At the court meeting on the first day of the eighth month, Zhu Di and Zhu Zhanji sat side by side on the high dragon chair in the parliament hall and accepted the worship of the leaders of various tribes in Dongzhou.

Most of them lived in an environment similar to that of primitive tribes, with no cloth, no silk, only linen and animal skins.

They don't have iron pots, no stir-frying, no seasonings, only clay pots to cook soup and barbecue.

They have no alcohol, no tea, only raw juice drinks.

They had no iron tools, no wheels, and relied on stones, sticks, and gold tools to fight. Even the most developed Aztecs, the kingdom of Cusco, the king's guide to travel relied on walking.

They have no industry, only primitive agriculture, and when they came to Daming, they knew that the world could still refine all kinds of things from nature.

In their eyes, Daming is heaven, a paradise they have never dreamed of.

With a huge city and an excellent civilization, anyone can be intoxicated by it.

Everyone knelt down on the rostrum with joy and sincerity, expressing their submission to Zhu Di and Zhu Zhanji.

Most of the tribal leaders pleaded with the Ming Dynasty, hoping that the Ming Dynasty could send craftsmen, farmers, and officials to them to lead them to live a good life.

Zhu Di is also very curious about the natives of Dongzhou, he didn't expect that in the distant Dongzhou, there are still natives who are so similar to the Ming people, many of the natives, now put on the clothes of the Ming Dynasty, and they look almost the same as the Ming people.

Of course, there are also some natives who are quite different from the Ming people, and Zhu Di is much more indifferent to them. In his eyes, only those who are like himself are trustworthy, and those who are not like him are a dead person.

In the past few days, he has been taking Hou Xian with him, even when he goes out to play, and keeps asking him about everything in Dongzhou.

That rich continent really attracted him, and he told Zhu Zhanji more than once that he wanted to personally take the fleet to Dongzhou.

But Zhu Zhanji thought of his old cold legs, persuaded him, and wanted him to run south.

Because the immigrants from Nanzhou are imminent, if Zhu Di personally goes to suppress the formation, even if he doesn't dare to do anything, he can shock everyone.

As for Dongzhou, Zhu Zhanji will not send the nobles over at all, and the only ones who can go there are generals below the command level.

Moreover, Zhu Zhanji will not send officials over for the time being. It will be two or three years later at the earliest, when the army will take control of that area, and then appoint officials.

Of course, Confucian scholars, craftsmen, and farmers will send a batch of them over from next year. Teach the natives to make simple tools, teach them to plough the land, mine, learn to speak the Ming language, and learn to write the Ming characters.

Now that Zhu Di has returned from his western expedition, and all the departments of the Beijing Guard have returned to Beijing, there are too many troops around Ying Tianfu.

His young army numbered more than 40,000 people, and so many people had idle food, so it was better to send them directly to Dongzhou.

The main thing was the navy, and the soldiers were the first to emigrate. It is mainly voluntary, and each soldier who volunteers will be given different sizes of land and servants according to his rank.

Yes, those natives of the Eastern Continent have become their servants. And this arrangement was not opposed by those natives, and even considered it an honor.

Zhu Zhanji has been working on this plan for several years.

The land allocated to all the admirals was coastal and dominated by the eastern plains.

The commanders will be the most senior officials, and each of them will be given a thousand miles of land and five thousand servants.

These thousands of miles of land, resting in the afterlife, are almost equivalent to 250 square kilometers.

And the command of the first level of the staff is halved, and the garrison, the thousand total is halved again. When it came to ordinary soldiers, each of them could be given ten miles of land and fifty servants.

The total area of the North and South American continents is more than 40 million square kilometers, and according to the current calculation method of the Ming Dynasty, multiplied by four times, there are more than 100 million miles.

Even if 100,000 soldiers were sent over, they would only occupy five percent of the coastal land.

Of course, Zhu Zhanji didn't have so many soldiers sent over now, so he could only slowly try to occupy those natural ports first, radiate out with these ports, and slowly occupy them.

As for those servants, of course, they need to find them after these soldiers have passed and talk to those tribes.

The purpose of dividing a standard now is to give those soldiers a limit that cannot be exceeded at any time in the future.

Wait until the coastal area over there is gradually developed, and then appoint officials. More than ten years later, when his sons became adults, they were divided into the past, and each occupied a large area.

And these soldiers, when they immigrate, the imperial court will provide weapons, seeds, carts and carts, all kinds of tools and iron pots, and nothing else.

Beginning in the second year, the imperial court did not even issue money, and only provided funds for the operation of the fleet and the supply of weapons.

These soldiers need to be self-reliant over there, but they still have the responsibility to defend the frontier.

They don't have to worry at all, everyone can share such a large territory, and it is still fertile land, how can they not starve.

The role of the Young Army is to expand inland and control the mineral resources there.

These mineral resources are used to provide naval funds and construction funds, which are allocated by the internal superintendent.

The task of the internal supervisors is more arduous, they need to transport all kinds of materials to the Dongzhou continent, establish trade routes, and in the future, they need to transport the goods and minerals of Dongzhou back, and then transport the materials needed there.

In fact, Zhu Zhanji also knew that they would not cultivate all the land allocated to them.

Most soldiers need to do military service, so much land, with dozens of servants, how much can be cultivated?

But all the produce of those lands is theirs except for minerals, and they are not hungry at will, and they can even trade through their production to get rich.

Such good conditions certainly attracted many soldiers to sign up, especially the soldiers who had been to Dongzhou, and they naturally knew that it was a good place.

It's better to be a master than an ordinary soldier in Daming.

Since Zhu Zhanji was only recruiting immigrants from within the navy and the young army, this move also aroused the dissatisfaction of many people. There are also many clans, nobles, who want to change the sub-feudal Nanzhou to the sub-feudal Dongzhou.

But Zhu Zhanji left these twists and turns in the middle, so that people don't know what his idea is.

There are more than 500 tribes in tens of thousands of Dongzhou aborigines. But there are less than thirty large tribes, and the rest are small tribes.

They could only send one or two representatives to the court meeting, except for the Aztec and Cusco kingdoms, the other tribes were kowtowing to Zhu Di and Zhu Zhanji in groups of twenty people, and the speed was very fast.

When the two largest tribes kowtowed to Zhu Zhanji, and everyone finished paying their respects, Zhu Zhanji got up and returned the half-salute and presented them with rewards.

These rewards are varied, but the main ones are iron tools, iron pots, and cloth.

As for tea and spices, they still need to be cultivated in the market. They are not like the Eurasian people, they eat raw food, and life and death are up to them.

If you want them to know the health of tea, you also need to be guided.

And ironware, cloth, these are the good things that needless to say they know, and these are the things they crave the most.

After sending them out, naturally the officials of Honglu Temple continued to take them to corruption, let them play in Yingtianfu for a few months, corrode their minds, and then wait until the Dongzhou fleet was formed, and then take them back with them.

And they will be the first leaders to accept the influence of the Ming civilization and then have to return to their hearts.

If they don't obey, the hospital has a way to let them die a natural death. In fact, since the departure of Dongzhou, more than 100 leaders have died of illness because of this or that reason.

As soon as these natives left, everyone's spirit was concentrated, and some of the ministers who had deserted couldn't help but sit up straight at this time.

Since July 21, Zhu Di's edict has been accepted by them, and Zhu Zhanji has twice refused to succeed to the throne in the early dynasty.

The ministers did not ask Zhu Zhanji to succeed to the throne for the third time, just for this day.

On the rostrum, Jian Yi stood up and knelt on the ground facing Zhu Zhanji and Zhu Di, and beside him, more than a dozen other big and small Jiuqing also knelt down.

The ministers in the audience couldn't kneel down, but they all stood up one by one, their waists bent down, and their heads rested on the table.

Jian Yi said loudly: "The fate of the emperor is not normal, but it is due to virtue." Therefore, Yao gave Shun, Shun gave Yu, and it was appropriate to do so.

Since ancient times, the Holy Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, anxious and tired, worried, sitting and waiting, if you don't live in it, you will be afraid, and if you go to it, you will be comfortable. And Xuanyuan is not unknown, and he is not unholy, and he still wants to swim in Gu Shot, and he is not in the court. Looking for the end of the calendar, the luck is long gone, it belongs to the lonely contempt, and the one who rules all directions!

His Majesty the Emperor Yongle has been on the throne for 20 years, working hard and suffering from all kinds of diseases, so it is said that it is located in His Royal Highness Taisun Zhanji.

At the beginning of the five movements, the three are iterating, and the priest Li Shu is a sage, using energy to warp and weft, Milun District, and the head of the Great Shelter Qian, expounding the Honglie. Revolution is obscure, the accumulation of generations is on the same track, the kings are heels of martial arts, and the salt is based on this.

I beg Your Highness to succeed to the throne! ”

Everyone responded: "I beg Your Highness to succeed to the throne!" ”

They shouted three times and bowed three times.

Zhu Zhanji stood up and looked down at the ministers in the field, but his heart was calm. was kicked in the ass by Zhu Di from behind, and he realized that he was distracted at this time.

Li Liang and the others almost couldn't help laughing when they saw Zhu Di's movements, and hurriedly held back.

This is the third time to persuade him, but although Zhu Zhanji does not have to refuse, he cannot agree to it in one go.

He said loudly: "His Majesty the Yongle Emperor is in the heavens and assists in the fortune, and the rule is higher than that of the hundred kings. Wende martial arts teaching, was taught in the four seas. It's better to be lonely than to dare to succeed to the throne. ”

Jian Yi also said: "The emperor is vertical, the foundation of the eternal world, the heirs of the heirs, the number of thousands of years, the national classics are the same in ancient and modern times." Emperor Yongle is virtuous and the sun and moon are the same, and he uses martial arts to set the trouble, and to bring peace to culture and education, and to survive in the grand future. But he is old and lacks energy.

His Royal Highness's holy learning is new, the British capital Tianxi, the upper foot inherits the unification, the lower foot soothes the people, and the life is awarded and the affection is comfortable. Since His Royal Highness Fu Wei was on the throne, he greeted the food, filial piety was matched in the front, Wang Zanzheng, Shi Ren Ling, the reputation reached the world, the heart of heaven, and the suburbs of the temple community enjoyed the praise of people. His Royal Highness succeeded to the throne, and the whole world celebrated. ”

Zhu Di stood up at this time, pushed Zhu Zhanji a little impatiently, asked him to get out of the way, and said loudly: "Lao Tzu said you can do it, you can do it." It's crooked, tossing and turning, and it's not annoying. ”

He looked at the civil officials and asked, "The grandson will succeed to the throne, are the civil officials willing?" ”

The civil servants immediately bowed. "Wish!"

He looked at the generals on the third floor and asked, "The grandson succeeds to the throne, are the generals willing?" ”

The generals struck their chests and said, "Wish! ”

Looking at the clan room on the fourth floor again, the nobles: "Do you want to?" ”

"Wish!"

Zhu Di sent Zhu Zhanji's shoulder and said, "Since you are all willing, you can be the emperor for me and let Lao Tzu rest for a few years." Where is Sun Mao, the chief eunuch of Qintian? ”

Sun Mao hurriedly came out of his position, walked quickly to the rostrum, and replied in front of the loudspeaker: "The minister is here." ”

"I asked you to calculate the period of succession, but can there be a result?"

Sun Mao replied: "The ministers and the deputy supervisors, Lingtailang have carefully calculated and selected three days, which are nearly the ninth day of the ninth month of September, the day of the Double Ninth Festival. Medium is ......"

"Alright. Lao Tzu wants to go to the mountains and rivers as soon as possible to watch the drama and have fun, so he chooses the nearest Double Ninth Festival. ”

Although there is a mouthful of Lao Tzu, Zhu Di did not scold his mother today, and the ministers are used to this situation.

He and Zhu Yuanzhang are father and son, but they are strange in the history of the emperor, scolding his mother at the court meeting, saying foul language, and calling himself me, Lao Tzu, is frequent.

Hearing him say this, all the ministers saluted one after another and said, "Obey the order......"

Zhu Di nodded and said: "The Ministry of Rites, Guanglu Temple, Honglu Temple, the Pedestrian Division, and the Ministry of Internal Supervision can handle a procedure, and on the ninth day of the ninth month of September, I want a grand succession ceremony." ”

The heads of several departments responsible for organization, etiquette, equipment, and procedures should be.

Zhu Di quickly cut through the mess, and determined the time for a few words of the work that would have taken an hour to complete.

This made Zhu Zhanji only feel ridiculous, but it was very appetizing.

Zhu Di looked at Zhu Zhanji again and asked, "What else does Zhanji command?" ”

Zhu Zhanji could only say: "The emperor's arrangement is very good, and the grandson has no objections. There's just one addition, it costs money to do everything. Where is Chen Yanchun Aiqing? ”

Chen Xuan was already on the rostrum, and he leaned closer to the megaphone and replied, "The minister is here." ”

"The Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Ceremonies and the Celebrant make a budget, and the bank will issue the bank from the inner treasury account and operate it leniently."

Chen Xuan responded: "Obey." ”

Zhu Diqi said: "The emperor's succession to the throne is a state affair, why do you want to pay the silver from the treasury." ”

Zhu Zhanji replied: "My royal family controls the world's minerals, products, and trade through internal supervision. In the past, there was still little wealth, but now the scale is getting larger, so this kind of consumption should no longer use people's fat and people's ointment. The wealth of the world is taken from the people and used by the people. In the future, the grandson also wants to order that the royal family should not use the treasury if it is consumed. ”

Zhu Di asked again: "Then what if I want to build a temple?" ”

"Self-esteem is the inner library."

Zhu Di shook his head and sighed: "Lao Tzu doesn't care, anyway, you will worry about it in the future." ”

More than a thousand ministers bowed one after another: "Your Highness is merciful! ”

Zhu Di lowered his voice and said: "Don't be in a hurry, even if you want to retreat, you must retreat slowly, don't let the ministers think that you are a bully." ”

Zhu Zhanji nodded, showing respect, but he didn't take this to heart.

He has a benchmark in his heart, and in the future, he must clearly distinguish the treasury from the inner treasury, and he cannot grasp the hair and beard.

Now that the imperial court is already implementing the budget system, after it becomes a law in the future, there is no fear of no silver turnover. In the event of natural and man-made disasters, it is enough to subsidize some of the internal treasury.

If there is no self-restraint, there will be no clear rules. If you meet a descendant of a ruined family, you will build the Great Wall today, and you will build the Afang Palace tomorrow, and the good country will be tossed and scattered.

Zhu Di knew that Zhu Zhanji was a smart person, thinking that he understood.

He turned to his ministers and said, "After today, I have also been relieved of a burden. In the future, eat, drink, and have fun to come to me, and other big and small things don't have to bother me. ”

With a wave of his hand, he was like a big man of the Black Society, with a few of his attendants, turned around and left.

The ministers in the hall were full of panic, and they all saluted. "Congratulations to Your Majesty."

Zhu Zhanji knows that Zhu Di looks free and easy now, but in fact, he must be bitter in his heart.

In a westward expedition, he laid a large area for the Ming Dynasty and put an end to future troubles.

Traveling thousands of miles, he has become a veritable emperor of the ages. But when I came back, I found that I had been hollowed out.

If it weren't for his age, Zhu Zhanji would definitely not have good fruit to eat. But after all, he was sixty-two years old, and his legs and feet were inconvenient, so he had the idea of retreating, so he had to get off the donkey.

But for him, such a result is really not what he wants.

He was thinking of an active abdication, which has now become a semi-passive abdication.

Zhu Zhanji has been sending Zhu Di over the third floor and the bridge above the palace wall, standing on the city wall, Zhu Di held the city wall with his hands, looking at the major yamen in the south and was silent for a long time.

His gray hair fluttered in the wind, giving people a kind of heroic twilight sadness.

"Grandpa ......"

Zhu Di raised his hand and stopped Zhu Zhanji's words. "Don't say anything, don't say anything. I know your heart, but you don't know my heart. Before I came back from Timur, I had the intention of abdicating. After I came back, I was also very relieved to see that you were the head of the country.

It's just that for a moment, this heart is empty ....... After a lifetime of hard work, it's time for me to recuperate for a few years. When the Yongle is completed, I will take the Yongle to Nanzhou to have a look, and see the land full of gold, which will also be the territory of my Ming Dynasty in the future.

If my body can still stand it, I still want to go to Dongzhou to see, what I see on the map is always not as profound as what I have seen with my own eyes!

I think that my Ming Dynasty was originally just a corner of the land, but in the hands of our grandchildren, now the territory has expanded more than ten times, and I have no regrets in this life! ”

Zhu Zhanji bowed down and said: "Sun Er will definitely let the historian write these clearly, these thousands of miles of rivers and mountains are all taken in the hands of the emperor's grandfather, and Sun Er is just the king of Shoucheng." ”

Zhu Di laughed, patted Zhu Zhanji's shoulder and said, "Go back, I'll let people carry you around the palace and see, you still have a lot of things!" ”

After Zhu Zhanji returned, under the auspices of Jianyi, it was determined that Jianyi, the celebrant and eunuch Wang Yan, and the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Lu Zhen, were the temporary yamen of the chief official of the ceremony.

This yamen is mainly organized by the Ministry of Rites and the Department of Ceremonies, and officials of all sizes such as Taichang Temple, Guanglu Temple, and the Pedestrian Department should be co-organized by the order to jointly prepare for the succession ceremony.

This is not a simple handover of the Great Seal, although there are precedents for the Zen of Jiangshan Sheji, but most of them are the helpless Zen of the king of the dead country, and there are not many Zen concessions of the real father-son bloodline.

How to operate each procedure requires archaeological discussion, and there can be no mistakes.

Moreover, where the ceremony is held, who attends, what clothes to wear, what utensils to use, including where the feast is held, all need to be properly arranged.

Then it is necessary to announce to the world, and the pedestrian department will send people to publicize the world, and all parties must be considered.

And, most importantly, change the era name.

Although the era name will be changed next year, everything will change since Zhu Zhanji ascended the throne.

On this day, after the Great Dynasty Meeting was dispersed, the newspapers of that day began to urgently add issues to spread the news to the world.

The people of Ying Tianfu occupied the geographical advantage and knew the news as soon as possible.

Zhu Di is not dead, and the people can't put up lanterns and set off firecrackers to celebrate. If you do this, wouldn't you be suspicious of disliking Zhu Di.

However, there are still many ordinary people who drag their families and come to Chengtianmen spontaneously and kowtow to the palace.

At the beginning, there were not many people, but there were more and more people in the back, and a landscape was formed.

Among them, there was also a young woman who was dusty, and after kowtowing to the palace, she instructed a strong man behind her: "Brother Bin, go to Honglu Temple to hand over the fold." ”

"Third sister, you are a woman, will Your Highness receive you? As...... Let's go directly to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies......"

The woman known as the third sister is Tang Sai'er, who left her hometown three years ago and went thousands of miles to settle in the extreme west.

In the first year, they went to 5,000 young people, and only 4,000 remained, and in that winter, they were almost surrounded and suppressed by the Slavs. But then Chen Cheng's arrival eased the crisis there and calmed them down.

The following year, a large number of family members traveled thousands of miles and arrived in Tanglin City before winter. At that time, the Ming Dynasty had already wiped out the Timurid state, and the other ethnic groups were panicked and did not dare to target them anymore.

They spared no money and established relations with Zheng Heng, the governor of Samarkand, and with the assistance of the garrison in the river, they recuperated for another year, and their power should have increased greatly.

However, now because of the split between Gao Yang'er and Hao Yunzhong's forces, they are not as good as before.

Although the number of people in front of them is small, they are all young and strong, and the hearts of the people are also united.

Now that it is stable, Gao Yang'er and Hao Yunzhong have begun to stand on their own.

Tang Sai'er's strength is now less than 3,000 young and strong, but there are more than 8,000 old and weak women and children. And the appetite of the Hezhong army is too great, and most of their hard work now falls into their pockets.

Tang Sai'er thought about Zhu Zhanji's promise at the beginning, and took the opportunity to come back to deliver a batch of muskets, and wanted to ask His Royal Highness Taisun again, is the original promise still valid?

He had promised that even if the imperial court sent troops over, they would only be asked for 30% of the harvest, plus 30% of the tax, and they themselves could still fall 40%.

At first, I thought it was a high share, but now I know that I was wrong. There are so many of them, and now they can't even get two percent down, so they can only barely survive, that is, they can see a little more on face.

In the palace, sitting in front of Zhu Zhanji was Chen Cheng, who had been to the Western Regions for more than three years, and after successfully completing the task assigned to him by Zhu Zhanji, he came back to resume his life.

(Originally, I wanted to add more changes these days, but I received a notice that I was going to go on a business trip for two days.) These days, I can only try to ensure one change a day. ）