February of the eighteenth year of Chenghua.

Now Liu Juntao is more than 60 years old, and he has been in charge of the Ming Dynasty for so many years, and has spread the concept of constitutional monarchy to all corners of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, although Liu Juntao was only in his sixties, in the face of the huge empire, the two forces of the royal family and the courtiers, and the forces of the Tiance Army, he had already begun to plan for the future in his heart.

Since ancient times, there have often been cases of people dying in government, and in order to prevent such a thing from happening to him, Liu Juntao once again reformed the Ming political system.

Under the chairmanship of Liu Juntao, the cabinet regarded the Ming Law as the supreme constitution of the Ming Dynasty, and everyone, including the Ming Emperor, must strictly abide by the Ming Law, which is the bottom line of some political ~ struggles.

Over the years, while the imperial court was operating, Liu Juntao maintained the majesty of the Ming Law everywhere, which was already the consensus of everyone at this time, so this move went very smoothly and did not encounter any obstacles.

After that, Liu Juntao ordered the division of the judicial, administrative, and military powers of the Ming Dynasty: the administrative power was controlled by civilian officials, and the main departments of the imperial court were responsible for the operation; The military power is controlled by the military people, the military department is fully responsible, and the officials in the internal government are basically military people; The judicial power is controlled by a large court composed of civil officials, military officials, gentry, royal families, and prominent figures among the common people, this large court is a new institution established by Liu Juntao three years ago, and it is a transcendent institution independent of the imperial court system, which can prevent the interference of power in the law to the greatest extent.

As the mediator of all parties and the contact person of the imperial power and the regime, the cabinet chief assistant controls the direction of the political situation in an all-round way, and unites all parties to formulate various policies of the Ming Empire.

The emperor of the Ming Empire is as the head of state and symbol of the Ming Dynasty, with the power of amnesty to the world, rewarding courtiers, declaring war and negotiating peace, etc., the cabinet chief assistant has the responsibility to report the national policy to the emperor, the emperor has the right to reject the state affairs that have objections, but there is no veto power, all the state affairs that are rejected by the emperor, the cabinet chief assistant must convene a plenary meeting to re-certain, and must be voted by all officials above the third grade, only more than two-thirds of the officials agree to implement it.

At the same time, Liu Juntao also stipulated that the first assistant to the cabinet and all Ming officials will implement a term of office system, with a five-year term of office, a maximum of two consecutive terms, and a general election every five years.

After the promulgation of this article, Emperor Chenghua immediately stood up and agreed, but then Emperor Chenghua decreed: Liu Juntao, as the first cabinet chief assistant of the Ming Empire under the constitutional monarchy, has a great responsibility and must lay a solid foundation for the future development of the Ming Empire, so Liu Juntao, the first assistant of the cabinet, is not among the term limits!

As soon as this news came out, the government and the opposition were in an uproar. Liu Juntao also hurriedly stated that he would complete this reform within one or two terms, and completely stabilize the results of this reform, and then he would return to his hometown!

This news was even more exciting, and the government and the opposition immediately talked about it and did not mention it.

After another two years, in a blink of an eye, when Liu Juntao was sixty-five years old, Emperor Chenghua set up a banquet in the palace to celebrate Liu Juntao's birthday.

At this time, the Ming Empire has begun to expand outward, with the various departments of the Tiance Army as the core, the Ming Empire has built and expanded one hundred and seventy Praetorian Guards, as well as more than five hundred new military camps, with a total strength of more than six million!

Of course, not all of these troops are composed of the people of the Ming Dynasty, except for the 170 Janissaries, the rest of the more than 500 new military camps are all made up of Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Burma, Luzon and other countries, as well as the tribes of Mobei and the Western Regions, and are armed and trained by the Ming Empire.

At this time, millions of troops and thousands of warships of the Ming Empire are fighting endlessly in India, South Seas, Central Asia and other places, and Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and other Western countries are also fighting for these places.

These Western countries are not opponents at all in the face of the Ming Empire, which is close at hand, strong in the country, and full of soldiers and food, and began to retreat backwards in all directions, and the armies of the Ming Empire have opened up vast colonies around them, almost all of Southeast Asia and South Asia have become colonies of the Ming Empire, and the natives of these places have also become the labor force of the Ming Empire, and all of them were "hired" by the merchants who came from all over the country to open the workshop.

At the same time, in order to completely suppress Western countries, the Ming Empire sent several huge ocean-going fleets to the Americas and Europe, on the one hand, competing with Western countries for colonies around the world, and on the other hand, directly marching to Europe, implementing the policy of drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle. Liu Juntao was also based on the current international situation, and on his sixty-fifth birthday, he proposed to Emperor Chenghua in public the theory of the Nine Costumes of the Son of Heaven.

According to Liu Juntao's meaning, it is to divide all the countries in the world according to distance and proximity, pros and cons, and relatives, and then ~ treat them differently.

Whoever is distant and hostile is a Tartar; The country that is close and close at hand is a vassal, and after such a treatment, Liu Juntao included all the surrounding countries of the Ming Empire and the countries of the European continent, and this assertion also laid the foundation for the foreign strategy of the Ming Empire in the next few decades.

A few months later, Liu Guodong, the eldest son of Liu Juntao in the capital, was elected as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry and entered the cabinet, and then Liu Guodong immediately summoned the skilled craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry to hurry up to produce new firearms, and a year later all of them were shipped to the coast of Shandong and other places.

At the same time, Liu Guoliang, the second son of Liu Juntao, led a huge fleet of new-type ironclad ships to the Taiwan Island Naval Base, where he joined up with several ironclad fleets that had already stayed there, waiting for the various new firearms that the Ministry of Industry was about to deliver.

After waiting for the arrival of the firearms from the Ministry of Industry, Liu Guodong and several of his generals were chatting and laughing, and after everyone waited for the firearms from the Ministry of Industry to arrive, they would lead this huge fleet composed of nearly 200 ironclad warships to go on an expedition to Europe, bypassing the Indian Ocean and confronting Europe, and fighting the European coalition forces together with the 800,000 army that had already gone through the Western Regions and the West!

Before that, the elite of the seven most powerful Tiance armies of the Ming Empire, the Longxiang Army, the Trapping Army, the Eagle Yang Army, the Zhichong Army, the Yue Cavalry Army, the Changshui Army, and the Tiger Ben Army, had already slaughtered the European continent, and gathered and annihilated more than 100,000 European and continental coalition troops in three battles and three victories, and for a time the Western countries were all broken!

At this time, Liu Juntao and Guo Muying went to Chengdu, where they bought a mansion and prepared to live in seclusion here after retirement.

Knowing that his second son Liu Guodong was about to go on an expedition to Europe, and at the same time, several grandsons were also busy in different departments of the DPRK and China for this great war, Guo Muying was very worried. And Liu Juntao said with a smile: "My mission has ended, I have let the Ming Empire embark on an unprecedented road, this is a road to the universe, now is a new journey that the children and grandchildren will rush to, it is the great era of the Ming Dynasty, the children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, let them fight and break through, I believe that our children and grandchildren can bring China an incomparably glorious future!" ”