The news of the birth of the Prince of Daming quickly caused a stir in various places......

Of course, there are also those who are not jubilant.

Jingjiang Palace.

This Jingjiang palace is not Guilin's, the Jingjiang king has entered the dynasty, and built a luxurious palace in the southern capital, in this prosperous city, living a life of fine clothes and food, only the prince of Jingjiang stayed in Guilin......

"King!"

Lu Jiude said with a smile.

Zhu Hengjia, the king of Jingjiang, looked at him with a smile.

"Regarding the canonization of our Ming prince, the protector wants our family to ask the king, as the clan clan who is currently guarding the southern Xinjiang for the Ming Dynasty, does the king have any different opinions on this. If there is really one, you must say it clearly, you also know that the Protector is very respectful to the kings of the clan, although the prince is the son of the empress, but after all, the surname is Yang, even if it is supported by the Four Peoples' Congress, the Protector will inevitably be a little panicked in his heart. After all, the Protector was loyal to the first emperor, but His Majesty insisted, and the Four Peoples Assembly also insisted, he couldn't refuse alone, if the king could take the lead and oppose it with the kings of the clan, the Protector could also have a helper. ”

Lu Jiude said.

I believe you're a ghost, you bad old man is very bad!

King Jingjiang slandered.

How dare he disagree on such a thing?

If he was in Guilin, maybe he would dare to complain a few words, but at this moment in Nandu, it is nothing more than meat on Yang Qing's caseboard, and if he dares to disagree, it is estimated that he will not see the sun tomorrow, maybe this dead eunuch in front of him will carry poison!

"Since it is the decision of the Four People's Assembly, then no matter whether Xiao Wang or the Protector of the Prince, he must obey, even if the Protector of the Kingdom does not agree, he must accept this result, if the Protector of the Kingdom opposes the canonization of the emperor's eldest son as the crown prince, then the little king will not agree to it first!"

He said righteously.

"That's good, that's good, in fact, the protector is too pedantic, if you want to say that the prince's body is also the blood of the first emperor, and his grandson is also a grandson, don't you say?"

Lu Jiude said with a smile.

What else could Zhu Hengjia say, so he had to nod solemnly.

Then Lu Jiude looked at him with a smile.

Zhu Hengjia smiled awkwardly.

Lu Jiude continued to laugh at Mimi and looked at him.

Zhu Hengjia was furious with laughter, and he looked at Lu Jiude with inquiring eyes.

"That, shouldn't the king say it, this crown prince's canonization is a celebration of the whole world, whether it is the courtiers, the town generals or even the people, they are all preparing gifts for the prince for 100 days, the king is a close relative of the clan, and Yu Gong is a minister of the domain, do you also have to prepare a gift for the prince for 100 days?"

Lu Jiude said.

"Naturally, Xiao Wang has sent someone to Guilin to let the dog prepare."

Zhu Hengjia said busily.

Lu Jiude told the truth, since the prince's decree was announced to the world, the prince's 100-day ceremony has been prepared everywhere, whether it is the government or the army, the generals, and even the emperors, the gentry, the foreign envoys stationed in the southern capital, and so on. Not to mention those lords, whether it is the clan lords headed by King Fu or the knights with different surnames headed by Mu Tianbo, they are all preparing gifts, and he and King Gui are naturally no exception. Even the two of them have to prepare real generous gifts, after all, their situation is different, and it is difficult to satisfy Yang Qing, a villain, without paying hundreds of thousands of taels.

"What kind of gift did the king prepare?"

Lu Jiude said with a teacup.

"It's hard to say this little king, it should be some rare treasures and the like."

Zhu Hengjia said.

"Your Majesty, this is not right, do you think Her Majesty the Empress and the Protector Guild lack rare treasures? As far as I know, Her Majesty is preparing to issue a decree for this purpose, expressly rejecting the use of treasures as gifts. ”

Lu Jiude said.

"What do you mean?"

Zhu Hengjia said suspiciously.

Lu Jiude is the eunuch of the imperial property affairs, so he can be called the governor.

"Dedication!"

Lu Jiude brushed the tea leaves inside with the lid of the cup and said indifferently.

"Huh?"

Zhu Hengjia was stunned.

"What congratulatory gift can the king give compared to the sacrifice of earth? It's not that the king should give too much, it is enough to dedicate the fief of Liuzhou Mansion to the prince, the king has more than a dozen prefectures and prefectures, and takes out a Liuzhou Mansion as a gift for the prince's 100 days, isn't it enough to show the king's loyalty to Her Majesty the Empress? ”

Lu Jiude said.

Zhu Hengjia wanted to spit on his face.

I robbed Nanning before, then robbed Xunzhou and Wuzhou, and now I am thinking about Liuzhou again, which is nothing more than encroaching step by step. There is also a Liuzhou Mansion, although Guangxi is large, but the real core is nothing more than the three mansions of Guilin Pingle and Liuzhou, and the rest is basically all the territory of Tusi. Moreover, Liuzhou is still second only to Guilin, the actual area is larger than Guilin, and more importantly, Liuzhou crosses Guangxi, and in the case that Yang Qing has controlled Nanning, Liuzhou is connected to the whole Guangxi and divided into two. The remaining Qingyuan, Sien and other mansions on the other side were cut off from Guilin, needless to say that they would soon be eaten away again, leaving him with Guilin and Pingle as the actual control area.

You're so shameless.

But......

Is he qualified to refuse?

"What does the king think?"

Lu Jiude looked at him with a smile and said.

"Governor, let me think about it!"

Zhu Hengjia said with a stiff smile.

"Then I will wait for the king's results, but don't worry, the king is refusing, Her Majesty the Empress will not do anything to you, Her Majesty the Empress and the Lord Protector will respect your choice."

Lu Jiude said.

With that, he got up and took his leave.

"Duke, is the same with King Gui?"

Zhu Hengjia asked behind him.

"King Gui, our family will also propose to him."

Lu Jiude said without looking back.

Of course, King Gui is the same, Yang Qing is trying to give his son a hundred days, and then encroach on the surroundings, not only King Jingjiang and King Gui, but even he of the outer domains has not let go. The king of Korea also has to give a piece of land, it doesn't matter how big or small, but he has to give a piece of meaning, and the king of Vietnam also has to give it, and the same is another story. They also have a small enclave in Guangxi, that is, the three islands of the Jing nationality, and actually include the Bailong Peninsula, but this is too small, and Yang Qing is ready to let them take Mong Cai with them. Anyway, for the Zheng family, this is also a border area of little value, if they don't give it, then Yang Qing will have to send a fleet to Qinghua.

They wouldn't be so stupid.

At this time, as long as Yang Qing sent a batch of arms to the Ruan family in the south, or sent a Ming army to the Mo family in Gaoping to help, then the Zheng family would be dumbfounded.

In addition, there was Cambodia, which was controlled by the Phnom Penh dynasty, and Siam, which was controlled by the Ayutthaya dynasty, which also had to be sacrificed, and further afield, Ryukyu, and Bo Ni......

The land must be sacrificed.

Because Yang Qing's oil is no longer enough.

The little oil production in Sichuan was completely unable to meet his industrial needs, because by this time the textile factories in Jiangsu and Zhejiang had learned to work three shifts.

And at night it is necessary to light up.

In this era, there were no electric lights, and the only option was oil lamps, and they were large, specialized industrial lamps with glass covers on all sides, and they had to burn half a cylinder of oil overnight. Then whale oil is obviously very expensive, on the contrary, kerosene for oil refining is cheap, and this kind of lamp oil, which still smells because it has not been further processed, is entering all factories. The family is basically useless, the smell is unbearable, but the factory doesn't care about this, those capitalists don't care if the workers like it or not!

As long as it's cheap.

As a result, the consumption of this lamp oil skyrocketed.

And the little oil that Zhang Xianzhong extracted in Sichuan is completely insufficient, after all, Sichuan is not a real oil-producing area, it is brought out by natural gas wells, and it was enough to only supply hot air balloons in the past, but when all those factories use this, it is completely insufficient.

So you have to go to Brunei, or Bo Ni as it is now called, to extract the oil that is only about 100 meters deep.

This depth is easy.

And it is also a Tama low-pressure self-blowing well.

It's still right by the sea, and you can load it directly on the ship after picking it out.

It was just flawless.

Similarly, if Bo Ni disagrees, then the Ming Navy has to come to the door, since they have already paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty, then don't expect to send some local products every few years to finish the matter, as the vassals of the Ming Dynasty must listen to the empress. Those who dare not listen to the empress are traitors, and for traitors, it is necessary to go to the Ming army, Yang Qing has built ten battleships for the navy over the years, six of which are actually the standard version of the seventy-four gun third-class ships. This is all in the Nanyang Naval Division, and the Nanyang Naval Division has a total of fifty cruisers of various types, plus an elite marine army, this strength is enough to deter the Nanyang, since the large-scale war at home is over, it has to start expanding overseas.

Receiving a full moon gift for his son was the first wave.

Later, when Her Majesty the Empress gave birth to one, he forced these guys to sacrifice once, and even the Empress had to sacrifice it once on her birthday, in short, he was clever in his name, and he kept forcing others to donate soil like those officials who had birthdays many times a year.

But it's not the end.

In fact, at this time, the vast majority of small countries in Nanyang have resumed their claim to the Ming Dynasty, they don't care about this, they were like this in the past, so now in the face of aggressive European colonizers, why don't they hug this thigh again?

Da Ming is a good boss!

In their memory, this boss is truly perfect, but unfortunately they don't know that this boss has also learned badly under the auspices of Yang Qing. The main purpose of Yang Qing's expansion is the Dragon Tooth Gate, and he has to force the Sultan of Johor or the King of Johor of the Ming Dynasty, who was just given the Golden Seal last year, to proclaim the consolation envoy of Malacca, and dedicate the Dragon Tooth Gate to Her Majesty the Empress as a 100-day gift for the crown prince.

Do you dare to give?

You are a rebellion, you have to understand that you are already the king of the Ming Dynasty!

Well, when the King of Johor received the golden seal, he must not have imagined that what he was holding in his hand was actually a shackle, and he had to obey the Empress of the Ming Dynasty from the moment he received the golden seal.