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Although he refuted it, when he left the academy and returned to the inn, Zhu Mingzhong's heart seemed to have a flame burning there.

For a long time, the government and the opposition have been arguing about how to deal with the clan.

At the same time as Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, he formally established the feudal system. The so-called feudal system is to make one's own sons and individual clans as feudal workers, and let them lead elite troops to be stationed in fortresses across the country, and establish a military center under the direct control of the imperial power. On the one hand, it was used to consolidate the border defense, and on the other hand, it was used to weaken the military power of the meritorious generals, monitor the civil and military officials in various places, and use the powerful pro-vassal as a screen to ensure the consolidation of the Zhu imperial line. However, starting from Emperor Jianwen, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty continued to cut the feudal domains in order to ensure that the power was monopolized. The supervision, restraint, and restriction of the clan were repeatedly strengthened, and the system of "feudal ban" was gradually formed, which became stricter and more intensive, with the aim of suppressing and restraining it in all aspects. The "feudal ban" of the Ming Dynasty was the harshest and most demanding among the dynasties of Chinese feudal society. The royal families of the "heavenly nobles" and "dragon sons and phoenix grandchildren" have actually become some unconvicted prisoners who are kept in captivity in a city.

And what did you get in the end?

It's just dozens of vain vain vassal kings. When the rogues were rampant and the captives were cleared, those vassal kings who were confined to the palace like prisoners were killed and executed like pigs, and they were of no use at all, let alone "sandwiching the royal family".

Of course, it is not without the slightest use, compared to the disadvantages of the isolation of the royal family and the sluggishness of the clan in the Song Dynasty, although the vassal kings in the Ming Dynasty have constantly become the banner of the anti-Qing forces, at least there is a little use. will not be uprooted like the Song Dynasty.

It is precisely because of this that in the government and the opposition, Gu Yanwu, Huang Zongxi, Lu Liuliang, and people have all supported the feudal system, and even advocated that the vassal king lead the troops and the people, after all, the Qing Dynasty entered the prison and the reality of hundreds of millions of people being killed tragically, so that they clearly realized that if the vassal king of Jiashennian still led the troops like he did in the early Ming Dynasty, he might not be able to "assist the royal family", but at least he could save the living beings in the world from being destroyed.

Zhu Mingzhong, who advocated "great unification", naturally resisted these suggestions unceremoniously, and even began to learn from the Manchu Qing Dynasty's knighthood of princes, trying to place the clan in Nanjing and Beijing.

But on this issue, Zhu Mingzhong still seemed extremely hesitant.

After all, on the one hand, there was the disadvantage of the isolation of the royal family of the Song Dynasty and the sluggishness of the clan. On one side, there are many clans and vassals, so that the Ming can have a banner to resist foreign races with the vassal king. And in the bottom of my heart, of course, I also thought of the Xinhai year, and the helplessness of the Manchu clan in the face of the revolution.

What should be done with those vassal kings?

Of course, Zhu Mingzhong is not only thinking about King Gui, King Lu and other clans, those clans are just nominal "relatives", he has to consider his sons, now he has five sons, in the future, there will be more sons, is it like the Ming Dynasty to carry out "feudal ban", like a prisoner in the palace? Or, like the Manchu Qing Dynasty, let him be a vassal in the court. Or, as it is now, divided into the north and the south, and only exist as a special group of food? Of course, their descendants will not always be the Shilu clan, after all, the examination is reduced according to the lineage, and even reduced to the "idle clan" that does not enter the rank, except for the education in the public school, the punishment of crimes needs to be handed over to the Zongren government, and there is no difference between the common people and the common people.

However, whether it is the Tang and Song dynasties or the Yuan and Qing dynasties, when they are facing a crisis, the royal family is weak, and the reason is that there is no one to defend the royal family at the critical moment, relying on ministers? Zhu Wen? Or a "prince" like himself. If you want to maintain the world for a long time, you must rely on the power of the clan in order to achieve the purpose of defending the central government.

At least on this point, Zhu Yuanzhang's choice cannot be said to be wrong, what is the only mistake? I'm afraid it's the location of the separation!

And, of course, in the form of a split envelope!

Whether it is the pre-Qin period, or the Han Dynasty, or the Jin Dynasty, it has its own shortcomings, even the Ming Dynasty in absorbing the gains and losses of the previous dynasties to make the "only the lord and not the people, the division of the domain but not the land" system, there are also its drawbacks. After Zhu Yuanzhang's death, Zhu Yunwen could only choose to cut the feudal domain in order to strengthen the authority of the central government, and Zhu Di, who started by Jingnan, also chose to cut the feudal domain.

So what now?

Although the discussion of those young students did not fundamentally solve the problem, it made Zhu Mingzhong see another possibility. Although it was refuted on the surface, as soon as Zhu Mingzhong returned to the inn, he asked Luo Encheng to find a map of Nanyang, which was easy to find in Beijing, but not easy to find in Kaifeng. Then Zhu Mingzhong spread the map on the ground and studied it carefully.

Although this map is marked with the "Map of the Territory of the South Seas", but in fact there are not many places that belong to the Ming Dynasty, except for the Zhancheng Xianguo to set up the Champa Bu Political Envoy, that is, the Nantianmen and the Pingnan Bu Political Envoy established after the abolition of Burma, although two years ago, through negotiations, from the King of Chenla purchased tens of thousands of square miles of land at the mouth of the Mekong River, and set up the Quang Nam Governor, but in addition, there are only a few port strongholds located in the Pingnan Peninsula (Malay Peninsula).

In other words, in fact, the Ming Dynasty did not have many territories in Nanyang. However, even so, in order to promote immigration, in the past three years, a number of colonial expeditions have been published through newspapers and popular serials, and their routines are very simple, nothing more than how the children of poor families seek a livelihood, make a living, and then how to overcome obstacles overseas, achieve a career, and finally become famous.

This kind of thing was even written by Zhu Mingzhong, just to let people know that there are more prosperous existences outside the Ming Dynasty, as long as they want, they can open up 10,000 acres of manors there and obtain huge wealth.

There is Yan Ruyu in the book, not necessarily, but there must be Yan Ruyu overseas. There is a golden house in the book, which is not reliable, but there must be Huangshan and Hai overseas.

It is precisely because of these encouragements that a small number of Ming people took the initiative to join the ranks of overseas colonization, and of course, more Ming people knew that in addition to the Ming Dynasty, there was a broader world. They may not know how vast the overseas is, but they do know that it is not as barren as they think, and it is even richer. Those who taught people to take risks and make fortunes were certainly commonplace, but their merits were remarkable, and it spread a lot of knowledge to the people of the world through a special channel.

That's all that matters.

It is precisely for this reason that such a large map with a width of three fathoms and a height of two fathoms is hung in the library, the purpose of which is to tell the world how many islands, how many countries, and how many unknown places there are in the South Sea. And every unknown place is full of all kinds of opportunities.

Although the map of the South China Seas in front of Zhu Mingzhong is not accurate or perfect compared with later generations, it basically depicts the shape of the South Seas, with hundreds of large and small islands and hundreds of ports marked on the map.

Of course, there are still inaccuracies in this map, that is, now Batavia has become the territory of the Ming Dynasty, which is the Xuannan Prefecture of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Mingzhong has long made up his mind to pay attention to the fact that he wants to seal King Gui there, and the reason why he chose there as his fiefdom is not far enough, there is also a reason that King Gui believes in Catholicism, and Catholicism is the natural enemy of the local aborigines' religion, no matter what, he will not convert to his religion again. So, no one is better suited to go there than him.

What other places than Batavia would be suitable as a fief?

"Your Majesty."

Zhu Mingzhong, who was lying on the map, was engrossed in studying the map, and he only answered, and then pointed to Sumatra Island and said as if talking to himself.

"I remember that it was the Naval Intelligence Service that mentioned that the Dutch and the English had a stronghold here, and that there were Acehnese in the north. The English also established trading houses in Aceh and Champe, Sumatra...... This is ...... here."

Pointing to Sumatra on the map, Zhu Mingzhong muttered to himself.

"It's a good place to be, well, and here'......."

Fingers on Borneo, which is still a virgin land, except for a few princely states such as Brunei and Majin, there are no other forces, at most there are commercial bases in England or the Netherlands, like these small ports.

"Your Majesty......"

Again, Luo Sicheng shouted a second time, and Zhu Mingzhong raised his head to look at him. But seeing that he was looking at himself without saying anything, Zhu Mingzhong couldn't help asking.

"What's the matter?"

Luo Sicheng nodded, hesitated for a while, and then whispered.

"Your Majesty, Henan Governor Lu Liuliang knows that you are in Kaifeng, and he has come here to ask to see Your Majesty."

"Oh?"

Zhu Mingzhong was stunned for a moment, and then asked rhetorically.

"How did Lu Liuliang know that I was here?"

"This ......"

Luo Sicheng pondered his words for a moment. Then explained.

"Your Majesty, this matter is to blame for the minister's lack of consideration, when I was looking for a map for Your Majesty before, because it was only in the library, I had to borrow this map from the government."

"Oh, that's right."

Zhu Mingzhong disappreciatively turned his gaze back to the map, at this time in Kaifeng to find the map of the South Seas, without the appearance of the government, the library will never open the door, this point wants to find the map, it is indeed necessary to have the government, no wonder this map will be so big, if you are not mistaken, this map may even be the only map of the South Seas in Kaifeng, it seems that the popularization of geographical knowledge is still a long way to go.

"Since we already know that I am coming, let Governor Lu come in, it just so happens that I also have some things that I want to talk to him about."