Now that this stage of expansion has come to an end for the time being, in the next few years, the Ming Dynasty will do its best to digest the captured territory, and will not continue to use troops abroad for the time being.

The next morning, the hundred officials were already waiting in the palace.

Before Zhu Ci stumbled out, a eunuch took the world map in the Jinluan Palace and replaced it with a new world map.

Hundreds of officials look together, the new world map will be Myanmar and other southeastern four countries removed, and Luzon Island has been incorporated into the Ming Dynasty like Australia, replaced with the color of the Ming Dynasty's golden territory, now look at the new world map, the Ming Dynasty from South Australia to North Baikal, how vast, caused many civil and military officials to sigh.

"The emperor has arrived!"

As the eunuch shouted, Zhu Ci stumbled into the Jinluan Palace.

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

"Flat!" Zhu Ci staggered and sat on the dragon chair.

"Emperor Xie!" Only then did the civil and military officials get up, showing the majesty of Emperor Zhu Cijiao.

Originally, Zhu Cijiao had considered canceling the kneeling and changing the system of the audience, but after discussing with Li Yan, Zhu Cijiao dismissed this decision.

The reason is very simple, the territory of the Ming Dynasty is getting bigger and bigger, and many places have really become places far away from the emperor of the mountains, and it takes a month to contact them once, such as Australia and other places.

The kneeling was originally intended to increase the prestige of the emperor and was a manifestation of centralization.

As the territory of the Ming Dynasty grows larger and larger, it will become more and more difficult to control, and before the telegraph and radio come out, the emperor needs absolute prestige and centralized power, so even if Zhu Ciji plans to cancel the kneeling and change the audience system, it will not be at the moment, he will look for a suitable time.

"Congratulations to the emperor, congratulations to the emperor, the Ming Dynasty once again opened up the territory, the emperor's exploits are far better than the Qin Emperor and Han Wu, comparable to the ancient Xuanyuan Emperor!" Yesterday, Zhu Ci only accepted Li Yan's congratulations, and this morning, another official immediately stood up to congratulate him.

The emperor's horses, except for some special people, no one is too much to photograph.

However, there are sycophants, and it does not necessarily mean that there are no ones who come out to pour cold water.

No, an old minister who couldn't see it stood up, this was an old minister with a fourth-rank official rank.

"Your Majesty, the old minister implores the emperor not to rejoice in his great achievements, work the people and lose money, and do useless work in vain!" The old minister said with a sad face.

Being poured cold water like this, even if Zhu Ci didn't care about the sycophants, he was inevitably uncomfortable in his heart, and his brows immediately frowned.

"What did Aiqing say? How can I rejoice in my achievements, work the people and waste money, and do useless deeds in vain? Zhu Ci frowned and asked with a straight face.

"Back to the emperor, Burma and other southeastern countries and Luzon Island Lao Chen will not talk about it, but the old minister has read the so-called Australian explanation, not only is it sparsely populated, there are only a few uncivilized aborigines, at most it can only be regarded as a wild land, and more importantly, it is so far away from the Central Plains, it will take more than a month to pass a letter, the emperor really shouldn't spend the people and money to occupy such a place, and do useless work!" The old minister said.

In fact, from the very beginning, when the Ming Dynasty first opened up its territory to attack Annam and Korea, there were a group of ministers who opposed it, most of them were elderly ministers, even Liu Zongzhou and Huang Daozhou were opposed.

Although the opposition voices subsided after the pressure of his explanation, and the two leaders, Liu Zongzhou and Huang Daozhou, basically stopped talking, it was impossible to eliminate all the opposing voices after all, and there were still people who were unwilling and insisted on their beliefs, believing that they should not open up their territory to the outside world.

Since someone jumped out again, this time Zhu Cihesan didn't plan to let it go as if he hadn't heard it.

"Who else is like this Aiqing, who thinks that I am a great achievement, working for the people and money, and doing useless work?" Zhu Ci frowned, glanced at the ministers below and asked.

After some old ministers looked at each other a few times, about 20 officials stood up, mostly old ministers, to Zhu Cihe's surprise, Liu Zongzhou and Huang Daozhou also stood up, Zhu Cicheng immediately sneered in his heart, it seems that the silence between the two of them before just didn't have the right time, it's not that they have given up opposing the use of troops abroad, especially overseas.

"Your Majesty, the minister also thinks that the emperor should not use troops excessively with foreign countries, especially in a wild place like Australia, far away from the Central Plains, and should not continue to occupy it! The people of the world also need a tranquility, and the emperor should not continue to use troops with foreign countries in the future, but only need to consolidate the current territory of the Ming Dynasty. "This is what Huang Daozhou said.

"The ministers seconded it!" Liu Zongzhou and more than 20 other officials also insisted on this statement and agreed with Huang Daozhou.

Since someone has already come out to start, they don't want to continue to be silent, they think that Zhu Ciji has become more and more excessive recently, and if it continues like this, it will really evolve into a great joy and hurt the country.

After these people finished speaking, Zhu Ci sneered and said, "Is it useless for me to open up my territory to the outside world? Hum! Huang Daozhou, I have already told you that I opened up the territory for the Ming Dynasty for the sake of future Chinese descendants, not for the sake of useless merit and loss of money! ”

"Do you think that the current territory of the Ming Dynasty is big enough? But I tell you, it's not enough! Far from enough! Daming currently has a population of nearly 170 million, and there will be more in the future, 1.7 billion, or even billions! If the Ming Dynasty does not have enough territory, how can the Chinese nation feed so many descendants? ”

"I once said that there were two real expansions in Chinese history, one was the ancient Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor, who annexed thousands of tribes and laid the foundation of the territory of the later Xia and Shang dynasties. The second time was the Qin Emperor Han Wu, who thoroughly opened up the Lingnan Baiyue and the Western Regions, and also laid the foundation of the territory of the later dynasties until the early Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty! If it had been the idea of Emperor Xuanyuan and Emperor Wu of Qin and Han Wu in ancient times, my Huaxia would have been wiped out in the long river of history, and it would have been replaced by another nation! ”

"If the Ming Dynasty does not have the ability to expand its territory, or it needs to spend a huge price, the price of shaking the country's capital, I will not expand the territory, but the Ming Dynasty is currently fully powerful, and only needs to pay a small price to expand the territory, why not carry out the third expansion of the territory, maybe this time I can also lay a territorial foundation for many generations in the future!"

Zhu Ci staggered with a straight face, Huang Daozhou and some other civil and military officials have always been very resistant to opening up the territory, Zhu Ci is too lazy to ask him to forcibly push every time he wants to expand the territory, he tries to really convince all the civil and military officials.

"But the emperor, have you ever thought that even if the Ming Dynasty expands its territory, but if the territory is too far away, it will take a long time to contact, how can the imperial court implement effective control, and it cannot be effectively managed, even if the emperor's generation can control it, but it will be lost one day in the future, and it is also useless!" Huang Daozhou insisted on his own opposition.

"Yes, Your Majesty, forget about other places, but Australia is so far away, the emperor has to send troops to occupy it, it's too inappropriate!" Liu Zongzhou also shook his head and said.

This is the main reason for their opposition, and I have to say that Huang Daozhou and others have a certain amount of truth. Territories that are too far away can be contacted for a long time, and if they can't be effectively managed, they may indeed lose a day, especially when those territories have a certain strength of their own.

Historically, the thirteen states of North America, a British colony far from the British mainland, immediately rebelled and broke away from the British after they had their own power and the ability to resist, because they were too far away from the British and the British could not effectively govern the reason, when the British learned that the thirteen states of North America rebelled, it was more than a month later, even if the British reacted quickly, when the order was transmitted to the thirteen states, it was more than a month, and the transfer of troops from the mainland was not something that could be done overnight. When the British mobilized enough troops to rush to the thirteen states to quell the rebellion, because too much time had passed, the rebel forces in the thirteen states had developed too much, and finally because of the slow response, the British were powerless and could only watch the independence of the thirteen states.

For example, take Australia as an example, such a large continent, once the Ming Dynasty is fully developed and a large number of immigrants are immigranted, after a few decades, when the population above is large enough to a certain extent, it will also form its own power, and because it is too far away from the Central Plains, it will take a long time to contact each other, and it will inevitably be easy to have accidents.

Of course, Zhu Cijiao knew all this, in fact, before the telegraph and radio came out, it was still impossible to effectively manage the territory that was too far away.

In fact, if you really want to talk about it, even if Daming has a railway connection, in fact, according to the current capacity, it can effectively control the Strait of Malacca and the Indonesian archipelago at most, because the railway can be built to these places, but a place like Australia is not good, it is too far.

However, Zhu Ciji also has his own plans, Australia is too far away, and if it has its own power, it is indeed easy to cause chaos.

But Australia will not have its own power, don't look at this continent is big enough, but there are only less than 800,000 uncivilized indigenous population, it can be ignored, if you want to talk about the above forces, then there is only Yan Yingyuan's Fourth Army, but Yan Yingyuan's only one Fourth Army is not enough to resist the entire Ming Dynasty, and Yan Yingyuan is impossible to resist the Ming Dynasty, so as long as the Ming Dynasty does not immigrate a large number of people to Australia, there will be no big forces in Australia. In that way, even if Australia is far enough away from the Ming Dynasty, it is impossible to break away from the Ming Dynasty's control one day.

"I know this statement, but on the Australian side, at least in my first generation, I can guarantee that it will not be able to break away from the control of the Ming Dynasty, and in my first generation, I will also try my best to develop a way to be able to contact each other thousands of miles away, and when the time comes, I can contact at will, and I will be able to control it firmly, in fact, the Academy of Science and Technology is already a little frowned, there is something called telegraph and radio that can do it!" Zhu Ci said.

In order to prove what he said, Zhu Ciji even broke out such advanced things as telegraph and radio.

"This, this, is simply ridiculous! Your Majesty, how can there be anything in this world that can only be contacted by a breath thousands of miles away, the so-called telegraph, radio? These things are simply unheard of, and this is absolutely impossible! "Not to mention more than 20 old ministers such as Huang Daozhou, even other civil and military officials don't believe it.

It's so advanced that no one can believe the same description as the miracle.

"Is it impossible?" Zhu Ci staggered and said, "Before the railway and train came out, who would have thought that a car that didn't need to be pulled by oxen and horses could run? There are many things you can't think of, but I promise you that within ten years, I want you to see the results, and before that, I will not emigrate to Australia on a large scale, and I will not continue to send troops further overseas. ”

Zhu Ci used his promise to lure and temporarily dispel the opposition of Huang Daozhou and others.

Nowadays, the research and development of telegraph and radio has been approved by the Academy of Science and Technology, and any science and technology, as long as there is a feasible theory, and then through continuous experiments, it can be made, Zhu Ciji predicts that ten years may be enough for the Academy of Science and Technology to initially develop the telegraph, and it may not be directly usable at that time, as long as there are results and people can see the way forward, I believe that no one will have any reason to oppose the use of troops overseas.

Hearing Zhu Ci's promise, Huang Daozhou and more than 20 other opposing ministers looked at each other and nodded to each other.

They don't care if anything like telegraph and radio is true or not, they only care about Zhu Ci's promise that they will not continue to use troops further overseas within ten years, whether this means that the Ming Dynasty will be at peace for a while.

"The Emperor Shengming!" Huang Daozhou and the others retreated in compromise.

Now that Zhu Ciji has promised, they can't say anything anymore, and they are also worried that they will say too much, and Zhu Ciji will insist on going his own way and never listen to their opinions anymore, which will be even worse.

Seeing Huang Daozhou and the other old ministers retreat, Zhu Ci shook his head helplessly.

However, although he promised these Huang Daozhou and others not to use troops further overseas within ten years, Zhu Ciji did not say that the Ming Dynasty would not continue to expand its territory within ten years. The Ming Dynasty did not use troops further overseas, but Tsarist Russia in the north, the Cossack Khanate in the northwest, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty were all places where the Ming could continue to expand its territory, and the Ming Dynasty would have taken several years to digest the four southeastern countries such as Myanmar and Luzon Island, and when the Ming Dynasty completely digested these places and solved the surrounding problems, I am afraid that ten years would not be enough, so Zhu Cijiao actually promised and did not promise much different.

Huang Daozhou and other old ministers thought that Zhu Ci had compromised, but if they knew Zhu Ci's calculations, they didn't know if they would vomit blood directly.

But regardless of these, the next thing for the Ming Dynasty is to digest the territory of the four southeastern countries such as Myanmar first.

Immediately, Zhu Ciji discussed with his ministers the matter of transforming and assimilating Burma and other southeastern countries and Luzon Island.