotta hurry up and grab it!
"It's ours! Our brothers proposed it first, why did you grab it! ”
"I'm Prince Kenan, what are you? You're just a 'flow king' who descended on behalf of you, why are you fighting with me? ”
"Why? His Royal Highness King Fu is also involved! ”
"Your Majesty, the ministers of King Zhou's family have a lot of people, and they have long been unable to make ends meet...... And although my family did not have the merit to overcome difficulties, but when I stuck to Kaifeng Mansion, I also tried my best to protect my family and country, and spent millions of dollars for the city defense! ”
This group of princes is really messing around, and they actually quarreled around a huge globe in the Imperial Palace!
Zhu Cihong was angry when he saw them, and was about to open his mouth to reprimand, but Emperor Chongzhen, who didn't know when he came over, suddenly shouted: "Don't quarrel!" ”
When Emperor Zhu looked back, he saw that Emperor Chongzhen had arrived at the Imperial Palace with a few older sons.
Zhu Cihong was not very good, and when he saw Chongzhen coming, he didn't go to greet him, and where did he tease him: "Father, aren't you setting up a stall outside Renshou Palace?" Why did you come so soon? Everything sold out? ”
"What's sold out?" Chongzhen glared at his son, and then pointed at the group of princes who were arguing around the globe, "I'm going to be late, and the world is going to be divided!" ”
What will divide the world...... When Zhu Cihong was about to explain to Chongzhen, he heard the voice of the great eunuch Huang Xiaobao: "Your Majesty, Jiading Bo Zhoukui, please see him, and say that there is something important to report!" ”