"Third sister, Aunt Cha, Xiangyu, Zhen'e, Dongzhu, Erlin, Ajige, Gao Mei, Miho, Mary, Natalie, Sizhen, did you understand what I just said? Whoever doesn't want it, tell me now. ”

Tonight, the twelve concubines of Zhu Cihong's harem gathered together and went to Zhu Cihong's Yanshan Palace for dinner. After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Emperor Zhu told the big deal of "investment in the founding of the country" and the big guys.

The vast majority of these women have given birth to sons for Emperor Zhu, and several have given birth to more than one son, among which the youngest Miho Takada and Natalie are also pregnant, even if they did not have a son this time, with their age and the degree of favor, there will be opportunities in the future. Therefore, Zhu Cihong also counted the two of them as a share, and planned to give each of the twelve concubines a quota of "investment in the establishment of the country" - this is of course a new quota, and the Daming prince (son of Wu Sanmei), the king of Hezhong (the son of Zheng Chagu), and the king of Joseon (the son of Kim Dongzhu) who have been given out before do not account for the quota.

In other words, Wu Sanmei, Zheng Chagu and Jin Dongzhu can all take an extra share.

"Your Majesty, can my child become a king too?" Mary. Mancini asked Emperor Zhu with a wink of her big talking eyes. But this answer has long been written on her face.

Of course, she, the "royal mistress", wants to seek a throne for her son!

"Of course! Henry is my son, too! Zhu Cihong smiled and looked at Mancini.

This woman is now in her twenties, has given birth to two children, her body is completely grown, and her figure is not out of shape, which is the most charming time. And she is also very good at using her natural capital, which has fascinated Zhu Cihong in the past few years, and she has accumulated a huge amount of money.

Zhu Cihong unconsciously smiled at Mancini: "Mary, I will not treat little Henry badly, I will definitely prepare a fairly rich city-state for him, but you also have to invest some money for this city-state domain." ”

"Okay," Mary. Mancini smiled happily, "That's as it should be...... I should invest for Henry. ”

Of course, it is appropriate to be a mother to spend money for her son, and tonight, Emperor Zhu discussed this matter with his own women, and he also had the intention of pulling investment from them. It's not that Zhu Cihong can't get the money, but he knows that most of these women have their own little abacus, except for Wu Sanmei, who is the mother of the world, everyone doesn't treat the silver of the Royal Chamber of Commerce as their own.

So they have to invest a lot in their son's country, because only when they invest their own money do they know how to cherish it!

And when the mother cherishes, those who are sons will cherish!

"Your Majesty, there are twelve of us sisters, one person and one country is twelve countries, are there so many? We can't take all the benefits, right? ”

Empress Wu Sanmei took over from behind Mancini and spoke, she was supposed to be the first to speak, but was preempted by the Italian vixen. But she won't be as familiar as the little fox - the little fox has no name, and the son born doesn't need to be named by the Zhu family, so no matter how favored she is, she can't threaten Wu Sanmei in the slightest.

"It's impossible to build a big country like the United States," Zhu Cihong said with a smile, "I can't afford to build a 15,000-mile-square kingdom like the Jiaqing Kingdom...... However, city-states principalities are still possible. In fact, building a big country is burning silver, and although I am rich, I can't build thirteen money-burning countries at the same time.

That's why I want to build a kingdom of 10,000 miles for each of our twelve sons! ”

"Wanli?" Tokugawa Takako stuck out her tongue, "That's big too!" ”

"It's not big, it's not big," Zhu Cihong shook his head, "The so-called thousands of miles are not vertical and horizontal, but thousands of miles square...... It refers to the fertile soil that can be cultivated thousands of miles square, and the uncultivated mountains, forests, sandy lands, and tidal flats are not counted. ”

"How old is it?" Tokugawa Takako still didn't understand.

"About 4 million acres." Zhu Cihong said, "If the rent is collected according to one mu and five buckets, it will be 2 million stones." ”

"2,000,000 stones!"

Now Tokugawa Takako finally understood, "Then the twelve princes can get a total of 24 million stones, which is about the same size as Japan!" ”

"Actually, it's not that big," Zhu Cihong waved his hand, "Japan is full of mountains, and there is not much arable land. The kingdom I want to build for the twelve princes will be located on the Malacca Peninsula, which is not as large as Japan, but there is a lot of flat land, which should be enough to divide the twelve kingdoms square, and if it is not enough, I will carve out some more land on the island of Sumatra, opposite the Malacca Peninsula.

Therefore, I plan to choose a place where ports can be opened for trade and build twelve great cities, each of which is a land with a square land of thousands of miles. Each of the twelve princes you have given me will receive a big city and a duke's title, and at the same time, you can also receive the prince of the Ming Dynasty! ”

Wu Sanmei had seen the world map and knew the size of the Malacca Peninsula, so she smiled and said, "Is it a little squeezed to build twelve principalities in such a narrow place?" ”

Zhu Cihong shook his head: "Although the place is small, it is also rich, and it is even more stuck in the key point of the sea trade between the East and the West, even if you can't build twelve states, eight to nine are no problem, and the rest will be built on Sumatra Island." In this way, the Strait of Malacca can be firmly controlled! ”

It turned out that Zhu Cihong wanted to establish twelve city-states and principalities for his sons on the Malacca Peninsula and Sumatra.

The reason why it is necessary to build a bunch of city-states instead of a large kingdom is that the throat of Malacca is too important and too rich to be ruled by a single vassal state, otherwise it will be difficult to clean up once the vassal state grows bigger.

It would also be inappropriate to place the Strait of Malacca under the rule of a feudal town, which would not have control over the strait if it did not have a navy, and there was no need to set it up. If you have a navy, then the strength of this domain is too great.

And the establishment of a direct province in Malacca will not work either. The Strait of Malacca is the place where the three major civilizations of the Celestial Empire, the Celestial Religion, and Christianity collide. And the province can't deal with so many troublesome things at all, they all have to be reported to the imperial court, and the imperial court is eight thousand miles away - or by sea! How much time you spend on the road depends on the popularity, if you want to travel by land, it is at least 15,000 miles, and there is no post station for the general administration......

After careful consideration, Zhu Cihong chose the method of each of the twelve principalities to govern the land territory of the Strait of Malacca - these twelve city-states and principalities could adopt the method of "Han and Tongzhi", with the Ming Dynasty's merchant gentry and bureaucrats governing the city and suburbs, and the Japanese samurai families suppressing the countryside, and firmly controlling the land of the Strait of Malacca.

At the same time, the Malacca garrison fleet (Ming Navy) was established to control the strait passage. Thus turning the Strait of Malacca into the gateway to the southwest of the Celestial Empire's civilization circle!

Zheng Chagu still knows the situation in Nanyang better, and after listening to what Zhu Cihong said, she immediately frowned: "Your Majesty, Malacca is now the territory of the Dutch!" If we're going south......"

"Of course there will be a clash with the Dutch!" Zhu Cihong said with a smile, "The newspaper from the American government said that peace talks are underway with the Kingdom of New Spain, and an armistice treaty is expected to be reached this year!" In the event of a truce with Spain, we will be free to deal with the Netherlands. ”

"But if we go to war with the Netherlands, will Spain break the peace treaty?" Zheng Chagu still has a bit of an international vision, it's really not easy!

Zhu Cihong smiled: "Spain will not break the treaty, because Philip IV's life is not long...... As soon as he died, his son-in-law, Louis XIV, would attack the Spanish Netherlands. The Spaniards would have to fight the French with all their might, and maybe the Dutch would get involved in the war as well!

As soon as the Netherlands became involved, Britain would inevitably join the French side in the war...... The war was a life-threatening affair for Spain, so Don. Huang. Jose won't have the energy to fight us again. ”